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Show MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA. UTAH W to .fcyd c CLUB Jj dVENTURERS end ? 4 vaH Tin lT" l LpHNES FROM THE IIVE5 .HOME HKE YOURSELF! " eJ a7 lrd that EVttj Aj, which the organizing tn ly over watt a7. or river i Fear of the Devil Was ' A m wiimi i ' I " L maiiiiijn . of Instilled in Him. nights, and he used every method he knew to get results, him stories about ghosts he had seen in the neighborhood that hair stand on end. He told Harry that the Devil rly made Harry's aied the country of nights, waiting to snatch up young boya who redout late, and Harry half believed him. But not even the fear of Devil could keep him away from those Gaelic classes when all the a young lads of spirit in the neighborhood were going. So; on cer told of Bladeh. :nunodor, & th Aaser tohJ numed ic th 8nt rrf Is authority) sights, Harry slipped to Strelan, where the Incident SOMETIMES one small lifes trend, and out of the house and off through Ovens ii- r -j 1 !2l.lAt':.. I an were! Stripped ceeraj tycf the tripping : 150 yean w rd fat': V7t i( i ceived to study law at Kirksville i , nJLlr J - Although royalty is ever clannish, whether they retain their crowns or not, it la unusual to photograph three royal exi" In a group- - They are Amerle of Portugal, at Lausanne, Switzerland. Left to right: Alfonso of Spain. The occasion Ferdinand of Bulgaria and niece of Alfonso, was the marriage of Princess descendant of an old Polish family. to Prince August Czartory-Sk- i, ex-Ki- g Marie-Dolore- RAINBOW QUEEN ;" g s, Eye-Dropp- er Coo-lidg- Baby Faces Camera V YWV should have reassured Harry but it didnt. Straight ahead see a dark form coming straight toward him. It was a Joit squat form, moving steadily to the clank of its chains, and Harry ld see the horns sticking up from the top of its headk him he could woolen mills of tha town and tha family was very poor. John attended the Catholic schools and was an excellent student winning a scholarship to college. There be studied for the priesthood. At an early age John McCormack! voice showed promise and at tha age of nine he sang In a school entertainment Music waa not one of the subjects offered at Just a Stray, Friendly Donkey. Coming to get him! Harry lay there quivering terror as the Devil came forward with alow, steady steps. He wanted to scream, but he couldnt find hia voice. And then, U at once, the figure moved right into a beam of moonlight, and Barry let out a low, hysterical langh instead. The figure came up to him and began rubbing against his leg. But H;ry had forgotten his fear now had even forgotten the pain in hia knee. Tw what. Harry had seen in that atray beam of moonlight was, not M Devil, but a DONKEY a donkey with eara not horns sticking up from his head, and with a length of broken chain clanking on one of his Nick! vi'.h m said legs, Harry says Jackass. He first time in his life that he ever felt like kissing scrambled up those steps and limped on homeward to ourse a sore knee for a week thereafter. And after that he could listen fr dad's ghost stories without turning a hair, for he had a pretty good !ea of how such tales get started. In fact, hed have, started one himself -- d it hadn't been for that stray, revealing ray of moonlight. Service. . , thats the C-- i jniM a HI V - I a the everyday business rite Louis i nierican 'fry found-shape- se- , correspondent Giant Transatlantic Planes Near Completion Globe-Democr- kitchen matche.are made of pine wood cut in oI without smoke or odor. in Europe they are asPen and are cut aquare. as()en wood can be dried "racially in a couple of hour and into matches within the next Thus three hours may aee e n aspen log to a few red r more boxe matche. But Pme la t0 be allowed to atand inr of year before it is auf-... uy seasoned to be made up. . .r is more than one might in the matter of dip-- f ed into the that makes the head. hueads are really the product cheniical research. For totT, matebea ,peoPe ehrt Co'or thetheir chemical ha ti flyed a Pleasing blue or red. I double UP- - capable et beinj5:, on itfiv. ' your any surface a Wall, hoebeI mut not kav. slrtak or -- scratch after V them nu,t nt be noisy and Pp Up :.hy 'he person using them. r,m,lcfa s,-colution - Roof of the World The Pamir mountain region in Central Asia ii, called the roof of the world because of its great altitude. In India the Pamirs are called literally meanthe "Bam-i-dunyof the world. roof of or the top ing The word Pamir itaelf, according to the most logical