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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Wise and Otherwise Name . Is Once Upon a Time Poetry It seemed curious that any place should be named LJanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob- Some people look on the bright side of things so persistently that they wind up the proud possessors of a gold brick. Some men make money hand over fist. And then their wives make fist hand over money. Big men get the best jobs. Im told. Because the small ADVENTURERS CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI men Tropic Hurricane By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter everybody: Hello have had a lot of stories, boys and girls, about people who have had close shaves and gotten out of them by some fast action, or some quick thinking, or by some herculean feat of strength. They were great stories, every doggone one of them. But sometimes I think that men in action dont get half the scare that people do who have to sit quietly and watch death creep up on them while they are powerless to do anything about it. That is the sort of yarn we have today, fellow adventurers the story of Tom Brady of New York city the story of how he sat, helpless, in a strange land, among strange people, while chaos gripped the world and threatened to tumble it in ruins upon his head. The story, in short, of a tropical hurricane. Tom Had Never Seen a Hurricane. For years, in his role as traveling man, Tom Brady had been jour- neying through the tropical islands of the Caribbean sea, selling goods and looking over the country. He had heard plenty about the hurricanes they have down there. He had seen wrecked houses, uprooted trees plenty of the evidences a tropical tornado leaves in its destructive wake. He had seen the natives kneeling in the churches, praying for divine protection against the dread wind storms they had learned to fear. But up to the time this story opens September 11, 1928 Tom had never been caught in a hurricane. Tom was in the city of Roseau, on the little British island of Dominica on September 11, 1928. He had been there for about ten days, and was are 1 1 Yet a little andysiliogogogoch. Welsh village bears this name. It is a locality of Llan is cl arm and beauty. church," Fair is ol Mary," Pwll Gwyngyll is the pool of White hazels, Gogei is rather near, while Chwyrn Drobwll is the swift whirlpool, and Tysilio gego' goch is of Tysilio of the red cave. Is it not therefore of romance and beausuggestive ty enough to visit the village of the Church of St. Mary by the Pool of White hazels near the swift whirlpool of St. Tysilios Church of the Red Cave? Detroit News. so often overlooked? Then there was the man who was so lazy he bought a Great Dane so he wouldnt have to stoop over to pet it. Money doesnt grow on trees. Just the same, its the smart birds that get it. There Was a 1 1 Baseball announcer who announced an entire game without utilizing the adjective beautiful in describing the weather, the crowd, or the plays. Book reviewer who never wrote that it was a book you simply cant put down. Neighbor, who, when scooping snow or mowing the yard, went several feet past his boundary line into his neighbors territory. Group of relatives who didnt heckle the young male member of the household by inquiring as to his status with girls, and add, whether it was true or not, Look Kansas City Star. at him blush! "What Knows He of Enqland Who Only England Knows?" Even after months in England my wife sometimes had to call upon the housemaid to translate some item in the laundry list, or to interpret between her and the grocery boy, declares Mr. Harry A. Franck, the irrepressible in Footloose in the In England a British Isles. vest is an undershirt, not a waistcoat. Suspenders are garters, and braces are suspenders. A childs underwaist is a bodice, while rubber boots are Wellingtons. The word sweater still strikes many of the English as a trifle and odoriferous; they call it a jersey, jumper, pullover, or cardigan. In the drapers shop (which unmeans store) drygoods bleached muslin is calico and Cheesecalico is cottonprint. cloth is butter muslin, and instead of using cutting flannel for a childs pajamas one buys wince-yettand asks for a sleeping suit. A spool of thread is a reel of cotton. An American who asks for crackers will get firecrackers or a package of those Christmas globe-trotte- r, low-cla- ss e Australian Camel Patrol The Australian government maintains its own breeding and training stations for camels. The two greatest fences in the world one that bars the pestilential rabpaper bonbons that explode when bits from entering the great pulled. wheat belt of Western Australia, Our kind of bacon is streaky the other erected against wild rashers ; a slice of ham is a dogs and rabbits along the border gammon rasher, and the best cut of New South Wales and South of beef is a piece of topside. Australia are both maintained by Gasoline is petrol, kerosene is government camel patrols. Today in Australia, in a country paraffin, and paraffin is paraffin wax. An English cook does not as large as the United States, rinse the dishes, she swills