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Tloyd ADVENTURERS* CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI a Danger on the Rails 9* H ello, everybody! I’m still learning what a terrific beating the human mind and body can take and still survive. The latest one to impress this lesson on me is today’s Adventurer—Patrick J. Laffey of Trenton, New Jersey. Pat Laffey, as a boy in Ireland, crawled under a locomotive and was hanging to the undercarriage when the engineer started his train. His description of the heavy steel rods as they started to move, picking up speed, shoving him, battering him—well, read the story! Pat was just, as he puts it, “a broth of a boy” in 1915, living in Galway, Ireland. On this particular autumn afternoon, he bnd two companions set out blackberrying. So lovely was the scenery, that they traveled farther from home than they had ever before ventured—some ten miles. “We dared go no further,” Pat says, “lest we get lost in our home ward journey. We were all tired now, so we started home, bringing our collection of berries along.” The boys crossed a few fields, when suddenly they came to a double railroad track. Rather than cross any more fences, or fall into any more ditches, they started home along the track. They had walked about half a mile when their attention was attracted by a huge engine which lay on the sidetracks nearby. “To me,” Pat says, “who had never seen one before, this huge mass of steel presented one of life’s mysteries.” The boys watched the aged engineer as he pushed and pulled levers. “How that thing did whistle and shriek,” Pat recalls. “I think I hear it now.” Mystified, Pat Climbs Under the Locomotive. A little later, the engineer left his position and walked down amongst other cars on the track. The engine was still steaming and hissing. “This,” Pat says, “was our chance for a final analysis of our mystery— was this huge thing really alive?” The more they looked at it, the more confused the boys became. They walked around it, saw its dirty, greasy iron bars, its large, shiny wheels. “And now,” Pat says, “my race with death occurred. I feel a cold shiver right down my spine now. “I myself set the trap for the grim jaws of eternity. It was a foolish act on my part, as I learned later. Now, boys, don’t get a fainting spell when you read this, but consider yourself in my position. What would you have done?” Well, here is the incredible thing Pat did. Being greatty interested in the engine, he examined it as best he could; so did his chums. Rather than miss anything, he crept underneath the huge structure. He was just in there, when the engineer returned. He rebuked Pat’s two chums for their presence on the property of the railroad. The boys took to their heels as fast as they could, but !( L'S Town Pat’s battered body was on the ground under the engine. Pat, rather than face the engineer’s scolding, tucked himself under the engine, never aware of his life being in the other’s hands, listening for every breath, hoping the engineer would soon go away. He did decide finally to go away, but, as Pat puts it, “not without the engine.” Smoke blew around, irons clattered, brakes shrieked and groaned— and there was Pat, gasping for dear life itself. He clung on with his hands and feet until a huge iron compelled him to lose his foothold. He now tried to save his head and arms from being gr.iund to pieces. The engine pulled along. Pat expected any minute to be mashed to pieces. A thousand thoughts flashed through his mind how far was be going—-would the engineer ever stop—how long could he hold on? Soaked With Blood, He Sinks Into Unconsciousness. To Pat death was inevitable; he could see no possible way to avert it, no means of attracting the attention of the engineer. He remembered he began to shout for help, but his cries were only drowned out by that ever-increasing rattle of the engine. He remembers, too, getting a severe blow on his left side—the cuts of which he bears to this day. He felt himself getting weak . . . wet with blood ... he sank into unconsciousness . . . Days passed, days for which he can give no account, days with life in the balance. Then finally, on the fifth day, Pat again gained con sciousness. There, beside his bed, stood Pat’s parents, friends and neigh bors, and, in the middle of the group, the unfortunate engineer himself. Needless to say, all were overjoyed to see this response to medical attention in a boy they had literally given up for dead. Pat afterward learned how it came about that his life had been spared. And again, it was just one of those almost incredible flashes of good fortune—or Providence. The engineer had occasion to throw a switch, and while he was on the ground he chanced to look down at the engine’s running gear. Imagine his horror to see Pat’s tattered body lying on the ground under the engine. He signaled the fireman in the cab, the fireman’s hand shot to the levers and the immense monster of snorting steel screeched to a stop. The engineer lifted out the unconscious form from beneath the undercarriage. If any of you adventurers ever want a ride on an engine, take Pat’s advice, and be sure you get IN one, and not on the rods, because the odds, Pat says, “are against you.” Copyright.—WNU Service. Historians Record Use of Dolls in Earliest Days of History; Customs Date to Antiquity The use of dolls—as playthings, ornaments, and symbols of religion and mysticism—dates back to antiq uity. Historians have failed to un earth any period in which there were no dolls. Early Oriental myth ology abounds with stories of gayly- decorated figures used in religious rites, observes a writer in the De troit News. In the Orange Free State in Af rica a girl receives a doll when she reaches maturity and keeps it until she has a child of her own. Egyp tians throw a life-size doll in the Nile when it rises each year. Chi nese mothers hang a doll in front of the house when a child is ill. Syr ian maidens place a doll in the win dow to notify young blades of the village that they are ready and will ing to take a husband. In Japan the annual Feast of the Dolls is a gay and impressive ceremony in which hundreds of thousands of chil dren and grown-ups participate. Psychologists say dolls are useful, not only to amuse, but to educate and to develop imagination and the parental instinct in children. Dolls, they say, are helpful to little boys as well as girls, and any boy under six years old need not fear being called a sissy if he loves and plays with d^lls. Dolls of cave-dwellers were crude ly