Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 August 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON 1N HEP EN DENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES" Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M. Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .....Jl. s# ■lx Months 90 Three Months 60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, os second-class matter. It’s the fellow who isn’t asleep that Is most certain to wake up and find himself famous. Pennsylvania has never relinquished her claim to he recognized in polities as the Keystone state. Just in case nobody remembers to mention it between now and November : Get out and vote. Another thing that doesn’t keep the man in the street awake nights is 7 and S per cent call money. Once upon a time a Chinese army inarched for four hours without trespassing on a foreign concession. Why not just combine those jolly county fair pastimes and have the hog callers try to catch a greased pig? Our fruit-growers are right up to the minute in most respects, but they still have a “maiden’s blush’’ apple. Polar explorers may one day be ' called upon to add to their difficulties by trying to organize the Eskimo vote. Reduction in air mail postage is based on a sound theory. It takes quantity production to reduce the “overhead.” It must be a good deal of a jolt to change all of a sudden from a university graduate to a mere guy looking for a job. The reason the farm movement isn’t popular is because it consists in placing one foot in front of another at 4 a. m. There’s not much wrong in a land where our other troubles seem trivial compared with the fact that another tooth needs filling. A statue of Columbus 70 feet tall is to be erected at the port of Palos, in Spain, from which Columbus sailed on his famous voyage. A new combat plane built for the ! French government carries six pow erful machine guns and is said to represent a new development in military aviation. At New York banquets the “stop” and “go” semaphores are being used to handle speech traffic. Now we know what was meant by the wise men of the East. Americans bought chewing gum valued at $100,000,090 last year. It had two ultimate goals—the restaurant chair whose under edge it decorates and the sole of the pedestrian's shoe. Receptions to distinguished flyers have a practical side also. New York’s bill for recent ceremonies is now estimated at $185,000. and the trouble is that it can’t be paid in confetti. The babassu nut of Brazil is said to be so hard that it requires a pressure of 1.000 pounds to break it. In no other respect does it have the slightest resemblance to our early canta- j loupe. The secretary of the navy having ruled that the term “gob” is undigni- i lied and ought not to be used, we i await with interest the substitute rhe young men are pretty sure to invent for themselves. Bandits in California beat an old man almost to death and left him after setting fire to his house. And there | are among us people so constituted that they will be looking for “extenuating circumstances.” Another of the comical things that get into the news from time to time is the announcement, after a couple oi incurable politicians have conferred for about three hours and a half, that politics was not discussed. A contract has just been let for the shoring up of the leaning tower of Pisa, but with the stipulation that it must not be pushed back to the perpendicular. Those modern Pisans un derstand the value of advertising. Statistics inform us that the number of playing cards manufactured in the United States last year averaged three packs to each man, woman and child. This seems a small amount — there must he some families where they don’t play bridge. And yet, if we had been spending the last two months at a summer resort, we would be writing home about the wonderful weather. Most thorns also have their roses, if you look at it that way, and some of the nicest scenery in thu broad land is along the detours. New York state has reported its first case of tularemia, which was traced to the patient’s handling rabbits for cooking and infecting a sore spot on his hand. There are a few girls here ami there in the United States who haven’t been chosen queen of something or other this spring. There must be. Years ago people had fewer vacation places to select from, because it ■was the custom then to go only where one could afford the expense. Fairy Story: “A large number of persons v.atched me at my work,” said the sign painter, “and when I misspelled a word several of them epoke to me about it.”

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' . •: On Trail of Ghosts: :

. ; Shanghai.—Three Shanghai men । who don’t believe in ghosts have left I the city for Hongkong, where they : plan to investigate the alleged ghosts of Sung Huang hill, in Kowloon, the place where the last emperor of the Sung dynasty is said to have hidden himself from *his pursuing enemies. The three nonbelievers are 11. Richmond Curley, J. B. Borman, and Alexander V. McDonough. They claim that their curiosity has been aroused by the persistent reports from Hongkong of the strange carryings-on of the “ghosts of Sung Huang hill.” “Ghosts don’t exist and we propose ’ to prove it to the satisfaction of all persons in Hongkong and Kowloon who think otherwise,” Curley, spokesman for the trio, declared. Stories Accepted. Chinese residents of Shanghai who formerly lived in Kowloon take much stock in the ghost stories of Sung Huang hill. In ail seriousness they will tell of strange moans' and groans in the dead of night; of wild cries of tortured men and women, and of white robed forms flitting mysteriously about the place. Lee Chai-ling, an Intelligent, edu cated Chinese of the international set-

