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t + McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, August 26, 1937 tfcCORMICK ME3SENG1 k t t Published Every Thursday Established June 5, EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner ntered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, 8. C„ as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 i High-Producing Hens Make Owners Money Clemson, Aug. 33.—An average egg production of 11.3 eggs per hen for the month and a labor income of 11.4 cents per hen was shown in recent reports from 78 farms with demonstration flocks totaling 9,580 hens. The results show that the high-producing hens make money for their owners, says P. H. Gooding, extension poultryman. The hens ate 26 cents worth of feed each, and returned a total income of 40.9 cents, including sales of eggs and poultry, leaving an income above feed cost of 14.9 The Prize By MARCIA DINSMORE © McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. “I Want My Man 99 By MARTHA SAMPSON © McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. Good July Production FY»r All c cents per bird for the month. The ±JFail J average monthly charge for in- I terest on investment, depreciation Clemson, Aug. 16.—The herd of on equipment, and all other costs 19 Jerseys owned by Wheeler j except feed, is approximately 3.5 P-rcthers. Saluda, led all other ; ^ents per hen, according to records. South Carolina dairy cows on test for production in July, as shown in the report of R. L. Steer, in charge of Advanced Registry test ing for the South Carolina Experi ment Station. This herd averaged 50.63 pounds ihis deducted from the income above feed cost, leaves the labor income of 11.4 cents per hen. Highest egg producers in the va rious groups were as follows: Flocks with less than 50 hens, J. D. Stansell of Pelzer; flocks with Clemson, Aug. 23.—A total of $7,447,294.36 has been paid in grants to South Carolina farmers who cooperated in the 1936 Ag ricultural Conservation Program, says R. W. Hamilton, state admin istrative officer, AAA. Payments of grants for 1936 have all now been made, he states, except a few which for any reason neces sitated legal procedure for settle ment. The total number of 1936 appli cations paid was 71,740, making an seventh place being won by the 18 average of $103.81 per application. J. Dowtin- of McCormick. X Payment Of AAA Grants For 1936 About Complete of butterfat per cow, and four of 51 to 200 hens, J. H. Crews of these Jerseys were among the 10 Latta; flocks with 201 to 500 hens, highest individual producers for j Mrs. Ruth McManus of Lancaster; the month; Standard Volunteer fi 0C k S w ith 501 hens or more, P. Jewett placing first with 76.88 pounds, Queen Lillian Ruth third with 73.73 pounds. Peer’s Royal Onyx seventh with 63.69 pounds, and Standard Lillian tenth with 61.24 pounds. The Wheeler Jerseys were fol lowed closely by four Guernsey herds with these records: second place, 50.38 pounds averaged by 7 cows of L. E. Stroud, Great Falls; third, 49.89 pounds by 9 cows, W. E. Verdery & Son, Orangeburg; fourth, 48.61 pounds by 10 cows, W. C. King, Bishopville; fifth, 48.43 pounds by 19 cows, J. B. Guess, Jr., Denmark. , The sixth herd average, 47.55 pounds, was made by another Jer sey group, the six cows owned by Neal W. Workman, Newberry. Then came four more Guernsey herds to complete the list of 10 highest herd averages for July: Guernseys of Pedigreed Seed Co., Hartsville, with 45.72 pounds; eighth, 22 cows of N. G. Roosevelt, Moncks Comer, 44.92 pounds; ninth, 12 cows of J. B. Roddey, Co lumbia, 43.94 pounds; tenth, 6 cows of Bureau of Dairy Industry, 41.99 pounds. I Since each interested producer in cluding share-croppers received an individual check, the payments in volved the handling of 115,070 checks. . __ 7 “It is interesting to study the costs involved in the administra tion of the entire 1936 program, Some high records for Holsteins f rom the signing of .the work ^heets were made by: Boast Ormsby Ann j in the spring of 19 3 6 by the com _ Artis, owned by the State Hospital, I mun ity committeemen on through Columbia, ranking second among the final che cking and forwarding individuals with 75.75 pounds; Ormsby Colantha Dee, owned by Clemson College, placing fourth among individuals * with 72.90 pounds; and Mamsell Ona Ann Beulah, another State Hospital Holstein, sixth, 66.59 pounds. -txt