McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, June 09, 1938, Image 6
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1938
en of the
ounted
by Captain
G. Elliott-Nightingale
Copyright, WNU
A CHISELER STARTS
A RIOT
IPOR a dozen days and nights the
* continuous roll of the tom-toms
and the weird, blood-chilling shriek
ing of the Salteaux Indians had ech
oed and re-echoed over the Atha-
baskan plains. Meanwhile, in the
tents and tepees, babies died in the
arms of mothers too starved to
suckle them, while others, including
the aged and ill, v/ere slowly dying
from hunger and the 30-below-zero
weather that had been gripping the
region for weeks. And, as the Sal
teaux suffered and died, the war
riors and braves, with the help of
some smuggled rotgut whisky were
dancing themselves into an ugly,
fighting, bloodthirsty mood. They
were steaming up for a little skull
splitting and scalp-lifting party to
be staged on the handful of whites
who were responsible for their piti
able condition.
The Salteaux, a rather superior
group, were justified in their anger
and rage, for the administration of
their affairs had fallen into the
hands of a double-dyed grafter and
chiseler. When the Great White
Mother made the treaty with the
Salteaux, she not only agreed to
give them equipment, horses and
cows with which to begin farming,
but she also agreed to give them
food and supplies twice a week un
til they were well established and
prosperous. Everything went along
fine until some underling in the In
dian affairs department was placed
in charge while his superior was off
on a rather extended vacation down
east. From this time on, the food
supplies for the Salteaux began to
diminish. Each time the rations
were handed out, they weighed a
few ounces less than before, with
the result that after a week or two
the allotments reached the most ri
diculous proportions, and the Sal
teaux began to grumble out loud. To
make matters worse, game was ex
ceedingly scarce in the region that
winter, and even rabbits were few
and far between. Moreover, had
there been furs and skins, the Sal
teaux could have traded for food at
the Hudson Bay Trading post locat
ed right on the reservation.
And now, with the tribe slowly
starving to death in the middle of
a stiff Athabaskan winter, it was
time for action. Having worked
themselves into a frenzy of rage
and hate, the warriors and braves
swooped down on the government
warehouses and helped themselves
to a few tons of flour, sowbelly, ba
con and other staples. The under
ling in charge made a faint squeak
of protest, and right away two husky
braves had him by collar and belt
and were heaving him off into the
distance. Loaded with all the food
they could carry away, the Salteaux
ratumed to their tepees and had
the first really decent feed in weeks.
And, as they fed and gorged them
selves, the Men of the Mounted
were on their way to investigate
what was termed an “Indian out
rage.”
The officer in charge, although a
fearless policeman, was a poor hand
with Indians, and his opening re
marks were to the effect that the
Great White Mother was deeply
grieved to learn that her Salteaux
children had committed this terri
ble crime (taking the food that
rightfully belonged to them). Fur
thermore, the poor misguided, or
misinformed officer asked them why
they committed the robbery when
everybody knew that the agent
handed out plenty of food twice a
week. Naturally, the Salteaux be
gan to think that the red-coat was
insane. Did he not know that they
were starving? Did he not know
that the food ration had been grow
ing smaller and smaller until there
was not enough for one child, let
alone a brave? No, the officer did
not know this.
Furthermore, he rather brusquely
stated that they were not starving
at all, and that the rations given
them were more than sufficient.
This was the spark to the powder.
The braves began fondling their ri
fles and clubs, and they moved in
close, dangerously close. The air
was electrified with the tension of
impending battle. Up to this time
there had never been any misunder
standings, nor had there ever been
shots exchanged between the Sal
teaux and the Mounted Police, and
it wasn’t long before an ordinary
red - coated constable was down
among the ugly Salteaux patching
things up and, incidentally, learn
ing the truth about the diminishing
rations. Needless to say, the quar
rel was patched up so well that
there has never been any more trou
ble with the Salteaux.
The chiseler? Well, he saddled
up one morning and rode east. He
must have kept on traveling, for he
hasn’t been seen since.
The Screech Owl
The screech owl, called by some
(he little horned owl, is a familiar
bird in many sections. It is not
as secluded m habits as are other
members of the owl family and
often is found nesting in bird boxe?
put up for martins and flickers.
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Fingers of Flame 9 *
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello everybody:
Arthur A. Guinan of Brooklyn, N. Y., is today’s Distin
guished Adventurer. Art says that although he is a veteran of
the World war and saw plenty of service in France, he had to
come back home to get in a mess of trouble.
And that, boys and girls, is the way a lot of these adventure yarns
start out. They start with a peaceful family scene like the one Art
describes in his own home on an evening early in November, 1923. It
was a cold, rainy Friday night outside, but indoors, in the Guinan
dining room, it was cheerful and bright.
