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FALL TO KNOW FATE
BY DECEMBER 4TH
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—T e n
more days and nights behind prison
bars may serve to let Albert B. Fall
know whether they will confine him
for eight months more.
The federal parole board is expect-
ed within that time to decide whether
the former Interior Secretary may
leave the New Mexican state prison
or serve the remainder of his term
for accepting a $100,000 bribe from
Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate.
Fall became eligible for parole on
November 20 and applied for it. The
board has asked for the facts in the
case.
THE ALIMONY RACKET
(From the Chicago Tribune)
One of the reforms of our substan-
tive law that is long overdue is the
proper limitation of alimony. At pres-
ent alimony is too often a mere rack-
et, unjust from the standpoint of the
individual and socially demoralizing.
Designing women find in it a means
of living without work and without
returning anything for what they re-
ceive. In many cases no doubt they
enter into the marriage compact with
the intention of escaping from it and
living afterwards at the expense of
the man they have defrauded.
In an age in which women have
been freed from most of the disabili-
ties imposed upon them by the old law
of the married status, both as to per-
son and property, and when their op-
portunities for earning a self-respect-
ing livelihood are multiplying, the
right of alimony should be restricted
to meet conditions. Where children
have resulted from the marriage the
right is clear as long as they are prop-
erly dependent upon the parents.
Where there are no children the right
should be limited strictly to a reason-
able time after divorce. Questions of
property settlement of course would
modify this rule, but present rules
have not checked flagrant abuses. Ali-
mony is sometimes imposed after re-
•jnarriage, when all just basis for it
has disappeared, and this fact has
been exploited by individuals whom it
is certainly not public policy to pro-
tect. These abuses of justice degrade
marriage and are a public nuisance
which ought to be abolished without
further delay.
Miss Lucile Fleming of San Antonio
is a guest here for the Thanksgiving
period in the home of Mrs. Beulah
Lockhart.
Miss Elizabeth Lockhart left Wed-
nesday afternoon for San Antonio
where she will spend the week end
with friends.
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World’s Oldest Library
Discovered in Syria
What is supposed to be the most
ancient library in the world, consist-
ing of documents written in the first
alphabetic signs known to savants,
was discovered in Syria by a French
archeological expedition. Eighteen
large and small tablets, engraved with
letters that are neither hieroglyphics
nor Assyrian cuneiform characters,
but evidently parts of the first alpha-
bet made of 26 and 27 signs, were
found by a young Alsatian archeologist
on the Syrian coast of the Mediter-
ranean, at a place called Ras-Shamra,
near Iatakieh (Ladikiya). The expe-
dition had discovered there a necrop-
olis, the 4,000-year-old ruins of a
Phoenician palace and town, and
numerous ancient vases, jars and
statutes of great archeological and
historical value. The opinion was put
forward by the Academie that these
ruins represented traces of an Aegian
colony that existed on the Phoenician
coast 2,000 years before the present
era, and whose civilization was of the
Mycenian period. Salomon Reinach,
the famous French historian, who was
present when the report was pre-
sented, declared that the discovery
was a most extraordinary one, and
that it would be of the greatest im-
portance for the study of ancient his-
tory.
RATTLESNAKES AND
THEIR ENEMIES IN
THE SOUTHWEST
Ruins of Ancient City
Long Hidden in Jungle
After being hidden for centuries in
a tangled-up mass of jungle, the an-
cient city of Gedi, has come to light
only 50 miles from modern Mombasa.
Professor Fleure, of the University
college of Wales, who has been visit-
ing Kenya colony with the members
of the British association, believes
that Gedi, known in Kenya as the
‘‘buried city,” is of Persian origin and
at least six hundred years old. The
ruins disclose a fine Arabic writing,
especially in the mosques and tombs.
Professor Fleure thinks that Gedi
would well repay investigations by
archeological and ethnological experts.
He does not believe these would be
difficult in view of the profusion of
evidence provided by the ruins. The
town was known to tribes on the
coast for many years, but it was
shunned by them because they re-
garded it as being haunted by the
spirits of the dead, who wreak special
vengeance on intruders. The lighting
of a fire in the precincts of the ruins
was considered particularly dangerous
by the negroes, even if the fire was
only a cigarette.
