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/ McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939 HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Washing Flour Sieves.—Always •wash flour sieves in soda water, tiever in soapy water, as particles of soap may adhere and give a soapy taste to foods put through the sieve. • • • Steamed-Up Bathrooms.—Bath rooms can be prevented from fill ing with steam if the cold-water tap is allowed to run a short while before the hot is turned on. • • • Preserving Rubber Bands. — Keep rubber bands in a tightly closed box. They keep very much longer than if exposed to the air. • * * When Washing a Sweater.—Be fore washing a woolen sweater which has buttons and button holes, sew up the buttonholes to prevent their stretching. • • • Table Knives.—If handles are stained, a good rubbing with a soft cloth sprinkled with peroxide of hydrogen will restore them to their original color. CKS Any kind—(or friers or high egg bred— 6c up. Ga. U. S. approved, pullorum tested. 100,000 weekly. 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How Women in Their 40’s Can Attract Men Here’a good advice for a woman during her change (usually from 88 to 62), who feara ahe’ll loae her appeal to men, who wornea about hot flaahes, loss of pep, dizzy spells, upset nerves and moody spells. Get more fresh air, 8 nrs. sleep and if you need a good general system tonic take Lydia E. Pinkhain Vegetable Compound, made especially for women. It helps Nature build up physical resistance, thua helps give more vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that often accompany change of life. WELL WORTS TRYINGl The End Counts If well thou hast begun, go on; it is the end that crowns us, not the fight.—Herrick. Don’t Sleep When Gas Crowds Heart If you toss in bed and can’t sleep from eon* •tipation and awful GAS BLOATIKQ remi ter this: To get quick relief you must DOUBLE ACTION. You must relieve a nation and awful GAS BLOATING remem* r this: To get quick relief you must gst _ JUBLE ACTION. You must relieve the GAB. You must clear tbs bowels. Adlerika Is lust what you need because it acta on the atomach ana BOTH bowels. Adlerika la BOTH carminative and cathartic. Carmi natives that warm and sooths tbs stomach «nd expel GAS. Cathartics that quickly and gently clear the bowels of waste matter that Stay have caused GAB BLOAT IN 67 sour •tomach, sleepless nights and indigestion for - A V- — A -11 1V*— —■ ■ — —e. — gg— 1 ■ aaA >n th r _ „_ting ] night relief. Adlerika does not gripe, is not bunt forming. Get genuine Adlerika today. Sold at all drug stores LIQUID-TABLETS 8ALVB-N08E DROPS SALVE relieves COLDS price 10c & 25c AT 6000 0*0 0 gratis lA*Gf SOTTU •£2*601 B/unQ^r'^^BCessedRelief. RHEUMATISMIKg ADVENTUROUS AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson Historic Footrace VA7 HEN Capt. John Whistler ar- rivefl on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1803 to build a military post—Fort Dearborn of tragic mem ory—one of the subalterns in his command was his son, Lieut. Wil liam Whistler. Young Whistler was more than six feet tall and famous for his strength and endurance. A frequent visitor at Fort Dear born was a young Pottawatomie chief, the champion runnef of the tribe. Believing that Lieutenant Whistler was just the man to spoil the Indian’s record, the officers at the fort proposed a five-mile foot race between the two men to which they readily agreed. The race was a thriller. At the start the Pottawatomie sprang into the lead and held it for almost the entire distance. But near the end young Whistler managed to close the gap between them and by a final burst of speed plunged across the finish line several yards ahead of his rival. The race had an exciting sequeL During the War of 1812 the same Pottawatomie chief, who was now an ally of the British, sent a chal lenge for a hand-to-hand combat with Whistler or any other officer or soldier in the American army. Whistler promptly accepted. It was agreed that no firearms were to be used. The fight began. Whistler dodged the tomahawk that was hurled at him and closed in on his opponent. The Indian stabbed at him with his long hunting knife but missed. Then the lieutenant’s sword finished the duel. • • • An American Mandarin I N 1859 Taiping rebels had almost -overthrown the Manchu dynasty in China. Fifteen of the eighteen provinces had been captured when Frederick T. Ward, a 28-year-old sailor from Salem, Mass., quit his ship and offered to put down the revolution—if they would pay him $75,000 for each city recaptured. The rebels were knocking at the gates of Shanghai when the Manchu leaders agreed to young Ward’s price and allowed him to train his own army. He recruited his men from* among the human derelicts around the wharves, but he instilled in them the discipline he had learned as a soldier in the French army during the Crimean war. Then, at the head of 500 men, and with a pistol in each hand, he or dered an attack on Sungkiang, held by 5,000 rebels. His men fought hand to hand on the top of the city wall and held it by tossing over the bodies of Taiping soldiers. In 24 hours Manchu re-enforcements ar rived. When the battle was over. Ward had only 128 men left and 100 of them were wounded. But he had earned his first $75,000 and a wide reputation as a military leader. He continued to fight, successfully taking the city of Singpo by outma- neuvering 20,000 Taiping rebels. When they again threatened Shang hai, he drove 10,000 of them back 10 miles with a force of only 2,500. Then he took the city of Quanfuling. Ward was made a mandarin and his fame spread throughout