It was a little early to be lighting the furnace. That’s why the
Guinans were all gathered in the dining room. They had a kero
sene oil stove burning in there to—well—to sort of take the edge
off the dampness.
Art’s mother and dad and brother were there. His dad, who had
recently been discharged from the hospital where he’d spent ten months
with a badly broken leg, was sitting in an easy chair with his bum leg
stretched out stiffly in front of him. He couldn’t walk on that leg yet,
and was practically an invalid.
Their Oil Stove Exploded.
Mother was peeling potatoes. Art’s brother had stirred up a mess
of plaster and was patching a crack in the ceiling. Art had gone out
to the kitchen to grab a bite to eat. He was just finishing up when his
dad said he didn’t like the way the oil stove smelled. Mother said she’d
noticed it too. It was warm enough in the room by that time, anyway.
She looked up and saw Art, who had just finished eating and returned to
the dining room, and asked him to put the stove out.
Art says he had a special way of putting out that stove. “We
used to turn it down as low as it would go,” he says, “and then pick it
His Dad Was Helpless in the Flaming Room.
up by the handle and give it a jerk to put out the last flicker of flame.”
But nowadays, Art realizes that that’s no way to put out an oil stove.
On this particular night, though, he didn’t realize it. He
turned the wick down to the bottom, picked the stove up and
gave it a jerk. It didn’t go out, so Art gave it another jerk—
harder, this time, than the first. The next thing he knew, he was
holding onto something that looked and sounded like Vesuvius on
a rampage.
That stove gave out a roar that could be heard a block away. A
burst of flame six feet long shot across the room. Art’s mother was
sitting right in the path of it. In a split second she was flaming like
a HUMAN TORCH!
Saved Mother but Forgot About Dad.
Art dropped the stove and ran to her. Her clothes were blazing in
a dozen places. With his bare hands, he started tearing at her dress.
“I was pulling that flame apart,” he says. “Lord only knows how, but
I kept pulling handfuls of burning cloth from her body. My brother
started coming down from the ladder he was standing on. In the mean
time my mother and I had worked our way into the kitchen and my
brother joined me there.”
Art and his brother were both pulling at those flames now, and they
were making headway. At length they had torn away the last bit of
burning cloth—beaten out the last spark. Then, suddenly, they thought
of their dad!
Art says that right there he got the worst fright of his life.
They had forgotten about dad in the rush to take care of mother,
but now they realized that he was the one who really needed
their assistance most. Dad was helpless—practically an invalid.
He couldn’t move out of his chair, and back there in the dining
room, the whole place was blazing.
Art turned to run into the dining room. The door leading to it
was a raging furnace. A curtain of flame covered its whole length and
breadth. Art hesitated just a fraction of a second. Then he plunged
right through the door, flames and all.
Flames Couldn’t Stop Art.
There was a smoke-filled space in the center of the room where the
flames had not yet spread. His dad was over at the other side of it. Art
plunged across that space in nothing flat and gathered his father
in his arms.
“His right shoe,” Art says, “was almost burned from his
foot. I started to carry him toward the back door, but about half
way across the room I stumbled. Dad fell on top of me and
knocked the wind out of me. I thought I’d never get it back
again. Before I did, the flames had crept up on us.”
It was about that time that Art felt a terrible pain in his right leg.
When he looked at it he saw that the legs of his trousers were afire.
But there was no time to lose. They had to get out of that room right
away. Art picked his dad up again and dragged him toward the door
with one arm while he was beating out the flames in his pants legs with
the other.
It was a hectic five minutes. At last he was through the door. He set
his dad down in a chair in the yard back of the house and ran to turn in the
fire alarm. “It wasn’t until I reached for the alarm box,” he says, “that
I realized how badly I was burnt. My hands looked like a couple of
beefsteaks, and my legs were worse. That peaceful little home of ours
looked like a hospital for the next six months.”
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Everybody Claims It
Members of the three religions
regard Adam’s peak, near Colombo,
Ceylon, with reverence. It is fa
mous for a footprint seven feet long.
According to Buddhists the print
was made by Buddha. Hindus, on
the other hand, maintain that it was
left by Siva, and Christians some
times identify this region with the
Garden of Eden, therefore holding
that the footprint is that of none
other than Adam.
Three Instruments Aid Gypsies
The Gypsy violin, cymbal, and the
old Turkish pipe are the three in
struments which have made the
Gypsies of Hungary the national
troubadours. The Tziganes were ad
mitted to Hungary in 1419.
Cecil J. Rhodes Born in England
Cecil John Rhodes, the South Af
rican statesman, who amassed a
fortune in the diamond fields of
Kimberley, was born at Bishop
Stortford, Hertfordshire, England,
July 6, 1853.
