The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 30, 1949, Image 6
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Butterflies, Beetles, Cyanide
Make a 'Surprise' Vengeance
By BILLY ROSE
When Martin Quint, 71, married Ellie Reynolds, 34, their
friends in Nyack didn’t give the union much chance of success.
Five years later, however, they were ready to admit they had
been wrong—Ellie was doing a good job of taking care of Martin,
and as for the old coot—well, he was a lot friendlier than anyone
bad ever thought possible.
On their fifth anniversary, Martin sent Ellie to New York on an
errand, filled the parlor with gifts and paper curlicues, and invited a
dozen neighbors in for a surprise party.
BiUy Bose
The plan was for a lookout at the
railroad depot to phone when he
■aw Ellie get off the train, and then
they would turn out the lights and
hide. When Ellie walked in and
turned them on
again, everyone
would yell, “Sur
prise!”
Well, what hap
pened was a sur
prise, all right, but
there was no yell
ing. As the front
door opened. Quint
and his guests
heard Ellie whis-
per, “Sssh! He
might be awake.”
“I don’t like this sneaking
around,” said the voice of a man.
“Why don’t you ask him for a di
vorce?”
“Think I’m crazy? He doesn’t
figure to live much longer, and I’m
pretty sure to get the savings and
Insurance. Thanks for taking me
tome. See you Tuesday at the reg
ular time.”
Then Ellie closed the door and
switched on the lights ....
• • *
AFTER THE embarrassed guests
had left, she said to her husband,
“I suppose you want me to pack.”
“Why should I?” said Martin.
“It’s only human nature for you to
take up with someone nearer your
own age.”
“Don’t you want a divorce?”
"Not unless you insist on it. AU
f ask is that you stop seeing the
young man as long as I’m alive.
If you!II agree and put it in writ
ing, I’ll fix it so yost’ll get every
cent I’ve got."
And that’s how it was arranged.
An agreement was signed and
locked in the wall safe, and the
couple went on living together.
Of course, the neighbors gos
siped a lot, particularly when it was
whispered around that Ellie was
still seeing the young man, but their
talk seemed to make no impression
on Martin. Instead, he busied him
self with a new hobby—the study of
insects—and spent most of his
waking hours in a spare room over
the garage, mounting butterflies
and beetles on small exhibit boards.
"I wouldn’t mention this around,”
he told his wife. “As it is, people
think I’m not quite all there.”
One evening, just after Ellie had
brought him the usual glass of
warm milk, Martin began to have
convulsions. Ellie phoned the doc
tor that her husband was having
‘a heart attack, but by the time he
arrived the old man was dead. The
doctor examined the body, then
called the coroner, and an hour
later the corpse, together with the
empty milk glass, was taken away.
• • •
EARLY THE following morning,
a detective rang Ellie’s doorbell.
“I have a warrant for your ar
rest,” he said. “According to the
coroner, your husband died of
cyanide poisoning, and the drug
store in town reports that you
A Song for Comfort
T HE things that are too hard to bear
God does not bid me bear.
I never yet have walked alone
Through dark hours of despair.
And always He has kept His word:
The promised Strength was there.
And so today, my heart, be Still,
He knows that you are torn.
He also knows that even this
Great sorrow can be borne.
bought a bottle of the stuff two
weeks ago.”
“That’s right,” said Ellie. “Mar
tin used the cyanide to kill the in
sects he was studying. There are
hundreds of specimens in the lab
oratory over the garage.”
”1 never beard of bis being
interested in bugs," said the de
tective. "Can I see this labora
tory?"
Ellie led the way up the garage
stairs and opened the door. There
was nothing in the room but a
B ENNY got a big kick out of
eavesdropping on the sheriff.
It smacked of adventure and the
wild life he loved. He got a bigger
kick when he heard Sheriff Conrad
mention Slick Dearborn.
Slick Dearborn was the smartest
outlaw with whom Conrad had ever
had to contend
“1 He was Benny’s
3 - Minute idol, for he repre
sented the danger-
FietlOll ous freedom of
1 which the boy
had always dreamed. One day
three weeks ago Benny had seen
Slick in the Faraway Saloon, and
something about the worshipful
look in the youngster’s eyes had
attracted the outlaw's attention.
