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~:'T II fcr- CO T)UAU7Y CANDi3r-SAtNT RAUL AT OUR PRE-INVENTORY SALE 70L. 88 NO. 1 TO SAVE FISH ALONG COAST Pollution of Water and Catching in Nets Is Cause of Serious Condition. NEW JERSEY STARTS MOVE Experienced Fl6hermen 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 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 agalnnt pol lution. Prevent fishing in 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 with one 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 foodfishesand 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. 3INTERNAL ORGANS MISPLACED Hospital Patient in Vermont Has Heart, Liver and Stomach on Wrong Side. -S Rutland, Vt.William Bowen of OOWest Charleston, Vt, twenty-six, a QZ patient at the Vermont sanitarium In Pittsford, is a curiosity to the med- *^ical world. 2 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 ^rfc^gjhe left. Bowen is expected to recover from tuberculosis. 4 I if: Sfk-:.-- ir "~*~~"(t---.*"^ French Baby Has Heart Pouch Outside Body Paris.Paris medical author!- I 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 I the first of its kind on record. There is every indication that I the child will live, as all the or gang are functioning perfectly despite, their displacement $ Gas Well Rests on Sundays. Sharon, PaA "religious" gas well which decs not produce on Sunday is owned by the Champion Oil and Gas company of McKeesport. The well produced gas every day during July* except on the four Sun days, according, to a report made by Signmnd Josephthal, secretary-treas urer of this company, addressing a meeting of stockholders here. ACC, OWN GAS KILLS HIM 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. 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 Entire Population Estimated at More Than 2,000,000No 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. ^l^rf^ 1 mha et 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 Kussians fourth, 1,382. There are 846 Frenchmen in the two districts. 1*QWi.li SL^S2^J25S? known different? nationalities, with 18 of undefined nationality. The Ger man population, which in 1915 totaled 1,155, has dwindled to 280. Hydroslide to Be Used to Effect Navi. gation Beyond Gorges in Chi nese Stream. MILUK0FF GIVES UP LIBRARY Former U. of C. Professor Presents His Russian Collection to Stan ford University. brary oh Russian history, said to be! The use of the hydroslides on the similar attempt was made by Douglas upper Yangtsze is the enterprise of a W. Freshfield in 1899. Mr. Freshfield French company with headquarters in was led to undertake the exploration Shanghai. A number of these craft by the fact that owing,das he says, were sent up the Yangtsze from partly to cost and Shanghai in December for trial runs, travel in partly to the I obstaclref"Sikkhlme presented by the Nepalese Stanford University, Cal.Prof. Paul Milukoff. Russian secretary of ^f** foreign affairs after the revolution of 1917, and formerly, a professor at the University of Chicago, has presented to Stanford university his private 11- fn^i^^n^..^ one of the mosr complete collections in existence, it was announced. The bulk of the library was collect- 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. I "Statistics of women's colleges cov ering a period of 60 years show the average college girl of today is an Inch tatter than the college girl of 1860, he said. "These statistics also prove the modern girl is six or seven pounds heavier." Doctor McKenzie attributed this in crease matature and weight to the In creased Interest in snorts and outdoor f STORMS BALK ASCENTOF PEAK Mountaineers Make Daring At tempt to Climb Giant of the Himalayas. WILL RENEW ATTACK LATER British Explorers Get 21,000 Feet Mereschevsky escaped from. Russia-L:Wountrj?1?^^^?*-?*1!.^"!*,???U-- pellecfto Stop by Bad Weather Encounter Difficulties. Manchester, England.A Manches ter Guardian correspondent at Calcut ta remarks that great interest has been aroused by an attempt to climb Mount Kinchinjunga, one of the giants of the Himalayas. Harold Raeburn, editor of Moun taineering Art, and C. G. Crawford of the Assam civil sevice, both mem Der asphyxiatlon. Firemm had to wear |Ous risk to life. smoke helmets to remove the body from the room. 26,8 69 ALIENS IN SHANGHAI club Attempt Made in 1899. It is interesting to recall that a fr ot nf U{a 5J^^^fytys'V!- 1 ~\lini'iil^ 11llrt1c% SoctiSy^IPJ 1 we*o A1 J^S 5 event. empeparty o at a leveland AAiiAiirn ._ _. i came increasingly hazardous. A fur- CUNQUER YANGTSZE RAPIDS ther thousand feet was overcome, but at this point the attempt had'to be 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 [was experienced when returning, ow- the rapids of the Yangtsze gorges. ,lng to the depth of new snows on the At places there the current attains Sikkhlm side, which were probably due a velocity of more than thirty miles to the bad weather experienced in the an hour. {latter part of September. Finally the The ordinary head of navigation for party reached Darjeeling in the mid- steamers on the Yangtsze is at Ichang, ,dle of October, having been away a thousand miles from the,, coast, but over a month. Both the explorers Szechuen, China's most populous prov- were greatly impressed by the