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In IIS Gloves
the? ! t of ordinary folk
sea be the scenes of ghostly
e :?aritio,ts, why not those of
s .agt,
end queens? Several royal.
e , idc ctcc:'s in Great Britain have
their phantoms, though only here
steel there have„details been al-
:+oe.ed to leafs out,
We alt know of Herne the
r;:.ntet•, who haunts the grounds
cit Windsor .Castle; but there is
:ouch more eerie story con -
needed with the Castle which is
alp:;:nown to most people.
The story concerns the first
D::se of Buckingham, favorite
of Charles 1, but highly un-
w':;pular with the British people,
Ee was assassinated by a dis-
c':rtented Army officer named
J_71n. Felton, and the ghost -tale
riF:.Is with this murder.
There was a Mr. Towes, sur. -
veer of works at Windsor Castle,
veers had been at school with Sir
Ge.-,rge Villiers, father of the
`:,.:ice. Early one morning Towes
'fess= surprised by the apparition
of his old friend, who had been
dead and buried for some time.
Sedd the ghost: "I am dead, but
csenot reet in peace for the
ahem.inable wickedness of my
see George. I appear to you to
:e;” you of this and to ask you
to go to George and exhort him
'desist from his evil ways"
Towes was naturally shy of
fans; int; such a message to the
1xverful favorite, but eventually
did so --- and was laughed at.
The apparition came again, and
tip:.; time predicted that the Duke
weeld be stabbed fatally within
three months. Sure enough he
v:•. -,r. And though he was at
W! -,dsor and the Duke at Ports-
rnc.,tth,. Towes called out, "The
Dehe of Buckingham is killed"
et The very moment when Fel-
ten's dagger did its work.
5,. ,Tames Palace is one of the
oldest in the country: it is only
fitting that it should have its
owe ghost. Living in the Palace
wr.e two beautiful ladies, the
Duchess de Mazarin and Madame
de Beauclair. Each had her
hesedsome set of apartments; but
it. ::•as soon noticed by other in-
n:a>es of the ancient palace that
the two French -women seemed
to fling together, and hardly
spr :e to anyone else.
ran several occasions they dis-
c,::.. ed the after -life, and took it
so seriously that a solemn pact
vas. made, namely, that whoever
die:: first should return and give
ar . ccount of the next world.
Tee duchess died first. Several
yes 's pas_ed and still she did not
re'tern. Her friend was very
areery, and declared that the
failere of the duchess to keep
her promise had destroyed her
be';.f in futurity.
Then an English friend—a 11Irs,
Weed -•- was hastily summoned
from the card -table late one
night and told not to delay if
she wished to see Madame de
Beauclair alive,'
`110 her "gxrVat.'"ititOeise her
friend showed no sigh of i11 -
health, and Mrs. Wood. was in-
clined to resent being fetched
from her game for nothing, But
Madame de Beauclair turned her
anger to anxiety by declaring
that she had seen the phantom
of the Duchess de Mazarin.
"Beauelair," the spirit is report-
ed to have said, "between twelve
and one this night you will be
with me."
It was then nearly midnight.
Suddenly her face changed and
she cried out, "Oh, I am sick
at heart" Within half an hour
she was dead.
One of the legends of Hamp-
ton Court Palace concerns Cath-
erine Howard, ill-fated queen
.of Henry VIII, who is supposed
to run shrieking through the
corridors. But a lesser known
story concerns — like that of
the Duchess de Mazarin and
Madame de Beauclair • — two
devoted friends.
One 'of them, having married
a German baron following the
death of her first husband, went
to live in Germany with her
little girl, Maud. The other lady
was granted a residence at
Hampton Court Palace.
She was going quietly to bed
one night when up the wide
stairscase opposite her chamber
door came, without a sound, the
figure of a lady in black, with
white kid gloves. She trembled
with fear, unable to stir or speak
Suddenly, as the apparition
neared her, she lel out a shriek
which rang through the Palace,
and fell insensible.
A few days later a letter
reached her from little Maud,
telling of the death of the baron-
ess, her mother, The seer of the
vision hurried to Germany, and
in one of the conversations be-
tween her and Maud the, child
said: "Mamma had a curious
fancy. On her death -bed she
made the baron promise that she
should be buried in black --with
white kid gloves."
The baroness died on the ninth
of November, the date upon
which her friend s a w the
appari tion.
