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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
Actress May Be Princess of Egypt
Reports Floating Island in Pacific
been breaking over its shore lines.
“We also sighted the Tonga of the
Friendly islands, which was entirely
submerged two years ago. It is now
600 feet above the surface of the sea.
There is no life on this island either,
except birds. I presume if anybody
wanted to live there they might be
frightened for fear that the island
might again be claimed by the sea,
from which it came.
“At Solomon island we had a run-
in with' the head hunters. They at-
tempted to get fresh with my crew
and we took three of them into cus-
tody. We gave them into the custody
of the civic authorities, but they were
permitted to return to their haunts
with a warning they must be good.
“The Tonga island appears to be
shielding a volcano. When our ship
passed it we could see smoke.
“The other island which we sighted
near the Society islands we called the
Floating island. I don’t know any-
thing about where it came from nor
bow long it will remain visible."
“It was on April 15 at noon that we
discovered the ‘floating island.’ It was
in the Pacific near the Society is-
lands,” said Evans.
“There were no signs of human life,
but there were great flocks of birds
swarming over the place. There must
have been a thousand birds at least
in the flock we saw. We did not get
close to the island because we did not
known how deep the water might be.
“The island appeared to be only a
few feet above the water. In some
places it looked as if the water had
Norfolk, Va—A “floating’’ island, in-
habited only by birds, and another not
visible two years ago, were discovered
by Capt. J. O. Evans of the British
steamer Pareora and his crew, accord-
ing to a report made by Captain Evans
oh his arrival In Hampton Roads.
His ship has just returned from a
long cruise to the Society islands,
Solomon island and various other is-
lands in the South seas.
The Pareora, out of England, has
been away from home six months and
has been steadily on the go.
SMART FALL SUIT
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
Mil I I I
The king was very ill in one of Kip-
ling’s tales of India, and his life was de-
spaired of. They
^ the situation—the
convict and Mah-
fjl Jl once of a man I
ggn^ir knew. I 1 i v e.
^ m.........a Why? Because a
man may draw back pay, as it were,
for his good deeds. I dug my captain,
who is now colonel, out of some ground
that fell upon him in France. It was
part of the work. He said nothing—
nor I. But seven years after—when I
was condemned to death, he spent
money like water on lawyers and such
witnesses as would testify for my
sake. It was back pay.”
He was right, for the king got well.
I have known many who, long aft-
er the act was committed, received
hack pay for their good deeds. It is
true that in one way or another men
usually suffer for their evil deeds. Re-
tribution is pretty sure though it may
be long delayed, and so, too, in this
world, and it ma.V be in the next, the
reward is likely to come often unex-
pectedly for the good that we do.
I went to Frazier’s funeral a few
weeks ago. He was eighty-six, and he
had retained his strength and his
faculties until within a week of his
going. I had seen him only a few days
before his death and he was as alert
and as enthusiastic about his work as
a boy: His retention of all his facul-
ties was back pay for the life he had
lived. He had had no dissipations. He
had avoided narcotics all his life; he
never overate. - He had disciplined his
emotions and his body and as a re-
sult he had the most delightful old
Woman Sues Post Office
for Premature Suicide
Belgrade.—The wife of a workman
is suing the post office authorities for
having delayed the news that her
husband had won a big prize in a
lottery. She claims that her husband,
who wus a chauffeur, committed sui-
cide through poverty and lack of
work. If he had received the news
15 minutes earlier he would not have
ended his life.
By
WALTER
TRUMBULL
Lights of New York
and men opened oysters faster than
you could eat them; Moquins, where
you found artists and newspaper men,
drinking claret and indulging in deep
argument; Martins; the Hoffman
house; old Delmonicos, The Brevoort,
the Lafayette, Faunces tavern and a
few of the other old-time places still
stand, but Healys and Eeinenwebers
are things of the past, and so is Cap
Churchills. -
» * •
Churchills was a great place for
morning newspaper men. Herbert
Bayard Swope and I used to stop
there regularly on our way uptown,
usually about three o’clock in the
morning, for ham and eggs and a bit
of gossip. Cap Churchill was a great
follower of the track and used to lay
his bets on a horse for straight and
show. A bet on a horse to finish first
or third is still called by his name.
like the sidewalk tables of the Cafe
de la Paix. Sit there long enough
and you would see the world go by;
although many of its citizens stopped
a while. There are hundreds of ho-
tels in New York, but not one of them
has the atmosphere of that old hos-
telry at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth
avenue.
