Soateedrbodreleateoteedsdaeteetoithele b> OVODDBDEI Little Journeys in Americana < By LESTER B. COLBY LEP oalpealealregeelsctoateaoalredeeleaononioaealoslenlons America’s First “Sob Sister” ANY women have lived in history because of beauty, wit, or other charm that made them loved of men. Few women bave come walking down the corridors of Time, their feme far- flung because of the acidity of their | wrath. Such a woman wrote history in Washington. She has been dead now three-quarters of a century. I am speaking of Anne Royall! Anne Royall might be called Ameri- ca’s first “sob sister.” She was the nation’s first writing newspaper wom- an. She was the first woman in the United States to own and edit her own newspaper. She was indicted, tried and convicted as a common scold—the last under the taw. She was sen- tenced to be ducked, though the sen- tence was never carried out. John Quincy Adams, one-time Presi dent, handed down a morsel to pos terity when he described her as being: “Like a virage errant in enchanted armor, redeeming herself from the cramps of indigence by the notoriety of her eccentricities and the forced currency of her publications.” Public men didn’t like Anne Royall She was the widow of a Revolutionary soldier from Virginia. She appeared in Washington in 1824 asking for a widow’s pension. She was denied it and grew embittered. Finally, getting hold of a tumble-down printing press and some battered type, she launched herself upon her career. At first her small weekly was called the Washington Paul Pry. Later it was renamed the Huntress. All who earned her ill will she scourged in it with abandon. A contemporary. remi- niscent in his later years, wrote of her: “She was the terror of politicians, especially congressmen. [ can see her now, tramping through the halls of the old Capitol, umbrella in hand. seizing upon every passerby and offering her book for sale. Any public man who | refused to buy was sure of a severe philippie in her newspaper.” Jos! . "ef bos! . "o Pe Pesto ted Peres 00 ee 2, ne! THE PATTON COURIER Guam Folk Ask Citizenship Manila, P. LL—On a little island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, 17,000 persons are asking to be admitted to citizenshir in the United States. They are the Chamorros, natives of Guam, Under United States sovereignty, but still not of it, this group of people is in an anomalous position. Since their country was acquired by the United States following the Span- ish-American war, the Chamorros have been under the rule of what is vir tually a dictatorship exercised by gov- ernors who are presidential appointees They have a congress elected by the people and subject to the approval of the governor, which makes no laws and comes to no decisions, the mem- bers of the assembly acting merely in the capacity of an advisory body. Ihe island of Guam is not bound by the laws of the United States. It recognizes a prohibition law, but it is a local one, not the Eighteenth amend- ment nor the Volstead act. The penal code enforced in Guam has been adopted from that of the Philippine islands. The system of courts and law en forcement is directly under the super- vision of the governor. He appoints the judges and there is no jury sys tem. According to Capt. L. S. Shapley, U. S N., “who recently completed a three years’ term Aas governor of Guam, the natives of Guam need apologize to no nation in the world in the matter of law and order Leo and Theo Bogant of Corvallis, Twins Win Cup at Annual Roundup Ore., are leap year twins, having been born February 29, 1916. They were awarded & cup at the recent annual twins roundup held at Albany, Ore. Two hundred and eight sets of twins took part Petty crime is rare, ne says, and ma- jor crime almost unheard of. Of the total population more than half live in the city ot Agana, the only recognized municipality on the island. The others are scattered in the out- lying districts. The island is divided into districts, each one under the supervision of a commissioner elected by the people. He serves also as con- gressman, mayor and police judge of his district. These supervisors are directly responsible to the governor. Economically and commercially the people are not advanced. Education- ally they are ambitious. Schooling, under the supervision of natives, is compulsory for all between the ages of seven and twelve and a high school has lately graduated its first class. Despite the fact that the Chamorros are backward economically, they never- theless are independent. It is esti mated that about 95 per cent of the heads of families in Agana own their own homes in addition to other lands which they utilize for the growth of necessary food and their one export, copra. China’s Rain God Proves Power Hankow, China.