The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 54, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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ABOUT WISE POLLY
'* \Af »LL,” said Polly, the parrot,
“this is the greatest fun in the
tvorld.”
“What are you talking about?*’
asked Larry, the monkey.
“Yes, tell us,” said Jimmie, the
monkey.
“I’m talking about you and all of
your friends,” said Polly. “You see,
I lived in a private house before I
came to the zoo. Before that I lived
In a bird shop, and before that I can’t
remember.
“Maybe I came from where my
grandparents came, but I’m sure I
don’t know. I never took much stock
In family history. But at any rate
the bird shop was my first home, my
second was the home where a mother
“That May Be So, but You're All So
Amusing,” Said Polly.
and daddy and some children lived,
and my third home is here in the zoo.
“This, as I said before, is the great-
est fun in the world.”
“Pray tell me why you think so,”
said Larry, as he swung by his tail
and went back again on his bar so he
could look at Polly in the next cage.
“Ah, because monkeys are so fun-
ny,” said Polly. “One moment they’re
gay, the next sad, and the next sleepy,
and the next hungry.”
“Well, well, well,” chuckled Jimmie.
"I don’t see that that makes us any
different from most creatures.
“People, and when I say people, 1
mean grownups and children, are gay,
or sad, or sleepy, or hungry, or some
of those things one time or another.
“That may be so," said Polly, “but
you’re all so amusing. One never
knows what you are going to do next.”
“Neither do you know what people
are going to do next," said Larry.
“Why don’t you say they are
funny?”
“Maybe they are," said Polly, “but
they don’t hang by their tails and
squeal and make faces in the way you
do, and I am having the greatest fun
because I’m trying to copy you.
“Yes, that is why I’m having the
greatest fun. I have grown tired of
copying people who say ‘Good morn-
ing, Polly,’ and ‘Polly want a cracker.’
“Now I have a whole monkey house
to copy and how glad I am the keeper
has me for a pet and puts me in the
monkey house where he Is in charge.
“I’m having the time of my parrot
life.”
Just then a whistle was heard. A
long, funny sort of whistle.
The children who were visiting the
monkey house looked this way and
that, and the keeper laughed to see
them. Oh, how the keeper laughed.
A big policeman had come into the
monkey house and had said “hello"
to the keeper, but the children had
not thought there was anything funny
in that.
“Still knows you, eh?" the keeper
said to the policeman. “The children
don’t know what to make of it.”
“Yes, Jimmie is very loyal and de-
voted.”
Still the children had not been able
to understand the whistling, and the
keeper turned to the children and
said:
“Did you see the policeman?"
“We did,” the children answered.
“And just before he whistled we
heard another whistle.”
“That was Jimmie, the monkey,”
said the keeper. “When the police-
man came into this house he gave a
long whistle.
“But you heard the monkey’s whis-
tle even before you heard the police-
man give his, for Jimmie heard tne
policeman’s step as he came in the
door, and he recognized his step and
whistled first.
“That policeman has been on his
vacation lately, but Jimmie knew his
step, even though he hadn’t heard It
in over two weeks.
“You see, Jimmie never forgets his
friends.”
And now the children watched the
policeman as he talked to Jimmie,
and the keeper talked to Larry, who
was his special pet, and the parrot
watched and said to herself:
“This Is a most friendly and Intelli-
gent place.
“I’ll certainly be more of a parrot
for knowing such clever creatures.
“One can’t help but pick up a little
intelligence when one baa intelligence
all around one.
“Why, I’m ashamed I ever said any-
thing so silly as ‘Polly wants a crack-
er,’ though I suppose it suits some
parrots."
(Copyright.)
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVINQ KINQ
'TpHIS air thail gives a new oppor-
1 tunity to the office statistician.
You know the kind. They can tell
you what time train No. 8 gets to
Bloomington, what time the air mail
reaches Louisville, and when is the
last minute to get a letter started for
Chicago.
We need this sort of help because
most of us are in the dark as to
where air mail routes go and where
they don’t. A friend spent a quarter
to send me a letter by air mail, and it
came on the train after all. Oh well,
the government needs the cash.
If the post office really wants to
help the airplanes, they might have
made those air stamps smaller. You
get a lot of paper for your nickel.—
Fred Barton.
(Copyright.)
