McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, June 10, 1937, Image 6
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“Strange Visitor' 99
Bj FLOYD GIBBONS
Y OU know, they say troubles never come singly—which is just
another way of saying that Old Lady Adventure is never con
tent with giving you just one sock in the jaw. I don’t know how
true that is, but it certainly worked out that way in the case of
Hattie Rohr of Chicago.
Hattie’s big bout with Old Lady Adventure came in the Winter of
1917. There was trouble enough in the world then, without having the
old girl with the thrill bag on your neck. The war was on and the influenza
epidemic was sweeping the country. Hattie, in those days, was just an
eleven-year-old girl, living with her mother and dad and three sisters
on a farm between Clare and Dodge City, Iowa. Her name then was
Hattie McLaughlin.
The flu epidemic struck the McLaughlin family in January.
It brought down Hattie’s dad and her three sisters, and that left
Hattie and her mother to do all the chores around that big farm.
It was one of those days when everything seemed to go wrong. Mother
had just come from upstairs to call the doctor. Dad and the three sick
girls were worse. While they were waiting for the doctor the party-line
phone rang. It was the school teacher, down with the flu herself, who
wanted Hattie to go to the schoolhouse and post a notice saying there
would be no school that day.
Strange Man Came to the Door.
Already tired from her morning’s work, Hattie struggled more than
a mile through the snow: to post that notice. She found two small children
shivering in the cold, waiting for the school to open, and took them
to her home and phoned their father to come and get them. And no
sooner had he come and gone with his pair of kids than Hattie heard
another knock on the door.
A strange man was out front. He said he was a telephone
lineman from Clare, and wanted to know if he could come in and
get warm. Hattie and her mother asked him in and gave him a
cup of tea.
While he was drinking his tea and eating a piece of corn bread,
Hattie and her mother went on with their work. Nothing unusual hap
pened until he had finished eating and drinking. Then the stranger
got up and walked over to the stove.
It was such an unusual movement that Hattie stopped to watch
him. He backed up against the stove as if to warm himself, but Hattie
saw one of his hands slide into his pocket and come out holding a
tiny bottle.
He Poured Something Into the Beans.
There was a pot of beans boiling on the stove. Slowly,
shielded by his body, the stranger’s hand crept up and emptied
the contents of the bottle into the pot of beans!
Her mother hadn’t seen it, but Hattie was standing in such a position
that she could see every move he made. She was startled—fright
ened. An older person might have said nothing, for fear of precipitating
trouble. That mother and child were defenseless, with dad ill in bed
upstairs. But kids of Hattie’s age don’t stop to think of those things.
She let out a scream and then, impulsively, she darted across the
room. and knocked the bottle from the man’s hand.
Her mother turned to see what was the matter. At the same time,
the stranger reached inside his coat, pulled out a long, thin-bladed
knife, and slashed Hattie across the legs. Blood began to flow from a
long deep cut. Dazed at the turn affairs had taken, Hattie backed
away, staring at the man. The man stood, knife in hand, staring back
at Hattie. Her mother was staring at both of them. For a minute there
was a deathly silence.
Hattie Fought to Save Her Mother. <
The man made no other move—said nothing. Hattie and her mother
were too frightened to speak. They began to realize the fellow was
stark mad. Hattie sat down, took off a stocking and tied it about her
wound.
The man stood looking, first at her, then at her mother. He
waited until she was finished tying up her bleeding leg, and then
he walked across the room to where her mother was standing,
breathless and paralyzed with fright, AND RAISED THE KNIFE.
And again Hattie acted impulsively. In an instant she was out
of her chair and darting across tfye room. Reaching out quickly
grabbed the knife!
The man gave the knife a quick pull. It came out of Hattie’s hand,
cutting it clear to the bone at the base of the thumb. Crying out in pain,
she grabbed at her wrist with her other hand. The madman shoved
her away, and knocked her mother down.
For another moment Hattie stood dazed. The man fell on her
mother, sat on her chest and began choking her. And at that, a sudden
change came over Hattie. Before, she had been frightened—trembling.
Now she became furious. A red mist seemed to drop before her eyes.
She grabbed up a piece of wood from the pile beside the stove, raised
it over her head and brought it down, as hard as she could, on the
madman’s head.
The Beans Were Poisoned.
The man rolled -over and lay still. Hattie’s wrist was still
bleeding and her mother tied it up tightly to stop the flow. They
got ropes and tied the maniac’s hands behind his back and then—
well—then Hattie keeled over in a dead faint.
