The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 37, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 18, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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‘'Don’t be a fool, Pete," snapped
HE horse veered crazily and
I stumbled to his knees. The
1 rider sprang clear of the sad-
I die. So this is where it’s go-
ing to end, Sheriff Jackson thought
bitterly as he gazed at the dying ani-
mal.
Jackson faced the east and Rooked
with hand-shaded eyes across the
blazing sands.
In the distance he could see a
tiny thread of dust, and he knew
that Pete was following, and follow-
ing fast.
The sheriff cursed himself for his
carelessness in leaving his office to
cross the street, unarmed.
But how could he know that Pete
would be looking for him at that
precise moment?
He had seen Pete just in time to
dodge around a building and get to
his horse.
Then Pete had begun to shoot, arx|
Jackson had had to ride for his life.
The sheriff turned toward the
fallen horse, unhooked a canvas-
covered canteen, and weighed it in
his hand. About half full, he de-
cided.
Suddenly he smiled grimly,
dropped to his knees, scooped out a
shallow hole in the hot sand, and
carefully buried the canteen.
After wiping out all traces of the
hiding place, he arose and turned
westward.
A quarter-mile walk brought him
to a great mass of rocks, an out-
cropping of limestone that lifted it-
self high above the desert. He sat
down to wait.
Pete rode up, dismounted and
stood, feet wide apart, looking at
the sheriff through bloodshot eyes.
He was a big man with black,
bushy hair and eyebrows above a
weak chin and flabby cheeks that
were hidden behind a growth of
black stubble.
"I’ve come to kill you,” he said
simply, and drew his revolver.
“I’m unarmed,” Jackson’s voice
was low.
"I know it,” Pete leered.
"Then you’re going to shoot me—
like a dog; not even give me a fight-*"
ing chance.”
“Why should I?
came bitter,
give Jim?”
"Jim was a thief. He had a gun
and he went after it. He was too
slow and—”
"Me and Jim was partners.”
The killer leveled his gun.
Jackson smiled coolly.
He shrugged and said evenly,
•‘Your horse is done up.”
"I know it.” The trigger finger
tightened.'
"It’s a long walk out of here.”
"I can walk a long ways/’
"Got any water?
Voice was casual.
"A canteen half full.”
"You can’t get back to Hobb’s
waterhole on a half-canteen of wa-
ter.”
The gun wavered just a trifle.
Jackson drew tobacco and pa-
pers from a pocket and rolled a
cigarette with steady fingers.
"I’ll make you a proposition,” he
continued through a cloud of smoke,
in—"
"You can go to hell.”
Again the gun leveled and the fin-
ger tightened.
“Okay, it’s your funeral.”
Broad shoulders shrugged indiffer-
ence.
"I„was just going to say that my
canteen is about half full, and a man
with two canteens half full might
get out alive.”
"Thanks,” Pete grinned. “Since
you won’t need another drink, I’ll
take what you have and—”
"I buried my canteen in the sand
before you came. You couldn’t find
it in a thousand years.”
Pete’s eyes narrowed.
"Then I’ll get along without it.”
"You’ll never get out of here with-
out it.”
The sheriff’s voice carried convic-
tion.
"You shoot me and I’ll die quick.
But you—you’ll run out of water
and die by inches. That sun will
•uck the very life out of you. Your
tongue will swell until you can’t keep
it inside your mouth; you’ll die with
your eyes open and all glassy—die
like a beast with ants crawling over
you—” the voice trailed off into
nothingness. f! ,
Hard eyes widened slightly across
the gun barrel.
"You can’t scare
through tight lips.
"I’m not trying to,” Jackson said
quietly. “I’m just telling you what
will happen. I’ve found men out in
the desert who’ve died from the sun,
and there's no worse death.”
^He shuddered.
•’God pity anyone who dies that
way."
There was a short, tense silence,
then the gun was lowered.
"What's your proposition?"
aaked
"Just this," Jackson replied.
•‘First, you are to dismantle your .45
and give me the cylinder—then,
■we’ll take a coin,” he drew a half-
dollar from his pocket—"and flip It.
If it’a heads, you take the water
and get out; if it’s tails, I take the
■water and you stay."
K Pete shook his shaggy
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me if I w«."
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beans required.
