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SEPTEMAER 9, 1932,
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Seen ii the County' Papers •
Letter Boxes in Baggage - Cars.
Effective September 1st travelling
letter boxes are installed in baggage
ears on the night train to Kincardine
.and on the noon train, going skarn,
'wherein mail may be deposite,d while
trains are etanding at the depots.
On the 'down train mail frown these
boxes will be cleared: at Wingham
:and Listowel and' placed in the regu-
lar mails. On the night train, such
mail will be sorted at Kincardine:—
Lucknow Sentinel.
Lucknow's Oldest Orangeman
Honored.
The Orange Order of Lueknow L
O. L. 428, ,gathered at the •home
Mrs. Peter Torrance on August 23rd
to 'honor Bro. 'William Miller, who
las been a loyal member of Lucknow
Lodge for over seventy years, and
leas reached the grand old age of 9e
years last twenty-fourth of ,,July
Bro. dark Gardner, Worshipful Mas
er, called the asselrnIbly together and
called on Past Master Bro. D. C
'Taylor to • address the gathering
which •thaty he •performed in a very
"efficient •manner.--Lucknow Sentinel.
Fishing in the Bowels of the Earth.
The pump, installed h the deep
water well at the local •fire hall he -
ane out •of commission last week,
and it bad to be"ha.uled out for re -
'pairs, and upon examination it was
"discovered that the pipe about twenty
feet above the cylinder had become
disconnected and the weight from
there on clown rested on •the lifting
rods, and when there 'were discon,
-nected the rods --and lower part of
the pump fell to the bottom, and
'only through some skilful fishing on
Devil's Food Layer Cake
% cup butter
• 1,14 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 cup milk
2X cups Pay
fiour (or 2 cu
8.nd. 3 table-
spoons of bread
flour)
teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons
Magic Baking
Powder
1 teaspoon ve-
-nilia extract
3 sq. unsweetened
chocolate,
melted
Cream butter thoroughly; add sugar
slowly. Add beaten yolks; mix thor.
oughlY. Add flour sifted with baking
powder and salt, alternately with
milk; add vanilla and melted choc-
olate. Fold in stiffly beaten egg
whites. Put into 3 greased Myer cake
tins and bake in moderate oven at
35.0' F. about 30 minutes. When
cool, put together and cover thickly
with Chocolate or White Icing (rec.
'rpm are in the Magic CoOk Book),
Miss Gertrude Dutton
tells why she makes her
Devil's Food
Layer Cake
'with Magic Baking Powder
"I know from
experience," says
the cookery ex-
pert of Western
Home Monthly,
"that Magic
=lakes most baked dishes look and
taste better. Its uniform leavening
quality gives dependable baking
results."
And Miss Dutton's praise of
Magic is seconded by the majority
.of dietitians and cookery experts
throughout the Dominion. They
use Magic exclusively because they
know it is pure, and always uni-
form.
Cariaklian housewives, too, pre.
fer Magic. In fact, Magic outsells
'all other baking powders combined.
For luscious layer cakes,' light,
tender biscuits, delicious pastry-.
follow Miss Dutton's advice. Use
Magic Baking Powder.
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the part of Mr. Lords Prange the
,parts that had dropped down Were:
coupled on to and hauled up, it
sure for a time seemed to look like 'a
lot of troulble ahead, but fate would
not have it thus, and on Saturday
noon the wimp was going again. Id
is no small job taking out this pump
which extends , nearly three hundred
feet into the bOwels oe.the earth, but
the supply of water is in abundance
and of good aualityr-rhurieh Herald.
' Found Petrified Turtle Shell.
Eric 'Schatte, son of Bandmaster
Sehatte, While swimming near Hen-
derson's in the aVfaitland river, found
a peculiar looking Stone. He brought
it home, and after it was cleaned and
closely examined it was touna to oe
a petrified turtle shell. This boy has
a habit of .finding things. Just some
'short time ago he found in the river
the revolver which was stolen dur-
ing the holdsurp of the Bank of Nova
Scotia at Brussels, in October, 1980.
Acteance-Times.
Cars Sideswipe.
