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OIL STRIKE HELPS
UNFORTUNATE ONES
Blows Suffered in. Past Are
Now Forgotten.
Wichita, - Kan,—Blows * which.- they
have suffered in the.past -are being
forgotten by Willard Goodrich of this
city and his two motherless <hildren,
as fortune repays them for their pa
tience and perseverance. An oil well
has come in on their 80-acre farm,
which was left them by-the wife and
mother, wha died 11 ‘years agas L 1
The flow of bldck gold assures the
family comfort and ease for the rest of
their lives. Willard Goodrich is known
for . unflagging - devétion' ‘to "his little
family. .. . .. ik ! |
Mr. Goodrich rented his inherited
farm, .Hé preferred to farm his own
land. He stayed with his. double:jgb
throughout theé ‘years, rearing the chil
dren, Arlene, eighteen, and Dale, sis-"
teen. The father cooked the meals,
did the family washing, sent the chil
dren to school, and provided the in
come to maintain the home.
Sitting in his comfortable home, Mr,
Goodrich said oil had aroused no
dreams in his mind.
“I have no particular plans,” he de
clared. “I don't know whether I'll
move anywhere or not. I don’t know
what it would be like to live more
than a mile from home. Of course, I'm
glad we struck oil; it means a lot,
especially to a fellow with children,”"
Baluchi Women Fare |
Il in Divorce Cases
Peshawar, India.—~Divorce used to
be an easy matter in Baluchistan, the
little-known state which lies just over
the northwest frontier and to the
south of Afghanistan.,
All a Baluchi had to do was to ap
pear before the local court or “Jirga,”
composed of a committee of respected
elders, and state that his wife was un
faithful. He would at once be grant
ed a divorce, which, incidentally, gave
him the lawful right to kill her,
It was argued that any man who
submits to the indignity of acknowl
edging his wife’s unfaithfulness must
have true cause. No opportunity was
offered the woman to state her case.
Now there are changes. Westerni
zation of the East, so strongly sup
ported by King Amanullah of Afghan
istan, has crept south, and Baluchis
are grumbling that the new divorce
laws are not nearly so satisfactory as
the old.
According to the present system,
the woman is allowed to give evi
dence in her own defense.
Even so, the odds are against her.
The ‘“Jirga” is composed of men, and
is all-powerful in Baluchistan. There
is no redress from faulty verdicts:
TLe accused, when found guilty, has
to pay the penalty prescribed and
summary justice is meted out.
Effort to Increase
Strawberry Profits
Washington.—To determine the ma-
Jor factors which affect the returns to
growers the Department of Agricul
ture is to study the strawberry in
dustry in regard to price ranges, com
position of market supply, weather
conditions and competition of other
fruits.
Economic information already has
been gathered in North Carolina, Vir
ginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Flor
ida. Similar work will be undertaken
in New Jersey, Delaware, Louisiana
and Arkansas. Maryland State College
of Agriculture is independently insti
tuting a similar survey in thn{ state.
Factors of particular interest which
it is expected this study will disclose
are the place of strawberries in. the
organization of the farm; the seasonal
movement from different areas, the
variation in time and period of move
ment, the tendency to eyercrowd par
ticular markets and methods of mar
keting and transportation,
Modern Hotels in Paris
Ilave American Names
Paris.—A feature of many of the
modern style hotels which &re spring:
ing up all over Paris is the American
nomenclature given them, “Hotél des
Etats-Uni's,” the “New York"”; “Wash-_
ington” and such like are becoming
more and more familiar,
To Foil Counterfieiters
Washington,.—Secret service operis
tives hope to educate the public
against counterfeits when the new
small-sized currency is issued. It will
show portraits of a particular Ameri
can celebrity like Washington or Lin
coln on bills of one denomination only
and help foll currency ralsers. -
Hungary Gets New Port
by Reclaiming Swamp
Budapest.—One of the finest
ports In central Europe has
been opened at Czepel, near
Budapest. This was formerly a
waste aren of swamps and mud,
now transformed Into the port
of Budapest,
Construction work was done
by a French «ompany which
holds a 800-year lense on the
property. At the end of that
period It passes to the Hungn
rian government. The new port
will benefit the Danublan states
and Is expected to stimulate
trade between Hungary and her
neighbors,
Omaha Visited by Three
Strange Criminal Types.