OCk Lays Oeuf
Reports come from France
that American prestige bas hit an
all -time -low since the war, and
the reporters are inclined to
blame it all on Secretary Dulles
and his handling of the Suez
crisis. But don't you believe it!
Another report from Paris that
should land on the entertainment
page debunks this slander
against the globe-trotting secre-
tary.
Rock 'rt' Roll has hit there!
And the Parisians don't dig it at
all.
When the classic movie. "Rock
Around the Clock," was pre -
o iered an the Champs Elysees
last week its reception was cool,
roan, cool.. The audience sat
through it in polite amusement,
which is not the wayeto receive
Rock 'n' Roll, Nobody manned
the fire hoses, as they had done
in England; nobody danced in the
streets, as Parisians often do in
ecstatic state Nobody frenzied.
"France is such a calin
ccuntry," explained a Parisian
theatre manager, rubbing it into
its Anglo-Saxon hotheads.
Meanwhile, a French radio re-
porter asked a number of Par-
isians - on • the - rue what they
thought of Rock 'n' Roll. One
thought it was a fish cooked in
tomato sauce.
Touche, La Belle, touche! —
Denver Post.
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magistrate said I wasn't to have
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HORNING INTO THE CONTEST—"Miss Tennessee" at the Univer-
sity of Tennessee may be this sad -eyed, gentle cow, held by
Student Jane Bailey. "Deborah Bovine" was put up for elec-
tion by the Gung No party, representing unaffiliated fraternities
and sororities. Deborah has measurements of 50-73-60, with-
out a doubt record-breaking for any Miss Tennessee candidate.
Accidents kill more Young-
sters than disease. Seven thous-
and farm and city children in
1955, between the ages of one
and fourteen, died as a result of
home ' accidents, most of which
could have been prevented, Are
our children safe from this
threat? Are the following .pre-
cautions taken in your home and
on the farm to make them safe?
Take a minute to check against
these major threats to the safety
of your family and resolve to el-
iminate them. now.
Falls are the leading hazard to
farm people in all regions; they
account for one-fourth of the ac-
cidents. Disorder can be a cause
for falls — toys, tools and equip-
'ment left lying about. Remove
the things you can trip over,
slip on or fall from. Provide
proper storage places for these
and you remove many a poten-
tial accident. Make sure that
,,.teems are fastened securely.
Guard your child from perilous
climbs. Use an extension gate at
the top of stairs to prevent tod-
dlers from spills.
e,
Abandoned -•furniture and re-
frigerators are a great source of
"play" for children. Cabinet
doors swollen with age and
dampness often stick and old
refrigerator doors too heavy to
push outward can suffocate a
youngster slut behind them.
Prevent this by removing hinges
and punching holes in them be-
fore you store or discard them.
A law has just been passed re-
quiring manufacturers, within
tiie next two years, to put a safe-
ty device on refrigerators to pre-
vent a child from being locked
in. One manufacturer has al-
ready solved this problem by
putting a magnetic door device
oe its refrigerators that small
children can push open from the
inside,
Machinery and tin. handling of
livestock is associated with two-
thirds of the fatal farm accidents.
Make it your business to keep
small tots sfrom playing near
tractors, cornpickers and shel-
ters and from wandering about
without supervision. Keep them
from jumping on or nit machines
to prevent the chances of lop-
pling. Don't encourage your
children to drive a tractor when
too young: they haven't the
strength to handle it adequately;
their judgment isn't developed
enough to recognize danger in
tune.
* * ,1
Chemicals such as farm disin-
fectants, poisons and fuels should
be kept in sealed containers,
stored out of the reach of young-
sters. Children have been pois-
oned by drinking kerosene and
similar liquids improperiy label-
ed and stored.
,. .,
Tools and guns should be safe-
ly stored. Axes, pitchforks, fish-
hooks And sharp tools not used
or stored with sufficient care are
dangerous. Guns, if kept at 0,
should be put away unloaded and
under lock and key.
* *
Fire is the cause of one out
of five injuries. Take time out
to 'teach your children the
dangers of bonfires and matches.
Burn rubbish in wire mesh bas-
kets; watch leaf fires until they
die..
Take care in tending stoves
and oil burners. Keep kitchen
pot handles turned from grasp-
ing little fingers.
