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SCOTT'S EMULSION high Thergy tonic Promptly relieves coughs of ■TIGHT ACHING CHEST COLDS MUSTEROLE RUS ON FM Mllll KIES III FIIIS IF RHEUMATISM NEURITIS-LUMBAGO MCNEILS MAGIC REMEDY BRINGS BLESSED RELIEF Large Bottle ! mb meaPlM. Small Siza 60c » MITIII: ISE MU AS IIIECIII « O Ml till tilt SIltES It IT lill u limit M trite ■•IEIL Mil »„ l»«. JiCntlFILLI «, nillll XUr FICTION Cornet SHORTY OUTMATCHES A KILLER By JOE STEEL “\X/'ELL,” I says to Shorty No- ’ ' Legs, “this is it. You bust it or it busts you.” It was undoubtedly a very tough case. Sheriff Shorty No-Legs would first have to prove it accident or murder. If murder, then he’d have to catch the murderer. And if he failed anywhere along the line he’d have to resign. But that was the way Shorty— World War I veteran—had asked for it. There had been so many un solved murders in Dry Creek county that Shorty ran op his word that he would resign whenever he failed to solve a case. The name Shorty had given when he first came to Scenic City came from the fact that he actually had no legs. There were barely enough stumps below Shorty’s powerful body to enable him to do what he cheerfully called walking. “I’m blowing like a winded horse,” Shorty said, glancing back over the boulder-strewn way down have stayed with medicine or law. Barbers are always skinny.” I’d hunted with him many times, and seen* him climb around in the mountain lots, but now he amazed even me. He was driving hard on this case. We clambered up to the high-vay just as the ambulance ar rived. “Take him to Doe’s," No-Legs said. But we found out, after a long- delayed breakfast, that the Doc didn’t find any trace of drugs or liquor on the body. “Maybe he went to sleep,” I said. “Maybe,” agreed Shorty. “Now just prove it and I can resume my disturbed slumbers." I couldn’t, of course. “Who found him?” I asked. “Doc. Cornin’ back from a night call over in the hills somewhere and noticed the broken guard raiL” “What do you think?" “I don’t,” he said. “I ain’t got nothing to think on. There’s got to be some other angles." ing that now. He never seemed to have to ask questions. He’d just wait the other guy out—sqeeze him dry with the weight of dead si lence. I coul<4 see the pressure on Rhodes. Like everybody else—he’d a lot rather No-Legs would fire ques tions than just stare. Forced on the defensive and ob viously angry at having to explain further to the legless owl before him, Rhodes started again. “You see, I came out on the train for a deer hunt while Lefty wound up our business. He was to meet me here today and we’d go on to gether.” He ground his conversa tion to a stop. No-Legs sure surprised both "Chick” and me with his next move. He twisted his wrist and the big gun in his hip holster moved into Rhodes’ stomach. “You’re under ar rest for murder,” he said. Rhodes soon recovered from his surprise and grinned wickedly. "I The roadster had been moving on the steep down grade toward Scenic City when it failed to make a hairpin turn and jitterbugged its dance of death down the almost sheer mountainside. which he had slipped and slid to where the battered sports roadster and the man’s body lay. Several hundred feet above looped the narrow concrete ribbon of Blue River pass highway. The roadster had been moving on the steep down grade toward Scenic City when it failed to make a hairpin turn and jitterbugged its dance of death down the almost sheer mountainside. No-Legs mopped his face with a huge bandana and began a pain staking search of the wreckage. There wasn’t much. The dead man wore a rather flashy suit. He had on yellow shoes, so new that match scratches in the instep of the left one could plainly be seen. Cigar ettes, odds and ends, and a picture of the dead man and a little geezer evidently named “Chick,” rounded out the inventory. “Somebody,” said No-Legs, “could have got this guy drunk or drugged, driven him to this curve, headed the roadster for the railing, and stepped out. The pavement wouldn’t show any tracks,” he add ed sadly. “Shorty,” I says, “maybe I could carry you pick-a-back back up this mountain.” I could see he was ready to leave. “Yeh,” he snorted, giving me a backhanded slap in the midriff with one of his ham-hands. “Me weigh ing 160 without legs, and you weigh ing 135 legs and all. You should “What do we do now?” “Nothing. When you’re hunting geese the first thing to do is stay in the blind. Then if they don’t fly in to you after so long, you try to crawl up on them. We ain’t stayed in the blind long enough yet.” He was