Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 March 1928 — Page 3

Failed as Dentist

Sydney.—An amazing Instance of •elf-dentistry has just come under notice of the authorities at a large Melbourne hospital. Isaac was a Jewish sailor of Odessa. He did not visit the dentist every six months, as the health text hooks sug gest, hut nevertheless his teeth were his pride. Isaac was loud in his la mentations one night on the high seas when the stubborn top of a bottle of beer removed a large piece of tooth in the front of his mouth. The hole • gaped at him from a mirror. It would have to be tilled. The lead lining ol an empty tea case gave Isaac the idea, and he went to work witli haste. In the stokehold Isaac improvised a small ladle and cast the boiling lead into a mold, which he judged to be the size of the hole in his poor front tooth. By dint of ingenuity and persistence, Isaac carved the piece of lead into shape with a pen knife. Time and again he fitted the pellet Into the hole in the tooth, carved away the rough edges, and then tried again. Soon the pellet resembled a tooth and, with a final effort, Isaac forced it into place. Standing before a broken mirHOMESPUN UP-TO-DATE y i I |i ~ Wi ¥ > | H J The modern homespun frock we are showing, worn by Marceline Day, as the heroine of “The Big City,” is a far cry from the old-fashioned homespun our grandmothers wore. It has a three-tiered skirt edged in dark brown with collar and cuffs of white linen edged with brown.

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| ON READING 5 BOOKS ?? By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK » » Dean of Men, University of \\ <? Illinois. » IT WAS under a cartoon that I saw the query. “How’s that?” the owner of the library said to his friend in a boastful and self-satisfied tone, as he showed him his collection of books. “Everyone of them a priceless first edition.” “What’s this one alone over here?” the friend inquired as his eye catches a lonesome thin volume standing by itself upon an otherwise empty shelf. “Oh 1” the owner explains, “That’s the one I’ve read.” It is one thing to have books; it Is quite another thing to have read them. A good many people who have shelves full of books in their libraries might as well have only the false covers without the contents, such as we see in the stage setting of theaters or in furniture stores where they sell bookcases. My friend Chesley is a collector of books —rare books, beautiful books, unusual books, books which are diffi-

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ror in the steaming stokehold, perspiration on tiis brow, Isaac proudly surveyed his handiwork. But there was something lacking. The lead looked black beside the gleaming white of his teeth. He must polish it. So, every day, and many times a day, Isaac would pause in his shiphoard tasks to remove the lead, and polish it on his trousers. It took on a splendid sheen. Then one day Isaac became ill while his vessel was at Melbourne, and he was hurried to a hospital. There the doctors found all the symptoms of lead poisoning, and that was all. A dentistry specialist was consulted and noticed the “lead line” round the gums, and solved the problem. Despite Isaac’s protests, the filling, the remainder of the tooth, and part of the bone underneath were removed. When he was told of the danger to which he had exposed himself, Isaac swore never to indulge in lead dentistry again.

Heard the Sea A-Calling

Brooklyn—From catboat to Leviathan is the record of Capt. Harold A. Cunningham, newly appointed skipper of the great United States liner, which is the largest ship afloat. Cunningham knew how to handle the Httle catboats and sharpies that the boys play with in Sag Harbor. L. 1.. soon after he had learned to walk. When, during the war, he performed what was considered the most astounding navigation feat of all time, his friends harked back to his days in Sag Harbor and later in Greenport, when, sailing tiny homemade vessels, he would brave the heavy tide currents that swept into narrow inlets. The Leviathan, in the war days, arrived in New York during a strike of tugboat men. No pilots were available, either. Gray-headed officers on the Leviathan shook their heads. Thousands of troops were waiting to be transported. The Leviathan might have to wait at quarantine for days, perhaps for a week. “To the blazes with all your tugboats,” shouted Cunningham, who was then navigating officer of the Leviathan, at the age of thirty-five. “We'll take her in ourselves.” And so Cunningham personally took charge of the great ship whose very size has baffled many a skilled pilot and took her into her pier without a pilot and without a tug. Captain Cunningham had a birthday recently. His luck, he believes, arises from the fact that he was born on the leapiest day of leap year. On February 29 of this year he celebrated that anniversary that only’ occurs every four years.

