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Two Towering Icebergs,
Like Floating Cathedrals,
Menace Ocean Vessels
v NEW YORK.—Two icebergs, each
reaching about ninety feet above the
sea and over A, OOO feet long, were
off the Grand Banks of
Newfoundland by the transport
Princess Matoika which has arrived
from Antwerp. There were a num*
ber of “growlers” around the bergs
and pinnacled parapets gave them
the appearance of huge cathedrals.
Wireless warnings sent out caused
other ships to head southward and
avoid the danger.
Among the passengers- were Col.
William Haskell, U. S. A., who was
Allied High Commissioner to Ar
menia until last August, representing
this country, Great Britain, France
and Italy. With him were his wife
and six children. Mrs. Haskell,, as
told by cable, was with her children
Many Thrills Befell Airmen
During Flight to Alaska
NEW YORK. —After more than
three month's absence, during which
„ they had flown 9,000 miles, much
-of it over territory never before ven
turnpd into either by air or afoot,
the men of the army’s air service’s
Alaska expedition, have landed at
Mitchel Field, Hempstead, with their
planes—the same with which they
had set out—looking as if they had
just emerged from a thorough over
nauling. *
Every cylinder was popping, every
stay-wire ancb turnbuckle was shin
ning, every inch of painted surface
was glistening, and every man jaclt
of the'eight in the four crews was
shaved and set up as for dress pa-
■ i ade. There was nothing in the ap
pearance of the flyers of their
-vehicles to suggest they had been
lout for more than an hour’s hop.
~. 11 i3 n AAA I a . lone that they * had
flown 9,000 miles in 111 hours .in
the air without a mishap that is
-worth mentioning, although that in
itself is a challenging record. The
transatlantic hop was only 1,900
.miles; the Cape to Cairo flight; the
-Condon to Sidney jaunt and the
Italian cruise from Rome to Toklo
.ill earned their place in aeronauti
cal history, but none of them pre
sented the peculiar dangers and dif
ficulties of the New York to Alaska
journey.
A very large part of the trip was
.over absolutely unexplored territory,
unmapped or chartered only on ztlie
unreliable statements of trappers.
"Mountains which it has been said
■ere only 5,000 feet high proved to
hrust their summits more than 12,-
00 feet into the sky. For stretches
' f 200 or 300 miles there was no pos
ilbe landing in the event of engine
-rouble.
- Moreover, beyond Dakota such
•landing fields as Capt. Douglas,
ahead of. the flyers, had
Thoen able to locate - were of -the
roughest. Some were literally hewn
- .but of the forest. Other were stub
ble fields from which the wheat had
just been cut. At Prince George it
was necessary to reimburse owners
of wheat to induce an early cut so
the aViatprs could land.
- The weather too was such as no
other flyers have been forced to face.
Valleys filled with fog between tow
ering peaks, sudden gales howling
~ around' the bases of the hills, long
storms which held the men earth
bound for days on end, afforded ma
terial for their Alaska logs.
Leaving Field on July 15.
the route took theip via Erie, Grand
Rapids, Winona (Minn.), Minne
apolis, Fargo, Portal, Saskatoon
< Saskatchewan), Edmonton, Alta,
-Jasper, Alta Prince George (8.C.),
Hazelton (B. C.). Wrangell, M hlte
Torse, Dawson, Fairbanks and Ruby,
to Nome.
riew Tour Hours a Day
“The average distance .between
-tops was 300 miles, which meant
.•bout four hours’ flying a day.
“On the return trip,” said Captain
- -treet. “we were held five days by
southwester. We wanted to get
—ck to Wrangel, and were told we
ould make a landing at Telegraph
’reek. This was on a bee line* to
bimonton. so we started out. put
m into clouds over the mountains
nd had to put back 150 miles. The
■ext day in good weather we started
•nt again,- and found that flying. at
i.nOO to 9.000 feet we were still be
ow the summits of mountains We
rad been told were but 5,000.
