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    BEST TRICK NOT IN THE AIR
Aviator Waa Clover at Hu Work,
but Snnn Bert in Another
Cme of Endeavor.
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ft-tlade |>fc:a. said at a iw at banquet
tbe i tellerue Stratlord: V
T« *. « o true that it tak"s a lot
«d money !u ber-1-tSr aii «trmu. Tou
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*1 w«a u air ting a bn-tber airman
making a > iljdace tbe otter day
• bus 1 board a ymtj lady say:
"He can do a lot of tricks, can't
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'• ■* reply. *i# buying * btplane on cred
•' i! • done it twin now. and 1
•irfHiidn t be smrprl*ed to ace him pall
’ off a tt.rd t.sae before be breaks his
reck '®
A Little Off.
Boj’or Pet rose was talking tn
K sat r.gtuA abend the dreadful bunting
t'rdtati of Last month “When bock
*escr setrea a man ' he said, “be goes
a* far 5 ! s aim as tbe old lady went
tn her d-ariuon of the word 'belli
rose' She was talking witb a t: .end
afamit a bisbop.
He » a fine man.* said the friend,
s fine, handsome man. His only
troufcl- is that bt a little bellicose'
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a Si.rpri.«d frown 'He most hare
..aged. then. The last time I aaw
him bo waa tall and rather slender *"
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Hr »«fr can't decide on a car.”
Tt.» ?.udrl is the Last word In
toonng cars.”
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HE past few months have wit
nessed political changes in
China that are fraught with
grave import for the people
of the most populous country
on the globe. At the same
time there has been working
to a culmination another evo
lution in public affairs that
holds almost as much signifi
cance for the inhabitants of
the Orient as does the up
heaval of the machinery of government This
late development is a crusade to free the
Chinese, and. incident.tilly. other peoples of
the world, from the b adage of the opium
habit which lias for so many years been a
drag upon their intellectual and materiaJ
progress.
v\'e. as Atr.eri'ans, must fofd_ rn especial
rride and interest in this breaking of the
■trip of the de; dliest drug iiabit because it
has been brous :t about largely through the :
efforts of the United States. Or. in other
words. Uncle Sam set the ball rolling At
■ • batr.-h:: •■■a'. <>i opium from China, but
■riduailv tic ’ope of th» anti-cpiura “n..s
. r ary wort" •■■.rand'd until it • n braec.'i the
whole w ■ Ktion of the globe wfc(W
!■ * use of opium las become a hab! —and
I'n..liy v. ithia t: i as: few months, ice light
s sinst th<* evil has l»e‘>-i expand* i in scope
until it rn.br aces prohibttive or restrietive
ariii n not erily acair.s' opium, but else against
morphine . eoair: ■, and. in short, all ha’oit
fortcing drug?.
T!.** fight ceaiust the opium evil, with Un
■ !e Sam as the chief aggressor. has been
e-<sng cn steadily tor tome years past but it
i* only now on the eve of complete sur-ress
that ;l has come 'n attract attention from all
classes of the community From the time
mien Chinese began to settle in the United
States, bringing with them, many of them.
rh«“lr love of ••rium smoking it was realized
•hat the evil was one the menace of which
would sooner or lifer be brought home to our
1 eople—pirth ularly these residing on the Pa
cific slope a: d in the western section of the
country where the bulk of the Mongolians
settled.
However. It was only after Uncle Fan came
■nto possession of the Philippines, following
the Spanish-American war that our public
men and government officials were thoroughly
■ reused to the necessity of grappling with the
problem. In the Philippines our people found"
great numbers of Chinese who were confirmed
opium 6inokers and. worse yet. they were
rapidly teaching the d«/strurtive habit to the
Entires of the islands. There was much agi
tation of the subject both in the Philippines
and here ir. the United .States and the- up
shot of the matter was that the congress of
the Ur.lted States passed laws prohibiting the
l.rportation of opium into the Philippines
e-.cept for medicinal purposes. From that mo
meat there was a marked improvement of
renditions.
The example of Uncle Fatr.’s action and the
. triplet* success which attended it. awakened
China to he* ..wn need ard gave hope of a
' elution. The progressive r.^n of China were
Jeoplv move*, by iho spectacle of another na
tion land on.* that had always been tradi
tionally friendly to China) combating at the
very doors of the Orient with an evil that
was realized by all thinking men to be sap
ping the life blood of a large share of Asia’s
population. The result was a strong anti
crlum movement in C lur.a and out of this
'.r**w a direct appeal to then President Roose
velt ftom representatives of missionary so
cieties In the Far Fast and from commercial
or rani rations and institutions in the United
States. It was the pica of these various in
terests that the United States government,
considering Us historical attitude In regard to
t ie opium traffic in the Orient, should take
the initiative in assisting Ch.na to secure the
prohibition of that traffic.
