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EX-KINGS EYE
DANUBE STATES
Federation Is Formed on Paper
by Plotters In Switzer
land. DETAILS ARE flOT COMPLETE
Exiled Rulers, Seeing the Hopelessness
of Their Cnucc, Now Center All
Their Plotting on One Great
Scheme.
Heme, Switzerland. From "the piny
ground of IJtirope" (if before (be wir,
Switzerland bus become "the plotting
ground of Km ope" of nfter the wur.
And nil of this plotting may now be
summurls'ed lu one general end of "the
constitution of n Damihlan confedern
tlou." To the credit of the Swiss It must
lie .nld they resent In the extreme de
gree the abuse tluit Ik now being iniide
of their ronntry nnd their hospitality
by the exiled rulers nnd ntntesmen of
erstwhile empires nnd states, but they
nre ns helpless In the mutter ns they
nre Innocent.
Keeps Everybody Busy.
While they ennnot keep their little
country from being converted Into nn
Incubator, however, they mn at least
try to keep the plots being brooded
iherelu from actually batching, and the
SwNs secret service, together with Its
gendarmes. Its policemen, Its detectives
and Its public ofllelals generally, are
putting In quite a few sleepless nlgbta
to this end.
Now that the gradual readjustment
of llurope has left no doubts In the
minds of certain exiled ruleis, like ok
King Constnntlne of Greece and some
of the former niler.s of German states,
of the hopelessness of their cause, all
of the plotting In Switzerland has
come slowly to center on one great
scheme, a scheme that Is not only con
sidered possible, but that Is considered
by many of the great minds and au
thorities of Europe as being absolute
ly Imperative and Inevitable.
This Is the constitution of a Dan
ublan federation to replace the old
dual monarchy, nnd w hlch. according to
Its backers, Is the only thing that can
Insure tho life of the half-dozen or
more states Into which the old Austrian-Hungarian
monarchy has been di
vided. ' Vital and Imperative.
Whether this Danublan federation
has Its center north of the Danube
witli what Is left of Hungary and Aits
ti in as a basis or whether it has its
center south of the Danube with Serbia
EGGS DROPPED FROM
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eggs f i urn a bag of mall dropped via parachute from a mall airplane Hying
over the capital from College Park, Mil.
CROP VALUES TRIPLED
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Production for Year 1919 Broke
All Records.
Worth Almost Three Times as Much
as Average for Five-Year
Period.
Washington. The value of crops
produced In the United States this year
Is nearly three times greater than the
nverngo iitmunl valno during tho flvo
years preceding the outbreak of the Eu
ropean war, according to the report of
the secretary of agriculture. "On the
basis of prices that have recently pre
vailed," says secretary, "the total value
of all crops produced In 1010 Is ?ir,
87:1,000,000, compared with 514,1222,.
000,000 for 1018; $1:1,470,000,000 for
11)17; $0,031,000,000 for 1010; ?,112,
000,000 for 1014 ; and .T!i,820.000,000 for
the five-year average, 1010-1014. Thcso
values represent gross production and
and Itoumanla plujjng he leading
role j whether It be nionnrchlcal or re
publican In form, together with half a
dozen other possibilities or ramifica
tions, are generally considered unim
portant. All that Is regarded as ltal
and Imperative Is that stieh a uu.fcd
era t Ion be constituted and that It be
organized In full harmony with end
support of tho allies.
.Hungary and German Austrln. ns
they will exist when the peace confer
ence finishes Its wink, will be dead
states their own people and states
men admit that. Poland nnd Czecho
slovakia are merely gambling bets.
Hut Serbia and Itoumanla are consid
ered as the two big future bets of
south central Europe.
On the oilier baud, there are Just
iik many supporters and Just as many
plotters In Switzerland who would like
to sco Vienna regain some of Its past
UNIQUE CEMETERY
1 TEACHES LESSON
Exhibit at Montana State Fair
Sent People Away
Thinking.
EPITAPHS DRIVE HOME TRUTH
Greater Convenience and a Larger
Measure of Comfort In the Farm
Home the Big Lesson Conveyed
by Miniature Graveyard.
