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"Miracle on a Bridge"
By FLOYD GIBBONS
\ tqW it's a well known fact, boys and girls, that adventurers
A> have adventures, but why is it nobody ever gives a thought
, adventurers' wives? They have adventures too?particularly
they travel around with their husbands like Grace Stanley ol
; irview, N. J.
Mrs. Stanley is the wife of the late Col. King Stanley, a travelei j
i adventurer of long standing. During the four years that she trav- !
t ! with him, she says she had enough adventure to fill an encyclopedia.
1 t the one that gave her the biggest thrill?and also the worst fright?
! ppened down in the wild and woolly state of Texas in the spring of 1926
Grace Stanley and the colonel were taking a trip by automobile
from Texas to Shrcveport, La. Just beyond Marshall,
Texas, they ran into a severe storm?and when storms are severe
down on the Texas plains, they're severe, and no mistake.
This one was a combination of thunder, lightning, rain and hail
The rain came down in sheets. There was no cover in sight,
and nothing to do but go on.
They were getting close to the state line when the car came
? a bridge spanning a deep cut through which ran the tracks of the
K. C. and S railroad. As they hit the end of that bridge, Grace heard
DEAFENING CRACK. A sudden (lash of light almost blinded her.
car came to a sudden stop and the air was filled with a sulphurous
: noli. Lightning! Had it struck them? With her heart in her mouth
G ce raised her eyes.
There were three people in the car?her husband and the driver ir
t o front scat and Grace herself in the rear. The men, up front, were
right. Grace breathed a sigh of relief. But at the same time somei.
ig inside of her was telling her to sit still?not to move even so
The Driver Got Out on the Running Board.
much as a single muscle. Without moving her head she turned hoi
eyes to the right. The sight she saw there FROZE THE BLOOD in
1 -r veins.
The bolt of lightning had ripped away the entire corner of the
bridge. The car was standing on three wheels, teetering precariously
over a fifty-foot chasm, its fourth wheel?the left rear
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Then the Car Started to Sag.
The men in the front seat weren't moving, either. They sat stiff
and motionless, with grim, set expressions on their faces. Then, slowly,
the car began to sag to the right?toward the broken, twisted wrecked
side of the bridge.
There wasn't any time to waste. Quickly they talked the matter
over?decided the only thing that could save them was to shift as much
weight as possible to the left side of the car. Grace, who was in the
rear seat on the right side, directly over the dangling wheel, couldn't
move because the seat beside her was filled with luggage. It was up
to the driver and the colonel to do the shifting.
The car settled a bit more. Grace held her breath as she felt
herself sinking. The driver opened the door, slid over in his seat and
kot out on the running board. Both he and the colonel were big men?
both of them weighed in the neighborhood of two hundred pounds?and
Grace found herself breathing a prayer of thankfulness for that. In an
agony of suspense she watched while the driver got out and her husband
slid over in the seat to take his place behind the wheel.
"All this time," says Grace, "the car kept on settling down
toward the right. It was probably only a minute or two, but it
seemed like a thousand years. I hugged as close to the baggage
on the left as I could, but still the car settled. It looked as if
we were going over in spite of all our efforts."
Saved by Truck Driver with a Rope.
The colonel, too, was climbing out on the running board now?shifting
his weight as far to left as possible. Still the car sagged, and there was
nothing more they could do. If they stepped from the running board the
car would go over. If Grace tried to move, it might furnish just the
vibration needed to send the car off the bridge and down to the tracks
fifty feet blow. It was a heartbreaking situation. Death was staring
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But at that same moment help was in sight. A small truck shot
around a corner from the opposite direction, end the driver saw
fthat had happened. He stepped on the gas and came speeding toward
them.
Again, Grace was afraid to breathe. Would the vibration set up
t>y the truck send them over the side?
But the driver of that truck had a lot of presence of mind.
Also, he had a rope. He leaped from his seat with the rope in
Jus hand, looped it around the front of the car and then made it
fast to the far side of the bridge.
With the rope holding the car, Grace could get out. She and the
colonel went around to the back of tne automobile to join the truck
nver, who was excitedly crying that nothing but a miracle had saved
0' The 'eUow was right, too. The lightning had curled up the ironnfTK
?' the bridge like so much straw. One of the curls had ripped
on both right tires and completely ruined one side of the car. Another
eurl had caught under the car itself?and that was the only thing that
au kept them from going over.
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Tales and
tN ) Traditions
from American
Political History
BP . ,JBa FRANK C. HAGIN
tW*I?TI i.T ELMO SCOTT WATSON
AN EARLY "BLACK LEGION"
N TREES were posted mysteri
ous squares of paper, black, or
white or red, summoning men tc
midnight meetings. At these meet- j
ings there were oaths and grips
and pass-words.
