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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1910 Strange Facts f The ‘Soul Window’ t ' Who’s a Hog? I Army Aboard! In Switzerland, the bedrooms ot many houses still contain a “soul window,” or a miniature window near the ceiling, which is sup posed to serve as a special exit tor the soul at the time of death. Seventy-Five Years Ago The Whole World W This Month as in Mourning for America s Fir: 5t Martyred President Unlike such animals as dogs, monkeys and horses, hogs do not overeat when having access to large quantities of food. When oysters are shucked, or removed from their shells, on a large scale, the opening operation is made easier by first dipping them in a harmless, anesthetizing solution, which relaxes their shell closing muscles. The largest number of persons ever carried on a ship were the 14,426 American army officers, men, nurses and crew members who arrived in New York from Brest on April 2, 1919, aboard the Leviathan. On the trip 320 cooks working in three eight-hour shifts managed to prepare only two meals a day.—Collier’s. Abe’s Firstborn A first child, a son, was bom to tall Abe Lincoln and his small wife, Mary, and congratulations poured in on them. A friend met the proud father on the street one day and added his congratula tions to the rest. “Thanks,” grinned Abe—then continued, “but I was scared.” “Why?” asked his friend in surprise. “Scared about what?” “Well,” Lincoln explained, “I was afraid it might have one leg like Mary’s and one like mine!” NISHT 5COLDS Need More Than “Salve” To Quickly Relieve DISTRESS! Before you go to bed rub your throat, ehest and back with warming, soothing Musterole. You get such QUICK relief because Musterole is MORE than ‘‘just a salve." It’s a marvelous stimulating “counter-irritant” which helps break up local congestion and pain due to colds. Its soothing vapors ease breathing. 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IN SPRINGFIELD—Outside the old Globe tavern, where Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd spent their honeymoon, members of the martyred President’s cabinet and other dignitaries awaited the arrival of the funeral train in Lincoln’s home town. “STOP THAT MAN!”—John Wilkes Booth flees across the stage of Ford’s theater in Washington after firing the shot which ended the life of Abraham Lincoln. (From a drawing in Harper’s Weekly, April 29, 1865.) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) I T IS the evening of April 14, 1865—Good Friday. On the stage of Ford’s theater in Washington the fa mous actress, Laura Keene, is playing in a delightful comedy, “Our American Cousin.” Join ing in the laughter that sweeps through the audience from time to time is a gaunt, sad-faced man sitting at ease in a high- backed, satin-upholstered rock ing chair in an upper stage box. Abraham Lincoln is forgetting for a few minutes the crushing responsibilities which he, as Chief Executive of a nation torn asunder in civil war, has been bearing for four long years. The third act of the play be gins. The President leans over to whisper something to Mrs. Lincolnwho sits beside him. Nei ther the Lincolns nor Maj. Har ry R. Rathbone and a Miss Har ris, who accompanied them to the theater, notice that a dark- moustached young man has slipped through the door at the rear of the box and is now standing behind the President. The next moment there is the muffled sound of a shot. It is un noticed by the players on the stage or the audience, still chuckling over the last funny line they have heard. But the President’s head drops for ward on his breast. Startled, Major Rathbone looks around. Through the smoke he sees the dark young man with a pistol in his hand and hears him mutter something which sounds like “Free dom!” The major leaps to his feet and grapples with the intruder, who slashes at him with a knife, tears loose from the officer’s grasp and springs to the front of the box. As he vaults over the railing, his spur catches in an American flag which drapes the front of the box. He drops heavily to the stage with one leg doubled under him, then scrambles to his feet. With blood streaming from his wounded arms, Rathbone rushes to the front of the box. “Stop that man! Stop him!” he shouts. “The President has been shot!” But everyone is too stunned to move for a moment. The young man, waving aloft the bloody knife, drags himself across the stage and disappears in the wings. But be fore he does so, the startled actors recognize in the white face and the black eyes blazing with fanatical hatred the familiar features of one of their own profession — John Wilkes Booth. All this has taken place in less time than it takes to tell it. The next moment Ford’s theater is a pandemonium of screaming women and shouting men, shoving, push ing, breaking chairs, crashing through railings and trampling upon each other as they surge toward the stage or try to climb up to the box where the moaning Mrs. Lincoln is supporting her stricken husband and Major Rathbone is trying vainly to open the door which the assassin had barred from the inside. Now the soldiers of the Presi dent’s guard come bursting into the theater and with fixed bayonets and drawn pistols they charge the mill ing crowd. Their hoarse shouts of “Clear out! Clear out, you sons of hell!” rise above the tumult as they drive the half-crazed audience out of the theater. Meanwhile Rathbone has succeed ed in unbarring the door to the box and