the em pire. Soon he was able to increase his well-trained army to 6,000 men, besides piling up a huge fortune. He had been wounded five times, but in September, 1862, in a battle at Tseki, he was hit for the sixth time and killed. The Chinese mourned him as a national hero and buried him in the Temple of Confu cius at Sungkiang. • • * Eskimo Heroine I N 1921, science attempted to find out whether man could live on the otherwise uninhabited islands of the Arctic. The experiment proved more. It revealed to the world the calm heroism of Ada Blackjack, who will be remembered as the most courageous woman of the Es kimo race. Four men were landed with a year’s supplies on Wrangel island, 110 miles north of Siberia in the Arctic. Ada Blackjack went along as seamstress, cook and servant. One year later a relief ship was to pick them up. The year passed but ice floes blocked the relief ship. Lome Knight, one of the four men, became ill with scurvy. The other three left on a trek across the ice to Siberia to send a rescue party. No one ever heard of them again. Left alone with Knight, Ada Blackjack went through eight months more of mental torture. For two months she nursed him. Then he died. The relief ship finally came. They found her still keeping the diary that Knight had turned over to her when he could no longer hold a pencil. One entry in the diary read: “Go<Jr is the only one who will brought me home again.” God did not fail the faith and persistent courage that enabled Ada Blackjack to face a seemingly hopeless situation with* out breaking. ® Western Newspaper Union. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL chool L*esson 4 By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. O. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for February 26 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. PETER IN SAMARIA LESSON TEXT—Acts 8:14-25. GOLDEN TEXT—Come ye, buy. and eat: yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.—Isaiah 55:1. Commercialism certainly should have no place in the Christian Church. But in an age that will even commercialize a man’s love for his mother, it is small wonder that the great holy days of the Church—Christmas and Easter— have become the special object of profit-seeking purveyors of every thing from hats to whisky. New Year’s day, Thanksgiving day, Mother’s day, Father’s day, any day at, all, becomes just another oppor tunity to take a man’s money, waste his time, and possibly to destroy his soul. It is high time that intelli gent folk make effective protest against such perversion of sacred things. The Scripture lesson for today tells of one who went so far as to try to buy the power of God for mon ey, that he might use it to get gain for himself, failing to realize that the power of God is a gift and to be used only for His glory. I. Spiritual Power—the Gift of God (vv. 14-17). The Holy Spirit who is the third person of the blessed Trinity had called Philip, a layman, and sent him forth to preach in Samaria. Men and women were converted, and when the church at Jerusalem heard of it, they sent Peter and John to give counsel and help to the new converts. Through the laying on of hands these received the gift of the Holy Spirit even as we now receive Him the moment we believe on Christ. What a glorious truth it is that the believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 6:19). Thus even the humblest believer has in Him the One who redeems man, gives grace for holy living, and empowers for service. The greatest power in all the world is consequently available to every true and yielded believer. Gone then are all excuses for weak and careless living. Gone is every ground for claiming that one can not serve God. The power and grace are His, and He gives them to His followers as a gift. Christian friend, are you giving the Holy Spirit of God liberty to infill and use you as He will? II. Spiritual Power—Not for Sale (vv. 18-.24). Men who put their trust in money are prone to think that one can buy anything. They say with Walpole, “Every man has his price.” But they are wrong. There are men and women in the world who can not be bought, and it is even more certain that the best things that life ^an give a man have no price tag on them—a mother’s love, friend ship, fellowship with God, the Holy Spirit’s power—these among many others are not for sale. Simon, a professed believer, rec ognized that these followers of Je sus had a great power which he thought to buy for his own business as a magician. His was a very gross and blatant effort to do what many have done in the Church, and are doing today, by more skillful and sometimes by under-cover methods. There are those who by holding the purse strings seek to control the message of the preacher, or who use their financial influence to obtain control of church organizations and institutions. Their efforts are doomed to ultimate failure, but the present harm they do to the cause of Christ is appalling. Many a church and pastor would be far better off if they could rise up and say with Peter, “Thy money perish with thee.” III. Spiritual Power—for Testi mony (v. 25). Peter and John set the Samari tan believers a good example by permitting the Spirit of God to use them to testify and preach the Word of the Lord in many villages. The Holy Spirit does “not speak of him self,” but guides the believer “in all truth” (John 16:13), and His primary ministry is, to glorify Christ (John 16:14). It follows that the outstanding mark of a Spirit-born and Spirit-filled believer is his de sire to speak of and to glorify Christ. Such a testimony will be “not in words which man’s wisdom teach- eth, but which the Holy Ghost teach- eth” (I Cor. 2:13), and will bear fruit for eternity. A Common Adversary Much contempt and hatred to wards erring humanity would be averted — and instead compassion would be excited—if we kept con stantly in mind the humbling thought that we have the same com mon adversary! Indeed, such real ization would elicit prayer in lieu of caustic criticism. The Word Chance By the word chance we merely express our ignorance of the cause of any fact or effect—not that we think that chance was itself the cause.