The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 188, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 11, 1939 Page: 3 of 4
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to all set for action. Minesweepers are an important cog in Germany’s 5M,M*-ten navy.
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the friendship, why not invite him
to some function at her college?
Phy Ute Belmont. -W NV Service.
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comfortably and happily.
••But such was not to be hto
a picture or two, a new rug.
“Mr. Graham shook hto head sad-
He had been mistaken. Lafe
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sea. The instrument at lower right to a paravane, a device for detecting mines. The anti-aircraft gun crew
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day with colorful throngs, even the
Indians coming in on the iron horse
for a peek at the hordes of settlers. I _ „
“Ticket buyers used to stand 100 been present before. They both
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st«ked to th* C*1,ing ‘n th* ’tBtlon lh*ir houM tx>a,t*d new furniture,
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the turn of the century—he was
•ore concerned with getting great
hordes of pioneers and adventure
seekers to the opens plains of the
West
“It was a wild era for the little
Kansas City station,” Shine said.
"People from almost every place in
the world jammed the depot as they
poured through this funnel to the
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Drains Hugo Area.
“With an estimated area of about
100,000 square miles, the Baltic sea
to more than half again as large
as the five Great Lakes on the
Canadian border. It extends north
almost to the Arctic circle where the
sun never sets for a period of seven
weeks each June and July. It to
nearly 1.000 miles long, with a width
varying from 50 to 400 miles.
“So great to the flow of river wa-
ter into the sea that it to increased
in volume during the flood season.
It drains an area about one-flfth that
of the United States. The rivers
are also responsible for lessening
the percentage of salt in the water
which freezes in the northern por-
tions. Finland has one ice-break-
ing ship with 9,200 horsepower that
can plow through three feet of .ipe.
In the northern portions, however,
the Baltic to not navigable during
the winter months.”
A German aati-aireraft gun In action somewhere on the Polish border.
With rear lines prsdsstld, German aircraft opened aerial oombat by
bombing 18 Polish cities. This photo was flown to Berlin from the front
ana hmuom to tne unitM States.
of the Mediterranean, the bulletin
points out.
“In the days of the Viking fleets,
the Baltic was a network of trading
routes second only to the Mediter-
ranean in commercial importance,”
continues the bulletin. “Today, the
Baltic transports the great trade of
the marginal nations, the bulk of
which is among themselves.
Sea Outlet for Four Nations.
“"The northern inland sea fur-
nishes the only sea outlet for Poland
and for the three small neutral na-
tions,* Lithuania, Latvia and Esto-
nia. While Russia has other sea
outlets, its Baltic frontage to none
the lean important. Finland has a
tiny strip of land reaching to the
Arctic ocean in the extreme north,
but it to in effect dependent on the
Baltic for a sea outlet.
1 “Sweden's Baltic sea coast ex-
tends for nearly a thousand miles,
but it also has an extensive coast
line on the waters of the Kattegat
and Skagerrak, the channels which
connect the Baltic with the North
sea. The other Baltic countries with
double sea fronts are Denmark,
which lies practically across the wa-
ter door to the Baltic; and Ger-
many, which has two Baltic coast
lines—in West Prussia and East
Prussia— and a North sea coast line
between The Netherlands and Den-
mark.
“While all the other countries
fronting on the Baltic must send
their ships through the Kattegat and
Skagerrak to reach the North sea,
Germany has the 60-mile-long Kiel
canal connecting the two seas,
through the Jutland peninsula. This
waterway was enlarged just before
the World war to permit the pas-
sage of dreadnaughts and other
large vessels. By the Versailles
treaty, the Kiel canal was made an
international waterway; but two
years ago Germany again took con-
trol.
Wooten Reserve
The Westen Reserve to a track
of about 3,500,000 acres between
Lake Erie and the forty-first paral-
part of the state of Ohio. Its own-
ership was reserved by Connecticut
at the time of the cession of New
York, Virginia, Massachusetts and
Connecticut to the United States of
the Northwest Territory in 1733-1708.
granting jurisdiction to the United
States. Thia strip was therefor*
called the “Connecticut Reserva-
tion” or the “Western Reserve” un-
til Ohio became a state in 1802.