cult to obtain, and yet he could hardly be called a regular reader of books. In fact he reads only moderately. If you would take his precious books from the shelves to give them a more c; reful examination, you would be likely to see how clean and white the pages are, as if they had never had close contact with working hands. You would no doubt discover, as I did, that the pages of many of them had never been cut, and so the book has yet to have its first reading. Chesley would have no sense of duty neglected if you would call his attention to these facts. He doesn’t find much pleasure in the reading of books, and he says so quite naively. His pleasure is in having something unusual, something that his friends cannot afford, cannot get their hands on. His is only the pleasure of a collector. Lincoln, for instance, had read few books comparatively, for books were not common when and where he was a boy, but he had read these few carefully, thoroughly, anq had absorbed the contents and been influenced by the style. The books which he had about him meant much to him —each one of them. Public and educational libraries must contain many books w’hich are seldom, if ever read, and many more which are only skimmed through for

” Silence of 30 Years " II Is Broken by Death II •• Warsaw. —After thirty years •• .. of self-imposed silence, Samuel II " Frommer is dead in the Ghetto ” .. of Kzortow, in Galicia. For II ” three decades Frommer had not ” -- spoken a word. ” Frommer as a young man *' quarreled with his wife and in II the height of his anger ex- II •• pressed the wish that she might •• II be burned alive. ** •• Within a week his house took •• II fire and Mrs. Frommer and their II " two children died in the flames. ” II Frommer, of a mystical char- II ” acter, saw in the coincidence an *' .. evidence of heavenly wrath. He II ” took public vows “never again ” -• to make use of that organ which -I ” had made him guilty.” •• From that moment “Samuel •* II the Silent,” as he became known, II -• devoted his life to the study of •• II the Talmud and other Hebrew II -• religious writings. II But he never spoke again. II T-i--l-.H..H--H--l-4-^ i-M FI T

Harry, at the age of eighteen, narrowly escaped the signal honor of becoming a conductor on the Long Island railroad. “You should follow in the footsteps of your parent and become a railroad conductor—a rolling stone gathers no moss,” his father, William Cunningham of Greenport, L. 1., warned him when In his late teens he was considering a career. But young Harry Cunningham had fooled around the sea too long to fall for any such advice. Born at Sag Harbor, L. L, he grew up breathing the tangy atmosphere of the sea. He watched fishermen bringing in their catches of flounders. The captain gives his orders briefly and to the point. He runs everything smoothly without the necessity of the long conferences in which some skippers indulge. His friends, on the other hand, are full of stories about his exploits, and report that when danger Is at hand, or decision Is needed, he turns out to he a twofisted. determined individual Cunningham stole a sheet off his mother’s bed to make the sail of his catboat at Sag Harbor. He lived at Sag Harbor until he was twelve, and 'r ~ i. V.y To make friends I °f men I'” money 1 ,n ,lieir purses. To ■ make friends of Ezi-LZiJ women show them how to become more beautiful.

str y facts. Isolated information, or for the point of view of a recognized authority. Scholars engaged in research might go quickly through a hundred books in order to get one MASTER AUTO DRIVER । y t ,y Z * ? X' The photograph shows a close-up of Frank Lockhart who drove a car of his own design in the International speed trials at Daytona beach. fact, and these books may not be used again for a decade. Not so with the libraries which you and 1 have in our houses. Our books we should be familiar with; they should be like old friends. As we stand in front of the shelves and look them over, each should recall old memories, old pleasures, forgotten experiences. The books that we have we should have read, they should have been a part of our lives, they should have had their part in the development of our characters. How many of the books that you own have you read? ((o' 1328. Western Newspaper (Inton.) Deserved It London, England.—Paging “Baron Esslemont,” “.Mrs. De Rekeewski’’ and “Mr. Cacciaponti” in such a manner that the judges could understand him, twelve-year-old Arthur Fredericks Ims won the prize offered by the Hotel Cecil for the best page boy.

