Thursday, October 5, 1922
DON'T FALL FOR
SPANISH SWINDLE
Americans Have Quit Going to
Spain to Rescue Wealthy
Imprisoned Princesses.
; S 'HE NOW VICTIMS
Impostors Who Market Adventures to
Cr'd'j'ouc Investors Give Their
Princesses Names of Famous
Women Long Dead.
Granada, Spain.—Americans have
quit coining to Spain in search of the
beautiful and wealthy princesses im
prisoned in a dark, damp tower by a
greedy uncle who is anxious to annex
her fortune.
The historic old Spanish swindle ap
parently has gone out of fashion in
the United States, but it is still in
rogue in other parts of the world.
Germany has receatly supplied quite
a crop of kind-hearted gentlemen who
advanced money for the release of the
dark-eyed Spanish beauty who was
suffering in a rat-infested cell and
slowly dying on a diet of bread and
water while the bats hovered about
her head and added to the terrors of
her solitary confinement.
Beauties in Granada.
Granada has always been a popular
c«nter for the men who have con
tributed to the relief of Imprisoned
beauties. Washington Irving and
scores of lesser writers have credited
Granada with having more beautiful
women than any other city in the
world.
The legend of the Rose of the Al
hambra and the stories of the three
beautiful princesses, Zayda, Zorayda
and Zorahayda, hover about the Al
hambra and make it the natural ref
uge for disappointed Investors In dis
tressed beauty.
So It is not strange that searchers
for princesses should come to Granada
after having sough.t vainly for mythi
cal castles In mythical mountains.
Most of the modern Spanish princesses
are being held captives in castles by
the sea. Castles by the sea are so
much damper, and then it is much
mnre romantic for rescue parties to
approach the rock coast In ships and
wave to the Imprisoned princess, who
will promptly tear her clothing to bits
and make a rope with which she will
lower herself from the gloomy tower.
Many of the impostors who are mar
keting adventure to credulous invest
ors give their princesses the names of
famous women who have been dead
fur centuries. Moraymnh and Aishah,
queens of the Moorish regime, who
have been dead for over 400 years, and
many other celebrities of history and
legend have lent their names to prin
cesses supposed to be in distress.
Visitors Are Warned.
Hotel keepers in Granada have be
come skilled In detecting visitors who
are searching for Imprisoned beauties.
They usually make very guarded In
quiries and seldom admit they have
been duped. Frequently they inquire
for gypsy fortune tellers, or astrolo
gers, who probably charge well for
their services.
Letters concerning the distressed
princesses are usually marked strictly
confidential, and instructions are given
that nothing must be said to anyone
lest the life of the princess be endan
gered. Most of the dupes are too
much ashamed of their plight to con
fess openly that they have been
filled.
BIRD DIES WITH HER YOUNG
Asbury Park, N. J. —A dead gaunt
pine was a giant torch half way up
Its length in the big woods fire, which
swept the outskirts of Brielle recent
ly. At the very top was a giant fish
hawk nest, and braving the inferno
of flame and smoke a parent bird
hover*d over the nest with a fish in
its beak for the three baby Inmates
craning their necks over the edge.
Finally, wheeling in desperation, the
bird conquered its terror and settled
upon the nest just as the tree toppled
with a resounding crash Into the blaz
ing underbrush, carrying the hawk
mother and babes to death.
BUYS DOGS FOR "PARADISE"
Texas Man Will Save Hounds Doomed
to Death by City—To Build
Big Kennels.
Beaumont, Tex.—The first "dog par
adise" In the South will be established
here by T. D. Brooks, president of
the Brooks Supply company, who al
ready has bought more than 200 ca
nines of all breeds, sizes and colors
which were awaiting executior In the
city dog pound.
Mr. Brooks said he would build the
largest and most complete dog kennel
lr I be South. He gives as his only
reason for the project that he was
anxious to save the lives of homeless
dogs which were to have been as
phyxiated by the city.
Caterpillars Destroy Woods.
Kegina, Sask.—Caterpillars have
eaten up 50 square miles of forests in
Jhe KlpUng district near here. Scarce-
ZJ' green leaf remains and the dis
_ 't P the stark rppearmce of
a winter scone, forestry official say.
ASK UNIFORM SIGNALS
Railway Association Recom-
mends Standard Colors.
One of the Suggestions Made in the
Interest of PubJic Safety Is Use
of Yellow in Automobile
Tail Lights.