Christmas Fireworks
Both the Chinese and Hindus em-
ployed fireworks in their religious fes-
tivals long before Europeans knew of
gunpowder. Other people copied them.
Ancient races used firecrackers, roman
candles, and fireworks in connection
with the winter solstice celebration.
Such pagan ideas have since been in-
corporated into modern religious and
other observances. In Italy and other
countries this pagan feature continues
in some Christian religious festivals to
this day. Christmas eve in some of
the Southern states resembles the
Fourth of July. There are elaborate
(By Colonel M. L. Crimmins,
U. S. A., Retired.)
Rattlesnakes have many enemies
in the Southwest among the wild ani-
mals in that part of the country, and
also among domestic animals. One of
the best informed authorities in our
Southwest who has traveled over one
hundred and twenty-five thousand
miles, carrying the mail, staging and
overland freighting, from 1866 to 1880
was August Santleben. I quote from
his book, “A Texas Pioneer,” as fol-
lows:
“Rattlesnakes were found in great
numbers in West Texas, and they
were enemies that had to be guarded
against at all times. Wild turkeys
lways show a great antipathy to them
and never fail to make a deadly and
persistent attack until the reptile is
destroyed. An opportunity to witness
such conflicts is seldom offered, there-
fore I will note one incident of the
kind that came under my. observa-
tion.
“I was traveling the road near
Uvalde when I saw a large flock of
wild turkeys in an open glade along
the highway. I stopped when I saw
the gobblers had congregated in a
circle, where they seemed to be fight-
ing, but I soon perceived they were
killing a large rattlesnake. One af-
ter the other would spring into the
air in rapid succession and come down
on the reptile, which they struck a
hard blow with one wing that might
have been heard quite a distance. Ap-
parently all the gobblers took part in
the fracas and they appeared to be
greatly excited, but the hens fed
quietly in the vicinity and seemed to
be indifferent to what was going on.
“I watched them about' ten minutes
before they observed and became
alarmed. After they disappeared in
the brush I approached the place and
found the snake coiled up and almost
dead. Evidently the gobblers had
been engaged in killing him for some
time before I appeared on this scene,
and if they had^ not been disturbed
the victim would have provided a
feast for the whole flock because it
is their custom to eat the snakes kill-
ed in this way.
“Deer are generally prejudiced
against rattlesnakes and invariably
attack them in favorable localities.
The deer springs from a safe distance
into the air with his four feet brought
together, and he comes down on the
snake with his sharp pointed hoofs,
which cut like a knife. The move-
ments are rapid and often repeated
until the rattler is mangled into a
shapeless mass.
“The javelina or Mexican wild hog,
found in many parts of Texas and
some parts of New Mexico, will also
kill and eat them, and so does a
chapei’al cock.”
I have personally seen chickens kill
and eat rattlesnakes. In the summer
fireworks displays, and the children
get firecrackers in their Christmas j 0f 1928 I was living at 1120 Burr road
stockings.
Quake Every Half Minute
Every half minute an earthquake
occurs somewhere on earth. Great
ones powerful enough to destroy towns
happen about four times a year. Two
especially sensitive zones exist: 1—
along the almost continuous stretch
of the Alps, Caucasus and Himalaya
mountains; 2—along the whole moun-
tainous circle of the Pacific. Often
shaken Italy is in the first zone, Cali-
fornia and Japan in the second. East-
ern North America along the Ap-
palachian chain goes through a no-
ticeable, but usually harmless quake
at least once a year, an-d a damaging
one at about five-year Intervals.—
Time, the Newsmagazine.
He Knew the Law
The late Haley Fiske of insurance
fame told this story at an insurance
men’s banquet in New York.
“An American company,” he said,
“opened a branch in eastern Europe
and was soon doing well.
“A rich peasant visited the main
office one day, insured his farm, and
then said to the manager:
“ ‘Now, then, sir, I must have ev-
erything plain and clear before I go.
Exactly what would I get if my house
and barn were to burn down tonight?’
f‘ ‘Not more than ten years and not
less than three,’ ” said the manager.
