st Like Jus 4 Do vg J THE PATTON COURIER A BOY AND A po&! 800d COMPANIONS = OF CHILDHOOD! = WHAT DO Windsor, residence in England is known England.—The most costly here as “The Willows,” but neightors pre- fer to call it “I'he House of the Ara- bian Nights.” It is the hoy Bomanji, wealthy chant. It stands within Jombay t SMILES AND LAUGHTER | By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. HE was a very handsome woman 1 had to admit to myself I caught a hasty impression of her sitting com- posedly in her section as I came into the car, I am influenced very strong- ly by first impressions, I am almost ashamed to admit, and there was an air of refinement about this woman which was very convincing, Her gown was in excellent taste—modest, con- servative, and carefully tailored. Her hair was beautifully kept and her hands well manicured. 1 got all this in a quick impression as I went to my seat in the middle of the car. She seemed a person one might like. It was when she laughed that the vision of her loveliness faded out like an electric light when the switch is turned off. It was a coarse, raucus, vulgar laugh that pierced to the re- motest corners of the car. Women turned in their seats to see what had happened. Men craned their necks to discover whence came the jangling nerve-racking sound. It was an illit- erate, untrained, undisciplined voice which spoke volumes. The most skill- ful art of modiste and hairdresser and manicurist could not efface the impression of that loud laugh. It HMM! STYLISH FOOD! DOGS HAVE CHANGED 7,7] SINCE MY DAY “272777771 OM, HE DONT EAT . WHAT | FEED HIM! HE EATS OL' BONES, SCRAPS OF HORSES HooF, DINNER DEAD SPARROWS, , SCRAPS OF STUFF AT STICK T' TIN CANS, RUBBERS, AW KINDS OF GARBAGE AND, ANY OTHER DOGS would take a surgical operation to do anything with it. She was just com- mon, that was all. Those who first met Keene, even the most charitable in expressing their opinions, were wont to say that he had a very plain face. It was cur- rent opinion that he was the ugliest man in town. He had rugged irregu- lar features, a large nose, and a wide cut mouth, His was a very serious, almost a dull face when it was in repose. But when he smiled you would Mave received an altogether different impression of him, It was a smile that changed and radiated bis whole countenance, It was the gen- tlest, friendliest, kindest, smile I have ever seen on a man's face, Jefore he spoke you could divine that his voice was soft and well modulated,’ You knew without being told that you could trust him. He was the sort of man you would go to if you were in trouble, knowing full well. that you would find sympathy and understand- ing. Dogs wagged their tails when he came near them; children were never afraid of him as they were often of the more comely faced. I could never explain this excepting that his smile suggested gentleness, and his quiet gentleness won human beings and animals as well. So far as I know, man is the only animal that expresses emotion or a state of mind by smiles or laughter. The hyena laughs we are told and the loon, but there is no more real laughter in the sounds they make than there is music in the bray of a donkey. Words, some one has said were given us by the gods to conceal our thoughts, but smiles and laugh ter are the most definite and sincere revelation of our true character and state of mind. The villain may smile but his smile only tends to reveal his villainy. (©). 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) Indians Spear Salmon Toppenish, Wash.—It is salmon time in the big rivers of the northwest states. Indians know it as the harvest time when they catch fat fish and pre serve the fillets for winter. Hour after hour Indian fishermen —from ten to twelve tribes—sit on the stone masonry of the Sunnyside trrigation dam, near here, spears poised, ready to lunge at large leap: ing chinook or cohoe salmon which are #unning up the Yakima river to spawn Tense, immovable as statues, they Kuck Grabs First Victory coast the games Johnny Kuck, giant Pacific star, won the first victory for United States in the Olympic when he was declared the winner in the shot put event. | with wait. Onlookers see the flashing back of the salmon leaping up the smeoth waterfall. There is a lightning quick strike and the struggling silver beauty, safely speared, is drawn to land to be unjavelined and the spear is ready for another vietim, The best salmon spears are fitted barbed hooks and the fish is gaffed, rather than speared. The hook comes off the end of the shaft and dangles on a cord tied to the pole. This, the Indians point out, prevents breakage of the ghaft when a thirty | or forty pound fish is taken. 