Adventure Magazine Cover, April 1916 — page 224: what you’re looking at

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

ain adventure and experience and hoping to repeat the expedition at a future date—JAcK SNYDER and LAURENCE SHAW. ROM Manila comes a letter signed “Prospector” which registers a good score in our records of copies of Adventure that have done some adventuring on their own hook: Manila, P. I. I’ve recently returned from a prospecting trip in unexplored Mindora Island and left a copy of the June number with a Manyan chief who treasures it as a charm against witches. The story in that num- ber was called ‘“‘The Crimson Chamber” and I sure enjoyed it, reading by torch-light in a camp of the wild men. I think no white man—and certainly no American—ever visited that neighborhood before, but perhaps some one will come after me and find that splendid copy of Adventure.—‘‘PROSPECTOR.” —— ERE is a letter about “treasure that is neither lost nor found.” Now wait! Listen! Hold on a minute, caén’t you? Don’t write to me for “further information”’! Thaven’t any. All I know about it I’m giv- ing you right here in the following letter from a man I do not know, but who, evi- dently, has adventured himself. When you’ve read that you’ll know all I know about it. While in Los Angeles I met an acquaintance of better and more adventurous days. A man of little education and large spirit. He was on his way to Mexico, a soldier of fortune. Among the odds and ends of junk such a man gathers was a piece of smooth substance which I recognized as gem coral. I casually asked for the yarn attached to it. It appears he had been wrecked in a trader on a certain coast and getting ashore with others, had walked through that “damn stuff,” picking up a piece as a memento of the experience, not knowing what its value was. I did not enlighten him, but got the locality of the beach within a mile. Now, gem coral necklaces are worth from fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars per, as it is found only in Kobe, Japan. I have placed a scientific check on the story and am convinced that the gem coral could be there. Another point is that the story was told casually as an incident of a checkered career and there is absolutely no reason for him to have lied tome. To him it was merely a memento of an un- pleasant experience. Here, then, is a fortune waiting for some one to stub his toe over. As I probably shall never be in a position again to “‘go see,” I give you the facts with the exception of the exact locality and the check I put on the story.— Harry F. WALLACE, Barbarian Athletic Club, Pacific Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. 6 het following speaks for itself: As a reader of your magazine for the past two years I never fully realized the value of your iden- tification-cards until recently being injured and ly- ing three days in a hospital unconscious without Adventure identification, so kindly send one of your cards to me.—AYLMER F, HENKE, Milwaukee. LEASE do me a favor. When you use one of the Camp-Fire departments main- tained for your benefit, take the trouble to read carefully the note accompanying it. It will save you and us much needless trouble. Also, read our ‘Information Di- rectory” instead of writing us questions it has already answered. TER is the postscript of a letter from Will S. Hofford, a Camp-Fire member from the Pacific Coast, who stopped off to see me on his way back to England to en- list. He was, when he wrote, a lieutenant ‘in the 17th Royal Scots. There are, by the way, hundreds of our identification-cards in the big war. I still carry your card No.—. My brother Bob has, I pelieve, —or—,and he has been in the trenches in France now since February, 1915. He has had his share of the fighting ever since then and so far has not received a scratch—only about one-third of his regiment is left. INFORMATION DIRECTORY IMPORTANT: Only items like those below can be printed—standing sources of information. 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