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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1938 Ttoyd ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “Three Strikes” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: George Codeanne of New Haven, Conn., thinks he rates a membership in the Adventurers’ club. He bases his claim on doggone good grounds, too. He says he thinks he has faced death more times in one day than the average guy in everyday walks of life. Well, I’m inclined to think George is right about that. George looked the old Grim Reaper in the eye exactly three times on this particular day he’s talking about, and I’ll bet that third time, the old man with the scythe heaved a sigh of resignation and said: “What? You here again?’’ It’s a fact, boys and girls. Gsorge knocked on Death's door so many times that day he made a nuisance of himself. It was on December 24, 1934, that George started out on his all day battle with the fates. It was just about the first good cold day they’d had in New Haven that winter, and a bunch of the boys went ice skating. One of the lads had a car, and they climbed into that for a ride out to Miller’s pond. They found the ice fairly solid and in pretty decent skating condition. First He Broke Through the Ice. They skated about an hour, and then George’s friends decided to quit. But George stayed on for one last spin around the ice—and that was the act that set the old adventure ball a-rolling. He had gone about half way around the pond, when suddenly, with out warning, the ice gave way beneath him and he was thrown down into the icy water. “I was chilled through in an instant,” he says. “I hit bottom and tried to rise to the surface, but to my horror, I found that both my skates had become entangled in the weeds that covered the bottom of the pond. I bent down to disentangle them, but in my panic, only succeeded in making matters worse. Things seemed to be growing yellow, and then His Pals Hauled Him to Safety. black voices began calling to me to stretch out my arms. They called two or three times before I realized it was my friends trying to help me.” George stood up and raised his arms. That’s what saved his life. The water was only a little over his head there, and his hands, stretching out of the water, came in contact with some thing hard. He grabbed it. It was a hockey stick he’d caught hold of. Up on the ice his friends had formed a human chain and were pushing that stick out to him. With his last ounce of strength, he clung to that stick, while his pals hauled him to safety. Now wait a minute. Don’t rush off. That’s only the first adventure, and George is the sort of guy who does everything by threes. The worst was still to come. As George was hauled out onto the solid ice, everything went black. He lapsed into unconsciousness, and when he came to again, he was in the car, being rushed home. And no sooner had he opened his eyes when Death struck another vicious blow—this time aimed at everybody in that speeding auto. Next Came an Automobile Wreck. From where he lay in the back seat, half supported by two of his friends, George was conscious that the car was making fast time. Up ahead, another one of his pals ’s stepping on the gas—trying to get George home and into some wc clothes before he caught pneumonia. The car was having tough going. It jounced and swayed and skidded, for the ground was covered with snow and the road was slippery. They were coming to a bridge, and George watched dully as the car sped up the approach. They were on the bridge—in the middle of it. And then, suddenly, the car hit a slippery spot, skidded, and crashed through the guard rail. The car shot out over the water. That, thought George, would surely be the end. The river swirled darkly forty feet below as the car’s nose plunged downward to meet it. But again, the gods were kind, and that car never hit the water. The rear wheels became entangled in the twisted iron of the guard rail, and there the car hung, suspended perpendicularly over the swirling water. George was thrown forward against the back of the front seat. So were the two lads who were with him. There they stayed, not daring to move lest their slightest stirring tilt the car at such an angle that they’d fall out. Says George: “With each puff of wind—with each slight movement on the part of any member of our party, the car would tip and sway a little more forward. We spent about twenty minutes there—twenty min utes of agonizing torture during which not one of us spoke a single word. As a matter of fact, we hardly dared to breathe.” Pneumonia Was Third and Last. Twenty minutes of that—and then a wrecking car came and hauled them to safety. So ended adventure number two. Still in his wet clothes, George was hustled home. But be didn’t get home quite fast enough. The cold and the wet clothes had done their work. His third meeting with Death was less spectacular than the others, but it took him a lot longer to get through with it. George came down with pneumonia. It took George three months to get over that last adventure. For six weeks he hovered between life and death. Then Death threw a big, black double six and Life took the dice to toss out a natural. He’s back on his feet again now—and we all hope he’s done fooling around with Old Man Doom for a while. Copyright.