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Ita- 1 $% In business, fortunes are not realized Unless your goods are amply advertised. VOL. m. NO. 5 BERMUDAS HAD HISTORYLIKE U.S. But Revolution Failed to Gain for Them Their Independ- ence. PEOPLE HELPED WASHINGTON Supplied Ammunition With Which Con tlnentaf Army Forced British to Evacuate BostonIslands Dis covered as Result of Ship- wreck. Washington, D. C"The Bermuda Inlands suggest the adventures of Rob inson Crusoe in their colonization and present in their later chronology a cu rious parallel to United States his tory, with the events consistently pre dated by a number of years." With this statement the National Geographic society prefaces a bulletin on the Bermudas, a principal group of the British West Indies, which some Englishmen suggest should be ceded to the United States in part payment of the Ameiican war loans to. Great Brit ain "The Robinson Crusoe comparison obtrudes because the islands were dis covered and later settled as the direct result of shipwrecks, and the settlers had to build themselves a bark to set sail again," the bulletin continues. "As for the anticipation of Ameri can history, on a miniature scale, It may be noted that the colonisation took place seven years before the Pil grims landed at Plymouth, Mass. that witches were burned, Quakers were persecuted and miscreants were docked before similar occurrences are recorded In New England, and that slavery was abolished in 1834. The Benmidians protested long before 1776 against the mother country's rule, until the island prisons were over full, but relief came, in their case, not through a declaration of freedom but by the accession of Cromwell. Helped to Start Revolution. "But the essential point of contact of the American with the Bermudian arises from the all-but-fovgotten fact that while the immortal Lafayette gal lantly helped the colonies -conclude their war of independence, the Ber mudians supplied the ammunition to begin it. "So acute was the need for powder in 1775 that George Washington wrote to the governor of Rhode Island that 'no quantity of powder, however small, Is beneath notice.' Learning that there was a store in Bermuda, and that the Islanders were anxious to have the em bargo lifted upon shipment of food supplies from the colonies, Washing ton addressed a letter to the people of the island, who had shown themselves sympathetic with the American Revo lution, promising them ample supply of provisions and 'every other mark of affection and friendship which the grateful citizens of a free country can bestow upon its brethren and benefac tors if they would make this ammuni tion available for the Continental army. 'Jit so happened that the powder had been procured before the letter was delivered, and with it the Continental army compelled the British to evacuate Boston. A Winthrop Joined Tories. "Not only the sale of powder but the fact that Bermuda allowed the col onies to haNe salt, so incensed the gov ernor of Bermuda that he upbraided the citizens for treason, and feeling ran so high that he was removed. His successor was a native of Salem, Mass., whose loyalty to the mother country \i as such that he gave up large estates in the colonies rather than Join the revolutionists. He was connected, both by blood and by marriage, with the Winthrop family. Under his rule the island's full allegiance to England was restored. "Browne was succeeded by Henry Hamilton, during whose adminstration the, town of Hamilton was founded and named for him. This town today Is the seat of the island government. It has a population of less than 3,000. "Hamilton is on Main island, or Ber muda, while St. George, the former capital, is on the island of the same name. There are more than 300 small islands in the Bermuda group, of which only a' score are Inhabited. The total population of the islands in 1916 was little over 20,000, of whom about one-third were white. Bermuda suf fered during the war by the cessation of the American ^tourist patronage, which had doubled the entire island population in preceding seasons. "The Bermudas attracted visitors be cause of their mild climate, which knew no frosts, and by their scenic beauty. "Juan Bermudez, sailing from Spain to Cuba in 1515 with a cargo of bogs, discovered the islands when a storm blew him to their shores. Apparently he left Some of the hogs there, for* later visitors found the animals on the island. From him the Islands were named, and thus originated the 'hog money,' coins stamped with a hog on one side and a ship on the other, which still aie preserved in various collec tions "The islands were settled through the efforts of S15 George Somers, who became impressed witlf*their fertility and beauty during a sojourn enforced by the wrecking of the ship which was carrying him to Virginia." For ^hundreds of years the Nile floods have not varied ten days la their arrival. Wile-** CATCHER GETS FORTUNE Peter Noonan, former star catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and for the last year or more a Knights of Columbus secretary, has inherited a fortune estimated at $1,000,000. AUSTRIA FORCED WAR Minutes of Mutiny of Privy Coun cil Reveal Secret Count Von Berchtold Solely Respon sible for Outbreak of Hostilities. Vienna.There were made public from the archives of the former Aus tro-Hungarian government minutes of the meeting of the privy council on July 7, 1914, at which it was virtually decided to begin war on Serbia. According to this publication the ministry of Austria-Hungary, especial ly Count Leopold von Berchtold, foreign minister, was solely responsi ble for the outbreak of hostilities. The minutes show the meeting to have been openedi von Berch told, who pleaded for an immediate resort to arms against Serbia, stating that Italy and Roumania "could be compensated afterward for not hav ing been consulted beforehand." Count Stephen Tisza, then Hungar ian premier, opposed the war, demand ing that diplomatic action be taken first and then that an ultimatum of an acceptable nature be sent. Only in case both failed would he have resort ed to arms. Count von Berchtold thereupon said: "Now, is the Eight moment because Germany is ready to assist." Count Tlsza again warned against the danger of a general European war as a result of steps which were con templated, whereupon Count von Berchtold said: "The opportunity is so favorable that immediate action is necessary." Finally a resolution was adopted that such far-reaching demands be made of Serbia that she could not ful fill them and thus a way would bo opened to a resort to arms. Maybe the Next Batch of Pets Will Be Skunks Portchester, N. T.It will not be possible to keep goats in ten ement houses hereafter If the board of health has its way. After pigs were barred from dwellings during the influenza epidemic last fall, families adopted goats as pets. Accord ing to, Sanitary Inspector Bitz, the animals are kept on second, third and even fourth floors. He suggests that they be licensed, the same as dogs. HUNT SHIP, OBEYING SPIRIT Message From Other World Says Span ish Steamer Valbanera Did Not Sink, Havana.Chartered by members of the Dr. Antonio Valetti society, an or ganization of spiritualists, a tugboat is expected to leave this port shortly in search* of the long overdue Spanish steamship Valbanera, which official re ports declare sank recently near Key West, with the probable loss of all on board. The spiritualists claim to have re ceived a communication at a recent se ance from the spirit of Doctor Valetti that the Valbanera was still afloat near Cape Sal. They declare it their belief that the steamship still is helplessly drifting at sea and that, while many of those on board have perished, 30 survivors have been picked up by a small schooner which is proceeding to some distant port. Sunday Funerals Barred. Mobile, Ala.Burial of the dead here on Sundayis punishable by a fine of $100 under a city ordinance just adopted. Passage of the ordinance was the result of a petition tp the city commission by ministers, undertak ers and grave diggers. jj^r' 5B *w e=%s5i3 MARKS SPOT OF YANKS' LANDING France Lays Cornerstone of Monument at the Pointe de Grave/ WALLACE FRAISES FRENCH President Poincare Urges Both Na tions to Guard Against Estrange- mentLafayette Sailed for __ America From Same Port. Pointe de Grave, France.France paid lasting tribute to American ac tive entry into the great war by lay ing the cornerstone of a monument here commemorating the landing on the spot of the first contingent of American troops in 1917. Speeches by President Poincare and Hugh C. Wallace, the American ambassador, were the features of the exercises, appropriately held on the birthday of Lafayette, who sailed for America from this same port in 1777. The scene was a brilliant one, numerous detachments of French and American soldiers, sailors and ma rines assembled among the sandy dunes of the Pointe giving color to the picture. The guard of honor, for instance, was composed of United States marines, many of whom were veterans of the fighting on the Marne in 1918. Distinguished Gathering. In addition to Premier Clemenceau, Marshal Foch and other distin guished Frenchmen, numbers of prom inent Americans assisted in the cere mony, among them Frank L. Polk, un der secretary of state Gen. Tasker H. Bliss and Brig. Gen. W. D. Connor, now commander of the American forces in France. The French repre^ sentation included also Marquis de Chambrun, a descendant of Lafayette and a member of the Joffre mission to the United States in 1917 Andre Tardieu, and Deputy Maurice Damour, chairman of the committee in charge of the exercises. A