Chicago.—ln the interest of public
safety recommendations for the stand
ardization of colors for traffic signals
are being considered. These recom
mendations were made on behalf of
the signal section of tlie American
Railway association at a recent con
ference requested by the Illuminating
Engineering society and the Interna
tional Traflic Officers' association and
held under the auspices of the Ameri
can engineering standards committee.
The recommendations are:
1. The principle of red for stop
everywhere, unless qualified by a
favorable indicatiop —that is at high
way crossings with railroads if train
is approaching, in fixed signals and
in the hands of traflic officers, at
street at th£ £jss of
streets, and possibly to iridlc&tG ex
cavations in streets.
2. Yellow for tail lights of automo
biles, possibly excavations in streets
and for calling policemen, or for any
other purpose where caution Is re
quired; possibly at busy street inter
sections to indicate that the traffic
lights will be changed from red to
green or from green to red.
8. Green lights for fire escapes, for
proceed at street intersections and
other purposes to Indicate the way is
clear.
In presenting these recommenda
tions on behalf of the signal section
A. H. Rudd, chief signal engineer of
the Pennsylvania system, said:
"The railroads are particularly in
terested in eliminating the use of the
red light for various purposes other
than that of indicating danger or stop
unless qualified by a more favorable
color. They desire that any scheme
devised may conflict as little as pos
sible with their own signal systems al
ready established and that uniformity
of indications in the protection of
highway crossings at grade may be es
tablished."
HAS GOPHER TURTLE
Miss Theodora Olsen Is pictured
here with the gopher turtle brought
from the dry pine woods of Florida
by Curator Englehardt of the Brook
lyn museum. The turtle Is of a queer
species and known to be a vegetarian,
feeding for most part on grass and
various farm products. It is exception
ally tame and harmless, and at the
least show of battle on the part of
other animals will draw Its head and
legs into its shell.
PARIS BEAUTY SUES MANAGER
Paris, France. —Because he dashea
her hopes of becoming a stage star,
France's "most beautiful girl" Is suing
a theatrical manager for breach of
contract.
Elected by popular vote France's
"queen of queens" for 1922 and ac
claimed the most adorable out of
5>000,000 adorable blondfs and bru
nettes, Mile. Germaine Buchet expect
ed to fulfill her childhood dreams of
appearing before the footlights.
She turned down many offers of
marriage, she alleges, to sign a con
tract for appearance In the operetta
"Helen Returns," but the role went to
a rival beauty.
Now Mile. Buchet demands that the
court make the manager keep his
promise or pay.
Skunks Lure Bees
From Hives, Eat 'Em
Washington.—A report from }
Ohio received by the biological f
survey of the United States De- I
partment of Agriculture says j
that skunks are giving a great j
deal of trouble to beekeepers In ]
that region. The skunks visit ]
the hives at night and scratch j
on the outside till the bees come f
out. As soon as they appear the j
skunks eat them. The biological f
surrey recommends that under I
such conditions the hives be I
fen ed in with chicken wire at j
least three feet high.
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VOLCANOES OUR
BEST FRIENDS
Geologist Says Without Them
We Would Have No Oceans
or Carbon Dioxide.
KATMAI ERUPTION DESCRIBED
Most Tremendous Volcanic Explosion
of History Passed Unnoticed Be
cause It Was So Far From
Centers of Civilization.
Washington.—lt might be a sur
prise to many to be told that the flre
spltting, lava-spouting, earth-rocking
volcano is one of mankind's best
friends rather than his arch enemy,
but such Is the surprising declaration
which was explained to the confer
ence on geography of the National
Education association in Boston re-
cently.
The tnost tremendous volcanic erup
tion of history, that of Mount Katmai
in Alaska in 1912, was described in
this connection by Dr. Robert F.
Griggs, leader of several parties sent
to the scene of the cataclysm by the
National Geographic society, and who
discovered the valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes, Katmal's neighbor wonder of
nature.
Mankind's debt to the volcano has
been more fully recognized by results
of recent researches, says a bulletin
of the society describing the unheaval.
Without volcanoes, It is now believed,
there would be no oceans, and to vol
canoes we are Indebted for carbon
dioxide, without which human life
could not exist.
Katmai Explosion Unnoticed.
The explosion of Katmai, the con
ference was told, was unnoticed be
cause It was so far from the centers
of civilization. Had the eruption oc
curred near New York city, the bul
letin declares, the suphurous fumes
would have polluted the air every
where east of the Rocky mountains;
the noise would have reverberated
like an artillery duel across the cen
tral states. The lower Hudson itself
would have been turned into a gigan
tic tomb.
However, due to the lack of popula
tion In that far region, there was no
loss of life, and the eruption provides
scientists and geographers now one of
their greatest opportunities to study
the phenomenon of volcanic action.
