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fcCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937 OsV I *W ' to ecipe Mrs. Calvin Coolidge Pineapple Salad Place on a lettuce leaf a slice of Hawaiian pineapple; cover with salad dressing; over this press through a potato sieve cream cheese; place a preserved cherry on top. Dressing for salad—Six table spoonfuls of pineapple juice, 2 level tablespoonfuls of sugar, but ter size of walnut. Heat in double boiler, add 2 beaten eggs and cook until it coats the spoon. When cold add the whipped cream. Copyright.—WNU servlco. A Three Days’ Cough Is Your Danger Signal No matter how many medicines ybu have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with anything less than Creomul sion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the Inflamed mem branes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened and expelled. Even if other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, your druggist is authorized to guarantee Creomulsion and to refund your money if you axe not satisfied with results from the very first bottle. Get Creomulsion right now. (AdvJ The Wise Man The wise man draws more ad vantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.—Benjamin Franklin. FOR CHEST COLDS In Moderation Common sense also lies in not expecting too much. % Old Folks TELL EACH OTHER THE SECRET OF THE ALL VEGETABLE CORRECTIVE TTOR many year* x 1 older folka have been telling each other abocit the wonderful all-vege table corrective called Nature’s people past middle life to have a iaxathr* that thoroughly dears their bowels of accumulated wastes. It means fewer aches and jjatiaame happy days. And Nature’s Remedy h so ktod to i. 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It belongs to the United States navy, and for 12 hours, strong men were trying’ to laugh off their quaking knees and the wild-eyed apprehension that something was going to happen to them. That something WAS going to happen, was what everybody believed and nobody ad mitted. The trouble was that no one had any idea of WHEN it was going to happen. But on with the story! ” And with that introduction, Ed Wagness goes int oone of the most astounding tales of what men’s imaginations can do to them, that I have ever heard in all my life. To get the whole yarn, right from the beginning, we’ve got to follow the career of a battleship—-the S. S. Charleston. Ed says she was built at Newport News, Va., in 1905 and commis sioned for doty in the Atlantic fleet. In 1906 she was ordered to the West coast as flagship of the Pacific fleet, and in December of that year she made the trip around the Horn. But before leaving for the West she pat into New York harbor for provisions and liberty for the crew. Astounding Message of the Visitor. The Charleston was one of the first four-stacker vessels in the navy, and people were interested in her. She received quite a number of vis itors, and one visiting day a little old lady came aboard and asked the officer of the deck if she could see the captain “Of course,” says Ed, “she was not accommodated, for cranks were always trying to tell the captain how to run the navy. But the officer of the deck, out of politeness, asked her if there was any message he could take to the captain.” The little old lady wasn’t stumped. Yes, there was a mes sage. “Please tell the captain,” she said, “that the Charleston will be blown up in Magdalena bay, Mexico, on the eighth day of May, 1908. It will be a foggy, rainy day, and she will be blown up by a tramp steamer which will come from nowhere and will refuse to give any information concerning herself.’* That Gave the Crew a Big Laugh. That was a big laugh for the crew. Imagine a foggy, rainy day hi Magdalena bay, they chuckled. Why there hadn’t been a drop of rain there since time began They put the old woman down for another crackpot, and forgot about it. That is, they did until May, 1908. The Charleston took up her duties in the Pacific. She was in Mag dalena bay in October, 1907, then returned to San Diego, Calif. She was back in Magdalena bay in the spring again, for target practice. “April blossomed into May,” says Ed, “and we were still there. The sky was still a perfect blue and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The prophecy had been forgotten—well, amost forgotten. But some of the more superstitious on board did remember, and on the night of May 7 we aH turned into our hammocks wondering. “The eighth of May dawned, COLD, FOGGY and RAINING— unheard of since no one knew when. But we told ourselves it was only a coincidence. How could anything happen to ns Besides, the tramp steamer hadn’t shown op yet. On the surface all was serene. Men laughed and joked as they went about their work. But many an anxious eye was cast toward the mouth of the harbor. AND THEN IT HAPPENED!” About three o’clock that afternoon the men on the Charleston could make out, through the fog, the general outlines of a tramp steamer entering the harbor. Ed says that, along about that time, many a ruddy complexion took on the general hue of a bag of flour. It began to look as if the little old woman knew what she was talking about. No merchant ships ever entered that harbor. It was too dangerous, what with battle ships firing big guns all over the place. But there she was, moving straight toward the Charleston, and the Charleston’s frantic signaling could get no response from her, whatever. Waiting for Something to Happen. Says Ed: “She steamed past us and anchored about 500 yards off our starboard side. She refused to give us her name or call letter, and all we could get from her was that she had lost a propeller blade and had dropped into ship another. No tramp as miserable as she was ever carries a spare blade, and we knew it, but nevertheless, over the side went a diver. “Through