By Thornton

A STICK COMES TO Lll-Tr who guesses things are thus or so. Will thus admit he doesn't know.

-Old Mother Nature. lnowloot and Tinklemouse. the two little Wood Mice who were making their home under the roots of the bin hickory tree over by the Smiling Pool. felt that they had almost made the acquaintance of a cousin. They had seen a Mea- dow Mouse in a tiny little path cut through the grass. When they had first seen him he was coming toward them. Then he disappeared behind a bunch of grass. and though they waited and watched. they didn't see him attain. They were disappointed.

"Anyway. I'm glad he anybody to be afraid of." Tinkle.

"l"erhapi-' he was the our who lied to live where we are ln'inL' sow.” suggested Saowfoot. "He liight even have tried to put us out.”

wasn't said

"He couldn't have done it." (XIV clared Tinkle flatly ”No. sir. he couldn't have done it."

”He might have.” said Snow-

foot.

Tinkle shook her head. ”No such iiiiitz." said she. "it would have been two to one."

Little Snowfoot changed the sub loci. "That funny old stick is still out there in the rzrass." said he

Tiiiklemoiiiie looked. Sure annugh. there lay the long black stick. It looked just the same as when she had last looked -at it. That is. it did at first glance. Then her l)l"lElIl little eyes made a discovery. That stick didn't seem to her to be as straight an I had been. There was a little lurve near one end which she didn't remember.

”Therels something queer about Itat stick!" she squeaked.

"I don't ue anything quaar about it except that it is black." retorted Suowfoot.

"Look!" aqueakad Tinlilemouse. Ilitedly. "It moved!"

”You'i-c seeing things, my dear." declared Snowfoot, "Sticks don't move unless some one moves them."

Just then the sack really did liovo. One and of it lifted. Then

AIOVI AVEIAOI

Japaa's 1066 wheat crop is estie mated at an above-average 51.- o00,00il bushels. about 5,000,000 5.. low last year's larn crop.

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sit taislfs Arctic

Tiwuaands of mu: ad million of dollasa, riyhl noun, no being mood is a fanhltac anault on Canada's north. Two lives have already been lost.

Ari Uyowitnau aooount. in Sitptorniitr Reader's Digeat. brings you details of this great adventure building a "radar curtain" in the Arctic to protect you! September Read- u's Digest tells you, too, how radar works. why it is used. Get your copy today: 41 articles of lasting interest condensed to lave your time.

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IN THE

GIANT I'-'AM I l.Yt

W. Burgess

It was Mr. Blacksnaka.

it llD)I,?Ul to lIl(Ii'l' ihroutzh tli.

tzriim (if ciiiirsc you liaic iziicsseii who it was. it wasii'i a stick at all was Mr Blackxiiakc The twi llle Mice didn't knou this Tht tioycr had seen a Snake be forc is they wniclicd Mr Hluck- snah. Ell(lP ihrouuli lhc grass the) weri not really afraid Thzii is the) iiere not until they NELW

wlici-c he was izmng. lie uas did-

ing along that tiny liltlc iath through the grass in which hey had secn the other .Vlouse lit was headed toward that clump of ass hehind which the other Minus had

disappeared Could it be that this sfrantiealooking stick was lrmkintz for that other liloiise?

Mr, E i it c k s n a k e disappear Cd around that clump of grass. A moment later they heard a faint squeak of fright from over in the grass where he had disappeared Then they really were afraid. The) hurried back into their home in the roots of the old tree. There they felt sale. You see. they didn't know that Mr. Blacksnakc could come in there as easily as they could.

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3 Strange But True

y Every limc we izirc the other yfellow a piece of our mind. we tadd to our own vacuum.

3 Mrs. V. l.. Sanders of Sulphur Springs. Texas. says that her mother's maiden name was Cross and her father's name was lthodes. so they named their first son Cross Rhodes.

It's just as well to forget your troubles because there are always more coming.

In many parts of Tibet itghost traps" are used to ciisnare evil spirits and demons. Threads of various colors surround the trap and arc supposed to snare the spirit. All Tibetan spirits are con- sidered to be liquid in form. Once snared they are believed to be absnrlicd by the threads

Those people place their ghost traps on the rooftops oi homes and iiioiiastcries.

Henry Durand won first prize as the best oyster opener in Paris in conipetitioii with scores of othc":- Henry opened l0t'l oysters in 6 min. 22 seconds

Tho young of the Big Horn illPCl) are grouped iii'o nurseries

iid iciided by onc i-in while the

ioihors foraizc.