Though generally unaware of the
eruption until long after, every Inhab
itant of the country, and almost of the
world, felt Its effects, one of which
was the cold damp summer of 1912.
This was caused by the interception
of sunlight by the long-hanging dust
cloud in the upper air. Even in cloud
less Sahara, it was declared, the any
was overcast.
Repeat Ice Age.
A succession of such mighty ex
plosions coultl plunge the earth Into
another ice age, it is believed.
An area around Katmai, larger
than the state of Delaware, was cov
ered that summer by more than a
foot of volcanic ash which was
enough to destroy all but the hardiest
of vegetation. "When the explosion
occurred two cubic miles of material
were blown off the top of the moun
tain, and the present whereabouts of
the mountain top is still a mystery to
scientists.
GIVE BOUNTY FOR MALE BABES
Cetlnje, Montenegro.—There lias
been an alarming decrease In the
birth rate of Montenegro, due to the
loss during the war of so many of the
"Black Mountain's" fighting men. The
government is offering premiums to
mothers who bear male children. The
females now greatly outnumber the
males.
The Incentives offored by the gov
ernment to mothers of male children
have resulted in pathetic appeals from
the untutored peasant women to the
American Red Cross nurses to give
them "the medicine to make a boy."
In Montenegro boys are considered
much more valuable than girls, and
the constant prayer of the mountain
dweller Is that she may be blessed
with a male child. This disparity in
the sexes is largely the outgrowth of
the days when Turkey held dominion
over the Balkans and when the lib
erty-loving Montenegrins had an ever
present need of mtn to defend the
homeland.
In Montenegro the women do all the
work, the men considering manual la
bor undignified. They feel it is their
chief duty to carry firearms and
swords, talk politics and prepare for
the next war.
BRIDE AND EX-SUITOR DROWN
Double Tragedy Ends Gay Night
Among Cabarets of
Hoboken.
Union Hill, N. J.—Mrs. Margaret
Gallagher, nineteen, bride of two
months, ended a gay night of rounds
of Hoboken and Union Hill (N. J.)
cabarets in the company of Thomas
Cassldy, a suitor before her marriage
to Andrew Gallagher, by leaping into
the North river from a ferry boat at
5 o'clock in the morning. Cassldy
leaped to rescue her and both were
drowue-L
fHE FOREST CITI COURIER
WEST END NEWS
There will be a old time sing
ing at Pleasant Grove church Sun
day Oct. Bth, in the afternoon at
two o'clock. Everybody is invit
ed. Come and bring your Chris
tian Harmony song- books.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Grose, Mr.
and Mrs. C. H. Grose and Mrs.
u. Z. McDonald motored to Ruth
erford College Sunday, where they
spent a pleasant day with Mr.
Chalmus Grose.
Miss Cora Lee Dalton spent
ounday with Miss Ada Long-.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
Weir, Sunday, a fine girl.
M rs - B - Z- McDonald, Mrs. Edith
Williamson, Misses Ada and
Statha Long attended the Sunday
school Conference at Spindale
Ihursday.
The program Sunday night at
Pleasant Grove church was Bible
reading which was very interest
ing.
Mr, Marton Williamson and
family, 0 f Spindale, spent Sundav
with Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hamrick.
Mr and Mrs. A. C. Williamson
or Whitmire, S. C., was the week
end guests of Mr. Williamson's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C Wil
liamson.
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Celebrates Sixty-Third Birthday
Mrs. E. M. Lawing was pleas
antly surprised Sunday when she
came home from Sunday School
to find a few of her friends and
relatives had gathered to cele
brate her 63 birthday. At twelve
o'clock two tables were filled with
a variety of good things to eat.
Everyone enjoyed the dinner very
much.
Those present included Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Williamson, Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Williamson, Mr. and
Mrs. Renn Williamson, Mr. B. Z.
McDonald and children, Mr. S. L.
Lawing and family, Mr. C. A.
Lawing and family, Mr. and Mrs.
A. C. Williamson, of Whitmire, S.
C., Mrs. Nanie McClure and chil
dren and Mr. M. J. HarriU and
family.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Mrs. Emily C.
Logan, deceased, late of Ruther
ford County, North Carolina, this
is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of the
said deceased exhibit them to the
undersigned at Charlotte, N. C.,
P. O. Box 1080 on or before the
23rd day of August 1923 or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immedi
ate payment.
This the 17th day of August,
1922.
W. G. JACKSON,
Administrator of estate of Mrs
Emily C. Logan.
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