right. Soon after dinner a smallish fellow showed up at Shorty’s office. He was in hunting togs and would have looked like Lit tle Lord Fauntleroy if it hadn’t been for beetling black eyebrows and the vicious looking cigar he was smok ing. “I’m ’Chick’ Rhodes,” he said, “and I wanted to talk with you about the wreck out on Blue River pass. Heard about it at the cafe.” No-Legs kept Rhodes talking, then finally tossed the picture he had taken from the dead man on to the desk. Three words were under it “Lefty and Chick.” v "That’s Lefty all right,” Rhodes said. “And that’s me,” pointing to the other figure. "Taken in Chicago just before me and Lefty sold our pool hall and headed for California. Lefty was going to be drafted, and I couldn’t run the place myself. Fig ured maybe I could handle a sand wich stand in California for the duration.” You could never tell from looking at No-Legs what he was thinking. He’d spread his stumps apart, roll his eyes up at your face and stare as unblinking as an owl. He was do- can prove I was back up in the hills for a week until an hour ago. I couldn’t have done it.” “That’s right,” said No-Legs. “But you probably helped engineer it!” Over Rhodes’ threats of suit and vengeance, No-Legs had him locked up. “Let’s go to Rhodes’ hotel,” he said, without giving me a chance to ask questions. Arrived in “Chick’s” room, he began digging in suit cases. "Here they are.” He said it just like he knew they’d be there. They were insurance policies on the life of George (Lefty) Ellitto. Twenty-five thousand dollars in all. “That dead man ain’t Ellitto,” No-Legs said. “I think Ellitto must have done the actual murder.” I still couldn’t get it But that evening No-Legs met me in the cafe and gave me the dope. Rhodes had confessed. “It was like I said. El litto killed him. You see Ellitto and Rhodes found a guy in Chicago that looked just like Ellitto. They of fered him a good proposition to go West with them. Up on the pass Ellitto stops the car on a pretense of getting the other fellow to drive. “Then, he knocks him in the head, stows him behind the wheel and maneuvers the car over the cliff. We couldn’t tell whether the fellow had been hit in the head or got the bump in the wreck.” I began to see. “Rhodes was to collect the insurance, meet Ellitto in Old Mexico or some place and live happily ever after.” Then I got out the question that had tor. mented me all afternoon. “How did you know the dead man wasn’t El litto?” “That was easy,” No-Legs said. “Left-handed guys don’t scratch matches on the bottom of their left shoes. Right-handed guys do that.” Metallic Flesh and Bone Used for Artificial Ears Metallic flesh and bone made from tantalum are providing new ears and rehabilitating torn nerves and other tissues for thousands of persons. Dr. Clarence W. Balke re ported to American Chemical so ciety. Artificial ears have been grown on frameworks of tantalum wire, and more than 5,000 skull injuries have been repaired with tantalum plates. Thousands of severed or injured nerves have been made sound again with tantalum foil, and literally miles of wire have been used for surgical sutures. Dr. Balke re ported. Tantalum is called “biologically acceptable” since body tissues ad here to and grow over the metal. Both tantalum and columbium are completely non-irritating to living tissue, and they are not made irri tating by pathological or disease conditions within the tissues. Implants of tantalum gauze are used where muscular or other soft tissue is either milling or has been removed. Final repair of recurrent hernia and closure of abdominal walls after cancer removal are out standing illustrations. THE GENERAL BOWS OUT Gen. Ike Eisenhower is out of the presidential sweepstakes. This dis poses of any possibility that the contest will be in technicolor. When Ike took his chapeau out of the ring he withdrew the only bit of gay headgear. Like a military man in the White House or not, you had to admit that the Kansas Warrior had a monopoly on color. The race now becomes a study in tepid grays. * It is probably just as well for the country that we do not elect our rulers via the personal glamour test, but nevertheless it seemed nice having a man in there who had superdooper per sonality and who could warm you up without the use of hot- water bottles and electric blan kets. * The Abilene Bearcat has every thing that wins the cheers, the hand clapping and the hat-tossing. He is one of the few public men today who has a personality on the plat form or on the air that doesn’t seem pre-fabricated. • With him in the