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Show thk rich rmrwTv pwapfr ranww.ph. ASK ME ANOTHER o ADVENTURERS CLUB Demagogues Flatter Em People are patient with dema- HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURS ELF I O The Bomb in the Boxcar Hello, everybody: know, sometimes theres a lot of difference - ittah A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects 1. What explosive is most easily set off? 2. What was Voltaires first gogues longer than they are with name? statesmen. 3. What is the newspaper circulation in the United States? Becoming sophisticated is los4. How fast do raindrops fall? ing ones gusto for anything. 5. When was the first automoGone to join the bootjack, the built? bile woodshed and the oyster supper 6. What is meant by philopro-geneitthe band wagon. No kind of a vine clings to the The Answers cactus. The cactus attended to 1. Nitrogen A falling iodide. all that. on or a dust fly walking particle A spirit of adventure is what off. set will it it to makes a man prefer pick the lock rather than look for the key. y? between ; what people may think of a man and what he thinks of himself. In the case of John Feen of Miami, Okla., for instance, there sre people who think he is a hero. During the war, his officers were all for recommending John for decoration, because they thought a certain brave act of Johns deserved a medal if any act of heroism ever did. , But thats what the other folks think of it. Just between us, John doesnt share their views at all. t In Johns own estimation hes just a doggone Careless sap, and whatever happened was his own fault in the first place. And he deserved to be shot a heck of a lot more than he deserved a medal. ; : Thats what John thinks about it. He swears that what he did wasnt heroism at all. Well you can decide that for yourself. But theres one thing Im certain of. It may or it may not have 2. Voltaire was the assumed name of Jean Francois Marie Arouet. 3. The 4. Raindrops never fall faster than 25 feet per second; many of them fall only 15 feet per second. 5. The first automobile is generally conceded to have been built in Paris in 1769. France pioneered in the development of the automobile. That first French car was driven by steam. 6. It means love of offspring. Napoleon in Exile The Real Ones Will When we fall into misfortune, we are not going to lean on our friends. They have got to come to us. Wish that backbone could be inculcated as easily as learning. The Fox Discovered It Saying the grapes are sour is nevertheless a consoling philos- The worlds most restless and ambitious nature, Napoleon, spent the last six years of his life in exile on the little Island of St. Helena, learning enough English words to read what was going on in the Europe he once controlled, dictating his memoirs, gossiping about his English custodians, prebeen heroism but it sure was adventure! ophy. serving order and harmony in his The dodo is easiest remembered little French household, the sole Now lets take this yarn to Siberia and tag along with that little bunch of American soldiers who stayed over there after the war to because it is the one fossil without crumbs of existence left him to mumble. , a long name. clean up some of the tag ends of the Big Unpleasantness. Two bat-tallio- total circulation is UICK UOTES If the automobile had been developed in the same way that the political machine has developed, it would now weigh ten tons and cost five thousand dollars, it would have attached to it a steam-rollea lawn mower, an egg beatmachine and heaver, a permanent-wav- e U. S. Repreen only knows what else! sentative Bruce Barton. of the Twenty-sevent- h infantry were quartered at Berosovka, trying to keep a bit of order in a land where both law and order h&d broken down. The bandit leader, Seminoff, with a large band of Cossacks, was plundering and looting and murdering in the region, using an armored railroad train as a base of operations. .And on January 5, 1920, word came that he was headed toward Berosovka. As He Leaned Forward There Was a Sharp, Ominous Click. Both battalions were ordered to the field, and John Feen was in that gang, carrying a rifle and a knapsack full of hand grenades. Id like to tell you more about that scrap with Seminoff s Cossacks, but thats an adventure story all in itself. All I can tell you here is that file Yanks waited for Seminoffs armored train, blew up the track in front of it, and bombed and fought their way into the cars. On the last charge, John took what few grenades he had left out of his knapsack Oil) mOg? 00(3 0059 O otto GOaD csQ) QEb 00 QQ0(9G$i? BODY, Never He leaped forward and dropped on the pile of coats. and stuffed them in his pockets. Then the fighting was over and the Americans were climbing into the tiny box cars of a troop train that had come out from Berosovka to get them-In the car John was in, the boys built a fire in the tin stove, peeled off their sheepskin coats and. threw them in a pile on the floor. Then they flopped on the floor and tried to get a little sleep. . The fire blazed up, and the little car became unbearably hot. The coats were close to the stove, and John was afraid theyd be scorched. He got up to move them. As he leaned over and' slipped his arm under the pile there was a sharp, ominous crack, and instantly, every one of those tired men leaped to his feet. They knew ail too well what that sound was a grenade, getting ready to explode. Someone had left that grenade in his coat pocket, and John, in picking up those coats, had accidentally dislodged the pin! as men asked themselves Faces, says John, became wax-lik- e whose coat it was, and how far down in the pile the bomb lay. We were all praying it was on the bottom where the whole pile of coats would cover it. The swaying boxcar seemed to creak the fatal words, Ten -seconds to live . . . ten seconds to live. Ten seconds more on the of wheels the then nine then eight. The deep rumble tracks below sounded like muffled drums and the wind outside howled a mournful Litany of the Dead. The tiny candle that lit the car flickered spasmodically for a moment and died. The gloom closed in and still we waited. Up to that time everyone had been too stunned to move. A crowd of .tight-lippe- d doughboys stood motionless, waiting for death. John Feen was the first one to recover his senses. He screamed to that bunch of men to lie down and that broke the spell. A dozen heavy bodies thudded to the floors One man swore aloud. Another sobbed and a third muttered a womans name. But John was still on his feet. He was standing right over that bomb, and for a brief second his lips moved. He was praying. . . - - ! , . . . Body Protects Others From Grenade Blast. Johns . But it was only for a moment. : There was hardly any time for prayer. Three or four seconds more and that bomb would be going off. And he had a job to do before that happened. The prayer had hardly left his lips when he-- leaped forward dropped on that pile of coats his arms hugging them to him like a hen mothering her ' brood. That deadly engine of destruction buried somewhere in that pile of coats might blow him to bits, but the other fellows in the car would have a chance. One second two seconds and then there was a roar that -sounded to John as if it had come from the bowels of Hell itself. Bright scarlet flashes streaked the interior of the car. He felt the pile of coats heave beneath him. The first thing he remembers after that was that someone was lifting him. He heard someone else talking, and the words sounded faint, and far away, and hollow as if the man who was speaking them was talking He opened inter a barrel. . Slowly, consciousness came back to him. his eyes. He remembered now that bomb! Anxiously he counted the white faces that were bent over him. They were all there, those buddies of his. He sighed in relief and fainted. John woke up in the hospital at Berosovka a bit surprised to find that he was still alive. He probably wouldnt have been alive if that bomb hadnt been down at the bottom of the pile . of coats thick sheepskin coats that stopped the flying bits of steel. As it was, his arm was shattered and full of bits of corrugated ; ' metal and it would have to come off. A few days later, while he was recuperating from the amputation of that arm an officer came to his bedside and told him he was going to be recommended for decoration but John told that officer to lay off. He didnt want any medals. He didnt think he deserved any. All he had done was what he knew darned well it was his duty to do. You see, he says, it was my coat pocket that held that grenade! - - : i before in our experience has a tire met with such instant and unanimous approval as the new Firestone Champion Tire. Its the Safety Sensation of 1939! Our customers have started a campaign word-of-mou- th that is making this the biggest selling tire weve ever had. 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