vfl. Few
Little
SrresO
oiviy PAur of it
' Fred, six, in school his first day
was asked by his teacher what his
father's occupation was. Fred did not
know, so the teacher told him to find
out and tell her nest day. That night
Fred's mother explained to him that
his daddy was a telegrapher.
Next day Fred told his teacher his
'daddy was some kind of "grafter."
Be couldn't remember the whole word.
Capper's Weekly.
Attet and Liability
"So you want to marry my daugh
ter?" "Yes."
"Do you know much about busi
ness?" "Not much."
"Do you know the difference be
tween an asset and a liability?"
"No."
"Well, you will after you marry my
daughter."
SATISFIED
lie How about you and me getting
taarried?
She No, 1 think I'll make my pres
ent husband do for another year.
In Turn
A hero worked himself to death,
The publlo wag quite vexed.
Fame fur a moment held her breath;
Then simply hollered "Next!"
There's a Profit
Aby These vatches are too cheap.
They must' cost you more.
Levy No, Aby, I Just sell them at
cost price.
Aby Rut that's not business. Vere'g
your profit?
Levy Repairing them.
Getting Even
"I don't understand your letting
young Terklns mnrry your daughter.
I thought yon were enemies."
"Yes. And now he will have my
Wife os his mother-in-law."
j COULDN'T HELP IT
1 Father Daughter, 1 told you to
keep away from that young scoundrel.
Duughtcr And I did, but he didn't
keep away from me, so what cou'd 1
do?
A Dream of Avarice
AH patiently h saved hit pay
And said In tones elated,
"I may get rich enough tome day
To be Investigated!"
Shrewd
Householder (to persistent sales
man) This Is the third time you have
called about au electric washing ma
chine. How may times do you want
me to refuse you?
Sulesnion Well, madam, I think
twice Is sufficient.
Slapt Slapt
Mae I like the way you dance. My
boy friend Is so jealous I have to
dance with only plain-looking boys.
Johu I follow the same plun.
Loomed Large
Lady (at theater, to man In seat be
hind) I hope my hat Is not worrying
you.
The Man It la worrying me a lot
my wife wants oue like it I'nrls
Journal Amusant
An Ideal State
White They say that broadcasting
has now passed the infant stage.
lllnck If my neighbor's Infant
would pass the broadcasting stag
(everything would be perfect.
Good, Job for Hermit
Washington. The lighthouse keep
er, the. prospector, the sheep herder
hare lonely Jobs, but what is probably
the loneliest of all Is that of the for-est-flre
observer. Perched high on
some towering mountain top in the
cabin of his steel tower, surrounded
for miles about by almost Inaccessible
forest, the fire observer goes for
weeks, often months, without seeing
another human being.
Not all contact with the world, how
ever, Is lost, for by the very nature
of his work he must be In dally and
sometimes hourly telephone commu
nication with the ranger's or forester's
headquarters. Equipped with the In
dispensable telephone, his maps, range
finder, binoculars and meteorological
jJtJCH
IS
LEADERSHIP
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
IT WAS Amll the Goth who said to
Wulf, the chief of the tribe, when
he was hesitating as to his own ac
tion :
"If the bison-bull He down and wal
low, what will the herd do for a
leader? If the king-wolf lose tha
scent, how will the pack hold It? If
the Ynling forgets the 'Song of As
gard, who will sing It to the heroes?"
Example Is the strongest Influence
In leadership.
Clayton had charge of seven thou
sand men whose Job was ship build
ing during the World war untrained,
Illiterate men most of them were,
who were used to hard work and a
rough life, and to be ruled with an
HOBBY IS LIFE SAVING
Wilfred Whiting of London, Eng
land, with some of the medals he
has received for saving the lives of
bis fellowmen. Whiting has saved
105 persons from drowning without
assistance.
Instruments, the towerman keeps con
stant watch over the thousands of
acres of forest land spread out be
low him for the first .telltale signs of
smoke.
The job of lookout, lonely and usu
ally poorly paid as It Is, nevertheless
demands a type somewhat above the
average in intelligence and fortitude
to fill it He must understand tele
phone line repair, must be able to
read maps and know enough about
triangulatlon to locate forest fires by
taking their bearings, must be able to
make temperature and humidity read
ings on a wet and dry bulb thermome
ter, and he must be able to cook his
own meals.
Some states and the federal govern
ment have employed women observ
ers with good results. A woman look
out is quick to detect fires, accurate
In locating them and definite when re
porting them to headquarters. Where
fire towers are situated near settle
ments or farms, women will often be
found "manning them.
