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I - i -* The Beniwell People-Seetiael Barnwell. S. C- Thursday, March II, 19S7 * m T7‘ JL L The Saunders Family Is a Pushing Bunch HOW HE HELPED By DOUGLAS MALLOCH If a bicycle built for two is considered unique in this day and age, just what would you say about this one built for five? It is the chariot of the family of Mr. and Mrs. S. Saunders of Norfleet, England. The bicycle proper is twelve feet long; motive power, three pairs of legs, owned by papa, mama and ten-year- old Victor. The sidecar is occupied by Patricia, six, and Michael, three. Cost of operation is about one shilling (25 cents) a week. prtnr, -»-»■> ftrt-rrT-trw-*ff-» ■w-*-rrwffr r»-» , , , r > y ,•» p-y »■>• »*>-»•> nr. THE FARMER SEES A STRANGE SIGHT 'T'HE farmer who had made friends with Billy Mink had watched Billy disappear through the hole beneath the shed of the farm house. He had chuckled as he saw the tip of Billy's tail disappear. You see, it was to get Billy over to the house that he had made friends with Billy. You remember that for days the farmer had placed food for Billy close to the woodpile under which Billy was living. On this particular morning he had tied a big piece of fish to a string and then had dragged it from the place where he usually left Billy's meals over to the hole under the shed. There he had left the piece of fish. When Billy had come out from under the KNOW THYSELF by Dr. Groryte D. Greer DO GREAT PIANISTS MAKE THE BEST PIANO TEACHERS? I N AN article entitled "Facts and Fallacies in Pianism," M. Cock- ran points out that "skill in playing the piano does not imply skill in teaching the piano," and discusses the fact that many great pianists have been miserably poor piano teachers because they did not know the fundamentals of teaching or the psychology of the pupil. Some of the world’s great piano teachers have been obscure pianists who nev er became known as great artists themselves, but they trained many pianists. Great musicians often are unable to come down to the level of students, and thus are unable to lead them. The result is that they sometimes discourage the pupil rather than heln him. ©—WNU Service. New Fashion Twist woodpile for his breakfast, there had been no breakfast there. But it hadn't taken him long to find the trail of that piece of fish where it had been dragged over ihe ground, and with his wonderful nose he had followed the trail straight over to the hole under the shed. Now you know the farmer’s house was overrun with rats, the rats Billy Mink had driven out of the barn. The farmer hoped that if he could get Billy over to the house he would follow those rats and drive them out just as he had driven them out of the bam. That is why the farmer chuckled when he saw Billy Mink disappear through that hole under the floor of the shed. For a long time the farmer kept watch, but he was disappointed. Nothing happened. You sec, Billy Mink, having eaten a hearty break fast, had curled up for a nap under the floor of the shed. The farmer didn’t know this, and so at last he concluded that somehow Billy Mink had slipped out unseen. "I did hope that little brown rascal w’ould drive those rats out," muttered the farmer as he went about his work. It was some time later in the day that the farmer went to the bam door and glanced over toward the house. Then it was that he saw a strange sight, a very strange sight, indeed. Out from that hole through which Billy Mink had en tered came a crowd of rats. There were big rats, little rats and middle- "People who pash themselves," says soliloquising Elizabeth, "don't have to depend on friends with a pull." • B*ll Syndicate.—WNU Sarvlca. sized rats. There were gray old grand-father rats, and sleek young rats. Never had the farmer seen so many rats at one time. And it was plain to see that those rats were in a terrible fright. They were squeaking and squealing with fear, and every one of them was running as fast as he could. They scattered in all directions. Some made for the big bam, some made for the woodpile, some made for the henhouse, and others started off straight toward the next farm, in spite of the snow on the ground. The farmer shouted aloud for joy. He knew that there wouldn’t be one rat left in that house by the time Billy Mink came out. • T. W. Burgos.—WNU Servtcs. H IS father bought a sugar bush Back in the days when land was cheap. j Of course, 'twas wrong of him to push Himself above his neighbors, keep An eye upon a rainy day, And worst of all to put away A little for his youngster, too, When times get bad, as times will do. And yet he did, and then he died leift- the maples' to his son, And past, the place I often ride. (It’s out on Rural Number One.) That sugar bush his father bought Turned out about the way he thought, Has been enough, with what ha had, To keep the youngster of that dad. I realize it’s wrong to save, The newer name for thrift is greed, And that old farmer in his grave Should b e condemned, c o n - demned indeed. And yet I rather hesitate To do it—I have thought of late That when that sugar bush was grown He saved for others than his own. Upon the poor-list you will find No mention of that son of his. Though other farmers feel the grind Of taxes for some man who is. He saved a little for his son, But he was not the only one. He served his neighborhood the best By loading no one on the rest. C Dou*Im Mai lock.