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Thursday, October 20, 1932 McCORMICR MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FIT* Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Robinson, Mrs. J. S. Mann and Mrs. D. M. Bullock .spent Tuesday in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. James Talbert from Satesburg spent the week end in and near town with relatives. Mr. C. M. Carroll of Augusta was a business visitor here last Fri day.- Mr. Bill Arrington has gone to Tavares, Fla, where he has accept ed a position. Rev. and Mrs. Wilkes Dendy of Cairo, Ga, are here visiting Mr. and Mrs. JVistar Harmon. Mr. W. W. Medlock of the Beth any section was among the business visitors in town yesterday. Cadet Jim Murray has returned to The Citadel, Charleston, after spending a week here oh account of the illness of his father, Mr. Joseph Murray. Mr. Murray’s con dition is considerably improved. Mr. J. T. Faulkner, who has been ill at •his home here the past ten days,' is getting along nicely and hopes to be up and about again soon. Mr. Grady Smith, who has been ill at his home near town the past two weeks, is reported much better at this time. After being a patient at the gov ernment hospital in Memphis, Tenn, four weeks, Mr. Yancey Seigler has returned home much improved in health and is back at his post of duty at Stroms’ Drug Store. Mr. Luther Drennan of Pinewood spent the week end near town with relatives. -i Bread, From Prehistoric Times, to- the Present However it came about, it seems likely that some ages after the discov ery of fire, prehistoric man in his hunt for food found that by picking and eating the heads of the grain, that grew in the fields, he could satisfy his hunger. To avoid eating the whole plant, he learned to grind the grain a bit between stones, and it is appar ent from the worn off teeth of mum mies that he also ate some of the ground stone along with his grain. II owever, there we had the first flour. To make the cracker graitf go down better, some one thought of adding water, and. ergo, the first dough. A few generations later one of the youngsters grew careless and dropped some of his grain and water mixture on a hot stone, ft very one looked and tasted—and started dripping more dough on more hot stones. They had discovered that bread was good. Then one day a careless cave lady forgot and lert. her dough sitting out over night. She didn’t know it. but in that time it pivked up some wild yeast floating in the air. In the morning when she started to make up the day’s dry, flat pancakes, she dis covered that the batter bubbled and rose on baking and the bread was de lightfully tender and moist instead" of hard and dry. Then dough was left out over night—and leavened bread was born. Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Dukes of Au- ^usta spent Sunday with relatives here. - *Pd M. Connor and son, Charlie,’* GretWtvMle aye ^ ^spending .a few days here with relatives. - The Ladies’ Aid Society of the McCormick Baptist Church will serve ah oyster supper to the pub lic on Friday night, October' 28th. Wiiii details to be published next week. • ' ; • £ .* - s ' i. 't • ? . _____ i How One Woman Lost 10 lbs. In a Week Mrs. Betty Luedeke of Dayton writes: ‘T am using Kruse hen to reduce weight—I lost 10 pounds in one week and cannot say too much to recommend it/’ To take off fat easily, SAFELY and HARMLESSLY—take one half teaspoonful of Kruschen in a glass of hot water in the morning before Itteakfast, go lighter on fatty meats, potatoes, butter, cream and pastries —it is the safe way to lose unsight ly: fat and one bottle that lasts 4 weeks costs but a trifle. Get it at any drug store in America. If this first bottle fails to convince you this is the safest way to lose fat— money back. But be sure and get Kru?chen Salts—imitations are numerous and you must safeguard your health. —Adv. Pine Makes Good Fuel City of Halifax Linked With American History Halifax claims to be one of the most strongly fortified cities in the world. Its citadel, or Fort George, standing on an eminence above the city, took nearly thirty years to build. Its splen did harbor is spacious enough to hold the whole British fleet. Point Pleas ant park is reserved by the crown for purposes of defense, but is leased to the city for a pleasure ground for the sum of a shilling a year for 90 years. Its Martello tower was built under the direction of the duke of Kent in 1700. The Northwest arm, famous for its scenery, and its facilities for all kinds of aquatic sports, also boasts a memo rial tower, built at the time of the ad vent of representative government in 1758. x St. Paul’s church, Halifax, is the old est Protestant church in Canada, and contains memorial tablets to such his toric figures as Sir John Wentworth, a governor of. New Hampshire before the Revolution, and afterward gov ernor of Nova Scotia; and Right Rev erend Charles Inglls, D. D.. first Protestant Bishop of British North America. Vacci*#’. Begianm* It must have been at a date almost