“The field of Telegraph Creek we
lad been told was perfect proved to
•e an old beaver dam from which
isy had been cut. It was so rough
r broke an axle landing and had to
wait four days / for a replacement
from Wrangel.
"We set out for Hazelton and ran
nto a snowstorm over the mountains
which drove us back. Then we were
held' up for another week. Coming
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THE ATLANTA TRT-WEEKLY JOLTINAL.
on the steamship Soufirah last May,
on her way to join her husband,
when the ship was ransacked in the
Black Sea by Pirates, who robbed the
passengers. XlrA Haskell hid her
valuables in a bathroom and saved
them. She told the forty thieves she
was traveling penniless.
Commander Garrett L. Schuyler,
assistant naval attache at the Amer
ican embassy in London, also an
arrival, said the cruiser Pittsburg,
which went aground in the Gulf of
Finland, was being repaired at
Chatham, England. The boat was
kept afloat on a 1,000 mile trip to
the yard by the use of Compressed
air.
Upon the arrival of the Princess
Matoika nearly 150 members of her
crew, chiefly cooks and stewards,
were discharged for misconduct.
out of Telegraph Creek we flew over
mountains 12,500 feet high.”
Going out the squadron followed
the bourse of the Yukon fo,r long dis
tances. It was as safe flying low ftS
flying high, because there were no
landing places anyway, so Captain
Street followed the windings of the
river at 50 feet or lower, while the
other three flew overhead.
Every ~few miles he passed an In
dian fishing village. The Indians
had never dreamed of such a thmg
as an airplane, much less seen them,
and the effect of their sudden appear
ance around a curve of the river
was absolutely paralyzing. Some
times the inhabitants of the villages
would break for the woods; as often
they would stand petrified with fear
at the apparition.
At White Horse a number of them
were in the crowd which gathered
when the airmen Janded. Not tn
Indian would approach the machines
until they saw their crews climb out.
Then a weather beaten old chief
drew- near.
“Humph," he grunted after a long
examination. “White man heap
smart, but white man heap dam
fool.”
On the coast of the Behring Sea
one of the aviators took a native up
for a spin. On coming down the
novice related with much relish his
strange experiences. .He told of the
big school of sardines he had seen
close inshore while he was aloft.
“Sardines. h(ell,” exclaimed one
of *Jiis auditors, “those were por
poises, tnan.
Herds of reindeer and caribou, bear
■mountain sheep and other game were
frequently sighted by the men as
they flew over the mountains. Lieut.
Eric H. Nelsqn, engineering officer,
who took turns with Lieut. Clifford
C. Nutt in flying Plane No. 2, potted
a bear during the enforced stay at
Telegrftph Creek.. Over Behring
Sea belgua whala and seals ' were
sighted. I .
More Arrests in Alabama
For Cotton Giri Posting
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 30.
More arrests will be made in the
cases involving the posting of gins
of Cullman, Blount and Marshall
counties by night riders, acording to
Chief C. W. Austin, of the state law
enforcement department today. Chief
Austin said information gathered by
his assistants showed that a large
number of persons are Involved in
the plot and that the department’s
efforts would not be stopped until
every person connected with the af
fair is placed under bond.
W. J. Williams, state fire mar
shal, who swore out warrants for the
arrest of forty-three persons on*
charges of being implicated in the
plot, came to the capitol today and
made reports of his investigations
to Governor Kilby and Chief Austin.
Active Still Is Captured
By Officers of Cobb Co.
MARIETTA, Ga., Oct. 30.—A thir
ty-gallon still was raided within a
quarter of a mile of the justice of
the peace court’s hotise, in Post Oak
district, Thursday afternoon, ahd
three Cobb county men were arrested
in the act of operating the still.
Sheriff W. E. Swanson, Deputy
Tom Sanders and United States
Agent Hicks located the still and
concealed themselves nearby and
when the men were busily engaged
in making a run of whisky the of
ficers stepped out and made the ar
rest.
About three gallons of corn whisky
and about 350 gallons of mash were
found on hand. The men . were
brought to Marietta and placed in
jail, but later made a SI,OOO bond
each and were given their liberty un
til the next session of the court.
