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$k VOL. 37. titf PRICES OF FARM LAND INCREASE Jump 65 Per Cent in Five Years, According to Estimates of Secretary Meredith. FACTOR IN FARM OWNERSHIP While Reflection of Upward Move ment of Commodity Prices, It In dicates Increasing Scarcity of Farm Land. Washington.During the last five years the selling price of farm land and improvements in the United States Increased 65 per cent, according to es timates made by the secretary of agri culture In his annual report to the President. Between March, 1919, and March, 1920, the increase was 21.1. Although the data for the 1920 cen sus are not yet available, it seems probable, the secretary said, that while the average price of farm land and improvements per acre Increased only 20 per cent during the 40 years from 1860 to 1900 the price in 1920 Is two and one-half times that of 1910 and five times that of 20 years ago. "The price of farm lands is one of the important factors in the problem of farm ownership," said the secre tary. "It is estimated that between March, 1919, and March, 1920, the in crease in the selling price of farm land and improvements was 21.1 per cent. In the last five years the In crease has been 65 per cent. Net Return Less. "In some sections the net return on the purchase price of farm lands Is considerably less than the ordinary rate of return on first mortgages and similar investments. The rental rate 6f cash leases, also, Is frequently less than half the rate of return on mort gages. Studies made by the depart ment indicate that, in certain regions, the recent advance in the price of land has still further aggravated this condition. Such a situation is unfor- tunate, for it increases the difficulties of a tenant who is seeking to become an owner. "While the increase In land prices Is, to some extent, a reflection of the general upward movement In the level of commodity prices, it must be re garded, in part, as an indication of the Increasing scarcity of land avail able for agricultural use. "War conditions stimulated an ex pansion of the area devoted to crops, estimated at 10.1 per cent from 1914 to 1918, or an increase of 3.4 per cent in the per capita acreage. This was effected by utilizing pasture land for crop production and by bringing into use other uncultivated areas. The ex pansion was particularly marked in the case of small grains. Since the armis tice there has been a reduction In crop acreage. From 1919 to 1920 there was a decline of 5.4 per cent in the acreage of 20 principal-crops. Ap parently the reduction has been brought about by returning the land to pastures and by discontinuing the use of the low-grade areas which were temporarily utilized. What the War Did. "These changes should be Instruc tive to those who would reduce the prices of farm products by bringing into use large areas of new land. It is clear that If prices had been ex traordinarily remunerative to the farmer compared with the returns on capital and labor in Industry, we would not witness this reduction of the acreage in cultivation, but, on the contrary, a continued enlargement of it. While the war conditions tem porarily increased the net cash income of the farmer and stimulated a tem porary expansion of the crop area, this was due in large measure to the response of the farmers to the in sistent call for more food, particularly wheat and rye, the principal bread grains. It Is of no small significance that the contraction in acreage has been most extreme in the case of these crops, estimated at 31.5 per cent for winter wheat, 16.5 per cent for spring wheat, and 22.6 per cent for rye." SEEKS TO ENTER U.S. ON RAFT Austrian Stowaway Forced, However, to Call Help In New York Harbor. New York.After bobbing around aimlessly In the harbor on a raft for several hours in the dark, Wasic Ernst, an eighteen-year-old stowaway from Austria, decided to abandon his novel method of eluding Ellis island officials and called dejectedly for help. While thawing out by a radiator, he told a tugboat captain, who found him after much searching, he had been in formed that the way of stowaways en tering America was hard and, conse quently, when his ship entered the harbor he threw the raft overboard, jumped on it agd hoped to be washed ashore. He was taken to Ellis island for deportation. Children Unshod in Big Shoe Town. Brockton, Mass.This city produces shoes* for world-wide distribution and makes more of some kinds than any other city, but Charles P. Brooks, at tendance officer of the school board, reported that many of its children are unshod. There are at least fifty chil dren in the city who cannot go to school because they lack shoes, he ^said, and some of them nave not been *j^to school in vreekB.:^ -c7,\['^%& CAUSES HOG DISEASE Paralysis Traced to Larvae of Blue Bottle Fly. Minnesota Scientists Also Hope to Find Origin of Infantile Paralysis. Minneapolis. Minn.Minnesota Uni versity farm school experts issued a statement that infantile paralysis was traceable to the larvae of the green bottle fly. This theory, which, it Is hoped, will make