.. Flag and Guns That Defend It
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The American flag being raised for the first time on the U. S. 8S. Nor-
thampton at the Charlestown navy yard, Boston, with the three great guns
«of the forward turret as a frame.
The newly christened cruiser was named
after the home town of ex-President Coolidge.
THE PATTON COURIER
Girl Slain to Appease Ghost
Las Palmas, Canary Islands.—A
weird tragedy of peasant superstition
that led to a human sacrifice has just
been uncovered near the little village
of Teide on the island of Teneriffe.
Back in the hills from Teide in a
wretched hut lived a family named
Valido, consisting of six—the mother,
the father, three daughters, and a
ghost—the spirit of a twenty-two-year-
old youth, Fernando, who had died a
year before.
All members belonged to a cult, de-
scribed as a mixture of primitive
Christianity, spiritualism, and age-old
superstition that had lingered in the
mountains of Spain from prehistoric
days and been brought over to the
islands by the early settlers,
This background explains, in part,
why the dead Fernando was not only
a real member of the family but also
its most important member. Every
day, by means of magic ritual, living
members of the family claimed they
would enter into conversation with
Fernando's ghost and he would de-
scribe to them the wonder and hor-
rors of the world in which he lived
and where one day they would go.
One night, the story goes, the ghost
appeared and said that there was only
Hungarian Laughs at Insomnia
Trenton, N. J.=—Here is the story of
a man, who for seventy-eight years,
has stared with sleepless eyes at a
«hanging world.
The astounding case of Albert E.
Herpin, which baffled physicians
ihirty years ago, comes to light
again now with the claim of a
Hungarian war veteran that he has
not slept in fifteen years.
For Herpin, hale and hearty, says
she has not closed his eyes in sleep
suring his 78 years of life, and there
is none to disprove it. oo
He has sat through the long nignt
hours, erect in his chair, devouring
the time others reposed in slumber.
Physicians who attempted to
solve his case, shrugged their shoul-
ders resignedly after keeping him un-
der observation for years. It was too
much for them.
He rests, he says, while his eyes
are never closed, he relaxes in his
sitting position and gains at least
physical respite from his labors of
the day.
But his mind is never at rest. He
has never known the oblivion of sleep.
Through the long round of hours each
day, his conscious mind is alert.
An omnivorous reader of news
(Herpin detests fiction), he is almost
the day’s news to help while away
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1 knew Stephens for more than
forty years, and the longer I knew
him the more I
marveled at the
varied interests
he had developed
and the amount
he was accom-
plishing. At eighty
he was launch-
ing into a half
dozen new inves-
tigations which
would require a
dozen years to
bring to a suc-
cessful conclu-
sion. He went at his work like a boy
of twenty—with force, enthusiasm,
determination, and the keenest inter-
est.
He read omnivorously. Every lei-
sure moment of his seemed to be
taken up with some new volume or
PLANS OLYMPIC GAMES
Carrying America’s complete plans
for the Olympic games to be held at
Los Angeles in 1932, William May
Garland, president of the Tenth Olym-
piad committee, has left Los Angeles
for Berlin to submit the schedules to
the Olympic congress, at Berlin, Prep-
arations have progressed so satisfac-
torily at Los Angeles that the games
could be held and the spectators ac-
commodated in six months.
other in which he had found interest.
“Have you read this history of Chi-
cago?’ he asked me when I was call-
ing on him.
“It's tremendously interesting. Take
it home and look it over.”
History, science, philosophy, biol-
raphy, fiction—it made no difference
what the subject was—he found some
thing to engage his attention, some-
thing to stimulate his mind, some-
thing to widen his sympathies and
his interests.
He was a fluent writer, also. Very
few months passed without something
coming from his pen—a new scien-
tific theory advanced, the result of an
investigation, or the discussion of a
topic which was of general interest
to the community or to the state.
Most men would have been satisfied
to pursue one line of scientific inves-
tigation and carry it to its conclusion.