Saved by Bald Head

Chattanooga, Tenn. — Dr. Douglas McCallie, Presbyterian missionary in Korea, has glad news for bald-headed men, especially if they plan to travel in the Orient. The missionary, whose head Is hare of hair, credits his baldness with having twice saved his life. Once whole traveling in Korea his path was crossed by a mob of natives in search of a Japanese who had killed two Koreans. The missionary was mistaken for the slayer, but as he was about to be seized, he took off his hat. An ecstasy of amusement went up from the mob on sight of the bald pate and Doctor McCallie was not molested. Later the missionary went to the rescue of a Christian girl who had been taken from a church school and added to the harem of a wealthy Korean. Attacked by the incensed native, Doctor McCallie squared off for a fight. Realizing that Koreans fight by seizing their opponent’s hair with

then, his father being transferred by the Long Island railroad, he moved to Greenport, where at the foot of Cherry lane Cunningham continued to fool around with boats. A senior in Greenport high school at the age of eighteen, Cunningham tired of dull books and tired also of the thought of becoming a Long Island railroad conductor when he graduated. He therefore ran away from school and got a job as plain seaman on one of the little steamers of the Montauk Steamboat company that braved the waves on the run from Sag Harbor to Greenport to New York. On the steamer Shinnecock, of which John Burns was skipper, Cunningham learned how to box the compass from Pilot Dennis Homan, now a prominent citizen of Riverhead, L. I. He progressed so rapidly that three years later, at the age of twenty-one, he became a captain. The Manhassett, Captain Cunningham’s first command, bounded over the stormy seas between Sag Harbor and New London. Cunningham moved rapidly to posts on bigger ships. He Joined the Southern Pacific line, run ning vessels between New York and New Orleans, then became second of fleer on one of the vessels of the Mallory line. The first officer on one of these trips was lost overboard and Cunningham brought the ship tn. He commanded the Momns. the first American ship to make the trip to France during the war. His masterful work on this vessel won him the post of navigating officer of the Leviathan.

“Comet” Seen at Algiers Fault on Camera Plate Cambridge, Mass. —The new “comet” that was announced recently as having been discovered by an astronomer named Filipoff in Algiers was not a comet at all, but a spurious image on a photographic plate. This announcement was made here by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard college observatory, which acts as the American clearing house for news of astronomical discoveries. The original anouncement of the supposed discovery was received from the international clearing house at Copenhagen, from which word has just been received of the mistake. As a result, the first comet discovery of 1928 is yet to be made. First District Execution James McGurk was the first criminal executed in the District of Columbia. He was hanged in October, 1802. The account of the execution in the Intelligencer follows: “Yesterday was executed James McGurk, sentenced to death for murdering his wife.”

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one hand and pommeling with the other, the missionary removed his nat. The Korean looked at him in amazement, said Mr. McCallie, and blurted out, “How can I fight you when I can’t get hold of your head?” Again the death threat was replaced by laughter. There are no bald-headed natives In Korea, said Doctor McCallie. Son of Jay Gould Orphans’ Benefactor Houston, Texas. —An unannounced stranger walked into the De Pelchin Faith Home for Children here recently, said his name was Gould, and asked to see the children. Most of them were in school, but when they appeared there was a romp for the man, whom they remembered from his last visit three years before. He was Edwin Gould, son of Jay Gould, the financier. Gould gave the home $5,000 three years ago, and since has sent money, clothing, toys, food and books at regular intervals. He explained to the children that he was going from New York to the West Indies, and on reaching New Orleans had decided to pay the home a visit SEES EUROPE FROM AIR % i ifl***— jUv fl HLo fl Ji । An especially posed portrait ot Miss Mildred Johns'on ot Philadelphia. Pa., aviation lecturer and writer ami the only person to have flown completely over the air-mail routes of this country, who has left to fly over the airways of Europe to study and | write about them. A warehouse to be erected in Moo treal will cost SIS.!MMUMIO.

