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-- 4) Crashed Frontier With Bottle of Pop "One can't'live in the domain of miracles all the time," writes Richard Pape in rétrospect after his fantastic and incredible jour- ney by car from 600 miles above the Arctic Circle to the southern tip of Africa, 17,500 miles away, Detgrmination in times of ad- versity is a useful travelling com- panion and, after reading Pape's lively and vigorous "Cape Cold ~ To Cape Hot" the readers will know that the author has this quality. A burst tire, with the speed- ometer need' > hovering at seven- ty miles per hour nearly closed the adventure before it was un- der way. It happened eighty kilometres above Narvik, north- ern Norway; a violent lurch, and the car ground its screeching way diagonally across the narrows road on the metal wheel rim, completely out of control. Plunging over an abyss, it hurtled into a patch of fir trees. "The trees reacted like a spring- board and flung the vehicle up- wards in a terrifying, sickening --somersault and it landed right way up on a massive pile of Arctic rocks. Although the car was a complete write-off, and the driver badly bruised, his in- domitable spirit took him to Oslo, where he ordered a new ___ car in which to carry on. Quick thinking saved the day some time later when, en route to Algiers, the car was halted at the fortified Spanish-Moroccan frontier post of Arabaoua. In- ternational papers and passports of Pape and his companion were subjected to minute examination, .officialdom even using a magni- fying glass. Without special "entry permits and evidence that a security of 50,000 francs had previously been deposited, it seemed that a re- turn journey to Tangier was in- evitable. The author bluffed as h: had never bluffed before. Eventually, the fierce-looking guard who was cross-questioning them appeared to, relent a little. Instead of ordering Pape to re= turn, he commanded two guards to make a thorough search of the car. And now another predi- cament confronted the author. Hidden in the upholstery was his pistol and clips of ammunition. Thei¥ discovery had to be avoid- ed at all. costs. } . . While the search was going on, Richard Pape nipped the top off a bottle of "pop," gave the bottle a good shaking to -build up a good head of fizz, and slipped a finger over the top of the bottle to maintain the pressure. At the precise momen when a searcher started to probe the upholstery, Pape released the pent-up con- tents of the bottle and it shot in a stream over the head and neck of the guard. The man swore and straight- ened up, He was promptly of- fered a fresh bottle to drink. "Whew!" he gasped. "Thanks." Probing into the upholstery was forgotten. Further questions in the office, and then.Pape heard the welcome news . .., Proceed! Later, defying authority alone, the author dro\ into the blis- tering heat, sandstorms and lone- liness of the Sahara. Entry dur- "ing August was strictly forbid- den, ; No gas dumps, radio or res- cue services were available at this time of the year. But the overpowering urge to keep going was too strong. Suffering ter- rible hardships, and recurring bouts of illness, he grimly drove on, and on... . Then disaster, The car hit some hidden rocks, badly dam- aging the suspension. Assistance was urgently needed and the au- thor decided on the only course open to him. He set off on foot to find it. One hour's journey from the car, with the searing, blinding sun relentlessly pouring down, Pape floundered and fell. Staggering and falling, he groped his way through the shimmer- ing sand, blinded and rapidly ap- proaching 'exhaustion. With the terrible realization that he was lost, Pape collapsed in the sand. And there he was found by three Shaamba - Arabs, .a few hours from death, suffering from exhaustion, thirst and exposure. He relates that he wag only found because the sun glinted on a mirror which he had stuck on the top of a dune. : The intrepid adventurer ulti- mately recovéred and continued © -- to beat the Sahara in its worst mood during the forbidden sea- son. At Kano, in Nigeria, the au- thor witnessed the extraordinary method adopted by, natives ta obtain python skins. Discover- ing the lair of one of these rep- tiles, the hunter attracted the python's attention by pushing one of his legs in its lair and allowing the snake to swallow it almost up to the groin. head of the reptile was then speedily severed from its body and the leg withdrawn. The snake skin was later sold, and the hunter's reward for this daredevil feat was approximately two shillings for the skin. "I know: that you all wish I was dead so that you could stamp on my grave," snarled a foreman at his men. There was a moment's silence as they glared at him. "Not me," mumbled someone at the back. stand in queues." 