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HU Gun Became a “Judge”
COMEONE once observed: ‘The
0 Declaration of Inoependence
stated that all men are equal, but
\ the Colt, revolver made that state*
ment a fact.” Certainly that was
proved on the Western frontier
where the quality of man depended
upon his quickness of the “draw”
and where this little weapon be
came the symbol of law in a law
less land—it was judge, jury and
high executioner all in one. Little
wonder then that it should become
known as “Judge Colt.”
The father of “Judge Colt” was a
Connecticut Yankee, born in 1814.
As a boy Samuel Colt listened to
veterans talk about battles of the
Revolution and especially about the
feats of a rifleman named Tim Mur
phy who had a double- arrelled ri
fle. If someone could invent a gun
that would shoot five or six times
without reloading, that nation would
rule the world. But, of course, that
was impossible, said the men of
that day.
Young Sam Colt didn't believe It
was impossible. So he began ex
perimenting with a four-barrelled
rifle but he couldn't make it work
satisiactorily. Then he was appren
ticed to a sea captain and from the
sailors he learned to carve out little
objects in wood.
One day in the Indian ocean,
while idly watching the steersman
at the wheel, he noticed that re-
gard’e^s of which way the wheel
was spun, each spoke always came
directly in line with a clutch that
could be set to hold it. As he
watched he found himself visioning
holes in the rim of the wheel—holes
which successively came into align
ment with a stationary opening. In
a flash he saw the answer to his
problem of a repeating gun. Then
with “a jacknife that cost less than
a dollar he started to whittle out the
foundation of a fortune which was
to run into millions.” From that
model came the revolver which first
proved its value in the war with the
Seminole Indians, won an even
greater reputation in the J&exican
war end by the time the Civil war
had begun was ar indispensable
part of a soldier's armament.
Not rnly was Sam Colt the inven
tor of a weapon which vitally af
fected military history, but he “was
the first of the great American in
dustrialists. Colt, not the modem
motor car manufacturer, conceived
and first utilized in his plant star d-
arc i zed machine production, di
vision of labor and the ‘assembly
line.* He showed the way to the
modern promoters of war ... .he
the procurer r of the modern
munitions kings—a pioneer in the
art of playing one nation against an
other to increase his sales.”
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An Important Vice-President
I T'S a standard joke that the vice
president of the Unite<' States is
about the most unimportant indi
vidual in our federal government
unless the President happens to die.
In that case he immediately be
comes a very important man. But
there was one vice president whose
high place in American history is
due to hi own death, rather than
that of a President.
In 1884 Thomas A. Hendricks of
Indiana, who had served as con
gressman, senator and governor
and who had twice before beer an
unsuccessfulxandidate for the Pres
idency and once before defeated for
the vice presidency, was elected
vice president when Grover Cleve
land defeated Blaine, the Republi
can candidate. Hendricks died eight
months after his inauguration but
his death while in office was not
unique. Four other vice presidents
—George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry,
William R. King and Henry Wilson
—had suffered the same fate. But
foi the first time in three-quarters
of a century America became aware
of the potential dangers in such a
situation.
The Constitution provides that in
the case of removal, death, resigna
tion or disability of a President,
the vice president shall succeed
him. But in 1885 the vice president
was dead. Suppose nbw that the
President should also die, resign or
be removed from oliice. Who would
then become Presioent? Neither the
Constitution nor any act of congress
had provided for that emergency,
and apparently no one had ever
given any thought to its possible re-
cults.
So congress got busy and on Jan
uary 19, 1886 it passed a law pro
viding for a Presidential succession
in case the vice president could
not serve. Under its terms the sec
retary oi state would become Presi
dent. In case he, too, would be un-
able to serve, the next in line would
be the secreUry of the treasury
and so on down the cabinet—sec
retary jf war, attorney-general,
postmaster • general, secretary of
the navy, secretary of the interior,
secretary of agriculture, secretary
of commerce and secretary of la
bor.
