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The BEE'S Jumbr Birthday Book
Lay of the Hotel Lobbyist
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"Ques crooks will b careful not to
.leave their finger prints lying loom" around
the scene of the crime since the New York
rtives made that burglar confess," ob-
rrvea ine i.nair armer. -
'The sleuths had what you anight all a
finger tip.'" faid the Hotel .Lobbyist as
j he lighted a Iran, yellow cigar with
freckle on It. "Believe me. when crooks
learn that they have whorla, loops and
duflickers on their fingers that cannot be
duplicated they 'Will all get dizzy looping
1 the-loops.
! "It makes ma' smile to see th same
police convicting men on the 'evidence of
j the finger prints and then sending out the
I patrol to arrest a load of palmists. Why
I aren't they consistent? It makes great
reading, thougn, to hear how the ken-
eyed sleuth could pick out the first edition
I prints of the right man's fingers In four
. minutes. 'Twill behoove every second
' story worker, burglar and safe breaker to
us sand soap plentifully before tearing
off a job. I am Informed that the safe
wer. use soap, but not on his hands.
ever. It Is more than likely that future
are will not use the old-fashioned
mask on their facee, but will disguise their
finger tips.
"Of course, this will bar from business
the 'C omic Valentines' who open safes by
the delicate sense of touch In their finger
tips, but a Rood Journeyman murderer can
probably wield a crowbar over the bean
of his victim or Jimmy open a houae with
out pausing to carefully scatter a set of
Identification ' finger prints around the
room. Although I have never been mur
dered, I understand that some rough
assassins handled their victims without
glovee, so there is hop for the finger print
sleuth.
"This all brfhgs me to the plot of a great
melodrama I am going to writ around
tha. Tou know how the old school melo'
'Tit. the kind where innocence always got
UVn the collar button until one minute be
foiY the- drop of th final curtain. Of
course such antiques had to go, because
even If we stood for It w didn't have a
Jeer left for th villain.
"Tou recollect that th , first Vet In-
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"SLEUTH."
variably showed C library with a safe in
the background and a dear white haired
man doddering around with no other pur
pose than to be murdered so that he could
put on red whiskers In th second act and
double as a policeman. The villain with
the piercing black mustache always killed
the dear old soul and then carefully scat-1
tered around the rifled safe the hero's
Initialed handkerchief or his calling card.
Or maybe he borrowed the hero's pocket
knife on pretext of paring his nails and
stabbed the leading old man. After which
the play went on. the hero being arrested,
of course, for being so Imbecile as to leave
his initials lying around loose. After
three arts of agony it was all cleared up.
"Old stuff, eh? Well, I'm going to have
a villain mho will get the simple-minded
hero 'lend him his finger prints which the
scoundrel will place on th white shirt
front of th aged vltlm. Business of
sleuth convicting hero by th finger print
rout. Grest, eh?"
'But how will you solve It?" asked th
Chair Warmer,
"It will cost you 12 a seat to learn that,"
said the Hotel Lobbyist.
(Copyright, 1911, by the N., T. Herald Co.)
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Secrecy in Wire .Mess ages
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In the preaenc of prominent represen
tative of the army and navy, distin-
Tiost Inventors, a demonstration was
riven in New York recently of an inven
tion designed to prevent foreign spies
from tapping government wires and learn
ing the secrets of the war, navy and stat
departments, either in time of atrlf or
peoce.
The demonstratlonwhlch ' posesed an
added interest because of the frequent
reiteration of futur trouble with Japan
and the uneertala etmdltlon prevailing
along the Mexican" border,"-wa' held un
dr the Joint auspice of th' New Tork
World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
l-'or half an hour messages wer ex
changed by . the military men and aden
osis H'tnorvt In the' two newspaper of-
e. l.(W miles apart. In their Judgment,
Invention solves one of the most Im
portant military problems with which an
army has had to contend ever sine the
Introduction of the telegraph as an aux
iliary of modern warfare.