He had a dozen and was considered
authority in any one of them. He
was interested in birds and knew
more about them than any one I have
ever known; he liked gardening and,
long after most men have given up
active life, he was planning a formal
garden in his back yard and selecting
trees and shrubs which it would take
twenty years to bring to perfection.
He knew a half dozen languages
and could read fluently in any one
of them, and speak, too. He never
lacked for something to do. He never
grew old. I saw him in his last ill-
ness—eighty-six he was—but he still
had the enthusiasms of a boy.
“I don't see what they are keeping
me here for,” he complained to me.
“I think I am all right, and besides I
have so many things that I ought
to be doing, and if I don’t get at
them soon, I may fail to finish them.”
He never finished the tasks, but
until almost the last moment of his
long and useful life the day held for
him a score of tasks which he was
eager to get at, pleasures yet untasted,
enjoyments which had not lost their
attraction. If he had lived to be a
hundred there would have heen for
him always something worth while
to do.
Martin retired at fifty—bored with
his work, tired of the monotony of
life, not able to find anything inter-
esting in his work, or worth giving
his attention to. He didn't care for
reading, he had no interest in sports
or music or the drama, nor did he
find enjoyment in association with his
neighbors. There just wasn't any-
thing to do, and he died before sixty
from sheer lack of interest in any-
thing, Nothing to do.
(©). 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
an encyclopedia of important events
during the last sixty years. Seven
newspapers each night cover his rest
period.
He does not just sean headlines.
Column by column he pores over the
events of the day down to the small-
est paragraphs, digesting the news as
he goes.
Herpin is as much at a loss to ac-
count for his strange condition as
physicians,
He does not deplore his lot. His
few attempts to sleep have succeed-
ed only in irritating him. To close
his eyes brings not relaxation, but
nervousness,
Aside from his sleeplessness, Her-
pin leads a very normal existence,
He earns his livelihood as caretaker
in homes of the exclusive Perdicaris
Place section of Trenton.
“I'm not a crank,” he says laugh-
ingly, “I like to enjoy myself in my
own way. I smoke at night, lots of it.
I'm a teetoler, but I'm against pro-
hibition.”
one way in which he could be released
from the place of shadows and fear
in which he was wandering,
One of his sisters would have to
be sacrificed to appease the spirits
who ruled over the other world. The
next morning the three sisters—Calen-
daria, Amelia and Carmen—drew lots
to see which one would die to release
the spirit of their brother from tor-
ment, It fell to the youngest, Calen-
daria, sixteen.
Calendaria. accepted her fate with-
out a murmur. Her parents and two
sisters stripped her naked and tied
her on a bed. With a knout, made
of heavy knotted ropes, they began
to beat her.
Each member of the family in turn
took the lash and beat the girl while
the others knelt in a corner and
chanted mystic incantations. From
time to time they would stop and ask
the girl if she was ready to join her
brother, Each time Calendaria would
answer, “Not yet; keep on.” After
six hours of beating she died.
A few days later, when one of the
surviving sisters went to the village
she told the story, relating that now
her brother's spirit was at peace. The
tale came to the ears of the police,
who arrested the entire family, All
of them confessed the crime and ex-
plained in detail the ceremony of the
human sacrifice,
Drops Word “Detour”
Lincoln, Neb.—There will be na
“detours” on Ngbraska highways this
season. At least, they will not go by
that name. The highway department
has decreed the official name shall be
“temporary route.”
One of the funny
things in life is to
watch a bad-tem-
pered man trying to
carry on as if he
had a lovely disposition. It's a sight.
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Royal Secrets.Closely Guarded
London,—Of all the great collec-
tions of historical documents to be
found in the scores of museums and
libraries of England, the most secret-
ly kept and the most jealously guard-
ed are the king's archives in Wind-
sor castle.
All that the outside world actually
knows about this valuable collection
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Mrs. L. E. Fisher of Asheville, N.
C., who has been selected as general
chairman of the 1930 convention of
the United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy. The convention Is to be held
in Asheville in November. Mrs.
Fisher is the president of the Ashe-
ville chapter of the U, D. C. She is
a descendant of Capts. William Wood
and Jesse Harris,
soldiers.