Make Good Pastures For The Dairy Cows of the application for payment from the county office to the State Office”, says Mr. Hamilton. “These costs include all the costs of meas uring the land and all other costs incident to the handling of the applications within the county. The county offices carried out their administrative duties at a remark ably low percentage cost for ex penses of only 5.64 per cent. The additional administrative costs, which include the auditing, check- Clemson, Aug. 14. — Improved' in S. certifying for payment, and pasturage judiciously used is nec- j P a y men t in the State Office, were essary in economic milk produc- done at a cost of only one per cent tion, say C. G. Cushman and T. F. °* the total amount of the grants.” Cooley, extension dairy specialists,' jxj———— advising that late summer and T early fall are good seasons to begin xiiLicasc work on building or Improving pas- j yield Of Com And “Dairy cows require a certain definite amount of feed nutrients' each day. This requirement is in' proportion to the live weight and the milk production of the Cotton In South County Agent R. D. Suber, in dis- in- cussing the 1937 Agricultural Con- dividual, and must be met by the servation Program, pointed out the daily feed supply to prevent a loss importance of winter legumes in in body weight, a loss in produc- the farming system of the South, tion, or both”, the specialists state, and especially in McCormick coun- “Improved pastures produce both ty. greater yields and feed of superior “Recently”, he said, “the South- quality to the ordinary native pas- ern Division of the' Agricultural tures. This can be attributed to Adjustment Administration com- the introduction and growth of a piled a summary of experiments variety of clovers and grasses, showing the effects of legumes rapid and tender plant growth due on the yields of cotton and corn, to fertilization, conservation of The summary shows that cotton moisture due to less run-off of preceded by a good winter legume rainfall on dense sods and proper- crop yields on an average about ly constructed terraces and con- 50 per cent more than cotton grown tours. under similar conditions except not “From practical experience we preceded by winter legumes. About have found that it fiormally re- 40 per cent more corn per acre was quires two to three years, and produced when preceded by winter sometimes longer, to make a good legumes. permanent pasture. Where fair “Another important considera- native pastures are now available tion is that the seeding of winter they may be improved in a shorter legumes is an approved soil-build- period.” ing practice under the 1937 Agri- Two new bulletins issued through cultural Conservation Program, the Publications Department at and any cooperator whose seil- Clemson College contain much in- building allowance permits may re formation on pastures of value to celve a Class II payment for seed- dairy farmers. These are Extension ing these legumes provided the le- Builetin 99. Permanent Pastures for gumes are adapted to the area South Carolina, and Station Bulle- and are seeded in accordance with t,.n 2'j?.. Permanent ‘‘a:ture Studies good farming practices for the In South Caiolina. the agent state; \/fRS. ADAMS looked meaningly at Mrs. Todd over the head of their neighbor, Mrs. Capps, who was lovingly re-reading the latest letter from her daughter, Hope. The girl, in her usual racy style, had joyously recounted the progress of a beauty contest which was going bn in the town where she was visit ing. “Honestly, mother, you ought to see some of the girls who are try ing for the beauty prize. It’s enough to make me try myself.” It was at this point that the mean ing look passed between the other women. Hope Capps, of all people to try for a beauty prize! Thin and gray eyed, with dark, stringy hair. Oh, a nice girl, but, well, non descript. The mother smiled. When the two ladies came to see Hope Capps about a week later, the girl had just finished telling her mother the story of her visit, and was on her way out to keep an en gagement. She paused uncertainly on the threshold. “I’m so sorry I must go,” she said. “It is so good to see you again.” From the hand which she raised in a pretty gesture of regret, a silver vanity case dangled. Mrs. Adams’ eyes fixed themselves on it curiously. “Your beau give you that, Hope?” she asked. “Heavens, no,” laughed Hope. “None