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« McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1937 Climb the Mountains Climb the mountains and get {their good tidings. Nature’s peace prill flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow jtheir own freshness into you, and tithe storms their energy, whila (cares will drop away from you {like the leaves of autumn.—John !Muir. 30 MINUTES AFTER Eating-Drinking ALKALIZE The fastest wag to “alkalize" is to earrg your alkalizer with you. That's what thousands do now that genuine Phillips' comes in tiny, peppermint flavored tablets — in a flat tin for pocket or purse. Then you are always ready. Use it this way. Take 2 Phillips* tablets — equal in “alkalizing” effect to 2 teaspoonfuls of liquid Phillips' from the bottle. At once you feel “gas,” nausea, “over crowding” from hyper-acidity be gin to ease. “Acid headaches,” r *acid breath,” over-acid stomach are corrected at the source. This is the quick way to ease your own distress -* avoid offense to others. Conciliation Wins It is the part .of a prudent man to conciliate the minds of others, and to turn them to his own ad vantage.—Cicero. WOMEN WHO HOLD THEIR MEN NEVER LET THEM KNOW N O matter how much your back aches and your nerves 4 scream, your husband, because ho Is only a man, can never under stand why you are so hard to live j with one week in every month. Too often the honeymoon ex press Is wrecked by the nagging tongue of a three-quarter wife. The wise woman never lets her husband know by outward sign that she la a victim of periodic pain. For three generations one woman has told another how to go “smil ing through” with Lydia B. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus wning the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure in the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre paring tor motherhood. 3. Ap proaching “middle age.” Don’t be a three-quarter wife; UIta LYDIA B. PINKHAM’S / VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go “Smiling Through.” Truth Is Inviolate • Truth is as impossible to bs soiled by any outward touch as Khe sunbeam.—Milton. t LARGE JARS amd/0( Now! ; The time to take advantage of the future is today! 666 LIQUID, TABLETS SALVE, NOSE DROPS checks MALARIA In three days GOLDS flirt day Headache, 30 minutes. Try "Rsb-My-Ttas”—World’s Best liniment BLACKMAN Stock and Poultry Medicines j4re Reliable • Blackman’s Medicated UcF A-Brik. • Blackman's Stock Powder • Blackman’s Cow Tonic • Blackman’s Hog Powder • Blackman’s Poultry Tablets • Blackman’s Poultry Powder • Blackman’s Lies Powder Highest Quality—Lowest Price Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back BUY FROM YOUR DEALER BLACKMAN STOCK MEDICINE CO. Chattanooga, Tenn. Ttoyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “Rattlesnake Kate" By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: Get this one ; right hot off the waffle iron, members of the Adventurers* club. It’s about a brave, hard-fighting, quick thinking woman. Lots of people think women aren’t brave. But when it comes down to a case of life or death, just watch ’em. And then, throw in the life of a baby to fight for and—well, you’ll find that old Rudyard Kipling was right about the female of the species. Why, this adventure is so absolutely out of the ordinary, that I hardly believed it myself, when Mrs. Kate Slaughterback, Fort Lnpton, Colo., told it to me. This is what happened in 1925, on the twenty-eighth day of October. You know what kind of a day that would be out in Colorado. Animals moving around everywhere, storing up food or making for winter quar ters. Little snap in the air—migratory wild fowl coming down from the north bound for the warm waters of the tropics. Well, early that morning hunters had been banging away before day light at the mallards and canvasbacks that were stopping over for the night in a lake away out in one corner of the Slaughterback ranch. Kate Slaughterback knew from experience that the hunters wouldn’t both er to follow the crippled birds, so she decided to ride out and pick off a few unfortunate stragglers for supper. There Was a Huge Snake Coiled. She saddled up the old pinto. Got down her .22 Remington, lifted three-year-old Ernest into the saddle and swung up behind him. Off they went, across the fields to the fence that separated a pasture from the boggy lake. Kate hopped off the pony to open the gate. And, right there Kate Fought Rattlers for Two Solid Hours. at the gate post, coiled up and ready to fight anything that came along— was a huge