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MeCORMICK MESSENGER, McCdR^MICK, S. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940 Strange Facts 1 Superfine Lines Wind the Musician Seatless Temples finest ruled lines in the are Nobert's lines, made by * points on the glass plates to test the power of micro- Some of the plates have than 225,000 of these hairlines the space of one inch. ^FingaTs cave on Staffa, one of tka Hebrides islands off Scotland, to believed to be the only cavern in the world in which one may natural musical sounds. It fids “music,” produced by the playing around the prism- pillars, that inspired Men- to write his famous over- Fingal’s Cave. Fountain of Tears in Bakh- Russia, is one of the most romantic memorials, by a Tatar ruler to ex- his grief at the death of his princess, it has shed a sin- drop of water once a minute more than 300 years. than half of the people in world worship in temples that p no seats and that prohibit wearing of shoes within their —Comer’s. 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In this way, don’t vou advertising is s social force which is ig in the interest of every one of us day of the year, bringing us new to use and enjoy. This Example of 'Art Serves Commerce' Linked Together the Names of Two Men, Both Famous in Annals of the Frontier By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) R ECENTLY a New York art gallery held the first public exhibition of a collection of paintings of unusual historic interest. Not only were these canvases the work of George Catlin, the famous painter of Indians, but associated with them is another man’s name, well known on the frontier. He was Col. Samuel Colt, inven tor of the six-shooter which played such an important role in the winning of the West. The linking of the names of these two frontier notables came about in this way: At the begin ning of the Mexican War a de tachment of American dragoons was ambushed by a Mexican pa trol and the only man who escaped was a Captain Thornton who shot his way to freedom with a brace of Colt revolvers. When Gen. Zachary Taylor heard of this, he was much im pressed and asked for more in formation about these weapons. Capt. Sam Walker of the Texas Rangers, who was guarding Tay lor’s lines of communications and who had influenced Colt to de velop a .44-caliber revolver in ad dition to the .34-caliber which he had been manufacturing, told the general that the only thing wrong with the revolvers was that there were not enough of them. Thereupon Taylor sent Walker to Washington to make known to the President the need of his sol diers for more weapons of this sort. The result was an order on Colt for 1,000 of his guns, which he at once supplied. More than that, Colt, who was an early-day “super-salesman,” put over as clever a publicity campaign as any modern press agent could have devised. “It was not the sales of his revolvers to the army that made Sam Colt,” writes Jack Rohan in his “Yankee Arms Maker: The Incredible Career of Samuel Colt” (Harper and Brothers), “It was the manner in which he cap italized the victories of the Amer icans over numerically superior forces. The revolvers in use at Resaca de la Palma, Monterey and Buena Vista were few and far between. But those few, when Sam Colt got to spreading the story around the world, account ed for the defeat of the Mexicans. And the latter, glad of any ex cuse for their humiliation, cheer fully corroborated his claim!” Soon after the close of the Mex ican war came the discovery of gold in California. Emigrant trains began streaming across the Western plains, heading for the new diggings in California or for the rich lands of the Oregon country. The result of this epic migration was the inevitable clash with the Indians who had already learned to fear and hate the land-hungry white men. Sam Colt, the Yankee arms- Catlin, the Artist, Shooting Buffalo With a Colt Revolving Pistol— *T gave five shots to the right and left, four of which were fatal to the heart and all in less than half a minute.” pictures of village and hunting scenes, of Indian games and cere monies, of the scenery of the plains and mountains. Although Catlin went among the Indians on this peaceful mission, it was still a dangerous business. So “just in case”—he went armed, and the guns which he carried were made by Sam Colt. Catlin’s “North American Indi an Portfolio,” published in Lon don in 1844, was proof of his abil ity to make the kind qf pictures of wild life in the West that would appeal to men likely to purchase Sam Colt’s product. So he com missioned the artist to paint some pictures for him in which Colt guns would be prominently dis played in scenes illustrating their usefulness in hunting or