Twenty-Three Adjectives
A California man, suing his wife
for divorce after less than two years
of marriage, says that she is “sullen,
mean, Irritable, morbid, disagreeable,
nasty, gruesome, cool, bitter, jealous,
heckling, pic^yunish, loathsome, in-
sulting, brazen, miserly, gluttonish,
temperamental, selfish, contemptuous,
inattentive, uncivil and inconsiderate.”
on the northern outskirts of San An-
tonio. One evening I caught a fe-
male rattlesnake as it was sleeping
in a brush pile. I caught the snake
by the tail as I had no other means
of getting it, and carried it back to
the house and put it in a box. I
judged from her appearance that she
had recently given birth to some
young snakes as it was about the
middle of August, when rattlesnakes
would have their young. I was there-
fore on the alert for young snakes
and in a few days four were killed.
Each had one button only. Two were
killed and eaten by some of my chick-
ens, which weighed not more than
three pounds. Going out in the chick-
en yard one morning I saw a Cochin
China pullet with a young rattlesnake
in her beak pursued by the rest of
the chickens and muscovy ducks. In
order that other witnesses might see
this unusual performance I called to I
a neighbor and his wife and his cook j
and to my wife and cook, so that we |
would have six witnesses. By the J
time they arrived the pullet had evi-
dently swallowed the young rattle-
snake, but a Plymouth Rock cockerel
had another and he was being pur-
sued like the pullet. My witnesses
having arrived, I ran the chicken down
until he dropped the snake. It was a
young Texas diamond-back rattler
^bout 12 inches long, and it was still
alive. I cut it in three pieces with
an ax and the chickens and muscovy
ducks fought over it 'greedily until
every piece was swallowed.
The chief of the agricultural lab-
oratory at San Antonio, H. P. Parks,
tells me that about nine years ago
he obsei*ved a domestic cat at his lab-
oratory bring young rattlesnakes to
It is obvious that one who chose i, , , jn
from Roget with such care did not j ?®r ^tens, and they would eat them.
mean to imply that she was uncon-
genial.
Giving One’s Best
Play fair with your employer, and
he will do the same by you. If you
think enough of a job to accept it,
think enough of yourself and your ob-
ligation to do your work the best you
can, and you are bound to come out
on top.—Grit.
He said that since then every genera-
tion of that cat family does likewise.
This has been observed by Mr. Parks,
his wife, son and daughter, and em-
ployes at his laboratory.
A couple of years ago a traveling
animal exhibit was put in a building
at Roswell, N. M. The center box
had in it a badger. The box adjoining
it contained some rabbits, and on the
other side were rattlesnakes. The
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TBEiWFLS 'WHO fiELLirZORLBtt*
Badger gnawed his way out of his
box into the box of the rattlesnakes
and killed and ate them. This he
did in preference, to the rabbits whose
box was equally close and made of
the same material and they could have
been as easily killed.
BONES IN COURTROOM
(From the Dallas News)
The Houston Post-Dispatch thinks
that the presence of the skeleton of
the decaesed in the courthouse where
the jury in.a murder case can see it
is a good thing. The thing was tried
out in a Corpus Christi case and
seems to have cramped the style of
ordinary jury speechifying not a little.
The thing is worth thinking about
in Texas. We are so slow to bring
murderers to justice that often the
body has time to moulder away to
bones before the issue is tried as to
guilt or innocence. The jury needs to
be convinced that murder is a serious
thing by the time the defense has done
painting pictures of the little home
with the vines over the doorway and
the little wife and the little children
gathered about the fireside awaiting
for the return of the defendant who
hasn’t ever done any harm in this
wonderful world of songbirds and
bowers and inftocent breezes except
blow the top of the deceased’s head
off with a shotgun fired behind and
so on. You know how the ordinary
case of self-defense in a murder case
works out in Texas.
But while the red-faced attorney is
wiping his brow and chanting the
periods of his prose poem about the
dear little woman who. is depending
upon the jury to send her man back
to her and his babies, suppose there
lie in a box the bones of John Doe,
deceased, with the hole in his skull
just as the defendant’s shotgun left
it, and the box is open and the eyes
■! A,
of the jury are free to wander from
what is left of the late John Doe to
the defendant and then to the per
spiring orator. There is something ■
in it. And if. the bones can’t be prc
duced conveniently, why not hoi
court in the graveyard? This ide;
that murder is merely an unpleasar
accident of which the .defendant ,
the victim ought to stop somewher
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