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“Tiger Loose!”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
ITELLO EVERYBODY:
S i 3 thrill to be on your honeymoon and
i ^ °V, S0 bad ^ hen your friend s separate you as they do
£ • some ^ mes after the wedding ceremony but when
i if 1Ze man_ea ^ n g tiger steps in between you and your
wfully wadded spouse and interrupts your honeymoon—
well, that s going a little bit too far.
t J at S .w Xa .? 1 tly What ha PP €ned to Edward J. Grimm and his
. d * back ^ T Jungles” of Milwaukee. Wisconsin, in the year 1924,
™ onth of July. The Grimms live now in Brooklyn. N. Y. t where
uTmT 6 T f mi P an y Tl « er can bother them, but they spent their honeymoon
in Milwaukee and it was in the Washington Park zoo of that city that
this grim experience happened to the Grimms.
Grab f ba * of Peanuts and let’s go into the zoo. Never mind
those monkeys over there. Our business is with the newly married
couple over here in front of the Bengal tiger’s cage. That’s the bride
groom focusing his camera on the tiger.
While Ed was trying to get a good picture, he noticed that the
big Bengal tiger was excited about something. The beast was
pacing up and down and roaring at the same time and cutting up
so much that Ed couldn’t get a good snapshot.
The Tiger Smashed Through the Bars.
„T° the crowd outside his cage, Ed says, it seemed as though he were
putting on a show for the benefit of the tiger. The animal’s mate lay
quietly switching her tail from side to si<fe, but the male was in a fright-
iw temper. Ed didn’t realize at the tinSfe that this anger gave the tiger
added unnatural strength and when the beast crouched back in his
cage for a leap at the steel bars, Ed says, he didn’t believe any of the
onlookers were afraid.
But they should have been. Suddenly a flash of yellow went through
the air and hit the bars head on with a shock that shook the building. A
quarter of a ton of furious tiger is no mean battering ram and the
P-! r beb * nd bis blow—before Ed realized what was happening—spread
the Mrs and the tiger fell outside his cage, barely missing clawing some
children who were hanging over the railing watching him!
For a few breath-taking seconds, Ed says, nothing happened.
The beast seemed stunned by his fall and the spectators stunned
with terror. Words can describe the terrifying scene that fol
lowed. Women and children screamed and scrambled helplessly
in all directions.
"I chased my wife away,” Ed writes, “and saw her and the crowd
safe in the shelter of a nearby building. It was my duty, I figured, to re
turn and help as there were few men around. Keepers came and I
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Ed Pushed the Pole Into the Tiger’s Face.
Joined them. The sight before us was astounding. There on the cement
walk lay a full grown tiger. He looked larger out of his cage, and for
tunately was still stunned by his fall.
His Mate Was Coming Out, Too.
I had my camera and I made a couple of quick snapshots as tha
keepers threw ropes around the beast’s legs. And that’s when the tiger
came to life! The touch of the ropes prodded him into activity and the
fight that went on between keepers and tiger was a sight to see.
“One second it seemed as though the animal were sure to escape.
The lives of the keepers hung in the balance! The next second would
see the men having the upper hand as they prodded the snarhng'animal
with poles and hung desperately to the ropes that now encircled his hind
legs.
"Everyone was either actively engaged in the fight or watching it
with rapt attention when I happened to glance up at the fcage. A gaping
hole showed where the tiger had broken through and as I looked at
it my heart came into my mouth.
“The tiger’s mate—unnoticed in the excitement—was creep
ing along on her belly, cat-like, for the opening! In another
second she would be in the center of the fight, clawing and tear
ing her way through the hated humans!’’
Well, sir, Ed Stood there fascinated for a second and watched her
come. But, he says, his first impulse was to turn and run. After all, a
man on his honeymoon has responsibilities to’think of and should hesi
tate about risking his life. And maybe he thought of Kipling’s line: “The
female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
The next instant Ed had grabbed a pole and jumped toward the cage.
He reached the opening just as the tigress was gathering herself for her
spring. He pushed the pointed pole straight into the cage and into the
face of the snarling animal
Ed Stopped Her With a Pole.
She stopped in her tracks, slapping with her huge claws at the annoy
ing pole, retreated a few steps and, snarling all the time, tried to circle
around it toward the opening. Ed kept on pushing and yelled with all
hia might
“In the meantime,” Ed says, “he didn’t know how the fight was
going behind his back. If the keepers lost he was lost! The other ani
mals sensing that something was wrong, did not help things any. Theif
roaring and screaming, he says, sent the cold chills racing up and down
his spine. Why didn’t he stay with his wife where he belonged? he
asked himself. It was too late now to quit so he added to the general up
roar by yelling his head off for help and trying, at the same time, to prod
the tigress’ head off with his pole.
