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? I WITH HEAD TO THE NORTH K Reason* Why That Position in 8le*p ing May Bo Beneficial, Especially I to Those In Poor Health. m In answering & subscriber's quesW tion as to why one shpuld sleep with I one's head to-the nojrth, Dr. Robert I T. Morris in '?{. Nicholas say3: | "Electric currents run north and I south, through the earth. An object is said to he in a state of better electric rest is its long axis is in line { with the earth's electric currents. It is mv impression that the custom of sleeping with the head to the north was adopted before anything was known about these currents. If Hint is the case, I take it to mean that certain persons are so readily affected hv these influences that they tind themselves disturbed if they try lo sleep with the short axis of the body in line with them. "I have purposely made the experiment and have asked friends to maka it when we were in camp. None of us noted any connection between our sleep and our position in regard to points of the compass. We were strong and well, however. It might be quite different with invalids. "The volume of these terrestrial currents is not commonly appreciated. Drive any iron rod into the ground at right angles to the plane of the earth's surface and it at once lieeomes a magnet." GETTING OUT INTO NATURE Pathetically Brief Time in Which Man Should Prepare for Life Hereafter. It is not all loss to be driven back to the soil, remarks the Universulist leader. It is not all gain to be even an Adams in New England. The hurden of respectability is great. Family traits and traditions are sometimes stifling to originality. Some people are little more than copy plates of their forbears. There is some comfort in venturing forth upon the friendly road for a joust with nature in & colored shirt without fearing the rebuke or frown of some eminently straitlaced critic of our vulgar ways. There is something humorous in the remembrance of Unfriend who is always genial in the club, but never sees us when in blue jeans we are sweeping the gutter or digging in the garden. There is a pathetic side to the existence of those who do not think they arc really alive unless coljar and cuffs are prop eriv anjtiBreu. iNaKecl cmne into the world. Naked we will go out of it. During the little time that we linger between these two doorways to the infinite perhaps we shall l?e wise to cultivate a little more of the robustness which will enable us to live in that great out of door? which is certain to l?e our eternal abiding place. LATEST KITCHEN. The sanitary and most, satisfactory kitchen has glazed tile walls and the ceiling is sheathed with pressed sheet iron painted white. The range has hoods over it to carry off the odors ,;and heat and to make the room cool Ad. comfortable. The floor is of cork tile or of cement, with strips of . ^matting laid upon it?these can lie easily taken up. A drain in the center carries off the water from the iloor after washing. PIG IN A "POKE.^ Poke is an older form of the word pouch or bag. The Celtic word was "j?oc" or ''p01*?/' whence also is our word pocket. We have inafr been in formed that "the word has*coine once more to the surface in the speech of Alaskan pr*>a pec tors, where |>oke is commonly used in designation of the buckskin pouch in which their takings of gold are carried.'* FULLY EXPLAINED. Mrs. Bacon?What's the matter flpP with Toininie's face and hands? They are badly swollen. Mrs. Egbert?You see, they offered a prize at his school for the boy who would bring in the greateat number of dead wasps and Tomraie won. ENERGETIC PROCESS. "I shrink from studying this question. Ifow can I ever come to * conclusion?" "Go to it!" ITS MERIT. "There is one thing which is really V magical about a cellarette." "So many men use it when they n.rs out of spirits." "Did you do anything to try and save the professor when he fell off the observatory roof?" "Indeed, I did. When I saw him going, I begged him not. to take any precipitate action." CONSISTENT ANIMOSITY. I "Why do so many people want the press mnnled?" | ?Jfc?11 sf its daffad pwtinae* '< ??? FIND