Good Job for Hermit
Waushingue..—The lighthouse keep-
er, the prospector, the sheep herder
five lonely jobs, but what is probably
the loneliest of all is that of the for
est-fire observer, Perched high on
some towering mountain top in the
cabin of his steel tower, surrounded
for miles about by almost inaccessible
Jorest, the fire observer goes for
weeks, often months, without seeing
another human being.
Not all contact with the world, how
ever, is lost, for hy the very nuture
of his work he must be in daily and
sometimes hourly telephone ~ommu
alc: tion with the ranger's or forester’s
headquarters. Equipped with the in-
dispensahle telephone, his maps, range
finder, binoculars ard meteorological
instruments, the towerman keeps con-
stant watch over the thousands of
acres of forest land spread out be-
low him for the first telltale signs of
smoke,
The job of lookout, lonely and usu-
ally poorly paid as it is, nevertheless
demands a type somewhat above the
average in intelligence and fortitude
to fill it. He must understand tele-
phone line repair, must he able to
read mups and know enough about
triangulation to ‘ovate forest fires hy
taking their bearings, must he able to
make temperature and humidity read
ings on a wet and dry bulb thermome-
ter, and he must be able to cook his
own meals.
Some states and the federal govern:
ment have employed women
ers with good results. A woman loc
out is quick to detect fires, accurs
in locating them and definite when
porting them to headquarters,
fire towers are situated near sett
ments or farms, women will often
found “manning” them,
These towers, the more modern
which are of galvanized steel,
in height from 20 to 100 feet, thou
there are some even higher, Wh
built on the highest peak of a moun
usu-
tain range a 60-fool tower will
ally permit a view of all the surrour
ing forest. In clear weather the
server may he able to see 40 miles
more, but the average visibility is t
tween 10 and 20 miles.
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LEADERSHIP
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
9108 BeBe 8118s PreBer
T WAS Amil the Goth who said to
Wulf, the chief of the tribe, when
he was hesitating as to his own uc-
tion:
“If the bison-bull lie down and wal-
fow, what will the herd do for a
feader? [If the Kking-wolf lose the
scent, how will the pack hold it? If
the Ynling forgets the song of As
gard, who will sing it to the heroes?”
Example is the strongest influence
in leadership.
Clayton had charge ot seven thou-
sand men whose job was ship build-
ing during the World war—untrained,
illiterate men most of them were,
who were used to hard work and a
rough life, and to be ruled with an
HOBBY IS LIFE SAVING
{f
Wilfred Whiting of London, Eng:
dand, with some of the medals he
has received for saving the lives of
his fellowmen. Whiting has saved
165 persons from drowning without
assistance.
iron wrist, and
of education und refinement. tle nad
seen the world; he had known men
of prominence and influence; ne was
a gentleman in every sense of the
word, but for all refinement of
taste and education, he had no dith
culty with his men, and the reason
was that he lived with. them, he ate
the food that they ate, he slept as
they slept, he worked as many hours
daily and hard they worked,
he lived soberly and discreetly as he
Clayton was a man
his
as as
would have liked them to live. They
respected his character, they recog-
nized his- leadership, and they fol
lowed as the pack follows the king
wolf,
The, boss gave \Villiams very good
advice when he took him on in a
subordinate position. He emphasized
the fact that
gular and
temperate
habits were necessary to success. He
gave Willinms to understand that
drinking and gambling were not con
sonant with progress in their firm.
The advice was excellent and Wil
liams listened to it with respect. But
he had not been long with the firm
until he learned that the boss was
not following the advice which he
had given his subordinates His
breath did pot always suggest a
respect for the Volstead act: his
stories of what he had won in a
friendly game with one of his neigh
bors did not indicate that he himself
refrained from gambling, and if he
did not, why should Williams? The
boss had succeeded and had been,
neither temperate nor always serupu
lous as to how he won his money
His example told strangely in mold
|
THE PATTON COURIER
Goblin
on Guard?
Natural Tupnel, Va,—Weird
ends of a aol deranging the minds
of marauders seeking treasure which
tradition says is buried far up in the
Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia
where nature has formed a natural
tunnel for railroads, are told by resi
dents here, J
The treasure is said to have been
buried in a cave in the rock walls
of the tunnel, White men, pursued
by Indians, placed the treasure there.
the legend says, and only one at-
tempt has been made to recover it
A box, rigged with ropes, wis low
ered from the top of the wall. The
man in it was about fifty feet down
when he saw the cave contained an
eagle’s nest. The eagle attacked him
and in striking at the bird one of
the ropes was severed, suspending the
treasure seeker ahove the yawning
cavern,
The other rope held, the story re
lates, but when the man was pulled
to the top he was found to be de- |
mented as a result of the terrifying ex-
perience.