Thus in bringing about this
change Thomas A. Hendricks be
came an “important” vice president
—by! be bad to die to dt ill
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
{ f T OOK down now!” shouts
1 a passenger. “We’re fly-
JL-/ ing over a Sahara desert
with blue puddles on it.”
“That’s all water,” explains the
steward “But it’s so clear you see
right through it — to the white,
sandy bottom. The blue puddles are
just deep ocean holes.”
What with racing cloud shadows,
play of light on green islands, paint
ed coral, and tinted sands, the hu
man eye is easily fooled by some of
physical geography’s tricks on an
air trip through the Bahamas.
Two hours from Miami, Florida,
out over the Gulf Stream in a fast
plane, you reach this 630-mile chain
of some 3,000 British-owned islands,
cays, and rocks that stretches al
most to Hispaniola.
Just now we are flying past the
north tip of flat, brush-strewn An
dros island, largest of the Bahamas,
its west shore lapped by milky shal
lows known as “The Mud,” where
rheumatic sponge fishers ply their
back - breaking trade in the blue-
green depths.
Everyone keeps his nose pressed
against the windows, watching the
fascinating panarama of reefs, is
lets, sand bars and multi-hued wa
ters below.
So flat and low, so symmetrical
are some of these tiny jungle-green
isles that from above, in Jack-and-
the-Beanstalk fancy, they suggest
huge pumpkin leaves afloat on seas
of opaline paint.
“Look at that long strip of land,
with a pirate’s tower on it!” some
one urges.
“That’s Treasure Island’ (Salt
Cay). It belongs to John T. Mc-
Cutcheon, the Chicago cartoonist,”
explains the patient steward. “Now
we’re over Hog island, where hu
man swallows from Canada and the
States sun themselves in winter...
There’s their Porcupine club, and
Paradise beach. That wreck is an
old Confederate blockade runner,
sunk more than 70 years ago. The
big island is New Providence, and
this town is Nassau, capital of the
Bahamas.”
Landing at Nassau.
Flashes now of galloping ponies
training on a dusty track, and a golf
course dotted with palms bent by
tropic winds; a ruined tower, which
the steward says was Blackboard's
lookout; then ancient, abandoned
forts, their rusty, muzzle • loading
cannon no more harmful now than
blind and toothless watchdogs, yet
still frowning grimly at that sea
long explored by Spaniards and
haunted by pirates.
Swift glimpses, too, of stately
Government house, the British flag,
and stiff sentries on patrol, spacious
homes set in gardens aflame with
red, yellow, and purple. Then lower
we glide, back over the long, narrow
harbor with its trading schooners,
lazy white yachts, and glass-bottom
sight-seeing boats drifting over cor
al beds and canary-colored fish, and
so down to a smooth, bumpless land
ing.
One hears the greeting, “Welcome
to the Isles of Juae!” as he scram
bles ashore.
From the dock the arriving
visitor drives through long, straight
Bay street, which is the shopping
center of Nassau. High - roofed,
horse-drawn hacks, bells jingling
and red curtains flapping, move in
and out among motor cars, bicycles,
and huge sponge carts, their cargo
bulky but light.
“To your right,” says your host,
in mock imitation of a guide’s lec
ture, “is Old Fort Montague, cap
tured by the baby American navy
during the Revolution...That wharf
is where they hanged pirates.
“That big shed is the sponge
market. The hymns you hear are
sung by the old women who sit
here in the shade and clip sponges
with their shears, and get them
ready to ship.”
“But who are all these excited
people,” you ask, “crowding the
curio shops for trick straw hats,
turtle shells, and pickaninny dolls?
Surely they can’t all live in this
small town!”
“They don’t. They’re travelers.
Each season 60 or 80 big liners call
here on Caribbean cruises. Plus
those who come by planes and pri
vate yachts, Nassau winter visitors
almost equal the whole population
of the Bahamas.
