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4 Tfc« Barnwtll People-SqiUael. Barmwell. S. C. Thnraday, January 7, 1W7 U«ckWult\ Sa4fd: Today and Tomorrow Tomorrow is not yours, and it ii yet uncertain whether it ever will be. Today is the only time which you can with the least shadow of propriety call your own. Of course we are all tinctured more or less with pessimism, but it is as bad form to talk about it as it is to be a whooping optimist. One may manage difficult execu tive work perfectly, but if his dis position is fretful the work will kill him. One is not bom with a con science. It comes with the years. Understanding and Knowledge Knowledge, without understand ing, is as ineffective as was steam before Watts discovered how it could be applied. Your friend is not the one who tells the truth about you, but con ceals some of it Bless his loyal heart! People perpetually pursuing thrills give you the impression of being hystericky or worse still- unbalanced. If men didn't have to think and worry over making a living, they would be handsomer. If You're Told to “Alkalize” Try This Remarkabla “Phillip* 9 Way Thousands art Adopting On every side today people are being urged to alkalize their itomach. And thus ease symptoms of “acid inrligse tion,” nausea and stomach upsets. To gain quick alkalisation, just do this: Take two teaspoons of PHIL LIPS’ MILK OF MAGNESIA 30 minutes after eating. OR — take two Phillips’ Milk ofMagnesia Tabid*, which have the same antacid effect. Relief comes almost at ones —- usually in a fsw minutes. Nausea, “gas” —Tallness after eating and “add indigestion** pains leave. You feel like a new person. Try this way. You'll be surprised - “ lid'Thil- at results. Get either the liquid . lips” or the remarkable, new PhhuM Milk of Magnesia Tablets. Delightful to take ana easy to carry with you. Only 251 a box at all drag stores. ALSO M TAMIT KMMt Phillips* MAGNESIA He Who Hesitates The man who hesitates is very often bossed. CHECK TIAT COCCI BEFOIE IT CETS WORSE Tkk doubfeMtkkg compound gtrw quiak ralfcf •fd apMdk noorwjTBoothai raw, irritated for ofcttdran, too. Don’t lot that eough dm to • Mid bans ml For qteok ralM mrf apmdti ' iadte m FOLEY’S HONEY A TAJL A FARMER BOY /"\NE of (ha bat known w medical men In the U. S. waa tht lata Dr. R. V. Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y., who waa bora on a farm in Pa. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription has for Marly 70 years been helping women who hare hsadarhe and backache as- sociated with functional disturbances, and older women who experi- 2**. , flaahea By Increasing the appeUta (his tonic helps to upbuild the body. Buy of yosr druggist. New aixe, tabs., 50c, Uquid $L Watch Your Kidneys/ Be Sure They Properly Cleanse the Blood VOUR kidneys arc constantly Rftw* I ing waste nutter from the blood stream. But kidneys sometimes leg in their wodc—do not ed es nature in tended—tail to remove imparities Get poison the system when retained. Then you may suffer rugging bade ache, dizziness, scanty or too frequent wkuUon, getting up at night, paffineas under the eyes; feel nervous, mhess* bie—all upset Don't delay? Use Doan's Pdk Doan's are especially for poorly func tioning kidneys. Tney ere recom mended by grateful users the country over. Get them from any druggist Doan spills UNCOMMON AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson • Weston Newspaper Onion “Magnificent Failure*’ - IN ALL the history of missionary * work in America, there is no more remarkable record than that flf David Zeisberger. For 63 years he labored among the Indians^ and during that time he traveled many thousands of danger - filled miles through the wilderness on foot and by canoe. He built no less than 13 Indian towns as centers of Chris tianity in" a heathen land and he lived to see all but one of them wiped out of existence. He had failed but truly his was a “mag nificent failure.'' Zeisberger was born in Moravia in 1721 and In 1740 came to Geor gia where his church was organiz ing a mission among the Creeks. Next he was sent to Pennsylvania where he aided Count Zinzendorf in building the Moravian towns of Naz areth and Bethlehem. Beginning his work among the Delawares at Shamokin, Pa., he was adopted by the Munsty tribe of that nation. Then he went to New York where the Six Nations made him a sachem and keeper of their records, an unusual honor for a white man. When the French and Indian war began he was compelled to return to Bethlehem because both French and English were suspicious that his charges were partisans. After Pontiac’s conspiracy had been crushed in 1763 the Moravian led his flock to Wyalusing, Pa., and established two more missions on the Allegheny and the Beaver. Then the call for service beyond the Ohio came to him and in 1772 he founded Schoenbrunn (“Beautiful Spring"), the first white settlement in the fu ture Buckeye state. Next the town of Gnadenhutten was established ani an era of peace began. But trouble was brewing for him. Although Zeisberger restrained the Delawares from taking part in the Revolutionary conflict, he soon found that he was under suspicion by both the British and the Ameri cana. The British stirred up the Wyandots to break up the mi-inn at Schoenbrunn and its teachers were tried as American spiaa. Fi nally In 1782 came the crowning blow, when a party of brutal Amer icans committed the hideous mas sacre of 96 Christian