The invention Is the work of Fatrick B.
Pelnny, Inventor of the telepost auto
matic telegraph system and multiplex., the
o.ntl-ime relay and other improvements
to the telejjraph and cable. It breaks up
the riot's and dashes forming the letter
of the telegraph code and required . the
use of two circuits, traversing widely sep
araleil territory. One went to Bt. Louis
by wp.y of Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Colum
bus, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, and
th ntber by way of Albany, Buffalo,
Cleriand. Toledo and Chicago.
A he two wires were controlled and nrt
eiM from an ordinary single Morse key.
anef'the message wa received over a sin
gle receiver at th end of tta Journey in
the same way as a regular communica
tion. Each alternate dot or dash traveled
over one wire and the other dot and
dashes over tho other. Though th dis
tance by way of ono route was hundreds
( or miles longer man mat 01 in omor,
Jr eaCn Impulse reached the receiving In-
By
secret
have
series
I of meaningless eaballattrs of no value to
i "j him. Parting company -at the sending
V key. the two parts of th message, ora
' rated by many miles throughout their
that can be made of service or profit to
it. Pel any presided at the demonstration
In th World office on this end, wher It
was witnessed by Thomas A. Edison,
Hudson Maxim, General A. L. Bufflngton.
U. 8. A.; Major J. B. Reeber. U. 8. A.,
chief signal service officer of th depart
ment of th east, stationed In New York :
offiolals from th Brooklyn navy yard and
signal officers of th Atlantic fleet. Ad
miral Setoa Shroeder, commanding, now in
port.
In th Post-Dispatch .of flc In 8t Louis
were army, officer from th. Jefferson
barrack, and a number of prominent lay.
men.
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Nubs of Knowledge
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It la unlucky to measure a baby, as It
will not grow.
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Bretons throw pin or small place of
money Into well for luck.
To sneeme en Monday hastens anger) to
sneeze on Friday give a gift.
To sweep duat over the feet of a girl win
prevent her from vetting' a husband.
Pitting cross legged or with fingers dosed
Is accounted a sign of bad luck.
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Gambler think that a change of eat or
a new deal of the card will bring; luck.
In th Isle of Man th superstitious be
lieve that th wren 1 a transformed fairy,
Five hundred and thirty-five thousand
men work In British eoal mines.
Bohemian peasant hold It to be unlucky
to walk under a rainbow, because th rain
that descenda through the bow blight all
tt fall upon.
M' ument In Its proper sequence.
tfni'ln either wire all that th a
rt sl'-vice agent of an enemy would
i . a-li ten from it would have been a
flight across country, were only reunited
' -' HiTiiat th' receiving, rendering the tap-
ting of either wlr during th transit of
the message or no us Whatsoever.
The mechanical device that accomplishes
this is very elm pie, requires no special akill
to operate and can be used In any com
bination of two circuit of which th
telegraph Is susceptible. It make the
coding of confident! government mea-
t. . aage unnecessary, thus saving hour of
: valuabl tip" In periods of urgency when
it' minutes are vital to 0 i auecea of a
' movement, and will defy th Ingenuity of
t fo to extract from th wlr anything
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Crying children are rocky: they will have
fin eyes and broad shoulder.
If you sing before you eat In th morning
you will weep before you sleep.
Bablee' finger nails should not be out be
fore they are a year old, or they will turn
out thieve.
In certain section of rural England It Is
supposed to be unlucky to look at th new
moon for th first time through a window.
Witches Ilk th chape of magpie least
in Russia. Rustics there often -gibbet
dead magpU to scar away wlthchts front
stable and eowaheds.
A new moon seen over th right shoulder
Is lucky; over th left shoulder unlucky,
and straight befor you mean good luck
to th end of th season.
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JOY UNBOUNDED I LOOK AT THF
ROYAL ENTERTAINER WHO HAS
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Day We
Celebrate
May 22, 1911.
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JAMES V. MNDSAT.
