O’NEILL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN
OWEILU NEBRASKA
American composers have Just been
Invited to submit musical composition*
In a competition for the Frederio A.
Jullllard Fellowship at the American
Academy In Rome. This Grand Prtx de
Rome is open to unmarried men of
American citizenship and the winner
will have the privilege of three years’
residence in Rome with the opportunity
of six months travel each year and
Will receive an annual stipend of $1,000
and traveling expenses not to exceed
$1,000 a year.
North Dakota conversationalists are
trying to decide whether the flock of sea
gulls that descended upon a grasshopper
ridden section of that state recently and
ate up the hoppers, were a heaven sent
dispensation, or whether they were be
wildered and driven out of their beat
by storms on the Canadian Pacific coast,
er whether they were Just hungry, and
knew that hoppers can usually be found
In Dakota, even If they didn't know of
the unusual pest of them that they hap
pened to light upon.
•'Stlnnes Is looked on as the great
aecret power In German politics, with
a potent Influence also In Sweden, Den
mark and Finland. His views on repara
tions are notorious. He wants the
Hohcnzollems eventually restored, and
Is confident that the rank and file of
Germans also desire It. In Britain they
told me that one of the younger sons
of the ex-klser, now employed In a
Berlin bank, Is being quietly groomed
as the next emperor," writes a Berlin
correspondent.
The Hohenzollern fortune, which is
estimated conservatively at $25,000,000, as
yet has remained entirely exempt from
taxation of any kind, and the runaway
Wilhelm is drawing many millions an
nually from his agricultural lands,
forests and other real estate without
the authorities seeing fit to Interfere,
says a cable to the Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
A monument to The Mothers of 1776, a
gift of Stuyvesant Fish, of New York,
Is to be unveiled In Clntlnentvllle, N..Y.,
a village near Peeksklll, October 9. The
monument Is a 16-ton boulder, bearing
a brass tablet inscribed: "In memory of
the mothers of tho revolution who
watched and prayed while our fathers
fought that we might be free. They also
serve who only stand and wait.”
Varieties of fish hitherto unknown
were discovered aa a result of the erup
tion of the Hawaiian volcano of Mauna
JLoa two years ago, it has Just been an
nounced. The columns of lava bur
rowed deeper into the ocean than man
had been able to penetrate and thou
sands of fish of strange and fantastic
shape and color were killed and washed
up on the beach by the tidal wave caused
by the lava flow.
Birmingham. A'® ' will celebrate its
60th anniversary October 24 to 29 with
an exposition and historical pageant de
pleting the development of the south’s
leading Industrial city from the building
of Its first house in 1871. Today tho city
has almost reached a population of
200,000.
The Italian colonies In New York city
have sent a special deputation to pre
sent a sword of honor to D’Annunzio.
The poet himself has Just sent a dona
tion to the communists of Russia for
food, and promised to issue a manifesto
calling upon the Italian people to do
likewise.
A massive gold watch, nearly three
Inches In diameter, carried by Daniel
Webster when he represented Massachu
setts in congress has been offered for
sale to that state. It was given to Web
ster by a California admirer end con
tains the complimentary Inscription:
"Advlcate of the union and defender of
Its institutions." Tho watch with The
chain weighs 19 ounces.
California has a practicing physician
of one kind or another for every 200 of
her population. There are more than
14,114 licensed physicians and Burgeons
In the state; 1.212 osteopaths. 103 na
turopaths, 214 drugless practitioners, 25
“reciprocal drugless practitioners,’’ and
232 chiropodists are listed.
A cable from Eucnos Aires says that
many applications for settlement on land
In Argentina have been received from
the United States and Canada. The re
cent government decree opens up 16,000,
000 acres of government land for the
establishment of colonies in different
parts of the republic.