race we would have had a candidate who carried no portable smile and displayed no personality shipped in sections and assembled by blueprint when needed. . The word “Genuine ,, Is stamped all over Ike and we think that if he had ever won the nomination on either major ticket we would have seen one of those old-fashioned torch-light, brass band, whoop-de-doodle cam paigns that would have stirred the mind, warmed the heart, blocked the streets and torn down the saloon doors. * Maybe that would have made us all too hysterical at a time when we are screwy enough. Anyhow from here in it will be strictly a double feature in the second-run neighborhood theater routine. If you want to get hot you will have to car ry your own heat. • We remember fewer times when there were so many candidates for the White House who looked like Nanook of the North, with certain characteristics of Dracula. • Not that these candidates aren’t top Americans of great intelligence and many fine quali ties of leadership in the pinches. All we are saying is that they would never win a Mister Amer ica contest, even with the rules fixed. * Ike, we wish you had delayed the announcement until spring. The winter has been cold enough. Thunderbolt Lefthand (we knew his brother Lightning Right) a Crow Indian, presented President Truman with a good omen necklace the other day. Harry accepted it in the spirit of a man who now is willing to try anything. Solving Old Problem GENEVA, N. Y. — Scientists art conducting experiments at the state experimental station here to pro duce a catsup that pours and spreads more easily.—News item. * Good! The catsup situation has been troubling us for years. We hadn’t thought the chief trouble was the spread; it seemed td us to be the reluctance of catsup to leave the bottle. We are sick of slapping the bottom of catsup bottles, or whacking them against the table to start things moving. Dr. Z. Cheever Bunk, our special scientist in charge of catsup, suggests after years of experiments, that the solution is to put catsup up in large-necked bot tles, the same as mustard. • • • President T ruman received more than 1,000 gifts from citizens last year. Most of them were books. Things like, "The Drums of the Fore and Taft," "The Ike and l," "Forever Pauley," "Inside Harold Stas sen" and "Henry the Great." * Second on the list of presents to the President was fruit. The oranges were nice, but those grapes of wrath from Henry Wallace were not so hot. • • • Is there any truth to the report Ed Pauley is writing a book, “Inside the Democratic Ad ministration”? • • • A jet plane flew from Miami to Washington in 2 hours the other day. A regular passenger plane made it from Miami to Newark in 2 hours and 41 minutes. Voice in a Miami Beach cabana: “Cali up Morris and ask him down to lunch. It’s only 9 a. m. * • * Gas rationing is almost certain before long, and great shortages are proclaimed, but we expect to see the greatest non-essential users of it, the speedboat boys., burning it up this summer nevertheless. SCRIPTURE: Acts 2:37-47: Ephesians 4:1-6. DEVOTIONAL READING: Ephesians 4:1-6. 11-13. Christian Fellowship Lesson for February 22, 1948 G eorge Washington was a splendid example of Christian fellowship. If you will travel through the older portioi^ of the United States, particularly in Virginia, you will come upon numer ous instances of church pews marked as follows, “George Washing ton worshipped in this pew on blank date.” Evidently, it was his custom to attend public wor ship in whatever community he spent the Lord’s day. Thus he entered into Christian fel lowship, gaining a blessing and ren dering a blessing. The lesson passage for Sunday is found in Acts 2:37-47 and Ephesians 4:1-6, with several other' passages which will be quoted before we fin ish the column for this week. A HAPPY TIME IN CHURCH EAD Acts 2:41-47, and you will find a picture of a group of very happy people. Think of it, three thousand people professing faith ih Jesus and receiving baptism in one day! But read on—they were not only happy at church, but they were happy because they were in the church. They continued steadfastly In the apostles’ teachings and fel lowship and breaking of bread and prayer. They praised God and had favor with all the people. By their daily living they were convincing the world that fellowship in Christ is not only good on Sunday while we are at the meeting house, but good every day. The happy homes are the homes where Christian fellowship abounds, and it is equally true in every area af life. Dr. Newton AT CHURCH WITH FRIENDS "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of the Lord," Psalm 122:1. -That is poetry, you will agree, but It is also actual testimony not only of the Psalmist, but of countless junior boys and girls throughout our land who eagerly await the sound of the church bells. Boys and girls delight to go to Sun day school and worship when the life of the church is pervaded with Christian fellowship. There they meet the finest boys and girls in the community. BELONGING TO THE CHURCH T HE passage in Acts 2:37-47 tells us how certain people, after hearing the great sermon by Peter, asked how they might be saved. He told them: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” When we invite intermediate friends to attend Sunday school and worship services with ns, and they come to know of the love of God, they, too, will want to be saved. It Is then the high privilege of Christian boys and girls to lead their friends to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour, and come into the church. In Ephesians 4:4-6, we read these words: “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all.” ALL ONE IN CHRIST T HE above passage from Ephe sians teaches clearly that there is a brotherhood of man, real and abiding, when we accept the Father hood of God, through Jesus Christ. This is the meaning of the church. No amount of man-made creeds can save us. No amount of ritual and ceremony can save us. We are saved by grace through faith, and that is the gift of God. When we re pent of our sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, we are saved, and not until then. The one adequate solvent for the crying needs of this frightened world is the grace of the Lord Jesns Christ. Just as thousands were saved on Pentecost and again on the Lord’s Day when Peter preached in Solomon’s porch, so today many may be saved where the Gospel is pro claimed in its simplicity and power. We are one in Christ, of every race and every tongue. The fellow ship of Christian faith transcends every barrier — racial, economic, geographic, political, religious. We have but to proclaim the universal ity of this good news—proclaim it in our words and proclaim it in oui daily lives. • • • (Copyright by the International >. ouna. of Religious Education on behalf of 41 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) NEEDLEWORK PATTERNS Rea/ Charm in This Fan Doily Crocheted Butterfly Pincushion Crocheted Doily. HIS beautifully designed fan doily will be ideal to dress up an old table, or enhance a new one! You can crochet it very quickly because the motifs are repeated on this 11-inch beauty. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time ia required in Tilling orders for a few of the most popular patterns. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 530 South wells St. Chicago 7, BL Enclose 20 cents tar Pattern. No rs*™* A HHrgc. To obtain complete crocheting instruc tions, stitch illustrations and full direc tions for Fan Doily (Pattern No. 5675) send 20 cents in coin, your name, address and pattern number. Dainty Pincushion. tJERE’S the cleverest thing you -*■ ever saw ... a dainty butter fly pincushion crocheted in the pineapple motif. The four ‘cush ions’ are made in pink and blue cotton, the body or center is in yel low with the thimble pocket in white to match the wing edges. • • • To obtain complete crocheting instruc tions, stitch illustrations and full direc tions for crocheted pin-up pincushion (Pattern No. 5702) send 20 cents in coin, your name, address and pattern number. 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The Ohio. 2. Nevada. 3. No. Many early Egyptians j and Indian gods were equipped with halos. 4. One hundred and sixty-seven feet. 5. Thirty-two and two-tenths feet per second. 6. Sixteen per cent. 7. Nine pounds. 8. Two. 9. Three and three-tenths per cent. The amount of money put into insurance by the average family rose from $20 in 1900 to $140 in 1946. 10. Yes — for when water which has been recently heated freezes, the ice is usually far more com pact as it has less air in it and will burst a pipe easier than frozen cold water will. Grandma SPEARIN'... ADVICE is like castor oil—every body likes to give it, but noboeqr likes to take it. |5 paid Mn. J. PhlUlpi, Forest puk. Os.- Jg* THE MAKIN’S of sweet, fresh vegetables is the seasonin’ you put into ’em. If you use Nu-MaM ye’re sure to have a good tastin' dish, ’cuz Nu-Maid tastes good to start with. Use* THEM SCIENTIFIC fellers ses the moon has a big effect on the tide. 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