The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 08, 1919, Image 3
0OT JUST ONCE
jind Lapse Brought Zoo Worker
Pretty Near His EndL
UJtor wit Of Time He Wa? Fopo#d
to Stand Off Qrltxly With Hit j
Bare H*nd$, and No Chanc*
Ijlfcr Foot wo i k.
... ?.???? get used to meet any
-A,fo|lM.rvet? a huge, grlaaled man
avid sours half an Inch apart
"i- from the right eyobrow
00 h 2 s?'hl8 none to the left corner
M He was m Bailor uniform.
**? standing in the street with
?Dd ? double-Jointed
*?Twho had Just wriggled from a
*Z ? Lkei. hanging head down three
"h s ll.ove the asphalt. -But If.
ifift. wlili tlr, always." he added re
? ,i ely "BMd.aome <*** y?u ,uuy fpr>
?? But the lire won't."
r i? itrekod his scars with an apol
1 fl-ver ?s he continued: "Be
?g i enlisted I worked In a jcoo. I
? t ... trinn >m. No; mine
he beiivv work, feedln' 'em and
W"8 ? out the cages. Tralnln' 'em,
1T.? !"?'? ? or ? re"
' " , uii.lv, but when you're clean
w I e?e vou hnven'l nfiythln' hut ?
1". or ??' pitchfork-, and, floln' that
ffo^ork! you ?ort of forget they're
They seen, more
or horses or nny other civil
| jud imliimlH. I w?s ?o big and husky
fSwellmes went In with nothin but
L bare hands; hut I waa always tak
S H Chflnce. I was pretty careful.
. When I vft-nt Into old Zeke's
W 7^ was/c. cross-grained old
?L*,V. When I didn't have my pitch
fnr- 1 generally aimed to have a
wrench or a pleeo of gas pipe handy.
But one day 1 forgot,
"Zeke somehow got the door open
wweon hi... and two young grizzlies.
I mid I had to got him back again. I
shouldn't have gone In without a cluh;
?(Ut it was about qulttln' time at noon.
nJ i 'whs In a hurry. 1 Jumped into
the cage uu/d enough to scratch ins
Mes out with my bare hands.
'.?Get ..ui of here!" I yelled, vvavln'
mv arms in his face.. ^
"I!,, only growled at me ; but the
0jl,er two i-fitrs, In a lmnlc. bolted Into
the other compartment. I decided
Quicker than a A?*h to leave Zeke
lh rt. |,e was and let the other bears
have his den. I slammed the door shut
between, and started toward the man
hole through w hi oh I had entered. Hut
old Zeke g?'t up on his toes when he
saw I had Ahut him out of his own
quarters and away from his play
mates; mid. la.vln' bis ears back and
openin* his mouth until be gaped like
a crocodile, he came at me all stand-In*.
"1 didn't have time to reach the door.
Lettin' .out a .veil for help, I stood my
ground. Did Zeke came at me with
paws up. just like a clumsy old boxer.
He wasn't so clumsy as be looked,
though. 1 gave him n right and left
Id the ribs and dodged ; but before I
could get out of reach, his right paw
caught iae on the left shoulder and
ripped my shirt off to my waist. I
managed to get in another Jab, but it
was like hit tin' a sack of sand. It hurt
my fist inore'n it did him.
"If the cage had been larger, I might
have been able to keep out of the way
outil help came for you can be sure
I whs yellin' bloody murder, although
,at the time I hardly realized what 1
was dnlif. But first thing I knew he
had me cornered. I hit him on the
snont then, as hard as I could hit but
he swept my hands down with one
groat paw, and with the other he gave
me this little memento I carry on my
face. The next minute he had- those
terrible claws In the middle of my
back, and he was nuzzlln' the top of
my head, trying to get his teeth into
the back of my neck. That might have
been the end so far as I was con
cerned If a trainer and an attendant
hadn't come Just then to pry him ott
with Iron bars. I was like * squeezed
lemon when they finally dragged me
out. and for a long time I didn't enre
whether school kept or not. I'm all
right lit 'W, though. Think they'd let
me In the navy If I wasn't? I guess
not."? Youth's Companion.
Bill the Aesthete. .
buring tlx* wannest hour of yester
day a traction engine drawing two
"trailers" piled high with barrels of
stout and beer panted painfully along
Fleet street. One of the laborers en
gaged ? >n mysterious excavations of
the pu\ cineiit pointed with his shovel
to the precession and exclaimed : "Oh,
my Lord. Hill, ain't that a beautiful
Mght?" His mate gazed admfringly
st the glorious Rpectacle and replied,
*'ith a sympathetic sigh, "Not half!'
And yet some short-sighted cyuic has
w.ld that the British worklngman >8
"devoid of vision," and "does not, like
the ancient Greeks, possess an Innate
aesthetic appreciation of the Beauti
ful." ? l.ondon Daily News.
Watch Your 8tep.