band from the U. S. S. Carola played. A crowd of some 3,000 witnessed the ceremony. President Poincare in his speech called to America to continue that close relationship which caused the United States to come to the aid of France. "In the plains of Picardy, Lor raine and Champagne by the side of 1,400,000 whom the war has mown' down," said he, "sleep your Ameri cans whose mothers do not know their tombs. They all sacrificed "to the same ideal the French died for. "Let us bend down over these tombs and listen. It is the same voice which everywhere arises from the depths of the earth. *We have suffered,' they say, 'in order that the world should become free.' To you now falls the duty to watch that never again may leap, up this danger which we have removed. Do not allow France and America to estrange themselves one from the other. Do not draw apart those hands which are now joined. Be on your guard that there shall never be kept between you. misunder standings which sooner or later might be -traasformed into disagreements. "Tomorrow no more than yester day can you dispense with each other. Separated you will quickly be exposed to the offensive return of violence. Side by side the peoples who have won the war will be strong enough to make such war impossible.'" Praises Spirit of France. American Ambassador Wallace said the monument would be to "victory and liberty.*' The speaker praised the spirit of France and said that while "many and great are the glories of France there is none that compares with the glory of the Marne." Ambassador Wallace, after having, dwelt upon the part Lafayette had played in the Revolutionary war, said the United States was proud to have had the opportunity to cross the ocean in this case, and that General Pershing had the honor of serving under Marshal Foch. The ambassa dor said he also considered it a great honor to himself that the opportunity was given him to affirm what was the due of France, which, he declared, must come out of the war with added strength and prestige, as otherwise victory would have been won in vain. This Poker Player Was Thoroughly Cleaned Out Cobalt, Kan.So completely cleaned out was Jean Paul As selin lifter a poker game on Third St. here that when he came to R. L. O'Gorman, J. P., to swear but a warrant against* a fellow player whom he sus pected of stealing his roll, he could not produce the dollar fee demanded. He had to borrow ten cents from Chief of Police Bonnville to make up the re quired sum. Asselin charges that $190 disappeared during his temporary absence from the scene of operations, and he swore a warrant for the ar rest of Sam Borlich, known to the police as "Minnesota," ac cusing him of stealing the mo*m%^fm %J?JS!S8B^fe2fe,f^ _^_ -rf^k^ SMS? 7 *wnff& "^"sB* '.-i-ty*-* THE PEA IT ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY *^uAi 81,1920 THE TANKATEEN IN LONDON The tankateen is a new automobile with a three-horse power motor which has appeared in London and is being adopted by those who do not like the motorcycle. RICHEST OF NATIONS United States Is Put Far in Lead by British Expert. Germany Holds Second Place and Eng land Third, According to Pro fessor Stamp's Statistics. London.While the brain might reel at the many figures unloaded at a meeting of A Royal Statistical soci ety, some interesting details as to the world's wealth can be extracted from a paper written by Prof. J. C. Stamp. Comparing the prewar wealth and in come of EJngland, Germany and the United States, Professor Stamp com putes the respective totals at: Wealth. Income. England I 71,500,000,000 $11,250,000,000 Germany 82,760,000,000 10,750,000,000 United States.... 210,000,000,000 36,250,000,000 On a per capita basis also, America comes out easily the richest country in the world. The capital per head of the population, according to Professor Stamp, was, before the war: Capital Income. England 11.50& $250 Germany 1,220 150 United States 2,120 360 All these figures must be consider ably inflated to obtain the current year's capital and Income, but the in crease would certainly be biggest In the case of the United States, which could boast at least treble its prewar wealth. The thrifty habits of the French na tion were reflected, eaid Professor Stamp, In a capital of $1,515 per head, while Italy and Australia had only $640 and $605, respectively. He computes Japan's capital at $12,000,000,000, or on. a per capita basis, $220 capital, and $30 income per head of population. The capital and income of Spain was prob ably as low as any in Europe, the In come per head not exceeding $55. HELP GERMANS TO FIGHT FIRE West Pointers and American Dough boys Go to Aid of Moravian Colony. Coblenz,' Germany.Two hundred officers who recently were graduated from West Point military academy, joined hands with hundreds of Ameri can doughboys and