OCR Text |
Show THE BINGHAM NEWS ''' tfl SAFETY IN TRAFFIC RULES IF OBEYED "? " " j Never pass a street car thai has stopped to take on or let off rustx-tiger- Automobiles should come to a stop at a distance of fifteen feet behind the street car, starting again only after the car has started. Daclch 8 y Fair j tale V GRAHAM 'BONN TWO GIANTS Old Mr. Giant had been Invited by Mother Nature to take Billle Brownie s place one day to p. on some of the mem-bers of her fam- - ny. nillle Brownie had been delimit-ed to let Old Mr. Giant go In his place. Old Mr. Giant as a rule liked to stay home In Fairyland better than to go on Journeys. Of course he trav-eled a great lenl about Falrylnnd. "crSJdiisr rk,nK,Tirr hither and thither, hut he didn't go forth Into tlie people's world. However, when Mo'ht'r Nature told him that" the Giant Sunflowers wanted to see a giant, he accepted the Invita-tion. He took his old, crooked stick and put on his best high hat, which only made him look taller than ever. But Mother Nature had said: "Look your tallest. They want to see a real giant." It was early, early In the morning when Mr. Giant went forth. The dew was still on the ground, but he was wearing his thick great boots so he didn't notice such little things as dew-drop- s upon them. . He hadn't very far to go when he met a great row of Giant Sunflowers. "Ah, welcome, friends and brothers," said Old Mr. Giant. "Ah, welcome, Great Giant," said the Giant Sunflowers. Tliey beamed at him and their great, broad, golden faces looked very smil-ing and proud and pleased. "One of us Is going to talk for nil of us," the Giant Sunflowers said In chorus. Then one Giant Sunflower spoke. lie was the tallest of all. He was very, very huge and his height' was very great. lie was Just even with Old Mr. Giant, and these two huge, tall crea-tures talked to each other. "I'm the Giant of Fairyland," said Old Mr. Giant. "I live in a big friend-ly cave und the little Fairies. Elves, Brownies, Gnomes, Bogeys, members of the Oaf family. Old Witty Witch and all of the others come to see me. I tell them stories of the olden days when there were more giants about. 1 tell them tales my father nnd grandfa-ther and Giant told me when I was but a little boy giant and not a big man giant such as I am now. "They were fine old tales they had to tell me nnd I pass them on to those In Fairyland. "But I want to hear about you, Great Giant Sunflower." The Giant Sunflower bowed a digni-fied, mojestlc bow and began ; "Years ago." he sulci, "the Indians cultivated members of my family. "We were prairie flowers, as no doubt you know. We call prairies our home. "In those days our plants were ol use, our leaves gave food to cuttle, our flowers gave a color dye and our seeds fed pigs and chickens and hens and roosters and such animals. "We used to be here, too. In the old days when the land belonged to the Indians. "We lived here as a family before others did. We truly belong - to the land. "So we have grown big as we feel entitled to be big. "We were big then, too. "Oh, years and years a,go, our families knew In-dian life as mem-bers of our family today know the life among the Just Even with pale faces as the 0ld Mr, Giant Indians called them. - "Tell your Fairyland people that we do belong to this land. They cultivated us In Europe after this. "But North America, we feel, is very much our own. As one giant to' an-other, you understand, my talk is big. I hope It does not sound conceited but only quite fitting." "Quite fitting," said Old Mr. Giant. "And only justly proud." WOMAN'S BACK SinpPED ACHING is! ed Three Years. Re lieved by Taking Lydia E. Rnkham's Vegetable Compound St Pad, Minn.- -'! have a little rfrl three yeare old and ever since her birth , 1 1 have Buffered with phMteiS&gX my back as if it were f5Nii breaking in two and I '' have felt as if some-- V thing were ''"S f jilAI out all the time. I I iJ J also had dizzy spella . M ndwas alck at 5$ I WiS my atomach every month. I had read K Jt& several 1 e 1 1 e r a of MCt-Jr- women in the newa-- '' and the drng-3.- X recommended Lydia E. Pinkhara Vegetable Com-pound to my husband for me. As a re-sult of taking it my back has atopped aching and the awful bearmg-dow- fee-ing is gone. I feel stronger and do all of my housework and tend to my little girl. I have also taken Lydia E. Pink-ham- 's Liver Pills for constipation. I have recommended these medicines to some of my friends and you may use this letter as a testimonial if you wish. I will be pleased to answer letters of other women if I can help them by tell-ing them what this medicine has done for me. "-- Mrs. Price, 147 W. Summit Avenue, St Paul, Minnesota. C Green's' V r& August Flower I QiSjR) Constipation, I -- jpetl . Indigestion and ' V Torpid Liver V V Al s 8"ai'ul tar " ruiiiw y joe and 