| Show T T- T t. t ADVENTURERS' ADVENTURERS CLUB H HEADLINES E A D L I N E S FRO FROM M THE L LIVES I V E S OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF The Gra Gray Fanged flit e Terror enrol HELLO EVERYBODY HELLO Dorothy Dublin of Brooklyn N. N Y wins the place of oi honor today with the story of a terrible experience that once happened to her dad That makes her dad Jacob Dublin the clubs club's newest Distinguished Adventurer I It happened in Russia in the town to of near the city of Minsk 1 close by what is now the Polish border and it happened happened happened hap hap- forty-eight forty years ago in the late fall of 1888 when Jacob Dublin was just a little year old boy If a grown man had gone through the adventure that little Jake Dublin encountered on a lonely country road that chilly fall evening in 1888 it would still be a wow of a story But when an adventure of that sort happens to a year old kid well then well then you have a new definition definition of the true meaning of the word terror They had wolves in West Russia in those days For that matter you'll still find wolves in certain parts of Russia today Then there were plenty of them them and and more than a afew afew few lew lurked in the forests around Those wolves gave little Jake Dublin plenty to worry about too For it was his duty to drive his fathers father's horses to the feeding ground every day and that feeding ground was on the edge of the forest Wolves Harmless During Morning l Hours It wasn't driving the horses TO the pasture so much as driving them home again in the evening that worried little Jake In the mornings the wolves never bothered anyone But in the evening emboldened by bythe bythe bythe the darkness they had been known to attack grown men The result was that little Jake had to be mighty sure to bring those horses back from pasture while it was still light And if it ever happened he was delayed until dusk began to fall well then well then his dad took over the job of bringing those horses home But one day things went wrong out at the pasture pasture and and little Jake Dublin almost didn't get back He started early enough If II he had come back as promptly there wouldn't have been any danger But trouble started i when he be reached the feeding ground and tried to bring the horses horses's s 's home There was a beautiful ul filly in the herd called Tara which was as yet unbroken A couple of times before she had been hard to manage but this afternoon Jake couldn't do anything with her For almost an hour he chased her about the pasture trying to get her under control I It was almost dark by the time he got her quieted and still he had the other horses to round up It took him another 10 or 15 minutes to tol l y f f c I I j I Suddenly a lithe gray form shot out of the woods and sank its teeth into the neck of the first horse get all aU the beasts tethered together one behind the other the way his rus dad had taught him to bring them in and by that time it was night Little Jake Has Choice of Two Paths 1 I The forest to one side of him was ominously still Dark treetops loomed over him silent against an almost pitch black sky Little Jake knew it was no hour for a year old boy to be out alone He knew that the quicker he got home the better There were two paths he could take on his way home One path turned into a road that ran along the edge of the forest It was a roundabout way but it was a little safer than the other The other ran part way through the forest It was more dangerous than the first route but it was shorter and it went I straight toward his home Faced with a choice between these two paths little Jake chose the one that went through the forest On either path there was danger from wolves Jake picked the shorter way because because he well he wanted to get home just as fast as he could He started down the path leading his long string of horses He hadn't gone very far when suddenly Tara who was the second horse in inthe inthe inthe the line began to get unruly again She bucked and reared The rest of the horses became nervous and fidgety Wondering what was the matter with Tara now Jake moved down the line and tried to calm her But the horse wouldn't be calmed Something was frightening her herand herand herand her her- and frightening her mighty might badly too Little Jake wasn't long in finding out what was frightening Tara Suddenly a lithe gray form shot out of the brush alongside alongside alongside along along- side of the path and sank its teeth into the neck of the first horse borse A wolf I Forest Turns Into a Shrieking Bedlam Then in an instant the stillness of the forest was rent by a ai i shrieking bedlam The other horses screamed and struggled i 1 while the first horse blood gushing from his throat was pulled down by the wolf So far the wolf had paid no attention to little t Jake He lie was too intent on making his kill kiIl But now other wolves were coming attracted by the noise and the scent of blood Jake co could ld hear their weird howling coming nearer and nearer When the rest of the pack arrived then arrived well then hed he'd be in for it Then there would be a general slaughter of his poor animals animals ani ani- ani- ani mals mats and he hc too would find how it felt to have a wolfs wolf's fangs tearing at his throat He stood in the midst of his rearing plunging horses too stiff with fright to move a step What good would it do him to run anyway Those wolves could pick up a scent and follow it faster than he could run And then little Jake saw it it-a it a light Far down the path half obscured obscured obscured ob ob- ob- ob by trees a torch was flaring Then he saw another another and and another He could hear voices now now now-men's men's mens voices shouting to him to stay tay where he was The wolf heard those voices too He slunk off into the forest and the howls of the advancing pack were stilled In a few moments a band of villagers came running up the trail They had started combing combing combing comb comb- ing the forest when little Jake didn't get home by nightfall nightfall and and they had arrived just in time to insure his getting home at all Released by Western Newspaper Union Alaska Pays SI 51 Bounty for Eagle U. U S. S National Bird I In Alaska the government pays a bounty of 1 on all eagles that are destroyed because they are said to prey on salmon in large numbers Most of the states in the Union offer the eagle no protection and it may maybe maybe maybe be Killed Filled at any time the same as asa asa asa a hawk or owl but none offers a bounty Michigan and a of oth other r states have protected the eagle as a non-game non bird and it cannot be shot at anytime Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania thinks so much of our national na national national na na- bird that it has just set aside an eagle sanctuary on Mt Johnson island in the eastern part of the state stale where the bird is protected There you have four different opinions of the economic value of the eagle all from one country If the eagle is of sufficient value and interest to be preserved and encouraged encouraged encouraged en en- to propagate in a minority of our states is considered a pest in Alaska and a bird of little or no account in most of the remaining states then just lust what is its real status This is one of the many incidents of little accord throughout the nation on the economic status of many birds |
