SUCH IS LIFE Works Both Ways JUNIOR, WHERE ARE | You GOING 2 THE PATTON COURIER By Charles Sughroe WELL MAYBE. | HAVE A GOOD EFFECT On Trail of Ghosts and birthdays are subjects Brown does not refer to. in the dead of night; of wild cries of tortured men and women, and of white robed forms flitting mysterious- iy about the place. Lee Chai-ling, an intelligent, edu- «ated Chinese of the international set- woman was lured to the hill by a young man and an old man. A charm seemed to have enveloped her and she followed them blindly. A bewildered | She was born. servant was with her. The vant | is a day. ninety relates that his mistress followed the | but she doesn’t look it and ser She is in her journey of life. along without tance. If anyone enough to ask her should how ol or ignore it. It is her "THE GREATER MUSHEGON . DCHANBER OF COMMERCE iy % , MUSKEGON MICHaN know about it. Now Mrs. Groves takes Shanghai.—Three Shanghai men | tlement, formerly a tea merchant in | two men to the edge of the precipice, who don’t believe in ghosts have left Kowloon, swears to the truth of the | where the men disappeared. the eity for Hongkong, where they following story of the haunted hill, The woman then exclaimed to her plan to investi e the alleged ghosts | which, he says, he personally wit- | servant that there was something of Sung Huang hill, in Kowloon, the | nessed: strange behind them. The servant place where the last emperor of the In 1924 three children disappeared | looked. There was nothing. He Sung dynasty is said to have hidden while playing in the vicinity of the turned back and his mistress was himself from his pursuing enemies. place. A group of Chinese determined gone. Her body was found in the The three nonbelievers are H. Rich- | to investigate. Their leader was a water. mond Curley, J. B. Borman, and Alex- powerfully built, fearless Cantonese 3 < 3 : se isappeared. = TW by the persistent reports from Hong- Lo led the party to within 35 feet of 5 nEoars % Rong 9 fe nge carryings-on of | the place. He was about 10 feet in errimie X ” he Sh 2 3 ag Hsing I Le Avante of. the ottiors When there 2% By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK 3 : . : dine a piercing scream from the rear Kt . . » to prove it to the satisfaction « of all | All heads turned. They could see no ot Dean of Men, University of % Si Thnk orrmise Cais, Ske. | segs Sule fo thir cn | bins : 2 sternation they could find no trace of TOTO TOTO OTA TOTO OTITIS man for the trio, declared. Lo. He had disappeared completely. Stories Accepted. ! The party fled in all directions. 1 OW old is Mrs. Brown?” some Chinese residents of Shanghai who Two days later Lo’s headless body one asked me a short time ago. formerly lived in Kowloon take much | was found in the bay. The mystery | We have known the Browns a long stock in the ghost stories of Sung | never has been solved. time—40 years or more—and Mrs. Huang hill. In all seriousness they The latest story from the haunted | Brown was middle-aged then. I had will tell of strange moans and groans | hill has it that a prominent Chinese | t0 answer that I didn’t know. Age which Mrs. Even her children are uncertain as to just when She is eighty-five if she very likely, she is giv- ing nothing away. She quit having . birthdays forty or fifty years ago. . : T re ar iles gq roeres Giant Letter Sent by Air Mail There are no milestones of progress She goes right regard to time or dis- be rude d she is, 1 am sure she would evade the question own and she doesn’t care to have people business quite an- other view of the question. She is proud of her age, she takes every oc- casion to flaunt it in one's face. She is constantly reminiscent giving with exactness always and date, “That was the time and place in 1849,” she will an- nounce when relating some tale of early life in the Middle West, or re- ferring te some occurrence of her childhood. “I must have been five or six years old then—five I guess it was.” Then she goes on with her story leaving one to make the easy mathematical calculation which deter- mines her present age. She dotes upon birthdays and never lets her friends forget when hers is approaching so that there may be cakes and candles and remem- brances of various sorts, She invites in her friends and sits in state while receiving congratulations on her health and her youthful appearance and the fact that she not look anything near her age. She recounts all that has happened to her during the past year. A birthday to her means progress—progress in making friends, in experience, in mental de- velopment. It brings her nearer to the end of life which to her is an ad- venture full of interest and possibili- ties. Little Jean is to have a birthday soon, she was telling me today. “Do you know how old I'll