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VOL. 37 NO. 10 WARNS AGAINST FOREIGN HOBBY Mme. Tartoue Hopes American Girls Witt Profit by Her Un fortunate Experience. WIFE OF PORTRAIT PAINTER Says European Men Are Not Brought Up With the Ideals of Marriage and Womanhood That Amer ican Men Are. New York."If American girls who are contemplating marriage with for eigners will only listen to me and take warning from my unfortunate ex perience with a distinguished for eigner, to whom I gave my love and devotion, I will feel repaid in a meas ure for the ordeal through which I have passed and the humiliation I must now endure. "Most men from the continental European countries are not brought up with ideals of marriage and wom anhood which American girls are taught to believe American men have. They make bad husbands for an American girl, and my advice to girls is to pick out an American for a hus- band." That is what Mme. Pierre Tartoue, wife of the noted portrait painter, said in discussing her marriage and her suit for separation just started. Mr. Tartoue is said to he in the Adirondacks. His studio is said to have been sublet to Rene V&n Len nap, a friend. Since Mme. Tartoue departed from her home over a month ago in the middle of the night, following a se ries of alleged sensational incidents In and near the studio, she has been living in seclusion with her mother, Mrs. R. Bengue Barnett. Tells of Persecution. Light on the nature of her dis agreement, with her husband was shed by Mme. Tartoue during her inter view. She said: "The persecution to which I was subjected by two elderly women will be made public during the trial. "I lent myself to Pierre for pub licity purposes much against my own inclination. He told me it would help him. "I lent him money as well, as most American girls who marry foreign ers find they are obliged to do for the sake of preserving their homes and saving their husbands from finan cial difficulties. My family and friends have reason to know intimate details concerning these financial transactions. "I sacrificed myself on the altar of Pierre's art and I soon discovered he did not appreciate it. This is my attitude toward my husband. 1 have no animosity in my heart, only Pity. "After I was Pierre's wife he con stantly told me I was no longer an American woman. He said I was un der the French law, because I had married a French citizen. He told me I would have to bear half the expense of our establishment and that French women had no rights. Helped in Mis Work. "Pierre told me he was madly in love with me. I was madly in love with him. He told me and told my friends I was the most beautiful American girl. He told me I was an inspiration to him in his art. Be lieving implicity in him and in his genius, I helped him every way I could. I even posed for him for por traits of myself, and I posed for the hands and gowns of some of his best portraits. Among those were the portraits he painted last year of Mrs. Frederick Brooks of New York, Mrs. Harold Brooks and Miss Ruth Shoel hopf of Buffalo. "After he had painted a portrait of me with my wedding veil over my head, some critics told him it was one of the best pieces of work he had ever done. When he painted the 'Go'd of Happiness,' which now hangs in- the Alfred I. du Pont home on Long Island, I helped him with my suggestions. "I found, however, that Pierre did not appreciate me. With my own hands I used to cook him little stu dio dinners so that at the end of the day, when he was tired out from painting, he would not have to go out for dinner. Those were halcyon days when Pierre and I were by our selves night after night in our stu dio. I could hardly believe the thing was real, it was so ideal. "We were married October 14, 1919, and I will never forget the promises he made that day, for he did not keep a single one of them." Infant Sent to Dentist. Kennebec, S. D.The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Coyours of this place has gained a unique distinction. The baby is only three weeks old but she was born with one tooth. Nor is that all. Within a week after her birth it was found necessary to ex tract the tooth. So Miss Coyours may boast of not only having been born with a tooth but of having had dental at tention before she was a week old. Will Take "Bug" Census In School. Cleveland.A "bug" census will be taken by the students of a Cleveland high school. Members of the biology class will scrape the walls of the build ing and collect all the bacteria under the microscope and study the species that they are learning. ^$SM HISTORIC TRACT BEING RECLAIMED Famous "Campagna Romana^ls Being Cultivated and Is Yielding Big Crops. UYS IDLE FOR MANY YEARS Since the Fall of the Roman Empire This Once Fruitful Tract Has Been UncultivatedTo Reclaim Many Thousand Acres. Ostia, Italy.Efforts are being made to reclaim and plant parts of the vast tract of land which stretches for sev eral miles around Borne and goes by the name of the "Campagna Romana." It has been allowed to remain idle and uncultivated-ever since the fall of the Roman empire. Before that time it was a sort of terrestrial