Revolutionary war
is that it is kept in a strong room in
the great round tower of the ancient
*astle and that only the members of
the royal family and the recorder of
the king's archives are permitted to
examine. the papers.
The archives are the private prop-
erty of the sovereign and the state
can claim no ownership or super-
vision. They consist of documents
dealing with the royal family during
the last several centuries.
The archives are singularly rich in
papers dealing with the Stuart family
and largely concern the pretender to
the Stuart throne after the fall of the
last Stuart monarch.
Other documents deal with King
George II1 and his movements, with
George IV and with various ministers
of state. Most of the latter are of a
highly secret nature and are in script.
There also is a large collection of
Victorian papers from ‘the time of
Lord Melbourne, who was Queen Vie-
toria’s first prime minister. There
are documents in the collection from
all parts of the world, from sover-
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SCIENCE
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Sun’s Gravity Greater
Than Earth’s
The gravity of the sun is far
greater than that of the earth.
Scientists claim that a person
weighing 150 pounds on the
earth RS weigh nearly two
tons on the sun. A weight is
attracted to the earth at the
rate of 16.08 feet for the first
second, whereas on the sun the
rate would be 444 feet for the
first second.
(@©). 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
eigns, presidents, ministers of state
and ambassadors. The archives may
not become public property until the
royal family Is extinct.
FOR THE TRAVELER
The traveler prefers topcoats this
season. The one in the picture is a
beige velveteen traveling coat, trimmed
with collar and cuffs of natural lynx.
The color scheme is deftly carried out
in deep brown tones, frock, shoes and
hat being selected in this color.
SUCH IS LIFE — In Farmer Jones’ East Forty
CADDY, THIS [S
THE WORST KEPT
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Bandit Robs Couple;
Takes Their Shoes
St. Louis, Mo.—John McClus-
key, fifty-two, and Pearl Bounds,
twenty-eight, were enjoying a
spring night moon in a St. Louis
park.
“Where's your money?’ a ban-
dit asked from behind their
bench.
“In my shoes,” Pearl replied.
The robber lifted her shoes
and from each one took a dol
lar bill. The shoes were tossed
into the nearby bushes.
“Where's your dough?” the
bandit asked of McCluskey.
“Here it is,” and he handed
over $50.
Pearl was forced to remove
McCluskey’s shoes and toss
them into the bushes.
The thief strode away as the
couple searched the weeds for
their shoes.
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GIRL’S DAD WIELDS
LASH ON OTHER MAN
Husband Forgives Her After
Father Acts.
Los Angeles.—In piace of “Home,
Sweet Home,” "a snake whip is to be
placed over the door of the domicile
of C. E. Knox, twenty-two, and his
wife, Loretta, seventeen, at 1319 North
Gordon avenue.
While ten riot calls were being
flashed to the police and a large
crowd watched, the snake whip, plied
by Mrs. Knox’ irate father, P. T.
Quaderkirk, sixty, flayed the cowering
form of Ervin Radous, twenty-two, at
Santa Monica boulevard and Gower
avenue.
Quaderkirk’s reason for publicly
beating Radous, as explained at Holly-
wood station, was that Radous was
paying ardent attention to Mrs. Knox.
Quaderkirk continued :
“I want the whip, Inclosed in a nice
glass case, to be placed over the door
as a constant reminder that a decent
life is the most important thing In
marriage.”
Radous is married and is the father
of an eighteen-month-old child. He
lives with his family in the same ap-
artment house as Mr. and Mrs. Knox.
Quaderkirk, who holds to old-fash-
ioned views on fidelity, marital con-
duct and personal behavior, came to
the conclusion Radous was too fre-
quently in Mrs. Knox’ company. The
latter's husband was said to know
nothing of the affair.
The elderly father of the young
Mrs. Knox discussed the affair with
his own wife and decided to employ
summary measures. Mrs. Quaderkirk
accompanied her husband when he
bought a carefully selected whip.