peaks, lnce, and one of its richest, lies near- but confident that given good weath- ly four hundred miles further up the er, the summit could be attained. river, beyond the wild bandit-ridden country of the gorges. known in th to be conducting preliminary explora tions in the hope of finding an easy access to the summit. More than one skirmish in theUsually vicinity of Kinchinjunga was made, though the rains at the time were heavy and the ever-shifting ice fields in the mountains were likely to come down in terrific avalanches, making all climbing impossible without seri- Their explorations led the climbers I along the course of the Talung river, iwhich, takes its rise in the Talung glacier. Here they crossed streams, the bridges of which had been washed away, and passed impenetrable for ests, through which they* had to hew their way for several days. Un [daunted by the rainy weather, they itraveled almost straight north to Pamionghi, across the Giuchu Pass, 16,430 feet, to tihe Talung glacier, which is almost immediately to theof south of Kinchinjunga, and there ob tained a glorious view of the moun tains. Encounter Great Difficulties. The party returned to Darjeeling and made their final preparations, en gaging coolies and large quantities of 'litorel Th rains howeverT were so [severe that it was not until September 2 that the two explorers were able to get away. Traveling put by the Sin galila ridge, they attacked Kinchin jjunga on the southwest side and ex* plored the glaciers. Access to the summit by that direction was found OK difficult, but the persevered of 20,000 feet. Here more difficulties were met and bad weather was experienced. Snow began to fall and the expedition be- abandoned. The return was made by a new snow pass about 18,000 feet high. The weather was at first exceedingly bad, but conditions became better later. There was no rain on lower level, al though occasional snow showers were met higher up. Considerable difficulty 0 jy the difficulty of ha Eur P aand i e# end the nineteenth century gone arounof the mountain Eve Si Joseph Hooker did not approach near enough to explore the glaciers of the giant As for official surveys, these, according to Mr. Freshfield, have al- caricature the an ignore Fresnfiel di a climbIn S 0 no muc T. JtjXtZ, JL* fro tcu cours ,d *s' J^'Jf^3^ S %KtS^ mnosaib e75,00e BP an downi 0 feet without some climbing in the pop ular sense of the word, but in the +Ml,l.1i^ Ai~t*J ed while the donor was professor of ISS^!^^J?2f Russian history at the University of ^o little mountaineering for my taste. Moscow. It had been in storage for -2E1^^ J^ill^ six years in Helslngfors, Finland, whence it was shipped December 2 to this country. .t^ .subordinate part in our journey." Toy Train Was for Himself. Louisville, Ky.He was a middle aged man and had just bought a $35 electricv train. And shall I send it for the little boy, or will you take it with you?" the clerk inquired. "Little boy!" the man exclaimed. "That train is for myself. When I was a boy I missed the good things of Christmas time, and now that I am able to afford the things I missed In my childhood Fm going to have them. i Fm going to have a lot of fun with this toy and then there will be the neighbors' children to help enjoy It.** Wrecked at Journey's End. Anchorage, Ky.Charles D. Yeager and wife, after an auto trip to Detroit and back, were seriously Injured when their car was wrecked almost at the gate of their home. They were pin ioned under the wreckage for severml hours. .--of 'ip**3k* .,4- -v*.. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY: JANUAEY 7, l22 DRIVE ON SPARROWS 700,000 of the Pests Are Killed in Utah. State-Wide Campaign Results in Sav ing of More Than $100,000 for the Farmers. Washington.Seven hundred thou sand English sparrows, each eating six quarts of wheat a year, would mean a feed bill of more than $131,000. There fore the killing of 700,000 English spar rows means that amount of money saved for the farmers concerned. And nearly 700,000 sparoi/s were killed in a state-wide eampaiin in which 783 Utah farmers joined forces to get rid of the pests during the winter months. County agents helped in the cam paign, which used 5,243 pounds of poi soned bait. In most cases the bait was made of wheat, poisoned with strychnine in accordance with a recipe sent out by the biological survey of the United States department of agricul ture. It was put up\ in one-quarter pound paper bags in the county agent's office. Full instructions were printed on the bags fok the use of the poison. Each co-operator receiving the bait agreed to 'report! On the results. the sparrows ^ere enticed for a few days by-putting unpoisoned bait in places not frequented by other birds and also inaccessible to the poultry of the farm. Then a few grains of poi soned wheat were put out each day. The dead sparrows were gathered up, counted, and either burned or buried every few days to prevent the sparrow population from becoming suspicious. The number of sparrows counted by each farmer was reported to the com mitteemen or the county agent at the end of the season. As many as 240 dead sparrows were gathered up as the result of a single package of poisoned wheat It Is be lieved that where care was used in placing the poisoned bait