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Thursday, April 21, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO liquid metal, heavier than lead, was regarded as “live silver.” Man has used mercury for cen turies for the backs of mirrors, a shorter time for the “stuffing” of thermometers and barometers, for recovering gold from its ore and for “silver” fillings in teeth. Its new est use, instead of water in steam boilers, promises to create an un heard-of demand for mercury. Experiments with a 6,000-horse- ! power mercury vapor boiler and turbine made by W. L. R. Emmett demonstrated a saving of about $1,000 a day over the use of water. Now. a plant twice as large is being built, in which 125 tons of mercury will be vaporized to produce MINING— There is still money in mining, lor the man who has the knowl edge, the strength and the Courage “steam,” then condensed and used to tackle it single-handed. For j over and over again, that matter, there has always been | one result has been to raise the money in mining and always will price of mercury from $1 a pound toe whenever the cost of labor and supplies is less than the value of the ore. Loeffler Palmer is running the ■“Rube” gold mine single-handed in Utah. He bought £ compressor, a to $2; another, to start a “mercury rush” in Arkansas, where beds of cinnabar, the ore from which mer cury is refined, have been discover ed. There may not be enough mercury in the world to enable ev- tractor to run it, and some com- erybody who wants to use it in pressed air drills and started alone to operate this abandoned working. From a depth of 180 feet he got out three cars of ore in four months last year and shipped them to the engines to do so. The largest pro duction in a single year in the whole world was in 1929 when less than 6,000 tons were extracted. Here’s a chance for adventure smelter, netting him $13,431.29 for and wealth . Hustle around the odd his work. ; corners of the world and find a cinnabar mine! There are plenty of other one- man mines in the West, too small for the big companies to bother with, but capable of earning good pay for the men who work them. “Big Business” hasn't gobbled all the opportunities yet! QUICKSILVER— The metal which everybody now rails mercury was generally spoken of in my boyhood as “quicksilver.” Remembering that “quick” in old- fashioned English meant “alive” and not, as It means now, “speedy,” it is easy to see how this mysterious MOVIES— “Thrillers,” mystery plays, news reels, travel films, slapstick com edies and animated cartoons are preferred by the majority of a group of prominent people recently asked to express their motion pic ture preferences. College profes sors, bank presidents, editors, mer chants, authors and scientists were among those who expressed them selves. There aren’t enough of that sort of minds, however, to provide the audiences necessary to the sources of the motion picture industry. Dr. Hendrik Willem Van Loon put his finger on the spot when he wrote: “Ninety per cent of all people ev erywhere and at all times will never grow older, mentally speaking, than twelve years, and will never be able to appreciate what the other ten per cent will like.” It’s the child-minded ninety per cent for whom most of the world’s commodities, as well as its enter tainment, are produced, after all. SUGAR— If you want to lay up your foundations, walls and ,chimneys in a mortar that will stand forever and get stronger with age, mix a little sugar with the lime and sand. That’s what Dr. Gerald J. Cox of the Mellon Institute of In dustrial Research told the Ameri can Chemical Society the other day. The secret of the durability of the old Roman walls and aqueducts, which have stood for more than two thousand years, is that they put sugar into their sand-lime mortar, making it 60 per cent stronger than “unsweetened” mor tar, becoming harder with time. Five or six pounds of granulated cane sugar to 100 pounds of lime does the trick, and the result is a mortar that is easier to work than cement or gypsum plaster and stronger than either. SUICIDE— Within the past few weeks the world has been shocked by the suicides of two outstanding figures, George Eastman and Ivor Kruger. Only two or three years ago Al fred Lowenstein, another great financier, jumped out of his air plane as it was crossing the Brit ish Channel. Literally thousands of other men Msxthor Tt’a fsnri.njor — i jJ Kjyi LO f j! &. * XV %J xxj JL • r\6lCL 1*0 luce TO iCNO\y what’s happened To MV BASE BALL SU»T? DO YOU K.HOV WHERE IT’S AT ? " SAY^i-lL 1 - WHERE THE HECK ARE MY GARDEN TOOLS AMD THAT OLD PAIR OF * hello, - 'Misses Perrins, I isnt VERY STRONG THIS MAv/NInJ and l doesn’t peel like WORKIM’ ¥ \ SN "OH, MumSie-dio you see this ADOR able Picture of ciarx 6able.? couldn’t you just love him ? 