90c bottlm . ALL DRUGGISTS ' CuticuraTalcum Is Soothing For Baby's Skin Smp, Ointment, Talcum loU uwmrmhmn. Say '"Bayer"-Insis- t! For Colds Headache Pain Lumbago Neuralgia Rheumatism Ciyb AccePt only ij&j Bayer package , which contains proven directions Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100 Druggista Aipliin ! the trade mark of Bayrr n of MuuoawUctdileater of SailcjUcacta ALLEH'S FOOT EASE for Tired Foal It Can't B Baal At night when your feet PLt3V aretired, soreand swollen Waf ifrom much walking or fliV jt-- dancing, sprinkle two ytLJt J ALIEN SFOOT-ES- E powders JyJ ln 'be foot-bul- gently ftv rub 'he sors and "amed parts and VSj CVi3A relle' ls like magic J lyW4 Shake Ailrar-Ea- n lJ the morning and , wisJr wa,k ln comfort. It takes the friction from the Shoe. (Sold everywhere. For rail Sample and Foot-Ea-se Walking Doll, ddnaa, iUEN'S U Ray, ft. 1. WHEN 1 BALDY FADDEN DISAPPEARED By CLARENCE L. HAY ( kr Short Storr Fun. Co.) most important person on THE street was "I!uldy but "Baldy" wua not aware of the high esteem in which he was held. Ills Inability to estimate his own importance resulted from a luck of years. He wus but four, and at that Interesting period of life one Is not able to recognize his atatus In the community. It was on one day in early spring that "lialdy Faddeu" surprised Hester street, and made Its mixed population use up all the expressions of astonish-ment they knew. "Buldy" disap-peared! It was not a common disap-pearance resorted to by the ordinary child who wishes to make Its parents familiar with the agony produced by a temporary parting; it wus a startling, mysterious disappearance, that stirred the Rust side from the "Panhandle" to "Hell's Kitchen." The Cuparellls occupied a front apartment on the fourth floor of a ten-ement house and on the morning of the mysterious disappearance Mrs. placed her son on the little Iron Are balcony overhanging the street. The taleony was but four feet long and two wide, with a railing that was twice the height of CapHrelll, Junior, and It had neither trap nor ladder. The first and only thought which leaped with stunning force into the mind of the woman compelled her to spring to the railing and stare with . wild eyes Into the street beneath, ltut there waa no commotion aucb as her Imagination had pictured. Everything waa peaceful. Half a dozen loafers stood around unconcernedly In front of Mulltgun's saloon; Pletro and Ba-ptist, the fruiterers next door, were atandlng chatting on the aldewalk, while the vendor of popcorn, standing nearly underneath the Caparelll apart-ment, yawned lazily as he stared at the paseers-by- . Furthermore, there waa do trace of "Baldy Fadden," nlive or dead, on the street or sidewalk. The woman, frantic with apprehen-alon- , acreamed out a torrent of ques-tions to the men on the street, but they signified In a dozen different ways that they were Ignorant of the Whereabouts of her son. The fright-ened mother gazed hopelessly up and around, and then, recognizing how utterly Impossible It would be for "Baldy" to leave the balcony In any other way, she shrieked again and gain, and llenter street arose to by the trailing anchor of an airship, that he had been grabbed by an eagle, or had been consumed by spontaneous combustion. Suppositions didn't end there. A man suggested that "Baldy" had suddenly developed the alleged gift of the wise men of the Yaquls and walked away on the atmosphere. Others hinted darkly at the mysteri-ous powers possessed by 'a withered lady from Lombardy who resided across the street, while many more muttered prayers and called upon pa-tron saints to protect them from the devil, whose finger, they clearly per-ceived, was In the pie. The thing was incomprehensible. Frotn a small balcony, 45 feet above the ground, In one of the most thickly populated districts In the world, a child had been spirited away right from under his mother's eyes, and five detectives, eleven policemen, three spook authorities and three thousand people were unable to tell how the thing bad been done. The disappear-ance of "Baldy Fadden" threatened to tecome one of the mysteries of the century, and In the cars It took prece-dence of politics and stock Jobbing, while the doings of the "Gian's" and the "Sox" were forgotten In the babble of conjecture. As It often happens In cases of the kind, Caparelll, senior, was saved much of the anguish that the disap-pearance of the boy brought to his wife. A messenger had hftrn dis-patched to acquaint the father, after Investigation had proved that "Baldy" was not on or around the home reser-vation, 'but It happened to be one of those days when fool things happen one after the other. Caparelll, senior, had been transferred from his regular gang that morning, and had been sent out to the Bronx to assist