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f ••<«****; McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1938 l/juda filulQ S<Uj6i The Liking Is Vital A child learns good manners by seeing good manners and liking them when he sees them. The panoply of modern warfare does not include honor or human ity. It is in regarding a woman’s *‘no” lightly that men often make themselves ridiculous. Want to Be Themselves Few envy another man; they envy his circumstances. People who insist on ^living their own life/* are likely to im pose on the lives of others. Education lessens crime, be cause it opens the eyes of the tempted to its foolishness. FERHY’S't \ BE SURE OF YOUR SEEDS Your seeds need not be one of the uncertainties of gardening, thanks to the work of the unique Ferry-Morse Seed-Breeding In stitute. Here’s how the Insti tute’s seed experts produce de pendable, prize-winning Ferry's Seeds: First—seed stocks are per fected by generations of breed ing and selecting to develop desired characteristics and to eliminate weaknesses. Second—every year, before Ferry’s Seeds are packeted, 60,000 tests for germination are made — and samples are tested for trueness to type. Choose vegetable and flower seeds you can be sure of—from the Ferry’s Seeds display in your favorite store. These seeds have been selected as suitable to your locality. 5c a packet and up. Ferry-Morse Seed Co., Detroit, San Francisco. FERRY’S SEEDS An Honest Man I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the charac ter of an “honest man.”—George Washington. -witka jjv 1 Coleman ^ LANTERN ' LWtt op TO—Cob- man and col The Ef blackest night hasn’t a j I a fa* tern I It “knocks oat” darkness with its flood of powerful brilliance. Just the light for every after-dark —. « Job around farm, garage, shop. Fin* for hunting* *1*1 The Coleman lights instantly. Pyrax globe protects ——Wind, rain or anow can’t e it oat. Strongly built for years of service. r to operate. Gasoline and kerosene mod. ala to^flt eyery need and purse. See them at FIUEE FOLDERS—Stud postcard today. THE COLEMAN LAMP AND STOVE CO. D«|rt. WU188, WIcMta, Kms4 Chicago, III* . - (7188) Likely Daughter—Daddy, what is your birthstone? Dad—A grindstone, I think. One good cook tells another . . . OAll good cooks know that Jewel makes more tender baked foods, and creams faster, than even the costli est types of shortening. It’s a Special Blend of fine vege table Cats and other bland cooking fats . .. used by more fine cooks than any other shortening in Amer ica! Get Jewel in the familiar red carton for better cooking results! favorite of the south DORIS DEDE'S column Second Heart Break for Maid Who Forgives Unreliable Suitor. 1T\EAR MISS DENE: I am twenty- seven and the man I love is thirty-one. He is well-educated and good looking and many other things which make him a desirable hus band. Two years ago we were en gaged and very happy. Then he decided that he didn’t care for me. He went out with other girls and finally became engaged to someone else without telling me about it. He lied to me and even ridiculed me for believing in him. When it all came out my heart nearly broke. It took me months to get over his desertion. Well, his engagement to the other girl lasted six months and then he began to treat her as he treated me. Now after all this time he wants to come back and as I have not forgotten him nor been able to get over him, I want to take him back. Yet I am so afraid of letting him hurt me. I am so anx ious to see him. I know that his ly ing habits could break my heart all over again but he swears he will reform for my sake. What is the right thing to do?—MUly. ANSWER—It seems to me that you are inviting a second dose of disillusionment and disappointment if you take back a man who has hurt you cruelly and who seems tem peramentally unfitted to be true to any one woman. Don’t misunder stand me. I’m ’ not saying that a man can’t live down one mistake. I’m not saying that it doesn't take courage on his part to admit that he has been wrong and to ask forgive ness of the girl he has treated abominably. Many a young boy has jilted the girl who loved him—has tried to find happiness with another charm er and has lived to repent of his hasty action. When his old love has granted him forgiveness he has proved to her and to the world at large that his repentance was sin cere and lasting. But when a man of thirty uses unfair and dishonorable methods in breaking off with the damsel who has trusted him then it’s time to wonder whether he could ever be anything but a gay philanderer and an unprincipled liar. It is one thing for a man to discover an error in judg ment and to go frankly to his fiancee with the news that he no longer cares for her. It is quite another story for the disillu sioned suitor to sneak away with another girl—to mock his former sweetheart— and to cover up his traces until detection is inevitable. All