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Thursday, August 13. 1936 TIMES. WILLAMINA, OREGON Page 4 i Envy HAT a w retched and apostate state is this! To W be offended with excellence and to h ate a m an because we approve him ! The condition of the envious m an is the m ost em phatically m iserable; he is not only incapable of rejoicing in an o th er’s m erit or success, but lives in a world wherein all m ankind a re in a plot against his quiet, studying their own laappiness and advantage. —Addison. “A Bum S te e r’ M isfortunes cannot be avoid ed but they m ay be sw eet ened. By FLOYD GIBBONS F am ous Headline H unter XZOL know, tiiere was a time when wild animals roamed the spot •1 where New York city stands now. Authorities differ on exactly when that was, though. The historians say it was a couple hundred years ago, while Anthony E. Di Lorenzo of The Bronx, N. Y., says it was in 1923. And of the two, I ’d take Tony Di Lorenzo’s word before I would the historians’. Those doggone historians are only talking from hear say, but Tony was on the spot, and saw the things he’s going to tell us about. Why He Needed Job “ Am I bright? Why, I ’ve won several new spaper com petitions.” Prospective Em ployer — Yes, but I need a boy who is sm art during business hours. “ Well, this w as during business hours.” shown; illustrations of stitches needed; m ateria l req uirem ents; suggestions for a variety of uses. Send IS cents in stam p s or coins (coins p referred ) for this p attern to The Sewing Circle Nee- d lecraft D ept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York. N. Y. W rite plainly p attern num ber, your n am e and address. Steer Stampedes in the Heart of The Bronx. P a tte rn 1084 A crochet hook, som e string and this sim ple p attern a re all one needs to tu rn out this lovefy patterning of butterflies and flow ers—a charm in g co n trast of solid / crochet and airy stitch. Get busy on a set! P a tte rn 1084 contains directions and c h a rts for m aking th e set j Sure to A rrive “ H ere, Tom m y,” said M r s . Jones to her neighbor's little boy, “ run ulong und put this p arcel on the bus.” “ Which bus?” asked the lad. “ Any bus,” replied Mrs. Jones. “ I t's m e husband's lunch, and he works in the lost property office.” Dummy Cops Butterflies and Flowers Now Tony will be the first to adm it that there w ere very few wild anim als roaming New York in the y ear 1923. G am e was very scarce in Forty-Second street, and even as far uptown as Morningside Heights, there was little wild life except an occa sional mosquito. As a m a tte r of fact, Tony doesn’t claim to have seen m ore than one wild beast roam ing the streets of New York in all his life. And it was ju st his luck th at that one had to single him out. In. the fall of 1923, Tony w as working for an autom obile concern at One-hundred-and-fiftieth street and G erard avenue. The Bronx. At this place it was custom ary to do sm all re p air jobs on new ca rs while they w ere parked on the sidewalk. T h at's just w hat Tony and his helper w ere doing. They w ere installing a pair of heavy wire gratings on the sides of a newly purchased truck. They had just put in one grating and. while his helper held the other, Tony went inside the building to get m ore bolts. He was on his way back to the street when he heard a clatter of hoofs outside. They seem ed to be about a block aw ay, and Tony wondered vaguely w hat they were. If he had known then w hat he found out ten seconds later, he'd have turned around and gone right back into the building. Tony cam e to the doorway and looked out. As he did so, he saw a m an, working on another c a r down the street, jum p to his feet and clim b onto the roof of the ca r. At the sam e tim e he started waving excitedly to Tony and pointing to som ething up the street. Tony couldn’t R everse C harges M rs. L una—I w ant to get a divorce. Law yer H abeas—W hat are your charges? F irs t Fly—You say he was Mrs. L una—Oh, I ’m not going stuck up? to ch arg e anything. I’m willing to Second Fly—Sure, on flypaper. pay you to get it for m e. Fortify Against Poverty Young m en should be taught early in life th at every honorable precaution ahould be taken to for tify them selves ag ain st poverty. 