“Fifty-nine thousand people are
scattered through these islands.
Eighty per cent are olacks and mu-
lattoes; many never, even get to
Nassau, much less the Florida
mainland. This is a town now, you
might say, of hotels—and history."
Where Columbus Landed.
First and greatest event in all
aaaals of our Western Hemisphere,
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chool Lesson
By HEV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
bran of the Moody Rtblo Instituu
of Chicago.
• Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for March 7
LIFE HERE AND HEREAFTER
THROUGH CHRIST
LESSON TEXT—John 14:1-19.
GOLDEN TEXT — I am the way. the
truth, and the life: no man cometb unto
the Father, but by me. John 14:6.
PRIMARY TOPIC—In the Heavenly
rather'a House.
JUNIOR TOPIC — Many Mansions.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Ufa .Hart and Hereafter through Christ.
in fact, occurred right here in thesl
islands. That was on October 12,
1492, when Columbus discovered
America, in the form of San Sal
vador.
On this island, facing the oper
Atlantic, is a monument set up bj
the Chicago Herald m 1891 to com
memorate the landing of the great
navigator. Here also a lighthouse
rises, but not to show modern ships
how to anchor where the Sants
Marta did; rather, to help them
keep safely away, for few visitors
venture now where Columbus set up
the Cross and traded trinkets with
the shy Lucayans.
All these Lucayans—about 40,000
—were enslaved by Spaniards, sent
to work in Hispaniola mines, and
the Bahamas left quite uninhabited.
Yet, in time, these islands were tc
become not only a historic stepping
stone by which Europeans and Afri
cans reached our shores, but the
stage for almost incredible adven
tures.
Enmity toward England, after the
loss of the Great Armada, brought
sanguinary conflicts, which in time
became notorious for the nautical
brigandage of the buccaneers. For
generations these outlaws were the
cause of constant diplomatic fric
tion between London and Madrid,
as when English sailors, seized
from the Boston ship. Blessing,
were stripped by Spaniards, tied
naked to mangrove bushes on a
Bahama cay, and left to die of
thirst in plain sight of each other.
Famous is the story of “Jenkyns’
Ear.” When Spaniards took an Eng
lish ship commanded by a Captain
Jenkyns, it is written that they cut
off one of his ears and handed it
to him, telling him to take it home
and show if to his kingl This ear,
in a bottle, he exhibited later in
the house of commons.
Even Virginia and the Carolinas
dreaded these Bahama pirates, es
pecially one Edward Teach, o r
“Blackbeard.” With his last com
mand, the Queen Anne’s Revenge,
mounting 40 guns, Blackbeard and
another pirate leader spread terror
all along our South Atlantic coast.
When, in desperation, the British
government Anally sent that iron-
flsted governor, Woodes Rogers, to
hang pirates and make Nassau safe
for honest traders, it began the first
normal life it had ever known. That
was in 1718, and the motto put on its
coat of arms was, “Expulsis Pira-
tis, Restituta Commercia.”
“Pirate Treasure” Still Hunted.
Today Blackbeard, his .long
whiskers worn in three beribboned
braids tucked into his waistband
among his many pistols, is but a
memory—or a favorite model for
Nassau masquerade parties. Yet
hunting pirate treasure is still a
constant adventure. Always, just
around the comer, is a mysterious
man with an “old map” for sale.
“Feast, then famine, that’s been
our history,” an Englishman bom
in Nassau will tell you. “Over and
over again, in the last 300 years,
hordes of people have swarmed into
Nassau, on every errand from sell
ing slaves to running rum; these
boom periods meqnt lots of easy
money, but there’s been many a
lean time in between.”
