The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 October 1935 — Page 3

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935.

/ SK 1 ADVENTURERS’ fO CLUB .w # al ll ts A Isl Ue -a n “Quicker Than the Eye** 1 By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. A LITTLE slow music, and up with the curtain. Hang onto your watches, boys and girls, and don’t go lending anybody your silk hat unless you want it turned into a rabbit s nest, for here comes Halton, the Magician—Nat Halton with his deck of fifty-two individually trained cards, to give us a demonstration of the wonders that — Walt a minute— what's that. Nat? I’m sorry, boys and girls. it’s my mistake. Nat Isn’t here to give a demonstration. He’s here to tell us a story—the story of a jam he pot Into about thirty years apo, In the town of El Oro, way down on the other side of the Mexican border—a jam that not even a magician could get | out of without a little luck on the side. Nat was visiting In Mexico City when a friend Invited him out to the little mining town of El Oro to entertatt) some of the. boys who worked In the mines. He went to El Oro, put up at a little hotel In the town, and that night put on a show that was attended by a good portion of the town’s inhabitants. The show was run off in a hall In the center of the town. Nat had a good, appreciative audience and he enjoyed every minute of the two hours during which he enterUined them with his card tricks and feats of slelgbt-of-hand. Whpn the show was over he went back to the hotel and went to bed. But the next morning, at 5:30, he was awakened by a loud knock on the dbor. When he opened it, a tough looking gent pushed his J*ay Into the room and told Nat to get dressed. Nat didn't feel like getting dressed at 5:30 In the morning, and he told the stranger so. But the stranger pulled out a gun and stuck It in Nat s ribs, anil Nat started getting Into his clothes. When Nat asked the bird what he wanted • of him. the stranger said: “You know." And that was every word Nat could get out of him. Nat Is Credited With Pretty Good Magic. After repeated questioning, though, the man finally told Nat what the trouble was. A deed to a mining claim had disappeared from his pocket the night before. an ) he thought Nat had stolen It. And when Nat pointed out that he hadn't even been near him all during the performance, the fellow said: ! "You wouldn’t have to‘go near a man to take tiling? out of his pocket. Didn't you make cards paws from one fellow’s pocket to another?" Wall, sir. Nat was flattered that anybody should take his sleight-of-hand tricks that seriously, but It didn’t help the situation any. “I noticed,” he says, s “that the man’s eyes were dilated and bloodshot. Was dope fiend? If he was, I was in real danger. The one thing In my favor was that he gave me credit for more power than I possessed. It was my one advantage, so I used It to stall for time. I told him wo would go out and find his deed, thinking if wo got out on the street I could And some help." [ But out on the street there wasn’t any help In sight. Nobody gets up early ; In Mexico, and at that hour there wasn't a'soul awake. The man. with bls gun in Nat's back, took him to a small cabin on the edge of the town. There was j KMBHUBW 77 ! - ® r iWrAJ *1 kVj Bi Nat Was Stalling. His Eye Fell on the Papers. a pile of papers on the floor In the center of the front room, and a woman was peeping through a nearly closed door. The woman's eyes, too, were dilated and bloodshot—also of a drug fiend. Nat' was still stalling for time, and his eye fell on the papers piled In the center of the floor. Realizing It would take the man ten or fifteen minutes to go through those papers, he pointed to them dramatically, and said: “Look, there, and you wllTflnd yonr deed." A Magician Gets His Wits A-forking. The man objected. He said he had jnst looked through those papers, and that’s how they happened to be there. But Nat repeated his command, and the man began his search. ’ “ T .*i - \ • ”1 knew then," says Nat, “that I must plan my escape quickly, and da It in some way that would bo acceptable to my captor. Force wouldn’t get me anywhere, for the woman In the back room had come out now, and was holding a shotgun pointed at me. Imagine my sur. prise when the man suddenly rose from the floor holding a document * and eaidt ’Here it is,’ and then added: ’But you put It back? " Nat pointed out that be hadn’t been anywhere near that pile of papers on the floor, but the.man reminded him again that anyone who could make cards pass from one nian’s pocket to another wouldn’t have to. However, by this time he was disp«wvd to be more friendly, and Invited Nat to have a drink with him. Then after a few whispered words with the woman, he asked Nat if he could tell him what number would win tbe capital prise In the Mexican National lottery that month. Well. air. by this time Nat was beginning to get mad at the high-handed way thia bird had treated him. “Here," he says, “was my chance to get even. So 1 told him that I couldn't give him the exact number, but that number thirteen was going to be very lucky In the next drawing, and advised him to buy all the tickets he could find that had thirteen in tbe serial number. ] have never seen that man from that day to this, but 1 hope he sold his guns to buy lottery tickets, so that If. by any chance, we should meet again, he won't have any firearms left to greet me with." Well, that’s the first time I ever heard of a lottery doing any good for humanity. But you can do the world a lot of good by sending me that story of yours, Johnny. And don’t forget to be here tomorrow, when we draw the story of Rita May Murphy, of New York city. In the big. all-time lottery of adventure. ©—W XU aorvtM - . &