the fog we conld distinguish nothing but outlines as we tried to watch his movements, but we imagined more and more as the day wore on and a dark night began to settle down. We were served a hearty supper, but our appetites weren’t any tod keen. Rumors ran riot, imaginations started to do their stuff, and that empty feeling began to find its way into the pits of our stomachs. The smiles were gone from the faces of strong men. Inaction was killing ns by torture If they were going to strike, for God’s sake let them do it now. Do something—do anything! Bat do it!” Awake All Night—for Nothing. The bugler sounded lights out and hammocks—but there were dog gone few men who roUed into their hammocks that night. “They sat around in litttle groups and wondered,” says Ed, “and anyone walking around the deck could see little piles of life belts placed here and there by some gob or bunch of gobs who weren’t taking any chances. Even the commissioned officers kept pretty close to their preservers. Men talked and speculated. What was the idea anyway? Who’d want to de stroy the Charleston? And so the night wore on.” The night wore on—and NOTHING HAPPENED! “Just before day light,” says Ed, “we heard the tramp hoisting anchor. Soon she was steaming past us on her way out to sea. And then, after heaving sighs of relief, the entire crew fell to and cursed that rusty old tub as only strong, healthy sailors oon curse.” Q—WNU Service. Paper-Making The center around which paper making spins is the paper-making machine, says a writer in the Sci entific American. It is a gigantic combination of intricate mechan isms which takes in raw stock at one end and spins forth paper at the other. A full-sized machine ap proaches 200 feet in length, weighs nearly a million pounds and costs in the neighborhood of a half million dollars. Because it is a grouping of machinery, one might say that there is a hazard every foot of the length. There are some fifty individual mo tors, about twenty - five pumps, thousands of feet of pipe and many miles of wire. Every unit must co ordinate perfectly to deliver a prod uct that is satisfactory. The Cloak Was Titian That dress maketh the man was noted long ago. Titian, the famed Italian painter of the sixteenth cen tury walked home in his working clothes unnoted, but returning im mediately to the street again, in his court costume of purple velvet, ev ery person he met bowed and did him homage. Disgusted, Titian, back in his studio, threw the cloak on the floor, exclaiming, "Thou, then, art Titian; ao much for drapery l” England’s Government The supreme legislative power of the British Empire is vested in a Parliament which is dominated ’ey the House of Commons, of which the premier is the responsible head. Parliament is summoned by writ of the king on the advice of the privy council, and the king opens and closes each session. The king has a right to veto bills passed by both houses of Parliament, but in prac tice his veto is obsolete, as custom has decided that he must sanction every bill which Parliament ap proves and resolves to make law. Whatever the theoretical powers of the king may be, they are unques tionably limited to his personal in fluence over his ministers. Trees, Flowers of Bible Times The International Bible Encyclo pedia lists the following trees and flowers as growing in gardens in Palestine in Bible times: Oleander, vitex (species of verbena), plane, carob, hawthorn, sumach, laurel, broom, myrtle, buglos, scabiosa, squills, thistles, acacia, arbutus, ole aster, styras (mock orange), Judas tree, caper, rockrose, villosus (pop py), crocus, cyclamen, narcissi, an emones, ranunculus, gladioli, iris, orchids, flax and borage. Twas This Way By LYLE SPENCER ® Western Newspaper Union. The Cure for Rickets TN THE romantic days of Queen ^ Elizabeth, courtiers and wealthy citizens went to church wearing boots and long coats because they were ashamed to show their crooked bow legs. Their crooked legs and de formed bodies were caused by rick ets. We know now that rickets come from lack of sunlight and good food, but up until about 1800 its cause was unknown. Most people thought it was a visitation from the devil, and doctors gave hot mud baths to children to avoid it. Another stand ard remedy was to wrap babies in swaddling clothes. Although over half the children treated in this way died in the first year of vfancy, it rickets. It malformed and contract- Women were especially hard hit by rickets. It malformed and contrac- ed their pelvic bones in a way which made it almost impossible for them to have children. Dr. Ed wards, an Englisnman, was one of the first to show the connection be tween lack of sunlight and rickets. He noticed its absence among even the poorest Mexicans who lived re gularly out in the sun. Later, scientists showed that the actinic rays of the sun, the same rays which cause sunburn, can pre vent rickets. This is one of the rea sons why children and adults alike should keep out of doors as much as possible. In the wintertime when we can’t get out, good substantial food, especially when supplemented by animal products like cod-liver oil, serves much the same purpose. Where the Whangdoodles Grow A WHANGDOODLE is an animal that habitually associates with pink elephants and orange-eyed al ligators. It is most frequently seen late at night seated complacently at the foot of beds where bibulous gen tlemen are trying vainly to get to sleep. As a matter of fact, no sober per son has ever seen a whangdoodle. So the descriptions of it naturally vary according to what one has had to drink and how much. In a general way it can be described as a tremendous animal weighing at least fifteen tons and having thir teen eyes, eleven ears and seven noses. It has the head of a unicorn, the shoulders of a rhinoceros, the hips of a lion, and the whiskers