it possible for medi cal authorities not only to prevent the spread of paralysis epidemic among children, but also to provide a cure, has been -stmttetl by a group "of farm school experts. The subject has been under consid eration at the Minnesota experiment station, in co-operation with certain medical authorities. It became known, as a result of the investigation, that the larvae of the bottle fly was re sponsible for hog paralysis and lim berneck In poultry. Studies are being made by R. Adam Dutcher and Stanley D. Wilkins of the station, in co-operation with D. C. Beaver and W. A. Billings of the vet erinary division of the university, and A. L. Smith of the poultry division. These experts were considerably en lightened as to the causes and method of control of animal paralysis by cer tain discoveries made in an attempt to trace the causes of limberneck In poultry. In experiments a cockerel was fed on the larvae of green bottle flies, which had fed on the head of a hog which had died of paralysis. The result was that limberneck im mediately developed in the cockerel. Next the process was reversed. Paral ysis of the hind quarters was produced in guinea pigs by feeding them larvae which had fed on a chicken which showed limberneck symptoms. The information gained from the experiments have caused the univer sity officials to send out bulletins to Minnesota farmers urging them to protect their live stock and poultry, and possibly human health, by burn ing or burying deeply all carrion. They cite this as an additional argu ment for farm and home sanitation. BRAZILIAN GIFTS FOR KING Valuable Gems Are Presented to Bel- 1 gian Royalty by South Amer- i ican Republic. I Rio de Janeiro.Handsome presents I were given the king and queen of the Belgians ahcT to Crown Prince Leopold by the President of Brazil, in the 1 name of the government before the royal party's return to Belgium after "j. their visit here. King Albert was offered a valuable and varied collection of tourmalines, Presents to the queen included five Brazilian brilliants of various colors In a background of Brazilian dia monds. The brilliants were violet, rose, gold, turquoise and lettuce in color, the last two being extremely rare. The queen also received a rare i collection Of Brazilian butterflies. To Prince Leopold was given a col lection of large photographs and an artflstic and valuable poniard with ivory and gold handle, made in Parahyba state, as well as various private gifts. Firemen Are Called to Rescue Family Roast Louisville, Ky.J. A. Craw ford was resting in his home, 1900 Portland avenue, while members of the family were away. He fell asleep, but awakened. Something was burn ing. His nostrilSrteld-'him that Instantly his feet caught the message and carried him to the fire alarm box on the corner. When the firemen arrived the house was filled with smoke. More was coming from the kitchen, from the oven, where the cause of the trouble was founda large pork roast Cold meat was served for dinner at the Crawford home. 100-YEAR WINE IS FOUND Case Unearthed by Excavating in Ruins of Old Building in Florida. Port S Joe, Fla.A case of choice wine, believed buried over 100 years ago, was excavated by workmen en gaged in dismantling the ruins of an old building in Port S Joseph, near here, which was deserted in 1840, fol lowing'a virulent yellow fever epi demic. The wine was buried in what had been the cellar of the house. Has Crossed Another River. Cincinnati, O.William O'Ragan, aged sixty-sixT gardner at the Ludlow lagoon, who several years ago tried to walk across the Ohio on wooden shoes he had made, Is dead here. When he tried his river-walking stunt he succeeded In making half the jour ney. -V^i: Passing of a Landmark. Paducah, Ky.Slowly changing its course, the Ohio river Is threatening Fort Massac on the Illinois side, and the fort, second oldest in the state, will be washed away unless an 18-foot re tainer wall which is. being planned can check the undermining. Defective Page HAS 9-EGG BREAKFAST "A Square Meal at Last".Says English Adventurer. Makes Three Months* Canoe Trip in Far North of Canada and Alaska. Winnipeg, Man.Hugh Kindersley, twenty-one years old, son of Sir Rob ert Kindersley, governor of the Hud son Bay company, has returned from a three months' canoe trip through the Far North of Canada and Alaska. With Capt. Tom- O'Kelly, a veteran of the company's service, as his guide and_ only comganionj, ^he^ set_out from Athabasca"/" Landing in a 19-foot canoe. He traveled by Athabasca river, Athabasca lake, Slave river. Great Slave lake and the Mackenzie river to within 90 miles of the Arctic ocean, visiting the old Hudson bay fur posts on his way. At Fort Gocd Hope he crossed the Arctic circle and was then in the region of the midnight sun and continuous daylight As he says, he "saw no stars from early in June until August 7." Beyond Fort McPherson and Arctic Red river he ascended Rat river, "a narrow torrent of rushing glacier war ter that drops as much in 60 miles as the Yukon in 2,000," crossed the Rocky mountains and, with supplies completely