•— Rabies, Unlike Running Fite, Not Sudden Attack The rabid dug Is not geoerallyconvulsed. Rabies, nnllke running fits, does not come on suddenly. but rather gradually develops over a period of a week or ten days of abnormal actions which finally evolve into either the furious or dumb form of the disease, advises a writer in the Los Angeles Time*. Rabies nets in with a variety of peculiar manifestations, in brief, those expressive of anxiety mingled with fear. The dog appears In a troubled state of mind and usually appeals for sympathy. He is prone to become more affectionate and to excessively lap the hands of his attendants. He wants more petting to appease his distress. Restlessness is a marked early symptom as la also the fact that he to easily startled. He continually paces about, except for an occasional pause. Refusing food, be shows a marked depraved appetite for inedible substances Hugo Induatry Without Machines > American people who admire Holland's tulips seldom realise the amount of work the bulbs require. In thia one of Holland's great trade developments. about 100.000 tulips are planted to the acre, and each bulb must be Mt and later dug by band. Looking Ferwsurd So live that your distinguished cou n sss'l wilt have some other defense tea* that the cunfsosjon. was beaten »ut of you with a rubber hoe*.

such as sticks and stones, or he may chew his bedding. It to often noted that a rabid dog will continually lap woodwork about the house, such as floors and furniture. Thirst is decidedly Increased, but the dog does not swallow very much of the water. This to because be cannot swallow as bls throat Is becoming paralysed, a condition which will shortly be followed by paralysis of the jaw. causing It to drop and the mouth to remain open. "d” Abbreviation for "Penny** The sign ’‘d" in English money is the abbreviation for “penny." It stood originally for the Latin denarius, a coin of value equivalent to the AngloSaxon penny. Medieval money changers continued its use as an abbreviation for the penny and gave It a fixed place in English custom. A penny to approximately equal in value to 2 cents. The half penny la therefore about the equivalent of our cent. Santiago a* Inland City Santlaga la an Inland dty. rank lung second only to Rio de Janeiro In spectacular beauty. Santa Lucia hill. rising out of the heart of the dty. offers amaxlng views of the Innumerable domes and spire*. An HesuMt Laugh "I reverence an honest laugh," said Hl Ho, the sag* of Chinatown. “The power to create It belongs to the gods, while the most pitiful microbe may cause sorrow."

The Rogues 9 Gallery \\'. > ■ ' - "" \ \'l -L’ 4 J 4 ''i \ I ■\ ” With a tax collector stationed at every cocktail party this source alone the treasury ample funds with which to finance ail of the Presi- i dent

