The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, February 19, 1931, Image 2
MYSTERY Of “MAN IN
IRON MASK” SOLVED
Name on Dungeon Walls
Establishes Identity.
CnniH>s, French Ktviern.—The tiny
Island off the coast here on which the
man in the iron mask was kept pris
oner, the He Nainte Marguerite, has
been classed by government archeo
logical authorities as a historic site.
Simultaneously comes announcement
that the .‘500 years’ mystery of the
masked man has been solved.
In the Sixteenth century, (he island
was strongly fortified. I’nder the
great Cardinal Richelieu it had beer,
built Into a formidable little fortress,
but the century following it was used
mainly for certain political prisoners.
Toward the end of the Seventeenth
century the man in the iron mask
was brought there. He arrived lute
one night In a tiny row boat, and was
lodged In one of the dungeons. His
Identity no one knew, but It \yus
whispered that he was the twin broth
er of King Louis XIV.
Mask Was of Velvet.
All during the time he remained on
the island lie wore this heavy mask,
variously stall'd to have been made of
iron and steele but which is now es
tablished to have been of velvet. As
mysteriously as be arrived, he was
taken away, to be lodged In the bas
tille In Haris, where be died In 1703.
Search among the mins of the fort
on the Island of St. Marguerite is now
stated to have revealed siratcTlings
on one of the dungeon walls In the
form of the name “Mattioli.” This tits
In with earlier clews and seems to
provide the solution to the enigma,
sought during centuries.
A mask wa,s placed over bis fea
tures In order to keep bis Identity se
cret from the public. Thus disguised
he was taken to the chateau of Tig-
ncrol. Thence lie was transferred
March 10, 1(504, to the dungeon of St.
Marguerite. He remained there two
years, being removed in September,
1696, to the bastille.
According to Voltaire, the mystery
man was undoubtedly the brother of
!,ouis XIV, but It is now conclusive
that be was the secretary of state of
Charles IV of Lorraine. Mattioli. Hav
ing betrayed the confidence of Louis
XIV, Mattioli was arrested by surprise
on Louis’ order. This was May
1070.
Vitited by Thousand*.
Thousands of tourists nnnuplly cross
the short stretch of water from
Cannes to visit the island prison of the
man In the iron. mask, and it is be
cause of fear of desecration of the
place that the island has been ofll-
cially classed among France's historic
spots.
The island at another epoch held
another famous prisoner, the Marshal
Itazaine, who ft as alleged to have be
trayed his country in the Kraneo-
Prusslan war In delivering up Metz to
the Germans. He was condemned to
death in 1873; the sentence was com
muted and he was sent as prisoner to
the Island. He escaped to Sisiin,
where he died,
Mystic Orders Banned
by Rulers in China
Shanghai.—"Superstitious and un
lawful organizations" of Chinese farm
ers and peasants have come under ban
of the national government. j
Such organizations include tlio^tor
the purpose of making periodical sac
rifices to the spirits himI the Red and
White Spear societies.
While the religious and superstitious
groups are not for the most part harm
ful the Red Spear organizations In,
particular have developed into dose
knit peasant militia at some points
and tiie government finds them bard
to control.
The government announcement says
that ^ecret organizations have been
taken advantage of “by persons with
ulterior motives who utilize them to
further their own sinister ends.”
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Find Gold Nugget in
California Hen’* Craw
Los Angeles.—Somewhere nearby a
rancher is raising chickens on feed
worth its weight in gold—whether be
knows it or not.
For I'onie Kuykendall of this city
while dressing a chicken found a nug
get of gold in its craw.
The fowl came from a meat store
on San Francisco road. The nug
get was nearly as large as a pea, ac
cording to Kuykendall.
SCANDAL OF GRETNA
GREEN STIRS CLERGY
Cat Came 600 Mile*
Pittsburgh, Calif.—Tony Melrose
banished his cat. Peggy, to Eugene.
Ore., when she developed a fondness
for canaries, hut the other day Peggy
came wandering home, having made
tiie GOO-mlle Journey from Eugene here
by foot. The feat Is considered a re
markable one as a mountain range
lies between Pittsburgh and the Ore
gon city.
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Bears Good Fruits *
'GojOlidge, Ariz.—The giant $
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pitabaya cactus of Arizona pro- *
duce a good crop of delicious t
fruits used for centuries b\
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part of tiie whole proceedings is .that
lie probably could have obtained tbe
books at Hie public library,
a a a
Rnt the existence of a book store
Is not all grief. One day a man en
tered a shop and asked that a collec
tion of books on a certain subject be
assembled. He would come back in
a couple of days. - The collection was
made for him and lie did come back
and looked over tiie books carefully.
