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ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES
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Thu Generation
Little Girl—Mother, yon know
that old ftiaae you said had been
handed down from generation to
generation? '
Mother—Tea, dear.
Little Girl—Well, thla generation
haa dropped It.—Honaton Rotary
Bulletin.
He Understood
Smith—Awfully sorry I couldn't
come to lunch with you aa I prom
ised. Circumstances over which I
hare no control kept me away. .
Brown—That’s quite all right,
old chap. By the way, how is your
wife?—Argentine Magazine,
"Don’t you think the world owes
you a living r*
"Tea,” replied Plodding Pete.
"But the world la a tough old
creditor. I find I have to hand it a
few wallops with a pick and shov
el to convince it"
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FRANK E. HAGAN and
ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Sagacious Serpent
MvrBS," said Madame Zulawa,
a tbe snake-charmer with the
old Boblnson circus, “Elmer was by
far tbe most Intelligent and most
versatile serpent I ever had. He
was a blacksnake—six feet of pa
tience, pliability and perspicacity.
I could call out any number and In
stantly he'd arrange himself In the
form of that figure. His figure
eights were a model of rounded
symmetry. But all of this was be
fore one horrible night . . .”
Madame Zulawa covered her eyes
as though to shut out some terrible
sight. There was a tremor In her
voice . . . then she went bravely
on.
“Our circus train was crossing
the high Sierras. Just as It was
approaching the summit, Elmer slid
out of his cage and started back
over the tops of the cars. He was
coming back to my car for his cup
Of warm coconut milk to help him
get to sleep.
"Just as he stretched oyer the
gap between two cars, there was
the sound of Iron snapping. The
coupling between the two cars had
broken under the strain of pulling
the heavy cars up that steep grade.
In another moment the rear half of
the train would be speeding down
the Incline, gathering momentum
until it jumped the rails at the first
curve. '*
“Elmer knew that everything de
pended upon him. Quick as a flash
he sank his teeth In the wooden top
of the car ahead. At the same mo
ment he wrapped his tall around
an Iron rod on the car behind. The
strain on him was fearful, but he
hung on grimly . . .
“Well . . . there Isn't much more
to tell. The whole train passed
safely over the summit But El
mer's days as a performing black
snake were over. Go to the Cin
cinnati too today and you'll find
him there In a cage labeled The
Only Black Python In Captivity ...
42 feet 6% Inches long."
Tenderfoot, Beware!
WHEN a tenderfoot disappears
out West some old-timer Is
certain to shake his head sadly and
say: *T reckon a roperlte or a tri
podero must of got him.’’ Chances
are, he's right
The trlpodero has only two legs,
arranged like a telescope, so that
It can raise or lower Itself at will.
Its head has a long muszle with a
mouth like a gun barret As it
lurks among the brush, it raises
and lowers Itself on its telescopic
legs to watch for approaching game.
When the trlpodero sees a ten
derfoot come jouncing along the
trail on horseback, it gets behind a
boulder, tilts Itself at just the right
angle and points Its muzzle at the
unsuspecting tenderfoot. At the
right moment It blows from Its
mouth a pellet of clay (it always
keeps a supply of these quids In
Its left cheek) which shoots the
taste right out of the tenderfoot’s
mouth. One week and three hours
later he dies of starvation because
he can’t taste anything after he has
been shot by the trlpodero.
If the tenderfoot Is lucky enough
to get past the trlpodero, the rop
erlte may get him. It is a curious
animal with a long rope-Uke beak
which ends in a slip-noose. As the
tenderfoot rides singing along the
trail past the place where the rop
erlte Is lurking, It shoots out this
natural lariat, the noose tightens
around the luckless Easterner's
throat and be chokes to death'on
the bars of music that stick cross
wise In it
It Is estimated that a total of
4,168 tenderfeet have fallen victims
to either the tripodero or the roper
Ite in the West since the spring of
1887.
Land of the Sky Blue Water
BABB was Paul Banyan's big bine
ox. He was quite a sizable an
imal although not all lumberjacks
agree as to just how trig he was.
Some say be was seven axe-handles
between the eyes but others de
clare,the figures should be 42 axe
handles and a plug of tobacco.
However, all agree that Babe could
pull anything that bad two ends to
It Paul often used him to pull the
kinks out of crooked logging roads.
Occasionally Babe would run
away and be gone all day. Paul
was the only one who opuld track
him because his footprints were so
far apart that an ordinary man
couldn’t see from one of them to
the next one. They were pretty
deep, too. Once a settler and his
wife and baby fell Into one of these
footprints and the baby was fifty
seven years old before he finally
climbed out and reported the acci
dent.
The winter of the bine snow
Babe went on one of these rambles
and wandered all over the present
state of Minnesota. When the
snow melted the next spring the
water filled his footprints and
that’s why Minnesota Is now known
as the tend of Ten Thousand
Lakes—the “Land of the Sky Blue
water."
Oddities
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A recent survey of some 8,000
dahlia names indicates that a man’s
chance of having a new flower named
after him Is about half as good as a
woman’s. And a woman is about six
times more likely to'be so honored
if she is married.
If a meager dozen of plants ceased
to grow in America, our commercial
beekeepers would have to go out of
business. Most flowers yield little
or no nectar, from which bees make
honey. About three fourths of the
supply is furnished by the clovers.
There are 1,200 natural lakes in
the state of Nebraska.
Pood as well as drink for crops
now flows in some irrigation ditches
in southern California. A little am
monia gas Is mixed with the water,
and extensive tests have shown that
I plants thrive better on this liquid
diet than on solid fertilizer.
Recent tests have shown that flies
are attracted by light colors, espe
cially white and cream. They have
no real color sense, but a luminous
surface suggests the brightness and
warmth which they seek.
More than 30,000,000 tin cans are
used in the United States each year.
Farm crops in every can.
There is no truth in the old belief
that cucumbers contain a poisonous
juice which can be counteracted by
soaking them in salt water. The
soaking merely wilts and toughens
them.
Soviet Russia is reported to have
more than 1,000 scientists working
on problems of plant improvement.
“Some like it hot, some like it
cold,” the old nursery rhyme, seems
to hold for plants as well as for hu
mans. In Yellowstone park plants
have been found growing in the wa
ter of hot springs just 27 degrees be
low the boiling point; and In the
polar regions other plants grow In
water at freezing temperatures.
There is no foundation for the no
tion that sour cream contains more
•jutterfat than sweet cream. The
fact is that only butter of inferior
quality can be made from it—Coun
try Home Magazine.
Roman* Knew
Near Mikulov, in Czechoslovakia,
a two-thousand-year-old Roman camp
has been found, with evidence that
the Romans had a system of central
heating. The finds reveal that heat
was circulated through hollow
spaces in the walls.
Black-Draught's Reputation
The confidence people have in
Black-Draught, built up from satis
factory use so many years, is shown
in its being handed on from one gen
eration to another. It must be good
to have such a strong following.
“We have used Black-Draught tor twen
ty years,” write* Mr. Bred Richardson, of
Hartshorn., Ok la. “My mother has used it
for fifty years. It is the best medicine I
know anything about. I take it for sour
stomach and constipation, or when I feel
sluggish and bad. Black-Draught ia splen
did to regulate the bowels, cleansing them
of waste matter, ridding them of constipa
tion. I expect to use it twenty*fire years
more if I live and it gives satisfaction as
it has always given.”
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