Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1931, Page 87

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 27, STORIES SPORTS "~ 'GAMES, PUZZLES e ‘HE names of three different kinds of poems are hidden in this picture puszle. Come en, all you poetry lovers! THREE KINDS OF POETRY=- SON- i Each of the words below is the name of & well-known poet, with the letters disarranged. ©an you straighten them out? 1. DEFIL. 2. PIG! . 3. TRYNAB, . ORHEM. il ‘These word chains are also on the poetic Change BARD to SING in five moves. —e “Versify” is a good word to form a diamond. The second line is a cot, the third is a donkey, the fifth is to float in a current and the sixth #s often. Form the diamond. . Unruly crowd. . A continent (Abbr.). . Steamship (Abbr.). 3. Gentlemen. . You and I. . Agile. L1114 1 P Literary Triumph Sumbus has been taker?.n - - glad! ‘Who's Wife—Oh, dearie, I'm so taken it? Author—The maid took it this morning to light the fire with. / — GIRLS PAGE Beacons on Bar 4 Ranch &rory of Adventure Near Mexican Border BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. Because of Cliff Stover's ill health, his parents de- cide to send him to the Southwest for a vacation. After several months on the Circle Y ranch, owned by a Mr. Young, CUff recovers his health. As Cli Cliff’s di . tinto d s ieparture, an rides Trouble, one of the most spirited ponies h he has never ridden before. He gets along well until they are on the way home, when a big automobile races down the road almost runs them down. Trouble bolts and throws Cliff, but he is not hurt. Obie notices that the car was driven by a Mr. Granville, who is living on the r 4 ranch nearby, and he is angry when Mr. Granville does not stop. b INSTALLMENT II. HE beys were very hungry when they reached the ranch, and as they ate the evening meal in the low-ceilinged dining room of the ranch house, they recited to OBie's father the events of the day. Mr. Young listened with stern face to the account of Cliff's fall. “I'd never have forgiven myself for letting you ride Trouble if you had been hurt, boy,” he said finally. “And that man Granville ought to have had more sense. He should have known that a cow pony might be easily scared. I like him even less than I did before, now.” “Just what is he doing over there on Pop Enchs’ ranch?” inquired Obie. “He doesn't seem to be working the place, and he let all * Pop's hands go.” “Guess he has money, and is just living there as a man of leisure,” said Mr. Young, with a hint of contempt in his voice. “Well, it's & funny place to pick for it,” de- clared Obje. “Pop Enchs never had any luck with the place, and I don't think any green- horn like Mr. Granville would find much to his liking on a ranch that Pop had let get all run down.” “Well,” said Mr. Young, as he arose from the table,” one thing I learned years ago is that it pays to mind your own business in this country. If we don’t like Granville as a neigh- bor we don’t need to have anything to do with him, provided he lets us alone. But if Cliff had been hurt this afternoon. I think a little talk with Mr. Granville might have been in the cards.” HE boys were very tired after their day on horseback, and they went to bed even earlier than usual. But before CUff climbed between the covers, he paused at the window a moment _ to let his eyes rove over a familiar scene before him. There was a big, bright moon and every- thing stood out in sharp relfef. Down near the horse corrals one of the hands who had been cleaning up the ranch yard was burning brush and trash in two big piles, and the pungent odor of the smoke came strongly to CHff's nostrils. He was going to miss the Circle Y ranch dreadfully when he returned East, he told him- self as he turned away and climbed into bed. He’d have to make the very most of these last few days there. He dropped off to sleep almost immediately, nor did-he know how long he had been sleep- ing when he suddenly was awakened by a strange sound. Alert almost immediately, he listened, then jumped out of bed. An airplane motor, as sure as the world! What could a plane be doing flying so low over this country in the middle of the night? He ran to the window, and after a moment's search he made out the plane, circling very low almost directly above the ranch house. It looked as though it were going to land! Realiz- ing that any attempt to bring a plane down here would result in a bad crackup for the mis- guided pilot; Ciff hurriedly left the window and fairly jumped into his clothes. - He heard Obie stirring in the room next to his, and met the other boy as he burst into the hall. “It's a plane!” he cried excitedly. “It looks as though it were going to land. Must be in trouble!” HE boys rushed from the house a moment later, and stood craning their necks up to- ward the star-lit sky, where the plane could now be plainly seen. Again the pilot brought it down, almost directly over the ranch house. Then he suddenly zoomed, headed north, and continued on his way, still flying low. Just then Mr. Young came out of the house, and the boys immediately bégan an excited ac- count of the plane’s actions. Suddenly Mr. Young held up his hand. “Listen!” he said. “The motor has stopped. He must be down.” “He was headed for the Bar 4 ranch!” cried Obie. “Boy, if he landed over there he will have cracked up plenty. Come on, Cliff. let’s saddle the.ponies and ride over that way. He may be hurt, and we might be able to do some- thing.” Mr. Young looked as though he would protest, but the two boys were already on their way to the corrals. With flying fingers they saddled their ponies—CIliff taking Pete this time,>and not Trouble—and in almost no time at all they were out of the corral and starting cross-country in the direction that the plane had taken. “I'll follow you in a few minutes if you aren’t back, Obie,” called Mr. Young after them. “Take But the boys were in no mood to take it easy. The bright moonlight made riding simple, and the ponies, as well as Obie, knew every foot of the ground over which they were traveling. So they urged their mounts on, and sped down one With a Different Result Slim—What are you laughing at? Short—That fat man down on the other end of the lake skating—the fellow you said you bfl. - Slim—Well, what of it? Short—Well, the ice couldn’t bear him either. Client—I don’t like these pictures. They Then there’s the hunter who, mistaken for a deer, was shot down by a friend. “Tell my people I died game,” he gasped. B "CRAFTS _JOKES “PUZZLES POSERS 1. What American poet wrote ‘“Snowbound?” 2. Who is the present heavyweight champion of the world? 3. What two American flyers last Summer completed a trip around the world in nine ? 4. Who is known as “India’s Holy Man?” 5. What famous igoot-:?ll coach lost his life in an airplane accident? 6. What is the difference in time bes§ifn New York and San Francisco? 7. Is a nautical mile longer or shorter than a land mile? 8. What is a carnivorous animal? ANSWERS 1. John Greenleaf Whittier. 2. Max Schmel- ing. 3. Post and Gatty. 4. Mahatma Gandhi. 5. Knute Rockne. 6. Three hours. (If it is 11 o'clock in New York, it is 8 on the Pacific Coast.) 7. Longer. 8. One that eats flesh, Ancestors of Cattle CAN trace the ancestors of our cattle back to the time when the last great gla- cier melted from the face of Europe. Then we lost the trail. But about the time when ths immense moun- tain of ice receded, leaving behind it pasture land once more, there came into ancient Eur- ope, from the Orient, a great ox-like creature. He was much too fierce for our early ancestors of the New Stone Age to try to tame. So they ‘were content only to hunt him. Scientists have named him Bos Primigenius. Some time later these men of the New Stone Age succeeded in domesticating a much smaller race of beasts. And after their success with these smaller cattle, they again tried their hands on Bos Primigenius. We know that from an engraving on an ane cient vase. This picture shows men capturing these huge beasts in a net. Annother similar picture represents the tammig of (hiese animals, which were probably the ancestors of a-#fifge pumber of the cattle of eastern Europe today, animals were black, came to England much Iater, white cattle with Romans HITTe il — bird — bind — bins — sing — 4.01’?Y¢um' ond is V, bed, burro, versify, drift, 5. Cross Word Puzzle Solution.