—WNU Service. “Mac” Means “Son of” “Mac” is a Gaelic prefix meaning “son of”: i. e., MacDonald, son of Donald. Similar prefixes appear in Irish and Welsh. In Irish names, it is “O,” as in O’Grady, and in Welsh, "Map” or “ap,” as in “Prichard,” a shorter form of Aprichard.” An other prefix of this type, says Lon don Answers Magazine, came through the Norman invasion. This was “Fitz,” as in Fitzmaurice. 2,136-Ounce Gold Nugget The largest nugget of gold ever discovered was found in Australia on February 5, 1869. It weighed 2,316 ounces. A marble shaft marks the spot where John Deason and Richard Oates discovered it.—En gineering and Mining JoumaL Named Tombstone, Aris. Ed Schieffelin, the pioneer settler, named Tombstone, Ariz. He was told by friends when he left Fort Huachuca that he would find his tombstone there. Hence the name. Unusual Dog-Drawn Transportation An unusual dog-drawn transporta- tation service operated in Alaska about 1900. At times, says Col lier’s Weekly, a train would consist of 24 eight-foot sledges, tied end to end, pulled by 350 Eskimo dogs, harnessed two abreast. The crew of 30 men worked in two shifts, one sleeping while the other pa trolled the line of animals, which was a half mile long. Cleanliness Once No Virtue Cleanliness wasn’t always consid ered a virtue. Back in the Sixteenth century, tongues wagged if a wom an sought attractiveness by wash- mg her face too often. Once or even twice a week was permissible and even advisable. First Carpet Factory in America The first carpet factory to be es tablished in America began opera tion in 1791 at Philadelphia, where more carpets are produced than any other city in the world. School House Wrecked by Tornado A tornado which swept destruction from Arkansas to Illinois wrecked this school at Columbus, Kan. Luckily none of the pupils were in their rooms when the twister hit. This picture shows a member of the American Legion with his little son as they recovered his things from a desk in the wrecked school room. MATURE FRESHMAN “Der Fuehrer” of Austria Julius F. Stone, Jr., who helped rehabilitate the city of Key West, Fla., is now attending classes as a freshman at the Harvard law school at Cambridge, Mass. Stone, thirty- five years old, is a graduate of Ohio State university and holder of a Ph. D. degree in chemistry from Harvard. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and baby daughter. A strange scene for the formerly gay capital of Austria is presented by posters carrying the profile of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, as the Nazi organization takes over the government. Wonder what thoughts pass through the minds of this elderly trio. Show Must Go On—War or No War Members of the Murray’s club chorus and orchestra, a leading night spot in London, England, who have received air raid precaution training, are shown prepared to go on with the show, wearing their gas masks. Official House Wrecking ' she likes cigars An army tank charging one of a row of condemned cottages near Bovington camp, Dorset, England, provided an exciting show for the local inhabitants. Hundreds of visitors and all the soldiers stationed at the camn had a chance to see the tanks in operation. One hundred and three years old, Lizzie Bransfield of Cadiz, Ohio, is happy as long as she has a little tobacco and some pretty things to fuss over. She has thrived on sim ple living and hard work at the Harrison county infirmary for 85 years. Her mother died at the age of one hundred and ten. “When I don’t enjoy my tobacco any longer,” said Miss Bransfield, “I’ll be ready to pass on and be forgotten.” IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for April 17 THE VICTORIOUS SERVANT (Easter) LESSON TEXT—AcU 1:13-36. GOLDEN TEXT—ThU Jesus Beth God raised up. whereof we aU are wltneases.— Acts 1:31. PRIMARY TOPIC—Peter s rtrst Sermon. JUNIOR TOPIC—Peter's Greatest Sermon. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Winning with the Victorious Christ. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— The Risen Christ Our Hope of Victory. "Up from the grave He arose With a mighty triumph o'er Hia foe*; He aro*e a Victor from the dark domain. And He Uvea forever with His saints to reign: He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!" Let the glad chorus swell the good tidings that the One who humbled Himself to become the servant of all is the “Victorious Servant”—yes, the Victorious Lord! Easter is the (jreat holiday—a real holy day of the Christian church. We rejoice in the incarnation, for only as the Son of God identified Himself with the human race could He bear our sins on Calvary’s tree. We keep the cross before us, for only as He died did He make atone ment for our sin, but above all we observe the ressurection, for had He not risen for our justification we would indeed have been without any hope. Ours is a resurrection faith; let us live it in resurrection power. Life is so serious in its respon sibilities and burdens, so often dis appointing in its trials and sorrows, that we need to sound the note of victory. But it must be real victory and it must be assured at the cru cial point where all the hopes of man find defeat—at death. Only the Christian has the assurance of vic tory