The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 201, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 1931 Page: 3 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
May Be Speaker
Find Treasure of Last Hindu Ruler
Great Bankers Evolved
From Merchant Princes
Most of our great financial leaders
emerged from the dry goods or cloth-
ing business. Forerunners' of our pres-
ent big private bankers were the mer-
chant princes. Even today in England
the Rothschilds, the Barings and the
Morgans are called merchants rather
than bankers. One section of the.
United States was particularly prolific
In developing a type of international
merchant. The Yankee of New Eng-
land was a born trader. From ear->
l.iest Colonial days New England
owned ships that scoured the seven
seas in search of merchandise and
trade.
George Peabody from Boston was
the great seller of American securities
to English investors during the Civil
war. Junius S. Morgan, who carried
on his business after his death, also
came from Boston. The son of Junius
S. Morgan, John Pierpont Morgan,
lived in Boston as a boy and went to
the English high school. The names
of the great merchant princes of New
England, the Lowells, the Lawrences,
the Cabots, the Appletons, the Lees,
the Higginsons, and many others are
freely intersprinkled through the early;
history of the beginning of New Eng-i
land banking.
the World
Most Sensitive Hands
The famous crown of the Pandava em-
perors was said to have been found
after the vault was opened.
To the Hindus the jewels have great
mystic value, embodying the ruling
principles of kingship among them.
The possessor of the jewels, Hindus
claim, hold the power to rule India in
the future.
During the excavation for a huge
irrigation reservoir engineers came
upon the ruins of an ancient palace.
A copper plate was found containing
verses in Sanskrit, which indicated
that the treasures of the Hindu em-
perors were carefully stored in vaults
near the “lake in the hills.”
Sig. Mancini, who has been engaged
to supervise the contraction of a new
palace for the maharajah on Mount
Abu was asked to help in the hunt
for the hidden cache. The “lake in
Drain Lake to Recover An^
cient Indian Relics.
Calcutta. — A secret underground
treasure vault used by the ancestors
of the maharajah of Alwar, India, has
been rediscovered with the aid of Sig.
Mancini, an Italian architect. The ut-
most secrecy surrounds the finding of
the treasure, “lost” for so many years
near the artificial lake of Saugor.
Jewels and gold found in the vault
are said to be worth about $500,000,-
000, but they are sacred relics, and the
maharajah has not decided whether
to reseal the vault or appropriate the
treasure. Frequent attempts have
been made in the past to discover the
jewels and huge sums were spent in
searching for them.
The maharajah was once told by an
astrologer that he wmuld recover the
lost fortune, and he destroyed four old
palaces and then built new ones in
the search.
The ancestors of the maharajah of
Alwar, who claims to descend from the
mythological King Rama of Ajodhya,
had been charged with the preserva-
tion of the historic imperial jewels of
the last Hindu emperor, Rana Prith-
wlraj, who was defeated in the battle
of Panipat in the Sixteenth century.
There is renewed talk ot tne chances
of Bertrand H. Snell, congressman
from New York, to be elected speaker
of the house to succeed the late Nich-
olas Longworth. Mr. Snell is a Re-
publican and chairman of the power-
ful rules committee of the house.
Fitted Empire Frock
These are the hands of a group of Angora goat hair sorters at Sanford,
Maine. The sense of touch in their fingertips can distinguish as many as
fifteen different diameters of hairs, in the thousandths of an inch. If the
sorter makes a mistake a fine, luxurious and costly piece of velvet may be.
ruined later in the weaving. A sorter to hold his job must take better care of
himself 'physically than a football player or prize fighter. Ill-health or a
sleepless night wall disturb the delicate senses sufficiently to cause errors.
No women have ever been able to qualify as hair sorters. Oddly enough the
85 men w7ho sit and match hairs all day long are middle-aged or past. Few
of them wea? glasses, and few mistakes are made.
the hills” was decided to be the beau-
tiful Lake Saugor, and, under the pre-
text of changing the water, it was
drained dry. The lake’s bed was
cleaned out. In the center was dis-
covered strong masonry work. On ex-
amining it an entrance was found be-
hind a huge movable stone.
A tunnel under the lake bed led to
the vault lying hidden deep in the
rocky hills. In the first chamber was
found a huge copper vessel.
On being opened, the vessel was
found to be full of gold. It was one
solid mass, apparently having been
melted and poured into the vessel be-
fore it was placed in the vault. Tracks
on the ground led to the corner in
the wall where the second entrance to
a second vault was located. There the
$500,000,000 in jewels and gold was
found.
World Slow to Adopt
Idea of Christian Era
It was the custom of ancient peo-
ples to reckon their chronological eras
from some great historical event, for,
example, the Romans from the
foundation of Rome, the Greeks from'
the establishment of the Olympic
games, the Babylonians from acces-
sion of Nabonassar, etc. Consequent-
ly when Christianity became the es-
tablished religion of the Roman em-
pire, it was natural that the supposed
date of the birth of Christ should re-
place that of the founding of Rome
as a means of reckoning dates. A!