an. average 75 sparrows were killed with each one-quarter-pound package. In each of several counties 50,000 to 100,000' sparrows were destroyed. if Anchors of Craft Sunk in 1862 Found i i New York.There are other things in the sea more interest ing^than fish to yet^ans In the perilous north Atlantic trade plied by smacks exclusively in the past and now more success fully by steam trawlers. Capt Tom Miller Of the trawler Petrel brought in from Georges bank two rusty anchors, relics that recalled to shellbacks of his crew the mighty December gale of 1862, in which 19 smacks were lost and 160 fishermen per ished. The anchors were fished up on the southeastern edge of-the shoal, where the larger part of the wrecks were In the great blow. The veterans say the an chors bore the handiwork of Gloucester ship blacksmiths of the period Just before the Civil war. *4 STOP WORK AS CAT IS BURIED Animal Had Been at Station Ten Years and Was en Payroll Eight Years, Amarillo, Tex.-All activities in the Fort Worth & Denver City railway of fices and shops here stopped for three minutes while the funeral services were held for the office cat. She has been In the railway's passenger sta tion here for ten years and has been on the payrolls of the railroad for eight years. Before the war the official rat catcher of Denver used to receive her monthly pay check of $1.50 regu larly. After the war the salary of Puss was boosted to $2.50. The pay was-for. feed. At the hour of the funeral every wheel in the shops stopped for three minutes. The^ office force gathered about the grave in the station yard while the burial service was read. A marble slab will mark the grave. FARM LABORERS IN A PLOT Scheming for Great Strike as Spanish Crops Are Ready for the Harvest Madrid.Discovery of a widespread plot among the Andalusian farm la borers to call a strike as soon as crops are .ready for harvest is re ported. Agitation has been simmering among farm.laborers for a year. Last sum mer employers were forced to pay as high as $5 a day. Retribution came when winter set In, the farmers say ing: "You exploited us In the summer now we dismiss you." In most Instances the men had^pent their money. Thousands emigrated to North or South America. Meantime, owners of farms, have been forming co-operative societies for the purchase of machinery to make up for the loss of laborers, of which there still is a scarcity. -iS-^ ~.y Train Boy Loses His Chance.:^ Dayton, O.Diogenes can torn off the gas. George Miller, conductor, has jast turned over to the company of ficials a package containing $6,000 tat currency lost by a woman. 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 Bit- 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. Rockefeller'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. The 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 aTecent date, was giv en by Mr. Klein: Estates or individuals Amount. John D. and "William Kocke feller, $3,000,000,000 to ....$6,000,000,000 Pratt family 400,000,000 Harkness 400.000,000 Carnegie 800,000,000 .Weyerhaeuser estate 300,000,000 Yanderbilts 300,000,000 Astors 300,000,000 Payne "Whitney family... 200.000,000 Prick estate 150,000,000 Goelets 100.000.000 J. J. Hill estate 100,000,000 Hetty Green estate 100,000,000 EHeld estate 100,000,000 Harriman 100,000,000 Morgans, $150,060,OGO to 200,000,000 Flagler estate 100,000,000 Anthony Brady estate 100,000,000 Gould estate 100,000,000 Wideher SO.000,000 George Farr Bakers 80,000,000 Stilmans 60,000,000. Isaac Stevenson '70,000,000 Kennedy-Todd group 76,000,000 Bage estate -50,009,000 Blair estate 60,000,000 Rhinelanders 50,000,000 Rogers 50,000,000 Armours 100,000,000 Swift 100,000,000 A. C. James family 60,000,000 Cleveland Dodge 60,000,000 Archbold estate 50,000,000 Mills estate 60,000.000 Daniel Reld estate 50.000,000 Plant estate 60,000,000 Morris 60.000,000 Pullman estate 60,000,000 Searles estate 60,000,000 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. Called Fire Department to Quench Flames Inside Him Seeing a man rush up to a 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 flames." The patrolman told the 'fire men where the fire was, but took Marone to the police sta tion. I Belgium Reclaiming Its Soil. Washington.Belgium is making g:o* progress rebuilding farms and rehabilitating agricultural* production. Reports 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 14&280 acres of war-swept soil had been put ^Into condition for cultivation. '?$$& II E E E II U. S. TRADE INCREASE I f| Report Shows Record-Breaking Foreign Business in 1920. Exports to the Leading Allies in the War Fell Off Sharply, Says Commerce Department. Washington, D. C.Increased 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 ail, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay totaled approximately $1,044,009,000, 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"Df Tech?s new medical depart ment, instructed members of the fac ulty to send sneezers and toughers 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 ouer-red nose, apparently are in the grip of the thing are to be sent to Doc tor Morse. CHER0KEES FORGET OLD ROW Indian Nation Reunited After 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. 