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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938 ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! «< » The Murdering Horde By FLOTD GIBBONS Famous Headlino Hunter H ello, everybody: Here, boys and girls, is one of the strangest yarns I have seen in a long time—sent to me by Edward E. Kaplan of New York City. It is a story that takes us to India, the land of oddity and mystery—to the year 1928 when, as Ed says, wild animal films were coining money for their producers. Ed is a movie cameraman, and that’s how he happened to be in India with a crew that was taking animal pictures. They were in the Rajmahal hills, near Karharbari, in Behar province—quartered at the edge of the jungle, not far from the tents of a semi-savage native tribe. The natives were friendly. Somebody had once built a mud and plaster house up there. So the movie crew moved into it. Says Ed: “One of my first acts was to take out my girl’s pic ture and nail it on the wall. A native boy frowned as I started, but I ignored his warning. As I drove in the first nail the plaster crumbled, leaving an inch wide hole. The boy drew back, and I soon knew why. Black Bugs Came Out of the Hole. “An ugly black bug came out of the hole—and dozens and scores more followed the first. I couldn’t stop them until the boy brought a piece of wet paper to plug the hole and killed all those crawling around us. Then I understood why the natives lived in tents. Hordes of in sects hollowed the walls of every house built in that locality.’’ Now let’s leave those strange bugs till later. On the twelfth day, Ed came down with fever, and the crew went off leaving him behind. Ed tossed feverishly on his cot all day. In the evening they still hadn’t returned, so Ed spent that first dreadful night alone. At dawn, though, he was awakened by loud cries from the native tents. He lay still for a while, wondering what was wrong, for he felt too weak to get up and investigate. By raising himself on his elbows, Still They Came Mounting Up and Up. though, he could see through the open doorway. The sun beat down with a bright, powerful heat, and the ground shimmered like lacquer. Then, strangely enough, Ed saw a shadow—an immense black one, where no shadow should have been. It was a long time before he realized what that shadow was. Then, suddenly. It came to him. Ants! Millions of them, mov ing in a great wave. Ed had seen those ants in smaU groups. They were long, and black, with vicious biting fangs. He had heard that they came in a great seasonal drove and that then they devoured everything that was before them. Nothing Could Stop the Ant Horde. The natives said they could kill a trapped elephant. No matter how you fought them they came on and on—millions of them to replace all that could be slain. v * “My cot,” says Ed, “offered me no safety from that oncoming horde. I was too weak to run. There was a half-barrel of boiled, purified wa ter in one corner of the room. Also there were several film cans. I dragged myself over to them. “The leading couriers of the ant pack were on the door sill as I filled four of the film cans with water and dragged them over to the table. In a few minutes I had each table leg resting in a can full of water. When I had finished, several ants were climbing my ankles. I staggered to my feet and crawled up on the table.” Ed had no sooner gotten himself set on that table than the ants began coming in droves. The floor became black—solid black—every inch of it. And still hordes of the insects came crawling on. They poured into a mouse hold in the wall. They scoured nests of other insects look ing for eggs. They swarmed over the movie crew’s food supply like one great, black blanket. An army of them tried to reach Ed. As fast as they mounted the water cans to reach the table legs, they drowned. “But,” says Ed, “the drowned ants floated. The live ones be gan crawling across over their bodies. They got to the table legs. I smashed them as fast as I could, but one table leg was cov ered with them, and still they came, mounting up and up.” They Fled From the Dreadful Bugs. Ed began to think he was done for just about then—began to think he had come all the way to India just to furnish a meal to a flock of scavenger ants. But suddenly thererwasa* crash. A wall, undermined by the ants, collapsed. Plaster fell all around. Then followed a strange spectacle. “Out of the wall,” says Ed, “came a shower of the ugly black bugs that I had seen the day before when I tried to tack up my girl’s photo. At the sight of those bugs, the ants turned to flee. The black bugs went crawling after them. Death fought death! “The ants outnumbered the bugs, thousands to one. They could have slaughtered them easily. But they fled before the bugs as though they dreaded their very sight. Sicker than ever, I watched the shadowy wave move on. In half an hour not a single ant was in sight, but I stayed on the table until late that evening when the members of my party re turned. If they hadn’t taken my camera along with them what a pic ture I could have filmed. And all they got was a ‘shot’ of a swinging monkey!” • Copyright.