Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1930, Page 95

" 'GAMES ' STORIES_SPORTS | e PUZZLES e You have all studied geography, and should therefore be famiiar with the four terms found #n the picture pussle. TERMS FROM YOUR GEOGRAPHY oW ® (ww) @ ¢ is a four-word square started for youw. second line is a garment, the third is a msusical instrument, and fourth is a period of Form the square. CROW R 1. Circumference, border. 9. Beams, as of light, 10. Ripped. 11. Before. 12. Young bhog. 13. Steamship (abr.) 14. North River (abr.). 15. Take notice (abr.). 17. Night (abr.), 18. A plaything. 20. A pad. 21. Adam and Eve's home. 23. Sport. 24. Ruined. VERTICAL. Introduced formally. Organs of hearing. BEBE S euapsrun. Schooner, sloop, cruiser and frigate. . Pair, fare. . Wed, 'dew. Ten, net. 5. Crow, robe, oboe, and week. 6. Cross-word puzzle solution. T v'THB SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST V7, 1930. [ ©%4eBOYS and GIRLS PAGE . Punkinville’s Own Summer Resort. o A Old Man Rand’s Treasure. Story of a Secret Passage and What It Revealed. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. Skeeter Smith, Hap Lane and Dave Peters, whe live in a small town in Ohie, decide to spend & Sum- mer afternoon hunting treasure. Several menths earlier Henry Ramd, an and sinee then his searched hidden there. one been Mr. Rand was wealthy. When the boys resch the Rand ace, on top of a hill outside the town, t T searchers have seek shelter river bank, whi famous. '‘Underground way."” very heavy rain nes m bank overhanging the cave and & sudden landsiide Blocks the entrance, siiutting the boys inside. ey knew they must get out at once or suffoeste. INSTALLMENT III. —yHE rays from Dave's flashlight made ominous shadows in the reeesses of the cavern as three boys stoed facing the wall of earth that held them prisoners, Suddenly Hap fell on his knees and began chopping again with his hand ax. . “It may be hopeless!” he cried. “But it's better than just standing waiting to die!” Dave dropped down beside him and began pulling feverishly at the mud with his bare hands. But Skeeter picked up the light that Dave had dropped and hwrried to the rear of the cave. He fiashed the light around the walls, but saw nothing save rough rock and earth. Suddenly moistened a finger in his mouth it One side of it felt cool. “Alr com from some place,” he said to imself. t means there must be at least a amall open hidden somewhere. hurried in the direction from which he feit the draft was coming, and found himself in a rear corner of the cave. Flashing the light on the floor, he uttered a cry of hope. There was a little loose earth lying there! That confirmed his idea that there was another epening. With his hands he explored the wall of the eave. For several minutes he found nothing and then abruptly some loose earth gave way under his hands and dropped to the floor. “Dave! Hap! Come here,” ‘he eommanded. “The tome of his voice brought them running, their pale faces standing out in the light of the torch. “We aren't going to suffocate, anyway,” he told them. “YT've found a small hole here that opens somewhere and lets air eome in.” AP thrust his hand into the wall,- some four feet from the floor. “There’s air eoming, all right” bhe cried, exultantly. “But where. from? This must be back under the hill, and /meny feet from the surface.” “But if that was be water coming down. dlutnr,'mmy," said Hap. might be able . Unless they got out, they might stay in this cave for days before any one thought to look for them there. But with an air supply, they were not rushed for time, and they could at least make an effort to find & way out of their prison. . HAP,whom'kldh(lnax.umnd- cry. Then he struck again. The boys all heard it—the sound of the steel blade striking wood. Hurriedly they pulled away the earth, and then their surprised eyes fell upon a board, standing upright with the earth packed around it. “This is something, all right,” cried Skeeter. “See if you can dig around the board.” But that would net work. Seen they had torn away the earth until a huge pile lay on the floor of the cave, but all they had suc- ceeded in doing was uncover two other boards, upright beside the first. “It looks as though these had been put in as supperting walls