there, but, thank God, he does really have it in our Lord Jesus Christ. Turning aside from our studies in the Gospel of Mark for today we consider together the sermon of Peter on the day of Pentecost. He declares Jesus to be: I. Approved by Mighty Works (v. 22). Theories may have validity only to the man who accepts the author ity of the one who proclaims them, but facts are stubborn things, the reality of which no man can deny. There are those who sp>eak about the Lord Jesus as though we asked them to accept Him on the basis of our claims for Him as the Son of God. They forget the facts of his tory—from the hundreds of years before His incarnation when the prophets spoke of His coming, down through the account of His earthly life, death, and resurrection to which we may well add the ines capable argument of Christianity as it stands in the world today—all speak of Him as the Son of God. II. Delivered Up to Die (v. 23). The cross was not an accident. Jesus did not die as a martyr to a noble but hopeless cause. He came into the world “to give his life a ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28). He said, “I lay down my life . No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have p>ower to take it again" (John 10:17, 18). But the fact that the cross was in tlie eternal plan of God in no way justifies those who slew Him. Though they were fulfilling the divine purpose, they were acting as free moral agents fully responsible lor their wicked deeds. III. Raised Up by God (w. 24-32). “It was not possible that he should be holden” of death (v. 24)—what a beautifully final and positive state ment. It was an impossibility that Christ should remain in the grave, and it is the absolute assurance of Scripture that we who “be dead with him shall also live with him” (H Tim. 2:11). To the believer, the one who is in Christ, the resurrection of the Saviour is the guarantee that we shall be raised. Christ is the first-fruits of them that sleep in the grave. (I Cor. 15:20.) Peter in his sermon turns- to the Scriptures to prove the resurrec tion referring to the prophet Joel as well as to the Psalms of David. It would be well for us to do like wise on this Easter Sunday of 1938, for we have infinitely richer re sources, for in our hands is the New Testament with the story of the res urrection and all the references of the epistles to this glorious truth. IV. Ascended and Exalted (v. 33). “Look, ye saints! The sight Is glorious: See the Man of Sorrows now: From the fight returned victorious. Every knee to Him shall bow: Crown Him! Crown Him! Crowns become the Victor's brow.” “He humbled himself . . : Where fore God hath highly exalted him” (Phil. 2:8, 9). Read Philippians 2: 5-11 as a fitting close to this glorious lesson. Gaining Knowledge “More knowledge of God’s Word will be gained by a single effort to obey one of His commandments than by a year of reading with no effort to keep the Word of God.” Atonement No rush to the battle will atone for sin in the tent.—G. Campbell Morgan. Pretty Dresses that Flatter the Figure T'HERE’S no spring tonic in the world like having a pretty new dress that makes you look slim and smart. And these are so easy to make, that you’ll enjoy fixing them for yourself. The patterns are carefully planned so that even beginners will have no trouble fol lowing them, and each is accom panied by a detailed sew chart explaining just what to do. In addition to having something in dividual and very much your own, you’ll save, decidedly. Comfortable House Dress. It’s wonderful how much more one feels like working in a brand new, fresh house dress that’s be coming as well as comfortable. This design is distinctly slenderiz ing because it’s so straight and simple. You can make it in a few hours. Cheerful percale print. seersucker or chambray are nice fabrics for this dress, which will certainly be your favorite if you want to look slimmer than you are. Dress For Afternoon. If you wear any size between 36 and 52 this dress is designed to make you look your best. Shir ring on the shoulders creates the fullness that you need in the blouse. The long, unbroken line from shoulder to hem takes inches off the figure. Sleeves ending just below the elbow are flattering to plump arms, and the long, softly rippling jabot,trims are lengthen ing in effect. Make this lovely dress of silk crepe, small-figured or polka dot prints, or georgette. Later, in voile, it will be your coolest summer frock. - The Patterns. 1382 is designed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 36-inch ma terial without nap. With short sleeves. 1456 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 requires 4% yards of 39-inch material, plus contrasting. Spring-Summer Pattern Book. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book which is now ready. It con tains 109 attractive, practical and becoming designs. The Barbara Bell patterns are well planned, accurately cut and easy to follow. Each pattern includes a sew-chart which enables even a beginner to cut and make her own clothes. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, HL' Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. e Ball Syndicate.—WNU Service. CP RAINS _ are quickly relieved with Yager’s Liniment. 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