Thurmlay, May 21, 1936
The Gold H ill News, Gold Hill, Oregon
Page Three
Little 5C ones
Adventurers’
Club
A
BILLY MINK FINDS A TRAP
p o l l two duys Billy Mink saw noth
" Ing more of the man who had made
him suspicious. Hut this didn’t make
Hilly feel any easier In his mind, fie
had a feeling that that man had vtalted
the Laughing Brook for no good pur
pose. He had a feeling that that visit
By F L O Y D G IB B O N »
had something to do with himself. So
Billy became more watchful than ever
F im o u i Headline Hunter.
and traveled up and down the length
Z ^ J A N G W A Y fo r the fire d e p a rtm e n t. P u ll up at the curb and let
of the Laughing Brook more often
' ' • ’ Joe D o o ley go by. D o n ’t delay h im because he’» on m ig h ty im | than ever, trying with eye» and nose
p o rta n t business. H e ’» ru sh in g d o w n to th e A d v e n tu re rs ’ club to tell to find out Just what that man had
the story of the b ig th rill o f his life . H e re he is now . Boys and girls, i been about
The third day after that first visit
m eet L ie u t. Joseph D o o le y o f B ro o k ly n , N . Y . A ll rig h t, Joe, le t ’s
the man came again. Billy saw him
have the y a rn .
“ /F/ien the World Fell In'*
W e ll, says Joe, " th a t happened in 1903, w hen I was assigned
to Engl a * Company .No. 11, down on Hast Houston afreet” And bans we go,
right Into the atory.
Joa was second In command down at old No. 11. It waa a cold
blustery night In January, and the alarme had bean coming In thick and
fast all evening. Nothing avtntful—Juft routine Area.
You know the kind. The ones where the lare curtains hlate up. and some
body has pulled them down and stepped on them before the fl;-e department ar
rived, or llte ones where a lire slsrta In a pile or trash In a corner of the cellai
•u d the net loan Is two packing hoxea and the janitor's hat.
W h e n a 4 -A la rm K in g s the F ir e L ad d ies S tep.
Thal'a the kind of atuff Dial makes up nlne-tputba of a fireman's work. I t ’s
only once In n while that flro gets beyond control and biases up In a big con- !
Ilagrallon Dial keeps the firemen out all night while the water freezes on the '
ends of the b o r e uoxxlea Big Ores are rare now and gelling fewer all the lime,
thnuka to fireproof buildings and modern fire fighting methods. Hut this wax
1WKI. In those days, most of (he buildings were old wooden ones.
Hs Croiasd Back and Forth From One
The night draggsd on, and than came another alarm. Number 11
Bank to Another.
responded, and they found the firs— a warehouse In Cooper square. No
eet up. thia one, either. It wae the plant of the Boston Excelsior Works,
almost as soon as he reached the
filled to the rafters with baled excelsior, oakum, tow, and other highly
laughing Brook, but not quite. The
combustible stuff.
A four alarm had been turned In. and a dozen pieces of fire apparatus were man had come down the Laughing
there. Jia, Dooley's company had been assigned to a position on the first floor, i Brook a little way before Billy dis
No. Il's hoys weol In through a driveway built for the concern's trucks, and covered him. Just as he had done the
first time, Billy followed the man down
the Laughing Brook. Just as before,
(be man seemed to be looking for some
thing. Billy watched him until finally
he tramped olT through the Green For
est Then Billy turned and hurried
THROUGH A
Womans Eyci
By J E A N
f hs captain was off that night, so Joe Doolsy was In charge of No.
1, company. Hook and Ladder Co. No. 9 had been assigned to help him.
Sod he ordered them to clear a path between the bales of blazing ex
celsior so the hots could be played more effectively. While the firemen
fro m No. 9 were clearing that path. Joe heard a loud, creaking sound.
Then, fire flared up in the rear of the piles of bales, and without further
warning, the floor above fell down on them.
"It fell with a loud crash." says Joe, “killing one man Instantly. Two fire
men standing beside me were hurled out through a window by the air concus
sion caused by the dropping of the floor. After being shot through the window
these two tnen kept on running until they fell down In the street. Both were
hysterical when they were picked up. Otherwise, they were not seriously Injured.”
Joe W a s T ra p p e d in th e B u rn in g E xc e ls io r F a c to ry .
EAR Jean Newton:
”1 must talk to someone this mo-
,
meDt or butat- S" 1 ara wrUln* “ » >ou
I rh a t won,t ■** me 1,110 trouble
way.
