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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1936)
I QiMvni II ADVENTURERS’ I CLUB By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. FILL Up those lemonade glasses and drink a toast to Alex Mackail of Port Chester, N. Y. Fill up the longest, tallest glasses you can find—fill up one for each of the thirty thousand members of the Adventurers' club—and still you won’t be drink ing as big a toast as the one Alex himself almost drank. Alex started working on a tall, cool one that was 20 feet long •nd 12 feet high. And no lemon juice or sugar in it, either. It was only by the sheerest luck that he managed to get out of finishing that cocktail, too. Hoys and girls. It’s a lulu of a story. It happened In school. Alex wasn’t going to that school to get a cranium of knowledge, though. He was there for the good hard cash there was In It. Maybe the fact that the school was in Scotland had something to do with that. It was in the year 1922, and Alex, who was just a kid then, had nailed himself a job as apprentice with a boiler repairing firm in the Scottish town of Glasgow Trapped Inside a Rapidly Filling Boiler. They were working on a huge boiler In the basement of the Clyde bank public school. There were three of them on that Job—Alex, his boss and an Inspector. The Inspector had climbed out of the boiler room and gone home. Alex’s boss had decided that they’d done enough work for the day and had climbed out after him to telephone the shop. Alex was going to wait until the boss came back from telephoning so they could both go home together. While he waited, he pulled a copy of a Diamond Dick novel out of his pocket and sat down beside a gutter ing candle to read. In a few minutes he had forgotten that he was sitting Inside a stuffy old boiler. He was out on the open prairie, following Diamond Dick through a series of adventures that would curl the quills of a porcupine. In a Frenzy He Pounded on the Metallic Wall. Me didn't realize that in another minute or two he’d he going through a jreal, honeat-to-goodness adventure of hla own—an adventure that would make all of Diamond Dick's exploits look like so many pink tea parties. The next thing Aiex knew, there was a tremendous rush of water at the far end of the boiler. He jumped, and the candle beside him rolled to the floor and went out. Alex looked up then, for the daylight that should be streaming through the manhole In the top of the boiler—but the big tank was black as night. His boss bad come back and, thinking Alex had gone home, had re placed the manhole cover and started to fill the boiler up. Alex lost his head then, lie rushed to ttie front of the boiler and began hammering on It with his tmre lists. Thnt didn't do any good. The noise of the pump outside drowned nny sound he might make thnt ■way. In a frenzy of four he ran to the pipe through which the water was coming and made u futile attempt to atop the flow with his hands. Thnt didn’t get him anywhere either, but the cold water thnt dashed In Ills face sort of brought him to his senses, and he started telling himself to keep a level head. The Deadly Water Kept Pouring In. "My breath,” he eaye, “was coming in sobs. I remembered that I had left a hammer and chiael at the other end of the boiler, and I started back to get them. The boiler was Just twenty feet long, but It teemed like twenty miles. The water was getting higher every minute, but I finally made it, found the hammer and started pounding on the sides. I pounded hard enough to loosen the rivets, but atill the water came pouring in. "Nevertheless, 1 kept on pounding. 1 knew there must be someone outside to shut the water off when It reached the gauge level. That wasn’t much comfort, though, because by the time the water reached the gauge level, It would he a foot over my head." Another few minutes, and Alex began to get dizzy. The pressure caused by the Inrush of water was going to his head. Still, he pounded away—not because he thought It would do any good, hut because, In his ■terror, he didn't think to stop. The Grim Reaper’s Scythe Nearly Fell. Fearsome thoughts were going through hie mind. What would hie mother say when he didn't come home that night? Would anybody ever find him? What would happen when they lit the fire In the morning? “It was then," says Alex, "that I went insane. I started screaming and tearing with my bare hands at the rusty Iron wall of the boiler. I seemed to hear voices outside saying, ‘Hold on. Alex—I'll get you!’ Hut I was too far gone to realize what It meant. I hadn’t even noticed that the water had stopped coming In. 1 seemed to lose my senses somewhere in there, and the neit thing I knew. I was lying on my hack, out In the school yard." Yes—Alex's boss had dragged him out of that boiler—unconscious. He had fallen In a faint and had taken so much water Into his lungs that the boss had to give him artificial respiration before he came to. Alex is a grown man now. but he still has nightmares about that horrible fifteen minutes when be was trapped In a tilling holler. ©—WNU Service. I Hunting Dogs Were Used Long Ago by Egyptians The history of the hunting dog Is clouded in antiquity. Ancient rock carvings tell us hunting dogs were known in Egypt thousands of years ago, but the story of the tlrst do mestication of the dog and its de velopment into a hunting compan ion for man is lost to us for al ways. Possibly somewhere back in the dim ages, wrhen man himself had Just risen above the brute and lived In terror of monster carnivo rous creatures which then roamed the earth, a caveman captured his first wild dog puppy and brought it back to bis home among the ledges where, in his loneliness, he fed and nurtured the animal until he won its affection. I-ater, prob ably, he taught the dog to assist him in the chase. This, of course, is purely conjec ture, writes Donald Stillman in the Kew York Herald-Tribune. But in the United States, where more pure breeds are recognised than In any other country, the hunting dog Is employed for a variety of purposes ranging from pointing and retriev ing on uplund game birds and water fowl to big game hunting for pan ther and beur. Most stories or accounts of hunt ing dogs are concerned largely with the efficiency of a well-trained ani mal or, otherwise, the serious side of the hunting dog question. Platinum Used in Machines Hare platinums are used In ma chines. Screens of platinum, cost ing $12,000 each are used In sul phuric acid plants. Platinum and Iridium are used In other appara tus because they are inert to other substances even at highest temper atures. Faith and Understanding Faith that depends upon perfect understanding Is not faith at all. Where one has positive knowledge there is no call for belief. BRISBANE THIS WEEK Hear Lloyd George News From the Cosmos Statesmen and Politicians Sloan's Fine Figures Lloyd George, who run the big war for England and won with the help of old Arthur Hr In lift nr Clemenceau, not sympathetic with France this time, snys England is dangerously In volved and “we shall send our young men to die, this time on German soli, to punish those ar rogant and ag gressive Teutons for daring to make prepara tions for the de fense of their own soli against a foreign Invader. Lloyd George Is bitter In his de nunciation of the suggestion that England be dragged Into another war. “France,” says he, “can spend $800,000,000 on the erection of huge fortifications. We can vote plans which Involve expenditure of an extra fifteen hundred million dol lars for protection. But If the Ger mans propose to throw up even n pillbox to guard their famous cit ies and their greatest industrial area . . . then ‘measures must be concerted' between the general army stalls of Britain and France.” The "fastest" double star Is found, and that Is the big news. "Twin suns" close together, In the constellation of Ophiuchus, revolve completely around each other In twenty months. The shortest period of revolution for any other “binary" star Is five years. Some revolve only once in a hundred years. Nature Is both fast and slow; the electron in the atom revolves around the proton thousands of mllions of times In a second. The lens shaped Milky Way above your head, in which our sun is one of thirty thousand million specks of light, revolves once In 225,000,000 years. No limit to bigness, no limit to smallness, apparently. That naval conference In London ends, quite to the satisfaction of England, with the situation about as It was when Hiram Johnson of California put the situation In these few words: "Great Britain builds as she pre fers; the United States builds as Great Britain permits," England actually says to the United States, “You must build no more cruisers with eight-inch guns; we do not like them." And the United States humbly says, “All right, then we shall not hulhl any." It Is the old story; England has statesmen, we huve politicians—und some of them are Anglomaniac snobs. Big business, like little business, has had its trouble, but here und there it Is still big business. In Ills unmiul report for General Mo tors, Alfred 1*. Sloan, Jr., reports net sales last year amounting to $1,155,(141,511, against $802,072,070 the year before; a gain of more than two hundred and ninety-two million dollars. That means many new cars, and families made hap pier. The company paid out In wuges more than three hundred and twenty-three million dollars, not Including wages paid Indirectly to thousands of workers producing ma terials of which automobiles are made. Sixty of Mussolini's plunes have wiped out llurar, Ethiopia's second biggest city, one of 40,000 Inhabit ants. "Civilized" Europe, England leading, bemoans the fact thut a Mohammedan mosque, the Coptic cathedral and a Catholic church were blasted. They forget what huppened In the big war, at Rheims, Louvuln and elsewhere, and the German cannon "Big Bertha" throwing at Baris shells that might well have wrecked Notre Dame, the Madeleine or the Sainte Chapelle. War Is as ruthless us was na ture in the earthquake that destroyed the great cathedral of Lisbon. When Pittsburgh is through with the disaster thut lias almost over whelmed the city, a monument should be erected in a park, or on the mountainside, in honor of the courage and recuperative energy of the great Industrial city. With lights turned off, water flooding the streets, rnuny men and women calm ly continued their work, wearing coal miners' light-bearing caps, like so many gigantic glow worms. Americans still possess resourceful ness and can do what they must do. “To him that hath shall be given,” even In Wall street speculation. Beginning May 1, If you buy $100 worth of stocks, you must put $55 of yonr own into the deal. This will compel small fish to operate on a small scale and get rich slowly, If at all. C Kin* Feature* Syndicate, loo. WNU Service. IN HOMES where there are small children, It usually Is the task of the mother to prepare col ored eggs for an Easter egg hunt. This is an Important occasion, and the eggs should be cooked and col ored so they may be eaten after ward, observes Edith Shuck in the Chicago Dally News. It doesn’t detract from the fun of the occasion or beauty of the eggs to prepare them according to the correct cooking rules. Put them on to cook in plenty of cold water. Place the pan over a low flame and bring the water to the simmering temperature slowly. When the eggs are partially cooled, place them on a soft towel and dry them so they will not have water circles on them. Keep the eggs away from any grease. Most commercial dyes are best dissolved In hot water, but follow whatever directions are given on the package of dye you use. Stir the dye until it Is dissolved, with a well-polished silver spoon, so the dye is not dis colored. Dip the warm eggs into the hot dye and then drain them on enke racks. When they are cool, rub them with a buttered cloth to add a high gloss. Fancy eggs for Euster place cards may be made if you paint initials on eggs. Give the eggs a very light tint, and have a different colored egg for each guest if possi ble. Do not polish the eggs. Put the names or initials on the eggs with a fine paint brush, dipped into the liquid vegetable coloring that is When Eggs Are Cool Rub With a Buttered Cloth. used for coloring foods. If you are very ambitious you can draw an Easter lily or daffodils on the eggs. Use egg yolk coloring for the flow ers and grape green coloring for the leaves. A number of customers and su perstitions have been woven round the festival of Easter. One old custom, that of Pace-egging, is still carried out In Germany and in parts of the eastern countries. Children go round to the house asking for "pace-eggs,” as Easter eggs are sometimes called. These are boiled hard, and then painted with bright colors and the names of children, according to London Tit-Bits Maga zine. Another ancient custom is "Bottle Kicking,” observed at the Hallaton Hare Pie Festival every Easter Monday. After the bottles—iron bound kegs filled with ale—have been kicked, pieces of pie are dis tributed. Owing to a scarcity of hare, this delicacy is now composed largely of beefsteak. Uk e cJiv^rt THE original Easter lily was de veloped In Philadelphia only a half century ago, according to G. II. Stlchter, field Inspector of the bureau of plant industry, Pennsyl vania department of agriculture. In 1879, a woman returning from Bermuda brought with her two bulbs of a lily which she found growing wild. These bulbs were given to Mary, a florist who had greenhouses in Gray’s lane, below Woodland avenue, Philadelphia. The florist planted the bulbs, and for some time they attracted no at tention. A Dutch lily had been used at Easter time, but this was unsatis Florist Was Successful in “Forcing" the Easter Lily. factory