camels stand as an important them. When my wife told the means of transportation in the central and nursemaid to bathe the children, arid and semi-arior to give them a bath, the maid western areas and, in some reproceeded to bath them or give mote areas, are the only means of them a bathe. transportation at all. Imported from India originally with their Afghan, breeders and Growing Virtue handlers, camels were introduced Bees will not work except in to Australia as soon as the dryness darkness; thought will not work of the interior became known. Speexcept in silence; neither will cial beasts and picked men were virtue work except in secrecy. Let ferried from India, fox instance, not thy left hand know what thy for the benefit of the famous exright hand doeth! Like other plorers, Burke and Wills, who plants, virtue will not grow unless crossed from Melbourne on the its roots be hidden, buried from south coast to the Gulf of Carpenthe eye of the sun. Let the sun taria on the north as early as shine on it, nay, do but look at 1860. And in 1886 camels were it privily thyself, the root withers, imported for all general service, and in general service they remain. and no flower will glad thee. A. R. Wetjen in Globe Magazine. Thomas Carlyle. d Roofs Went Flying Off Houses. on. He had his sample trunks all packed and in the Custom house, and was waiting for a steamer due that day which was to take him to St. Lucia, another small island in the Windward group. Then, what happened? Storm warnings! Barometer falling! No steamer that day nor for a few days to come. Tom was going to see that hurricane now. He couldnt get out of it. The hotel Tom was stopping at was a frame structure. They said it was safe said it had stood up under other storms but Tom had his doubts. Nevertheless, it was the safest place to be found in Roseau, so it was Hobsons choice for Tom. Along about sundown, rain and wind began coming in short, fitful gusts. At 8 oclock, the cannon at the fort the only means the police had of advising the natives that the storm was headed their way boomed out its ominous warning! Get ready. Board up your windows. Take shelter. Then the wind began rising slowly steadily relentlessly. just about ready to move Havoc Wreaked by the Fierce Storm. All through the night lightning flashes ripped the black skies while the wind rose and the rain increased. The colored natives were screaming now, and chanting prayers in the streets. Everywhere people were scrambling about, boarding up their houses as best they could. No one slept that night. No one wanted to. At 5 a. m. the cannon on the fort boomed again, this time with a message of far more evil portent than the first. Its upon us! And on its heels, the fury of the storm, lashing and tearing carving its path of havoc and destruction from the seawall to the farthest limits of the town. The seawall was the first to go. Its solid concrete bulk, running the length of the town, crumbled like ashes under the force of the sea that battered against it. The Custom house jetty the Belle jetty the Fish market by the seawall were wrecked by the fury of the wind and carried away on the reeling, lashing tide that was momentarily getting higher and higher. Roofs went flying off houses. Sheets of tin went sailing The through the air went scraping and clattering down the streets. Cocostems. been match if had off as trees of they snapped tops palm nuts went winging and bounding in all directions, like a barrage of cannon balls. In his hotel, a block and a half from the seawall, Tom Brady watched The gallery on the side of the the waterfront coming up the street. off carried and was was in away. Shutters were torn he hotel ripped from their fastenings. The rain was coming in. The wind blew all the furniture against the opposite wall. He Found Out What Fear Was. Downstairs, they were lifting a huge wooden trap door and putting the women and the servants in the cellar. They were expecting the roof to go next. And in those moments, Tom Brady found out what it was to be afraid. They say a drowning man sees his whole life pass before him before he dies. Tom saw just that. There, all alone, a thousand miles away from home, on a strange island, among strange people, he thought out his own obituary. He prayed, and he isnt ashamed of it. He promised the Lord hed be a better man if he was spared this time and he meant it every doggone word of it at the time. Still the tempest raged. A church steeple came crashing down. Death, ruin, destruction were all about him. Tom himself was literally thrown about the room by the sickening impact of the blow. From time to time the wind would shift strike the hotel from another angle. Then the men in that room would board up the windows again and be safe for a time. In all, Tom was boarded up for 23 hours the worst 23 hours he ever spent in his life. And it wasnt the danger that bothered him g The terrible so much as the inactivity the uncertainty. to be or washed the of ocean, away by sensation waiting waiting buried alive under a falling roof. It was the next morning at 4 a. m., when the storm finally passed over. 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