“Can you enlighten me on Just one
sf the Inequalities of this world of
which I happen to to be a victim but
which I believe Is one of the great
universal Jokes? That is the unequal
1 distribution of
responsibility. Why
are some of us selected to be the pack
horses—when others with Just as
broad shoulders (or more) get away
with having a good time. Why are
•ome of us always prevented from do
ing the things we want to do by a
duty to someone else, why do we have
to spend cur ¡Ives trying to keep
hur heads above the water of work,
worry and responsibility— for others.
Is there any reason other than that
we stand for It—that we want more
not to let others down than we want
what we want for onrselves?”
D
But Joe, himself, didn't get off so easily. He was standing between two
I think, dear reader, that you have
rows of hales, and when (he floor came down, be was knocked fla t He hit the
ground, only half conscious, realizing that he was suffocating—knowing that he «truck your own answer. There nre
alood In Imminent danger of being burned to death—but unable to move a mme of us who care less about the
things we should like, than we do
muscle— powerless to do anything to help nlmaelf.
«bout keeping face with ourselvei
Dimly, ha realized that ths falling floor hadn’t crushed him, and as
«ud that means not letting others
his brain cleared, he taw that hs had fallen between two bales, over
lewn.
But I think you’re wrong
which the floor lay like a roof. Smoke was choking him. Ha had all hs
ibi.at others going free who have
could do to breathe.
lust as "broad shoulders.” I believe
But he began disentangling himself from the debris of broken planks and
It Is part of the balancing scheme of
beams that hung from the bottom of the fullen floor, and to crawl along through
nature to give the loads to those who
the passage between the bales.
ran bear them, nnd who In bearing
I t T a k e s C o u rag e to D o W h a t Joe D id .
necome still stronger. You know a
"My brain was reeling." he says, "t didn't know what direction I was going irond shoulder may conceal a weak
In—whether It was the right one or not. My head was cut, and my leather fire »pine. And that’s what counts.
And, come to think of It, It's fun,
hat had been partly driven down Into my skull. I wanted to lie down, hut 1
knew that If 1 did, I'd stay there, so I kept crawling on. until I saw a gleam of Isn't It? Though there may be times
—such as you experienced when w rit
light ahead of me. Then 1 knew I was headed In the right direction."
ing your letter—when It seems too
Another few minutes of crawling, and Joe waa safe again—out In
much, when tve are tempted to rebel.
the driveway from which he had started. He was pretty much messed
It really suits us of the broad shoul
up by the time he got there, and he still carries marks of that terrible
ders and the staunch spine to carry
ordeal, but he stayed right In the department, fighting fires, until hit
the loads. I am reminded of a little
retirement a t a chief officer In 1918, and had plenty more adventures—
poem by Kdgnr Guest called "The
some of them almost at exciting as the one he's Just told us.
Happy Toad.” Here is a part of It:
© — W N U S ervice.
T a i l o r A n ts U s e L iv in g
S p o o ls in N e s t B u ild in g
The tnllor nnts and a few other
ants nre unique among all the earth's
creatures, so far as we know. In that
they use their young ns tools In nest
construction.
Few adult Insects spin silk, but
tho larvae of many have this ability
to enclose themselves In silken co
coons, from which they will later
emerge ns fully formed adults. The
tnllor nut utilizes this accomplishment
of Its young In making Its nests.
Scientists have often torn one of
the leaves that formed Its box-shaped
nest and then watched the proceedings.
At first there Is a wild sortie on tho
part of tho nnts, nil In fighting mood.
They ennnot sting, but they bite an
noyingly.
After they have given np trying to
find and destroy the Intruder, worker
nuts seize lurvae In their mndlblea
and bring them to the damaged por
tions. Other workers seize the edges
of the leaves and pull them together.
I have no dream s I can't fu lfill;
t owe no o th e r toad a b ill;
while those with the larvae pass them In s lim y places I abide,
hack and forth, stimulating the grub Out w ith them I am entlafied.
to exude silk, which sticks and holds ( have no taxes, no beliefs,
Mo cares, am bition s, hopes or g rie fs ;
the pieces of the leaves together.
No clothes to buy, no cash to lo s e .
After their silk has been used for No tools th a t I m ust lea rn to use.
the common good, the luckless larvae I sin g no dirges, te ll no Jokes.
Cm ju s t a Jumping toad who croaks.
have to sleep naked.
Dontented, placid, happy I
The Inllor nnt lives throughout the Shall be u n til the day I die.
