PAGE FIVE
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1928
DISGRACED BY THE LOOTING
TOMB, MANCHUS MOURN DAILY
nmcuities of life are excluded. The which -he worked in a shed. Hall
place is like a sepulchre. For above . found the key to the process Feb. 23,
all the grief the household fields -in 1886. He at once told Professor Jewthe consciousness that this is the end ett, his old mentor in chemistry, now
dead, and Jewell's good memory of
of all things for them, and that-the
that event resulted in Hall winning a
hope of a restoration which now and law suit involving (ownership of tha
then rose within them must now for- fabulously important process.
ever be abandoned.
' The tablet on the house at East
College and Pleasant street, unveiled
Oct. 30, read:
"In this house Charles Martin
(Continued from page 2)
Hall discovered the electrolytic
process of making aluminum, Fab.
sent out commissioners to every vil23, 1886, the year following his
lage and town to find out how much
graduation from Oberlin College,
land he, the king, owned, how much
thus making available for indusin taxes he was entitled to, and who
try a metal long known but usewere his local agents.
less'"
A "Royal Questionnaire"
The life story, of the earnest young
After his death his . grandson, student of chemistry is fiction in every
Charles, King of Burgundy, develop- day life.
Professor Jewett took care before
ed the inquisito of twelve men in each
community to supply the same data._ lie died to record his association with
"William the Conqueror took the idea Hall. Ho recalled him as a boy of 14,
with him to England. He ordered in- coming to his laboratory to, buy test
quisitos assembled to fill out an elab; tubes with money he had scraped toorate royal questionnaire which be- gether.
One day in class, said Jewett, he recame the Doomsday Book, jealously
marked to his students lhat if anyone
treasured
to
this
day
as
the
original
Former Emperor Hsuan Tung (16ft) of China, mourns with his housedeed survey in Great Britain. One could perfect a process whereby aluhold in .Tientsin because of the desecration of his ancestors' graves at'the
hundred years later Henry II found minum could be made on a commercial
hands of soldier robbers. The -young man, who has adopted the name
the royal and church courts at log- scale he not only* would be a benefacHenry Fn Yi, is shown in the front row at the right with his wife.
gerheads over property claims. He tor to the world, but would lay up a
decided to solve the dilemma by let- great fortune.
terials.
IENTSIN, China—In a modest
The professor's memoirs quote Hall
tiffg the 'inquisition' of twelve men
detached house in the conjested
Twice each day the "young em- of the neighborhood decide the claims as saying: "I'm going for that
'Japanese concession here, a house to . press.!' and the scanty .baiid of monin the presence of his judges. Henry metal." which the name of "palace" is given archists who remain faithful assemble
Six months later Hall came to
II thus created the assize utrum, the
only because the dethroned Son of in a bare and comfortless Toom and
the laboratory and said: " Profesfirst true jury trial.
Heaven lives therein, a strange scene kow-tow sadly and solemnly •• three
sor, I've got it.1* In his hand lay
Tet evolution of the jury was not
is enacted twice daily. The Manchu times before the portraits and tablets complete. The 'twelve good men and
a dozen little globules of alumihousehold is not only in mourning but of the illustrious dead upon: whom ;_-true;' of the first juries were selected
num, the- first ever made by the"
in profound disgrace.
unprecedented calamity has fallen. because -they "knew more about the
electrolytic process in this counOf all the humiliations heaped
They are all dressed in the .native crime and ther participants than any- try.
upon- his onc.e powerful ruloing , equivalent of sack cloth.
one else in the neighborhood. They
Jewett pulled, out his watch and
tribe, the recent desecration of
The entire household leads an.ex- were jurors and witnesses at one and noted that he had a class.
the imperial tombs was the most
istence efualling, if not exceeding, the the same time.; .Nowadays intimate
"Return," he told the student, "in
degrading. It is unparalleled in
rigors of Sparta. The boy emperor knowledge of a case prevents a man two hours and tell me about it."
