w k MI i aki diw who was 1 I 1 who p by louise M commock Com tock S S S FAUST IT T WAS no grisly bargain with the devil that made faust the central figure la in a famous legend the theme 1 ot at least two plays and three operas in main alain germany in the fourteenth century people won a reputation for undue intimacies cles with the devil very easily I 1 and faust won his overnight almost with a printing press 1 johann gutenberg had just indented the process of printing with movable type to commercialize his invention he formed the first printing company gutenberg Ou tenberg faust and Sho effer to which he formed the first printing corn com pany gutenberg faust and Shi efter effer to which he buted the idea and faust the capital and a flare for sales promotion iho effier was faust s son in law since there were no patent laws at the time the printing had to be done behind closed doors often at night to prevent the idea being stolen the public accustomed to slowly an I 1 laboriously hand printed letters gazed in awe at the freshly printed pages turned out so rap adly in that mysterious shop and hinted magic faut faust perceived the sales value of that word encouraged its use and becque barly known not as a printer but i it man with some strange allegiance with the devil I 1 old records show that faust later won a law suit against gutenberg for funds invested and lost in the printing of the famous gutenberg bible a sin gle gler copy of which perhaps proving the theory of magic sold in 1926 for SKIPPER IRESON cresol urn john greenleaf Green leat whittler whittier W used popular tales circulating a af out the fishing villa village e of marblehead la in his poem skipper irestone ride be he unwittingly served to perpetuate a great injustice floyd ireson for his hard heart wrote whittler whittier was tarred and feath ered and carried in a cart by the worn wom en of Marble marblehead bead on tl ti e night of october 28 1808 the fist ing schooner betty skipper ireson in command passed almost within hail hall ing distinct di of the active about to sink in the heavy sea skipper ireson wi auld uld have stopped to give aid his crew fearful tor for their own lives dis obeyed his orders to stand by to sue suc cor the active and set sail salt for home wl lie ile he was taking a bit of a nap belo belov v once safe home they accused the skipper of refusing aid and their story was later when four sur of the ill III fated active reached port tie tt e angry populace of marble herd skipper ireson stripped and bound t im tarred him and covered him with feathers and dragged him gh the streets in an old dory when its bottom fell out they put their r victim in a cart and proceeded howl ing on their way not till mary years later when skipper ireson was old blind and desti tute end and it was too late to make amends was the true story told by the btty B tty s cabin boy now grown to man ma hood and a new sense of honor casabianca ohve INO generations of school boys have declaimed and parodied mrs ileman s poem commencing the boy stood on the burning deck I 1 few of them perhaps realizing that the small hero therein described really lived and died as the poem tells during napoleon s expedition into egypt england sent her famous ad miral mirat lord nelson against the french fleet and all but four of the french vessels were sunk or captured tie TI e I 1 rench admiral had fallen and the flagship wrapped in flames and sink ing was as deserted by all of her crew wl 0 could squeeze into the lifeboats or swim only the captain louis casabianca casablanca already badly wounded but following the time honored tra of sea captains refused to leave his post determined to go down with his ship suddenly thase those on the at tad tact ing british vessels saw that the gi gallant llant captain was not alone ills 1 ten teni j ear earold old son who had hidden in a coil of ropes until the decks were cleared now rushed up to his father threw a supporting arm about him and stood ready to share his fate corn com mands and entreaties tailed failed to move the boy and fighting was suspended and the british cheered and wept as the flaming ship bearing the two heroes sink into the water D 1932 W western estern New newspaper simper union