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Chapter I
-. Kddle Pink,; timorous tailor and
jfadget bound, imai ft efcop near the
00 w aurawu .- ihuibmu
was" a marvel ot aUedirected
unity. On ox we. cmew m
I (hop, for example, eonaiatea 01
, okwashioaed beUowa oonneoted
IMH Of jniDWeS Of flUMMT
k witk nines of All description
with tobaooo. Am the bellows
. the mm smoked. A am
uwm seaa:
"Pipes broMai
"CUabaab
Pipe-.
5 eenta
-10 cent
Meerschaum PiDee
Colored any shad , 85 cents
second aeviee, IO wmcn wu
bed a numoer or paua ot
by meana ox a trundling- ro-
morement grave the effect of
in. The siea over it read:
"Shoes Shined JO eenta
"Shoes Broken in 25 eenta
It will be seen that Eddie Pink
Itraa a man of many devices, and
destined for higher .things than
leaning- and pressing. In all of
Illlwood. however, only one man
appreciated hia true worth. That4
!m Butch Carson, perennial stu
dent and t&e despair ot Um faculty.
Stitch, however, was forever hope
ful of obtaining his diploma.
shortly, when a bullying student
entered and tried to get a suit h
had left for pressing without pay
ing' for It
Toddle fixed him with bJa . Mag
netic Finger: "There will be a
oharga of thirty-five . cents and
make It snappy, you chiselling
mugi"
The student trembled; and forked -over.
f But EJddie failed to notice
that behind him was standing the
threatening1 - figure of Butch who
haA-eome out of his. room to find
out what the noise was about
"Gee, Sadie," said Butch, , "you
soared the pants off him."
..''Get, back-to your. loom,"' cried
Kiddie, still the stern master of men.
"You're supposed' to be studying
your history. !'
Butch obeyed meekly. Much de
pended upon the results of the ex
amination. He had been in col
lege for seven years, and this was
to be his last 'Chance to win his
sheepskins. He was needed at
home, where his widowed mother,
aided by loyal Ulan Del Bigg, a car
nival girl, was conducting a valiant
fight against- racketeers who were
trying to introduce crooked slot
machines into Dreamland Amuse
ment Park, founded by Phineas
Canon.
To circumvent the diabolical pro
fessors,, who bad hitherto invari
ably thrown Butch for a loss. Eddie
devised a portable telephone, where-
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He pointed the Magnetic Finger.
As for the other students, Eddie's
customers, they made life one con
tinued torment for him. They dis
covered, for example, that .Eddie
was secretly Infatuated in Joyce
Lennox, a Mew York night-club en
tertainer, whom he had never met
tout whose pictures, clipped from
newspapers ana- ineauioar sneeis,
lined the -walls of his room.. And
having made this discovery, they
Igave him no rest When Butch was
there to defend him, all went well,
ibut Butch was not always around.
The turn In Eddie's life came
when be chanced upon an ad
vertisement of a correspondence
'course that would teach the lowliest
Milquetoast to become a Master of
Men.
The postman arrived with the
precious bundle, containing a book
and a phonograph record the cor
respondence course!
man or Mouse
The cover of the book bore the
.challenging title: "Man or Mouse:
ilWhich Are You?" The phonograph
ic instructions Informed him that
jpn the first page of the book he
would find a coin:
"On one side of the coin," the
Voice went on, "is a man. On the
other side a mouse. Whenever you
find yourself in a situation that de
mands courage, confidence, and
magnetism, toss lbs coin. If it
comes up a mouse, continue to toss
fcfco coin until it comes up a man."
And turning to the book, on in
structions of the Voice, Eddie read:
"The secret of character building
11 ei in imagination. If you are in
significant shy and cowardly, im
lagine yourself to be the opposite.
,CourageI Dominance! . . . Nothing
succeeds like success ... To be
(prepared is half the battle. No
longer will people sneer when you
icome into a room. They will re
spect you. But you must act act
ACT!,r
There were chapters on the Mag
netic Eye. There were chapters on
the Magnetic Finger. Eddie was
I inspired. He longed to put bis new
ity acquired knowledge to the test.
The occasion presented itself
by he could communicate with
Butch In the classroom.
