Adventure Magazine Cover, June 20, 1925 — page 196: what you’re looking at

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i Our Camp-Fire came into being May 5, 1912, with our June issue, and since then its fire has never died down. Many have gathered about it and they are of all classes and degrees, high and low, rich and poor, adventurers and stay-at-homes, and from all parts of the earth. Some whose voices we used to know have taken the Long Trail and are heard no more, but they are still memories among us, and new voices are heard, and welcomed. We are drawn together by a common liking for the strong, clean things of out-of- doors, for word from the earth’s far places, for man in action instead of caged by cir- Ccumstance. radeship has grown up among us. The spirit of adventure lives in all men; the rest is chance. But something besides a common interest holds us together. Somehow a2 real com- Men can not thus meet and talk together without growing into friendlier relations; many a time does one of us come to the rest for facts and guidance; many a close personal friendship has our Camp-Fire built up between two men who had never met; often has it proved an open sesame between strangers in a far land. Perhaps our Camp-Fire is even a littie more. Perhaps it is a bit of leaven working gently among those of different station toward the fuller and more human understand- ing and sympathy that will some day bring to man the real democracy and brotherhood he seeks. and such great extremes as here. Few indeed are the agencies that bring together on a friendly footing so many And we are numbered by the hundred thousand now. If you are come to our Camp-Fire for the tirst time and find you like the things we like, join us and find yourself very welcome. There is no obligation except ordinary manliness, no forms or ceremonies, no dues, no officers, no anything except men and women gathered for interest and friendliness. Your desire to join makes you a member. wm TESTIMONY asked for by E. -_. f# _ O. Foster of our writers’ brigade es concerning the ant-heap and other 2} tortures said to be practised by natives of the Philippines. Will any with definite, first-hand facts on the subject either tell us about it for Camp-Fire in gen- eral or write Mr. Foster in our care? San Francisco. I wish you would ask Camp-Fire what they know about the ant-heap and other forms of torture practised by the “Little Brown Brothers” in the Philippines. I am of the opinion that some of the old-timers who lived over there in the days of ‘the Empire would say a mouthful. Personally [have never seen a man who had escaped from an ant torture, nor have I ever seen the bones of a man picked clean by the tiny pests, but, I have heard the rumor ever since I first set forth in the First Expedition to the Philippines.—E. O. FOSTER. THIS comrade’s letter has been sent on to Fred Halsey, and it is to be hoped they have ‘‘met up” - by this time. Incidentally, no one need ask whether he may join our Camp- Fire. If he wants to come in he’s probably our sort, and that’s all that’s necessary for joining our circle. Marietta, Ohio. When I was a kid and wanted to come to a camp- fire that some of the gang had built, it was com- pulsory to bring your “puddins” with you. (Pud- dins being a stick of firewood to help keep the fire going.) Now I ask you, may I come into your Camp-Fire? J have my puddins. AS at Muscle Shoals a few days ago and it was raining to beat a “pat straight.” I brought a copy of Adventure in order to while away the time and learned that I was not in existence. At least Fred Halsey said ‘“The MacBane is dead.”’ 178 : comiclbool Le