—Henry Fergus. Wages and Advertising 'T'HERE is a lot of advertising in this country and it has a defi nite purpose. It is there because our merchants want to sell us au tomobiles, chewing gum, tooth paste, refrigerators and oranges. They know that advertising helps to sell these things and thousands of others, and they know that it provides a valuable information service to consumers. That much is plain, but did you ever stop to consider that adver tising affects your personal in come? No matter what your occu pation, the amount of your sal ary or wages is affected by the total volume of advertising on the part of all manufacturers and storekeepers everywhere. This statement is worth examining. In this country, we produce and consume more than twice as much goods for every man, wom an, and child as is produced and used in other principal countries of the world. Why is this? Not merely because we have vast nat ural resources. Not just because we are better at inventing and or ganizing. It is mostly because we all want so much to have the good things in life and because we have the individual ambition and ener gy to get them. The purchasing power of American people is used States' Names Louisiana was named for King Louis XIV of France. Ohio means “great river.” Virginia was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth of England. Maryland was named for Queen Henrietta Maria of Eng land. Minnesota means “sky-blue water.” Pennsylvania was named for William Penn, the famous Quaker. Florida was named for East er Sunday—Pascua Florida, the Spanish “feast of flowers.” Washington was named in honor of George Washington. all the time and it revolves fast. This is where advertising comes in. It creates desires for new things and encourages ambition for higher standards of living. Suggestions from the merchant’s advertising are often responsible for the purchase of a new living- room rug, an automobile, better clothes, or a new kind of break fast food. Millions of purchases are in spired by advertising. When the volume of buying is high, business is good and there are many jobs. It is not only the ability of con sumers to buy goods but also their desire to buy that makes factories run at full speed. Advertising is one of the greatest stimulators of buying desire that has ever been known. New industries depend on ad vertising to get started. A fac tory is built to manufacture *a clever electric razor. No one ever heard of such a thing before. Hardly anybody wants to buy the device until the manufacturer ex plains its advantages in a national advertising campaign. Almost im mediately, thousands of men buy these machines and the company increases production. The result is lots of new jobs for factory workers and traveling salesmen. Advertising has built many oth er new industries, big ones and little ones. Similarly, advertising has expanded countless old indus tries. Raw material and other re lated industries are directly bene fited. In every case it means more employment, more wages. Our whole economic life is speeded up, the national purchasing power is enlarged, and everybody’s income goes up. The merchandising force of ad vertising is very important among the various factors responsible for our having the highest wage level in the world, with a buying power nearly twice that in Great Britain, two and one-half times as great as in Germany, and more than ten times as high as wages in Russia. In more ways than one, advertis ing gives a lift to the pay enve lope. Copyright, 1939. Fast Thinking Saved This Forgetful Hubby He was conscious that trouble was brewing when he went out in the morning. When he got home that night he learned what he had done. With tears in her eyes his wife ex claimed: “I knowyou don’t love me —you’ve forgotten my birthday!” “Darling,” he said, “I’m more sorry than I can say—but it is really your fault.” “My fault?” she exclaimed. “How can that be?” He took her hand in his. “Hdw can I remember your birthday,” he asked, “when there is never anything about you to remind me that you are a day older than you were a year ago?” Pigs, Cows, Eggs by Air In northern Canada the air plane pilot is milkman, grocer, butcher, and heavy freight han dler- to scores of isolated mining towns and trading posts, reports the Commentator magazine. Be sides the usual traffic in all sorts of mining equipment and dry stuffs that daily wings its way into the North, fresh food is also carried. • Grapefruit today is a breakfast fruit even 200 miles north of the Arctic circle. Fresh eggs, milk and vegetables of all kinds are shipped in large quantities by air. Where there are many children, even live cows have been carried by plane to provide fresh milk. Live pigs and chickens are daily passengers on the northern aerial freighters. On the trip back, besides the usual run of gold and furs, planes have at least half a cargo of fresh fish. From Friend and Foe We learn our virtues from the bosom friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real form from a friend. 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