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LEGEND OF “SEVEN SLEEPERS'
Syrian Origin, the Story Has Ab
ways Been Widely Current in
Eastern Countries.
The quotation from Dickens' Christ
mas Carol, abotit the “other six” sleep
ers, Is a playful reference to the
• legend of “The Seven Sleepers of
Ephesus." The legend goes back to
the time of the persecution of the
Christians during the reign of tha
Koman emperor Decius. According to
the story seven Christians fled from
• Ephesus in Asia Minor in the year 250
or 251, and hid in a cave. There they
were discovered, and their persecutors
walled up the entrance in order to
starve them to deutn. The seven fell
into a sleep in' which they lay for
nearly 200 years, for it was not until
the reign of Emperor Theodosius II
(447) that they awoke, believing that
they had slept but a single night.
One of the seven went into the city
to buy provisions, and he was amazed
to see crosses on the churches and
other buildings, for while they had
been asleep Christianity bad made
great progress.
Offering a coin of the time of the
Emperor Decius in a baker's shop, he
was arrested, his startling story not
being believed until he guided the citi
zens to the cavern where he had left
his \V>mrades. The emperor heard
>m their lips enough to convince him
the life beyond the grave, where
upon they sank again to sleep till the
resurrection. This legend is of Syrian
origin—it is widely current in the
East, and was adopted by Mohammed,
who even admits the Seven Sleepers’
dog Kitmer, into paradise. In some
parts of the world the festival of the
Seven Sleepers is held on June 27.
The names usually given to the Seven
Sleepers are: Maximianus, Malchus,
Martininanus, Dionysius, Joannes,
Seraplon and Coustantius.
Egyptian Worship of the Sun.
The Egyptians were, early In their
history (about 4000 B. C.), attracted
by this flight of the sun. They evolved
their religion on the thesis that life
was given by the sun. It was the heat
that he gave that caused all things to
grow, and lie gave to man warmth and
comfort. So they created the god of
the sun, and called him Ra-Harachte.
In one of the earliest cities, built on
the east side of the Nile, and a little
to the north of modern Cairo, they
erected .hi* first tetiipJe. The city was
called On. later named by the Greeks
Heliopolis, the City of the Sun. Here
the Egyptians established the priest
hood of Ra, a sect that became famous
its knowledge of the occult
sciences, the practice of magic, and
the lavs of medicine and astrology. It
was with them the youthful Moses
'Fas brought up, and it wa9 by the
mt-t he had mastered in the priesthood
of On tlwit enabled him later to put
into practice his magic before Pharaoh,
which finally led to the liberation of
' the Israelites.
He Signed with an ‘‘X."
An unusual suit, involving the use
of a cross-mark as a signature, was
tried at Atlantic City, N. J., before
Judge Ingersoll. The action was
brought by tbe estate of Michael Quinn
against Mrs. Mary Elecry for $l5O for
rent for an apartment, and Mi’s. Henry
displayed receipts for the money.
Quinn, when living, was unable to
write, it was testified, and was In the
habit of signing papers with a cross
mark.
The estate averred that the cross
marks on the receipts were not made
by the same person as marked the
lease. The handwriting expert from
Philadelphia testified that the cross
marks on both were made by the same
person and were therefore authentic.
Judge Ingersoll gave Judgment for
Mrs. Henry.
China's Metal Imports.
The value of China’s metal imports
was $76,931,031 in 1919, as compared
with $21,619,174 in 1913. The advance
in value coincides with an equal ad
vance in quantity. Copper ingots
were imported in very much larget
quantities than ever before and the
value was more than 100 times as
Areat as in 1913. The copper import,
ed is used almost exclusively by the
mints. Manufactured iron shows con
siderable gains. There was a large
increase in the importations of tin lq
slabs. This Is a product of tfi*|
Kwangsi mines, and is reimported
from Hong Kong after having been
exported there from China. . I
Hard Times.
“Elderly married men have a pretty
hard time of it. Their wives care fot
them no longer, and pretty girls ac.
tually despise them.”