paradise villas and gar dens were dotted all over it as far as the eye could see, it was luxuriant with fruits and flowers, it supplied food and work for thousands upon thousands of men, it was one of the most beautiful and intensely cultivat ed spots in the world. When Rome, however, was obliged to resign her position as* "the mistress of the world," the "campagna" was abandoned and gradually became a marshy, malaria-infected desert, in habited only by a few hardy shep herds. New Law Having Effect Now, however, the law which was recently passed, decreeing that any one who does not cultivate his land to the utmost of its capacity, is liable to have the land confiscated, is be ginning to have its effects. Prince Aldobrandini has engaged a company to reclaim a huge estate of several thousands of acres, which he owns in the "campagna." The work already has begun and an experimental station has been set up at Ostia. The land was first of all drained and then arrangements were made to obtain water from the Tiber for irrigation. Electric tractors to draw the plows were then bought and various kinds of fruit, vegetables and cereals were cultivated in order to find out how fertile the land is and what kind of crop it is most adapted for. Yields Plentiful Crops. The results were beyond the wild est hopes of any of the promoters of the company. The land, after lying idle for centuries, seems td have stored up its fertility throughout all that time and now yields crop upon crop with unstinting bind. An attempt has even been made to grow cotton here and the experiment has been successful, but how success ful it has been impossible to deter mine, as the cottonseed used was of the worst quality obtainable. This year, however, it is proposed to plant American or Egyptian cotton. So hap py have the results at the experiment al station been, that it is hoped that soon work may be begun for the total reclaiming of the whole of the "cam pagna." BLACK CAT RESTORES SIGHT War Veteran Sees Dimly After Fright Ducking in River Does the Rest. London.Charles Appleby, who went to France in the Royal air force in 1914, was severely wounded in the Ypres salient. He lay unconscious in Havre hospital for ten months with a fractured skull, and when he recov ered, was blind. He wag sent to St Dunstan's hospital. While there, a black cat jumped on Appleby's head. The shock had the effect of enabling' him to see just a glimmer of daylight with his left eye. He left the hospital and returned to Kingston, being able to go about with a dog to lead him. He wandered into the river a few weeks ago, but was rescued. It was then found that the shock of the im mersion had partly restored the sight of the right eye. He was given several powerful elec tric shocks, and now, after having been blind for four years, he has fully recovered his sight. $100,000 Book, 700 Yrs. Old, Is Brought to U. S. Philadelphia.A book, 700 years old, valued at $100,000, was placed in the University of Pennsylvania for translation by Dr. William R. Newbold. It is said to have been written by Roger Bacon, some time be tween 1216 and 1262, and is an exposition of the laws govern ing life. The volume is the property of Dr. Willfred M. de Voynioh, exile from Poland. To Teach Hondurans te Fly. 4* Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Two Amer ican aviators have arrived in Hondur as with American-built flying ma chines bought for the war department. They are engaged for a certain period to teach flying and how to care for the airplanes. It Is expected thai in peace times the machines will be used to carry mails over the country where railroads are scarce and roada bad. U. S. TRADE INCREASE Report Shows Record-Breaking Foreign Business in 1920. Exports to the Leading Allies in the War Fell Off Sharply, Says Commerce Department. Washington, D. CIncreased trade with Germany, South America, the Ori ent, West Indies and North America accounted in large measure for the record breaking foreign business ot the United States in 1920. A compilation of American exports and imports last year by countries, is sued by the department of commerce, shows that exports to Great Britain, France and Italy fell off sharply. Those countries, however, increased their shipments to the United States,- as did practically all the other important na tions. American trade with the four prin cipal South American countriesBra zil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay totaled approximately $1,044,000,000, as compared with $917,000,000 in 1919. American exports to these countries increased more than $100,000,000 dur ing 1920, totaling $457,000,000, whereas imports from these countries increased only about $25,000,000, the total being $587,000,000. Trade with Germany during the year nearly quadrupled, aggregating $400,- 000,000, but fell far short of that be fore the war. Exports to Germany reached $311,000,000, against $89,000,- 000 the year before, and imports from that country totaled $92,000,000, as compared with $10,000,000 the year be fore. American trade with Cuba alone in 1920 exceeded $1,200,000,000, increas ing nearly $500,000,000 