for the cave a long time ago,” said Skeeter. “If that's it, it won't do us any good to tear them away, and it may Jjust bring the roof down om our heads. * “But that air must come from somewhere” . protested Dave. “I've got it!” exclaimed Skeeter. “Perhaps there is a passage of some kind beyond these boards. Dig around the bottom, Hap. Maybe we can get them loosened that way.” ON hands and knees the three boys tofled. " ‘Soon they had removed the dirt from beneath one of the boards, but it failed to move when they tried it. Skeeter took the ax from Hap and struck the board a heavy blow. It gave back a hellow sound. “Hear that?” he eried. “That means it's not up against dirt on the other side. Let's attack it from the top.” the board's removal. “Golly!” exclaimed Skeeter in an awed voice. “It's a passage, all right. Look—it's high enough to walk in, and it runs straight back into the hill.” “I wonder where it goes?” said Dave. “I don't know, but it may be the way out,” sald Skeeter. “Let's get these other boards off and find out.” (To be comtinued next Sunday.) SIEN G (¥ Mulks o™ 1. One is lowered to take passengers up and the other is highered (hired) to do it. 2. N. R. G. 3. A don-key. 4. Rather the ele- phant killed the gorilla. 8. Too much hot stake. CRAFTS JOKES 3 PUZZLES : RIDDLES There aren’t many weeks of vacation Jeft. Soon school will be requiring the guickest thinking that we can give it. Bui im the meant me, riddles are fine things for keeping brains om the alert. 1. What is the difference between an ele- vater and the man who runs it? 2. What are the three most forceful Jéflers in the alphabet? 3. What key is the hardest to turn? 4. Would you rather an elephant killed you or a gerilla? 5. What killed Joan of Are? Likes Tobacco. Tobacco is bad for human beings, but it seems to be geod for elephants. A veteran elephant trainer points out that the big animals like tobacco better than anything else—even peanuts. “The common idea that elephants hate to- bacco Is all wrong,” said the traimer. “When we have a parade, it's a eonstant effort to keep them in line, because they will try to break away whenever they see a cigarette or cigar stub lying in the gutter. . “M you tess a eigarette near an elephant, you will see his trunk swish dewn and pick it up. Then he’l stamp out the fire “with his foot if the cigarette is lighted and eat it with the greatest relish. “Tobaeceo must be good for them because elephants are very seldom sick. I guess that’s a geod thing, for if apything as big as an elephant were sick much he'd be some job to nurse.” CaHed for Car. Mr. Richguy was about to pass inte®fhe Great Beyend. “Deoctor!™” he cried. call my car!” “I'm going—I'm golng— He]/)ing Others. Willie—Pa, the minister says we are here te help others. Pa—Yes, of course. That's right. Willie—Then what are the others here for? POSERS 1. From what BEuropean nation did the first settlers of New York come? 2. On what material did the ancient Egyp- tians write? - 3. What great Buropean city is noted its heavy fogs? v . 3 ” 4. Who is the mayor of New York City. :. Who shet Abraham Linceln? ; . What language is spoken in most Qentral American countries? 7. From what animal is veal obtained? 8. On what date was the United Mates Declaration of Independence' signed? s ANSWERS. . From Holland. 2. Papyrus. 3. London. 4. “Jimmy” Walker. 5. John Wilkes Booth, :.ls’n;‘nlfi. 7. From the calf. 8. Om July Quality in Marble, grayish shades are due to the carbonscecus matter, usually flake Red, pink or reddish-brown shades the presence of manganese exides Considerable marble is imported, Italy, with its pure white stone, leading. Prance, Germany, Belgium and Mexico also send in considerable stone, the imported supplies being used largely for interior decoration. The stome ranges in price anywhere from $1.50 to $7 and more a cubic foot. Marriage and Divorce. . Il" the old political axiom, “As Maine goes, so goes the country,” holds true in marital sfialrs, the final figures for 1929 will show a considerable decrease in divorce and a slight increase in marriages. Only 1,261 couples found that they had reached the parting of the ways during 1929, as compared with 1,315 in 1928, while 17 more couples launched upoiy the sea of matrimony than 1928's total of 6,178.