Show y th the Way gj I I Pocahontas Was Only a Nickname Copyright 1923 North American Newspaper Alliance The legend of ot Pocahontas saving John Smith from death at the hands of Powhattan's Powhattan's Powhattan's Pow- Pow hattan's executioners by covering his bly with her own probably was somewhat some some- what exaggerated At that time she was I only iC years old Her greatest service to Iho tho colony th that t of ot teaching John Joh I noIre folio whose wife she became the right w way to cultivate tobacco o has b be en overshadowed over shadowed by her her romance John Rolfe RolCe not Sir Walter Raleigh It is said was really the man who first Intro Introduced tobacco to England Englard and who aw the wealth to be derived from Its cultivation But wh when he attempted to prow grow row tobacco on a commercial scale he ran Into difficulties because Lecause of lack lade of experience with the plant When he was melting malting his first e experiments the were at outs with Powhattan Meantime Pocahontas had been 1 by the tr-o settlers and was held tas a host host- age Rolfe RoUe consulted her and following her advice he made a success of ot his tobacco tobacco to- to bacco A striking rowing growing fact fact brought to light by bythe bythe bythe the Historical society of Richmond Va is that the Indian girls girl's was was not Pocahontas Pocahontas Po Po- PoI I but Matoaka l Pocahontas was wasa I Ia her a a nickname or little name used by father Powhattan Pow when she was a n child Pocahontas died on shipboard on the eve of ot her return from England to Amer Amer- ica She was burled In a church yard near G Gravesend Tho The site of or the grave Is being eing sought with the object of or bringing bringing bring bring- ing irig her body to America for burial under undera a 3 m memorial morial mo monument It must be remembered however that tho rood good used Intentions used In pavIng paving paying pay pay- ing hell are arc the ones discarded up here Associated Editors No Roosevelt in Hawaiian Language The Tha village of or Roosevelt has changed Its name back to Pukoo Not many person per per- son sorn probably know where this village age Is It is situated in an obscure corner of or orone one of or the Hawaiian islands and some ears vears ago it had as one of or Its residents a abr Dr br bears r. r 10 K S. S Goodhue who was anxious that the name Of the famous president should never dies out of this section of or American territory So he got up a petition to the paymaster general at askIng asking ask ask- ing that the original name of the village vil village vil- vil lage should be bo altered as far as the thc mall mali was concerned to Roosevelt The request was granted but the new name namo bothered tho the natives terribly They have no r or s or t In their alphabet alpha alpha- bet anc the nearest Hawaiian equivalent to Roosevelt turns out to be fc So o 0 othey they sent fent a second petition in which they state stated l that they were deceived into signing the first and asked that the native native native na na- na- na tive name of or the village be restored The petition has been granted Until he got into the movies Will Hays probably bly never realized what a n. clean wholesome sport politics Is St. St Louis Post Dispatch I Law E Excluded Women From French Throne women women women wo wo- wo- wo The Salic Sallo law was a n. law excluding men from the throne of France said to have been een instituted by In A A. D. D and confirmed b by Clovis I I. I the founder of tho the French monarch in n I li It was Introduced Into Spain by the Bourbons Bourbons Bourbons Bour Bour- bons In 1700 but was formally abolished there In By Virtue of the Salic Salle law Hanover Was vas separated from the English crown on the accession of Victoria in 1837 The claim of or Edward III HI 1327 1377 to the throne of ot France was barred by bv this law law lawa a circumstance which gave ve verise rise to the Hundred Years' Years War between En England land and France A similar law exists or has existed In other European countries Another First Discoverer of America Several months ago ago- Dr Sofus Larsen of of ot the University of or Copenhagen reported report report- ed ad having discovered among old PortUguese Portuguese fortu guese and Danish documents evidence that John or a Danish navigator navigator navi navi- gator reached the Amer American can continent and landed there In 1476 sixteen years before Columbus sailed According to Dr Larsen's account the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator after his twentieth attempt to reach IndIa India In India In- In dia by sailing Bailing around the lower end or ot Africa had succeeded conceived the Idea that ships could reach another part of or InI India andla In- In din dla by bv sailing northwestward across the I Atlantic He lie got Rot In touch with Chris Chris- Christian Christian tian of or Denmark his law in andI and I I asked him to assist In dispatching an exI expedition expedition ex ex- I or of a from Denmark in search I northwest passage to India fell In with the plan and chose John an ex experienced ex- ex competent sailor Bailor to pilot the f.- f. ship Finally the ship reached the coast of Labrador in what Is now called the Gulf of or St. St Lawrence Wealth and Art Lavished On Kings' Kings Beds Ludwig II IX the mad king of ot Bavaria spent on one of his beds and had another constructed to resemble a Gothic cathedral with tall tail windows and a fa famous famous famous fa- fa painting of the Madonna set in the head A Parisian bed of ot silver and wood built bunt A for an Indian prince was ornamented at each corner by a large female figure holding a fan The weight of ot the princes prince's I body set mechanism in motion which caused the fan to oscillate soothing the sleeper with a seductive breeze But the most extraordinary of ot all beds was the girt gift of or a Russian emperor to the Shah of ot Persia Made entirely of crystal and surmounted by a chandelier the monument of or discomfort bore automatic fountains whose splashing lulled to sleep Bleep the uneasy