29000000005009000909000002 | queathing to several persons has been tat- tooed on the back of a man wh» Sometimes a lozen biz salmon will be hooked by one Indian in a day. At other times days pass without a catch. But the redmen never complain about : luck. They poise over the shintmering, tumbling water patiently waiting until | fish do come within range. This primitive life is re-enacted at a score of rapids and dams in other | Bears 200-Word Will Tattooed on His Back London.—A 200-word will be- large sums of money estab road. into a tattooing Waterloo walked lishment in He had the will written iat on a piece of paper, and ashed that it should be transferred to He sat for five hdurs while the work was done the will was duly witnesse'l “He was a Colonial, and shout years of age,” <(reorge tattooist, sa d aft- his back. and thirty Burchett, the t erward. “This is the first will 1 have ever tattooed during a I ng ex- perience, ang it Cifficult, tricky work.” was O30000EHOODOBOOGOO0OEICOOOEOs oe | 0000000 Whooping It Up rivers of the Northwest. On shore squaws and folks from the tribes split the salmon, hang ing the meat over lines or slender poles to sun «dry. Before the fish sea son is passed porihwest Indians will have filled many willow baskets wlth dried fish steazs, Insuring them against hunger at winter's coming. Only Indians from reservations may so fish in n*rthwest streams, being permitted by lreaty to do so. young 5 hink So? Scientists, thinks a philosopher writing in the American Magazine. may lose the kernel of life in study: ing its changing shells and homes. towers of Windsor castle, one of the homes of the king and queen of Eng- land, but it is said to be furnished more elaborately than even the royal home. Every bedroom in Sir Dhunjibhoy’s home is fitted with a marble wash basin, and every hydrant, bracket and hatrack is made of solid gold. In Sir Dhunjibhoy’'s own room the legs of the washstand are also 0: gold. All the furniture is on a correspond- ing style of magnificence. The rooms are furnished according to various pe- riod, and the furniture consists entire- ly of rare antiques. Sir Dhunjibhoy’s bedroom is finished in French style in the fashion of Louis XIV. The house of the Indian millionaire is built in Tudor style. It is sur- PRT Ezra Meeker, motor prairie schooner, given him by will follow the old Oregon trail across the residence of Sir Dhunjib- mer- sight of the grand old man of the Nort Solid Gold Bath Fittings in Mansion dotted | gardens, and fountains. rounded by beautiful with marble statuary aloft a mirror. Sir Dhunjibhoy, in ing a connoisseur of solid gold marble, is also a sportsman. a large stable of horses on grounds, and to the rear of his laid out. taining is second nature to the Bom- bay potentate and Lady Bomanji. and Sir Dhunjibhoy large functions which occupied, given several many British ed in 1922 for services rendered the British and Indian governments dur- residence here. $OOREEOO0EEO0EED o DIPPING S$ INTO SCIENCE COOOOPRORORNNNPPEEREOROE® Male Mosquito Has Radio You need not fear the male mosquito for he is quite harm- less. He does not bite, neither does he sing, He lives entirely on vegetabie matter. He pos- sesses no ears but has a radio all his ewn in his feathery an- > tennae which picks up sound waves and enables him to thus @® enjoy the singing of his female S companions. (©, 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) SE ak fiwest, as he appeared beside his the Ford Motor company, in which he Northwest. Meeker crossed this trail as a youth in the ox-drawn covered wagons of the gold rush in '49, Wife Stealing Costly London.—The price of wives is ad vancing. Within the last few weeks London divorce courts have awarded damages to husbands against core spondents to the tune of $10,000 and $15,000, and lastly, a few days ago a husband was awarded $50,000. The $*,000 went to George Edgar Ingman, an estate agent and surveyor of Worrester, who obtained a divorce from h's wife, daughter of a wealthy man, Ma the ground of misconduct with (Captain Neel Pearson, formerly of Th» Birches, Hagley, near Birming- ham. Mr. Ingman announced in ad- vanc™ that he would not retain the awa~d, his daughter by the erring wife. A simMar declaration was made by the huand who received the award of $16,000. “a 1905 Demetrius stratinidi received an Sophocles Con- award of $125, ~ : : OY against a Doctor Lance in an lish court, The $50,000 received Mr. Ingman equaled any record n®ide since then. English judges have a wide latitude i» addressing the jury in both civil #ad criminal cases, Suits for divorce fre combined with suits against the corespondent for loss of the wife's services, under the English procedure. t