That was more than three-quarters
of a century ago, but members
of the "Black Legion," who
created such a fur ore early in 3936, i
would have felt pretty much at
home in those meetings back in the
forties and fifties. There they " ,
would have fraternized with mem- '
bers of "The Supreme Order of i I
the Star-Spangled Banner," a secret
society which grew into a po- ;
litical party, the Native Americans,
with a platform of opposition to t
foreigners, the papacy, infidelity
and socialism.
Later they became known as the
Know Nothings because, when a
member was questioned about the I
order, he invariably answered "I
don't know." In New York and
Pennsylvania they elected several
1 men to congress and in 1847 they i
I held a national convention at Philadelphia.
There they nominated
I Gen. Henry Dearborn for vice-pres- 1
| ident and recommended, but did I
noi ronnaliy nominate. Gen. Zach|
ary Taylor, the Whig candidate for
President.
In 1854-55 the Know Nothings carried
Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New Hampshire,
Kentucky and California and looked
forward to the election of 1856 with
high hopes. Soon the party threw
of! its secret character and it beI
came apparent that they were
mostly Whigs. In February they
I held another convention in Philadelphia
at which they formally renamed
their party the American
party. They nominated for President
Millard Fillmore, the Whig
vice-president who had served ail
but one month of the term to which
j Zachary Taylor had been elected,
and gave him for a running mate
! Andrew Donelson of Tennessee, the
I ward of "Old Hickory" Jackson.
Fillmore carried only one state in
the election which sent James Buchanan.
the Democratic candidate,
to the White House and the Know
I Nothings passed out of the political
picture soon afterwards.
"TO THE VICTORS "
l4TO THE victors belong the j
* spoils!"
Although Andrew Jackson was the
first exponent of that political
creed, he was not the first man to j
express it in so many words. The |
man who did was William L. Marry
of New York, leader of one of
the factions in the Democratic
party when Polk was President.
The division in the Democratic
ranks was over the distribution of
federal patronage and it centered,
as it has so often since, in New
York state. The faction, led by
Marcy, was called the "Hunkers"
who were supported by Tammany
and who were given that name because
they were always inclined to
hunger, or "hunker," for office.
The other faction, led by Silas
Wright, was composed of disappointed
Van Burenites ? disappointed
because Van Buren,
whom Jackson had made his successor,
had been refused a second
term by the party which took Polk,
a "dark horse," instead. This faction
was called the "Barnburners,"
because, like the Dutch farmer in
New York state who burned his
barn to get rid of he rats in it,
they declared they were ready
to "btmn their barns to get rid of
the rats," the upstart "Hunkers."
As a matter of fact they did just
that in the campaign of 1848. Opposed
to slavery, they joined
forces with the Liberty party, took
the name of the Free boil party
and nominated Martin Van Buren
and Charles Francis Adams of
Massachusetts. This split in- the
Democratic party resulted in a victory
for Gen. Zacnary Taylor, the
Whig candidate, over Van Buren
and over Lewis Cass, the regular
Democratic nominee.
Along with "Hunker" and "Barnburner"
is another interesting
name once applied to the Democrats,
growing out of the rivalry of
these two factions. In the campaign
of 1840 the Whigs called their
opponents the "Locofocos" because
at a meeting of the New York
Democrats the two factions were
trying to get control of the meeting.
One gang turned off the gas
lights and in the darkness, the other
gang, which had come prepared
for just such a stunt, took from
their pockets tne new friction
matches, called "locofocos," struck
them and by thus lighting the room
were able to continue the session
t and dominate it.
Q Western Newspaper Union.
day, October 29, 1936
Faults and Virtues ^
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\VfE MAY, if we choose, ;
* * make the worst of one an- !
other. Everyone has his weak f<
i points; everyone has his faults; j
we may make the worst of p
I these. But we may also make
the best of one another. By ( n
I loving whatever is lovable in j
those around us, love will flow ; \
back from them to us, and life j
will become a pleasure instead a
of a pain: and earth will be- t
come like Heaven; and we shall ' a
become not unworthy followers
of Him whose name is Love.? ^
Dean Stanley. 1 j(
Proverbs are potted wisdom. j.
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One Tongue for All
Though more than 500,000,000
people today acknowledge English
as their natural language, there
are still no fewer than 1,500 different
languages written and
spoken in the world. With wireless,
the movies, and airplane
welding civilization together, it is
vital for world peace and goodwill
that all nations should have a common
international language o f !
communication.
rru:_ u_:-r " - - * '
i ma, in uuci, is me contention
of the Orthological Institute, pioneers
of Basic English. Only 850
words are used, but these do the
work of 20,000. The list can be
mastered by a foreign student in
30 hours, while in 50 hours' study
he may grasp the meaning of a
book. i
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