Benny had been almost speechless
with gratitude when the outlaw
spoke to him. They had a long con
versation, and when it was over
Benny knew a sense of importance
that was almost the fulfillment of
his dreams.
Ear glued to the side of the
building. Benny held his breath
while Sheriff Conrad and his
deputy, Joe Hicks, carried on
their low-voiced conversation.
At 4 o’clock that afternoon Benny
drew rein in the secret canyon
where Slick was hiding. He gave
the secret whisUe that he and the
ouUaw had agreed upon, then wait
ed breathlessly.
Minutes passed and nothing hap
pened. Benny moved down the can
yon a ways and whistled again. Sud
denly two men emerged from be
hind a boulder. One of them was
Slick Dearborn. Benny shouted at
them.
“Slick, I just heard the sheriff
and his deputy talkin’. They found
out it was you who held up the
At four o’clock that afternoon
Benny drew rein in the secret
canyon where Slick was hiding.
bank last week, an’ they know
you’re hidin’ up here an’ they’re
cornin’ to get yuh.”
“You come with us,” said Slick
shortly.
“Nemmine keepin’ guard,”
Slick called, and the other out
law slid back to the ground.
"We gotta get out of here and
git fast. Kid, did anyone see
yon leave townf”
“No, sir. Not a soul. I done jest
like you told me."
“Good. You’re cornin’ with us.”
The second outlaw came from be
hind a screen of bushes riding one
horse and leading another. Slick
swung aboard the extra animaL
There came the sound of a shot.
The second outlaw uttered a
scream, clutched at his breast and
plunged from the saddle. A second
shot followed, and Slick’s mount
went to its knees.
S LICK SWORE VIOLENTLY as
Benny crawled up beside him.
“You damned little rat! Thought
you said nobody followed you out
of town?”
“Honest Slick—”
“Shut up!” Suddenly Slick seized
him around the middle and leaped
out of plain view of the two com
ing up the canyon. The pair reined
in. holding their fire as the out
law, using Benny as a shield, began
shooting rapidly.
Sheriff Conrad and Joe Hicks,
sensing the bandit’s purpose, flung
themselves from the saddle and
scurried for shelter.
Benny suddenly understood the
purpose he was serving, suddenly
knew that Slick was using him as
a means of p-otec ting his own
hide.
“Slick! Slick! Lemme go. They’ll
blast me down in cold blood!”
“Shut up, you rat” Slick brought
the barrel of his gun down crush-
ingly on the boy’s head. Benny
gasped, struggled feebly, then went
limp . . .
When Benny opened his eyes
he found Sheriff Conrad and
Joe Hicks bending over him.
“Feeling better kid?"
“Ye-e-ss. I’m all right. Where’s
—Slick?"
“Taken care of." Sheriff Conrad
eyed Benny intently. "Listen, Ben
ny, you better get home before your
maw begins to worry. You can say
you helped us run down Slick Dear
born. Fact is, you did. When we
saw you talkin’ with him three
weeks ago we figured somethin’
like this, which is why we did some
talkin’ so you could lead us to
where he was.”
“Gosh!” said Benny. There were
tears in his eyes. For the first time
in his life he realized what a per
fectly swell guy Sheriff Conrad was.
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few bits of junk and an old bi
cycle.
“I’m sorry, but you’ll have to
come along,” said the detective.
“You’re the only person who fig
ured to profit by Mr. Quint’s
death.”
“I swear I didn’t do it.” said
Ellie. “Both Martin and I knew he
wouldn’t live long, and we signed
an agreement which explains every
thing. It’s in his study.”
She ran into the house, opened
the wall safe and took out a brown
envelope, but when she tore it
open there was nothing inside but
a piece of blank paper.
Blank, that is, except for one
word penciled in a childish scrawl
—“Surprise!"
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BY INEZ GERHARD
pVELYN KEYES bobbed up all
" over New York while on loca
tion for Columbia's “The Killer
lliat Stalked New York”—during
a traffic rush on west 47th street,
in Pennsylvania station, in a tiny
historic graveyard on the lower
East Side. Just before fleeing
through the graveyard to escape a
Jimmy Durante plays his first
dual role in “The Great Rupert,”
the George Pal production in which
he co-stars with Terry Moore and
Tom Drake. But you may not rec
ognize him. Jimmy always has
yearned to drive a circus wagon,
so he got his wish. At his own in
sistence. he was permitted not only
to drive the wagon, but also to ap
pear behind a luxuriant beard.
