ff'ren Had Last Laugh On Critical Councillors S:r Christopher Wren, builder of St. Paul's cathedral, and many other famous churches, was partjv responsible for the Town Hall of Windsor, in 1636, but the good councillors had misgivings about Ms work. They complained to him that the big hall had no pillars to support it. and despite Wren's assurances that it had been designed that way and was safe, demanded that supporting pillars be placed in position. Wren agreed to do so. and had f, ur pillars erected. But some years later it was discovered that the pillars came one inch short of reaching the ceiling. Negro Names The Negro possesses a remarka Me talent for choosing names foi twins. Dr. A. P. Hudson, in hi? tok "The Science of Naming Negro Babies," quotes some amusing examples. Bootjack and Nick rack, Maters and Taters (torna t ?es and potatoes), Gasoline and Kerosine, are typical. Negro schoolchildren must have a lot to bear from their fellow pu pi Is when they are burdened with names such as Petty Larceny, I F lthy M'Nasty, Big Apple, Sun- j day May the Ninth! Biblical names are popular among Ne uroes, as well as whole Biblical quotations. "I will arise and go unto my Father" seems rather a mouthful. So, too, does "Seven times shalt thou walk around Jericho." In this case the small bearer of the name was called Jerry for short. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is a tonic which has been helping women ! of all ages for nearly 70 years. Adv. j Revealing Death Men may live fools, but fools ; they cannot die.?Young. Relief At Last | For Your Cough Crcomulslon relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm. Increase sprr#?tion nnH nirf notnro to I soothe and heal raw, tender, Inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding that you are to like the way It quickly allays the cough or you arc to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Another's Secret I may give to one I love, but the secret of my friend is not mine to give.?Philip Sidney. flRVHHHH Put Just "2 drops" In S^hl-IiHlll'Beacl* nostril for quick Hn i^'IAr#&58SK PENETROdwm Riches Trickle Away Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.? franklin. Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels, and Also Pepsin-ize Stomach! When constipation brings on acid indigestion, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, so'ir taste, and bad breath, your stomach is probably loaded up with certain 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, lake Dr. Caldwell's Laxative, because its Svriir* t-i.? ----- ? * ---i- c|?ui you gain max wonderful stomach-relief, while the Laxative Senna moves your bowels. Tests prove the Power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of undigested protein food which may linger ?n your stomach, to cause belching, gastric acidity and nausea. This is how pepsinizing 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 finicky children love to taste this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell's Laxative?Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your druggist today 1 Your Reputation No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.?Benti ley. ? B THE CHEROKEE SC UtiydQU ADVENTURERS' HEADLINES FROM TH OF PEOPLE LIKE YOl "The Madman W Hello everybody: You know they say troubles just another way of saying that C content with giving you just one si how true that is, but it certainly wc of Hattie Rohr of Chicago. Hattie's big bout with Old Ladj ter of 1917. There was trouble en out having the old girl with the t war was on and the influenza epid try. Hattie, in those days, was ju! ing with her mother and dad and ? ' " fcwccii ^iare ana uoage City, Iowa McLaughlin. The flu epidemic struck the ary. It brought down Hattie's d? that left Hattie and her mother that big farm. It was one of 1 seemed to go wrong. Mother hai call the doctor. Dad and the t While they were waiting for the rang. It was the school teacher, down Hattie to go to the schoolhouse and po: no school that day. Already tired from her morn more than a mile through the snow two small children shivering in thi to open, and took them to her hor come and get them. And no soone his pair of kids than Hattie heard Stranger Comes A strange man was out front. He from Clare, and wanted to know if I Hattie and her mother asked him in an him up. While he was drinking his CfflM "She was out of her chair and da out quickly she grabbed the knife!" bread, Hattie and her mother went on 1 happened until he had finished eating got up and walked over to the stove. It was such an unusual movement He backed up against the stove as if one of his hands slide into his pocket ai There was a pot of beans boiling by his body, the stranger's band c tents of the bottle into the pot of Her mother hadn'd seen it. but Hatt ihat she could see every move he mai An older person might have said n trouble. That mother and child were d stairs. But kids of Hattie's age don't ! let out a scream and then, impulsively knocked the bottle from the man's ha Out Comes a Long, Tl Her mother turned to see what wa the stranger reached inside his coat knife, and slashed Hattie across the li long deep cut. Dazed at the turn i away, staring at the man. The man i at Hattie. Her mother was staring at 1 was a deathly silence. The man made no other move?sai< were too frightened to speak. They beg mad. Hattie sat down, look off a stocl The man stood looking, first at her, until she was finished tying up her t across the room to where her mother v lyzed with fright, AND RAISED THE And again Kattie acted impulsive! her chair and darting across the rc grabbed the knife! The man gave the knife a quick hand, cutting it clear to the bone at ing out in pain, she grabbed at he The madman shoved her away, am For another moment Hattie stood da sat on her chest and began choking he came over Hattie. Before, she had b she became furious. A red mist seem grabbed up a piece of wood from the pi] her head and brought it down, as hare head. The man rolled over and lay ! bleeding and her mother tied it up I got ropes and tied the maniac's ham well?then Hattie keeled over in a When she came to, the doctor had t tip Hattie's wounds and she had never I tor also took the madman back to t< police. They found out later that he down in the South, where he had been And when they analyzed that pot of that bottle, it war found that they wer? OUT. MURPHY. N. C.. THURSDAY. f> CLUB Jp>v| E LIVES I R S E L F I ith the Bottle" never come singly?which is )ld Lady Adventure is never 5ck on the jaw. I don't know >rked out that way in the case r Adventure came in the winough in the world then, withhrill bag on your neck. The pmio U/nc ctlionni?