STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 211, 4 September 1915, Page 15

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

WALKING FOR HEALTH. Mlm Edith Channel is resting in Los Augelos nftpr a walk of 1811 miles from Kansas City. Miss Channel, then considered an Invalid, started the walk on February 2. She averaged sixteen miles a day. NO MORS TIPPING IN lOWA. Under an antl-tlpplng law now in effect In lowa, a fine of £5 or thirty days lv gaol Is the penalty for one who gives or receives a tip, be It only a nickel. Responsibility for the laWs enforcement has been placed on county officials. A MILLIONAIRE'S POODLE. Walters at a New Haven hotel are still discussing the visit of Mrs John Jscob .Astor, who formerly was Miss Madeline Force. With Mre Astor was her pet poodle "Mizzle." The -waiters were not surprised when .Mrs Astor's chauffeur ordered a 10/ eteak. hut when he announced It was to he cut up lor "Mizzle" the serving man stood aghast. FARMYARD FICTION. Headed by a big rooster, a flock of nine Plymouth. Rock chickens march from their yard every evening to meet their owner, J. h. Armstrong, a railroad conductor, when his firm on the Wabash railroad comes into Rook station. They then escort Armstrong to hte home, the rooster leading the procession. At 6 o'clock an earsplitting whistle sounds on the railroad. The rooster throws up his head, while the hens stand at attention. The cock contentedly begins scratching again. At 6.18 another locomotive whistle sounds. This time the rooster marches his hens about him and they hurry to the depot, meet Armstrong,, and, with fluttering wings and cackles of delight, escort him home. JUDGE QUOTES SCRIPTURE. "Red" Jim Simmons, a farmer, will go to the penitentiary to serve a life term on charges of his own daughter, then only eleven years of age. In August, 1012. The Supreme .Court affirmed the conviction and seu'tence of the circuit court of Lincoln County, where Simmons was tried three times. The oplnlou, written by Justice Stevens, concludes, as follows :•— "The charge proven is one of the most shocking In the catalogue of climes, and surely for this appellant we arc prepared to believe It Is profitable for him 'that a great millstone should he hanged about his neck, and that he should he sunk In the depths of the ie»." -- -■- "-v.

A WOMAN FARMER. Perrj Townehip. Pennsylvania, has a womun who poos about ber work iv n penulne mnnnisb mi;. She is Mies Frances Cadero, ngcd twenty. Alone she manages a 76----nnd several cows. Last eprlng she put out ten acres of corn and several acres of oats. Alone «lth this she 'broke" two colts. Her father HI, her mother unable to loot after the ftirm. and her brothers all away, she shouldered tUe burden of managing the farm three years ago. She discards wojucn's apparel, and wears trousers in the Held and in the barn. She has grown strong and healthy. TOO READY WITH GUN. Arthur Oliver and Chrle Miller, pelTate detectives In the employ of MlUer and Lux, shot and killed Valentine Tempestlne, a cook on the Dutch Boy rancho. sixty miles north of Fresno, when the man failed to stop. Tempestlne was driving to hie cabin when ordered to stop by the men. He believed they were highwaymen and whipped bis horse into a run. The private detectives opened fire. Previous to the killing the two guards had fired at a Mexican, whom tbej- suspected of being a cattle rustler, CLASSICS NOT REQUIRED. Shakespeare and Byron and others of their class have no rltal meesag," for this day and age. Professor William A. McKeever. head of tie child welfare department of the University of Kansas, told the convention of trie Kansas State Federation of Women's Clubs. "As modern conditions develop. I am looking to the women of America to save ttie country." said Profeesor iMcKcever, "but toer will achieve very little toward this purpose through the study of the literary classics. I want to see them laid away In the memory pf the beautiful past." DIGNITY-VALUE FIVE CENTS. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, of the United States District Court. Chicago, who once assessed a fine of 2U,240,000 dollars agalust the Standard Oil Company, imposed oue of two cents ugalnst Henry Johnson, of Barrtngton, 111. Johnson, with a shotguu, drove a government agent off his premises when the agent was looking for cases of foot find mouth disease. After reviewing a number of extenuating circumstances. Judge Landis sold;—" Still the defendant resisted a government official charged with a certain duty, and this court must uphold the honour and dignity of the United States Government. It is the duty of this court to impose such a stinging fine that the defendant and rueu like him will never commit the offence again. It Is the Judgment and sentence of this court that tho b« fined two ceaU wit&out costs,"