Giant Letter Sent by Air Mail rpr MIHE GREATER MUSKEGON CWCHAMBH? Os COMMERCE r W MUSKEGON MICHIGAN ! VIA.AIR MAIL 1 ’> Uv ■ 3 <4 HON. HARRY S. NEW v. t O i POSTMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON O.C. J । ► I bMDE 690 i \ i JtdLThe largest letter ever sent by air mail was received by Fostmast. : General Harry S- New in Washington from the chamber of commerce ol Muskegon, Mich. The letter contained a vote of thanks from the business men of Muskegon to the Post Office department for establishing an air mail route from Chicago to Muskegon. The letter measured S 1 ,^ by 6 feet and required : $11.50 postage. Mr. New is standing beside it.

i Murder in City of New York ^UnusuaV"

Albany.—Murder In New York ' I state, in the view of Senator. John Knight, chairman of the subcommis1 sion on statistics of the Baumes crime commission, “is a relatively unusual ■ crime.” This view, expressed by Knight in a I report of his commission, was taken j after two years of investigating by the body into the crime situation in the state. “To be exact,” said the report, I “murder constitutes about one-half of j 1 per cent of the felonies prosecuted In New York state. The great gist of I crimes that constitute 99 per cent of j the work of the criminal courts pass ■ almost without notice, a few sensa- ' tional cases capture interest and to a | great degree determine the popular , conception of justice.” “The general problem of making the j I United States less lawless,” was seen i as “bound up in what is done in these SPOILS OF VICTORY I . If w if ■■ ! ’ — I RKp F^^® (Mt , *"*"■*■% 5 Lloyd Hahn, America’s premier miler, as he appeared at his home. Falls City, near Omaha, before his departure for the Olympic games at Amster- : dam. Hahn is shown with some of : the trophies he has collected as his victory emblems in the past few years.

tlement. formerly a tea merchant in Kowloon, swears to the truth of the following story of the haunted hill, which, he says, he personally witnessed: In IDU I three children disappeared while playing in the vicinity of the place. A group of Chinese determined to investigate. Their leader was a powerfully built, fearless Cantonese namep Lo I lai-china. Lo Disappeared. Lo led the party to within 35 feet of the place. He was about 10 feet in advance of the others when there came a piercing scream from the rear All li^ads turned. They could see no , one. Turn ng back, to their con I sternation they could find no trace ol Lo. He had disappeared completely ; The party lied in all directions. Two days later Lo's headless bods was found in the bay. The myster, never has been solved. The latest story from the haunted hill has it that a prominent Chinese woman was lured to the hill by a young man and an old man. A charm seemed to have enveloped her and she followed them blindly. A bewildered servant was with her. The servan' relates that his mistress followed the

I prosaic prosecutions, rather than in t|ie Leopold Loeb, Hall-Mills ami Sny- : derCrav cases in the generation.” the report said. i Figures covering the crime record in ; New York city include 308 cases of murder and manslaughter in 1925; 259 | in 1926 and 278 in 1927. The assault and robbery cases re- i ported were 1,483 for 1925; 1,173 for 1926, and 951 for 1927. Relative to ^urglary cases, the subcommissions figures show tlyit while there were j 4,103 in 1925, the number diminished in 192 G to 3.373 and climbed again to 3,380 in 1927. The Baumes laws provide life sen fences for those convicted of four fel onies. Emir of Afghanistan Gets Knife, Fork Habit Kabul, Afghanistan.—The court of Amanoula, doughty, westernizing emir of Afghanistan lias adopted knives, forks and a bookful of American table etiquette through the act of an American woman, Mrs. Jackson Fleming of New York. It was Mrs. Fleming who gave to Mme. Hourschid Bey, Turkish fem : inist lecturing in the United States. ■ a standard book on American etiquette ' when she learned that her Turkish । friend had been appointed matron ot ' honor to Queen Sureya. Mme. Hourschid Bey came to Kabul | last year with Mrs. Fleming’s gift un- . der her arm to support her in her task : of modernizing the veiled ladies of the i court from the queen down. When . the emir’s eye fell on the book, he de- । dared that it was just what he had ’ been looking for, pored over it for a week and then had it translated into I Persian unde: his personal supervision. ■ Since then knives and forks have been | in current and increasingly manage able use lln the Afghan palace. Takes Out Squeak New York.—There’s such a thing as being altogether too sarcastic about unsatisfactory new shoes. A furniture merchant put his in his show window with placards telling what he thought about them. The shoe dealer obtained an injunction.