“I felt like I was in the jungle,” Ed writes. “My wife, watch
ing from her safe position, was almost hysterical She told me
afterwards that she expected surely to be a widow on her honey
moon.”
This action all took place within ten minutes and Ed’s part ended when
the attendants succeeded in tying the tiger and then rushed to Ed’s aid
and prevented the escape at the tigress. Nobody had been clawed. Ed
was intact and incidentally so was his camera.
Wow! How’s that for an exciting honeymoon? Let’s give three cheers
and a tiger—no, better leave out the tiger—for Mr. and Mrs. Grimm.
Copyright—WNU Servlet.
Presidents Who Were Related
The following Presidents of the
United States were related: John
Quincy Adams, the sixth President,
was a son of John Adams, the sec
ond President; Benjamin Harrison,
the twenty-third President, was a
grandson of William Henry Harri
son, the ninth President; Zachary
Taylor, the twelfth President, was
a second cousin of James Madison,
the fourth President Madison and
Taylor were the great-grandsons of
James Taylor and Martha Thomp-
Landed at Daytona Beach
in 1776, 1,500 Minorcans and
Greeks landed near the now Day
tona Beach, Fla. The settlement
founded was called New Smyrna.
These immigrants did not find Ufa
easy, due to conditions imposed and
the hardships obviously to be en
countered in a wilderness at sands
and swamps. The thriving village
many years afterward was claimed
by the jungle, having been gradu
ally deserted by all those who
came to make it a haven in the new
land of opportunity.
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Top, the U. S. Gunboat Panay, the sinking of which in the Yaagtse river by Japanese bombing planes pre
cipitated a grave international crisis and brought sharp demands from President Roosevelt for Japan to desist
from such outrages in the future and make full restitution. Lower left, Premier Neville Chamberlain of Eng
land, whose government joined with the United States in protests against indiscriminate bombing of neutrals
bv Japs. Right, former Governor London of Kansas, left, Senator Capper, center, and John HamUton, chair
man of the RepubUcan national committee, discuss strategy.
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for her kind when she gave birth recently to five cubs. The mother is
shown here with her young which have attracted national attention.
Miss Jessie Sumner of Watseka,
III, daughter of a country banker,
niece of a late county judge, who
became Illinois’ first county Judge
as a result of a special election.
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most spectacular the capital has seen in recent years, brought out every available piece of apparatus.
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a seven-foot drift at Lake Placid, where the new equipment was firs’
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Historic
Hoaxes
86
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
C Western Newspaper Union.
The White Elephant
T HE year 1884 is known in circus-
land as the “white elephant
year." P. T. Barnum had secured
from Siam a genuine sacred white
elephant and it drew such crowds
that one of his rivals decided he
must have a white elephant too.
He whitewashed one of his pachy
derms and renamed it the “Light of
Alia.” The dazzling whiteness of
this beast, set off by its black velvet
trappings far outshone the rather
dingy whiteness of Bamum’s genu
ine animal. Barnum denounced it
as a fake, but to prove it genuine
its owners allowed visitors to touch
its trunk which had been enameled.
But they didn’t dare enamel its
whole body (the whitewash could be
scrubbed off gaejj night) and there
by hangs a ta|e. At each perform
ance the “Light of Asia” was
stripped of its trappings, placed on
a platform and beside it stood a
learned “professor” who gave a
lecture about the wonderful beast.
The crowds noticed that the "pro
fessor” skipped about as he gave
his spiel and wondered why. The
reason was that the elephant wanted
to make friendly advances to the
“professor” and he knew that if he
allowed the “Light” to rub against
him, the whitewash might rub off on
his black coat
For some time the war of the
rival “white elephants” werit mer
rily on. Then Barnum made a deal
with his competitor to withdraw the
"Light of Asia.” The next season
the elephant was back on the road,
but this time in its natural colors.
Eventually, the “Light of Asia”
wound up its career as "Old John,”
one of the favorite “bulls” of the
Ringling circus.
