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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9, 1929. Not Printing Letter 1 May Cause Bad Luck Mr. Editor: ] am enclosing a letter whiih t , I hope you will do me the kind- s ness to print. I have had bad li luck recently in many ways and 1 1 felt that it might do good to 1 print the letter below, as I have j 1 had it in my possession a long tine. . L Yours truly, : c M. A. WHITTEN, r Newspapers throughout the United ' States are printing what is alleged 1 to l«- a letter written by Christ. j * if; this letter was an injunction v thai it should be published to the world by whoever found it together t with a statement that misfortune s an«t bad luck would follow the person t having possession of it in the event v that it was not given publicity. i Tnere was likewise a promise that e whoever may have a copy o? this let- e ter in their possession will prosper u it - rid be followed by good fortune r According to the history of the let- h ter it was written by Christ just s after his crucifixion, signed by the j Atijrel Gabriel ninety-niiu years \ afti r the Saviour's birth and pre- | u;tiably deposited by him under the f stone at the foot of the cross. j j Ok this stone apnea'ed the follow- ( inp "Blessed is he who shall tu>n J>l over." No one knew what the inscription 11 meruit, or seemed to have sufficient cure sity to investigate until the tern' was turned over by a little (I child and the letter which follows was t «ii.- • vered: j, "Whoever w.)iks on the Sab- s l»a** hall be cursed. 1 command I you to go to church and keep holy li the l ord's day, without any maim t a »f w >rk. You shall not be idle or t an- in ml your time in '■ de.-kiiig • V' ..' self in -uperflitio of costly ' ;.i'i ..ii 1 and vain drc.-sing. for I hav red is a day of rest. I will hav thi.t day kepi holy ami y >ur .-in 'I.;. be folgivt-ll you. V u will not brsik my command ant • • but obr-TVe and keep them, th-;. i-t-uiji' written by my hand and -! • • .-u fiom my mouth. Nou shall no! - nly go to church yourself, bti your man servant or maid ser • van - . Observe my words and learn my oinmaiidiiieuts. on shall finish your work every Sat'.rday at Six o'clo.-k in the after no« •. at which hour the preparation ;■>» :he Sabbath begins. I advise yoi to last five days in the year, be jrin".:ng on Good Friday and continu ing :he five days following in renieni beranee of the five bloody wounds I rer# "«••(I for you and mankind. "You shall love one another and can' ihcin that are not baptised to ( o;:,t to church and take the Holy Sat-rument, that is to say baptism, and then the supper of the l.orl iiii': he made a member thereof, and in MI doing I will give you long life any many blessings. Your land sha'l j be teplcnishcd and bring forth in abundance, and 1 will comfort yen in :he greatest temptation und sure ly hi that doeth to the contrary shall 1 be arsed. "I will also send hardness of the heai*. on them and especially on hardrned and empenitent believers. He '.hat hath given to the poor .-hall find it profitable. Remember to kee.» the Sabbath day, for the seventh day _ I - ~ - - j VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I ® '! Reduction 1 SALE .! 0 0 S NOW GOING 0 > • •$ > ()N AT ? THE UIG STOKi: £ 0 f c * f Shore! 0 9 / o 1 Mercantile Co. \ o o o Wholesale & Retail, o > F. E. SHORE, Mur, \ * £ ' KING, N. C. I if * 0 V >OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOO I have taken as a resting day unto myself. "And he that hath a copy of this letter written by my own hand ar.d spoken by my own mouth and keep eth it without publishing it ti others shall not prosper, but he that pub lisheth it to others shall be blessed by me and if their sins be many as the stars by night and if they truly believe they shall be pardoned, and they that believe not this writing and my commandments will have my plagues upon you and you will be consumed of your children, goods and cattle and all other worldly enjoy ments that I have given you. Do but once think of what 1 have suffir ed for you, if you do, it will be well for you in this world and in the world which is to come. "Whosoever shall have a copy of this letter in their house, nothing shall hurt them; neither pestilence, thunder nor lightning, and if any woman be in birth and put her trust in me she shall be delivered of her child. You shall hear no more of me except through the Holy Scripture