REAL 10Y IN WORK Only Bread Worth Eating le Bread Honeetly Earned?World Hn No Use for Drones. In the first place, you should not dislike it. If you dislike your work you will not be able to take delight in it any more than you can extract sunshine frOm cucumbers. But- supnnain<7 tViof vnn Itqco oolonfo/1 tn. vnwv j wu nufc acitv icu au vv. ~ I cupation which it not distasteful to j you, yet from which you derive little or no pleasure, how can your task he made a source of enjoyment to you hoth when the skies are fair and when thev are dark, and also become that medicine praised hv Shake- j spcare, who says: "The labor we delight in physics pain/' A misunderstanding of the text, "In the sweat of thv face shalt thou eat bread" has caused the human race to look upon labor as something that must always be disagreeable. Sweat is not a symptom of pain. It is usually a symptom of health. You re- , member that Longfellow savs of his village blacksmith: "Ifis brow is wet with honest sweat." The only bread worth eating is bread honestly earned?that is, the bread which we must eat in the sweat of our face, which almost too vivid , figure of speech means after all only that the worker in this worldly hive is the real man. Deity took no nolice of drones. The golden rnle to ho followed with a view to obtaining I joy from work is to aim at doing it well, so that when you see it done ' you will take pride in it. WASTES THE TIME OF OTHERS Wait-a-Minute Woman Declared Responsible for Much That Could Be Avoided. The "Minute-man" is one who is ready to respond to duty's call at a minute's notice, while the "wait-aminute-woman" is always sure to keep one waiting for half an hour, savs a writer in the Boston Herald. ! The tirst is prepared to "kill" the enemy, while the second makes a point of "killing" time. If time is money, then what a misappropriation of I others' funds goes on at the hands of 1 his stealer of precious moments! . Most petty thieving evokes some I kind of punishment sooner or later. ! and generally the thief comes to a 1 sense of remorse for such misdoing, ! hut not so this stealer of other j people's hours; she goes upon her ' way rejoicing, continuing her life of thieving without the least com; punction for all her past otTenses. The "minute-man" marches to meet his adversary when he is summoned, and he may be counted on to 1w> .-.I tlx. .... ... |..a? t "HIIVUI UClay; the "wait-a-minnte-woman" I makes a point of not keeping lier appointments ami merely murmurs j ! sweetly, "so sorrv to have kept you ! waiting." But she is really not in I the least "sorrv," since genuine contrition is sure to bring about future ' improvement. This is never the ease with that incorrigible, for she is just j as late on the next occasion and no more "sorrv/' MARKED SIMILARITY. "If twelve persons were to agree to dine together every day, but never sit in exactly the same order around the table," didactically stated the professor, "it would take them 13,-j 000,000 years at the rate of one dinner a day, and they would have eaten more than 474,000,000 dinners before they could get through all the possible arrangements in which they could place themselves." "Yep!" snarled Uncle 1'epys. "That would be nearly as many ways as a small bov rearranges himself during a long sermon."- Judg?. ITS NATURE. "In tlie plav dobbins hud tin* part of a cook." "That part should have been the | kind of role to pan out." NATURALLY SO. "There goes a inan who always rejoices when people get into trouble." "Is he just a natural grouch?" "No; he's a lawyer." TOO MUCH. "What sent him to a sanitarium?" "He's an efficiency expert, and he got to brooding over the lost motion exj>endid in Christmas shopping." BOUGHT IT FOR CASH. Marks?What did you gain in your deal with Brown? Parks?A great deal of reapeot Brown's buainesa ability. | Easy for Johnnie. "Johnnie," said the teacher of a metaphysical class, "can you give u?e a familiar example uf the human body aa It adapts itself to chungod coiidlI Hons?" "Yessum," said Johnnie, "my aunt gained 50 pounds in a year aud her skin never cracked." For a Useful Life. Have a fixed purpose in life; on* that means something, and something that la worthy of you. and then oakl |MT vtwh Ufa hinge nheet tL THE F' Mtomtional SUNMTSaiOOL Lesson <By E. O. SELLERS. Director of Evenln* Department. 