on a dump. The messenger was an Italian new to the city, and not having any money In his possession at the moment he ran to acquaint his countryman of the misfortune, and, furthermore, laboring under the Idea that the Bronx was but a few hundred yards away, he started to walk. While he was plugging gal-lantly northward the mystery In Hes-ter street was deepening, and Capa-relll, senior, waa busily engaged shov-eling refuse of various kinds that was being dumped Into the pit. At five o'clock In the evening Hester street was a seething mass of eager-eye- d, excited people waiting In an at-mosphere charged with mystery. The day, that had opened brightly, had turned dull and heavy, and on the minds of people born In southern Eu-rope the unaeeountatle disappearance of "Baldy Fadden" worked like mental yeast In raising all the terrors of the past from the dark corners of their brains. It was half-pas-t Ave when the first Illuminating ray pierced the gloom surrounding the happening. Bnptlsto, who owned the fruit shop to the right of the Caparelll apartment house, dashed through the crowd that strug-gled on the stairway, and shouted a message over the heads of the women sympathizing with the mother of the lost boy. "Caparelll !" he screamed. "Capa-relll! Ah. Mother of God! Capurelli has the child ! lie has him Ah. It Is good, good I Caparelll Just telephoned that he had 'Baldy' Ah, it Is good!. He has him at de dump away out out, ah, yes out at de Bronx !" After screaming out the message he fainted In the hallway, but upon being brought round, he repeated the aston-ishing Information. Caparelll, senior, had spoken to him over the 'phone from a rubbish pit far out In the Bronx, and asked him to Inform Mrs. Caparelll that the child was safe, and that he, Caparelll, was then on his way home with the lost one. Hester street gasped. The mystery was not yet explained It had deep-ened. What devilish agency had spir-ited the child away from his mother to the place his father was working? Pious Italians muttered their prayers as they waited for the explanation that would be forthcoming. wrestle with the mystery. Unless "Baldy" had suddenly grown wings and flown into spat e, there were hut four ways to account for his Di-sappearance: The first and. of course, the most probable, was the theory thut be had fallen Into the street, but the evidence of twenty-fiv- e people, who were In different positions In front of. the apartment house, swept the sur-mise to the scrap heap of knocked-ou- t ' suppositions. The peanut vendor of-fered to stake his immortal soul against ten cents' worth of nuts to prove that nothing had falleu from the Caparelll apartment, and the huge vol-ume of supporting evidence, added to the fact that there were no parts of "Baldy" visible, or no signs to prove that he had struck the street In a for-cible manner, proved that the peanut , vendor was not reckless In wagering his soul against a quart of nuta. The suggestion that someone, stand-ing at a near-b- y window, might hnve hooked "Baldy" by meana of a long pole was also scouted, when the resi-dents of the flats to the left and right 'had been examined. A cousin of the Caparellls who, while admitting that she had seen "Baldy" on the balcony, was above suspicion, lived to the right, and a brother workman of "Baldy's" father resided on the left. His repu-tation was unimpeachable. The roof was now the only place to look for traces of kidnaping, but the roof of-fered no solution to the growing mys-tery. The janitor had not unlocked the trap door up to the time that "Baldy" had disappeared, and, on either side, the roof of the house was Inaccessible except by means of lad-ders and ropes, and regarding these there was not the slightest trace to prove that they had been used. The mystery was stupendous. At ten o'clock five detectives of the Italian squad, who thought they de-tected the work of the "Black Hand," were busy on the spot. Eleven police-men wrestled with the crowd nnd clews In turn, and Mrs. Caparelll, In between numerous hysterical tits, gave Interviews to thirteen different tws-pape- r men, who photographed the wonderful balcony and then rushed away with the news. For the and unaccountable Is always news. If "Baldy" had been smashed up on the street like hundreds of other East-sid- e children, the incident would have been of only paragraph value, but the fact that he had left the balcony by ways and means thut sug-gested the supernatural made the dis-appearance of great news value in a dull season! "Baldy Fadden" ap-peared in letters five Inches long, and a special spook writer, who had Just contrih"ted a series of articles to a leading magazine, was employed by one sheet to Investigate and to search-light the mystery. Two hours after the disappearance Hester street was blocked to