of my boy friends is so de voted as that. I got it for a prize.” She dashed off with a final wave of her hand. For once neither of the visitors had a word to say. Not before Mrs. Capps, certainly. But out on the street again their tongues wagged freely. ' “A prize! That skinny child get a beauty prize!” gasped Mrs. Adams. Mrs. Todd shook her head. “In my day she would’t even be called pretty. But they judge differently now.” She considered. “Her eyes are rather nice, though. And she's graceful, too.” “Her hair looks pretty well bobbed, though I never supposed it would,” conceded Mrs. Adams. “Here comes your Ted. I suppose you’re going to the dance tonight, Ted.” v The boy halted his hasty stride and shook a gloomy head. “Nope. Girl friend went back on me.” “Get another,” advised his moth er. “Why not ask Hope Capps?” Ted was scornful. “Dumbbell,” was his verdict. “Maybe,” said Mrs. Adams, “but she won a beauty prize, just the same.” “Oh, come!” The boy was in credulous. “She did,” asserted his mother. The boy paused. His eye strhyed to the Capps porch and he hesitated. “I’ll stop in and say hello, anyway.” That night Ted Todd took Hope to the dance, much to the anger of his girl friend and the amusement of the other boys. But to all joking inquiries Ted responded with a wise smile. “You don’t appreciate home talent,” was his only reply. And, indeed, he had only just begun to appreciate it himself. Mrs. Capps may have guessed at the reason for Hope’s sudden and unprecedented popularity, but, if so, she kept her own counsel. To Hope it was the most amazing thing that ever happened to her. Instead of one or two straggling callers a month, her house was fairly be sieged with prospective boy friends. In some way she connected this popularity with her first appearance with Ted Todd, and she loyally fa vored him before all the others, to his delight and their chagrin. It may have been Ted’s ascend ancy in this matter which annoyed Mrs. Adams, for her Carl had not met with great success in his at tentions to Hope. At all events she began to think the matter over, and it occurred to her that there may have been some mistake. “Hope, my dear,” she began at the first opportunity, “that is a love ly vanity case. I didn’t know they gave that kind of prizes, though.” Hope laughed gleefully, waving at Ted, who had just come in. “It was a put up job,” she confessed. ■“You know I was the worst player there and practically sure of getting the booby prize. Marion wanted me to get a nice one, so she marked this booby prize, on the chance of my getting it. And it was really a lot nicer than the first prize.” Mrs. Adams put a hand to her head. “Booby prize for what?” she demanded. “Bridge, of course. What else?” “Then you didn’t win a beauty contest?” “Win it? I never entered one.” Hope flushed hotly. Mrs. Adams could not resist a triumphant glance at Ted. “Of course you didn’t mean to give a false impression,” she began sweet ly, and stopped at a scowl from Ted. The boy had honestly forgot ten why he had first gone to call on Hope and he resented the tone Mrs. Adams was using. He had needed no reason for his continued interest in the girl. “Beauty contest? Hope?” he said, wltheringly. “Well, I should say not!” Mrs. Adams bit her lips angrily, but Hope’s mother breathed a sigh of pure relief. T HE town gossip, known as “Old Ironsides” because of her heavy steel braces, seated herself in the cane rocker in Mrs. Jones’ kitchen. “Don’t you just love the smell of newly-baked bread?” she asked ex uberantly, her beady black eyes swimming richly and her heavy face beaming. “Yes,” replied the demure Mrs. Jones, lifting a pan of bread from the stove. “But I’m rather glad to see this is the last loaf.” “Yes, I suppose you are,” sym pathized the gossip. “Now you can sit down and rest a while and we’ll chat a bit about things.” Little Mrs. Jones seated herself very gently on the edge of a kitchen chair while “Old Ironsides” rocked expectantly. Mrs. Jones turned her head undecidedly for a few mo ments, and then began: “I think it’s a shame the way the girls carry on today. Why, you’d never believe how silly they are until you have one of your own. Take that Sadie of mine, now—why, from morning till night that child hasn’t a sen sible thing in her head. She gets up in the morning with just a few min utes to spare; she slips on a few flimsy rags and plasters on some paint and calls herself