Another tale is that an Indian prin
cess leaped from the towering wall
of the tunnel to her death 500 feet
below, because of her love for
Cochesa, an Indian brave from the
sea, whom her father, a Mingo chief,
refused to permit her to marry. The
spirit of the girl is said to live in
the tunnel,
The waters of Stony creek flow
through, part of the tunnel into Linch
leg- | river,
The picturesque beauty of the
section and the many Indian legends
attract numerous tourists,
Superb Mosaic Found
Washington.— Buriea under the dust
of centuries, a superb mosaic disk con-
taining a thousand or more beauti-
fully polished pieces of turquoise has
been discovered by excavators in Yu-
catan,
Cork Industry Hurt
Madrid.—After supplying two-thirds
the world's supply of corks, the
industry finds itself in
due
of
Spanish cork
straitened circumstances,
greatly reduced demand.
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Volcanoes
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A very plausible theory re-
garding the activity of vol
canoes is that the water of the
ocean enters an opening in the o
earth caused by an earthquake, *%
forms gas or steam under great x
pressure, and finds its outlet *
3 through the crater of the vol- :
% cano which seldom lies far i
* from the sea. : 3
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JUS | YOU SAY HE EARNED
or La NICKEL AND NOW
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ing Williams' character. He was the iebiebinieeiinleieeiaibiuloloddeiohdok
bison-bull lying down and wallowing, | 3% . =
and the herd was foliowing his ex- * E3ploces De %
ample, trange Wi ace
(aston, who was head ‘of his i New yange visit to a mys- 3
fraternity, was worried about the 3 terious race of warriors, possibly &
freshmen in the house. It was hard % the descendants of South Sea
to keep, them in at uight—they were | & op, qos who came to South *
crazy about dates. It was difficult to % America many centuries ago, 3
keep them at their books, and their * was described by A. Hyatt Ver- %
scholarships weve not what it should | £ 1) 07 the Museum of the Amer +
be. He wanted advice. % ican Indian, Heye foundation, on 3%
“How. many nights a wee are you | & pis return from his sixtieth trip oe
in?” 1 asked. He colored a little and = to South America. 5
hesitated. % Verrill said he found the tribe, %
“lI am out a good deal,” he con- | % numbering about 350 men and
fessed. “You see I am engaged, and % women, in almost impenetrable 2
she likes to see me for a while every % wilderness hetween Brazil and
evening.” 3 Bolivia, None of the tribe wears 2
“and your grades?’ » clothing, Verrili said, and the *
“Not all that they should be, I'm | % wen have developed long beards &
sorry to say.” 3 of the type commonly seen in a4
It was the king-wolt losing the 3 the Solomon islands. The tribe 3
scent, nd 1 tried to show him, % members are nature worshipers, *
1928 Western Newspaper [/nion.) o he said. 0
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Light on Crabs
indication that at
least family of North Caroling
crabs has un extremely aristo
cratic iineage, dating back about 25.
00,000 years, is contained in a re
port on new fossil discoveries in the
Grand canyon by Dr. Charles W. Gil-
more, noted paleontologist of the
Smithsonian institution.
the ancient creature that
roamed around in the ooze which
formed the foundation of the moun-
tain before it was cut by the Colorado
river were first found in 1903 by the
late Dr. Charles D. Walcott in the
Coconino standstone on Grand View
trail. Another specimen was found 12
years later by Prof. Charles Schuch
Washington.—An
one
sand
Tracks of
Scientist Wages
War on Plague
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br. Thorvald Madsen, director of the famous Sérum Institute at Copen
agen. Denmark, where coustunt war is being waged against cholera, tuber
enlosis and other plagues.
ert of Yale, and a third was discov. | «
ered lust year by Doctor Gilmore. | |
Using this as a type specimen ft
his study, he has concluded that
trackway probably was made by son
the
tombstones in
| Bad Spelling Shows
How Jews Talked Latin
Austin, Texas.—Bad spelling on
the Jewish catacombs
f Rome indicates how the Jews who
ived in Rome in the early Christian
or | centuries pronounced Greek and Latin,
according to Dr, Harry J. Leon, of the
1e | University of Texas.
crustacean in the Permian period of
geological time, ‘The sandstone slab | i
shows two parallel
in groups of four, arranged in a ro
of three regularly spaced tracks with
the fourth offset inward.