several people, among them a surgeon, rush in. They see the tall form of the President slumped for ward in his chair, his sad eyes closed, never to open again. Some one brings a shutter, torn from a building near by, and they lay his gaunt form upon it. They carry him out of the theater to the house of Charles Peterson across the street. / Ford’s theater is empty, deserted now. Its curtain has been rung down upon the comedy, “Our Amer ican Cousin”—and upon one of the greatest tragedies in American his tory. * Death at 7:22 A. M. The next morning Washington newspapers carried this story: “The body of President Lincoln, who died from an assassin’s bullet at 7:22 o’clock this morning, was removed from the Peterson resi dence opposite Ford’s theater to the executive mansion in a hearse and wrapped in the American flag. Jt was escorted by a small squad of cavalry and by Gen. Augur and oth er military officials on foot. A dense crowd accompanied the remains to the White House, where a military guard excluded the people, allowing none but persons of the household and personal friends of the deceased to enter. Gen. Grant arrived here at 2 o’clock in a special train from Philadelphia. His presence tends somewhat to allay the excitement. The last lines penned by Mr. Lincoln were written on a card about 8:15 p. m., while seated in his carriage in front of the White House just be fore he started for the theater. They were addressed to the Hon. George Ashmun and were as follows: ‘Allow Mr. Sherman and friends to come to me at 9 a. m. tomorrow. ‘A. Lincoln.’ ” Leaf through the pages of James G. Blaine’s “Twenty Years in Con gress,” published in 1886, and read there this description of the events which followed: “The remains of the late Presi dent lay in state at the executive mansion for four days. The entire city seemed as a house of mourn ing. The martial music which had been resounding in glad celebration of the national triumph had ceased; public edifice and private mansion were alike draped with the insignia of grief. “Funeral services, conducted by the leading clergymen of the city, were held in the east room on Wed nesday, the 19th of April. Amid the solemn tolling of church bells, and the still more solemn thundering of minute guns from the vast line of fortifications which had protected Washington, the body, escorted by an imposing military and civic pro cession, was transferred to the ro tunda of the Capitol. “The day was observed through out the Union as one of fasting and prayer. Services in the churches throughout the land were held in unison with the services at the exec utive mansion, and were everywhere attended with exhibition of profound personal grief. The South in Sorrow. “In all the cities of Canada busi ness was suspended, public meet ings of condolence with a kindred people were held, and prayers were read in the churches. “Throughout the Confederate states, where war had ceased but peace had not yet come, the people joined in significant expressions of sorrow over the death of him whose very name they had been taught to execrate. “Early in the morning of the 21st the body was removed from the capitol and placed on the funeral car which was to transport it to its final resting place in Illinois. The remains of a little son who had died three years before were taken from their burial place in Georgetown and borne with those of his father for final sepulture in the stately mau soleum which the public mind had already decreed to the illustrious martyr. The train which moved from the national capital was attended on its course by extraordinary mani festations of grief on the part of the people.” As for the story of that sorrow ful journey westward, no one has ever told it better than Carl Sand burg, poet and Lincoln biographer. The closing words of his master piece “Abraham Lincoln: The War Years,” (published this year by Harcourt, Brace and company)— words whose stark simplicity remind one of such writings as the Gettys burg Address—are these: “There was a funeral. “It took long to pass its many given points. “Many millions of people saw it . . . “The line of march ran seventeen hundred miles. “Yes, there was a funeraL “From his White House in Wash ington—where it began—they car ried his coffin, and followed it nights and days for twelve days . . . “Bells tolling, bells sobbing the requiem, the salute guns, cannon rumbling their inarticulate thunder. “To Springfield, Illinois, the old home town, the Sangamon nearby, the New Salem hilltop nearby, for the final rest of the cherished dust. “And the night came with great quiet. “And there was rest. “The prairie years, the war years, were over.” ELMER SOUNDS A CALL “I don’t know no more than no body else who will be the candi dates for President this winter,” de clared Elmer Twitchell today, “but I would personally go for a sour- puss.” “A sourpuss?” the reporter asked, a little puzzled. “Yes, sir,” snapped Elmer, “a sourpuss. A deadpan candidate with out a smile in his system. A fellow who can’t photo graph or screen well and who knows it. I am fed up with the old personality stuff in all public of fices, and what is more I think a candidate with a severe mug and a what’s-there-to-grin-over attitude might sweep the country.” “You don’t mean that, Elmer,” the reporter argued. “Everybody likes a radiant personality; every body reacts to charm.” “Yeah,” admitted Elmer, “and I’m for it, too, up to a point. But I think the personality theme has reached the point where the public