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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Volcanoes in Alaska In Alaska Itself there are several volcanoes that have at one time been in eruption. Among them are Mount Fairweather, .. Mount Edgecumbe, and Mount Wrangell. Scorpions Unchanged Scorpions were already in existence in the carboniferous period and there U no essential structural difference between these fossils and existing forms. The Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic ocean, with its 41,000,-00square miles of surface, reaches a width of 5,000 miles. It is narrowest between Brazil and Africa, a distance of 1,600 miles. Monopoly on Pyrophyllite North Carolina is believed to have virtually a monopoly on the mineral pyrophyllite, used extensively in the manufacture of chlnaware and lead ADVENTURERS CLUB 0 pencils. First Use of Prepay Stamps The first country to make compulsory the use of stamps to prepay postage was Jamaica, and incidentally the same design was used from I860 to 1912. Death Rides the Waves Pass Christian Pass Christian was named for Nicholas Christian, a Norwegian navigator, who discovered a channel, or pass, between Cat island and the mainland. By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. Buffalo Beast of Burden The slow, mighty buffalo is found best suited for work In the swampy rice fields of India and China, and also tows boats and barges along the river banks. Half-Ma- n Eight Acres for Museum The Toledo Museum of Art, the nations third largest, has more than eight acres of floor space. A fourth of It is required for 35 exhibition A Charitable Nature Sweeter than the perfume of roses is the possession of a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do for others any good turn in ones power. Scarlet Fever Scarlet fever was first accurately described by Sydenham in 1676, before which time It had been confused with smallpox and measles. you ever notice, boys and girls, that in all the stories you about shipwrecks and storms at sea you never seem to hear anything about the fellows who get the worst of it? I mdan the India Owns the Taj Mahal Discovery of Radium Radium was discovered by a Polish The British Library of Information boys down below decks in the engine room. lady in a French laboratory and the says that the Taj Mahal Is not private-owneHarry Helgesen of Brooklyn, N. I., tells ns about what the black gang but is the of the idea of it developed principally by an DID Plants n One of the plants of South Africa Is called half-maby Hottentot natives, because a group of them, with long trunks and mop-lik- e tops, suggest curious beings looming on the horizon. d, Source of Quotation Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside is from Popes An Essay on Criticism. Man Who Is Too Smart man dats too smart, said Uncle Eben, ain gineter git along so very good. Its too easy foh him to think up mean things to say offhand." A Is np against in a storm at sea. He ought to know, too. Harry Is a licensed property Englishman and New Zealander. government of India. marine engineer in steam and DieseL Harrys big thrill came when he was assistant engineer on the Sleighs in New York in 1704 Ability to Set Up Goal auxiliary steam yacht Ulvlra on a hard luck cruise in the Atlantic. One mark of growing up Is the Sleighs were common in New York Wires British Name The cruise started from Brooklyn for southern waters on February 8, to set up goals and to work stead- a half a century before they were used ability Wires is a British family name de1934, but they never got very far south. The bad luck started the very ily to achieve them regardless of the In Boston. Sleigh racing was common rived from a medieval occupation and first day, Harry says, when the ship grounded on Roamers shoals in in 1704. obstacles which arise. means a It is patronymic the channel. The crew of amateur and professional sailors finally in form. k got her afloat again and the ship came back to port and went into Fulton Portrait Painter Forest of the World for inspection. The hull was found 0. K. but they had lost a 1782 to 1786 Robert Fulton of There are around 7,500,000,000 acres From couple of days. Part of Old Bastile of forest In the world, of which more steamboat fame engaged with success The Pont de la Concorde in Paris When the Sea Kicks Up There Really Is a Mess. than 1,400,000,000 acres are In North in landscape and portrait painting in used to be part of the old Bastile which The next start was made in a snow flurry and everything went fine until America. Philadelphia. the fury of the mob destroyed July 14, to the open sea. Once there the sails were run up and the engines cut they got 1789. .off. Down in the engine room the black gang was getting things The Ruhr of America Lead in Forest Resources INow when an auxiliary yacht is under sail things are generally easy for the The Tennessee valley was called the The countries with the biggest Business Must Carry On resources are Russia, Brazil, boys under decks, but just as they were about to bank the fires, Harry says, the Ruhr of America as early as 1890 by Czechoslovakia has a law requiring chief mate came down and said they were in for a bit of a blow. Alabama land promoters. and the United States. industries to remain in operation until1 And a bit of a blow" was putting it mildly. Wham a storm frbm the the government permits them to shut north slapped the Ulvira with a broadside that nearly turned her over. In a Instinct of Man Ships Serve Many People down. Full steam ahead second all was busy as a beehive in the engine room. 90 of Is man cent of the to the instinct to