THE (MILL FRONTIER ' a H» CRONIN. PubltoHtr. BB aaaessssss£= : gssssaB rNEILU NEBRASKA BMi in iiiinjiJMg5.. ■■■?«§ Nineteen members of the Haddon county (N. J.) club incorporated the club’s premises and their own little residence colony as the village Tavi stock this week, to evade the local blue laws of the village to which the district * formerly paid taxes. Then it had an election. Nineteen voters registered; 19 candidates entered for the 19 elec tive Jobs, and 19 were successful, each I with 19 votes. There were 19 nays to the anti-Sunday proposition. In issuing an injunction against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, prohibiting the picketing of a shop against which the union had de clared a strike. Judge J. Van Sicken of the supreme court in Brooklyn blames both capital and labor for their oppres sion of one another, according to which ever happens to have the advantage of prevailing economic conditions. The court upheld the right of employers to make individual terms of employment with their workers. The Paris post of the American Le gion is considering a protest to the French authorities against the use of the United States uniforms, brought over for the A. E. F. but sold with many other things to the French gov ernment, as it is being employed in that city. Among other uses, it has been issued to street sweepers and gar bage haulers; and miles of the cloth of which it was made has been sold to taxicab companies to upholster their cabs. Collection of United Ktates income taxes from Americans resident In Mex ico will be contested in the United States courts. One suit will be filed on behalf of Americans whose Income is derived and expended In Mexico and the other on behalf of Individuals whose Income Is partly derived from Mexican sources. The amount of taxes affected is less than $3,000,000. Forty-nine persons have been killed In Ireland while attempting to escape from custody since January, 1910. The num ber of men interned in Ireland In 2,079. No women are interned. The number of persons serving sentences for offenses arising out of the disturbed state of the country is 963. At least 28 alleged bogus divorces and annulments are known to have been sold by Robert F. Miller, now being sought as the alleged operator of a “divorce mill” In New York city. It is said that Miller had a staff of 10 girls to act as “co-respondents” when the fake divorces were framed up. Julius H. Barnes, head of the United States Grain Corporation during the war, believes that problems bearing on the marketing of the nation's grain crop could be satisfactorily solved by forma tion of a national marketing council, through which producers and dealers could work out their differences. Judge Bandts last week raised the bail on a building he had ordered closed for violation of the prohibition law, when Its owner offered it as a residence to a man with a wife and 10 children evicted for non-payment of the Installments on their home. Purchase of 8.00f) acres of farm land In Portuguese W<*st Africa for a dem onstration farm and trades school for African negroes on the model of Hamp ton and Tuskogee institutes has been made by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal church. Russia's outstanding need today Is production and this need cannot be met to any appreciable extent under a gov ernment which repudiates Its contracts, the right to private property, and the rights of free labor, says a trade sur vey of New York bankers. Judge Handle, the fearless, says: "It Is a mistake to sneer at the law. It is up to us to give the prohibition law a fair chance to show us whether it Is any good or not. As long as the law is on our books It Is up to us to enforce It instead of trying to find ways of evad ing It.*’ ' Rather than accede te a proposal for a wage reduction of 20 per cent., strik ing members of the building trades un ions of Walla Walla, have derided to form a co-operative association to con struct buildings for whoever desires them at the actual cost of material and tabor. Schoenbrunn, the imperial chateau, once home of Maria Theresa, and where Napoleon Bonaparte planned his 1805 and 1808 campaigns In Austria, will be turned over to the people of Vienna as a public monument and recreation ground. Belvldere palace, another chateau, may become a gambling ca sino. The New York Times says "there never was any break between President Wilson and Colonel House, and that Colonel House is completely tn the dark an to the reason of Mr. Wilson's sudden change In hia attitude