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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1938 en of the ounted by Captain G. Elliott - Nightingale Copyright, WNU THE SKULL WITH A HOLE IN ITS FOREHEAD Ttoyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! « *1 'HEY found the headless body of an aged man on the banks of the Bow river right after the ice had Cone out, and right away there was m check-up to find out who was miss ing.- That was in June, 1910. Sev eral months passed and then, just as the beautiful Bow was beginning to freeze up again, a trapper stum bled over a small boulder. Later an, upon examining the round thing that had tripped him, the trapper realized that he was handling a human skull. Like a good Canadian be was soon in touch with the Royal Mounted. A more thorough and extensive search and investigation was soon ander way. Within a few yards of where the skull had been picked up, the Mounted saw a strange looking heap which later proved to be a blanket and a cowhide tied with ropes, the whole still frozen solid. The first discovery had come in June, the second in November, and still no one had turned up missing. With everyone accounted for, the only thing the Mounted could do was to store the remains. The check up of transients and settlers, how ever, continued; meanwhile a griz zled and widely experienced physi cian and surgeon examined the re mains. The physician ^announced, m little while later, that the man bad been about fifty or sixty, had iron-gray hair, and that the hole in the forehead had been made by a bullet of .22 caliber, and that the ballet had been found imbedded in the skull. Moreover, there had been another bullet foflnd in the body. B bad entered from the right side and had coursed upward through both lungs and had lodged in the ribs of the lower left side. Then a> constable had a bright idea. Everyone had been accounted for, he argued/but that was only for the year 1910 or for the months pre ceding and fbllowing the discovery «f the headless body. What about Msft year?* After all, the constable argued, the deceased could easily have been done in a year or two years ago, so> why not go back a bit? Soon r Ed! interest was centered upon the absence of one of the first aetUers, an Englishman named Beadi. In’ no* time the Mounted discovered that Peach had sold out to a man named Robertson and bad then returned to his home in England: Robertson was soon be ing questioned' in a town a hundred miles away, and he corroborated the information of the deal with Peach. Later it was learned that Robertson had moved to Calgary after having bought the Peach homestead and mat he had left or ders that all mail for Peach be for warded on to his address in Cal gary. Well, this was really the first “break” for the Mounted. Why should Robertson want Peach's mail forwarded to him? Robertson was again questioned, Biis time by a Mounted policeman he had never seen before but who knew the results of the first inter view. x Robertson's story changed color entirely during this second question- mg. but the Mounted policeman kept this discovery entirely to himself. Some days later another Man of the Mounted had a quiet little chat with Robertson, and again the latter’s story changed complete ly. Surely Robertson was tying him self up into, a knot. Then he an nounced that he was going down to a small settlement just a few miles away for a few days’ rest, a sort af short vacation. Instead of alighting at the small town, he stayed on the train and, went through to McLeod. Here he proceeded to get drunk and was soon boasting that he had made a cleanup in the Yukon gold fields and was returning to his home in the States. And, as he sat boasting bow tough he had been in his time, a constable of the McLeod detach ment walked in and very quietly ar rested him for the murder of Tuck er Peach. Back in Calgary, Rob ertson tied himself in such a knot of lies and falsehoods that there was nothing else to do but confess. His confederate, one Fisk, had fired the ftrst shot, into Peach’s forehead. He, Robertson, had fired the second. Fisk had learned that Peach had a large amount of money hidden somewhere about his homestead eabin, and was scheming to get it when he met Robertson who was planning to buy the Peach home stead. “Buy it,” advised Fisk, “then we’ll knock him (Peach) on the bead and get your money back. Then we’ll ransack the cabin and End the two thousand he has hidden somewhere in it. After that,' you take the homestead, and I’ll take the horses, and we split his money between us when we find it.” No one knows to this day whether Fisk and Robertson found the old man’s hoard, but they do know that Canadian law worked fast, and cmofcthly as these two renegades were tried. Fisk was sentenced to bang. Robertson wad given life