The Empire Trust building, on the
old Waldorf site, is rising rapidly to
the sky and the new Waldorf is tak-
ing form, but those of us who came
to New York some time ago never
will cease to miss the old Waldorf
Astoria that Bolt and Oscar made fa-
mous. Kings stayed there; presidents
visited there; the old ball room, at
dances or dinners, saw every leader
of society, finance and politics within
its walls. The Dutch Treat club held
its annual dinners there. Before pro-
hibition, the Waldorf bar was almost
Irish green basket weave cloth is
the material used for this extremely
smart suit for early fall. The jacket
of the suit is fitted to the form and
the skirt is made with snugly-fitted
top and circular flounce, which is
graduated in length. The hat worn
with this suit is a. combination of
green corded silk and felt. A green-
and-orange scarf, tan bag and shoes
and doeskin gloves complete the en-
semble.
There are other vanished land-
marks which have their place in the
book of memory. The Astor house
oyster bar where you sat on stools
age that I have ever looked upon. It
was back pay with interest.
The kind act has its own reward.
Goodness and unselfishness and sacri-
fice are ultimately not forgotten, I am
convinced. Bread cast upon the water
does return even though it may be
after many. days.
Mrs. Gordon, when I first knew her,
seemed to be playing pretty complete-
ly in hard luck. She had had a pleas-
ant girlhood with little hardship until
she married Gordon. He was a hand-
some irresponsible ne’er-do-well, who
left her after they had been married
ten years, with four children on her
hands, a^id nothing upon which to
support them but the efforts of her
own hands.
She was a ^sportsman, who never
uttered a word of complaint but set
at her task with courage and deter-
mination. Some way she got the chil-
dren educated—grade school, high
school, and collegd. I saw her in her
old age drawing the back pay for the
work she had done years before. She
had leisure, she had comfort—luxury,
in fact,- and more than that she had
the love and the attention of her chil-
dren who through her. declining years
were trying to pay her back for the
sacrifices she had made in their behalf.
“Allah does not forget,” the Hindoo
says.
(©. 1330. Western Newspaper Union.)
Then there was the famous Jacks,
where you could find Rex Beach, Fred
Stone and T. A. Dorgan, better known
as Tad. That was the place where the
trained waiters could be depended
upon to throw out an entire college1
football team, when the boys got too
rough. It was there that Hype Igoe
used to play a ukulele, until Jack is-
sued orders that it should be taken
from him at a certain hour of the
early morning and placed in the ice-
box for safe keeping. All the theatri-
cal world patronized Jacks. Most of
the rest of the world could be found
there at one time or another. Rubens
has taken over a lot of that trade
and the night clubs and speakeasies
have the rest.
TO LEAD PITT PANTHERS
The Motor parkway runs for about
fifty miles down the center of Long
Island. It costs a dollar to enter it
in a car and, since the Wall Street
crash, business has fallen off. Motor-
ists now stop to consider that a dol-
lar will purchase several gallons of
gasoline. The parkway, with its in-
frequent traffic, still gets the dollar
from millionaires and lovers—and for
the same reason: they can get along
faster on it.
To Reconstruct Moscow’s Famous Red Square
I saw a cigarette smoker, the other
day, go to three places before he could
buy the particular brand he fancied.
No other brand would do. Then he
went to a gathering of friends where
lie smoked every brand of cigarette
offered him.
((c). 1930. Bell Syndicate.)
Capt. Eddie Baker of the 1930 Pitt
Panthers grid squad, who will not
only do the heavy thinking for the
team but will also do most of the foot
work. Eddie’s accurate toe work has
made him the most valuable member
of the team when it comes to booting
the pigskin.
reviewing stands are to be erected.
Formerly the scene of public execu-
tions, of imperial proclamations and
martial parades, of bloody revolutions,
it now resounds with the tramp of
the Red army and the footfalls of So-
viet workers. High above the Krem-
lin wall rises a great clock tower,
built the year before Columbus discov-
ered America. Opposite this historical
structure are the Trading Rows with
their arcaded sidewalks, around
which the people in all walks of life
gather. Women in felt boots, clerks
in leather jackets, officials, usually
well: dressed, with their brief cases
under their arms, laborers in their
dirty sheepskin coats, slippered girls
dragging hand carts behind them offer
a glamorous contrast.
Venders cluster around the gates
leading to “Red Square,” offering all
manner of articles and making sec-
tions of the square into virtual out-
door department stores.
At night ah open forum is estab-
lished in the square. Unimportant So-
viet speakers gather little knots of lis-
teners about them to explain details
of the Soviet plan of government, and
ofttimes the square is tilled with a mass
of people while the government lead-
ers proclaim the doctrines of the rev-
olution through mammoth loud speak-
ers.
With the work of reconstruction
now started, all of this glamour Is at
a standstill, until when a new and
even greater “Red Square" is com-
pleted, it can begin anew.
the wmrk of turning the temporary
wooden mausoleum into a permanent
resting place of stone is already under
way. Smooth flag stones will replace
the ancient cobbles and permanent
Washington.—Russia’s “Red Square,”
the scene of glamour and tragedy. Is
to be reconstructed, according t* a
report of tlfle National Geographic «o-
ciety. In back of a high board fence
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Mrs. John B. Quinn of Ogden, Utah,
a widow, some time ago conceived an
idea to aid widows left destitute by
the death of their husbands. She
urged widows to enter her employ-
ment in the making of clothes for
women. Her establishment has grown
steadily and she now employs scores
of women, her clientele including
cities all over the state.