The Rev. Reginald J. Campbell, who
has Just, resumed his Iamdon ministry
after his visit to the United States, told
his parlshoners In his first sermon that
America was "now the greatest nation
In this world, stronger than ours, richer
than ours, able to do materially what It
likes .and to give spiritual leadership to
mankind if It chooses."
me raurouu uunuiuBiiuuuu i» uucu«b
to settlo for 40 or 50 per cent, the losses
Incurred hy the farmers, settlers, and
townspeople who were vlcttms-of the Are
that burned Cloquet. Minn., In October,
IG18. The 278 cases In the Cloquet group
total more than $1,500,000.
That Taris and other French univer
sity cities have already tuken the-place
formerly held by Berlin and Heidelberg
as Meccas for ambitious American col
lege students has been revealed by sta
tistics recently compiled by the Ameri
can University Union In Paris.
From the beginning of the industry in
10133 to January. 1021, .approximately
115 grams of radium element have been
produced In this country. Probably not
more than 40 grams havfe been recovered
from foreign oreB since the discovery ol
radium by Mme. Curie.
There are now barely 700,000 peoplf
In all Palestine, a population much less
that that of Galileo alone In the tinu
of Christ, says Sir Herbert Samuel. th<
British high commissioner there. In i
report Just made public. Sir Samuel at
tributes the scarcity of the population t<
lack of development.
Austria's Inventor of "perpetua
youth" monkey gland operations. Ku
gene Stetnach. has been forced to de
crease his experimental work for lac
of money.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter c
ex-Presldent Wilson, has bought th
old Stuyvesant Fish residence In Nr
York city. It Is a four-story and bas<
ment dwelling.
Sales of farm machinery In Minnesot
have fallen 50 to 95 per rtjit. below not
mal this year, and Improvements o
farm homes have decreased to “almoi
nothing,” the Minnesota farm burea
federation says.
Inmates of the stute schoyl fpr boy
a reform institution in Portland, Mt
- are building a school house for then
selves.
Six generations of a Cree Indian fan
tly are holding a reunion In Manltob
Sarah Donkey, 112. Is the oldest of t!
group. The youngest Is 8.
An Intimation that -the sacrame;
■night be refused women who dress in
modestly is contained In notices posti
on all doors to a Montreal church.
The secretary to the Organised Hobo
of America is trying to see Sccreta
Da via to advise him how to handle tl
f Knuioy' ’ t nronlent
TO BE MHO
Is Given Sentence of 18
Months By Omaha Judge on
Charge of Manslaugh
ter.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 4—Mrs. Mary
Newell, Omaha, said to be the first
woman to be convicted of manslaugh
ter in Nebraska, was sentenced to not
leas than 18 months or more than
•hree years In the state penitentiary
by District Judge Troup. She was al
leged to havo stabbed to death J. C.
Silllck, December 6, 1920.
OMAHA MAN ACTED
SLEUTH FOR HIMSELF
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 4.—When W. J.
Kostorz, of Omaha, was fleeced out of
$9,560 by a gang of "sharpers” two
years ago, he managed to obtain pho
tographs of two of the men. He car
ried them with him continuously as
he searched for them. He finally was
rewarded when he saw one of them
on a street here and he now Is being
held In jail.
Kostorz met ona dt tho men of
whom he had a picture on the street
and, seizing him, commanded that he
come to the police station. The pros
pective prisoner aeked Kostorz to step
Into a hotel to "fix It up.” At this
Juncture three men pretending to be
officers stepped up and offered to take
the prisoner to the station. In the
confusion which followed the captive
escaped, but, pursued by Kostorz and
detectives, was captured. Police now
a to searching for the pseudo officers.
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NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
BY NEBRASKA LEGION
Fremont, Neb.^ Oct. 4.—'William
Ritchie, Jr., of Omaha, was elected
department commander of tho Ameri
can Legion, of Nebraska, at their an- •
nual business session here.
Other officers named Included:
Vice commander, H. H. Ellis, Hold
rege; vice commander of the army,
Arthur Bell, York; vice commander of
the navy, Lester L. Dunn, Lincoln;
chaplain, Ray S. Strue, Syracuse.
