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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.
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The winds and waves are al
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How Women
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The End Counts
If well thou hast begun, go on;
it is the end that crowns us, not
the fight.—Herrick.
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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. He is a
mirror on which the warmth of
our breath impedes the clearness
of the reflection.—Richter.
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