These towers, the more modern of
which are of galvanized steel, vary
in height from 20 to 100 feet, though
there are some even higher. When
built on the highest peak of a moun
tain range a 60-foot tower will usu
ally permit a view of ail the surround
ing forest. In clear weather the ob
server may be able to see 40 miles or
more, but the average visibility is be
tween 10 and 20 miles.
PjPT oAO k f viea, ef room-
Goblin on Guard?
Natural Tunnel, Va, Weird leg
ends of a goblin, deranging the minds
of marauders seeking treasure which
tradition says Is buried far up In the
Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia,
where nature has formed a natural
tunnel for railroads, are told by resi
dents here.
The treasure Is said to have been
burled In a cave In the rock walls
of the tunnel. White men, pursued
by Indians, placed the treasure there,
the legend says, and only one at
tempt has been made to recover It
A box, rigged with ropes, was low
ered from the top of the wail. The
man in It was about fifty feet down
when be saw the cave contained an
eagle's nest. The eagle attacked him
and In striking at the bird one of
the ropes was severed, suspending the
treasure seeker above the yawning
cavern.
The other rope held, the story re
lates, but when the man was pulled
to the top he was found to be de
mented as a result of the terrifying ex
perience. .
Another tale Is that an Indian prin
cess leaped from the towering wall
of the tunnel to her death 600 feet
below, because of her love for
Cochesa, an Indian brave from tiie
sea, whom her father, a Mingo chief,
refused to permit her to marry. The
spirit of the girl Is said to live In
the tunnel.
The waters of Stony creek flow
through part of the tunnel Into Linen
river. The picturesque beauty of the.
section and the many Indian legends!
attract numerous tourists. ;
Superb Mosaic Found
Washington. Burleo under the dust
of centuries, a superb mosaic disk con
taining a thousand or more beautl-l
fully polished pieces of turquoise has
been discovered by excavators In Yu-j
catan.
Cork Industry Hurt
'Madrid. After supplying two-thirds
of the world's supply of corks, the
Spanish cork Industry finds Itself In
straitened circumstances, due to a
greatly reduced demand.
DIPPING INTO
SCIENCE
Volcanoes
A very plausible theory re
garding the activity of vol
pnnnps In that the water of the
ocean enters an opening in the $1
earth caused by an earthquake,
forms gas or steam under great
pressure, and finds its outlet
through the crater of the vol
cano which seldom lies far
from the sea. '
(, 1128. Westers Newspaper Onion.) j
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Iron wrist, and Clayton was a man
of education and refinement He had
seen the world; he had known men
of prominence and Influence; ne was
a gentleman In every sense of the
word, but for all his refinement of
taste and education, be had no diffi
culty with his men, and the. reason
was that he lived with them, he ate
the food that they ate, he slept as
they slept, he worked as many hours
dally and as hard as they worked,
he lived soberly and discreetly as he
would have liked them to live. They
respected his character, they recog
nized his leadership, and they fol
lowed as the pack follows the king-,
wolf.
The boss gave Williams very good
advice when he took him on in a
subordinate position. He emphasized
the fact that regular and temperate
habits were necessary to success. He
gave Williams to understand that
drinking and gambling were not con
sonant with progress In their firm.
The advice was excellent and Wil
liams listened to It with respect But
he had not been long with the firm
until he learned that the boss was
not following the advice which he
had given his subordinates. His
breath did not always suggest a
respect for the Volstead, act; his
stories of what be had won In a
friendly game with one of his neigh
bors did not Indicate that be himself
refrained from gambling, and If he
did not, why should Williams? The
boss had succeeded and had been
neither temperate nor always scrupu
lous as to how he won his money.
His example told strungely In niold-
RI5 I YOU SAV HE EARUEP I fTl C "" L IPS
IaMICKELWPMOWJ ful&SMOwl w TOOK t2fcffl
pP
ing Williams' character. He was the
bison-bull lying down and wallowing,
and the herd was following bis ex
ample. Gaston, who was head of his
fraternity, was worried about the
freshmen in the house. It was bard
to keep them in at night they were
crazy about dates. It was difficult to
keep thera at their books, and tbelr
scholarships were not what It should
be. He wanted advice.
'How many nights a wee:: are you
In?" Tasked. He colored a little and
hesitated.
"I am out a good deal," he con
fessed. "You see I am engaged, and
she likes to see me for a while every
evening."
"And your grades?"
"Not ull that they should be, I'm
sorry to say."
It was the king-wolf losing, the
scent, and I tried to show him.
((c). 1928. Western Newspaper Union.)
Light on Crabs
Washington. An Indication that at
least one family of North Carollnu
sand crabs has an extremely aristo
cratic lineage, dating back about 25.