Treasure House Among Marvels
At the Seraglio palace, Istanbul,
there is a treasure house of gems
that is among the marvels of the
modern world. The collection has
thousands of priceless diamonds,
sapphires, emeralds, pearls of the
first water, and the famed golden
divan throne of the Sixteenth cen
tury sultan, Selim the Grim. The
throne is made of beaten gold, and
studded with rubies, turquoise and
emeralds.
The Southern Capes
Cape Horn extends farther south
than the Cape of Good Hope by
more than 1,500 miles. The city of
Cape Town, very near the southern
end of the African continent, is in
about the same latitude as Monte<
video, Uruguay.
Word “Ritzy” Misleading
The commonly accepted Ameri
can definition of the coined word
“ritzy,” as signifying something
aloof and “high hat” is all wrong
according to an authority.
Star Dust
★ Hollywood Modistes
★ Amazing Women
★ Private Radio Jokes
By Virginia Vale
C AROLE LOMBARD and
Clark Gable really ought
to go into the dressmaking
business. They co-operated on
a sports jacket which Alice
Marble, the United States’
Number One woman tennis
player, will wear when she
steps out on the courts of Wim
bledon, England, to battle for a
championship.
Carole designed the jacket, (she’s
Alice Marble’s best friend) and
Clark had his tailor make it. It’s a
knockout. And Alice, tall, blonde
and pretty, will wear it.
*
Remember “Dawn Patrol,” in
which Richard Barthelmess starred,
and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., after
pleading and fighting for the role,
played the second lead so ably that
ERROL FLYNN
he stole the picture and proved him
self a good actor? Well, it’s to be
made again, with Errol Flynn, Pat-
ric Knowles and Basil Rathbone in
the leading roles.
&
Claudette Colbert, who recently
got home from that European vaca
tion, likes simple clothes—but listen
to the description of the dress recent
ly designed for her by Travis Ban-
ton, one of moviedom’s ace design
ers. It’s frilly, it’s frothy; it’s of
white organza, covered with a print
ed pattern of cherries in black. The
skirt is shirred and full, the neck
line is outlined by a flounce, with
wider flounces forming the sleeves.
Sounds anything but simple!
m
Alice Brady has had years on the
stage and years in the movies, but
when you hear her on the radio you
may be sure that she is nervous.
The microphone simply scares her
into such a state of nerves that the
pages of her script have to be past
ed on cardboard, to keep them from
rattling.
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Encouraged by its success in
building Ginger Rogers up as a dra
matic star, RKO is going to try
to do the same thing with Ruby Kee
ler, the dancer who is Mrs. A1 Jol-
son in private life. You’ll see the
first results of the new campaign
in “Mother Carey’s Chickens.” With
Fay Bainter and Ralph Morgan also
in the cast, the girl will have to act
or be utterly swamped.
v&/-
Bob Ripley has discovered, in his
search for “Believe It Or Nots,”
that it is three and two-thirds times
as easy for a man to become an
amazing person as it is for a woman
to do so. He finds that amazing
women are just as interesting as
men, but rarer. The only reason
he can give is that they don’t have
as much chance to distinguish them
selves as men do.
The first thing any of us know,
someone is going to form an organi
zation to protest
against radio pro
grams which are
awfully amusing
to the audience in
the broadcasting
studio, but pretty
dull to those who
just tune in, and
can’t see what is
going on. Eddie
Cantor is one of
the worst offend
ers. After all, ra
dio is supposed to
be heard,not seen,
And I know of
more than one instance in which a
listener, at home, swore never to
buy the sponsor’s product because
it was so annoying to hear the
laughter and not know what was
funny.
&
Eddie Cantor
ODDS AND ENDS—Paramount may
follow Metro's example and launch an air
show in the fall . . . Stan Laurel and his
Russian bride plan a fourth wedding cere-
mony . . . Frank Black saves the stamps
from foreign letters, and gives them to
his friends—which keeps his office filled
with both friends and stamps . . . Around
Hollywood they're calling "The A ventures
of Marco Polo” "Mr. Deeds Goes to
China” . . . Gale Page, known to radio
but not to movie fans, has been made a
star by Warner Brothers.
C Western Newspaper Union.
Cross-stitched bouquets in cro
cheted baskets can be a needle
woman’s pride. Try these on your
linens and be delighted with the
decorative result for they’ll trans
form towels, pillowcases, and
scarfs. Other cross-stitch motifs
that may be used alone are given.
Pattern 6038.
The crochet is done in No. 50 cot
ton; the cross-stitch worked in
lovely colors. In pattern 6038 you
will find a transfer pattern of two
motifs 3^ by 12 inches; two motifs
4 by 10% inches; two motifs 4%
by 7 inches; two motifs 4 by 12
inches; a chart and directions for
AROUND
THE HOUSE
Improving Meat Flavor. — The
flavor of boiled ham, salt beef or
tongue which is to be served cold
is much improved if meat is
left in the water in which it was
boiled until it is cold.