In terms of bush-
WORLD’S FAIR CAKE
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Scientist Claims
Heat of Earth
Shows Increase
Astronoitaists Generally
Agree Atom Warfare Peps
Up Rays of Sun.
Cottonseed meal 40 per cent, lin-
seed meal, 37 per cent, soy bean
increasing interest in the soy bean
crop, regardless of whether the seed
is to be utilized as a farm feed or
for industrial purposes, states the
division of forage crops, central ex-
perimental farm, Ottawa, reports
the Montreal Herald.
Food value whether for live stock
or human beings is based upon di-
gestible nutrients, on that portion
which is actually consumed in the
body, the most important item of
which is protein. Soy beans are rich
in protein of high digestibility. The
quantity of oats and barley required
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ly concentrated feeds- as linseed
meal and cottonseed meal. Accord-
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Josie - Medford, of Parkdale, -Colo.,
for permission to graze her herd on
public lands under the jurisdiction of
the general land office.
One of the few women to be
awarded the use of federal land in
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36'4 per cent.
Soy beans are used commercially
in large quantities. The oil is ex-
tracted from the beans by various
methods and this oil is utilized in
the manufacture of soap, paint, as a
salad oil and in many other ways.
PHILADELPHIA.—The sun will
not start to cool off for at least an-
other 10,000,000,000 years, according
to a symposium of scientists held
here jointly by the American Phil-
osophical society and the Franklin
institute.
The orb has lasted at least 5,000,-
000,000 years and perhaps 100,000,-
000,000 years, and avoids burning it-
self out by utilizing the cores of car-
bon atoms, the scientists were told.
Dr. Henry Norris Russell, profes-
sor of astronomy and director of the
Princeton university observatory,
explained the theory developed by
Dr. Hans Albrecht Bethe, former
professor at the University of Mu-
nich and now professor of physics
at Cornell university.
Sun Absorbs Energy.
Briefly stated in lay terms. Doc-
tor Bethe’s theory holds that while
earthly creatures consume the out-
side of carbon atoms with oxygen,
the sun absorbs the energy from the
cores of the atoms. Carbon, it was
explained, is the basic constituent
of all matter.
Warfare Gives Off Energy.-
Doctor Bethe’s theory found that
on the sun atoms of hydrogen and
carbon “bombard” each other until
a nitrogen atom results. The nitro-
gen is further bombhrded by hydro-
gen and helium follows. The proc-
ess continues; until the helium ends
as carbon again.
While the little warfare of tKe
atoms progresses, the scientists ex-
plained, energy is given off.
The atomic energy contained in
a sugar cube, Doctor Russell said,
could drive a transatlantic liner to
Europe and back, if it were proper-
ly harnessed. He used the illustra-
tion to demonstrate how much en-
ergy must be created to supply the
heat given off by the sun.
To supply the sun’s h?at for one
second, he explained, 10,0OO,000,000,-
Mule Is Rated as Most
Valuable Farm Animal
WASHINGTON.—The mule seems
to be winning its fight for existence
all
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answer to how the sun manages to
continue its heat and life-giving ex-
istence.
Further, Doctor Russell, expand-
ing on the Bethe theory, found that
the sun is gradually growing more
luminous and the earth’s tempera-
ture will increase about 1 degree
Fahrenheit in 100,000,000 years.
Eventually, he said, the torrid and
temperate zones of the earth will be
unlivable from the heat, and the
population, some millions of years
from now, will be found only at the
North and South poles.
Other findings of the symposium
brought out that the earth, Venus
and Mars, while millions of miles
apart, have a common element—
iron—as their core.
Mercury and the moon, on the
other hand, have centers of solid
rock.
The earth and the sun have the
same elements in common, in al-
most identical proportions, except
for hydrogen and helium, which are
more abundant on the sun.
The atmosphere of the sun is al-
most chemically pure hydrogen.
The temperature at the center of
the sun is 7,400,000 degrees.
For one year' William Baker
worked six hours daily baking this
fruit cake which is on display at
the San Francisco World’s fair.
Replicas on the cake, built exactly
to scale, include 19 California mis-
sions, two bridges, Treasure island
and parts of two cities., ■
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"She now has 180 milch goats that
she grazes on her own lands and
adjacent public range," an official
report stated. “About half of these
goats are milked every day and the
milk is delivered at Canon City for
shipment to Colorado Springs; she
and a boy who lives with her, take
turn- in herding and hauling the
milk to Canon City 25 miles away."