Then, with Knox in the automobile,
he drove to the building where his
daughter is emplgyed as a telephone
operator, and when Radous joined her,
followed. The whipping took place a
short time later.
Man Sweats as Bandits
Debate Over Killing Him
Girard, Calif.—Tillman H. Sanford
of No. 18230 Chase street reported to
San Fernandc Valley police recently
fhat he was held up in his automo-
bile at the summit of Toponga Can-
yon road, south of here, and sat in a
cold sweat while the two bandits de
bated whether they would kill him or
not, because he had only a small
amount of money on his person.
When the two bandits took $6.50
from Sanford they also grabbed his
$15 watch. “We ought to kill you for
a cheap guy,” the bandits remarked.
Sanford said the men were so tough
looking he was afraid to argue, de-
ciding to put up a fight as soon as
the bandits started to carry out the
threat. Finally the men changed their
minds and told Sanford to drive on.
He told police he arrived at the
summit about two hours after dark
and had halted for about two min-
utes when the men accosted him. He
described the pair as American youths,
about twenty-two, of surly demeanor
and dressed in dark clothes.
Ai. Passengers Kick
at Rule Denying Nip
London.—Considerable criticism was
expressed recently over the regulation
which prevents travelers by airplane
from obtaining alcoholic stimulants at
the field if they happen to arrive there
after the 3 a. m. closing hour,
Most of the planes from the conti-
nent arrive past that elosing hour and
after a cold Journey the shivering
passengers discover that they are too
late for a little “pick-me-up.” The
critics point out that if it is quite
legitimate for liquor to be sold all
day at cricket matches the govern-
ment would be forgiven if they per-
mitted the commodity to be sold at
Croydon for the benefit of shivering
humanity.
Rabbit Drive Causes
Capture of 55 Bunnies
Tulare, Cal.—A. J. Elliott, manager
of the Tulare coursing park, is a man
of resource and energy.
When some prankster freed 128 out
of 130 rabbits intended as the inspira-
tion for whippet races here, Elliott
solved his problem in short order.
He organized an impromptu rabbit
drive, went out into the country with
his “posse” and within a short time
captured 55 jackrabbits,
FAMILY DOCTOR
MADE MILLIONS OF
FRIENDS
“Fifteen years alter his gor om
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for a single prescription which
now, after forty years, is still mak-
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Today Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pep-
sin is the world’s most popular lax-
ative. Millions of people never
think of using anything else when
they're constipated, headachy, bil-
fous, feverish or weak; when
breath is bad, tongue coated, or
they're suffering from nausea, gas,
or lack of appetite or energy.
Dr. Caldwell’'s Syrup Pepsin is
made today according to the orig-
inal formula, from herbs and other
pure ingredients. It is pleasant-
tasting; thorough in the most ob-
stinate cases; gently effective for
women and children. Above all, it
represents a doctor's choice of what
is safe for the bowels.
Mosquito Bites
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The letter A has stood at the be-
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No matter how careful you are,
your system needs a laxative occa-
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Pills help nature gently, but surely.
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Peach trees which catch the con-
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ways die.
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K-R-Ocanbeusedabout the home,barn or poul-
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“What became of your ‘Don’t Wor-
ry’ club?”
“It busted.”
“Why was that?”
“Somebody has got to worry if
you are gonna run a club.”—Louis-
ville Courier-Journal.
Effect of Adversity
When a building is about to fall
down all the mice desert it.—Pliny
the Elder.
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HELP TO ME”
Read What Mrs. Arnold Says
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been to me. I was
80 nervous and
rundown I could-
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time. When I had
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of Vegetable Com-
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felt better, so I
took seven bottles
and I recommend
it highly. It helped
my nerves and
keeps me strong to do my housework
and wait on four little children. I hope
some other suffering woman will tryit.”
—MRs. PorTER L. ARNOLD, 1013 S. St.
Andrews St., Dothan, Alabama.
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twenty-four hours
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bing, carrying on
ties, But now she
see something of th
a few of the thing
yearned for.
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to go abroad—to
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dress of the pink ros
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