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GABBY GERTIE
“No girl cares to vamp an artistic
soul unless it’s well heeled.”
Boats of Grass and Straw
; Boats of grass and straw have been
S used for centuries by natives of the
1 Peruvian Andes.
THE LIGHTS BURN BLUE
tt'r'HE lights burn blue—it is now
A dead midnight,” says King Rich-
ard, starting awake from his dream
peopled with the ghosts of his mur-
dered dead. This superstition of the
last Plantagenet with regard to the
connection between a blue-burning
flame and the presence of inimical
spirits is a very old and universal one
which has not yet entirely vanished
from our modern folk-lore. There are
many people still whe, when the lights
burn blue, fancy that it is an indica-
tion that “spirits are about.”
On the New England coast when a
fire burns with a blue flame they say
that a storm is coming. It is an omen
of evil—the powers of the prince of
the air are abroad! In the South
when the fire burns blue the colored
folks and some of the white ones, too,
say that it is a sign that “the devil
wants to speak to you,” and handfuls
of salt are thrown on the fire to keep
him away. The ancient Greeks, when
their funeral pyres burned blue, used
to throw oil upon them to induce a
clearer flame. Sir Thomas Browne
(1646) says “That candles and lights
burn blue and dim at the apparition
of spirits may be true if the ambient
air is filled with a sulphurous spirits,
as happens often in the mines.”
This blue-light superstition is clearly
a survival of sun-worship. The flame
represented the sun and like the sun
should burn with a clear light. When
it doesn’t something is wrong. The
perfect sympathy between the sun-
god and his earthly symbol, fire, cre-
ated by man in his honor to induce
his beneficient protection, is destroyed.
Evil spirits intervene between the god
and his votaries.
((g) by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Famous University
Washington and Lee university was
given this time in 1871. The school
was established as Augusta academy
In 1749 and chartered in 1782. George
Washington rendered financial assist-
ance and the name was changed in
1798 to Washington academy. In 1813
the name was changed to Washington
college. Gen. Robert E. Lee Was made
president in 1865, and after his death
the name became Washington and Lee
university.
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Betty Compson
Charming Betty Compson, the popu-
lar screen star, was born in Beaver,
Utah. Her early experience was In
two-reel comedies which was followed
by her first big success in drama with
“The Miracle Man.” With the coming
of Vitaphone Miss Compson was given
prominent parts and has already ap-
peared in a number of popular produc-
tions.
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For Meditation
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By LEONARD A. BARRETT
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
L. A. Barrett.
IT IS no small honor for a states-
man to be intensely admired, and
at the same time, deeply loved. This
singular honor belongs to William
Howard Taft. The love which both
America and Europe had for him was
a whole-hearted response to his own
love for humanity. Lincoln said: “God
must have loved the common people
because he made so many of them.”
Something like
this spirit—a
broad and genu-
ine love for the
common people—
was one of the
reasons why
America loved its
honored states-
man.
Mr. Taft’s inter-
pretation of life’s
values was so full
and comprehen-
sive that he was
able to radiate a
very real spirit of
optimism. In the
discussion of
grave political
problems his good cheer dispelled the
gloom of many a serious debate, and
his power to penetrate through a
problem and see it from an all-round
point of view, gave him a command-
ing place in the world of leadership.
He was able to see the humorous as
well as. the serious side of an issue.
No man since Lincoln commanded
this power more than did Mr. Taft,
His hearty laugh will never be for-
gotten by any person who ever heard
it. It is not surprising that he radi-
ated good cheer even in his sickroom,
and that he died with a smile upon
his face.
The greatest honor which came to 1
Mr. Taft was the Presidency. In this
capacity he served from 1909 to 1913,
having been elected by a majority of
159 votes in the electorial college. !
The second highest honor was his ap- !
pointment as Chief Justice of the Su- |
preme court. Twice he had declined
the appointment as associate justice, ;
which offer came to him through
President Roosevelt; but when, later j
In life, the appointment came as chief (
justice, he accepted it with all his
heart and strength.
Mr. Taft was the only man who
ever held both of the highest oflces
within the gift of the American gov- |
ernment—that of President and chief
justice.
When William the Silent, prince of ,
Orange, died, it was said that little j
children cried in the streets. This was j
doubtless true of one of America’s |
greatest statesmen—William Howard
Taft.
