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@ ® «mash, striking again and again at his ie "'A counterfire as a break had been was a red spurt of flame--followed an- 1i8conrg! ! causing them to ignite fallen twigs, .~.yelentlessly up the bole of a s fork, Dazed, half-suffocated by the - widening circle appeared, red-rimmed, until at 'last a dropping wind turned another. The withered s8 had caught alight. The hot northerly wind played with ames, fanning them elessly, gE' m through the grass, desiccated, tinder-dry. They crawled back gum, licking hungrily at the hairy bark, whining through the tufts of ofly es. A startled possum darted out of his hole by a branch 'pungent smoke, he balanced himself unsteadily for a moment, finally launching himself into space. A bump as he landed heavily, and then he awkwardly staggered down the fence, ! his paws as he went. + A six-foot strip of loose bark flut- tered pennonlike from a branch. The flames caught at the joining end, blaz- g up fiercely. The strip parted from 'the tree, sailing off through the air, spraying the grass 200 yards ahead with smouldering fragments. Where each piece fell, a black and ever jmplacable, creeping back against the wind, surging forward. So the fire spread. Along a front of over two miles the bush was a raging inferno. Great trees moaned and whined as the flames coiled around them, dispelling their sap as steam, reducing their volatile leaves to ash. The fire tore through the wattle scrub, raced across the grassy flats, leaving a charred and smoking no- man's land behind, Down in an open paddock five or six hundred frightened sheep cowered against a wire-fence, ere was no gate, no outlet for es- "cape. With a higsing crackle the fire surged through the flock. A denser pall of smoke rose up, lingered a lit- tle, and then drove on. In place of the sheep that had been, a charred and heaving mass of carcasses remained. There was an overpowering odor as of singeing feathers, of burnt flesh. Be- fore the fire fled a mob of kangaroos, craghing through the scrub, hurtling across the open with a series of thump- ing leaps, catapulting lithely over wire fences. Overhead flew a motley concourse of birds, some uttering shrill cries of alarm, others croaking hoarse- ly. A huge black snake slid sinuously along the ground, 'drawing himself easily over logs and rocks, zigzaggling , round larger obstacles. But he was not swift enough for the fire. Sweep- Jing over him, it left him in its back- own body, thrashing in voiceless agony, 7 A mob of red Devon steers glimpsed the oncoming conflagration and * promptly stampeded, Into a wire fence they charged. A jangling and scream- ing of loosened wire, a confused scram- ble, and they were free, thundering across another run, tails elevated, bel- lowing crazily. i A wide stretch of low marshy ground intersected by a river stood directly in the track of the fire, Work- ing frantically on the dry ground to one side of this were a number of men. started. This roared down on the flat, 'flercely at first, then with less vigor as it encountered the damp green 'yegetation., Isolated patches of with- ered reeds flared up, crackled for a Bpace, flickered out. Sparks caught up by gusts of wind spun across the river, igniting the sun-dried herbage on the other side in scores of places. But other fire-fighters were already there, Beating the thrusting flames back with green boughs, with wet bags, stamping them underfoot, satur- ating the ground with water carried up in kerosene buckets, they fought them doggedly, To and"fro" the battle raged, the men darting about through billowing clouds of smoke, looking like fiends from the nethermost pit. For a time the outcome hovered in the balance, the scale in favor of the defenders, A "tense 'period of waiting as the big fire approached the marrow break, Then it. fizzled out in a dying surge of sparks and smoke, almost like a wave expending Stself on a stretch of sandy Journal by Reader's Digest. beach. -- Condensed from Chambers' rere The Principles - Of Life Saving By Paul William Gartner: Back in the days when I was little more than excess baggage on an out- door excursion, I happened to see a near tragedy in the Minnesota north woods. A canoe bearing a wiry In- dian guide and a white man of con- siderable weight capsized about 100 yards offshore in the frigid waters of early spring. Neither the Indian nor the white man was a capable swim- mer, and in the case of the latter the suddenness of the plunge, the cold- ness of the water, and the encum- brance of heavy clothing had him fighting desperately for 'air in. less than a minute. He was within ten feet of the inverted cance, but he might as well have been ten miles, so blind and frantic had the fear of death made him. The guide had suc- ceeded in grasping an end of the