Old World tropics and Is one of the "Y et (says E d g a r G u est) as I trudged
alo ng th e road,
few nnts that are greenish In color,
though some of Its vnrletles are red " I th ou ght, 'W ho w an ts to be a to a d ? '”
and one, In West Afrlcn, Is brown al
most to black.—National Geographical
Magazine.
back to the place where ho had first
seen the man that morning.
"He didn't do anything while I
watched him but poke about and seem
to be looking for something,” muttered
Billy. "I wonder If he did anything
else before I discovered him. I think
I'll look to see that everything Is all
right up the Laughing Brook.”
So Billy went up the Laughing Brook
above the place where he had first
seen the man that morning. He
crossed back and forth from one bank
to the other and he examined every
stick and log and hole as he went
along. Being suspicious, he took the
greatest care not to step anywhere
until he had first looked to make sure
that It was safe.
ilia nose told him Just where the
man had been, bnt for some time he
found nothing suspicious. Everything
waa Just as It should be. Neverthe
less, Billy was filled with uneasiness.
He couldn't get rid of a feeling that
something was wrong somewhere. Pres
ently he came to a hole In the bank, a
hole with which he was very familiar.
From that bole came the most appetis
ing smell. Now Billy was hungry. He
hnd spent so much time following that
strange man that he had had no chance
to eat for some time.
The smell from that hole was of fish.
That fish was in the back of the hole.
There was no doubt about that. All
Billy had to do was to go In and get It,
and that Is what he was tempted to do.
Then In a flash a thought came to blm.
There never had been a fish In there
before, so why should there be now?
W ith the greatest care Billy began to
examine everything around that hole.
In the water Just at the entrance to
that hole were some dead leaves held
down by a little bit of mud. Billy
didn't remember ever seeing those
leaves before. Very cautiously he
reached out and lifted them. Under
neath was a trap.
C T. W Burgees.— WNU Service.
Moll
Book
EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS
NEW TON
WHO WANTS TO BE A TOAD?
there they were stopped. The hluxe Inside waa so terrific that they couldn't
enter the building. They got their hoses to work, managed to push their way
20 feet inside the warehouse, and there they »topped again.
They held their position, though—held It while the flames beat all around
them and turned the water from their hoses Into steam as fast as they could
pour It on. I he place was like an oven, and the smoke was suffocating. They
Held that position for half an hour, until a fifth alarm brought more apparatus
to back them up. Then they moved on, to a polut 50 feet Inalde the burning
building.
H e a v y F lo o r F a lls on the E m b a ttle d F ir e F ig h te rs ,
Here are T e s s e i
Baking Results/
bv Thornfon.'W
B urgess
k'
An Inferno of Flames Raged Inside the Building.
Colorful Applique for
Tea Towels Fun to Do
A NICE hot biscuit which Is not only
G a a good hot bread, but adds cal
orie value because of the cheese Is:
Cheese Biscuit.
Take two cups of pastry flour, two
and one-half teaspoons of baking pow
der, one-half teaspoon of salt, one tea
spoon of butter, one-half cup of grated
cheese and three-eighths of a cup of
milk and water In equal parts. Mix
and roll as soft as possible and bake
In a hot oven 15 minutes.
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P A T T E H M 63SS
Yon'U find It the grandeet sort of
play— thia embroidering of tea towels
with gay applique, whether they're
for your own spotless kitchen, or an
other’s. Comb the scrap-bag for your
choicest cotton scraps, as this poke
bonnet miss demands a bright dress
and bonnet every day In the week.
B A K IN G P O W D E R
I f you prefer do her entirely In out
line stitch. It's an easy and effective
B o y .m b .r r r ! D oubl. ad » of Toungbarry.
»ay of doing these amusing motifs.
P lan ts from original piantine. »4— 1 ; IS__ SS
In pattern 6522 yon w ill find a P a m p h le t. M a n ch a V e rd a d , M e a t o » , C a l l i
transfer pattern of seven motifs (one
for each day of the week) averaging
S’/4 by 7 Inches and applique pattern
pieces; material reqolrements; illus
trations of all stitches needed; color
suggestions.
Send 15 cents In coins or stamps
(coins preferred) to The Sewing C ir
cle, Household Arts DepL, 259 W .
14th St., New York, N. Y.
mlOt
CLABBER GIRL
KILLS INSECTS
Mails Vex Thig Elk Hunter;
He Suggegts Pony Express
Clyde Culp of Moscow. Idaho, sug
gests that the Idaho state game de
partment post Its next letter to him
by pony express for prompter dellv-
ery. The department mailed him a
special permit to hunt elk In Selway
forest last September 9.
Just recently the letter arrived,
and of course the elk season Is
closed.