It of per Nearly people try came the order from the bridge, and Harry and his gang went into action. the United States are located In terri- better his own lot, and that of those tories served by ships. who depend on him. Bloodhound an Old Dog Death Signs on the Ulviras Cruise. Bloodhound is said to have lived The stack hoisted. The on deck to get the smoke stack Harry ran up in Can Bird The Backward era of the Crusades, being first Forefoot the Fly Elephant had been let down when the sails were run up and they needed more The The an of circumference the whelped along the Mediterranean. hummingbird, elephants draft On deck all was confusion. A boom had snapped under the is approximately smallest bird, is the only one that can forefoot the over side were the of boom the the sail and and strain hanging gale Our Three Characters fly backward. elephants height. and Into the water like a sea anchor. And that wasnt all. man has three characters Every amastudent and Hubert Kuechenmeister, a young Northwestern university Wood A he exhibits, that which he which of Cord Honors the that Fox Japan teur sailor, had been swept overboard. The huge waves breaking over the rail which he thinks he has. Is and of wood A that Is fox feet cord In the looked as has, I long, eight upon Japan, made rescue impossible. Death had signed on the cruise of the Ulvira wide and four feet high. a messenger from the gods. feet four being his to What station. down ladder the hurried and his stack up Harry got . he had seen on deck wasnt very encouraging, but his job was below decks, and he went to it Those engines had to get going or the boat and all on it would be lost The engine room by now was a mess. The boat was pitching heavily, Harry says, and the huge seas shipped at each pitch started coming down through the bunker plates, hatches and deck houses and filling the bilges with water. We started the pumps, Harry writes, but the ashes stirred up by the water kept clogging the strainers and the water kept rising. The engines were going full blast but we didnt know how long that would keep up. The boiler . wire-drawe- r. dry-doc- ship-shap- I ruby-throate- one-ha- d lf "You and Old Quaker ought to get together' plates started leaking from the forcing they were getting and the water in the hold was up to the engine cranks. As soon as the water reached the fires we were through. And the water kept rising. It was swishing across the floor like it does In a ships pool on a rough day. Anything that floated became a menace as it sailed back and forth at breakneck speed with the action of the ship. In all this dirty water full of ashes and debris, Harry and a fireman spent an hour diving. Diving in an engine room means going under the water to free the strainer from the debris drawn in by the suction of the pumps. It bears the SCHENLEY MARK of MERIT 31 How Would You Like to Dive Into Slimy .Water? Just imagine diving in that slimy water wondering if you are going to be swept up against the boilers and scalded to death I Up on deck another fight was going on against the elements a the ship reeled under the shock of the gigantic waves, but our story is below decks and below decks we stay, The four men in the black gang fought the advancing water for 24 long hours without relief. Once the captain came down and asked if they wanted more men, but the chief engineer knew that a green- -' horn would only be in the way and asked for a bottle of rum instead. The rum came down and Harry says it saved the lives of everybody on that ship. The rum gave the exhausted men new life and for the next tyvo hours they worked like madmen. The high point of the water was only eight inches from thv. boilers. Another inch and it would be the boats, and the boats could never live in a sea like that But that extra inch never came. Instead, the four men watching the water in the ash pits suddenly let up a weak cheer. The water had stopped! The pumps were at last holding their owni Youll get along well with Old Quaker. It has made more real friends than has any other straight whiskey in the country. Sales records prove that conclusively. Old Quaker is the sensible whiskey sensible in taste (Man, its smooth!) sensible in price (and, Man, its easy on the purse!). Old Quaker is a square deal all around, no matter which way you take it. No. 167 After Deaths Vigil the Black Gang Got Hungry. (RYE) PINT No. 64 (BOURBON) No. 63 (BOURBON) As you prefer in BOURBON or RYE No. 166 Harry climbed Well, sir, the gang realized then that they were hungry. perilously up the ladder to the deck to search for food. The galley was and kitchen utensils that slid back and watersoaked mixture of food-stuff- s forth across the floor with every movement of the ship. The ships cook was gone seasick. And the galley fires were long since dead. But that black gang had to eat so Harry fished up a'slde of bacon and to snare a frying pan finding some eggs unbroken in the Ice box he managed and carried his prizes down the ladder again. (RYE) QUART The U. S. Coast Guard to the Rescue! Two men braced him then as he held the frying pan over a shovel full of live coals. Harry admits it was the best meal he ever tasted in his life. He admits, though, that he has had better service. They had coal dust for picked the food out of the pan with their hands and swell. tasted if but and salt pepper Then came the coast guard and towed the disabled yacht Into Norfolk, hard-luccruise of the Ulvira was history. and the mid-winte- r, k WNO Service. , N 90 PROOF H, US STRAIGHT WHISKEY Copyright 1936, The Old Quaker Company, Lawrenceburg, Ind. Division of SCHENLEY PRODUCTS CO., Inc. BRAND |