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NEW YORK. —Three Alaskan doge of the “Blue-Eyed Siberian’’ breed, which recently
won the Alaskan sweepstakes, have just arrived in Mineola, L. 1., after a flight from Nome, Alaska,
covering 4,000 miles. The pups were brought back by Lieutenant C. H. Crumrine (left) and Lieutenant
Eric C. Nelson'(right) in their army plane. Crumrine and Nelson left the United States July 15, on
the longest flight ever attempted by army aviators, to made charts and photographs for the air mail serv
ice, On their arrival in New York the dogs attracted more attention than the aviators.
Women Are Smoking Cigarettes
Principally to Keep in Fashion,
Says Tri- Weekly Journal Humorist
BY O. B, KEELER
TIE magazine editor’s under
study asked me to write some
thing about women smoking,
but I have too much sense for
that, so here goes.
They do smoke, some of them.
Right here in Atlanta. Not so many,
proportionately as up east and north.
At least not so many publicly. I
have no way of knowing what pro
portion of women smokers smoke
only when alone, because I never
was in the company of a woman
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Female fags are quite the.fad on
northern links
when she was alone, - or when she
was in the company of no one but
other women.
At Long Island, where the Nation
al Amateur Golf Tournament was
jiJayed not long ago, I saw for the
first time in my brief and innocent
career women smoking on a golf
course. Tney smoke freely, in the>
east and north, in cases and such
places. But it looked even more odd
on a golf course.
I suppose it would 7 have looked
odder than that if they had followed
the example of Ted Ray and smoked
a pipe all the time. They do not
seem to take to pipes. Or cigers.
From this I am compelled to con-
It’s painful, but it’s smart.
elude that women do not take to
smoking naturally, as men seem to.
The men of this generation usually
started with rabbit-tobacco, so
called, or grape vines. Or dried fig
leaves, which thus have been put
to another use among young and
ingenuous persons. Rattan also has
been used in connectiqn 'with early
smoking, to -supply the smoke first
at one end of the nephyte’s system
and then at the other, when his dad
caught him at it.
But women do not take up the
habit, or make desperate and secre
tive efforts to take it up at so
early an age as men. Nowadays a
woman usually is at least fiftefen
or sixteen and has shortened her
skirts well up to the knees before
she starts strangling herself and
getting all red-eyed with her first
violet-tipped Turkish atrocity. %
Nor do I believe that women like
to smoke as well as men, as a gen
eral thing. I think they start it
because they think it is smait, wmeh,
of course, is precisely the same rea
son boys start it. But I think most
women keep it up, sporadically and
timorously, because, they think it is
smart; while their’ brothers get so
far into tne grasp of My Lady Nico
Antarctic Explorers
Make Extensive Plans
LONDON, Oct. first sec-, f
tion of the British imperial Antarctic '
expedition which left London Sep
tember 28 plans to survey and chart <
the western portion of the Weddell ,
seacoast and to penetrate 1,200 miles
of Antarctic territory hitherto unex- i
plored. Under the leadership of '
John L. Cope, the British explorer. :
five men will go to the, Aantarctic
from Christiania.
After two years Cope plans to re
turn and carry out the full program
of his expedition, including the cir- '
cumnavigation of the Xntarctic and >
aerial navigation over the ice. Dur-T
ing his absence his ship is being es
pecially buiit and fitted in England
for the second expedition. I
ALASKAN DOGS FLY 4,000 MILES
tine that they have to go out on the
veranda between dances to - 'inhale a
pjlT. They think this is smart also.
Digressing for a moment, I beg
leave to state a conviction that a cer
tain advertisement of a coat-shirt- —
a style that since has almost entire
ly superseded the over-ybur-head
type—is responsible for thousands of
men indulging in the stupid and
physiologically iniquitous habit of
smoking before breakfast.
