The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-15
THE LUCKY COIN THAT PROVED
A POOR TALlsMAN--DoNALD
MAckENzlE's STRANGE
ADVENTURE.


Pathe producer, several months ago
happened to be sitting at tne same
table in a Broadway restasralt with a
distinguished looking stranger who
looked like a Spanard. Conversation
started between the two, and an i'm
promptu friendship was struck UP.
The stranger had some interesting
experiences to relate-he had been
| for twenty years in South America,
had accumulated fortune, and was
now on his way home to Spain after
trip through the United States. He
| was lonely, very lonely, and Mr.. Mac
kenzie was the first congenial ac-
| quaintance he had met since he left
Peru. He regretted that on the NOR
row he would have to sail for home,
for he had enjoyed the acquaintance
OF the senior much. But wait, he
would like to leave the senor slight
token of his regard, coin, a very
old coin, which he had dug from the
prehistoric ruins of Peru. He had
found two of them years ago when he
was destitute and discouraged, and
they had given him much luck. From
that day he has prospered. The senor
with that coin must prosper, too.
When the stranger left after warm
handshake, Mr.. Mackenzie found in
his hand the coin. 1t was weird
enough in looks to be an extraordi-
nary luck bringer, so mac" slipped 1t
into his pocket and forgot about it,
A week later he had a letter from
an old friend of his in Scotland, say
ing that he had enlisted to fight for
England in the great war and was
leaving for the front probably within
two or three weeks. Mae thought of
his lucky coin, and decided his friend
needed 1t to ward off hostile bullets.
He sat down at once and wrote him.
enclosing the coin, telling his friend
that it was "big medicine" and would |
bring him glory medals and promo
tions galore Thus endeth the hrst
chapter in the tale of the lucky coin.
Last week "Mac" heard from his
friend again for the first time since
he sent the coin. 1t was from an
and ran in part as follows:
"You may have your big medicine
coin and welcome. You'll find 1t en-
closed herewith. Here's what it's done
for me. We left for the trent the next
day after / got it and ! was sick
as a dog all the way over the channel.
being the only man on board who was,
for 1t was a remarkably smooth
passage. Landing on the dock a rife
accidentally fell on my foot and
smashed 1t. We were at once or
dered to the front, and my regiment
was stationed in that part of the
trenches where the fighting was the
hottest, and it's my private belief that
was at the hottest point. / was
wounded in the arm almost at once,
slightly it's true, but painfully
stuck 1t out and about two hours
later had a bullet part my hair very
neatly, but the hair win never grow
again where the bullet cut. Not long
after that something hit me wsllop,
and | woke up in this hospital band.
aged from head to foot-one wound
In the head, one in each arm, one in
the stomach, and one in my right leg.
That wasn't the end of 1t. I've Just
heard that my fiancee back in Scot
land has married another man. Take
back your big medicine'-I spurn It."
Somehow, or other, the ocean liner
carrying the lucky" coin back to
America escaped being torpedoei,
tut the captain never knew what
IN ill-oihened token was aboard.
Mr.. Mackenzie got this letter while
ne was directing a scene in Richard
Carle's play "Mary's Lamb" He told
everybody to wait for few minutes,
ind then dashed for the door. He
sn't the least bit superstitious, but
wo minutes later he might be seen
making a bee line for the Palisades.
IN the edge of which are located the
'athe studios. Pausing on the rim
4 the dizzy cliff, he flung the coin as
ar from him as he could AS near
s he could Judge it fell on the West
'hore Railroad tracks, two hundred
eet below. Now he's afraid the ac-
ursed thing will cause a bad .-ain
Treck for, as he says, you never
an tell"