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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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Attempt Made in 1899.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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.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
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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.
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Anchors of Craft
Sunk in 1862 Found i
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. '?$$&
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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.
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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
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JL 'XJUAUTT CANDIEST-SAINT RAUL IJ
AT OUR PRE-INVENTORY SALE
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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^.^
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