'Hie Moody BiW? Tnstltute, Chicago.? LESSON FOR MAY 10 THE UNJUST STEWARD. I.KSSON TF5XT?l.uke 10:1-13. fSOI.DKN TKXT-"!li' thai Is faithful In a very little Is faithful also In much; and ho thai Is nnrigtitciuis In a very little in unrighteous h!?o ii: much." I.like 16:10. Again in one chapter (and her* only l we have before us two of the Master's more famous parables, the unjust steward and the rich man and Lazarus. Moth are parables of warning against the common sins of hypocrisy and gluttony. Luke links this teaching with the events in connection with our Lord's teachiug about the lost things There is clearly a close connection. The parable of the lust things was spoken directly to the Pharisees and scribes, (hut now before us to the disciples The failure of the Pharisees as stewards of the things of God, the divine law, calls front Jesus, for those gathered as his disciples, teaching that will prepare them to fulfill perfectly the stewardship responsibilities. The story is both positive and negative, is direct against covetousness, and its main purpose to us is how to use money, while we have it, so that it may bring us a recompense in the eternal world when it is gone (v. y>. Immoral Acta Not Approved. I. The Unrighteous Steward, vv. 1-3. Our Lord does not, of course, intend that this steward is to be our pattern ii VT VI j l v op w I > U AO tuning hA "son of the world" tv. h It. V.) and showing lis that, in the use of money eutrusted to his care, he is making provision for the future, iie is preparing himself against tlie time when his stewardship is takeii from him. How much more shall a "son of the light" be shrewd, so to use the money entrusted to his stewardship, that when it is taken from him, he has provided for the future. The record does not imply that Jesus approved of the man's immoral actions lie is using the example of an uprighteous steward as a contrast to show how much more is to be expected from Rod or godly men, l.uke IS:U, 7; ll:f?-S; Matt. 1:1:11, lli. Recognizing these P Ike Pcpulzr Bc< Savings Bank W. B. WFACKAM, rrisident I ! ? ? ????? I Q1525E5HSS525B3S25E5H5525Z |Cj| Have you "Rock H Cakes, Jelh Fresh and Fine, ^frcm tl Phone 116, foi I PARKS i E 5 tafasS5E5E55Hg?a5H5E5E5H5B5 J. J. B LtMEER - P YOU w ll'Cks. / THIS IS HOW / v/ / Buy 4 gals. L. & M. SI II A 1 And 3 gals. Linseed C lA I I You then make 7 gal; II / Anybody can mix the I I fA Whereas, if you buj CANS, you pay $2.10 The L. a M. SEMI-MIXED RE A ZINC itnd LINSF.El> OIL. the best I Om ? |?L oat ol aay L&M.P/ ORT MILL' facts, the story is perfectly simple and straightforward. The dishonest "son of his age" has a wrong method, though hiB motive from this point of view is a wise aud prudent one, clever in our modern use of that word. This does not condone his fraud, nor does our Lord commend him. The contrast is established in the parable between men wholly or their ace, and men, professedly, at least; sons of ligftt. In their dealings wltn eternal things they had not shown the same astuteness as the former. Luke 15 deals with the heartless contempt of the Pharisees for those who are lost, while the parables of this chapter deal with ' stewardship?faithfulness (I Cor. 5:2). On Higher Level. II. The Use of Money, ve. 9-13. The value of this parable is in the actual teaching of Jesus which follows the parable. That is introductory, emphasizing the need for wisdom on the ' part of all stewards. After that wo ! are on a higher level and in a clear1 er atmosphere. Unrighteous mammon means money, and to make friends "by means of the mammon of unrighteousness" i R. V.) 1b bo to use our money for the godly poor as to win their love and that they may receive us into the eternal tabernacles to which they shall go, see Matt. 19: 21; 25:33-40; G:19; 1 Tim. 0:17-19; Prov. 19:17. As has been said, Jesus does not commend this steward for his J wrong use of his master's money, but the steward of God has the right