Show ADVENTUROUS AMERICANS By Elmo Elino Scott Watson An American FEW If EW Americans have ever heard 1 of Marlus Marius Van de lie He stays pretty close to his tallow and caustics test tubes and chemicals and other scientific apparatus In his laboratory at a soap company In Chicago You wouldn't suspect that Marlus Marius a young man of less than 40 years Is an But that Is what you are when the Sultan ot of Morocco gives you a medal med al and says that's what you are Because Van de while a soldier in Morocco displayed unusual unusual un un- usual bravery under fire the sultan knighted him Van de was wasa a spahl In the Moroccan army right after alter the World war A spahl is a cavalryman During a fierce engagement engagement en en- with rebel natives Van Vande Vande Vande de rode back two miles into enemy territory to bring back the body of his slain commanding om car The kind of men the soldiers were fighting were those who tortured their live captives and mutilated those who were killed Van de deWeghe's deWeghe's deWeghe's heroism prevented the natives natives na na- na tives from burying the body of his commander with his head protruding ing log to be eaten by Insects But there is nothing of the hero In Van de present demeanor now that be he is an American citizen and the head of a family Whenever Whenever When When- ever anyone expresses amazement that he would risk his life to retrieve re ze trieve a dead body he adds his own amazement stating that neither can he understand how he happened to todo todo todo do it lt Prince of Trinidad I l TAMES I PRINCE OF TRINIDAD TRINI TRINI- JAMES J DAD is an impressive title The holder of It was an American who married the daughter of a Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard Oil company magnate He lie pred presented presented pre pre- her with the entire kingdom of ot Trinidad which they ruled together er with a firm hand Trinidad was easy to rule of ot course because Mr and Mrs James Harden Hickey the American Amerl Ameri can names of the rulers were the only human it inhabitants ants Their subJects subjects subjects sub sub- were the land crabs sea fowl and snakes with which the place i was infested i Trinidad is an island miles east of Brazil In the South Atlantic Discovered by the Portuguese and visited by the British no power had exercised active possession of it at atthe atthe atthe the time Mr and Mrs James 1 I went there and proclaimed themselves them selves rulers In 1894 But Dut their reign over this small domain domain do do- domain main that reeked with the odor of dead fish ended in January of the following year when the British sent the warship there to take over possession This wasn't the first time Ume James Harden Hickey was thrown out of a country lie He established a newspaper per Le in Paris in 1878 I and was so obnoxious in his criticism clam cism of the republican government that he was expelled In 1880 He lie died a suicide In El Paso Texas Tex Tex- as in 1898 just plain James Harden Harden- Hickey American citizen e Audacious Robert Stobo was famous for his bis HOUDINI ability to escape from almost anywhere Sergeant York was noted for his ability to capture enemies by bythe bythe bythe the wholesale but In pre days Maj Robert Stobo was famous for both The French from Canada were constantly arresting Stobo for supplying sup plying Washington with confidential Information about their plans But Dut regardless of where he was imprisoned imprisoned im im- he always managed to es cape After breaking out of a cell In Quebec he be paddled up the St. St Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence river with three companions Camping one day on the bank he noticed a small boat leave a French ship and make toward their camp camp- fire Knowing that the French were after him he could easily have retreated retreated re re- treated into the woods until they gave up the search But instead he and his companions hid and surprised surprised sur lur the party when It landed With little effort he succeeded in capturing the group croup that had bad been sent out to capture him Then after waiting for tor darkness he bad had the further audacity to order them all into the boat and with guns at their backs row back to their ship as 81 U It he and his party were captives They were all aU aboard the vessel before the crew realized that it was Stobo's Stobo party not theirs that held the guns Once aboard he be had the te upper hand and forced the tho entire crew of 18 to surrender But this was wu only onIl a good begin begin- ning In command of f the ship he set let sail and pulled alongside another another an an- other French vessel a mile down the river Without warning he fired fireda a broadside against the unsuspecting ing vessel and ad forced It Its surrender too Then he set fire Ore to It U. Proudly he set sail laU up the St St. Lawrence and returned triumphantly triumphant ly Iy to Colonial territory having performed per formed one of the most adventurous feats teats of his time e C western Newspaper Union |