THE PATTON COURIER JOINS WELTERWEIGHTS Jimmy MecLarnin, sensational right- hand hitter from Los Angeles. is through making weight for the light- weights, He says that he has cast with the welterweights and hopes to arrange a match with Joe Dundee. The latter was dethroned as cham- pion by the National Boxing associa- tion, which recognizes Jackie Fields as title holder. his lot “Insult” to Refuse Light PAYS” Dresden, Germany.—A Dresden ap- peal court has upheld a man who com- plained against another for refusing to give him a light on the street. The specific charge was insult and offense. Like most laws, this law against in- sult and offense has a common-sense background, although it may be abused by frivolous, or childish, or spiteful application. The law is designed pri- marily to curb those persons who are grossly offensive and rude Zo their neighbors and so are likely to create breaches of the peace. A comparable law was that on the staute books of some of the states of the United States long before prohibition, which forbade drinking alcoholic liquor on trains. [Experience had proved that many times train drinkers became drunk and abusive and a menace to their fellow passengers. The great trouble with such laws as that upheld in Dresden is that they are often wrongly applied. Any man asked for a light late at night by a burly stranger in a deserted street might well think that the old scheme of asking for a light preparutory to pulling a robbery of tiie wayfarer was about to be tried. Certainly. the aver- ge person in the United States looks askance at light askers in deserted streets, and more so at strangers who ask the time, Still, a law against in- sult and offense might be a boon for lightweights in subway crushes or would-be ticket buyers at some New York theaters. Fines up to $100 and even imprison- ment are the penalties which threaten the Germans who refuse a light to a stranger in the street anxious to ignite his cigarette, cigar or pipe. This is the great surprise for the German world of smokers provided as the verdict in the case before the Dresden court of appeal. Herr Krause, hurrying home one night last year through the streets of Dresden, had somewhat brusquely re- fused the request of a fellow pedes- trian that he should stop and allow him to light his cigarette on the glow- ing end of the cigar Herr Krause was smoking. The petitioner Herr Krause's refusal so much to heart that he pur- sued him and had him arrested by a policeman, who Herr Krause's address. The owner of the unlighted ecizar- ette then proceeded to sue Herr Krause before the civic court for in- sult and offense, which under Ger- man law is punishable with heavy fines and even imprisonment. Herr Krause was found guilty of having insulted the would-be-smoker and was sentenced to pay a small fine. He appealed against this verdict ook took however, and the Dresden court of appeal absolved him from the fine. but declared at same time that “the refusal to oblige a person with a light can constitute an insult.” Mrs. drace W. Elliott of Los geles, Calif.,, was divorced hy her hus- hand, William I. Elliott, and Judge I'rice ruled, under the new Californin law, that she must pay Elliott $250 a month alimony. About the first thing a new cook expects her mistress to learn is to Keep out of the culinary department, ere NIN N\ AN & | SUCH Z 77 - HA, WIFEY ! | PAID UP My LAST DEBT TODAY AND PUT ~ 3 Lured by Diamonds Bradford, England.—Trooper Ar- thur Sharp, formerly of the Natal mounted police, but now living in 3radford, is convinced that he holds the key to the site of King Solomon's fabulously wealthy diamond mines. The story goes back to Sharp's turn of duty at Port Shepstone, when he was sent by sea to Durban in command of a party of natives in charge of a dangerous prisoner, who eventually was placed in an asylum at Pietermaritzburg. “During the voyage,” Sharp relat- ed, “the prisoner threw one of the native guards overboard. I jumped in after him and rescued him. Months OE WILD FLOWERS By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of > Illinois. HOLL A004 A © o It was the last of May and alony the railroad right of way as I rushed through the prai- ries, 1 could see the wild flowers blooming. Civili- zation has pushed them back to more remote and undisturbed re- gions or has ut- terly destroyed them, excepting in these strips of prairie land which the avari- cious plow share untouched. I wish left there were a law that they must be has as yet left undisturbed. More and more these natural gardens along railmad tracks are being put into cultivation. Wheat and oats and corn are grow- fing in the rich soil and more’s the pity, the flowers are disappearing, There are wild strawberries in the grass. 1 can see the white blossoms | as we ride by, and fast as we roll along 1 can see occasionally the glint of the scarlet berries ripening in the sun. 1 have eaten strawberries at Kenilworth where they grow as big as crab apples, and I have tasted the prize varieties from a dozen sections of the country. There are none so sweet and satisfying as those we used to pick out of the prairie grass as we sought them on our hands and knees on the way from school. There are great gardens of phlox— Sweet Williams we used to call the flower. 