4 H ungerford, England, has hand ed a Jolt to the tran sp o rt offi cers of large cities by the sim plicity of the plan it has adopted to slow traffic at a dangerous curve. H ungerford’s chief traffic prob lem is a stretch of the m ain road from London which hus a particu- lardly bad bend, w here traffic pours p ast in both directions. So two dum m y policem en, in regulation uniform , are to be placed, one on each side of the dangerous bend, w here ull m otor ists can see them . The wax of ficers are expected to persuade traffic to slow down in taking the bend. 1 talc es d boat ride T Tony Could H ear the Anim al’s Heavy B reathing. see w hat he was pointing at then, but a second later he did. Around thé corner cam e a steer—a wild one, with fire in his eye, his head down, and his long horns set for action. Tough Bovine Begins to Pick on Tony. Tony rem em bered then som ething th at had been in the back of his mind ever since he first heard the c la tte r of hoof-beats. Not far aw ay, at the Yankee Stadium , they were having a rodeo. The whole of the wild and woolly West had been com bed for the m eanest and m ost vicious steers in creation, and the lot of them had been shipped to New York for the rodeo riders to work out on. Without a bit of doubt, here w as one of those steers, escaped from the corral and coming full tilt at Tony. The steer was alm ost on top of him before Tony saw it. He had no tim e to clim b on the top of his truck as the other fellow did. The big, lum bering anim al charged him as he em erged from the doorway, and Tony gave a jum p to one side. The steer shot past him a few feet, then turned and m ade for him again. Tony turned to run for cover, and as he did so, the steer w as so close behind him th at he could h ear the anim al’s heavy, labored breath ing. The only safe place in sight w as the truck, but he didn’t have tim e to open the cab door and get in. 5 HOLY LOOK! THERE T H E Y GO. n o w ! g iv e her m o r e G A S , L A R R Y ! T H E Y ’ RE G E T T IN G A W A Y ! I GOT HEQ UP TO T H E LAST NOTCH NOW ! 3 w e ’ ll 'W T N E V E R h CATCH THEM SMOKES ! W H A T H IT J O E ? ! H E ’S O U T LIKE i A L IG H T 1 i MAYBE OLO DIZ C AN S TO P ’E M FOR YOU 77 Maddened Animal Has Tor.y Cornered. T here w as one other place, though, th a t offered a certain degree of safety. The tru ck w as parked a scan t two feet from the wall—the space between looked too narrow for the steer to squeeze through. Tony’s helper had already taken refuge in the narrow alley thus created, and Tony followed him. “ I ran around to the front of the tru c k ,” he says, ‘‘with .he steer right after m e. But when I started to squeeze into the narrow opening, my h e a rt alm ost stopped beating. My helper had the way blocked with the wire grating he was holding—using it as a fence between him and the bull—and he was too fright ened to move it and m ake room for m e.” It w as the tightest jam Tony had ever been in. In another second the steer would be on him, pinning him against the wall with his long, sh arp horns T here w as no tim e now to get out of the corner. He ju st had to stay and take it. He squeezed him self as fa r back as he could between the rad iato r and front fender of the tru ck —and waited. Whitey, Bad Steer of Rodeo, Meets Bad End. “ Weil,” says Tony, “ he cam e—eyes all red and steam com ing out of his nostrils. He hit sideways, luckily for m e, with his head h ard up ag ain st the fender. One horn w as above the fender and the other be low it. His horns had nails driven through them —for the cowboys’ opes, I suppose—and one of those nails stuck to the bottom of the ender. The I saw m y chance and reached for the other horn.” Tony grabbed th at horn and held on. Then he reached around to the under tide of the fender with his other hand and got hold of the second horn. The steer tried to push the truck over, but he w asn’t strong enough far th at. Then he changed his m ind and tried to pull aw ay. “ T h ai w as ju st w hat I w anted,” says Tony, "so I helped him by letting go of his horns. 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