clothed. She drinks a cup of coffee and chews a bit of toast and calls herself fed; and Then she rushes off to the train as fast as her spindle legs can take 'her. She goes into the office and types all day; but I doubt if she puts a moment’s thought on her work; it’s all on parties and dances. I don’t see how she can give a respectable day’s work to her boss. And the hussy tells me all the girls are the same.” This was Mrs. Jones’ usual tale of woe, and when she concluded it, she heaved a sigh of relief. The buxom gossip leaned forward on her elbows. “It’s a fact; that’s all they do. I’ve been around to all the ladies of the neighborhood and they’re all complainin’. Now take that daughter of yourn, what is she aimed for? It’s a shore thing she ain’t following no career or studyin’ for no profession. Her mot to is that of the rest of the shop and office girls, ‘I want my man.’ “Take that Ellie Brown from down the road away. She was one of those office girls, trottin* off to the city every day, runnin’ out to dances and parties. She kept going pretty fast—too fast, according to some of the stories that were going around, outlandish stories that I wouldn’t have told of no kith nor kid of mine; and I’m glad I ain’t got no chick or child in these wild times—but she managed to hook up with this Jimmy fellow, and let me tell you that this Jimmy boy is about the same type, travels fast and light-hearted. “They’re all up to it. It ain’t like it use tuh be when we was young. But the certain shame of it is that these wild girls get the men. Now if for some reason they stopped get ting the men, they’d tone down a bit; but with the men coming free and easy, everything’s hunky-dory with them.” “Yes,” sighed Mrs. Jones. “I sup pose it’s all true. I suppose that’s all Sadie’s aiming for; and she doesn’t care about anything else. But I’m anxious as to whether or not she’ll get a decent man—you hear so much about these heart breaking sheiks now-a-days, and with the girls as frivolous as they are, goodness knows what’s going to happen to them. They’d just as soon run off with any man that stares at them even though it’s only a glass eye he’s staring with.” “Indeed!” broke in “Old Iron sides,” “I know of one young lady who saw a man in the subway she thought she’d like to know. Of course, she coqldn’t speak to him. But this young lady had a queer habit, unconscious, you know, of blinking her eyes, very catchingly, too; and, my land, that man fol lowed her for some stations and th^n spoke to hex* and today he’s married to her. Queer!—Queer world!” And the old gossip shook her heavy head. “I’ll admit there isn’t much for mality to the present generation. They point at things and babble at the top of their voices. I asked Sadie one day, ‘Why do you talk so loud?’ and she came right back in a voice that would startle a mule, ‘Oh, ma, how am I gonna make myself heard in a wee, quiet voice when everybody else is screeching at the top of their voices?’ “I know several young fellows that I’d like to have interested in Sadie. But she doesn’t take to fhe idea of me fixing it up for her. She says, ‘Let me pick my own. Those of yourn are dead ones.’ I do hope she does pick out a good man.” The conversation was interrupted by the slamming of the front door. There was a stirring of two pairs of feet, a whispered conference. Then a girl’s voice broke out, “Oh, ma’s a darling.” “Why,” gasped Mrs. Jones, “that’s Sadie. So early in the aft ernoon. Something must be up. Oh, I hope it’s nothing serious.” The curtains between the kitchen and the living room was spread apart and Sadie’s head appeared with tousled hair and rouged cheeks “Oh, mom, I want you to meet Mr. Munton,” throwing wrde the cur tain, “my husband. We were mar ried this afternoon.” 