—WNU Sanrtca. mm uwaumax . tour turn 9 By Leicester K. Davis • Public Ladgar. laa. — By— B. Whltnaa First Aid ea S to the Ailing House EXPOSED WOOD PORCHES The newest style quirk to hit Hol lywood is demonstrated here b y Anita Colby. She wears twisted ropes of pearls at her throat and around her black velvet hat. The pearl straigs are fastened with vel vet ribbon. A PART of a house that sooner or later is almost certain to give trouble is an open wood porch. As porches are usually built, even the best of floor paint will not last for more than a year or two, and wood steps and their supports are likely to rot where they rest on the earth. Water soaking into cracks between floor boards and under the edges of a porch also leads to rotting. In building a new porch or in mak ing repairs, this damage can be largely offset through the use of proper materials and methods. Some kinds of wood are much more resistant to rotting than others. Two of these rot-resistant woods are red wood and cypress. One or the other should be used for the steps and other parts that are in contact with the earth. Heavy painting with cre osote will protect any kind of wood from rotting. All of the wood used in building an open porch should be "back- painted"; that is, all parts, backs and edges, should be given a coat of paint as a protection against mois ture. Any kind of good paint can be used; aluminum paint is excel lent, and so is white lead thinned with linseed oil to the consistency of thick paint. In laying the floor, which is usually made of tongue-and-groove strips, the strips should be driven tightly together. As the joints are filled with paint, they will be closely bound, and cracks between boards are not likely to develop. Built in this way, floor paint will last for several sea- _ sons instead of but one or two. The failure of paint on the floor of an open porch is due to the soaking of water into cracks between boards. The wood absorbs the moisture, which on dry and hot days is drawn out through the top surface of the boards. It is this that loosens floor paint. With the joints closed with paint, and the board prevented from shrinking, this effect cannot take place. • ' Tha bottoms of porch columns should b£ so finished that water cannot collect under them. They can be bedded in white lead, and further protected by strips of quarter-round or other molding, also laid in white lead. The joints between the ends of porch railings and the columns or other parts that support them should be treated in the same way. Very commonly these joints open, and there will be rotting as water soaks in. Should these open joints appear, they should be packed with white lead, calking compound, or something similar. With such pre cautions, repairs to a porch can be averted almost indefinitely. c By Roger B. Whitman WNU Service. Basic Fmftr Chofoclgrtslics * UNCOMMON AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson • Western Newspaper Union 'T'HE fingers, like the thumb, hold * many a startling revelation of the inner self. These become clear as the printed pages of a book to those who learn to read them right ly. Each finger has its own signif icance which must be studied as a separate element, much as you have determined the indications given by the thumb. What the Fingers Signify. Finger analysis begins with the phases of personality represented by each, as shown by the accom panying Illustration. The general rules governing an alysis of the thumb apply. When analyzing a finger, have thoroughly fixed in mind the qualities of tem perament it stands for. Next de termine its type from form and length and flexibility. Examine the contour of the finger as a whole, noting whether it is of square or tapered type, whether smooth or ir regular,* whether bony or well fleshed. And particularly note the length in relation to the lengths of the other Angers, as well as the relative lengths of the finger and that of the palm upon which it is set. Memorize the meaning of each finger: The first, or index, finger represents power, purpose, prog ress. The second, the quality ami kind of thought. The third, bril liancy and fame. The fourth, the psychic and idealistic qualities of the mind. WNU Service. Rulers of Semipro Baseball m#: Pathfinder of the Seas r_T E NEVER took part in a battle * 1 but his name deserves rank with those other American naval he roes — Jones, Decatur, Lawrence, Perry, Farragut and Dewey. His career was a perfect example of the saying that "peace hath its war." For Matthew FontLine Maury was one of the greatest benefactors of all those who sailed the seas in his day and mariners still honor his name today. Born in Virginia in 1806, Maury joined the navy as a midshipman at the age of nineteen. During his long voyages he became impressed with the scanty information that was available about prevailing winds and ocean currents. Strangely enough, an accident on land gave him his opportunity to do something about it He was in a stagecoach smash-up in Ohio which made hin^ a cripple for life. As a result, he was placed in charge of the depot of charts and instruments in /^Washington out of which developei) the hydrographic office and the