Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 303, 4 October 1919 — Page 12

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RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. OCTOBKK 4. 1919

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Part One. Although the children had had uany delightful days In Swltzerand, they never had been high up n the mountains where Ice and .now covered everything. So they vero more than tickled when Capvain Drave told them he had arranged to take them up. "How are we going to get there?" inked Jack. "Why, In the airplane, of course," mswered the captain. Then ho old tho children how be had talked with a nun in the village nearby vho knew the mountains well and .ould point out a great flat space :iear the top of one of them where .he airplane could be landed. "And he is going along with, us, o show me the place and tell you ill about things way up there," tdded the captain. So, after what seemed like weeks o Jack and Jane, but was really nly another day, the trip to the .nountain top was made. The Swiss .noun tain guide came early. He .vaa a little fellow, but very strong, is the children found when he lelped them into the plane. His name was Laman and the children soon learned that he spent most of his time leading parties of folks rom other countries in mountainlimbing trips. You know, many tourists folks vho travel most of the time go to Switzerland to climb the beautiful )ut difficult mountains. Without someone who knows the mountains o lead them they would become ost and possibly lose their lives. The guides, who can be hired for so - nuch a day, lead the way up the nountain sides, teach the visitors ow to climb, how to use their Aline stocks, long sticks they carry, nd steer them away from the ricky pieces of ice and snow rhicii might break loose from the lountain sides and hurl them 'own to the valley below and kill hem. Lamar was one of these men. On the short trip to the landing lace Lamar pointed out to the hildren a little group of people limbing slowly up one of the eaks. The children noticed that hey walked, one behind the other nd that a strong rope ran from 'be man to the next and was tied round each man's body. "The man leading them Is the uide," said Lamar. "I think it's laldo. He was going to take a arty out today. He'B one of the est mountaineers around this part f Switzerland. "You see, there are many little eaks around each mountain below he highest peak. If the tourists ried to climb to the highest one ithout anyone to lead them they ould lose their way and might 'imb over half a dozen of the little eaks without getting near the tain one. Then there are a lot of revasses, we call them, to cross, 'hey are great big cracks In the lountain or in, the ice that covers lie upper parts' of It The guide, icks out the safe place for crossg these great cracks. Some-J imes It is hundreds of feet to the ottom of these holes and anyone 'ho fell over the edge would be tiled, of course." Lamar stopped talking to the i hildren while he pointed out the ..'ay to Captain Brave. When he nished talking with the captain, oth the children said at once: "Do tell us more about mountain limbing." So he did. Captain Brave and Lamar, the

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Swiss guide, quickly thought of many ways in which tlioy might rescue the mountaineer, R;ildo, and the party of men he was leading down the mountain. Cut. alter they had talked them over most of the plans seemed too dangerous. You see Raldo had been guiding some tourists to the top of Mount Randall and on their way down were halted when a big snow bridge over a crevasse in the mountainside broke down and plunged into the bottom of the crack, hundreds of feet below. The crack was too wide to leap and there was no other way down. Captain Brave kept the airplane circling about the spot where the party was so that the tourists would know help had come while he and Lamar tried to think of other ways to save them. "If Raldo were alone it would be easy," said Lamar. "We could fly The ALL SNAGG CENTER NEWS. Hi Hollar is a poor man todayhe went broke trying to make others think he was rich. Mrs. Luke Zarrow sent her little son to the meat shop to see if the butcher had pies' feet. Johnny I V - -1 !,U , 1. nxnru . "Ufa T came uam wmi mc m-na. looked at the butcher's feet, but could not tell whether he had pigs' feet or not, 'cause he had his shoes on." Hez Whiggins was kicking on the soup at the Ebbs Hashery, and it was chicken soup. The proprietor said, "that was funny, I took spec ial paln3 to tell the cook how to fix it but mavbe she did not catch the idea." Hez spoke up "Yes. I think it was the chicken she did not catch." The Croquet season has closed and the checker players will meet at Squire Ebbs Grocery to discuss the coming season for checkers. GRIMM'S CURVE NEWS. Si Hollar says: "A girl does not have to be much of a musician if she can get a fellow to stand up beside the piano and look into her face, as she plays." The milk men's association has passed a new ruling to deliver milk an hour earlier in the mornings. It will give them less daylight and will give them less daylight, the cooks. SANDY MUSH NEWS. The village bank will close its doors next Saturday permanently the folks are putting their mon ey in tin cans and burying it. Those thinking of getting mar ried soon will do well by seeing town clerk Dubbs he has a few slightly soiled marriage licenses to close out at a bargain. A petition has been started to prevent Millie Zarrow from getting married she is the most pop ular girl in the village, and the men folks think it will leave the village without amusement. The village creamery advertises: "Our cow gives nothing 'but 'er milk.' Alton Church was arrested for speeding last Sunday. It will be six months before Church will be out. Editor Phinn made a remark that this world was getting mail delivery down to the fine points as he read in his weekly paper where one big mail order house was willing to ship a suit C. O. D. He knew there were many unusual things going on but he never thought he would see the day when concerns would employ fish to bring the goods to you.