Emphasizing that Mrs. Medford’s
choice of an enterprise is tar from
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A government survey shows there
were 4,382,000 mules in the country
in 1938. This was a reduction of 1
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made with barley and oats, from the
standpoint of utilization it is in
class quite different from those
crops.
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DETER RABBIT hopped up the
* Lone Little Path brim full of
news that Danny Meadow Mouse
had a family. He fairly ached for
someone to come along to whom he
could tell it. Peter just loves to tell
news. But no one did come along
and Peter kept on, all the time
watching out ever so sharp for a lit-
tle wee, lost Meadow Mouse.«Way
over on the Green Meadows he
heard a frightened yelping growing
fainter and fainter. He sat up as
high as he could to look and way off
bulletins. 1
time out each hour. If he notices
that workers are becoming bored
with what he is reading, he changes
over to something light. The taste
of the workers is extremely good,
and the cigar makers, as a result
of the reader’s daily work are a
very well educated group.
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connection with the operation of a
goat ranch, Mrs. Medford has been
offered a five-year lease for approx-
imately 800 acres of mountainous
country in Fremont county, near
Canon City, as a range.
For the last 18 years, it was dis-
closed, Mrs. Medford has been do-
ing her own work, heading, milking,
fencing, building and conducting the
other chores incidental to the con-
duct of ■ ranch.
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Courthouse doors at St. Joseph,
Mo., prove bothersome to young
Robert Wadlow, who reaches eight
feet eight inches into the air. Wad-
low, tallest man in the world, has
brought suit in federal court on an
allegation that a medical journal
article libeled him.
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He is given 15 minutes operating” a goat'"ranch, was' dis^
** w he notice, cfoged in an application from Mrs.
GOAT RANCH
easy, the report points out that
goats are not turned loose on the
range, but are carefully herded.
The report concludes with this tes-
timony as to the hardihood of Mrs.
Medford;
“There are no improvements on
the lands applied for, but she states
that if she feels as energetic as she
has in the past she will probably
get out and fence these lands to keea
the cow men off." /
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Little Doctor of Collander Goes Visiting
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000,000 (ten million billion) tons of
coal would have to be burned. If
the sun were burning itself up, as
earlier theories held, he asserted, it
would have lasted only 6,465 years.
He estimated the sun’s loss of en-
ergy at 4,200,000 tons per second.
Theory Fits Data.
Doctor Bethe’s theory fits
available data, and has been
cepted by many scientists as
Jackson. “It's a fifty-fifty chance
my way; your way—there’s no
chance for either of us."
For a long minute the big man
eyed the sheriff; then slowly broke
open the gun, removed the cylinder,
and twirled it around in his dirty
fingers. His face was white. He
tossed the cylinder to Jackson and
said, “flip your coin, but flip it high
or it’s no go.”
The coin spun through the air and
half-buried itself in the loose sand.
Both men stooped over to read their
fates in that silver disk glittering in
the heat.
"I won!
“I won, damn you! I won!"
The sheriff straightened slowly
and looked at the big man.
“You’ll find my canteen buried
under a flat rock near my horse’s
head,” he said dully.
He sat down wearily.
Later, Sheriff Jackson arose to his
feet and made his way to the far
side of the limestone formation.
Hidden under a ledge was a tric-
kle of watM that dripped into a
small, hollow rock.
He took a deep drink of the cool,
sweet water, then stretched out in
the shade of the ledge. He smiled.
He knew that soon some of the boys
would come looking for him, and he
knew that Pete would be overtaken
and captured easily.
He drew the coin from his pocket,
turned it over several times, and
smiled at it affectionately.
It was an imitation half-dollar,
and it had heads on both sides.
He was glad that he had taken
it away from the Hollister kid the
night before. The fool kid might
have gotten into trouble with it
sometime, thought Jackson as he
returned the trick coin to his pock-
et. He yawned, closed his eyes
and dozed peacefully.
Pfotein, Oil Percentage
Make Soy Bean Important
Soy bean seed produced in Canada
contains on the average from 35 to 1
40 per cent of protein and from 18 to !