ON BOWERS • FRUITS
VEGETABLES & SHRUBS
D em and orfpfaaf .r a t e d
h o t t ie , from pour d ea ler
J IF F I
Happiness
The happiness or unhappiness of
men depends no less upon their dis
positions than their fortunes.— La
Rochefoucauld.
ALWAYS CROSS
BOYS! GIRLS!
PRAISES CHANGC
Bead the Grape Nuts ad In another
K>lumn of this paper and learn how
to Join the Dizzy Dean Winners and
win valuable free prizes.—Adv.
Lack of Effort
The saddest failures In life are
those that come from not putting
forth of the power and w ill to suc
ceed.— Whipple.
To keep clean and healthy take Dr.
PI.rmCa P le a a a a t P e lle ts . They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.—Adv.
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Monotony Only Boroom o
Monotony Is better than the vio
lence that breaks IL
Pumpkin Pie.
Everyone likes pumpkin pie with a
good flaky crust and a well-seasoned
filling—It Is a favorite pie. Prepare
the pastry, using as little water as
possible and very little handling. Use
two cupfuls of pumpkin, one and one-
eighth cups of sugar, one and one-half
teaspoons of ginger, one teaspoon of
cinnamon, one teaspoon of snlt, three
beaten eggs and a half teaspoon of
grate lemon rind or a few drops of
lemon extract; add one-half cup of
coconut and fill the pastry shells after
mixing well with a pint of rich milk.
Iluke slowly after the first ten min
utes.
NEW BEAUTY
TH R ILLS HUSBAND
H e r husband m arvel, a t her clear complexina,
spar k li n g eyes, new v ita lity . She ■ really a dd-
ferent person since .h e elim inated intestinal
aluggahncm. W h at a difference a balanced com
bination of n atural laxatives makes. Learn lor
vounetf! G ive N a tu re's Rem edy ( N R Tab lets)
a trial. N o te how natu rally they w ork, leaving
ym . feeling 100% better, fre ih e ird . .liv e , t o o -
tain no phenol
or mineral de
T O N IC H T
r i v a tiv e » . 2 5 c .
" druggatx
kD
I
TOM ORROW A l N IC H T
need
juotit!*
Corned Beef Hash.
Take two cups of chopped corned
beef, two cups of cold chopped pota
toes, two onions choped, salt, pepper
and oil, using two tablespoons and
one-half cup of milk. Cook In a well-
oiled baking dish in the oven until the
milk is absorbed. Let brown on top
nnd fold like an omelet on a hot
platter.
A
motorists ihvented this
Mexican Chill Con Carna.
Soak one eup of kidney beans In cold
water overnight. Drain and cook un
till tender In boiling salted water.
Brown one pound of beef cut into
small pieces In two 'tablespoons of
vegetable o il; add one can of plmlen-
toes, one enp of tomato pulp, one-
fourth of a cup of minced onion, one
teaspoon of paprika, salt to taste and
one eup of water with chill powder
to taste. Add all the Ingredients and
simmer until the meat Is tender. Drain
the beans and add to the meat.
'FIRST QUART" TEST
Thousands of motorists made thia discov
ery for themselves: When they refilled the
crankcase of their cars with Quaker State
oil, they went farther before they had to
add a quart. This simple teat proves that
Quaker State stands up longer. But it
proves even more. . . because the oil that
stands up is giving your motor the best
lubrication. Try the Quaker State "First
Quart” Test yourself. See if you, too, don’t
go farther than you ever did before under
similar driving conditions. Quaker State
Oil Refining Company, Oil City, Pa.
© W estern N e w s p a p e r U n ion .
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I i
ai a i m m s
-
R etail P rice. . . 3
per Quart
© D e ll S y n d ic ate .— W N U Service.
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Instinct Still a Mystery
What makes birds build nests, hens
sit upon eggs, eats attack mice, and
Poet Was Son of Slave
spiders, ns soon ns they nre hatched,
Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet, was the
begin building perfect tiny webs?
son of a former Kentucky slave. He
Science Is still trying to probe the
was born In Dayton, Ohio, where ho
mysteries of Instinct.
wns graduated from the high school In
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1SII1 and began work ns nn elevutor
boy. He published his first work two
Origin of "Negro"
years Inter. He was employed for
The name "negro” Is the Spanish or
some time In the Library of Congress Portuguese form of the Latin word
In Washington, but was forced to give "nlger,” meaning " b l n c k I t was ap
up that work after he contracted tuber plied to the blnck races long before the
culosis. He died la llkXI, at Dayton.
first slaves were brought here la 1620.
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