5 BF DID YOU EVER SEE A ZONKEY? -- The zonkey population of the United States was doubled recently when the second 'such antmal was born recently at Riverside, Calif, Pictured with the hybrid Is its owner, Mrs. Thelma Chandler. The zonkey's father is-a zebra and its mother a donkey. 8. Kind ot The: "I hate having to Ses ae A Token of Hope Our hearts go out at this time of year to those indomitable, golden-headed little harbingers of spring, the crocuses, butter- cups and jonquils that push their blooms into the air to brighten . the drab surface of our lawn and gladden winter- weary souls: Along the hedge- row and the terrace wall they ,stand, so proud in their new color, so brave in the uncer- tain air, : And from the window we watch them with the nervous and helpless concern of children watching a young bird flown too . early from the nest. Can they survive the cruel weeks ahead? Or have they been betrayed by that age-old restlessness that stirred their sleeping roots and sent them surging upward into the thin sunlight, to be cut down by frost as the too-adventurous robin, leaving the nest too soon, falls victim to the cat? Each morning we look out to see how they fare. And we console ourselves with the thought that perhaps they have a purpose,-even if they die to serve it. At this dull time of . year, before the world breaks the wall of winter, we need a little show of bravery, of spirit, some small reminder that it won't be long until the winds will soften and the earth will stir, and all around us life will come bursting through a puff of spring. -- Louisville (Ky) Courier-Journal. - An 4 \ DRY, ANYWAY -- It might not be "too comfortable, but this wastepaper basket is an excel- lent place to keep your feet dry while doing a little sight-see- ing. This visitor to Paris ap- pears to be quite satisfied with his perch while examining Notre Dame cathedral with the aid of a guide book. Laughter in Court The law is a grim business most of the time -- but not al- , ways. A barrow-boy stood in a London court charged with ob- struction, "I'd better go back to thieving," he said ruefully, then I won't get caught!" A coroner's jury were called to return a verdict on an un- known man found dead. They were very puzzled and finally came back with the verdict: It was an act of God under' very suspicious circumstances." In an other court the judge listened courteously to a pris oner vehemently protesting his innocence. "If I done it," the ac- cused concluded, "may God strike me dead!" There was a long pause... 'Providence not having seen fit to 'intervene in your case," said the judge, "it looks as though I shall have to deal with you." . There is a story of a barrister who was boasting of his suc- cess when defending people charged with murder. "I have never had a complaint from any of my clients," he proclaimed. - procedure. ~were not too common, WHERE PAST AND PRESENT MEET _ Centuries ago this same bucolic scene might have met the eyes. This farmer, tilling a field near Rome, uses a primitive wooden plow pulled by a pair of massive oxen. The animals are at work in a field cross- ed by one of the great engtheering works of ancient Rome-- an aqueduct, the arches of which stretch away in the back- ground. THEFARM FRONT A phase of cow trading that can't be explained easily to mod- ern folks with built-in scruples is that sticking somebody was not exactly wicked or under- handed. In present-day society $0 many opportunities for diver- slon and entertainment are pre- valent that nobody needs the amusements of caveat emptor. A good cow trade, in which a sub- stantial citizen took an honest swindling, would provide a com- munity something to talk about for weeks--at least until the next one, There was a running en- Jjoyment of this kind of bartering which surfeited society no long- er needs, pity 'tis. Perhaps I can * embellish the didacticism by an- - ecdotal recitation: * * * We had a cow jockey around these parts who was also deputy sheriff. , The constabulary today is dignified so sengjtivities recoil - at this combination, but Tim Os--- 37 ows Hones, wd Tardly Se good kept his departments sep- arate, and properly unrelated. If he was serving a writ and saw a likely animal, he would always come back another time. LJ LJ *® We also had a barber, and it is Important to point out that bar- ber.shop then and barber shops now are not the same. Nuke Watson, the barber, was ope of the world's greatest authorities. Getting a haircut was as good as a scholastic degree, and if a good argument developed jt took almost as long. * * Cx It is