• • •
The Lancaster School Board
ITS an oft-repeated tale—that sto-
1 ry about the school board in Lan
caster, Ohio, refusing to have the
school house used as the scene of a
debate on whether or not railroads
were practicable. They are quoted
as saying that “such things as rail
roads and telegraphs are impossi
bilities and rank infidelity. There is
nothing in the Word of God about
them. If God had designed that
His intelligent creatures should
travel at the frightful rate of 15
miles an hour by steam He would
have foretold it through His holy
prophets. It is a device of Satan to
lead immortal souls to Hell”
The tale is only half-true. In 1831
a traveler from New York stopped
at a little log school house near
South Charleston in Clark county
and told the pupils about seeing a
demonstration of a new “fire-wag
gon” in the East. When the pupils
took the story home, their parents,
being conservative folk whose minds
weren’t open to new ideas, said the
school house shouldn't be used for
such “trashy talk.” So the school
board sent a note to the teacher,
Hervey Scott, who was secretary of
a debating society, telling him he
was welcome to use the school house
to debate all proper questions, but
“such things as railroads, etc.”
Telegraphs were NOT mentioned in
their note because the electric tele
graph hadn't been invented yet.
That came 13 years later.
The story was tacked on to Lan
caster because Scott, later editor
of a paper in that town, printed in
it a series of pioneer sketches in
cluding this yarn. And that’s why
citizens of Lancaster ever since
have been denying the story which
casts a reflection upon the intelli
gence of their forefathers.
• • •
The Dutch Mail
W HEN type in a print shop be
comes all mixed up, that’s
“pi,” and it’s also grief for the
newspaper publisher if this happens
just before the paper is ready to go
to press. But when it happened to
an early English editor, he made
the best of a bad situation. Sir
Richard Phillips was his name and
he was editor of the Leicester Her
ald.
Just before press time one day, a
“devil” dropped a tray of type just
as it was about to be put into the
“forms.” There was no time to
straighten out all the ensuing mess,
so Phillips assembled the scattered
type and printed from it in that con
dition. With it was a notice that
the "DutA Mail” (news from Hol
land) had been received too late to
be translated and was therefore be
ing printed just as received.
Thirty years later Phillips is said
to have met a reader in Nottingham
who had carefully preserved his
copy of that paper. He was still
trying to find someone who could
translate the news from Hollandl
AROUND
THE HOUSE
Testing But Fat.—To test tbs
temperature of hot fat for deep
frying, drop a small cube of bread |
into the frying kettle. If it browns
in one minute, the temperature is
right The frying kettle should
be about half full, never more
than two-thirds. Have a piece of
brown paper, or an absorbent pe»
per towel handy on which to drain
the fried food of excess fat.
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Saving Leather Chair. — The
comfortable old leather chair that
waa aent to the attic years ago
because the leather had flaally
become shabby can be made us
able again if the worn part is con
cealed by a slip-cover. If it is
covered in nice, dark blue the
chair may be used winter and
summer.
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Egg Celery Sandwich. — Chop
hard-cooked eggs up fine and sea
son them with salt and pepper.
Add half as much finely chopped
celery and enough mayonnaise to
make the mixture easy to spread.
• • •
Removing Ink From Carpets—
Carpets stained with ink should
be treated at once with salt. After
removing the soiled salt, rub with
a cut lemon and finally sponge
with warm water.
• • •
Save Chicken Fat.—Chicken fat
may be used as a butter substi
tute in cooking. Consequently, it
is a good plan to save the fat
from boiled, stewed or fried
chicken.
• • •
Washing Window Shades. —
Soiled window shades may ba
washed by spreading each shade
on a flat surface and then rub
bing it with a clean cloth or sponge
and soapsuds.
• • •
For Fried Eggs.—Add eggs to
fat which is hot enough to causa
them to set within a few seconds,
but not hot enough to brown
or toughen them. The top of the
egg may be cooked by dipping a
little hot fat over the egg or by
covering the utensil. The addi
tion of a small amount of water to
the hot fat, and covering the pan
immediately, creates steam which
aids in cooking the eggs.
Canny Politician Had
a Desire in the Matter
Who was it said the English
couldn’t take a joke, and that im
mediately?
At a hectic political meeting
where representatives of the vari
ous parties were gathered, an
English politician, while address
ing the assemblage, was struck
full in the face with the body of a
dead cat. It came from the direc
tion of the audience. A look of
great anger came over his face
as he prepared to seek out the
perpetrator of the vile deed. But
from the audience arose one who
said: “Please, sir, I’m very sorry.
I meant it for your opponent.”
“Well, my friend,” came the
quick reply from the injured one,
“I sincerely wish that you had
meant it for me and it hit him.”
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The diary of Denis Papin, a young
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four hours or more upon a moder
ate fire. The flesh waa excellently
well boiled and the bones were so
soft that they might be cut with a
knife and eaten like cheese. The
Juice did concrete into a very firm
jelly.” Gelatin was soon extensively
used in France, especially in hos>
pitafe.
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