They did m>t expect him to take them
all, but. when he Maid three books
aside, they were disappointed, nS they
thought that those were tiie only ones
of tiie large lot lie Intended to buy.*
Hut lie said lie didn't care for those
and asked how much tiie remainder
amounted to. When it was figured
out, the bill came to $4,800, as there
were some rare and expensive books
among them. The«man drew bis check
for.the amount and onTeroit rno nooks*
delivered. That was a good sale. -
There are* some rare books in tbe
circulation 'department of the New
York public library. One book, for
example, which may he taken home,.
Just like any other volume, Is listed
In catalogues at $1>00. My informant
didn't tell me Its name.
Just as stewards on shipboard al
ways try to seat Dean Cornwell, the
mural painter, with church and col
lege deans, so many persons Intro
duced to Dr. S.. Griswold Morley, fa
mous archeologist, for the first time,
begin at once to tell him their symp
toms, under the impression that he Is
a doctor of medicine. More times
than a few. he has been tempted to
prescribe chloroform, without charge.
Once, however, his scientific title stood
him In good stead. He was taken to
n hospital for an operation so Imme
diate that there was no chance to ask
him the usual questions of record.
When the bill capie in, lie was pleased
to see that they had made a deduction,
giving him professional rates.
New York hotels have carefully been
revising their credit accounts. .The
credit manager of one of them told
me they suddenly discovered tlujj pos
sessors of city accounts, opened dur
ing those good old days in Wall Street,
had moved, without leaving any ad
dresses for v yie forwarding of bills.
This discovery originally was made
by the fact that checks for small
amounts suddenly began bomteing
back at the hotels that cashed them. N
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Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly calls one of
his lectures “Spell of the Dictionary.”
i-hope this lecture Is ijot aimed at
me and John Held, Jr. When Johnny
Held can’t spell a word, he just starts
* couple of-Letters eed then ,
draws a wavy lipe. His -secretary J
then has three guesses as to what he
meant. As for me, Herbert Bayard
Swope once snhl that l kept my spell
Jug in my wife's name.
Abuse of Scottish Marriage
Law Grows
(ilasgow, Scotland.—The generation-
old controversy that has centered
about marriages at' Gretna Gfeen Is
again engaging the attention of the
Scottish ministers and authorities. It
seems that there Is. little Jhey can do
about a situation that ,b* now widely
referred to as “the scandal of Gretna
Green.”
• Figures show that there are fnorfc
marriages performed ^.Gretna Greeir-"family of six children
n tn * Ik A I> *1*0 tl ' 11 • £> t OO mm
LfGHTS ►
of NEW YORK
One great trouble New York de^
partment' stores have Is with returned
goods. Either things look more at
tractive to persons at t,he time they
buy them or, when they get home, they
'igure they really couIdtiT afford to
buy what they did. Then the pur-
clmses are sent back. They tell me
that one big department- store has
many thousands of thingai sent back
each week. It is, of course, harder to
return things at stores, whiclLfun no
charge accounts, but custonws get
around this by having goods sent col
lect. Then, if they decide they don’t
want them, they merely decline to pay
for them, and back they go.
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It seems there 1s a class of cus
tomer who orders things while never
having the faintest Idea' of keeping
them. Merchants think they often do
tliis to make an impression on the
people they are with. -These shoppers
will ask the price of an expensive
article and then languidly order It
sent to them collect. When the pur
chase Is delivered, they refuse to re
ceive it.
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At stores where charge accounts are
run, there are cases on record where
dresses have het*n sent back, which
showed unmistakable signs of having
been worn. Nor Is this always done
by poor customers. Some woman,
wlioee account has been valuable to
the store, orders a dress and wears
it, only to have somebody tell her It
Is not becoming. If this type of cus
tomer returns an article, the store
haiL_la stop and figure whether the
account is valuable enough to l^f the
customer get away with it.
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Henry C. Smith, of Duttons, told
me of a case where a customer re
turned five hooks on bridge, for credit,
after having kept them five weeks. An
even stranger ease was that of a man
who came in and Inquired for some
unusual scientific books. The store
didn't keep them in stock, hut, at the
man’s request, ordered them. A couple
of weeks later, he came in and the
books were there. He said that he
would like to examine them, so the
deck seated him at a table and left
liim. The man sat there for several
hours, looking through the books and
making notes. Then he quietly walked
out of the shop and has not been^seen
since. The books are still on hand.