The speaker was George Ade. Ha
went on:
"In the lounge of a fashionable res
taurant I overheard one night a low
voiced conversation between an elderly
married man and his wife.
‘Bill,’ the wife hissed, ‘I don't like
the way you looked at that girl in the
outrageous yellow gown.’
" ‘Wen,’ said Bill savagely, ‘she
didn’t, either.’"
Builds Rainbow Bank,
A moirmnent to the persistence ol
the pioneer spirit is a bank building
In northern Sooth Dakota, a unique
structure, its owners are sure. It is
m.e entirely of rock from the fields
prairies roundabout. But the
startling part of the story is that the
work of preparing these stones was
done by one mason, unassisted. Fot
almos? a year he tolled, splitting the
glacial boulders with iron wedges tc
reveal their rich color—pink, red, pur
pie, brown, yellow and gray.
THE GIRL ON THE JOB
How to Succeed —How to Get
Ahead—How to Make Good
By JESSIE ROBERTS
AFTERNOON HEADACHE
SOMEWHERE between three and
four-thirty many a girl develops a
headache ut her work, aud takes that
headache home with her. There are
several reasons why this afternoon
headache comes on, and if you are
troubled with it, you want to ask your
self a few questions and look closely
into your daily routine.
Perhaps you have a way of getting
up too late to give yourself the nec
essary time for your bath and dress
ing and breakfast. You should have
a good breakfast, with cereal and an
egg, for you have much work between
breakfast and lunch, and dinner was
a long while ago. And you ought to
eat slowly.
Or perhaps you don’t eat the right
sort of lunch. An eclair and a cup
of coffee or chocolate won’t do. You
are bound to develop a fine headache
on that sort of diet. You don’t need
a heavy lunch, but it must be nour
ishing. A bowl of toast and milk and
a baked apple with cream will give
you the sort of food you can work
on.
If your food Is all right, possibly
you are working in a badly ventilated
office. This is almost sure to bring on
headache and lassitude. If you can
not have the window open enough to
insure good air, you can probably man
age to get out by an open window two
or three times during the day, and
there take a half dozen or more deep,
full breaths.
Sometimes the pain is caused by eye
trouble, and then of course you must
ask the advice of an oculist.
Sometimes it comes from rushing
too much at the beginning of the day.
Don’t try to do all the work there is
in the first portion of the morning.
You can’t use up all your steam at tbc
flrst take-off and hope to keep it, too.
Often a brisk walk of half an hour
during the lunch hour will prove a
complete cure.
Try to find out what it is that gives
you your headache, and then go for
it with vigor. You can almost cer
tainly cure it.
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O
HolH?nsCo jßook
I know not where in all this world Pi
find
Another halt so precious or so dear,
Or one whose love would hold so firm and
kind
Throughout the changing fortunes of
each year.
In all my life I cannot hope to pay
That priceless debt of faithful loyalty?
I ask no sweeter bondage than to stay
A debtor to her precious love for me.
For It I’d yield the honor men confer;
For It I’d give all wealth and eminence;
And all I have I humbly offer her—
My deepest love and truest reverence.
I know none other I could so enshrine
Within my heart, save her—that mother
mine. —Mildred E. Little.
SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS.
TO SERVE three attractive meals
daily for seven days in the week,
house mother must plan ahead sev
eral days to avoid monotony. The
recipes below are but suggestive of
what one may prepare and have va
riety:
Chicken au Lait.
To prepare this, take a five
pound fowl, one quart of milk, one
small onion, one tablespoonful of flour,
one egg, one stalk of celery, one-half
a bay leaf, four tablespoonfuls of but
ter, one teaspoonful of salt, one-half
a teaspoonful of pepper and one-half
cupful of cream. Put the milk, hay
leaf, celery and onion Into the milk
and let It simmer for twenty minutes,
then remove the seasoning vegetables.
Add salt, pepper and two tablespoon
fuls of butter; let stand where it will
keep hot Prepare the fowl for roast
ing and stuff It. Brush with butter
and dredge with flour, then place in a
deep pan and brown well in a brisk
oven. When nicely browned pour over
the milk, cover the pan and cook
slowly until the fowl Is tender. Re
move the fowl, strain the liquor and
thicken with a tablespoonful of flour.