im prisonment. Inside of a month after capture, both men had begun pay- Mg for their awful crime. Dangerous Crossing 9 * By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ELLO EVERYBODY: Here’s a yarn from Claire Gibson of Chicago about an adventure that took place in Springfield, 111. Claire was just a little girl when she had that adventure. It was the first one of her life, and for thrills and plain out-and-out terror nothing that has happened to her since could ever even approach it. It was a hot day in the early summer of 1910. Claire had an invi tation to a party that was being given at a house some distance away from her home and she was all dressed and ready to go. It must have been somewhere between seven and eight in the evening, because Claire remembers that the party started at eight. She left her home, walked two blocks to the trolley line, and waited for a car to come along. When it arrived, she got on and took a seat up near the end of the car. The car moved on, and, after a few blocks, an old lady boarded it and took a seat near the middle. More people got on after that. It was pretty well filled by the time it reached Fifth and Rafter streets and started to cross the railroad tracks. Claire was up in front of the car, and she saw everything that hap pened. That crossing they were coming to was a dangerous one, and it seemed to he* that all necessary care was being taken to see that the car got over it safely. The conductor got out and ran ahead to maka sure there were no trains coming. Freight Engine Smashed the Trolley. Apparently satisfied, heNmotioned to the motorman to come ahead, and swung back aboard the moving trolley. And, then something went wrong. The trolley was moving across the tracks—was fight in the middle of them—when suddenly a freight train appeared out of nowhere, looming up in the night not three yards away from the car! There was no time to avoid it—no time to do anything. Some one in the car screamed. Then there was a thud—a terrific jar— a crashing of glass and a terrible grinding soimd. The big engine was tearing and ripping the trolley car to pieces! The air was full of shouts and screams now. : Bodies were flying everywhere. At the first impact, Claire had been tossed into the air and tfi/A'ArAr**— Claire Was Thrown Through a Window. thrown bodily through a window, shattering the glass as she went. She landed in a sitting position on the ground, 30 or 40 feet from the car tracks. The car, carried along by the train, was right beside her. Claire got to her feet. Kid-like, she never gave a thought to the pos sibility that she might be hurt. And as a matter of fact she was so stunned and dazed by the accident that she didn’t notice such things. “I was only about half-conscious of what was going on,” she says. “I didn’t even realize that I had been in a train wreck.” Climbed Over Bodies of the Dead. As soon as she got to her feet, she thought of the old woman who had boarded the car just after she had. Back through the window of the wrecked car she climbed, in search of that old lady. “I climbed over bodies,” she says, “until I found her. She was unconscious but I dragged her out of the window and laid her on a nearby lawn. I screamed for help, but nb one paid any attention to me. “Then I ran to the wrecked engine and climbed to the cab to get the engineer.” But the engineer wasn’t in the cab. Claire found him lying outside on the tracks—dead. By this time she was beginning to realize that she was hurt. She .iras covered with blood and her clothing was nearly all torn from her body. There was a deep cut on her wrist that was bleeding badly. But still she carried on. She climbed back into the wrecked trolley. “I found another woman,” she says, “lying on her back and begging for help. I managed to lift her a little and, as I did, I recognized her as one of our neighbors; I dragged her out through the window and laid her on the lawn beside the old lady, but she died a short time •fterward.” Claire Herself Was Badly Hurt. But by that time help had arrived. The ambulances, the fire depart ment, and the police had all been summoned, and now they were reach ing the scene of the accident. Hundreds of people were gathering, trying to lend a hand. By this time, too, Claire’s head was beginning to clear and she was sick at heart at the horrible sights she had seen. With the blood still streaming from her, she began to run home, too excited to realize that she was badly injured. She reached home all but exhausted—ready to collapse. Her wrist was cut to the bone, and there were splinters of glass in her face, and her back was strained from lifting people out through the window of that wrecked car. She was so weak from loss of blood that she staggered as she entered her house. Her folks called a doctor and put her to bed. And it was the next day before she read in the newspapers the cause of the accident. The conductor had looked for the train all right. He just hadn’t been' able to see it. It was dark, and in addition to that a thick fog had fallen over the city, obscuring the view. The freight’s headlamp had gone Out, and the watchman at the crossing had gone home just a short while before. All that was a long time ago. Claire has never forgotten the hor rible sights she saw that night, but she doesn’t regret that adventure either. “I’m glad,” she says, “that I was able to be there and do a little to help those who were more badly hurt than I was.” Copyright.