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back to the village and bring him a long rope, then let him toss one end of the rope to us on the lower side of the crevasse after he had tied his end of it to a big rock. Raldo could climb across on the rope. I have seen him do it. But the other men could not do it." Jack and Jane said nothing, like good little folks should do when grownup folks have serious things to think about. Finally Captain Brave said: " I'm going to try to land near them, anyhow. We may damage the plane a bit, but I don't think Ladydear or the children will get hurt, and something must be done." So he quit guiding the plane in circles and headed it for a slope of the mountain which looked quite smooth although it ran up at a steep grade, steeper than any hill the children had ever ridden up in an auto or buggy. When Ladydear saw what Captain Brave intended doing she said quietly, "How will you be able to stop without slipping backward down the mountain side?" "I am going to slow the plane

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THE VILLAGE GOSSIP BY HOG WOLLOW BEND NEWS The village fishery claim there will be a big shortage of fish this coming year. No matter how short hey might be of fish there will still be a lot of "suckers" left.

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down as niueli as 1 can before I land. If I land just riht the piano will stop Just as it slides up onto that litle flat space at the top of the slope," said the captain. "The space isn't bin enough to inako the whole landing on so this is the only way." Captain Brave made it sound so simple that he quieted the tears of Ladydear and the children, but Lamar, from where he sat, could see Captain Brave grip his steering wheel a little tighter and measure the distances with his eyes. The men, waiting on the ice below, had figured out what the man guiding (he airplane hoped to do, and they stood watching the machine as it neared the mountain side. From where they stood it seemed as though it would surely run its nose right into the mountain. Finally the folks in the airplane saw Captain Brave shut oil' the engine mid heard htm say, "Well, we're going to try it now." Copyright. 1919.

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him have the new yellow running i geared buggy and Heck reports he had a good time admired and asked the Government to buy, for their pleasure car. The car Pa ul Revere evidently bought after his famous ride. When you see these wonderful specifications you will buy this car. STARTER No trouble at all when r:ir is standing on ;in incline, just take the brick from under the wheels and a few shoves will have you on your iournev. STEERING WHEEL Not like most cars; In the rear instead of the front it gives the driver a plain view of what's going on while driving. TI1K TOP Made from the best grade of cheese cloth, guaranteed to get the full benefit of all cloud bursts. Ea h car is equipped with an umbrella in case you would want to walk back. SPRINGS -The lunatic style, tho farther you sit back In this car the more benefit you get of tho road condition. G 10 Alt SHIFT Will change gears anywhere within twenty minutes after you have pulled the lever. UPHOLSTERING Special reinforced concrete, ridged to make riding as miserable as possible. Strong and durable as the Niagara Falls. PRICE Now the main question that has been bothering you and us too. We are offering this first lot, a limited number of 75.000 and you will have to speak up quick. We can't tell you the price here; you'll have to see It to appreciate what a loss you will be on a purchase. We pay the war tax.

"MASTER OF THE AIR" A student of the flight of birds is inclined to give the title of "master of the ail" to the gull, which often follows a ship at sea and lives on the scraps thrown from the galley. No oilier bird, ho says, performs such seemingly impossible feats of flight or looks so completely ul home in the air. Sometimes, by the perfect adjustment of their bodies, the gulls will poise on outstretched wings and appear to defy the laws of gravitation by remaining perfectly motionless; or. again, they may be seen moving without a single visible effort, straight against a gale of wind. Their flight is altogether different from that of the Caspian tern, which is as graceful as it is unusual. "Unlike that of any other bird, whether of sea or land," says some one who has watched tho terns, "it reminds one a little of the high, apparently uncertain flight of a large-winged butterfly; and it. is in perfect harmony with the idea of a being where life is spent amid wind and mist and fluctuating wave."

A It I) T BREEZETTES m ri nitur viui a lll.ui wiiu i him in a thousand years. One way to keep warm is to breathe deeply with the mouth closed. Another way, buy more coal. An aviator took a crate of chickens to market in an aeroplane therefore he flew the coop. The reason a man lets his wife? have the last word he has a rest when she gets it. The first thing that turns green in the spring -Christmas jewelry. GRIMEN'S CURVE NEWS Doc Grim ha3 notified his patients when he diagnoses a case and the man dies that is what he dies of if he say pneumonia, it's pneumonia. A man told us he was 96 years old and could not remember of ever telling a lie one can't expect any memory to be reliable at that age. OUR VILLAGE WHIFFS. Mrs. Ebbs could not speak at tho Suffrage meeting Tuesday afternoon she had to stay home to dig potatoes. The Zarrow family will spend Christmas day at homo this yearall parties who were in doubt about sending gifts at their home can take this warning that it will be all right to send them ahead. Si Ebbs was telling Luke Zarrow he was the "whole cheese" at the old grist mill now and Constable Phinn overheard the remark and passed it alone to other members of Squire Ebbs Grocery and Loaf ing Emporium but he cot the un familiar expression slightly twist ed, in a confidential mood, constable asked the boys, "if thev knew Si Ebbs was a big piece of cheese, as he had heard Si say so himself." A very touching scene In our vil lage when Mrs. Weatherby was robbed of her purse at the Hickville County Fair. NUFFEY'S CORNER NEWS. Sidney Hocks has been going around this week with his eyebrows lifted about two inches, trying to keep out of the mud with his new shoes. Miss Fruzie Allsop recently completed an eight-reel scenario. If she can't sell it 6oon she will dramatize it into magic lantern slides. Miss Liz Ebbs can sleep ten minutes longer in the mornings since she ha3 started to wear low cut shoes.