This • advertisement showed a
young man smoking a pipe while he
dressed. It asserted for -the coat
shirt the invaluable quality of per
mitting the weargr to dori it without
missing ten seconds of smoke. From
this, thousands of callow youths con
cluded it was smart to smoke while
dressing, especially a pipe. And
when a callow youth concludes a
thing is smart, he-will do it if it
kills him. I hold this advertisement
responsible for a severe decimation
of callow youths; though that is
nothing vital against it. They would
have decimated themselves in other
ways, otherwise.
Comparatively few girls and wom
en—l mean of the right sort—really
'are in the grasp of the smoking hab
it. I should guess that ninety out
of every hundred smoke because they
think it is smart. Os the remain
ing ten, nine smoke because they
also think it is smart, and because
they don’t want the men to have
anything on them. One of the hun
dred actually feels the need of nico
tine poisoning to bring the nerves
around to something like normal.
I know one estimable young wom
an who buys her cigarettes by the
hundred and smokes about thirty a
day. Sometimes forty or fifty. She
really is a genuine cigarette hound.
But she is a most unusual and infre
quent exception. She don’t smoke
because she thinks it is smart. She
smoke particularly because
she likes to. She smokes because if
she doesn’t she feels rotten. That
constitutes being a cigarette hound.
In Atlanta women' don’t smoke
openly in the case There are
two or three little places where they
smoke, sub-rosa, or sub-luna, or
something, while pretending to eat a
little something that is served them
as a pretext for pretending they like
to smoke while eating, like the men.
Most qjf the feminine smoking is
done sotto voce, in Atlanta. Women
times their husbands don’t know they
smoke, which argues to a casual' ob
server that they are not given to
kissing. There still is a strong prej
udice in the south against women
smoking, as well as voting. Women
are willing and even eager to vote
in public, but they don’t know about
smoking the same way. A casuist
might suggest that the two things
go together, after a fashion. I al
ways have thought that the main
reason women wanted to vote was be
cause.they couldn’t, and because the
men could.
I think it is pretty much the
same way about smoking. Certainly
they go in for the softest type of
smoking, these modern damsels —
they don’t take to the corn-cob pipe
of the hardy mountain lassie, who
started- smoking because it was the
thing to do.
In some other sections, smoking
seems to be getting to be the thing
to do, among women. They smoked
openly and with no undue airs at
Long Island. Ana the first two or
three days at ihe Mayfield course a';
Cleveland, where the women’s na
tional golf championship was being
played, several women smoked in the
galleries vzatching the ‘matches.
About Wednesday or Thursday,
however, I heard this bit of dialog
in the gallery following Miss Alexa
Stirling’s match:
“Will you smoke a cigarette with*
me? Kate?” \
“Well, now, I don’t knaw if we’d
better, out on the course? There’s
been a good deal of talk about it.”
I notided they didn’t fire up. I
worrdered who had been doing the
talking.
Personally, I don’t see why a wom
an hadn’t l as much right to smoke
as a man, if she wants to. She also
has the right to cut her hair short
and let her ears stick out untram
meled.-- But she doesn’t want to do
that. She thinks it isn’t becoming. I
might/suggest timidly that it isn’t
becoming the way most women smok
ers smoks. They can’t seem to get
over holding a cigarette as if it were
something that came out of a box
labeled “Do Net Stand on End or
Hold In the Hand After Lighting.”
And (he smoke gets in their eyes;
and they flip imaginary ashes off
Suoers Sore at Cops
For Copping Film Jobs
LOS ANGELES. —Motion picture
“extras” who depend for their liveli
hood on the jobs they get at the stu
dios from time to time, have entered
vigorous protest against the inva
sion of their fielfl by policemen.
Acting Police Chief Murray has
made a rule allowing policemen to
do other ’work in their off time and
since motion picture work pays good
money, the coppers naturally turn
to that line of action.
The regular “extras” protest that
the city government should not sanc
tion the proposition of policemen
holding two jobs and beating others
out of a chance to earn a living;
that if the policemen are not earning
enough, the .city is at fault and the
’•‘extras" should not stand the brunt.
