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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936
‘Steps of Despair
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
W E’VE got a yarn here today from A. Edwin Fatscher of Port
Richmond, N. Y., who now works in the oil refinery business.
Ed says he likes the oil business because it’s so nice and safe.
Outside of being blown up, or burned up, you don’t have anything to
worry about. So he’s glad he quit his job as a refrigeration engineer,
where you never knew what was liable to happen to you.
Ed says refrigeration engineering wouldn’t be so bad if it
weren’t for the ammonia they use in a lot of those big commer
cial refrigerating plants.
You know, as a rule we think of ammonia as a stimulant. I’ve seen
many a guy brought out of a dead faint by just a whiff of it under his
schnozzle. But if you get enough of it, it’ll work just the other way—as
Ed can doggone well tell you.
Ammonia Gas Knocks Ed’s Boss Cold.
It was in 1923 that Ed got his biggest dose of the stuff. He was new at
the business then, and detailed to work as a helper to various of the
experienced engineers on the staff. One day they got a call to go to
Newark, N. J., to fix a machine that was not working properly, and on
the way over, Gaynor, Ed’s boss said: “I hope I don’t have to take an
other lungful of ammonia gas today. My chest still hurts from the last
dose I got. I couldn’t stand another one.”
But whether he could stand it or not, Gaynor was slated to
eat one heck of a lot of ammonia before the day was over.
They arrived on the job—a plant in the cellar of a produce com
pany—and found that they’d have to take the head off the com
pressor.
Gaynor set Ed to draining off the ammonia, running it into a pail
of water to kill the fumes, and dumping-the water outside. Ed had
emptied two buckets of the stuff and was going back for his third, when
he was greeted with a gust of ammonia that almost knocked him over.
Something had gone wrong down there in the cellar where Gaynor was
working on the pump!
Apprentice Improvises Gas Mask to Effect Rescue.
Ed leaped back into the fresh air and wiped his eyes. His first
thought was of Gaynor, down there in the cellar. Already weakened by
Ed Gripped the Unconscious Man by the Coat Collar.
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previous doses of the stuff that day, Gaynor wouldn’t have a chance
in that hell of biting, searing gas!
• “I knew,” says Ed, “that he must have been knocked un
conscious. Otherwise, he would have been out in the air long
before this. I knew, too, that if I were going to get him out alive
I’d have to act quickly. A man can’t live more than a few min
utes in fumes that are as concentrated as these were. I grabbed
a rag that was lying on the ground, saturated it with water and
tied it around my nose and mouth. Yanking my cap down low to
protect my eyes a little, I hurried down into the cellar where
the machine was.”
The first step Ed took down into that gas-filled basement almost
knocked him off his feet again. In spite of the cap brim, fumes got
into his eyes and blinded him completely. In spite of the water-soaked
rag around his mouth, the deadly, biting gas burned and scorched his
lungs. Foot by foot he crawled through that cellar, but at every step
he felt he couldn’t go an inch farther.
Gaynojr’s Peril Is a Challenge to Ed’s Courage.
Fumbling, groping, he searched for Gaynor’s body. “I finally lo
cated him,” he says, “but by that time I was just about done for and
had to rush back to the open air to keep myself from passing out. My
head was bursting, my eyes streaming tears, and my nose burned as
if it were full of lighted phosphorus. Before I left, I had managed to
pull him a few feet nearer the door, but that had taken all my strength.
By that time, the fumes had penetrated the store above, and
the owner came rushing out into the yard. Ed told him to rush
over to the fire house for a gas mask, but he knew that Gaynor
would be dead long before that mask arrived. There was nothing
to do but face the fumes again—and face the fumes he did.
A second time Ed went down into the cellar and groped his way
to the spot where Gaynor lay. “I kept my nose close to the floor,” he
says, “and crept toward the place where I had left him. It seemed as
though I would never get there, but finally I found him and got a grip
on his collar.”
Ed Has Another Job Now and Likes It, Thank You.
After that it was a battle—a grim battle to determine whether Ed
got Gaynor out alive, or fainted himself, and lay down to die beside him.
