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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Eccentric Behavior Caution and Courage COURAGE is not a muscular A moral virtue. form of courage is to withstand public opinion . . . Some men in these matters are always on the unpopular side, always in opposition to popular prejudices; not from crotches or perversity, but because they see beyond their day, or discern dangers not as yet perceived, or have inherited truth of which others have been robbed. Cardinal Manning. Hornets and Bullets . A great mind is a generous one. By FLOYD GIBBONS over there, boys and girls, and make room for a new Adventurer in this club of ours. .He is Ralph Gewehr of South Orange, N. J. Ive got to admit, right at the start, that Ralphs yarn is a stinger. It happened to him in August, 1934, up in the Adirondacks, when Ralph and his pal, Billy, started out with a couple of .22 calibre rifles to hunt eagles. Well, sir, thats a good enough start for any adventure. An eagle is a pretty tough proposition, and a .22 calibre rifle is a pretty small piece of hardware to try to handle one with. If theyd found any eagles on that little hunting trip of theirs, theyd have had plenty of adventure. And I guess if they hadnt run across anything more dangerous than a cottontail rabbit theyd have had an adventure, too. Those lads were slated for trouble. Their numbers were up especially Ralphs. Anything they did that day would have been wrong, and when Billy took a pot shot at the only game in sight, he started something worse than a whole flock of eagles and a couple of buzzards thrown in for good measure. Boys Find Hornets Nest Is Dangerous Target. With their rifles in their arms, Ralph and Billy headed up the trail on foot. They trudged up to the top of Blue Ledge, a distance of ten miles from the summer camp of Ralphs folks at North river. The boys planned to spend the night in the mountains, like real hunters, and look for adventure. They were too tired to go after eagles by the time they arrived, but hornets were another thing. Now a hornet is pretty far from an eagle, but a hornets nest makes a nice target if you dont care what you shoot at and Billy didnt care. He let fly at that hornets nest and hit it smack in the center and then adventure began in earnest. Ralph says those hornets came out of that nest like a cloud of buzzing smoke. He thinks all the hornets in the world must have been in it from the way they went for him. He took one look at the i flying circus and then hit the trail as fast as he could go. But it wasnt fast enough. They dove at him in mass formation and ' kept right on his tail. He got a glimpse of Billy tearing through the woods with a million or so of the enemy on his shoulders and the next second tripped and fell. CROWD Phil IQicLe Stop: He Won't Stay Out If a man is a hustler he gets busy and secures a key to the door of success. It may be pleasanter to give than to receive, but it isnt always easier. In the United States fame is often little but the knowing of your name by millions. It Sneering has its penalty. makes ones face ugly. I dont mmd Having troubles now For tk&fc is uken my centricity of behavior. Charity begins at home, but as a general thing it is a mighty poor traveler. No one who is really sad and lonesome makes a pose of it. He tries to conceal it. Prepare for an emergency and nine times out of ten you wont have to meet it. Reward of Fault-Findin- spirit grows. I feel so sorry for tke folks Vko never keve tkese g useful woes. After one has the reputation of finding fault, it takes years to overcome it, even though one carefully finds' no fault for months. Why does a man think a baby has to be jounced, when it is something wrong inside of it that makes it cry? What Is Missing All that stands between most men and the top of the ladder is the ladder. A wise young man looks in the mirror and decides not to try to be a sheik. The trouble with some average men is that they seldom increase their average. A man throws himself at a womans feet and a woman throws' herself at a mans head. Did you ever stop to think what is the essential quality of the great? Courage: from Napoleon to Lindbergh. There is nothing more uncertain than a sure thing. fUTC"!- Va T'V) U J WNU Service. Venetian Life returning from Venice, where he had been consul for four years, William Dean Howells met a Boston publisher, with whom he frequently played shuffleboard or strolled the liners decks. One day Howells remarked that he was bringing over a manuscript on Venetian life. Jokingly the publisher remarked that his firm would bring it out. Without a moments hesitation the manuscript was turned over to him. . . It was published in 1866 under the title of Venetian Life. It may well be said that this was the start of Howells successful literary career. On 0)5X2 GEDSH3 ? TJGEGE? 00 THE CHEERFUL CHER Eccentricity of opinion can be forgiven but not so easily ec- mam am ofigo FIRST GRADE QUALITY The new Firestone Standard Tire is built of first grade materials by skilled workmen, and embodies the Firestone patented g construction features of and two d extra layers of cords under the tread CORD BODY Every cotton fibre in cord in every ply is soaked in liquid rubber every This is the only process that by friction and heat, providing internal prevents blowout protection and longer life greater strength, Gum-Dippin- Gum-Dippe- GUM-DIPPE- D Gum-Dippin- g. Bang! Went a Shot Right in Ralphs Ear. Bang! went a shot right in his ear. He thought it was Billys rifle for a moment because his had fallen out of his hand. Then he felt a stinging sensation in his side. That must have been a big hornet, he thought, from the way it felt. Ralph Is Shot by His Own Rifle. The hornets were stinging him everywhere, but none of them hurt as much as the one in his side. He put his hand on the spot and drew it away covered with blood! Ralph was shot! His own rifle had exploded on hitting the ground and the bullet must be in his body! Hornets were forgotten in the face of this discovery. The t situation was deadly serious. Here was a boy shot in the side and he was ten miles from civilization. Besides, both boys were already tired from their long walk. And, to make matters worse, the only doctor .was eight miles more beyond Ralphs cabin. They could make that last eight miles in Ids mothers car, but how would Ralph ever survive the walk? Ralph says their Boy Scout training came immediately to mind. The thing to do in case of a sudden shock, they recalled, was to apply heat, externally, internally and eternally. So Billy built a fire, heated some water and made coffee. Ralph drank the coffee, which heated him internally. Then Billy wrapped him in the blankets for the external heating. The boys washed the wound with hot water, bound it up as well as they could with their handkerchiefs, and started on the long trek back home. Trek. Wounded Lad Makes Heroic Did you ever try to walk ten miles with a bullet in your side? Ralph advises you not to. In addition to the mental torture of not knowing how badly he was wounded, Ralph suffered intensely from the heat. It was and hot enough without the blankets and the coffee, and he had to trudge along bundled up like an Indian papoose. That walk, Ralph says, was a nightmare. He figures he must have lost at least ten pounds and laid the foundations for a headful of gray hair. But he kept on going, even if he did think that each step would be his last. Finally they got back to the camp where Ralphs dad had a car. It was late at night when the boys finally staggered into the doctors office after a ride that shook the daylights out of Ralph. The doctor looked at the wound and ordered him to the hospitaL Then began another ride that Ralph will remember all his life. It was forty miles, but Billy drove it almost as fast as those hornets could fly. State Troopers Ask the Boys Searching Questions At the hospital another surprise was in store for them. State Troopers called by the doctor, as they always do in cases of gunshot wounds met the boys and questioned them. Ralph says they seemed to think that he and Billy had been shooting at each other or holding somebody up. But they cleared themselves of that suspicion and Ralph went on the operating table. An operation is an adventure in itself, bat Ralphs was one with a happy ending. The bullet which, fortunately, was not a high powered one had entered his side, and, striking a rib, had glanced off and missed the vital organs. The doctors, after an y had been taken, picked the slag out of his shoulder and i when Ralph woke op there was his mother, more scared than he was. 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