The hotel tiie man had given ns an
address reported that nobody of that
name hail stopped there. The queer-J date at the ceremony so long as he
[ 'Kimbolton, , Ohio.—Down on his
knees, ^ha •Guernsey county worm-man
has crawled, the-,mud trulls of the
h|ll wiltlmriefe” ucoutld here for- 3«
years. ’
Humping alortg on knuckles and
knees, through ^iar and mire, snow
and summer dust, Hotner Shipman
has made his lowly, heroic way.
>/^TUrpugh it all he has earned his
breast and -lajaP-fed and reared his
at the present time than in the old
da^s of high romance.
'Scottish' Law of Gretna Green.
According to Scottish law any cou
ple may be married at Gretna with or
without the cousent.pf their parents
and whether or not they are minors.
One of the parties is required to jiave
lived in Scotland for at least three
weeks before the wedding, but Inas
much as a statement of residence
signed by a witness is the only proof
required,'it Is not dtfftcuH t<L circum
vent that requirement. Then, unless
the marriage Is registered, Ut Is^no
marriage at all. It may be rei>tnltated
at any time and in point of fact, after'
the expiration of the three months
registration period, might Just as well
not have taken place so fur as the
authorities are concerned.
Few bother about * registrations.
Time was when a mutriage at Gretn^
was looked upon by the parties to It
as a tie as binding as an English cer
emony. But tpday^ the knots tied
there are slip knots. Out of 260 mar
riages performed in the early part of
this year only 44 were registered. *
Y ~ Denounced by Clergy.
Out of 273 marriages performed In
11)28 only 18 were registered. The
Scotch clergy have stigmatized the
practice as u “commercialized traffic
designated to make life easy for the
bigamist and the man who wishes to
decoy a girl into a spurious marriage.”
But Gretna’s customs and sanctions
remain unch^nged^
Gfetna Green has been a flourishing
center for hasty nuptials since 1734,
when an act was passed by parlia
ment preventing clandestine marriages
in England. Being Just over the bor*
der from England, In Dumfriesshire,
Scotland, Gretna’s bureaus for mar
rying eloping English girls and boys
began to do a heavier business imme
diately. The poor anil the rich, high
and low, bent their steps toward the
little village across the Sark. Accord
ing to Scotch law. any one might olfl-
HE IS EVER DOWN,
BUT NEVER IS OUT
“Worai'Man” Bucks Fate 32
. Years on Hands and Knees.
It was Just 32 years ago. Just a few
days before Christmas, that the husky
bridegroom was caught beneath a flkll
t>f rock In one of the gloomy little
mines burrowing for coal in his back-
woods. • - / ‘ . ‘ " 4
They carried Homer to his bride; his
back broken and legs crushed. The
doctors told him he could not live the
few days to Christmas.
Christmas 'Came and went, and
bleak months stretched ahead. Then
the young wife told him of the new
life that quickened within drer. —
Homer set his Jaw. Quietly he made
himself leather pads for his knees. He
put heavy leather over the toes t>f his
dragging boots. He whittled out wood
en buffers to keep his knuckles off the
earth. - *
- ijtf Then one day h% set out for the
mine again.
Thereafter awhile he found that
he had an edge on the others. His
shoulders and arms and hands grew
mighty, bearing the burden of his crip-,
pled legs. He got so he could lie on
his back and hack away all day with
a hand pick under the shallowest
veins of coal.
Ills first child was born. Through
tbe years others followed. The strange
fignre became familiar to the scattered'
families along the trail between his
cabin ari(] tiie mine.
But the last few years his age—he
is fifty-five now—has begun to tell.
No longer can he struggle with the
long trail to his cabin, lie now has
a little shack close to the mine, which
he ami his son-in-law have rented. His
wife brings meals to him. He spends
the night in the shack alone.
Anil every morning at dawn he low
ers himself into the mine, not .to come
up again until darkness has arrived.
50 Unsolved Murders
Recorded m London
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' London.—Police books here reveal
more than_ 50 unsolved murders within
ten years. x. .
Despite Scotland Yard's traditional
Infallibility, it Is estimated .that there
are between 70‘pnd 80 murderers af
large lns_London, for tb® records show
only those whlcfi~Tiave Wen officially
established as murdgnr-'and do not
take Into'account the-«ases of- missing
people, many of whom are believed
be murder victims.
Modern cririle‘methods are making
the task of the police more difficult.