of a cat. Only male whangdoodles ever grow to maturity because the fe males are unable to stand the stren uous night life. In the daytime, whangdoodles live on steep moun tain sides, and since their legs on the right side are longer than those on the left, they always climb and descend mountains in a clockwise direction. Full - grown whangdoodles come equipped with slender, hairless tails and a cast - iron ball on the end. The iron ball can be used either to swat flies or to crack ice. The origin of the whangdoodle is lost in the smoky mists of genera tions of morning-after hangovers. Great Falls of the Ignazu The great falls of the Iguazu are situated in a primitive forest bor dering Argentina and Brazil. They are made up of a series of cascades and cataracts, known by the Guar ani name of “Iguazu,” meaning “big waters.” In volume and extent they are the largest in the world, and in beauty and variety they are unsurpassed. From innumerable rocky ledges more than seventy cas cades pour down the river in roaring torrents of foam. From the Bra zilian to the Argentine side they ex tend more than 6,000 feet, and in that distance the water is dropped more than 1,000 feet. Home Heating Hilltc By John Barclay IIIIILO Heating Expert IT'S easy to regulate a furnace 1 fire to meet the requirements of daily temperature changes. All you need to do is to understand the functioning of the check and ashpit dampers. Check Damper—a flap-like damp er, which should be located in the chimney pipe between the turn flap or ilidu damper turn damper A damper and the chimney. When it’s open, it slows up the burning speed of the fire; closed, it quick ens the speed. Ashpit Damper—^located below the grates and controls the amount of air supplied to the fire. To produce the best results, these dampers should work to gether—when one is open the other should be closed, and vice versa. In mild weather, when a slow, last ing fire is needed, the check damp er should be wide open and the ashpit damper closed. When more heat is needed, the check damper should be partly closed, the ashpit damper partly open. For ex tremely cold weather, the check damper should be closed tight, the ashpit damper wide open. The proper use of these two dampers insures the proper degree of heat at all times on a minimum amount of fuel. Holding the Course Through light and dark, through rain and shine, the carrier pigeon holds its course straight home ward. So life’s aim may be won, whatever of failure checks our business or whatever of sorrow mars our happiness.—R. F. Jo- honnot. DON’T RUB YOUR EYES Rubbing your eyes grinds invisible partldeaof dust and dirt right into the delicate tissies, making the irritation just that much worse,'A. much better way, as thousands have disa>vend. is to use a little Murinein each eye—night aid morning. Murine may oe depended on to re lieve eye irritation because it is a reliable tye preparation containing 7 active ingredients of known value in caring for the eyes. In use br 40 years. Ask for Munne at your drug store. Inside Guard Guard well your thoughts aid your words will have much frse- dom. BLACKMAN STOCKancf POULTRY MEDICINE Are Reliable bw Blackman’s Medicated Lick* A-Brik aw* Blackman's Stock Powder we~ Blackman’s Cow Tonic bw Blackman’s Hog Powder aw* Blackman’s Poultry Tablets *w Blackman’s Poultry Powdei Highest Quality—Leweet Print Satisfaction Guaranteed Of your money back BUY FROM YOUR DEALEX BLACKMAN STOCK MEDICINE 0. Chattanooga, Tenn. Throat Pains DUE TO COLDS Eased Instantly 2* GARGLE thoroughly — throw your head way back, allowing a little to trickle down your throat. lil !• Crush and stir 3 Bayer AspMa tablets In glass of watar. .. -V ■ v '< a 3. Repeat gargl* and do notViAt*^ mouth, allow gargl* to remain on membranes of th* th/oat for pro longed effect. Elevators U* LEVATORS are so common- place to most of us that we sel dom stop to realize what a tremen dously important part they play in our modern life. Without elevators no skyscraper, no tall office build ing or hotel could exist. Even ordi nary apartment houses over four stories in height would be imprac tical. As a matter of fact, no tall build ings did exist in America until about 1870, when the Singer building was erected in New York. The inven tion of the elevator itself dates from 1850, when Henry Waterman built a crude platform hoist operating be tween two floors to move goods in his warehouse. Soon after that Eli sha Graves Otis began manufactur ing lifts in Yonkers, N. Y. Largely through his improvements, the first passenger elevator was constructed in 1857 and the first passenger ele vator in an office building in 1869. Many important improvements have been made since that time, such as the electric elevator in 1889 and the automatic elevator in 1924. These have all stepped up speed and efficiency until today, modern types can muke 1,000 feet per minute and could go even faster if necessary. Engineers say that when speeds go above 1,000 feet a minute, passen gers complain too much about “that sinking feeling” in the pits of their stomachs. Just Gargle This Way with Bayer Aspirin Here is the most amazing way to ease the pains of rawness of sore throat result ing from a cold we know you have ever tried. Crush and dissolve three genuine BAYER ASPIRIN tablets in one-third glass of water. Then gargle with this mixture twice, holding your head well back. This medicinal gargle will act almost like a local anes thetic on the sore, irritated membrane of your throat. Pain eases almost instantly; rawness is relieved. Countless thousands now use this way to ease sore throat. Your doctor, we are sure, will approve it. Anl you will say it is marvelous. Get the real IAYER ASPI RIN at your fruggist’s by ask ing for it by its full name — not by the name “aspirin* alone. 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