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European War
Furnishes Only Sea Outlet
For Poland and Three
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WASHINGTON.-The Baltic sea.
on the waters and around th* shores
of which struggles may occur dur-
ing the conflict in Europe, is the
subject of a bulletin from the Na-
tional Geographic society. The
shores of the Baltic form as much
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Austin had lied.
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’LL tell youfa story," said
Joshua Brown, “about a
rich man named Dorrell
Graham. Graham was
your typical self-made man. He
started at the bottom with nothing,
worked hard and got the breaks.
By the time he was 60 he had
amassed a fortune, and retired from
business.
“It had been hto life-long dream to
retire at 80 to enjoy hto income with-
out working, to live peacefully and
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vacation offers. He hadn’t even i
taken a day off for sickness or any Ma career pf ticket ■ailing—before
Boats Protect Nazi Minesweeper
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With obvious delight, A. W. Gab- •
rie of the Grand Army *f the Re-
public takes a few hot lieks at aa
ice eream sea*. Mr. Gsbrio, *3. of
Haselton, Fa., was oa* of the vet-
erans at the national G. A. R. en-
campment at Pittsburgh.
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Polo Next Door
In hto recent book “4Q.0U0 Against
the Arctic” H. P. Smolka states that
special arctic cruise* ar* being 1
planned to visit health resorts being
built next door to the North pole. .
animals should not be undertaken
by the average grower. The sacri-
fice of a few animals affected with
skin mange, coccidiosto, or worm*
to a safer procedure than to attempt
treatment, with its danger o£
spreading disease to healthy ani-
mals.
There are four types of mange In
rabbits—two forms of ear mange
commonly known to the rabbit
breeder as ear canker and two
forms of skin mange.
Mange to produced by eggs which
are laid under the scabs. These
eggs hatch and the larvae have the
same shape as the adults and ar*
distinguished by the fact that they
are smaller and have only six legs.
The adult parasites are larger and
have eight legs.
The treatment of ear mange con-
sists of thoroughly cleaning with
hydrogen peroxide and removing all
loose scabs. It to followed with dn
application of oil mixture containing
20 parts of olive oil and one part of
carbolic acid.
Skin mange in rabbits to also pro-
duced by two different species of
mites. Unless the animals are vaL’
uable for show purposes it to not,
advisable to undertake treatment
for skin mange. When the disease
is definitely diagnosed it to best to
kill the infected animals and to buna
the carcasses or bury them daily.A/
KANSAS CITY, MO.-John J.
Shine, who has sold railroad tick-
ets to vacationers for a half cen-
tury, is going to take a vacation
It will be Ms first since he came
to Kansas City-from Carroll county,
Mo., in 1889 to start selling tickets
in the old Union depot.
He’s now division passenger agent
for the Wabash railroad, and the
management of that line finally got
tired of Shine’s perennial “no" toLi ;
destiny.
“Why? Well, because the old boy
had a flock of poor relations and
friends who were after his money.
Day and night he was bothered and
pestered by telephone calls, corre-
spondence and personal visits of less
fortunate members of hto family
who wanted financial aid.
“Graham became bitter and hard
! and cynical. Eventually he decided
to go away, to migrate to a country
■ where he wasn’t known, to be taken
' at his face value, to hope tor peace
and contentment.
"And in Hillsdale he found the
end of hto rainbow, so to speak.
Rabbits Are Afflicted
By Numerous Ailment*
Rabbits, in common with other
animals under domestication, are
subject to many pesto, diseases and
ailments. Being raised in close con-
finement from the time of their birth
renders them especially susceptible
to parasitic diseases.
The mother may harbor a fewi
parasites that do not materially af-
fect her health, but the transmto-<
sion of the parasites to the young-
may give the latter a serious set-1
back by stunting their growth, low-
ering . their vitality, or the young^
may die as a result of injury from
these parasites. t
Among the parasitic diseases of
rabbit* which deserve special at-'
tention are coccidiosto, ear mange,
skin mange and stomach worms.