is not unusual for a judge in sum ming up to remark, in effect, that after hearing the evidence the jury might conclude that the husband, in stead of obtaining damages, should thank the corespondent for relieving him of a worthless wife, and the jury ordinarily reacts to the sentiments expressed by the judge because they heard the evidence when he did. The general rude seems to be that the husband is entitled to damage, if the wife was a real helpmeet, but to refuse them if she was a nagger and a handicap instead of bhelpmeet. The corespondent is punished not tor adultery but on the old theory that a wife is, or should be, useful around the house and in assisting her husband's work for their joint benefit. When the corespundent steals the wife he de prives the husband of her services. if any. Quite often the judge and jury but would use it as a fund for | cannot see that she was of any serv- ice, and then the jury awards very light damages, or none. In one case the jury awarded the husband a six- pence and in another he got a farth- ing, If those#husbands felt spiteful toward their deserting wives they ha: the satisfaction of knowing that jury had publicly branded the wives as worthless, Extreme feminists are chafing over the awards against corespondents because they say that the award is nse upon the facet that the wife is regarded by the law in such suits as a chattel, which is exactly true. If a men deprived another of a horse and the evidence showed that the horse wus too vicious to be employeq for any useful work and was un expense and a menace to the welfare of the rightful owner, the judge and fury would be inclined to disregard the real valuation of the horse and nominal damages for its comparison with a horse displeases the feminists, but only a very few of them have been heard complaining about the position in which women place themselves by breech of promise suits, and by suits on the part of childless women for alimony. owner's award The loss, Lord Merrivale, in the Ingman daughter of summing up in Mrs. Ingman had been a help case, said wealth, ful wife, apparently, to her hard work ing husband until the wealthy Cap tain Pearson came elong and she went off with him. Sbe had said tha: Captain Pearson could afford to spend $30,000 to $50,000 per year giving her a koeral allowance, FNglish judges and juries ly vexed are equal- when the evidence makes The average man is one who thinks that he is just a lit tie better than the average man, the | | clear that a rich man has lured away One of the marble pieces, known as “Truth,” attracts particular attention. It represents a nude woman holding addition to be- and He has his gar- dens a miniature race track has been With so magnificent a home, enter- Their guestrooms are almost always has titled people attended. Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji was knight- ing the World war. He has now come to England to make his permanent ning or ETRE + ge ¥ Convict Under Death pe Sentence 16 Years 3 Phoenix, Ariz.— William Faltin, % sentenced to death sixteen years #% ago for the murder of his room- * mate, near Phoenix, has had a # still further stay of a month given by the state board of par- EX % dons and paroles to permit in- | *% : . . | 5 troduction of avidence in his be- | % half. He had been ordered to : the gallows a number of times | % and was to have been hanged #% recently after appeal to the * Supreme court had failed. % Some of the long interim since 3 his erime has been spent in the * state insane asylum, while he had a degree of reprieve during two years in which Arizona had no capital punishment. He ap- peared to have been forgotten after his return to the state prison from the insane asylum until lawyers, in his behalf, sought liberation on habeas cor- pus. 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Pe oe oF o¥e oe oe Fe oF AR sefodesofotodeofdotop do 5 2 2 % oe 2 2 ge 3 3 EX oe MADMAN SHOOTS DOWN TEN TOTS Lures Them to Death in Hills as a Game. | was later tracked | gendarmes. | n.me. | turers with the mentally | at their head disappeared among the | Paris.