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Show HAD 48 OPERATIONS. Have you heard tho amazing story about Herbort McCarty? He is dead hot, after undergoing 48 operations. McCarty, war veteran of tho 70th di- l6ion, was riddled by a German machine ma-chine gun a few days before tho armistice. armis-tice. He was brought home, to battle for his life nearly four years in hospitals, with 20 machine gun bullets In his , ' 1 ' ' bod Eighteen bullets had been removed I aen be died the other day at Cata-wissa, Cata-wissa, Pa The other two go to the grave with him, grown into his jugu lar vein. McCarty was one of the greatest of the war heroes. He got his wounds while rescuing dying comrades 1 Ing in exposed places. In the courso of McCarty's 48 operations, oper-ations, the surgeons removed 14 of his ribs, a collar bone and part of one shoulder blade The machine gun bullets made a tor-rfflo tor-rfflo wreck of his body Despite this he had recovered, prior to his death, i sufficiently to leave the hospital for short period?. That bo lived on for nearly four years, with such terrible physical shock, Is a revelation In the human body's powers to resist death. In McCarty's fate there is a great lesson for hypochondriacs, constantly imagining they are 111, magnifying each flutter of the heart Into fear that its beating is about to ceaso. You observe how McCarty clung to ! life against terrific physical odds. On 1 the other hand, you do not have to ' look far to find an acquaintance who iB "klUin; himself with worry " Worry is a deadly poison- Peoplo create wha.t they fear ill- j health, financial disaster, all kinds of I 'roubles. The mind affects the body as certainly cer-tainly as tho bod affects the mind. When the outlook seems black, and we are inclined to magnify petty trou bles into disheartening obstacles, let ! us think of Herbert McCarty. Com- j pare our lot with his. It should shame as into good spirits. Most of our troubles are im.tglnarv. , |