when compared with 1919. Exports of $515,000,000 to the island republic showed an increase of $247,000,000, while imports of $721,- 000,000 from the republic presented an increase of $303,000,000. Spain was the only principal Euro pean country which increased its pur chases of goods in the American mar ket. SNEEZE, STUDENTS GET GATE Offenders in Boston School Sent Di rect to Physicians for Examina tion and Treatment. Boston.Sneezing in a classroom at Massachusetts Institute of Technology draws the gate for the offender. Orders from Dr. George"W. Morse, head of Tech's new medical depart ment, instructed members the fac ulty to send sneezers and cougbers di rectly to the school clinic, where they can be taken care of. The epidemic of infectious colds, the order says, has brought the doctors to this drastic step. Not only those who give audible evidence of the possession of a cold through a cough or a sneeze, but even those who, perhaps through an over-red nose, apparently are in the grip of the thing are to be sent to Doc tor Morse. CHEROKEES FORGET OLD ROW Indian Nation Reunited After Split Over Slavery at Time of Civil War. Talequah, Okla.Tribal differences dating back to the Civil war, when the powerful Cherokee Indian nation broke into factions over the question of slav ery, were wiped out here when several hundred delegates met and unani mously elected Levi Gritts of Musko gee, a full-blood, as principal chief. Levi Cookson, a mixed blood, living near'Gore, Okla., was chosen assistant chief. N For the first time in the history of the nation white men, members through intermarriage, sat at'the coun cil and voted. Many of them were un able to speak Cherokee and the pro ceedings frequently were halted while translations were made. SPEED CRAZE HITS INDIA Three Cartloads of Motorcycles Arrive at Jellalabad for Dispatch Service. Bombay.-Life' in Afghanistan is* speeding up, writes a frontier corre spendent of the Times of India. Three cartloads of motorcycles have recently arrived at Jellalabad for Prince Kasir Jan, the director of com munications, who intends to organize a dispatch rider service throughout the country. Orders have been issued by the Amir's government for contracts to construct macadamized roads through the country to the capital, and for the importation of automobile vehicles Firms are also invited to establish woolen mills and sugar refineries at Kabul, the capitaL Seeks to Calm Married Life. Seattle, Wash.Justice of he Peace G. C. Dalton announced his purpose to establish a court of domestic rela tions for adjustment of family trou bles, under the Washington "lazy hus band" act and cases of .desertion and nonsupport. *h *j^ j- It will be the first domestic relations court in Washington. .-& J, Mennonltes to Settle in Mississippi. Winnipeg.An agreement has been concluded between representatives of an American land syndicate and H. If. Klaussen, representing Mennonltes of Manitoba, Canada, whereby they will purchase 125.000 acres in Mississippi for colonization, a newspaper in Win nipeg has announced. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY: MARCH 6 i2i GERMAN MIND IS UNCHANGED War Fails to Jar Conceit of Teuton, Says Observer of Long Experience. MENTAL ISOLATION ABSOLUTE Unable to Understand How They Art DetestedThe German of Today Is to All Intents and Purposes the Same as in 1913. London. Althougji Berlin has changed since 1914, the German mind remains unchanged. Neither the .holo caust of dead nor the crash of thrones has shaken Germany out of her self conceit, according to what G. Valen tine Williams, formerly correspondent of Beuter's Agency kvBerlin, tells the London Daily Mail. "The German mind," he says, "does not seem to have altered, "Albeit sadly puzzled to account for the utter break-down of the entire German system, in his outlook on life the German of 1920 is to most intents and purposes the German of 1913. In a world which to British eyes is strangely changed by five years of World war the mental isolation of the German is absolute. To talk to him makes you feel that the German of today is the loneliest creature on God's earth. "Yet with heavy deliberation he is communing with himself to ascertain the causes of his defeat. But he is not examining his conscience. "Any Berlin bookshop will show you the chaos prevailing in the German mind. Nothing of the Present. "Professor Steinach's rejuvenation experiments, Einstein's theory of light, Maynard Keynes and Norman Angell on the Versailles Peaceboth books in German translations and prominent ly displayedtreatises on spiritualism, atheism, free love, and the likeworks of this description stand side by side with a mass of frankly pornographic literature. Here will you find reasoned explanations for the past, complicated schemes for the future, but nothing practical to deal with the problems of the present. And above all, no con trition for Germany's crime against mankind. "The German sur-vepod the world from his castle of militarism. Now that it has -collapsed he is left floun dering in a sea of doubts and fears. The Germans with whom I have spok en expect us to hold them