—A modern Spanish version of the Pied Piper legend comes from a village near Tarragona where a twen- ty-six-year-old crazy boy lured away ten children and shot them to death among the hills, The piper himself down and shot by Marinat was the lunatic’s Somewhere he procured a rifle and enlisted the little ones of the vil- Jose | lage in a troop that was to follow him away while he hunted pigeons. small clouded The ragged company of low hills, laughing and leaping, all ex- citement and anticipation. When they reached what was to be their camping place there were no | pigeons to hunt, And in some way the crazy man's mind subsiituted chil- dren for birds as the game to be | brought down. | From the disposition of the bodies | it was plain that he killed the first child by surprise, and that the rest, | attempting to flee, were hunted down one by one, and shot either while run- were stalked | in hiding. When he had killed all the tots who had followed him into the country, Jose found his hunting impulse still unsatisfied. He left the little valley and prowled among the farms. In the courtyard work, He left the village with a half- | dozen little boys and girls in tow and picked up a few others on the way. adven- | Jose | and killed while | | navy of one he shot a woman at | A neighbor, attracted by the cries, was wounded by the last shot in the | lunatic’s weapon. Jose seized an ax | and decapitated the wounded man. A raging savage now, Jose went home for more ammunition, When | his mother tried to stop him he felled | trate struck her with the rifle. The sight of his mother lying pros- him with a strange | terror and he threw down his gun and stumbled away in the darkness. was two days before he was run to | earth and shot. the wife of a poorer man by lavish offers of money. The juries are in- clined to grant damages in such | cases as punishment for the seducer. although the court solemnly warns the juries that they are to consider only the helpfulness, if any, of the wife to the husband. Satin Cape Coat Alice White, whose large wardrobe in the “Show Girl,” permits her the use of a variety of coats, is seen in one especially smart coat which favors the cape. It is a cape coat of black satin smartly trimmed with platinum fox fur, | axiom | Houdini, Gives Bandits Shoes, but Fails to Kick In Kansas City, Mo.—Now Alva Goshern, student of likely contender for the Thurston, Kellar rest who charged $2 a comes legerdemain honors of and seat for many | years to prove that the hand is quick- the eye. Goshern bears the distinction of having been forced into an two holdup men, robbed of his shoes, 30 cents, his trousers, and saving $41 he was carrying. er than He reported to police that he saw the two men approaching near his home early in morning and just had time to the $41 in bills in his shoe before the command of “hands up” was heard. He was forced into an alley and ordered to take off and trousers, the stick his shoes Now for an ordinary man this would have spelled disaster, but not for Goshern. As he removed the shoe doing tem- porary duty as a safety deposit vault he executed one of those “twists of the wrist” magicians utilize, The $41 landed in a trash heap. Later as he trekked home in his un- mentionables, tightly clutching the money, he reaflirmed faith in the old that he who laughs gets laughed at. | Plazing Man Perishes | | | | | | | | | ( | | | a new | MAROONED IN RAPIDS; SAVED %, AFTER 17 HOURS Man Spends Long Night in Perilous Position in the Potomac River. Washington.—Sixteen men from tha United States navy yard rescued Her- bert Lugenbeel, thirty-one years old, at dawn recently from a tiny rock amid swirling Potomac river rapids near here, where he had been ma- rooned for 17 hours. All through the night searchlights had played on the solitary prisoner perched on a vock slab, 2 by 3 feet, jutting a foot and a half above wa- ters in which no man could survive. About midnight the navy men put out in a strong boat to one of three islands between the Maryland shore and Lugenbeel’s rock; to this island they made fast a rope, which they paid out until they reached the second island. They repeated the process un- til they reached the third. Then they fastened ropes to two of their number who picked their way | among the rocks to Lugenbeel’s side. Fall in Water Helps. A two-foot water drop overnight aided them in reaching Lugerbeel, who fell, weak and exhausted, into their arms from the slippery rock where he had sat cramped for 17 hours. Struggling against the current, but aided by the ropes, they carried Lu- genbeel to the nearest island and tha Sat Cramped for Seventeen Hours. boat. The rescuers th=n reversed their process from island to island to the shore. By this timc Lugenbeel was recov- ered sufficiently to smile and ask: “When do we eat?” Lugenbeel and J. H. Angel, both | noted for heroic water rescues, set | out in a canoe to hoot the rapids in search for the bodies of two drowned women, one of whom had been sighted wedged among rocks. Both Cling to Rock. Their own canoe capsized, as had that of che two women. Each man- | aged to reach a rock and cling to it Gendarmes took up the pursuit. It | Angel's position was 200 fer“ from Lugenbeel's and even more hazaidcus. He was rescued by a special fire | department squad equipped with a rope gun, which made its way by | fastening to successive rocks and finally took him off in breeche: buoy fashion. Angel was bruised while being and | the | covered downstream, alley by | | | to prevent an | | | ! Before Crowded Cafe | Bordeaux.