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i McCORMICK’MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1940 Princess Frock Is Simple, Charming /’"'HARMING and changeable are '- i the words for this Very sim ple princess frock (1898-B). Charming, because it is so slim- waisted and flare-skirted, with wide shoulders gathered at the top. Changeable, because you can make the neckline two ways—ei ther with the round tailored col lar, or with the collarless square neckline. As a matter of fact, if you once get it on, and see what nice things it does to your figure, you’ll want it both ways, and make it up time and again, in street materials as well as in day time cottons. It’s a very adapta ble style, too, becoming to misses* ' and women’s sizes alike. For home wear, choose crisp' cottons like gingham, percale or calico. For street or office wear, faille, flat crepe or gay silk print will be pretty, with collar and cuffs of pique, linen or sharkskin. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1898-B is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 42. 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JoJbllev tfP MU ary CP!666 ^H^UQUiatABLETS. SALVE. H03S DROPS "Let's Play Authors," Says Uncle Sam, And He's Giving Us a New Series of Postage Stamps to Help Us Do That! Americans’ interest in stamps has been greatly stimulated by the number of commemorative and special issues put out by the post office department in recent years. Another stimulus—but for a different reason—has been fur nished by a book, “Fabulous Stamps: The Romance of the Rarities,” written by John W. Nicklin and published by Hastings House of New York. Here are two stories from that volume which indicate the reason for an in crease interest in old stamps: By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) R emember back in the “good old days” when ^ you used to play “authors”? It was a card game, you re call, but it wasn’t the kind that some puritanical folk frowned upon because there was a taint of gambling at tached to it. Instead, your parents and your teachers en couraged you to play it be cause they considered it “edu cational” — it familiarized you with the names of the great literary figures of the world and the novels and poems and stories that they had written. Well, your Uncle Samuel re cently decided that it might be a good thing to revive that old-fashioned game. At least, he decided that we Amer icans ought to become more familiar with some of the great literary figures in our own past so he’s started a variation on the old game of authors on a nation-wide scale. You don’t “play” it with pasteboards. You “play” it with stamps, which your Uncle Samuel manufactures i and sells you (at a very good profit to himself, incident- ally). All of which is by way of call ing your attention to a new series of “Famous Americans” stamps which the United States post of fice department is issuing this year. The first set in the series was issued the last part of Janu ary and the first part of Febru ary; a second set was issued in February; a third will be placed on sale this month and each month until November will see a new group of American notables being honored by having their faces appear on a new set of stamps. It so happens that the first of the seven groups which will be issued this year displayed the faces of five famous authors and the second the countenances of five famous poets—hence the statement at the beginning of the article that Uncle Sam was ask ing us to “play authors” with him by buying these new stamps for use on our letters. As a matter of fact, he’s going to honor other “Famous Americans,” too—edu cators, scientists, composers, art ists and inventors. Last November Postmaster General Farley announced that ihere was to be a new series of “Famous Americans” which would be composed of peace-time heroes, instead of military and naval heroes, or statesmen. An ticipating possible criticism by some people in regard to the se lection of the men and women whose portraits were to appear on the stamps of different values, Mr. Farley pointed out that the selection of the various denomi nations, which include a one- two, three, five and ten-cent stamp for each of the seven stamps of the series, was to be governed by the date of birth of the 35 famous Americans in this new series. In other words, the lowest de nomination in each of the seven groups was assigned to that par ticular American notable whose date of birth precedes that of all others appearing in this particu lar group, with the notable of the most recent birth being awarded the highest denomination. This chronological birth order has been followed throughout the new series. Thus, no one who believes that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a greater poet than James Whitcomb Riley can object be cause the face of the Hoosier bard appears on a stamp of higher value than that bearing the por trait of the New Englander. The fact that Longfellow was born in 1807 and Riley in 1853 was the determining factor in placing the picture of the former on the one- cent stamp and the fact of the latter on the 10-cent. Similarly those who love the songs of Stephen Collins Foster can’t object because his picture is on a one-cent stamp, whereas those of Edward A. MacDowell and Ethelbert Nevin, of whom they may never have heard, are on the five-cent and the 10-cent stamps, respectively. Of course, it may seem rather silly that Uncle Sam, as represented by his postmaster-general, has to be so very careful to avoid the slightest suspicion of partisanship in such a matter as this. But it’s amaz ing what queer notions people have sometimes, and they’ve raised a veritable “tempest in a teapot” over lesser matters than this. Having chosen his list of authors, poets, educators, scien tists, composers, artists and in ventors to appear on his new series of stamps, Uncle Sam next decided on the places for “first days,” i. e., where each of these stamps were first to be sold. In every case the home town of the notable or some place closely as sociated with his career was chosen. Thus on January 29 the green one-cent stamp bearing the por trait of Washington Irving was placed on sale at Tarrytown, N. Y. On the same day the post office at Cooperstown, N. Y., be gan selling the red-two cent stamps bearing a likeness of the author of the “Leatherstocking Tales”—James Fenimore Cooper. On Fabmary 5 the Ralph Waldo Emerson stamp (three-cent, pur ple) was first sold in Boston and