John I ?. Rockefeller, Jr., was speak
ing before n Sunday school gathering.
Ambition." he said, "Is the most
laudable trait In the world, but no
Permanent success comes from flylntj
too high.
"Su<-. ess is only achieved step by
?typ nr. I to# many of us. In our dis
CfcnTej.t find desire to go higher, over
look that fact. Too many of us are like
John
"J"?. i. was buttonholed on the street
one *hi v hy n friend who asked him :
"'John, are you satisfied with your
pregpjjt position?'
answered John. 'Hut -th*
V satisfied with the way I AH
't. either, no I guess it'fc fifty-fifty.' **
MSB COUNTY NRWH
lt??? of lulmnt (JithrrfA From liUh
opvKIt* Vindicator.
Mr. W. Q< 1 lt'uroii. h Minor I a***
roniity l?oy, bat now m 'P, 1'. A. with
li^lqvittWW'i ? i AmcrU'iiN, (ia.. i> out ou
a si-.il (?i rvlativos. J|i mi.vs his
family aro quito ploused with tbcir ii)opt:
wl hotno at I'rowton. Ga.. uui) Iii* fathor,
WlJ.Hw W. llfavuu ha# n tttio crop uot
witlwitamUiiK tho boll weoy.il ha* boon
In thfit Motion for throw yearn. The
?K>n't <l?'|>ctnl on ?>?>| t ? >11 for thfir
iiKHicv <-rt>p ih?\v ??'?' K**t 1 1 UK OH
ju-t as \v?'ll, |f u.it hi*tt?'i\ (lirtii hrf'i-M
the W^Vtl I'll MM'.
Il whs IhsJ vstvk in the Vin
that rUflfonl 1*. wot* Ul
with typh.iiil fi'vor at hu^
Wttv LuuiiSjtviuC whi't) his brother A. 1<
Heave* left him. Ho took m turn for
the wi?m* ami ili?n| on July Uftth. Ill?
lnx?th<T Karh' was with him whuu ho
?H?J. Mr. Harold l>ultuut, who was ?t
ttuutiux the vaiiu* /bu?*hu?HH ?vll?tc?'. ?<*
('<un\u)iiii?l the body houte. 'Vhey reach
?n| Suthl?.v ntoruiiifr 3 a. m.
a u?l woro mot tborf by the mulertakor,
Mr I | ? 1 i it : I ami not lit* iv about wvon
i>VlfM<k. Tbo fuiKM'al M?rvlC*' WHM ht'lil
at tbo hi viu?* Ht 5 i>. in, ar ' burial at
Hot liUliMin I *? m n ?? t ?? i' > , o'luluiMcil In hi*
pasUii', Ut'V. (5. 1*. Watson. ' Cliff^rtl
vva*. Is >.;us hihI II months ol<l an. I of
unusual a brWrtit oimr wn^,
Uofwro It Mil. but in the iui<lM of bis young
lifo. bo |u?s boon snnu-lnHl away.
AIks Mao Mooiv an?l Mr. J. 10. Her
riott. who Imih junt got ton back from
tbo Qituy, auniriMxl not only tboir friomlH,
? it their iiiuin'diu (<k faiwilie*, when the
? v\ s reached here that they were mar
I. .Miss \Iho \v?>nt (<? 1 1 a ml <- 1 . N. < .
!o visit her aunt. Mrs. Cowan. and Mr.
i'l'iriott met hev there and iu? o?m ini u.V
of ottV <u- t\\'o friends drove over to
I (ink i iik h m hi , N, (\ and were married ?t
the I ti'rian nian*e l?y Hev. Steodfl,
mister of the Itooklufrluiin churcli. They
iif now hack .receiving congratulation*
<?,' thvir many friend*.
The KhImt'm llui'den.
"The Kaiser bearing Ilia burden",
writtm th<* former Kaiwrin to the vio?r
? f ? 'lirwt ( 'hinvli, Wilht'hiiHbohr. Mmiv
uii'lioiA-. al <rtli"r ?ro ii Im<? bear*
h : hi> htmh'u. j?h> burdon bo foived
> j 1 ?< * i ? I lit in* Thtf former Kmvros# ndd*
I. (ltd will If ml biui out
or' tho dark valley." Tho afftvctlouato
hopes (>f on utHU*U*J \vifo are entitled t*>
i-eN|n??i. but ({*>m?au1v--iu?t to ?iH?ak of
roiintrltv*? 'Ih full of widows and or -
plum* and m aimed nmn, and we do not
?<e<> 1m?w William run ejq?<r#o Into any
\vt?U-l wilted plaee iuiIwm bit* mamofj la
taken from liim.?-Ilou*ti>n I'oat. ?
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Orange-crush
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your glass to the brim with sparkling, thirst-tempting Orange
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ripe oranges and such other whole
some ingredients as pure granulated
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drink.
Orange-Crush is obtainable by
the bottle or by the case wherever
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