—Inhabitants of the ham- let of Saint-Sernin were awestruck at the sight of a man in flames march- ing through the main street for two blocks, falling dead before the terrace of a crowded cafe. The suicide was Spaniard named Feliciano Blas, who, after purchasing a quart of wood alcohol, drank a pint of the liquid, soaked his body in the remn'ning pint, and calmly ignited himself. Blas had told the mayor that he was desperate because of family troubles, | | field, hauled to safety. The bodies of both women were re- It is believed the struggle to.save the two men had dislodged the body that had been held by rocks in the rapids. | Fireman Has Thrilling Ride Atop Locomotive Plainfield, N. J.—While two Aroken driving rods were tearing up 1% road- bed, a fireman of a Baltimore & Ohio locomotive climbed to the top of the engine and released the exhaust valves explosion in case the careening locomotive left the rails. The westbound express was traveling more than 40 miles an hour when the rods snapped near the Plainfield sta- | tion. Engineer Mark S. Goodright applied the air brakes, but they did not func- tion, he said later. A bushing flung from the engine struck the upright of a small passenger shelter and caused it to collapse. Edgar Smith of Plain- who was sitting in the shelter, unhurt. Arthu Bien, fireman, climbed to the top of the locomotive and clung there amid clouds of steam while he emptied the boilers through the valves. Half a mile from where the rods broke the train stopped. It was then that passengers first learned was | what had happened. Small Baby’s Cries Frighten Away Burglar Longview, Texas.—Mrs. F. A. Fal- coner’s boy baby acted as night watch- man when a burglar entered the Fal- coner home during the night. The baby cried frantically, awakening his mother, The mother's screams fright ened away the intruder. PEPOOEROOOOEEX (© by D. RS. BASS Her best with the vacant af cupied three years Patten had gone a expect to find his the room, it might time, and that w this juncture, for every penny she her young son Jo all that expensive ture at the Critten Mrs. Bassett w. and tired looking, mitted feeling fatiy with all that she seven boarders an Wood to help her ¢ she could not sto her head or her he keep going, for ex keep smiling with a must stay long lady. Now, however, door bell rang th she instantly adj was a mere shadoy might mean, and somebody with a cup or dusting c upon her with his to smile just the s knew, except that ers always came t A young womal her, quite a young blue dress and cap mer collar and a suitcase, presumab] feet. Her face was Mrs. Bassett thou it was the sweetes seen. And her voic “I saw the card she said. “ ‘Room t it, please.” “Come in,” said thought: “Probably pay so much, but t The young womai and down and smi “It is very nic please. And may well.” She didn’t seem price at all. In fa to mind anything e 80 extremely glad rest in At dinner her place quietly. duced her to the o were all there exce didn’t appear until served. she ¢ “I'm sorry, Mrs. 1] his charming way. whole dime that h¢ for in order to ms ance, and we all h: Mr. Thayer sat Wells and spoke to Mrs. Bassett thoug looking couple they was fond of Mr. Th: with her for two ye he was just what honest and direct one of those hea fellows whose char out of temptation a leads them to succe It was Miss Wil find out something Miss Willows alway; everybody. She pri ing able to size a half hour's acqua could not size up J: were evaded SO | found herself in the person swimming current—she made ¢ out getting anywher in her nature to giv Jane Wells, it a taken or left as the had nothing to say was there and that about it. Where s where she was goi body could know. / afford to occupy M room was perhaps tery of all for she her time except re eat and sleep. Ea fairer to behold anc Thayer looked at love and admiration Two weeks had day Miss Willows f had been looking fo going out with a | she dropped the lett Willows, who was snatched it up and quished it she had s “Mr. Felix Marvel, number and town, ¢ lion miles away. So an admirer! Well, land Thayer, and sh Indeed, she went went to Mrs. Basse good woman's mind perplexity. 41 am sure,” Mi “that Jane Wells is that she isn't what be. I am sure she why doesn’t she get body else in this he cept Jane Wells. WI had an answer to h “Oh, dear, Miss believe any wrong sett sighed. And th to say more lest sl boarder. After all,
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