two men to the edge of the precipice, where the men disappeared. The woman then exclaimed to her servant that there was something strange behind them. The servan: looked. There was nothing. He turned back and his mistress was gone. Her body was found in the ; water. | BIRTHDAYS * By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK $ Dean of Men, University of V Illinois. ►* V nL.JOW old Is Mrs Frown?” some 1 * one asked me a short time ng > ! W e have known the Browns a lona time 4” years or more and Mrs Brown was middle need then. 1 had to answer that I didn't know. Age and birthdays are subjects which Mrs. Brown does not refer to. Even het children are uncertain ns to Just when she was born. She is eighty live if she is a day She is ninety very likely, but sho doesn’t look it and sho is giving nothin:: away. She quit having 1 birthdays forty or fifty years ago I here are no milestones of progress in In r Journey of life. She goes right along without record to time or d.s tame. If iHiVone should be rude enough to ask her how old she Is. 1 am sure she would evade the question or ignore it It Is her own business an I she doesn’t care to have people know about it. Now Mrs. Groves takt— <>uJe an I I 4H 1 i 5 -H-4 1-4 I I I 1-4 f 14+44 I t X Dad Claims Boy, 5, Is - Youngest Auto Driver - < j f ve. son of Mr and Mr> Wuitei "L J. 1 ord. is o;.. of t e ac* s -r ’ 111. ■■ H ' I:■ St “* thet . - ! . - j -i. th. |..., U S K !t t; + T engine of his t • n - < .ir. htn .. + lat ke I l< ti. : to i- n.- ti it< the v T clutcb amt br. e; • 11 - J. + The fathet lias rebu:;- an old T a ear in such » manner t at it •> £ will 1.l the liny driver, and now X -i. hardly a day [asses without 4J Doi ,i d taking a<p n Ami he T -- knows t, s stop and ^.o > ^ns, h:s + father sa.vs. Tl+4-1I 4h l + h+4 4+4 4 >4-4 44F lF+ «

French Noble Honored

New Orleans, I.a. — Wherever cotton i is traded the world over business men | are alert to daily ilevelopment in a New Orleans street which bears the , name of a French nobletran famous ; as a public benefactor. Carondelet street, where the New ; Orleans Cotton exchange is located. ' extends fifty-one squares from Canal ! street to Rol.ert, west end. The first I six blocks from Canal to Poydras i street encompass the city’s financial district, where the daily turnover runs intc hundreds of thousands of dollars. Midway in these six blocks is the cotton exchange, at Carondelet and Gravier streets. From this building Secretary Henry G. Hester sends ■ out his reports which affect the mar ' ket wherever the staple is known. The French nobleman for whom the street is named was christened Francisco Luiz Hestor de Carondelet. Seigneur d’ Haine St. Pierre de Nosties. Born in Flanders in 1747, he came to Louisiana in 1791 for a sixi year stay. During this time he served | as governor. Then he went to Peru from Louisiana to serve as viceroy. Baron Carondelet recognized the

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other view of Ilie question. She Is ' proud of her age, she takes every occasion to flaunt it in one's face. She is constantly reminiscent giving with exactness always the time and place and date. “That was in 1549,” she will an- | nounee when relating some tale of j early life in the Middle West, or referring to some occurrence of her childhood. “I must have been five or six years old then —five 1 guess it was." Then she goes on with her story leaving one to make the easy mathematical calculation whi< h deter- ‘ mines her present age. She dotes upon birthdays and ■ never lets her friends forget when hers is approaching so that there ! may be cakes ami candles and remembrances of various sort.-:. She invites in her friends ami sits in state while receiving congratulations on her health am] her youthful appearance am] the fact that she does not look anything near her ace. She recounts all that has happened to her during the [last year. A birthday to her means progress progress in making friends, in experience, in mental development. It brings her nearer to the end of life which to her is an adventure full of interest and possibilities. Little Jean Is to have n birthday i soon, she w is telling me today. “Do you know how old 1 11 be?" she asked. “l our," I ventured. 1 “Five," she corrected me proudly. “Do you know h«>w many days it is ■'till'. ' she inquir. .] eagerly. I could only gm-ss. “Do you know what day of the week | it Is?" slm went on. 1 ventured to I suggest Friday uml luckily was cor- | reel >1 '■ W s cacor for the time to come ' when she < ould antmum e that she ‘ was n y. ir older ilian she had ever : be< ;i 1.. Hire. She was going to school j the mxt year. I’.rthd.ivs for little ' •I'm i.. n t now experiences, n,wv fi. mis. i., w adventures. There was tli» : 'stery <f a '< wliiih she was m:p si e would receive. There was . I ■■ • ;, rm s f, r indep. mi UHe. for .Heater 1 eedom. tor liov th, for mlded i• otisi:;y. n was a great thiim to have a birthday. Hu|>e and ambi tlon welled In her little heart. Would that each birthday brought * i • f us the same enthu> asm