—Peasants in Wu- han and throughout Hupeh province were overjoyed recently at the end of a six-month drought which menaced their agricultural crops with complete destruction. Triumphantly the native farmers addressed their district magistrates: “Did we not tell you that nation- alism must not interfere with the worship of gods and that if we want rain and a splendid harvest we must offer prayers to the god of rain and refrain from eating meat for seven days? Now China can plunge into any adventure. but to force the peo- ple to discontinue the practice of praying for ruin would be a foolish None escaped her. It was said that she forced her way into the presence | of every President from the time of her arrival until 1854, when she died. All public men who paid her tribute, | some have claimed, reaped glowing mention in her colunms. But woe be- tide those who refused. As age crept on she grew more un- lovely still, and the acids of her wrath bit degper. At last she unendurable that a grand jury for | mally indicted her. She was tried before Judge William Cranch in Cir- cuit court. The law which ducking of scolds, dragged from oblivion as especially | suitable for governing her case. and Washington prepared for a hippo- drome. With the old crone in their power, however, the idea ceased to hold its humor with her tormentors it seems. Anyway, some one lost heart. In the end her punishment was commuted to a fine and imprisonment and she was not subjected to the greater indignity. Though she never profited much and died poor, Anne Royall, in the example she set, hatched out a breed of contemptible journal- ists that persisted for many years. In fact, they are not quite all dead. Yet she is not entirely without honor. She did eriginate the personal type of interview and she must go down in history as tne first woman in her field. And none who ever felt the searing of her white-hot brand ever forgot that here was a woman who could fight. (©. 1929, Lester B. Colby) Nature Doesn’t Remind Us of Shortcomings It is wnnfortunate that nature doesn’t make us immediately uncom- fortable when we neglect our bodies as does the bank or the merchant when we fail to produce in 30, 60 or 9) days. Think what a different world it would be, for instance. if the discomfort following the omission of daily exercise or a daily exposure to the sun, or a daity cold bath, or a daily two-mile walk in 30 minutes were as acute and compelling and filled with desire as are the sensa tions that follow the omission of one's accustomed meals for 24 hours There would be no skipping one’s duty then. In fact the difficulty would be not to overdo it—even as the difficulty of most persons is to avoid overeating.—[D’hysical Culture Magazine. Turning the Tables He had been out of work for quite time. but eventually his luck and he secured a position a long had turned as driver on a corporation bus serv- ive. On the morning of his first day’s duty the bus had gone a few miles when an inspector boarded it. The iatter was surprised to find the ve hicle empty. but the conductor ex pinined that it had not stopped once since leaving the depot, “Has nohody tried to stop your pus?” asked the inspector of the driver “Na. sir.” “Nobody put up their hand to yon?’ | “Oh, yes.” returned- the other. | “there's heen a lot of folk wavin' te | me at various corners, but | ignored! ‘em. They wouldn't speak when I was | out 0 work.’ — London Answers. t | centuries of became 80 | gence of noblemen and the rendezvous made possible the | long forgotten, was | Jamaica to Restore Palace Kingston, Jamaica, W. f.—The | King's House, historic structure of [ the West Indies, is to be rebuilt after neglect. Once the resi- King’s rem | of the elite of Jamaica, the House stands in Sparishtown, a nant of bygone glories. The building was swept by fire in October, 1925. Little more than a shell now remains of the stately man- noblest sion, once regarded as “the | edifice of its kind in the Western hemisphere.” The handsome facade. with its dignified columns of Portland stone and pavement of white marble, withstood the fire. The structure stands on # square the north side of which is graced by an open temple and colonnade inclosing the elder Ba | con’s statue of George Brydges Rod- | ney, the “Savior of the West Indies.” The King’s House was designed by Craskell, the engineer of the islands. during the administration of Gov. Sir Henry Moore, about 1754. It became the residence of many governors. Its cost was over $100,000. Not until 1870 did the glory of the King’s House fade. During the administration of NEW GOLF CHAMPION The new champion of American amateur golfdom, stocky. likable Har rison @ Johnston of St. Paul, packed up his clubs at Pebble Beach and left the scene of his greatest conquest. +} don’t want club in the face again for sometime.” he declared “Of eourse. 1 am tickled to death. 1 to look a golf | was lucky to win. especially when you know I wasn't obliged to play the greatest player of them all, Bohby Jones.” A small boy doesn't care for a book that is instruc tive as well as amusing Gov. Sir John Peter Grant the seat of government was removed ro Kingston. In this house Jamaica gathered on his majesty's birthday for the king's ball, where such was the decorum that the Royal Gazette announced that “no gentleman can possibly be admitted in boots or otherwise improperly dressed.” On the portico the Lady Nugent, the delightful diarist, was received by Lord Balcarres, upon her arrival here in 1801. The big Hull of Audience is depicted by Wickstead in a famous painting. The salon was an apart. ment of goble propertions adorned with busts of pocis and ph logophers, On the walls were doles to carry candles. At the north end was a minstrel’'s gallery where a band played on festive occasions. Lady Nugent, in her diary, speaks of the governor from whom her husband took over the administration: “l wish Lord B. wash his nands and use a nail brush. for the black edges of his finger nails made me positively ill. He has besides an extraordinary propensity to dip his fingers in every dish at table.” costly gilt giran- would the Great Salt lake cent Seagulls from destroyed approximately 40 per of Utah's cherry crop, a survey shows. policy and would result in a national calamity.” The drought many districts. in Hupeh affected In several large towns HEADS CANAL SURVEY Maj. Dan 1. Sultan, of the office of the chief of engineers of the army, who has been placed in charge of the 400 engineering battalion, numbering officers and men, ordered to duty in (Central American jungles to survey the route of the proposed $1,000,000, 000 Nicaraguan canal. 