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Show p corner THE iUCH FLOYD GIBBONS Adventurers' Club READER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Clyde Once Shallow' It Is just as natural to think of the past in Scotland. as to think of the present in America. Even! modern Glasgow with Its great Shipping Interests, canhot .be visited Without a memory recalling the day when the Clyde, which today received the great ofcean liners, once was so shallow that an boy could wade across it - elght-year-ol- d End of InquUition entered Madrid Id 1808 and though It meant Spain Was fioW under French rule, It was really a happy day for the Spanish. Fob Napoleon abolished the Inquisition that had been taking huhdreds of lives S year by the most cruel means for centuries. Napoleon The Man From ike Vest , By FLOYD GIB&ON3 Famous Headline Huntor. AyOU know, boys and girls, somfcwhfire in these United States A theres a big, soft voiced Texas cowboy, aiid if you know anybody likd that, tell him that Winifred McEvoy is looking forthint. N6 dofif get trie tvfoflg flew. Winifred isn't iooking for that guy .td Collect a bill( or to bawl hini out fof that tough cut of Texas bCef shd g6t ftohi the butchef shop last week. She Wants to thank that coWpuncher tot a little favor hfe did her once a little fa tor that she will never fdr&et as long as she lives. Add Back of that favOr lies a story an idVenture story of the first water This yarn goes back to 1624, when Winifred, with hdr husband and her baby boy, was, living in England. At that time, a bunch of American cowboys wefe staging a rodeo at the Crystal Palace In Londoh, and they had the whole doggone conservative town talking about the capers they cut up and the mdnkeyshining they did, at hours when the show was all over and they Were supposed to be in bed toi the night, ' Those cowpunchers rode down the busiest streets In London, on horseback, at full gallop, letting out ylpsand hoopers" until the! Londoners eats fang. They lassoed the hats Of! of London cops, and dropped their lariats od the ndeks of London gentlemed. Wrinkling thelf Immaculate collars, and discomposing them m6st horribly, bah Jovd Winifred JlcEvoy thought they were 1 bunch of roughnecks and so they were. I mean, It takes a roughneck to reason with a regiment of cows. Few college professors have ever made a success X threfe-year-ol- d 1 of it Cowboys Were Wild and Fearful Creatures to Her. Winifred never expected to meet one of these cowboys face to face, of them had come up and rung her front door bell, shed have run screaming for the police. Thats how scared she was of those wild and woolly westerners. But one day she did meet one and she has never had any cause to regret it Now It so happened that the whole McEvoy family were pretty keen on aviation. Winifreds' husband had been an officer in the Royal Air Force and had flown a sky bUggy all through the World war. And after this thing Im going to tell you about had happened, he said that hed often been scared during the War, but he'd never run across anything in the line of fright like the terror he felt just a Second or went into action. two before that big There was a big aeronautical exhibition staged at Hendon, in July, 1924, and the MclSvoyS went tip to' sed It At that time, Hendon was just a big field, with no modern facilities fof safeguarding the crowds that came to see the exhibition. Nothing but a rope separated the spectators from the field, and Winifred and her husband were standing at that rope, well up in the front of the crowd. Interestin Doings Take Their Minds From Baby. had their little boy with them, too Winifreds husband was holding They him In his arms. The little fellow didnt like that very much, though. He kept Royal Artist Many of the frescoes In the town hail of Stockholm were painted by Prince Eugeri, brother of the Swedish king. The town hall is one Of the most famous modern buildings in Europe, hnd architects from all hver the world like to Study it. Ro6f Colors In China In China the use to which a building is put is not Indicated by its design but by the color of the tliefs used for the roof. Green indicates an official place, yellow a commercial place ahd brown a place where people live. a Bath. for Elephants A favorite spectacle in Ceylon Is to be seen at Katuggastota, where the elephants bathe. The beasts are working Elephants and take a shower bath aftef each days work. They provide their shower with their trunk. Longest Bridge in World The longest railway bridge In the country, as well as the world, Is the Huey Long bridge spanning the Mississippi river north of New Orleans. It is 4.4 miles long with a water span of 3,524 feet, 135 feet above the water at high water. It cost nearly 520,000,-00- 0 and required three years to build. 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Planes were Rooming and stunting all over the field, landing and taking off so fast you could hardly keep count of them. And the next thing Winifred knew, she looked down to where her baby should have been where she could have sworn he was and well he Just wasnt there. Frightened, Winifred cast a quick glance out across the field. And there she saw something that fairly made her heart stop beating. A plane had just landed and was taxiing to a stop fifteen or twenty feet away from the ropes behind which she was standing. And toddling across the field right into the path of the plane was her little' boy. Youngster Wanders Into Jaws of Sudden Death. ' could see that Says Winifred : I was terrified, in one horrible second, I blades. I knew I the whirling propeller tiny, beloved figure cut to pieces by couldnt get to my baby in time to do any good and the toar of the plane would prevent even my voice from reaching him. "Crying my husbands name, I attempted to clamber under the ropes, when I heard a quietly compelling voice that even reached my hysterical understanding. The voice said: Dont get excited, Maam, and then I saw something happen that I didnt think possible. I felt a Jerking movement beside me, heard a swishing sound and saw a rope settle down around that baby form. In a fraction of a second, he was pulled to the ground and dragged to safety, out from under the whirling blades of the propeller. I BOURBON Americas finest blend of straight whiskies There is no other whiskey flavor quite like that of Golden Wedding. It is 3 whiskies blended, as fine coffees and tobaccos are blended, for Better Taste. PINT 202 Its e KENTUCKY STRAIGHT WHISKEY PINT.,. It all happened so swiftly that the drow iho were craning their necks at a particularly daring exhibition up above) didnt realize what had occurred. Aa I reached for my baby, the rope was deftly flicked from around his body. 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