When Liverpool used to send 100
or more “blackbirders” to Africa
each year, and when our own
American-built craft were in this
traffic, as many as 74,000 blacks
annually used to be sold into the
First Stirrings of Spring
It was the night before the darkest
day in the world’s history. On the
morrow the Son of man was to
hang on Calvary’s tree for the sins
of the world—for your sins, and for
mine. But for the moment he was
alone with his disciples. The last
Passover had been eaten together,
the betrayer had been discovered,
and the Lord has told them that he
was soon to go where they could
not follow. Peter had, by his bold
self-assurance, brought forth the
prophecy of his denial. The disciples
were disturbed. Then came from the
Saviour the words of comfort, as
surance, and power which have been
the strength and solace of his peo
ple through all the centuries. Our
life both here and hereafter is in
His mighty hands.
I. Comfort (w. 1-3).
Troubled hearts are everywhere—
m the palace and in the cottage, on
land and sea. There is a place of
rest, thank God! There is One who
still speaks the majestic words,
Let not your heart be troubled,
ye believe in God, believe also in
me.”
His comfort is one which covers
the future life, for he says:
1. “I go to prepare a place”(v.2>.
Concern about future destiny is set
tled st once when Christ Jesus be
comes our Lord and Saviour. We
need worry no longer. He has gone
on before to the Father’s house to
prepare a place for his own. When
we come to that ever-peaceful shore
we shall not come as strangers, but
as sons and daughters to s prepared
place in our Father’s house.
2. 'T will come again” (v.3) is
the word that gives present mean
ing to the future promise. He not
only prepares the place, but he it
is who brings us there. The glorious
hope of his coming again is the
Christian’s greatest comfort and
mightiest incentive to useful, holy
living.
n. Assurance (w 4-11).
The doctrine of Christian assur
ance is one of vital importance,
and should be taught in all its scrip
tural power and beauty. Unfortun
ately it has so suffered violence at
the hands of some of its friends
that others have not only come to
fear it, but even openly to oppose
it. This is most regrettable, for it
is manifest that until one has as
surance he will make but little prog
ress in Christian usefulness.
The believers assurance rests
fundamentally on Christ himself.
Two grounds are given in the text.
1. “I am the way, the truth, and
the life” (v. 6). These words are
their own best commentary. Read
them again, slowly, weighing the
meaning of each word. If we are
in him who is the way, how safe
we are! If we are not in him? Read
his own solemn words in verse 6,
“No man cometh unto the Father
but by me.” (v. 11).
In Christ dwells all the fullness of
the Godhead. He is not only a super
natural being, he is. God. How can
anyone deny that and read his
words in these verses? To do so
is to make Jesus a liar and
blasphemer.
HI. Power (w. 12-15).
His followers are not left in a
world of sin and need as a little
group of hymn-singing weaklings,
thinking only of the day when they
shall be in a brighter land. Ah, yes,
they sing hymns and rejoice i n
them; they look for a better land;
their weapons of warfare are not
carnal—but weaklings? Oh, no! God
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WhiCh the Bahamas I l^HethatSeveth'- (v. 12).
This army of God carries the royal
got th?ir share
After Cornwallis yielded at York
town, Ipyalists flocked to the Ba
hamas, bringing their slaves, silver
ware, and other personal effects
On plantations of cane and cotton
developed by these royal refugees
rose another tide of profits. This
ebbed when slaves were freed, and
when competing agriculture grew
up in the States.
Agriculture Has Filled.
Loyalists, departing for England
after this land boom faded, turned
their farms over to ex-slaves or
other retainers; lacking skill, capi
tal, or sufficient energyy, these lat
ter failed. Farming declined. An
easier living—if on a lower standard
— was offered by the sea. Hence
today the once productive fields are
idle and brush-grown.
Andros island, for example,
named for an early governor of
the Massachusetts colony, was once
the scene of much sisal growing,
well-known families dn England be
ing the owners. Now all that is
abandoned.
Yet today a new kind of prosper
ity, wholesome and satisfying, is
coming to Nassau. This is its rise
as a popular winter resort, which
compensates for the vanished reve
nue at former more exciting days.
banner of faith.
