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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH Collecting Driftwood This Man's Unique Hobby Travel in Fair Style SPAINS BARRIER RANGELEY LAKES, MAINE. driftwood and fallen Collecting limbs and stumps that resemble animals in shape is the unique hobby of Harry F. Allen, brother of former Gov. Frank G. Allen of Massachu- O The Pyrenees , where Romans once bathed, now boast thermal spas , Tens of thousands vacation yearly in these ro- mantic mountains of southwest Europe, setts. These pieces of wood have been fashioned into their strange shapes by the forces of nature the waves, the rains, the blasts of winter, and the withering rays of the summer sun. As one approaches Allens cottage he is greeted by an alligator poking its head over a boulder. The alligator is of wood. On the piazza, a fine buck deer of wood can be seen. Inside, other wooden images include a reptile with what appears to be the leg of another animal in its mouth. Some clever touches of paint on some of the specimens make them more lifelike. On one wall there is a strange looking creature which a small card informs is the Gyasticutus or Cave Canis. Lives on fish orN trouser seats. Dangerous when angered, the sign reads. In other parts of the room there Sitting pretty in the ricksha is Zoe Dell Lantis, model for the 1939 Golden Gate International exposition at San Francisco, Calif., as Bath are a seal with a metal ring around Peterson, another exposition beauty, takes her for a spin around Treasure its neck, a lizard on a mantelpiece, an eagle above a doorway, a Rocky Island, site of the worlds fair of the West; mountain goat, chin whiskers and all. Battleship, Pride of Navy in 98, Ends Days as Craneship U. S. S. Kearsarge Once One which in turn was named for Kearsarge, N. H. Of Most Powerful The Kearsarges career was Battleships. NEW YORK. When the United States Craneship 1 recently arrived at th New York navy yard, Brooklyn, in tow of the transport Sirius, her strange appearance swollen sides, odd deckhouses and huge crane disguised a former pride of the fleet, the U. S. S. Kearsarge. One of the most powerful battleships in the world at the time of her launching in 1898, the Kearsarge was brought from Bremerton navy yard, near Seattle, to assist in the construction of the two battleships on the ways at Philadelphia and New York. Ordered in 1895 and built at Newport News, Va., the Kearsarge and her sister ship, the Kentucky, were put in commission in 1900. Their 11,520 tons displacement made them the heaviest vessels in the United States navy; main batteries of four and four guns, each 13-in- ch ch 1907-190- 9. The naval progress which put the Kearsarge into the discard is strikingly illustrated by the contrast between that ship and the two battleships North Carolina and Washington, now under construction. The. new vessels will be more than twice as long as the Kearsarge; their displacement, 35,000 tons, will be three times as great, with the broadside of their guns in the same proportion. Finally, the estimated cost of the new ships is $70,000,000, whereas the Kearsarge was completed for about $5,000,000 not enough to pay for a modern destroyer. ot 16-in- Old Log Cabin Shingled PA. SELINSGROVE, Lyman his Baker shingled log firing a broadside weighing three cabin here with the slats from 800 tons, put' them in the top rank for lettuce crates. He nailed the slats fire power. over the logs and finished the reHad Daring Construction. was con- modeling with a coat of paint. The turret ld - National A. A. U. outdoor aquatic meet at Santa Barbara, Calif. She free style, the won the free mile free style, the free and the style style championships. She is shown with some of the medals she has collected. 880-met- er 440-met- er 300-met- er Pipeline 100 Years Old Is Made of Hollow Logs CHARDON, OHIO. A pipeline of hollowed logs 1,000 feet long, thought to be a part of a plumbing system installed about 100 years ago, has been uncovered by D. O. Root on a farm near here. Holes had been bored through the middle of the logs and the end of each log was sharpened to join the next. In one of the logs below the spring A hole had been was a cut-of- f. bored and a plug inserted. When water was required the plug was raised. It still will operate. Country Store Owned by Same Family Since 1760 - The store, whose shelves carry supplies ranging from molasses to Rubber boots, has been in the Wallace family here since 1760. On its books are records of sales to American troops at Machias during the Revolutionary war. MILLBRIDGE, Wallace general MAINE. " Lemonade Stand Up to Date Grape Vine Grows Peaches in Bunches WELLINGTON, OHIO. A wild grape vine that grows peaches in bunches has been discovered by John Hilliker, music store proprietor here. The clusters of the strange fruit look exactly like bunches of grapes except that the fruit is covered with the usual peach fuzz and is not as nearly spherical as the grape. The bunches of peaches are much larger than bunches of grapes which are growing on the same vine. The center of the peach is hard and contains what appears to be a developing peach stone. The grape vine which bears the hybrids spans a scrawny-lookin- g peach tree and Hilliker believes this made cross pollenation possible. , red as flames leap higher. The castle is burning in a most realistic manner. Superbagneres is as gay in winter as it is cool in summer. On its slopes are bobsled runs, ski jumps and even a skating pond. From and the Gavarnie to Argeles-Gazos- t, side trip to the summer holiday center of Cauterets, the road weaves through gorges most of the way. Pau, although in the Bases (low) Pyrenees, seems on the plains. When the town was capital of the old province of Beam, it was scin-- Spain. But the Pyrenees are more than a barrier. In many of five-inc- five-inc- where time has changed local customs but little. ranean and the Atlantic their mighty