Traffic Officer Lever was called to
Crediton last Saturday evening to in-
vestigate , a motor accident. A cal
driven by Thomas Willis, of Cen-
tralia, had sideswiped the automobile
of Harry Kirby M London, while
passing, just after dusk. The Willis
car turned over in ,the ditch but no
one was .hurt. It was .found that
Kirby had cut in too sharply in pass-
ing. 'Both tars were insured and no
charge was laid, the „drivers' settling
their differences ,arnicably.--,Goderich
Star.
To Improve Dunlop's Tomb.
Lion G. L. Parsons at the meeting
of the Goderich Lions on Wednesday
afternoon at the Maitland Golf Club
house referred to the article laY Vic-
tor Lauriston in the current issue of
the Canadian Geographic and to the
work of Hlarry McCreath in having
the site of Dunlop's tomb lettered
conspicuously, and suggested that the
Lions 101ulb take up the matter of
improving the surrounclinigs. The
lettering on the tomlbstone, for in-
stanee, needed cleaning out so as to
make, it mere legible, there should
be i,tepe up to the site to make it
acceseibile, and there were other ways
in which the' locality might be eim-
proved. A •committee of G. L. Par-
sons, C. K. Saunders and T. G. Con
nonwas appointed to look into the
matter and report at the next ineet-
ing.--Coderich Star.
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Military Men Gather at Banquet.
Last evening at the Sunset Hotel
officers of the Huron County Regi-
ment were hosts to former officers at
a banquet and social evening. Twen-
ty-five sat down, with, Lieut. Col. A.
F. Sturdy, 0.C., as toastmaster. Af-
ter a silent toast to those of the
regiment Who had pa,sised on and the
toast to -the King, Cot Sturdy Pro-
,nesed ..the toast to the regiment,
wnich was responded •to in a reminis-
:am:: manner :by the. guests, who re-
viewed the history of the regiment
from its inception in the Fenian Raid
year of 1866, also the proud part it
had since 'played, particularly in the
creat War. Among the visitors were
Col. Coombe, V.D., Lieut. -Col, Rance,
V.D., Lieut. -Col. Shaw, V.D., Clin-
ton; LieuteCel. R. S. Hays, V.D., Sea -
forth; Lieut. -Col. Hearnan, London;
Major 'McLean, M.C., Wingham;
Major Harrison, of Cleveland, Ohio,
at present a visitor to town. It is
proposed tomake this social gather-
ing an annual affaire—Gaderich Star.
Goderich Horses at Toronto "Ex."
All three horses of the Blue Water
'Stables of Dr. J. B, Whitely, that
raced at Ottawa Exhibition last week,
were in the money. RamonaGrattaa
was second to Bertha ?atelier' in the
freesfersall, the liatter not having;
been beaten this year. Sid Hal was
fourth in the same race, while Baron
Lullevate't was third in the 2.20 class.
Dr. Whitely has no less than eleven
horses at Toronto Exhibition, three
in the track events and eight in the
show ring classes,. Next Tuesday and
T'hursd'ay Ramona Grattan and Sid
Hall will compete in the 2.10 and
free-for-all classes and Baron Lull -
water will start in the 2.20 event, In
the standard bred class there are
Jerry Harvester, ,Maxine W., Elaine
Harvester and Benny Harvester. In
the roadster clase June Bingen, Peg-
gy Allerton, Barney 'Harvester and
Bingen Harvester are 'being shown.
--Goderich Stan -
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Injured While Threshing:
While threshing was being done
on the farm of Russel. Carter, con-
cession 8, 'Morris, on Wednesday, a
team owned by John Nesbitt and
driven by Wilfred Stockwell, of
Blyth, took fright when hitched to a
load of grain and ran away, throw-
ing the driver from the load into
his head and shoulders. For a time
he was unconscious and it was fear-
ed his injuries were serious. He was
'taken to Seaforth on Thursday for
an x-ray on his elbow, which will
cause him troulble for some time.—
Brussels Post.
Drilling New Salt Wall.
Goad progress is being made on
the new well !being driliesi by the God-
erich Salt Co. Jordon -Roberts Sales
Co., Brantford, are the contractors in
•oharge of *e work. The new well is
some distance from! the present one,
being situated on the northlwast
boundary of the property.--Godeirieh
Signal.