toward him. Claiming that ahe and her five chil dren have been placed in a position ol want because three Cleveland men gambled with her husband, a woman is suing the three men for the amount they won from the head of the family. Illiteracy Is said to be decreasing in the south. In Alabama, where the 1810 census showed R to exist In 22.9 of the total population over 10 years, the 1920 census finds It lowered to 16.1. In Ar kansas the drop was from 12.S to 9.4. * According to the Boston Transcript, China suggests that the American min ister to that country be a first class man, able to handle the questions with Japan and Great Britain that are be lieved sure to arise in the near future. Fifteen London clerks, mostly women, drawing salaries between-$900 wid $2,000 a year, are effected by the ordgr of the •tate department In Washington that diplomatic missions abroad must get rid of all non-American attaches by July 1. The government of Japan has invRed Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood to visit that country before he returns to the United States from the Philippines, and per mission to accept has been granted the general. After hearing German objections to certain pension charges, the repara tions commission has decided that the administration expenses of (tensions should not be included in the allied claims. Railroad wages for 1920 totaled $3,733, 815.196 the Interstate Commerce commis sion announces Reports of back pay are not complete and therefore the fig ures are somewhat below those to appear in the final annual report. - The first all water shipment of Cal ifornia lemons and oranges has arrived In New York. The cost of water slik> ment was found to be practically a cent a pound less than by mil Peasants of western Galicia have set e. new fashion of using the cat-o-nln*.tails to rebuke a legislator who failed tr, carry out the wishes of the voters of his district. Divine Sarah wishes to fly to England on Saturday for a tour beginning next week, but If the project is carried ou< it will be in face of the opposition ol the family, principally her son, Maurice says a Parts cable. DEAF AND BUND,' BIJUI Doable to Hear or See She Plays Difficult Composi tions with Great Ease. Brownvllle, Neb., April 12 (Special) •—Helen Smith Martin, who 1* both deaf and blind, expects to become a concert pianist, according to word reaching friends of the family, who formerly lived here but now reside at Olathe, Kan. Although deaf to musi cal sounds and blind to the notes. Miss Martin Is already able to play Beetho ven’s "Moonlight Sonata," and Mo zart’s "Minuet." She Is a student also of literature, history and home eco nomics. WILL CONTEST LOST BY ONES BRINGING SUIT Benkelman, Neb., April 12 (Spe-) dial),—The contest of the will of Herman Cannon, heard before Judge Hamilton here, was decided in favor of the son, Elmer Cannon. The in strument was drawn at McCook in 1917. This will gave the widow one third of the csfate, the son. Mur ry Cannon’ $5; a daughter, Mrs. Ab hie Howard, $5; and the remainder of the property to the son, Elmer. The will denies Elmer Cannon the right to dispose of any part of the property. The son and daughter who were left with 25 each contested this will and declared It was not the last one which their father made. During the four years proceeding his death, Can non had made four wills, withdraw ing each one as its successor was filed. The estate is one of the largest in Dundy county. —f NELIGH BOY IN SCHOOL AT AMES, IA., DISAPPEARS Neligh, Neb., April 12 (Special)— Frank Wulf of Neligh, who Is at tending school at Ames, la.. Is re ported missing by the school au thorities. He wrote his mother he was to visit relatives at Des Moines during a short vacation. When he did not return to school. Inquiry dis closed he had not been In Des Moines. Relatives fear foul play or that he has suffered a nervous breakdown from overstudy. NAMED HEAD OF PENSION OFFICE essptwe Washington Gardner, phuopiphcd at th White Houaa recently. Washington Gardner haa be- i appointed commissioner of pensions by President Harding. He la a vet eran of the Civil war, hails from Michigan a.id was formerly a mem ber of the lower house of congress. ; NEWS BRIEFS. ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦ RIGA—Peasant riots in western Siberia are reported in Moscow ad vices today. The peasants have re vived the so-called “Green" army and have occupied Tobolsk, cutting off the town from the trans-Siberian rail road, the advices say. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH—The Western Macaroni Manufacturing Company factory here was practically destroyed Sunday afternoon when fire of unknown origin which is believed to have developed in the basement of the building while the factory care taker was at lunch, did damage esti mated at $150,000. MEXICO CITY.—Major Pablo Ra mirez and Lieut. Jacobo Gonzales have been sentenced to death by court martial on the charge of having started a rebellion in the state of Puebla. Augustin and Ignoclo Michel and several followers were killed yes terday in a clash with federal troops near Autlan. state of Jalisco. Augus tin was the leader of a small rebel band. two womeVburned in GEORGIA CHURCH FIRES Atlanta, Ga., April 11.—Fires made necessary by the low temperatures re sulted In the destruction of two churches in Georgia Sunday and damage to another, causing possibly fatal injuries to two young women. SETTLE CUSTOMS JOB. Tribune Washington Bureau. Washington, April 11.—Early settle ment of the customs collectorship for the lies Moines office is expected. William Hanes, veteran politician and friend of Senator Cummins, is under stood to be In the lead. New canning factories are being con structed in British Columbia to handle this year's fruit crop. Official esti mates place the 1921 berry crop at 500 cars, or bO per cent, larger than last .veer's maw wuduuUtMl letrTd. NO PROSECUTION FOR YOUNG WOMAN Though She Gave False Testi mony That Sent Man to Jail She Goes Free. JScottsbluff, Neb., April 11 (Special). County Attorney Grimm announces that there is little likelihood that Marie Dawkins, who has admitted she gave false testimony in the trial which convicted Jack Guyton of rape, will be prosecuted for perjury. Miss Dawkins has been released from cus tody and has gone to Sidney. She came back here following her sign ing of an affidavit which she gave to Guyton's attorney, admitting that she told her story on the stand to save herself. She had charged that Guy ton lured her to his room by a note saying an old friend was ill and that he had forcibly detained her for sev eral hours. In the affidavti she de clared she had gone to his room vol untarily, according to an agreement they had reached the day previous. HANGS HIMSELF AFTER AN AUTO ACCIDENT Aurora, Neb., April 11 (Special).— Lawrence Tyler, a young farmer, hanged himself in a barn at the Clay ton ranch on the Platte river. Tyler was working for E. L. Clayton. He was to have been married soon to a young woman of Central City and had bought all his furniture. An investigation showed his auto mobile lying bottom up where he had overturned it when he missed a cul vert 50 yards from the house. It was difficult to see how he could have es caped being crushed to death. He had apparently gone from the place of the accident directly to the barn where he secured a rope and com mitted suicide. -1 NEBRASKA PRIEST GOING TO EUROPE; MAY STAY Hartington, Neb., April 11 (Special). —Father Hehbach, pastor of the Con stance Catholic church will sail for Europe the latter part of this month where he will remain indefinitely. He is undecided as to whether he will return to this country or not. Father Joseph Hundt will be in charge of the parish. GAVE FALSE TESTIMONY; NOT TO BE PROSECUTED Scottsbluff Neb., April 11.—Marie Dawkins whose testimony convicted Jack Guyton of assault, and who later by affidavit and further testimony re pudiated her trial story, has been re leased from custody. According to County Atorney Grimm, there will he no prosecution on the charge of per jury, as he Holds others who insti gated her stories more guilty and considers they could not be convicted on her testimony. CROFTON PRIEST HONORED ON RETURN FROM EUROPE Hnrttngton, Neb., April 9 (Special). —Father Boschek who recently re turned to Crofton from Europe where he visited relatives and toured the devastated regions was given a rous ing welcome home. A program was given In his honor. Father Boschek then spoke for nearly two hour» upon conditions in Europe. MINING INDUSTRY SOON TO BE BACK TO NORMAL Chicago, April 8.—The metal min ing industry will be "on Its feet" with in six months. This is the belief ex pressed today by John T. Burns, sec retary of the American Mining Con gress, In an interview with the Unit ed Press, after returning from a tour of the leading mining districts. "Paralysis of the industry has cost countless millions of dollars," Burns said, “but there is a general feeling of optimism and confidence as to the future in the gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc fields.” The most encourag ing information. Burns said he ob tained. was of a gradual increase in efficiency of labor. LATIMER RECOMMENDED. Washington. April 9.