be?’ asked. “Four,” “Five,” does she I ventured. she corrected me proudly. “Do you know how many days it is still?” she inquired eagerly. I could only guess. “Do you know what day of the week it is?” she went on. I ventured to suggest I'riday and luckily was cor- rect. She was eager for when she could announce that was a year older than had ever been before, She was going to school the next year. Birthdays for little Jean meant new experiences, new friends, new adventures. There was the mystery of which was sure she would There was the eagerness for independence, for greater freedom, for growth, for added responsibility, It was a great thing to have a birthday. Hope and ambi- tion welled in her little heart, Would that each birthday brought to each of us the same enthusiasm the same ambition! (©), 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) the time to come she she gifts she receive, Happiness m a y resemble either a mountain or a mole hill. It depends on the distance you are from it. DIPPING INTO POOO® Where Icebergs Come ried far to the south where they cross regular steamship routes Occasionally an arctic animal, ® found upon them, Miss From the Pennsylvania state execu- | Isobel Stone. tive mansion to a sunken barge, is the sad story of the Isobel and Peggy Stone, daughters of the late William M. A. Stone of Pennsyl- vania. From a fortune of millions, from art and opera and sculpture, from the best drawing rooms in nation, to a dingy derelict barge chored in the muddy waters of man cre near 41 Dyckman street, New York. When Governor Stone died, it was said he left "a large When settlement of the estate was made, the girls were given only $3,000. They are still fighting for the teriously vanished millions, but they have little hope, Isobel appeared in Misses Gov, an- her present poverty was known to her- Peggy, who is a sculptress, by over the radio weekly. singing i dreberrbdobrbb oboe ddd dorado dvbrdo de 5 MIL AIR MAIL = x 3 % Dad Claims Boy, 5, is I x - - " ¥ HON HARRY S NEW E Youngest Auto Driver * 2 3 : % 5 Columbus, Ind.—Donald Fexd, = ¥ * five, son of Mr .and Mrs. Waller % POSTMASTER GENERAL x Ford, is one of the youngest eX WASHINGTON D C i auto drivers in Indiana, his fa- 3 ots « ther claims. Before he reached % % his fifth birthday last February x the boy was able to start the % engine of his father’s car, but & «% lacked length to manipulate the - clutch and brake pedals. Re 3 The father has rebuilt an old I 4 car in such a manner that it = Z will fit the tiny driver, and now 3% « hardly a day passes without = - Donald taking a spin. And he x The largest letter ever sent by air mail was received by Postmaster | «+ knows his stop-and-go signs, his % General Harry S. New in Washington from the chamber of commerce of | % father says. E Muskegon, Mich. The letter contained a vote of th: inks from the business men ETT of Muskegon to the Post Office department for establishing an air mail route IIS from Chicago to Muskegon. The letter measured 814 by 6 feet and required = $11.50 postage. Mr. New is standing beside it. Murder in Cityof || French Noble Honored NewYork “Unusual” Albany.—Murder in New York state, in the view of Senator John Knight, chairman of the subcommis- sion on statistics of the Baumes crime commission, “is a relatively unusual erime.” This view, expressed by Knight in a New Orleans street which the body into the crime situation in the state, “To be exact,” said the report, “murder constitutes about one-half of 1 per cent of the felonies prosecuted in New York state. The great gist of crimes that constitute 99 per cent of as a public benefactor. Carondelet street, where Orleans Cotton exchange street to Robert, west end. tional cases capture interest and to a great degree determine the popular conception of justice.” “The general problem of making the United States less lawless,” was seen as “bound up in what is done in these prosaic prosecutions, rather than in the Leopold-Loeb, Hall-Mills and Sny- der-Gray cases in the generation,” the report said. Figures covering the crime record in New York city include 808 cases of murder and manslaughter in 192% , 289 in 1926 and 278 in 1927. The’ assault and ported were 1,483 1926, and burglary figures show that 4,103 in 1925, the in 1926 to 3.373 3.380 in 1927. “4 SPOILS OF VICTORY KENNETH! WHAT I TH WORLD ARE YOU DOING UP THERE 7 - DON'T YOU DARE JUMP! YOU'LL GET KILLED! robbery for 1925; 951 for 1927. ases, the cases re- 1,173 for Relative to subeommission’s while there were number diminished and climbed again to The Baumes laws provide life sen- tences for those convicted of four fel- | onies. Takes Out Squeak i.loyd Hahn, America’s premier miler, New York.