Indian- fighting. The result was a dozen such canvases, painted between 1854 and 1857, which Colt used for display and from which litho graphs were made for advertis ing promotion. After they had served that pur pose, the paintings were hung on the walls of' Colt’s residehce, “Armsmear,” in Hartford, Conn. Later they were relegated to an unused room on the third floor of another Colt home in Newport, R. I. It was only recently that they emerged from this obscurity and were placed on public exhibi tion in the New York gallery, there to be hailed as a rediscov ered “find” of American “primi tive” art. For with the passing years the fame of George Catlin has grown. Before his death he presented to the Smithsonian institution more than 500 of his paintings. Some of these were destroyed or injured in a fire which swept the institu tion in 1865 but the remainder of the collection now housed there is valued at more than $1,000,600. There is no way of estimating what the paiptings which he made for Colt are worth but some clue may be obtained from this fact: Some time in the sixties the English firm of J. M’Gahey made lithographs from the six paint Catlin, the Celebrated Indian Traveler and Artist, Firing His Colt’s Repeating Rifle Before a Tribe of Carib Indians in South Amer ica. maker, was quick to realize the opportunity which this situation offered him and his product. By demonstrating the superiority of his revolver and the repeating rifle, which he had recently in vented, over the Indians’ bows and arrows he could sell large numbers of his weapons to the westward-faring emigrants. Al though advertising was still in its infancy, Sam Colt knew that “it pays to advertise” and he also knew that one of the best ways to put across an advertising mes sage was through the medium of pictures. Two decades earlier an artist named George Catlin had ascend ed the Upper Missouri and lived among “48 of the wildest and most remote tribes,” making paintings of everything that would illustrate the life and the country of those tribes—portraits of the chiefs, ings and these lithographs were distributed by the Colt company as advertising. Last year Good- speed’s of Boston, the noted deal er in rare books and prints, of fered for sale a set of these six lithographs, plus two others which were pictures of Colt’s manufactory and armory, and placed a price of $250 on the eight. In commenting on these prints Goodspeed said: “Until recently the set of six drawings which George Catlin made for the Colt Fire Arms Manufacturing compa ny was known to us by title alone. We had never owned a set and we remember seeing only one listed by another dealer. These six lithographs are, by all evidence, very rare and this is the only set we have offered in 40 years of book and print sell ing.” If the lithographs are val ued at $250 it is safe to estimate that the original paintings are worth easily ten times that amount. No doubt George Catlin would be surprised if he could know what a high value is placed upon his work today. Born at Wyo ming, Pa., in 1796 the son of a lawyer-father, his boyhood, ac cording to his own statement, “was whiled away, apparently, somewhat in vain, with books re luctantly held in one hand, and a rifle or fishing pole firmly and af fectionately grasped in the other.” His father was ambitious for him to become a lawyer, too, so he obediently studied for that pro fession and began practicing in Philadelphia. But, being a lov er of the outdoors, he found his GEORGE CATLIN office duties irksome. He began painting as a recreation but had no idea of making it his life busi ness. Then one day on the streets of Philadelphia he saw a party of Indians who were en route to Washington for a conference with the “Great White Father.” He was delighted with their pictur esque dress and their splendid physiques and then and there was born in him a determination that “the history and customs of such people • preserved by pictorial il lustrations are themes worthy the lifetime of one man, and nothing ^hort of the loss of my life shall prevent me from visiting their country and of becoming their historian.”