Show it thriller of long ago outdone by invention way back in their boyhood read ing illicit reading with the yellow back in the big geography and the teacher not too vigilant some sorge me n who are now can recall a beadle thriller with the title red fled star hie the spirit of the lake A white pioneer has had all his family murdered by the ind ans he ile escapes to an island and finds a cave in that cave there Is a stone tomahawk with the striking edge so carved as to form a tar and leave that mark on the victim also there are two very light and narrow cedar canoes with straps for the feet the pioneer finds that in these he can walk the water of the lake every night he goes out every morning some redskin Is found dead in the forest with the star mark hence lied red star the spirit of the 4 lake 4 I 1 ed star walked on quiet water but now the news tells us that karl Nau of shyria has eclipsed the beadle hero bero I 1 acing rather heavy seas he has actually bilked the water from cape gris cris nw to dover on water ater skis the dis ance Is about twenty miles the ater skis of 1931 are clearly superior sup artor to the strapped on cedar canoes of fancy three quarters of a ventury ago and once more it his liis been proved that truth Is stranger than fiction brooklyn eagle every c county seat Is interesting to the farmer who only comes to town on saturday etiquette Is overdone when it says pardon me too often |