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Victims of Progress If we add together the number of deaths from typhoid fever, smallpox, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis, and diphtheria, the sum will fall considerably short of that of those killed by motor cars on the public highways. That, at least, is an authentic report from the state of New York, which we svppose will hold good pretty generally throughout the country. Are we Indeed a maladroit and hapless Frankenstein, able to overcome the malign forces of nature but helpless victims of the devices of our own creation? —North American Review. Varies Egg Production A hen that belongs to William Johnson of Oelwein. lowa, lays a doubleyolk egg for him every Wednesday—and has been doing it week after week since the first of the year, when he started watching her. On the other days of the week she lays an ordinary egg.—lndianapolis News. Great inequality of the income tax “on the small schedules” is that so many elude it.

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At Least, Minds Were on the Right Track When men invade the realm of women in ladies’ apparel shops often the scene resembles that created by the proverbial hull in the china shop. The clerks of one downtown store tell about two young men who desired to buy hosiery. “What color?” asked one of the other in reply to the clerk’s question. “Now, what color did she ask that we get?” And the pair grew quite perplexed. “Oh, yes, I remember. We want : that shade called buckshot.” “No, no, not buckshot was it?” questioiiiid the other. “Wasn’t it shotXn?” “Now,” queried the clerk helpfully, “do you mean you want gunmetal?” “Yeh, that’s it. Gunmetal. Gosh, we missed it a mile, but we were on the right track anyhow.” the two replied in chorus, laughing at their own mistake.—lndianapolis News. Didn’t Look Good “I want to get a good boss for plowing,” said Farmer Jones to a horse trader, “and 1 want a good one. too.” “I got just the hoss for you, friend; he’s a good worker, but he doesn't look good,” returned the H. T. “I ain’t buying him for the looks, so if he’s a good hoss I guess I’ll take him.” y Two days later Farmer Jones returned with the horse. “Why in the devil didn’t you tell me the old hoy was blind?” said Farmer Jones to the horse trader. “Well, I think I made ft plain enough when I said he didn’t look good.” So Farmer Jones has still got the old hoss.—lndianapolis News. Toothpicks in Demandiy Toothpicks may be social outlaws, but every year their production in creases by millions, says a Chicago manufacture! of the wooden slivers However, the wheels of the to-dhpick industry are not kept running to supi ply the use for which they were orig inally intended. It is such things as using them to teach the baby to count, sticking three-decker sandwiches to aether and resorting to toothpicks when the poker chips run out that boosts productio^r^i The Inventor “Are you sure your new idea will »rk?” '•Well. 11l have to if It doesn’t” The bri S ht eyes, t ll * A is© active mind, are tl: Keep your kidney ?J©y For LS have reli 1 cn thtir UI — .c -A, 1.1 J b.-todS*

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Laugh at King’s Edict Bobbed hair has an enemy in Issn , Said, king of the Hedjaz. Although he refrained from forbidding the women to cut their hair, ha ordered that any barber found guilty of clipping a woman's locks should be sent to jail or fined. The fashionable women of the Hedjaz have begun to act as barber to one another. Quite Correct “What is a man-of-war?" “A cruiser.” “What makes it go?” “Its screw, sir.” “What goes with it” “It's crew, sir’.”—Weekly Scotsman. The Only Recognition “Have you any political pull?” “Not much,” answered Farmer CorntosseL “I’ve devoted my life to the service of my party, and the only job I ever got was chairman of a reception committee.” A. Majority Attorney ’ (in property lawsuit)— Four people have testified that you cut down that tree. Accused —What are four people? I can bring millions who did not see me. Uncle Eben “It’s a nan s duty to smile an’ look cheerful.” says Uncle Ehen. “But if you does it when you's on yoh way to de dentist office, you’s jes’ a plain prevaricator.”—Washington Star. A Mental Stranger “I hear that Reggie has taken up New Thought.” “Huh! Any thought would be new In Reggie’s case." Nothing to Read “Who was that poor fellow who starved to death in Hollywood?” “He was a mind reader!”—Life. Man who doesn’t care for public appreciation is almost abnormal. It is the incentive of millions. Adam had his little troubles, but he never had any dressmaking or millinery bills to worry about. Success is frequently the result of your ability to persuade others to accept you at your own valuation. A man seldom forgives an injury I t an opportunity to get even. e clear skin, the sprightly step, the 'C right of healthy man. .’s, liver and bowels in good condition ive and a jrous at 70 —at any r gel ' • ' H A AIR L. EK OIL. " At all