I30t Evana.
; Loretta's Looking Glass-Reflects Girl Who Studies to Beat Men j
Aarne and Address. School. Ybson
Carrie J. Andrew, h.)9 North Thirty-third St Monmouth Fark...l89T
Harry W. Baty, 3815 Blondo St ...Franklin 190S
Mearl C. Bosteder, Fortieth 8t. and Curtis Ave Central Park 1901
Frank Brown, Thirteenth and Grace Sts ...Lake -...1900
Charles Belman, 710 Hamilton Apartments Farnam 1890
Marie Bergman, 939 North Twenty-fifth Ave Long 1908
Harry M. Carlson, 3209 Seward St Franklin ........1900
Rene J. Cowan, 1920 South Thirty-fourth St Windsor 1898
Gertrude Craig. 8217 Pacific St Park 1897
Francis Counally, 3916 North Twenty-third St Loth rap 1908
S. M. Cohen, 720 North Sixteenth St Cass 1908
Margaret Daly, 2015 Oak St...... Vinton 1904
Delmar C. Eldredge, 1709, Park Ave Park 1901
Ernest J. Eggers, 809 Pine St ,.i Lincoln. 1900
Leroy F. Flood. 2117 North twenty-sixth St Long 1908
Charles Gardiner, 1911 Charles St i Kellom 1901
Marie Gresham. 1532 North Nineteenth St Kellom 1898
David Green, 1919 Vinton St .1..TT Vinton 1896
Henry Gouber, 3909 South Fourteenth St t..St. Joseph 1890
Jeannette Goldsmith, 8204 Sherman Ave Lothrop 1900
Walton L. Guss, 1618 South Thirty-third St Windsor 1893
Martha Granlewska, 2528 South Twenty-sixth St....Im. Conception. . ..1900
Arthur Hlgbee, 2011 Maple St Lake 1901
Willie K. Hanelsen, 2315 South Central Boulevard. . Vinton 1897
Lillian M. Jensen, 2634 Corby St Howard Kennedy. . 1900
Gerald Kyle, 2407 Davenport St Central 1900
Charles Kane, 2721 Grant St Long 1900
Leonard Kipp, 2442 South Fifteenth St Castellnr 189S
Charles Laux, 2757 South Ninth St ; . . . . St. Joseph 1902
Ethel G. Lawrle, 4229 Ohio St Clifton Hill 1904
W. Floyd Lane, 4932 North Thirty-fifth St Monmouth Park.. .1904
James V. Lindsay, 3309 Evans St Howard Kennedy.. 1899
Leo Lehre. 1931 South Twenty-eighth St Im. Conception 1908
Louis Meyers, 3340 South Nineteenth St Vinton 1903
Charles Mahr, 1961 South Twenty-first St." Castellar.- . . , 1901
Earnest Murphy, 2749 South Twelfth St Bancroft ........1903
William Newman, 3337 Spalding St ..Druid lull 1904
Vincent Nelson, 1007 South Twenty-second St Mason 1900
Helen Nodgaard, 2802 Manderson St Lothrop 1897
Marie Nleamann, 2702 Lake St ...High ......1892
Wlnfleld Oviatt, 1931 South Thirteenth St. ........ Lincoln 1895
Alfred Pattlvlno, 918 Pierce St ..Pacific 1896
Arthur F. Rustin, 8503 Seward St High 1894
Ray F. Reel, 503 South Twenty-eighth St High .1890
Thomas Arley Rlchey. 4883 Pierce Bt Beala 1905
William C. Russell, 3109 Lafayette Ave Walnut Hill. . .. .1896
Mary Batorle, 1322 South Third St Train 1899
Sidney Schlotfeld, 6603 North Sixteenth St ..Sherman 1899
Ella B. Schultz, 2609 Grant St Long 1904
Hannah Tobin, 1036 South Eighteenth St Leavenworth 1901
George Voelker, 1920 Lake St Lake ,.1898
Theodore Williams, 2772 Lake St Howard Kennedy.. 19 02
I am not laurel-enatchlng. I want you to
have th poor pay of your wreath for all
you hav done. But I do complain of you.