* P A
On the farm, blasting caps are
a necessary tool to explode dy-
namite for removing stumps and
boulders, draining swamps and
clearing fields. They are safe,
and save time, money and man-
power when used for these pin' -
poses.
But a blasting cap in a child's
hand is as dangerous as a rattle-
snake. Your youngster wouldn't
touch a rattler, teach him to
show the same respect for a
blasting rap. It's just as danger-
ous'.
*
The warning applies With par-
ticular force to farmers, for a
study by the Institute of Makers
of Explosives shows that 40 per
cent of all blasting cap accidents
in which children are blinded
or maimed occur on farms. This
is a disproportionate ratio for
farmers . as a group use only
about one per cent of the caps.
Industry is by far the largest
user. The need for greater pre-
cautions in handling caps on the
farm is readily apparent.
Safety authorities offer these
suggestions:
1. Never cache caps for fu-
ture use. They can be forgotten
and years later seriously injure
some child. Many accidents can
be traced to children finding
caps that. have been tucked away
in barns, garages, tool sheds and
other out -buildings.
2, To reduce this hazard, dis-
pose of all unused caps as soon
as• the job is finished. Consult
your local licensed explosives
dealer or county agent on how to
dispose of them safely.
3. Teach your children to
know a cap at sight. Tell them
ai the danger.
4. Warn them: "Don't play
with blasting cape . , , don't even
touch them."
2'
Blasting caps are just the kind
of mysterious looking little things
that children like to pick up and
play with, They are copper or
aluminum cylinders' about zs big
around as a pencil and vary in
iengih from one to five and one-
half inches. When a child finds
a cap, he has an almost irresistible
arge to hit it with a rock or
probe it with a knife. This is
almost certain to explode the
sensitive charge in the cap.
' 8' *
Wher a cap explodes, hundreds
00 small pieces of metal fly out
in all directions, sometimes as
fax as 200 feet. Even at that dis-
tance, the bits of shade metal
are hurled with enough force to
Cause s"i'ious injuries.
2' at *
The best advice you can give
iz child is DON'T TOUCH
'BLASTING CAPS,
Men who are too big to take
Orders are too small to give theist.
MY $CIiOOt
LESSON
BV RleV R BARC1,AY
WARREN, B,A... S.D.
What Does the Lord Require?
Micah 4:1-5; 6i6-5
Memory Selection: life hath
shewcd thee, 0 man, what Is
good; and what doth the Lord
require of thee, but to do justly,
and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy Gori? Micah 6:8.
Of the great Bible passages
chosen for this quarter, to -day's
is the selection from the Minor
Prophets. Micah was a country
prophet who lived in a town bor-
dering on Philistia. Apart from
the first verse of his book his
entire prophecy is poetry in the i
Hebrew.
Micah foretells of the last days
when there will be peace
throughout the world. Swords
will be beaten into ploughshares
and spears into pruning hooks,
or as we might say today, tanks
into tractors and atomic energy ,
into the ways of peace. We may
be nearer to this era than we
think. The Suez crisis has shown
that in the face of world opinion
as reflected in the United Na-
tions it is unwise for a strong
nation to attack a smaller one,
• even though there be some jus-
tification for anger. Sir Anthony
Eden bas found that with the
growth of nationalism the tem-
per of the world has changed
since before the last war when
be resigned his cabinet post in
protest of the attempt at ap-
peasement. More than ever it is
clear that nations must hold
council for peace instead of war,
However only the corning of the
Prince of Peace to the hearts of
men will ensure peace. Just how
soon he will come in power and
glory we do not know.
The memory selection has
been called the climax of Old
Testament ethics. We can't buy
God's favor. Many have sacri-
ficed their children hoping to
appease the wrath of the gods.
But God wants us to do righte-
ously. With this must be coupled
the love of mercy. This will keep
us from being legalists. Then we
will have fellowship with' God,
to wails humbly with him. This
requirement may be stated in
different ways but it doesn't
change. Only by confession of
our sins and 'faith in Jesus
Christ will our heart be changed
so that we can fulfill the re-
quirement. _
AHorseWihA
Mind Of His Own
The horses always hitched to
the double -carriage were the
dapple-greys Norman and Dan-
dy, well though not perfectly
snatched, having had the same sire
but a different mother, which ac-
counted, it was thought, for a
difference in disposition. .. ,
So dependable was Norman,
that once when the children's
grandfather having ridden him
to the city, met a friend who ex-
pressed .1 wish to drive back to
the farm later in the day, he de-
cided to send Norman home
alone,, and trusting to the sag-
acity of the good beast (and in
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
the honesty of the town's pea•-
ple), he fastened a note to the
saddle saying: "Please let thin
horse pass; he is going borne,v°
knotted the reins upon bis neek
and turned him lease in the
streets.