The favorite haunts of the more des
pernte criminals, the famous east end
of London, can no Jonger he trusted
to return their share of suspects. *
The motor-car .has moved/tTiminal
headquarters to fire south side Af the
Thames, where a quiet-loving bandit
can mingle freely with the suburban
ites. • <i
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swqre that he had witnessed the mu
tual pledges Of fidelity between the
prospective bride and groom, '
Romance still clings to Gretna and
because of it many couples are attract
ed there annually. Butjthe commer
cialized aspects of its aHLylties are
serving to bring the vllage ifrtq^lmd
repute, and the unhappiness IhiR
comes to hundreds of young Kngllsli
girls yearly because of the looseness
of this state sponsored system Is stir
ring up a controvery beside which th®. j^ip
companionate marriage controversy
seems parvenu and putty. -
Cuban Army Officer
Perfects New Air Bomb
Havana.—A new type oLbomb for
airplanes, invented by Lieut. T’lprindo
Fernandez Preito, explosive expert of
the Cuban army, uses -a novel ex-
<■ pi mil vc
of potash and sugar. The bomb Is
the result of more 'than two years of
experimenting. It weighs IS pounds,
of which 3 are the explosive charge.
Recent tests made by one of the army
planes at an altitude of 1,500 feet re
sulted in ripping the center of .the
ground target 4 feet in diameter and
1 foot deep.* • . *
Cranes in Denmark
Carry Own Songbirds
Copenhagen.—Cranes in Denmark
are so musical that they carry theiT
songbirds with them when they fly.
The Berliugske Tidene reports that
one of its sharp-eyed ornithologists
turned his field glasses skyward the
other day and saw a flock of eight
road cranes carrying several wagtaiH
on their backs as they flew.
The wagtails soared off from time
to time,- just to keep their wings
Umbered up. but always returned to
their “private passenger planes” be
fore they could get out of range.
Has Quake m Day
Innsbruck, Austria.—For some timt
a mysterious earthquake near Reutte
has been shaking the ground three or
four times a day. * * '~'
Famous Lion Dead
London.—“Toto,” famous lion at the
zoo. who could be petted by visitors,
Is, dead.
Loom 300 Years Old-'
Is Still in Service
* Pomeroy, Ohio.—*A loom, relic
of poinebr days, said to be al
most three hundred years old, is
still being used by Mrs. Henry
Seidenable. sixty, of Pomeroy.
She has used it nearly all her'
life for weavipg' fine linens and
prefers it to the patented.,
looms of modq^ 7 »ake, The
loon^-wns originally from Rut-'
lamj township, near here.
Reclamation Payments
Dodged by Settlers
Washington.—The federal govern
ment is handicapped In its develop
ment -of reclamation projects by poli
ticians, who aid settlers In avoiding
their annual payments, according to
Reclamation Commissioner Elwood
Mead.,
Mead explained to the hfflise appro
priations committee, that while the
government advances money to build
reclamation projects under < contracts
with settlers to repay, that “many us
ers ‘do not regard these contracts as
obligations. 1,
expect and demand the aid
of theRf senators and congressmen to
ape payment. The re
sult is-that rechwnation is a w arring
combination politics and business.”
Mead reported that. Otherwise, C on-.
ditions on reclamation projects were
excellent.- Qrop values on reclqYuation
projects increased, $17,608,810 in
over 1928. tire total in 1929 being $161,-
179,880. The' irrigated area in 1929
was 2,718.130 acres, an increase of 41,-
030 over 1928. • _
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BLACKVILLE, S. C.
Minneapolis Man Thanks
Judge for Five Years
* Minneapolis.—Julius Johnson had
his wist).
- For the next five yearB^Iie will be
safe from the toils'«f woi
When Johnson appeared, l»
court, .facing the charge 6f abandon
ment, he voiced the hope that Judge
W. C. Leary -would net place him on
probation, but send him to jail.
“I’m through with women and want
to go somewhere -where there areh’t
any,” he said.
Judge Leary sentenced Johnson Jo
serve up to five years in Stillwater
prison.
“Thanks, Judge," Johnson said smil
ing. :
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Dog Population Down
Red Wing, Minn.—Red Wing’s an
nual dog census showed an alarming
drop in the cifps canine population.
Last year .330 dogs were counted. This
year only 300 were found and licenses
had been paid on only 232.
Largast Woman'* College
New York.—According to statistics,
—Hunter college is the largest woman’s
college In the world and the sixth
largest college to thte United States.
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Bear* Fine Crop*
Bakersfield, Gal If.—J. B. Heston
boasts of the only tree local ngricul- '
turists ever, heard of that^bore five
i crops .In one season.
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* Why plant these immature seed and fill your fields
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add one to two bales per plow by cleaning your seed.
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about 40 bushels per hour, at A cost of 10 cents per bushel
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