—There’s such § thing as as he appeared at his home, Falls | being altogether too sarcastic aboui City, near Omaha, before his depar unsatisfactory new shoes. A furni- ture for the Olympic games at Amster- | ture merchant put his in his show win- dam. Hahn is shown with some of | dow with placards telling what he the trophies he has collected as hig | thought about them. The shoe dealer victory emblems in the past few years, | obtained an injunction. New Orleans, La.—Wherever cotton is traded the world over business men are alert to daily development in a bears the name of a French nobleman famous the New is located, extends fifty-one squares from Canal The first report of his commission, was taken | the work of the eriminal courts pass | SIX blocks from Canal to Poydras after two years of investigating by almost without notice, a few sensa- Street encompass the city’s financial —iidnin ot Ei. district, where the daily turnover runs intc hundreds of thousands of dollars. Midway in these six blacks is the cotton exchange, at Carondelet and Gravier streets. From this build- ing Secretary Henry G. Hester sends out his reports which affect the mar- ket wherever the staple is known The French nobleman for whom the street is named was christened Fran- cisco Luiz Hestor de Carondelet, Seigneur d’ Haine St. Pierre de Nos- tles. Born in Flanders in 1747, he came to Louisiana in 1791 for a six- year stay. During this time he served as governor. Then he went to Peru from Louisiana to serve as viceroy. Baron Carondelet recognized the | advantages that would accrue to New | Orleans from construction of a canal linking the Mississippi river with Lake Pontchartrain, Giving much of his personal fortune and lending his | slaves for the work, Baron Caron- delet was the dynamic force behind the movement for the canal a yellow fever scourge prevented the consummation of his plan. Canal street, now ranked as one of the fa- mous thoroughfares of the world, marks the site of the nobleman’s un- dertaking. For his many benefactions Louisi- ana welcomed him as governor. New Orleans paid him tribute with Caron- delet street, Baroness Carondelet street, now Baronne street, and Canal street, named for his work, Judge Marries 5,000 Couples in 25 Years Wash- has been a justice of the peace here since 1903, has just set what he be- lieves to be a record as a “mar- rying justice” in officiating at Fresno, ington Calif.—George Smith, who his marrying 1903, the justice January 18, and has kept a record of ceremonies. His records that the greatest number of marriages performed in 394, most in the show one 49 was month, brought that single and any record year was the while HH HH CH HH HHO HOH HOH CHO HH day eight couples to his office. © conveyed from native haunts, Is © | Athough @ ® only one-ninth floats above wa- © the ! Sher- estate. | mys- | several Broadway productions before self. Now that she needs a job, it is | not forthcoming. However, she man- ages to support herself and sister, 5,000th wedding. Smith began his career as a | I¥ - for Thief and Catches Him York.—Mrs. Harriet J. “fished” for the stolen a letter order for door and, New Briggs recently thief who had containing a money $100 from under her | according to the police, she made a catch, When Mrs, Briggs failed to | obtain her money order and other tenants in the house com- plained of mail being missing, she made a “line” of string, tied one end to an envelope and shoved the envelope under the door so it showed in the hall. holding one end A tug door, in her hand, side the of the “line” on the line caused her to throw the door open and find a delivery 9 boy with the decoy in his hand = He was arrested. 1* Then she sat on a chair just in- Robbers Slug Owner, Wife Goes Into Action. Paterson, N. J.—Three young ban dits who raided the Club Plantation, lobby. called a policeman as they entered the The patrolman arrested the pair and | chained them together. As he away they to the floor Robinson | as he ran. men after a another ng caught knocked the hotel, bonds, from their and ran dashed broke after them, seven-block chase, and the other man. turned to telephone for a patrol wagon him He recaptured one of the patrolman who heard tbe fir- firing Sg Tom {| CATCH A TARTAR ® cebergs are broken off pieces ® $ of great glaciers in the Far | IN CAFE HOLDUP ® North and are sometimes car- | Then | @ ler some have been seen with as @ | a roadhouse near here recently, ter- @ much as 300 feet showing. S rorizing half a dozen patrons and | © (©. 