—Appointment of Capt. Julian L. Latimer to be judge advocate general of the navy has ben rcommended to the president by Secretary Denby. Captain Lati mer is commandant of the 7th naval district and the naval station at Key West, Fla. The Safer Way. - From the Boston Transcript. "Dad, ' said the financier’s son, run ning Into his father's office, lend me 9600." "What for, my boy?" “I’ve got a sure tip on the market." "How much shall we make out of It?” asked the old man cautiously. ”A couple of hundred sure," replied the hoy eagerly. "That’s A hundred each." "Here's your hundred." said his father. "Let's consider that we have made this deal and that It has succeeded. You make 9100 and I save 9500." The Solution. From the Kdibnurgh Scotsman. l.ittle Girl—If l was a teacher. I'd make everybody behave. Auntie — How would you accomplish that? Little Girl — Very easy. When girls was bad I'd tell them they didn’t look pretty: and when little boys were bad I'd make them sit with the girls, and when big boys were bad 1 wouldn’t let them s’.t with the girls. SPEAK TO FARnTbUREAU FEDERATION MEMBERS Hurorr, S. D., April 9 (Special).—J. M. Anderson, of St. Paul, member the committee of 17, and J. T. Belk of Henry, member New Grain Marketing board, will speak to a farm bureau federation meeting at Huron Monday. The South Dakota delegation to the Chicago conference reports the mat - keting plan adopted unanimously. MEUSE II I Nebraska Legislature Finally Adopts Measure Enabling Farmers to Borrow on Grain. Lincoln, Neb., April 9.—.Bypracti cally a unanimous vote, the house Thursday passed the senate farm warehouse bill. It authorizes the is suance” of county warehouse certifi cates to farmers storing grain on their farms. Farmers may borrow money on these certificates but the lender is protected by law. The serrate con curred in amendments and the bill now goes to the governor. The special committee authorized by the senate two months ago to in vestigate alleged extravagance and duplication in the administration of the state's (affairs, has completed the draft of its report and probably will submit it to the senate today. The senate today killed the bill seeking to extend the female labor laws to cities of the second class and to villages. —t— RAILROAD DETECTIVE WOUNDED BY TRAMPS Grand island, Neb., April 9.—In a gun battle in the outer yards of the Union Pacific at daybreak yesterday, between a small party of tramps and Arthur Eaton, Union Pacific detective the latter whs seriously though not fatally wounded. The tramps escaped. Eaton discovered the tramps trying to break the seal of a refrigerator car. Drawing his gun he ordered the men to stop. They immediately opened fire Nine shots were sent at the offi cer while the latter emptied his gun at the tnamps. The officer fell. One bullet had entered the left arm above the elbow, shattering the bone. The other entered the chest. A third grazed the officer's head. A switching crew hearing the shots rushed to the scene, carried the offi cer to the city on the switch engine and he was at once taken to the gen eral hospital. AN UNUSUAL ANSWER TO DIVORCE PETITION Omaha, Neb., April 9.—In answer ing his wife’s petition for divorce, Roy Card, a carpenter, acting as at torney for himself today filed an unique petition. In It he says that the plaintiff is the "finest and best woman in the world, truthful, loyal, loving and good, in fact all tlnat a wife should be," and further states that "anything the plaintiff says is true and the defend ant will abide by any decision the plaintiff makes.” He states that any cruelty he in flicteH on the plaintiff was uinten tiortal and declares the only reason he failed to support her was because she deserted him 11 months ago. —f ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY DRINKING CAMPHOR Fremont, Neb., April 9.