rattlesnake. Didn’t bother that Western woman much. She stepped back to the pony, took the rifle out of the saddle and blew the head right off that cocky reptile. But he had his gang with him. No sooner had that rifle cracked—no sooner had the snake sounded his dying rattle than another angry whir-r-r sounded from the tall, dry grass. Another warning sounded from the left—still another from a different direction. Three glistening, thick-bellied rattlers slithered into the open and toward Kate. The Remington cracked three times in quick succession and three sets of rattles beat out a death-tattoo on the ground. Mrs. Slaughterback reloaded her rifle. She looked up quickly in the direction of a strange sound—a sound like the rustle of the wind among ripe corn. First five—then ten—then twenty or thirty rattlesnakes were undu lating into the open IN BATTLE FORMATION. Their pointed heads were erect—their fangs darting. They were ready to avenge their compan ions in the interrupted migration. Still the nerve of the ranch woman held steady. She realized she could not kill twenty or thirty savage snakes with her little rifle. What she wanted was a stout club. There was only one in sight. Kate chuckled as she saw that the club was stuck into the ground and bore a sign, “No Hunting—Keep Out.” Fought Dozens With a Club. She plucked that stake out of the ground. Smashed off the sign and turned to tackle the serpent army. Her eyes met a horrible sight. There were no longer twenty or thirty attackers. They were sliding noiselessly in from all di rections. Right and left, behind and before—she looked into ven omous eyes that blazed green like an endless row of traffic lights. She was surrounded. The first rattler to reach her coiled to strike. Kate swung, the club, barely three feet long, and the dying tail flicked her hand. On came the others. Some circling. Some darting in. Little Ernest was crying in the saddle. Brownie—the pony—was trembling. If he should rear, the baby would be thrown among the snakes. Kate was afraid then—afraid for herself and her little boy. She re doubled her blows. A rattler sprang clear of the ground. Kate caught it with her club as a baseball batter would swing on a home run. Another rattler sprang. It missed her hand by a half inch. She could feel its breath as the jaws snapped. A sound behind her. Coiled and poised for a thrust at her stockinged leg was another foe. She struck backward. The snake uncoiled, its head crushed. The slithery chain of reptiles seemed endless. .They darted and struck from all sides. The club thudded hundreds of times. Dying snakes writhed in piles. Kate, hardly moving from her tracks, fought on—fought for two solid hours before she climbed Gainfully, nerve wracked, back into the saddle. Her Nickname Well Earned. Brownie darted for the ranch house. Mrs. Slaughterback tumbled from the saddle, clasping little Ernest. Her hands were raw flesh and blisters—her eyes bloodshot and her face swollen. Her amazing adventure spread like wildfire through the Colorado country. Down from the cities raced newspaper reporters and photog raphers. Then the boys lined her up beside her grisly foes. Cameras told the --Me story of her kill. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY RATTLESNAKES. I said to her, “I hear your friends have a nickname for you now— ‘Rattlesnake Kate.* ” “Yes,” she said. “And I’m proud of it.” ©—WNU Service. Canyon Named for Mormon Bryce Canyon National park is 55 square miles in size and has been under jurisdiction of the fed eral government since it was first named a national monument in 1923. The “canyon,” which in reality is a great horseshoe-shaped amphithea ter three miles long and two miles wide, was named after Ebenezer Bryce, a Mormon pioneer who set tled there in the early seventies. It is filled with a myriad of fantastic figures cut through the p;nk and white limy sandstone of the Paun- laugunt plateau “Heavy” Water Explained “Heavy” water has attracted wide scientific interest. Like ordi nary water it is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxy gen, although its hydrogen has an atomic weight of two instead of one, the usual atomic weight of hydro gen. This difference makes prop erties altogether distinct from those of ordinary water. At first a scien tific curiosity, it is produced on a commercial scale for the treatment of cancer, using special nickel steel and pure nickel in manufacturing equipment to safeguard its purity Velvet Is Smart for Daytime Wear By CHERIE NICHOLAS \/f ORE velvet and more and more and still fashion keeps