—WNU Service. First Free Rural Mail The first free rural mail delivery in the United States is said to have originated from the postoffice at Thibodaux, La., 60 miles west of New Orleans. It comprised terri tory between Thibodaux and Laba- dieville Crossing, and also on both banks of the bayou. The service was established as an experiment and proved successful, due to the dense population of the section. The territory from Thibodaux to Race- land, along the south bank of Bayou Lafourche, is the most thickly set* tied rural population in the world. Seeds to the Pound Seed dealers talk glibly of the numbers of seed to the pound; did you know that lobelias run 12,000,000 seed to the pound, and that there •re more than 4,000,000 tiny poten tial red clover plants in one pound? Steel Stronger in Alloy Steel chains seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, when alloyed with nickel and molybdenum are three, times as strong as unalloyed chains of the same size.—Scientific Ameri- Incunabula Defined Incunabula are books of the cradle days of printing, books print ed in the Fifteenth century. The known incunabula represent about 35,000 editions and include products of such famous early printers as Gutenberg, Jenson, Caxton and Al dus Manutius. Notable collections in the United States are in the li brary of congress, Pierpont Morgan library, New York; John Carter Brown library and Annmary Brown memorial. Providence, and the Huntington library at San Marino, Calif. Finnish Lapland Finnish Lapland is an extensive, thinly peopled domain, in which waste lands, desolate plateaus, enor mous forests, wide bogs, and swift rivers alternate for more than 300 miles. There are fewer lakes there than in southern Finland. President Married in London John Quincy Adams, president of the United States, was married in the Church of All Hallows, London, in 1797. William Penn was bap tized there in 1644. DORIS DEDE'S column Daughter** Sacrifice Wont Make Devoted Parents Happy. D EAR DORIS DENE: I am nine teen and for two years have tried to help my parents who are in financial need. I have not been successful as my job just about sup ports me. Now I am offered mar riage by a much older man. He seems to love me. I have nothing for him but respect and some af fection. He can give me every thing I need and also make life different for my father and mother. They are my chief worry in life. We are a very devoted family.—Anne H. F. ANSWER—You can’t make a de voted family happy and comfortable through your own, unhappy mar riage. And no girl of nineteen can marry an older man she does not love and escape muqh disillusion ment and heart-ache before she is through. Other girls have tried the experi ment you propose to make. It’s gone well for a while. The devoted daughter in a glow of gratitude, to the man who is helping to give her family the comforts they need be lieves herself to be happy. For a few months she is contented merely to know that her people are being taken care of. Relief from an ever present worry makes her spirits soar and causes her to believe that she has found life’s truest happi ness. But in another few months some of her exultation dies down. Even the most self-sacrificing girl in the world begins to want a happiness more personal than that offered by the spectacle of her parents’ well being. As she learns to accept the fact that the wolf is now established permanently at a respectful dis tance from the door of the ancestral mansion so her joy in this fact di minishes and her demand for an other kind of happiness begins. It is then that she begins to criticize the man she has married; to realize that she can never love him—and that but for her first blind delight in sheer material comforts, she would never have been able to stand him. All his faults are magnified in her eyes. Even gratitude cannot keep her from expressing her unfavorable opinions bluntly. Because she is not in love she cannot make her benefactor happy. And he shortly comes to know the bitterness of being unwanted except for his money—while his young inexperienced wife struggles desperately to conceal her distaste for an unloved spouse. The result is sordid domestic mis ery. And it is inconceivable that the parents of the self-sacrificing daughter can find pleasure or happi ness in the comforts which have been given at the cost of their child’s happiness. D EAR MISS DENE: I am eight een and am in love with a boy of whom my parents do not approve because of his nationality and re ligion. He is wealthy and gives me a very good time. Should I break off with him to please my parents? I now see him every day. I enjoy reading your column every day. —D. G. ANSWER — No good running around