craft, but apparently was unable to ald him without coming within reach of the powerful clutching arms. The party to which I belonged was without water craft, but an older member, an excellent swimmer, quick- ly took off most of his clothing and then swam, without haste, it seemed, toward the scene of the mishap. I, recall having criticized, with the im- i pulsiveness of youth, his slow pro-, gress, 1 was further shocked to behold the rescuer, upon reaching the drowning man, deliberately evade the clutching arms and livid face and swim to the' canoe, where he clung for at least 30 seconds, unquestionably resting, Short-: ly, however, with the aid of the guide, | he drew the cance to the now feebly struggling man, who was.very near to death, I presently learned. Indeed, | when he was finally brought to shore' no indication of life was apparent-- yet, he was revived by the prone pressure method of artificial reepira- tion after more than an hour of appli- cation. Proficiency in life saving is the re; sult of cool, deliberate thinking, as in the incident just given.- In the first place the rescuer removed practically all of his clothing--as any person should do who finds himself sudden- ly confronted with a considergble swim to safety, Swimming at what appeared to be a slow rate of speed toward the drowning man was another exar:Dle of sensible procedure. Even the seasoned life guard cannot swim at the same rate for 200 yards that he can for 50, and in either case he must have considerable reserve energy af- ter he has arrived. A good swimmer could be drowned in less than a min- ute by a desperate, fighting victim. Indeed, battling with a subject who has felt the icy breath of death re- quires almost titantic energy. The best way to deal with strangle holds is to avoid them; that is to say, the drowning person should be approached from the rear whenever possible. This strategy keeps the res- cuer free of the other's arms and gives him opportunity to gain a good carrying grip. Sometimes, before approaching, it is advisable to wait for a fighting per- son to exhaust himself, although it may not seem humane, This precludes the possibility that he will attempt to climb to the highest point at hand which, of course, is the top of the rescuer's head. . son will obtain what *: commonly called a death hold on a would-be res- cuer. In this contingency the rescuer should remember to take a deep breath--if he can--and then without Made in Canada by the Makers of Keak | tween contacts, thus allowing between But despite all precautions there' are occasions when a drowning per-| rg iii Cheese and Velveeta ~*~ © it has ceased to breathe. However, arti ficial respiration is adopted only when the subject is not breathing. If he is uncongelous, hut. breathing . faintly, aromatic spirits should be applied to the nose and he should be massaged toward the heart, and kept warm, As a rule, swallowed water is not dangerous, although it may bring & seizure of sickness. It ig the water on the lungs which paralyzes the dia- phragm. A man can fast for 40 days or more if plentifully supplied with water, but if 'his diaphragm is paral yzed for three minutes he may die. In this case never give mouth 'stimu- lants, for they will merely clog the throat passages. What must be ac- complished is the removal of water from the lungs and the stimulatién of respiration and heart action. Ang, without apparatus, the prone pressure method of artificial respiration (resus- citation) is the simplest and most' ef- fective method known 'to achieve this end, The method 'may be used with equal success in cases of suffocation by gas or smoke. ie The victim should be placed face downward, arms up to allow the lungs their+tullest expansion, Naturally the throat and mouth should be opened and cleared as well as they may .be. Then the operator, on knees astraddle the sibject's thighs, places his hand on the small ribs of the back with the fingers along the sides. Pressure is induced by swinging forward slowly, arms straight, thus contracting the lungs, and releasing with a snap which causes the lungs to expand and inhale. With the incoming air water will tend to be displaced and forced out. Pres- sure is applied for approximately three seconds with two seconds be- 10 and 12 movements of compression and releage each minute, Resuscita- tion should be .ontinued until the pa- tient starts to breathe again, which may not be for several hours. Liquid 'mouth stimulants, such as hot coffee or tea, should never be ad- ministered until the patient is fully conscious. He should be wrapped in warm blankets, for it is heat, both ex- ternal and internal, which is essential for a complete recovery. The swimming method can proper- ly be considered only the last resort in the performance of a rescye. It is, by far, more practicable to use a boat or to throw a life preserver. Some very effective rescues have been per- formed with the aid of a pole. 