The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-08-28
MARKET FOR PIRATES
HAS FALLEN FLAT
international News service)

international News Service)
NEW YORK, Aug. 2S-Demand for
freebooters, filibusterers and pirates
of various degrees of legality is at a
low ebb. The war has killed both
the call on these gentry and the sup
ply of them Adventures of the
whole world, almost to a man, are
in the armies fighting the great war
Many have fallen. At the same time
international expeditions do not have
the free and easy time of it they
enjoyed in the past. Armed enter
prises starting inside their boundar-
les are frowned on more than of yore
by the United States and all other
strongly organized governments.
These were the facts learned to-
day when it became known a kind
of magazine employment agency for
soldiers of fortune had quit business.
1t is believed to have been the last
clearing house of the kind in the
world.
The magazine in question ran a
regular department where those VINO
planned strange exotic and desperate
ventures could get in touch with kin
bred spirits. The publication made
an effort to bar out illegal enter
prizes. with what success it is i'm
possible to say. But a good idea of
the kind of thing that has passed
with the coming of the world war
may be got from the following three
notices picked out of the one-a-month
advertisement column in this section
of the magazine:
Wanted-Fifteen or twenty men to
join me on the greatest adventure in
the world Must be gentlemen, ex-
perienced Adventures, dead shots and
no boozers. Don't want anybody, who
leaves a girl behind him. l will fur
nish a steamer and transportation
from San Francisco; arms and outfit
to be provided by each man. Ad-
dress No. 439, care of this magazine"
II want the following men for a
South Sea exploit: A gold miner, ex-
perienced in placer mining and as
saying; a gasoline engineer; a mess
boy, not under fifteen; a private sec
rotary who can keep record of the
trip for publication preferably one
who can operate a moving picture
camera. All must be good shots, and
afraid of nothing, and able to pay
their own expenses. Will give them
each IS per cent of gross earnings
Ills 10 SURE " Dt q pAOllldDiO fSnNul e.
Address ]. c. H. care of this maya
zine"
Strong and intellectual men-no
boozers-who can keep their mouths
shut, are wanted to help me dig VI
buried treasures under the altar o.
an old Inca temple. If a fool or {
detective should babble, there are un
scrupluous parties who would no
hesitate to charter a steamer, follow
us, and sink our vessel with all OF
board as soon as they got an inklinl
of our destination"
Here are some more calls for mel
from the magazine advertisements:
Men wanted to hunt birds of par
adise in Borneo:"
Moving picture operator and wire
less expert for a trip to Lhasa."
Good men on a trail, not afraid O
wolves, cold nights, hunger or mos
quitoes, to go on a long hunt for pos
sible surviving mastodons in Canada.
Men to help dig up a deposit O
bones of prehistoric animals in North
ern Indiana, with the object of sell
ing them to museums"
81 want to get in touch with
gentleman; he must be a good fel
low
II am a Vassar graduate going Of
an exploring trip up the Mackenzie
Want several healthy, cultured ladies
willing to be fined or fired on displa
of discomfort. No objection to SUI