Roman abbot, Dionysius Exiguus, in-
troduced this method into Italy in 533
A. D., fixing the birth of Christ in the
year 754 of the Roman era, though he
began the year 1 with the Annuncia->
tion, March 25 of the previous year.
The use of the new Christian era was
introduced into France and England
in the Eighth century, but it was slow
in receiving official recognition.
Charlemagne appears to have been
the first secular authority to use it.
as her# money lasted to the country
from which her father and mother had
come. For a time she was a lady, so
far as her limited knowledge gave her
to understand what that might mean,
and when her legacy had been spent
she came back again to the old life
of toil. If she ever regretted her fool-
ish action, as it was termed by her
practical friends, she never said so.
She had the memories for which all
her life evidently she had longed, and
she was content.
I®, 1931, Western Newspaper Union.)
POTPOURRI
HAPPY
MEMORIES
Pheasants
There are some hundred spe-
cies of pheasants, all native to
Asia, and belong to the same do-
mestic fowl family as the pea-
cock. They are named after the
river Pliasis on the eastern
shore of the Black sea. The
naturalized American pheasant
is a hybrid of the British and so-
called ring-necked breed.
(©, 1931, Western Newspaper Union.)
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
im
Sarah had never known anything
but hard work all her life. Hard
work
a11 linPleasant an(i
I fD ^ exhilaration
some-
A picturesque fitted empire frock in
metal-brocaded faconne taffeta. The
ruche about the hem is fascinating.
Time Clock Crowing
Governed by Whistle
Kingston, N. O.—A hen owned by
William R. Brinkley, master of the
local fox hunt club, laid a freak egg.
Ridges on one side formed the rough
likeness of a clock dial.
The hen was broody. Brinkley al-
lowed her to keep the egg. The egg
was hatched and produced a chick.
The chick became a cockerel.
A few days ago the young rooster
started crowing. Brinkley noted that
it crowed at 6 a. m., noon and ? n. m.
—on the dot. He was astounded. It
maintained the schedule day after
day.
Neighbors were informed. They
kept tab on the bird and verified
Brinkley’s claim that it “kept time.”
Then Brinkley made a disappoint-
ing discovery. The cockerel crowed
only when incited by a mill whistle in
the neighborhood and the whistle
sounded at 6 a. m., noon and G p. m.
ODD THINGS AND NEW—By Lame Bode
When preparing fruit salad, sprinkle
bananas, peaches, pears and apples
with lemon juice and sugar, as soon as
they are cut. This helps to prevent
discoloration.
Island
“Tin Can’
The island of Niuafou, in the Pa-
cific ocean, about 300 miles from Fiji,
is but three miles in diameter and is
shaped like a ring. Outside the ring
the water is, of course, salt, but within
it lies a lake which is only slightly
brackish. No doubt the island is the
crater of a volcano—a mountain Avhich.
rises almost straight up from the deep
ocean bed. Similar volcanic craters
lie upon islands within the island it-
self, and these become active every 15
or 20 years. Strangely enough, this
queer island has quite a large popula-
tion. Its inhabitants number nearly
1,500 Tongans and a sprinkling of Eu-
ropeans. ' In rough weather no ship
can reach Niuafou, but as a strong
current sets toward the shore the
mails are placed in a soldered tin box
and thrown overboard, t'o be retrieved
by native swimmers. This queer kind
of postal delivery has provided Niua-
fou with a second name. It is known
familiarly as Tin Can island.
Kit Js1 They were
out education;
they were used to toil, and they had
no ambition for their daughter to know7
or to be more than they, themselves,
knew or were.
And so Sarah, when she was old
enough, went out to service, and be-
ing awkward and unskillful, driftecl
finally into the work of a scrub
^voman.
But the unexpected does sometimes
happen. When Sarah was fifty, per-
haps, a relative across the ocean left
her a modest legacy which, if properly
invested, would have made a living
more comfortable for her, and might
have provided a little competence for
her old age, when scrubbing would
not be so easy nor so possible as it
now was.
“It’s good luck for Sarah,” her
thrifty friends were heard to say.
“She can put this money by for a
rainy day.”
But Sarah thought otherwise. Dur-
ing all her fifty years she had had no
cessation of toil.
“I’m getting old,” Sarah said. “I’d
like a few happy memories before I
die.”
And so, foolishly maybe and maybe
not, it is not for us to say, Sarah quit
her job. She got herself ready, and
she went off for a holiday as long
A coffee “wake-me-up” is the newest
and smartest note in entertaining the
over-night or week-end guest. The
guest is served a demitasse of black
coffee just before arising.
A teaspoonful of sugar added when
frying tomatoes brings out their full
flavor. In cooking both ham and pork,
a small amount of sugar points up the
hut-like flavor of the meat.
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If your cellar stairs are badly light-
ed, as most of them are, it is a wise
precaution to paint the top and bottom
steps white. The white steps will
show up in the dark, and go far . to-
ward reducing the possibility of a fall.