traffic. Ten thousand theories had teen ad-- vanced up to that time. It was sug gested that "Baldy" had been hooked Caparelll'a arrival was something that will be long remembered on the East side. With "Baldy Fadden" on his shoulders he walked through a crowd of cheering, shouting people till he placed the boy In his mother's arms. Hester street wept. Excited women waved tublecloths from the windows, and men howled with Joy. Then curiosity grasped the crowd with a clutch of Iron. The mob swept around Caparelll, shrieking for expla-nations. They screamed their ques-tions in a score of tongues, and pushed madly behind the laborer in their wild pursuit of knowledge. Caparelll turned and put up his hand. "Dere is leetle to tell," he said qui-etly. "I see It all on' I tank de good Lord. 'Baldy' has told me dat he was on de balcony, yes, eet Is oe. 'Baldy' was dere. un' underneat", ah, I tank de good God, was de truck loading up de rotten bananas dat Blptlsto sends to de dump. Ah, you see It now! 'Baldy' fell Into de rotten bananas an" sink down In dem. Ton understand No one see him, an' when he full de driver whip up his horse ait not seein' 'Baldy,' drive my boy all de way out to de dump where I was work. Ah, when I see my boy tipped out at my feet 1 tlnk him dead I I cry an' I cry again, but be was only stunned an'" Hester street drowned hia aohs with a cheer that went rushing away up toward Chlnntown. When It had died away, a shrill voice broke the silence with a yell of: "Cburnal! Churnal! Orl about the findin' of 'Baldy Fad-den.' " But the article by the spook author-ity that had appeared In the earlier edition had been cut out The banana truck had ousted the spooks in thf last round. Ridicule Is Real J Jay-Walki- ng Cure J The pedestrian who disregards all the prluclplea of safety and J ambles heedlessly about the J streets Is rapidly being rele- - gated to the realm of historic figures. Nobody likes to be called a and rtdl- - 2 cule has done a great deal to-- ward eliminating this dangerous element In traffic control. J Los Angeles Is now operating J J under a ordinance, J and It has proved highly success- - J ful. The unlucky Individual J who falls to heed the truffle alg- - J nals Is Jeered and laughed at, and. this has proved efficacious lii educating the pedestrian in the necessity of traffic control. The pedestrian who Ignores the traffic warning and dellber- - J ately walks ahead In defiance of J the regulations contributes a dol- - zT lar to the city treasury. J FILLED RADIATOR IS BIG CONCERN Water Circulation Is Essen-tial Feature of Most Gas-oline Engines. Frequently, the most serious engine malady, leading to overheating, may have such a simple origin that it seems scarcely necessary to call it to the at-tention of either experienced or Inex-perienced motorists. Such is the mere neglect to fill the radiator with water. Discover Trouble. How many times has the careless motorist started on an automobile trip and, after proceeding a short distance, observed steam emanating from the radiutorT A great many, of course, with consequent picturesque lan-guage and vilification of the manufac-turers of the car. The usual sequence of events Is as follows: The motor-ist gets out of his car, raises the hood and looks suspiciously at the engine. The engine looks all right. He then studies the reur axle, und finding noth-ing wrong there, feverishly exam-ines the running board. After a half hour or so of such investigation, it occurs to him to remove the radiator cap, und he makes the ustounding dis-covery that there Is no water In the radiator. Cure Is Simple. The cure, of course, is very simple but the danger Is that the cure, ap-plied too lute, may not be a complete one. For, deprived of the circulation of the water, which Is pn essential fea-ture of the design of most gasoline en-gines, a considerable Injury may hap-pen to the motor. Low water means a rupld rise In engine temperature, and the only sure way to prevent this, short of remembering to fill the radiator, is to keep an eye on the heat indica-tor on the radiator cap and to stop and examine when tlds Indicator registers abeve the danger line. New Cathedral Facade Belfast War Memorial . Belfast Is commemorating Its service In the World war by erecting a new facade for Its Trotestant cathedral as a victory memorial. The first stone was luid at a ceremony that was given state and civic dignity. The duke of Abercorn attended, as did the lord mayor and corporation of Belfast. The Protestant primate was present and i was accompanied by 14 bishops, some of whom came from Kngland. The Presbyterian church was represented by the moderator of its general assem-bly and the Methodists by the chair-man of the Belfast synod. Lord Glennvy, cha'rman of the Free State senate, attended as an invited guest. Simple Plan to Replace a Coupling and Magneto A simple way of replacing a coupling and magneto when the taper Is worn Is to true up the taper by using the compound rest on a lathe (not by moving the tailstock). Set the com-pound rest so that It will turn the new taper as shown In the Illustration. rtw Ttfti r 1 I 1 .CMUOf m COMPOUND K5T If rr 1J TnC HC f bOTn --- y iool ifvrrco .. 