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BENEFITED BY AMERICAN TRAINING
Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, who
fias been appointed new first lord of
Wie British admiralty, succeeding Sir
Edward Carson, is one of the handful
pf great Britishers who emerged out
pf comparative obscurity with the ad
irent of the war. Until hostilities be
fcan he was scarcely known outside of
Railroad circles, and American railroad
knen knew him best, for It was In the
United States thnt he got his training,
f The new first lord Is a Scotsman,
Ë >rn In India, but owes his abili
ln a large degree to his American
[lining. Lie Is only forty-one years
pld.
He spent a year In the Homestead
mills In Pittsburgh, and backed that
experience with three years in the
(employ of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.
When Lloyd George took the post
wf minister of munitions In 1915 lie
Imade Sir Eric his principal lieutenant,
»or director general. In that post he controlled the supply of heavy guns, small
terms, munitions, etc.
Sir Douglas Haig had him transferred to France as director general of
(transportation. He was knighted only last year.
POWERFUL RECRUIT FOR RED CROSS
Another addition to the business
executives enlisted in the service of
the Red Cross during the war was
made when John là Ryan, president
of the Anaconda Copper company, was
appointed as director general of mili
tary relief.
Mr. Rvnn will have supervision of
the bureau of medical service, the bu
reau of nursing service and the bu
reau of supplies. The maintenance of
50 or more base hospitals will be one
of the large tasks which will be laid
Immediately before him.
He bus the position of director
general of military relief and will be
in charge of all relief work for the
fighting forces.
Mr. Ryan succeeds Col. Jefferson
R. Kean, who has been ordered to
take command of the 100 United States
army ambulance sections in the war
theater.
The military relief department
«was organized by Colonel Kean In 1916 and in the past few months he Jms
'built up, through It, a great machine for relief work at the front. It wns
(because of his intimate knowledge of this work that the war department
iinnde him commander of tîië arjny Bjgjjjilfflice sections, which were first to
xnrry the American flag to the fighting line ST , •
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DIRECTED TO BUILD MERCHANT MARINE
The biggest constructive job since
toe building of the Panama canal, the
task of fitting together a fleet of mer
chantmen that Is to save Europe from
hunger, and possibly starvation, has
l*?en turned over to a Chicago man—
(Edward N. Hurley.
Edward N. Hurley was picked,
probably, because of his record of
achievement. He is not n politician. He
la a business man. It Is not so many
years ago that he was sitting on the
throttle side of an engine eab for the
(Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail
road. From this position he stepped
Into a salesman's job for the United
jßtntes Metallic Packing company, of
(which concern he soon became man
ager.
! For this enterprise he originated
fcnd developed the pneumatic tool in
dustry of the United States and Eu
rope.
He Is the executive head and prin
Wpal stockholder of several manufacturing and industrial concerns that have
aprung from the development of this Industry. His Interests, however, are
C o diversified that they include bankfng and railroading as well, and have so
rondened his outlook thnt his reports on his different studies of trade condi
tions and credits are regarded ns some of the most authoritative contributions
to the literature of American commerce.
Mr. Hurley has long been an advocate of an enormous merchant marine
tor the United States to open up neglected trade channels. And now he has
been assigned to build It.
NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR PRACTICAL MAN
When Secretary Daniels Informed
Rear Admiral Washington Lee Capps
that the president had selected him to
build the merchant fleets that we must
have If the U-boats are to be con
quered, a shipbuilder had succeeded an
engineer In n job upon which the des
tiny of democracy depends.
Admiral Capps will build ships In
quantities desired, on order, for build
ing ships, one way or another, has
been his steady Job for 30 years. He
Is a practical man, and as chief con
structor of the navy has the Inner
most details of every yard in the coun
try that bears the slightest resem
blance to a shipbuilding plant in the
grasp of his two hands.
