Nick Carter Stories No. 148, July 10, 1915; The Mark of Cain; or, Nick Carter's Air-line CaseCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 148, July 10, 1915; The Mark of Cain; or, Nick Carter's Air-line Case
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
Mrs. Gwynn often accompanied the Confederate army and led the troops
into several engagements herself. She knew the country, and led
detachments of the troops out of tight corners. For these acts she was
mentioned several times in dispatches.
She volunteered to carry mail and dispatches from one division of the
army to another, and to do this had to pass and repass through the Union
lines several times. This attracted the attention of General Lee, and he
publicly complimented both her great bravery and her beauty.
Captain Gwynn, her husband, was one of the few who succeeded in getting
over the stone wall defended by the Union forces during the third day of
the Battle of Gettysburg, when Pickett made his desperate charge.
His Jet-black Hair Turns Red in Night.
The sensation of the past week has been the extraordinary experience of
Mack Stewart, a grocery merchant of Dublin, Texas.
Stewart is thirty-six years of age, and was the possessor of a head of
jet-black hair, with the exception of a slight tinge of gray about the
temples. To-day he is what might be termed a red-headed man. In a single
night the pigment of black was supplanted by red, and glossy-black locks
changed to a pronounced auburn.
Stewart, who was formerly a railroad conductor, attributes the
remarkable occurrence to a most vivid dream he had recently. He says he
dreamed that he was back at work on the H. & T. C. Railway. He was
standing on the top of a box car, when, as the train crossed Chambers
Creek, his head was struck by the top of the bridge, and he fell back,
with the blood gushing over his face.
He awoke with a start and experienced a terrible pain in his head. The
train, the creek, the bridge, and all the surroundings were as distinct
as if he actually had been gazing upon them, and the pain was as severe
as if he had really received a crushing blow.
Fifty or sixty physicians who have been in Dublin during the past week
attending the Erath County and Frisco Central Medical Associations
examined Stewart’s hair, and there was not one who did not express his
astonishment.
Instances of hair turning white in a single night on account of extreme
fear, mental anguish, or nervous strain, have been known to occur, but
cases of black hair turning to red are almost unheard of. They all
expressed the opinion that it would eventually turn to white.
Mormons Increase Numbers.
There is no race suicide among the Mormons. The births during the year
were more than four times as many as the deaths. The annual report gives
these figures:
Net increase in the membership of the church, 129,493 for the period of
1901 to 1914; birth rate, 39.5 per 1,000; death rate of 8.3 per 1,000;
marriage rate, 17 per 1,000.
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