The common symptoms are weak-
ness, emaciation, loss of flesh, and
death. >
Treatment of most rabbit disease*
except in the case of valuable show*
animals should not bp und^rtakM.
• Vici in "girt to blind dnu». Then, «*Mng- t It^seemed to Graham that
yva know, ere very dnfinildy a .tert e/ ‘ *
Ike li/e »l college young people today,
end there mutt be e certein etiquette to
go with them. I know that when a young
man Aa« been to e girTe college •» a blind
dote he ueitee a lhenk-you letter. The
following c*m it from e girTi point of
view, end I can’t adviee her. The girt
filled in at a blind dale at a fruiernity i/i
ernoon dance, after which the young man
took her to dinner. They had a delight
ful time, and the girl wonder« if the
thould tend e letter of appreciation. She
paid her own carfare both wayt, and the
feelt the it toe one who accommodated,
although the had an unutually good time
and wenlt to do the right thing. Should
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A HOUSE MOTH EK.
Answer—Certainly not! The girl
did the boy a favor by accepting the
“blind date," and if she made it
clear to him that she had a good
when they parted she did her part | thing an' it seems to me like they
Now it’s up to the boy to make the ' • *-
next move. And if hto "blind date*'
was a pleasant surprise he’ll soon
be asking for a second date. How
ever, if the girl wishes to continue answer.
AxInMU^floUla* emowb Uie-u VgflUA 1
take root in'hto mind. That thought
concerned the making of hto will.
Who, ho asked himself, would be
better qualified to inherit his vast
fortune than this -self-same Lafe
Austin? Who would do more good
with the money? Certainly not one
of the selfish relatives who wanted
it all for themselves and whose only
god was riches.
“Thus thinking, the old man prac-
tically reached a decision in the
matter in favor of Lafe. Yet be-’.,
fore calling in hto lawyer to ar-
range the papers, he decided to first
eliminate a faint doubt that per-
sisted in hto thoughts. He would
le and assure himself that
his analysis of the farmer had been
correct.
“The problem of bestowing a
moderate fortune on Mr. Austin
without arousing that worthy's sus-
picion was easily settled. Mr. Aus-
tin was a fisherman and Mr. Gra-
ham was, ostensibly, a writer. Why,
Mr. Graham wanted to know, didn’t
Mr. Austin set down on paper some
of hto experiences as a fisherman
and submit them to a certain sports-
man’s magazine in connection with
a prize contest they were running?
“Mr. Austin thought the matter
over and chuckled The idea
pleased him. He set down his ex-
periences, submitted them, and be-
cause Mr. Graham owned the ’cer-
tain sportsman’s magazine’ he was
awarded a prize of $5,000. *
"The day after the check arrived,
Graham went away. He wanted to
give Lafe full rein. He wanted him
to use absolutely hto own judgment
in the expenditure of that money.
"Three weeks later Graham re-
turned to Hillsdale. En route to hto
home he dropped in at the Austins'
to pay hto respects. With some-
thing of a shock he noticed that th*
farm had changed. The yard had
been fixed up, the house painted
“No,” said be; “I’ve been right
here all the time, aad 1 haven't see*
any such creature."
could Jimmy do but go? If he
didn’t go it would look very much
as if he were afraid.
“A plague upon Old Mr. Toed!"
grumbled Jimmy as he ambled up
the Lone Little Path through |fi
Green Forest on his way to the
where Prickly Porky lives.
course I’m not afraid, but, just the
same, I don’t like meddling with
things I don’t know anything about.
I’m not afraid of anybody I know of
because everybody has the greatest
respect for me, but it might be dif-
ferent with a creature without legs
or head or tail. Whoever heard of
such a thing? It gives me a queer
feeling inside."
Latin America Speaks
Latin America includes Brazil
(which speaks Portuguese), Haiti
(which speaks French), Puerto Rico
(a U. S. dependency) and 18 Span-
ish-epeaking republics.