Delegates to the national conven
tion, who are under Instruction to
vote for Earl M. Cline, of Nebraska
City, as national commander, Includ
ed Charles Reed, Lincoln; F. W.
Ashton, Grand Island, and Frank D.
Connelly, Madison. Mr. Cline was
named Nebraska member of the na
tional executive council.
York was selected as the next
meeting place.
LENIENCY IS SHOWN
JUVENILE BLACKMAILERS
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 4.—James Wil
son, IB, originator of a plan to black
mail Gould Dietz, prominent Omaha
man, of $200 so he could buy a wire
less outfit, was sentenced to Kear
ney industrial school by a Juvenile
Judge, who later suspended this sen
tence and ordered the youth to River
view home on good behavior.
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THIEF RETURNS RAZOR,
THEN STEALS CASH
Tierce,. Neb., Oct. 4 (Special).—Be
cause he didn't like the kind of a
razor he had stolen from the F. A.
Magdanz soft drink parlor a thief
returned the razor on his second visit,
leaving an explanatory note with it.
He took with him the cash in the
drawer the second time.
VALUABLE GRAVEL BED
FOUND AT IDA GROVE
Ida Grove, la., Oct. 3.—W. E. Ken
nedy has discovered on his farm a
gravel bed of such a character that he
will feel pretty well satisfied with
the purchase he made some months
ago.
For some months past It has been
known that the Maple river, which
flows through Mr. Kennedy's farm,
has had a gravel bottom for several
hundred yards, and Mr. Kennedy has
surmised that this deposit must ex
tend back from the river bed.
In company with Dr. S. A. Deming
ho drove out to the place and taking
a four-Inch augur drove it down 25
feet. , They struck the gravel deposit
down about four feet and it contin
ued for 20 feet more before they pass
ed through the vein. It Is of excel
lent quality.
The farm is known as the Johr
Dcrksen place, and is located aboui
five miles north of the city.
IOWA FIRE MARSHAL
ENJOYS DISTINCTlOf
Des Moines, Ia„ bet. 3.-—J. A. Tracy
fire marshal of Iowa who has beei
president of the Fire Marshal's asso
, elation of North America for the pas
year, was elected a member of th
! executive committee of five member
at the recent annual convention liel
at Chattanooga, Tenn.
r Marshal Tracy returned from thl
convention Friday. He reports a goo
t meeting and large attendance. Home
a Rutledge of Michigan succeeded M
v Tracy as president. N. T. Miller, <
Indiana, was chosen vice presiden
and L. T. Hussey of Kansas was re
» elected secretary and treasurer.
a A cable to the Philadelphia Publ
t ladger says the last living pupil <
u Chopin has Just celebrated his 91st blrtl
day anniversary in a rickety Parts gai
ret.
WAHOO METHODISTS
WILL BUILD CHURC
i" Wahoo, Neb., Oct. 4 (Special).
,e Wahoo Methodists will build a n«
church. Included in the plans a
'* a dining room, kitchen and gymn
slum in addition to the Sunday schc
rooms and auditdrium.
,a The mayor of New York is advlsli
y the public to quit advertising in the dal
18 papers of which he disapproves. T
papers which the mayor disapproves
are those which disapprove of the may<
Judge Ray’s Candidacy For
McKelvie’s Job Announced
By Nonpartisan League
Newspaper.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2 (Special).—
Judge Arthur G. Wray, who ran a
good third as a gubernatorial candi
date of the farm-labor party last
year, will file as a candidate in the
republican primary for governor. This
is the announcement made by the Ne
braska Leader, the mouthpiece of the
nonpartisan league and now edited
by Floyd L. Bollen, former represen
tative from Knox county and a candi
date for attorney general along with
Wray in 1920.
Mr. Bollen says that the suggestion
that it would be easier to capture the
democratic nomination does not ap
peal to the league nor to Mr. Wray
because the democratic machine is in
bad order and republicans more num
erous in Nebraska than are democrats.