'Honored for Trying to Steal the Crown Jewels Do you know that the Crown jew els were stolen from the Tower of London more than two hundred and sixty years ago? At that time, the jewels were kept in a small iron cage on the lower floor of Martin Tower, relates a writer in Pearson’s London Weekly, and here they attracted the atten tion of Captain Blood, a notorious Irish swashbuckler. Blood disguised himself as a par son and paid regular visits to the Martin Tower. Soon he was friend ly with the eighty-year-old keeper, and suggested that a marriage might be arranged between his “nephew” and the keeper’s pretty daughter. He appointed a rendezvous for the couple at the unromantic hour of 7 a. m., on May 9, 1671. But, instead of the “nephew,” Blood turned up with three lusty swordsmep, who knocked down and gagged the old keeper. Blood snatched the Crown, and while one accomplice seized the Orb with its giant ruby, another sawed the Sceptre into three parts. But at that very moment the keep er’s son returned from a long cam paign in Flanders. He gave the alarm, and a guardsman captured Blood at St. Katherine’s wharf. Charles II treated the whole af fair as a joke. Not only did he par don Blood, but he received him into court, and granted him an estate in Ireland to console him for his failure to bring off the most daring burglary in British history. First Brakes Were Used in Seventeenth Century The Greeks and Romans had no brakes. It was not until the Sev enteenth century that anything re sembling a modern brake came in to existence. For not until then, observes a writer in Fortune Maga zine, did it occur to anyone to move wheeled vehicles along tracks. The track, eliminating irregularities in the roadway, stepped up vehicular speeds, thereby creating the neces sity that mothered the invention of the brake. Early brakes were hand- operated levers, worked by deflect ing the lever so that its business end w&s forced against the wheel. Even the earliest steam locomo- aives, however, were too potent for hand-braking, and in 1833 Robert Stephenson invented a power (steam-driven) brake to go with them. The individual cars making up the trains, however, were hand- braked. Hand-braking was inade quate even for the short, light trains of 'the 1860s; no two brakemen braked with the same speed; the trains stopped slowly and jerkily and with a high percentage of brake- man mortality. Catacombs Under Palaces There are nearly eleven miles of passages and grottoes underneath Fortress hill, which rises like an is land of antiquity among the more modern buildings of Budapest, the pleasure loving capital of the Hun garians. The hill is built up with the older palaces and newer man sions of the Magyar aristocracy, who didn’t know until a generation ago that their homes were under mined by the deepest of man made tunnels. Some of the passages ex tend out beneath the bed of the Dan ube. The catacombs date back to the days when the fort of Buda was held by the Turks, marking the farthest fortified advance of the forces of Islam into Christendom. Author of First Geographies Jedidiah Morse, author of the first American school books on geogra phy, was born in 1761. He was edu cated at Woodstock Academy and at Yale College, where he was grad uated in 1783. After teaching for a few years, he entered the Congrega tional ministry. His most important work was the authorship of school books which included “Geography Made Easy” (1787); “Elements of Geography” (1797), and “Universal Geography” (1314). He died in 1826. Fire of St. Anthony The name fire of St. Anthony was applied to a form of erysipelas. A distemper of this character became epidemic in France in 1089. Many miraculous cures having been ef fected by the imputed intercession of St. Anthony, the order of Canons Regular of St. Anthony was founded the next year for the relief of those afflicted with this disease. The or der continued to exist until 1790. Ice Cream Originated in Italy Ice cream, generally thought to be an American invention, originated in Italy in 1600. It spread to France and England, then crossed to the American colonies. Even the wide diversity of ices and ice creams is neither modern nor American, for when the process of freezing first was discovered it was used for al most every dessert and beverage. First Use of Candy Machines About 1825 foreign candy manu facturers began to use some ma chinery in their factories, but the actual introduction of machinery in candy-making dates from 1840. The first machine of this character to be brought to the United States was imported by Sebastian Chauveau of Philadelphia in 1845. In 1846 Oliver R. Chase invented a machine for the making of lozenges. AL/ssinians Used Coffee as a Food for Soldiers Coffee was used by the Abyssm- ians for centuries before any- ore else learned of its merits. Be sides making a beverage of it, these neople used it as a war food, mix ing pulverized, roasted coffee with grease and molding it into balls. It was the only food they carried on short marches, relates a writer in the Kansas