with the boy if you have to do it on the sly. That kind of ro mance never made for permanent happiness. The sly date may give you a romantic thrill but it doesn’t give you the faintest chance to know and understand the boy you’re going with. On the other hand it would be a pity if you broke up a nice friend ship simply because your hero hap pened to be of a different race and creed from yourself. Why not compromise with father and mother? Ask them for a square deal. Ask that you be allowed to entertain the unwelcome guest in your own home, under the parental eye. Perhaps if your fond parents had an opportunity to know your beau ideal they might appreciate some of his good points. Dancing M.: It’s not a question of ethics, my girl, just a case of plain bad manners. Nobody has invented any laws yet to cover the conduct of a young lady who has been escorted to a dance by a beau she doesn’t care a hang about. The whole question is just a matter of personal opinion —and personally I think you be haved very badly. If you use a man as an entrance ticket to a dance, you might accord him the same courtesy you would show to the keeper of the zoo when he gives you the special privilege of going inside the monkey-house for a few minutes. That’s all I claim. It is simply good taste to show, occasionally coring an evening, that you recognize the boy who brought you to the dance, and who paid for the taxi and who will probably have to take you home. It is definitely not unreasonable of the lad to de mand one dance with the fair lady whom he mistakenly supposed want ed him to be her escort for the eve ning. If you persist in your rather casu al treatment of swains, Dancing M., you’ll find that your popularity with the stag-line will be of no use to you, since no practical minded man will bear the expense of escorting you to the dance 4trhere the stags are at play. C Bell SyndloatS.—PftU Service. Fashion Goes Definitely Bolero By CHERIE NICHOLAS LpVENTUALLY, why not now, a bo- lero costume? The bolero vogue is sweeping through all fashiondom like wildfire. Both in suits and dresses the bolero has leaped into the very foreground of the mode with such a flourish none can es cape it and what’s more no one with an eye to chic and charm will want to escape a fashion so flattering, so kind to waistlines, so make-you- look-young as do these new bo lero silhouettes. You can get most any type of a bolero outfit you happen to want which counts a lot when you are choosing a fashion “first” for spring. A simple tailored model is very practical in that with a supply of diverse blouses and a collection of intriguing accessories your bo lero costume comes well nigh serving as a whole wardrobe in it self. If you decide on a tailleur we would suggest that you look for a tweed in the ultra smart new wheat color or if navy or black be your preference you will be able to find models galore tailored of wool twills (watch twills for they are going big) or of gaberdine or of dependa ble crepe or that which will carry the summer through, triple sheer. See to it that thd bolero be duly equipped with trim little pockets, two or more if you please. For those whose fancy turns to softer dressmaker styling there’s no limit to the models available. Per haps the outstanding note is sounded in plain with print combinations. Of these types there is such a vast outpouring from style sources you will feel an attack of brain storm coming on when you try to make a selection. Sometimes the bolero and skirt is in monotone with perhaps a wide binding or bordering of ani mated print to which a gypsy sash is matched. Then again the entire bolero is of the print with sash to match. With object in mind of calling at tention to the widely diverse trends interpreted in the now-so-important bolero costume, the three models were carefully selected from among a showing of advance fashions de signed by the Style Creators of Chi cago in the wholesale district. These are typical of what you will find in leading shops and departments dur ing the coming months. In the center of the group we pre sent a charming dress of navy crepe, its modish bolero effectively trimmed in white nailheads. “They say” navy is going to be an out standing color choice for spring. In fact, all blues are good with espe cial emphasis on the new gray blues. Here’s another “pointer:” try with a navy bolero suit a blouse and sash in a soft violet shade, with which wear a boutonniere of spring violets, with plenty of self leaves in cool green. Sugar sacking in the very, very new wheat color makes the costume to the left. It has a brown print silk blouse with sash to match. The meticulously tailored bolero has the smart military influence. Ideal for spring is the sheer wool crepe in beige outfit pictured to the right. The revers in tuxedo style are of cat lynx, the tawny colorings of which tune admirably to the gen eral scheme of things. The fur- trimmed bolero is a