Chinese history. eHre the bones
hinlself sleeps upon the floor. He eats serving on the jury before which it is
A few months later,the same invenof even the commonest dead are
only the simplest of food. All the tried.
tion "was achieved by Paul L. V. Hersacred. In China there is no incult in France. Controversy over who
sult so great as the disturbance
•was first with the invention led to
of the graves of one's ancestors.
the court action, which Hall won,
SoldierSj armed with axes and dymostly because of the testimony of his
namite, forced an entry into the tomb
old professor.
of Chien Lung whose long, glorious
Hall loved his Alma Mater with a
and benevolent reign makes him rank
devotion that always found expreswith Tai Tsung and Kang Hsi as one
sion in gifts, and when he died the
of the greatest emperors' since Tsin
ereat sum was willed to it.
Shih Huang Ti, founder of the empire
and builder of the Great Wall. The
THAT'S NOT NICE
-marauders also entered the tomb of
"I never worry about my husband
the famous Tzu Hsi, the empress dowpaying attention to other women—>
ager, whose great personality, vigor
he's crazy about me."
and power preserved the dynasty uff"But perhaps he has lucid intertil her'death nearly 20 years ago. The
vals-"^Tit-Bits.
vandals even opened the coffin of the
little woman to rob it of valuables.
HE OUGHT TO KNOW
And so the Manchu household and
Deteetive: "We think we have
its young head, now known as Mr. Pu
found your mother-in-law who- has
Yi, is in mourning. No longer does the
been missing for six months.
Man: What did she say T
last of the Mauchus indulge in boyish
pursuits. The bicycle on which he
Detective: Nothing.
Man: Then it is not my mother-inwas wont to careen gaily round the
law.—Passing Show,
cpnfined "" space of the walled-in
Oberlin College, October 30,.dedicated, a tablet to the memory of Chas.
grounds, performing stunts strange
BEAT, SPEED AGE
for the descendant of so mighty and M- Hall, who worked his way through the institution by" beating carpets
Mistress: Marie, there is a policedignified a line, stands beside his un- and mowing lawns, and loft it $12,000,000 when he died. He discovered
man in.the pantry.
raed autornobilesTn the garage; The the electrolytic process of making aluminum in a shed which'may be seen
Maid: I know nothing about him,
newest and most expensive type of at the rear of _the-home (above). The-tablet will be placed on the corner
ma'am. The last maid must have left
electric.phonograph from the United wall of the home. Hall is pictured as he looked in his student days.
him there.—Passing Show.
States, purchased by him immediately
BERLIN—A boy worke dhis way anniversary of the discovery of alumafter it arrived, is silent.
through Oberlin College by mow- inum which Hall made commcrciably
All the little private parties in
Don't Squeeze Blackheads
—.
ing lawns and heating carpets, and possible.
which he took part, either as host
—Dissolve Them
Oberlli- \'umni association in all
left it $12,000,000 when he died, was
or guest, with a handful of select
Squeezing out blackheads makes large,
*•:
of
(1..
world
were
asked
to
meet
honored
here
October
30.
foreign friends, have been ruled
ugly pores. The safe and sane way to get
-1 honor the-memory of the institu- rid of these ~i<.mishcs is to dissolve them.
The boy, who died in 1914, was
out. The empress remains lonely
Get two ounces oi Ca'.onite powder Jrom
Charles M. Hall. He invented the'- tion'gjnost distinguished graduate,
and disconsolate in the gloomy
your drug store, sprinkle a -'-ttle on a hot,
wet
cloth, rub over the bla-fc.'cadB, and
modern process of making aluminum.
The meinoral to Hall will be a tabhouse, garbed Cot in the rich sills
every one, big an.1 little,, will disappear
.The program also marked the 100th let, placed on the house in the rear of at once.
but in the cheapest of cotton ma-
English Jury-
T
ALUMINUM INVENTOR, HONORED BY
OBERLIN WHERE DISCOVERY MADE
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