theory, is derived aigni-fyin- g from the Persian pai-ml- t, the foot of the mountain peaks. The region around the North pole also is sometimes called the roof top of the world. . a, n NC;S.C3i Share sixty - four expression, shares," representing full ownership in a marine vessel, goes back to the merchant shipping act of 1854. diby which every British ship was vided into 64 parts and every owner of auch a part was registered" as a part owner of the vessel. These the Atlantic are the abt giant flying boats now apbut Larger than the ship In which Columbui first crossed c parts could not be subdivided, aervice. Cutaway American of system for Pan the Airways order on 1 completion any number of them from to 64, proaching one of the liner is shown above. The three-dec- k to carry 50 passengers on ere ship designed of could be registered in .a single diagram schedules between America and Europe. They will have a top speed of 200 mile per hour. . name. . Sixty-Fe- years, the earth lies almost exactly in tha plane of Saturns rlnga. At this time, we view the ring, edge-owhich makes them moat difficult to see and for a few hours, they are invisible, even through the most powerful telescopes. n, Civilisation Sometime, " said HI Ho, the civilization Sage of Chinatown, ceases to march onward, but dances In careless gayety; moving backward or forward, caring not whoa toea may be trodden on and eventually getting nowhere. mentioned by burning apring George Washington on his visit to Kanawha valley. West Virginia. No U, S. National Flower The goldenrod has been popularized as our national flower by ichools and various societies, but there is no official national flower for the United States. A Caldera , Vegetable Ice Cream Tha cherimoya, a South American fruit with a custard-lik- e center, has been called the vegetable ica cream." eye-dropp- er w Saturai Rings caldera la a broad, open and crater of a usually volcano, like that in the volcano of Kilauea in Hawaii lected Rainbow Queen In the first The matches must be made to annual of Matches in Queen of Queens contest at they will not flash up too soon. They Long Beach, Calif. Scores of beauDaily Use Through World must have no sharp edges, but must H baby who waa bom at Jacquelyn Clement, New Orleans who were selected as the matches used in the smooth and oval so the heads will tiful, girls be six and a half months, weight a scant two pounds. Is shown as she was exlt events throughout various of one day were queens placed end to not rub against one another in peowere en- posed to the public eye recently for the first time. Dr. Roger Knapp, Bapd. they would reach to the moon ple' pockets and light on each oth- California In the paat year tist hospital interne, ii holding her for her first view of the cameraman. event. 10,000 miles beyond. Thlpk how er. They must be fairly waterproof tered In the Portant these baby explosive and windproof, and must bum are in !h! WOr!d' in St. In At intervals of 13 to 13 A 11 I The Flowery Kingdom "Flowery Kingdom is a translation of the Chinese Hwa Kwoh, the most ancient name for China. Hwa means flowery or distinguished. It la believed the Chinese ao designated their country because they consider themselves to be among the most polished and civilized of all nations. ; Million I -- Early Politics in China In ancient China a political association was considered a social evil and an indication of a rebellious spirit against the state. Lgl.Ylfc III.I Miss Anna Bell Weir, who was half-lizar- Tit-Blt- SOMETIMES parents despair Nellie Bly," Negre Song about their children. Just because a youngster shows no 1 There Is a song called Nellie It was wrUten by Stephen C. aptitude for tha job his parents may Bly. choose for him Is no indication that Foster in 1849 as a negro song. It is possible that the Nellie Bly failure await him. If John McCormack had followed who went around the world In 1889 tha plans of his father ha might took her name from the song. have been a Catholic priest Tha First Natural Gaa famous tenor was born In Athlone, The first natural gas discovered Ireland, In 1884, fourth of eleven children. His father worked In tha in this country was probably a am up!" The light Old schooL Then cama the incident which changed his whole lift. Jack Pershing saw an advertisement announcing competitive examinations for West Point He had only two weeks 7to prepare, but he won the appointment At West Point he won prominence as president of his class and aa first captain of the corpe of cadets. Possessing the characteristics of a perfect