* * •
Pressing Pleated Skirt.—Wire
paper clips may be used very suc
cessfully to hold pleats in position
when pressing a skirt.
* • •
Firm Pie Crust.—To prevent the
lower crust of a fruit pie becom
ing soggy, brush it over with the
white of an egg before putting in
the fruit filling.
* * *
Sparing the Tablecloth.—Use
white waxed paper under the
child’s tray on table. The paper
saves the tablecloth and is barely
noticeable.
• * *
Cleaning Upholstered Pieces.—
Heavy upholstered pieces that
cannot readily be taken outside
can be freed from dust by placing
over them an old sheet wrung out
in hot water and then beating well
with a cane. The sheet will ab
sorb the dust.
* * •
For Light Muffins.—When mak
ing muffins in iron pans, grease
the pans and heat them in the oven
before putting the batter in. Your
muffins will then be much lighter.
• * *
To Stiffen Meringue.—A gener
ous pinch of soda added to the egg
whites before they are beaten will
make meringue stand up better.
* * •
When Tying Bundles.—Twine
used in tying bundles should al
ways be dampened. It will tie
much tighter and will not slip
when knots are made.
* • *
When Fat Catches Fire.—Never
throw water on burning fat. Use
flour instead. Water only spreads
the blaze.
Dog Man's Friend, but—
No one likes to quarrel with the
statement that the dog is man’s
best friend. In fact, we all like
to believe it without question. But
neighborhood dogs that insist on
staining prized ornamental ever
greens and shrubbery certainly do
put a heavy strain on friendship.
Home owners have faced this
problem sadly, angrily and inef
fectually—until recently a very
simple solution came to light.
All that you do is spray the lower
branches of your evergreens and
shrubs with a little nicotine sul
phate mixed in water. It’s harm
less to plants—harmless to the
dogs—and brings a tremendous
relief to frayed tempers. You see,
the desired result comes because
dogs do not like the nicotine sul
phate odor and give a wide berth
to any spot where that odor is
found.
'crocheted edgings 4%. by 1?
inches; material requirements; U
lustrations of all stitches used.
To obtain this pattern, send H-
cents in stamps or coins (coini
preferred) to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14ta
Street, New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, ad
dress and pattern number plainly.
ARE YOU 3/
ONLY A 74 WIFE?
Men can never understand a three-quarter
wife—a wife who is lovable for three weeks of
the month—but a hell-cat the fourth.
No matter how your back aches—no matter
how loudly your nerves scream—don’t take it
out on your husband.
For three generations one woman haa told
another how to go “smiling through" with
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessen
ing the discomforts from the functional dis
orders which women must endure.
Make a note NOW to get a bottle of
Pinkham’s today WITHOUT FAIL from your
druggist—more than a million women nave
written in letters reporting benefit.
Why not fry LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S
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are quickly relieved with
Yager’s Liniment. A Doctor
writes that he uses it for back
aches. sprains and rheumatic
S ains. Buy Yager’s Liniment
)day Let it help you mb aches
and pains away. In use over 50
years. 25c and 50c bottles.
YAGER’S LINIMENT
MOTHERS, ATTENTION! If
your child has WORMS, the
best remedy to drive them out
is Dr. Peery’s “Dead Shot”
Vermifuge. Good for grown
ups also. 50c a bottle at drug
gists or Wright’s Pill Co., 100
Gold St., New York, N. Y.
KILL ALL FLIES
Placed anywhere. Daisy Fly
Killer attracts and kills flies.
Guaranteed, effective. Neat,
convenient—Cannot
Wlllnot soil or injure an.
Lasts bU season. 20c at
dealers. Harold Somers. Inc.,
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DAISY FLY KILLER
Watch Your
Kidneys/
Help Them Cleanse the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
Your kidneys are constantly filtering
waste matter from the blood stream. But
kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do
not act as Nature intended—fail to re
move impurities that, if retained, may
K ison the system pad upset the whole
dy machinery.
Symptoms may be nagring backache,
persistent hesdsche, attacks of diszinessw
getting up nights, swelling, puffineee
under the eyes—a feeling of nervous
anxiety and loss of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
order may be burning, scanty or toe
frequent urination.
There should be no doubt that prompt
treatment is wiser than neglect. Use
Doan’s Pills. Doan’s have been winning
new friends for more than forty years.
They have a nation-wide reputation.
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The secret of being tiresome is
in telling everything.—Voltaire.
GS
BUCK LEAF 40"
Keeps Dogs Away from
Evergreens,Shrubs etc.
$ UM lfee IVftTeanoonM
per Gallon of Spray.
SMALL SIZE
60c
LARGE SIZE
$1.20
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