Washington. It was a neat little
country cemetery, much like most lit
tle country cemeteries, yet tltere was
something queer about it. There was
the arched gateway and the customnry
weeping willows by It. The clipped
hedge wns like most cemetery ltedges.
The tombstones weie about the aver
age run of tombstones. Hut, withal,
there was something queer c en
shocking. Then you discovered what
It wns. These were truthful tomb
stones. Consoling platitudes "Too
pin o tor earth," and that like found
no place. Instead, there were such
epitaphs as these: "Mother walked
to death In her kitchen;" "Sacred to
the memory of Jane she scrubbed
herself Into eternity," "Grandma
washed herself away;" "Susie swept
AIRPLANE UNBROKEN
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Funeral Held for Cat,
Pet of New York Woman
l.eno, Mass. Funeral rites
over n cat here were attended by
all the employees on the sum
mer estnte of Mrs. Carlos de
Ilerodlas of New York, and the
feline's "remains" were burled
on the estate In a metal casket.
Hyacinth, a Persian cat, said to
have cost $0,000, was greatly
treasured by Mrs. de Ilerodlas,
and when It died at her home In
New York the owner bad the
body borne here in n special au
tomobile truck,
not net returns to the producer. The
value of live stock on farms In 1010
was $8,830,000,000, compared with $8,
Coal Car Rams Into
Man as He Is Bathing
liny City, Mich. Telford E
Hill, manager of the Mueller
Chicory company's plant, was
taking a bath lu bis home ad
joining the plant when a freight
car crashed through the house
and agatusl the wall of the bath
room. The wall fell, and u coal
car came in view.
There had been two cars stand
ing on the shoit switch. When
the train ciew attempted to
place more cars there they evi
dently forgot about them, and
the cars were sent through the
bumper right Into Mr. Hill's
bathroom.
glory ns the center of the new Kanubl
an confederacy; Ihidupcst Is equally
well represented, while there are
plenty of others who can demonstrate
from ii dozen standpoints, why War
saw Is Inevitably destined ns the future
great center of middle European ll.'e.
out of life with too heavy a broom."
Tlu people who saw that cemeterj
and there were thousands of them
may have been shocked for the Instant,
but they came uway with tho thought
that one might be better for seeing '
sjicIi a cemeterj. Tor, you see, It was '
a miniature ceme'erj, three feet (
square, and It was part of an exhibit
at th" Monlnua state fair. Such levity
with the most .solemn thing thatinan-. '
Mini knows could not be Justltled ,
merely on the theory that the things
said were true but those who saw It
came away with the belief that It was
Justified by way of keeping Just those
things from being true. And that was
tho purpose of the exhibit, placed
there by the agricultural extension de
partment of the State Agricultural col
lego of Montana. It was meant to em
phasize the need for homo conveni
ences, for lack of which many a farm
woman has gone to her grave beforr
her time.
Drive Truth Home.
There were other exhibits designed
to drive home the same hard truth.
One was a model showing n bleak
farmhouse on a bnre hill. At the bot
tom of the hill ran n little stream, nnd
by the stream were barns nnd cattle.
Struggling up the hill toward the house
with two heavy palls of water was n
bent old woman. And the legend was:
"Convenient for tho cattle but not for
mother." Then there was a farmhouse
with tho water supply as It nliould be,
the woman In the yard sprinkling her
tlower beds with a hose. And the In
scription read: "Convenient for moth
erand the cattle, too." Another
model showed a kitchen as It should
be, and another, n kitchen as It should
not be. And there was 'the legend: "A
long-distance kitchen sbor ens life."
The lesson taught by the exhibit Is
one that the state agricultural colleges
and the United States department of
agriculture are trying to teach by
every means at their command great
er convenience and n larger measure
of comfort In the farm home.
CALIFORNIA RICE DOES WELL
New Agricultural Industry Produces
Crop Worth Millions
of Dollars.
Washington. In eight -jours the
Sacramento valley of California has
developed a new agricultural Industrj',
rice growing, which this nst season
has resulted In a gross production es
timated to be worth approximately
twenty-one millions of dollars. This
sbowlng Is the result of research car
ried on by the bureau of plant Indus
try of tho department of agriculture.