Indiana at Gnadenhutten. The broken-hearted Zeisberger stalled with the rem nants of his flock o^ a journey which took them first to Michigan, then back to Ohio and finally to Canada where he founded Fairfield on the Thames river. In 1798 the Moravian Indians and their leader came beck to the Tus carawas river in Ohio where Zeis berger founded his last town—Gosh en. There his “long life of amazing fortitude, faith and patience" came to an end in 1808. Real Estate Promoter “P HOUGH you may regard real A estate promoters as products of modern times, the fact is one of the greatest “put over his deal" early in the history of the republic. His name was Joel Barlow and he was s lawyer, a diplomat and a poet, which may account for the fact that once “his siren voice persuaded a group of French emigrants to seek a Garden of Eden in Ohio." Back in 1787 two groups of land speculators, known as the Ohio As sociates and the Scioto Associates, secured the right from congress to purchase land in the Northwest ter ritory with the almost-worthless Continental currency with whictf it had paid off soldiers of the Revolu tion. Then the Scioto Associates sent Barlow to France to dispose of these lands. They had nothing but an option on the lands but that didn’t stop Barlow. H# sold a tract of 3,00C,000 acres to a French Scioto company which in turn retailed farms to peasants and artisans who were willing to emigrate to America. In the spring of 1790 some 600 of them arrived in Alexandria, Va. William Duer, head of the Scioto Associates, was filled with dismay for there were neither agents to meet them nor lands ready for them. Foreseeing the trouble that was ahead when hundreds more land- hungry Frenchmen arrived, Duer hastily arranged to take over lands of the Ohio Associates, who owed him money. For this debt he got nearly 200,000 acres on the Ohio riv er opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha. There he brought the Frenchmen and in October, 1790, the town of Galiipolls was founded. Rufus Put nam was engaged to build their huts for them but Duer soon found that it would be impossible to ful fill all the glowing promises which Barlow had made—to provide good homes and profitable occupation for the skilled artisans among them. By 1792 Duer had gone bankrupt, land titles were still in a bad tangle and the settlement of Gallipolis be gan to dwindle. For years there after congress had to listen to many a tala of wot from the victims bafore their claims warn settled. 'Twas This Way By LYLE SPENCER • Waters Newspaper Unioa. New Ways of Gambling U ORSE racing may not much 11 longer be the favorite Ameri can way of gambling. It takes a lot of time and money to follow the ponies regularly. So a group of Cal ifornia professors have invented a new racing sport where anyone can own a whole stable of racers with out it costing a cent. They have conceived the idea of racing snails! On latest reports a history pro fessor had just won the "Kentucky Derby" with his champion thorough bred “Slimy." Pedagogues who never before showed the slightest interest in gardening may how be seen out in their back yard on sunny afternoons, peering diligently under cabbage leaves. Who knows, any one of them might turn up another “Man O' War!" Seven or eight members of the group regularly maintain racing stables, and several have seriously undertaken the business of breeding snails. One is said to be developing a giant slug who can outsquirm by two to one any ordinary snail. The races, usually run on the back of tilted ironing boards, vary in length from six inches, for juve niles, to two feet, for experienced veterans. Half-inch handicaps are sometimes given noted sluggards. Every formality and regulation of orthodox tint procedure is carried out in these races. The snails are even tested for possible doping, because a drop of alcohol noticeably increases a snail’a speed and vitality, and a tlJn film of salad dressing in his lane has l.elped many a snail to gallop home to a smashing victory 1 Origin of Oyster Cocktails ’~p HE oyster cocktail is usually as- A sociated with expensive dining rooms and exclusive social gather ings. Like many members of the social register, it has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Records show that the oyster cocktail was invented in a shabby waterfront saloon in San Francisco about 1866. Its concocter was a drunken gold miner who had reeled into town to spend his month’s wages. He appeared at the bar and or dered a stiff whiskey cocktail and a plate of California raw oysters. After gulping the cocktail, this tip sy guest placed the oysters in the same glass. The bar flies shuddered as they watched him fill it to the brim with tomato catsup Worces tershire and pepper sauce. To their further amazement, he ate the mesa with evident relish. When finished, instead of getting sick, he called for another plate of oysters. The bartender was impressed. He seized the idea, put on an adver tising splurge, and was soon doing a land-office business selling the new product for “four bits" a glass. Other people experimented, and found that it worked equally well with shrimps. When society took it up the success of the oyster cock tail was assured. Lady Nicotine p KRISTOPHER COLUMBUS dts- covered tobacco when he dis covered America in 1492. He car ried back to Europe fantastic tales of how the barbaric natives “per fumed themselves by swallowing the