Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1920 — HIGH SPOT OF ADVENTURE [ARTICLE]

HIGH SPOT OF ADVENTURE

Pacific Coast Has for Many Years Been the “Huntinp Ground" of Gentlemen Adventurers. The Pacific coast seems to *be favored of the “gentleman adventurer," for one, a Scot, has given a great collection of South Sea relics, arms, armor and utensils to the University of British Columbia at Vancouver. The other, an American, a veteran of the regular army who has seen much service In the army and out of it, has given a Boxer flag to the Golden Gate Memorial museum at San Francisco. Both loved the open, the stir of arms and the savor of strange places. The Boxer flag brings up what today is almost ancient history; the siege of the legations, the coming of the occidental troops and the perils and sufferings of the men and women in that siege, have furnished novelists and writers of stories with much “stuff.” The South sea and its vast stretches have had the same lure for the adventurous, and now in their respective resting places these relics and trophies are there to show what two strong men of other lands found and kept. When we say that the Boxer flag was with its owner through St. Mihlel, the Meuse and the Argonne combats, and at Ypres, we have let an Odyssey dascribe itself.