0S By i BOYS, Do YoU Know G=0)=") WHAT HAPPENS TO Boys WHO PLAY MARBLES AND USE BAD LANGUAGE 2 SURE, ‘THEY GROW UP AND PLAY GOLF! 0-00-0000 TURNING BACK By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. 0-0-000000000000000000000000 Fayre in Maristan Chapman's “Hap- py Mountain’ lost his knife and he was sulking ubout. it. If he hadn't had gone SO far with Mart he wouldn't have lost his knife. ind he prized the knife very much, indeed. “1 was aimin ro tun back thout here any way’ he ex plained regret ting. as many of us Go, his foolish action “Efn Pd known a step or two back all I know afore” But in life [| now, I'd a gone back | How many of us would! there is no retracing our steps. If we have wandered from the path, if we have made a foolish step, we must 20 on from where we are und pay the price of our error. Barker has made a miserable fail- ure of his first year in college. He has put off doing his tasks until the last minute; he has wasted his oppor- tunities hoping before the end of the vear to sprint up and finish the race with sort of credit to himself. He has got into some habits which are not helpful through his inability to say no. Now he is in the same state of mind as Fayre was—if he had known a step or two back. all he knows now, he would have done very differently. “Can't | what ['ve done, and sturt agnin as a freshman?” he asks me. “1 know, if | started over again | could make good.” It is impossible both for Barker and for you and me. No one can get away from his past. Wherever he goes and whatever he does he must start from where he is now, handicapped by the mistakes he has made or pushed ahead by his successes, McCord degen drinking some forget all over when be was a young fellow—moderately, of course, and with no intention of ever having the habit fasten itself upon him. He had never had too much be- fore he was thirty, he would have said, though his statement would not have been wholly accurate, but it is true that he was seldom before that time seriously under the influence of liquor. Now he is fifty or more and he fis known about town as the village drunkard. He is tulented, ambitious, he has more than the average amount of formal education, but he gets no- where. People have no confidence in him; they shake their heads when any mention is made of him. He has lost the race. “If 1 had known thirty years ago what I know now,” he said to a friend not long ago, “I'd never have touched the stuff. And now it is impossible for me to turn back. I must go on in the path I have chosen, hoping only that the road ahead will be smoother, the hills less steep, the prospect more pleasing. If I had only known back there a step or two!” There is no turning back. (©. 1929. Western Newspaper Union.) the rice crops were ruined by the lack of rain and famine set in. It was when the drought began to take serious toll of the crops in and around Wuhan and a rice crisis threat- ened that the farmers, with the back- ing of the merchants, planned a monster meeting at which united prayer would be offered to the god of rain and god of harvest. In the past such meetings were held whenever there was lack of rain, but under the Kuomintang rule, the authorities withheld permission, con- tending that it was purely a super- stitious practice. The controversy went on for over a month, but as the drought continued and the situation grew serious the local officials finally gave in and the united worship of the rain god was held. Curiously enough, rain fell and the drought broke just a day after the mass meeting. The farmers and the promoters of the mass meeting were satisfied that the downpour was the direct result of their prayers. DIPPING INTO SCIENCE 00000000000000000-0000000 Beetles. {owe ro | The largest groups of insects in the universe is that of the beetle. There are some 150, 000 different species, almost a tenth of that number in the United States. ” indicating the insects’ ability of fighting and working with its mouth. Some beetles can scarcely be seen while others are about four inches in length. Sa 5 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) The word bee- tle means “biter, Hypnotized and Married Lancaster, Ohio.—The tale of an allegeé¢ modern Wnoch Arden was re- vealed in a divorce petition filed here by Mrs. Zetta EB Worlf against Chris- _topher Worle. Mrs. Worlf alleged that Worlf came to her rooming house, representing himself as an unmarried man and after exercising what she be- lieved a hypnotic power over her in- duced her to marry him. Named for Princess The city of Augusta, Ga. was named by Gen. James Edward Ogle thorpe, British colonizer of Georgia, in honor of the daughter of George IL NEW BROADTAIL COAT One of the new coats of broadtail with a most unusual shawl collar, cut much longer on one side than the oth- er, nd trimmed with white fox fur, A FAMILY DOCTOR'S LAXATIVE IS BEST Your health is too important ou cannot afford to experiment with your delicate bowels when coated tongue, bad breath, headache, gas, nausea, feverishness, lack of appetite, no energy, etc, warn of constipation. This applies not only; to grown people, but nore particu- larly to children. That’s why a family doctor’s laxative is always the safe choice. 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