smoke of sweet-smelling herbs." Other early explorers reported that Indians smoked tobacco by in haling it, not through the mouth as we do now, but through the nose. Their pipes were shaped in the form of a Y, the two points of which could be inserted in the nostrils. When first brought to Europe, the tobacco plant was supposed to have miraculous healing powers, and physicians forced people to smoke it for their health. Later, as the practice grew more common, clergy and kings professed to see traces of immorality in it, and passed the most stringent laws to stamp it out. It even became a crime punishable by death to smoke tobacco in sev eral European countries. It was not until smoking became fashionable that it really gained popular following. ' Sir Francis Drake brought back a complete smoking set from America in 1586 and presented it to Sir Walter Raleigh. Just before he went to the scaffold for political treason, Raleigh smoked a pipe full of Vir ginia blend. This immediately impressed the courtiers as a gallant gesture, and smoking was soon rife in the Eliza bethan court. Even Queen Eliza beth is said to have enjoyed a sur reptitious puff or two in the privacy of her boudoir. Diphtheria Ancient Disease Diphtheria is an acute infectious and communicable disease found more frequently among children than among adults. It is character ized by the growth of a false mem brane on a mucous or abraded skin surface and is due to the presence and proliferation of certain bacilli and the toxins elaborated by them. The disease has been known since antiquity, but is has been only with in comparatively recent times that men have learned just how to corn- bet it with success. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson Br REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, Dos of the Moody Bibte Inattote of Chkac* • Westers Newspopar Unioa. Lesson for January 10 NEW LIFE IN CHRIST LESSON TEXT—John 3:1-17. GOLDEN TEXT—VcrUjr, verily. I say knto thee. Except e men be born again, be cannot see the kingdom of God.—John 3:3. PRIMARY TOPIC—Jetua Answering § Men’s Question. JUNIOR TOPIC — the Most Important Question. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— How the Christian Life Begins. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— New Life in Christ The only entrance into the Chris tian life is by the door of the new birth. Regeneration is the act of God whereby the divine nature is imparted to the believing sinner and he becomes the child of God. He who has not entered by this way has not entered at all. He is still dead in trespasses and sins, with out God and without hope (Eph. 2:1, 12). Men are seeking to enter the household of God by almost any other means—culture, reform, char acter building—and are neglecting God’s way. This lesson should there fore be studied and taught with earnest prayer that this foundation truth may lay hold upon the hearts of the hearers of the Word. Let no one who is not born again attempt to teach it to others, lest the blind attempt to lead the blind, and both fall into the ditch (Luke 6:39). The coming of Nicodemus to our Lord took place at the time when he was in Jerusalem for the Pass- over. Jesus had chosen six of his disciples, had been at Cana of Gal ilee, where he performed his first miracle, and had made a brief visit to Capernaum, after which he came to Jerusalem for the feast. In high and holy indignation he had driven the money changers out of the tem ple. The Pharisees who looked for the coming of the Messiah as a secular conqueror wondered at this new spiritual leader. It was prob ably as much on their behalf as his own that Nicodemus came to in quire of Jesus. In answering his questions Jesus reveals the neces sity, the nature, and the method of regeneration—in other words, the Why, What, and How of the New Birth. L Why? (w. 1-7.) Jesus was not unduly impressed by the dignity and high station of his visitor, nor by the visitor’s cour teous acknowledgment of his own position as s great teacher. With decisive boldness Jesus declares that this man, a cultured and dis tinguished ruler of the Jews, must be born again, if he is to see the kingdom of God. God is no respecter of persons. This "doctor of divinity" must be born again, just as was the illiterate fisherman. D. L. Moody once said that he was thankful it was to such a man as Nicodemus that Jesus presented the necessity of the new birth—or men would have said that only the down-and-outer needed to be saved. Two reasons are given by our Lord for the “must" of verse 7: (1) The Kingdom of God is a spir itual kingdom, and cannot be en tered by way of our human nature; and (2) “That which is born of the flesh is flesh" and is radically and essentially bad. To learn why the flesh is bad read Jeremiah 13:23, and Galatians 5:19-21. n. What? (w. 8-13). The new birth is a divine mya- tery, not fathomable by human reason. Those who insist that all spiritual truth be put through the little norm of their intelligence win never understand it or receive its blessing. The striking illustration of the life-giving and energizing wind used by our Ldrd is most il luminating. Wind is unseen, but the results of its movement are evi dent. in. How? (w. 14-17.) Just as there was healing and life in a look at the uplifted serpent (Num. 21:8), so there is life for a look at the Crucified One. Faith re ceives Clod’s perfect provision for sin. Verse 16 may