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/ v McCQRMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936 Quick Stitchery for the Home "Artist Here’s a famous painting—“The Angelus,” to reproduce in quick stitchery. You’ve no idea what a charming ' picture will result as you stitch away in wool or rope silk, but you’re assured a speedy finish due to the plain background. Pattern 1212 So send for your pattern today and get started on this fascinat ing piece of needlework. You’ll want to frame it, when it’s fin ished. Pattern 1212 contains a transfer pattern of a picture 13Vfe by 16 inches; a color chart and key; material requirements; illustra tions of all stitches needed. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept, 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. "FIRST AID" IN YOUR HOME Keep pure, snow-white Moroline handy for cuts, bums, bruises, and for the hair. The 10c size contains times as much as the 5c size. 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Hurried or overea ting usanlly causes heart burn. Overcome heartburn and digestive distresses with Milnesia, the original milk of magnesia in wafer form. Thin, crunchy, deliciously flavored,pleasant to take. Each wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk of magnesia.20c,35c & 60c sizes at druggists. ii Adventurers’ Club « The Spark of Ltfe 99 By FLOYD GIBBONS, Famous Headline Hunter H ERE’S Distinguished Adventurer Howard Hurtling of Brook* lyn, N. Y., and his yarn starts out like this. “Up on the surface we sat smoking. .“One of the smokers asked me for matches and I passed my box to him. When he returned it I put it back in my pocket with out looking at it. A match was never of much value to me UNTIL MY LIFE DEPENDED ON HALF OF ONE.” Remember that Canadian mine disaster that happened up in Nova Scotia and took up so much space in the newspapers a while ago? Well, Howard Hartling is going to tell us the story of a similar misfortune that took place in the same mining district in August, 1900. As a young lad, Howard worked in the Famous gold mines in Halifax county, Nova Scotia. His job was on the 300-foot level where they were digging a new tunnel—a tunnel that was being dug around a deep pit filled with icy water so that the company could tap the gold vein that lay on the other side. Smokers Borrowed His Matches. Howard’s adventure took place in that tunnel—but as Howard him self points out, it started up at the top of the shaft where a bunch of men sat around smoking and borrowing his matches. Just about the time Howard’s match box was handed back to him, the whistle blew and the men went down in the “cage” to the 300-foot level. They went to work and the afternoon wore on. The distant sounds of dynamiting reminded Howard that it was almost time to knock off, and he started for the mouth of the tunnel. As the sounds of exploding dynamite came nearer, he hurried his steps. He was turning into a cross tunnel leading to the shaft landing when the candle by which he was lighting his way flickered and went out. Left In Pitch Black Darkness. Only a little thing, the blowing out of that candle, but it left Howard in darkness, and darkness is one of the things a miner fears most. Once he took a wrong turning he might get into the old abandoned workings and be lost there for days—maybe forever. It wasn’t exactly safe, either, for a man to stay below for long after the blastings started, and those explosions were coming perilously near. Hastily, Howard reached for his box of matches, and suddenly the darkness and the dynamiting took on a new and terrifying significance. THE MATCH < BOX WAS EMPTY—CLEANED OUT BY THE SMOKERS AT NOON! “It was a litle more than 300 yards to the landing,” says Howard, “but that thousand feet had to be covered in pitch black darkness, by feeling my way along the foot-wall of the tunnel. There was no A Hundred Feet of Icy Water Was Waiting. near to get a light from. All the miners had gone out as their tasks were completed and before the blasting began for the day. Those explo sions were coming nearer. I could smell the heavy, choking nitro glycerine smoke. I crept on slowly, but the fumes of the burning dyna mite were getting more dense every minute. “They were catching my throat. Breathing was becoming more difficult. The walls were wet and mucky with slime that had been formed millions of years before. It oozed from the rock crevices and dripped down on the floor of the passage. I crawled along till I realized I had gone many yards and should be seeing the lights of the shaft landing. Then something inside of me seemed to shout ‘Stop!* I obeyed the impulse! Lost In the Abandoned Workings. “Underfoot the floor of the tunnel seemed unfamiliar. It dawneu on me then that I had taken the wrong turning at the cross tunnel. I had entered the old abandoned workings. I WAS LOST!” In his left hand, Howard still gripped his unlighted candle. If only he had another match. Again, something inside him began to prompt him—to urge him to make another search of his pockets. “Carefully,”* he said, “I wiped my muddy right hand on my coat and opened my vest. Carefully—very carefully—I made my search. In the upper right pocket I found half a match. I couldn’t tell which half it was, but I held the candle over in the shelter of my open coat. Where, in that damp tunnel, could I find a place to scratch this precious half of a match? Would it light? I thought of the buckle on my suspenders. I felt for it. With a prayer I tried that splinter of wood!” Howard scratched that piece of match—and it lighted. Quickly he guided it to the candle. The wick sputtered but—IT LIT! Howard breathed a prayer of thanks. Then, with a light to see by, he began looking around him. On the Brink of Waterfilled Pit. Says he: “I held that candle aloft and let my gaze wander. I was in the old tunnel. Not 20 feet ahead was the old, abandoned, water- filled pit. A hundred feet of icy water was waiting for me. Another minute and I would have plunged to my death. A GRAVE 400 FEET UNDERGROUND! I almost collapsed at the thought!” But suddenly, Howard was on his toes again. A new blast, so close that it deafened him, reminded him that he still was not out of danger. “I dared not hurry,” he says, “as my light might go out again, and this time I wouldn’t have even half a match. Another blast and water began trickling in from the old workings. By the time I reached the cross tunnel it was half way to my knees. Then, at last, the lights at the hoisting shaft came into view through the murky smoke. A hoarse voice, choked from the fumes, bawled out, ‘F’r Pete’s sake hurry up. We’re holding the cage. Where in heck were you? You look white as a ghost.’ “And,” says Howard, “I would have been one—only for half a match!” ©—WNU Service. | STAR I I DUST | ★ * ★ jMiovie • Radio J ★ 3 ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★* YT’S always interesting when a A star stages a come-back; Karen Morley’s is especially in teresting, because she had to fight a battle, not with loss of popu larity but with poor health, be fore she could win back the place she once had on the screen. Now she is prettier than ever. Shortly after arriving in New York on a vacation trip she attended a party given by Paramount for all of its celebrities, and practically stole the show. Dressed in black velvet, she was very lovely, very dignified. She has just signed a new seven-year contract, calling for four pictures a year. —*— Shirley Temple is going to China, on the screen. She is making “Stow away,” part of which is laid in Shanghai, and in those scenes she is dressed as a Chi nese girl. Later on she will do “Wee Willie Win- kie,” the Kipling story, which is laid in India. That fa mous bit of fiction is about a boy — will they make Shirley a boy for this one, or change the character? Whatever they do about it, the part is a grand one for her. —-K— Margot Grahame is one of the busiest girls in the movie center. She returned from England, her home country, September 6—and has just been cast by RKO for her third consecutive featured lead since that time. It’s opposite Lee Tracy in “Criminal Lawyer,” fol lowing on the heels of “Make Way for a Lady” and “Night Waitress.” —*— When you see “The General Died at Dawn” pay a lot of attention, girls, to the clothes that Madeleine Carroll wears as she dashes about China, and the way in which she wears them. You can learn more from that one picture than you could from a dozen fashion shows! Shirley Temple Contents of Malleable Iron Malleable iron contains from 1.5 to 2.0 per cent carbon and is cast iron that has received a heat treat ment for a week or more, which changes the form of the carbon, making it tough and capable of withstanding considerable twisting and bending. It can not be welded successfully, but is easily and satis factorily brazed with torch. It is used extensively in farm equipment as well as for pipe fittings, harness hardware, etc. A broken malleable casting has a smoother appearance than ordinary cast iron and bends before breaking California’s Vigilantes California’s vigilantes of 1851 had to cope with not only the most crimi nal and lawless gathered from all four corners of the earth, but with the shyster lawyers as well. Just as the worst type of criminal law yers of later times, their weapons were mistakes in spelling the name of the accused on indictments and warrants, the charge that the law claimed their client killed with a pistol, whereas it should have stated “by the discharge of said pistol,” . and so on, right through all the technicalities and loopholes we read about. Irene Dunne traveled to New York recently for one of her usual reunions with her husband. And of course, Joan Blond ell and Dick Pow ell arrived there and were greeted by everything their company could think up that would attract atten tion to them—as if they wouldn’t have attracted plenty just by them selves! Thirteen tugs went down the bay to meet their ship. Two planes also met it, one of them trailing a banner which read “Wel come Dick and Joan.” —*— If you can invent a microphone that can kick, you’ll make a for tune—or so says Martha Atwell, who directs some of our most popu lar radio programs—“Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” for instance. She says that one of her hardest tasks is keeping actors from kick ing the mike when they’re broad casting. And of course that deli cate instrument registers every sound. She thinks that, if the mi crophone could kick back, the ac tors might learn to stand still. —*— There’s never a dull moment in a broadcasting studio where one of those amateur programs is going on. Phillip Lord launched his “We, the People” not long ago, and when one of the women began telling about her baby, who had been kid naped, the poor soul began to cry and couldn’t stop. “Everybody lost their heads, for a moment,” one of the executives told me. “Then Phil came to the rescue, talked to her, and finally calmed her down.” —*— Betty Furness likes to make pic tures, but she can’t resist dashing back to New York every so often, to be entertained by the very social crowd of which she was part before she betook herself to Holly wood. Gary Cooper’s wife rates socially too, you’ll recall, but she and Gary are so dignified when they are in New York that they aren’t news. It’s hard to remem ber the old days when his romance with Lupe Velez was constantly dragging him into the limelight. —*— ODDS AND ENDS .. . Dorothy Arzner, the famous woman director (now doing “Mother Cary's Chickens" with Ginger Rogers), relaxes between films by doing something different—studying astronomy, redecorating her house, or planting * new garden . . . Ruck Jones recently cele brated his 19th anniversary in pictures— and is so popular that his “Buck Jones Rangers" club has 5,000,000 boys as mem bers . . . Katherine Hepburn’s “Portrait of a Rebel" has been changed to “A Wo man Rebels," so that people won’t think it’s about a photograph of a Confederate soldier. ■ i. ® Western Newspaper Union. Gary Cooper Three Certain Winners ■ np HREE candidates for your ap- -*■ proval, good on any ticket. Put your “machine” to work and you will win the vote of any group, however critical, with these fetch ing frocks especially designed for women who sew at home. Cor rectly styled, accurately designed and cut, they combine smartness with utility and offer the solution to many wardrobe problems. 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