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fcCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937
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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.
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Franklin.
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Fog, Rain—and Death 1
By FLOTD GIBBONS,
^^TXT'HAT I have to tell you,” says Edward Wagness of New
▼ V York city, “is a story of FEAR. 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.
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DUE TO COLDS
Eased Instantly
2* GARGLE thoroughly — throw
your head way back, allowing a
little to trickle down your throat.
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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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