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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH He Enthused Success Is Locked Up Familiarity FAMILIARITY makes, us But there comes a day when we . observe and think. Then we suffer. As a a boy I loved life and country things. I used to get up to see the sun, as an old divine I once read remarks, "coming forth from his chambers in the East. I have come in to breakfast drenched in dew. How it used to glisten and sparkle in the morning light ! But that is all a thousand years behind. J. A. Stewart. Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden . , . What was finest in them was the desire to hide them. Pascal. Bridge Game By FLOYD GIBBONS T TS Hank Smith of South Orange, N. J., who gets himself raised to the rank of Distinguished Adventurer. And what a yarn Hank sends us! I mean, the next time Hank goes out with a motor truck, j ,1 bet hell consult an astrologer to see if the omens are right, or maybe pay fifty cents to Swami Rajah, the guy with the educated crystal ball, to be darned good and sure he has an even chance of getting back alive. The more we try to look what we are not, the smaller our chance becomes of fully being what we really can grow to be. All the world loves a lover unless he is holding up 20 cars in a line behind him. More people commit their creeds in their heads than know them by of Union. , The roads were muddy and the going was bad. Hank had a hundred gal Ions of gas on his truck that he was taking to a customer on the other side of heart the river. unto every slanderer and who heapeth up riches and prepareth the same for the time to come. Woe When he got to the river he saw that It was swollen and over the banks. The bridge didnt look any too safe to him, so he stopped to look it over. Hank might have decided not to tempt fate by crossing that bridge, only, just at that' moment a farmer came along in an old flivver and chugged right on across. That settled matters. If the farmer, who knew the bridge, would take a chance' on It, certainly Hank ought not to be afraid of It back-bite- Truck Motor Dies Half Way Across Flood Swept Bridge. Hank started across the bridge and the minute he did he was sorry. The it and strained it until it was weak on its pins, and it creaked and swayed at every turn of the big trucks wheels. Hank was half-wa-y across, and praying the old span would bold out for just another three minutes, when suddenly his engine coughed and stopped dead. It wouldnt be right to say that Hank was scared to death then. That part of it came later. At the moment he was only half scared to death, for he knew that the bridge was liable to go out any minut-etaking him and the truck along with it He climbed out of the truck and began tinkering with the engine. The water i rose higher and higher. The old bridge swayed farther and farther with each Iswlrl of the swelling tide. It took him ten minutes to find out that his trouble 'was a clogged gas line. flood had buffeted . iiS'kWftillSiffl TI1E1B r; Dr. Pierces Pleasant Pellets are the original little liver pills put up 60 years ago. They regulate liver and bowels Adv. Ability Deserves Praise Men who deserve praise want it. too; dont think they dont BA K I n G Here's baking powder, tried, tested and used exclu-siveby experts. Follow Natural Bent Now Hanks bad day was a dark, rainy one in the fall of 1923. He was working In South Carolina then, driving a truck for an oil company. His job was to deliver gasoline to garages and filling stations about the country, and he did pretty well at it until those stars ganged up on him. That was at the bridge across Tiger river, near the town ' FORTIIOSETllOj Events are only the shells of Ideas ; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet ScluA: the doing. ( Events Are Shells UuUPkt Because, you know. Hank once hit one of those days when the stars were lined up against him and wbat those stars didnt do to Hank was not worth ' . Tit-Bit- s. Famous Headline Hunter. . i That phrase, "the key to success, Over Simple Life suggests that success is locked up. It isnt to be had for the taking. In the smoking compartment the . Whatever a mans tastes are, he conversation turned on the merits seldom pretends they are something and demerits of various ways of preelse. serving health. One stout, florid Once a public speaker hears the man had quite a lot to say. loud clapping of hands at something me! he said. "Never a Look at he has said, he feels he has opened In my life, and all due sickness the door to the secret of winning days to simple food. .Why, he continued, applause. "from twenty to forty I lived an abWhat to Worry Over solutely regular life no effeminate There are only two things In the delicacies, no late hours, no extravworld to worry over things you can agances. I. was In bed regularly at control and things you cannot con- nine oclock and up again at five. I trol. Fix up the first to your liking worked from eight to one, then had and forget the ' second. dinner a plain dinner; after that-a- n One reason men discarded diahours exercise; then monds is that you have to dress up me, Interrupted the face-Excuse so to wear diamonds. tious stranger in the corner, but Happiness is not an inalienable what were you in for? right; only the pursuit of it. 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Bank wondered if hed better leave the truck and run for the other end. Discretion said Yes, but Responsibility said No, and in the end Responsibility won the argument. Hank dived under the hood and began working feverishly at that disabled motor, hoping against hope that the old bridge would hold until he got it started. Minute by minute the water rose. More floating debris came down the river to add itself to the pile that was already pushing against the creaking timbers. At last Hank had the clogged gas line clear. He climbed into the drivers seat and stepped on the starter. r The motor hummed. The truck began to move forward. Then, to his con-- , sternation. Hank saw Nemesis floating down the stream in his direction. Nemesis in the Form of Pine Log Threatens Rickety Bridge. It was a big pine tree, torn up by the roots, and floating swiftly toward the bridge. Hank knew what would happen when that thing hit knew it would slam into the bridge with a crash that would tear the rickety old structure loose from its moorings. His heart was in his mouth as he stepped on the gas ' and sent his truck rumbling ahead as fast as Its engine would carry it. ; The pine tree was only ten feet away when Hank spotted It, and It was coming along On the swift current with what seemed like express train speed. It didnt take it five seconds to hit the bridge. And then , thjngs happened just as Hank expected they would. ' The tree struck with a crash that shook the bridge from one end to the other. The flimsy old timbers cracked. The bridge swayed and buckled under the Impact and the weight of the heavy truck It supported. . It Was a Race Between Time and the River. . Planks split under the rear wheels, but still the truck went on. And Hank Smith sat up front in the drivers seat, teeth clenched, and hair practically standing on end, doing what he could which was nothing more than keeping his foot on the gas pedal and praying that his luck would hold. Twenty yards to the end of the bridge ten yards. The big truck rolled the last few feet. Its front wheels hit solid ground. And then, with a squeak and a scream of rending timbers the bridge went out, just as the rear wheels hit dirt and safety. 1 dont know whether you boys and girls like to your yarns, but this storys got one. A few feet beyond the bridge Hanks motor stalled again. "Suppose that had happened Just a couple of minutes earlier, he wants to know. Where would I have been then? It looks like the stars werent being so hard on Hank after alL ' . anti-climax- ! JOE E. BROWN ASKS BOYS AND GIRLS TO JOIN CLUB . ' WNU Service. 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