A BOX OF PIN-HEAD TAX < By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM RIGHT now the government seems to be taxing everything, IncludIng our patience. There once was a day when. If you heard the word "tax," you I thought of a small box full of little demi-tasse nails which bit you when you tried to pull one out to mend tbe I window shade. Now when anyone asks if you have ! some tacks in the house, you tush ! for the desk drawer and pull out | handful of final notices. Os course, these only represent the sort of taxes which come to visit, you in the home, and range in size from ; the big, burly Federal Income Tax j Return counterpain, down to the little ! Itsy-bitsy two-dollar poll-tax. Just why I should ever receive the latter, I have never understood. Poll-tax indeed, when I’ve never even priced a parrot; much less kept one. I pay my dog tax, though. They call it a license, of course, but it’s a tax on my pocketbook no matter what they call IL I suppose the tax on shoes is the real dog tax . . . oh well, that one is at least my own. poor thing! Tbe first fast one the government put over on us In a big way, was that Intelligence test, the income tax, an<h what a crossword puzzle that turbed out to be! At first it wasn’t so popular, but now the fifteenth of March has become the fixed date for the annual Munchausen contest, and everybody goes at it in a spirit of catch-as-catch-can and rather likes lb They say "it’s fun to be fooled’’ but it’s even more fun trying to fool the Collector of Eternal Revenue. ' The states, many of them being a lot of old copy-cats, got out a second edition of the above mentioned. The State Income Tax may be a state affair but it Is also that In the plural—a state of affairs:—and if you <lon’t believe me. just wait until you have to pay yours this year! Tfte whole country is now like midtown New York at midday: taxis, taxis everywhere and you can’t make a move in any direction without running Into ’em. Os course the gas tax is a good thing In away because it keeps a lot of people In their homes. But It’s a shame it don’t apply on the floor of the house of representatives. While as for this sales tax they have got In a few states such as California and New York, well, it’s funny how people are. When the government allowed that 2% per cent beer was legal, the folks kicked because It wasn’t strong enough. cent sales tax Is so strong they claim It knocks ’em for a headache. Oh well, it takes all kinds of people to make a world and then what have you got? Tbe beauty who is getting all the attention Just now is tbe inheritance tax Around where 1 live, they call It the New Inheritance Tax Well, I must say that yehrs ago, all I inherited from my Uncle Bill was a lot Os taxes, so if they think inheritance taxes are something new, they are goofy! I admit there was a farm attached—quite heavily attached—to the taxes Uncle left me. but It was so well snowed under that by the time I dug off the last line I had to slap it back again to keep the roof from caving in from age. If the Inheritance tax goes far enough, we won’t even be sure of our own tombstones. Ah well, raxes never come singly in spite of all Henry George said. The only people they really help are the newspaper cartoonists. With the rest of the population they have given rise to a lot of prejudice. Why. my brother, for instance; don’t like to be known as a taxi-driver, because he’s afraid people will think he’s a revenue man. Now I am not narrow-minded or unpatriotic about this tax business. I realize tbe poor starving politicians esnnot be allowed to go on home relief- Probably their homes would hare no sense of relief at all if they stayed home ail day. Abo I am perfectly well aware that the office holdare have a short mason of it, even four yean isn’t much, so naturally they have to provide for their lean yean white they can, or some day they might have to go to work. I know, too, that the Government Machinery has to be supported although why it can't come down to earth instead, is beyond me. Oh beck, what I mean Is, I know that taxes are neeaasary for the Public Weak Or maybe !

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■ — it’s the Public Veal—you know, kill- ’ Ing the fat-head calf. Aw, peppermints; I’ll quit trying to be highhat about it and admit that all I know is you’ve got to pay ’em or else— So as long as taxes have got to be paid, why not make them popular? : Nobody minds giving up their dough for something which gives them a thrill—why, they will even give up other people’s dough for that. So In my simple feminine fashion, I propose i that we quit taxing necessary things and tax according to what is known as the Putnam Plan. To begin with, this plan would take the tax off of theater tickets and put it on to wives who take singing lessons at home. Don’t cheer, boys, this won’t stop them. The plan says further that there shall be a tax on every spectator at all sensational divorce or murder trials. All malicious gossip shall be taxed at a rate of 20 per cent of the net Income of the gosslper. And a tax ; of 5 per cent of the gross income of tbe gosslpee. All smoking ,room stories over one year old shall be taxed at the rate of | 50 cents per repetition. With a taxcollector stationed at every cocktail party this source alone should bring the treasury ample funds with which to finance all of the President’s appropriations and leave enough over for ' a bromo seltzer. Practical jokes shall be taxed on a sliding scale. That gives me an idea! Can you just picture a far woman stepping onto a sliding scale? Huh! So you won’t laugh, eh? Oh well, what do 1 care? But this Is a rich idea, this taxing practical jokes. And what I really started out to say was, the Jokes would be taxed in proportion to their cleverness and originality. The ! dumber the joke tbe higher the tax. ! Joe Cook, for instance, would get off i practically free. The list of properly taxable things ! could go on practically endlessly, beginning with visits from mothers-in-law and ending with buttered parsnips, and j such a tax list, far from making Mr. Taxpayer, the Forgotten Man and Mr. i Average Citizen feel even more gloomy | than they look from their pictures in [ the papers—well, far from making | them feel oppressed, it would have j them practically laughing out loud. Nobody could object to seeing a guy I pay a tax on a stale egg. or shell out ten bucks to the government for hav- , Ing said "Olive OH" or “Abyssinia" I as farewell to a paL In fact, this Perfect Putnam Plan | If carried out properly, might even i result in the happy populace digging up the tax money for their taxed brethren voluntarily, with song and § dance. Instead of giving the government a song and dance about not being S able to pay ar all, tbe way a lot of them do now. But all this depends on my plan being carried out and I don’t mean feet first either. • Nia« Wileoz Pntaam.—W.VU Servlcw "Eight Bella Calling f" On board ship time Is divided not Into day and night bat Into watches, J or duty-spells. Each ordinary watch lasts for four hours, the ship’s bell marking tbe passing of each half hoar, i Thus If a watch starts at twelve o’clock, there is one stroke of the bell at 12:30, | two at one o’clock and so on up to eight at four o’clock, when the men ; on duty are relieved by others. There ’ are five of these four-hoar watches, the remaining four hoars being divided into two two-hour watches—called dog (or “docked") watches. These short watches lead to a “change over" the crew. On a merchant ship where half the men work at a time, the men who were on duty from twelve to four in the morning on the first day ont would be on that same tiring watch an through. If It were not for the dog watches.—Pearson’s Weekly. Largest Shark The largest shark, as well as the largest fish of any kind ever caught, was a whale shark weighing more than 26,000 pounds and having a length of 38 feet and a girth of 18 feet. This monster was harpooned off Knight's Key, Fla. on June 1, 1912, by Capt Charles Thompson. The largest shark of the more familiar type ever caught was a Make shark weighing 2.176 pounds and having a length of 13 feet 3 inches and a girth of 8 feet 9 Inches. This fish was caught off Cape Province, South Africa, in June, 1928» by W. & • Selkirk.