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) ® beating Lawrence Lazzio, the propri- : etor, caught a Tartar in the person of = - - - | Mrs. Lazzio. As a result the three PLAYTHING OF FATE | and the wife of one of them are in jail, | After one of the men had kuocked | her husband unconscious with a re- | volver butt Mrs. Lazzio kicked the i pistol from his hand, grabbed it from | the floor, and sent a bullet crashing [ into his leg. | The other two men fled, speeding | away in an automobile. Mrs. Lazzio | jumped into her own roadster and | pursued them into Paterson. She trailed them to the Spruce hotel, and | should be As the desperadoes were being booked they broke away again and made a dash for freedom. They were quickly clubbed into submission. They gave their names as John Caille and Charles Griffen, both of Paterson. Po- lice said they were released from jail { under bond the day before in con- | nection with the robbery of a Pater- | son clothing store. While Griflin and Caille were being questioned, police brought in Hugh McCann and his wife, Jean. MeCann | who had a slight bullet wound in his | leg, was identified by Mrs, Lazzio as the third of the bandits. His wife, | according to Mrs, Lazzio, was in the | roadhouse when the robbers held it | up. All three of the men and Mrs, | | McCann, she said. were frequent pa- | trons of the plac | | | | Traded Wives With Pal, Says Husband in Jail New York.—An alleged contem- plated exchange of wives collapsed in Brooklyn Federal court recently when Emmett Haffa, an automobile mechan- ic, pleaded not guilty to a charge of violating the Mann act and was held in $5,000 bail for a hearing. Haffa was arrested by deputy fed- eral marshals at his place of employ- ment, His prospective “exchar wife,” Mrs, Ouida G. Weatherly, six- teen, mother of a fifteen-month-old child by the husband she left at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., swore out a com- | plaint against Haffa. Mrs. Weatherly, a comely brunette, | said that she met Haffa last December in Sumter, S. C., and she had come to Brooklyn and lived with. him for a while, until she discovered that she wished to return to her husband, Frank Orin Weatherly, garage pro- prietor. “Your honor,” Haffa, told Federal Commissioner Epstein, “I am no white slaver. 1 treated her as honorably as any man ever did any woman, mar- ried or not. We came here to get married. I left my wife with her hus- band down there. They were to get divorces there and marry, and then | we were going to be married.” | Male Gossip Gets 90 Days Jail for Kissing Story | Camden, N. J.—The habit of gossip- | ing will cost Charles Bubeck ninety days in jail, | Miss Helen Kirchdasener, nineteen years old, testified before Police Judge Bertman that Bubeck told acquaint- ances he had seen her “kissing a strange man” in the parlor of her | home, She added that his gossip had almost caused an estrangement be- tween her sister, Anna and Anna's sweetheart, Bubeck said he saw the | girl and a man, but wasn't sure they kissed, | “What business was it of yours whether they were kissing or not?” the judge demanded. “You're just like | an old woman, I'll give you ninety | days in jall as a lesson against fur- | ther carrying of tales.” i Bubeck formerly was a ierman | soldier. A bullet from an American | rifle was removed from hi. thigh at Cooper hospital last Armistice day. sky WELL-BRED HENS PROVE C CHEAPEST Hens with good breeding often pro- | duce two dollars worth of eggs in a year more than hens with poor breed- ing, aside from their increased value as breeders, according to experiments on the Cornell poultry farm at the college of agriculture at Ithaca, N, Y. poultryman for nothing one dollar a means that if a low-bred chicks afford to pay chick for high-line birds, and still make $1 more a year on each bird | than from the low-line birds. SAathpaTaE. Poultrymen at Cornell point to these facts as evidence that a baby chick mths ten cents may be dear, while la chick costing fifty cents may be a | good investment, if the higher priced I chick comes from consistent high-pro- | ducing stock. Trap nesting, pedigree | hatching, and progeny testing must be obtain consistent high rec- This can get he could used to ords. |* The records of the hens range from 175 to 302 eggs. Seventy-five per cent of the pedigreed flock laid more than | 200 eggs in one year, The males are { from hens with pedigrees of to 302 e One pen of 35 pullets on the experiment farm averaged S6 eggs a bird during the four winter months, to March 1, or about 22 bird | a month. These eggs were produced during the season of high | which is not true of birds that do not have good breeding, the depart- ment says, The number of birds that have laid 200 eggs has increased from 38 in 1921 to 179 in 1927. 