VETERAN RAILROADER^WORKS FirrY VACATIONLESS YEARS
although during the early years of
others. Money had made him I
pier than heretofore. The old r
was hitter and annoyed- Witi
preamble beta Id Laf* of hto
appointment, of the test to which
he’d put the fanner. Lafe was in-
credible.
“ ‘You mean you're D. D. Gra-
ham, the millionaire?’
“ *Y*s, Lafe,’ said Graham sadly,
“ ‘An* you were going to will me
all that money?’
“ ’I was,* said Graham, with em-
phasis on the ‘was,’ ‘but now I find
you are unworthy. Oh, don’t tell me
you’re sorry,’ he went on, as Lafe
started to speak. ‘The damage is
done. You needn’t pay back the
$5,000. It wouldn’t do a bit of good,
and I have plenty more.’
“ ‘You’re damn tootin’ you have!’
said Lafe. ’And I ain’t got no in*
tention of payin’ it back. If you
weren’t such a damd’d hog you’d
a-made that $10,000 instead of only
five.’
"Mr. Graham gasped. ’Look here,
Lafe, you told me that money didn’t
make a man happy.'
“ ‘Purely conjecture,* said Lafe.
’How could I know whether or not it
would make a man happy when I
ain’t never had no money? I ain't
never had nothing, an* I was bitter
about it. With me, like everyone
else, it was a matter of sour grapes.
But by jingles I've discovered that
money help* a lot.’
“Mr. Graham opened hto mouth to
speak, but Lafe rushed on. ‘You
listen to me,’ Mr. Graham. ‘Was
you happy when you didn’t have
money? Like the devil you was! You
was all the time trying to get more,
squabbling and flghtin’ and bein’
selfish, schemin’ to take money from
someone who had more'n you, just
like those poor relatives o* yours
are doin’ now. But now that you’ve
got your pile an* are old and want
to retire you expect other folks to
act like you didn’t, to be like you
weren't, simply because it would
make you peaceful and contented
and happy. It ain’t fair, Mr. Gra-
ham. It ain’t a bit fair, this con-
demning by you of others . .
Joshua Brown paused in the tell-
ing of his tale and chuckled. "May-
be," he said, “you’ve guessed (he
end. Maybe you think Old Man Gra-
ham left his money to Lafe, after
all. Well, you're wrong. Because
when Graham died he didn’t have a
cent to his name. You see, Lafe had
given him a new outlook on life all
right. Too much of a new one for
his own good. For Graham decided
he’d been all wrong and pretty self-
ish, and before he died he gave hto
entire fortune away to his poor rela-
tives— and made them happy."
with whole trains carrying out bag-
"The railroads have come a f
way since that rush to the West?
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other cause since he first became a
railroader. His “bosses” command-
ed his retirement, effective this Oc-
tober.
“1 haven’t made any vacation
plana," he said. “Don’t even know
where I’ll go. Fact of the matter
is. haven’t thought about H."
But for 50 years he has thought
about other people s vacation plans.
However, he kept right on, and as
he reached the foot of the hill where
Prickly Porky lives he looked sharp-
ly in every direction and listened
with all his might for strange
sounds. But there was nothing un-
usual to be seen. The Green Forest
looked just as it always did. It was
very still and quiet there save for
the cheerful voice of Redeye the
Vireo telling over and over how hap-
py he waa.
"That doesn’t sound as if there
was any terrible stranger around
here," muttered Jimmy.
Then he hoard a queer, grunting
sound, a very queer sound, that
seemed to come from somewhere
on th* top of the hilL Jimmy
grinned a* he listened. “That’s
Prickly Porky himself telling him-
self how good his dinner tastes,”
laughed Jimmy. “Funny how some
people do like to hear their own
voices."
The contented sound of Prickly
Porky’s voice made Jimmy feel very
sure that there could be nothing
very terrible about then, anyway,
and so he slowly ambled up the
hill, for you know he never hur-
ries. It was an easy matter to
And the tre* in which Prickly Porky
was at work stripping off bark and
eating it, because he made so much
noise about it.
"HeUol" said Jimmy Skunk.