until the day of judgment. All good ness and prosperity shall be in the house where a copy of this letter shall be found. Finished." The story goes that the little child who found it passed it to one who became converted to the Christian faith. He failed to have it published. He kept it, however, as mominto el' rhrist. And is passed down to differ ent generations of his family for more tha* one thousand years. During this period the family suf fered repeated misfortunes, moved to different counties until finally one of them came to America bringing the letter with them. They settled in Virginia then moved fuither sou»*.. still by misfortune when finally the last member, a daughter, approach'"! her death bed and' called a neighbor, and relating it.- history for more than a thousand years. The Thomp son woman began the attempt have it publi.-hed, and it appeared first in the ttome, ia.. Tribune on ! TRAINER OF GIRL GYMNASTS 1 [ SCOFFS AT FADDISTS' DIETS rw ntti wr • i mi wm linr- . V, ~ r> g G. H. Heineman, Physical Director of the Philadelphia Turngemeinde. By MADALIN MILLER WHEN a girl starts lite as an unusually frail child and theu develops into a chant- j pion gymtii.st there roust be some- | thing In lier story to interest every girl and woman. On this theory. 1 went to the gymnasium of the ' Philadelphia Turngemeinde, the largest gymnastic club in the Unit-! Ed States, and sought out Roberta Hani'k who has had just such a re- ! markable history. The first question I asked was ! how she hail managed the physical transformation thai had enabled j her to capture every major wom an's gymnastic championship at Churchill Downs. Kentucky, in ■ IHl'ii, and jo follow tli.it up by ni'i|iii:titig herself with distinction at tlie In'ernatiomsl tiyninastic Festival at Cologne. (ieiia.'tiy, las' similiter. In j. ply .-lie pointed to (11. II 11* - m.i 11.1 lie Till':! 'Pie imle's Physical li re lor. "Tinies 111 • in.iii who li:iilt ii|> inv !if;i'.:': and stnnuth," she said "llt il t• 1! you how he did it. A Sound Prescription Mr. ileiii"tnan »;i coaching on of Siii la.--i s of girl ymnasts, Inn he iook time off to !• II ui what I \\ a lilt i| 111 know. •• I'leiit y of .sleep, plenty oi cviei.-e and pli-lily of good, whole, omc fond—that was my prescription," lie as.and me. "I .suppose you made her stick t,i one of those terrible training i diets." I .-aid with a shudder. | "boiled potatoes and spinach and oilier tilings like that." Mr. Heineman Mulled at my ve heme in disgust and shook his head in ilt'.iial. "Koberia and all those girls you see out there." he said, poitiiii:g to his class, "eat jie-t such foods as every normal person «raves. They don't gorge them THE DANBURY REPORTER October 31st, 1891. It then appeared in the Dalton, Ga., Citizen, and Mrs. 1 Wortman, now living in Marion, Ind., I clipped it and kept in her possession I for many years without an effort to have it published. She was followed by misfortune which she attributed to her neglect in trying to have the letter published. Mrs. Ruby Crutchfield, of Trezaven', Tenn., is said to have had a copy of it and failed to have it published for three years and was followed by a varied lot of misfortune which she attributed to the fact of her neglect in this respect. Governor (). Max Gardner is making no idle gesture in his avowed efforts to serve the North Carolina farmer. His ad visory board is already at work on some of the problems to be solved. Try a Want Ad in the Reporter THE SOUTHERN PUNTER SEMI-MONTHLY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The Oldest Agricultural Journal i In America. 50 CENTS FOR ON K YEAR SI.OO FOR THREE YEARS 51.50 FOR FIVE YEARS Twice-A-Month OQQ QQQ These are not Follies girls, but a few of the members of one of the Turngemeinde gymnastic classes. i selves, but they certainly aren't ! victims of any freak diet. "It's my iirni conviction," Mr. I Heineman continued, "that you j can't build a strong and healthy ■ body on any diet that eliminates j or appreciably reduces the essen-1 l tial energizing foods. The physi ! cal condition of a great majority | of the girls who are struggling to | attain a boyish figure at any price iis proof enough of that. Their ! lack of stamina makes them sus eeptible to sickness and fatigue, 1 and it's a handicap to them in everything they do. "They deprive themselves of sugar or some of the other t arbo hydrates in an effort to cut down on their daily