On the first, day,. Chief Murray is
sued his rule, 54 policemen "showed
up” at one studio.
after every labored inhalation; and
they get the cigarette wet an inch
from the facial end; and that makes
the smoke taste worse than ever.
I have never seen a woman smoker
use a cigarette holder. I thinfc if
a woman wants to smoke and doesn’t
like to—which is the situation of
most of them, I imagine—she would
do better with a cigarette hoider. She
could smoke more becomingly; and
it wouldn’t be such a tough job.
You imember Jhe countryman
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The “Janie Pipe” shall we. say?
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driving along 'toward town in the
old days-—how a friend hailed him:
"Hey, Cy—where ye goin’?’’
“Goin’ in town to get drunk, and,
gosh—how 1 dread it!”
It may be that a '‘good many, pos
sibly a large -majority, of women
smokers go at the job in this spirit,
which (in the case of the rube re
ferred to) is not to be taken too
seriously. It really is quite a con
tract for a young woman to start
smoking. Her lungs and larnyx seem
not sb tough as those of her brother,
and not to tan so readily. ■ She suf-
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Will it come to this?
fers from migraine and a sensation
lamentably akin to mal-de-mer. She
becomes lachrymose and salivary. In
a word, the dainty cigarette, in the
earlier stages of itg cultivation, be
comes a pathologic matter of con
considerable concern.
And it is my limited observation
that most women quite
get over these drawbacks.
I rather think they will take to
voting more readily and probably
more gracefully.
But if they get to be ward pol
iticians, they positively will have to
smoke cigars—fat, black cigars, so
strong they woin’t break in your
pocket. And wear derby hats.
The gold-tipped cigarette won’t go,
in the derby districts. But it seems
to be going all right, albeit a bit
feverishly, in the boudoir and the
drawing room and the occasional case
—and even on the golf course, up
north. ,
I suppose if women golfers ever
get to smoking, they’ll smoke a briar
pipe, like Ted Ray. I know several
men golfers who took up the pipe
after seeing Ted play. But it didn’t
help them, so far as I jcould see.
Prevents His Wife
From Walking to Japan
SAN FRANCISCO I .—What’s the
use of being a hero if you. can’t
make folks believe it? That’s what
Hulger Peterson wants to know. He
insists his wife started to walk to
Japan and that he entered the surf
and rescued her.
9,000 Acres Planted
To Grow Aspen Trees
GLASGOW, Scotland.—ln order to
be independent of the Russian sup
ply of aspen wood, used in match
making. Bryant & May, Ltd., match
company has purchased 9,000
acres ini Scotland and will plant the
land to f aspen trees.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1920.
RICH CATTLE MAN
FORCED TO SIGN
CHECK BY BANDITS
ST. LOUIS, Mo„ Oct. 30.—Joseph
Alexander, wealthy For Worth, Ark.,
cattle man, Saturday reported to
police here that he had been held
prisoner at a farm house near here
for several days, tortured and forced
to sign a check for $25,000. He said
he escaped early Saturday while his
guard* was- asleep.
Alexander said Mrs. Margaret Ta
ber, of St. Louis, a friend of his,
Was also held with him.
Sheriff Bopp, of St. Louis, to whom
Alexander told his story, hurried to
the house, but found it deserted.
According to Alexander—he was
forced to sleep with his hands and
feet tied. The guard slept with him.
The man said he awoke at 3 a. m.
ahd while the guard slept he rolled
out of bed and loosened the ropes on
his feet. He said he climbed through
an open window on the firs floor
and ran to a nearby house.
The sheriff found later prints of
bare feet on the wet grass near the
house;
Think Him. Crazy
When Alexander reached the near
est house and appealed to the people
to Untie his hands they thought he
was crazy and slammed the door, he
said. He had the same experience,
he told the sheriff, at another house.
Finally, according to his story, he
met a farmer who freed him and
turned him over to the sheriff.
Mrs. Taber was found at her home
and confirmed Alexander’s story.