A Nice New Car, Too,
Charles Hansuld:, of Ethel, was'
visiting friends in Brussels the other
day and in order to demonstrate to
them how nicely his new Chevrolet
car ran he took them for a ride for
a mile or so south of Brussels. When
about td make a turn to the left he
gave the ,signal, but Augu,s Camp-
bell, of Brussels, attempted to pass
bine and in doing so struck the left
Side of Hansuld's car, causing con-
siderable diarnage. The accident was
not reported, but Traffic Officer Lever
found out about it and results may
follow.—Goderich SignaL•
To Meet At Tobermory.
The autumn meeting of the Blue
Water .ffighwasr Association will be
held in the .eamirrianrity hall at Taber -
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"le7",;••••••-
rnr`04 1$0,tirK1SY, 1S4ternbas 10th
at 2 o!eloelt pan. Th•e regular beta-
nees of he Aseeetateon will be trrana-
aeted, and an item ce: special ImpOrt#
awe will be consideration of a Pee-
posal for the extelleani of the high.
wwyl vrele Maaloulin Island and
to the North ..,•liere.--iGederich
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Ed:worthy-Horton.
A pretty weddini was quietly sol
emiile...e at the residence of Rev. A.
0. 1'111ctit, ministes of Nein' Street
United Unwell., Exeter, on Saturday,
August 21trle(whan he united in mar
riage, Hildred I.auretta, younger
daughter of Mr. and !Mrs. Hillar3
Horton, of Exeter, to Edmund Thomas
Bdiworthy, only son of Mr. and Mrs
S. S. Edworthy, of London -Exeter
Times -,Advocate.
Horse's Tail Caught in Threshing
Machine.
A most unusual accident happened
when Ed. Kraft was using his thresh-
ing outfit at Mason's farm near
Dashwood. His own horse, although
accustomed to the ;machine, came too
close and his tail caught in the belt.
The horse was lifted off his feet and
thrown against' the pulley, breaking
the shaft. Fortunately, the hors..t.,
was uninjured, but it took some time
:to clear the shaft of very tightly
wound horsehair. --Exeter Times -Ad-
vocate.
The •Late Daniel Davis,
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On
,Sundlay evening a life-long
resident of Exeter passed away in
the Person of Mr. Daniel Davis in his
71st year. The deceased was born
in Exeter and for years was closely
identified with the interests of the
For' lnany years. he con.
ducted a butcher 'buSinesa on the
site, of the present ipostoffice. At
one 'time he was in •partnerShire'Veith
the late John Rendle. In, his ,earls
years he was a member of, the EXe-
ter fire brigade. Foe upwards of 50
years he was one of the bell ringers
of the Trivitt ;Memorial chimes of
which church he was a member. `He
was widely 'known throughout the
community and had many friends.
Forty -Seven years ago the deceased
was united in marriage with Annie
Deer and for the past number of
years while Mr. ?Davis had been in
declining health Mrs. Davis has been
most devoted in her constant atten-
tion. Besides her bereaved widow he
is survived 'by seven daughters, Mrs.
I. Statham, of •Strathroy; Mrs. Gar-
net Cockwell, of Kenaston, Sask.;
Mrs. George Clipson, of Ingersoll;
Mrs. Frank Irwin, of Putnam; Mrs,
tto Walker, of Staffa, and r,dith
and Caroline, at home. He is ale)
survived by one sister. ,Mrs. Saninel
Sweet, and two brothcra Sidney and
Relard Davis, of town, also eleven
geandehildren.—Lxeter Times -Advo -
The New Gold Rush •
Not since '49 has the West Seen
so great a gold rush as the one that
is now -on. ;Old hills, honeycombed
with tunnels dug by prospectors half
d century ago, are 'coming to life.
Stream 'beds in the placer districts
are swarming with gold seekers.
Scores of miniature mines, operated
single-handed with crude, homemade
equipment, are now springing isp as
an army of small-scale miners seek
a livelihood refused by the city.
Recently I visited aomeof the
centers of this activity where in the
dramatic days of th•e last gold rush
prospectors skimmed the cream of
the mineral wealth, but did not bother
with thelean deposits that panned a
few cents to the ton. Now, miners'
tents again line the streams. The
banks are pitted with diggings in
Which scores of men are industrious-
ly shoveling dirt, screening it; and
feeding it into sluice boxes, Every
NW feet in the river bed, a miniature
rock dam .diverts a portion a the
water into these rectangular, wooden
troughs through which the water
swirls, washing away dirt and sand
and leaving the heavier gold be-
hind.