Roy Hudson
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Private Property Sign
Gets Rid of Rail Ties
Gorham, Maine.—A trolley line was
scrapped here and company officials
left the railroad ties along the right-
of-way where people could cart them
away for use as fuel.
Days passed and not a tie was
touched.
Finally the company erected over
the wood piles signs reading:
“Private property. Do not molest.”
Next day the ties were gone. Also
the signs.
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Mystery of the Sun-Cure
Hippocrates was one of the first to
recognize the powerful antiseptic and
healing properties of light. He treat-
ed various diseases successfully by
exposing the patients to sunlight, but
the mystery of exactly how sunlight
accomplishes marvelous cures has not
been solved fully even today. From
then until now as the employment of
sunlight as a healer has increased,
the use of the surgical knife has de-
creased in countries such as Switzer-;
land, where sun cures and sunlight
treatments have been. practiced for,
many years.
(WNU Service.)
20 Families to Be Marooned on Desert Isle
3,000 Birds Like His
Home; Refuse to Leave
Norwalk, Conn.—Anyone knowing
a good way to discourage the atten-
tions of birds should get in touch with
Grover Muler. Muler has tried every-
thing—that is, everything he. has heard
of so far—including roman candles, to-
get some 3,000 birds to leave the eaves
of his house and treetops around it.
U. S. Employees to Care for
New Lighthouse.
new lighthouse station is ready for oc-
cupancy this fall.
Not a drop of water is to be found
on the wind-swept bit of land, harrow
and less than two miles in length.
The precious fluid must be brought
from the mainland in barrels, just as
though the workers were living in
the heart of the Sahara.
Difficulties of erecting the huge
lighthouse, radio compass station,
power house and foghorn station may
be Imagined with water so scarce.
Sea water was found impractical for
use in mixing concrete, so it was
necessary to bring it from the main-
land, land it on the beach and haul
it over a rocky cliff to the building
site.
Anacapa island, most southerly of
the Santa Barbara channel islands,
is directly in the path of coastwise
steamer traffic, and has been lighted
previously with only a small flashing
light. Despite this, there have been
no serious wrecks on its rocky shore.
Fate evidently plotted the courses
of vessels so that they would pile
up on San Miguel island, most north-
erly of the group, or on the opposite
shore of the channel, at Poing Ar-
guello.
Although isolated and uninhabited
until the arrival of the construction
crew, Anacapa island has for years
been a favorite haunt of fishing and
pleasure craft.
Ancient Bank Notes Offered
Memphis, Tenn.—A Memphis bank-
er recently was asked to cash several
$5 notes on the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank here. The bank failed in
1842.
Venture, Calif.—Water, water every-
where, not a drop to drink,
i Just like the Ancient Mariner, 20
government employees and their fam-
ilies will be marooned on a barren is-
land 20 miles off this port when a
Troubles Enough
When Dante Gabriel Rossetti was
painting the now famous reredos at
Llandaff cathedral, he took so long
over them that the dean and chapter
asked the bishop of Llandaff, who was
going to London, to call at Rossetti’s
rooms in Blackfriars and try to dis-
cover what wTas the cause of the de-
lay. A maid opened the door to the
bishop, at once informed him that Ros-
setti was absent, and on learning what
the bishop had come about, exclaimed:
“Oh, lor’, sir, Mr. Rossetti don’t
paint now—he’s married!”—Kansas
City Times.
The reason no
llllfti man ever as
much salary as his
kMo-—wife thinks he ought
---— to have is because
there Isn’t that much money.
Coach Harry Kipke of the Univer-
sity of Michigan has plenty of players
for this season’s football contests, afid
one of the best of the lot is Roy Hud-
son of Gerard, Ohio, who is captain
and plays at halfback.
A learned fool is more foolish than
an ignorant fool—Moliere.
ABBY
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Railroad Gages
Stephenson, inventor of the steam
locomotive, is said to have adopted the
gage of his engine from that of his
farm wagon wheels. Horse-drawn
wheeled vehicles had been of approxi-
mately that gage since the days of
Roman chariots. Varous gages, rang-
ing from 3 feet in the East to 5 feet
in California, were employed in the
United States for 50 years, but now
all save industrial short lines are 4
feet S% inches. This is standard over
most of the world, but India has a
gage of 5% feet, Russia 5 feet and
Japan 3 feet.
trains
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Snakes Recommended
to Curb Rabbit Pest
Canberra.—Large snakes of nonpoi-
sonous varieties, like boa constrictors,
are suggested as a check on the multi-
tudes of rabbits that infest Australia.
Small snakes are already used to com-
bat rats and mice. Boas breed rapidly
and swallow a rabbit at a gulp.
Priceless Gifts
The best tiling to give to your enemy
is forgiveness; to your opponent, real
tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to
your child, a good example; to your
parents, deference; to yourself, re-
spect : to all men. charity.—Grit.
“Pushing the chest and trunk for-
ward while in a stooping position is
a reducing exercise—it makes one
Jean."
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