The similarity of this arrangemer
to the tracks of living sand crabs wi
called to Doctor Gilmore's attentic
by Remington
States biological survey, who observe
these creatures recently on Hatter
island, N.
C.
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Hankow.—Chinese sources, in
giving details of the recent mas-
sacre at Leiyang, said Commi
2 nists and disbanded soldiers
fired the houses of all the well
# to-do citizens wto were penned
inside with women and children,
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2 Prosperons wis murdered in the
Hunan city Usually
% the victims tortured first,
5, their “eyes gouged out.
% their ears cut off. Whole fami
were so treated, parents be
compelled to watch their
% Children being mutilated and
% children to watch the torturing
o of their parents
4 Several foreign missionaries
s were in the Lelyang nrea at the
. time and their fate was not
% known.
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being
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lines of imprints
Kellogg of the United
Scholars have wondered whether
he Jews who formed a settlement in
tome clung to their Hebrew ways or
w | whether they did as the Rcmans did,
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1 I
Doctor Leon explains.
Six Roman cata-
‘ombs where the Jewish residents
yuried their dead are now known, and
1s | study of the inscriptions on the slabs
m | and the gallery walls shows that the
writing is three-fourths Greek and one-
xd | fourth Latin. Often words in the in
is | scriptions are confused with other
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words of similer sound, su that
are misspelled in characteristic ways
they
Jewish ritualistic symbols on the tomb:
stones were indeed written by Jewish
people using foreign languages, Doc
tor Leon points out.
The average “man The Jewish population in Rome.
spends a lot of time | which grew to about 40.000, was no
prosecuting the work | more familiar with the Hebrew lan-
ruage than the average Jew oday.’ | . os Nae ;
nage isn § average Jew of ¢ lay. | ber of places and furnishings to which
I'he more cultured among them spoke |
Latin as well as the popular Greek,
the recent investigations indicate.
Their inscriptions afford valuable ma-
terial in tracing the history of the
Greek and Latin languages” in their
development from the classical
tongues of antiquity to the modern
Greek and the romance languages of
our day, Doctor Leon states.
NEW IN SPORTS WEAR
wear the |
practical
brushed wool costume Marceline Day
[For sports
wears for golfing is e.tremely good.
| It is a two-piece model with the
blouse striped with peasant colors. |
A brown leather belt is worn with
the frock
Turkeys were raised by the Aztecs.
Getting Their Master's Voice
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HARD-COOKED EGGS IN WHITE SAUCE GOOD
(Prepared by the Bureau of Home Economics,
United States Department of Agriculture.)
There are many appetizing ways of
serving eggs after they have been
hard cooked. One of the best liked
is to reheat them in a white sauce,
either cut in halves lengthwise, or
with the whites and yolks separated.
In this case the whitgs are often cut
up into small pieces and mixed with
the sauce, while the yolks are pressed
through a potato ricer and sprinkled
over the entire dish. Ikggs served in
this way are sometimes called *“gold-
{ ) g
enrod eggs.”
The bureau of home economics
gives these directions for preparing
goldenrod eggs for a lunch or supper
dish:
Allow one and one-half eggs for
each person. Cook the eggs at the
simmering point for 30 minutes. This
can easily be done in the upper part
Appetizing Way of Serving Eggs.
of a double boiler. Plunge the eggs
in cold water and remove the shes.
Reheat the whites, cut into small
pieces, in a white sauce, and pour
over slices of crisp buttered toast at
serving time. Allow one cupful ‘of
sauce to each four eggs. A tablespoon.
ful of chopped green pepper or
minced parsley may be added. To
make the whife sauce, blend two
tablespoonfuls of butter with one and
one-half tablespoonfuls of flour, add
gradually one cupful of milk and stir
until thick, Season with one-fourth
teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper
or paprika.
Arrange the toast, covered with the
whites in the sauce, on warm individ-
ual plates on a warm platterd
Sprinkle the riced yolks over the top
of each portion and serve immediate-
ly. Parsley may be used as a garnish,
or
CLEANING IN A
SYSTEMATIC WAY
| Eliminates Much of Extra
Work Heretofore
Necessary.
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(Prepared by the Bureau of Home Economics,
United States Department of Agriculture.)