guiltless of the past because, they say, they have rid Germany of her military caste. "They have, it is true, expelled the bloody-minded blunderers surrounding that eminent nonentity, William the Second-rater, because they failed to keep their promise to establish Ger man world-domination. But the Ger man people is governed' by the herd instinct, and the expulsion of the Old Gang in the circumstances of mili tary defeat and home panic .in which the Hohenzollerns were sent away re quires weightier evidence of a change of heart that is forthcoming in Ger many today, if it is to be accepted as a proof of the death of German mili tarism. Blank Indifference. "Talk to a Frenchman of any class, and you will, sooner or later, come upon a well-banked but fiercely smoul dering Republican ardor. Talk to a German about his government and you will find, at the best, lukewarm inter est at the worsl, resentful ridicufe towards the German Republic. "The average attitude is one of blank indifference. The German man In the street never thought for him self. He does not do so today. The question of the future is, what party will emerge from the present chaos to do his thinking for him? "The Germans are perfectly willing to forgive us for the war. They talk glibly about 'this unhappy war* with the air of a man making perfunctory excuses for some social lapse. In some may be detected In addition a little air of condescension in speaking of the late unpleasantness as though to draw attention to their magnanimi ty in accepting the war as an inevita ble catastrophe, 'an act of God,' as the insurance policies say. And even to day I find1 that the great majority of Germans have no idea of the abhor rence in which the very name German is held in the Anglo-Saxon countries and in France and Belgium.'* SEEK FRUIT FLY PARASITE ""K Indian Bug to Be Introduced in Ter ritory to Save the Hawaiian ^l Products. Honolulu, T. H.-David T. Full away, entomologist with the territor ial board of agriculture, will leave soon for India to search for certain fruit fly parasites discovered by George Compere at Bangalore, India. If the parasite can be located, it will be Introduced In the territory to com bat fruit flies here.^% 5^ Jfer Ssn Bought Cap He Had Thrown Away, Perth Amboy, N. J.A cap pur chased by Howard Tapper, an over seas veteran of the World war, in a renovated army goods store here, proved to be one he had discarded in France after the armistice. It con tained his name written on the under side of the band*. OWN GAS KILLS IM Chemist Commits Suicide Under Dramatic Circumstances. Pays All Debts and From Remaining Stock of Chemicals Mixes Com pound to Generate Gas. London.Composing his own lethal gas, Constantine De Mereschevsky, a chemist and botanist of international repute, former professor In the Uni versity of petrograd, committed sui cide in a Geneva hotel under dramatic circumstances. Mereschevsky escaped from Russia with a small fortune, which was ex hausted after two years' residence in Geneva, where he continued his re search work and wrote a number of scientific books. When his funds were gone he was too proud to appeal for help, though in view of his high stand ing he could have obtained a hand some subsidy to pursue his studies from scientific associations in Amer ica, France and England had he stooped to solicit aid. He preferred to die. He scrupulous ly paid all his debts and then from his remaining stock of chemicals mixed a special composition which he poured into a receptacle, to which he attached a tube. At the other end of the tube was a mask which he placed over his face, and then binding himself to the bed released the gas which was given off from the composition. He died from asphyxiation. Fireir had to wear smoke helmets to remove the body from the room. 26,869 ALIENS IN SHANGHAI Entire Population Estimated at More Than 2f000,000--IMo Census of City Taken. Shanghai.A quinquennial census taken in October in the French con cession and the international settle ment gives Shanghai a foreign popu lation of 26,869, according to official returns. A census of the entire city, native and foreign, has never been taken, but careful estimates place the population at more than 2,000,000. The international settlement has a foreign population of 23,307 and the French concession 3,562. In the two concessions the Japanese lead in point of numbers with 10,521. British are second with 6,385, Americans third, 2,813, and Russians fourth, 1,382. There are 846 Frenchmen in the two districts. The international settlement has 35 known different nationalities, with 18 of undefined nationality. The *Ger man population, which in 1915 totaled 1,155, has dwindled to 280. CONQUER YANGTSZE RAPIDS Hydroslide to Be Used to Effect NavU gation Beyond Gorges In Chi nese Stream. Shanghai.By means of the hydro slide, which the British used success fully in Mesopotamia during the war, another effort, and one wholly novel to China, is to be made to conquer the rapids of the Yangtsze gorges. At places there the current attains JSL velocity of more than thirty miles an hour. The ordinary head of navigation for