Sometime later in the day the
tarmbold was startled by seeing
Norman, riderless, taking a short;
eut from the mill gate to the
stable; but the note oh the sad-
dle
ad,die was reassuring, and the situ•-
at.ion was accepted, with some
wonder, A few days afterward
a neighbor mentioned having
seen Norman going by on his
homeward way, neither trotting
nor walking but in a steady jog
between the two gaits, by which
be had probably covered the
eight or nine miles in the man-
ner most satisfactory to himself.
Only once, in his old age, did hat
practice deceit, and this was wit-
r,essed by the youngest child,
seated beside her Aunt Abbie int
the buggy, as with Norman in
the shafts they were coming
home from some excursion
around the countryside, But the
nld horse must have been tired
with more work than they had
given him, for pulling up the
steep slope by the mill, he turn-
ed on reaching the midway level,
towards the flume, indicating a
wish to drink. Aunt Abbie, who
was anxious to get hone would
have preferred not to stop, but
gave him his way, yet when he
stood before the flume he did
not drink at all, but made a pre-
tense of doing so by ruffling the
water to the right and left with
his nose, believing he was de-
ceiving them into thinking he
was drinking, though the distur-
bance he created in the water
bore no resemblance to the usual
result of his suction, and it was
quite plain that his only need
was to rest himself. Aunt Abbie
was so amazed and amused by
his innocent trickery that in
spite of her haste she let him
stand as long as he wished. —
From "The Curtains of Yester-
day," by Elizabeth Sewall Glenn.
If you can't get a secretary
who can add up why not have
one who distracts?
WANT A BEAR? — This is Big
Joe., one of the largest Florida
black bears in captivity and
you can have him for free if
you'll just come and take hire
away. The seven - foot, 400 -
pound bruin has become such
a problem to his owners that
they have offered to give hint
to some non-commercial zoo oto
a "come -and -get -'ire basis,
4eXedeiess cies
•
',.
BARNYARD BATTLERS -- One may Tileve called the other
dirty pig. Or the other may have called the other a dirty dog.
At any rate, a moment after this picture was snapped they
were going at it apparently for dear life. But neither got hurt.
To them, the rough stuff is just fun. The battle takes place
daily on the form of Ted R,icklefs. Out of a herd of 100 hogs„
the boxer picks an th•e same porker day in and day out. When
one gets the other dowvt, he lets up -- and they go at each
other again.
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HORNING INTO THE CONTEST—"Miss Tennessee" at the Univer-
sity of Tennessee may be this sad -eyed, gentle cow, held by
Student Jane Bailey. "Deborah Bovine" was put up for elec-
tion by the Gung No party, representing unaffiliated fraternities
and sororities. Deborah has measurements of 50-73-60, with-
out a doubt record-breaking for any Miss Tennessee candidate.
Accidents kill more Young-
sters than disease. Seven thous-
and farm and city children in
1955, between the ages of one
and fourteen, died as a result of
home ' accidents, most of which
could have been prevented, Are
our children safe from this
threat? Are the following .pre-
cautions taken in your home and
on the farm to make them safe?
Take a minute to check against
these major threats to the safety
of your family and resolve to el-
iminate them. now.
Falls are the leading hazard to
farm people in all regions; they
account for one-fourth of the ac-
cidents. Disorder can be a cause
for falls — toys, tools and equip-
'ment left lying about. Remove
the things you can trip over,
slip on or fall from. Provide
proper storage places for these
and you remove many a poten-
tial accident. Make sure that
,,.teems are fastened securely.
Guard your child from perilous
climbs. Use an extension gate at
the top of stairs to prevent tod-
dlers from spills.
e,
Abandoned -•furniture and re-
frigerators are a great source of
"play" for children. Cabinet
doors swollen with age and
dampness often stick and old
refrigerator doors too heavy to
push outward can suffocate a
youngster slut behind them.
Prevent this by removing hinges
and punching holes in them be-
fore you store or discard them.