—Joseph Wolf attempted suicide by the cam phor route, taking a four-ounce bot tle, but he only suffered a different pain. Wolf has been suffering with heart trouble for months and was despond ent. He had not been working for three months. He appeared before the landlord of the Winsor hotel and said he had taken camphor and wanted to die. Physicians worked with him for several hours and saved him with a stomach pump. Wolf is a single man and had been employed on the section. —♦— FIERCE—Frank A. Warner, attorney for Miss Clara Barts of Pierce county, who asks $10,000 damages from Frank Voecks, prominent young Pierce coun ty farmer, for alleged breach of promise states that the case has been settled oui of court and that Voecks and Miss Barts are to be married soon. The case was to have come up for trial Wednesday in district court at Pierce. WEST POINT—The municipal elec tion held Tuesday resulted in the choice of the following officers: Mayor, John Clatanoff; clerk, Miss Surah E. Lln dale; treasurer, Frank Miller; engineer, R. H. Kerkow; police judge, W. J. Paaach. FINE LAW POINT IN FIGHT FOR INSURANCE Lincoln, Neb.. April 5 (Special).—A fine point of law was debated at length today in supreme court, When Omaha police broke into a room from which hud proceeded the sound of shots, they found a man named Ward, dead, with a revolver by him, and his wife dying on the bed. He carried a $5,000 accident insur ance policy in the Aetna company, and his heirs sued on the theory that the presumption of law is that a man does not ordinarily commit suicide, and that this presumption obtains un til it is proved to the contrary. Their attorneys argued to the court that ft was just as reasonable to presume that the woman killed her husband and then herself, because the wound in the man was in the breast, where men seldom lodge a bullet intended for self-destruction, while the woman was shot in the head, the ordinary mark for suicides. The lower court instructed the jury for the company, and on the appeal the heirs argued that they had a right Co have the jury pass on the fact of who was the moving factor in the tragedy. For the company it was urged that "the” reasonable presump tion is the one that governs and not "a” reasonable presumption. ALLEGED DIAMOND‘FENCE’ SURRENDERS AT CHICAGO Chicago. April 8.—A countrywide search for Isadore H. Starr, diamond cutter, w'ho is Alleged to have acted as a fence in the $1,000,000 union sta tion mail robbery here two months ago, ended today when Starr surren dered himself to the federal mar shal. He was released in $10,000 ponds. r--- - ------- ..... ... j Conditions in Central Europe. | [From a review of Coningsby Daw son’s "It Might Have Happened to You" (John Lane Company), written by Herbert Hoover 'for the New York Times. Mr. Dawson’s book is just off the press; he is still engaged in his relief work. The conditions he describes are of today, since the author has been at his post less than four months.] TJhe spirit in which this work was conceived and executed puts it into a class by itself. Mr. Dawson came to the American relief administration at the end of November, 1920, asking how he could best serve the cause of humanity and of the United States, with especial reference to the care of children. He had just emerged from the shadow of threatened tragedy in his own family. Despite every care, he had been forced to watch his own child fading dangerously near the border-line from the effects of mal nutrition. Finally science triumphed, the slow convalescence began, and there was quickened In himself and in his family a new realization of kin ship with universal childhood, parent hood, life in its elemental emotions. He wanted to do. something, make some sacrifice, for other people’s children, and he left home at the holiday time to begin his long, hard pilgrimage through the world of sor rows that lies In eastern and central Europe. As a soldier, he had staked his life against armies which came from several of these countries, and In the beginning of his story he says: That I should write In this spirit, pleading for our late enemies, may cause a alight amazement in a public that has read my war books. My reason—I will not say my excuse—is that I have visited our late enemies’ need, and in the pres ence of human agony animosity ceases. One ceases to wonder how far their suf fering le the outcome of their folly; hie eole aspiration is to bind up their wounds—especially the wounds of their children. To those who say "They wouldn’t need to starve if they would get to work,’’ Mr. Dawson replies tartly. “You are probably exactly the kind of person who, had you been born in central Europe, would have gone to the bottom first," Mr. Dawson tells the reader: You belong to the middle or upper classes. You are highly intelligent and specialized. You turn from working with your brains to working with your hands. Everyone In your- class would be doing the same thing. There would not be enough manual labor to go around. * • • In the face of national in solvency your former thrift would not avail you. Your investments would be so much worthless paper. You might have hoarded actual cash, the wav the peasants do in their stockings. 