Adventure Magazine Cover, February 3, 1921 — page 186: what you’re looking at

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180 that would cast any discredit upon Camp- Fire itself and upon all those of us who like to gather in its warmth. Here is a list of Stations already estab- lished and in actual operation. Drop in on them when passing that way. CANADA—Vancouver, B. C. C. Plowden, B. C. Draft- ing & Blue Print Co. Burlington, Ontario. Thos. Jocelyn. Dunedin, P. E. Island. J. N. Berrigan. The Post Weekly, Deseronto. Harry M. Moore. Norwood, Manitoba. Albert Whyte, 17244 De Meu- rons eras Te P. Q. Nelson J. Cook, 2037 St. Catharine Winnipeg, Man., Walter Peterson, 143 Kennedy Street. CALIFORNiA—Oakland. Lewis F. Wilson, 1036 Thir- tieth St, Lost Hills. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Monson, care of Gen, Pet. No. 2. San Bernardino. Mrs. R. Souter, 275 K St. Los Angeles. Colonel Wm. Strever, Westlake Military School, Mount Washington. CANAL ZONE—Cristobal. F. E. Stevens. COLORADO—Denver. Elwoed Claughton, Street. CUBA—Havana. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—Washi Cigar Store, 1404 New York Ave., N HONDURAS, C. A. Dr. Wm. C. Robertson, Galeras, Olancho. INDIANA—Coennersville. Norba Wm. Guerin, 112 East 18 St. 1234 Elati B. N. Faries, Dominquer 7 Cerro. on. Fagan’s John Bradford Main, care of The ILLINOIS—Chicago. abash Ave. Junior Yanks, 144 S. LOUISIANA—New Orleans. W. A. Bussey, St. Louis Cafe, Dauphine and St. Louis Sts. MAINE—Bangor. Dr. G. E. Hathorne, 70 Main St. MASSACHUSETTS—Malden. Arthur R. Lloyd, 16 Cross St. MICHIGAN—Marquetta. T. Mitchell, Box 864, G. P. O. NEW JERSEY—Caldwell. Chas. A. Gerlard, P.O. Box 13 Bayonne, N. J. J. D. Gray, 92 West Sixth St. NEW YORK—N. Y.C. Robt. V. Steel, care of American Legion, 19 West 44 St. Jamestown. W. E. Jones, 12 Fairview Ave. Yonkers. A, F. Whegan, 173 Elm St. OREGON—Marshfield. F. J. Webb, 200 Market Ave. Salem. D. Wiggins. PENNSYLVANIA—Philadelphia. Wm. A. Fulmer, 252 S. Ninth St. Philadelphia, Street. TEXAS—Wichita Falls. A. M. Barlow, P. O. Box 51. ~ Heuston. M. B. CouchyRoute 2, Box 189. WASHINGTON—Republic. A. E. Beaumont, Box 283. Tone, A. S. Albert, Albert's Billard Hall. Seattle, Wash. H.C. Copeland, The Western Sports- man, 83 Columbia St. lang ~/ igi Frank Weston, Room 9 Tenny Alfred A. Krombach, 4159 N. Eighth Milwaukee, Paul A. Buerger, Apt. 2, 150 Biddie Street. Adventure Ge POWDER, the compass, spectacles, all these inventions have been at- tributed to early Chinese civilization. “China Tom” tells about greater wonders than these. Anybody tell us more about this tradition, legend or parable? Washington, D. C, I happened to be looking through the Ali Story Weekly (June 21, 1919), and in the “Heart-to- Heart” talks I noticed a letter from “A Reader’ saying they knew a Chinaman called ‘‘China Tom” in Helena, Montana, in the 80’s. This Chinaman often told a story of China hav- ing, thousands .of years ago, electric cars, flying- machines, and all manner of labor saving devices, even greater than the present age. Everything was even more advanced than in present times, so much so that no one was required to work; that the effect, morally, was so bad that the emperor was obliged to destroy it all. He claimed this tradition was handed down from generation to generation. Now, I wonder if any members of Camp-Fire have heard of this legend, and if they have, from whom.—ALBERT WILLIAMS. Nee a oats about a little known phase of Kit Carson’s life in a letter written by Mr. McCafferty in the Summer of rg10. (By this time I don’t need to explain that letters to Camp-Fire go into our cache and are drawn out for printing very largely ac- cording to chance.) I’m writing to the descendant of Carson and hope we may be hearing from him. Arlington, Texas. A relative of the great Kit Carson has just moved to’Fort Worth, Texas, to reside. His great-grand- mother was a half-sister of Carson’s, she being a member of her mother’s first group of children and Carson fifth child of the second group. That would make this kinship something like a one-half degree third nephew of the great Indian fighter and all-round he-man. This relative has just learned something new regarding the first wife of the scout. She was a beautiful Arapaho Indian and Carson first met her while interceding in her behalf against a drunken Frenchman named Shunar, an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company. The Frenchman hated Americans and made it a point to kill every one that “‘crossed his path.” When the argument arose between the two men, Carson said, “I am an American, and if yeu are determined to die, I am your man,” The Frenchy’s yellow streak blazed up and he tried to shoot Kit without fair warning—the same being “The man that draws the quickest is the man that lives the longest.””’ But Carson proved to be the quicker of the two on the draw and Frenchy suffered a broken arm. A bullet ripped along the side of Carson’s head. A few days later Shunar expired of blood-poison. SHORTLY after, Carson -married the Indian girl. They were married by the Indians’ ce- remony and again under the laws of the church’ in the year 1838. A child was born and named CORDICGOOOKS (C@)