The work upon which Admiral
Capps has been employed since the
new naval building program went Into
effect a year and a half ago Is directly
In line with that which he will have to
do now in his new position. A man with
n international reputation as a naval constructor and administrator, his fail
ire in a post for which he has been trained by years of practical service,
ould come about only through politics and disagreements with associates,
rom which he has the instinct to steer clear. He will take orders and obey
iem, although he will not surrender a professional opinion.
His selection will have an excellent effect upon the country, which would
ave resented the virtual removal of the builder of the Panama canal If his
iccessor had not been a man of high professional standing, fully acquainted
Ith the construction of ships and ready to go ahead under full steam In the
•osecution of an enterprise that had been standing still for 60 long a time
at it was beginning to be possible to calculate delay In terms of human
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PARK BEAR8.
"In a park where there were ani
mals," commenced Daddy, "there lived
two polar bears next door to two
brown bears.
"Perhaps It would be a little better
to say that they lived in cages side
by side instead of saying they lived
next door to each other, for we usual
ly think of houses when we speak of
people living next door to each other.
''But the bears had fine yards to
play in. as well as their places for
sleeping. Their homes were almost
entirely of rocks, and In each place
there was a big pool where they could
swim.
"Now the polar bears were very
handsome. They were white and they
waved their heads about as much as
to say,
" 'We are such beautiful bears. We
are so much admired.'
"But the brown bears looked at the
polar bears as if they didn't think of
them at all. For to themselves they
were thinking how cross the polar
bears often were, and how friendly
and nice they always felt toward ev
eryone.
" 'Fish day, fish day,' called the
keeper and into the pool of the polar
bears he put some fine fish.
"With a great flopping and splash
ing they had gone after their fish
meal, and how happy they were. It
was a real treat. For the polar l*ars
love fish better than any other kind of
food.
"But the brown bears were just as
happy for they were getting bread
crumbs and soup and bran—a very
delicious mixture they thought.
" 'Sniff—sniff,' said Mr. Brown Bear.
"And Mrs. Brown Bear made the
same noise—just like sniffing the air.
" 'It is going to rain,' said Mr. Brown
Bear.
" T do believe it Is,' said Mrs. Brown
Bear. And they pointed their noses
Into the air—just in the direction of
Mr. Wind.
"The bears alwaj-s point their noses
In the direction the wind Is coming
from, and they always know if a storm
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"The Bears Enjoyed It Thoroughly."
Is on the way. In fact they can al
ways tell about the weather, and if
only we knew bear talk we might go
to the bears to find out if the day was
going to be rainy or not.
w But they do not mind a storm as
the lions do. In fact they quite en
joy It, while the Hons roar and get
very much upset.
"Pretty soon it began to rain. 'Good
for us,' said Mr. Brown Bear. T was
feeling pretty hot, for my fur coat is
rather heavy for the summer.'
" T wouldn't want to change It for
a lighter one though,' said Mrs. Brown
Bear. 'It would be such a waste of
time, in the first place, and In the
second place, how could we ever pick
out a summer coat that would be as
handsome as our fur coats. We would
look so strange with summer feathers,
for instance.'
'"Yes, it Is best to always wear a
fur coat,' said Mr. Brown Bear, 'and
besides It is something we can always
afford. Furs are not a luxury to us.
But this rain does feel very fine and
it is cooling me off.'
" T enjoy a rain better in the sum
mer than any other time,' said Mrs.
Brown Bear.
" T shall have to tell the King of the
Clouds that,' said Mr. Brown Bear.
T am sure he would be very much
flattered.'
"So he sniffed in the air and tried
to have the wind take a message to
the King of the Clouds, telling him
how much the bears liked the rain.
"And from the way the rain kept on,
it seemed as if the rain wanted to
please the bears.
" 'There are some people who go In
side when It rains,' said Mr. Brown
Bear.
"'And I have heard it said,' added
Mrs. Brown Bear, 'that folks who do
not go in when it rains, do not know
much. In fact there Is a saying about
very foolish people, that they do not
know enough to go In when It rains.'