This was in ih-e year 1904, but it was a
c< >,p!e of years later that definite plans were
made for an international concert of action
n the matter. In that year Bishop Charles
H Brent of the Philippines, who was. natur
■l-y. in a position to appreciate the havoc
wrought by opium, wrote to President Roose
velt appealing to him “to promote some raove
mc ;t that would gather in its embrace repre
f u’atives from all the countries where the
‘•jffic in and the use of opium is a matter of
n iment.” Thereupon President Roosevelt
i-: 1 hi* secretary of state. Mr. Elihu Root,
pen up correspondence with all the powers
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would not he possible to
foriu a distinguished inter
national commission that
would study the opium
problem as it then appeared
in the quarter of the globe
where it had proven the
greatest menace, and would.
lunner. report «ne wisest measures for better
ing the situation.
!t required a year and a half or letter writ
ing, hack and tnrth, before the governments
concerned could he induced to meet each
other ori a common basis. In explanation of
this reluctance It may be pointed out that a
number of the countries, notably Great Britain,
and her colonics. France. Holland and Siam,
derive large revenues from the opium traffic,
and in some Instances opium production
is a government monopoly. Should the
traffic in opium be virtually abolished, as
it is likely to be In time, these various powers
stand to lose revenue to the enormous aggre
gate of one hundred million dollars a year.
No wonder they hesitated. However, in' the
end the common cause of humanity tri
umphed and it was arranger! that an interna
tional opium "Oinmission should be created.
This commission, which took up its work at
the city of Shanghai. China, early in the year
1909. discussed all phases of the moral eco
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nornic. scientific and political aspects of the
opium problem, not cnly as existing in the
Far East but throughout the world. The out
come of the gathering was the unanimous
adoption of a series of recommendations in
which the delegates and experts assembled,
strongly urged that their respective countries
take action in three matters, namely an
overhauling by each nation of its own regu
lations with reference to the opium traffic;
the adoption of measures for the suppression
of opium smoking, and. finally, the enforce
ment of restrictions upon the manufacture
and sale of morphine.
The experts of the different nations having
agreed upon the measures that ought to be
taken to curb the evil, it was up to tbc United
States, she. having inaugurated the project,
to make the next move in the matter. This
she did with no loss of time. Our officials
wrote to the various powers suggesting that
they get together and take action on the
recommendations that had come from Shnng
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fcai. In other words, it was suggested that as
a sequel to the earlier effort there should
now be international eo-operation for the plac
ing of the production and traffic in cpiura un
der international law.
The culmination o' tNt io**g fight is now in
sight. An international conference to held
recently at The Hague, the capital of ■
Netherlands, to arrange for measures that ;
will put up the bars against opium and other |
habit-forming drugs all over the world. Many
of the men who attended the Shanghai con
ference were appointed by their respective
governments to represent them at The Hague, j
The power and significance of the two gath
erings was vastly different, however. At the
Shanghai conference those in attendance :
ocu'id only advise and recommend. At The
Hague conferenci the delegates were empow
ered by their respective governments to agree
upon definite measures. After prolonged ses
sions, measures were decided upon which, it
is expected, will fully carry out and put into
effect the objects of the conference. These
measures will be reported to the various gov
ernments represented, to be followed by legis
lative action on the part of their law-making
bodies putting into execution the regulations
agreed upon. This is supposedly a m.-re^ mat
ter of rouMne. as all the powers have given
their promise.
Fobrmost cf the regulations agreed upon
are those for uniform national laws and regu
lations to control the production, manufacture
and distribution of opium and its derivatives.
Almost as important will be the regulation
by the universal postal union of the transmis- ;
sion of opium through the mails. Going yet ,
further in the direction of complete control
will be the restrictions that are to be placed
upon the cultivation cf the poppy, from which
opium is derived, and limiting the number of
ports through which the drug may be shipped
by opium-producing countries. There was
adopted also uniform marks of identification
for packages containing opium in interna- j
tional transit.
The nations that are interested in this
world-wide crusade and were represented at
the conference _ include the United States,
China. Great Britain, France. Germany, Italy.
Japan. The Netherlands. Persia. Portugal. Rus
sia and Siam. Some of the other powers,
notably Austria-Hungary, were not directly
represented because they are not much affect
ed by the opium evil, but they have given as- |
surance that they will abide by the regula- j
tfons which have been agreed upon by the 1
conference. When the international confer- i
ence was first proposed. China showed her '•
intense interest by appointing a strong dele
gation including such progressive men as Dr.
Yen, who was educated in American colteges
and is in sympathy with American ideas and !
ideals.
