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\a \ The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. Thursday, March 21,1935 SAVING3-BAI«K QAtlfS Mutual aaYlUgs-banka deposits W 18 states increased In 1834 by $163, 080,082 sets of these banks gained by $199,- 487334 to $11,065,498,096, both depos its end assets being only slightly un der record figures for 1932, according to Philip A. Benson, president of the National Association of Mutual Say ings banks. There also was an addition of $25,- f56,406 to surplus, bringing that fund to $1,192,628,224, or 12.2 per cent of deposits. New York state's mutual savings banks led the nation in gains and assets, their increase being $109,- rqgq. ' .' X They'also led in deposit gains, the increase being $81,245,170.—Literary Digest. / To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Heree'e Pleasant Pellets. They regulate irsr, bowela and ■tomich.—Aar. « Life The man who graba life In both fists and twists the essence out of it, counts.—R. W. Chambers. „ Doctors Know! • •.and they use Hqiild laxatives You’d use t liquid, too, if you knew how much better it makes you feeL A liquid laxative can always bo taken in the right amount. You can S illy reduce the dose. Reduced is the secret of real and safe rom constipation. _ just ask your own doctor about i tl*i«- Ask your druggist how popular liquid laxatives have become. The right liquid laxative gives the right kind of help—and the right amount of help. Wnen the dose is repeated, instead of more each time, you take (ess. Until the bowels are movie regularly and thoroughly without aii People who have experienced tb comfort, never return to any form help that Can't be regulated! The liquid laxative generally used is Dr. Caldwell*! Syrup Pepsin. It containl senna and cascara, and these are natural laxatives that form no habit. It relieves a condition of biliousness V sluggishness without upset. To relieve your occasional upsets safely and comfortably, try Syrup Pepsin. Ihe druggist has it fS©*. (?a£(£u>e£li SYRUP PEPSIN By No Means A tall man Isn't necessarily high minded.—Exchange. - r r When Worlds By EDWIN BALMER and PHILIP WYLIE by Edi end Philip Wylie WVTT Irvlp r turned off and on tiuln quickly. There was a very short, very rapid drop; bodies were thrown violently against the padded floor; the springs beneath them recoiled—and there was silence. The ship settled at a slight angle In the earth and rock beneath It The Ark waa .filled with a new sound —the sound of human voices raised in hysterical bedlam. nenaron . rose T ne snout » nuu men and women, almost epnally hysterical, rushed to him. They -bad to clap hands on him, touch him, cry out to him. Tony discovered- Eve at his side, struggling toward her father, and weeping.* Some one recognized her and thrust her through the throng. ^Mea~&hd women were throwing their arms about each other, kissing, and screaming In each other'a faces. At F ERRV’ PUPtBPED VEGETABLE CHAPTER XI—Continued —19 ■ Ihe passengers were breathing, gasping, hiccoughing; their hearts were pounding; their faces were stark white; but they seemed to be alive. Tony knew they would be all right as soon as the gravity from Bronson Beta became stronger. He knew that the voyage was more than half fin ished. He fell Into a state between aleep and coma. Some one woke him. “We’re eating. How about a sandwich?” He sat up. The gravity was still very slight, but an hour later conditions were im proved for moving about the cham ber, by the starting of the motors which were to decelerate the ship. The floor was firm again. On the screen now at their feet they could see Bron son Beta. It was white like an im mense moon, but veiled in clouds. Here and there bits of its superficial geography were visible. In four hours the deceleration had been greatly in creased. In six, Bronson Beta was vis ibly spreading on the screen. Deceler ation held them tightly on the floor, but they would crawl across each oth er laboriously, and In turn stare at the floating, cloudy sphere upon which they expected to arrive, j ’ The hours dragged more, even, than they had on the outward Journey. A word of warning went through the ship. The passengers took another drink of water, ate another mouthful of food, aud once again strapped them selves to the floor. Hendron turned on more power. A half hour passed, and he did not budge. His face was taut. The dan gers of space had been met. Now came the last great test. At his side again was Duquesne. So great was the-pressure of retardation was almost Impossible for )^mto move, and yet It was necessary to do so with great delicacy. A fractional mlscalcu- atlon would mean that all his work had gone for nothing. Suddenly the clouds seemed to rush up toward him. Hendron pressed a stud. The re tardation was perceptibly - Increased. Sound began to pour in awful volumes to their ears. Suddenly Hendro'n’s lip's Jerked spas modically. and a quiver ran through the hand on the rheostat. He pointed toward the screen with his free hand, and they had their first view of the new world. AA ORE LUSCIOUS VEGETABLES Frefih, large, full-fla vored and luscious veg etables can be grown right in your back-yard or garden, if you use Ferry’s Purebred Vege table Seeds—the kind that have been Ameri ca’s favorite seeds for three generations and more. Don’t miss this chance to economize! YOUR NCIGHBORHOOD STORE SEELS THEM IN FRESH DATED PACKETS FOR ONLY WOMEN’S AILMENTS Mr*. D. W. Young of 2800 WUmer Ave., Annie* ton. Ala., aaid: "I have taken Dr. Pierce’* Favor ite Pretcriptlon off and on whenever I felt that I need ed a tonic and 1 have al- way* received •atMactory —vw—- benefit. If I begin to M weak and rundown. I take the ‘ Prescription’. Uaually one or two bottle* ia all I bar* to take before I am well and strong again.” New rise, tablets. SOcta^Uquld $1.00. rite, tab*, or liquid, $1.35. All druggist*. DON’T NEGLECT VOIR KIDNEYS! r r your.'kidneys are not working right and you suffer backache, dizziness, burning, scanty qjr too frequent urination, swollen feet and ankles; feel lame, stiff, “all tired ^ out” ... use Doan's Pills. • Thousands rely upon Doans* They are praised the country over. Get Doan's POs today. For sale by all druggists. mrs pills last/some one opened the larder and brought out food. People who had eaten practically nothing for the four days began to devour everything they could i et their hands upon. Tony, meanwhile, had somewhat re covered himself. He made a quid census and shouted: “We all are here. Everyone who started on this ship survived!” It set off pandemonium again, but also It reminded them of doubt of the safety of the second ship. “Where la it? Can it be sighted? . . . How about the Germans? . . . The Eng lish? . . . The Japanese?” Their own shouts quieted them, so that Hendron at last could speak. “We have had, for three days, no sight of our friends or of any of the other parties from Earth,” he an nounced. “That does not mean that they all have failed; our path through space was not the only one. Some may have been ahead of us and ar rived when the other side of Ails world waa turned; others may still arrive; but you all understand that we can count upon no one but ourselves. “We have arrived; that we know. And none of you will question my sin cerlty when .1 repeat to you that it Is my conviction that fate—Destiny—far more than our own, efforts has brought us through. “I repeat here, in my first words upon this strange, new, marvelous world what I said upon that planet which now flies in shattered fragments about our sun; we have arrived, not as triumphant Individuals spared for ourselves, but as humble represent atives of the result of a billion years of evolution transported to a sphere where we may reproduce and recreate the life given us. . . . “I will pass at once to practical considerations. - “At this spot, It Is now late In the afternoon of Bronson Beta’s new day, Nitrogen, 43 per cent; oxygen, 24 per per cent; neon, 13 per cent; krypton, 6 per cent; argon, 5 per cent; helium, 4 per cent; other gases, 5 per i*ub M Hendron looke^ at the list thought fully and took a notebook * 1 * * from a rack over the table. He glanced at the as sistant and smiled. “There’s only about a 3 per cent error in our tele scopic analysis. It will be fair enough to Dreatne. ~ ^ — The assistant, Borden, smiled. He had been. In what the colonists came to describe as “his former life,” a pro fessor of chemistry In Stanford uni versity,! His smile was naive and pleasing. “It’s very good to breathe. In fact, I drew in a large sample and breathed what was left over for about five minutes. It felt like air; It looked like air; and I think we might consider It a very superior fonjl of air—remarkably fresh, too.” Hendron chuckled. “All right, Bor den. What about the temperature?" “Elghty-slx degrees Fahrenheit, top side of the ship—but the ground all around has been pretty highly heated, and the blast from the beacon also helped warm up the air. I should con jecture that the temperature is really about seventy-eight degrees.” Hendron nodded slowly. “Of course I don’t know