I bitterly resent the slur you cast on my
sax. )
Blurt Tea, I mean Just that! I know
you think by making trade that are
higher than th one mad by men you
ar showing th superiority of girl to
men. . But you are not You are Just
showing your ability to do soma of th
thing w do a well or bettar than they.
Just now a 'lot of mistaken girls are
gloating, over the Cornell triumph. They
ar hooting' forth th glad news that
thirteen of th twenty-five eligible for Fhl
Beta Kappa ar girl. If there ever was
an unlucky thirteen, that certainly 1 it!
It I another bit of fertiliser for the root
of that malignant growth of sex antagon
ism. It' a regular acholarly nightshade.
Why do w crow ovr doing things that
men do better than weT In our crowing
enthusiasm w ar losing sigh of th fact
that w ar accepting a masculine educa
tion a If It wer of all thing desirable
Instead of forcing ths colleges to get prac
tically busy In adapting their teaching
for feminine needs.
Tou "grind," you are deferring the day
of our real education. You are making a
martyr of yourself to furnish data for the
conversational ladle who want to make
pchea on "woman' achievement"
And you are not doing what you think
you ar beating the men. You ar Just
showing that by devoting all of your en-
engy frequently sacrificing your health
to study you ar getting higher grades
than men who ar playing foot ball, tennis
and taking an active Interest in
fraternity or society, debating and others,
as well as dances and week ends, and
still keeping up grades that let them stay
In college. You are not proving that you
can beat men who are giving their whole
energy to th same thtng that absorbs you
grade making. The men who are too
poor to go Into th broad life of the well-to-do
collegian are almost Invariably
obliged to give a part of their time to self
support Bo why ket puffed up about
those high grade T
And you hav given th Intellectual
woman a kind of black eye that 1 not at
tractive. You hav so aqueesed and wrin
kled yourself to be come a "grind" that
your narrow Interests and apparently un
sympathetic nature hav come to be
blamed on all women of brain.
I do not believe In foot ball, because I
cannot bear to see a fin young mala In
capacitated for futur usefulness by a
kick In the wrong placa But I think th
senseless competition of grade getting has
th cruelty and uaelessness of foot ,ball
beaten a hundred times. Wak up, you
man beating glrL Tak what th college
give you; that suits your -need as a
woman. And fling th rest 'back In the
face of th faculties til) they ar forced
to afford . you an education which Is
adapted to your needs. Mak them let you
learn to live with people, not with booka
Don't let this man beating excallenc de
ceive you to the fact that It 1 a first-class
pulp maker, grinding your distinctly self,
your woman self, to death.
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Trials of a Hero
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I Hf CHILD? 1 RCSCUgf .
A New Jereey farmer cam to th city
th other day and, among other thing, he
visited a high class restaurant, says a Phil
adelphia paper. His appetite ran to cheese,
and, Inquiring of th waiter what sort of
cheese was listed, remarked that h de
sired "something new." "Why don't you
try a bit of Roquefort?" suggested th
waiter. "What' that?" asked th farmer.
'Hang It." he add id, "bring me some. I
Ilk the nam anyway." He ate of It and
liked It. Bo he thought he would tak
some horn to hi wife. Arriving late, he
laid th small cheese wrapped In silver
paper on th sideboard. He forgot to In
quire about It till next night and then he
asked his wife how aha liked It
"Oh, I s'pose It's mighty stylish up to th
city, but I Jea kinder couldn't us It I
oouldn't get no fosm out of It, and when I
washed th children they amelled kinder
funny, and I can't say's I Ilk If
Vp asatmst It.
"In th day of th ancient drama," said
th pedanilo person, "performance wer
given In th open air."
"What a discouragement that must hav
been," replied Mis Cayenne, "to th man
who Insist on going out of th theater
to get a breath of fresh air." Washington
Star.