Foot by foot he dragged Gaynor toward the door. When he got to the
bottom of the stairs, he was ready to give up. But he couldn’t give up
then. Gaynor’s life depended on him. At last he was out of the cellar,
into the fresh air above. He grabbed a pail of water and threw it on
him, then bathed his own face with water from the hydrant.
“1 still had a job on my hands,” says Ed, “for Gaynor was
full of ammonia. I started tc work on him, but soon after the fire
department arrived and took over. They fought for his life a
long time. Finally they brought him around—but not to work. I
took him to his hotel and he didn’t see an ammonia compressor
for five days.”
So now Ed’s working for an oil refinery, where the worst that can
happen is an explosion or a fire.
©—WNU Service.
Genghis Khan
Temuchin, son of Yesukai Baha
dur, was born in 1162 near the
northern bend of the Hoang - ho
river, in Mongolia. He was only
13 when he ascended his father’s
throne and announced with youth
ful confidence his intention of con
quering the entire world. He did
in 20 years become master of all
Asia and Eastern Europe, destroy
ing—it is estimated—in his wars
and expeditions at least 5,000,000
lives. History knows him by the
name he gave himself, Genghis
Khan (“greatest of kings”). He
was great as administrator as well
as warrior. He was tolerant in
religion, encouraged popular edu
cation and established laws against
crime so rigid that it was said that
one might travel from one end of
his vast domains to the other with
out molestation.
Home of Mythical Giants
Not content with having its own
private giant like every other city
of northern France, the city of
Douai, in Flanders, has a whole
family of “giants,” which con
tribute to the gayety of the French
carnival season. Anglo - Saxons
know Douai chiefly as the city
where the Catholic translation of
the Bible was made. But to
Frenchmen, it is celebrated as the
homeland of mythical giants, some
of them as big as the ones in
Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Trav
els.” The head of the Brobding-
nagian family which holds its re
union at Douai is an artificial colos
sus called Gayant, 28 feet high,
who reigns as monarch of Flanders
for 24 hours. He is accompanied
by his wife who is 24 feet high and
his children who range from 12 to
18 feet.
Jade Experts Watch for Missing
Treasures to Reappear
CHINA.
A BUFFALO politician, long
deceased, turned up in Wash
ington at the McKinley inaug
ural ball garbed in more kinds of
diamonds than had ever before
been seen in the District of Co
lumbia at- a governmental func
tion.
“My friend,” said a critic, cast
ing dubious eyes on the Buffaloni-
an, “you are a bit overjeweled to
night. The best people don’t go
quite so far with the icebergs at a
presidential affair.”
“Is that so?” retorted the bespan
gled visitor, pulling a bediamond-
ed suspender buckle from under his
armpits, “it has been my experi
ence that them as has ’em wears
’em.”
Now when it comes to the pos
session and the wearing of jade,
that is an entirely different matter;
not that there is a lack of it, but
because so few of us ever get hold
of a piece worth wearing.
Not until the beginning of the
present century did jade attract at
tention among discriminating buy
ers. Prior to that, comparatively
few, and they Chinese and Indians,
had any conception of where jade
would bring up in the jewel market
of the world. The preferred jade
came from northwest China or Chi
nese Turkistan, overland to Pei
ping, where the best jade carvers in
the world turn it into jewelry. From
Yunnan and surrounding provinces,
as well as from Burma, a great
deal of jade reaches Canton, the
finest quality coming into Peiping,
regarded as the central trading
point for the green stone in all its
variations. While there are over
ninety tones, tints, shades and flat
whites called mutton jade, the ver
dant stone governs the market.
Jade Passion Spreads
Following the Boxer upheaval,
which suddenly released a great
deal of beautiful jade formerly the
property of the Chinese aristocrats
and noblemen, a passion for jade
spread throughout the world; prin
cipally among people who had the
price, but no savvy as to quality.
Much of the best jade extant fell
Into unworthy hands, to be bandied
about in a market economically dis
ordered. New jade has a way of
changing its luster. Old jade hav
ing already undergone this trans
formation and completely recovered
is more sought after. Today those
Chinese who sold liberally during
the depression are offering all sorts
of prices to get the jade back.