-?r? V-??-? ? ..v>w kilC Ull" j 3t an eleven-year-old girl, livI three sisters on a farm be. Her name then was Hattie McLaughlin family in Januid and her three sisters, and to do all the chores around those days when everything i just come from upstairs to hree sick girls were worse, doctor the party-line phone with the flu hersell, who wanted st a notice saying there would be ing's work. Hattie struggled to post that notice. She found s cold, waiting for the school tie and phoned their father to r had he come and gone with another knock on the door. In for Tea. said he was a telephone lineman le could come in end get warm, d gave him a cup of tea to warm tea and eating a piece of corn rting across the room. Reaching with their work. Nothing unusual and drinking. Then the stranger that Hattie stopped to watch him. to warm himself, but Hattie saw nd come out holding a tiny bottle, on the stove. Slowly, shielded rept up and emptied the conbeans ! ie was standing in such a position de. She was startled?frightened, othing, for fear of precipitating efenseless, with dad ill in bed upstop to think of those things. She , she darted across the room and nd. nin-Bladed Knife. s the matter. At the same time , pulled out a long, thin-bladea sgs. Blood began to flow from a affairs had taken, Hattie backed stood, knife in hand, staring back >oth of them. For a minute there i nothing. Hattie and her mother ;an to realize the fellow was stark king and tied it about her wound, then at her mother. He waited deeding leg, and then he walked ras standing, breathless and paraKNIFE. y. In an instant she was out of >om. Reaching out quickly, rhe pull. It came out ol Hattie's the base of the thumb. Cry:r wrist with her other hand. 1 knocked her mother down. zed. The man fell on her mother, r. And at last, a sudden change een frightened?trembling. Now ed to drop before her eyes. She le beside the stove, raised it over I as she could, on the madman's still. Hattie's wrist teas still sightly to stop the flow. They is behind his back and then? dead faint. seen to the house. He had sewed mown a thing about it. The doc>wn and turned him over to the had escaped from an institution put for murder. beans into which he had emptied ! poisoned! IOVEMBER 9. 1939 AROUND th. HOUSEffi Peeling Squash.?Squash may be easily peeled if it is first put into the oven and thoroughly warmed. Variety in Fruits.?If your family likes variety, serve stewed prunes, apricots, fresh berries, applesauce, fruit juices and fresh fruits. A whole week can be cov- j ered without repetition. Removing Candle Grease.?To remove candle grease from black suede shoes, take a piece of brown paper, cover the candle grease Climb to tlie Attic Brought Possibilities By RUTH WYETH SPEARS *~PHE bride came home, but not I -* to weep on Mother's shoulder. "There are too many bare spots in our house/' she said; "and I want to rummage in your attic." "You are welcome," replied Mother, "but you will find no antiques? nothing there but junk." A golden oak dresser; a fish bowl; an old portier; a chromo f 1?^ CURTAIN ROD ' I J l;';"VR'-6Fj I 1 C-TURN EDGES TO RIGHT SIDE in a wide gold frame; and an old piano stool; were carted away. J Varnish remover and plain | drawer pulls transformed the dresser into a good-looking chest of drawers. A glazier put a mirror in the oval gold frame. Those are dusky pink branches in the fish-bowl?lovely against the rosered brocade hanging. The diagram shows how the hanging was made from a part of the portier. The edges were finished with dull gold colored braid and fringe; and it hung with matching cord, tassels and an ordinary curtain rod. What became of the stool and the mirror will be told next week. 0 NOTE: Readers who are now using Sewing Books No. 1. 2 and 3 ' will be happy to learn that No. 4 is ready for mailing; as well as the 10 cent editions of No. 1, 2 and 3. Mrs. Spears has just made quilt block patterns for three designs selected from her favorite Early American quilts. You may have these patterns FREE with your order for four books. Price of books?10 cents each postpaid. Set of three quilt block patterns without books?10 cents. Send orders to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New York. r> >. i. j>on t let winter ca If you want a winter oil that will 1 low temperature, yet be sturdy enc up under hard driving ... if you v exceptional purity, to gwe your c possible protection against sludge, corrosion ... then drive your car ar nearest Quaker State dealer and ... change now to Acid-I Quaker State Motor Quaker State Oil Refining Corp., Oil r?% Items of Interest P^Hf to the Housewife with it, then hold a warm iron over it. The spot will soon be absorbed. For Ink Stains.?Immerse an ink-stained handkerchief in milk immediately after it has been stained, allow it to soak and the ink will disappear. Removing Scorch.?To remove scorch from linen place between two dampened Turkish towels and press with a hot iron. The scorch stains will go into the towel and can be easily washed out. NIGHT COUGHS D? COLDS Need Mora Than "Salva" Tr? Quickly Relieve DISTRESS 1 Before you go to bed rub your throat, chest 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. Used by millions for over 30 years! 3 strengths: Regular. Children's (mild) and Extra Strong, 40*. Hospital Size, $3.00. fcgjf Seek Virtues It is a much shallower and more ignoolc thing to detect faults than to discern virtues.?Carlyle. As We Think There's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.? Shakespeare. -?uc? ?o-A GO MUCH FAJiTMU GOOD O^IUO Bft. r jjm toh you unprepared