000,000 years, is contained in a re
port on new fossil discoveries in the
Grand canyon by Dr. Charles W. Gil
more, noted paleontologist of the
Smithsonian Institution.
Tracks of the ancient creature that
roamed uround In the ooze which
formed the foundation of the moun
tain before it was cut by the Colorado
river were first found in 1903 by the
late Dr. Charles D. Walcott In the
Coconino ctandstone on Grand . View
trull. Another specimen was found 12
years later by Trot. Charles Schuch-
Scientist Wages War on Plague
f. J J J --
I ? i - r
ert of Yale, and a third was discov
ered last year by Doctor Gilmore.
Using this as a type specimen for
his study, he has concluded that the
truckway probably was made by some
crustacean In the Permian period of
geological time. The sandstone slab
rhows two parallel lines of Imprints
In groups of four, arranged in a row
of three regularly spaced tracks with
the fourth offset Inward.
The similarity of this arrangement
to the tracks of living sand crabs was
called to Doctor Gllmore's attention
by Remington Kellogg of the United
States biological survey, who observed
these creatures reeently on Hatteras
Island, N. C
IXfivw The average man
i v-R spends a lot ot time
I ((5'x prosecuting the work
I jrLZjKyij ' others that he
Fr" would better spend
In prosecuting his own.
r'Vfi'Wftii'iiifi iiif
Dr. Tlmrvnld Madsen, director of the famous Serum Institute at Cown
hngen, IVninnrk, where constant war is being wnteo ogulnst cholera, tuber
culosU und other plagues.
I Chinese Reds Torture,
t Then Massacre Rich
Hankow. Chinese sources. In
t giving details of the recent mas-
snore at Lelynng, said Commu
$ nlsts and disbanded soldiers
fired the houses of all the well
It to-do citizens who were penned
t Inside with women and children.
t and burned to death.
Everybody who appeared to be
X prosperous was murdered to tne
southern Hunan city. Usually
the victims wire tortured first
1 their eyes being gouged out
their ears cut off. Whole faml
$ lie 3 were so treated, parents be-
Ing compelled to watch their
X chlldnn being mutilated and
f children to watch the torturing
of their parents.
J Several foreign missionaries
were In the l.elyang area at the
t time and their fate was nol ?
known. S
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Explorer Discovers
Strange Wild Race
New York. A visit to a mys
terious race of warriors, possibly
the descendants of South Sea
Islanders who came to South
America many centuries ago,
was described by A. Hyatt Ver
rlll of the Museum of the Amer
ican Indian, Heye foundation, on
his return from his sixtieth trip
to South America.
Verrill said he found the tribe,
numbering about 350 men and
women, In almost Impenetrable
wilderness between Brazil and
Bolivia. None of the tribe wears
clothing, Verrill said, and the
men have developed long beards
of the type commonly seen In
the Solomon Islands. The tribe
members are nature worshipers,
be said. X
Bad Spelling Shows
How Jews Talked Latin
Austin, Texas. Bad spelling on
tombstones in the Jewish catacombs
of Rome Indicates how the Jews who
lived In Rome In the early Christian
centuries pronounced Greek and Latin,
according to Dr. Harry J. Leon, of the
University of Texas.
Scholars have wondered whether
the Jews who formed a settlement In
Rome clung to their Hebrew ways or
whether they did as the Remans did.
Doctor Leon explains. Six Roman cnta
combs where the Jewish residents
burled their dead are now known, and
study of the inscriptions on the slabs
and the gallery walls shows fhat the
writing Is three-fourths Greek and one
fourth Latin. Often words in the In
scrlptlous are confused with other
words of similar sound, so that they
are misspelled in characteristic ways.
Jewish ritualistic symbols on the tomb-
guage than the average Jew of. today.
The more cultured among them spoke!
Latin as well as the popular Greek.j
the recent Investigations Indicate.!
Their Inscriptions afford valuable ma-j
terial In tracing the history of the;
Greek and Latin languages in their!
development from the classical
tongues of antiquity to the modern
Greek and the romance languages of'
our day. Doctor Leon states.
NEW IN SPORTS WEAR
Vl.noil.irl ... i i i iiii-mi- i i iT
For practical sports wear the
brushed wool costume Murceline Day
wears for golfing Is e..treme)y good.
stones were indeed written by Jewish j It Is a two-piece model with the
people using foreign languages, Doc- i blouse striped with peasant colors.
n f iAn nAlnts nw- " A knAtnn InntVtA halt In ivnun nrl t K
tor Leon points out
The Jewish population In Rome,
which grew to about 40.(100, was no
more familiar with the Hebrew tun-
A brown leather belt in worn with
the frock.
Turkeys were raised by the Aztecs,
Getting Their Master's Voice