This statement was called out by re
cently printed stories to the effect
that Wray would file as a senator in
the republican primary and also that
the league would move over into the
democratic primary because repub
licans and republican policies were not
in high favor in the state as the result
of high taxation.
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LINCOLN COAL DEALERS
WAR ON CITY PLANT
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2 (Special).—
Lincoln coal dealers and City Com
missioner C. W. Bryan are mixing
things merrily. Mr. Bryan started a
municipal coal yaid and Is selling
Illinois coal at $10.50 a ton, and he
says coal dealers have been getting
$2 a ton more. He says he will save
thousands to the working people of
the city. Coal dealers are attacking
his figures and deductions, and claim
that if they had no overhead as has
- Mr. Bryan because of his use of city
property, telephone service an3 scales,
they could sell for $1 a toil less than
he is. They charge him, therefore,
as a profiteer himself. They claim,
too, that they are selling just as good
coal for Just as little money, and that
instead of benefiting the poor people
his chief customers are retired farm
ers, bankers and thrifty Russian la
borers Just back from a summer in
the beet fields, because laboring men
can’t buy under his rule of paying
in advance.
Mr. Bryan retorts that if the coal
dealers are selling at the same price
as he is charging, it is because they
have cut prices to meet his competi
tion, and points out that they are not
claiming they have reduced prices on
qualities he doesn’t handle. He quotes
prices to show that in months past
the prices of what he handles were
higher than now.
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RICH IOWAN DENIES HE
KEPT ANOTHER WOMAN
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2 (Special^.—
v^lfe with whom he is living sits be
side him in district court Leon Stu
ber, wealthy land owner of Wood
ward, la., is contesting a case to keep
from paying $200 a month separate
maintenance to Mrs. Edna Stuber
Nlcholson, who alleges Stuber also is
her husband through common law
marriage.
Stuber took the stand and made
general denial to the charges made
by Mrs. Nicholson, who lives at 508
South Twenty-ninth street, in the
apartment she said Stuber bought and
furnished for her. He . denied her
charges that he was her common law
husband, nverring he never had lived
with her and that since the time she
says their common law marriage oc
curred he has stopped at various ho
tels during his visits to Omaha.
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REFUSED TO WORK AND
IS SENT TO JAIL
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 2.—While the
Mrs. Annie Smith's curt refusal to
wash dishes in the restaurant of the
social welfare society was followed
by the infliction of a $10 fine and an
“nforced stay in.jail. She is a woman
hobo who says she is on her way to
Join her husband in Colorado. The
police gathered her in on a recent raid
in the yards of the railroads. They
offered her the opportunity of work
ing at dishwashing to earn enough
money to pay her way, but when she
disdained that stfrt of employment
she was fined. She will remain in
Jail till friends respond to her writ
tan onnaal fnr haln
TWO DENVER ROBBERS
CAUGT IN OMAHA?
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 2.—Two meB
wanted as suspects in the $9,000 rob
' bery of George P. Loury, a collector
for the Piggly Wiggly Grocery Com
• pally, in Denver September 19, were
1 arrested here Friday and are held
pending instructions from the Den
1 ver police.
5 Charles Van Dousen, detective chief,
3 however, said he was sure one of the
1 suspects had nothing to do with the
crime. The other made a denial.
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3 LEGION DELEGATES SEE
f HISTORICAL PARADE
. Fremont, Neb., Oct. 1.—An address
by Humphrey Sullivan, representing
the national commander of the Amer
ican Legion, was the principal evenl
of Friday forenoon’s session of th<
c annual convention of the Americar
,f Legion of Nebraska. An histories
parade in the afternoon was a fea
ture.
SPANISH FIGHT FIERCELY.
|. London, Oct. 1.—A dispatch to thf
London Times from Madrid says the
lighting at Tisza is regarded official
ly as the fiercest in which the Span
w ish expeditionary forces has yet beer
re engaged. The Spaniards were com
k_ pelled to put 15,000 men into the lines
0I These resolutely fought their waj
through Tisza preventing an attemp
by the Moors to surround the town.