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CALIFORNIA TREASURE STORY
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The story of a wound received in the Civil
war which sealed the hiding place or a fortune
for more than half a century and of a strange
trick of fate which cleared the hider’a memory
in the evening of life was brought to Los An
geles by the hfder's son. J. K. Anderson or
New Orleans, who is at the Van Nuys en route
to the old placer mining fields of California,
says the Los Angeles Herald.
Anderson's father joined in the gold rush
and was one of the miners of the '49 days. He
located a claim in Placer county, near Auburn
and Newcastle. vVlthm a year he had snatched
from the river bottoms a fortune. Then tha
call of the south for volunteers reached him.
He buried the gold beneath the adobe blocks
of a tavern in the vicinity ot his claim,
strapped all the precious substance he could
carry about his body and hurried .to join the
Confederate army.
Anderson says that bis father was struck in
an engagement with the Union troops by a
bullet which tore open his scalp and robbed
him of his memory for fifty years. During that
time, the son says, the pare*:' was like a child
with all knowledge of the hiding place of th<^
gold gone. Before he died, a year ago. his
memory of the gold rush returned to him and
he was living agam in the past that preceded
his part in the conflict.
It was durlpg these last moments that the
old man toft1 his son and the mother where he
had buried what he claimed was a fortune.
The soil is hurrying to unearth if possible
the buried treasure. Anderson said:
“My father said he burled the gold under a
c-irrer of an old adobe tavern patronized by
miners in the early days. This tavern was
la Long valley at a point halfway. I nave
learned, between the present towns of Newcas
tle and Auburn. I have learned through cone
spondence that a family by the name of Scott
occupies the tavern as a farmhouse and that
the country around it Is devoted to the rais
ing of citrus fruits.
“No one has disturbed the original lines ot
the building. The adobe blot.ks are heavy. I
have obtained permission from the owners to
prosecute my search and will give them a
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share of ray findings. Otherwise I would have
to buy the property."
Anderson Is a civil oy.g-iueer. He was en
gaged ay The government for some time in
work on the Panama canal, but has left his
employment to search for the treasure wi<c«
he maintains his father has hidden in the old
placer mining fields of California.
Trained Nurse Who Snores
“In all these mouths 1 was in the hospital
somebody ought to have warned me, 1 think."
did the trained nurse, according to the New
York Times. "Of course 1 had it from the
folks at home that I snored a little, but l never
took it seriously until I went on my tirst case.
1 found then tliat it is a serious matter tor a
nurse to snore.
“1 took ihe case from a nurse whose own
health had broker, down. The patient wa3
nervous and excited over the contemplated
change, and that made my ordeal more se
vere; a brand new ease of my own would nave
been much easier. Still, we got along tairly
well together the tirst half of the night. He
was a kindly man. and soon after midnight ho
insisted that 1 should try to get some sleep.
I didn't think I'd catch a wink, but by and
by I dozed off. it was a fatal sleep for me.
The next morning the patient s sister told me
about the snoring
“ '.lames could net rest at all.’ she said. ‘I
heard you in the next room.’
“Tiefore night 1 was looking for another joh
Of course i did not have to give up nursing
entirely, but the hard cases, where I am re
qulred to kee.j awake every second, are open
to i$e. Ail those soft snaps that give you a
chance to sleep half the night are beyond the
reach of the snoring nurse."
Unintentional Truth.
"The latest agony,” said n spendthrift to his
dissipated companion, “is the way I felt this
morning My wife asked rb«» for a £10 note
and I cut the matter short by telling her that it
could not he done, for the simple reason that
I had only a matter of t, bob or so In my
pocket.
• T knew you'd tell rae that.’ she said, and
it's true too.' And as 1 looked up in amaze
ment she added. T looked In your pockets last
night. I've got the £10 note.’
"Fancy how ! felt: But what could I do?"—
London Tit-Bits.
Plausible.
"Braggs is up In Maine hunting He writes
me that he's shot the biggest hear on record."
"Don't doubt ft. It would have to be a mon
ster for Braggs to hit it.”—Boston Transcript.
His Wife's Misfortune
Poor Jones was in a dilemma. It
was Mr*. Joner birthday, and her
* pease was well .^ware that she would
Ui extremely -.nplaasant if no present
w»s forthcoming. It was not until
the morning when he awoke that he
remembered it, so he lay for some
time thinking of the best way out of
•he difficulty.
Then he arose, crept downstairs,
took the biggest plate he could find
from the chinc-cupboard, and placed
it on the hall table. This done, he
opened the back dcor and let the dog
in from the yard. Then, tripping
lightly upstairs, he called to Mrs.
J.:—
"This being your birthday, I have
prepared a little surprise for you; be
quick and come and see how you like
it"
Then be ran downstairs again and,
I
kicking out tht dog. cried in amaze
ment and wrath, "If that vile beast
hasn’t eaten the whole of the beau
tiful cake 1 had bought for you!"