Mary Jane Higby also has been
doing a stint in a dual role. The
heroine of “When a Girl Marries.”
“Joan Davis.” has been menaced
by a tough waitress bent on black
mail. And the tough waitress—
Mary Jane Higby.
Ever so often a radio or pic
ture star Is stopped by a police
man while speeding to an im
portant engagement. The
policeman recognizes the star—
and doesn’t give him a ticket.
Anyway, that’s the story. Bat
J*v Jnstvn. doing 45 miles an
hoar in New Jersey on the way
to NBC, was stopped, recog
nized as “Mr. District Attor
ney”—and given a ticket!
A new cannine star is looming
up—Chinook, who will be featured
in Monogram’s “The Courage of
Captain Plum.” Kirby Grant will
star, and the picture, set to start
January 11. will be filmed at Bsrt-
tett’s Cedar Lake. Big Bear.
■By JIM RHODYI
Don't 'Strain' Gun
An intimate knowledge of dis
tances in relation of effective shot
gun ranges is one of the most im
portant factors in successful wing
shooting.
“A huge amount of sporting am
munition is wasted every season
because many shooters have never
taken the trouble to learn to judge
various distances,” says Henry P.
Davis of Remington Arms Co.
’They think a game bird is within
shooting range as long as they can
dentify it as such, and blast away
jntil their guns are empty. This is
barticularly true in duck hunting
ind thousands of what would have
5een excellent chances are tossed
way simply because the hunter is
;o impatient and excited that he
cannot wait. Or else he doesn’t
enow any better. These fellows are
epoll-sports for the other fellow, for
“They think a game bird is
within shooting range as long
as they can identify it as such,
and blast away until their guns
are empty.”
they not only shoot at impossible
ranges but, in doing so, ruin the
chances of more experienced and
efficient hunters who know enough
to hold their fire until the game is
well within range.
“Many of the ‘misses’ that dis
appoint These fellows could well
have been killing hits if these chaps
hadn’t tried to ‘strain their guns.’
It is quite likely that they pointed
properly and that their leads were
correct . . . but the range was too
great for the loads they were shoot
ing. A large percentage of the crip
ples which occur each season
are due not to the fact that they
were struck with the edge of the
shot pattern or a so-called stray
shot or two, but because the shot
which struck them had travelled so
far that the shocking and pene
trating powers necessary for a
clean kill had been lost.
“One of the greatest contributions
we can make to the future of hunt
ing is to become proficient in
judging distances, particularly
those within the killing range of a
shotgun and thus eliminate a sizable
percentage of the annual loss from
cripples.
This particularly applies to game
birds flying overhead, and over
open water. Once we have estab
lished firmly in our own ’mind’s
eye’ how large various game birds
appear at Various distances, our
trigger fingers act instinctively.
AAA
‘Sleepy’ Fish
EVELYN KEYES
detective, she had to scramble up
and down a wobbly, rusty fire es
cape on a tenement. She did it over
and over, for hours and hours,
while bitter winds blew. Wound up
with hands filthy and scraped and
clothes unfit for further use. Mean
while Paulette Goddard was urg
ing her to come yachting in the
Caribbean!
Many state game and fish depart
ments have found that it pRys some
times to put fish to sleep. By add
ing the chemical ethyl carbonate,
commonly called urethane, to water
at the rate of 19 grams per gallon,
fish become anesthetized. While
they are sleeping, the fish may be
handled without the usual commo
tion and struggle necessary when
dealing with slippery, active fish.
Recent experiments with this
chemical indicate that the task of
spawning large trout is made easier
for both the worker and the trout.
Fish anesthetized when being
tagged or fin-clipped permit faster
work with less danger of injury.
The possibility of using urathene
to slow down fish while being trans
ported from hatchery to stream is
to receive experimentation in many
states.
Sleeping fish when returned to
clean water snap back to normal
conditions with no ill effects.
AAA
Fishing Group Formed
A new organization which has as
its goal the improvement of fishing
opportunities in the United States
has been incorporated in the Dis
trict of Columbia. It is called the
Sport Fishing Institute and its
charter states: “It is necessary that
a nationwide effort be made to re
store and maintain sport fishing
facilities for the continued enjoy
ment of our people.” The program
calls for conservation and develop
ment of recreational fishing.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
Adjust Life to
! ® ® 'Second Choice'
By Lawrence Gould
Can you learn to love a “second choice” mate?