When she came to, the doctor had been to the house. He had sewed
up Hattie’s wounds and she had never known a thing about it. The
doctor also took the madman back to town and turned him over to
the police. They found out later that he had escaped from an institu
tion down in the South, where he had been put for murder.
And when they analyzed that pot of beans into which he had
emptied that bottle, it was found that they were poisoned!
©—WNU Service.
Crocus Is From Kashmir;
Traveler Purloined Bulb
The dainty little crocus has been
aptly called the “first gem of the
earth in spring,’’ observes a writer
in the Montreal Star.
It is said that the crocus was tak
en to England in the reign of Ed
ward III from Kashmir. In that
country it was the monopoly of the
rajah, but an English traveler, who
penetrated the country as a pilgrim,
stole a bulb at the risk of his life.
He concealed it in his hollow staff,
and managed to carry it all the way
back to his home at Walden, in Es-
sex.
Such a harvest of saffron yellow
flowers came from that single bulb
that the place came to be known as
Saffron Walden, the name which it
bears today.
The plant was used as a dye in
India, and for the same purpose in
England and Ireland. Henry VIII
forbade the use of the crocus as a
dye for linen by the Irish. The linen
had been dyed because it was
thought that it would not be neces
sary to wash it so often as white lin
en, as the dirt would not show.
According to legend, the crocus
came from some drops of the elixir
of life that Medea was preparing for
the aged Aeson.
Annie Laurie Home Held
by the Family Since 1611
The home of the famous Annie
Laurie, the heroine of the Scottish
ballad sung in every corner of the
world, is known as the estate of
Maxwelton, Dumfrieshire, Scotland.
The ownership of this property goes
back more than 300 years, says a
writer in the New York Herald
Tribune.
Maxwelton House, originally a
fortress of the Earls of Glencairn
and known as Glencairn castle, has
been in the hands of the Laurie
family since 1611.
Seventy-one years later, in 1682,
Anna was born, the daughter of Sir
Robert Laurie. The first Baronet
Douglas of Fingland, the author of
the original words of the ballad, was
her first sweetheart, but the engage
ment was broken off, and in 1709
she married Alexander Fergusson,
of Craigdarroch, a neighboring es
tate. Her picture and that of her
husband hang in the dining room
at Maxwelton.
There are 4,000 acres in the prop
erty, which overlooks the Cairn
river. In the house there are four
reception rooms, two boudoirs, fif
teen bed or dressing rooms, two
bathrooms and servants’ accom>
modation.
The
SUPREME
COURT
AND HOW
IT WORKS
Disputes Between States
By ROBERT MERRILL
O NE of the important func
tions of the Supreme court
of the United States consists in
protecting the people of one
state from being deprived of
their rights by a neighboring
state.
Like individuals, the 48 states in
the Union do not always agree on
matters which affect them in com
mon.
In many respects each state is in
dependent of every other state. Each
has its own government, constitu
tion, and laws. Each surrenders to
the federal government, under the
Constitution, only enough of its in
dependence to assure regulation for
the common good in matters of na
tional concern.
Frequently one state believes that
a neighboring state has deprived
or is depriving it of certain rights.
It may believe that some of its
territory is wrongfully claimed by
its neighbor. Or it may think that
another state is polluting a river
which runs through, or bounds both
states. Perhaps the waters of an
interstate river are being diverted
by an upper state, so that the lower
state is deprived of some of its ben
efits. A difference over financial mat
ters may also demand a decision by
an impartial umpire.
Constitution Provides Umpire.
Under sufch circumstances, the
state which believes itself to be in
jured will ask the other to repair the
alleged damage, give up the dis
puted land, or make payments of
money claimed on loans, etc.
Often the state on which such de
mands are made disputes the
claims. What are the possible re
sults?
The disputing states could, in such
a situation, have a difficult time.
When similar disputes arise between
independent nations, the choice lies
between diplomatic conferences and
war. But, here, under the Constitu
tion, the Supreme court is prepared
to meet such situations.
What were some of these differ
ences, amicably settled by submit
ting them for decision to our Na
tional Umpire? Here are a few:
In 1832 Rhode Island asked the
Supreme court to determine the cor
rect boundary line between that
state and Massachusetts. Both
claimed title to the land under their
respective charters from the Brit
ish crown.
Massachusetts Wins.