fashion high light that is destined to shine bright ly in the style parade, so be sure to keep your eye upon it. In conclud ing we just thought you might like to know that in the shops you can find the most fascinating boleros of colorful suede with belts or tie sashes to match. Wear them with any skirt or dress and you’ll be classed with the best-dressed. © Western Newspaper Union. LACE RESORT MODE By CHERIE NICHOLAS Whether for active or for specta tor sports this cotton lace dress is just the thing for wintering in the South or taking along on a cruise, and then keeping until spring, when it will serve delightsomely for warm days. The dress is cool and color ful and does not rumple easily, which is important for long, hot days, also an argument in its favor when it comes to packing for trav el. The scalloped edges and the contrasting belt are new notes for the classic Jpo-piece frock. , LATE BELT MODES IN HUNGARY STYLES By CHERIE NICHOLAS Every nation has some form of art particular to its people. In Hun gary, little nation in southern Eu rope, this folk art takes the form of exquisite embroidery that has be come famous throughout the world. Weisz of Budapest has adapted the traditional patterns of the peas ants and styled them for the newest belt modes. Skilled peasants, both men and women, have transferred the gay designs to linen and hand- loomed jute belts. The linen belts in natural or chalk white have bright woolen flowers embroidered on them. The edges are finished with a button-hole stitch of the cheerful yarn. All of them are finished with amusing and unique shaped buckles of natural colored wood, hand-painted with tiny flowers. The hand-loomed jute belts that are perfect with suits, sweaters and light woolen frocks are also embroidered in bright yarns. These belts are washable and of fast colors. They are in time for the crepe frocks of spring and sum mer. Hats of Youthful Drape Style Shown by Milliners Youthful draped hats are the lead ing contributions of Paris milliners, and a variety of new designs has been launched for wear with cos tumes of leading couture houses. Still rising skyward with a for ward movement, the newest hats have height in modified form to ef fect a lengthened silhouette without giving an exaggerated Berets, toques and brims, worn well, or poised among CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BABY CHICKS Tennesee Chicks—From fine blood tested flocks—all breeds. Write for catalog and price list. Jones Hatchery, Gallatin, Tean. Tarotite Recipe of} the Week For Winter Meals. C GALLOPED dishes are favor- ^ ites for cold weather because it is a pleasure to use the oven, and because the blended flavor of foods makes such delicious fin ished products. The tartness of tomatoes complements most any meat that is being served, and while there are almost unlimited ways of making the dish, you may enjoy trying the following recipe: Scalloped Tomatoes. 1 No. 1 x h can 1 tbsp. sugar tomatoes 2 cups bread crumbs 1 tbsp. minced onion 4 tbsp. butter 1 tsp. salt Combine the tomatoes with the onion and arrange a layer in a baking dish. Mix the salt and sugar with the bread crumbs and blend with melted butter. Place a layer of crumbs over the to matoes, add another layer of to matoes, crumbs, and so on until the dish is filled and ingredients used. Leave crumbs on top. Bake about 30 minutes in a moderate oven (350 degrees). If you happen to have some sweet cucumber pickles on hand, slice two or three and add them to the above ingredients. MARJORIE H. BLACK. Bejeweled Paints Several oil painters in the Ori ent wanting their pictures to glow and scintillate for hundreds of years, use special paint whose pigments are made from the pow der of precious stones and min erals. . In this paint, which retails for about $40 a tube, ground coral is used for various shades of pink, lapis lazuli for the different blues, crystal for shining silver and jade for green.—Collier’s Weekly. Got A Chest Cold? Here’s Good Advice Rub Penetro on your chest— how quickly it melts—as rubbed in —causing warm feeling—makes blood flow more freely in con gested area—loosens phlegm— eases tightness—relieves local congestion—helps stop night coughing—due to colds. Stainless' Penetro used by mil lions is guaranteed. Money back if not satisfied. 35c jar contains twice as much as 25c size. There’s even greater economy in the larger sizes. At dealers every where. Demand and get Penetro. Forgetful Enjoyment When we say we enjoy ours selves, it means that we forget ourselves altogether. — Harold Murray. Many doctors recom mend Nujol because of its gentle action on the bowels. Don’t confuse Nujol with unknown products. % INSIST ON GENUINE NUJOL r .Fin.fir.s-tl nn . and Cotta wm A HOTEL OF DISTINCTION Nearest the Gardens (Famous Winter Resort) OPEN JANUARY TO MAT $6 to SIS » day Amerlean Flan 0. John Littlecreen. General Myr. Manning S. Bennett, Res. Mgr. Sum mervi i IG Souti) Coroiina WNU4