'Even this nerve would soon be exhausted, since by reason of the depreciation in currency it would take 100 times more money to purchase any service or com modity than it once did. In starving central Europe, It is the doctors, pro fessors, engineers, artists, musicians, business men. lawyers—the intellectual wealth of the nations—who have been the first to perish. Mr. Dawson points out that there is a tendency on the part of every in dividual to imagine himself immune from natural laws. Thus even the most sympathetic person finds it dif ficult to believe that his children, might possibly be in the same situa tion as those children of Vienna whom Mr. Dawson describes: Today I visited a soup kitchen of the American relief administration, where meala are dally prepared for 8,000 chil dren. » • • The sight was a disgrace to civilization. Within the building at wooden tables sat an army of stunted pigmies, raggedly clad and famished to a greenish pallor. They ranged from babyhood to adolescence, but there wae not a child in the gathering who looked more than 10 years old. They didn’t talk. They didn’t laugh. They were terribly intent, for each of them crouched, with animal eagerness, over a roll and a pannikin of cocoa. The etench from these starving bodies was nauseating. “These children," he says, “were most of them not born when the war was started. They had no voice in our animosities. They did not ask to be brought into such a world. Many of them have never known what it is to be warm and not to be hungry. To them joy is a word utterly meaning less. They have always been too weak to laugh or play. Two years after our madness has ended, they are still paying the price of the adult world’s folly.” Mr. Dawson’s observations are not confined to Austria "The needs of Hungary are as pressing as those of any European country,” he writes. Everywhere, Mr. Dawson reports, it is the children who are the chief sufferers. In the mountains of Czecho-Slovakia little boys and girls roam from house to house in order to obtain food. The children of War saw are in as desperate a plight as those of Vienna. They are dying of tuberculosis and of malnutrition. He continues: The American Relief administration, which has become a part of the Europ ean Relief Council made up of eight great relief agencies in America, is try ing to keep pace with the strides of famine. The British "Save the Children Fund” is concentrating on Austria. The American and British Society of Friends are operating in Germany. • • • We are all doing something, and none of us is doing enough. For the moment alt of us are trying to save children be cause, whoever else was guilty, they, at least, are innocent of offense. But there is something cruel in leaving their par ents to die of hunger. I agree with Mr. Dawson that it is pitiful to feed only the children, to ignore the adult populations;” Mr. Hoover writes in conclusion; “but this latter is a problem far beyond the possibilities of private charity. Of children alone, we Americans are feeding 3,500,000, and the Red Cross is supplying medical service to vast numbers.” fBunt grStinkinpSinu [National Crop Improvement Service.] LTHOUGH every farmer is being severely taxed by the smuts of graiD, they are easily prevent-, able, and while it would be somewhat radical to insiat that a law should com pel farmers to look after their own interests, yet perhaps in some localities this would be the only effective way of correcting the evil. Smut is inexcusable. There are two kinds of smut which attack most of the grain: the smut which enters the kernels, showing a sickly gray black through the hulls, is the one which does the most damage. In wheat it is called bunt or stinking smut. Many fairness call it "blight” or some other indefinite disease. It can be readily detected, however, by scrap ing heads of kernels with a penknife on a piece of writing paper. The ker nels will be found filled with the black powder which is the stinking smut. It has a characteristic odor aiid so unde sirable is it that the government has placed it in • separate grade. Education and the Alien. From II Cittadino, of Akron, Ohio. Let us begin by educating our chil dren in American schools and letting them have the full benefit of the edu cation jppportunities which this country offers to all; let us see to it that they grow up cultured