One old-timer told me, "This dirt
is very lean, so lean that in order to
make anything, you've got to shovel
like thunder all day long, just as
hard as you can. This stuff averages
only a few cents per cubic yard.
•Multiply that by the number of
yards you can shovel in a day, and
you have year daily wage."
Same simplify their work by in -
genions mechanical devices. One
man has rigged up an.old motorcycle
engine to pump water up to his dig-
gings. Another aids the naked eye
ire detecting bits of gold in the sluice
(box by holding a section of a milk
battle, curved side up, just at the
srurface oll the water. The glass acts
as a lens that magnifies the grains
of gold and at the same time does
away with troulblesome shadows and
reflections, in the water.
Attracted by the sign at the head
of -a , chute, 'heralding the fact that
here was the "Baby Comstock" mine,
I climbed high up the canyon wall,
tb a mine where I found a little, mid-
dleaged man shoveling dirt in•a very
business -like fashion.
"Me a minin' man?" he answered
my query, le.aning on his Spade. "Yee,
Pm a miner—all of ten weeks now.
Before that, I'd been a sailor all my
life. Now it's a siniple case of 'root,
hog, or dm!' so I'm rooter'. For ten.
weeks I've been shovelin' dirt down
this chute, and here's my pay."
He exhibited a small bottle con-
taining a few flat nuggets and some
dust, totaling perhaps an ounce or
two.
"Not much for the work, but 1
don't mind that. The worst is the
fare I have to eat. It's beans for
dinner, for supper, for breakfast and
between meals.,It's hard', even for
a seafarin' manIt's only hope that
keeps us going.
"One thing that helps us, is. tonne
ists. If you ,ptvt a nice nugget and a
little dust in a bottle with some wa-
ter, a toorist will sometimes pay sev-
eral •dollars for it—more than you
can get by selling it in town to some-
body Indio will discount it four or five
dollars to the ounce for his trouble.
Of course, the Mint pays, 120 an
mince for it, but you must have at
feast two ounces at a time."
• Directly across the canyon, at the
top of a shoulder where onee the old
stream. made a bend, is a mine that
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has avaraga4,#VAIflee a weelt thering.
4ihe tea weelea bas been worlmk.,
•"These aire40:00 leavin'S Oenepare
,lard with 'liel$041#41 444 Ow
'owner, (are 'ago, this'
same epote two peen took out a for-
taei lapel Slealt wham here, one Marl
took 011it tWO peel,ndls of aiuggetsi—
$800 worth-ein tivien daYs, just
them out of crasa in the roolt"!,'
In the valsiotea canyons Where the
'attivity is. greateet, I found people
of all accapatione.. Disguised behind
a luxuriant tgroWth of whiskers was
a Movie ipaopeetikindst who was cher-
ishing a. scheme to rig up a cable
and bueket system and tap a • small.
spring as. a water goatee. That waw
all that 'was neceisary, l said, to
cornett a claim he •I had staked out
in one of the more retinote canyons
into a ipaying• proposition.
'His partner is a man who for 25
years has stood behind a barber's
chair. "The worst thing about this
business," he said, "is ,that it takes
capital to do it right. Even if you
are going out on a very small scale
you need about $25-15 to buy a
couple hunili ed feet of pipe and the
rest for gtrulb enough to last until
you can ,bring in your first gold.
Ottherwist, you have to do- you min-
ing within carrying distance of wa-
ter, or work right in the stream bed."
'Women and children, too, .learn to
pan for the yellow metal. Whole
families work togetherusing sluice
box, rocker; ,prospector's pan and ev-
en skillets and washpans. In the
Banclburg mining dietriet, two we-
n -ten opeeating in old diggings Iditg
since abandoned have been working
for several months and have not only
Made their living; but halve banked
$180 besides,. •
:While I visited the start Gabriel
canyon district, near Los • Angeles,
one woman miner tipped a wheel-
barroiv load of dirt into a stuice box
and uncoveredfour glittering nug-
gets. 'Elated, she rushed back to the
tunnel- foe another load. Another
miner followed her with his wheel-
barrow, when to his horror the roof
of the embraced 'tunnel gave way and
collapsed, burying her in the cave-
in. Beflare She could be reached, she
was dead.
The lure of gold ibrings. hundreds
frbtm the city on holidays and week-
eads. !Many of them are anxious to
try out pet theories or' apply knowl-
edge gained through stady.