ramparts notch the sky. Like a massive Chinese wall they set apart the Iberian peninsula from the rest of Europe. Upon their crests has been sketched the boundary between France and Spanirfi-America- 370-fo- arrangement sidered a daring innovation, and was a precursor of the now familiar system of having the turrets in series, one over the other. Another distinction of the Kearsarge was that she was the last first-lin- e battleship not named for a state. Instead she'commemorated a naval vessel of Civil war fame, ignore. not warlike. Completed too late for the n war, she was on the reserve list and serving as a training ship for the Massachusetts naval militia when the World war came. Her only casualty was exsuffered through the peace-tim- e h of with a the plosion gun theoretical exception of one occasion when she was put out of action in a sham battle. The Kearsarge was one of the 16 battleships composing the United States fleet which circumnavigated Not long the globe in after the Kearsarge was extensively masts substitutrefitted, cage-wir- e ed for her stick military masts h and four guns added to her secondary armament. But the rapid advance of naval architecture had already overtaken the ship and she was put on the reserve list. In 1920 her masts, turret guns, propelling machinery and one funnel were removed; a wide bulge fitted to her sides to increase her stability; cranes and deckhouses added and the Kearsarge became Craneship 1. The cost of reconstruction was nearly Jean-de-Lu- Pyrenees form a that political map deep in this mountainous area could not All the way from the Mediter- Mt. $2,000,000. C. S. Craneship No. 1, shown passing through Panama canal, was once one of worlds greatest ships. THE STAR SWIMMER An ox team of the x , one Pyrenees at St. historic the of villages planted ABOVE Geographic Society. Prepared by National Washington, D. C. WNU Service. the quiet glens the early Romans exploited curative Jiaths. Now tens of thousands of visitors annually resort here to vacation in the mountains or take the cure at the numerous thermal spas. Thanks to the efforts of industrious French highway engineers, an excellent motor road, he Route des Pyrenees, traverses the entire length of the chain. Hannibal's Land Your journey begins at Perpignan, sunrise gateway to the Pyrenees. The countryside basks in the bright sun beside the Mediterranean and is rich with vast vineyards. Hannibal, with his troops and his elephants, camped hereabouts after crossing the Pyrenees. Actually the Pyrenees highway starts at Cap Cerbere, so you motor down the coast past Elne, and Collioure. Elne demands a sentimental pause, for it is the ancient Illiberis. High up on Cap Cerbere the traveler halts. You may look over into Spain, but you cannot go there. Because of strife in the south, the frontier is closed to, all traffic. You mount the narrow highway which loops, twists, and zigzags. to From Villefranche-de-ConfleMont Louis, both fortified by Vau-bafort builder for France in Louis XIVs reign, the road follows up the course of the Tet river. Beyond Olette the valley narrows into a precipitous gorge, with mighty boulders forming its gateway and ramparts. nt n, Home in the Sky Where the profound gap widens again, you catch fleeting glimpses of a village set high atop one of the rocky walls. It is more than a thousand-foot drop to the nearest bus view stop, but what a the residents must have! In less than 12 miles here in the upper Tet the road spirals and mounts upward 3,000 feet. On the downward slope toward Ihe Ariege you pass the road spur that leads to Andorra, quaint survivor of the old Pyrenean republics, with its loyalties united both to France and Spain. Although bleak at its beginning the Ariege increases in prosperity as it descends and widens. Snow-fe- d rivers fret noisily through but in the vicinity there are several hot sulphurous springs. Foix really is off the Pyrenees route, but it is still deep in the hills and for centuries was the capital stronghold for the counts who ruled the district. By good fortune you may arrive in the town on the chief day of its autumn fair. bumpem and dodgeems, catch-penn- y side shows, and every Coney Island attraction that young or old might wish fill the wide promenada. front-windo- w their soft rubber ball back at the opponent. tillant with court glory. Here in a room of the altered and restored castle, one can see the tortoise-she-ll cradle in which Henry IV slept as an infant. Red-White-R- ed As you speed along the road, you see slate roofs turn to red tile. Walls flash white in the sunshine and the houses take on red balconies and red shutters. Churches acquire differently shaped towers and every village has its fronton, or wall, against which the game pelota is played. Farmers, driving oxcarts of bracken down from the hills, wear inevitable berets. You have entered the Land of the Basques. ' On the road through Louhossoa, Larres-sorItxassou, and other strangely named places you journey. The young boys, had they been American, would be baseball. playing sand-lBeing Basque, they bounce balls against the village frontons. For pelota is to the Basques what baseball is to Americans. The game has several variations, some requiring a long field extending ' from the fronton. A soft rubber is used. In the play it is caught And So to Bed returned to the opponent from Then lights flicker in the castle d sipgle bounce or directly by windows, smoke pours from the bat- means of a long troughlike basket tlements, and the towers become strapped to the hand. Axles-Therme- Merry-go-round- s, tree-canopi- Complete with cash register is the lemonade stand opened on a St. Louis street corner by Dickie Bradley, left, twelve years old. Constantine Demmas, six years old, hands over a penny for a glass, after a sample sip. Dickie says business Is booming. Pelota players in the Pyrenees use a long troughlike basket to drive ed . s, Cambo-les-Bain- ot s, e, |