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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH When One Can Think Youll Do It T'HERE are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to ADVENTURERS CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI Circle of Death By FLOYD GIBBONS . Famous Headline Hunter . ' UERES a tale A J. of horror that you wont forget for a long time. Down on the island of, Trinidad, off the northern coast of South America, men built a death trap without realizing that was what they were doing. Another man sprung that trap by the simple process of stepping on an automobile starter. The ironical part of the whole tale is that that trap was built to save lives, not to take them. But Fate deals out irony with a heavy hand. Ralph L. Nieves of New York City tells us this tal'e. Ralph was working down there then. He had a friend named Jim, who had a job with a company that was drilling oil wells. And it is through Jim that Ralph came to have a part in this story. The part Ralph played in that incident, I might add, was a ' mighty important one for Jim. It was November, 1927 a Saturday afternoon. A crowd of people from the oil company, including the owner of the field himself, were all at a football game. Jim was in that party too, and with him was Ralph. It was a happy crowd in a festive mood. Maybe its a good thing we mortals cant see into the future. That gift would surely have ruined the afternoon for that bunch from the oil companys offices. Circular Canal to Check the Oil Flow. Right in the middle of the game came a message from the oil field. The company had drilled two wells without striking oil. A third well was almost finished, and now the news came that it looked like a bonanza. Oil was expected to flow from it almost any minute. The whole crowd left the game, piled into three cars, and started for the field. The new well was in the center of a circular canal. That canal had been dug around it about twenty-fiv- e yards from the drilling point. It was built for safety. If the oil should catch fire when the well blew, that canal would keep it from spreading. At one point in the circle, a bridge had been built across so that trucks could bring up tools and supplies used in the drilling. The three automobile loads of people drew up at the field. Two of the cars stopped outside the circle and their occupants walked across the bridge, but Jim drove his car right into the circle. They were there hardly ten minutes before the well started to gush oil. It was flowing out over the ground running into the canal. Most of the people in the party had on rubber boots by that time. Ralph wore a pair, but he gave them to a young woman in the party who didnt have any, and he himself walked back across the bridge onto the dry ground outside the circle. - prophesy failure ; There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle right in with a bit of a grin, Then take off your coat and go to it. Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing That cannot be done, and youll do it. New York Tribune One may like to travel fast, except when he is on foot. Personally, one of our besetting habits is sauntering, but thats how thoughts keep up with us. There is a kind of respectable pride in never admitting that one made a mistake in marrying. Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do with the ardent assistance of the owner of the idle hands. A query is printed in an exchange asking what is the difference between farther and further. Why doesnt the querier look in the dictionary? Thats what its for. 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If one doesnt know what to do, The caravansaries were located he can exercise patience. Maybe on important routes and were wisdom will appear. built by rulers or wealthy individuals as public benefactions or else were a municipal enterprise. They Without the Power remained open from dawn until He was one of those men, more- night and had caretakers. Small, over, who possess almost every unfurnished sleeping rooms were gift except the gift of the power provided and a space for the to use them. Kingsley. beasts of burden. Is To remain Removing Hair From Upholstery. A cloud no bigger a Stimulant Efficiency whets the appetite for leisure. And the latter stimulates the former. Folks who hit the high spots are presently going so fast that the high spots hit them. He who borrows and never repays is too great a coward to Leisure Is Improving Canned Grapefruit. The flavor of canned grapefruit can be improved by aerating it, that is, pouring it from one container into another several times. doesnt mean to turn handsprings. ed All Became Human Torches. Jim, meanwhile, had gone off to get a valve to stop the flow of oil. just come back and was carrying the valve over toward the derrick when someone Ralph never found out who it was got into his He had GROUND GRIP TIRE PROVIDES GREATER -- sjULL, GREATER SAVESMORE DRAWBAR TRACTIOHANBr TIME AND FUEL" News The poqr devil was running straight toward Ralph. car, intending to drive it out of the circle of oil. He stepped on the starter, and that was the last thing he ever did in his life. The whole area thereabout was saturated with oil and the air was full of oil fumes. A spark from the motor caught in that field of combustible gas, and in the fraction of a second the ground inside that circle was a ROARING, BLAZ- '' ING HELL. And standing just outside the circle was Ralph, watching The minute that car started, he the whole terrible affair. a blinding flash and the whole well was a mass was there says, ' of flame. There were twenty-od- d people inside the circle and I stood there horrified while every one of them lighted up like so many torches and started to burn alive. Then the fire, coursing like liquid flame, ran down into the canal. Already half full of oil, the canal blazed up. In an instant it was a solid wall of fire that mercifully cut off my view of the poor wretches burning to death inside. The only thing Ralph could think of then was that Jim was in there. He screamed his name at the top of his lungs, and started backing away from the blazing death that was leaping up at him out of the canal. He had moved back out of reach of the flames-rw- as standing there too horrified and too dumbfounded to speak another word when, all of a sudden, a MASS OF FIRE, shaped like a human being, came dashing across the burning bridge out of a solid wall of fire that had engulfed it! . Jim Saved by His Friends Call. The poor devil, whoever it was, was running straight toward Ralph. Ralph ran forward to meet that running, blazing apparition. He caught it threw it to the ground. Someone brought up a tank of chemicals. The flames that were eating up his clothing were put out. And there, almost unrecognizable lay Jim! Says Ralph: We rushed Jim to the hospital two miles away. It was hopeless to try to save the others inside that doomed circle. It took three days to put the well fire out, and when it was all over all you could see inside the canal were charred bones and the twisted frame of the car. I never want to see anything like it again. It was. three weeks before theyd let Ralph see Jim at the hospital. He was pretty well on the mend by that time, and the first question Ralph asked him was one that had been puzzling him ever since the . y day of the fire. How did you know where the bridge was? he asked. "How could you see it through that wall of fire when none of the rest could find it? And Jim replied : I couldnt see it. It was the sound of your voice that guided me. When I came back with that valve you were standing right at the end of the bridge. So when I heard you call my name I just ran in the direction of your voice. Dont you remember calling to me? Remember? says Ralph. How could I forget it? J . ' , WNU Service. , of the amazing performance of the NEW Firestone Ground Grip Tire is sweeping rural America. Farmers everywhere who have seen this new tire are so enthusiastic about it that sales have been climbing steadily upward and production has been greatly increased to meet the demand. 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