coincident with Jesty’s and .Tenner’s experiments with vaccine that Lady Mary Wortley Montagu brought to Rnfclahd the Turkish method of Inocu lation for smallpox, writes a corre spondent to a London paper. The inoculation was not with vaccine, but with the poison of smallpox itself, as stated on her epitaph in Lichfield cathedral, in which Henrietta Inge, daughter of Sir John Wrottesley, wishes to express her gratitude to Lady Mary for the benefit she her self received from this “alleviating art which softens the virulence of this malignant disease.” Lady Mary like .Testy, tlrtit tried the experiment of inoculation on her own family. The epitaph Is dated T7S9. For a time, one supposes, tiie two methods of In oculation went on side by side, but the Turkish method, proving injurious in too many cases, was dropped.—De troit News. I Pound for pound, pine wood gives rff more heat than, hickory. There 5 a widespread belief that hickory jx* other heavy hardwood has a Higher fuel value than pine. Tests >y the Forest Products Laboratory >f the United States Department of Happy to Oblige Two Englishmen in India spent their leave shooting bear. Their first day they had no luck until sundown, when one got a chance of a shot and killed. It transpired, however, the victim was ap old native woman, and no bear. As they were discussing the matter the headman of the village appeared. They pointed out how sorry tliey were such an accident had happened, and offered to make a. reparation: The- headman suggested the sum of 200 rupees—or just over $C0. Three years later they went to the same district again shoot ing bear. They arrived at the bunga low at night, and once again the same hr-adman appeared. He made a simple request. “If you sahibs have another 200 rupees. I have another old woman for you to shoot.” “Pilgrim Fathers” The term “Pilgrim” is used In ref erence to the earliest immigrants to Massachusetts, but more eSp'ecially to the settlers at Plymouth in 1020. The f the United States Department of , seiners at Plymouth in 1020. xn< jericulture show the fallacy of this] ternl m,lst be distinguished from Purl lotion, which probably has held 1 , “' wlllch ™ tl,at '» " hr,<, - v ol „ body of ^ * ~ x religions reformers who sought to re- ;way since stoves first came into form thft Church of The pn. ise. grims were separatists from the first, A cord or hickory wood, being who had already left England and leavier, may give off more heat formed an independent congregation In han a cord of pine. But most esinous woods, like pine, have a dgher heat-production value per »ound than nonresinous woods. Another mistaken idea about fuel mod is that sapwood of long-leaf dne contains more resin than the leartwood. This notion comes irobably from the frequent sight of gum” glistening on the freshly cut apwood, but not on the heartwood. dthough the resin is formed in the apwood, it is s*red.niosUy4n Jtha leartwood, according to the Forest lervice. Leyden; whence England. they came to New EaglUk “Public Schools** The term “public school” does not mean the same in England that it does In the United States. Eton, Harrow, Winchester and the like are the fa mous public schools, but tuition is charged. The Schools in England which compare with our own pub lic schools are called “free schools.” Only th« poorer classes attend for the most payt. • They .i arej not,, considered as having M^blgh'standards as the thousands of private schools la Eng-* land. Many and Curious Are Oddities Found'in Cuba In Cuba there is a species of the honey bee that has no sting and, on account of the mild climate, works the entire year. But there is a flying ant there that more than makes up for it. “This insect,” reports one who knows, “has a habit of getting down your back or front and will puncture your hide at the rate of ten times a second before you can crush it. The sting is very painful and the places will fester if not treated with a demulcent. The application of garlic will counteract the effect.'’ Another queer tiling, ac cording to this same authority, is a firefly which carries headlights instead of a tail light. In other words, it lias a light on each side of the head in stead of at tiie tail. Native women attending an evening funettou often put them in their,hair for adornment. Then there is a Tand crah, called the oongorln, ■ that is plentiful along tire highways. It is a sociable creature and will enter a house, which is not pleasant if they happen to pinch your foot. But they are good food. Tiie plaintain, a species of the bananas, is not good raw but, fried or baked, makes a tempting meal. It is “hog and hom iny” to the natives, so no one need starve in Cuba.