calling for more. All signs point to a rec ord breaking season for the wearing of velvet. In the majority of cou turier collections velvet predomi nates. Everything is being made qf velvet, hats, shoes, gloves, bags, blouses, daytime suits, coats and street ensembles, evening dresses and wraps, hostess gowns, lounging robes, pajamas and negligees—all is velvet. Yes, and “nighties,” if you are wanting to know, for there are velvets that wash easily as a pocket handkerchief. Why do women make velvet a first choice? Answering by asking an other question—is there any mate rial more flattering, more kind to maid and matron than velvet? Then, too, velvet has that luxurious look that fits especially into the scheme of things this season, for the whole trend of fashion is toward greater elegance such as has not been equalled for years. However, it is not merely femi nine vanity that is inspiring the present vogue for velvet, back of it all there is an intensely practical explanation that can be told in two brief words with a hyphen between —crush-resistant! It is an age of scientific discov eries and crush-resistant velvet is one of them. Heretofore the one great barrier to wearing velvet for other than important dress occa sion was that it would crush and wrinkle easily. To maintain it with out blemish entailed an upkeep pro gram of repeated steamings and coaxings which was both costly and wearing upon the nerves. The ad vent of crush-resistant velvet gives promise, to a reasonable degree, of doing away with this anxiety to keep velvet spick-and-span. The velvet day fashions here pic tured are to be recommended from both the practical and esthetic point of view. Wearing any one of these handsome types you are sure to look properly costumed the whole day through. Dashing and very Spanish-fashion is the youthful day time dress posed to the left with its gayly striped velvet blouse and sim ple straight skirt. The Spanish sailor is the type young girls de light in wearing this season. The velvet gloves are tres chic. The plaque of the exotic looking bracelet simulates old coin. Which reminds us to remind you to look to your costume jewelry! Bracelets are huge, necklaces have big pendants, clips are gorgeous and so on and on. A handsome all-day suit of brown velvet centers the illustration. It has the slim sheath skirt which is the correct thing for day wear. The loose straight coat bespeaks the newest silhouette—no flare, just straight. Its collar of sumptuous fur adds yet another luxurious note. An up-and-off the face quilted and shirred velvet hat is worn. There’s a scrumptious metal cloth blouse ready to blaze forth when the coat is removed. The all-important daytime dress of crush-resistant velvet shown to the right makes a perfect back ground for dramatic accessories. Note the bracelet. It is of two- tone gold, modern and heavy. And the gloves! They are the newest thing by Aris, being velvet with leather palms, with white stitchings for color contrast. A few postscript items, namely plaid velvet for an extra blouse, all the fur you care to pile on your day velvet suit, a separate glittering sequin bolero to wear with your decollette evening velvet, a bizarre jewelled belt to give accent for dressy afternoon wear, a gold em broidered velvet bolero. © Western Newspaper Union. ERMINE BOLERO By CHERIE NICHOLAS Queenly in its rich magnificence is this formal ensemble of black velvet with ermine bolero jacket. And you should see the gown with the bolero removed! It is perfectly stunning in that it has ermine short sleeves and looks adorable without hint of any trimming other than the superb ermine. The full skirt shows the new “up-in-front and down-in-back” hemline—as exqui site as ever a “portrait of a lady” might be. This is one of the hun dreds of stunning costumes, all orig inal designs, shown by the Style Creators of Chicago in the whole sale disitict ZIPPERS ON SHOES LATEST CREATION By CHERIE NICHOLAS Anticipating the tremendous vogue for zippers now sweeping two continents, Newton Elkin, designer of shoes, has cleverly employed the slide fastener to create the sleekest shoe of the season. In a talk at a recent fashion meet ing, Mr. Elkin said, “Women are zipping themselves into their dresses, their coats, their suits. Now, with so much emphasis on molded, sculptured lines, it is more important than ever that shoes have that neat, uncluttered look. I de cided that if a zipper could be used as an ornament and practical closing device on some of the smart est, most expensive dresses and coats coming out of the Paris