civilians in fighting a fire which threatened to destroy the Moravian colony, an ancient order of religious worker*at the Neuwied head quarters of the First division. The West Pointers, who are on a tour of the battlefields and the occu pied area, were attending a dance giv en in their honor when the fire was discovered just after midnight. The flames got beyond the control of the German firemen and the West Pointers and the doughboys were summoned by Col. Stephen O. Fuqua, chief of staff of the division, to aid In quenching them. The Americans fought the fire until daylight, when it was brought under control. The blaze was confined to one block. Several buildings devoted to the indus tries of the Moravians were destroyed. FAMINE RAGES IN PETR0GRAD Sugar Costs $5 a Lump and Other Foods are Proportion- ately High. Stockholm.-Famine in Petrograd has attained terrifying proportions and an epidemic of dysentery is beginning to rage throughout the city, according to messages received here. M. Zinovieff, bolshevik governor of Petrograd, issued a ^proclamation to agricultural organizations and the corn producing districts in which he said the population of the city was receiv ing famine rations. Food prices in the Russian capital became fantastic when the rations were reduced recently, the dispatches say, a small lump o'f sugar costing from $5 to $6 and a po'und of white bread selling at $60. Aged Woman Picks Berries. Hazleton, Pa.Mrs. Mary .Stephan sky ofJEckley, although ninety years of ageTystill helps to add to the family earnings by picking huckleberries in the woods near the mining village every day. This has been her annual practice ever since she came to Amer ica long ago. Despite her advanced years she is still very active and able to get about,with the agility of women to the sixties. w**?3? ^Si.^* Defective Page THEY WERE NOT SENTIMENTAL, NO! Even Lectured at Length on Art of Getting Married. nWHYBE SILLY?' SAYSGROOM Cleveland Couple Appear Garbed as for Informal Picnic and Bridegroom Holds Forth Voluminously on His Ideas of Modern Marriage Cere- monyBut Read What the Clerk Saw in Little Alcove Off the Court. "There's too much silly sentimental ity about getting married nowadays, anyway," a young bridegroom told Ed ward Fairbanks, cashier of probate court in Cleveland after fishing in his pocket and laying out on the counter three quarters and a nickel for his license. He looked like a sentiment-defying* bridegroom, clad in a plain flannel suit, heavy tan shoes and an army shirt and black string necktie. And his bride, of about his age twenty-threewas dressed in gingham, as If for an informal picnic. Further more, the young man volunteered a little lecture on the art of getting mar ried In this modern day. Why Be So Silly? "Notice we haven't donned our Sun day best just because we are signing a business contract?" he inquired. "Yes, I had noticed that very thing," replied Cashier Fairbanks. "Why should we be silly and uncom fortable and sentimental over a busi ness proposition?" continued the youth. "We didn't come down in a taxi. We rode down oh the street car. We didn't talk about our great day and gaze soulfully into each other's eyes. We talked about the apartment we're going to live in, and wondered If the player piano on the floor above us would be going after eleven at night." "Well, you're the first of your kind I've ever seen," said Mr. Fairbanks. "I hope you won't misserwhat you seem to scorn." "We won't," said the youth. He beckoned to the girl and they saun tered out Of the office. No Sentiment Oh, No I There's an alcove off the court of fice. No one can see it except per sons passing through the doorand the cashier. "They didn't figure on me," Mr. Fairbanks said later. "What did they do? Oh, nothing. They're so sensible and businesslike. She just stepped into the alcove and he followed, and then he put his arms around her and gave her the most masterly, sentimental, loving hug and kiss I ever saw. And I've seen a few in my time." COW GETS LADDER Painter and All His Work Took a Tumble to Earth. A painter, whose name is withheld, high at work painting the water"tank at the Wanless mine at Buhl, Minn., the other d&y, felt a tugging at the bottom of the ladder. He looked down and there, scratching her back, was a black cow. His probable fate flashed into his mind. Bossy took one look upward toward the heavens and saw the painter descending. This time the cow became frightened and ran her horns through the lower rungs of the ladder. Off she w*nt in a gallop, carrying the ladder, painter, paint and all. The louder he yelled the faster the cow went. It was but a short travel to earth for the painter, who struck the ground with a resounding-thud. He escaped uninjured with his feelings ruffled. To make matters worse Bossy re tained ownership of the ladder, which