—Pathfinder Magazine. V Ambitious Projects for Harnessing Sun’s Rays Inventions for obtaining power to op erate machinery from the heat of the sun’s rays have often been patented, but most of them have contained two fatal defects. First of all, the appli ances had to be so large that tliey were utterly unwieldy; also they cost so much that power obtained in this way did not pay: it was cheaper to use electricity or steam. Important experimental work is be ing carried out in Canada, Holland, and Germany to see whether it is pos sible to use the sun’s heat economi cally for supplying power. The first ex periments are to see whether sunshine can he “bottled.” That is, can enough power he .collected from the sun during the day to provide light during the night? Heat rays can be concentrated by means of mirrors and lenses; the pres ent scheme is to collect them by means of large white surfaces and to direct them upon boilers, in which, they will generate steam. The steam will be used to operate dynamos, and the elec tricity made will be stored in batter ies. THRIFT SAYS IT By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WNU Service) T WO young meen were discussing life in general and marriage in par ticular, us young men will. “A man should not marry,” said Giles Harring ton. “until lie is drawing at least sev en, y-five a week, can show a bank bal ance of four figures, and is prepared to finance his own home.” t “in my opinion,” retorted Dick, who was the son of old Doc Winters, a 1 notably loved hut thriftless person, “he should marry when he finds the right Famous “Sowbelly” Dinners It has been the custom for a great many years for the Colorado Mining association and the Colorado Chapter of the American Mj^ing. Congress to 'hold'a joint convention in January. The final function of the convention is usually the sowbelly dinner. It usual ly furnishes the fun of the conven tion. Every year there is a new com mittee of arrangements, which tries to outdo its predecessor in planning out unusual stunts. The menu of the s>wbelly dinner consists primarily of sowbelly and beans, old Cornish pas try and those things usually prepared by the early prospectors as their reg ular menu. Sometimes tin plates and cups are used instead of dishes. The main dining room Is decorated and lighted in primitive manner. Thes£ sowbelly dinners are always well at tended. Early Englanders Blackened bones of a woman and her child have been found in a pre historic crematorium on the Surrey Downs. Excavations at Burrows Cross, near Feuslake, have revealed two trenches 20 feet long’, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, walled with big stones. Bodies were cremated in the trenches, and sealed down by another layer of stones, on which other cremations took place. At one end of the trench half- cremated bones were found; all the others must have been completely de stroyed, for the heat was so terrific that masses of charcoal and big sand stones, burnt right through, can still be seen. Experts who have examined the trenches suggest that they may have been used by Neolithic people who roamed the Downs about 7000 B. C. Proper Display of Flag The flag code as adopted by the na tional flag conference, Washington, provides as follows; When the flag is displayed in a manner other than by being flown from a staff, it should be displayed flat, whether indoors or out. When displayed either horizon tally or vertically against a wall the Union should be uppermost and to the flag’s own right, i. e., to the observer’s left When displayed in a window It should be displayed the same way— that is, with the Union, or blue field, to the left of tiie observer in the street. When festoons, rosettes, or drapings are desired, bunting of blue, white and red should be used, but never the flag. Pr»y*r for Light Moxley was traveling along an un familiar dirt road through some woods, on a dark night, when a sud den storm arose. At each flash of lightning he would take a few steps forward and then wait. The rain con tinued to pour and the thunder roared. Finally, as the lightning grew less fre quent, the thunder louder and the road more difficult to travel, his misery ex pressed itself In this prayer:. “Oh, Lord, ifIt’s • Just the - same to yqu, pieaseiglve me a little nioiV k light’’Itul a little less noise.”—Pathfinder Maga zine. xlrl.” 1 “And I maintain,” insisted the other, “that unless conditions that I outlined are met; she will not remain the right girl hut prove the truth of that old saying about love flying out of tiie window when poverty comes in at the door.” Now it is possible that, at tiie time of this conversation, both young men had already become interested in Martha Endicott. Martha was a very pretty girl who had various suitors, but when Giles Harrington and Dick Winters entered the lists, people made no hones about saying Martha would ultimately choose one of the two. However, it was not very long after tiie above discussion on life in general and marriage in particular, that both ..young men saw fit to call upon Mar ina. Not together, nor on the same day, yet near enough so that possibly the discussion had something to do with it. Martha was seen out driving one day with Giles, the next at tiie thea ter with Dick. On Sundays, both Dick and Giles would drop in at the Endi cott home. But they were rivals, and each man knew it. In between calls on Martha, each man