She said the man who had been
guarding Alexander awoke and gave
the alarm. She was taken to her
home in her night clothes, she stat
ed. Mrs. Taber was held pending in
vestigation.
Alexander told the police he had
known Mrs. Taber for several years
and telegraphed her he was coming
to St. Louis last week. She replied
by wire she would meet him at the
station. When he arrived Monday
morning, he was met by five men who
said they l>ad been sent by Mrs. Ta
ber.
Alexander asserted he accompanied
them in an automobile. At the edge
of the city the men drew revolvers
and threatened him if he made an
outcry.
Gagged and Bound
They tied his hands, gagged and
bound him, according to Alexander.
He said the men took him to rooms
on the second floor of the farm
house. The gag was only removed to
teed him, Alexander said, and claim
ed he was beaten frequently. *
On Tuesday Alexander claims to
have signed a check for $25,000 on a
bank of Fort Smith, Ark., on det
mand of the men. He said he scrib
bled the signature in an effort to
make it appear a forgery.
Alexander said Mrs. was
brought to the house before he sign
ed the cheeky She was brought Into
his room with her hands bound. She
!° bi the men threatened
wishes She dldn 4 comply with their
can J e to her house, Mrs.
Taber said, and told her that Alex
ander was sick and needed her. On
the way to the house, they made
her a prisoner. “ ldue
“Silent City of Alaska”
Is a Beautiful Mirage
That Deceives the Eye
• °JL e of th ? most celebrated mirages
which is observed now itnd
then from the neighborhood of Gla-
P*® r bay ln Alaska, where, in the dis
ice a ab ? ve . a vast sh eet of glacial
n tht fi ty IT u seen as if suspended
tifnl h '» Jt h s as buildin ss of beau
tiful and imposing architecture, tall
churches with spires and buttresses
v?ew any streets of houses, plain to
This is the so-called Silent City of
Alaska. The duke of the Abruzzi
S . a 'X lt . ? f , ew Fears ago when he vis
ited Alaska. Many attempts have
been made to photograph it, but for
some reason unexplained, without
success. Some persons have gone so
far as to declare that it is a view of
the city of Bristol, in England.
Irregularities of ice formation
plus imagination, doubtless account
f 2 r J be stran £ e vision—an.uplifting
supposed scene being attribut
able to mirage. Optical illusions of
this kind are not uncommon in Arc
tic and Antarctic regions.
~_,T bere is ?■ famous mirage called
Fata Morgana,” wich on occasions
is seen from the neighborhood of
Reggio, in Italy. Here the feffect
produced is due to a layer of heated
air, which by refraction of light
brings into view a distorted picture
of the far-away Sicilian shore! To
the Italian peasant it appears as a
city with palaces, towers and mina
rets—the mysterious home of the
fairy Morgana.
William SCoresby, the Arctic ex
plorer, describes a similar mirage
which he beheld from off the coast
of Greenland. He writes: “The gen
eral appearance of the coast, as view
ed through a telescope, was that of
an extensive- ancient city, abounding
in ruins of castles, obelisks, churches
and monuments—a grand and inter
esting phantasma goria.-'
A feature of Arctic geography
which appears on all the maps is
Crocker Land, which Peary thought
he saw from a mountain teak in
Grant Land.
The troops of Napoleon When he
was in Egypt were rather Mghtened
\by mirages. And during fthe recent
war the British of Mesopotamia were
obliged on at least one occasion to
stop fighting because of the confu
sion arising from an illusion of the
kind. *
As everybody knows, mirages are
very common in hot desert regions.
A layer of warmed and rarefied air
serves as a mirror, reflecting objects
above it. Thus, reflecting the sky,
it may produce the effect of a sheet
of water, the unsteadiness of the
heated air lending ripples to help
out the picture and render it more
deceptive.—Kansas City Star.
Dublin Man Invents
Light Control Device
DUBLIN, Ga., Oct. 29.—Preston V.
Cheek, Jr., of this city, inventor of
a device for the control of light, gave
a demonstration of his invention at
St. Louis, Thursday, showing the
many possibilities of the invention.