she carried away on her horns. She was caught after she had gone a quar ter of a mile. THIS GRAFTING IS a K. Horticulturist Experiments With Po tato-Tomato Vine. Yankee ingenuity and American "grafting" promises to solve the all absorbing question of the high cost of living. It has become known at Oneida, N. Y., that Alsan Wheeler, horticulturist and assistant teacher at the state ag ricultural school at Morrisville, has been carrying on some experiments which encourage hopes for a crop of vegetables above as well as below the soil on the same vine. Wheeler has grafted a tomato vine to a potato plant which-bears fruit Locust Bite Fatal. The bite of a 17-year locust caused the death of the two-months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Kunkel, Kemp ton, Pa. The injury was discovered when the mother went to the infant's crib in the morning. The baby's face was swollen. The mother picked it up and found the locust in the cloth ing. Physicians worked over the child for several hours in a vain effort to save its life. Iowa Company Sues Union for $400,000. Damages of $400,000 for breach of contract on the part of ^employees of the Waterloo (la.) Gasoline Engine company, are asked in a suit filed by the company against the International Machinists' union, its organizer, offi cers and members. j-%e Hliniifl.nnm ^?^7?- moSe& NEW COMMERCE CHIEF Philip B. Kennedy, newly appointed chief of the bureau of foreign and do mestic commerce, says that trade res toration in Europe, including that in enemy countries, is dependent upon the return to work of the different peoples. USE QUAIL TACTICS How Villa and His Men Foil Pursuit Bandits Scatter*and Hide as Federals AppearBrown Uniforms Aid. Juarez, Mex. Francisco Villa's method of evading pursuit by Mexi can government troops is almost iden tical with that used by a covey of quail to escape the hunter. Even the detail of protective coloring has been applied by Villa, for his men always wear brown cotton clothing which blends with the desert landscape and dust clouds through which they travel in campaign. Hunters know that the quail's in stinct directs it to scatter when dan ger approaches and seek cover In the near-by landscape. Villa and his reb el bands do the same thing when a superior federal column approaches. Often Villa band will number 2J000 men under his chiefs, Angeles, Lopez, Diaz and Garcia. They make a col umn which cpils across the plains like a giant snake and leaves a great dust cloud In its wake. *But let General Castco's government troops approach with artillery, ma chine guns and cavalry mounted on former American army horses and the column will break up into little bands of 100 under petty chiefs, will disap pear in some mountain canyons and go into hiding until the federals pass. Once the danger of attack is over the column reassembles, occupies some town in its path and again disappears with its loot. Villa's men have been known to hitch their horses to plows in the fields of the irrigated districts and be industriously plowing when the fed eral scouts appeared. They have learned various tricks of deception during the years of evading the fed erals, and even drive a herd of burros with them so they may transform themselves into wood venders on oc casion. CAPT. KIDD'S SPOOK SWINDLE Pirate's Ghost Induces "Suckers'' to Purchase FarmFound No Treasure. Trenton, N. J.Capt. Kidd's spirit is not a reliable witness as to where the redoubtable pirate buried his treas ure, in the opinion of Sophie Sauter and Marie Blumer of Paterson and FredLaechers of Elizabeth, who ap pealed to the supreme court against both the spook and his alleged spon sor, Daniel Balsinger of Oakland, N. J. The three took a chance and bought a farm from Balsinger In May, 1913, on the strength ofhis assurance that Capt. Kidd's spirit had appeared to him in the night and revealed the ex act spot on the farm wiiere he had burled whole chests of pieces of eight. They do not wish to pay the bal ance due now because they have dug up the entire farm without finding a single doubloon. GERMAN GIRLS BLACKLISTED Pilloried in Church if They Associate With American Soldiers. With the American forces in Ger- manyPosters warning German girls against associating with Americans an- peareB recently in Coblenz and othei towns on the Rhine. American officers who have investi gated say certain Germans are resolv ed that girls who associate with the American soldiers shall be punished and that several secret societies have been formed for that purpose. On several occasions the names oi girls .who associate with Americans have been read to the congregations at Sunday morning church services. In other villages the practice is to post the girls'names in public places. Black* lists of the girls' names are being kepi for use after the Americans arc gone* JSES^S^SS&IBHI If you have ought that's fit to sell, Use printer's ink, and use it well. $2.00 PES YEAR WOULDLOCALIZING MEAT TRADE PAY? Senator Currie, Stock Raiser of Nebraska, Makes Ex periment. 