" 'How can such foolish sayings go
about?' asked Mr. Brown Bear. 'Well,
they never consulted the bear family
when they made up that saying—cer
tainly they never asked us about It in
the summer time.' And throughout
the rainstorm the bears stayed outside
and enjoyed it thoroughly."
Earn Their Own Way.
Everyone of the four hundred boy
students in the School of Agriculture
of the University of Minnesota is self
supporting. The majority of them
work on farms during the summer and
earn and save more than enough mon
ey for their six months of schooL
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COURT GIVES WIFE
TWO KISSES DAILY
l'oing Hubby Is Haled Before
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Show Affection.
Knoxville, Tenn.—Charged with fail
li re to love his wife, a young hubby
baled before City Judge R. P. Wil
liams here was sentenced to kiss her
twice daily.
"From the testimony of neighbors,
who, as Is often the ease, seemed to
know more about the affair than did
the principals themselves. It seemed
that 'temperamental incompatibility,'
ns It has been termed In higher courts,
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Sentenced Henry to Two Kisses Daily.
'pure eussedness,' as it is known local
ly, was the cause of the trouble," 6ays
Judge Williams.
"You see, Henry would go home in
the afternoon, and not being of a par
ticularly affectionate nature, failed to
greet his wife with a kiss. Now she,
being in love with her husband, want
ed to be kissed. After frequent fail
ures of this kind on his part she
charged Henry with an extreme frig
idity of affections. Henry denied the
allegations, affirming that he had too
many serious and Important things to
do to consider without indulging in
osculatory e -clses with a woman,
whom, after all, was nothing but his
Wife.« ...
This enraged the wife, who proceed
ed to tell Henry Just what she thought
of him. Henry opened hostilities with
a dishpan.
To make up for past omissions, and
to cause him to cultivate a taste for
such things, City Judge Williams sen
tenced Henry to two kisses dally.
HATS CAUSE MARITAL ROW
Woman's Weakness for Millinery
Causes Husband to Seek Separa
tion In Court.
Chicago.—Mrs. John W. Olson's
prime weakness was hats. But her
husband found little interest in the
millinery magazines with which their
home was 6trewn. Neither did he en
joy standing before show windows In
which Parisian creations were exhib
ited. That is where the trouble
started.
"Billy" Stamm was twenty-two, well
tailored and good-looking. He adored
millinery and he wns an artist at turn
ing out nifty headgear from a miscel
laneous assortment of trimmings. So
Stamm, being an old friend of the fam
ily, became an extremely friendly per
son to Mrs. Olson and finally they
opened a hat store together. Then Ol
son left home. He has filed suit for
divorce, naming Stamm, whose ability
to trim hats, he alleges, has wrecked
the Olson home.
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FIND SKELETON WITH $
HORNS; A TAIL, TOO $
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Wheeling, W. Va. —Boys here
have unearthed a skeleton close
ly resembling the popular idea of
the devil. The skull Is much like
that of the present human race,
with the exception of two horns,
which project from just above
the temples on each side. In
life the creature was about four
feet high, with a long tail. There
are four powerful legs or arms,
each of which has four fingers.
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CANT TELL KISS BY SOUND
Momentous Decision, Handed Down by
New York Judge, Rules
Against Hubby.
Beacon, N. Y.—You can't tell wheth
er It's a kiss or not by the sound alone.
A momentous decision, truly, but one
easily reached by Judge Willard Brock
way when Herbert Jordan attempted
to justify his leaving his wife because
she kissed a grocery clerk.
"How do you know she did?" asked
the judge.
Jordan brought forward a neighbor
who said she had heard the "sound of
kissing through the keyhole." "We
have to go by fact, not by sound," re
marked Judge Brockway. "It might
have been some other noise with a
kissing sou id.*'
HAWAIIANS SEEK
DEATH IN LAVA
Fanatics Attempt to Make Sacri
fice to Pele, the Goddess
of Fire.