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I advantages that would accrue to New Orleans from const rue! ion of a canal linking the Mississippi river with ; Lake i’ontchartrain. Giving much of ’ his personal fortune and lending his 00-0 DC O 00000000000000 00-0000 • • I? § Judge Marries 5 000 Couples in 25 Years § ip X , p Fresno, Calif.—George Wash $ $ ington Smith, who has been a 5 p justice of the peace here since g 9 1903, has just set what he be 5 p lieves to be a record as a "mar p S rying justice" in officiating at 9 P his 5,000th wedding. § S Smith began his career as a $ p marrying justice January IS. p 1903, and has kept a record of $ g the ceremonies. His records p p show that the greatest number $ g of marriages performed in one p p year was 394. and that 49 was p g the most in any single month P p while the record day brought p g eight couples to his office.

’ a I DIPPING INTO : SCIENCE I g .r Where Icebergs Come ! : From | w Icebergs are broken off pieces $ of great glaciers in the Far (•> North and are sometimes car- L ' ried far to the south where thev •t cross regular steamship routes .• * Occasionally an arctic animal. j conveyed from native haunts, is .. found upon them. Athough I “ only one-ninth floats above wa- • , ter s<»me have been seen with as • • much as find feet showing § » <(c). 1925. Western Newspaper Union.> § PLAYTHING OF FATE ...-*F x Miss Isobel Stone. From the Pennsylvania state executive mansion to a sunken barge, is thr sad story of the Misses Isohel and Peggy Stone, daughters of the late Gov. William M. A. Stone of pennsyl vania. From a fortune of millions, from art ami opera ami sculpture, from the best drawing rooms in the nation, to a dingy «h relict barge an- < i ->red in tlrn mudtly waters of Sherman < reek, near 11 Dyt kman street A w Y< . k. When Governor Stone died it vv.s saitl he left a large estate । Wl.’i settlement of th;- estate was tsutle. the girls were given only They are st'll fighting for the mys•crii -_v vanished millions, but they have I I ope. Isobei appeared in sev r. l Broadway productions before her present poverty was known to herseif. Now tiiat sl.e needs a job. It is not forthcoming'. However, she man | ages to support herself and sister. I’eggy. who is a sculptress, by singing over the radio weekly.

slaves for the work. Baron Cantndelet was the dynamic force behind i the movement for the canal, although a yellow fever scourge prevented »he i consummation of his plan. Canal street, now ranked as one of the famous thoroughfares of the world marks the site of the noblemans an i dertaking. For his many benefactions Lovisi l ana welcomed him as governor. New , Orleans paid him tribute with C^ron I delet street. Baroness Uaroßjelet street, now Baronne street, and Cana! street, named for his work. Rabies Is Classed as Children’s Disease New York.—Rabies may be classed as a disease of childhood, a.ong with whooping cough and scarlet fever. Six out of ten deaths from this disease were among children under fifteen years. Os these deaths seven out of ten were small boys. The period between five and ten years has the highest mortality from this cause, ac . cording to statistics of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company. The reason for this high mortality among children is twofold. First, naturally. children are more exposed to rabid dogs than adults*, because of their habit ot making pets, even of stray dogs. Secondly, the period of development of the disease has been found to be shorter and there is con j sequently less time to get the child inoculated with the serum which prevents the development of the disease Chinese Printer Who Won $56,955 Still at Work Peking.—A Chinese printer, whose I monthly wage is* about 840, has won : 856,955 in the semiannual race sweeps in Tientsin. Tickets in the sweeps are 810 each, and the winner risked about a week’s wages. But as a result he is assured independence for life. His luck made little impression on him, as he appeared on time for work as usual. He’s Worth It New York. —The highest paid tele phone operator so far recorded is Augustine W. Hanley, forty-one. who receives 83,500 a year from a Fifth ave nue jewelry firm. In 17 years he has scarcely ever forgotten ft