The fatal day arrived, and all
went well Butch astonishing his
professors with his amazing dis
play, of erudition until the dean
asked this question:
"Mr. Carson, at the close of the
world war, what was the American
national debt?"
The War Debt
Unfortunately, at this moment a
boy entered Eddie's shop and made
inquiry about a bill.
'It came to $1.75," Eddie said to
the boy This answer camo to
Butch via the microphone.
"One dollar and seventy-five -cents,"
Butch answered confidently.
"No, eleven million dollars,"
Eddie yelled.
"You're crazy," the boy in his
shop yelled back. "Eleven million
dollars for laundry. Besides, I
didn't get the top of my pajama
suit"
"I gave you three shorts, three
drawers, four pair of socks and a
pair of pajamas with no top miss
ing," Eddie insisted.
And in the classroom the dean
was repeating: i
"Well, Mr. Carson, ones' again
what was the national debt?"
"Three shirts, three drawers, four
pairs of socks and a pair of pa
jamas with no top missing," Butch
answered.
"One of us Is becoming confused,"
said the Dean. "I asked you what
was the national shirts and draw
ers at the close of the world's pa
jamas." "I beg your pardon," Interrupted
one of the other professors. "Your
question was what was the Amer
ican national laundry debt at the
end of the shirts and drawers."
"Gentlemen! Gentlemen!" said
the Dean sternly. And to Butch
"Don't let them upset you, Carson.
The question was whose pajama
tops was missing when the nation
al debt was closed at the end of
the world's sock."
- Discretion Impels that a veil be
drawn over the rest of this scene . . .
(To be continued)
Many Ways For Rural
Women To Earn Money
On almost every farm is a wealth
of material which may be turned into
a source of profit by country women
who like to make things with their
hands.
Ther are so many ways of earn
ing extra money that every woman
can find something to suit her taste,
said Mrs. Cornelia C. Morris, 'exten
sion economist in food conservation
and marketing at State College. '
She told of an ingenious girl 'in
. Rutherford County who uses -rye
straw to make table mats,- hot dish
mats, and fans. Hooked rugs and
braided rugs sell well if the colors
are pleasing.
;t There is an increasing demand for
handicraft articles, Mrs. Morris
stated: good baskets and brooms of
- native material, buttons and buckles
maae oi mape ana appiewooa. cut
" tons made of nuts are lovely acces
sories : for .sweaters and knitted
suits. ''i "' ( -
, beautiful baskets. 1 People like to
; hay melon-shaped baskets and egg
baskets like srrandmother used,- Mrs.
Morris pointed out
' There.is a growing demand for the
old handicrafts of ther colonial -days.
iwooi, cotyour ana iiax may oe, woven
19 exquisite, corerleta, twalishang
biSB, and rogs. J- ; , iV.vf"
In the Smithsonian Institute in
Washington is a collection of hand-
woven bags, towels, and table linens
made by a rural North Carolina
woman, Mrs. Finley Mast, of Valle
Crucis, who died several months ago.
The woman who likes to cook can
begin now to make strawberry jam
for sale, Mrs. Morns continued.
Later she can make blackberry and
peach jam, tomato ketchup, and
Chili sauce.
Motorists like to stop at roadside
markets for fresh eggs, fruits, vege
tables, flowers, fruit juices, butter,
and the like. These markets are be
coming more popular over the coun
try every year..
Oregon Hat Mint;
Never Made a Coin
The Dalles, Ore. Oregon bag a
United States - mint , that never
coined a dime. Constructed here In
1808 at a cost of 1100,000, the mint
was to be used In handling v the
.heavy flow of money-ore from Idaho
tflS Oregon mines at one time es
timated to ' be approximately $12,
000,000 annually.- The mint bad
-Just r, been - completed, with H. ! A,
Hogne r appointed superintendent,
and D.. M. French named ss dis
bursing officer, when the mines were
exhausted. ' Ibe "mini", was con
verted 'Into a grajn warehouse. :.
WilAKGLE ISLAIiD TO
; get r:obEn;j TOUCH
One of IU Inhabitants Hat
Ordered a Motorcycle. -
. Washington Arctic foxes and polar
bears on Zemlya VrangelyS' (Wrangel
island) may. soon" prick up belr ears
at an unfamiliar roar as. this lonely
island, 800 miles north- of the Arctic
circle, acquires Its. first motor vehicle.