Answer: Certainly—in the same
way in which you can succeed at
a job or occupation that is not the
one you would have liked best:
by adjusting yourself to it and
making the most of the opportun
ities it offers. For love is not the
emotion of a moment and does not
depend on finding an ideal part
ner. It grows out of years of shar
ing ordinary t'isks and pleasures.
The one thing that may keep you
from learning tc love someone who
is not your first choice is childish
resentment at the fact that you
could not get what you wanted.
Does adjustment depend on
self-knowled ge ?
Answer: Yes, writes Prof. Ar
thur W. Combs of Syracuse Uni
versity. There is no use telling
a neurotic that he must adjust
himself to things as they are be
cause he cannot see them. He
can’t “face reality" because it
seems to him to threaten his idea
of himself, and he unconsciously
distorts it so as to make it less
painful and disturbing. (A man.
for example, may “see” his em
ploye: as unfair because he can’t
admi’. that he himself is lazy.) No
immediate problem, therefore, is
as vital as helping the person see
himself more clearly.
Is anyone too old for
Psychiatry?
Answer: On the whole. No. There
are types of psychiatric treatment
—especially psychoanalysis—which
are likely to be ineffective with
elderly people or with “rigid” per
sonalities. But unless you are com
pletely set against accepting new
ideas and viewpoints, a psychia
trist can at least help you to
achieve new “insights”—to show
you, for instance, how to get on
better with your family. And of
recent years success has been re
ported even with people who are
actually senile by medico-psychia
tric treatments like “shock.”
LOOKING AT RELIGION
By DON MOORE
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HAVE A DEUaAUON TO THE
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Ministers are training in the best
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Noise Hurts Hearing, Nervous System
By Dr. James W. Barton
I WRITE FROM time to time of
the serious effects of noise, not
only on hearing but on the entire
nervous system. Experiments have
shown that the work of clerks and
typists may be reduced by as much
as 40 per cent in a noisy office.
In “Industrial Medicine,” Dr.
W. E. Grove states that excessive
noise is a health hazard and should
be regarded as a liability by any
industrial manager. Efforts made
to remove or prevent noise will in
crease the working ability of the
workers to a marked degree.
Not all ears are equally suscepti
ble to noise. The ears of the young
are more likely to be damaged by
noise than those of persons of
middle life or advanced age.
The least amount of noise that
the human ear can detect is called
a decibel, and hearing is not dam
aged in any .way if noise is not
more than 90 decibles, that is, if
the noise is not prolonged. In ad
dition to the loudness or intensity
of the noise other factors must be
considered, such as: total length
of exposure to the noise, whether
the sound is continuous or inter
rupted, the length of the interrup
tion, whether the sound reverber
ates, the age of the worker and
presence of previous ear disease.
Unfortunately, noise damages
the hearing and the nervous sys
tem in such a slow and subtle man
ner that the worker pays no at
tention to it until he is quite deal
Now we all realize that there
are, at present anyway, some
noises that are necessary to our
way of life, but there are many
unnecessary noises that can and
must be prevented to preserve the
hearing of workers and the public
generally; noisy auto horns, poor
brakes, lack of oil in industrial
machines, barking dogs and others.
The Noise Abatement Society,
and the Committee on Conserva
tion of Hearing, American Acade
my of Otolaryngology and Opathal-
mology, are doing their part to re
duce noise in industry and in ci
vilian life. In addition to loss of
hearing, noise, by keeping us
tensed and alert, brings on fatigue
much sooner.
HEALTH NOTES
Heartburn is caused by some
thing that disturbs or irritates the
lower end of the tube (esophagus)
carrying food from the mouth to
the stomach.
• • •
We are hearing and reading
much about the rice diet to reduce
high blood pressure, and there is
no doubt that it is helping many
patients.
There are cases where thu
patient, the parents and the family
physician do not wish tonsils re
moved by surgery and other meth
ods may be used.
• • •
One exercise known to all physi
cal directors, rolling the shoulders
upward and backward (shrugging
the shoulders), is an effective
method of holding up the shoulders
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