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Show THE SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1824 Victims of Battleship Explosion Being Landed Scene In the hirtor of Eaa Dlege killed and Injured In the on tbe battleship Mississippi were being transferred from the hospital ahlp to a tender to be carried shore. D HAROLD CARTER Br m lHJt. ($. Wain HAT can tiX7 v" madam Kppr do L'fcio-- I for you, Inquired Jim Bryee, editor of the Four Orners Sentinel, as the little old lady approached his desk timidly. "I wunt you to publish a poem on my daughter Jane," she said. "I writ It myself. 1 hadn't thought I bad the gift of poetry till I was along on sev enty, but when Jane took mad and died up to the asylum It sort of loos ened me up." Jim Bryoe, being only twenty-five- , and sympathetic by nature, took the God hrld had Rill 'J ths, Jan! Buch pains she KATO IS NEW PREMIER vw I I Farewell, and whan thy days sr told. June, In hallowed mold Thy curjme shall burled be; For the a funeral bell shall ring, And all the contrrt-gutloslng A Christian pstilm fur thea. "Kx("eIH'nt, nindam," said Jim Bryce diplomatically, "but don't you think It is a little too gloomy for the Sentinel to publish?" "Gloom does folks good," said the old laly. "Besides, I want to get uiy name printed. I haven't never had any of my poems printed yet, and if folks likes this I've got nigh on a quire of 'em I'll bring around to you." Perhaps, being a young man, he overestimated the popular appreciation of poetry In his native town. At any rate, he could not bring himself to insert It. He laid It aside in a pigeon-hole- fit' a Redeems Burned Fortunes . XM iil iitU'tlJlfCt i ! Eg j Kami HMtM. Mm Wrrti' Mtassmiinnwsiisii ssasswwBiifBWif'Ma,,,t"" .fin..i,.iin.nniimrigg&r : mmMMriaiii ft sa Fortunes that huve gone up In flames have been redeemed under the magnifying glass of Miss Uobert L. LIndsey of Washington, D. C. Miss Lindsey Is a foremost expert In the country In reconstructing burned bonds. Daring Aviatrix Resumes Flying IP n & v Here Is the most picturesque member of the new French parliament. He Is M. Cedlc, representing Brittany, who will take his seat In the new assembly In this national costume of Brittany. CORDELL HULL Ruth Law, probably the world's most daring aviatrix, after a long retirement plans to resume flying. She Is greatly Interested In the helicopter and Intends to aid In the progress of developing this type of machine. t I ytiaasi If f' I- W !!a- - - I I pi II 1 r v f liUI'ftii!I n.tnrtojOld Fort Cralo, on Riverside avenue, Rensselaer, N. V, shown above, was formally given to the state of Iiew Vork the other day by Mrs. Susan DeLancey Van Rensselaer Strong of Philadelphia, who was born there. "Yankee Doodle," later adopted by the American soldiers as their own battle and marching tune, was composed and fung la derlsloa tt the Yankee, troops as they rode Into the cantonment of Fort Cralo fti 1758 to join Abercromble's army on Its march to TIcouderoga. The insert shows Mrs. Strong making the presentation to State Historian Flick, Presides at Ceremony of the Elks INVENTS NEW ROCKET f" ' Ernest Welsh of Hull, England, in which Is ventor of a new skyrocket, likely to challenge the potency of the "death ray." By means of the rocket Mr. Welsh can send a flame several miles Into the air, which burns for 15 minutes and will destroy anything within its reach. The Inventor claims to be able to release a rocket containing 400 pellets burning with in tense heat, with each pellet breaking into a thousand molten drops, which would destroy any aircraft In range. Photograph of the inventor at work In his laboratory. r-- If MM J' 1 , 0 I f, y." - 1 7 "You ought to know well enough why I come. Now then, when's that James G. McFurland, grand exalted ruler of the Elks, who laid the corpoem of mine going to appear?" nerstone of the $3,000,000 Elks Memorial building In Chicago recently. The wouldn't "Why, Mrs. Saunderson, building commemorates the service in the World war of 70,000 members of the 70TH CLASS REUNION order and will be the national headquarters. you like to try us with something a little less gloomy?" inquired Jim. "You he added, with what seemed a clever thought, "often the best poets In the world find difficulty In having their earlier work accepted." An exclusive photograph taken But you have accepted "Accepted? the Guildhall, London, showing the it!" shrilled Mrs. Saunderson. city recorder reading the speech of