Omaha, Neb.—Three strange crim-
Inal types—two of them killers, the
other a kidnaper with a madman’s
method—have visited upon Omaha
during the last six years a series of
particularly frightful crimes.
‘Just now it is the *“hatchet man,”
who killed five persons. Three years.
before him it was “the sniper,” and
in 1922 it was the “chain man"—Kkiil
er, kidnapér and bad man.
~ The sniper, Frank - Carter, went to
the -electric chair last year. The
chain man, Fred Brown, was shot
dead in 1925 during a.riot at the state
penitentiary where “he was serving a
life sentence for kidnaping.
To the final moments of his life
‘_‘thg sniper” was a strange mixture of
braggadocio and fearlessness. Many
said he was crazy, He was a puzzle
to psychologists. His “eraving for
‘publicity,”. as M. Andreasen of the
state prison welfare society put it,
“was such as to make him try any
thing to get into the papers.”
Boasted on Way to Chair,
Even as he walked to the clm'irh
the sniper jeered and boasted.
“They say 1 killed three,” he said
as the slow tread of his death march
counted off his remaining moments
of life. “Three? Why, I have killed
421"
-The Villesca (Iowa) ax murders,
one of the most revolting chapters of
lowa' criminal records, were among
the crimes whi¢h the sniper paraded
-as-his own work.
Carter operated during the early
hours of evening, whereas the hatch
et man chose that time ot ‘night just
before dawn. During the fortnight
that Carter was abroad in Omaha,
claiming three lives with his silencer
equipped pistol, fear of his marks
manship kept many persons off the
streets during the evening hours.
The specific crime for which Carter
was convicted was the slaying of an
Omaha physician.
Fred Brown, the “chain man,” came
to Omaha trailed by a crime record
which included a conviction for a
murder committed when he was six
teen years old. He was free on parole
from a life sentence imposed upon him
for that crime.
Women Kept Chained.
Two young women were DBrown’s
vietims here. He kidnaped and trans
ported them to a shack at the edge
of the city. There they were kept
chained while he went about other
crimes, including the plundering of
Omaha homes.
A man, finding the women chained
in the shack, set about freeing them,
but was himself overrowered by
Brown and placed in i'ons. This man
later escaped, and Brown fled. He
was captured shortly afterward and
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Of this trial of abnormal crimes
only the hatchet slayings remain un
solved and the guilty person or per
sons unpunished.
Three of the hatchet victims—an
aged drayman, a young mother and
her sister—were beaten to death as
they slept.
China Grants Widows
Right to Remarry
Peking—Young widows are being
encouraged to marry again by the au
thorities,
In the old days, when the Son of
Heaven sat on his dragon throne,
widows were rewarded for their vows
of celibacy by seeing their names in
stone tablets sanctioned by the em
peror. That is entirely too old-fash
foned to suit the young 'Chinese of
today.
Superstitious acts of fiiial piety, in
the hope of curing the sickness of a
parent, will not earn the commenda
tion of the Nationalist regime, such
practices being classed as unworthy
along with the ancient custom by
which young widows refused to re
marry. ‘ 0.
Neither will the acts of a girl de
clining to marr‘ arrn‘ the death of
"her fiance ‘be regarded ‘as commend
able virtue, all of which has been set
forth 'ln a draft of';eegplatlons gov
erning awuards and official commanda
tion of meritorious services submitted
to the Nationalist government coun
¢il hy the ministry of the interior,
¥ e et e
Pig Fells Apples
Winsted, -Conn.~J. Schnelder has
peen boasting about his pig. In one
corner of the pig's pen is an apple
tree, so that when the plg rubs
agalnst the tree, shaking it, one-quar
ter“of the falling apples drop In the
pen,
Try Chinese Custom.
Peking, China~The ancient Chl
nese custom of paying a doctor for
keeping one well appeals to forelgn.
ers, The German hospital essays to
keep Americans, Britishers, Germans,
Frenchmen and Itallans 6t for $4 a
month,
Go Far for Bath,
Vinogradnayw; North Caueasus,—
It's a SO-mile ride on a freight traln
to & bath from this station. Some
150 rallrond workers and officlals
make the trip to Georglevsk once a
week. They come home singing,
Need More Room
New York.~So many people have
been dabbling in the market that the
stock exchange has it two bulld
ings to provide for on.