It is a mechanical device that con
trols the rays of light and can be
used for heating, power, welding and
various other things, according to
Mr. Chee.’t. In making a demonstra
tion, Mr. Cheek cut steel, welded
iron and created heat with no con
nections other than the sun and
electric lights.
Frank H. Ellis Given
Full Pardon by Gov. Kilby
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 30.
Frank H. Ellis,former Jreasurer of
Coosa county, who was convicted in
1910 of embezzling $4,000 of county
funds and sentenced to six years and
who has been at liberty on parole
since December 21, 1914, was given
a full pardon by Governor Kilby
todfiy.
Ellis’ return to full citizenship
was urged by prominent citizens
and the board of pardons, which rec
ommended the pardon, said Ellis
turned over to the county property
which covered ife loss as soon as
the shortage was discovered.
Cotton Mill Wages Reduced
20 Per Cent in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 30.—Notices
were posted yesterday on the Au
gusta cotton mills that, effective No
vember 1, wages in the cotton manu
facturies in' Augusta and the Au
gusta districts, will be reduced 20
per cent and a five-day week -ob
served. The management- stated the
cost of production of cotton goods is
below the market price, but the mills,
in view of the approaching winter,
refer, in the interest of their em
ployes, not to shut down and are
curtailing operations to a point where
they can keep the plants open'with-,
out sustaining too great a loss.
Famous Denizen of Chinatown
To Open Refuge for “Snowbirds”
NEW YORK —Chinatown is mum
bling. Chick Trigger has up and de
cided to-Jet it shift for itself. He’s
going to take up this society stuff
out at Centreport, L. I. >
Chick’s folks dubbed him Frank
Tridker. The Chick part happened
to be attached by companions. The
last name for many years has come
to be known as Trigger for the rea
son that it seemed a more appro
priate spelling in view of the nature
of Chick’s usual diversion.
Hereafter he is going to be Doc
Sicker and he informed a reporter
at the scheme will land him in
hiwh society and give him the privi
lege rof filling out' an income tax
blank. / •
The Doc says he is gong to open
a hospital at Centreport next month
to help»drug addicts get away from
the habit. He explained it thus;
“I’ve seen so many hopheads and
Snowbirds and cokies go to Bellevue
and get shoved out in a week or two
and come back looking for another
shot that I finally doped it out a few
months ago that there ought to be
3. place where people could get cured
proper. .
“I put it up to a couple of friends
who have some kale. I put in some
Extra; "Fou tell splinter,
« you’re a chip off the old block /!”
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OLD PAL PETE: Wednesday.
This is a P. S. to the letter I wrote you on the
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making up Camel advertisements. And, I’ll say it x 1
right here! Porter, give us the lights!
Just skimmed another swell Camel fact! Stop
this: Guess I've smoked a million Camels! Pete,
they never tired my taste yet!!!! And, old socks, put
Camels to the test! Then you’ll wise up that
Camels leave no unpleasant cigaretty aftertaste nor
unpleasant cigaretty odor!
That’s ome smoke news', I’ll say, when you
been trying to fuss the “straight" brands! And,
old shoe, you ought to know, they gave you a
lacing!
What makes a dent on fhy\ disposition is that ,
while Camels are the mildest cigarette and the
mellowest cigarette any man can buy they've got
all the “ body” you ever heard tell of!
Why Pete, I’ve got as many new selling ideas
about Camels as there are hairs on a purr-kitty’s
tail!
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Me for more of ’em
—"The Camel Kidl"
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Human Skeleton Is Used as
Evidence in Damage Suit
ELBERTON, Ga., Oct. 30.—A hu
man skeleton and an X-ray machine
were used before a jury here this
week in the suit pf W. E. Smith
against the SeaUoard Air Line rail
road for damages as a result of a
grade crossing accident last year in
which Smith was injured and A. P.
Deadwyler, member of the legislature,
was killed. The jury today awarded
Smith $5,000.