11 Fl The Taper on a Magneto Coupling May Be Easily Trued Up by Setting It in a Lathe. After the taper has been turned on the magneto shaft, do not move the compound rest, but leave It at that setting. Put on the chuck, and turn up a new flange coupling, finishing It all but the taper. Then turn the boring tool upside down and run the lathe the same way as before, the tool cut-ting at the back instead of tlie front, the taper must be the same und the coupling will then fit perfectly. Pop-ular Science Monthly. Entirely Satisfactory Mr. Brown looked up from his eve-ning paper as his wife entered trium-phantly. There wus a smile on her face that he knew from long experience In-dicated time well spent. "Well, my dear," said he, "did yon have a pleas-ant day?" Mrs. Brown's smile broad-ened. "Yes, rather," she answered. "I made three friends of enemies anl three enemies of friends." Fined for Show Itev. Douglas Montagu Heath, vicar of St. John's church, Harlow, England, was fined $'0 for stuglng a play In the parish church without a license. There was no charge for admission. Frequently She Doesn't "I am another man since I waa married." "And does your wife love that other man?" Simple Test Indicating Suitability of Gasoline Comprehensive tests of gasoU"1 quality cannot be made without lab-oratory equipment, and then only by experienced men. There Is a simple test, however, that can be taken as directly Indicating the suitability of any gasoline for use In an Internal combustion engine. This test can be made in a few minutes by any motorist without expense. It le conducted as follows : Into a small porcelain crucible pour about 30 c. c. of the fuel to be tested. Light It and allow It to burn freely till the fuel Is entirely consumed. It only a small amount of carbou is left on tue side walls of the crucible; and the bottom remains practically clean, the uuallty of the fuel Is good. If the deposit of carbon on the side walls of the crucible is heavy and black, and if there is a thick black residue at the bottom, the gasoline Is poor. There, are, of course, any number of degrees of variation between these two ex-tremes. Primary consideration for Judging the quality of gasoline and its suita-bility for motor vehicle fuel are the relative ease of starting In cool weath-er, mileage per gallon In ordinary use, heaviness or sllghtness of carbon de-posits In the combustion chamber, and degree of adulteration of the lubri-cating oil In the.crunkcase. For Economy'a Sake ' Many motorists run up repair and upkeep bills unnecessarily through failure to avoid rough spots In high-ways and through letting the wheels of their cars drop off the sides of con-crete roads. Permanent damage may be done to a chassis by allowing the rear wheels to drop six or eight inches over the shoulder of a concrete road. Bent rims often result from this. To Keep Carbon Down To encounter the least amount of trouble from, carbon formation, the following rules should he observed: First, keep the piston rings In proper condition. Second, use only the best quulity of oil. Third, employ the leanest possible fuel mixture at all times, .and fourth, give the engine a dose of carbon-removin- compound occasionally. Worked Best With Tip "What Is your name, my boy?" askeo. tne visitor to tlie hotel, when the bell-boy brought his shoes. "They call me Billiard Cue." an-swered the boy. "What a funny name. Why do they call you that?" "Because I work so much bettei with a tip." Don't "Ride the Clutch" The clutch collar will wear and be-- f come noisy If the feet of a motorist are kept on the clutch and brake pedals. nil the tlme'he is driving. This Is a very bad hatdt. as it also tempts the driver to slip the clutch when slowing down instead of changing to a lower gear. If the clutch is y slipped In this way, the clutch plates or faces. wear very rapidly and soon are liable to cause the brakes to drag. Keep the feet off these pedals, but have them In auch a position that the pedals can be reached Instantly. Lock Emergency Brake When leaving the car in gear as a means of holding it securely, always lock the emergency bruke. This serves as a two-wa- y precaution. The main feature of It is that should you forget to put the gears In neutral when cranking, the starter motor would not, or could not, move the cat If the emergency brake were set Wasn't Chewing Cum TVacher Are you chewing gum? Pupil No, ma'am, I'm George Becker. |