20 per cent of oil. It is the high !
content of these two important con- |
stituents that is responsible for the I
factories, whoever, is the reader, | WASHINGTON. — The almost
who sits at a raised platform and unique career, for a woman, of a
reads to the men selections from gmall, wiry, middle-aged widow who
has supported herself for 16 years
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Heir Requests Search
For Vanished Veasels
MONTREAL. — The Brock Ship-
ping company here is looking for a
fleet of ships that plied Canadian
waters 50 years ago.
The company was asked to under-
take the search by Paul Dubuc, who
claimed to be the grandson of the
man who owned the vessels.
Dubuc said the ships, known as
the "French White Fleet,” were
willed to him by his grandfather,
Charles A. Dubuc, who died in 1897.
He explained the will was "stolen
from the deathbed” and was not
found until recently.
I in the United States, but the horse
to supply a given amount of digesti- *s n°f doing so well,
ble protein is three to four times 1
greater than the amount of soy !
beans required. In terms of bush- |------- ----- -----------------
els it requires approximately 85 | P®r cent from 1937 but the number
bushels of barley or 115 bushels of
oats per acre to produce an amount
of digestible protein equal to that
contained in soy beans yielding 20
in the distance he saw a black-and-
white dog running so fast that his
ears flapped. His tail was between
his legs and he was crying “Ki-yi-
yi! ki-yi-yi!” at the top of Ifls voice.
"Wonder what ails him,” thought
Peter. “Serves him right anyway.
He had no business down here on
our Green Meadows. I never could
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Studio-Bedroom
Pleasant Place
for Young Lady
By BETTY WELLS
T'HE young lady daughter in the
x Miller family decided recently
that she wanted to do her room
over into a studio. Her mother
smiled indulgently but gave her con-
sent, and everybody was surprised
at how smart the room turned out
to be.
Walls and woodwork were painted
(by Young Miss Miller herself) in
a soft but definite putty color. The
old bedstead she discarded entirely,
setting mattress and box spring on
legs in .one corner of the room.
To frame this she used a width of
quilted turquoise chintz on the wall
outlined with a narrow wooden
molding and with a book shelf at
the corner. A flounce of turquoise
around the bottom of the bed and
a spread of a modern nubby weave
fabric in putty color finished off this
corner of the room in good style.
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Cubans Sleep, Eat and
Study While at Work
It may not be true that "all work !
and no play make Jack a dull boy," I
but the cigar-makers of Cuba take I
no chances.
"Not only does the average cigar !
maker of Havana occasionally take !
time out for a siesta, puff at one of j
the cigars he has just rolled and eat
refreshments as he works, but he |
also demands that the factory own- I
er provide him with an education
in the literary classics during work-
ing hours,” sayy W. F. McGrath,
passenger traffic manager of the
Anchor line.
Life in the cigar factories of Ha-
vana is informal, to say the least.
Workers chat among themselves,
and if they get hungry, send out for
focd and drink. Since the .work is
monotonous they cometimes get in
the mood for a siesta, which they
immediately take. The owner, let it
be explained, protects himself by
paying each man so much a 100
cigars rolled. A good worker can
turn out 100 or more a day.
Neither is the owner entirely al-
truistic when he gives his workers
cigars. Many factories allow each
man five cigars a day, on the theory
that that practice prevents petty
thieving and at the same time keeps
up the maker's pride in the cigars j
he turns out.
The prize institution of the cigar 1
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Dr. Allan Dafoe, physician and one of the guardians of the Dionne
quintuplets of Collander, Ont., took time off from his recent visit to
Ottawa to call upon Canada’s newest triplets, the Biron sisters, in the
Grace hospital. They were born December 7, 1938. Left to right
they are Gladys, Grace and Gail.
COLORADO WIDOW OPERATES^ SUCCESSFUL
WASHINGTON. - The
A corner of a bed-sitting room.
Extra odd cushions were in rust,
and so was the quilt.
The very nice walnut dresser tha>
had been in the room was retained,
minus the mirror, and used with
wall shelves above it. A new desk
was added to the room, a walnut
knee hole type, and a small radio
as well. A pair pt small easy chairs
were hand-me-downs from the liv-
ing room as was a good-sized has-
sock. With fresh slip covens in
rust they did nicely here (and gave
mother a good excuse to have new
ones for the living room). A large,
unframed mirror filled the space^
between the two windows.