1 can still see on the teach er’'s desk in the old district house the bunches we used to gather and present to her to show our affec tion or to win her favor. Along the hedge rows wild blackberries are blossoming, white as snow. We gath ered the berries in the mer vears ago and mother made them into jam. [I can taste it yet. There are patches of purple spider- school luscious sum wort, and violets and tall, gracefu! shooting stars rising on their single slender stem. 1 wonder if down in the marshy places buttercups and yady’s slippers are still growing. Tt New Monoplane Has But One Wing | management of was a real occasion when we round a lady’s-slipper blooming. We did not know then as I know now that when we picked the flower we wound- ed the plant to death. I am sure 1 should have left it untouched much as 1 wanted to hold the delicate blos- som in my hand, had I not been ig- norant of the result of my plundering. There are roses on the uplands— fragrant, delicate, not to be compared with any cultivated rose which floral | me | geniuses have developed. Give the wild rose before any of the rest of them, Some of the flowers I have almost forgotten so long ago it is since 1 have wandered among them. The sight of them brings back slmost forgotten memories, however—names of which I have not thought for years, experiences which I but dim- ly recall, associations which were very close in those days. 1 am u child again, wandering barefooted] through the prairie grass, picking my way carefully lest my feet suffer There are for a time no responsibili- ties, no duties, only the wild flowers ard the song of the meadow lark to enjoy. (©. 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) IM So RELIEVED! Now WE HAVE $5 IN THE BANK Jewish Wailing Place The Place of Wailing is an inclosed place near the mosque of Omar in Jerusalem, where the Jews congregate every Friday to lament the fall of Israel and pray for its restoration. The wall in front of which they gather is 156 feet in length and 59 feet in height. The nine lowest courses of stone consist of large blocks. Above there are 15 courses of small stones. may have Some of the lower courses belonged to Herod's temple. YEA © { afterwards 1 was visited by an old Zulu, the father of the man 1 had rescued. As an expression of grati tude, he said he would reveal to me the whereabouts of a rich diamond field that had never hitherto been discovered by white men. “I noted the location of the field. rather to please the old man than for any conviction he was really re vealing to me the location of a secret diamond mine.” Finally, out of curiosity, Sharp at- “Wings” Aid Law Officer Sandusky, Ohio.—When it comes to tracking down criminals and others who run afeul of the law. Sheriff Jack Parker of Erie county has the edge over his contemporaries. In the first place, he can cover more ground. And in double quick time. For he is known as the “Flying Sher- iff.” He took office January 1 and has been awaiting his chance to demon- strate how the law can be enforced in ultramodern style. Before his election as sheriff, Par- ker was engazed in a general com- mercial flying business with a brother. Luther Parker. He turned the the venture over to has | his brother, but still pursues flying as a hobhy. Parker has made one promise which he hopes to fulfill The first prisoner sentenced to the state peni- tentiary who wants to fly to his new “home,” the sheriff said, will get the chance, Residents of Kelley's island, miles from the mainland in Lake Erie, S0o0n, eight LA I'ront view of the unique monoplane designed by Earl £ McClary anu given its first tests at Long Beach, Calif. Tastead of wings running crosswise #8 in other planes, and cabin are suspended beneath the its large pear-shaped wing runs lengthwise and the motor roof-iike wing The inventor asserts the huge single wing Las a lifting area of ve aired one-half pounds to the square foot. find Parker's plane to be invaluable in an emergency. With na tion wintry blasts on delivered to days last month, was called to the “Flying Sheriff,” he told deputies: “If you want me for anything, just closed because of the lake, no mail the island for 11 When this delz attention cof the nis island was SMART FOR STREET A new addition to the distinguished “asperic” family invented by M. Ro- dier., An asperic version in rayon and wool used in two shades cf g: een for a charming street coat. telephone to me and I'll fly right over.” Recently Frank Riedy and John Campbell, residents of the island, came to Sandusky with the mail men. When they started to return it was impos- sible to cross the lake. tiedy appealed to Parker. over to the island,” he asked, “Fly us Half an hour later the two men were home. So pleased were the islanders with the possibility of aerial connection with the mainland that they have es- tablished a landing field. Brain of Man and Monkey Man's brain attains its maximum apacity at thirty, but a monkey's | brain reaches irs greatest weight he tween the ages of two and three, and after that remains stationary. DOG AB ICANT TELL (TH WEEDS FROM i VEGETABLES tempted to find the mine, but failed. He returned and berated the aged Zulu, who promised personally to guide him to the field. After a two-days’ march, he said, they came to a place where the char- acteristic “blue clay” of diamond strata was visible for a large dis- tance, Sharp said he Port Shepstone to ment for mining, when he was stricken with fever. When he re- covered he learned the old Zulu had died. Meanwhile doctors said Sharp was too weak to attempt another trip and they invalided him home, hurried back to prepare equip- funds Shep- retrace the guide,” he as 1 am see if 1 can't my Zulu 8S Soon together | and taken by can going get some Re 10 stone path said. Italian Village Holds Record for Fecundity Rome.