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD
BIG AIRSHIP WILL
BE READY IN MARCH
Britain’s Latest Craft to Fly
Atlantic.
London.—Trial flights of the R-100,
the gigantic airship now being con
structed under the auspices of the
British air ministry for the purpose
of flying the Atlantte, will not be
made until March, 1929, according to
information given at the headquarters
of Commander C. D. Burney, who will
lead the expedition,
Although Commander Burney has
been pushing his plans with all pos
sible. speed, there have been several
delays as the result of manufacturers
requiring extra time to supply parts
for the mammoth air liner. It lis
pointed out, however, that the predic
tion of trial flights by March is a con
servative one and that it is possible
the intervening period will be cut
down, A
Meanwhile considerable speculation
reigns as to who will comprise the
passenger list of the ship on its great
flight from England to Canada and
thence to New York. While the Brit
ish air ministry nominally is in charge
of the flight, it is known that Com:
mander Burney will be permitted to
select practically the entire crew, as
well as determine who will be earried
as passengers in addition to the air
ministry's representatives.
Requests for permission to accoms
pany the commander on his flight
have bheen pouring in from all parts
of Europe as well as America, but it
is declared that no final selections
have as yet been made. b
Gains in Weight After
Escaping Wife’s Knife
Ransas City, Mo.—Following . dis
closures that he had gained 40 pounds
in weight since he had stopped run
ning from a butclier knife wielded by
his wife, as well as since having left
her board, Harry Mitchell, a negro,
was granted a divorce in the Inde
pendence division of the Circuit court
by Judge Willard P. Hall.
Mitchell and his wife lived at 1610
Brooklyn avanue. Mrs. Mitchell
threatened him with a knife, Mitchelé
said.
“But were you always good to her?”
inquired Judge Hall,
“Yes, sir,” Mitchell replied. “I al
ways was on time for meals and al
ways kept the house warm in winter.
But I lost weight eating her food.”
Mitchell said his wife’s weight was
185 pounds and his 145, while they
lived together.
Big Parade of Steamboats
Is Planned on Ohio River
Pittshurgh.—A steamboat parade on
the Ohio river, headed by President-
Elect Herbert Hoover, is planned for
September, 1929, to celebrate comple
tion of all locks and dams on the
stream.
Capt. Oscar Barrett, president ‘of
the Ohio Valley Improvement assocl
ation, says he already has invited Mr,
Hoover and that he has received his
tentative acceptance.
Towns and cities along the river
will be asked to co-operate, while
steamship owners and operators are
expected to participate.
Three Million Artisans
Are Listed in Russia
Geneva, Switzerland.—Oflicial sta
-tistics from Russia, quoted in the
weekly publication of the interna
tional labor office, put the number of
artisans in the Soviet union at 2,900,
000, or 55 per cent of the total num
ber of industrial workers.
Their production, including milling,
is valued at $2,150,000,000, or 30 per
cent of the total value of the indus
trial production of the Soviet union,
There are 7,413 artisans’ co-opera
tives, with a total membership of 466,
618 members,
Hero at Last Cited
Fresno, Calif.—Fifty-two years after
hg- husband rescued Gen. George
Custer's flag from the Indian chief
Amerlean Horse at Slim Buttes, Mont,,
Mrs. Willlam J. MecClinton received
from the government his Indian Wars
medal and a posthumous citation for
bravery.
Bureau of Standards
Seeks a Perfect Fuel
Washington.—~Why does the
angine of your automoblle
sometimes miss when you step
on the accelerator?
That's what the burean of
standards, in co-operation with
the automotive and petroleum
Industry, is trying to find out,
the Department of Commerce
announces,
The bureau of standards has
nlready made a few discoveries
dlong this line. For Instance,
of two fuels, one may give bet.
ter results In winter, another
In summer, Another discovery
is that while the temperature of
an engine's water Jacket has
little effect on acceleration, a
motor will “plek up” quicker
when the intake manifold is hot.
A perfect motor fuel Is what
the bureau of standards hopes
to find. It will Investigate also
the value of auxiliary devices
designed to make low-grade gas
oline function as well as high
test fuels.
