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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK.
Strangling With Taxes
Go See Alaska
A 74-Year-Old Heart
Iceland’s Old Volcano
The Supreme court decides that
government has the power to tax a'
thing out of existence. This decision
came with approval of a 15-cents-a-
pound tax on oleomargarine. The pur-
pose of that tax Is to make it impos-
gible to manufacture oleomargarine
profitably, and thus compel people to
eat butter, whether they can afford
it or not.
Doubtless that is wise, in fact, It
must be .wise, since the Supreme
court says so.
But some day, when we have, as
we shall have, one thousand million
people in the United States, and lack
room for so many cows, it may be de-
sirable to have a good substitute for
butter, and we may regret today’s
hostile taxation.
See Alaska, and at the same time
see the whole United States. Go
through the Panama canal on a big
boat and see what men can do when
they use a nation’s power. Or travel
by rail, studying the cities of the coun-
try, or take your car, which goes
everywhere and stops where you
choose, or fly, and see the world from
above.
See Alaska, a magnificent empire
far away in the northwest. See what
Seward bought for the United States
for $7,200,000. A purchase that was
called “Seward’s folly.” They took
small change like $7,200,000 seriously
in those days. But it was profitable
“folly.” Alaska has yielded $419,791,-
000 in gold, more than fifty times
Alaska’s cost alone. The “Juneau
Empire,” which ought to know, ‘ esti-
mates that Alaska has been worth to
the United States $2,500,000,000, after
subtracting the cost price. The self-
supporting reindeer alone will more
than pay for Alaska.
In his poem beginning “Dear friend,
thou art lost,” Heine reminds his
friend that fuersten haben lange arme
(“princes have long arms”).
Samuel Insull of Chicago learns
that Uncle Sam has long arms also,
and can reach out far to get what he
wants.
Mr. Insull thought himself safe on
his chartered Greek tramp steamer,
riding at anchor under the walls of
Istanbul, on the little strip of water
that separates Europe from Asia. But
Uncle Sam reached out his long arm,
and Mr. Insull is arrested by the Turk-
ish government, and unless the Chi-
cago utilities magnate is able to per-
form some new wonder, his arrest
probably means the last active chap-
ter In his career.
Mr. Insull is seventy-four years old,
a man of intense pride, nourished and
increased by success, through years
of unquestioned domination. It will
be hard for a heart seventy-four years
old to stand the strain that will be
put upon him.
Nothing Is safe, nothing sure. In
Iceland, 150 miles east of Reykjavik,
there stood a calm mountain known
to have been a bad volcano in its
younger years, called Skeidararjoekull
Cirka, a thick cap of ice covering the
summit, every sign of reformed old
age.
Inhabitants of Nupsstad village,
close by the peak, in Skaptafellsbysla,
felt certain that SkeidararjoekulL
Cirka’s wild oats had all been sown.
They had not.
The old volcano has blown the ice
cap into cracked Ice, and with light-
ning flashes and roarings Is in violent
eruption.
Some ice-capped old men have act-
ed as foolishly, and as unexpectedly.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gives
$2,000,000 for a research laboratory
that will be open to the scholars of
the world. If anyone says, “He ought
to spend his money in America,” re-
mind him that Rockefeller-Standard
Oil money has been made all over the
globe, not only here in America. You
will find Rockefeller oil cans used as
household utensils in the farthest cor-
ners of China.
Bremerton, state of Washington, re-
ports six bodies, two women, four men,
found bound, gagged, beaten, shot to
death in a house ransacked by thieves.
The crime wave hangs on, with pro-
hibition, its foster-mother, gone.
Two hundred thousand gathered In
Rome to cheer Pope Pius at the end
of a solemn ceremony establishing and
confirming miracles performed by Don
Giovanni Bosco, enrolling his name In
the calendar of saints.
A humble priest of Turin, in com-
paratively modern times, Father Bosco
took the side of the miserable and
poor so violently that he narrowly es-
caped being confined In an Insane asy-
lum as a lunatic.
The old struggle between “the shell
that pierces steel armor and the armor
to stop any shell” is decided for the
moment in favor of the shell. Shef-
field, England, announces a shell that
will pierce a plate of the toughest ar-
mor of the thickness of that shell’s gun
caliber and go on nine miles farther.
Such shells, weighing nearly a ton, are
expensive, but in war money ceases to
be important.
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May Learn Queen’s Secrets
Results of Excavations in What Is Thought to Have
Been Site of Capital of Sheba Eagerly
Awaited hy Feminine World.
Women throughout the world are
eagerly waiting for excavations in
what is believed to be the capital of
the queen of Sheba. French aerial
explorers have reported that they
have sighted the towers of the lost
city on the edge of the Arabian
desert.
When the sands of the centuries
have been dug away, It will be pos-
sible for women of today to learn
how the glamorous queen looked,
what beauty aids she used, ’and—
most Important of all—what were
her secrets for fascinating men? Her
charm was extremely potent. In
winning King Solomon, she had to
combat the allure of 761 wives and
800 concubines.
Dr. George S. Duncan, professor o'f
Egyptology and Assyriology in the
graduate school of American univer-
versity, believes that one of the chief
feminine sources of Interest In the
queen’s buried city will be her jewels.
“She was famous for her jewels,”
said Doctor Duncan. “She took huge
treasures of precious stones when she
went to visit Solomon. But in spite
of all her own riches, when she saw
him sitting in all his glory, she was
almost shocked to death at his mag-
nificence.”
Doctor Duncan does not accept
without questioning the report of the
finding of the lost capital of Sheba.
“Only excavation will reveal
whether or not it is the legendary
city of the queen,” he said. “And
these excavations must produce in-
scriptions that will satisfy archeol-
ogists.”