1B --
ly Experiments carried on in Australi!
le have demonstrated that good paper cal
of be made from the common eucalyptus.
T.
SEEKING 01IGES '
EM LOSSOF WIFE
Beatrice, Neb., Farmer Will
Endeavor to Show Her
Parents Are To Blame
For His Trouble.
Beatrice, Neb., Sept. 30.—Suit
for $20,000 for alienation was filed m
district court by Frank Goldenstein,
farmer of the Adams vicinity, whose
wife secured a divorce in district
court some months ago. Goldenstein
alleges that his wife’s parents, Jacob
Wehmers and wife and other mem
bers of the Wehmers family were re
sponsible for the proceedings filed
against him by Mrs. Goldenstein and
for the loss of her affections for him.
In a hearing held on the petition of
Goldenstein for the annulment of the
divorce granted his wife and a modi
fication of alimony, Judge Colby re
fused to annul the divorce but re
duced the alimony from fs,000 to $40
per month, giving as a reason that to
enforce the larger amount would re
sult In the loss of the Goldenstein
farm, 200 acres.
OMAHA WOMAN IS
OVERPOWERED BY BURGLAR
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 30.—Mrs. S. J
XJehling, wife of the president of the
Commonwealth Life Insurance Co.,
engaged in a brave but unsuccessful
fight with a burglar she encountered
in the basement of her home. lie
finally overpowered her and locked
her in a closet. The« burglar then
ransacked the house and escaped with
$3,000 worth of jewelry and silver
ware.
Hearing noise in the basement Mrs.
Uehling went down to investigate.
Tho burglar threatened her. She bit
him and clawed and scratched at him.
After a 15 minute fight she was over
powered and dragged to the closet.
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THREE NEGRO SUSPECTS I
IN NORrOLK, RELEASED
Norfolk, Neb., Sept. 30 (Special).—
The three negroes arrested here in
connection with the search for the
murderer of a Chicago & Northwest
ern detective in Omaha, were released
Thursday on request of special agents
of the railway.
NEBRASKA LEGION IN
CONVENTION AT FREMONT
Fremont, Neb., Sept. 30.—The third
annual convention of the American I
Legion and woman’s auxiliary, of Ne
braska, opened here’ Thursday with
800 delegates in attendance. The ad
dress of welcome was by Charles H
Green, of this city.
SOCIETY WOMAN
BREAKS FOOT IN FALL
AT NEWPORT ESTATE
I
£ Wrist. Twiddle:. *j
Mrs. Craig Biddle, well known so
ciety leader, is recovering front an
operation at the Newport hospital.
Mrs. Biddle broke a bone in her left
foot when she- stepped into a slight
depression on the grounds at her
summer home and fell. It will be some
time before she can be about again.
FOUR NAVAL *RESERVE
CLASSES DISCONTINUED
Washington, Sept. 30.—Four of the
six classes-constituting the naval re
serve will be practically abolished
today by an order issued by Secre
tary Denby last night, giving members
of these classes the option of being
clisenrolied or transferred without pay
to class 6, the volunteer section. The
order, affecting about 195.000 men,
was made necessary, Mr. Denby ex
plained, by the lack of funds.
In addition to class 6, class 1, com
prising former officers of the regular
service holding honorable discharges
and enlisted men, with at least 16
years’ service, was excepted from the
order.
MEMBER OF SHOW
TROUPE WANTED TO DIE
Burlington, la., Sept. 30.—-V. O.
Diver, 33, member of a show troupe,
is held by the police pending word
from relatives in Alliance, Ohio, after
being rgscued by police when found
hanging far out over the railing of
the bridge over the Mississippi river.
Later, aftei being placed in a cell he
was declared by the police to have
attempted to hang himself with a ,
belt and necktie.
