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PAGE SIXTEEN MKDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOUD. OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1934. (X N&w SmaxoS by Cjcuvvumvi Mcvdi. Chapter 31 TRAP AND GUN nOWERS' mind ran to traps and deadfalls. It would be no great trick to make an arrangement ot backbreaklng logs which upon the prlnglng of a trlggor would (all upon whatever was beneath them. But how, once it was built, the tigers were to be enticed Into tbls death trap was another matter. "Way back In the beginning," said Bowers, or rather lamented, "when the going was free for all, we ought to have trapped a goat or a pig. 1 wonder wby we didn't think of It? Do you suppose we could catcb one of Helen'a monkey friends?" "The list time they came to visit her," said ivy, "one of them climbed halfway up the ladder. Perhaps If we teed them whenever tbey come tround, and we have loads of pa tience, we can catch one. 1 don't know. ... To me it seema rather sruel to use a monkey for bait. It's ilroost like using a child." "But don't you see," said Bowers, 'before the tigers get to the bait, the ogs will fall on them and break tbelr sacks. Whether we catch a monkey r not, 1 am going to start building iur trap Oral thing In the morning." First, however, the gully Itself had .hooter. When It has once been fired there will be nothing left of It but fragments of metal loosely beld togotber by coppor wire." "But If you are not able to try It t few times," she objected, "how do you know that It will shoot where you aim It?" "I only know," be aald, "that It won't. It Isn't supposed to shoot where It's aimed. I am not making that kind of a gun. Tbls Is a short range gun and only to be relied on when the muzzle Is almost In con tact with the target." "If It's going to burst all to pieces," said Ivy, "won't you be afraid to shoot It?" "T ET me tell you something," be said, and bis voice changed from bantering to aerlous. "1 am afraid even to think of abootlng It but If the worst ever does come tc the worst. It's got to be shot, antf that's r.ll there Is to It." "Seriously," said Ivy, "If you evot are really serious, what's the use ol going to all thla trouble? Time wll! take care ot anything." "That's not sure," he said, "ex cept as a broad general proposition You mean of course that If we stantf pat or sit tlgbt In our cave, where nothing can get at us, In the coursi of time the tigers will exhaust theli "Suppose your first shot mlsses7" to be cleared ot orangns and guavas. He made a thorough Job of this, chopping the trucks and larger branches Into short lengths, and ly ing them Into light bundles which Ivy bolstcd Into the cave and stacked for firewood. Whether the deadfall was a success or not the firewood fully Justllled the trouble of the ex periment. Wblle be was engaged on this methodical business of clearing and tidying up the II rat motion of build ing himself a kind of gun or rather s hand-cannon came to him. TM1AT night after supper he dragged his guncnacs Into the middle of the ruvo and, b tho light at a candle-nut Impaled ol a sharp tick, made a cureftil examination and Inventory of their contenta. A piece Jt Iron pipe about fifteen Inches long could with a little ream Ipl and cliamb. imk, the reamer to be a brokun length of triangular die, be made to take snugly enough a .405 ixpress cartridge. A delicate ataa! screwdriver which actually tiaionaml :o one ot ths tnlss Ins guns aould tte filed Into a artni pin to Ot the piercing In the 'slock 3f metal which he bail remembered. A Ktork (or hti gun wni a simple niaitet. He would faction It from eoconut-wood asil; enough with tfto icrllenl loolt. flr and s pucker knits, and I h ad ao rKert b began the work of raamini tb iroe pipe to tat .0t rsrirMie He was In a jubilant taood. He believed that the tbtng would wiy-k. "I never thought," be until, "to come to It, but (or all that It "111 be a grand gun." Already he had explained the de slcn to Ivy nn.i succeeded In making her understand It. Her gifts were Dot met-lianlvAt. "But." she said, "suppose your 9rt mot miM; Won't It take tor e?er M load It hanlii?" 'Toreier Is rlKht." ho laughed "lrolK you have heard of six shooters. Well, this gun Is a one- food supply and starve to death. Perhaps we can count on that and perhapa not If a beast has plenty of water be can go for long spells with out eating." The Orst plan for a deadfall whicb Bowers attempted to execute was beyond bis strength. Ha waa not able, even with Ivy'a devoted as sistance, to bolst his sections of coconut-palm trunks Into place. He revamped hie plan and began all over again. The design would not have looked well In a blueprint. It would have looked neither simple nor architectural. In a general way. Indeed, It much rosenililed the set up for an old-fnshlnned game of Jack-straws. Nevertheless It was practical. in reaching the bait, whatover thnt ehould bo, totbored at the base of the gully. Immediately under the back door of tho cave, a downfall ot heavy logi. from . height ot twonty feet would be precipitated by step ping on any one of three triggers Anyone familiar with the working of the deadfall