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i ft C- Srrnc* and Pmon* in thr Currrnt Nn**» ADVENTURERS* CLUB HIADUNIS MOM THI UVIt Or,MOPli LIKE YOURSIIM 'WayBackWhen •? itAMMf «« White Prairie Death* 1 \ Bj FLOYD GIBBONS Famotu Headline Hunter H ello everybody: You know, boys and girls, this Adventurers* Club of ours shows signs of spreading all over the cockeyed world. Just a few weeks ago we enrolled a native boy from Java, and today here comes one from Sweetwater, way up in British Columbia. Bill Simpson is his name, and he is a homesteader in a country where farmhouses are few and far between. But in 1908 Bill was doing his homesteading in Saskatchewan, and up there, at that time you were lucky if you saw a farmhouse in ten miles of travel. That’s the section Bill is going to tell ns about today. He’s going to tell us the story of the horse that knew more than a man. And Bill has the genuine eye-witness lowdown on that story, too. You see, Bill was the man. It was just a few days before Christmas. Bill and his closest neigh bor—a fellow named Barney—had driven Into town, a distance of forty miles, to lay in a supply of groceries. It’s hard to imagine a place that’s forty miles away from the nearest grocery store. But it’s a fact, never theless. And Bill and Barney drove that forty miles, not over roads, but on a rough train over the virgin prairie—a winding route picked out by the horse himself, as he skirted around wet places and alkali spots, trying to find where the going was easiest. Caught in a Prairie Blixzard. It was over that sort of a road that Bill and Barney started back for home. They planned to drive twenty miles, spend the night at the home stead of a man they knew along the way, and drive the other twenty miles on the following day. They had covered sixteen of those first twenty miles when a blizzard broke over their heads. A prairie blizzard ia a thing you can’t fight. The snow comes pelting down with such force that it is impossible to face and travel against it. You’ve just got to travel in the direction in which the wind is blowing. The snow comes down so thick that you can hardly see two feet ahead at you. And that’s the sort at storm that Bill and Barney were up against “The temperalare drepped.* says Bill, "ewtll the sleigh run ners seres used as they passed aver the raid saaw. The wind rase, drivlag anew particles at as with stinging farce. The raid pens tested ear bedies. and hcdecs we had gene half a n»Ue wa were performing the craziest lashing ncrahnltes yen ease snw In an ef fort la keep warm. “Foe a mile or so after the storm broke era ware able la keep the harea headed along the trad. But every vestige of the trad was soon uhliterstsd and wa had to trust to hick as wa headed fee our destination .It began in M ir . • I Mi-'".} Y-i ■Hi' ^ i ? * * \ ¥ 4 Jl;: \ rOBMKB HA YOB WAS A BONO T HERE were twelve children bi our family and it was necessary to have • pretty strict rule about being reasonably quiet In the house and at the dinner table. My father repeated so often, “Children are to be seen and not heard" or “Silenca is golden" that Just to think of those old adages brings back the echo of hla voice. I can’t agree with the principle of those sayings. Child- dren who are encouraged to Join in the conversation are likely to bava more self-confidence and to be more social minded. In some cases, their very talkativeness may be golden. Take Jimmy Walker for instance: James John Walker, who later be came mayor of New York City and was one of the most popular mqn ever to hold that office, was born in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1881. When still a very small boy, he was nick-named "Jimmy Talker" because he could not be t 1—Senorlta Anita Lizana, temperamental Chilean, becomes second foreigner to win United States women’s national tennis championship in Forest Hills (N. Y.) meet. 2—Desperate to save Shanghai, the Chinese Cen tral government hastily ordered military training for women, who are fighting the Japanese shoulder to shoulder with the men; some have already been kiUed In action. J—Tiny Nancy Felio, youngest American refugee from the war in the Far East, as she landed in Seattle, safc and sound. '‘tew la rd at a M 9 IB si t. :: »f i gsww aw w> Uww Mat. Mawgit it was <wgy a tvw ■mss ssa«4 at awr ftwwdi wa wuwid pMkabiy aaaav bad tbwt wa wuwM ds > *u an swd aa mstil wa ftuuu ks death *'Cvuw Uwa wa aasa dal fas flVawi ftwasEng Busuay. wWa waa Mpav- ststtauSk. kept cry Mg aaas sad awav again. 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VOS id to awch a donee c MflOlV Ih sl II vo s impassible to see evei 0 OS Ur os tho horse's heed. There tan t a moo Iv the world who woulde t K boo boon 1 art to attch a alarm „ But Uv • hoo# showed no hesitancy. Ho plodded en. TKm. all at <mc* he began to sk >o down A few paces farther on he Blacker Than Coal To most of us coal seems to be the limit of blackness, but there is one substance that is much blacker; silica black. It is formed of coal crushed to a fine powder and mixed with pulverized silica. This com pound is heated in a vacuum at a temperature of 600 degrees Fah renheit, and when the gas and oth er products have been driven off the residue is found to be much blacker than coal, says a writer in London Tit-Bits Magazine. Silica black has many uses—pdints. shoe polishes, insecticides