*• DO YOUR OWN THINKING. ♦
4 From an Address by A. Lawrence ♦
4 Lowell. *4
4 Although men are by nature 4
4 gregarious creatures, they should 4
4 not, like sheep, move under the 4
4 simple impulse of the mass. Man 4
4 ha,s the ability to think for him- 4
4 self, to weigh reasom;, to fore- 4
4 cast in some degree the future, 4
4 and to reflect upon the conse- 4
4 quences of his acts. In times 4
4 like these it is of vital import 4
4 that his responsibility for his in- 4
4 dividual opinions should be re- 4
4 lentlessly asserted. 4
4 Clamor of a crowd Is often mis- ♦
4 taken for opinion. The art of- 4
4 producing the semblance of a 4
4 public opinion by a general shout 4
has processed greatly with a 4
4 generation. Group psychology' 4
4 has been studied until we are 4
t4 familiar with its principles and 4
its use. Let us not suppose that 4
because psychology of crowds is a 4
4 fact its results are therefore ♦
4 right; or that because organize- ♦
4 tion and machinery furnish a 4
4 powerful weapon for propagating 4
4 ideas on the part of those who 4
4 believe in them, the ideas them- ♦
4 eelvcs are therefore correct. ♦
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The Garage and the Bedroom.
From the New York Post.
More homes for motor cars than for
people were built last year In the
United States, according to reports of
the department of labor. But it would
be too far a jump to argue that ex
penditure on automobile shelters will
iccount altogether for the shortage in
bousing. To a very considerable extent
the garage was probably the result of
blgh apartment rents. For New York
the increase in the garage birth rate
bas taken place in the more rural bor
)ughs, in Brooklyn and Queens. What
lappened was that high rents in the
devator apartments drove people out
o the suburbs, to distances from the
'allway stations that made a small
notor car necessary, and where the
'ost of homes plus garage was still less
;han that of the city apartment. Even
vhere the cost would be the same a
rood many people must have been at
racted by the greater amount of com
’ort the same amount of money would
jring in the remoter regions.
tXTi + Kfn tkA nlt.r +V. n
ire bringing about something of a re
urn to patriarchal conditions which
nay turn out to be a counter-force to
he much discussed break up of the
'amily. The Knickerbocker Press re
>orts for Albany—and it is no doubt
rue for New York city and other
owns—that high rents emphasized by
ncreasing unemployment have led to
loubling up of families. Young folks
vhen they marry today will frequently
emaln In the paternal home, on either
ilde, or may return to the paternal
ipartment from their own home. Fam
lles In which the bread winner Is
iway from home for a considerable
>eriod, as in the case of commercial
ravelers, will similarly pool housing
•esources and budgets. It means con
gestion, but it may also mean closer
ocial contacts.
The Yap Dispute Settled.
From the Manchester Guardian.
The dispute between Japan and the
Jnited States over the little Pacific
sland of Yap was like one of those min
lte thorns in the flesh which cause an
amount of Irritation out of all proportion
o their size. We have never concealed
>ur opinion, as the newspapers says, that
vith a little good will on both sides an
irrangement could be reached. And so
t has been, which promises well for the
nuch anore serious questions on which
'pinion in the two countries is at vari
mce. The supreme council gave the
nandate for Yap to Japan. Mr. Wilson
i?as of opinion that he had made his con
ient subject to the condition that the
control of the cable station at Yap
ihould be internationalized. Japan dis
iented from Mr. Wilson’s account of the
>roceedings, and called the British and
French governments to witness that her
version was correct. The point is im
>ortant to the United States because her
able from San Francisco to China
>asses from the island of Guam, which is
American, to Yap, and she remained un
noved by the Japanese argument that if
fapan now controlled the Yap end of
his cable it was no more Than Germany
lad done before the war without Ameri
ca complaining. Germany, of course,
lever stood in the same relationship to
America in the Pacific that Japan does,
Cheap German Money.
From the New York Post.
The cheap German mark is little of a
nenaceif the rise of prices in Germany
corresponds to the depreciation of the
urrency. No matter what the German
nark may be worth in our own money,
t makes little difference in the long
un provided the Germany manufacturer
las to pay out so many times more in
iaper marks to produce the commodity
le sells. Temporary dislocations be
:ween foreign exchange and domestic
High Praise for General Wood.