could avoid the trig ra by carefully placed steps, hut It did oot seem as If a tiger, cblefly Intent upon dinner, could by any possible accident avoid all three ol them. It was to be hoped, of course, that the two beasts would enter th dead fall In company and meet a common fate. They would either be killed Im mediately or be ao pinioned that either time or (lowers and his ax could deal with them. Mowers was leaving aa little as possible to chance. Ills deadfall seemed to him a thing of real Ingenuity and achieve ment lie; he could not be euro thnt It was going to work So. standing In the lone of sofety whore tho live holt, when they obtnlneu one, wss to bo tethered, he tossed a short heavy billet of wood upon the near est trigger. Tomorrow, human tilt Is found for ths deadfall. LONDONERS SEE LONDON (UP) Som thoiuanda of Londoners are suffering from cricka In the neck tog&y it t result of watching the autoglro experiments of Britain's sir-minded postal authori ties. The use of a wlnegless sutoglro for delivering and collecting malls in the center of London and other b!g cities Is the latest "hunch" of the postal authorities here In their campaign for snapping up the mall service of this country. On several occasions recently city workers have gaped at the unusual sU;ht of one of these "wind-mill" planes hovering over the roof of the General post office In the heart of London, practicing the trick of drop ping end picking up mailings. Tlie Air Ministry granted specal permis sion for the autoglro to maneuver at a height of 100 feet, or lees over the capital owing to Its ability to land in a limited area In an emergency. During the last few weeks the whole method of carrying malls In this counter has been revolutionized by the Inauguration of the first internal air-mall services to toe operated In Oreat Britain. The principal obstacle to their speedy working so far en countered has been the distance be tween many airports and the towns they serve. London's own airports lie at least ten miles from the center of the capi tal. Owing to traffic congestion in the street it takes from 40 minutes to an hour to carry malls from the air ports to the Oeneral post office. With the inauguration of atr-mall services linking up many of the principal cities In this country the postal authorities are now envisaging the idea of a "feeder" service of auto glros to pick up mall bags immedia tely they are unloaded at the vari ous airports and drop them on the roof of the main post-office In ea-oh city. Experts believe nearly an hour could be slashed off tho time for de livering air-mails betwet n London and such cities aa Birmingham of Liver pool by thw use of auto giro as feeders. OHIO FARMERS HAPPY OVER 1934 RETURNS WASHINGTON, Ohio (UP) Things aren't gloomy on all farms nowadays. A Fayetts county farmer declared recently: "My Income from the farm this year la going to be much more than It has been In the last three years combined. "I Just banked a check for 13.410, which I got from 171 head of hogs that averaged over 300 pounds. Thla Is the flwt worthwhile check I have received from the farm in the last three years. The farm Is showing a real profit now." he beamed. filrl Htn-ps On Tom Intone TIFFIN. 0.(UPi Search for mi. wing 14-year-old Fostorla, O., girl turned here following reports of a young girl's sleeping In a cemetery near Tiffin. The girl was surprised asleep on a tombstone, but leaped on a bicycle and rode away before she could be questioned. APPLES BLOSSOM D III E SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS KANSAS CITY. Mo. (UP)-The drouth has the fruit orchards all hay- i wire. L. C. Tusler, Wichita. Kan.. Is ex hibiting blossoms and buds on sprigs taken from his apple tree. They are the second produced this year. His apple tree blossomed and bore two bushels of apples early this sum mer. During the drouth they strag gled, for life, August 1 the tree re vived and began pushing forth buds. The same phenomenon was noticed near Jefferson City, Mo., where Joseph Trlber hopes to harvest two crops of apples this year. His trees bloomed early this spring and produced fruit In June. They are in bloom now and promise another crop before frost. Rot H. Stauber, of St. Joseph, Mo., likewise, la hoping to climb his fruit ladders for the second time this year. Deluded by lower temperatures and rains, his backyard apple orchard Is In full bloom. The blossoms., however, are white Instead, of the customary pink. Alfred McDonald. Wichita director of parks, has stepped forward with an explanation: "Fruit trees have been known." he said, "in times of drouth, to protect themselves by becoming dormant dur ing the dry periods. Then when cool er weather returns and there is some moisture the tree might start to grow, with little green leaves on the ends of the limbs and by blossoming a second time." J k v FRFD PERlPy1 DISRUPTED THE train service the other because when he saw a passen6ER on the end seat ge-f off, absent-mindedw leavin6 a 50itca5e behind her, he gallantly ran after, her discovering that the suitcase bel0n6ep to the man across the ai5lf. trot"? her. 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