soldier, his assignments after graduation into the army were marked with success. While a military instructor at tha University of Nebraska, he resumed hia law studies and took hia' degree. National' honors were accorded Since the army conducts lta own the memory of Andrew W. Mellon, military courts, this gave Pershing secretary of the treasury in the cab- an opportunity to combine hia busie ness love with his soldierly success. inets of Presidents Harding, and Hoover and one of the When the World war broke out, he nation leading lnduatrialists who was made general of the U. S, army. died at Southampton, N. Y. FAMED TENOR MIGHT HAVE BEEN A CLERK - , rj Normal i W .if 3. ' i L drag himself ivt viopt a ins again and the sound was COMING TOWARD HIM1 ility. "I guess," says he, that you know how a rabbit feels when he' ving bet :oking into the eye of a snake that is hypnotizing him. Well, thats just a gnjf ;1 felt then I couldn't stir an inch. I could hear alow, rhythmic foot-li-k on the gravel and the found of the chain, keeping time with every tp. It seemed an eternity that I lay there powerless to help myself mting for what I was certain must be the end. And just then the moon iaae - s.t Harry just lay there, unable to move. specter, and in a fit of terror he up the steps. Suddenly he heard that clanking of to VN i i t One Breath aa Hoar How long can you hold your breath? Half a minute Is easy, one minute difficult, two minute possible, but this needs a lot of practice. Yet the two-folong Tuatara can stop breathing tor a whole hour, and appear none the worse for it. This relic of the prehistorio ages, s MagazIne, Is says half crocodile, and exists In New Zealand. It hat three eyes, one a blind one at the top of the skull; stomach plates like a tortoise; aoft spikes along lta spine. It eata just one snail a day and practically never moves unless disturbed. Its eggs take year to hatch. to tha Royal Swedish Institute of Anatomy. Later, says a writer In Colliers Weekly, he cam Into a fortune and wished to cancel the contract. Not only was the case decided against him, but he had to pay the institute for two teeth which had been extracted without its : - 1 Prod acta From Salt Out of the aelt one uses to flavor hie food chemists make a great variety of product. Among these la a refrigerant used In preserving foods and cleaning solvents which remove dirt, grease and spots from clothing with the greateit hf ease. Chlorine ti also made from aelt. It la widely used to safeguard th purity of water In municipal sya-teend In swimming pools, as well aa for bleaching paper and textiles. Another product of aalt ia odium peroxide which la used to bleach all kinds of textile fibres, particularly cotton. Sodium perborate, which is a beneficial ingredient of tooth powders and mouth washes, is also derived frorft salt. Did Not Own His Body An odd lawsuit, in which a man sued for the ownership of hid corpse, took place in Stockholm In 1910. Twenty years before, he had sold It PASSES STATESMAN ;nn dabbing through his knee. The pain was so intense that he thought of that chain-clankin- g irFidci i of ' Hying j :3. Three Royal Exs All on One Spot ht . leap. That leap was nothing short of disaster. Harry missed his His toe stubbed on one step his knee cracked against feeling. he edge of another. Down in a heap he went, and then, for an instant, he lost consciousness. When he came to again be was lying on the steps, still inside the cemetery, with a aharp pain ited chief ; j whole course. John J. Pershing, who rote to be general of all the United States army, might have had an entirely different life had he not taken advantage of a lucky opportunity. He waa born In 1860 at Laclede, Mo. Hia father waa boat of a railroad gang and. later, e farmer. John quit echool when be waa thirteen to work on the farm, digging fence holes, herding theep, planting corn, all the usual jobs that are the lot of a farm boy.- - Ambitious to be lawyer, be etudled night after night In 1879, he got a job aa teacher in Prairie Mount Mo-- , and saved most of the 40 per month ho re- - war-ridde- ' Trta all Mrs. Bibb (Dixie) Graves, wife of Alabamas governor, whose husband appointed her to the United States senate to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of Senator Hugo L. Black to the Supreme court. 