2. “Greater works . . . shall he
do” (v. 12). Jesus only began his
work on earth. Its greatest develoo- j
ment was to be the joyous privilege
of his followers.
3. “If ye ask ... I will do”
(v. 14). Someone has called this a
signed blank check on all the re
sources of God. Faith fills it in, un
der the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Moody knew how to use it. So did
Mueller, Livingstone, J. Hudson
Taylor—the list might go on indefi
nitely. Shall we dare to trust God
and add our name as one of those
who ask in faith?
# "PHE chic young miss above, cen-
ter, says, “I make my own
clothes. I learned sewing from
Mother first, got a touch of it in
school, and a real exposure in
4-H activities. I choose this dress
for Spring because it looks like
Spring, and because it takes the
minimum of time and money. Puff
sleeves and princess lines give a
formal note if I wish to impress
the folks (which 1 often do) and
the peplum jacket is added for
frivolous reasons—when I want to
feel a bit sophisticated, and it
makes a sweet all-occasion
dress.”
A Practical Choice.
The Lady on the Left says, *Tm
practical. I choose patterns that
I can exit twice; then I have a
gingham gown to set me off in my
kitchen and an afternoon dress in
which to entertain
Jiggs club. The all-of-a-piece yoke
and sleeves make me look years
younger, the shirred pockets give
the decorative note every dress
needs, and I can run it up In an
afternoon.”
Three-Purpose Pattern.
The Girl in the Oval has a far
away look in her eyes. She says
it’s because she wears glamorous
blouses like this one. She cutt her
pattern three times—no less—and
evolves a blouse in eggshell for
her velvet skirt; one in velveteen
for her tweeds, and the third in
metallic cloth for after-five a enti
ties. “The skirt with its simple
well directed lines is equally well
suited to tweeds for sport, velvet
for dress and wool for business,”
says Madam.
The Patterns.
Pattern 1832 (above left) comes
in sizes 32 to 44. Size 34 requires
4% yards of 39 inch material.
Pattern 1263 (above center) Is
designed in sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 40
bust). Size 14 requires 4% yards
of 39 inch material for the dress
and 2Vi yards for the jacket—to
line it requires 2% yards of 35
inch material.
Pattern 1958 (above right) is
available in sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 46
bust). Size 16 requires 2% yards
for the blouse in 39 inch material
and 2 yards of 54 inch materia
for, the skirt.
New Pattern Book.
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young women and matrons and
other patterns for special occa
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Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Boom 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, HI.
Price ef patterns, 16 cents (in
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The Man of Wisdom
He is a wise man who does not
grieve for the things which he has
not, but rejoices for those which he
has.—Epictetus.
Thoughts of Good People
The thoughts of some people live
so near to God, that to ask them to
think of us is to ask them to pray
for us.
Chief End of Education
Manhood, not scholarship, is the
first aim of education.—E. T. Seton
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Writer
Sometimes IPs Pleasure
In combining business with
pleasure, one or the other suffers.
PAINS
Severe functional pains of men
struation, cramping spells and jan
gled nerves soon rob a woman of her
natural, youthful freshness. PAIN
lines In a woman’s face too often
grow Into AGE lines!
Thousands of women have found
It helpful to take Cardul. They say
it seemed to ease their pains, and
they noticed an Increase In their
appetites and finally a strengthened
resistance to the discomfort of
monthly periods.
Try Cardul. Of course If It doesn’t
help you, see your doctor.
Barbecue Chicken
Broil the chickens in the usual
way and when they are dished
pour over them this sauce:
Melt two tablespoonfuls of but
ter in a saucepan, add the same
quantity of vinegar, a teaspoonful
of made mustard, a strong dash of
tobasco, a teaspoonful of Worces
tershire sauce, a teaspoonful of
sugar, a saltspoonful of salt and
half as much pepper. Blend all
together, heat to a boil and pour
over chickens. Serve in 5 minutes.
C—WNU Servlcv.
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