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Show O SBsBl BssssssBsssssBsssHs BTJjKmWKUKKImM all ales As told to: ELMO FRANK E. d SCOTT HAGAN WATSON Echoes as Alarm Clocks MODERN Americans who have to Invest in alarm clocks in order to be certain of waking up In time for work each morning may well envy the good fortune of Jim Bridger, famous frontiersman, who was able to draft Mother Nature Into service to assure early rising. Near Brldger's ranch la Wyoming were some obsidian cliffs. Frequently Frequent-ly he heard the sharp crack of a rifle which puzzled him, because he knew there was no one within 147 miles of his borne. Finally it dawned on him that these report! were the echoes of the rifle shots which he had fired the previous day when he was getting his daily sap-ply sap-ply of fresh meat. These obsidian cliffs had caught the report of his rifle, held It overnight and then sent it back to him each day to remind re-mind him that It was time to go out hunting again. Next It occurred to Jim that he might just as well make use of the I echoes In other ways. So every time he knew that he bad to get up early the next morning, he would step outside the door, face the cliffs and shout : "Hey, Jim, it's time to get up I" And, sure enough, the next morning he would ba awakened awak-ened by the echo shouting 'in his ear: "Hey, Jim, It's time to get opl" C Wtstsrn Ntsrapapar Union. |