that smacks of habitual deceit. I consider, Milly that you’ve given this man his chance already. You played fair with him and in return for that he gave you lies and deceit. Now he’s tired of his new conquest and it is quite natural that he should think tenderly of your devo tion and kindness. But if you’re fair to yourself you won’t let him come back to torment you all over again. F)EAR DORIS DENE: I am a boy of nineteen and have lived at home all my life. My mother is a very strong character and has managed me successfully. I am now in love and want to marry. My mother has put her foot down and refuses to consider my marriage. She offers to give a college educa tion—which she refused to do until she heard I was in love. I want to get a job but unless I can live at home I cannot hope to support a wife right away. I like your advice and will be grateful for any you give me.—C. G. ANSWER—Your mother’s strong character will be of value to you now my boy even though you are not in the mood to appreciate it. If she were indulgent and weak enough to agree to your marriage at the present moment, she’d be doing you an injustice for which you might never forgive her. Any boy who ties himself up in matrimonial chains at the age of nineteen—with nothing to depend on but his mother’s income, is virtually throwing away his life’s happiness. His wife is placed under a severe handi cap—living on the bounty of her mother- in-law. He, himself, is under such obliga tion to his mother that he must take her word as law and let her run his life whether he wishes it or not. At nineteen he cannot hope to have attained the ma ture judgment which fits him for matri mony. He may not even be sufficiently in love to make the venture a success. All the cards are stacked against him from the word “go." Take my advice, C. G., and ac cept the offer of a college education. Equip yourself to face the world— and to hold down a job. Prepare to be an independent citizen—not a dependent son for the rest of your life. And don’t forget this; that the more you learn and the more you study, the more able you’ll be to re sist your mother’s strong influence. You have lived at home so long that the maternal protection has be come a habit with you. Get away from that sheltered area and learn how to be a man among men. Then when you’ve reached a more suitable age and when you have ac quired the stamina to stand by your self, you’ll have no cause to worry about mother’s interference when matrimony occurs to you again. And if the girl is sincere in her love for you she’ll wait till you have fitted yourself to become a real wage-earner able to offer her a home of her own. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Ttoyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! 99 “The Creek Bed Horror By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: You know, boys and girls, I’ve often said you can get into more adventures in your own back yard than you can in the whole of darkest Africa. And here comes Houston Norris of Yonkers, N. Y., with a story that backs up my theory. Houston’s back yard was a pretty big one, though. It was a farm in Sussex county, Virginia, where he lived when he was a kid. This happened back in 1920, when Houston was just thirteen years old. On a hot August day, he set out to change the cows from one grazing ground to another where they would be in the shade for the afternoon. He had a shotgun—as a lot of kids do in the country—and he took that off the rack. He carried that gun most everywhere he went, on the chance he’d get a shot at a crow, or a chicken hawk. There was a state bounty on those birds and that just about kept him in ammunition, And incidentally, it’s a doggone good thing he did take that gun along with him. For, although he didn’t know it, he was heading straight for an adventure, and that shootin’ iron was des tined to come in mighty handy. Caught in the Fox Trap. Ahead of him lay a brook, the bed of which was dry during summer months. That creek bed was always full of snakes that hid in the brush which grew along the bottom, so Houston started to cross on a log put there to afford a passage in wet weather. He noticed, as he stepped on the log, that it was covered over with heaps of tree moss, but he—well—he thought maybe the kids of the neighboring farmer had been playing and left it there. But that was the big mistake of his life. Houston stepped on the log—and something snapped. He felt a sharp pain in his leg, and knew how foolish he had been. That moss hadn’t been put there by the neighboring farmer’s kids. It had been put there by the farmer himself to conceal a fox trap—and Houston had stepped right into it. The chain on that trap was only six inches long, and Houston’s step was cut short. He lost his balance—fell forward. His gun fell to the - He Had Stepped Right Into the Trap. ground and then, as he landed, he heard another click—felt