Adventure Magazine Cover, December 18, 1919 — page 196: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

af ee ON 182 | get ready to. Tom Edison, tramp telegrapher, lights the world, splits one wire into four parts for the telegraph companies, braces them up with phonograph music, and other stunts, Where do they get that stuff? It’s partly up to us to respectabilize adven- ture and, besides the many of us who are doing it in a didactic and thematic way, this has occurred to me as another method. SIZE to fit easily in the coat pocket or roughly about the size of the page I am attaching (4%4 X6 in.) seems to be about _ right. The printing would jam up closer than the type of this machine I am using. This would leave more room for the seal space and for the remarks spaces at bottom. Two, if not three, such blanks could fill a page. Without taking much time to inflate on the idea, these books would prove useful: E: To establish an alibi when arrested on suspicion. (I was arrested in Matoon, Iil,, once for a burglary in Paris, Ill, and if the conductor of the freight I came in on had not volunfarily come forward with his story I would possibly have been locked up.) 2. Proof of residence in some place. 3. Record for quick trips by foot, mule, or — auto across country. F 4. Autographs of famous men. 5. Records of exploration. 6. To produce to newspaper men whensask- ing for publicity in small towns. 7. To prove a man is what he claims to ‘be. 8. As an ad for the magazine when shown and spoken of, etc., etc., etc. 9. To. establish records of residence for bond companies when not employed.—Epcar Younc. One page of Mr. Young’s plan for the book contains the following: One who carries a book of this kind should experience no trouble in obtaining signatures from American or other consuls, postmasters, railroad and steamship agents, mayors or other prominent persons of the city, town, village, hamlet, in which they happen to be, in order to establish beyond doubt a record of travel or exploration. Beyond the outposts of civiliza- tion, among Indians and others who are unable to write, the identifying person should be re- quested to make a thumb-print in the space left for “seal of office’ and a tiny pad should be carried for this purpose in a sealed cartridge- shell or other small air-tight container. Another page contains blanks for the bearer’s name, home address, nationality, male or female, weight, height, hair, eyes, complexion, physical marks—a description identification. Also direc- tions as to whom to notify in case of ‘injury or:death. Also certified signa- ture, thumb-print and photograph. Adventure Other pages contain (two each) forms for official seals and signatures: This is to certify that the person whose photograph and signature appear in the front of this book has requested me to witness the fact that he has been here on the above date and I assume no obligation whatever beyond e fact that I have seen him or her in person, What do you think of this idea? Let's: have your opinions and suggestions. In case the plan is put into operation a first step would be to get registered the names of those who would want EWigee books. S to the exactness of his story of the killing of Billy the Kid, in an earlier issue, E. A. Brininstool is ready to go to the mat: Los Angeles, ‘California. Pat Garrett was killed himself in a manner somewhat after that in which he killed the Kid. This is history. Ask anybody who knows New Mexican and Arizona. history. Ask John Poe, banker of Roswell, N. M., who was one of the three men in the party who captured the Kid—and killed him. As a matter of fact, I will wager Brother Wood $rooo in cash, and put wp the money, if “my story. of the killing of Billy the Kid is not éxactly as described by me. And we. will leave it to John Poe himself. Poe yet lives and is president of the Citizens Bank of Roswell.— E, A. BrININSTOOL. ee of T doesn’t seem likely to me that any | : man who hands out his honest opinions man-fashion at Camp-Fire will get any- thing but respect, whether all of us agree with his opinions or not. Nor will Mr. Cain, who introduces himself according to our custom on the appearance of his first story in our magazine, fail to find a good many of us who see things as he does, at least in a general way. ‘ South Orange, New Jersey. you ask me to make a bow to the Camp- Fire. I bow. That is easy. But, to tell anything about myself that would interest your readers is something else again. I’ve been a fat family man so long that it seems to me the only real adventure is getting the rent and keeping the door-step half-way free of bill- collectors. Compared to. that, the excitements I have got out of such uneventful. voyages as I once made, or- by batting about’ a little in small motor or sail boats—seem mild indeed. Honestly, this mere matter of life and death seems pretty tame to me. Dying doesn’ t look to me like half the sacrifice or pain of living 2@0KS (Q) ‘oe Ab. 'EOM:. meen Pw ‘ . . ’ at \e ) ” ae ee ee eee SRO os Kh We, Oh