A law has just been passed re-
quiring manufacturers, within
tiie next two years, to put a safe-
ty device on refrigerators to pre-
vent a child from being locked
in. One manufacturer has al-
ready solved this problem by
putting a magnetic door device
oe its refrigerators that small
children can push open from the
inside,
Machinery and tin. handling of
livestock is associated with two-
thirds of the fatal farm accidents.
Make it your business to keep
small tots sfrom playing near
tractors, cornpickers and shel-
ters and from wandering about
without supervision. Keep them
from jumping on or nit machines
to prevent the chances of lop-
pling. Don't encourage your
children to drive a tractor when
too young: they haven't the
strength to handle it adequately;
their judgment isn't developed
enough to recognize danger in
tune.
* * ,1
Chemicals such as farm disin-
fectants, poisons and fuels should
be kept in sealed containers,
stored out of the reach of young-
sters. Children have been pois-
oned by drinking kerosene and
similar liquids improperiy label-
ed and stored.
,. .,
Tools and guns should be safe-
ly stored. Axes, pitchforks, fish-
hooks And sharp tools not used
or stored with sufficient care are
dangerous. Guns, if kept at 0,
should be put away unloaded and
under lock and key.
* *
Fire is the cause of one out
of five injuries. Take time out
to 'teach your children the
dangers of bonfires and matches.
Burn rubbish in wire mesh bas-
kets; watch leaf fires until they
die..
Take care in tending stoves
and oil burners. Keep kitchen
pot handles turned from grasp-
ing little fingers.
* P A
On the farm, blasting caps are
a necessary tool to explode dy-
namite for removing stumps and
boulders, draining swamps and
clearing fields. They are safe,
and save time, money and man-
power when used for these pin' -
poses.
But a blasting cap in a child's
hand is as dangerous as a rattle-
snake. Your youngster wouldn't
touch a rattler, teach him to
show the same respect for a
blasting rap. It's just as danger-
ous'.
*
The warning applies With par-
ticular force to farmers, for a
study by the Institute of Makers
of Explosives shows that 40 per
cent of all blasting cap accidents
in which children are blinded
or maimed occur on farms. This
is a disproportionate ratio for
farmers . as a group use only
about one per cent of the caps.
Industry is by far the largest
user. The need for greater pre-
cautions in handling caps on the
farm is readily apparent.
Safety authorities offer these
suggestions:
1. Never cache caps for fu-
ture use. They can be forgotten
and years later seriously injure
some child. Many accidents can
be traced to children finding
caps that. have been tucked away
in barns, garages, tool sheds and
other out -buildings.
2, To reduce this hazard, dis-
pose of all unused caps as soon
as• the job is finished. Consult
your local licensed explosives
dealer or county agent on how to
dispose of them safely.
3. Teach your children to
know a cap at sight. Tell them
ai the danger.
4. Warn them: "Don't play
with blasting cape . , , don't even
touch them."
2'
Blasting caps are just the kind
of mysterious looking little things
that children like to pick up and
play with, They are copper or
aluminum cylinders' about zs big
around as a pencil and vary in
iengih from one to five and one-
half inches. When a child finds
a cap, he has an almost irresistible
arge to hit it with a rock or
probe it with a knife. This is
almost certain to explode the
sensitive charge in the cap.
' 8' *
Wher a cap explodes, hundreds
00 small pieces of metal fly out
in all directions, sometimes as
fax as 200 feet. Even at that dis-
tance, the bits of shade metal
are hurled with enough force to
Cause s"i'ious injuries.
2' at *
The best advice you can give
iz child is DON'T TOUCH
'BLASTING CAPS,
Men who are too big to take
Orders are too small to give theist.
MY $CIiOOt
LESSON
BV RleV R BARC1,AY
WARREN, B,A... S.D.
What Does the Lord Require?
Micah 4:1-5; 6i6-5
Memory Selection: life hath
shewcd thee, 0 man, what Is
good; and what doth the Lord
require of thee, but to do justly,
and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy Gori? Micah 6:8.
Of the great Bible passages
chosen for this quarter, to -day's
is the selection from the Minor
Prophets. Micah was a country
prophet who lived in a town bor-
dering on Philistia. Apart from
the first verse of his book his
entire prophecy is poetry in the i
Hebrew.
