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Show I THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Inexpensive, Easy Patchwork Quilts FLOYD GIBBONS Ad venturers' Club No Monotony WANT OF APPLICATION for Him to Whom All Ways Are New Few things are impracticable In themselves, and it is for want of apThere !s no monotony In living to plication, rather than of means, that him who walks even the quietest men fall of success. Rochefoucauld. and tamest paths with open and perceptive eyes. The monotony of life, Is monotonous to you, Is in you, not in the world. It may be that you think all days alike, and grow weary from common colds with their sameness, and get none of the stimulus and solemnity which comes from constantly reaching unexpected places and experiences. 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Fair Day Even If other remedies have Friendship maketh indeed a fair failed, dont be discouraged, your day in the affections from storm and druggist is authorized to guarantee tempests, but It maketh daylight in Creomulsion and to refund your If you are not satisfied with the understanding out of darkness money results from the very first bottle. and confusion of thoughts. Bacon. Get Creomulsion right now. (AdvA Beware Coughs That Hang On Cooked Alive By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. T VE got a story here of one of the most terrible accidents that ever A happened to any man. The victim Was John E. Perry. And John says of this accident: It not only thrilled me with the greatest thrill I ever had, but also was my lifes greatest mystery, for to this day I cant figure out how I managed to live, through it all. But Johns adventure sneaked up and bit him on October 10, 1909, and today, 26 years later, he is still alive to tell about it. I cant solve Johns en By GRANDMOTHER CLARK Patchwork quilts as a rule are elaborate, cost quite a bit and represent many days of tedious work. This work and cost can be cut down to a minimum as shown in the illustration. Any of these designs can be used on eighteen nine-inc-h blocks and so arranged to make a full size quilt. About three ounces or one yard of prints ie all that Is required for, the patchwork. Folder No. 536 in colors illustrates four ways to assemble these different designs, also cut out diagrams for six different patches like the above. Information about yardage required for back, border and block? is also given. The folder No. 536 and folder No. 0 with other quilting Information will be mailed upon receipt of 10 cents, or send us 19 cents and we will send folder and sufficient beautiful patches to make up the patchwork on one of these simple quilts. Address Home Craft Co., Dept. D, Nineteenth and St. Louis Ave., St Louis. Inclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply when writing for any Information. , mystery for him, either. The best I can do is give you the facts and see If ' you can figure it out , On that fateful morning in October, John left his home at six oclock, bound for his job. John worked for electrical contractors who , were engaged in putting up a power line at the power station. He arrived on the scene of operations at seven-thirtand immediately went to work on a wires from the plant pole that carried -- y 60-fo- ' . high-tensio- n Experience Taught Him Not to Fool With This. He was working his way up to the top of that pole, climbing carefully through the maze of cables. Twenty-on- e years of experience in the electrical business had taught him to move with caution in spots of that sort Some of those electrical wires carried 13,000 volts of electric current three or four times as much as youll get in the best of electric chairs. At last, John got to the spot where he wanted to work 55 feet up In the air, in a narrow space between two His task was to remove the insulators on one cross-arand replace them with heavier ones, and while doing that he had to stand on a narrow bar, only 20 inches long, and bend himself almost double' over the cross-ardirectly death-dealin- g cross-arm- . above. Personal Comfort Was Least of Johns Worries. It wasnt a very comfortable position but when youre working among a wires comfort is one of the last things you think of. The weather was warm and the sun was John was remove on the main power line, when suddenly he felt a jolt ing the bunch of high-tensio- n red-ho- t. tie-wir- that shook his whole body. There are some sensations you just cant describe, and a big dose of electric current is one of them. But John Perry does as well at describing it as anybody else I ever saw. It felt like hells fire, he says, and I could taste the brimstone on my lips. I was completely enveloped in blue flame, and while I watched, my thumb I The Choice of Millions POWDER Gt BAD Double Action Double Tested Manufactured by baking powder Specialists who make nothing but baking powder-un- der supervision o 'expert chemists. Same Price Today as 4$Y ears Ago 25 ounces for 250 A( You can also buy 11 XO ounce can for tOo IS ounce can for ISO Highest Quality Always Dependable BJgO.U RgGO.VERNM E till Could Taste' the Brimstone on My Lips. and finger, which- - had been holding the wire I had just detached fell off and dropped to the ground. My hat turned to ashes right on my head. A wire was burning Into my left foot, and my left leg was cooking from foot to knee. Then everything turned red before my eyes and I began to pray, asking God to spare me for the sake of my wife and,five small children. I thought of my father and mother and then, with a last convulsive shudder, I lost consciousness. Meanwhile, down on the ground, Johns fellow workmen watched him cooking to death, unable to raise a finger to help him. No one could go up on that pole to get him down without being electrocuted, too.. , Everyone Gives Him Up for Dead. .. And, as a matter of fact, no one dreamed he had survived even so much as the first ten seconds of that terrible shock. A man was sent running to the power station to tell them to shut off the current, and then linemen went up the pole, tied a rope around John's body and lowered it to the ground. They laid him on the grass, threw a cloth over him and sent for the coroner. And it was thus that John when he came back to lf . . consciousness. John came, to slowly. He could see and hear what was going on around bim, but try as he would, he couldnt move a muscle. He shuddered when he. heard his friends speaking of the awaited arrival of the coroner wondered If his was to be even a more gruesome fate than being cooked alive on a wire If, on top of that they were going to bury him alive Then a priest came and saved him from that worry. He took a look at John and said: ' This man is alive Take him to a hospital. Four men picked him up and carried him to the power station. ! found-himse- . . high-tensio- n Time Proved This Accident Victim Can Take It. A few minutes later a doctor arrived and John was taken to the hospital There a nurse took one look at his mangled body and fainted. ' v A doctor put John In bed and notified his family of the accident After a week in bed they took him to the surgical ward for a grafting operation on his injured foot A month later they performed a similar operation on his mangled left hand and it was all of three months before he left that hospital, a wejl man again. John still doesnt get 100 per cent efficient service out of that patched-uhand and foot, but after an experience like that one he went through, Its little short of miraculous that he ever lived through it at all. fanny that coffee was harming me 1 1 thought it waa bad only for children! Oh, no. ..the caffein in coffee disagrees with too. It many grown-upcan upset their nerves, cause indigestion, or loss of sleep! EEMS p . WNU Service. Named Old Glory Captain Driver of Salem In 1831 commanded the brig Charles Doggett, which sailed on Its famous voyage which resulted In the rescue of the mutineers of the British ship Bounty. A letter acknowledging this service contains Drivers autograph dated November 16, 1880, and bears the words My ship, my country, and my flag, Old It may be fairly assumed, Glory. therefore, that the phrase Old Glory originated with Captain Driver. The flag which was so designated by him was presented to him by a friend before starting on this voyage. 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