steamers on the Yangtsze is at Ichang, a thousand miles from the coast, but Szechuen, China's most populous prov ince, and one of Its richest, lies near ly four hundred miles further up the river, beyond the wild bandit-ridden country of the gorges. The use of the hydroslides on the upper Yangtsze is the enterprise of a French company with headquarters in Shanghai. A number of these craft were sent up the Yangtsze from Shanghai in December for trial runs. MILUKOFF GIVES UP LIBRARY Former U. of C. Professor Presents His Russian Collection to Stan ford University. Stanford University, Cal.Prof. Paul Milukoff, Russian secretary of foreign affairs after the revolution of 1917, and formerly a professor at the University of Chicago, has presented to Stanford university his private li brary on- Russian history, said to be one of the most complete collections in existence, it was announced. The bulk of the library was collect ed while the donor was professor of Russian history at the University of Moscow. It had been in storage for six years in Helsingfors, Finland, whence it was shipped December 2 to this country. WOMEN TALLER AND HEAVIER Increase' in Stature and Weight At tributed to Outdoor Life by Athletic Director. -Philadelphia.Women are growing taller and heavier, according to Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, director of physical education at the University of Penn sylvania. ^'Statistics of women's colleges cov ering a period of 60 years show the average college girl of today is an inch taller than the college girl of 1860, he said. "These statistics also prove the modern girl is six or seven pounds heavier." ^g$8j||g Doctor McKenzie attributed this in crease in stature and weight to the in creased interest in sports and outdoor life. TO SAVE FISH ALONG COAST Pollution of Water and Catching in Nets Is Cause of Serious Condition. NEW JERSEY STARTS MOVE Experienced Fishermen Say That Sup ply of Migratory Fish Has Been Seriously DepletedOther Sea board States Are Sufferers. Newark, N. J.A movement has been started in New Jersey to save from extermination the migratory fish which spawn in one place and move along the Atlantic coast with the changing of the seasonssuch as mackerel, menhaden, herring and nu merous other varieties peculiar to cer tain localities on this coast. Experi enced fishermen declare that the sup ply of these migratory fish has been seriously depleted by the pollution of the areas in which they spawn and by the reckless manner in which they have been caught in nets. The method proposed by the New Jersey Fish and Game Conservation league to prevent from extermination is to induce the United States govern ment to take control of and regulate the catching of these fish and stop pol-r lution of the spawning areas. It is contended that only in this way can the increasing cost of fish food to the consumer be checked or reduced. Four Fundamental Points. The four fundamental points in the New Jersey league's proposal for na tional legislation are: Protect spawning areas against pol lution. Prevent fishing spawning areas. Regulate the size of the meshes of nets so the immature fish cannot be caught. Protect the natural food supply of eatable fishes. The fourth point has to do"\ylth" due* of the most perplexing phases of the salt water problemthe matter of the menhaden industry. The menhaden, otherwise known as-mossbunker, which once swarmed along the coast in incal culable numbers, attracting hordes of edible fishes that preyed on them, have been slaughtered right and left to pro duce oil and fertilizer. In the view of experts their end is not far off, and with their passing will disappear from Atlantic coastal waters many of such edible species as now remain. Fisheries Board Breaks Down. Efforts to cope with the problem through state regulation here have failed utterly, the last straw being the complete breakdown of the state board of fisheries which had been created by legislative enactment with a view to Increasing the supply of food fishes and reducing the cost to the consumers. The five members of the board resigned in a body in July, 1919, and there have been no reappointments. Investigation by a committee of vet eran coast men disclosed an equally deplorable condition, it is said, in oth er seaboard states. It was learned, also, that fisheries officials of Connecticut and Maryland agreed with those of New Jersey that a federal law was the only remedy. INTERNAL ORGANS MISPLACED Hospital Patient in Vermont Has Heart, Liver and Stomach on Wrong Side. Kutland, Vt.William Bowen of West Charleston, Vt., twenty-six, a patient at the Vermont sanitarium in Pittsford, is a curiosity to the med ical world. All his internal organs are on the wrong side. He has tuberculosis, but this has nothing to do with the mis placed organs. The transposition was discovered when an x-ray picture was taken by Dr. Clarence T. Ball here to determine the condition of the lungs. It had been known that Bowen's heart was not in the customary place, but the x-ray showed the stomach on the opposite side, the liver on the left instead of the right and the vermiform