and fume absorbents usually contain • certain propor tion of It Its rstue lies largely la tbs fact that tt miaaa easily with Glaciers Worldwide A roll call of glacial giants woulo bring up the names of Pamir gla cier, in the Himalayas, possibly 100 miles long; Hubbard glacier, in Alaska, 90 miles long and in place: 10 miles wide; and the ice cap a Svalbard, Spitzbergen. The method of a glacier’s growth is more spec tacular than the mighty oaks from little acorns contrast For the huge ice-rivers are merely overgrows colonies of snowflakes which have become compact granular ice. Gla tiers flourish virtually on the aqua tor. wherever peaks are high enough. The very tip-top of Afrt cm. Mount Kilimanjaro <1».T10 feeo in TangnayBm. la NOT I. SAYS JOHN “Miss America” Shuns Her Crown A « * ♦ m M w . Bm rm «f Canaan. Pbaanew m owe Me bead wSM • a* »*»*g Me aaaaaf "Bpage " **M Mart have been H r.“ be vegeveAed Mtz •aena ay c h ap ever the The needle will then material more easily. • • • Te Soften Segar.—When brown sugar becomes hard or lumpy, place It in a shallow pan In the oven for a few minutes. • • a Salad Eggs.—Hard boil the re quired number of eggs, then re move the shells. Arrange the eggs in a dish on a bed of fresh, crisp lettuce leaves, then sprinkle whh mayonnaise and grated cheese. Garnish with sliced tomatoes and a ring of cucumber. Serve with cheese straws or cheese-flavored biscuits. a • a Shiny Windows.—A few drops of kerosene added to the water when washing windows will niake them shine brightly. • • a Discouraging Ants. — Prompt disposal of garbaga and other waste materials around the home will aid in the control of ants, a a a For Baking Cakes.—The center of the oven usually has the moet even heat and is therefore beet for cake baking. a a a Heat • Betaining Tee Ooey-— When next you make a tea coey, try lining it with chamois The leather retains the hi well that the tea win keep hot in the teapot to the ear iiil NC e«rt la k fert Mai (.ivilizalion Marches On in Kuropr and Jimmy waa #eat la eaplala Mat | be cewltf art be preeeat at a prtit- Mai raRy became rt tBaoaa Tha crewd celled las a apeerb Bern Me yevaag bey. aad be Md aa wed Jimmy WzMer ■ «rt w arOert m ; eewet Mrtaad rt a lawyse as a fee Lee* Me M DeeamZae*he Yea Ihd M May*~ Maaw at brt aMas Me Unma flwrecy mayee «g Mew Taeb Cwy aad am HEADACHE BLACK ORAUCl *pME aaed rt a atop before wbat looked bke a buge mound of mow. Had be, bis sense of direction? Bill shouted. "Get up" at him. The horse edge Bill wss about to take the ship when the thought came to ligate that mound of anew. Luckily the Horae Kept His Bearings. He climbed down from the wagon. The mound was round and strangely shaped—for a snow-pile. Bill thrust his hand into it—and then realized that the horse knew things that he didn't That mound wss a snow-covered pile of straw that had been left there by threshers In the fall “I palled the wagon ap Into the shelter of the pile.” says BiU. “and was preparing to pull eut some of the atrnw to make n fire, when I saw what looked like a star off toward the horizon. But 1 knew there was no possibility of seeing a star through such n storm mud realised to my unbounded Joy that It must be a light gleaming in the bouse of our friend with whom we planned to spend the night." Bill headed the horse toward that light and drove him on. It was tho house all right, but they were coming up to It from the opposite di rection from which they should have approached it "We had almost passed it,” says BiU, "and if we had, we would have gone on to our deaths in the howling wind and deepening snow. The only thing that saved us from doing so was—the horse." Bill and Barney spent the night at that homestead, and went on home the next morning after the storm was over. In later years, Bill never passed that place without remembering his battle with the elements— and the horse that kept his bearings when BiU and Barney had both lost theirs. ©—WNU Service. mm OwtBe Wr.gm was a mb*- m early baybaaA Ha w*a Daylam OHM la MTL Me Mcy grew ap OvetBa aad saw at Ms A highly family. Me fa af M* Itoll 4 later pubhMer of a re- •cver had a tot ef i villa Wright started te Or- 1 * ft Berlin.—With war becoming mere and mere Imminent in Earope, Germany hastens te prelect her youth from the most horrible of modern weapons—gas. As pictured here, officials oversee the distribution of gas masks, making sure they fit properly before the youngsters are nUowed te take them home at 2% marks (about $1! the copy. Sudden Stop for Navy Cruiser - SIGNS FOR F. D. R. } *■' - yiiWm m ; ■ \ ' Wi W N t D. C.—Jf But glri. *e to tho air again, and watch mL Army ■ Ms IflffT Navy apwad early in life, going about the neigh* borbood and collecting old bones ta ■eU to a fertilizing plant When he was fourteen, he published a school paper with a toy printing press. Lab er he made a press of his own and WUbur improved it Next he invent ed a paper folding machine for his father’* print shoo. He quit school in the third year d high school and. with Wilbur, started a weekly news paper which lasted only three months. They then turned to job printing and later started a bicycle repair shop. At about this time, they became interested in aviation and proceeded to construct the first heavier than air machine large enough to carry • man. 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