World Wheat Supply Less, Says U. S. Department of Agriculture

World wheat supplies outside Russia and China this season are likely to be about 240,000,000 bushels less than in 1934-35, says tbe bureau of agricultural economics. In its current report on world wheat prospects. World production, excluding Russia and China, is estimated at about 3,520.000,000 bushels, or about 60, 000,066 bushels more than last year: but world carry-over at the begin ning of this crop year was about 800.000.000 bushels, or 300.000.000 a bushels less than a year ago. Russia is reported to be harvesting a good wheat crop with fairly good yields In regions which com monly supply wheat for export Russia may export as much as 30. I 000,000 bushels, but this may be off set to some extent by Increased Im : ports into China where the wheat crop is reported smaller than in : 1934.’ The bureau says the short sup Unique Scratch Pad for Kitchen By GRANDMOTHER CLARK i HAVg A SCRATCH OH rt£ k > ’ it can'i be helped it there is mon key business afoot here. This little fellow makes it his business to keev a record of your household wants on the little pad he is bolding. This memo pad hanger measures about 8 by 10 inches when finished. Package No. A-7 contains the stamped and tinted unbleached muslin and the paper scratch pad. ready to be outlined, also directions how to make it up. Thread and binding are not included. Sent postpaid for 15 cents. Address Home Craft Co., Dept A, -Nineteenth and St Louis Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Enclose stamped ad dressed envelope for reply when I writing for any information. Metal Deposit* in Cave Russian scientists who have ex amined the rocks in one of the world's largest caves in mountains of Turkestan report that they contain huge quantities of silver, lead and manganese. i

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piles of wheat In. the United States may result in prices being maintained close to an Import basis for all classes of wheat at markets east of the Rockies. The United States carry-over into the current season Is estimated at 152.000,000 bushels, and production on the basis of August 1 conditions at 608.000,000 bushels. The total, 760,000,000 bushels, is only 135,000,000 bushels more than normal utilization of 625,000,000 bushels. These figures suggest, it is stated, that unless there shoukl be a considerable volume of imports during the year, the carry-over into the 15)36-37 season will be smaller -than that in the current season. The volume of imports will be Influenced largely by the quantity of the domestic crop which proves unfit for milling. The bureau says that durum wheat in the 1935-36 season probably will not command a premium over hard red spring, as was the case last season: but that supplies of good quality hard red spring appear so short there will be substantial premiums for hard red spring over hard red winter. Whale Yield* New Product What may .prove'to be as \aluable to Norway as whale oil itself, is a new kind of meat extract made from whales. Experiments described as highly successful have been carried on in the Antarctic aboard Norwe- 1 gian whalers. The greater part ot rhe worlds supply of whale oil is delivered in Norway. Although the value of whale meat as food has long been recognized only the oil of the whale has been utilized, owing to tbe difficulty of transporting the meat from the Antarctic. Now. however, the meat is being made into a sort bf meat flour aboard the whalers. The flour Is taken back to : Norway, where a meat extract of ai very satisfactory character Is being produced.

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