appendix on the left, Bowen is expected to recover from tuberculosis. French Baby Has Heart in Pouch Outside Body Paris.Paris medical authori ties were called to Soissons to examine an infant born to a working family with heart and intestines contained in .a pouch on the outside of the child's body. The case was said to be the first of its kind on record. There Is every Indication that the child will live, as alt the or gans are functioning perfectly despite their displacement S, Qas Well Rests on Sundays. Sharon, Pa.A "religious" gas well which docs not produce on Sunday is owned by the Champion Oil and Gas company of McKeesport. The well produced gas every day daring July, except on the four Sun days, according to a report made by Slgmund Josephthal, secretary-treas urer of this company, addressing a meeting of stockholders h,ere.? $2.40 PER YiiAK, BIG WEALTH IN HANDS OF FEW Fifty Families in United States Control More Than $100,- 000,000 Each. ROCKEFELLER AT HEAD OF LIST Oil King's Estate Is Now Estimated at Between Three and Five Bil- lionVeritable Dynasty in Every Important Industry. New York.Fifty families in the United States control over $100,000,000 each, 100 families control over $50,- 000,000 each, and 500 families control over $10,000,000 each. "John D. Rockeieller's estate is now up to $3,000,000,000. Five billion dollars of wealth in the United States has been handed down to heirs, many of whom were incom petents, in the last fifteen years. Two hundred persons in the United States control $15,000,000,000 in France the same amount is controlled by 480 times that number of people, or 96,000. Dynasties to Fore. Industrially the United States is be coming dynasticthere is a veritable dynasty in each important industrial structure, some of which are: Sixty per cent of the tobacco trust wealth is in the hands of ten families. Twelve families, with the Rockefel ler family away in the lead, control 50 per cent of the oil industry. Tne railroads of the country are controlled by 1.3 per cent of the stock holders. One and five-tenths per cent of the stockholders in the steel trust possess 51 per cent of the stock. Two families control 51 per cent of the stock in the harvester interests. These startling figures on the con centration of wealth in the United States were obtained from Henry H. Klein, deputy commissioner of ac counts of New York city and a deep student of economic affairs. He has spent ten years collecting concrete facts on the pyramiding of American wealth. Mr. Klein's attention was called to the recent statement of George P. Hampton, managing director of the Farmers' National council, that 33 in dividuals own 2 per cent of the en tire American wealth. He estimated'" this 2 per cent at about $4,837,000,- 000 Mr. Hampton gave no names, but the following list of individuals and estates and their vast holdings, checked up to a recent date, was giv en by Mr Klein: Estates or individuals Amount John and William Rocke feller, $3,000,000,000 to {5,000,000,000 Pratt family 400,000,000 Harkness 400,000,000 Carnegie 300,000,000 Weyerhaeuser estate 300,000,000 Vanderbilts 300,000,000 Astors 300,000,000 Payne Whitney family 200,000,000 ifrick estate 150,000,000 Goelets 100,000,000 J. Hill estate 100,000,000 Hetty Green estate 100,000,000 Field estate 100,000,000 Harnman 100,000,000 Morgans, $150,000,000-to 200,000,000 Flagler estate 100,000,000 Anthony Brady estate 100,000,000 Gould estate 100,000,000 Widener 80,000,000 George Farr Bakers 80,000,000 Stilmans 60,000,000 Isaac Stevenson 70,000,000 Kennedy*Todd group 75,000,000 Bage estate 50,009,000 Blair estate 50,000,000 Rhinelanders 50,000,000 Rogers 50,000,000 Armours 100,000,000 Bwift 100,000,000 A C. James family 60,000,000 Cleveland Dodge 60,000,000 Archbold estate 50,000,000 Mills estate 50,000,000 Daniel Reid estate 50.000,000 Plant estate 60,000,000 Morris 50,000,000 Pullman estate 50,000,000 Searles estate 50,000,000 There are many families Mr. Klein mentioned in the $40,000,000 class, and this includes Mrs. William Leeds, now Princess Christopher of Greece, and Alexander Smith Cochrane, until recently America's "richest bachelor" and now the husband of Mme. Ganna Walska, opera singer." Mr. Klein's list, which is several pages long, does not go below the $10,- 000,000 class. "W****# *4 Called Fire Department to Quench Flames Inside Him i Seeing a man rush up to a I i fire alarm box and turn in an alarm, Patrolman Winner of the New York city police de partment, inquired where the fire was. "Inside me," gasped Joseph Marone of Wooster, O. "I drank booze and want the firemen to run a hose down my throat and extinguish the I i flames." The patrolman told the fire- I 4 men where the fire was, but took Marone to the police'sta I tlon. =V "Belgium Reclaiming Its Soil. ^Washington.Belgium is making "^A g:od progress rebuilding farms and^'s rehabilitating agricultural production. g|| -Report from the American consul at Brussels show that at the end of the first nine months of 1920 more than 61,775 acres out of about 148^60 acres of war-swept soil had been put into condition for cultivation. H- f?&* -'*v 3 %&