Beat the egg, add It with the cream,
very slowly, to the strained gravy.
Heat very carefully hut do not boil.
Serve the gravy with the fowl.
Ginger Cookies.
Take one-half cupful each of New
Orleans molasses and maple sirup, two
cupfuls of brown sugar, one cupful of
shortening melted, one cupful of sour
milk, one teaspoonful each of ginger,
cinnamon and cloves, three teaspoon
fuls of soda and a little salt. Mix the
soda with the flour and use Just as lit
tle as possible to handle. Make In a
quick oven. If chilled before rolling
they will need less flour, then baking
in a hot oven makes them light end
delicate.
Jellied Philadelphia RelieH,
Take two cupfuls of chopped cab
bage, one-half of a green pepper, one
fourth of a cupful of brown sugar, one
half teaspoonful of mustard seed, one
fourth of a teaspoonful of celery seed,
one-fourth of a cupful of vinegar, ODe
tablespoonful of gelatin and one-fourth
of cupful of cold water. Soften the
gelatin in the cold water; set in hot
water, then add to the other ingredi
ents.
aZ I. 3521. Western Newspaper Union.)
TIIT' BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA
Don't Be A Hessian
*
111 1776 there was a man in a whole lot of trouble. The man’s
name was George Washington. He had been trying to get money
with which to feed and clothe the army. He couldn’t borrow any.
He had to make some kind of success, and he didn’t know what in
the world to do. Along about Christmas time he happened to be
somewhere near Trenton on the other side of the Delaware River.
On the other side was a bunch of Hessians sent there to lick him
by George 111. The river was full of ice, and nobody could get
across. The Hessians were in large numbers, and if they could get
across the river, they could have beaten George Washington, and
the whole Revolutionary War would have been lost, But the
Hessians, when they found that nobody could get over, and that
George Washington’s army couldn’t cross over to them, decided
to celebrate Christmas Eve. They laid off because business was
dull. They made the mistake of thinking everybody would lay off.
But George Washingtonjhad to get across that river. He said this
is the time to get those'guys when they’re all drunk. He got across
and surprised the Hessians, who were too drunk to fight, and took
one thousand prisoners and put the rest to flight.
Business is dull now. The river is full of ice and no one can
get across. So let’s take it easy. Let’s stop buying goods, let our
stock run down and become incomplete. Let’s radiate pessimism.
“That’s what the Hessians are saying.
But there are a few George Washingtons. They know it is dull
—that the river is full of ice. But they have got to get across.
They keep things going—keep their stocks clean and full. Will you
delay your attack until the river is clear of ice, and the Hessians
are drawn up for battle on the other bank, or will you cross now
and smite them before they wake up?
Why Complain, It’s Here
READJUSTMENT
We have all felt it must come so let’s shoulder arms and go
forth with determination to bring home the bacon,,
Let’s all play fair, take our loss, pull together, pay one another just
as far as we possibly can.
We have a complete line, which we are selling way belo w
wholesale cost, even today’s cost, the best values in Art Squares
and Rugs of all kinds, at 33 1-3 off, some even 50 per cent off, and
by the way, we have some five or six hundred real good selections
of Columbia Recordsvwhich we are closing out at only 75c„
Come to headquarters, the old reliable furniture store. We
have been thru two panics before this one, and we’ll pull thru
this one too. Everything marked in plain figures. You can see just
what we are losing, not what we are making.
But we are going to take our medicine just like the Doctors
have perscribed. Hence the great reduction in prices on everything
in stock, not that we are broke, or greedy creditors clamering for
their money, but the Steem Roller which our City Fathers left on
Jackson and Candler streets did kindly jar us.
Remember our LOSS is your GAIN.
Yours to Serve,
W. T. Robinson
Sell a Heap—Sell Cheap—Keep Everlastingly at it
■/THURSDAY FEB. 10, 1921.