exhausted, reached Fort Yukon August 13. "A square meal at last," wrote the young Englishman in his diary. "Never before have I eaten nine eggs for breakfast, not to mention ham, bread, jam, cake, coffee and whap- sing." From Fort Yukon he went up the Yukon past Dawson and White Horse, through the old Klondike gold fields and took steamer at Skagway for Van couver. The two adventurers camped out constantly and the young scion of the house of Kindersley became an expert camp cook. "While fighting our way up Rat river," he said, "mosquitoes swarmed about in dense clouds. If I removed my gauntlets, my hands were instant ly hidden with the Insects. Stumbling through the tundra^ I lost my mos-. quito^bar helmet and soon my face was covered with the blood of crushed mosquitoes. But I enjoyed every min ute of it." ONTARIO BUYS UP RAILWAYS Canadian Province to Pay $32,734,000 for Public Utilities in and Around Toronto. Toronto, Ont.A deal, subject only to ratification by the Ontario govern ment, was completed whereby the province will purchase virtually all of the MacKenzie power interests in and around this city for $32,834,000. Property concerned comprises, in addition to various suburban railways and power plants, the Electric Devel opment company at Niagara Falls, Ont, with its transmission line to Toronto. The deal marks the close of two years' negotiations between Sir Wil liam MacKenzie and Sir Adam Beck. It means that, with the exception of the Dominion Power company at Ham ilton, all the larger hydro concerns in the province are publicly owned. Breaks Glass to Get Kiss Finds Girl Wax Philadelphia.Louis Katraly came down from Coatesville, Pa., to see the city sights. He was passing a department store when he saw the beautiful fig ure of a girl in one of the win dows, casting an alluring smile in his direction. He beckoned to her to come out and j[oin him, but she did not move,and kept right on smiling. Louis decided to pursue her. He smashed the window and grabbed the figure around the waist He,was about to kiss the wax. lips with the frozen smile when a policeman grabbed him. FINDS $1,100 ON TRASH PILE Stolen War Savings Stamps Hidden in Old Valise In Guthrie, Okla. Were Guthrie, Okla.-^Six weeks ago W. F. Davis of this city found an old valise under a house he was moving and threw it on a trash pije in the yard. It laid there until he started to haul the trash away and on close examina tion found $1,100 In War Savings stamps under a false bottom. Inquiry developed the fact that the valise was once stolen from in front of a local hotel last spring and belonged to Da vid Secko, a traveling man from Enid. The stamps were all registered In his name. Nineteen His Fateful Number. Madisonville, Ky."Nineteen" sure ly played a tragic role in the last days of Roseoe Ashley, buried at Grapevine. He enlisted September 19, 1917, was -wounded September 19,1918, died No vember 19 of the same year and his body arrivedi hi the. United States November 19,1920.HSI. ^WhaXJLIttle Brother Bagged. MadlsonvJUe, Ky^-r-Roy Oakley, aged fifteen, will Uyer though. 71-shot had to be picked from bis body by. a surgeon. .He and his little brother, Tommy, went rabbit hunting. Tommy shot Boy .instead of the bunny.t- ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY: JANUARY 1. 1921 380 SPIES IN AMERICAN ARMY Amazing Story of German Es pionage During the War i Is Disclosed. DESERTERMAKES-CONFESSION Former Officer Tells of Being Sent From Germany With Other Cadets to Enlist in the United States $rmy. New York.An amazing story of German espionage during the war was disclosed when John Willet, for mer captain in the Forty-eighth Uni ted States infantry, confessd he was really Hans Willers a cadet in the German army until 1914, when he was sent to' this country with 300 other cadets to joint the American army and become United States officers. Willet admitted he had absconded with $6,000 of, his company's funds at Camp Sevier on November 28, 1918, a few weeks after the armistice, and de serted. It was this offense and not any sus picion of his spy role which resulted in his arrest here when Hugh J. Han nigan, formerly a first lieutenant' in the Forty-eighth, recognized the de serter on the street and hailed a po liceman. Hints at Treason in Washington. "You would be surprised how many high German officials held jobs in Washington during the war, Willet told Detective Sergeant O'Leary. The prisoner made this statement after he had narrated how be came here and what he would have done had his regi ment been sent to France. "I would have led my men to slaughter, and could have been use ful to my own country in many other ways," Willet declared, according to the police, in explaining why he and others were sent to the United States to enlist in the American army. Willet was taken to Fort Jay prison on Gov ernor's island. Confronted by two ex-lieutenants of the Forty-eighth infantry, Sidney P. Howell, a lawyer, and Francis Hatch, Willet began to respond to questions. As to his pedigree, he said he was born in Germany and-*educated there. "I was trained for spy work when