One of the inhabitants Is reported to
have ordered, a motorcycle.
"Just why., any nation should want
Wrangel Island Is ao apparent at
one's first approach,? says the National
Geographic society, s: "Nevertheless the
United 8tates, Great Britain and Rus
sia have laid .claim to Jt at various
times." -'. , , ,
"It lies In the ' Arctic ocean about
100 miles oft the coast of northeastern
Siberia and In . winter Is usually sur
rounded by glistening white and green
sea Ice, To reach the Island was al
moBt an impossibility until a few years
ago. Now Its few. visitors ' can push
northward In summer across Long
strait In an ice-breoker. Sometimes
the ship follows cautiously narrow
channels of water while on all sides
stretch milling: Ice mnssft that boom,
grind, and crack ominously.
Rescue the Stranded.
"In January 1914 the Stefansson ex
pedition ship, the Karlnk, was crushed
like an eggshell by the opening and
closing of the Ice, and sank about 65
miles from Wrangel Island. The sur
vivors lived on the island nntll res
cued In September. In 1033 the Soviet
ship, Chelluskln. set out with sup
plies and a group of scientists to re
place the handful of men and women
then living on the . Island. Ninety
miles off Cape Vankarem, Siberia, a
wall of Ice SO feet high crashed against
the ship, split, and sank It The 104
passengers stranded on the Ice were all
rescued within two months by air
planes from the Siberian mainland.
"Wrangel Island Is approximately
60 miles long and 17 miles wide. Ap
proached In winter. It would hardly
be reassuring, appearing then as a
bleak, white Ice floe. But If one were
snug In furs and .speeding behind a
lively dog team, he might find an In
teresting drama unfolded on the snow
covered Island. Shapes, thought to be
moving snow drifts, would turn out
to be polar bears. Snowy owls would
fly silently. And one might see tiny
white lemmings, tunneling In the snow,
pounced on by Arctic foxes with
fluffy white fur.
"Should trans-polar air routes ever
become commercially important, Wran
gel Island, with Its position, and Its
natural- plateau, might Je a strategic
air base for flights connecting northern
America wllh northern Asia, and north
ern Europe. Proposed flights .from
the mouth of the Mackftaie river, Can
ada, to the mouths of the Kolyma and
Lena, rivers which penetrate -Siberia,
could both be broken advantageously
by stop-overs at Wrangel
Grabbed for Britain.
"In 1021, Stefansson, believing the
Island would be a valuable air link
between Great Britain! and the Far
East, sent four men and an Eskimo
seamstress to hold it for Great Britain.
After three men disappeared, and the
fourth died, the woman was left alone
on the Island to be terrified by its
polar bears. By trapping foxes and
shootlDg seals and birds, she managed
to survive until rescued in 1924. Her
rescuers left 13 Eskimos and an
American on the Island. A Soviet
expedition removed these and In 1926
replaced tbem with a colony of six
Russians and about 50 Chukcbl settlers.
"The hardships of Wrangel Island
are no novelty to the Chukchi Inhab
itants whose relatives thrive on the
Arctic shore of the Siberian mainland
only 100 miles farther south. . Making
tbelr living by hunting walruses anil
seals, or farther Inland, by . breeding
reindeer, many Chukchi families are
wealthy, and are occasionally visited
by Soviet and American traders. This
accounts for the finding In their skin
covered huts of things like phono
graphs and back copies of American
magazines.
"According to one Arctic explorer,
Wrangel island Is one of the most
promising spots In the polar region
for self-support Although It lacks
trees, ' driftwood washes up on its
beaches, providing fuel and bntldlng
material. Its minimum' winter ' tern?
peratore Is 20 to 40 degrees warmer
than that experienced by many farm
ers near Yakutsk, Siberia. The island's
hills are largely bare rock, but their
bases and the low lands are covered
with lichen, moss, and stunted vegeta
tion that would supply grazing "for
herds of reindeer. :
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"Wild life is abundant. tOn annny
summer days the Ice off shore Js noisy
with tbe snorting of walruses, and the
barking of : seals basking in-the sun.