After determining that the evidence
showed the territory in dispute had
been possessed and occupied by the
people of Massachusetts for over
two hundred years, the court de
cided in favor of the Bay state.
“It would be difficult,” explained
the opinion, “to disturb a claim thus
sanctioned by time, however un
founded it might have been in its
origin.”
In another case, Missouri and Ken
tucky could not agree as to the own
ership of an island in the Mississippi
—the boundary between the two
states. The main channel of the
river had been fixed as the dividing
line.
From the evidence submitted the
court decided that at that time the
main channel had been on the west
side, and therefore the island was
part of Kentucky.
Numerous wars have been fought
in the course of history because one
country thought it should have part
of another’s territory. Many not dis
similar disputes between our states,
however, have been settled so quiet
ly by our National Umpire that few
people were even aware that differ
ences had arisen.
Court Recalls Old Treaty.
In 1921, for example, the Supreme
court was asked to decide a dispute
between Oklahoma and Texas, in
volving a strip of valuable oil land
claimed by both.
To avert possible armed conflicts
between parties claiming title from
the state of Texas and others claim
ing title from the state of Oklahoma,
it became necessary for the Supreme
court to assume charge of the ter
ritory through a receiver, until the
dispute was decided.
The case was settled in favor of
Oklahoma, after the court found it
necessary to consider a treaty be
tween the United States and Spain,
signed back in 1819.
On another occasion the Supreme
court ordered Colorado not to divert
more than a small amount of the
waters of a river within its bounda
ries, because such action would de
prive the people of Wyoming of their
right to have the river, on whose
waters they depended, flow through
their state.
In these, and other cases, the Su
preme court, by its decisions de
termined the law for the whole peo
ple, and fulfilled its purpose as
guardian of their rights.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Boys Taught Gambling
Boys at Cobha school, Redcar,
England, are receiving lessons in
book - making on races, football
games and other spores. Demon
strations are given with cards and
dice and in laying of odds. The
school authorities state that pupils
are shown by mathematical proof
the folly of gambling.
“Suited to a tea”—this captivat
ing apron which “home girl” or
matron will find quick to make,
easy to embroider, smart to wear!
There’s a pattern for the entire
apron, its yoke, border and pocket
Fattera 58M
to bo done in contrasting ma
terial. Cut flowers for applique
from colorful scraps. In pattern
5800 you will find a transfer pat
tern of the apron with the motif
7% by OV* inches (including pocket)
correetly placed, a motif 4 by 4%
inches and applique pattern
Foreign Words ^
and Phrases
Vous etes bien innocent de
croire a pareils contes. (F.) You
are very simple to believe such
stories.
pieces; color suggestions; mate
rial requirements; illustrations of
all stitches used; directions for
making the apron.
To obtain this pattern send 15
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept., 259 W.
Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y.
Pleasa write your name, ad
dress and pattern number plainly.
Appreciation of Beauty
Appreciation of beauty is not
confined to the rich nor to the
highly educated. It is possessed
by all, in some degree, and the
presentation of beauty should be
such that it can be appreciated
by all, not the select few.—J.
Cooney.
George V.'s Motto
At a recent youth movement
luncheon in London recently 14
was revealed that the guiding
motto in the late King George’s
life was: “The secret of life is not
to do what one likes to do, but te
try to like what one has to do.”
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Laissez moi. (F.) Leave me
alone.
Les hautes et les bas de la vie.
(F.) The ups and downs of life.
Vos bontes resteront a jamais
gravees dans nos coeurs. (F.)
Your kindness will remain forever
engraved on our hearts.
Le tonnerre gronde. (F.) The
thunder rumbles.
Le jour se compose de 24 heures.
(F.) The day is composed of 24
hours.
II a fait une horrible faute. (7.)
He has made a terrible mistake.
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Postum’s 30-day test. Buy a can of
Postum and drink it inatead of coffee for a full month.
If...after 30 days...you do not fool bottor, return
the top of the Postum container to General Foods,
Battle Creek,'Michigan, and we will cheerfully refund
the foil purchase price, plus postage! (If you live in
Copy. IWT. King Feature# Syndicate. G. F. Corp. Licensee
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Postum contains no cafiein. It is simply whole wheat
and bran, roasted and ^lightly sweetened. Postum
comes in two forms...Postum Cereal, the kind you
boil or percolate... and Instant Postum, made in
stantly in the cup. It is economical, easy to make
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