If you werc to iirixc aloiig lltithr way 96 near Augustine, Texas, you would see a strange sight e a 2tltfoot tall cedar eriii ing straieht up frorii the limli of it china trce.

To keep it from spliltttid oil lllL!lltlR)' iicparuneai noi'ki-i's lll'8(" cd it with wire.

Before the days of niodcrn filing systems. important papers were stored in packages and tied up with red tape instead of string If a docuinciit were not iinniedinte- ly available it was said to lie tied up in red tape Hence. today. when action is sloncii down for any reason. we say . all ”red tape".

The nord "far-ctioiisly" contains

ll the ioiicls in tlic order in

tliicli they appear in the alphabet.

Thc Chaiiiicl lslziiids grow the liitzgest ('al)lh'lLZPS in the world. Some of the plants reach a height of 10 to 16 feet And stranger still some of the Islanders use the big strong calibaize Sif'lllS for raft- ers in their thatclicd cottages.

Our Boarding House Major Hoople l

Home Pmzrv WILL ' .. LIKE HAPPY eitzn-IDAV To 5 EVERYBODY-AFTER WEIR vAcA1'ioiA5 THEY'RE ALL IN HOCK won

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By? J. R7 Williams

CONTRACT BRIDGE

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iiniil in years ago is nearing thc end of a 20.0fl(l-iiiile bicycle I-rip orouiirl the North American iincnt.

Conrad Dithe of siibiirhan Li iiioilou left here in June. i953! Friends said Wednesday he now is in Bangor, Me, and expects to

By Josephine Culbertson l.-5 I- 'P8Ym0LO0Y" 10 I'll! IBCUI fho clam eohtract in the fol- club. spoclneally. is used by good & bwing hand had no real chance players to denote a very fair hand It auccosa. but "psychological (at least a queen stronger than , plays" such as the one used by North held). the theory being that g the declaror oan sometimes work one-notrump is not a cheap ro- I. vtondera. aponu a club since It keepa tum den". partapr tom nblddlng the other nwwut Vumenbk. suits at the one-level. . 0 p x Nwthlea on topiog ghotaui-axon. i or on carre u 'a recs 9 Q E go ' club rebid past. the nN.fulnP..:.nlj O: . level. South naturally to w. Q 9 J. and a much better dummy. 0 1 5 - N O 49 West opened the diamond king. U 0 t O J I08 aouui ruaod. studied the situation. 0 0 WS E . :8 p ' (tialld Ultra ledla glut; tto tihedking. ccou no aor 0 ea wo I58! K1. 4Q rounds of trumps because that t 0 might give East the chance to g .9-KKI signal emphatically in spades.) 3 - Next. declarer led the diamond QAJi01648 queen from quminy and passed 5 1-he adding. the-.trtck to West, discarding the IE . "um wen Norm nn” I::l:!"(ld2uCC-I10! a spadee-on this . .5 Pass I NT Pau ' . P-- to Pm .i.3f.?.l:i "53." 1i.'3"'2i.F'i'l...3'.i : P"' 1"" pm every other bridge player would North's bidding was very bsd- do-he shifted quickly to a heart. ioth of his responses were wrong. That. of course. was exactly in its one-notrump response would line with South's hope. He drew iave been correct if South had the other trump, cashed his other ipened with a spade or a heart. heart honor, then led a trump to l tut over the actual club opening dummy and discarded his three ., vorth's proper call was one dia- spades on the two good diamonds mood. The notrump response to a and the queen of hearts - 2 0 -- '-ii iiiidisi-l" Hagiive are a e an 0 ep em u i Dube. unable to speak clearly : on as a result of lingering paralysis. I . . was hguided oilily by roule numbers V, on I e mzirat ion trip. He started out by visiting Moii- g ll'PHl. Ottawa and Toronto. then 3 QUI-IBEC. tCPl -- A 26-yearrold Headed across western Canada to I polio sufferer who coiildn'I --:i' Van;-nuvpr From there he cuw

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.oiith to California. crossed the "iiitcd Stiitcs in Florida. and now is on the last lap up the Atlantic seaboard

The trip was rcroniniciiderl in l)iihe. afflicted with pnlio since in-i fancy. to strengthen iinder-dcvel- oped muscles.

DAILY CROSSWORD

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By Georqe Mcmanus

HI. GRANDMA! WHAT A Q PRETTY APRON VOURE WEARlNC-i.'

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'5 BEEN UP TOO LATE LATELY!

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