HISTORY'S
MYSTERIES
Unsolved Riddles That Still Puzzle
Authonti^
What Became of William
Turner?
a MONO the many interesting and
xjL curious facts connected with the
history of Individuals or nations there
are few which possess the grim, com-
pelling qualities of the “disappearance
cases”—the instances in which human
beings have apparently vanished from
the face of the earth, never to be
heard from again. But if, in addition,
the affair is complicated by the iden-
tification of a body which is supposed
to be that of the missing person, the
matter becomes one of national and
Bometimes international prominence.,
But the apparent Impossibility of
Identifying even near relatives is Weil
illustrated by a case decided in the
English vice-chancellor’s court in con-
nection with a suit in which the plain- <•'
tiff wished to establish the fact that
a certain William Turner had come
to his death.
Turner had last been seen on May
7, while he was being entertained at
Guildford. He then presented an
emaciated appearance, he vvas. im-
kempt and unshaven and there were
many who were of the opinion that’
his mind was unsettled and weak. Ten ..
days later a body was found in the
River Wey and, at the inquest which
was summonnued on the same day,
two men named Etherington swore
that the corpse was that of their fa-
ther, who was missing at the time. -
The friends who had entertained
Turner at Guildford, on the other
hand, declared their belief that the
body was that of William Turner, but
It was nevertheless interred as that
of Philip Etherington^- A colored
handkerchief was found around the
neck of the body and this article as-
sisted in the ultimate identification
of the corpse some months later'"
when Philip Etherington, supposedly
drowned and buried, walked Calmly ■
Into his daughter’s house and told a
rambling story of why he had not
previously appeared.
The question as to the identity. of !
the drowned man was then revived
in earnest. The proofs were, to the
minds of most people, clearly brought •
out at last, for William Turner had
left behind him at Guildford a frag- ■.
ment of a handkerchief which was „ ,
found to correspond with the one dis-
covered around the neck of the
drowned man. To the vice-chancellor’s
mind the chain of evidence was com-
plete and satisfactory and judgment
was given that William Turner had
come to this death by drowning. Yet
the two sons of Philip Etherington •
had positively identified this same ..
body as that of their father, whom
they had seen every day for more than .
thirty years, and with whose facial
and bodily characteristics they would"
be supposed to be as familiar as with,
their own. "• • ,i
Moreover, in spite of the fact that •
Turner was quite prominent in -the
community, most of those who knew-, •
him agreed with the Etheringtons as. -<
to the identity of the body, despite
the fact that they also claimed that.
there was little similarity between the
appearance of Turner and Etherington' !
during life. Nor did decomposition of- •
the features enter into the matter in
the least, for the common notion that: .
the human body decomposes rapidly
in water Is contrary to the fact for,...;
especially during winter or in the.,
months when the water is cold apd „
if the body remains below the surface;
the features were often remarkably
well preserved. Identification may
therefore be comparatively easy, be-
,j cause of—rather than in spite "of-— 5’
the fact that the body has been im-
mersed in water. . . ..
No case of a similar character ever :
created the sensation in England that.,, .
the Turner affair did, for the reason, •
that the body was not long enough in .
the water to distort the features in
any way, yet neither the Turners, the
Etheringtons nor their friends were
able positively to identify the drowned
man. At first he was buried as Ether- '
ington and later the stone above his:
grave was altered to read “Turner”—*
yet the latter’s family and friends
have never been wholly satisfied that
it was his body that was interred
there.
((c) by the Wheeler Syndicate.)
His Advice
The dean of a certain English ca-
thedral was one day walking through
the precincts when he came upon a
laborer at work. The man looked up
at him and went on with his work
without touching his cap: The dead
was annoyed, and stopped.
“My man,” he said, reprovingly, “do
you know who I am? I am the dean
of this eathedral.”
The laborer looked at the dean, and
then glanced up at the magnificent
building.
“Darned good place; too,” he said.1
“Mind you keep It!”
Noise Lowers Efficiency
Complete sleep and rest is impossi-
ble in many parts of New York city
and a state of emergency exists, de-
clares the noise abatement coriSmitte®
In its first report. Noise in that city-
Is increasing each year. “The con-
tinual pressure of strident sound to
which New Yorkers are Subjected,” it
Is asserted in the report, “tends to
produce impairment of hearing, to in-
troduce harmful strain upon the nerv-
ous system leading to neurasthenic
and'psychasthenic states and to cause
loss of efficiency of workers and
thinkers.”
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 194, Ed. 1 Monday, October 20, 1930, newspaper, October 20, 1930; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906706/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.