naval observatory. Here he started collecting all avail able information on the meteorolo gy of the ocean which he com piled from a great number of old log books 6f naval vessels. The re sult was his first Wind and Current Chart, issued in 1847. About 5,000 of these charts were distributed to shipmasters, who found them amazingly useful, shoiV ening voyages by days and weeks. "It was as if a friendly wizard in seven-league boots had suddenly risen out of the waves to lead mer chant vessels by the shortest and quickest paths." So they were glad to heed Maury’s request to send him the results of their observations of winds and Weather and he began issuing more charts. Within a few years 200,000 copies of Uie charts were being used by mariners of all nations and it was estimated that the annual saving to the shipping of one nation alone was 810,000.000. The outbreak of the War Between the States was a tragedy for Maury in more Ways than one. Loyalty to his native state forced him to re sign when Virginia seceded but. due mainly to the jealousy of a superior officer, his usefulness to the Con federacy was hampered and his ca reer in its service was not a dis tinguished one. After living for a while in England, he returned to America and to a professorship at the Virginia Military institut. where he wrote a geography series which is still in use. He died in 1873, "full of years and honorr" and one of the finest monuments in Rich mond today perpetuate^ the fame of this "Pathfinder of the Seas." Honus Wagner, left, greatest shortstop baseball ever knew, now high commissioner of semipro baseball, chats with Raymond Dumont, president of the National Semipro Baseball congress, at a meeting of officers of that organization in Chicago. Ask Me Another # A General Quix • B«n Sjnxflcate.—WNU SotIm. 1. What Revolutionary, leader waa known as the "swamp foac"T 2. What is meant by "high Ger man”? 3. To what do "great primer" and "long primer” refer? 4. In what state was Abraham Lincoln born? 5. In geography, what is meant by a march? 6. What two great mountaJa systems traverse the United States? 7. By what church official is a mitre worn? * 8. What mountains separate Europe from Asia? 9. What is meant by a "modi cum’’? 10. In what ocean is the island of St. Helena? Answers 1. Francis Marion. 2. The language of Germany as distinguished from that of the Netherlands, etc. 3. Sizes of type. 4. Kentucky. 5. A boundary or the territory adjacent. 6. The Appalachian in the East and the Rocky in the West. 7. A bishop. 8. The Ural mountains. 9. A small account. 10. The Atlantic. "President for • of Kentucky who "President for o Day" A CITY in Kansas, a county in -t* Missouri and part of tha name of a great railway system bear his name, but David R. Atchison is best known in American history as the man who, it has often been asserted, was day." A native emigrated to Missouri in 1830, Atchison was serving as a senator from that state in 1848 when Zach ary Taylor was elected President to succeed James K. Polk. On March 3, 1849, Vice President George M. Dallas, presiding officer of the senate, announced "the close of my official term being near at hand, I conform to an established and convenient practice by with drawing from the deliberations of this body." On the motion of Sen ator Benton of Missouri, Senator Atchison was then appointed presi dent pro tern of die senate for the remainder of that session of the national congress. March 4, the traditional Inaugura tion day, fell on a Sunday and the President-elect not only had reli gious scruples about being inaug urated on the Sabbath but doubted the legality of such a proceeding. So the. inauguration ceremonies were set for Monday, March 5. Friends of Atchison claimed that, since President Polk’s term ended on March 3 and Taylor’s did not begin until March 5, there was an interim of one day in which the senate was the only continuing gov erning body. Since Atchison was president pro tern of the senate and thereby'acting vice president (Dal las having resigned) he was also acting President between the ad ministrations of Polk and Taylor, L e. "President for a day.” Atchison himself never made any such claim and declared that the of fice of President was vacant from noon Saturday to noon Monday. Asked once how he enjoyed his short term in office he replied that he really did not know because he slept through most of it after an exhausting last day session of the senate. Constitutional authorities agree with Atchison in regard to the vacancy existing in the office of the President on March 4. 1849. but one edition of the biographies) congres sional directory credits Atchison with being "President for a day" and that legend still Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Is a tonic which has been helping womea of all ages for nearly 70 years. Adv. Their Wisdom Angels do not "fear to tread" anywhere; only, being angels, they know better. EMINENT DOCTORS MOTE THIS OPINION! "...colds result from add condition of the body.,. they prescribe various alkalies”—ex cerpt from medical Journal. The ALKALINE FACTOR la IVDSN'S MENTHOL COUOH DROPS 5/ MUM SUILO UP YOU* ALKALINE RESERVE Noble _ They are never alone who art accompanied with noble thoughta. —Sir P. 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