I was a boy and later when I was a cadet in a German military academy," the detectives quote Willet as saying. "When the World war began in 1914 I was selected to join a band of cadets who were to come to the United States with orders to join the American army. Other groups went to the French army and to the British. About 300 others came over here with me. I knew my military training soon would be recog nized and that promotion would fol low, so I enlisted as a private the first opportunity I got. I had no citizenship papersI did not need any. Enlisted as Buck. Private. "I enlisted as a buck private in Al bany soon after my arrival in this country. Within a very short time my ability as a soldier was recognized and I was promoted. "My heart was nearly broken when I discovered my regiment probably would not be sent to France.^ I would have died for my country gladly. So, 15 days after the armistice, I took the company fund money and left camp, "I'm telling you this freely because I might as well be dead. Life does not matter much to me." Willet said that after he deserted Camp Sevier he started traveling. He toured the Pacific coast. In Chicago about a year ago he mar ried an American girl named Craw ford, it is said. Willet recently opened a mail order business in this city under the name of Crawford. ORE TOTALS 50,000,000 TONS --...~r*\ ,--M Great Lakes Shipments-Show Increase of 7,7b0$D0 During.Year, Say Duluth Figures. Duluth, Minn.The total shipment of iron ore for the season reached ap proximately 50,000,000 tons, according to figures announced here. i Iron ore shipped from the head of "the lakes thus far amounts to 47,707.- 372 tons, with about 30,000 tons re maining to go out from the Duluth and Iron Range railroad docks at Two Harbors and.the Chicago & North western railroad docks at Ashland, Wis. Total shipments from all the,docks for the season, show an increase of approximately 7,700,000 tons over last yeai%., ^when 40,067,850 tons were shipped. May Be as Handy With the Skillet Frankfort, JKy.-Mrs. Jackson Mor ris, wife of Kentucky's adjutant gen eral, is so handy with a gun that when she wants a chicken killed she merely steps to the back door, takes aim with her 22 rifle and the chicken falls with a bullet through its head. She uses a gun brought from Belgium by the adjutant general and presented to bis little son, a^P|fe.,v.... :ju. ^-^P^ MS No A Chance for JudgeJ||| Ma^etta, 0.-*"I don't Jncl any one offering me a drink,'* Mayor Sprague remarked while, acting, as ,a ^police judge. .,^Yes, but you,_are adjudge/*1 said/ the-j prisoner, -Vand maybe 4f saferone* to offer me a drink than to offer CASH AND LOVE GONE Once Wealthy Man Brings Action Against Girl Wife. Ag*d Husband Demands an Aeeounfc. log' for $50,000 Turned Over to Wife and Relatives. Atlantic City.Penniless and sixty five years old, William P. Riffle, once a wealthy resident of Uniontown, Pa., appeared before vice chancellor Learn ing here in an action he has brought against his nineteen-year-old wife and her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mathews, formerly of New York, but for the past year residents of this city.- He sues to compel the latter to give an accounting for $50,- 000 which he turned over to them. Riffle testified that two years ago Mrs. Mathews showed him the pic ture of her niece, then seventeen, when he went to her hotel on South Illinois avenue, in search of health. He said that he became enamoured of the girl and Mrs. Mathews brought her to the hotel. They became en gaged after he had promised to give her $10,000. Shortly afterward they were married. He testified that he gave Mr. and Mrs. Mathews nearly $50,000, with the understanding that the money was to be invested in real estate. After his money was gone, he charged, his wife sora the furniture he had bought for their home despite his protest. She then gave him $16 of the proceeds to go to his home, he added, and even tried, he swore, to take that away from him before he left The defense sought to show that the money had paid for $6,000 worth of clothes for the young wife, an automobile, diamonds and jewelry. Riffle admitted the money lasted only six months. Then, he charged, the Mathews sent him home to Union town to raise more funds, but he had been unsuccessful. He declared that he was forced to leave his wife in March of this year. COURT 0. K/S HAIR PULLING Wife Justified in "Remonstrating" With Rival, Massachusetts Judge Ruies. Lynn, Mass.A hair-pulling match between a wife and another woman who is found with the husband is per fectly in order from the spouse's view point, according to the ruling of As sociate Justice Edward B. O'Brien of the District court here. He was called upon to render a de cision at the trial of Mrs. Lillian Miner, a divorcee, charged with as sault with a revolver upon Mrs. Cath erine Curtis, the wife of a Boston po liceman. Although it was charged that Mrs. Curtis made the first move in the hostilities, the justice said: "I think the wife is justified in re monstrating, even tov ROBBER OFFERS VICTIM $10 "You flee* It Worse Than I He