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ADVENTURERS’ CLUB ;*j
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Into the W hirling Knives’ ’
Hello, everybody:
Here’s a tale of the wheat fields of Canada, an excit
ing account of how a man, trying to yank loose a sheaf of
wheat that was plugging the blades of a threshing rig, sud
denly found himself being carried along toward them by the
machinery he had succeeded in freeing.
It was a frightful experience, and Howard C. Flanders of
Rutland, Vermont, won’t forget it till the day he dies. Inci
dentally, I’m flattered—and a bit curious—to learn that
my column in the New York Journal is read way up in
Rutland, Vermont.
Howard’s story begins back in 1924, when he was a youth
cf 16 living in the town of Sherbrooke, Quebec. In those
days, during the fall of the year they would import men
from the East and even from Great Britain to work in the
harvest fields of western Canada.
! As Howard puts it succinctly: “The dough was good, the hours long,
etc., so I decided I would try it.”
■ A week later Howard left Sherbrooke on the Harvesters’ Special.
A week later he arrived in Calgary, Alberta. A train that ran only
three times a week took him on to Granger, Alberta, and thence he
went by bus to Carbon. Here he got a job in the wheat fields and
worked three weeks.
“So far, so good,” Howard says. "I then went to work for a thresh
ing outfit where I came near losing my neck —or feet would be more
like it.”
Howard Jumped on the Carrier to Free the Knives.
Then he says: “I don’t know if you understand a threshing rig,
but I'll explain as best I can. The only part that concerns me is the
The carrier moved slowly but inevitably toward the floating knives
rear of the outfit. There is a carrier — something of the endless belt
Variety. You pull up alongside this carrier with your team and rack,
grab your pitchfork and get going.”
As you threw your wheat sheaves on the carrier, Howard
exp'ains, it took them to the mouth of the machine where a series
of kni\es work up and down so fast the eye could not follow
them. These knives, as Howard puts it, “do a job on the wheat,”
and also cuts the cord that holds the bundle together.
“We would work like mules,” Howard goes on, “unloading so as to
get through and catch up a few minutes on the other fellow and take
it easy. Sometimes we would plug the rig and the carrier would stop t
and that’s all.”
This certain day—September 29, 1924, to be exact —the rig
plugged on them, and not thinking, Howard jumped on the carrier
and grabbed a sheaf that was plugging the knives and started
to pull and yank.
“All of a sudden,” Howard says, “it let go and there 1 was—
riding along to those knives and destruction.”
Picture the scene for yourself—the carrier, with Howard on board,
moving slowly but inevitably toward the flashing knives that, freed now
of their obstruction, were slashing at a speed that made them invisible
to the eye.
To make matters worse, Howard, because he had been obliged
•o go close to the knives in order to free them, was now prac
tically on top of them, being carried closer every second by the
speeding carrier, as it picked up momentum it had lost when
the sheaf had blocked it.
Howard heard a yell. It may have been that yell that broke the
spell that his startled senses were under. At any rate, he was gal
vanized into action. Just as the greedy knives were reaching for his
clothes to drag him in and shred him to death, he swung, jumped on
to the bundle rack of his wagon!
Breathless, his heart pounding, his limbs so w’eak he could hardly
hold himself together, Howard climbed down to the ground. And then,
suddenly, he remembered the yell, and the strange quality that made it
somehow more than just a cry of warning. He looked about.
The Mystery of the Machine Owner.
On the opposite side of the machine he found one of the owners of.
the outfit with his right hand all mangled and bleeding at his side!
'“ln his hurry,” Howard explains, “he said he had been pull
ing a chain on the outside of the carrier, trying to help the
« bundles through, and when she started he looked up, and there
I was riding merrily along. His story was that the only thing
to do was to plug those gears some way and slow up that carrier
or stop it and give me a chance to get off, and not having any
thing to use.he slaps his hand between the gears and it slowed it
up and gave me the chance to save myself.”
To this day. Howard says, he can't remember whether that platform
slacked up in its speed or not. He does know he got himself clear.
“I have often wondered,” Howard goes on to say. “if the man in
his hurry to get the thing going, had taken hold of one of the cross
pieces of the gear and yanked on it, and when she started, slipped and
went into the gear himself—or whether he was the means of saving my
life or limbs. I don't know. The least I could do was thank him, which
I did.
“A week later he gave me the gate and I have been wondering
ever since just what did happen.”
Howard finally got home broke but happy. 1 hope he stays happy,
but just in case he ever goes broke again, here’s ten bucks he can put
aside for an ace-in-the-hole!
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Best Musk Produced bv Male Deer of the Himalayas
Throughout the long roll of the
centuries there have been innu
merable perfumes.
However, the bases —the fixatives
—were a few natural products, the
most famous of which is musk. Sev
eral animals produce musk, but the
best comes from the male musk
deer of the Himalayas, according to
an authority in the Philadelphia
ißecord.
The musk deer is only 20 inches
high, has no antlers and its teeth
project like tusks in the male. This
tiny deer carries beneath the skin
of his stomach a sack about the
size of an orange, in which is found
a dark brown substance, somewhat
like wet gingerbread (found only in
the male).