- Although Catlin was married by this time, neither the opposition of his wife nor arguments of oth er relatives could dissuade him from his purpose. He set out for the Indian country and lived among the Indians for eight years during which time he sketched or painted 3,000 full-length figures, made 33 portraits in oil and gath ered together a collection of In dian costumes “and other manu factures from the size of a wig wam down to the size of a quill or a rattle.” With these pictures and curiosi ties which he had acquired at such a cost of time, work and danger he traveled throughout the United States and exhibited them in all of the leading cities. Ev erywhere he went he attracted crowds. Then he crossed the At lantic and exhibited in England, Belgium and France where King Louis Philippe was so much in terested in his work that he pro posed to buy the entire collection for the French nation. Then came the Revolution of 1848 and, fortu nately for America, the sal© fell through. Catlin returned to the United States and later visited South America and Central America to paint the Indians of those coun tries. Although his last years were spent in poverty, he pre sented to the Smithsonian his en tire collection, so that future gen erations of his fellow-Americans might enjoy the record of an era that was rapidly passing. He died in Jersey City, N. J., on Decem ber 22, 1872, at the age of 76. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for November 3 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. JESUS DECLARES HIS MISSION '• ‘ LESSON TEXT—Luke 4:16-30. GOLDEN TEXT—For the Son of man Is come to seek and to save that which was losL—Luke 19:10. Ready for service! It’s an excite ing and auspicious occasion when the one who has prepared for a life work is ready to set forth on his mission. Joy and sorrow mingle; encouragement and opposition both appear and become his constant companions. Recognizing God and following His Word is of greatest importance on such a day. The mission upon which Jesus en tered on the day of our lesson was important far beyond any service of man, for, while He set out upon an earthly ministry of doing good, it led to the cross where He wrought out deliverance for the captives of Satan. That day found Him back with His own people in the syna gogue in His home town. I. Prophecy Fulfilled (w. 16-22). It is significant and appropriate that Jesus’ declaration of Himself as the fulfillment of Isaiah 61:1, 2 was made in the synagogue on the Sab bath day. He met with the people in the house and at the time set apart for God’s worship. He op posed spiritual deadness, the misin terpretation of the truth, the distor tion of religious principles; but He was not, as some would have us be lieve, a religious free lance who despised the established worship of His people. ' Having been prepared by the years of silence, and more particu larly by the baptism and the tempta tion in the wilderness. He appeared at the synagogue in Nazareth to de clare Himself as the fulfillment of prophecy. Those who teach that Jesus was only a young Jewish teacher with a new philosophy of life have evidently not read the Scriptures. He knew Himself to be God’s Son come into the world to bring the good news of salvation by His own blood to poor, sin-captive, blinded and bruised humanity. He is the Sav iour I Look at Isaiah 61:1, 2 and note that Jesus stopped reading before the end of the sentence, ‘“pie day of vengeance of our God” will come whea Christ returns. This is the day of grace. Sinners are urged to accept God’s love now, and thus to escape the terrible day of judg ment. H. Faith Recognized (w. 23-27). The Jews gloried in the fact that they were the chosen people of God and insisted it was through the ex ercises of their formal worship that God’s blessing must be received. Now this one whom they erroneously call “Joseph’s son” (v. 22) comes to disturb them in their self-satisfac tion. Seeing their rising resent ment, He declares by striking words and example that the benefits and blessings of God come through faith and not because of any racial rela tionship. The glory of Christianity is that its grace and power are to be re ceived by faith and are fully and freely available to the simplest and poorest of men. Race, position, wealth, education, have nothing to do with it. All too often they are a hindrance, although they ought rather to be a help. Every reader of these notes, re-1 gardless of age, education, wealth or any other condition or circum stance of life, stands on an equal footing before God and has a full and unlimited opportunity to take right now, by faith in Christ, all that God has for him—salvation, spiritual strength and usefulness, joy, peace, and all the other bless ing of God. Will you do it? III. Truth Rejected (vv. 28-30). Like a torch cast into gunpowder. His words set off all the explosive power of narrow bigotry, national pride, jealousy, and they were all “filled with wrath” (v. 28). They rejected not only the truth of His words, but they rejected Him who is the Truth (John 14:6). Note it carefully—in rejecting or neglect ing His Word, you reject and neglect Him. Observe that until the time had come for Him to be “delivered” (Rom. 4:25) into the hands of wicked men to be crucified they could not touch Him. 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