is ripe for a swing the other way. This may be a sourpuss year.” Mr. Twitchell seemed quite seri ous about it. • • * “I like a genial, warm personali ty as well as the next man,” he con tinued. “I am a sucker for charm, like the rest of the American pub lic. Ordinarily I will vote for a man who screens well over a candi date who has nothing but efficiency to recommend him. Nine times out of ten I will go for the candidate with an appealing radio voice over the fellow for whom nothing can be said except that he would make a good President. But I now want a sourpuss. And for once I can be stampeded by a candidate whose voice on the air sounds like some body filing a saw.” “It’s a very strange argument you are making, Mr. Twitchell,” the re porter put in. “A smile and a radio voice are generally considered im portant assets in any campaign.” “That’s what you think,” barked Elmer. “I think there’s a reaction. And it gives me a pain in the blouse to observe all the candidates on all sides grinning from ear to ear, trying to look like personality - plus boys on the screen and trying to register as the Voice of the Year on the radio. 1 tell you that if I was a candidate for public office today I would have my picture taken only when I looked like I was having an argument with a taxicab driver, and I would open all my radio speeches with, ‘Well, folks, I am a punk on the radio; I don’t intend to bother acquiring a technique. All I expect to do is to quote facts and figures in a dull voice.’ This alone would make me a sensation.” • * * “You wouldn’t get to first base as a candidate for inspector of manhole covers," the reporter insisted. “Maybe not,” said Elmer, “but I still think otherwise. And I hope I am right, because no country can stand government by personality and microphone charm indefinitely. Ultimately a sourpuss is necessary medicine. In fact, I am busy on the idea. I have already started or ganizing the Sourpuss for Presi dent Clubs. No candidate with charm can even get close to us.” America’s outstanding inven tors were honored at a big ban quet the other night. But no body has yet loomed up who can devise a paper napkin that will sta£ on the knees at least through the soup course. • • • UNCHANGED She used to be in the pony ballet, i Her stage life had that source; She now is a star in the talkies . . . 1 But she still is a little hoarse. Alma O’Neil. • • • Admiral Byrd says the South Pole has shifted. Maybe both the Republicans and Democrats can get something in their plat forms promising to get it back. • * • Henry Ford has perfected a sys tem for continuous metal pouring, making it possible to “pour” out Ford cars from hot metal. Flivvers will seemingly come out of spouts or faucets in great gushes. You open the plug and—presto!—out comes a sedan. May Henry pour a car that will have the battery in the i same place it was last year. * • * Arthur Boran wants to know how about a movie of the world’s most annoying dictators to be called “Apes of Wrath”? IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for April 14 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. HOSE A TELLS OF GOD’S FORGIVING LOVE LESSON TEXT—Hosea 6:1-7; l«:4-9. GOLDEN TEXT—If we confess our sins, he Is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous ness.—1 John 1:9 God loves sinners! This is the message of the BiNe. God hates sin, but He loves sinners and is eager that they should repent and receive His forgiveness. God even loves the backslider, the one who has been in fellowship with Him, tasted the joys of the eternal prom ised land and then turned back to the fleshpots of the world. This is the special message of the book of Hosea, for he deals with a backslid ing and rebellious Israel, so deter mined to turn against God’s love that they are described in 11:7 (R. V.) as being “bent on backsliding.” Israel failed to heed God’s warn ing, did not respond to His loving call, and went on to judgment. May none of us be so foolish and stubborn. God is now calling sin ners in love and compassion, doing everything in His power to lead them to repentance and spiritual healing. “Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts” (Ps, 95:7, 8). I. God Calling Sinners (6:1, 2). The great loving heart of God longs after wayward men. Though they have in deliberate unbelief turned from Him, yet He sends His messenger to bring them His gra cious invitation. No more beautiful word can be spoken than “Come.” It speaks of an open door, of a for giving spirit, of a desire for renewed fellowship. Come, O sinner, and meet the Saviour. He it is who by both life and death has revealed the fullness of God’s love to you. In Him you will find entrance into eternal life and joy. He says, “I am the door, by me if any man enter in he shall be saved” (John 10:9). Observe also the word “return.” The invitation from God is not only to those who have never known Him, but also to the backslider. How many miserably unhappy backslid den Christians there are in the world! Friend, if you are one of them, this invitation is especially for you! II. God’s Dealings With Sinners (6:3-7). Our Lord is both compassionate and faithful in His dealings with sinners. He will win them with love and tenderness if they permit Him to do so, but if necessary He can also use the rod of punishment or the storm of unpleasant circum stances to drive them to Him. Re member that both the tenderness and the severity of God are expres sions of His love. With Israel God wanted fo