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 ceedlngs 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 spondent 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 thenual Amir's government for. contracts, *,te' construct macadamized tfoa^'/ihrb'ugiT the country to the capital, and for the* importation pf, .automobile^ tefifcle's.. Firms are ataJ:iWitd iA'/estaplbm* woolen mills \a&6 'sugar refineries at Kabul, the capital. Seeks to Calm Married Life. Seattle, Wash.Justice of the Peace 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. It will be the first domestic relations court In Washington. ''i- Mennonites to Settle in Mississippi. Winnipeg.An agreement has been concluded between representatives of an American land syndicate and H/M. Klaussen, representing Mennonites' of Manitoba, Canada, whereby they wflf purchase 125.000 acref to MiakBlppi for colonization,, a &ipeg has annoi u'^ '1 "4..%^'^J JL 'XJUAUTT CANDIEST-SAINT RAUL IJ AT OUR PRE-INVENTORY SALE Split %-t^!" '^btiSl? Ill ^h$ ill $2.40 PER YEAR N ENES S OF AUGUSTUS Archaeologist Discovers Splendid Statue of Roman Emperor at Tivoli. LIFELIKE STUDY ARTIST Valuable Addition to Portraits of Ro man Emperors and Is Only One Extant Done During Em peror's Life. Rome.Tivoli, that lovely little city perched above Rome, called Tibur by the ancient Romans, has just given to the archaeological world two new art treasuresan augusteum, or ball, and a splendid bead of Emperor Au gustus. Prof. Alessio Valle, one of the arch aeologists who have made Tivoli a special study, long believed that Tivoli should reveal an ancient hall of importance, considering the flour ishing state of the city in Roman days. He began to dig near a newly discovered weights and measures of fice, also dating from the Roman em pire, thinking that the public weights and measures must surely be near some Important hall. He was not mistaken. He has opened up a hall with a Roman pave ment of white and green marble which looks as if It were put down this morning, so fresh is it, and the statue of Augustus, broken but with the head intact, as the picture shows, with the lifelike lines cut out of the marble by some unknown sculptor of evident genius. Likeness of Augustus. The statue is a likeness of Augus tus when he had grown old. An in scription underneath It, which dedi cates the statue to the gods, "for the happy return in good health of our Augustus Caesar," proves it was done during the famous emperor's lifetime, a votive offering to the gods by a loyal Tivoli citizen who signs himself M. Veranus Dlifilus. The same man gave the public weights and measures to the city. History lets us date this statue be tween B. C. 31 and A. D. 14, when Emperor Augustus died near Naples, aged seventy-six. Experts say the face is the face of a man of fifty. In the worn lines, the ill-tempered mouth, its upward twist at the left side, we have no flattering picture of the great emperor, but a lifelike study by an artist who dared to cut his statue as he saw the human model. For this reason, and because of its surely be ing done in Augustus' lifetime, it is a very valuable addition to the col lection of portraits of the Roman emperors, and probably the only one extant of Augustus done during his lifetime. The figure, which originally sat on the pedestal at the head of the hall, is graceful, as Suetoius, that gos sipy historian from whom later scribes have learned *iearly all they know about the Roman emperors, told us, saying: Graceful Person. "He was a very graceful person through all the stages of life, though he was very careless in bis dress and would set several barbers to work upon his hair together, and would sometimes clip and sometimes shave his beard, and at the same time would be reading or writing." Augustus, though emperor, called himself a democrat and, saya Sue toius, "always abhorred the title of lord as a scandalous affront." He tells us, too, that the emperor caught cold easily and wore woolen under wear in winter, "with a thick wool toga." _ This broken statue, with the base on which it stood, unearthed after so long bridges the gulf of centuries and brings one of the greatest rulers the world ever saw very near. NAVY NOT QUITE SOBER YET Drunkenness Leads as Cause for Trial of Men Despite Prohibition, Says Official. Washington.Drunkenness contin ued to be the principal cause for trial of enlisted men of the navy for deser tion or overstaying leave* during the last fiscal year, according to the an .report of Rear Admiral George^ \Q Clark, ^pdge advocate general, to /'1 Secretary 'Daniels. 0/.1J25 ^^Vases'^riDg the year pleas, df fcroqfiooness vtere entered In *884'dtsrsV The excuse, "having a good time," was given in 862 cases. Homesickness caused 90 sailors to take "French" leave, and in eight cases the plea was entered that the work on board ship was too bard. ..v More than 41,000 cases were tried by court-martial during the year. Living With Bullet hyHeart Omaha. Neb.James Freeman{ this city has aSbuUef in his heart and Is still aliver^He told the police be was shot bybJfs wife, from whom he' bad been separated, when he retni home after he is said to nave. thrii ened her. She met,him at the door fired pointblank^. He walkgdjL police station. nearly, iway^ ,wlflire* inejjf given 6!m.^ firwaV^.^ ^.|Ata'^nd^ J& (D cT of ft