From the Manila Times.
General Wood would be the greatest
governor general we have ever had, the
greatest governor general we could pos
sibly hope for. Lord Cromer, “the
naker of modem Egypt,” said of Gen
eral Wo«d that he was one of the
greatest of colonial administrators; and
10 higher praise could come from one
pvho was himself perhaps the greatest
colonial administrator of all time.
Ephemeral Tariffs.
The postmaster general’s reference to
‘a permanent tariff bill to last for
many years” again reminds the public
the ephemerality of permanent tariff
r. 1 11 o
Her Way Out.
From the Birmingham Age-Herald.
"A man came In the other day," said
the medium to an acquaintance In the
same business, “and asked me to get
into communication with the shade of
Julius Caesar right away. He wanted
Lo know what Caesar really said when
Brutus stabbed him."
“That was easy.”
"Of course. But for a moment I for
got the stock line we always use, so I
had to clutch at the air three or four
times and tell my client that as I was
z lady 1 couldn’t repeat such language."
Looked That Way.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
Two miners had never seen golf played
before. They stood watching a fat, un
skillful player at work In a bunker. The
sand flew up but the ball remained.
Seven agonizing shots had been played.
The player made his eighth attempt.
The ball was lobbed up, dropped on the
green and, rolling to the pin, settled In
the hole.
"By gum, Bill!” said one miner to the
other. “He’s got a, deuce of a Job on
now!"
Fires.
From the Rural Weekly.
Germany, as a result of the war, lost
21,647,620 acres of land, exclusive of
plebiscites.
The United States during the war lost
56,488,S07 acres of forest land, by fires.
We are out worst enemies.
Pat Was Ready.
From London Answers.
Clergyman—Do you know. Pat. the
Bun never sets on the British empire?
Pat—Ay. to be sure, and quite right
never to trust an Englishman In the
dark.
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SUN CURE FOR RICKETS.
When, thanks to the vogue, you meet
n bow legged girl on the street, forget
her socks, forgot the grease under her
okln. Remembers rickets.
When you see a young Garibaldi with
the head of a Daniel Webster, forget all
about intellectual giants, but remember
rickets.
When you see a pigeon breasted negro
with shirt open shoveling coal on a hot
day, forget all you have heard about
deep chested folks and remember rick
ets.
When you sed a child sleeping with
head on pillow wet with sweat, the re
mainder of his skin dry, forget the heat
and remember rickets.
When you see a child fretting with
pain in its legs, forget growing pains
and think of rickets, scurvy, or rheuma
tism.
When you see the animals in the zoo
With curved backs and crooked legs,
think again of rickets.
If you live in the country or south of
Mason and Dixon's lin®, this diseas®
does not mean so much to you. It is
the city people who have reason to dread
it, and negroes and Italians suffer most
of all. Recently a man who is generally
right wrote that all negro children in
the cities were ricketty. He was almost
right.
Statements almost as sweeping could
be made about Italian children. The
■warms of negroes who rolled into north
ern cities from the south a few years
ago are now raising an enormous crop
of ricketty babies.
By babies, w’hen one speaks of rick
ets, is meant children over 6 months of
age and generally over 1 year of age,
for the disease rarely develops in the
very young.
Now, having used up all my “red ink”
I will dip my pen in the other well.
It seems that the ricket situation is
about to clear up. At least, the Infor
mation is coming to hand which when
applied promisesjp make rickets of little
consequence. Hess and his associate®
starved young rats until they became
emaciated, stopped growing, and got sore
•yes. If rickets was due to improper
feeding, these animals should have de
veloped it, because they were deprived
of fat soluble A, as well as other foods
Df TtrViInH tree c?o id fn nonan
rickets. None developed any signs of
rickets when examined by microscope
and otherwise. The conclusion was that
growth Is one thing, rickets is another,
and food is not a major factor in rickets.