important to remember that Saturday was shave day. Nobody dared to go into a bar- ber shop on Saturday for a hair- cut -- it took too long and every- body had to be shaved for Sunday. LJ] * * So this Nuke had a Jersey heifer he traded off to-Tim, and Tim got a royal sticking. It was a delicately manoeuvred trans- action, and Nuke didn't actually lie. He was frugal with the truth, and avoided direct contact with it. He resorted to tangen- tial evasions, astutely wrought, He diverted direct replies by peripheral remarks. "" a * In short, he didn't say the heifer was good, but said she was no good in such terms that an unguarded listener presumed otherwise. This is the way cows were traded. Tim kept the heif- er a week and sold her to a butcher, and bided his time. Biding your time was accepted Everything comes to him who waits. * * EL] Now in those days handcuffs Tim had sails $ oheese 28, Hut ' CROSSWORD 9. Sp. article 30. Employ 10. Proot 31. Father i 11. Gluts 38. Sea nymph ' PUZZLE 12. Loud-vofced 36, Town in " persons So. Irak 18. Cook stove 37. Large tooth ACROSS 2. Skip 22. White metal 39. Chaff fe 1. Ike's gam 3. Unaspirated 23. Grown boy 41. Filth 5 Bternal C4. Liberated 24. Legialative . {2. Love : » Rian 5. Light knock 'body 43. For fear that 13. Hebrew 8. Idols 25. Riches .A45. Single thing 14 Small Indtan 1: Female 28. Device for 46. Female songbird horses extending rabbit 18. Take dinner [oT To" 45 67 18 [9 Jo Ju Jia 3 Ll gr PW 19. Muffin 13 4 > 20. Clamor 21. Reckons 5 13 1 AT Foon 1. Animal foo - 24 Kind ot 17 8 7 19 75420 lettuce i 27. Brownle 5 21 j22 28 Divirlonof & poem 29. Opposa 24 25 [26 el " 8 \ $1. One who a ' moves 29 30 7 A rhythmically 5 _ 22. Tend the nlek 32 > £7} a 33. Capture i ' 24. Worm roy AA 35. Merriment 35 7136 37 18. Jacl g .Turmerie ry 29. Tribunal gl] Cr I 40 ! a 40. New Rr A 44. Banctiohed 44 45 a (8 Batiine of : .Ontiinsof a » IL VR ol . Malt liquors 80. Night musie [50 I 51. Learn 3-9 NOWN )- hirtithy Answer elsewhere on this page. - "That" sniffed a brother law- yer, "is because dead men tell . no tales!" DRIVER "STIFF" WITH COLD Claude IL. King, of Bismarck, N.D., had a novel excuse to offer when he was summoned to ap- pear at court on a charge of backing his car into another ve- hicle and causing damage. He explained that he was so led up in clothes against the fey 'Weather that he couldn't look round Ra $ . "What do they mean by the rush Hour, Dad?" little Johnny , asked his father, \ "When you see all the traffie . In Toronto 'standing still, son," was the reply. some shackles, or manacles, hanging on a peg in his stable, but had never been known to use "them. They had been made by - some blacksmith, and had a key the size of a can opener, and dated from away back. There, I think you now have the funda- mental information which goes with this yarn. * * LJ So ore. Saturday aftérnoon, along towards supper time, Tim arrived for a shave. During his wait he brought out a pair of modern handcuffs which had just arrived from a supply House, and he dangled them until conversa=~ tion turned as he thought it would. Nuke finally stepped back from his chair to get a better look, expressed interest, and it was only a moment until he was in the things and immo- bile. He agreed that the device was handy, swift, and a great improvement, after which he held them out to be unlocked. *- . . . Tim, of course, stood up and reached In his pocket for the key, and was astonished to find that he had left it at home in his other pants, right on the foot of the bed, three miles up the river road. "How could I ever have done anything so stupid," he stated so all could clearly hear him, and he promised to rush right home and get it. » * LJ Tim did rush out of the shop, and turned in the right direction, but what he really did was scout about the village and urge. everybody to hurry over to Nuke's for a shave. People had a sense for impending excitement body paused to reflect if 'he really did need a shave. In they came until they were standing 10 deep around Nuke's chair and treading on the feet of those who were sitting. Nuke was full of woe. Here was the biggest busi- ness he'd ever had, and he couldn't even strop. LJ * - In due time most of the crowd wandered off, acting as If they thought things had come to a pretty pass, and afterwards Tim showed up with the key all out of breath. He sald his horse had developed a -loose shoe and he had to walk her all the way. He exuded profuse apology as he unlocked the handcuffs. He said he didn't remember ever feeling such an idiot before, unless may- be It was the time he was tricked into taking that Jersey heifer. --By John Gould in "The Chris- tian Science Monitor." They