0 U ■' — ^ ^ Tg n» who had been more or less prom inent in business and industrial af fairs have killed themselves in the past few years because they were not equipped with the resources within themselves to enable them to face the world without money. They knew no other way of life ex cept by buying whatever they thought might contribute to tlici* happiness. In Mr. Eastman’s case it was not lack of money but the feeling that he had finished his life’s work and would be happier dead than ill, but in almost every other recent suicide the reason has been fear of pov erty. The world has largely discarded the belief in any form of punish ment beyond the grave. Fear of eternal damnation has undoubtedly been a deterrent of suicide in the past. Fear of the world’s opinion has become a stimulus tp suicide. The happiest man is the one who lives so chat he does not care what other people think about him. :xr Pork Production Facts Given New Bulletin m H EADACH E S COLDS AND SORE THROAT NEURITIS, NEURALGIA. Don’t be a chronic sufTcrer from headaches, or any other pain. There is hardly an ache or pain Bayer Aspirin tablets can’t relieve; they are a great comfort to women who , suffer periodically. They are always to be relied on for breaking up colds. It may be only a simple head ache, or it may be neuralgia or neuritis; rheumatism. Bayer Aspirin, is still the. sensible thing to take. Just be certain it’s Bayer you’re taking; it does not hurt the heart. Get the genuine tablets, in this familiar package for the pocket. CELMSON COLLEGE, April 9.— Pork Production in South Caro lina is becoming more profitable because of (1) the increase in corn production, (2) the practicability of producing forage crops the year round, (3) the fact that such pro tein supplements as cottonseed meal and fish meal are produced in the state, and (4) prices received for South Carolina hogs are as good m as Chicago prices or better. So states Prof. L. V. Starkey, chief of the Animal Husbandry Di vision of Clemson College, who be lieves that there is no class of live stock better adapted to the diversi fied farming now imperative than is the hog. It has been thorough ly proven by experiments as well as demonstrated by actual farm practice, he reminds us, that hogs will market corn and forage crops for considerably more than the market price of those products; and, moreover, soil fertility is con served thereby. To furnish proper information and guidance for farmers in the economic production of pork Prof. Starkey has prepared Extension Bulletin 91, Hogs for South Caro lina, a well illustrated booklet cov ering many phases of hog produc tion including feeding and manage ment of sows and growing stock, protein supplements to com, forage crops, hog equipment, sanitation and diseases, and marketing. The publication, which is for free dis tribution, may be had from coun ty farm agents or from the Publica tions Division, Clemson College. 1X1 Brainerd Is Promising Blackberry Variety The Brainerd, a new blackberry developed by the United States De partment of Agriculture, gives promise of becoming an important commercial variety. It is the re sult of a cross of the Himalaya and an eastern erect-growing variety, thought to be the Georgia Mam moth. It has been tried success fully in Oregon, Washington, Cali fornia, North Carolina, and Mary land. The advantages of the Brainerd over other varieties are its ex treme vigor, its productivity, hard iness, large size, high dessert qual ity, and the fact that it is suitable for canning and frozen-pack pre serving. Its weaknesses are its large prickles which are similar U) chose of the Himalaya, a peculiar condition of its leaves at certain seasons in which parts of the leaf are lighter in color, the fact that it lacks quality until fully ripe and that it is slightly susceptible to or ange-rust disease in the East and co the double-blossom disease in the Southeastern States. The Brainerd has berries 30 to GO per cent larger than the Himalaya _d its seeds are smaller. The ..riety was named for Ezra Brain- .J, former president of Middle- ..ry College of Vermont. , The United States Department of riculture has no plants of the _ainerd blackberry for distribu- jn, but they may be bought from w j-operating nurseries in North _arolina, Ohio, and California. -X— The colors in the walls of the Grand canyon are due chiefly to l lie oxides of various minerals, such as the red color of iron. JXI — Mildew, which at first shows it self merely on the surface of a cot ton or woolen article, will destroy the fiber if not checked. ^ BEWARE OF IMITATIONS 2E MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C. SAVE AND BE HAPPY r ■ ,. , . To be carefree and really hap py a man must have surplus money to assure against hardship if adversity should come his way. He must be able to enjoy the good things of life—that is, a good home and all the things that go to give physical comfort. The only way this goal can be achieved is through saving and it CAN BE ACHIEVED. Don’t squander your money away. Save, and save system atically. It will be the greatest thing you have ever done in your life as you will realize before many months pass. THE PEOPLES BANK McCORMICK, S. C. <9 TO AID YOU WITH SPRING HOUSE CLEANING At this drug store you will find many needed supplies to help you with your spring house cleaning and renovat ing. Just take note of the things you need and then pay us a visit. You are almost certain to find just what you need here. It will be the best quality, too, for we handle only good merchandise. We have Sponges, Stove Polish, Window Cleaners, Rub ber Gloves, Chamois, Lacquer, Metal Polish, Paint Brushes, Naptha, etc. Prescriptions accurately filled day or night from purest drugs at moderate prices. STROMS’ DRUG STORE 3?