Narcotic Representative William I. 8irovitch of New York holding a Bible that has been cut open by opium smugglers so that they could hide the narcotic and avoid suspicion when it was brought into the United States. THE PATTON COURIER Patron Saint of Penniless Brides Jaton Rouge, La.—Back in the Eighteenth century when Louisiana was a mysterious region of swamps and bayous and forests, a young man made love to a girl who lived along the Mississippi. She would not marry because she was too poor to bring him a dowry. Jut to his death at the age of eighty- four he remained faithful to her memory. And his will provided that the interest from $35,000 should be divided annually among the worthy brides of his loved one's home town as dower money. Recently the police jury, which cor- responds to the county supervisors or commissioners in other states, of West Baton Rouge parish alloted close to $200 each to 13 girls who married within the last year. It was their dowry, a gift from Jul- fen Poydras, a boy from Nantes, Brit- tany, who came to this country in 1768 after colorful years before the mast. He peddled odds and ends up and down the Mississippi. He lived a sim- ple life, and he worked hard. Not strange, then, that by the year 1800 he was owner of a hundred slaves and five plantations in the parishes of Relentless Drive on Counterfeiters Washington, —Secret service, aided by local police, made 138 arrests in the country last month for counterfeiting. This is a record for one month and evidence of the vigor with which the campaign against counterfeiting is be- ing conducted. Most of the counter- feiting is in $5 and $10 bills, all of which are declared by experts to be only fair work. The bills are passed in small com- munities and in the’ suburbs or con- gested districts of large cities and reach the banks and big business houses, which promptly bundle them up for deposit or to be sent to Wash- ington for redemption with the result that the counterfeits are not often de- tected before reaching Washington. In the opinion of the experts they should be. “Congestion of the court calendars and leniency in court sentences is partly responsible for the present sit- uation in counterfeiting,” said W, H. Moran, chief of the secret revenue service, “We need quicker action in bring- ing counterfeiters to trial and longer jail sentences. Counterfeiting is the most despicable business in the world, for, if successful, it is always an in- nocent person who suffers and it may be his last cent in the world.” Moran emphatically denied the smaller paper money now in use In this country has anything to do with the increase in counterfeiting. “A counterfeit is a counterfeit,” he said. “It is no easier to counterfeit a small bill than a large one. The faces of the Presidents are the same size on both the old and new bills and that part of the bill is the most difficult for any counterfeiter to imitate so as to pass casual inspection.” The rapidity with which the coun- terfeiters are being arrested encour- ages Moran in the belief that no counterfeiters can hope to escape the law long. ©0000000000000000000000000 When Character and Habits Develop By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. Mrs. Cline was delivering herself of a very scathing denunciation of the evil influences which college had exercised over her son. He had come away from h o me, she averred, clean- minded, honest, and temperate, and now she found him mixed up in every sort of irregularity. He had been caught cribbing; he had wasted his allowance in gam- bling, and he was known to be drink- ing, and involved in even more un- savory things, and college was to blame for it all. + I was myself not so sure of the fact that his derelictions could all be laid at the college doors, and I said so. I even went so far as to ask the boy himself, and he very frankly told me that he had learned nothing new in college. Fe had simply developed the tendencies and the habits which had Jad their beginnings in high school. Being away from home, he had been freer to’ follow his desires, and he was simply putting more en- ergy and interest into his dissipations. The habits which dominate us threugh life, the principles of character which we follow are developed very early in life. Rudyard Kipling in a recent address to a group of English school boys in southern England on the opening of a Junior school in which they were stu- dents, expresses something of the same idea: “I am sure you have been told many times that your school gives you in miniature almost every problem and situation you may be called upon to meet later. Strange as it may seem, it is true because—perhaps you have been told this—very few men are more than sixteen years old when it comes to a pinch. “So if ‘you can remember the style of a man’s work, or, better still, of play, you can make a close guess later on as to what he will do and how and why, and presently you will realize that men seldom do anything for the first time, except at school. It is not as if men were original creatures. They are boy products.” It is quite the truth. Men are only boy products, and they change little after boyhood. An example of this: Martin, shortly after he was out of college, was contemplating marriage, and he was discussing with me the great change which would be wrought in him by that ceremony. “I'm going to be a different mau next year,” he said. “How s0?” I inquired. “She'll make me so,” he replied con- fidently. But she didn’t. Martin is just as much a pessimist, a procrastinator, an irresponsible debtor as he was forty years ago. His habits and his char- acter were formed during boyhood, and they have remained the same. Possibly we are born with certain tendencies, possibly many of these are cultivated, but for most of us our hab- its and our characters are pretty well settled, while as youths we are under the influence of home. (©, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) West Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee. Honors, too, came to this adventur- ous Breton. He was the president of the first legislative council of Louisi- ana