If the newly discovered city is the
Sheban stronghold, excavation may
reveal some of the queen’s beauty
secrets, Doctor Duncan believes, and
also provide more knowledge of her
personality. •
Women of all ages have felt great
curiosity concerning the queen, be-
GIVES LIST OF
ASSYRIAN KINGS
Clay Tablet Throws Light on
Misty Past.
That ancient, interesting and until
recently somewhat mysterious race,
the Assyrians, is now acquiring a
definite place in history through the
tireless and surprisingly successful
efforts of archeologists who have
been digging up the ruins of their
abandoned cities and translating the
records left there by long-forgotten
hands.
One of the most important of these
discoveries has been announced by
Dr. James H. Breasted, director of
the Oriental Institute of the Univer-
sity of Chicago. It is a clay tablet,
not much larger than a man’s hand,
closely covered on both sides with
the peculiar cuneiform writing of the
Assyrians. The writing contains a
chronological list of 95 kings of
Assyria, going back 1,500 years into
the misty past from Ashur-nirari V,
who reigned from 753 to 746 B. C.
to rulers who governed the Assyrians
4,300 years ago, in 2400 B. C.
The find was made on a site about
15 miles from the modern town of
Mosul, which faces ancient Nineveh
on the opposite side of the upper
Tigris. Its unusual importance is
best judged by the fact that arche-
ologists had previously known the
names of only three or four kings
earlier than 1000 B. C., and these
names were unrelated either to con-
temporary history or earlier or later
rulers. On the new tablet it is shown
that Ushpia, the earliest Assyrian
king whose name was previously
cause of her great success as a
charmer. She set a precedent for
all gold-diggers by coming away
from Solomon’s court laden with
6,000 wagons of jewels, perfumes,
oils and myrrh.
Although Solomon wanted to make
her his 762d wife, she was too much
of a feminist to relinquish her own
kingdom and turned down his pro-
posal. Legend has it that after she
returned home, she had a child by
Solomon. According to Doctor Dun-
can, the present royal house of Abys-
sinia claims descent from the queen
of Sheba’s son by Solomon.
The Biblical account of the queen’s
visit to Solomon affords the best in-
sight so far found into her personal-
ity, Doctor Duncan believes.
This account shows that the queen
was among the first of her sex to
realize that the most brilliant fem-
inine conversationalist is a woman
of few words; that expert listening
is more effective than talking.
The Bible states that she plied
Solomon with hard questions, draw-
ing him out and steering his
thoughts to that most engrossing of
all subjects—himself.
Nor was the queen of Sheba above
using a little well-chosen flattery.
Her expertness in that line Is shown
In the following passage from Scrip-
ture:
“And she said to the king, It wan
a true report that I heard in mine
own land of thine acts and thy wis-
dom.
“Howbeit I believed not the words
until I came, and mine eyes had seen
It; and behold, the half was not told
me; thy wisdom and prosperity ex-
ceedth the fame which I heard.”
Small wonder then that the Bible
reports that:
“Solomon gave unto the queen of
Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she
asked.”
known, is actually the last of a
dynasty of nine kings who preceded
him. Beginning shortly after 2000
B. C. the tablet states the number
of years that each king ruled, thus
furnishing a complete, chronological-
ly detailed chapter in our knowledge
of Assyrian history.
The tablet was found in the ruins
of the library built by the great king
Sargon II in his palace at a place
which is now called Khorsabad. The
palace is being excavated by the Irak
expedition of the Oriental institute.
Sargon II, who ruled the Assyrians
during the latter part of the Eighth
century B. C., had a son, Senna-
cherib, who is much better known to
Bible students than his father.
After the death of Sargon the res-
idence at Khorsabad was deserted,
and some one, possibly Sennacherib,
moved the library to Nineveh, 15
miles north. Luckily, before the li-
brary was moved, some one mis-,
placed the priceless tablet. It was
picked yp out of the rubbish now
lying over the site of the ancient
edifice by Gordon Loud, who is in
charge of the excavation work being
done on the palace of King Sargon.
The tablet is the property of the
Irak government, which has agreed
to lend It to the Oriental institute
until it has been copied, studied and
fully translated for the use of his-
torians. This exacting work will be
done by Prof. Arno Poebel of the Ori-
ental institute.—Literary Digest.
To keep clean and healthy take Dr.
Pierce’s Pleasant Pelleto. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.—Adv.
Words Without Song
Staylate—Shall I sing Tosto's “Good-
by”?
Host—Don’t bother singing. Just
say it.—London Answers.
Electricity in Human
Body a Potent Force
That human beings are really elec-
tric batteries, discharging some-
times as much as a half a volt of
current, is suggested by Prof. Fred
Vies of France. By attaching elec-
trodes, worn by different people, to a
delicate recording apparatus, he was
able to get the voltage emitted by
each, and to note the personal
changes In electrical characteristics.
A person in perfect health generates
the most current, but even that falls
off In gloomy weather; while ill
health is always indicated in the
same way.
Dr. George Crile of the Cleveland
clinic, in a speech bearing no relation
to Professor Vies’ findings, advances
the theory, backed by experiments of
his own, that the working of the
mind is an electrical process, and
--7--;-
that current for this is generated by
4,000,000,000,000,000 individual dyna-
mos hitherto known merely as cells.
The liviug brains of both man and
animals, he has found, emit short-
wave and infra-red radiations.—Path-
finder Magazine.
Dance Hall Etiquette
“May I have this dance?”
“Certainly—if you can find a part-
ner.”
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Lane, Ella E.; Plageman, Cecile & Plageman, Annie Louise. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1934, newspaper, April 26, 1934; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1147944/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.