our latitude and longi tude yet, but that seems fair enough. Pressure?” “Thirty point one hundred thirty- five ten thousandths.” “Wind velocity?” “Eighteen miles an hour." "Humidity?” “Seventy-four per cent But If I’m any Judge of weather,* it’s clearing up.” ‘That’s flue. We’ll go out in the morning.” . . Another man approached the desk. “The radio set Is working, Mr. Hen dron. There’s terrific static in bursts, but in the intervals listening has been pretty good. Everything’s silent I don’t think anybody else made It.” “Right No one will leave the ship tonight 1 believe that the situation here Is favorable; but we wUL~&eed every advantage for our flrfit experi ence upon this planet. So we will wait for the sun." The night came on clear. The visa- screen, which had been growing dark er, showed now a dim, steady light It was the light of the earth-destroy er, Bronson Alpha, shining again upon the survivors of men as it set off on Its measureless Journey Into Infinite space. Other specks of light rein forced It; and the stars—glints from the debris of the world settling them selves In their strange circles about the sun. Exhaustion allied itself to obedience atept irere taken In the stinging va port. Then—cooler air blew oa. Sweet, fresh, cool air I He Inhaled Inngfnla of it It had no odor. It was like earth air washed by an April rain, 'ft did not make him dizzy or sick. iW dldjnqt feel weak ness or numbneee or paftn-^He felt exhilarated. ft? fltinr out his arms In ecstasy. Besiqe him a voice said quietly: "It’a splended, isn’t It, Tony?" He could have been no more startled If atones had spoken or a mummy had sat up In Its sarcophagus. He stif fened, not daring to look. Then, into Ills Icy veins blood flowed. He had recognized the voice. He turned In Ihe lush, starlit dark. “Mr. Hendron, I—I—1—" "Never mind.” The older man ap proached. “I think I know why you came. You wanted to be sure of theV air before any of the.rest of us left the ship." ^ v Tony did not reply. Hendron took his arm. “So did I. I couldn’t sleep I had to inspect our future home. I came out on the ladder half an hopr ago.” Hendron chuckled. “Duquesne was on my heels. I hid. He’s gone for a walk. I heard him fall down and swear. What do you think of It? Did you see the aurora?” “No." Tony looked at the stars. He had a feeling that the sky over head was not the sky to which he had been accustomed. The stars looked slightly mixed. As he stared upward, a crimson flame shot Into the zenith from the horizon. It was followed by torches and sheets In all colors and shades. “Lord!” he whis pered. “Beautiful, isn't It?” Hendron said softly. “Nothing like It on earth. It waa in rippling sheets when I came out Then In shafts—a colorful ca thedral. It made faint shadows of the landscape. 1 venture to say It’a a permanent fixture. The gases here are different from those on earth. Different Ionization of solar electrical energy. That red raajr^be the neon. The blue—I don’t know. Anyway— It’a gorgeous." “Like the rainbow that came on Ararat" Tony said slowly. “Lord! So It Is! God’s promise, eh? Tony—you’re an odd fellow for a football player. Football! What a thing to hover In the mind here! Come —let’* see If we can find Duquesne. The wily devil wanted to be first on Bronson Beta. He came out of the Ark like a shot No. Walt—look." Tony glanced toward the Ark. The lock was opening again. They watched the fourth man to KNVIRONMXirr, MENTALITY the wrltlngs of Sir Waltac— loott, J. F. Rogers has gleaned thafr following quotation, "Aa for mini and body I fancy I might aa wall In* quire whether tbe fiddle or the fiddla- •tlck makes the tune,"' and from this he takes his title, “Fiddle os .fiddle stick,” for an article In Hygeta Mag- azlne. - says in the article, "If a group llchildren'who aiw. on the aver age, phjiircally and mentally superior to their' felloWoiart studied as to their origin. It will he found that, on the average, they come" from homes where there la more and better food, better air, more euaehlne and mora sources of Interest than do their fel lows. On the other band, the chll* dren with smaller and more defective bodies come, on the everage, from homes where the sanitation la rel atively poor and where they receive Inferior physical and mental atten tion." Animal Friend* Animals are agreeable frlepds— they ask no questions. They pass no criticisms.