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Thursday, August 13, 1936
The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill, Oregon
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Choses Vues
Furs, Conscience-Proof
, Caterpillars and Weeds
Wise Generosity
An able Frenchman, long since
dead, wrote about choses vues—
"things seen.”
There are still
many things to
see and to hear,
although there is
nobody to write
about them as
that old French
man wrote.
At the head of
th e
London
Times’ "personal
column,” s o m e
one pays to print
this
impressive
extract from the
Psalms:
A r t * ., n ,u b .. . T ‘‘® e e k .
Lord, and His
strength; seek His face evermore.
Remember his marvelous works
that lie hath done; His wonders,
and the judgments of His mouth.”
You spend a moment wondering
what kind of English man or wom
an, strong in faith, decided to put
that text before statesmen that to
day seek the "face" of Hitler, Mus
solini, Stalin, but forget the greater
power of the Creator of those gen
tlemen.
“Two Trains on a Track'*
By FLO Y D GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
I »’
embarking on an expedition into some unexplored
1 jungle,” lays George Force of New York city, “I might have
been ready for anything. Hut aa it happened, adventure came to me
on a trip home from the office. A trip I took six days a week, fifty
weeks in the year." W ell, George, I ’ve been arguing for a long time
that that’s the way most adventures happen.
It was on January 27, 1903, and George was on a train headed
for home, which was then in a small New Jersey suburban town. I t
was a funny old train— as we know trains now.
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The ears were wooden ones. They were heated by coal
atoves. one of which was set in the middle of each car. It was a
cold, snowy n l|h t. The train way rolling along about twenty
miles out of New York, and Just beyond the town of Westfield.
At the other aide of Westfield, the ’ rain stopped. The express waa
coming through and the little local was switched to another track. The
railroad dispatchers intended it to stay there until the express had
gone by.
Tragic Train W reck on W in ter Night.
But something went wrong with the signals. The big train—the
Royal Blue Line Philadelphia Express—doing sixty miles an hour—was
on the wrong track. It was coming straight for the rear-end of the local
train on which George was riding, but not a man on either train knew it
until it wus too late. The first George knew of it waa when the crash
came. It come with a terrible, jarring impact that shook the train
from one end to another. Then, aa fa r aa George was concerned the
whole world seemed to be coming to an end.
Hays George: " I was In the forward part of the third ear.
The crash, when it came, was so terrific m at it pushed our train
half a mile along the tracks. The shock of that collision alone
killed many people.”
But that shock waa only the beginning. Jolted half out of his
senses, George was dimly conscious of the whole terrible affair. Like a
man in a dream he saw the car he was in turn over on its side. As it
Chic Frock Slenderizes
Thera is nothing sm arter for
cool summer wear than silk lin
en, novelty crepe, dotted swing,
or printed silks, especially when
fashioned into a slim and trim
model like this stunning design.
Who isn't excited about the new
wider shoulder width that tends
turned, George went head first through a window, cutting his face,
bruising his back. With the whole upper part of his body out of that
window, he was dragged along the tracks as the car. lying on its side
still continued to scrape along them.
© Questions'
Add a tablespoon of cream to
roast beef or lamb gravy. I t
makes it a delicious brown.
• • •
Place a glass pie plate over the
top of the kettle when making a
stew.
The stew m ay then be
watched while cooking without
lifting the cover or allowing steam
to escape.
• • •
D rain all juices from fruits or
vegetables used for salads before
arranging them on the plates.
© B oll S y ad lc o to .— W N U Sorrteo.
Placing the food in a colander
for five minutes is a good idea as
then all juices w ill drain out
quickly.
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By
LOVELL
To wash feather pillows soak
HENDERSON in soapsuds for several hours,
changing the water as it becomes
© B r tl S y sJIc o to — W N U Sorylco.
soiled. Then put them through a
washing machine or wash them
by hand. Rinse them well in
The Four-W ord Test
clear water and hang them in a
In this test there are four words sunny place to dry. Turn fre
given in each problem. Three of quently to change the position of
the four in each case bear a defi the feathers in the tick.
nite relationship to one another; © A aooclatod N o w o p o p o ro — W N U S o rrloe.
Cross out the one word that does
not belong in each problem.
1. Holy, sacred, profane, divine.
2. Tall, squat, lofty, high.
3. Lob, double-play, net ball,
ace.
4. New Hampshire, Vermont,
Boston, Connecticut.
"¿‘ GENUINE
5. Vain, humble, modest, sub
\
INSTANT
missive.
LIGHTING
6. Shot put, javelin throw, 100-
yard dash, discus throw.
7. Hot, stolid, fiery, ardent.
SCLF-HEATIN©
8. Harvard, Princeton, Vassar
T ho
Yale.
nino S & f f i gj ç g ;
9.
Tallahassee,
Sacramento,
Chicago, Baton Rouge.
10. Running, swimming, walking
f
T**? *» •
to qntokiy
trotting.
Answers
1. Profane.
fl. 100-yard dash
2. Squat.
7. Stolid.
“ A l*b~
-n o u a » . S k . a . I h .
3. Double-play.
8. Vassar.
4. Boston.
9. Chicago.
5. Vain.
10. Swimming.
The Mind
Meter •
l/io n th*
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This being an ingenious and
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Express Locomotive Bores Into Wooden Car.
