Walkerton Independent, Volume 62, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 May 1936 — Page 3

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’ jIMk Adventurers’ Z" ■ 1/ M C,ub z € i // ^7 // I . tA I 11 Cut Your Ears Of}^ By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. I WONDER why it is that the majority of us seem to have our most thrilling experiences when we are around ten years old. Funny, isn’t it? But let’s leave that to the psychologists to figure out and get on with our story. It's from Mrs. Louis Walker of West Winfield, N. Y. Mrs. Walker was only eight years old when the adventure took place that was destined to remain in her memory the rest of her life. That was over fifty years ago so you can see what an impression it made. Mary—that’s what everybody called Mrs. Walker in those days—lived on a farm with her father and mother, near the town of Richfield. N. Y. It was a lonely place, Mary says, quite a distance from the main highway, at the top of a steel hill, with deep woods all around. They didn’t have automobiles, telephones or radios in that time, so you can see how lonely it really was. Weird Looking Stranger Knocks at the Door. The country was sparsely settled and the nearest house —her grandfather’s —was a mile away. Mary was one of live children, the oldest of whom was fourteen and the youngest two. The country around Richfield was then a hopgrowing center and many transients wandered in at hop-picking time to get work. However, Mary says, strangers seldom frightened them, and the children were often left alone in the house. One day, when Mary’s mother and father were away and the children all alone, they heard a rap on the back door. The youngsters, eager for any diversion that would relieve the motonony, rushed into the kitchen. Mary’s oldest sister, Louisa, who was inclined to be sickly, opened the door. On the porch stood the strangest looking man the country children had ever seen. He seemed. Mary recalls, about forty and wore a loud, checked suit i and a gray derby hat after the manner of race-track touts. In addition to his rainbow clothes, the man actually carried a cane! The Visitor Indulges in a Queer Prank. The clothes and the cane fascinated the children, and when the man asked | for a bite to eat he was invited into the bouse. Louisa prepared him some food, while the rest of the youngsters surveyed this city marvel from head to foot. Mary says, aside from his strange getup, the man seemed perfectly normal as he ate his food. They were not the least bit afraid of him and readily told him they were alone in the house. Louisa was particularly kind to the stranger and served him all he wanted to eat. When he had finished the fourteen year-old girl picked up the dishes and started for the kitchen sink with them in her hands. Although slightly lame and a semi-Invalid, Mary says, her sister insisted on helping about the house. Louisa bad just turned her back, her arms loaded with dishes, when the stranger suddenly stuck out his cane and tripped her! Down went the poor 11 wIWi Jr, J ij® The Fiend Brandished a Knife at Her. girl, heavily, on her face. The load of dishes prevented her from putting out her bands to protect herself, and, as the crockery smashed, her face struck on the sharp edges and cut her in several places. Dangerous Lunatic Terrorizes the Helpless Children. Mary and the other kids were aghast. They could not believe that anyone would deliberately hurt their gentle sister. But there was no question about it. the man bad done It purposely, because he now sat back and roared with laughter. Louisa picked herself up, pale and trembling, her face scratched and bleeding. The other children doubtless thought her pale from her fall. But Louisa was older and her pallor was caused by something she had seen in the man’s eyes. That something, to Louisa, meant insanity! Their visitor was a dangerous lunatic and the children were in his power! The brute s next move proved her worst fears to be true. Laughing still, he strolled over to the bird cage, where their pet canary perched watching the scene, and. sticking the point of his cane through the bars of the cage, began poking the helpless bird. Eight-Year-Old Mary Faces Maniac With a Knife. Mary says her ten-year-old brother ran out of the house at this point, but she and her sisters stood there paralyzed with horror and watched the man thrusting at the fluttering canary repeatedly with his caue until their pet fell —a mass of quivering feathers—in the bottom of the cage! Their canary was dead 1 The little two-year-old baby girl began to cry. Louisa protested and the man suddenly turned on her, and, hooking her around the neck with his cane, jerked her to him. The threat to her sister goaded Mary into action. She was only eight, but she grabbed up a knife from the kitchen table and went for him. Quick as a Hash the horrible cane tripped her and the fiend, faster than it i takes to tell it, had the knife in his hand. He grinned horribly: "I’m going to cut your ears off,” he said. The Man Disappeared as Strangely as He Had Arrived. Mary jumped to her feet—terror giving her wings—and rushed out of the । room. The man followed, cursing and waving the knife threateningly. Furniture crashed as the horrible chase went on. Mary threw chairs and* tables at his feet as she ran and dodged for her life. But not for long. A hand closed on her hair from behind and she fainted. Mary woke up on the parlor sofa. A man was leaning over her! She screamed and threw her hands over her ears! But Mary had no cause for alarm now. The man leaning over her was her grandfather. Her brother had wisely gone after him and the children were safe. The man in the checked suit was gone. And her ears were still on. An armed posse of neighbors searched the woods for days. It seemed im- ’ possible. Mary says, that a man dressed that way could escape in that country, I but he did and was never seen again. © —WNU Service.

Cairo Very Old Though old Cairo generally is believed to be about 1,000 years old, it may date from Roman or earlier times. Parts of a very old Roman city have been excavated in the suburbs of the city during the last few years. The existence of this settlement had been j known but in recent years the belief I has grown that the site of Cairo has I been inhabited continuously since the days of the Old Kingdom (about 4,500 B. C.). In fact, the suburbs of the present city include the site of ancient Heliopolis. Mausoleum of Kings On the little island of Riddarholmen in Stockholm stands the Westminster Abbey of Sweden, a Gothic Thirteenth century pile which serves as the mausoleum of Sweden's kings and heroes in all walks of life. Oldest Irrigation System The oldest irrigation system in the | Western Hemisphere is at Mission Es- | pada near San Antonio, Texas. Built i by the Franciscan Fathers four cen- i turies ago the system provides water for crops.

The Alabama Claims The Alabama claims were claims of the United States against Great Britain, for losses inflicted on shipping, by the Alabama. Shenandoah and other Confederate vessels, fitted out in British ports during the Civil war. The United States claimed $19,021 428 In direct losses and many times that amount in indirect losses. The matter was arbitrated in 1871. and in the following year the Geneva Tribunal awarded the United States an indemnity of $15,506,000 in gold. This was paid by Great Britain in 1873. Australia Law Enforced Despite the fact that cracked or chipped chinaware often harbors bacilli of contagious diseases. Australia is the only country that is known to enforce strictly its law against use of damaged dishes in public eating places. Montevideo a Corruption “Monte-vi-eu” (Mountain Saw I) by