'One should never hesitate to throw some object that will serve to buoy another up, & bit of wood, a chair, table, or box, if nothing more suitable is at hand. I know of an instance when an individual was saved from drowning by a man who could mot:swim but who had the presence of mind to shove into the water a municipal park bench, It is not colorful rescues that the world desires," but safe ones.-- "The Sportsman." mip Queer She's very likely; any minute; To lose her purse and :al lthe money in it; But not. the verse she made at break of day, Scrawled while she dressed, and tucked somewhere away. At tea-time, Sirius, miles above, Is nearer to her than her kitg¢hen stove; ¥ And should her lover chance to bring A rose, she likes it better than a ring. She hears, in some tall pine or other, The wind, but not the wise words of her mother. --Lillian Miner, in The Common- weal,' lg in . | Ash is instructor at University of Mis- What about that, house 1 saw | you looking at--the big one with the open window?" . . Bill--"Didn't trouble to ask. I look- od in the window and saw two girls playing on 'one piano, so I guessed they were too poor forme to worry." A ladies' aid society is a group/of women organized to pry the preacher's salary loose from their husbands, Miss Smoke and Mr, Ash were mar- ried recently at Iowa City, Iowa,= Mr, souri, but teaches English and not chemistry, by way of proving there is nothing in a name, "Turn off the heat." Where were the Clinkers? The children should be refined. The heat of passion had vanished. fire." ga The bride was & bit dense but the groom was fine. : "There'll be town to-night" _ Other columnists are welcome to what is left. hot time in the old Little Daughter--"Why 1s father singing so much to-night?" 2 Mothér--"He is trying to sing the baby to sleep." i Little Daughter--""Well, if I was baby, I'd pretend I was asleep." r---- Caution to Young Editors If you take the advice of the fellow who says he doesn't care to see his name in the paper, you are making a great mistake. Clarence--"Do you know what your one great defect is?" Isabel--"1 simply can't think." Clarence--"Right--but I didn't think you'd acknowledge it.". A'man unaccustomed to praising hig wité went out of his way to call her'an angel. "Mary," he said one morning recently, "you are an angel," and she felt charmed all day. In the evening she ventured to ask him why she had been so honored. "Well," said the wily man, 'you are always flitting about; you are always harping on things; and by your own account, you have nothing to wear." Alexander--"Which is right: 'The girl began to walk home,' or 'The girl started to walk home'?" Horatio--""Who was the girl?" Silence may be golden, but it evi- dently takes a greenback to make it 80, according to the fellow who tells this one: Lawyer--"Mr. Peck, your wife has been arrested and is being held in- communicado, But the police chief is easy anda little money--"" Henry Peck--'Fine, Fine, and tell him that there's ten dollars for him for every day he can keep her that way." Our idea of a heavy hint ig some- thing that should be dropped. Doctor--"Deep breathing, you un- derstand, destroys microbes." Patient--"But, doctor, how can I force them to breathe deeply?" Budget Blues The baby daily pined away, He got no vitamin called A, Hig hair fell out, his tooth was loose, He could not have the orange juice. This baby is a little dear, And so are oranges, we hear; But lest the little chap should hate us, Let's try to rear him on tomatoes. It is unofficially that the state motto of Nevada has been revised to read: "Divorce in haste; repeatat leisure." Mother--""What did your father say when.he saw his broken pipe?" Innocent--*Shall I leave out swear words, mother déar?" Mother--*Certainly, my darling." Innocent--"Then I don't think he said anything." the In training a child for a junior part: ner, you also train yourself. ! The Ocean Woods We wandered: to the: Forest That skirts the Ocean's foam, The lightest wind was in its nest, "The tempest in ifs tome." The ' whispering Faves "were half The ¢louds were gore to play, hesitation to submerge himself with tend to make the subject release the hold as he struggles to climb upward again. The rescuer can utilize this 'tendency, in case of a front strangle '| hold, by shoving him upward, The back strangle hold is broken by twist- ing a subject's arm, an wrist, into an arm lock: The feet times can be brought into play, not the drowning person. This 'ove will | "A light of Paradise. 