—George Eliot WHAT TO DO ABOUT id Indigestion A WAY THAT RaiEVfS THE CAUSE IN A KW MINUTES % MS§ fT! Many people who think they have “weak stomachs” or < *indigest CHAPTER XII The first' view of the new world now flashed through .the remnants of cloud to all the passengers. Below them was a turbulent rolling ocean. Where the force of their blasts struck it, it flung back terrific clouds of steam. They descended to within a mile of Us surface, and then Hendron, operating another lever, sent out hori zontal Jets, so that the ship began to move rapidly over the surface of this unknown sea. To everyone who looked, this des 5 digestion,'' doctors say, suffer in naiitu from nothing more serious than acta ston* ■ ach. And this common ailment can usually be relieved now, in minutes. All you do is take familiar Phillips* Milk of Magnesia after meals. This acts to almost immediately neutralize the stomach acidity that brings on your trouble. You feel like a new person! Try this just once. Take either the familiar liquid “PHILLIPS' ”, or the new Philhpis*, MUk of Magnesia Tablets. But watch out that you get the Genuine PHILLIPS' Milk of Magnesia. ALSO IN TABLET FOBMt Phillips’ MUk cf Magnesia Tab- lets ere now on sale at aU drug •tores everywhere. Each tiny tablet b the equivalent of • teaspoonful of Genuine Phillips* Milk of Magnate. Phillips’ tiAfilk. cf Afeuptetoa. S' . 1 Individuality For each Individual the consists of his experience. world olate expanse of ocean was like a by the beat of our blast' at landing. beneficent blessing from God himself. Here was something familiar, some thing Interesting, something terrestri al. Here was po longer the Incom prehensible majesty of the void. The Space Ship had reached the surface of Bronson Beta and was trav eling now at a slow, lateral velocity above one of the oceans, Hendron worked frantically with the delicate controls to keep the ship poised and In regular motion; yet it rose and fell like an airplane bounding in rough winds, and It swayed on Its horizontal axis so that Its pilot ceaselessly played his fingertips on the releases of the quick blasts which maiutalned equili brium. The sullen, sunless oceaif seemed endless. Was there no land? Had the cities, had the mountains and plains, been mere optical Illusions? Still the views obtainable from the side periscope flashed upon the screen and showed nothing but empty sea and lowering cloud. Then, on tbe far horizon, land ap peared dimly. A cry, a shout that drowned in the tumult of tbe motors, broke from trembling Ups. Speedily they ap proached the land. It spread oat un der then?. It towered into hills. Its extent was ,lost In the mlsts^-They readied Its coast, a bleak Inhospitable stretch of brown earth and rock, of sandy beach and .cliff upon which noth ing grew or moved or was. Inland the country rose precipitously; and Hendron, as If he shared the ImpEi- tience of his passengers and could bear no more, turned the ship back toward a plateau that rose hich above the level of the sea. : . Along the plateau he akimihed at u speed that might have been thirty miles an hoar. The Ark drew down toward the new Earth antll it was but u few feet above the ground. The ■peed diminished, the motors were “I Was Sure You'd Be Out," He Said. which lasts thirty hours Instead of the twenty-four to which we are accus tomed. For the present, we must all remain upon the ship. The ground Immediately under Is still baked hot Moreover we must test the atmosphere carefully before we breathe it. “Of course. If it Is utterly unbreath- able, we will all perish soon; but If it proves merely to contain some unfa- vqreble element against which we must.be masked at first until we de velop Immunity to 1L we must discov er what It Is. “While waiting, we will, discharge one of the forward rocket tubes at half-hour intervals In the hope that our sister ship will see this signal and reply. We-wUl also immediately -put- Into operation an external radio sys tem and listen for her. I wish to thank those oYjrou who acted as my crew during this flight, and who In spite of shuddering senses and strick en bodies stuck steadfast to your posts. But there .is no praise ade quate in human language for the in numerable feats of courage, of Inge nuity and perseverance which have been performed by every one of you. I trust that-by morning we shall be able to make u survey of our world on foot, and 1 presume that by then we shall have heard from our sister ship.” Eve and Tony walked back and forth through the throng of passengers, arm in arm. Everyone was talking. Pres ently aoiqe one began to sing, and all .the passengers joined in. Up In the control room Hendron and his assistants began their analysis of. a-sample of atmosphere that had