Micah foretells of the last days
when there will be peace
throughout the world. Swords
will be beaten into ploughshares
and spears into pruning hooks,
or as we might say today, tanks
into tractors and atomic energy ,
into the ways of peace. We may
be nearer to this era than we
think. The Suez crisis has shown
that in the face of world opinion
as reflected in the United Na-
tions it is unwise for a strong
nation to attack a smaller one,
• even though there be some jus-
tification for anger. Sir Anthony
Eden bas found that with the
growth of nationalism the tem-
per of the world has changed
since before the last war when
be resigned his cabinet post in
protest of the attempt at ap-
peasement. More than ever it is
clear that nations must hold
council for peace instead of war,
However only the corning of the
Prince of Peace to the hearts of
men will ensure peace. Just how
soon he will come in power and
glory we do not know.
The memory selection has
been called the climax of Old
Testament ethics. We can't buy
God's favor. Many have sacri-
ficed their children hoping to
appease the wrath of the gods.
But God wants us to do righte-
ously. With this must be coupled
the love of mercy. This will keep
us from being legalists. Then we
will have fellowship with' God,
to wails humbly with him. This
requirement may be stated in
different ways but it doesn't
change. Only by confession of
our sins and 'faith in Jesus
Christ will our heart be changed
so that we can fulfill the re-
quirement. _
AHorseWihA
Mind Of His Own
The horses always hitched to
the double -carriage were the
dapple-greys Norman and Dan-
dy, well though not perfectly
snatched, having had the same sire
but a different mother, which ac-
counted, it was thought, for a
difference in disposition. .. ,
So dependable was Norman,
that once when the children's
grandfather having ridden him
to the city, met a friend who ex-
pressed .1 wish to drive back to
the farm later in the day, he de-
cided to send Norman home
alone,, and trusting to the sag-
acity of the good beast (and in
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
the honesty of the town's pea•-
ple), he fastened a note to the
saddle saying: "Please let thin
horse pass; he is going borne,v°
knotted the reins upon bis neek
and turned him lease in the
streets.
Sometime later in the day the
tarmbold was startled by seeing
Norman, riderless, taking a short;
eut from the mill gate to the
stable; but the note oh the sad-
dle
ad,die was reassuring, and the situ•-
at.ion was accepted, with some
wonder, A few days afterward
a neighbor mentioned having
seen Norman going by on his
homeward way, neither trotting
nor walking but in a steady jog
between the two gaits, by which
be had probably covered the
eight or nine miles in the man-
ner most satisfactory to himself.
Only once, in his old age, did hat
practice deceit, and this was wit-
r,essed by the youngest child,
seated beside her Aunt Abbie int
the buggy, as with Norman in
the shafts they were coming
home from some excursion
around the countryside, But the
nld horse must have been tired
with more work than they had
given him, for pulling up the
steep slope by the mill, he turn-
ed on reaching the midway level,
towards the flume, indicating a
wish to drink. Aunt Abbie, who
was anxious to get hone would
have preferred not to stop, but
gave him his way, yet when he
stood before the flume he did
not drink at all, but made a pre-
tense of doing so by ruffling the
water to the right and left with
his nose, believing he was de-
ceiving them into thinking he
was drinking, though the distur-
bance he created in the water
bore no resemblance to the usual
result of his suction, and it was
quite plain that his only need
was to rest himself. Aunt Abbie
was so amazed and amused by
his innocent trickery that in
spite of her haste she let him
stand as long as he wished. —
From "The Curtains of Yester-
day," by Elizabeth Sewall Glenn.
If you can't get a secretary
who can add up why not have
one who distracts?
WANT A BEAR? — This is Big
Joe., one of the largest Florida
black bears in captivity and
you can have him for free if
you'll just come and take hire
away. The seven - foot, 400 -
pound bruin has become such
a problem to his owners that
they have offered to give hint
to some non-commercial zoo oto
a "come -and -get -'ire basis,
4eXedeiess cies
•
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BARNYARD BATTLERS -- One may Tileve called the other
dirty pig. Or the other may have called the other a dirty dog.
At any rate, a moment after this picture was snapped they
were going at it apparently for dear life. But neither got hurt.
To them, the rough stuff is just fun. The battle takes place
daily on the form of Ted R,icklefs. Out of a herd of 100 hogs„
the boxer picks an th•e same porker day in and day out. When
one gets the other dowvt, he lets up -- and they go at each
other again.