iiF.riGved Unircim international ' Lesson' (By lUv t ts mzWAIEH i* i» Dean Momlv Bible Chh-uau » < c 1 2 W. stern w siap. t i t?..n » Lesson for August 26 PAUL IN A ROMAN PRISON LESSON t EXT —Acts 16 16 40. GOLDEN TEXT—Rejoice in the Lord always; and attain I say. Rejoice. PRIMARY TOPIC—PauI in Jail JUNIOR TOPIC—PauI in Prison. INI ERMEDIATE ANDSENIOR TOPIC— The Source ot Haul's Joy YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADUL'i TOPIC—PauI As an Evangelist. I. Paul and Silas in Jail (vv. IG-2G). I. The uccusiou (vv. 16-24). As the missionaries wetil out from day to day to the place ol prayei they were accosted by u young woman pus- ' sessed by u spirit ot divination. She j was owned by a syndicate ot men who i derived large gains trmn tier soothsay- ; ing Her ulleraiifes as she tolloweti the missionaries became a great annoyance to Paul, who in the name ot Jesus < lirist commanded the evil spirit to come out ot her. The spirit in this maid testified that these were servants oi the Most High God and dial they proclaimed the way ot salvation. But Paul, like Jesus (Mark 5:7). would mu have Salans testimony. I lie evil spirit immediately obeyed Paul’s command. When the demon was cast out, Ibe supernal in al power ot the mai l was gone, therefore the source ot revenue was dried up I bis so exasperated tier owners that they brought Paul and Silas betore the magistrates on the talse charge ot the changing of customs. It was not custom but their unlawful gain which was interfered with. There is always trouble when the unlawful business in which men are engaged is threatened. 2. Their behavior in jail (v. 25). Paul ami Silas prayed and sang hymns to God. if seems quite natural that they should pra-y under such circunistaiices. but to sing hymns Is astonishing to all who have not come into possession ot the peace of G«<4 through Uhrist. Even with hacks lacerated and smarting, ami feel fast in tlie stocks compelling Hie most painful attitude, in (lie dungeon darkness of tiie inner prison with extreme uncertainly tiefore them, their hearts went up to God in gratitude. 3. Their deliverance tv 26). The Lord wrought deliverance by sending a great eartliquake which I opened the prison doors and loosed tiieir bands 11. The Conversion of the Jailer I (vv. 27 34) The Jailer tiad small sympathy for tlie prisoners, tor as soon us they were made secure, tie went to sleep Being , suddenly aroused H>>m slumber by the earthquake lie was about to Kill him self, wfieieupoh Pam assured him that j the prisoners were all safe. Whaf tie , hud heard of their preaching ami what now tie ex|»erieticed caused him to <ollie as a iiumble inquire! utter saivalion. He was convicted of sin and i fell the need ot the Savior Paul clearly pointed the way to t»e saved, i saying, ’Believe on the Lord Jesus i ( hrist." The word “believe' means i to trust and fully '.bey. The proof ; that the jailer was saved is three- | told: 1. Transformation from brutality to ■ tenderness (v. 33). He who a little while ago could with impunity lay on the cruel lashes is ' now dispoM'd to wash their wounds. 2. Confession ol Ciirist in baptism (v. 33). Those who have really been conj victed oi sin and have experienced the saving grace of God delight to confess their faith in Him under all ciri cumsftinces. 3. He set meat before them (v. 341. , I 4. His whole household baptized J (v. 33). When a man s family is willing lo follow him. you may be sure that his | conversion is genuine. 111. The Magistrates Humbled (vv. 35-4(1). 1. Orders to release the prisoners (vv. 35. 36). The earthquake tirought fear upon the magistrates and thus moved them । to give leave for the prisoners to go. 2. Paul's refusal to go (v. 37). The ground of tiis refusal was that their rights as Roman citizens had been violatecL They demanded public vindication. 3. Brought out of prison by the otfl--1 cers (vv 38. 39). Because they were Roman citizens they were released the magistrates fearing what they had done. 4. Returned to th* l house ot Lydia (v. 4O». U]M>n rlieir public vindication they ; left the prison and entered the hou<e of Lydia, and after ministering comfort to the brethren, they departed. Always in Prayer Again and again throughout the day ! It is possible* for us, by a conscious , ! upward glance, to confirm the habit; , . until it happens that the soul Is nlways in flic* posture* of prayer—in business, in laughter, in tr; •at home. I or abroad, always in p ayor and ' therefore, in every* part of the wide ' ami varie*d batt' 'gremnd of life receiving the all-sufficient grace* ami love of God.—J. 11. Jowett. The Time Is Short Brethren, the time is sh.-n ‘ The i world is passing aw»y The I. •ns are pe-risbing. Christian ■ are pi ing. Satan is ad Ive and i shall we not In tlioug! t of t love of our Lord Jesus, in t! <> gi : of the coming glory. In view of the ' imine end. an»l of the need of the Church and the vvorbl. give « irs lv<'< to he holy as He is holy?—Aiid"« vv Murray. Hopefulness Above everything, wl.cn you wait on God. do so in the spirit of abound :ig hopefulness. It Is God In His glory, in His power. In His Jove, ioeg ig »o i.ipss you, that you are waiting on.— Andrew Murray.