to bestow his Master's goods upon the needy, as that is the very reason they have been bestowed upon him?entrusted to his care. Matt. 24:45; I Pet. 4:10. Our entrance into the king- | uuin win oe more uoundaut because of I our liberality with God's money, Mutt, lb: 21. This does not preclude faith but rather, real faith worketh by love, . Gal. j:C. James 2:18 lit. V.). If wo are faithful with that entrusted to our stewardship, God will entrust us i with "tlio true riches." Our earthly riches belong to another tv. 12 11. V.l, and we cannot serve "two masters." . ] This story moves within the realm of material wealth, e. g., of mammon. It illustrates the higher wisdom of how ! mammon is to be used by the stewt urds of the kingdom of God. Verses j r, and 1G of this chapter reveal to us i our laird's reason for such an illustration. It was directed against the cov; etous and false stewards, the Pharisees, w ho "scoffed at him because they 1 were lovers of money!" We are to use money so as to make frleuds, uot friends for this preseut life, but for that life which lies beyond the grave I Stewardship principles are always the same, no matter what the ainouut, "he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much." This i argument is followed by tw< ? ok of the Season. a Is tho chock hook, which is the sign of a bank aca count. It is the necessary provision for the future rfliny (*ay" invite married couples todepos- | iorfc* it their savings and sur- 1 plus cash with us and we offer them liberal interest with perfect security, kl Ask your friends about our business methods and they will tell you how reliable we are. L of Fort Mill, W. B. MFACHAM, Jr.. Cashier lasnassasasasaszsasasasgsao] i tried our J3 ill" Bread] V Rolls, Etc? I and almost hot ? ie oven. B r a trial order. | OCF.RY m S KS, Manager. ^ iHsassHsasasasHSHfiasHsa^alB AILES, 'A1NTS - OILS if our Own Paint! ? ?? /ILL SAVE 60 ct?. PER GAL. K MI-MIXED REAf. PAINT. at $2.10 per gal. - $8.40 )il to mix with it - - - 2.10 s. of pure paint for - $10.50 ly $1.50 per gal. OIL with the PAINT. / 7 gals, of ready-for-us?e paint in a gal. cr $14.70. L PAIS'T Is PURE H I//7.*: LEAD. -known paint materials for t CO years. lINT you buy. nud 11 col I be bent umI |<t ALL your Hwary kartt. TliViES tions The answer to the first is that no one ever commits the stewardship of spiritual things to those who are unfaithful in material things A man shows by his faithfulness in material things whether he is to be entrusted with spiritual stewardship. The second question is answered in that men do not #ve that which is their own to those who have not been faithful as trustees. ALARM CLOCK IN THE MIND Explanation of the Power Many Posteu of Always Knowing the Time to a Minute. Did you ever know a person who could always (ell the time to a minute without seeing a timepiece? That there are such people is a known scientific fact. The latest theory in regard to the power of those whose minds count out the hours ami inii>utes is given by a French psychologist. "Time is measured in the siiliconscious mind by heart throbs. The heart heats for the most part with great uniformity and ticks oir the seconds as regularly as a clock. "It is in sleeping hours rather than in waking that the mind works out tho problem best. It is no unusual feat to say to your mind at night, ''(-all me at 0:30,*' an?i you Mill waken ami wonder why. until you recall I bat you planned to get up at just that time. "This alarm clock in the mind can be trained," the psychologist goes on to say, "to be much more accurate than the buzzer on the table, which sometimes fails to awaken us in the morning because we have heard it too often." The writer says nothing as in whether those who are. in love will waken earlier ecansc of their quickened heart throbs, or whether those who are depressed and whose heart beuts lag will he late in reaching the oftice. Marks E..d of C" ilciti d. Children pass out of a sl.^o op. .. beautiful, c\ipitsit>-iv simple >111? >t letices and discretions bfueudi . t Imposed and artificial lite. And ilare tost. 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