(©, 1930, Western Newspaper Unioa.) '
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(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Team Work Needed
Love will never “make the world g
ound," as the old song says, withov
beral doses of common sense, and
our matrimonial ship will go on the
ocks unless common sense sits at the
teering wheel. The “star dust” days
f courtship, and early days after the
larrlage cannot last.—Milan Standard.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
ROM Texas comes the
announcement that if
present plans are car-
ried out a monument is
to be erected on the
state capital grounds
at Austin as a memorial
to the wild mustang
whleh played such an
Important part In the
development of Texas
and the whole Southwest. The move-
ment for such a memorial was started
by a Fort Worth citizen, and at his
suggestion a fund of $50,000 with
which to erect the monument is be-
ing raised among the ranchmen of the
state.
Up in Alaska last year a bronze
plaque, bearing a bas-relief of a mule
and B horse, was dedicated by the
Ladies of the Golden North, an aux-
iliary of the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers,
to perpetuate the memory of the faith-
ful pack animals, both mules and
horses, who lost their lives on the
White Pass trail during the Klondike
gold rush days. With Gov. George A.
Parks of Alaska and George Black,
member of the Canadian parliament
from Yukon territory, officiating, the
dedication took place near Inspiration
Point above the famous Dead Horse
Gulch.
These two memorials are the latest,
but by no means the only ones which
have been erected to honor members
of the e-quine world. Go down to
Lexington, Ky„ and drive out along
the Winchester pike until you come to
Hamburg Place, the farm of J. E.
Madden. Nestling In a little grove of
trees on tills farm is what Is thought
to be the only cemetery for horse cel-
ebrities in the world. Dominating the
grassy plot of ground of less than an
a«re and er closed by a stone wall
stands a statue of a horse. Upon the
foundation on which the statue stands
Is this inscription, “Nancy Hanks
2:04.” For this is the last resting
place of the world champion trotter
from 1892 to 1894.
Nor is Nancy the only great horse
honored in, this “Resting Place of
Celebrities’1 or “Westminster abbey of
the Turf,r as this graveyard Is called.
Another monument marks the grave
of Hamburg Belle, whose- world’s race
record of 2:01% stood for many years
and whose victory over the great
Uhlan at Cleveland in 1909, when she
stepped two heats in 2:01 % and
2:01%, is a classic In American
harness racing. Other stones tell the
name and fame of Miss Kearney, the
mother of Zev, winner of the Interna-
tional race of 1924; Plaudit, winner
of a Kentucky derby; Silicon, 2:13%,
dum of Siliko, trotting champion of
Europe; Major Delmar, 1:59, the trot-
ting marvel of his time; Ida Pickwick,
Jcnown as the “Queen of the West”;
Ogden and Plaudit, both famous turf
names; Star Shoot, for five consecu-
tive years the running world’s lead-
ing sire; Imp, “the Black Whirlwind,"
credited with winning 60 races, thus
earning the title of “Queen of the
East,” and Lady Sterling, famous as
the mother of Sir Barton and Sir
Martin.
Hidden away in a field near Crown
Point, N. Y„ stands a simple granite
monument, unadorned and unmarked
except on one side where is chiseled
this inscription:
“PINK”
“Died Sunday, May 25, 1886, age
30 years. This horse carried his
master 25 years and was never
known to show fatigne while other
horses in cavalry and flying artil-
lery were dying from want of food
and exhaustion. He was present in
88 skirmishes and 34 battles, no-
tably Winchester, Orange Court-
house, Second Bull Run, Hanover,
Penn.; Gettysburg, Hanover, Va.;
Brandy Plains, Buckland Mills, The
Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court
House, North Anna, Ashland, White
Oak Swamp, Reams Station.”
The master was Brig. Gen. John
Hammond, who served through the
Civil war in Company H of the Fifth
New York cavalry and whose name
went on the roll of honor for meri-
torious service. And each Memorial
day the grave of this equine “hero”
is decorated along with the graves
of the human warrior dead.
Even more traditional than love of
man for his horse is his love for his
dog. So it is not surprising that in
various parts of the world may be
found monuments erected to the mem-
ory of “man’s best friend.” Most fa-
mous of these, perhaps, is Lord By-
ron’s monument to his Newfoundland,
Boatswain, in Newstead abbey in
Nottingham, England.