the Louisa May Alcott stamp (five-cent, blue) in Concord, Mass. On February 13 the mem ory of Samuel Langhorne Clem ens (Mark Twain, to most Amer icans) was again honored at Han nibal, Mo., with the first day sale of a new 10-cent brown stamp. Thus Uncle Sam started his new “game” of authors and he continued it during February by issuing the five stamps in the poet group, as follows: February 16, the Henry W. Longfellow stamp (one-cent, green) was first sold at Portland, Maine, and the John Greenleaf Whittier stamp (two- cent, red) at Haverhill, Mass.; February 20 the James Russell Lowell (three-cent, purple) at Cambridge, Mass., and the Walt Whitman (five-cent, blue) at Cam den, N. J.; February 24, the James Whitcomb Riley (10-cent, brown) at Greenfield, Ind. Beginning this month with the educators’ group the stamps will be placed on sale as follows: Educators. March 14—Boston, Horace Mann, one-cent, green. March 14 — Williamstown, Mass., Mark Hopkins, two-cent, red. March 28—Cambridge, Mass., Charles W. Eliot, three-cent, pur ple. March 28—Evanston, 111. Fran ces E. Willard, five-cent, blue. April 7 — Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Booker T. Washington, ten- cent, brown. Scientists. April 8—St. Francisville, La., John James Audubon, one-cent, green. April 8—Jefferson, Ga., Dr. Crawford W. Long, two-cent, red. April 17—Santa Rosa, Calif., Luther Burbank, three-cent, pur ple. April 17—^Washington, Dr. Wal ter Reed, five-cent, blue. April 26—Chicago, Jane Ad- dams, ten-cent, brown. Composers. May 3—Bardstown, Ky., Ste phen C. Foster, one-cent, green. May 3—^Washington, John Phil ip Sousa, two-cent, red. May 13—New York, Victor Her bert, three-cent, purple. May 13—Peterborough, N. H., Edward A. MacDowell, five-cent, blue. June 10—Pittsburgh, Pa., Ethel bert Nevin, 10-cent, brown. Artists. September 5—Narragansett, R. I., Gilbert C. Stuart, one-cent, green. September 5—Lowell, Mass., J. A. M. Whistler, two-cent, red. September 16—New York, Au gustus Saint-Gaudens, three-cent, purple. September 16 — Stockbridge, Mass., Daniel F. French, five- cent, blue. September 30—Canton, N. Y., Frederic Remington, 10-cent, brown. Inventors. October 7—Savannah, Ga., Eli Whitney, one-cent, green. October 7—New York, Samuel F. B. Morse, two-cent, red. October 14—Lexington, Va., Cy rus H. McCormick, three-cent, purple. October 14—Spencer, Mass., Elias Howe, five-cent, blue. October 23—Boston, Alexander G. Bell, 10-cent, brown. The Widow’s Mite. In the year of our Lord 1896, the Rev. F. P. L. Josa served as pastor at Christ church, the Epis copal house of worship at George town, British Guiana. The parish was in dire need of funds to fur ther certain charitable works that were dear to the heart of the be loved cleric. A certain widow, long a sup porter of Christ church, felt a deep urge to assist the charitable work in which the Reverend Josa was engaged, but was unfortu nately without financial resources to devote to this worthy pur pose. “What else might I con tribute from my meager posses sions?” she wondered. “Those old letters, perhaps? That visi tor from the old country had said years ago that they were of some value. Especially that one letter bearing a pair of circular stamps they had used for a time in Georgetown when I was but a girl.” And so, on the following Sun day, the widow of Georgetown placed in the collection plate of Christ church an old and faded letter bearing two copies of the two-cent British Guiana stamp of 1850. The Reverend Josa later sold these to a E. C. Luard for a sum in excess of $1,000. The good work went on—the widow’s mite had accomplished far great er good than she had hoped it would. Everyone was pleased, especially Mr. Luard, who subse quently parted with his purchase at a handsome profit. This wid ow’s letter has an approximate present valuation of $30,000, a sum sufficient to build an entire church. • • * Treasure in a Cornfield. In 1925 a stamp hunter was Working on a clue he had un earthed concerning an old bank whose records he believed to be in existence in the general vicin ity of Baltimore. After a painstaking search he was chagrined to learn that the bank in question had been out of business over 50 years and its records long since destroyed. He learned, however, that there was a family of the same name in a country district not far distant. So he went to the farm of the family believing there was small chance to find any old stamps in a place so abandoned as the dis trict appeared to be. Upon reaching the general vicinity of his destination he had the farm in question pointed out to him. As he turned his steps without enthusiasm toward the old farm house he noticed that it was flanked by several small outbuildings. When the path he was following brought him Cents. , I abreast of the first of these, he noticed a few bits of paper scat tered about the ground just near the edge of an adjoining field. Stooping, he picked up the first. It was a letter. Turning it over, he was amazed to see that it con tained on its face a five-cent Bal timore stamp, worth about $1,000. Hardly believing his senses, he remained rooted to the spot, star ing at the bit of paper in his hand. He hardly noticed that the lady of the house had been ap proaching and now stood before him. Trying to hide his great excitement he asked if he might look through the old papers that lay scattered before them. “Surely,” said the lady, “they come from the old granary. We are clearing it out and are de stroying the old papers of grand father. They are no use to us now. In fact, half of them have been burned up already.” The net result of the ensuing search was a total of eight more five-cent Baltimore stamps and a number of other valuable speci mens of lesser rarity, chiefly of the 1847 general United States is sue. The house cleaning so fortu nately interrupted had proceeded to such an extent that about half of the papers had already been destroyed. What did these con tain? More five-cent Buchanans, perhaps a few of the rare 10-cenl stamps. Who can tell? CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BABY CHICKS CHICKS 1 VIIIVI1W. No cuUs . 100 postpaid Send Money Order for Prompt Shipment. Lice Delivery Guaranteed ATLAS CO., 2651 Chouteau, St. Louis, Mow Continually BLOOD - TESTING and _ for Bly Bros. Fast Growth, Lons Life and Rapid Feathering produces chicks of nnnsaal Liva bility. Growth, Fast Feathering and Unlformltgf. 1 Inquire about our easy payment plan. 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