'And on the bosom of the deep ' "The smile of Heaven lay; emad as if the hour were. one ent from' beyond the skies, ich scattered from above the sun o paied amid the pines that stood PThe giants of the waste, Tortured by storms to.shapes as rude "Where there 18 smoke there is|, FINDS TURTLE IN SWIMMING POOL Sucked in by the hose pipe used to fill the deck pool on the Cunard- er Mauretania during week-end cruises, the baby turtle in the pie. ture was found swimming in the sea water by Miss Edith McNutt, a voy- ager. She decided to make a pet of it and evidently seems satisfied with her success, opel etmmimmeenct Declares Plants Have Regular Sleeping Hours Plants sleep too--some by day and some by night. A flashlight expedi- tion to a garden reveals a sleepy crew, | as different from the bold life of day hours as human beings curled In sleep are from human beings rushing for suburban trains. Dawh is too late, and dusk {s too soon--one must catch the plants after they have had time to respond to total darkness, to the fall in temperature and to the action of the dew. The beans droop; the pea blossoms nod; that succulent but accursed weed pudslane turns its leaves edge upward instead of spreading them flat upon the ground. The clover folds its tre- foils in various patterns, sometimes bowing the third leaflet over the others as if In benediction. The single roses fold all their petals inward; the pop- pies shut up like clamshells; the as- ters curl their petals inward. Meanwhile the scraggly evening primrose of the roadside seems to don fresh clothes at dusk, a coarse-leaved weed that sometimes fools the care- less weeder of a calendula bed and always looks withered in daylight opens fresh petals and becomes a gar- den ornament--it is the evening lych- nis, cousin of the gay rock-garden plants; and many a flower seems to unload 'an extra burden of fragrance at night, Perhaps that is an illusion, ag the old Hindu theory that plants prayed! | was an illusion, . They did stand or bow, as daily temperature changed, t was not in deference tog man-made idols. Plants respond to day and night, heat and cold, aridity and moisture, but in their own ways. The Crabs' Marathon Twenty-nine years ago a series of | experiments was started '° study the migration of the finny and shelly in-! habitants of the Red Sea. A number of crabs were marked and returned to the Red Sea. One has just been recaptured tn the Mediterranean.' The distance covered 'vas 101 miles, | so that, if the crab Lad. made a pon-| stop crawl, he would have moved | sideways, of course=-at the esr | speed of twenty-two inches an hour. All kinds of sea creatures useful for food purposes are marked nowadays | and their wanderings watched, The marking, which ig painlegs, js usually done by means of tiny silver discs. The value of the experiments is ines- timable. It was in this way, for ex- ample, that it wag discovered where the infant plaice had their nurseries, and by protecting these, the value of the North Sea as a food storehouse has been enormously increased. Eng- land alone requires 200,000 tons of-fieh a day.--London "Tit-Bits." ee eee. If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not.--Marcus Aure- lius. YTIME of Borden's Choe- bey | Let us not spoil the dainty sorrow of Hottest Planet 3 Dark spots and yellowish spots have been photographed for the first time on the surface of the planet Mercury, smallest and hottest of the planets, by | Mme. G, Camille Flammarion, widow of the famous French astronomer of that name, and were reported recently to the Academy of Sciences, in Paris, by M. Ernest Esclangon. Since M. Flammarion's death Mme. Flammarion has occupied herself with observations through the tel which M. Flammarion used. Recently conditions were favorable for observa. tions of Mercury, and Mme. Flam- marion succeeded in obtaining several excellent photographs, something sel- dom possible because of the nearness of Mercury to the sun so that it never is seen except just after sunset and when the earth's sky usually is too bright for good planetary photography. |' The new photographs agree, M. Es- claggnon told the academy, in showing some fairly definite markings, especial- ly a whitish or yellowish area slightly south of the planet's equator and pro- nounced darker areas both north and gouth of this brighter one. i The markings seem not to corres. pond exactly with those which other astronomers.'have believed that they saw by eye, but since these eye obser- vations always have differed greatly among themselves their failure to match the photographs is not surpris- ing. . The surface of Mercury Teceives about seven times more solar heat per square mile than the earth, Astrono- mers imagine that the planet's surface is unprotected by an atmosphere and must be burned vi:tually to a cinder. No one knows what the actual surface is, whether cindery dust, volcanic ash, or something more mysterious. af A Respite "Oh, lingering is a lovely word! 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