F . C. Cobb wrote from the Boy
When a thousand things all happen at once, it takes a long time Scout reservation at Allaire, N. J.:
to tell them. Actually. George s whole adventure didn’t last more than "The last four week-ends have
ten minutes all told. He felt the car turning over almost ai the same ben spent by our scouts collecting
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‘P1" " 1 *™pact- , He snw himself going through the window,
tent caterpillar egg clusters from
felt himself being dragged along the rough surface of the roadbed
wild cherry and apple trees along
scarcely a split second after the car had toppled.
’ the highways of Monmouth and
That scared him plenty, but the most awesome sight was the
Ocean counties. M any thousands
one that came just another spilt second after he fell through the
° f egg clusters, each containing
window of that still-moving car.
on the average 250 eggs, have been
George was up in the front part of his car. I f he hadn't been he destroyed.”
might not have been alive today. For to the rear of the car came a
No better work could be done
horrible grinding sound. The whole back-end crumpled like match by scouts and other boys. It is
wood. And into the car—right down its crazdy tilted aisle—came the far better exercise than perfunc
locomotive of the express.
tory “ hikes,” often exhausting for
smaller boys.
George Describes Stenes of Frightful Horror.
The fathers of the boys, also in
George watched It in a daze of fear as it pushed its steaming
need of exercise, can be useful
head forward. It had gone through two cars already, killing and mash
mowing weeds along highways, ex
ing and maiming their passengers. Now it was coming after George
cellent work for the lungs and for
Would that hot, smoking Juggernaut get him? Geoorge held his breath
reducing the w aist
certain that it was the end. but half way down the car, the engine
stopped.
•
Edward S. Harkness, generous
The car was filled with cries and groans. Injured people
young New York financier, gave to
were everywhere. The car was burning, ss were all the other
Lawrenceville School for Boys a
cars In the trains, set afire by the upended coal stoves that
sum that will make possible im
heated them.
portant new building, plus rebuild
Rays George: "The scenes I witnessed then were indescribable
The car was a twisted, misshapen mass of ruin. Burning ruin witff ing and a more extensive system
the locomotive embedded In its midst. Dead, wounded and helpless of small-group instruction, with
humans were lying along its entire length. Passengers from the few more teachers.
cars that were not harmed seemed stunned, and it was the less serious
M r. Harkness, who does not like
ly wounded—some of whom had been in the worst of the wreck—who
realized that help must be given to the dead and dying and that some publicity, refused to make public
the amount of his gift of Lawrence
thing must be done about those pinned in flaming cars.”
ville, but he gave $7,000,000 to Ex
W reck Cost the Lives of 30 Passengers.
eter academy, $13,000,000 each to
George himself was one of the latter. Ke couldn’t get out alone
Yale and Harvard, to finance their
and only did with difficulty when three or four men came to help When housing systems. That gives some
at last they pried him loose, he was still in a state of half-consciousness
idea of the size of his gifts.
His clothes, from his neck to his waist, had been torn completely from
his body. They led him away through a scene of the most frightful dis
Some Americans w ill agree that
order. Moaning, bleeding, scalded victims lay in rows by the side of it is a good thing to have men of
the track, and every minute rescuers brought out more.
unusual ability accumulate wealth
wisely.
Every passenger In the rear car was killed outright. Few
Old-fashioned Americans would
escaped in the next one. The engineer of the express train died a
rathfer encourage such gifts and
few minutes after the accident. All told, thirty people were
killed and scores were injured.
praise the givers than inculcate the
And George—well—every time he thinks of that wreck, and the notion that anybody with brains
way that locomotive came crashing right into the car after him he enough to accumulate wealth in
counts himself pretty lucky not to have been one of those poor devils this country of opportunity is prob
ably a thief and ought to be in jail.
in the last car.
6 - W N U Sorvloo.
Washington's Escape Cited
Two Kinds of Rabies
History tells how Washington, a
There are two kinds of true
colonel under General Braddock in rabies— first, what is known as
the French and Indian w ar of 1773, dumb rabies and, second, furious
was one of the few survivors in the or violent rabies. In the first the
ill-fated ambuscade of July 9, but dog acts os if it has something
there is a sequel which records the caught in its throat. Generally be
wonder of his escape. Years after haves abnormally. Lower jaw be
ward an aged Indian chief came comes rigid. N aturally a dog with
from a long journey to meet him, this type of rabies does little biting.
saying he had a great wish to see Condition of his lower jaw prevents
the? man who was protected by the it. In violent rabies the symptoms
G reat Spirit, and could not be slain are much the same as in the dumb
in battle, how in that ambuscade, variety, with the evidences of un
he had specially singled out Wash easiness or nervousness, and drool
ington, bidding the others to do so ing. In violent rabies the dog al
also, without any effect, until they ways snaps at things or people.
were convinced he could not be shot That is the outstanding difference
and ceaspd to aim at him.
between the two types.
Mussolini knows how a dictator
can keep his hold on the people. He
establishes 2,000 g o v e r n m e n t
camps where half a million poor
children enjoy free vacations at
sea and mountain resorts. For nine
years Mussolini has carried on this
work.
In Europe, English, French, Ger
man, Italian or Czechoslovakian
will believe anything you say about
American crime, and that is hardly
surprising.
The heading "Chicago Politician
Dies Under Hail of Racketeers'
Bullets” surprises nobody. There
might be mild surprise if the head
ing read, "Chicago Politician Does
NOT Die Under Hail of Racketeers’
Bullets.”
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