Following experiments by the bureau
covering three years, tho tlrst com
mercial rice crop as planted In 1012.
The value of the 1010 rice crop In Cal
ifornia will probably bo several mil
lions greater than tlfnt of wheat ami
peaches, both of which aro commonly
thought of ns relatlvelj largo cropn
lu that state.
281.000,000 In 1018; SOJftfl.OOO.OOO in
1017; .? 0,021. 000,000 In U,fl; ijifi.SOO.
000.000 In 1014; ml .r.!ll 000,000 for
the live-yen r average, 10104014.
"This Increased ilnaiiclnl showing, it
Is again necessary to ompli'islze. does
not mean that tho nntlon lu butter off
to that extent or that Its real wealth
has ndvanced in that proportion. Con
sidering merely the domestic relations,
the true state Is Indicated rather hi
terms of real commodities, comparative
statements of which nre given In fore
going tables. Tho JucronsoU values,
however. do reveal that the monetary
returns to the farmers have Increased
proportionately with those or other
groups of producers in the nation, nnd
that their purchasing power has kept
pace lu the rising scale of prices."
Aged Fiddler Plays.
Fremont, O. "Itat" Gould, cham
pion oldtlmo fiddler of Amerlcn, cele
brated his elghtloth birthday miniver
nary with n dance In tho Mutual Aid
hull In Bellevue. "Itut" furnished the
music. Old-fashioned dances vvero revived.
AIRPLANE VIEW
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an airplane Mew ot isaliioa, the
ago a salt water swamp which wns tilled In by the Pulled States government. Nearlv every building In the pho
togrnph Is of concrete. The large building in the foiegrotind Is a scboolbouse. In the right' background Is a hiign
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NEW AMERICAN
The U.
port, Conn.
S. submarine S-10, on'e of
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Maurice Maeteilinck, the famous Helglan poet and dramatist, and bis
joung wife photographed on their aiilval In New York to attend the premiere
of his opera "Ulue Illrd."
GREAT DRY DOCK
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As tho prow of the battleship Virginia crossed tho sill of tho now Com
monwealth dry dock, nt Iloston, It struck a Moral wieath stretched across
from Willi to wall, and us the huge fighting craft moved forward tho chain of
flowers MiaprJ, illelully opening tlio
world.
OF BALBOA ON THE
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Paclilc entiance to the I amimii canal.
SUBMARINE LAUNCHED
the largest in the navy, photographed
YOUNG WIFE ARRIVE
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FORMALLY OPENED
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largest dry dock of Its -kind lu the
PANAMA CANAL
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wits former! j about ten year.-
AT BRIDGEPORT
just after It was launched at Urhlgo-
WAS FOILED BY A VULTURE
Lieut. Ktlenne Poulet. French filer,
might linvo beaten Capt. Roos J3mlth
In the rate to Australia had It not
been for n fight with a huge vulture
while flying over the mountain peaks
of Slam near the town of Moulmaln.
The vulture circled for n timo over
the nlrcraft, which was making llttlo
speed because of weather conditions,
then dived straight down, striking and
shattering the right propeller. Tho
lieutenant senrehed tho mountain tops
for over half an hour before finding
a suitable place for landing. Ho hud
to abandon the race.
An Attentive Pupil.
Jack, aged five, and Henry, soven,
had listened attentively while tho rec
tor explained to the church school tho
reason for tho. cniupalgit for church
expansion. On the w;ny homo .Tnck
noticed for the first time the posters
advertising the cnmpnlgn.
"Who put up those posters?" piped
Jack.
"God." said Henry, without n mo
ment's hesitation.
"How do you know God did It?"
Jack asked.
"Oh, didn't you hear Mr. nrnu-nn.n.,
all tljH church expansion Is Qod'id
worn t
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A Tolerant Attitude.
"Your Intellectual friend enjoyed tho,
movies?" '
"She seemed to, nnd I nniK glvo
her credit for one thing."
"What Is thnt?"
"Although she knows nnnLi,i..i.i-
more iibout Latin and Greek than she1
does about making a pie, she refrained'
from calling attention to , ,. 4-i
Ical mistakes In tho fnibtltles." Bir-
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