—WNU Service. Habits of the Hummingbird The hummingbird camouflages its nest (hung from horizontal branches for safer wind sway) with moss and cobwebs, for the nest itself using soft fibers held together by spider’s silk. Naming Birds and Fishes Birds are not the only wild crea tures burdened with vernacular names. There is really more con fusion among the fishes. There are hardly two states that refer to the same species by the same names. Discovered, Named Brazil Brazil was discovered by Petro Alvares Cabral in 1500. He named it Terra de Santa Cruz, or Land of the Holy Cross, and took possession of it in the name of the king of Portugal. Meaning of Name Arna Arna might well be more com monly used as a girl’s name, being simple and distinctive. It is of Teu tonic and Latin origin and means “of the eagle’s breed” or “like the eagle.” Star Dust Goofy Comedies ★ *The Sheik 9 Is Funny ★ Restless Holiday — By Virginia Vale I T LOOKS more and more as if those goofy comedies were on the wane. First Carole Lombard said she’d have no more of them. Now Claudette Colbert, who helped to start the cycle with “It Happened One Night,” has balked. It was planned that she would do “Are Husbands Necessary?” when i m 1 .rt.v.^.t.wAvw.y.vjy CLAUDETTE COLBERT she returned from that European jaunt, but instead she’ll go to work in “Midnight,” which is romantic and dramatic and everything but goofy. Speaking of “It Happened One Night,” it was revived recently in New York, and a lot of people who’d heard about how funny it was but had missed it the first time round had a chance to see it. And the addicts who went to it over and over when it was first released found it just as funny as ever. * The revival of Valentino’s “The Sheik,” seems to have been ill-ad vised. Any picture that old is bound to look funny nowadays. And the generation of movie-goers that has grown up since the days of Valen tino just couldn’t understand why he had been such a world-beater. Some of them roared with laugh ter. They thought Agnes Ayres, the heroine, a bit too fat—though in her day she was considered stream lined! However, no matter what the young folks thought of that picture and the other Valentino revival, “The Son of the Sheik,” they brought mobs to the theaters and money to the box offices. *— / It looks aS if George Arliss had been tempted into returning to Hol lywood, thanks to Samuel Goldwyn. Goldwyn has a picture called “The Exiles” on the fire, based on the stories of the many famous men who have had to leave their homes in Europe because of political trou bles. Arliss would play the role of a distinguished scientist. * Warner Brothers will, at last, screen “The Miracle,” with Bette Davis in the coveted role of the Nun. Ever since it was so success ful as a dramatic spectacle—in Lon don in 1911 and in New York in 1924—there has been talk of doing it for the screen. Now, with Max Reinhardt, its original producer, available, they are ready to start. *— When Bob Burns ducked away from Hollywood for a rest, prepara tory to taking over the Bing Crosby radio pro gram for the summer, he didn’t do so well in choosing a spot to rest in. He and his wife went—to New York, but were so besieged by people that they left and went to Buffalo— he wanted to show her Niagara falls. And the public caught up with them again. He might try wearing a mask, if he really wants to rest! * Margaret Tallichet, a compara tive newcomer to the screen, will be Ramon Novarro’s leading wom an in “As You Are.” When and if “Gone With the Wind” reaches the screen she will be seen as Kareen O’Hara, younger sister of Scarlet. Miss Tallichet tried the summer the aters in the East last year, as a way of getting much-needed experi ence. Bob Burns -tK- ODDS AND ENDS—Nancy Carroll will be seen on the screen again in “There Goes My Heart" . . . Judy Garland has a wrenched shoulder, the result of an auto mobile accident . . . Bobby Breen won't have the kind of financial trouble that Jackie Coogan is having when he grows up; his parents have arranged to put his earnings into a trust fund, keeping $200 a month for themselves . . . Sigrid Gurie says her husband threatened to humiliate her by getting a job in a gas station . . . Lots of wives wouldn't see anything humiliating about that . . . Harold Lloyd's new picture, “Professor Beware,” will be -eleased simultaneously at special show- !wf« in New York, London and Paris. • Western Newspaper Union. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAVI chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for July 3 A CHOICE OF LOYALTIES LESSON TEXT—Joshua 1:2-6; 24:14-21. GOLDEN TEXT—As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15. PRIMARY TOPIC—Choosing Sides. JUNIOR TOPIC—A Loyal Leader. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— A Choice of Loyalties. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Man’s Highest Allegiance. “Lives of great men all remind us,” according to the poet, that we too may make our lives sublime, and thus leave our footprints in the shifting sands of time. The study of biography is interesting, instruc tive, and often challenging. When we enter the field of Bible biography we bring into consideration an ad ditional and fundamental factor, namely, the power and grace of God working in and through a sur rendered life. All strength of char acter and ability is a gift of God, but its glory is largely veiled and its usefulness definitely limited, if not actually perverted, because there is no recognition of the foundation of true greatness, which Is faith in and loyalty to God. During the next three months we are to share in the study of the life stories of great men and women which will not only stimulate am bitions, but which also reveal what God can do through those who are ready to follow Him. Moses, God’s great leader for Israel, having brought them out of the land of bondage and through the terrible wilderness, is about to leave them. God’s workman is about to die, but His work is to go on. God is not taken by surprise. I. A Prepared Man Takes Com mand (1:3-6). “Moses is dead; now therefore arise.” Life is like that. “The king is dead; long live the king,” is the cry of those who live under monarchies, as one ruler dies and his successor takes over the throne. Until that day when there shall be “time no longer,” men must put away their sorrow and go on. Three words characterize the commission. 1. Promise (w. 2-4). God gave the land to Israel. Every place that Joshua planted his foot upon was to be his possession, even as God has promised Moses. A river lay between; there were walled and armed cities to be takeh; there were even giants in the land, but God promised it to Joshua; and he took it by faith. God has given us many promises, too. If we are fearful, poverty- stricken, powerless Christians, it is because we do not believe God. 2. Power (v. 5). No man is able to stand against God’s servant who is doing God’s will, in God’s way, in God’s time. It was true of Joshua; it is true today. Men set up their opposition to God’s plan and pro gram with the assumed belief that because they have position, power, or money, they can readily crush the poor little band of Christian workers. Russia tried it. They even “abolished”’ God. But religion thrives in Russia, secretly perhaps, but none the less sincerely and suc cessfully. 3. Courage (v. 6). To serve God means to be assured of His help. Faith lays hold of that fact and the whole man becomes courageous. H. An Experienced Man Gives Counsel (24:14-21). More than two decades have passed since the appointment of Joshua to lead Israel. God has ful filled every promise. Israel is in the Promised Land. Before the aged leader dies he calls the leaders of his people together to urge them to continue in the way of faith and loyalty to God. This he does by: I. Example (v. 15). “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” No man can honestly and effectively call others to devotion to the Lord unless he sets them an ex ample. 2. Instruction (w. 16-19). Remem bering God’s dealings with them, the people declare their determina tion to serve the Lord. They spoke rather glibly. Joshua instructs them. God is not interested in lip service. He does not need them so much as they need Him. He does not look upon their confession of Him, if they continue to live in sin. 3. Warning (v. 20). God will visit His judgment on His people if they forsake Him and turn away—such is Joshua’s warning. We who look back to the history of Israel know that they did forsake Him, and that the judgment of God is still upon them. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Gal. 6:7) is God’s warning through Paul to the Christian. Be a Torch-Bearer The poorest can be God’s torch- bearer as well as the richest. The little candle may do more good in the world than the flaming beacon. Giving Up Faults Most people do not mind their faults being spread out before them. 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