Says to Holdup on Finding Man Penniless. Steubenville, O.Daniel Cable, a pottery worker, reported to the police here that a jobber, who had held him up while be was on his way home in a suburb, offered- to give him $10 after the highwayman discovered that he was penniless. Cable said that the robber leaped upon, overpowered him, and then went through his pockets. Finding no money. Cable said, the highwayman reached into his own pocket, pulled out a roll of bills and offered to give him $10, saying: "Here, brother, you need it worse than I do." Cable said he was too surprised to accept the money. Laborer Gats $150,000/ Anaconda, Mont.From a laborer's task at the Washoe smelter to the possession of $150,000 was the realiza tion here recently of Claude Sheuma ker, who received a telegram from an Eastern broker advising him that he had realized this fortune on the sale of oil stock. Sheumaker immediately drew bis earnings, purchased a rail road ticket and started East. Sheu maker conceived the idea of buying oil stock while in the army*! While serv ing overseas with the Twenty-third di vision he was wounded. His original investment was $300 of back army pay. He intends purchasing a ranch in Ore- F^?'* eon, he said. DRIVE ON SPARROWS 700,000 of the Pest* 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 sparows were killed in a state-wide campaign in which 783 Utah farmers joined forces to get rid of the pests during the winter months. County agents aelped 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 for the use of the poison. Each co-operator receiving the bait agreed to report on the results. Usually the sparrows were 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 of 75 sparrows were killed with each one-quarter-pound package. In each of several counties 50,000 to 100,000 sparrows were destroyed. $- the extent of pulling hair, and if such a case came before me for trial I should rule in favor of the aggrieved wife." Love of Music Traps _... Robber of Poor Box Philadelphia.It was his love for music which led to the ar rest of Jacob Katz, twenty-four years old. Katz entered the Emanuel Lutheran church here shortly after midnight and found the poor box which he emptied of its contents, $3. Then he found the new organ. Katz had musical talent and he ran his fingers over the keys. Then he became so absorbed in the Instrument that he forgot where he was, pulled out the diaphone and thundered away. The strains awakened the pas tor. Rev. Rudolph Nieder, who. lives next door, and he called the police. ,'._-. Anchors of Craft Sunk in 1862 Found 1 New York.There are other i things in the sea more interest ing than fish to veterans in the I perilous north Atlantic trade i plied by smacks exclusively in the past and now more success fully by steam trawlers. Capt. Tom Miller of the trawler Petrel i brought in from Georges bank I two rusty anchors, relics that recalled to shellbacks of his crew the mighty December gale of 1862, in which 19 smacks i were lost and 160 fishermen per ished. i The anchors were fished up on the southeastern edge of the shoal, where the larger part of the wrecks were In the great I blow. The veterans say the an chors bore" the/ handiwf rk 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 on Payroll Eight Years. Amarlllo, 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 /-.:.r-rv 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 m, the farmers say ing: "You}exploited us In the summer now we dismiss you." In most instances the men had spent 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. -v P Train Boy Loses His Chance."' Dayton, O.-Diogenes can turn off the gas. George Miller, conductor, has just turned over to the company of ficials a package containing $5,000 la currency lost by a wniun &Ki gSntit 2.40 PER YEAR FIND LIKENESS 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 hall, and a splendid head 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 Diifilus. 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 iater scribes have learned nearly 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 his 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, says 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 nual report of Rear Admiral George R. Clark, judge advocate general, to Secretary Daniels. Of 1,725 such cases during the year" pleas of drunkenness were entered in 384 cases. The excuse, "having a good time," was given In 362 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 hard. 5- More than 4i,000 cases were tried by court-martial during the year. Living With^ Bullet h* Heart. Omaha, Neb.James Freeman of this city has a bullet In his heart and Is still alive. He told the police he was shot by his wife, from whom he had been separated, when he returned home after he Is said to have 'threat ened her. She met him at the door and fired polntblank. He walked to the police station, nearly three miles away, where medical attention was given him. He was removed to a hos pital and an X-ray taken which show-., ed thp bullet nestling In the heart _fJ^4 '-L^'vy^ v&