Prickly Porky took no notice. He
was so busy eating and making so
much noise about it that he didn’t
hear Jimmy at all.
“Hello!” shouted Jimmy a little
louder. “Hello, there! Are you
deaf?" Of course this wasn’t polite
at all, but Jimmy was feeling a little
out of sorts because he had had to
make this call. This time Prickly
Porky looked down.
"Hello yourself and see how you
like It, Jimmy Skunk!" he cried
“Come on up and have some of this
nice bark with me." Then Prickly
Porky laughed at hto own joke, for
he knew perfectly well that Jimmy
1 couldn’t climb and that he wouldn’t
eat bark if he could.
Jimmy made a face at him.
“Thank you. I’ve just dined. Come
down here where I can talk to you
without straining my voice," he re-
plied.
“Wait until 1 get another bite,"
replied Prickly Porky, stripping off
a long piece of bark. Then with
this to chew on he came half way
down the tree and made himself
comfortable on a big limb. “Now
what is it you've got on your mind?”
he demanded.
At once Jimmy told him the queer
story Peter Rabbit had told. “I’vo
been sent up here to find out if you
have seen this legless, headless, tail-
tea creature. Have you?” h* con-
cluded.
Prickly Porky shook his head.
"No," said h*. “I’ve been right
here all the time, and I haven’t
seen any such creature.”
"That’s all I want to know,” re-
plied Jimmy. "Peter Rabbit's got
something the matter with hto eyee,
and I’m going straight back to the
Old Brier Patch and tell him so.
Much obliged." With that Jimmy
started back the way he had come,
grumbling to himself.
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Fearless Jimmy Skunk Visits
Prickly Porky the porcupine
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\X7 HEN Old Mr. Toad suggested
’ “ that Jimmy Skunk go call on
Prickly Porky th* Porcupine and
ask him if he had seen Jhe terrible
creature without legs or head or tail
whom Peter Rabbit said he had
Men rolling down the hill where
Prickly Porky makes his home Jim-
my couldn’t see any way of getting
out of it. You zee, Old Mr., Toad
had been crafty enough to pay Jim-
my a very fine tribute. He had said
that as Jimmy was not afraid of
anybody or anything he Was just the
one to go. Now after that what
8n<!? 7cond-«\andt«u»om^Ile stood lei <rf north latitude, now forniing *
bad changed too. They greeted him
with profuse cordiality. There was
a sparkle in their eyes that hadn’t
. ' 2 J wore
new garments, and* the interior of
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Indians coming in on the iron horse
Thank You Letter
For Blind Date?
Not Necessarily 1“
Hillsdale wu located in the back
country, 250 miles north of th* city
where Graham had his home, and
no one knew of his going there. He
bought a small house outside the
village, equipped it modernly, and
settled down to enjoy himself, giv-
ing out that he was a writer, though
a poor one. Within a week half the
town’s population had called to pay
their respects, and th* manner of
equality with which they treated
| and accepted him was something
to warip th* cockle* of his old heart.
‘ “Among those with whom he be-
came friendly were the Lafe Aus-
tins, who lived down the road a
piece. Lafe operated a small farm,
and when he wasn’t farming he was
Lafe got mor* out of life than any
man be had ever known. Frequent-
ly of evening* Laf* would drop over
to his neighbor’s and sit with th*
old man on hto porch in the gather-
ing dusk and talk of things that were
far removed from the hurly-burly of
existence to which Graham wu ac-
customed.
“Once th* old man aid meditat-
ively; ‘You Mem to be happy with
your little farm here, Lafe. Haven't
you often thought you’d be a great
deal more happy and contented if
you had all th* money you wanted?’
"Lafe shook hto head. ’Nope,’ he
said, *1 reckon not. Money ain’t
everything, Derri*. It don’t bring a
feller happinea. Why, I hear tell
about these rich guys a-worryin*
. and a-schemin* and a-frettin* all the
time and naturally aid “thank you" I ij01* about this, that and the other
| was plumb foolish. Nope, it’s the
simple things as counts in a man’s
j life.’
"Graham was pleased with this
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vague thought that had begun to
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