Systematic care of the various rooms
of the house and their furnishings will
eliminate much of the extra cleaning
work that used to be considered neces-
sary in the spring of the year. Cer-
tain changes in the house may for a
| week or two increase the actual num-
{ neatness
air.
| for winter
| In
| storage space is limited, the top part
attention is given, but this will not
mean a general uncomfortable ap-
heaval. For example, when the fur-
nace is out for the and all
dusty ashes are finally disposed of, it
is possible to air, freshen, and put in
order the entire cellar—a task which
would have been a waste of time
earlier in the winter. If reasonable
has been maintained in the
basement at all times, this job is not
season
particularly hard.
It used to be the custom to take
down all the window curtains in the
house toward the latter part of the
spring, launder and put them away for
the summer, leaving the windows bare
=
Dust and Remove Picturcs and Bric:
a Brac.
and glaring. For a few weeks at tirst
the bright spring sunshine is “very
pleasant, and because of it the house
seems fresher and cleaner. Later, how-
ever, when the sun becomes unbear-
| able, shades have to be lowered in place
| of
the curtains that have been put
away. Shades shut out both light and
The modern way is to use very
simple, easily washed curtains and
keep them up the year around, laun
dering them as often as they need it.
In very formal homes sometimes two
sets of draperies are used—heavy ones
and gay, light-weight cur-
tains for summer,
There seems little excuse for having
bedroom or lower full of
unused articles -so that they are not
cleanable when the room is cleaned.
apartments or small where
floor closets
houses
of a closet can usually be devoted to
| storing boxes of out-of-season clothing
and other articles,
When it comes to the actual weekly
care of any room, the bureau of home
economics has a few suggestions:
Have a definite plan. Dust and re-
move small pictures and bric-a-bracs
from the room or place in a pile and
cover, Pin draperies up unless they
are to he taken down for cleaning,
Dust and cover furniture, mirrors, and
pictures before heginning to sweep.
Both sweeping fd dusting should be
done so remove muen dust
as possible, not scatter it. Radi-
ators or registers should be cleansed
also the grate, stove, or fireplace.
Then work from the top of the room
as to as
downward
FOUR ASPARAGUS
COOKING RECIPES
Main Point Is to Prepare It
Quickly, Saving Flavor
of Vegetable.
Here are four asparagus recipes des
veloped by the bureau of home eco+
nomics, In each one the amount of
asparagus needed 1s relatively small,
so that these delicious dishes may be
served ‘at the very beginning of the
short asparagus season, even before
the prices for bunch asparagus are
low enough to serve this vegetabla
in abundance. The main point about
cooking asparagus in any way is to
cook ii quickly, so as not to destroy
delicate flavor or injure its vita-
mines.
Spaghetti-and Asparagus.
2 cups cooked spa- 2 tbs. butter
its
ghetti 2 tbs. flour
2. cups asparagus, ¥% tsp. salt
cut in inch pieces 14 cup fine but-
1 cup rich milk or tered bread
cream crumbs
1 cup asparagus 3 or 4 drops ta-
water basco
The spaghetti must be thoroughly
cooked in salted boiling water and
then drained. Cook the aragus for
ten minutes. Prepare a sauce of the
flour, butter, milk and asparagus wa-
ter, and add the tebasco and salt.
Grease a casserole and put in a Jdayer
of the cooked spaghetti and then one
of asparagus. Cover with the cream
sauce, continue until all ingredients
are used. Cover the top with the but-
tered bread crumbs. Place in an oven
until the crumbs are golden brown.
Asparagus Timbales.
12 pound fresh as- tbs. butter
paragus, about a 3 tbs. flour
dozen good-sized 1 cup milk
stalks 15 tsp. salt
2 eggs .
Wash the asparagus well and cut
the tender portion from the stemsy
(The stems are good for soup.) Cook
the tips in a small amount of salted
water for five or ten minutes or until
soft. Force through a strainer or
chop very fine. Prepare a cream
sauce of the flour, butter and the
milk. Add the very lightly beaten
eggs and the asparagus and season
with salt and a little pepper. Fill
buttered timbale molds, set in a pan
of hot water, and bake about fifteen
or twenty minutes or until set.
Asparagus Soup.
3% Ib. asparagus, 2 tbs. butter
about a dozen 2 tbs. flour
good-sized stalks 114 tsp. salt
1 quart milk
Wash the asparagus, cut off the
tough ends and discard them. Cut
off the tips and place the stalks in
small amount «f water and cook
until tender. Heat the milk in a
double boiler with the tips of the as-
paragus cut in very small pieces.