another stab of pain—this time in his left hand. There had been two fox traps on that log, and he had fallen into both of them. The pain in his hand and leg made him wince, and he gritted his teeth. He was caught fast—imable to get himself out. But getting out of those traps didn’t worry Houston so much. He was only a short dis tance from home. A few shouts would bring someone to his assistance, Then Came the Rattler. He drew a deep breath—was all ready to let out a yell for help—when something stopped him. To his ears came a peculiar buzzing sound and a familiar rustling of leaves directly under the log on which he lay. His eyes dropped to the spot, and the hair began rising on the top of his head. A HUGE RATTLE SNAKE was crawling out from beneath the log! , “I was frightened then for the first time,” he says. “And for the first time in all my life I felt completely helpless. My gun was four feet away from the log, and I didn’t dare call for help lest I anger the snake and cause him to strike at me. “I hoped—as I never hoped before—that that snake would crawl away and leave me alone. But that hope vanished when it brought its huge body into a coil and settled down by the log to watch me. “My trapped hand and foot began to pain me terribly. My back was cramped and began to ache, but I had to keep it tense for fear that I would roll off the log and fall on top of the snake. I wondered what would happen when I got too tired to hold that position any longer. Then, suddenly, something happened that brought the situation to a quick climax.” Got the Gun Just in Time. What happened was this. Three shotgun shells had worked them selves loose from their holder at Houston’s belt. They rolled from the log and lit, almost simultaneously on the back and head of the rattler. In an instant the snake threw its head up to the level of the log. Its beady eyes glittered as it looked Houston over carefully. The reptile seemed to sense that it had him at its mercy—that there was no need for haste. Slowly it drew back its head to strike. “Then,” says Houston, “I had to do something. In desperation I started to reach for my gun. I rolled,my free foot over the ground, making a desperate and painful effort to make my step as wide and as far from the log and the snake as possible. Then I dropped my right knee and struggled with my right hand to get at the gun. “My fingers could barely touch the gun’s muzzle, but by stretching the chains of the traps that held me, I managed to get a grip on it and pull it my way. Desperately, I drew it alongside my body with its muzzle pointing toward the center of the log, until my trembling fingers could reach the trigger. “The rattler was moving forward—angered by the movements I had made. Its head was a bare three inches from my left leg. Then I drew back the hammer and pulled the trigger. There was a roar—and when the smoke cleared away, that once deadly snake was scattered in bits along the creek bed.” And after that, it was just a matter of a few good lusty yells, and help came and Houston was out of his traps. Copyright.—WNU Service. Trout Favored by Fishermen Great strength and a fighting heart in a small body make the trout a favorite of fishermen. No fish as small fights so long when hooked. It protects itself by chang ing color to blend with that of the bottom of a stream. It is some thing of a weather prophet, too. Eight or nine hours before a fresh et, caused by rains miles away, floods its home stream, a trout stops feeding. Cacti in Coat of Arms Cacti are used in the coat of arms in Mexico. Wise men in the early Fourteenth century told the Aztecs to build their cities where they would find the cacti, the eagle and the snake. In 1312 the Aztecs reached a point where Mexico City is now lo cated. One of the myths of the pe riod was, that, if an image of a per son who was to be punished was made of clay and jabbed with cacti needles by the tribal voodoo doctor, that person would be afflicted with serious illness or wouid die. Lobsters Are Scavengers Lobsters eat anything they find, either fresh or stale. They are scavengers, but not to the exclusion of fresh food, which they prefer and makes up the bulk of their diet. They devour many slow-moving creatures that habitate the ocean floor, and can crack mussel shells with their powerful mandibles. The young, spidery lobsters exist mostly on plankton, minute floating organ isms. Pol, Native Hawaiian Dish Hawaiians, in their native dish or poi, discovered the real source of good teeth and bones long before modern science. Research into the dental superiority of Hawaiians re veals that poi, which has long been a leading native dish in the islands, contains an unusually large quantity of calcium and phosphorus. This coupled with the sunshine of the is lands, which furnished the neces sary vitamin D element, resulted in the fine teeth and bones of the island race. Historic Hoaxes By ELMO SCOTT