Show T d adventurers CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 the door of 01 death dy by FLOYD GIBBONS famous it headline eadline hunter H HELLO ELLO well EVERYBODY boys and girls this Is the payoff pay off A bird who hod had an adventure in church ive always known that old lady adventure was no respect respecter ter of persons now it seems she respect the cloth either Is tho the lad ind who found adventure henry D B willson ot of new york city down at the end of the old sawdust trail As a boy alent henry says I 1 had more than my share of particular escapes but ono one in particular has left such a scar on my memory as time will never efface anything confinement anything from a small room to oven even today that represents a tight collar throws me into a panic minute I 1 started reading well theres a curious reaction the hank Wll Will sona sons letter the minute I 1 hit bit that opening paragraph of tits I 1 wanted to know what sort of a scare it was that hat would make a man go nuts over a tight collar and I 1 guess you boys and girls will want to know too so heres the story hank used kerosene to start the fire hank was raised as they say down south in a little village in georgia that went by the name of cedartown Cedar town and like most kids did in small towns in those days he worked around tit at various odd jobs to earn hla his spending money hanks dad was the pastor of a church in town and one winter hank flank had the job of taking care of the church furnace now there are probably a million ways of starting a fire but hanks plan was to throw a bunch of paper in the furnace chuck a lot of wood in on top of that and then saturate tho the whole business with kerosene its a darned good way to get a blaze going quickly but some soma horrible 0 tho the fire blazed up on the instant things have happ happened eded to people who used kerosene too freely in places where it was was never meant to be used in fact a very horrible thing DID happen hap pento to hank hank built fires in the old church perhaps two dozen times always in that one particular way of his and then he built one that brought old lady adventure down on him like a ton of bricks early one sunday morning hank got up put on an old sweater and started out to do his lob job he tossed in an armful of crumpled newspapers and followed that with a couple armfuls of wood lie ho poured the kerosene on giving the furnace an exceptionally liberal dose then with a box of matches in one hand he stuck his head lind and shoulders in through the furnace door to arrange the wood so that it would be sure to take fire quickly caught in a blazing trap so far everything was all right but it was the matches that did the damage you know inow when youve got a box of matches in your hand its the most natural thing in the world to tight light one you do it automatically absentmindedly absent mindedly well hank know what got into him or where his wits were at the moment but before he knew what he was dolg doing he had lit a match and WITH HIS HEAD AND SHOULDERS STILL STICKING HALFWAY THROUGH THE FURNACE MOR DOOR applied that match to the kerosene soaked wood and paper the fire blazed up in an instant hanks first reaction was to jerk his head and shoulders back out of tho ahe furnace door he tried to do just that but it work his sweater had caught on the catch of the furnace door and though he fought like mad to draw back out of the way of the spreading hames flames he work himself free hank screamed but his screams were so muffled by the furnace that no one in the street heard him meanwhile the fire was getting hotter and closer hanks face was beginning to cook his sweater caught fere and broke into a blaze death was leering at him through the fi flames ames that licked and lapped at his body it was the most horrible fate I 1 could imagine hank says and it was happening to me fox terrier gave the alarm 1 about that time though hank became conscious that there was some sort of commotion going on behind him A little fox terrier had come coma wandering in through the open collar cellar door and the abe dog seemed to know that something was wrong he started to fo yelp and whine and run back and forth between the furnace and the cellar door early on a sunday morning when no one was about that yelping little dog might easily have gone unnoticed but fate had decreed ethl otherwise r it seems and down the street come camo an old negro the old fell fellow ow was curious to see what strange happenings would make a dog act so 50 at a time when most dogs are asleep and he stuck his head in the cellar door that old fellow got the shock of his life for what he saw was a furnace burning merrily and a half portion of an eight year old boy sticking out of the door lie he grabbed hank flank by tho the legs yanked him out and slapped out the fire that was consuming his sweater hanks hair was all burned off and his face and hands were f in a well cooked condition two minutes more and it wo have been any use bothering with him why he like confinement even a tight collar collar reminds mind s him of that furnace door copyright service war against germany the united states declared war against germany a few minutes after 3 on the morning of april 5 1917 when congress passed a res alution that the president Is hereby authorized and directed to carry on war aga liitt the imperial german government and to bring the conflict to a successful termination thus empowered the pros pres ident april 6 issued a proclamation that a state of war exists be tween the united states and the imperial german government the act of god the legal meaning of 0 act of god la is an overwhelming natural event such as a storm ori or earthquake which no human being could be reasonably expected to foresee or prevent according to the common law no person is responsible for a loss or injury when it Is caused by the act of god or the en emles enemies of the state if a man Is sued for breach of contract and c can an prove that his performance nonperformance non was due to the act of god he has a fprd defense |