was hustling for all lie was worth, trying to make himself worth more, for the sake of tiie woman he wanted to marry. If it was going to be a case of the better man winning it was to be nip and tuck between the two. A tremendous boom of business in the town increased Giles’ law busi ness and brought more practice to Dick, who was taking over his father’s medical work. Giles bought,a piece of property so far out of town that wise old ladies winked and said, “He’ll be building a house on it for himself and Martha Endicott.” Then a nationally known firm put up a factory nearby and Giles sold out for double what he had paid. Dick took a run-down two-family house in payment for a had debt and before the year was up it was wanted badly by the owners of the apartment houses either side, so that Dl$f turned a penny he had not expedited to turn. Dick was- Inclined tq be free with his money, yet no one ever accused Giles of niggardliness. One merely spoke of him as “a thrifty man” with a suspicion of admiration in the say ing of it. Wliile of Dick one said, smiling, and shaking one’s head a bit deprecatorily, “Easy come, easy go. Dick’s a good spender.” He would have lavished gifts upon Martha had she allowed him to. But she was singularly fastidious in her treatment of both men. and what she did not permit Giles she did not per mit Dick. Fortunately, perhaps, their invitations seldom clashed so that she was forced to decide between them. Dick did not invite her to the few Intellectual affairs that came to town, as did Giles. He was more apt to run in unexpectedly as he was on the rounds of his morning calls with some thing impromptu. As, for instance, “I’m Inking the kids in the ward out to the circus this afternoon. Want to come along and feed the animals?” And Martha would go, as lively as any of the youngsters. As chance would have it, both chose to propose the evening of the annual 'bazaar given by the entire town for tiie hospital, on the lovely grounds of the hospital itself. It was aJways a busy day for Martha, and when eve ning had come and the strain was a bit over, she was glad to slip into one of the stone seats backed against a mass of shrubbery and listen to the sweet strains of the entertaining vio linist. Giles eame first and plunged into his declaration without preamble. “I’ve loved you for years, Martha, but would not speak until I had what seemed to me adequate possessions to offer you. Some people accuse me of being overthrifty, hut what I have done I have done for you.” It was hard for Martha to do what, she did, but it had to be done. She laid a pitying hand on his knee, for she knew what her words could mean to Giles. “Some time ago, Giles,” site began tenderly. “Dirk Winters told me frankly that lie loved me. He refused to hind me, although I think I was quite willing to be bound. I must be free, he said, to marry anyone else, if I wished, only he wanted me to know that he was working and saving for me. Perhaps he won’t ask me again, hut, if he does, I am ready.” “In other words,” said Giles, bitterly, “lie set you aside like a savings ac count, to he there when he wanted it.” “Perhaps,” said Martha. “There are many kinds of thrift, Giles.” Giles had left iter and she was won dering If, after ail, Dick had not per- hnps changed in feeling since that far away night when lie had told her of his love, when she feit herself drawn n*o a pair ■ef stropg and eag ( »r arms. “Oh. Dick !” slfq, IJttirniured and met CROSS- MATCHED Bjr MARTHA M. WILLIAMS Ms kiss with uew-41 lips. (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WNU Service) G WEN flung up her arms, yawning, whereupon Elise asked: “How’s the book? Any good?” Gwen yawned again. “Deadly stu pid, writer-man hasn’t got a thing to say—and keeps on saying it in all the moods and tenses.” “You shock me deeply!” Elise flung back rising. i'A gift book, too. What ever shall we say to the author-send er?” “Write him straight off—say we can't wait to thank him till after reading,” Gwen counseled. “But you don’t intend to tell him what you think?” from Elise. Gwen sighed saying: “Truth's not merely brutal but unpopular. Why hurl large chunks of it at a poor soul who never did you the least bit of harm?” “You forget—” from Elise. “He in sisted on sitting out all four dances he had written himself down for at the Valentine party—when the music was making my feet dunce in spite of me.” The two were real friends, in spite of being kinswomen, and doomed to live in the same wide plantation, miles from everywhere, but in auto reach of almost anywhere a well-con ditioned fancy might choose to stray. Elise was statuesque. Gwen roguishly pretty. They were neither exactly rich nor poor. Elise herself was bidding her time, being the sort that wears well, and reaches full blow around thirty. Long before that tinfe Gwen would marry somebody—somebody other than Newell Blair whom she had teased and flouted since the era of short frdt-ks, in spite of his money, and his pedigree. Both were exactly what Elise had set her mind