From Canton, Peiping and even
Burma, the dealers are watching
for these rare pieces to come again
into the stream of traffic. Jade
street, Peiping, trading almost ex
clusively in the jewel from which
it takes its name, is haunted by
eagle-eyed Chinese lying in wait for
the green stone to return. Mr. Pei,
of No. 14, A, makes a pre-break
fast journey to the opposite side of
the city where the jade wholesalers
open up at seven each morning and
close at ten. He is expecting to
see missing treasures reappear for
sale.
Dowager’s Snuff Bottle
Pei remembers the snuff bottle
once owned by the dowager em
press, that sold for $20,000, and the
massive jade ring bought for $15,-
000, later cut into three pieces and
disposed of to the wholesalers at
$8,000 per fragment.
“Pure emerald stones are trans
lucent — not transparent — and
alive,” he said in describing them
to me; “unmistakably liquid green.
In a piece of jade every cloud, no
matter how delicately it may seem
to blend with the translucent green,
is a flaw. Out of a block of rough
jade the cutter who rescues a piece
of pure green translucence is lucky
indeed. The presence of deep and
light green shades, streaks alter
nating in density from apple to pea
green, puts the specimen in the sec
ond and third grade column.
“Pale jade, extremely beautiful
when artistically cut, is very attrac
tive and suits certain complexions
admirably. It is lovely against
young skins, but beside pure em
erald jade it cannot compete.
How to Select Jade
In selecting jade look only for
deep green translucent stones which
appear to drip color that by some
magic attraction is held in suspen
sion. Never be led astray by any
other tone, color, cloud effect or
blending. Dark green or nothing.
Fortunes are still to be made in old
jade, which is increasing in value
above all other precious stones.”
Brownlow, an Englishman resid
ing in Peiping, something of a wiz
ard at appraising things exclusive
and genuine, put it into expressive
Anglo-Saxon: “When you see some
thing that looks like a drop of glist
ening, deep translucent creme de
menthe on a woman’s lip, that’s
jade of the finest color and vint
age. There is no middle ground in
the eye of an expert. I am speak
ing now only of Chinese Turkistan
jade, far and away the superior to
all other jades. Another name for
this mineral is nephrite.
Copyr’^rbl^—WNU S#rvlc«.
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Sometimes We Wonder
Do grouches make a fortune
more readily than those who are
sweet-tempered ?
A man may spend ten cents
apiece for his three cigars a day;
but may his wife spend thirty
cents a day for candy?
Punctuality is the virtue that
keeps you waiting many a time
and oft. Yet it is worth while.
We Learn From Them
Remorse is one of the teachers
on the faculty of the school run
by experience. Discretion is
another.
If country people realized how
strongly city people admire coun
try scenes, they’d be prouder.
Scatter praise; most people
don’t get as much as they de
serve.
Notion Still With Us
Some old vain notion hangs on,
that the purpose of an education
is to earn money instead of en
abling a man to understand the
earth he lives on.
If you are silent at the right
time, you never have to take it
back
We can all nobly meet the
temptation that hasn’t' much of an
appeal.
Philosophy is applying common
sense to what you can’t change.
Foreign Words
and Phrases ^
Apres nous le deluge. (F.) Aft
er us the deluge (attributed to
Madame de Pompadour, in refer
ence to signs of an approaching
revolution).
Bordereaux. (F.) A marginal
note; a memorandum.
Chef-d’oeuvre. (F.) A master
piece.
De nihilo nihil fit. (L.) Nothing
comes from nothing.
En deshabille (F.; In undress.
In hoc signo vinces. (L.) By
this sign thou wilt conquer. (Mot-
ti of Constantine.)
Wie Gewonncr so zerronnen.
(Ger.) As won, so flown; “light
come, light go.”
Ippissima verba (L.) The very
words.
Mens sana in corpore sano. (L.)
A sound mind in a sound body.
Ne pills ultra. (L.) Nothing be
yond; the utmost; perfection.
Rus in urbe. (L.) Country in
city.
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