For the floor, a new rug in a i
putty color two-tone pattern was a !____
permanent investment, for it would
go in various later incarnations ol
the room. New lamps were added
too—with turquoise pottery bases
and plain white shades. At the
windows the curtains were of plain
white voile with a shaped valance
covered with quilted turquoise
chintz and cloth window shades of
that new sunny yellow. This note
of yellow repeated the predominant
color in some water colors of flow-
ers that were framed on the wall.
Isn’t that a pleasant room for a
girl who likes to have a place for
her own club meetings and get-
togethers? It even does nicely for
bridge. Yet it serves all the prao
tical needs of bedroom and study.
C By Betty Wells.—WNU Service.
I of mules foaled in 1938, while small-
er than the number of deaths of old
| mules, was the largest in 10 years,
i Officials found mules in every state,
bushels per acre. Soy bean seed is though too few in New England to
definitely a high protein concentrate be included in the figures. More
and while comparison has been ‘than 80 per cent of the total was
found in the South.
a The survey showed 10,800,000
I work-horses in the country, some in
On the basis of composition „ each state but more than 55 per
it compares directly with such high- I cent in the North Central states.
i The total was 3 per cent less than
! in 1937, with the number of horses
■ foaled in 1938 the smallest in six
percentage of crude protein are: I years. The work-horse total has de-
| dined about 50 per cent in the last
' 20 years.
meal 41J4 per cent, soy bean seed
I mule as the most valued of farm
animals, giving it a national aver-
I age of $118, as contrasted with $84
I for the horse and $56 for the cow.
understand what possible good a dog
is anyway. He is always poking
his nose in and making trouble for
the rest of us. There come the Mer-
ry Little Breezes and perhaps they
know what it is about.” Sure enough
there came the Merry Little Breezes
of Old Mother West Wind dancing
over the tops of the grasses. They
were coming from the direction of
the little dog and they seemed to be
very merry and happy about some-
thing. As soon as they saw Peter
they danced over to him.
“What’s the matter with that lit-
tle dog?” demanded Peter.
“He met Black Pussy and he
didn't like the meeting. In fact,
Black Pussy has frightened him
most to death and that is why he is
running so fast,’
Peter grinned.
Black Pussy is of some use,
he, “though for my part I had about
as soon have the dog around as her.
Now I wish something or somebody
would come along and give her just
as bad a scare as she has given
that little dog. By the way, have
you heard the news?”
“What news?” asked the Merry
Little Breezes, looking at Peter sus-
piciously. You see Peter’s news
sometimes proved to be no news at
all.
“Why, about Danny Meadow
Mouse! He has a wife and family!”
Peter fairly shouted it.
Instantly the Merry Little Breezes
crowded about Peter and demanded
to know how he knew, and said that
they didn’t believe it because they
didn’t see how Danny could have
kept it secret from them so long.
“It is so!” Peter was just a wee
bit provoked to think that they
should doubt his word. “Danny told
me so himself. More than that he
told me that one of his babies has
run away and is lost. He’s out
hunting for it now, and so am I.”
Peter made ready to move on.
The minute Peter mentioned the
lost baby Meadow Mouse the Merry
Little Breezes became very much
excited.
“That is just who Black Pussy
caught!” declared one.
Peter looked startled,
that you said?” he cried.
Then the Merry Little Breezes told
him how they had found Black Pus-
sy tormenting a wee, terribly fright-
ened Meadow Mouse, and how they
led the little black-and-white dog to
where Black Pussy was just in time
to save the wee Mouse, who ran
away and hid, while Black Pussy
was chasing the dog.
“But wherei is he now?” asked
Peter.
The Merry Little Breezes shook
their heads. “We don’t know,” they
confessed. “We followed Black Pus-
sy to see the fun and when we got
back the little Mouse was nowhere
about, although we hunted every-
where. If we had known he was
Danny’s baby we wouldn’t have left
him at all. We’ll have to make
up now by helping in the hunt"
“That will be splendid!” cried Pe-
ter happily.
And with that they all scattered
to hunt for little Mite, the lost baby
of Danny Meadow Mouse.
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