fashioned of mud, stones or bits of wood. Archeologists have found them in the earliest primitive dwell ings, often lying by the side of the remains of children. Through the centuries dolls have taken better form. European craftsmen of the Middle ages developed great skill in making dolls from wax. Later dolls were made of plaster, easily breakable. Today dolls are made of a wide variety of materials. THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1939 BRAZILIAN DIPLOMAT Desert Sun Bathers Enlist Science • v • Recently arrived in Washington Is Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian for eign minister, whose visit to this country is expected to have signifi cant results in examination of mutu al economic and defense problems. Expected results are: (1) V. S. finan cial assistance to Brazil; (2) redivi sion of the world’s cotton market; (3) increase of sales to Brazil; (4) examination of defense problems. Sun bathers at Palm Springs, Calif., have enlisted the cause of science in their behalf. The boxes enclosing their heads are made from sea shells, and are said to permit only beneficial rays of the sun to pass through them, protecting the shapely bathers from an overdose of the health-giving sunshine. And How Do You Look While Sitting Down? If ladies must smoke they should be graceful about it. At least according to models in Mme. Frances Dela Fortrie’s Hollywood School of Modeling in Philadelphia. AUdced McCue Alefily&nd DozotmhdJitcheil teach in one easy lesson how to become a horrible sitting exaHple. The awkward position of CWSet, the stocking not drawn taut, and the clumsy, messy way of lighting a cigarette, combine to detract fronrpersonal charm. Pictured at the right is the correct way of sitting, and the graceful way of lighting a cigarette. World’s Fair to Feature Court of Peace MILITARIZE CCC? A colorful part of the New York World’s fair of 1939 is the foreign nations and federal government zone area where the twin-towered Federal building and exhibitions of 62 nations center on a seven-acre Court of Peace. The $155,000,000 “World of Tomorrow” exposition will open April 30 as the host city makes lavish preparations to entertain millions of visitors during the coming summer months. John Chrosniak, lieutenant colonel in the United States army reserve, is president of the newly formed American Conservation association, a group making an effort to organ ize the Civilian Conservation corps on a permanent basis, fully officered and supervised by reserve officers on permanent detail. If the associa tion’s efforts are successful, the new group will add another pressure unit in the political scene which might easily rival the widespread influence of the American Legion. Kentucky Floods Win Race With Control Project .An outboard motorboat furnished transportation to these searchers in the flooded downtown section ot Middlesboro, Ky., after Hie town was inundated by February mountain torrents. The flood eame before Mid- dlesboro’s $500,600 flood control government project could be completed. Two aged men died from cold and exposure. Untold damages resulted In the stores and shops. S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HABOL.D L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. 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 1:14-23. GOLDEN TEXT—Come ye, buy, and eat: yea. come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.—Isaiah 33:1. 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 (w. 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 b lieve 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 it,e you as He will? U. Spiritual Power—Noi for Sale (w. 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 can 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 I 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 jt urch 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.” HI. 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. *'; HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Washing Flour Sieves.—Always wash flour sieves in soda water, never 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 Robber 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 goed rubbing with a soft cloth sprinkled with peroxide of hydrogen will restore them to their original color. Any kind—(or Men or hlgb egg bred— do up. On. IT. B. approved, puDonim tested. 100,000 weekly. Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons, Hsmpsbfres, Giants, Leg horns, Minorcss. AA. AAA. Super A grades. Light and heavy assorted. Write for details on livability guarantee that protacts you. Wa have the breeding, equipment and experience to produce champion chicks. Oldest hatchery In Georgia and first In state to bloodtesC Write today. BLUE RIBBON HATCHERY 215 Forsyth St, A W, Atlanta. Qa. WORLEYS’ LARGEST SELLER AT, St.Josepn GENUINE PURE ASPIRIN The Ablest One The winds and waves are al ways on the side of the ablest nav igators.—Gibbon. How Women in Their 40 v s Can Attract Men Ham’s good advice (or a woman during hsr ehanga (usually from 88 to 62), wl»*-*” e U appeal to _ tout hot flashes, loss at ! J£to£p i£ yon vv'hO - is dtay ipdls. it more irem nr, a m. hotp mo u a wood general syvtem tonic taka Lydia Vegetable Compound, made HaUs jw; -omews It helps Nature build helps give more 1 1 assist calming ._efty to ±ery nsrv, ten accompany d rORTH TRYING 1 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 GAS. You must clear tks bowels. Adlanks ta Just what you need became it arts on tbs stomach ail BOTH bowels. Adlsnks Is BOTH osrmlnstiTO and cathartic. Carmi- nstives that warm and sooths tha stommeh and expel GAS. Cathartics that quiekly and gently clear tha bowels of vnurts matter that hare caused GAS BIA)ATINQ. - months. AdWik* atones. Adlerika usually sets on the bowels S leas than two hours. .No waiting for onr- night relief. Adlerika does not gnpe, is net habit terming. Get ganuine Adlsnka today. Sold at oU drag stores LIOUID-T ABLSTS SALVS-NOSB DROPS SALVE relieves COLDS price 10c &25c RHEUMATISMS^ Control of Oyster Industry The federal government has Juris diction in ganltary matters, but state fishery authorities control the oyster iudu*try. In the Southern states oyiters are generally from public grounds. 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 flit cause.—Henry Fergus. Emu six Feet Is Height Outstanding among the natural freaks of Australia Is the rare white emu. NormaBy a gray-brown eolor. lbs emu la second only to tbs os trich In else among tbs birds of the | world, averaging six feet in height.