This “musk” is about the strong
est smelling substance known, rath
er aromatic and pleasant. The deer
is killed, the musk sack extracted
and dried, then packed by camel
caravan across the immense plains
| of Asia to the centers where it finds
its way into world trade.
Long before the Christian era
| men were killing musk deer and
dealing in the musk they obtained
from them.
Musk is mixed with many other
ingredients, whose odors it seems
to blend into a whole. In color it
is dark purplish, in texture dry,
i smooth and unctuous to the touch,
: in taste bitter.
So pervading is it that the scent
remains for centuries. In 1558
•Bloody” Mary of England ordered
Lady Cecily Cholmondoley impris
oned in the Tower of London. The
governor of the tower, who sympa
thized with his fair prisoner, had
her cell perfumed with musk. The
characteristic perfume is still dis
cernible after nearly 400 years.
Chemically musk contains am
monia, cholesterin, fatty matter, a
bitter resinous substance and other
animal principles.
Improved HSUNDAY
Uniform CrLTODT
International J Lll WwL,
LESSON
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for March 23
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and coDyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
PETER INTERPRETS CHRIST’S
SUFFERINGS AND DEATH
LESSON TEXT—I Peter 1:17-23: 2:20-
25.
GOLDEN TEXT—For Christ also hath
once suffered for sins, the just for the
unjust, that he might bring us to God.
being put to death in the flesh, but quick
ened by the Spirit.—l Peter 3:18.
A witness is one who knows by
personal experience about that con
cerning which he testifies. Certain
ly no one could speak with more pro
priety or assurance concerning the
sufferings and death of Christ than
Peter. As one of the inner circle,
he. with James and John, was with
Jesus on almost every important
occasion. He was on the Mount of
Transfiguration, and with the Lord
in the garden of Gethsemane. He
witnessed His trial and in all prob
ability His crucifixion. He was first
at the empty tomb. Furthermore,
he could speak as one who had in
a moment of weakness denied the
Lord and who had come byway of
doubt and despair back to his faith
in the Saviour. It is not only ap
propriate that we should study Pe
ter's words on this subject but it is
also the greatest possible theme
with which to close our three-month
study of the life and work of Peter.
For all that he was and all that he
did, can be explained only by his
faith in a redeeming Christ.
I. Christ—the Saviour (I Pet. 1:17-
23*.
It is highly important that we
meet the flood of smoothly phrased
recognition of our Christ as the Mas
ter which at the same time denies
Him as dying Redeemer. Hence
we stress
1. A redemption by blood (vv. 17-
20). This is a subject that all those
who know God and “call on him as
Father" (v. 17) approach in that
reverential attitude which we call
the “fear of God,” which is not a
cringing fear but a loving reverence.
In that spirit we should proclaim
that apart from the shedding of
Christ’s blood there can be no re
mission of sin. Money and other
material things can only purchase
other material and corruptible
things. Our redemption could be
bought only by the precious blood
of the sinless, divine, and eternal
Son of God, Jesus Christ (vv. 19,
20).
2. A life of faith (vv. 21-23). The
faith and hope of the Christian are
“in God.” We do not trust in the
arm of flesh. Our assurance is not
in man or his devices. The gather
ing of riches, the increase of arma
ments, the acquisition of new* terri
tory by fair means or soul —let fool
ish men who know not God rejoice
in such assurances of safety, but our
faith is in God.
This life of faith is not an inactive
thing, a settling back into a com
fortable but effortless appreciation
of God's great gift. It leads to obe
dience to the truth; fervent, un
feigned love of the brethren; purity
of life <v. 22). Being born again
means living in newness of life in
Christ.
11. Christ—the Example (I Pet.
2:20-25).
Christ is not our example in the
sense that we are to attain to eter
nal life and joy by an imitation of
His life. That would be manifestly
impossible, for we would have to be
gin where He began—He was with
out sin. But we “all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God.”
We need a Saviour, not an example,
as far as redemption is concerned.
Having been saved by faith in His
blood, we are ready to look upon
Him as our example.
1. Our suffering (vv. 20. 21). One
of the serious problems of life is suf
fering, and as we suggested last
week, being a Christian does not
grant us any immunity. If we suf
fer because of our own sin, we
must expect to bear the result pa
tiently; but even above that, when
we find ourselves suffering for well
doing, we are to glorify God by
bearing it patiently for Christ’s
sake. Nothing is a stronger testi
mony for Christ than a true Chris
tian spirit in time of trial and sor
row.
2. The suffering of Christ (vv. 21-
25). Our minds turn to Isaiah 53 and
Psalm 22, as well as to the Gospel
narratives, as we think of our Lord's
suffering. As we read the words.
“Christ . . suffered for you,” we
join the saintly expositor of the
Word who fell upon his face sob
bing. “For me, for me. He bore it
all for me." How can anyone re
ject Him? How can you, unsaved
reader of these lines, any longer
turn this loving Saviour away?