and efficient, regard less of the tact that their parents may not have had any education at all. Let us, ourselves, begin to learn the English language on the first day we land on American soil, and let us remember that it is this language only which will be of service to us, and that only through our own merits will we win good “luck” and will we be able to ele | vate ourselves to the heights to which we aspire. If all Italians would keep these ideas firmly in mind there would be more of us who would obtain posi tions or hold office in the state and na tional governments. The Germans, Poles, Irish and Jews have all learned these practical ideas long ago, and little by little they have gained a foothold in the first ranks of the country, both in business and in politics. There are 5.000.000 Italians in the United States; there are 1,200,000 in New York state alone, and none of them, or least very few. have been per suaded of the value of thorough Ameri canization. The new congress does not contain even one member of Italian extraction. This also Is partly due to the fact that Italian organizations and associations of mutual benefit teach their members to respect and revere Italian ambassa dors and consuls, but they do not un derstand that our future and our wel fare lie in this country and that our po litical independence can not be attained by paying homage to the representatives of the Italian government, but that it must be won by learning the language, customs and laws of this country. It is time that we Italians began to hover about American institutions and to ad mire them. If they should In some ■light way be defective, let us co-oper ate with the others and try to improve them, but let ue always be respectful. ■Incere and honest ... v Smutted wheat has to be washed aft the mill, and even then there is danger that it will contaminate the flour botb in appearance and in odor. The formaldehyde treatment is very efficient because the seed bears the fun pis spores of the disease. In some local ities it lives over in the ground, but not usually. Any fanner can add to his insurance and more than pay for his marketing expense by being sure that he does not propagate smut for himself and for his neighbors at any time. The other smut, called the "open smut,’’ is more easily detected because it destroys the entire shape of the head of grain but fortunately it is not sc prevalent nor so dangerous. This smut can be treated by the modified hot water treatment, which must be care fully done according to directions to be had at your Agricultural College, or you are in danger of destroying the germi nation of ybur seed if too hot, or allow ing the spores to remain alive if ton cool. The Decadent Kings. From the Kansas City Star. The barbarism of uncivilized apes?' seems fo have lingered among the kings of France: Louis XV was heartless and cruel, and the spirit of his court re flected his own cruelty. It happened that the king was feeling bitter towards M. de Chauvelln, one of the court of ficers. They were seated at cards one evening, and Chauvelln, who sat next the king, was seized with a fit of apoplexy. He choked, gasped and then slipped from his chair almost at the feet of the king, who did not even turn his head until one of the players at his table ex claimed: "M. de Chauvelln Is ill." Louis Idly turned and gazed down at the rourtier, then resumed his playing. "111?" he murmured indifferently. "He is death Take him away. Spades are trumps, gentlemen.” The game went on as if nothing had happened, while the servants picked up the body and bore It from the room. There was no excitement, save when the dead man's heel caught in a bit of lace in the gown of a lady in waiting "Man nerless even after he Is dead," she cried, and with a contemptuous gesture jerked aside her garment. A Clever Husband. From 1 xjndon Opinion, Wife—Mrs. Jones has another new hat. Hubby—Well if she were as attractive '— as you are. my dear, she wouldn't have to depend so much upon the milliner. An observing marriage clerk says marriage is getting to be a business proposition, instead of a love affair. C.irls of 18 or 19 used to marry boys of about their own age, or maybe 24. Now they know a boy of 21 can’t support them, so they are picking older men. He cites his license record to show that the average marriage age for women is now 21, and that of men 36. A cable from Wales says Unite* States coal owners are offering Ameri can coal to France and Italy at less than half tb« present price of Welsh coal.