Conversely, when ricketty children and'
rlcketted animals were slowly burned'
into a mahogany brown by sunlight they
got well. The conclusion is that sunlight
will cure rickets and also plenty of sun
light will prevent rickets.
Fitim several places In Europe reports
confirming Hess’ position have come.
Of course, hygiene and sanitation that is
good In other directions helps, and no
one suggests that the use of phosphorus
and cod liver oil In cure be discontinued.
But sunlight for prevention and sunlight
for cure are the slogans.
A Robin’s Romance.
From the London Mail.
What appears to be a romantic union;
between an American robin and a.
British blackbird is reported from
Twickenham. A doctor In practice there
writes that a woman patient of his con
fined to her room was in the habit of
feeding birds at her window. In March
last a bird like a thrush with a red
breast always accompanied by a black
bird—came to her daily for food. These
visits continued till last month, when
the pair ceased to come. The patient
recognized the red-breasted bird as one
of tho American robins, which were
Introduced into England by Lord North
cliffe 12 years ago.
Mr. Seth-Smith, curator of birds at
the*London zoological gardens, pointed
out that it appeared as if the American
robin had successfully mated with a.
British blackbird. “The dates men
tioned,” he said, “correspond with the
mating and nesting season. It looks al
most certtain that two broods of hybrid
young ones must have been reared.
There is no real reason why this should
not happen. Both belong to the thrush
tribe and they would not have hunted
together during those particular
months unless there had been hungry
mouths to feed.”
Another most interesting point Is the
fact that the American robin is so near
London. Eggs from Lord Northeliffe's
imported birds were placed in black
birds’ nests near Guildford, and the
foster parents successfully reared them
Reports up to October last showed that
American robins were moving north as
far as Westmorland.
The McAdoo Boom.
From the Washington Star.
Among the cognoscenti—If that word
Will go in politics—Mr. McAdoo Is re
garded as an entrant in the race for
the next democratic presidential nom
ination.
Several straws show the direction of
the wind. 1. The organizing at this
early day of a McAdoo club in Missouri.
2. Introducing him as a critic of the
Harding administration in the Senate
discussion of the railroad problem. 3.
And a manifestation of interest by him
In the Boy Scouts. He recently played
In a scout baseball game before the
camera, and played' so awkwardly that
his compliment to the boys In playing
at all was emphasized.
Mr. McAdoo made a remarkable show
ing at San Francisco. He was the only
man who gave Governor Cox a real
run for his money. The others were
merely “alsd rails." But the New
Iforkcr, from the fall of the flag, was
close up, and finished a stirring second.
He and Governor Cox made a horse
race of it.
Wp hflVP tft pnnaijlor hnnrnvne
n that contest Mr. McAdoo had the
support of all but a fraction of the
rational administration. The department
rf Justice naturally gave its support to
Mtorney General Palmer. All tile other
lepartments with the treasury at their
read, gave their voices for Mr. Wilson’s
soninlaw.
This, of course, cannot be repeated. In
924 the national administration will be
rf republican complexion. Mr. McAdoo
vlll have to look elsewhere for "pull"
tnd votes.
Prunes and Maple Sugar.
From the Boston Transcript.
Time was when the prune, especially •
he boarding house prune, was subject
if Jest. Now it is regarded with respect
is an asset of great value to the states
n which It Is produced. How the prune
ind other western products of the or
hard and the vineyard have been made
i source of wealth to the growers Is
ust now subject of study by the owners
if the sugar maple groves of Vermont
ind New York. They are told that time
vas when the prune grower received
rut 18 cents of the $1. which was paid
>y the ultimate consumer, while today
he grower's share is 49 cents. The men
f the Green Mountain state and their
leighbors in New York are considering
he possibilities of extending the mar
;et for maple sugar through advertis
ng and improved methods of distribu
lon and marketing, with benefit alike
o themselves and the public. The Ver
mont Sugar Makers’ association and
he New York Maple Products organ
sation are studying methods of co-oper
tive marketing which are in u?e in
he west. They are also devoting atten
lon to modern methods of financing
trod production.