These are trying days for the
souls of men. In many parts of the
world Christians are tasting the bit
ter cup of persecution. The day
may come when we must meet the
same fate, and even now we know
what it means to bear the scorn of
unbelievers. Shall we become fear
ful or embittered in our hearts? No,
“consider him that endured such
contradiction of sinners against him
self, lest ye be wearied and faint in
you - minas. Ye have not yet re
sisted unto blood, striving against
sin" <Heb. 12:3, 4). But He did!
Wonderful Saviour!
THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER
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as a champion three - ■ %.
year-old in 1920, icith '
the late Clarence Hum- | | \
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horse set in 1919 and f; ’nr T
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ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
A River Is Their Memorial
A WAY back in 1739 Pierre and
** Paul Mallet, Canadian traders,
heard of the wealth of far-away
Santa Fe where, it was said, the
Spanish senors wore silver buttons
on their clothes and the senoritas
had silver heels on their slippers.
So they enlisted six other venture
some Canadians and after a long
journey by boat and pack train, ar
rived in the Now Mexican capital.
The Spanish governor was friend
ly but there was a law against
free trading. So the Mallets start
ed north, crossed the headwaters of
the Canadian (called the Colorado
by the Spaniards because of its red
waters) and followed up the Pur
gatoire to its junction with the Ar
kansas. There the party split up.
Three of the men, who were home
sick, started overland for Canada
and eventually reached Montreal
safely.
The Mallets, accompanied by two
others, went down the Arkansas and
the Mississippi to New Orleans,
where they reported their explora
tions to Bienville, the governor,
whose efforts to find a route to San
ta Fe had been unsuccessful. He
engaged them to guide another ex
pedition led by Andre de la Bruyere,
a royal officer, who was to ascend
the Mississippi and Arkansas to the
mouth of the Canadian, which the
Mallets correctly guessed arose
“less than 40 leagues from Santa
Fe.”
When the Canadian dwindled
away to a mere brook in central
Oklahoma, Bruyere sat down to wait
for it to rise, instead of buying
horses from the Osages to transport
his goods, as the Mallets advised
him to do. But it was a dry year
and, after waiting six months, Bruy
ere went back to New Orleans. The
Mallets returned to Canada, where
they disappeared from history, but
today the Canadian river is a 760-
mile-long memorial to the two
brothers “whose wanderings rank
them on a par with La Salle.”
♦ * •
Klondike Kate
HER neighbors in Bend, Ore.,
know her as Mrs. John Matson,
or “Aunt Kate” Matson, but to old
sourdoughs who mushed over Alas
kan trails during the gold rush days
of '9B, she always has been and still
is “Klondike Kate.” The daughter of
a Seattle judge, Kate Betts spent
most of her early life in a convent.
Then a reverse in the Betts family
fortune took her from behind its
walls and started her on her career
of adventure.
She was in Seattle when the stam
pede to Alaska started. She joined
the gold rush and finally found her
self in rip-roaring Dawson City.
There she became the belle of the
bars and a favorite of the bearded
prospectors who came to town eager
to spend money after their struggles
to gain a fortune from the frozen
soil. They showered their nuggets
upon “Klondike Kate”—she often
made as much as $l5O a night by
singing and dancing for them. Once
a miner gave her $750 in “dust”
simply for the privilege of sitting
and talking to her.
But like many others, she brought
little of her money back to the
States with her when the boom days
were over. Finally in 1933 she re
ceived a letter from 70-year-old
John Matson, who had known her
in the Dawson City days and who
wanted to marry her. The marriage
took place in Vancouver, B. C.
Then she settled down in the little
Oregon city, no longer the fa
mous “Klondike Kate,” the toast of
Alaskan gold camps, but “Aunt
Kate” to the home-folks.
• * *
First Into Antarctic
THEY tell tall tales of explora
tions in the Antarctic. None of
them can compare, though, with the
trip of Nathanial B. Palmer if sheer
adventure is the standard. Away
back in 1820 he was the first voyag
er to reacft the northern fringe of
the Antarctic continent.
A tall, blonde, Connecticut Yan
kee, Nat Palmer was still only in
his teens when he made the voy
age as skipper of the sloop Hero.
The ship which penetrated farther
south than any other up until that
time was only 50 feet long—half the
size of the sailboat “America,” orig
inal winner of the first America’s
Cup race in 1851.
The voyage is more remarkable,
too, when you consider that it was
made almost 100 years before the
poles were finally reached.
Palmer himself has said, “I point
ed the bow of the little craft to the
south’ard and. with her wings
spread, mainsail abeam, jib abreast
the opposite bow, she speeded on
her way to new sealing ground like a
thing of light . . . With her flowing
sheet she seemed to enter into the
spirit which possessed my ambi
tion, flew along the wave and over
billow until she brought in sight of
land not laid down on my chart. ..”
Thus this lad discovered Palmer
land, archipelago of the Antarctic
continent, and proved by his de
scription that he was as literary as
he was adventurous.
© Western Newspaper Union.
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Filet crochet with this Mother
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gambol on the plain mesh portion.
A color note is added by drawing <
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formed around the oval. Pattern
6071 contains instructions and
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lustration of it and of stitches;
materials needed.
To obtain this pattern, send 15
cents in coins to The Sewing
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Meaning of Poverty
Poverty does not mean the pos
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WNU M 12—39
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