head that wore the crown Thank goodness automobiles do not need any subsidy New New York Tri Tri- bune Law Forbids Tobacco Growing Until about 20 years ago the raising of or tobacco in Great Britain and Ireland was strictly forbidden by virtue of ot a law enacted In the reign of the Stuart kings I to promote tobacco growing In the American Amen Amer ican lean colonies Although the colonies had cut themselves adrift from the British I empire and England g ad had nothing to gain 1 from fostering i an American ri industry I every attempt to repeal the law met with failure I The treasury department in London feared If tobacco was grown In the British British British Brit Brit- ish Isles the large revenue derived from the importation of ot foreign grown tobacco would diminish I Another rom romance of the he sea Is that I It is dry Washington Washington Post Florida Park Commemorates Fight Marking the he battleground where In 1535 Major Francis L. L Dade and all but one of or his hll entire command of or more than men were massacred In a sided one fight tight with the Seminole Indians there has been dedicated near Bushnell Fla a ame- ame memorial memorial me me- morial park named in honor of or this cornI comI commander com corn I I m mander and sh his troops The troops were e en route from Fort Brooke Tampa Ba Bay to Fort King when almost without warning the Indians 1400 strong swooped down upon them Warlike well armed and finding ample protection In the hummocks and palmetto thickets ts of ot the country they had little trouble in 0 overcoming e m t the s small band of i g J soldiers of r whom only one e man escaped P to tell the story The dogs of r war are blood hounds Piedmont Envelope First Used Years Ago The first envelope of which there Is any knowledge a. a letter sent years ago by Sir William Turnbull to Sir James The epistle dealt with English affairs of state and with its covering is carefully preserved preserved preserved pre pre- served in the British museum At that period and long afterward It Jt was the general custom to fold letters and seal them with wafers of wax E Early Enly In the last century envelopes began to come Into more general use and stamped adhesive envelopes achieved wide popularity In England shortly after the establishment of the penny posts In 1840 and by 1350 1850 were largely used used- on this side of the Atlan Atlan- tic The first machine for the manufacture manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture of envelopes was patented In 1844 by George Wilson an Englishman English English- man and Improvements were made the tho following year by Warren De La Rue and E E- E Hill Automobiles have been greatly Improved mechanically It is not the owners own one sees under them theta any more New N New York k Tribune Oliver W. W Holmes Perfected Stereoscope The a machine used to give perspective solidity and reality to objects or scenes thrown on ott a screen Is a development of the stereoscope a little two eyed machine for magnifying magni tying eying and solidifying two photographic i L f I I no I J 1 i fI 1 J impressions of ot the same object or scene The stereoscope was in pas past years ears more commonly familiar than now as a a. a means of ot entertainment In Inthe Inthe inthe the home Two cameras are built the same frame and two pictures are made one for tor the right eye and one for forthe forthe forthe the left eye When these pictures are properly mounted and viewed through a stereoscope one sees Just what he would have seen if he had stood where the tha camera was when the picture pic picture pic- pic ture tune was made The same result Is obtained on the screen creen by aid of the Oliver W. W Holmes perfected perfected perfected per per- the stereoscope The ordinary camera has only one eye or lens lens consequently consequently its photographs photographs photographs photo photo- graphs appear flat fiat The principle o othe of the is the same as that o othe of the eyes for it presents two Images image seen through two lenses The machine machine machine ma ma- chine Is so arranged that one lens presents presents presents pre pre- the view from an angle slightly to the right and the other from an angle to the left fact tact that while prohibition has its prophets bootlegging has its prof prof- its Washington Post Indians Half Irish Half Scotch R. R M. M MacGregor told the following story at a luncheon of the Curlers In New Glasgow A New Glasgow shipping firm was having built a CI steamship on the CI Clyde de anc and ga gave ve It the name of 1 The od oddity oddity oddity od- od of the name aroused curiosity The Nova captain was asked the derivation of or he name Good the captain replied that Mic 1 was for the Irish and Mac was for the Scottish Next day th the captain was astonished to find this e ex explanation explanation of the name nape featured In th the Herald He sent for t r the reporter anc and that was the name name nam of a n. tribe of Indians In Nova Scotia To his further astonishment the following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing day the Herald carried a correction correction correction cor cor- reading as follows We Ve were slightly Incorrect in gIvIng giving Ing the derivation of the name Mic 1 mac in yesterdays yesterday's issue We now learn that the ship is called after a no tribe of wild of-wild wild Indians in Nova Nov Scotia who are half halt Irish and halt half Scotch Recent dev developments t In Poland make snake it clearer than ever why returned to his piano playing Seattle Times I Four Kinds but hut Only One English Swallow Although there thero are four common commo kinds of English swallow birds there ther Is only ono one English swallow In some Bom respects they are all very much alike The largest of or all these birds Is the swift Next in size comes come the true swallow The house martin martl Is a much smaller bird than either th the swift or the swallow The sand Band mar mar- marUn tin Un Is the smallest of ot all the EnglIsh swallow birds making Its nest in th the sides of ot sandpits and banks i j 1 h. h M |