WATSON © Western Newspaper Union. The Cardiff Giant IN THE late sixties a Chicago to- A bacco dealer named George Hull heard a clergyman express the be lief that men of gigantic stature once lived on earth. It gave him an idea. Out of a 12-foot block of stone he carved the figure of a man. It was a hard job to simulate pores in the skin but he managed to do it and after giving the stone man a bath in sulphuric acid and ink, he shipped it to the farm of his relative, William C. Newell, near Cardiff, N. Y. There it was buried for a year to “age” it properly. Next Newell hired some of his neighbors to dig a well for him and behold! the well-diggers “dis covered” the giant. Four doctors, called from town, examined it and agreed that it was the petrified re mains of a prehistoric man. A Syr acuse antiquarian declared it was a statue “probably made by early Jesuit missionaries” at least 300 years ago and offered Newell $10,- 000 for it. A professor of natural science at Rochester university ex amined it and wrote that “although not dating back to the Stone age, it is nevertheless deserving the atten tion of archeologists.” Within a short time the “Cardiff Giant” was one of the wonders of the modern world. Newell began charging people 50 cents each to see it, and business was so good that a group of Syracuse business men bought a three-quarters interest in it for $30,000. But such good fortune couldn’t last always. A Yale pro fessor examined it carefully, found tool marks on it and other evidence that it had not been buried long. When it seemed that the hoax was about to be exposed, the giant was shipped to New York. But P. T. Barnum, who had failed in his ef forts to buy it for his museum, suspecting that the giant was a hoax, had one of his own made and began exhibiting it. This led - to public suspicion that Newell’s dis covery was also a fake and the Yale professor confirmed that belief. So the “Cardiff Giant” soon became just another “forgotten man.” • • • The Drake Estate fpOR more than half a century the " “Drake estate” legend has been used to defraud Americans of mil lions of dollars but so long as the “get rich quick” desire persists, it will probably continue to harvest its crop of gold for swindlers. The story they tell is that Sir Francis Drake, naval hero and free booter of Queen Elizabeth’s day, left an estate which, held in trust by the British government, is' now estimated at 10 billion to 25 bil lion dollars. They claim that they have discovered a “lost heir” to this fortune and offer persons bear ing the name Drake or descended from persons of that name an op portunity to contribute to a fund which will be used in establishing the “lost heir’s” title. Once that is established, they promise that ev eryone who has contributed to the fund will be repaid a thousandfold. The fact is that Drake was never married, so he did not leave any heirs. Moreover, when he died aboard his ship in 1595 his estate was a very small one and that was settled long, long ago. Yet despite these well-known facts and despite repeated warnings by both the Brit ish and the American governments against anyone investing in such a scheme, thousands of gullible per sons have been victimized in the past and it’s only a question of time until the hoary old legend will be revived and other suckers will be taken in by it. • • • Flight' Over the Atlantic N EARLY three-quarters of a cen tury before Charles A. Lind bergh thrilled the whole world by flying across the Atlantic, that feat was accomplished—in the imagina tion of an American newspaper man. His name was Edgar Allen Poe (later famous as a poet) and in 1835 he had printed the first in stallment of a fanciful tale about a trip to the moon. However, Rich ard Adams Locke’s “moon hoax” in the New York Sun had monppolized public attention, so Poe tore up the second installment of his story. But in 1844 when he wrote an ac count of the crossing of the Atlantic by a group of men in three days in a balloon or flying machine called the Victoria, he found that the pub lic was just as gullible as it had been nine years earlier. His yarn, also published in the New York Sun, captured the imagination of the pub lic and there was a great demand for copies of that paper. Even when Poe explained that his tale was imaginary, many people insisted upon belffeving it was true. Later Poe said, “If the Victoria did not absolutely accomplish the voyage recorded, it will be difficult to assign a reason why she should not have accomplished it.” In view of developments in aviation which were to come within the next 75 years, Poe was not such a bad prophet! Gates to White House Grounds There are eight gateways to the White House grounds, all opposite to the various entrances. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BABY CHICKS Tennessee Chicks—From fine blood tested flocks—all breeds. 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