1 Meat is high the packers admit it, (though they say that other foods are higher in proportion. The farmer says (he is not getting too much for his cat -tle, in fact not enough, he says. How about numerous local slaughtering plants scattered throughout the com munities of our country, or a more di- rect-from-farmer-to-consumer relation ship? There is almost a sentimental attrac tiveness about the thought, like dreams of one's boyhood home. It looks so simple. Indeed, it is simple after a fashion, and is the way most meat was handled before the industry grew to national and international propor tions. But would it pay? Tried to Build Up Local Market. Experimentation and testing is doubtless the best teacher. And in quiring minds have not hesitated to dig into the matter. Senator F. M. Currie of Broken Bow, Neb., himself a stock raiser, relates a bit of expe rience of his own along this line. He tried for years, he tells us, to establish a market for fat cattle with local butchers, invariably finding that he could not meet the price made to them by the packers. "In other words," he says, "the pack ers could pay us more for our cattle on foot, and sell the product to our local butchers for less money than they (the butchers) could pay us for our cattle and slaughter the beef them selves." During the fore part of the present year he carried his inquiry further. He shipped two carloads of cows to Omaha, and they were sold to Armour and Company for $7.90 per hundred weight. Among these was one cow which he wished to have himself for beef. This cow weighed 840 pounds and therefore brought him $66.36. The animal was tagged and the identical carcass was shipped to him by ex press to Thedford, Neb., and charged to him at the prevailing whole sale price of such meat on that day in Kansas City, Omaha and Minneapolis. The carcass Included carrying charges of about $6.00, cost him $60.11, or $6.25 less than he sold the animal for in Omaha. What Cow Would Co6t Consumer. "Now," continues the Senator, "sup pose a consumer in Omaha had or dered this meat direct from me, and I had slaughtered the beef at the ranch and sent the meat direct to the con sumer. Taking as a basis the price received for this cow in Omaha, $66.36, less the freight of 17% cents per hun dred, it would make the cow worth on the ranch $65.00." To this $65.00 he adds $3.00 for slaughtering at home and $6.00 for ex press from Thedford to Omaha, and he deducts $7.00 credit for the,bide. According to these figures* the dressed carcass of his cow would be worth $67.00 in Omaha, as against the packers' price of approximately $54.00 (which is derived by deducting the ex press charges to Thedford, $6.00, from the price the carcass was sold to- him, $90.11). Cheaper to Buy Than Kill. "After thorough investigation," th Senator says, "I am convinced that it does not pay for us to slaughter e*ur own meat at the ranch that we would better shii our cattle to Omaha, and buy our beef from the packer. I have been engaged in the cattle producing business all my life there is no particular reason why I should be friendly to the packers, but I am thoroughly convinced I am re deivtng, and always have received more for my cattle on foot, than if I had been able to sell direct to the con sumer, and consequently the consumer has been able to buy my product for less money through the packer than under any other system which is known to business up to the present time." SENATOR KENYON'S CONTRAST- ING VIEWS. Just what is the purpose of the Kenyon bill now hi hearing at Wash ington would be hard to deduce from Senator Kenyon's own statements. In the bill itself the purpose is set forth as follows: "To stimulate the pro duction, sale, and distribution of live stock and live stock products, and for other purposes." This stimulation of live stock production may bd well taken as a bid to the consumer to hope for lower meat prices. But he has a different thou/ ht to present to producers. In a lettsr ad dressed recently to the Wallace farm er he says: "I do not believe &>?el that the situation as to restricted consumption is going to be changed very much, and there will be the neces sity of less production." Of course less production would supposedly mean higher prices for live stock, bit also higher prices for meat. Are either the general public or the farmer going to be fooled by this method of playing up the one against the other? It is not likely. Farmers and consumers are both coming to the realization that hampering the pack ers is not going to bring higher prices for live stock Dor lower prices for meat, but quite the opposite. v-i "5 "1 ,^**r i-i* -satgVi*