been obtained through a small airlock. They rigged up the ship's lyireless, and sent into tbe clouds the first bea con from the '“Ark’s sky-pointing tubes. Lights were on all over the ship. Above the passenger- quarters, several men were releasing and tending stock. The sheep, and a few of the birds bad per ished, but the rest of tbe animals re vived rapidly. Onq of, Hendron's assistants pot a •lip of paper before his chief. He read it: to Hendron’s orders. The emigrants from fcarth slumped down and slept. Tony, lay down but “did not sleep. A thought had been stirring In his brain for a long time. Some one would have to take the risk of being the first to breathe the air of Bronson Beta. A small sample was not decisive. Tony did not know how accurately its com position might have been measured. He thought it might be chemically pos sible to breathe, but practically, hope Igss. It might contain a trace of some rare poison. , He should test it himself. They should send him out first It was a small contribution. In Tony’s mind; but It would help Justify his presence on the Ark. “They might send some one useful," he thought “Hendron might, sacrifice himself itethe test" —At last he rose. He went down the j and spiral staircase quietly. He shut doors behind him. In the bottom chamber he stood for a long’time beside the airlock. He was trembling. He lifted the levers that closed the truer door, balancing them so that trey would fall automatically. He stepped between it and the outer door. ■fte jock slammed; the levers felL He wts m pitch darkness. He bpened the outside door. He leaned .out—his heart In hla mouth. Be drew In a breath. A hot, rasping, sulphurous vapor sibote hla nostrils. He shuddered. Was this the atmosphere of the new planet? He 4 remembered that, the blast oi the Ark had cooked the ground around It Gasping, with running eyes, he lay down on the floor and felt with his feet for the iron rungs of the work men’s ladder that ran frop the now inverted bow of the Ark to tbe upper door and matched that on the opposite end. He began to descend. He coughed and shuddered. With every, step tbe heat increased. Hla foot touched the ground. It gave off heat like the earth around a geyser. He ran away from the loom ing Mk st the ship. Hia first fifty | Tonyl* touch the new aoll make hla painful descent and run across the still hot earth. They saw him stop, a few yarda away, and breathe. They heard hia voice ecstatically, 'ptfn—they heard him weep. r . * Hendcpn called: “Hello—Jamelt" Tony saw Eliot James undergo the unearthliness of hearing that voice come through the empty air. Then James approached them. “How beautiful!" he whispered “I’m sorry. I thought some one should try the air. And—I admit—I was keen to get out. Wanted to be first I suppose. I’m humiliated—* v- Again Hendron laughed. “It’s all right my boy. I understand. I un derstand all of ns. When I came out, I Half' expected you others would be along. It’s In your blood. The rea son yon came here one by one, alone eoufageoualy, la the reason “T picked yon to come here with me. It Laxative So Many Like Old folks, young folks thousands of them say they prefer Thedford's Black-Draught when they hied a laxative. It does its work so wdL "I have used Thedford’s Black. Draught in my famjhr since vwXwc® jAa• tienson jl 01 dale, Mias. “Wedo not feel could keep house without Draught we are' , qutte a good wsam from town, and a good, simpl* mem* it satisfaction." THEDFORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT makes me rather happy.” On the outcrop of stone ledge they seated themselves. They looked and breathed and waltedT „ . - 1 .< " Occasionally one of them spoke. Us ually It was Hendron—casting up frpm hla. thoughts between periods of si lence memories of the past and plans for the future. "We are here alone. I cannot help feeling that our other ship has in some way failed to follow ua. If, In the ensuing days, we hear nothing, ws may be sure it Is lost Bronson* Bets belongs to ns. It Is ssd—tragic. Rons- dell Is gone. Peter Vanderbilt is gone. Smith. That Taylor youngster you brought from Cornell. ^AU the others. Yet—with the world ^one, who are we to complain that weHave lost a few more of our friends?’!’ •, i- ■ Tony moved away from them. He was^stirred wltlTa great restlessness, lie wandered toward the ship; and he saw. In that glowing, opalescent night, a woman’s form; and -he knew before he spoke to her, that It was Eve. “I was sore you’d be out," he said f ,*Tony!" ■ TO BU OOMTLNUaa GARFIELD »• v!’ v ; ■ '’ ;l ■ ''7*v***rr > •