A most anus project is the En-
gineers' Le near Cripple Creek,
Colo., w a number of unemployed
gr of the 'Colorado Scheel of
Ines are working small • mines, fur-
nishing engineers skill and labor in
exehange for a :grulb stake plus a
share in the return. Alumni of the
hool organized a company, -financed
it, and took leases on several proper-
ties on the "split -check" basis. The
mining company owning the leases
furnishes the sapiplies and equiptment,
and Engineers' Lease operates the
mines, the returns being divided eq-
ually:
Each of the graduates works far
himself on a grubstake basis, re-
ceiving 181.elie a day for •board and
expenses. After the ore is mined,
shipped to Colorado Springs, and -the
gold extracted, the profits of En-
gineers' Lease are divided three
ways: two-fifths to• the 'men doing
the work, in proportion to the num-
ber of shifts they work; two-fifths
Co the men furnishing the money, in
proportion to the numbee2. of shares
they purchased; and one-fifth to the
Mines Alumn ASsociation, for origin -
financing, and 'managing the
'plan.
Few aineng all these jobless men
who have participated in the new
gold rush are miners by profession.
'rhey come from all walks of life.
They are out of a, job, grateful for
a chance to make a living, and will-
ing to work hard for it. They are
not looking for a big strike, but mere-
ly for enough to ruy 'beans and ibacon
and tide them over until they can
go back to their regular jobs.
All, discriminating people, whatev-
er their environment and education,
are to -day driven out of the theatre,
which caters only to nit -wits, not ev-
en half-wits.—W. J. Turner,
A man can't be a good doctor and
keep telephoning his broker between
visits to his patients.—Walter Lip-
mann.
A comlmlunity which is content to
sacrifice 6,000 live e a year to its
childish passion for scuprying over
the ground has reverted to barber-
isim.—G. S. Street.
Thrill Makers
'When the big, dangerous moment
comes in the filming of a screen play
the "'..tar" steps aside and re!, a
member of the "suieile squad," take
the humps
Billy Jones, Hollywood's greatest
stunt man, has never been known to
refuse ani assignment because of the
danger involved, He has, however.
refused to de atunts,which his "sixth
sense" has told him were impossible.
And he has the clietinction el never
having ,had another member Of the
eeicide club successfully do a stunt
he deemed impossible.
'I've seen 'orri. all", Jack Holbrook,
a veteran 'bumps," told me, "but nom"
of 'em ever cut her so fine as did
Billy Jones while they were shooting
'Dude Raneh' for Paramount. Billy
has to jump out of a truck just he -
fore a fast train hita it. Frank Tut-
tle, who is directing, is afraid ihat
Billy will cut it too fine. So, be walks
up the track about 150 feet and puts
down a marker. 'Now, Billy,' he says
to Jones, 'when the engine gets right
here you jump!' Billy says he wi:'
but I know he won't. So r go up the
track about 50 feet and I make a
marker. Then I tell Billy I know
what he's up to, and 11 tell him he's
simply gatta jump when the engine
gets to my inearker.
"The camera starts to grind, the
train comes along, doing the hall and
jack, and Billy is crouching in the
truck. When the engine gets to the
spot marked by rattle Billy's still
sitting tight in that truck. The di-
rector's eyes hegin to pop. Then
the engi•ae comes to ney marker and
still no Jones. Boy- My heart mise -
es a heat. Still no Jones. I am
petrified.
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BACK in the 60's when
dresses looked like this, adver-
tisers placed more ads. in The
Huron Expositor than in any
other nearby weekly paper.
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dresses look like this, advertis-
ers continue to place more ads.
in The Huron Expositor than in
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"A split second ' later Jones dives
out of the machine. There's a crash
and a crunch, then no more truck.
Jones is still in the air when engine
and truck come together. The pic-
ture sheers that. Jones had timed it
to one -thousandth of a second."
"That stunt was a case 'of timing,"
Jones explained. "Most stunts are
simply that. Without a perfect sense
of timing most of us wouldn't last a
year in this racket.. Wee got to
judge to a fractien o fa second and
sometimes to a fraction of an inch.
In a pirate picture., I was supposed
to. Scramble up the rattling 110 feet
above decks, grab a rope that dang-
led from the tap of 'the main mast
and estape my pursiu•ers by swinging
out over the water and dropping.