Rut he’d forgotten to unmuzzle the
brute. a..d the fact tcok a lot of ex
plaining away.
Cranks and Wings.
’Til have to get new wings," said
the flying man. "These are ail scrawled
up with the signatures of cr-nks. Look
here. It's dangerous.” The fabrics of
the monoplane's wings was indeed
lined and criss-crossed with Gi-orge
Smiths. John Drowns. Mamie Greens,
and so forth.
"Wherever an airman alights," he
said, "a lot of fools rush up. get out
their pencils and scrawl their silly
names all over the wings* Sometimes
a pencil point punctures the tense,
thin fabric—alwcys the fabric Is
strained by the pencil's pressure. Nev
ertheless. the wretched habit keeps up.
end every now and then, just on ac
count of the scores of signatures on
them, a pair of good wings must be
thrown aside.”
Few business men could stand the
test of a demand for instant settle
ment of all obligations, and yet we
often demand the exhibition of a char
acter which only a litetime will form.
When a woman is away for the sum
mer she expects her husband to sit on
the piazza at home and howl like a
dog every night because he is lone
some.
DOOM LATTICE MAST
Navy Men Say 7iw?y Must Be
Abandoned.
Practically Indestructible, but Vibra
tion Proves Handicap to Range
Finders and Diminishes Ac
curacy In Gunnery.
Washington.—The skeleton masts
on the United States battleships, dis
tinctly a feature of American war
craft, are said to be doomed for the
scrap heap. There is a great deal of
discussion in naval circles over the
apparently well-founded report that
the navy department intends to aban
don the skeleton masts with which
all battleships are now equipped be
cause they have not come up to ex
pectations, and from the viewpoint of
naval experts are a hindrance and a
handicap to efficient marksmanship.
The vibration of the mast, due to its
slender mechanism, is said to be the
chief defect. Ftfr this reason thq
range finder, whose duty it is to pick
up the object and communicate the
distance to the gun pointers, is un- ,
able to do so with the celerity and
accuracy that would be demanded in
a naval engagement.
When the skeleton mast was intro
duced on American battleships it was
agreed generally a great step had been
taken in advance of other nations, it
was the belief then, and still is, that
the mast is indestructible, which gave
the ship in time of action a big ad'
vantage, for if the mast could not be
shot away the fire control system oj
the vessel at no time would be threat
ened.
The position of the range finder 13
at the top of the mast. He is tb»|
pulse of the ship, and mistakes mad-j
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Masts of the South Carolina.
by him may mean the destruction ot
the vessel. Naval experts figured a
12-lnch shell would pass through the
skeleton mast without destroying It,
whereas one shot in the old style hol
low steel mast would bring It down
and with it the whole tire control sys
tem. It was calculated several shots
could go through the skeleton masts
and it still would stand. But from all
indications those who advanced the
skeleton mast theory evidently were
carried away by their enthusiasm and
overlooked the drawback in another
direction that would be caused by the
vibration of a battleship steaming at
full speed.
'low much depends upon the range
finder can be understood only by mon
who make a study of fighting at long
range, as was pointed out by an ex
pert who says the skeleton masts are
a failure. It was expected that when
the lattice work masts first made their
appearamce other nations would be
quick to adopt them. It was a sur
prise to advocates of the new type ot
mast that this was not done. The
skeleton mast is typically an Ameri
can naval Idea, but from all indica
tions the defects now seen by experts
here were foreseen by experts in other
navies, and the American mast let
alone.
Those In favor of the skeleton masts
point to the excellent gunnery records
made In target practice since their
adoption as proof of their success, but
the counter argument Is advanced that
If the range finders were placed on
more substantial posts the marksman
ship of the navy. Increasing in excel
lence ns it has done year by year,
would be still better and all records
for speed and accuracy would be
smashed. The unpopularity of the
skeleton masts has been growing
steadily. It is said the change is not
far ofT, and any day may see orders Is
sued doing away with what a year or
two ago was thought to be great
stride forward In naval construction.
Dies of a Broken Heart.
Hempstead, L. I.—Extreme grief
over the tragic fate of her little girl
caused Mrs. Kate Bleowski to die of
a broken heart. Last week the little
one was fatally burned at a bonfire
in front of her home here and as she
was carried into the house the mother
collapsed. . She remained in a semi
conscious condition until her death.
The attending physician says that her
death wrs due solely to a broken
heart.
Deg Dies Near Master.
Smyrna, Del.—A shepherd dog,
jwned by Joseph Staats of Smyrna,
stricken with grief over the death of
sis master, wandered away from home
ind died in a hole he dug into the
*arth of the newly made grave. How
he dog located the graveyard or the
iroper grave is a mystery that ijiU
lever br solved. Mr. Staats had been
i partial paralytic for several years.