come as the gentle, reviving rain from heaven (v. 3), but because of their unrepentant attitude (v. 4) He had to come forth as One who hews down and destroys (v. 5). Even in thus breaking down and destroying He is only preparing to rebuild. As the surgeon must first hurt in order to heal, God must sometimes cut deep ly in order to remove the blight of sin. These lines will probably be read by many who have wondered at the dealings of God with them. Perhaps they have been inclined to condemn Him as being unkind or severe. Let them be assured that God is love and that back of all of His dealings with men there is His tender pur pose to bring them unto Himself for salvation or for blessing. III. God Healing Sinners (14:4-9). When sinners come to Him with words of repentance (r4:l) God is ready to meet them and to heal all of their sins and backslidings. Ob serve that not only will He heal their past sins, but will cause their pres ent position to be such that He may “love them freely” (v. 4), and then their future will be one of great glory. God is infinitely gracious and pours out His love without measure upon the sinner who re turns to Him. Verses 5 to 8 give a beautiful pic ture of God’s blessings on the life of the regenerated man. The lily (v. 5) speaks of stately royal beauty. Lebanon (v. 5) is strength and sta bility, even as the great cedars of Lebanon were treasured for their strength. The spreading branches (v. 6) tell of expansion and growth. The olive tree (v. 6), the com and the 4ine (v. 7), all speak of fruitful ness and usefulness. The smell of Lebanon (v. 6) is the smell of cedar and bespeaks a life so fragrant that it spreads around it the “sweet savor of Christ" (II Cor. 2:15). The ever green fir tree (v. 8) speaks of con stant freshness and beauty. God has all these things in mind for every Christian, that is, for ev ery sinner who will repent and turn to Him through Christ, and for every backslider who will return to Him today. Walk in Love Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us.—Ephesians 5:2. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT FOR SALE: Bright iron and iron mixed peas $1.50 per bushel here. A. N. GARBER COTTON CO.. WILLIS TON. S. C. BABY CHICKS cV ASSOvrTED heavies SOSO Crippleal NoCulla! We Guarantee Lire Delivery. W* Pay Pottage. ATLAS CHICK CO- St. Louis. Mo. PHOTOGRAPHY FILMS AMY Size KOLL. S DM 8 EXPOSURES-WOK GLOSS PRUfTS-POSTAGE PAID SKYLAND STUDIOS, "Lnd tf Tht Shf Thus/urr " 1 ASHEVILLE. NX. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Never run the vacuum cleaner over loose tacks or other metal objects on the floor. They may puncture or cut the dust bag. • • • Try this fruit sauce on your favorite ice cream. Melt a cupful of jam or jelly in a double boiler. Add a fourth of a cup of orange juice. Serve the sauce warm. • • • After cooking carrots until ten der put them through the ricer, and season and beat as one does mashed potatoes. Even those who refuse to like carrots cannot re sist them thus prepared. * * * Corduroy garments should be washed in mild soapsuds and rinsed thoroughly in warm water before being hung up to dry. * * #* When preparing oranges for a dessert, pour boiling water over them and let them stand five min utes. This will make them much easier to peel. i • • • Do not soak flannels; it hardens them. Don’t boil them; it shrinks them. Wash and dry quickly. Shake before washing, shake after washing and before hanging on the line. * • * A whole egg beaten into fresh- squeezed orange juice and dusted with nutmeg makes a nourishing drink for convalescents. * * * Soaking dough-encrnsted bowls and dishes in cold water before washing them in hot, soapy water makes the task easier. * * * To remove brown marks from china put the articles in a sauce pan with cold water and a lump of soda. Put the pan on the stove and let it boil for 15 minutes. Then rinse the china well and you will find that the marks have dis appeared. * Pull the Trigger on lazy Bowels, and Also Pepsin-ize Stomach! When constipation brings on add indi gestion, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste, and bad breath, your stomach is probably loaded up with cer tain undigested food and your bowels don’t move. So you need both Pepsin to help break up fast that rich undigested food in your stomach, and Laxative Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be sure your laxative also contains Pepsin. Take Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative, because its Syrup Pepsin helps you gain that won- derfulstomachcomfort, while the Laxative Senna moves your bowels. Tests prove the power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of undigested protein food which may linger in your stomach, to cause belching, gastric acidity and nausea. This is how pepsin- izing your stomach helps relieve it of such distress. At the same time this medicine wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your bowels to relieve your constipation. So see how much better you feel by taking the laxative that also puts Pepsin to work on that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin icky children love to taste this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell’s Lax ative-Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your druggist today! WNU—7 15—40 Oneness of Spirit What attracts men to one an other is not a common point of view but a consanguinity of spirit. —Marcel Proust. 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