welcome from the city to the Italian "Well, madam, an accepted poem has to wait till It can find its place," royal family. The king and queen of said Jim. "You see, we have so much Italy may be seen seated facing the s leaker news nowadays, with the political campaign coming on " "Jim Bryce," said the old woman, "when you was a little boy I found you sitting In my apple tree eating one of my County Greens, and when I axed what you were doing there you said you'd gone up to see If It was to rain, and you was eating an apple that you'd found In the grass. And It's my belief that you're prevaricating now. Just as you did then. Come, tell me when that poem's going to appear." "Never!" answered Jim angrily. "I didn't want to hurt your feelings, but, since you Insist, It isn't good enough for the Sentinel." "It isn't eh?" mocked the old lady, Rev. Edwin W. Rice, need nlnetv- producing a small volume from under her arm and opening it. "Bead that." three, of Philadelphia, who attended Jim Bryce looked at the volume. It the seventieth reunion of his class at was the poems of Wordsworth, and, Union college, Schenectady, N. Y., and on the page Indicated, be found the acted as grand marshal In the parade. two stanzas, Intact, except that the original version had tbe name Ruth ROYALTY IN ATLANTA Instead of Jane. Wordsworth! He stared Incredulously at the verses. Certainly they did look better on the printed page. But Wordsworth! "Now, I've caught you fair, Jim Bryce," said Mrs. Saunderson. "They told me an editor didn't know good poetry from bad, and I thought I'd try you out,- and I've done so. Now- yon can't find no excuse for refusing to print in y verses." Jim Bryce rose to the occasion. "Mrs. Saunderson," he said, "you have deceived me. Worse, you have deceived the Sentinel. Had I printed that poem which I knew not to be original, though I could not locate Jhe source for the time I should have been the laugldng stock of the county. Mrs. Saunderson, the Sentinel can no longer consider contributions from -- uaa I ;.,,.,....... you." v. nU, ieison, Aiueiaun And at this ultimatum, hurled with flyer, on pontoon of his TWs Is the crown prince of Uganda, chine at Lake Kasuml, near Tokyo, ready to step onto land and receive the the utmost Indignation, Jim freed the come he is now living and working in but of Japanese officials an Americans. Sentinel from Mrs. Sauaderson Japanese sailors are towing machine to a landing place. Atlanta, Q. kno" L ! I1 j e ' i . J TV! asm SEd 4 viv A . "Why hain't my poem appeared in the Sentinel this week?" Inquired little Sirs. Saunderson, meeting the editor on the street. ,M "Why, Mrs. Saunderson, I thought I'd better hold It over a while," answered Jim. "You know we are overstocked with contributions of all kinds and it Is a little difficult " cut him short. Mrs. Saunderson "All right, Mr. Bryce, I'll wait till next week," she suld. "Only It's sort of disappointing, because folks is asking "I f why it hain't been printed yet." That was the beginning of weeks of nightmare for Jim Bryce. Fortu nately the office in which the Sentinel was prepared for publication was at the top of two high flights of stairs, Mrs. Saunderson was asthmatic. and The Kenselkal party having won in He was seated In his. office about the recent Japanese elections, Viscount Kato was called on to form four o'clock on the afternoon succeedI Taka-aklra new cabinet. He is here seen ad- ing the appearance of the Sentinel a the when the familiar, hated figure apThe West Point cadets who attained a percentage of 1)2 or better rank dressing political meeting during peared through the door. campaign. 1924. honor of In Gen. Fred the the Illustration among Maj. graduates year's "Ah, good afternoon, Mrs. SaunderW. Sladen Is shown decorating the honor students at West Point. said Jim. "What can I do for son," ATTENDS PARLIAMENT you today?" III to; r manuscript and read as That nhc In half a year was mad And In a prison hou'fd; And there, with many a duloful sons; Mad ot wild word, her cup of wrong She fearfully carouHed. Decorating the Honor Graduates 0 K ) T" follows: i Firv33v I Her Poem Was Worth Space i those I Historic Building Presented to New York State I Proving That Italy's King and Queen in London III " Jlf With Our Aviators in Japan Cordell Hull, congressman from Tennessee, and chairman of the Democratic national committee, with the gavel with which he opened tbe conventiaf In New York. - , round-the-worl- d 'ii i |