Thicken the milk with the butter and
flour which have heen well blended.
Press the cooked stalks through the
colander and add to the hot milk with
the water left from cooking them,
Season with salt and a dash of pepper.
Asparagus Custard.
| pint milk 3 eggs
2 cups raw aspara- ¥% tsp. salt
gus, cut in small 2 tbs. butter
pieces Few drops tabasco
(‘ook the asparagus in a small
amount of water until almost tender.
Beat the eggs slightly, add the milk
and seasoning, and then the cooked
usparagus and the water in which
cooked if not more than one-half
cupful. Grease a casserole and pour
in the mixture, bake in a pan sur-
rounded by water in a moderate oven
until set in the center. Serve at once,
Source of Vitamines
Lemons have a new importance fin
the diet, according to the United
States Department of Agriculture.
They are no longer te be valued
simply for their flavor, but also as a
source of vitamines., Lemons ean be
used in all sorts of ways in the prepa-
vation of meals. There i$ a long list
of beverages and desserts in which
lemon juice is used, as well as a num-
ber of delicious sauces that expert
cooks have Invented to serve on fish
and meat,
meni
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senses and se
the wife for ;
| Peter's mothe
might. “This dancer,
know of her—nothing
“She is the most be
ever saw,” glowed
burning. “Mother, I
Jove her.” His arms
mother as he continu
derfully expressive
wealth of curly hair-
Mrs, Cary was real
had been hoping for
would marry Mary, t
adopted when her mot
dearest friend had
had grewn up to wors
would she take this
events? Mrs. Cary w
I “Do you know any
antecedents?’ asked
mother. “You wouldr
8 wife you would be
know.”
But Peter only smile
time had he to think
ness when the most w
the world had consent
“Where will you live
again,
| Peter frowned. Th:
cloud on the horizon,
“Mitzi wants to ke
he said slowly. “But
coax her out of that 1
do a little here fc
bazaar,” he finished.
Mrs. Cary’s mouth
she said nothing. Ce
she said against the
served to set Peter's nr
She watched him go!
and entering his car °
disaster hovering ov
could she do? It was
by while your only ar
£on contracted a marr
mean his ruin. Not
knew anything about h
sional dancer shocked
ready she had avowed
remaining with, her c¢
there was Mary, Mary
Peter, and she had ti
the present that he w
to Mary.
But that evening wl
home to dinner, there
mother at the table.
he frowned. “Why ca
her?’
“Mary decided at t
to accept the invitatio
summer with the Wilsc
mountains,” said Mrs.
“Well, I like that
Peter as he laid his fo
back on his plate. “Cc
and say good-by to me’
“She decided so sud
mother. “Anyway you
all day with Mitzi that
you'd be interested.”
“Who all will be on
asked after an inter
“That Jack Williams, 1
“Yes, Jack and Geo
“I don’t like either «
rupted Peter. “Mother
what you could be thin!
‘Mary to go off with th
out me too—"
“Oh, Mary can well
self, besides, you knoy
ways been crazy about
ed dreamily.
“Yes, I do know—th
been thinking of—" he
don’t approve of him, ¢
the sort that would 1
py—"
“Well, the child will
her own dusband—you
day that parents shoul
she reminded.
“Now, you're talking
aren't you?” he asked.
man and I know more
than Mary does.”
He got into his coa
house. It had been a
rence since the Mitzi af
wait and accompany he
He didn’t like the n
about her like flies abou
weren’t the kind she she
ihis wife—well—he expe
like a miracle should ts
she became his wife—
But Mitzi eluded hin
and when he finally br
man he learned that she
to a midnight supper.
Peter’s blood at the inst
till he had married her!
her early the next mor
out about all this. H
more consideration or-
finish that thought. Fo
or other the vision of
dtself, Now
be away he
that Mary
missed her
Mitzi only laughed at
day and told him that
fashioned and that if
be the husband of an ar
have to overlook such th
ed all right when she sai
Peter had left her he fel
a flaw existed in her re:
To add to his troubles
from_Mary the first wee
her engagement to Jacl
the most unkind thing
idone to Peter. He coulc
ing of elation to his mot!
very much surpised tha
should feel so enthusiast]
He had thought she w:
marry Mary.
Besides there was Mitz
{behaving at all as he