consumption of calories and what's the result? Take sugar is an example When they eliminate sugar and swot* they roll themselves of one of the most Valuable of all the sonic' nf human energy, 'and the joke . f ii is that sugar unci sweets are no more fattening than any one of a '. - 'o i nt ot!n r tiio-i . A Mere Man Speaks "If otr.t II would TOR",; their liie! itm I,ids I ill > 'l| Hot i .111 ' healthier and stronger. Inn a whole lot more utiracthe to look at. 1 don't know what's responsible for the present vogue of the exes siveh slender i,miniue ligiitc. lint speaking as a tin re man, my plat ! form is more curves and fewer angli s, and If you polled my own ! sex. I think you'd find tii.'t the great majority agree with me." Mr. Heineman is outspoken and positive iu hi;* condemnation of the fads that govern the diets of a large proportion of women, but then he has a right to be. He graduated from the Normal Col Another Still And Outfit Taken , ' Deputy Sheriffs" E. E. Shel- | ton, VV. S. George and W. A. Leake brought in another cop per outfit Monday. It. had a capacity of near 50 gallons, and was found near the Virginia line in the Hall settlement. About 'Joo gallons of beer and other barrels,, boxes, buckets and 5 gallon cans and other equipment was found. A gun shot was heard when officers approached supposed to have been a signal, hut no one was at the still. Two barrels were ready for use while the other t!wo were not quite ready for work. Save while you can and you'll not need when you can't. _______ R«. crta R-nck, A"n> r-'.s p imcr woman c.y Mt.-.st. 1 of i!ii' Ani> it- i;vns 'i«' I on .it 1111 i(i•:>!i • Ui. |.- ll" l! 1 oivil in p!iy i!ni;i. ,i! i . :n• 1- Mini his 1.1 : ii■!ll . ill !ii llIIlit:I!l l.iiii . i>t \ u ; K .i, nl liy hi> allilftii rh.i- l:.i» lit ii him tii spisili with out In ■ iiy on lii'iillh liuililinu' mill >i t \s living eviili'Mt-i of thi' M'unl in -s of his view-. hi Uiis I :.'i ii ni' mlii'i's i his chissi'-i in ml.jitimi tn Roberta Ifiiiiili. tin' uirl wliii.-h IiI•'. when sin" was MX years ohl, was despaired of hy her parents, ami who today is America's premier woman symnast. Praising the town ladies fori t.. ~ fw. ™* having the cemetery gleaned Cash tobacco seetf up, an exchange declares that Treated seed $l.OO per ountv. "the grave-yard looks most in- Untreated seed GO cents per viting." ounce. The best kind of tobacco grown in this section for a long WANTED—A cook, white or time. Send all orders to black, address H., care Danburv, j. R. BENNETT, Reporter. Jw 4dec4w Danburv, N. C. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO' I I ! Here Are Some t I I | Bargains In Farm ! 0 y f Lands==For Sale S 1 i ! Or Rent. I o £ 0 S o $ A I have one fittv acre farm near High Point, in 0 X o 0 high state of cultivation, very best tobacco land with V v good house and out-buildings, also two new tobaccj a a barns and pack house which I will either sell or rent. 6 0 I also have two farms situated near Ashboro near 0 the hard surface road leading to Pinehurst. N. C., £ q which are also good tobacco farms, one of which is in $ 0 0 0 a good state ot cultivation. The other has been lving 0 0 0 out for a few years. I will give the right man all he can make on this farm for a period of two years if he 0 0 Q will put it in .i good state of cultivation and 1": xupth • 0 0 0 0 buildings. There are over two hundred acres in this 0 0 farm, and one hundred and thirty-five in the other. V . 0 Theiv is a sawmill situated on this propertx and q 6 0 tin ret.>re is plentv of wood and slabs alivjuh cut fo : - 0 0 0 £ all fuel purposes and i iring tobaieo. X, All the above property is for rent or sale. 0 0 0 0 T. M. JARRELL, I 0 0 $ 119 Lindsay Street, £ 0 0 HIGH POINT, N. C. | ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo | We'll Put Your I | Model T Ford j o in good shape at low | 5 cost. I $ The Model T Ford is still a good car. y 0 More than eight million are in use and 0 1 many of them can he driven for two. $ o three and five years and even longer. 0 o Come in and see us about yours. A c £ small expenditure may put it in shape $ o for thousands of miles of additional 0 $ sen ice. x » * 0 0 6 $ 0 0 0 0 ! Mill ESSE i',l CO., lac. 1 0 > 0 0 SALES —LINCOLN - - fORDSOM—SERVICE | § Walnut Cove, N. C. i % (iEO. H. n i.TON. Pres. U. T. CHILTON. Tresis. X 1 l ?ooooooooooooooooocooooooooooooooooo PAGE THREE
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