territory. From 1809 to 1812 he was a delegate to congress. He was president of the constitutional con- vention that opened in New Orleans on November 4, 1811. When Louisi- ana was admitted to the Union, he served as president of the state sen- ate, The will of Julien Poydras ordered that all of his slaves be freed within 25 years, and it gave money to schools, EHMKE MADE COACH pads IRIE RST Manager Connie Mack" has created a new job for Howard Ehmke, veteran right-hander, who pitched the Athlet- ics to victory in the first world’s series game last year. The inventor of the “hesitation” pitch ball will have com- plete coaching charge of the rookie boxmen, hospitals and charitable organizations, But the bequest best remembered is the dower money. For 100 years it has meant added happiness for the girls In the parish across the Missis- sippi from the capital city. To them Julien Poydras was more than a great Louisianian—he was a man who appreciated the pangs of a girl who must come dowerless to her husband. Costs Penny to Ring ‘Bell in Amsterdam Amsterdam, — Amsterdam house- wives are delighted with a device that has ended the constant ringing of doorbells by peddlers and beggars. Many have installed slot machines on their doorbells. You drop a penny and ring the bell. If the visitor is wel- come, the penny is returned. A be- nevolent government has agreed to manufacture slugs for the use of post- men, Historic Hall a Prison Independence hall at Philadelphia was on several occasions used as a prison in Revolutionary times by the Jritish troops, captured American offi- cers being detained there, ALCOHOL - 3 PER eae AVegetable Preparation for As- similating the Food by Regula ting the Stomachs and Bowels of The upsets of pildre All children are subject to little upsets. They come at unexpected times. They seem twice as sericus in the dead of night, But there’s one form of comfort on which a mother can always rely; good old Castoria. This pure vegetable preparation,can’t harm the tiniest infant. Yet mild as it is, it soothes a restless, fretful baby like nothing else. Its quick relief soon sees the youngster comfortable once more, back to sleep. Even an attack of Thereby Pro i Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains Bes neither Opium, Morphine nef 3 low A helpful Remedy fF tion and D' Constipati a resulting therefrom inlafeny E83 Pac simile Signature of 3 , BE 4 ork El THE CENTAUR CO NEW YORK ST PLN colie, or diarrhea, yields to the soothing influence of Castoria. Keep Castoria in mind, and keep a bottle in the house—always. Give a few drops to any child whose tongue is coated, or whose breath is bad. Continue with Castoria until the child is grown! Every drugstore has Castoria; the genuine has Chas. H. Fletchers signature on the wrapper. Almost any man can induce the world to sit up and take notice if he has the right kind of press agent. The Language of the F lowers SEEKS JUNGLE SECRET Xi Miss Elizabeth Steen, twenty-nine- year-old graduate student of anthro- pology at the University of California, who, unattended except by an Indian guide and a negro maid, will penetrate the central Brazilian jungle to seek a tribe of Indians never seen by whites. Polly Was Too Temperamental New York.—A hundred and sixty parrots from Nicaragua expended all the riches of their limited vocabularies here when they were ordered by the public health officials to spend thirty days at Hoffman's island under ob- servation for signs of parrot fever. One bird, more talented than the others, almost got ashore by posing as a kitten, but at the last moment betrayed himself by directing an un- complimentary epithet at one of the ship's officers. All the birds came in on the Colom- bia of the Panama Mail line, which arrived from San Francisco after stop- ping at Central American ports to col- lect the parrots, seven macaws, two toucans and fifty ring-tailed monkeys. Mrs, Margaret Daly, a stewardess, also had a parrot and she wanted bad- ly to get in the city, She knew that $ucE, I3%F, Ly noe - A errs iT “Pop, IS $50 A LOT OF MONEY? —I SPEND, IT IS L 10) POTATOES / TAKES Ir OUT TO iC d of / [- BUT WHEN MA 7 4 (1 PRETTY SMALL LD (KD is, ZA wy it would be suspected of carrying psit- tacosis, but she was morally certain the bird was well. So she taught it to meow like a cat and then put it in a wicker cage covered with cloth. “What's in the cage?’ asked a cus- toms agent, “A kitten,” she sald. “Meow!” said the parrot In confir- mation, ‘“Meeeeeeow !” Then through a chink it caught sight of a ship's officer. “Hello, it jovially remarked. “What kind of a kitten is that, any- way?’ said the inspector, He tore off the cloth around the cage. The parrot returned his gaze. Chinese Bandits Steal Telephone Wires Nanking, China. — Minnesota folk thought they had found an enterpris- ing thief when it was discovered that several hundred feet of wire had been stolen recently from power company poles near Stillwater, but China can duplicate the tale on an even larger scale. Telephone users in the west- ern district of nationalist China's new capital awoke after a recent heavy snowfall to find their phones out of order. Workmen who investigated found that all the wire in the whole district had been stripped from the poles by bandits, with the sheltering aid of the snow. DIPPING INTO SCIENCE Q S JOU———— —— — Seaweed as a Barometer At the seashore we may not have a barometer at our dis- posal, but the seaweed can be of great help in forecasting weather, When a great deal of moisture is in the air, in- dicating probable rain, the sea- weed feels damp. When the weed is dry, there is little like- lihood of rain. (©, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) “It’s Hoffman's island for you, fellow,” the agent said, “Meow,” said the parrot. There was considerable debate be- tween Inspector James Duffy and Dep- uty Surveyor of Customs John Tay- lor as to the status of the seven macaws and the two toucans. They were finally admitted when Dr. Lee Craseall, representing the Department of Agriculture, said they were not psittacosis carriers. 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