Receipt for Stolen
Ruler Asked in Ad
Moscow.—A thief has been
appealed to through an adver
tisement in Izvestia here to
send a ‘“receipt” for an ac
counting ruler stolen some time
ago. The “ad” follows:
“THIEF who stole at house
namber 126, Leningrad Road, in
June, 1928, a Wichman account
ing ruler, belonging to Dreyer,
a student of the Moscow Tech
nical institute, is begged to
send a receipt to the following
address: Moscow, Garahovskaya
st. 16. The Trade Union Com
mittee refuses to give me a
new ruler without such re
ceipt ”
HIRES YOUTH TO
PEN SUICIDE NOTE
Woman, Unable to Write, Crit
ical of Boy’s Work.
Newark, N. J.—Mrs. Ernestine Ma
ser, thirty-eight, of No. 364 Fairmount
avenue, Newark, could not write.
When ber husband, John, came home
from work one night he found her
dead, a gas tube in her mouth, Near
her lay a pen-written will. The police
were puzzled as to how a woman who
could not write could have left a sul
cide note with her name signed to it.
After questioning 35 persons living
in the neighborhood, the police learned
from Peter Anselmo, twelve, of No, 353
Fairmount avenue, that he had written
the note.
“I thought she was just making a
will,” the lad said. Mrs. Maser's note
said:
“Give all my property to my two
younger children; do not leave my
husband or my oldest daughter see
my body. ERNESTINE MASER.”
Peter went over to the Maser house
after coming home from school to play
with Charles Maser, seven. He said
Mrs. Maser sent Charles out to play,
telling him to stop running in and out
bothering her. She asked Peter to
write for her.
She criticized his penmanship, and
tore up several uncompleted notes. He
had trouble especially with her first
name “Ernestine,” which she wished
written with the utmost neatness.
When he at last made a satisfactory
draft, he said, Mrs. Maser gave him
a quarter and bade him flippantly to
run along and spend it.
The will is worthless, as it was not
properly witnessed.
Woman Wrecks Bank to
Gain Male Attention
Berlin.—Because no man courted
her, thirty-eight-year-old Marianne
Waldmann, daughter of' a prominent
patrician banker of Freiburg, in Si
lesia, bankrupted her father's bank
and had him jailed, until she herself
was arrested as a forger.
Since the war Germany has 2,000,
000 more women than men, Marianne
determined not to live without mascu
line attention. She showered all the
men she met with presents, such as
a house full of furniture, motor cycles,
wine, and Persian rugs. She paid for
these gifts with money from her fa
ther's bank. which she was running
for him. She presented her father
regularly with favorable balance
sheets until the Saturday the bank
failed.
Marianne denounced her seventy
year-old father as a fraudulent bank
er, though for his whole life he was
the most respected citizen of Freiburg.
He was arrested and placed In jall,
until the police discovered that his
daughter was the defaulter,
Watch Lost 24 Years
Recovered in Pawnshop
St. Paul.—Lost 24 years ago, a
S4OO diamond studded gold watch
was buck In the possession of Its
owner here and Willilam Conway.
pawnshop inspector, ‘was halled by
his mates as the “man with the mem
ory of an elephant.,” i
Miss Eloise L. Calihan, now a bus!
ness woman, lost the valuable little
timeplece while on an excursion down
the Mississippl river in 1904, She at
once reported her loss to police, but
after a frultless search the watch
was forgotten by all save Conway,
The inspector while on his regular
rounds of the pawnshops observed in
the showense of J. 8. Samuelson »
woman’'s watch with a dismond eres
cent on the back, He consulted his
record book and confirmed his con
victlon that it was the wateh lost 24
years Lefoie by Miss Culibhan,
Little Spaniel Saves
Mistress From Kidnaper
, Onakland, Calit.—A placid little span
fel trotting lazily along with his mis
tress turned into an enraged dog here
when kidnapers threatened Helen Ruth
Moss, fifteen,
‘The girl was walking along a high
way near the edge of the city when un
automoblle stopped and o man asked
her a direction. Pretending he was
dens, the motorist motioned the girl
closed to the ear and when she re
sponded selzed her and started drag
ging her Into the machine, The wman,
however, falled to reckon with the
spaniel,
In an instant the dog was at the
man's throat and continued to bat
tle untll the grip which held Helen
was loosened and the girl was able
to run away from the car,
Mrs. Bell Tells Her
Friends of Her
Narrow Escape
“Something over a year ago I had
the flu, which left me with a very bad
cough which kept getting worse all
the time, until I could not lie down
at night, If I attemoted to lie down
I would cough all night and choke
up so I would have to sit up in bed.