—1". e fecundity championship | of Italy, probably the world, gues to the little villige of Vavalese in the IFiemma valley, which just broke into print with figures that make any young married man of modest income think more than twice before going | there, { There is one family there with 24 | children, a dozen boasting about 20, more than 40 with 15, while the few remaining in the village average ten or twelve. i A BR: DIPPING INTO 8 SCIENCE A Male a-la-Kangaroo Fish Not unlike the kangaroo, there is a fish, the male of which has "a pouch in which he carries the young and cares for them un- til they are abhle to care for themselves. It is the pipe fish. Its body is long and slim and is from eighteen inches to three feet in length. It is found in the warmer a (©). 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) 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Ind.—The pinnacle of am- | er playing bridge today?” | bition has been reached by Melvin | Halterman, twenty-three — he has robbed a bank. { Haltermun confessed to local po- | lice that he and three companions, to | whom he was known as “first ‘gun man” and “Candy Stick” robbed the State bank of Hicksville, Ohio, Febru- | ary 27, of $0000, All four face life prison terms under Ohio law. | During his confession Halterman re- marked: | “It’s a good thing you got me with out my pole’ or you'd bave caught me alive. crying, but it'll be for my mother, | take the ‘rap’ and never ‘cheep.’ It | was my ambition to bank, and I did it.” ‘smoke never I may do some rn | | greatest Opens Murder Trial With a Prayer | Burlington, cedure for court unusual occurred Milton Ky.—An trials pro- here and Brewer of and Charles Keplinger, Trenton, Ohio, vent on trial for murder. Judge J. | G. 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Davey, Madison, Kansas. WOER FIT SPO} (© by D. J. OICES raised came to her es ment across carried far in structed building. “Oh, dear! the mented Mrs, Harve sad brown eyes ar droop to her mouth. such a nice young cc “You sent her $4( many things oursely feminine voice. “My sister needs than we do,” assert “I couldn't refuse he “But you never to girl. “You kept it | what annoys me, T “I don't have to t 1 do,” Tom’s voice g: of dogged sullenn money, and have a choose with it.” “Oh, if that is f about it,” tragically. “You are making come home at all, joined savagely, and behind him as he front stairs three Then came the soun about car getting u yas gone. “Dear, dear!” lame for the second time ously with the fooli know just how she young to have good too young to make ¢ The habit of quarre i them. It will ruin stood for a irresolu meditation. “If IT k might venture,” sh casting timidity or went out onto the front of both the tapped on her neigl Receiving no respon ping, she entered th dor bed was still ¢ lay Mrs. Tom Hay heap, sobbing her h “Oh my dear! n Mrs. Harvey, smo bobbed yellow hair resentment, but Half wretched to resent titude expressed the “I wish I were de dead!” she sobbed a the outer room the fast remained on the was boiling over on Harvey poured out ried it to the beds drink this,” she cc tell me all about it. way out of trouble bitterly. You have ‘annot be cured.” “Tom is angry wi tie. “He will not c But she sat up and “I hope you will trusive,” observed could not help ove your conversation. went out I felt the make the attempt even if you should my face.” “You heard us!” mortified. Yo answered ing wearily. “I he once, but many tim home to me all m bitter regret, my folly. If you will l¢ what I have never | ing before it may m value of the real th folly of ruining you sake of trifles.” “Tell me,” breath no more. “1 was twenty wl Harvey; a silly, st vain becuase some @ An only child and s by John in our co pected him to kee after we were mar few months and stopped. I cannof was unreasonable © to change all at o where he was to | gnow that all my ta to make him keep moring me. All my finding were to kee] ing he was in the w “I understand,” ing painfully. “Well, we quarrel quarreled and mad and made it up unt quarreled and. nev had worn out John 1 told him that I ha war had just starte a Canadian reigmer before 1 knew anyt! “Oh!” cried Hatt Ooh!” “He never came Mrs. Harvey dully. thing we owned in sent me a part of | the war. He was either dead or miss what became of hil “Very likely he wi way, with our own to console her. “If we had nevi would have been n is my punishment. There was a lo “What can I do?” y “Do not think of Mrs. Harvey earnes
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