because It was Impossible to control accurately Its time of blooming. Since Easter comes at varying times, it was impossible to “force” tills lily in order to have it bloom at a specified time. There fore, the Dutch lilies were not pop ular as Easter flowers. The florist propagated the lily from Bermuda until in three years she had about 100 bulbs. It was then that a Philadelphia florist pur chased the bulbs and experimented with “forcing" the lily, in order to have it bloom when wanted. This florist was successful In his experi ments, and the lilum harrisii result ed. Since it was possible to culti vate this lily so that it would be In flower exactly at Easter time, it be came the Easter flower. The growing of Easter lilies is to day a giant Industry, but strangely enough the lily used now—the Ilium glgantum—was propagated and Im proved in Japan from the lily first developed in Philadelphia. It was taken to Japan, where conditions for its cultivation were ideal, devel oped, and brought back to America. The present day lily has a larger flower, with more sturdy foliage than the original Easter lily. Bacon, Egg*. Eaiter Dish According to Brand's Popular An tiquities, the custom of eating a gammon of bacon at Easter, still kept up In many purts of England, was designed to show their abhor rence to Judaism at that solemn commemoration of the resurrection. There is also mention. In the same authority, of eggs and bacon com posing a usual dish on that day in the Sixteenth century. Strength to Bear Them God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.—Bacon AW Ground /Ac House i l ^ Lard used In deep fat frying should be strained through cheesecloth after use to remove the food parti cles which accumulate in the kettle. * * • Oysters have a better flavor if not overcooked. They may be rolled in fine cracker crumbs, dipped in egg, rolled again in crumbs and fried in deep fat at 380 Fahrenheit. • • • Cut flowers will keep fresh much longer if removed from the table after each meal and placed In the refrigerator. Cover stems with water. • • • To bring out the brilliancy of cut glass, add ammonia to the water in which it is to be rinsed. * * • A tablespoon of borax placed in the water in the tea kettle will re move the coating that forms on in side of kettle. * • * Dressing tables, like little girls’ dresses, are now flounced from top to bottom. For a young girl’s room five crisp, sheer flounces of white organdie make a most attractive table. * • • Tie a little bow of bright colored ribbon on the handles of the scissors and they can be quickly found in the sewing basket. • * • If the paint on the outside of your house has blistered it may be neces essary to take off all old paint. No paint will bond well with poor old paint. • • • When scouring with wire wool use a snap clothespin to hold wool, this saving your hands. ® Associated Newspapers.—WNTJ Service. OUR LOWLY CENT NOW TRAVELS WITH DIGNITY AND ECLAT The humble and lowly cent, once scorned, derided and spurned, is now embraced and welcomed back into the American family purse. Never in the history of our present mone tary system has the cent achieved such a volume of appreciation and circulation. Through the channels of trade it goes on Its little mission of mercy. Clever mechanical devices have been invented to snare it and hold it mo mentarily, at least, in captivity. But once released it continues its endless Journey here, there and everywhere. Back in the boom days of prosperity it did not emerge into the marts of trade without a nickel or a dime for an escort. But today it travels alone, respected and acclaimed Through the labyrinth of bargain counters here and yonder, attractive ly priced merchandise flirts dally with the cent. It cuts quite a figure in the shopping district. It is es teemed by the wealthy as well as by the poor. No longer Is its habitat confined to the Sunday school and foreign missionary collection box. Its domain has widened and length ened. Its sphere of usefulness is un limited. It chums with ease and grace with nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollars. The cent has influence these days!—Indian apolis News. BOYS! GIRLS! Read the Grape Nuts ad in another column of this paper and learn how to Join the Dizzy Dean Winners and win valuable free prizes.—Adv. The Place for It A darky came home all flustered one day and told his wife: “Liza, I’ze got a lawsuit on me hands.” Liza replied: “Dat’s fine, Sam. Take hit otfon yo’ hands and put hit on yo’ back. Dem ole overalls look eonglomerous.”—Toronto Globe. 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