Thousands of niches in cliff-face rock
eries are filled with sea birds. .Sea
gulls, ducks, and cormorants congre
gate, on white sand and pebble spits,
while flocks of geese fly overhead.'!',
Paris "Mosquitoflane U;
, Cheaper Than an Auto
i PsrifcMatching .England's flying
flea'V and "sky grasshopper," France
produced another "insect airplane" re
cently, a 80 horse power, "mosquito"
Firman ship - selling for JlOO, less
than the-price f most French auto
mobiles. . ; i ,a. j ,
. The plane' has a wing spread of 44
feet a apeed of 100 miles hourly and
can-take off In 180 feet "and land In
210. The r plane has room only for
the .pilot fuel and a limited amount
of-baggage. .At Jte cruising (r-ssd jit
consumes little more' thaff two "riUons
of gasoline an hour.
"Safety Tint" Crr-rJ
, Wilh Traffic Violation
Los Angeles. Into Municipal Judge
Cams' traffic court went a man charged
with a traffic violation. . -t
-i VWhatSi your nnmef? demanded the
,court!J V' -f1' I. W .
' ', "Safety First, your honor,'-the' de-1
fehdant answered.-"' ' k '
; "Urdidn't ask 'yon ,for a traffic; io
gan," Judge Cams returned with borne
asperity: :Twant your name.", T; .
"Safety First," said the man -firmly.
""Say, are you trying to kid met" the
court exploded,'' f T,.; .
Bat Safety : First " wasn't klddlngj
though it took him some minutes to
convince Judge Cams hla name really
W- Safety First - r" V Vs $ fh
' He was cited for driving" an automo
bile .with a defective windshield and,
when he failed to appear in court was
taken In on a warrant ' -' '
. Judge Cams gave Mr. First a $2 ana"
pended sentence with the, admonition
that he '."pay attention to the traffic
regulationa hereafter and live up to
your name."
Doctors Shortest-Lived
in Britain's Professions
London. The shortest lived profes
sional men in Britain are doctors, ac
cording to studies under way here. On
the average they have about 60 years
of life.
"I suppose the mortality among doc
tors Is due to the nature of their
work," Doctor Anderson, secretary of
the British Medical association, ex
plained. "They are called out at all
times of the day and night and In
all weathers. They are mere exposed
to tbe dangers of Infection than other
people, although every precaution is
taken. They require Iron constitutions
to carry out the duties which fall to
the average practitioner."
Sure-Fir Bill Collector
Vienna. An Idea for obtaining quick
payment of accounts has been evolved
by the Innsbruck Gas and Electricity
works. It Is banding out lottery tick
ets to prompt payers, and today there
Is not one outstanding gas or electric
ity bill In town.
Ccr.:s cf Czars' Victims ,
Are Unearthed in Moscow
' Moscow. A grisly memento of the
blood-stained history of Red Square In
the days of Ivan the Terrible and other
wars famed for jtherr cruelty was un
earthed recently by; subway workers
digging the second line of the Moscow,
"metro," " ,
JSIdvetF5 skeletons, . elgM " Of fthem
standing' upright and the' others' tying
over them in a well 60 feet under the
old orthodox monastery on a side street
Just off Bed Square were unearthed.
The well was filled with sand and the
position of the skeletons and other cir
cumstances - Indicated thejwere per
sons ftuo had been buried fcuve.
The skeletons were so old thej;
crumbled to dust at the slightest
touch.- This, together with -the" deptK
underground at which the discovery,
was made; showed they had been there'
.several centuries. Archeologlsts an'
historians will study them In an at;
tempt to Identify the period,"-, . , j
.i . "
'--'I 'Guntmith Keep Secret . ,' -,
bmro. Wis. William Statege, "fifty-
alx-year-old popular , Omro gunsmith,'
constantly refuses to-divulge. hi-secret
formula for making guns. '"Moot
nf mv methods are old. fashioned after,
those used. In the making of the god
used by Daniel Boone," he BaysA
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Familiarity
"We must permit ourselves no Illu
sions," said the severe economist.
"Nonsense," rejoined Senator Sor
ghum. "Who wants X-ray plctur i of
a favorite acquaintance!"
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