were discussing the dance the night before. "My dear," said one, "the"boys were crazy over me! I didn't sit out once, As. a matter of fact, I could hardly get my shoes on when I was dressing this morn- ing." : . : Her friend smiled sweelly. "Are your feet swollen as well, then?" she asked. Sweetheatrt's Hug Fractured Ribs So delighted was a young and attractive sportswoman to see her boy friend again on his re- turn from a lengthy business trip abroad that she hugged him fer- . veritly on the platform as he stepped off his train. He was very happy to see her, "too. But he was a slightly-bullt 'man and the tremendous squeeze , given him by his athletic sweet- heart made him wince. Then he collapsed. At the hospital a doc- tor diagnosed two broken ribs! Luckily the young man was in- sured against accidents. He claimed and an insurance com- pany compensated him for his strange accident. The couple, both Americans, were recently married; two nurses from the hospital acting as bridesmaids. When it's a question of extra- ordinary accidents, truth is cer- tainly stranger than fiction. Itallan tenor Remolo de Spir- ito was singing one of the prin- cipal arias in the opera "Martha" at an open-air theatre in Mem- phis, Tennessee, when suddenly he choked and gurgled as his high note went into a tail-spin. What had happened? A butter- --1ly had flown into his wide-open mouth. ' A Chicago man was once land- ed in hospital by -- a fish, echno was trying to ito hiya pound pike to the shore of Red Cedar River, in Wisconsin, when he was jerked off his feet and broke his left leg on a log. Everything went black some months ago in a street in Tren- ton, Ontario, when a tar-spraying machine on a truck was accl- dentally jolted Into action. .Th driver did not realize the machine had started spraying, and in_its wake it left motorists with tar-painted cars and a po- lice constable who looked as though he had come from a coal mine, . = Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking NDAY SCHO SN By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A, B.D, : Jesus Faces the Crosg Matthew 26:26-29, 36-46 Memory Selection: O Fe ther, if it be possible, let thig cup pass from me: neverthee less not as I will, but as tho§ © wilt, Mattew 26:39. In the last night before thg crucifixion, of the twelve meg whom Jesus had chosen to bg with during ministry, one bee trayed him to his enemies with a kiss; three went to sl three times after being ask to watch with him in his harda est hour before the cross; and one of these three after arro= - gantly boasting of his superlog courage denied his Lord a few hours later with cursing. How weak we mortals arel The words of Jesus are applicablg today. "The spirit indeed Id willing, but the flesh is weak. The tragic end of Judas illug- trates that the wages of sin ig death. The repentance and re storation of Peter show the mercy and power of God. Jesus did not enjoy any more than you or IL shrinking of the flesh is cleag from his first prayer In the gam den appearing as our memory selection. But there was no ree that He is gaining strength te face the cross: "O my Fathes, it this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done." By prayer v4 too, can find strength to endu suffering. ' No one fully comprehends thy problem of suffering. Of cou Jesus suffered for us; but f whom do we suffer? Our suffeqd ing is not vicarious as was Hig Yet the cheerful sufferer mag contribute . more to the welfard of soclety than we realize. A. Wallace writing i n Arnold® Commentary says, "I like #9 think of suffering as being pris» matle. Just as the ray of labf passing through the prism {8 broken up into all the enchange ing colors of the rainbow; suffering can be the prism th brings out and develops in us the beautiful graces of patlen 'sympathy, humility, faith, a trust in the Lord." In suffering we get a better view of life's values. 3s B35 i RIDING HIGH -- Two students-get he Vlas aus¥ a big lift in what some call a "cherry picker," a huge boom which provides access to the control system of the "Corporal" rocket. An erector (center) stands the rocket on its launcher. WHERE "OINKI' MEANS 'OOPS$'--~On the Qhio Turnpike, near Neri) Olmsted, Ohio, fortunately handy snow fence made an emergency sly, complete with nalura for some 300 pigs spilled from a wrecked truck. The truck was from lowa, mud bath down the middle, headed for New Jersey, when the driver fell asleep at the wheal about midnight. Police and motorists hunted bellion. His next prayer showdg © - RCH 7 * AL Si PS Py Rv Sal ly so i bao two hours in the dark te round up all the porkers. One was killed when the truck tipped over, another when struck by a ear,