Th cuckoo' oracle wr believed by
the ancient Pole to be aotually given by
the great god Zywia, th life giver, who
transformed himself Into that bird with the
object of giving his oracular utterances.
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Dangerous Strip of Land
Th stranding of th Frlnse Irene . on
th Fir Island bar was a serious mishap,
although no live wer lost It U no un
common thing for a liner to pok her
nos In th mud and remain stuck for a
few hour either coming up or gtlng down
th New Tork harbor; but th beaching
of on of these big ships, equipped as they
ar with wireless .apparatus, fog algnala
and vry appllanc that make for safety
in th open eee 1 an unusual and costly
accident
Not only does It cause delay and alarm
to passenger, but It also Involve a con
siderable expense to th owners of the
Ship. A parallel to th case of the Prlnzeas
Iron 1 recalled In the experience of the
American liner Bt. Paul, which stranded
on th Jersey coast about thirteen years
ago, but was floated again without loss of
life, though not without difficulty.
Of course the accident Inspires the usual
references to Fire island as an ocean
"graveyard." It Is true that th beach at
that point ha been the arena of some nota
ble wrack sine th ship Prlni Maurlta,
Captain Dirk Cornells, was lost there on
March 9, 1SS7. July 1(1, 1350, saw th strand
ing on Fir Island of th htp In which
Margaret Fuller and her husband. Count
Ossoll, together with their young son, wer
coming to revisit Margaret Fuller's horn.
Mother, father and son wer drowned. Th
loss of th schooner Loul V. Place In 1836
nd that of th schooner Benjamin C.
Cromwell of Bellport In 1904 ar memorable
among th more recent disasters on th
forty mile of and popularly known a
th Fir Island beach. As a matter of fact.
th Oak Islsatf and Rockaway aands far
ther west and th Quogu and Hampton
beachea farther east hav been quit as
destructive to Ufa and shipping as th
Fir Island sands. Southampton records,
for Instance, th loss of th British sloop
of war Sylph January 11 1818, when only
six men survived out of a crew of 117.
Oak Island Is charged with th wreck In
1822 of the Savannah, the first ship with
steam power that ever crossed th Atlantic
Th Rockaway and Hempstead shore hav
been the scene of many disasters, of which
th most notable are the wreck of th
Liverpool ship Bristol oft Rockaway on
November 20, 1K36, with the loss of eighty
four lives, and tbe wreck of th ship Mex
ico In January, 1S37, at a point In Hemp
stead township ten mile east of th spot
where the Bristol stranded. On hundred
and sixteen people perished In th Mexloo
reck. A curious fact about each oi- tb.es
wreck Is that the, captain had brought
his ship safely to Bandy Hook, but being
unable to obtain a pilot was compelled to
stand off shore. In each Instance a heavy
gal sprang up befor a pilot could b
secured and the ship was driven on th
sands to ths eastward.
We have established live-saving stations
and perfected life-saving equipment in
vented wireless telegraphy, organised fleet
of revenue cutters that are ready to stand
by any wreck, and generally effected a
vast Improvement In the condition of nav.
tgatlon and life protection sine th days
of the Bristol -nd the Mexico. But that
long rib of sand fronting th AtlantlO still
remains, always dangerous and ever in
satiable. Brooklyn Eagle.
That Wa Enough.
They were talking about th nosey
woman who knew everybody in th middl
of th block,
"Apparently she's got It In for those
people who moved away from No. W last
week," aald ha "What did they do to
her?"
"Nothing," said she, "except to borrow
their opera glasses th day befor they
moved, and keep them till the day aftr,
o she couldn't get a chance to train tham
on her back-room furniture." New Tork
Time.
Th Key to tn Situation Be Want Ada
8C P8th3l0. SEHO IT OVCeTOTHC
TAILOR AND TELL MlM TO HURKY, I
NUO IT AT OMCE.
Trouble on tho Border
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