on— therefore she waited. Charles Joseph Seaforth had seemed manna from heaven—he was good looking, had an air of distinction. Elise had done her best to make him see In Gwen an enchantress, hut had had her trouble for nothing. His hook had come to her. the first copy off the press he wrote, with a florid in scription that was yet prudently vague. Craftily she had given Gwen the first reading, itoping by doing so to quicken her interest in the book’s writer. Gwen had turned the tables by in sisting that Elise was in courtesy bound to acknowledge the gift at once. Frowning Elise set herself at tiie task, but stopped short after the date line to stare at a resplendent car purr ing to a halt at tiie front steps. Sea forth and Newell Blair sprang from it and rushed inside almost without knocking. Elise held out both hands to them as she rose, crying: “Luck in deed! Saves me a hard job—trying to tell you all we think of THE BOOK in writing, I’ve only part of an opin ion now. Gwen hasn’t let me read more than snatches—says she can’t eat nor sleep until she knows how it all turns out.” “Mighty kind of her,” from Sea forth. Blair scowled—hard. “Maybe I- can break the spell.” he growled, making for the hack piazza. Gwen’s special happy haunt. In a minute he was back, book in hand, Gwen tucked pos sessively under his arm. “I am taking her for a drive in the new car, so she shan’t pester you two any more,” he said, tossing tiie hook to Elise. “Mighty glad to see you—but real ly this is ‘so sudden/ ” she smiled at Seaforth. “I simply had to come—to know what you thought—nothing else mat ters—nothing in all the world,” he said huskily. “Somehow tiie book Is selling amazingly—or I shouldn’t have dared—it is all I have, you know— except hope—and I-love.” Elise felt herself profoundly shaken, but completely dazed. “How can you like me? A plain country girl, when you have seen so much of cities?” “Because you are my dream. What I hoped for and never tiiought to find,” he said stepping back a pace, the better to look into her eyes. “You know—I shouldn’t be here, but for Blair—the noblest fellow alive. You see, I wrote him asking whether he was my rival—that was my black dread—he had so much, I, almost nothing. He answered me, man to man: 'To me there is just one possi ble wife In all the world. Her name Is Gwendoline Trevor—unless she comes to*me of her own good will, I shall be a lone man all my life.’ And then actually he came for me—brought me to his home two days back— rested me there, and heartened me for—the crisis of my fate. Fumty— he says you are the finest woman liv ing—much too fine for the general run of men—but he could not love you, even if he had never seen Gwen.” Elise choked—silently she held out her hand to him. He laid his cheek upon it, reverently as one might touch an altar. A little silence fell between them, then as the purring motor sounded distantly, Elise put her oth er hand upon the adoring lover’s head, saying: “I will do my best to give you back your love.” • The double wedding six months later was, of course, a social event. Looking on acidly the Widow Martin said: “Cross-matched teams If ever I saw ’em,” whereupon Squire Burgess chuckled: “Glad you think se Susan. Cross matches were the best teams ever I drove—and I’ve been at the husineKs full fifty years.” . . GREENWOOD, S. C. THURSDAY and FRIDAY October 20th-21st Marlene Dietrich in “BLONDE VENUS” SATURDAY, October 22nd Tim McCoy in “CORNERED” MONDAY and TUESDAY October 24th-25th Norma Shearer Fredric March and _ Leslie Howard in “SMILIN’ THROUGH” WEDNESDAY, October 26th “TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM” u I am prepared to do the very best re pair work on any kind of shoes for ladies, men and children. * *1 Prices are very / / reasonable and sat isfaction guaran teed. W. S. Arrington Augusta Street McCORMICK, S. C. STATIONARY FIREMAN EXAM INATIONS OPEN The United States Civil Service Commission has announced that until November 1, 1932, it will ac cept applications for positions of stationary fireman (high-pressure plant) and stationary fireman (low-pressure plant) to fill vacan cies under the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capitol, Washington, D. C. The entrance salary for station ary fireman (high-pressure plant) is $1,320, a year, and for stationary fireman (low-pressure plant) $1,203 a year; less an annual furlough de duction for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, of 8 1-3 per cent and the regular retirement deduction of 3 1-2 per cent. Full information may be obtain ed from the Secretary of the Uni - ed States Civil Service Board o: Examiners at the post office in any city which has a post office of th ; first or the second class, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. -1X1- D. D. Kesler,. at Loveland, Coin. had a squeak in his car that n^> garage man could repair. While Kesler had the spark plugs out o the engine a mouse made her nes. in one of the holes. Five youn* mice were found in the nest whoa Kesler investigated the trouble.