In Central park in New York city
stands a bronze statue of a dog which
commemorates an incident that has
become a part of the heroic legend
of America. For this Is the statue of
Balto, an important member of the
dog team which Leonhard Seppala
drove over those 675 snowy miles,
from Nenana to Nome, Alaska, carry-
ing his precious load of diphtheria
serum to a frozen city In the throes
of the epidemic, while the whole
world awaited with breathless inter-
est to hear the result of his race
against death. And a similar bronze
statue is soon to stand either in the
Tiergarten or Under den Linden in
Berlin which will perpetuate the mem-
ory of the Red Cross dogs who served
so heroically in the World war.
It is not especially unusual, per-
haps, for man to erect monuments to
his two best friends, the horse and the
dog, but it is unusual for him to erect
a monument to a cow. For that rea-
son the statue of Segis Pietertje Pros-
pect, a Holstein cow, which stands
over her grave on the banks of the
Snoqualmie river near Seattle, Wash.,
is unique among memorials. The rea-
son for this honor is explained by the
inscription on the bronze tablet at the
base of the statue. It reads as fol-
lows :
“Here lived and gave her service
to mankind Segis Pietertje Prospect,
world’s champion milk cow. Born
1913, died 1925. Twice she regis-
tered production records that set
her fame above all dairy cattle of
any age. In each of two years she
exceeded 16,500 quarts of milk,
1,400 pounds of butter, yielding for
the two a total of 33,922 quarts of
milk, 2,865.18 pounds of butter.
Sired by a king and of purest Hol-
stein strain, she herself bore sons
and daughters of champion achieve-
ment. Finest type of the noble,
patient animal that is most justly
named ‘The Foster Mother of the
Human Race,’ her queenly worth de-
served the gratitude in which this
tribute is erected by her owner,
Carnation Milk Farms, 1928.”
In Salt Lake City, Utah, stands a
lofty granite column, on top of which
is a large granite ball upon which twc
bronze birds, covered with gold leaf
are gently alighting. On the four side!
of the base are bronze tablets, tliret
bearing bas-relief scenes of pioneer
days in the Salt Lake valley. One
shows the beginning of agriculture in
the arid West—a pioneer and his fam-
ily and a yoke of oxen at work re-
claiming the desert soil. The sec-
ond shows the wheat fields overrun
by crickets. The pioneer man sits
with bowed head, on his face a look
of helplessness and grief. But the
pioneer woman is lifting up her face
to the skies as she sees a miracle
about to take place. Winging over
the mountains into the valley come a
great flock of gulls. The third bronze
shows the harvest days. The gulls
have devoured the crickets, the crops
are saved and the pioneers in the wil-
derness will have bread. On the
fourth tablet are these words: “Sea
Gull Monument. Erected in grateful re-
membrance of the mercy of God to the
Mormon pioneers.” Thus this monu-
ment is an everlasting story in stone
of one of the most beautiful and dra-
matic incidents in American history—
the story of how the gulls saved the
wheat fields of Utah in 1848.
While monuments to horses, dogs,
cows and gulls are unusual enough,
there is one monument which Is abso-
lutely unique. There is only one mon-
ument In the world to cheese 1 It
stands near the little city of Vimou-
tiers in the Camembert district of
Normandy, France, on the farm of a
certain Beau Moncel, where lived dur-
ing the latter half of the Eighteenth
century Klarie Harel, who Is credited
with being the inventor of Camembert
cheese. Not only is the fame of this
Norman milk maid commemorated by
this stone shaft on the farm where
she worked, but in Main Place in the
city of Vimoutiers itself is a statue
of her, back of which is a stone bas-
relief showing the farmhouse on the
Marcel farm, where she was born in
1761, where she lived until her death
in 1817 and where she made the new
kind of cheese which Is now known
the world over.
These monuments were erected
through the efforts of a New York
doctor, Joseph Knrira. For many
years he conducted a sanatorium In
New York, where the only medicine
he gave his patients for nil kinds of
stomach ailments was Pilsener beer
and Camembert cheese. Because of
his gratitude to the inventor of the
cheese with which he made so many
people well and saved their lives, he
made a romantic pilgrimage to Vimou-
tiers a year or so ago, and the result
was this most unusual of all morn*
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