well be regarded as the greatest sentence in the greatest Book in the world. It presents the whole plan of salva tion—its source, its ground, its re cipients, its condition, and its re sult. This glorious salvation is for all men — “whosoever" — but some reject it. Notice that God does not condemn them. Their own evil works and desires condemn them (w. 17-20). God in his grace is ready and willing to save, but men love “darkness rather than light"; for their works are evil. If s Harder to Lose Pounds l an V ' item God’s Merey O God, the whole world is as a drop of morning dew. But Thou hast mercy upon all . . . -For Thou lov- est all things that are, and abhor- est nothing that Thou hast made . . . But Thou sparest all, for they are Thine, O Lord, Thou lover of souls. Doing Well He doeth much that doth • thing well. He doeth well that rather serveth the commonwealth, than his own will.—Thomas a Kempis. Overweight Generally Has But On# Causa and That Is Overeating. “The slim, the irritable, the hungry woman takes on the pro portion of one of our minor men aces," says Fannie Hurst in her amusing little book, "No Food With My Meals." Miss Hurst is writing frankly from her owr ex perience in attempting successful ly to lose pounds. She admits herself that although she under took her reduction program under the direction of the doctor, ahe was not content with the com paratively alow results and cut still further the low calorie diet which the physician gave her. It is one of the mysteries of life that it is much harder to lose added pounds than it is to gain them. The bathroom scales, which are now so general a part of equipment, enable us to keep a check on weight. It is not so easy for those extra pounds which creep upon us unaware as it was once upon a time. A few days of dieting in time will save the slender figure. Remember, how ever, that, in general, the addi tion of a few extra pounds with the years is an asset. They are usually needed to balance those lines which the years write. Unless there is some glandular deficiency, overweight has but one cause, namely, overeating. The avoidance of more calories than are needed for use by the body for its own processes and for the activity of our lives may usually be a simple matter if there are no between meal sweets and no over-indulgence in bread, butter, other fats and rich desserts with meals. Not complete avoidance! It is only the second helpings that are usually responsible for undue weight gain. Looking out for that pound in time will actually save nine. Just one word of warning, however, don't advertise publicly your diet progRtm. Coffee Jelly. 3 UblopooM granulated fcUtia Mi cup eold water SVfc cape hot stroac coffee H cup eager Soak gelatin in cold water, add fresh hot coffee and the sugar. Stir until disspolved and pour into molds to set. Mineral Oil Mayonnaise. % teaepeoa Bustard I 1 teaspoon salt 1 Cayenne H teaspeou auger Vinegar Mix dry ingredients and add yolk of egg. Mix well and add one-half teaspoon vinegar. Add mineral oil gradually, drop by drop at first, then more quickly, beating with egg beatei. As mix ture thickens thin with lemon juice or vinegar and continue add ing oil. When finished mixture should be very stiff. Keep cov« ered in the ice box. • Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Bunyan Created Lakes Elk and Torch lakes, the beau tiful finger lakes that stretch par allel for miles along the shore of Lake Michigan near Elk Rapids, date back to the days of Paul Bunyan, according to the old lum berjacks. Lake Michigan, they say, was scooped out by the mighty Paul, to be used as a log pond. Instead of skidding the logs into a stream and floating them down to his pond Paul would .hitch onto a section of land and drag it over to the lake, log off the timber, and then 1 haul the section bade. One day Paul hooked onto a particularly heavy timbered sec tion near the Boardman and started Babe, the blue ox, out to haul it over to the lake. Thera had been a heavy rain, the ground was greasy, and Babe*e feet slipped. Torch and Elk lakes remain, an eternal testimonial to the blue ox and the time his feet slipped.— Detroit Free Press. Here's Simple Way to Ease a Cold Two Quick-dkting, Quick-Distolving Bayer Aspirin Tablets with a Glass qf Water 55 The modem way to case a cold u this: Two Bayer Aspirin tablets the moment you feel a cold arwnmfl on. Then . if necemary, according bstructioag in the box. At the same time, if you have a ton throat, crush and disrobe three BAYER tablets in one-third glass of water. And gargle with th« mixture twice. The Bayer Aspirin yon take in ternally will act to combat fever and the pains which usually ac company colds. The gargle will act as a medicinal gargle to provide al most instant relief from rawnero and pun. It is really marvelous; for it acts like a local anesthetic on the irritated membrane of your throat. Try this way. Your doctor, we know, will endorse it For it is • quick, < acold. Aik for Bayer Aspirin by tka full name at your druggist’s—aot 15* FOR A DOZEN 2 FULL DOZEN FOR 28# VIRTUALLY 1« A TABLET Sit in Tour Chair f at Home a . » sum# Shopo The things you want to buy •••tt the Aw* yon want to hoy them • • s at the price you want to pay. Yon can find these right in the paper. Your newspaper advertisements make it poetible to do your "lookhig ground” eight at home •••and then fo downtown So do yow faying saving you time and cnccgy*