3 Following adjournment of congress. Representatives Maury Maverick (left) of Texas, Knute Hill of Washington and John M. Houston of Kansas buy their railroad tickets for home. 3 United States marines loadn China. ing their packed sea bags on a truck as they prepared to leave for duty in It Sure Looked and Sounded Like Satan. after he was well in the graveyard that Harry remembered the left Strelan at 11:30, and now it would be about mid-gthe hour when, according to hit dad' stories, the Devil was in the bit of appearing on earth. After that every tombstone looked as if it n pinning at him. Every shadow looked like a specter. And Harry pn walking faster than ever. He had just passed the old church that stood in the center of the .Hindi when suddenly he heard a ound.-I- t was the clanking rattle of tfcain. Harry broke into a dead run and fled for the exit He says he ide it in nothing flat. . The gate was locked, but there was a flight of :eps leading up over the wall, and in his panic he tried to take them in beyond 1 : He had j ' fr;1 Rwas ) y-- ' st United Si. ' , . . I ' te HounJ ' 2 i ' class was held. t on but it waa the coming back that worried thtfey' It was all right going Coming Barry. Coming back in the dark along about II oclock. kick through the graveyard, with ita black and white ahadows r Bird jfeat'i when Harry used to think of the atorlea his dad would tell mmon tnd kia and run fast so that he'd get home all out of breath. garden tfi And then came the night that the class broke up later than usual, and wn tailor be 11. He walked walk home until half-padidnt start his four-mil- e Then they left actually a frry couple of other lads for the first mile and a half. th thread off in another direction and Harry was alone. He was more go ri of caterpn, ijetant than usual to go through the graveyard, but it would cut half 3er, or to silc off his journey, and even if he went the long way he'd have to pass i within r.g thc edge of that graveyard anyhow. So he started right through. WUtW f - to prominence prevloui dreamt. We all recall one or two unexpected happening In our own live which changed their iS Vw- KiJiumniimwinW, i grave-r- leads V The Gaelic language had been man who wanted Harry to be at Hirrys dad was an nearly tom Tr h K ' , oreosed in iP at aifc! r 'it all over Ireland. the public schools and the young fellows of the neigh Toed were meeting in secret sessions to learn the Irish language as tu spoken in the days of the Irish kings. Itrtveliti ; - j have been prowling around at night when everybody krry shouldn't Anyway, the facta are. these: The Sinn Fein move-- j to be in bed. h ratini urn,' lo . jlcoa lwaIlo o -- that newspaper men would look forward to. ItjCi something . would give their ahirts to get Old Nick off In a corner and -- Look here, now, Dev, what do you think of American women?" He didnt give a Bat Harry wasnt looking forward to it. Old Nick, and he didnt give a whoop about rieep atout meeting women then, either. For this happened in December and Harry was Just a boy living in Cork county, Ireland, glSl?, dad shouldnt have told him ghost stories. And may gaybe Harry's fcj tco, J ODAYS rombou,, GENERAL WAS SCHOOL TEACHER t ; pleasant little tale, boys and girls, Is about a who lay in it waiting for death. Its graveyard and a boy York New L of City who is telling this yarn, Dennehy I failed to Jj t it concerns the time Harry thought he was about to get total o(3 exclusive interview with the Devil. 0ni 0 I N B y FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter rtiwahua Civfl war tu Pre4 h ' ' ' & Y Devil in the Dark v , Scenes and Persons in the Current News - ur The trans-Atlanti- ur An Emerson Teaching who taught that should be not wholly in the It wa Emerson on college, end so John had no opportunity to receive training for bis voice. It did not occur to him at that time that singing would bet hia profession. However, he did decide against becoming a priest, which must have been a hard blow for his father. But the man did not lack understanding and he encouraged the boy in hia desire to become e civil service clerk. When John failed in the entrance examinations at the school whers he would receive hi training, tnd when given a second chance forgot the appointment, hia father must have truly $ despaired. Then It began to dawn on John McCormack that singing was bis true vocation. He had loved to sing all his life. He went to Dublin and got a job in the Marlborough Street cathedral choir at $125 a year. He began to gain more and more recognition. sang for recordings cf the Edison and Gramaphone companies, and eventually became a star of opera. Today he is known the world over for hif golden tenor. WNU Service. ... J busy world, nor quite beyond it. A BUNS or mtAioHf WHISKIKt tursoor |