When I came to do it, the rope slip-
ped and I found' myself fallirg be-
fore I was clear of the decks. As I
whizzed through the air I calculated
that there was one chance in. a thou-
sand that I was out far enough to
miss the rail of the ship. Everybody
turned away to avoid. seeing me
splashed all. over the deck. Even the
camera men quit grinding.
"As I came near the rail I drew
in any chest and straightened out
my toes. Whizz! I shot past that
rail but so close that it tore the
buttons off the costume I was wear-
ing. When I hit the water I went
down deep—so deep that before I
could reach the surface I had to ex-
hale and ship a lot of water."
Jonei; had to think and act' fast
in a comedy called "Hot News," one
sequenee•of which was taken on a
high buildingl. Jones and another
stunt man -4101m ny Sinclair — were
working with piano wire, which
doesn't register in filins, attached to
thei r safety 1 -ie I ter.
New, while piano Wire will hold
several hundred pounds of weight so
long as there ie no sudden jerk on it,
it will not hold a good-sized boy if
it herennies kinked. And in the Midet
of the stunt, with Sirrelait hanging
head down, Jones' wire got kinked.
"Grob my hands!" yelled S ncl a i r.
Jones veanaged to get hold of one
of Sinclair's hands just as the wire
C n a pared.
"Your hand is sweaty and I'm slip-
ping!" Jones called to Sinclair. "rve
gotta grab your hair, Johnny!"
"Gralb ahead!" called Sinclair.
Jones managed to reach up with
his free hand, and take hold of his
partner's thick locks. The strain on
Sinclair's scalp was ,terrific. But fin-
ally the two stunt men were pulled,
to satfety. When Jones let go a
handful of Sinclair's 'hair stuck in his
hand. Seeing this Sinclair let out a
Yell!
"You dirty so and eo! Now I'll
be bakiheadedd" he screamed. "And
just to save a lousy stunt man!"
Stunt "men notoriously are under-
paid. Often they risk their lives fer
as little as $25. The beet pay Jones
ever received for a stunt was $350.
Then he had to turn over a racing
automobile while it was going Sixty
five miles an hour!
When deep-sea sailors get shore
leave thev are apt to spend their
freedom piloting a rowboat about a
lake. Stunt men are likely to be
found diving off cliffs, hanging head
di.wn from high buildings, or shoot-
ing apples off eaCh other's heads.
One of the claksic pieces of foul-
ishness indulged in ,hy memtters of
the suicide squad was the death -
tempting ride Billy Janes and Eddie
Diggins took over a cliff near Holly -
weed. Jones'and Diggins were joint -
owners of an automobile they had
salvaged from a junkyard, christened
the "Overland' Wonder"—the wonder
•being that it wOu'ld function. They
were rolling along on Mullholland
Driee arguing about which could
stick longest in a car going down a
mountain side—not a mountain road.
'Betcha a buck, I ,can stiek longer
than you can!" het Diggins, "Betcha
car '1!" retorted Jones.
At that moment they were driving
along the most dangerous section of
the road. To the right of the high-
way was 'A young mountainside which
location men usually select when a
i -p01 is desired en which to film a
rt ally dangerous scene.
"Well, hang on!" yelled Jones,
turtling the car off the road and over
the side,
lierelreds of feat below a picture
war being made Ad somebody spied
the ear coming down the hill, Women
shrieked and men gazed at the sway-
ing, humping auto with horror in
their eyes. The the watchers below
saw one of the men go flying through
the air to land in the top t of a tree.
The other stuck to the car half a
minute longer, then he too was
thrown just a second before the aria-
clne landed on its back and httrat
into flames.
The first man to leave the car was.
Diggins. But he ware to .his dying-
day—he was killed a few months lat-
et —that he didn't jump; that he was
thrown out when the ear hit that big
bu me.
Although the mortality rate is
pretty high among stunt mein, serialist
accidents almost invariably are caus-
ed by others than the participants
themselves. Somebody cuts a rope
too soon, or waits too long to give a
As a rule an experienced
stunt man will "walk away" (which
is their way of saying one escapes
unhurt) even when the man he de-
pends upon dees something wrong.
This is attributable to the fact that
geed stunt men think fast, know the
art of falling without being hurt, and
keep coo] in the face of great dan-
ger.
In spite of this knowledge, boiw-
ever, there is a saying among
"All stunt men must die with their
'boots on, that Movie stars may liver
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