ateliers, fashion-conscious women would welcome the convenience of the zipper in their shoes, if it could be used in an attractive way. I tried out dozens of patterns with variations on the zipper theme, and finally created what I think is the perfect shoe—a high-cut sheath of suede, sculptural in line, with a slide fastener streaking up the instep.” Fur Is Now Important on New Winter Fabric Coats Embroideries combine with furs for winter, running alongside them. White ermine makes a scarf that is tied in a bow to front a black duve- tyne suit. An ermine muff accom panies it. Both fur pieces are trimmed with black ermine tails. Many a fabric coat has sleeves made entirely of fur—in beaver or seal. Some have backs of fur and fronts of fabric. Flowers Important The gorgeously colored tropical flowers that bloom so luxuriantly in Miami throughout the year are be ing repeated in chiffon and silk for fall wear. U ^ s p ^% Shame Is on Him He who stumbles twice over the ' same stone deserves to break his shins. Presentiments are something you forget completely when noth ing happens. Constructive criticism is the kind people don’t listen to eagerly. Goes ■for the AutoisV, Too Discreet stops makes speedy journeys. One grows hard-boiled by ex perience, bat that doesn’t make be ing hard-boiled pleasant. Lies sometimes result from one’s being too inquisitive. There Are Two Modes To be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues are two ways of establishing a reputa tion. Is it possible that when men be gan to wipe the dishes matrimony began to decline? Men who sway tne world know what other men’s brains are worth) in helping them do it. Yes, Constipation Is Serious But It Can’t Poison You! mmmn Say Doctor* mnmsm Modern doctors now say that the old idea of poieona getting into your blood from consti pation is BUNK. They claim that constipa tion swells up the bowda causing pressure on nerves in the digestive tract. This nerve pressure is what causes frequent bilious spells, diuineas, headaches, upset stomach! dull, tired-out feeling, sleepless nights, coated tongue, bad taste and Ides of appetite. Don’t suffer hours or even days longer than necessary. You must GET THAT PRES SURE OFF THE NERVES TO GET RELIEF. Flush the intestinal system. When offending wastes are gone the bowels return to normal size and nerve pressure STOPS. Al most at once you feel marvelously refreshed, blues vanish, and life looks bright again. That is why so many doctors are now in sisting on gentle but QUICK ACTION. That is why YOU should insist on Adlerika. This efficient intestinal evacuant contains SEVEN carminative and cathartio ingredients. Adlerika acts on the stomach as wdl as the entire intestinal tract. Adlerika relieves stomach GAS at once and often removee bowel eongeetion in half an hour. No violent action, no after effects, just QUICK results. Recommended by many doctors and druggists for 36 years. ■ ' * i i BABE W'Ui photo ffnlzhlni at rfwfVIr AKE any pries, ths beautl- 1 ful clear Nevar-Fad* Vslox Pictures Jack I Rabbit lives you. Any size roll kodak j Him developed, EIGHT Naver-Fads Vslox '■ Prints for only i Thousands of Kodakors *tf !> Better Pictures for Less from, I I — -I- : adt Vslox W Backbone Needed Everyone clamors for his “rights” and finds it needs a great deal of backbone to defend them. FOR WATERY HEAD COLDS Insight A moment’s insight is some times worth a life’s experience.— Holmes. HEADACHE due to constipation Relieve the cause of the trou ble! Take purely vegetable Black- Draught. That’s the sensible way to treat any of the disagreeable ef fects of constipation. The relief men and women get from taking Black- Draught is truly refreshing. Try It I Nothing to upset the stomach—just purely vegetable leaves and roots, finely ground. BLACK-DRAUGHT A GOOD LAXATIVE Watch Your Kidneys/ Help Them Cleanse the Blood of Harmful Body Waste Your kidheyt are constantly (Uterine waste matter from the blood stream. But kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do not act as Nature intended—fail to re move impurities that, if retained, may poison the system gnd upset the whole body machinery. ... Symptoms may be nagging backache* persistent headache, attacks of diaaineaa. getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes—a feeling of nervous anxiety and loss of pep and strength. Other signs of kidney or bladder dis order may be burning, scanty or too frequent urination. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment is wiser than neglect. Use Doan's PM*. 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