ST. ANDREW.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12536, 30 December 1933, Page 7

ST. ANDREW.

St. Andrew, a fisherman by trade, was the first of the twelve' apostles called. He does not figure largelv in the New Testament narrations, lie is believed to have suffered martyrdom about A.D. 70 after a preaching tour in Greece and the surrounding country. His connection with Scotland (he is that country’s patron saint) is supposed to date from the fourth century, when St. Regulus took there* some relics of the saint, although historians differ as to tin* date and some say it. was in the 7th century. St. Andrew’s cross of martyrdom ; s a white saltire on a blue ground. Russia, in the days before- it spurred all saints, used to treat St. Andrew with great veneration, since he is supposed to have been the first to preach the Gospel there. The Russian Order of St. Andrew was founded by Peter the Great in 1698 Tt was a most coveted decoration, being confined almost exclusively to those of Royal blood.

“Smokers and smoking,” is the title of an interesting article in a Melbourne weekly. Tile writer cites the case of the head of a great commercial house who when making, an appointment to his staff invariably prefers to engage a- smoke'. A lover of the weed himself he says his long experience as an employer satisfies; him that smokers are usually broader in their views, saner in their outlook than non-smokers, and “pull together’ ’ better, being more contented when at work. Other employers will doubtless endorse that, for it happens to bei true, as a rule. But very much depends upon the tobacco. Constant use of the wrong

“baccy” so far from promoting lpirmouy and contentment may have the opposite effect, and excess of nicotine in the. weed will assuredly do it. Kortunatelv for Now Zealanders they have in the four leading brands, Riverhead Gold. Cavendish. Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead). lobncco not oiily" of superlative quality but so comparatively free from nicotine (owing to being toasted), that they are “safe as houses” to smoke to