225 eags eggs a prices, Cheap but Ideal Floor Favored for Henhouse A cheap but ideal floor can be put in a chicken house by filling in about eight inches of cinders, gravel, or crushed rock and covering it with about two inches of rich cement. The porous material under the cement will break up the soil capillarity and tend to keep the floor dry. The filling should be tamped until it forms a base for the concrete. Hollow tile forms a tory for the and one-aalf an inch of cement is needed to cover it. Tile is expensive filler, however, and than the sometimes harder to get. It a layer of solid fac- only more satis base concrete more other much laid in sand so the surface of the tile can be made as smooth as possible before the ce- ment covering is put on. A slope of four inches in twenty feet from the back to the front of the house will tend to keep the litter evenly distributed over the floor. This slope will practically eliminate the disagreeable task of scratching the litter out from under the dropping boards of the ordinary house. There is no better time of the year to put a floor in the chicken house than just before the pullets are put into their winter quarters. Profit on Gosling Is Made During Holidays The market (young goslings is made on those mar- keted at Christmas and New Years, as a general rule. Turkeys have the call at Thanksgiving, It will not do, however, to neglect the young and they are kept growing at top they will not be large enough to be most profitable when they are wanted for the holiday tables. best profit on geese) geese unless speed Sometimes we read that these young geese will obtain all the food they need in the fields and that they will live and grow if they have noth- ing but grass and whatever else they can find among nature's stores. Give Clean Water Clean and fresh water is as neces- sary to the success of egg production as is a correctly balanced ration. The man who goes to a lot of trouble with his feeding but is just indifferent with his watering, may expect trouble. Wa- ter 1s one of the chief constituents of an egg and it is required by the hen Just much as a human being re- quires water to drink. It should be given several times each day, especial- ly in summer, as Must Have Feed The Purdue university poultry de- partment summarizes the general treatment of the farm hen as follows: “Hens won't live on hopes and pros- pects. They must have feed, and plenty of it. The hen does not get enough to eat in summer. The fields, barnyards and feed lots will furnish the hen little else but grains and green food. These alone and in their present insufficient quantities will not be sufficient to produce good egg pro- duction.” Culling Nonproducers An easy and efficient method of culling the nonproducers out ef the new hatch of pullets can be accom- plished in the following manner, if each hatch has been housed separate- ly: Keep the first 75 per cent of the pullets that come into production and sell the other one-fourth, or those that are last to start producing. By fol- lowing this practice, few nonprodue- ers will be carried through the winter on high-priced feed, taking up room needed for layers, HOW TO USF Learning (Prepared by the United ¢ of Agricultu Home canning is on tant phases of food | taught by extension far women. It is im] garden surplus to be s use in the household, i fresh vegetables and easily obtained during In many localities hom agents encourage the planting of the garden amount of canning ir ning budget” it is so Farm women also se products, and it is im them to make their c: form and dependable, ity with the requirems The precautions an canning given by the Department of Agricul STRAIGHT SH. LEGS1 Suitable for Bo; Three Years the United of Agricult (Prepared by boy or a ¢ can wear this button with short raglan slee short legs. Clothing s bureau of home econo cloth bands on romp convenience and aft ance. If the garme planned it can be jt Either a Straight-L Practical the blouse-legged ro! toms of the 1 maj boind if preferred, i facing the inch-wide material. In the illu ish of the legs mat sleeves, while a bind is used to hold in th neck that give extra the chest. A big a makes a decoration d heart. This rom with a fold in the between the legs. terns of either type a may be adapted to tures of this garment an applique animal m any available large p ish Sacking Live Pc for Roc Paper sacks can advantage in selling ract to the consumer roadside market. Tie fowl and tear a hole the sack about the dollar. Place the bird in t head sticking throug then take a second opening to the sack : legs. The legs stick outs cannot kick or flop. under the arm of th risk of soiling the ¢ no danger of finding tom of the car. This ing the birds is also try is sold live weight out dirt sweep or wi To have to way of Much dirt is cially in summer doors are open, and i keeper's interest to s about the home are sprinkled, either by by individual residen keep saving effort blown wl ed States Departmer When dust cannot b can sometimes be sto and windows.
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