City Star. Later its use as a beverage spread through Arabia into Egypt and to Constantinople. Venice accepted it early in the Seventeenth century and next England, the student body at Oxford setting the example. Soon its use had spread over Europe and coffee houses became the meeting places for those interested in politics and other current questions. Many religiously inclined among both Mohammedans and Christians denounced coffee as an intoxicating and insidiously pernicious drink; statesmen saw political danger in the discussion which marked the attendance at the coffee houses and governments opened new sources of revenue by heavy taxation on every gallon of coffee brewed. Beans have been cultivated since long before there was any recorded history. They are known to have been eaten by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, and when the first voy agers reached the western continent they found beans growing. Natives of this country added corn to give the world the dish known as succo tash. Geld Marriage Rites Are Observed by Canadians; Ancient matrimonial customs pre-. vailing in certain sections of some. French Canadian provinces probab-: ly would amaze prospective brides; in the United States. Much of the" form and tradition harks back two and three centuries to the mother country, France, says a writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer. In some outlying districts and vil lages a wedding assumes the char acter of a festival. One of the picturesque customs surviving among the “habitants,” or rural residents, is that of the pub-' lie wedding procession which passes through the streets to the church. At the head of the procession is the groom, his two nearest of kin walking with him. Next come his' friends and relatives who are mar ried, marching in pairs, and then the sihg’e men of his entourage. Be hind them, comes the bride, escort ed by a large assemblage of her own relatives and friends marching in the same order as those of the groom. Another quaint custom is the wed- d : ng feast. The bride is seated at ; the head of the table, but the groom, stands behind the chair and serves her throughout the dinner. “The Man Without a Country” The character of Philip Nolan in: Edward Everett Hale’s story, “The Man Without a Country,” is purely' imaginary. Mr. Hale explained how he got the name, from that of a man mentioned in the memoirs of General James Wilkinson, but did rot know that the first name of this Mr. Nolan was Philip until long aft erwards. The historical Philip No lan referred to by Wilkinson died in 1801, w'hile the fictitious Philip No lan invented by Hale appeared first in 1807. To explain the matter still 'urther, Hale wrote a paper on the real Nolan and also a book called ‘Philip Nolan’s Friends” about this same acquaintance of. Wilkinson’s. Taste and Smell Within the brain, taste and smell 1 are essentially the same, notes a ; writer in Literary Digest. The | nerve-centers of the olfactory bulb 1 are similar to the taste-buds on the ! tongue. It is almost impossible to ’ taste something differently than one , smells something. Besides the con- I ceptual identity of the sensations j when they reach the brain, the nose and the mouth have a direct physi cal connection, so one can often literally taste what one smells and vice versa. Bats Breathe Same as Humans Bats breathe in exactly the same way as humans do. The air is taken in through the nostrils, rarely through the mouth, passes down the pharynx, through the glottis into the trachea or windpipe, and into the lungs. The action of the dia phragm regulates respiration. With the contraction of the diaphragm air is taken in and with its expan sion air is expelled. Naming Hampton Roads Hampton Roads, the channel through which the waters of the James, Nansemond and Elizabeth rivers pass into Chesapeake Bay, was named from the town of Hamp ton on the near-by shore of Virginia. “Road,” in either singular or plural form, is used in nautical affairs for a ship roadstead—a sheltered place outside a harbor, where ships may ride at anchor. Seal Skin for Footwear Sealskins gathered on the Arcos islands, which are near Campeche, Mexico, are made into shoes and sandals here for the benefit of Yu catan’s (chicleros) chewing gum hunters. Sealskin is the only leather that is absolutely water-resistant, and it alone will enaole the chicleroa to work in comfort in the jungle.