This continued until I got so weak I
could not walk across the floor, and
every night I thought would be my
last, I became so thin that my hands
would meet around my legs. My doc
tor saild that my lungs were affected
and I was in a desperate condition,
“Finally I read about Milks Emul
sion and started to use it. I have
now taken it about three months and
I am entirely recovered. My cough is
gone and I have taken on flesh and
strength, and I thank God that I
found Milks Emulsion,
“I have spread the good news
among all my friends and there are
five of my immediate neighbors tak
ing it, and they all say it has done
them so much good. Yours truly,
MRS. K. BELL, 1640 Bergen St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.”
Sold by all druggists under a guar
antee to give satisfaction or money
refunded. The Milks Emulsion Co.,
Terre Haute, Ind.—Adv.
Denotes Concealed Evil
“There is something rotten in Den
mark,” is said of a concealed evil,
Thousands of persons use this saying
continually without having the least
suspicion as to Its source, It is based
on a passage In Shakespeare's “Ham
let.” lln the fourth scene of the first
act of that play Marcellus, an officer
of the watch, says to Hamlet's friend
Horatio: “Something is rotten in the
state of Denmark.” The remark was
made after Hamlet followed the ghost
of his father from the platform be
fore the castle.
Harold’s Mother
Knew Answer
» “Yes, sir, I am cer-
L& [tainly proud of my
omo Ilittle boy,” says Mrs.
¢ § IH. M. Smith, 421 To
& MY WY |lpeka Ave, Topeka,
e e |Kansas, “He's five
£BB ™" land welghs fifty-sev
rstg.:;;;g;j en pounds. le's the
R T Bina, picture of health as
you can see, and I feel like he'll al
ways be that way as long as I can get
California Fig Syrup. I have used
it with him ever since he was a year
old. I knew what to give him for his
colds and his feverish, upset spells bhe
cause Mother wused California lig
Syrup with all of us as children, I
have used it freely with my boy and
he loves it. It always sises him up,
quick.”
In many homes, like this, the third
and fourth generations are using
pure, wholesome California I'ig Syrup
because it has never failed to do what
is expected of it. Nothing so quick
ly and thoroughly purges a child's
system of the souring waste which
keeps him cross, feverish, headachy,
bilious, half-sick, with coated tongue,
bad breath and no appetite or energy
as long as it is allowed to remain fn
the little stomach and bowels, Fig
Syrup gives tone and strength to these
organs so they continue to act as Na
ture intends them to do, and helps
build up and strengthen weak, pale
and underweight children. Over four
million bottles used a year shows its
popularity. The genuine, endorsed by
physicians for 50 years, always bears
the word “Calitornia.”
The Easy Kind
Guide (in Venice)—*“This is St.
Mark's.” Yankee Tourist—*“Ah! the
patron saint of the tourists, I pre
sume.”
Advertising 1s what makes many a
slckly business fdea pay magnificently
when It gets started,
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And how often you've heard of its prompt relief of sore throat or
tonsilitis, No wonder millions take it for colds, neuralgia,
rheumatism ; and the aches and pains that go with them, The won
der is that anyone still worries through a winter without these
tablets! They relieve quickly, yet have no effect whatever on the
heart, Friends have told you Bayer Aspirin is marvelous; doctors
have declared it harmless, Every druggist has it, with proven direc
tions, Why not put it to the test?
Aspirin 1s the trade mark of Dayer Manufacture
of Munoncetiencidester of Balleyileactd
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“An earnest desire to help others
mpts me to make this statement.”
Signed: Albert Powell, Louisville, Ky.}
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the Cheeks and Improves the
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TO'NIGHT
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Hen Hatches 'Gators
Henry Crawford, a negro at Kins
ton, N. C., is exhibiting four baby alll
gators which he sald were hatched
by a hen on a farm near there. The
‘gators are about five inches long.
Crawford sald he found an alligator's
nest in Pamlico county several weeks
ago. He brought a number of the eggs
home with him and placed them, to
gether with chicken eggs, under the
hen. The chicken eggs falled to
hateh, but the little 'gators seemed to
appease the hen, ot
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In a small town announcing an en
gagement is a2lmost superfluous,
Affluence is the dream of every one
who 18 in the employ of others,