LED BY SCHOOL GIRL
Twenty-Six Persons Begin Trip Up the
Lava-Encrusted Slopes, but Ex
haustion Thwarts Their
Purpose.
Honolulu. — Twenty-six Hawaiiens,
led by a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl,
sought to fling themselves Into the boil
ing luva of Kilahoa cruter on the re
cent anniversary of King Knmehameha
the Great. The fanutics were attempt
ing to make a human sacrifice to Pole,
the goddess of fire. Their plans were
frustrated when they fell exbuüsted
on the mountainsides after the long
journey toward the volcano.
The pilgrimage was started from
nookena, Hawaii, by old men and
women, children and even infants in
arms, all unprovided with food and wa
ter and scantily clad. The blazing sun
of the lava-encrusted slopes overcame
the pilgrims after a day and a night
of continuous traveling, and they were
found by A. R. Gasper, who operates
an automobile stage around the Island
from Hilo to Kona.
Vision Revealed to Girl.
The schoolgirl, Kaneau by name, had
recently made an appeal to the people
of Hookena telling them of a vision
that had been revealed to her in a
dream. She said that the spirit of the
goddess Pele had come to her and told
of the destruction that was to visit the
islands on the king's anniversary.
Every living being was to be de
stroyed, she said, except one man and
one woman. All of the Islands were to
be destroyed except two and they were
to be Joined together Into one. The
destruction was to be wrought through
an eruption bf Mount Kaneau and noth
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lng but human sacrifices could appease
the goddess and avert the tragedy, ac
cording to the vision.
The appeal of the schoolgirl was so
eloquent that 26 persons were Imbued
with the spirit of primitive Hawaii and
decided to sacrifice themselves. They
planned to go to the brink of the cra
ter and leap into the seething lava.
USES FIRE TO START MULE
Percy Lands In Jail After Furnishing
Considerable Excitement for Fir©
Department.
Plcasantville, N. J.—Percy Cline saw
a balky Missouri mule leaning sound
asleep against a lamp post in one of
the busiest streets of Plcasantville
last night. Percy stopped and watched
with Interest while the mule owner
tried every conceivable way to make
the animal go, except the Missouri
sure-fire method of tickling the mule's
left hand hoof with a straw, but the
mule only blinked, sighed deeply and
settled himself more firmly against the
post
"HI bet I can make her go," re
marked Percy with the modesty of
genius. "I'll build a fire under her,
and then she'll go."
"If you do," said an agent of the
S. P. C. A., who was also a spectator,
"HI nrrest you for cruelty to animals."
"Shucks!" said Percy. "You can't
be cruel to a mule. I'll do it, and I
bet he'll go."
ne did. And the mule did. And the
agent did.
The fire department put out the fire
the society's agent put Percy in jail
and the mule was still going In the
general direction of San Francisco
when last seen.
Lightning Snipped Off Woman's Toe.
Kimball, Neb.—A bolt of lightning !
snipped off one toe from the foot of
Mrs. Isaac Barrett when she was sit- '
tiug on her porch during a storm. She !
wus left otherwise uninjured.
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Cheering Her Up.
Bess—I could marry a man who
loved me for my looks alone.
Jess—Why, dear, the blind some
times marry.—Judge.
IT IS IMPERATIVE
that you keep a bottle of Mississippi
Diarrhea Cordial in your medicine
chest. In constant use for fifty years.
Price 25c and 50c.—Adv.
The Secret of Youth.
After all, the plain truth Is that ad
venture consists Less In the experiences
one actually has than in the Indefatiga
ble expectancy with which one awaits
them, writes Edgar Goodspeed In the
Atlantic. Indeed, I sometimes fear that
people must be divided Into those who
have adventures and those who appre
ciate them. And between the two the
affinity for adventure Is greater treas
ure than the experiencing of It. If wo
are possessed of the affinity, adventure
itself is, at most, Just round the cor
ner from us. This opens the life of
adventure to all who crave It. What
possibilities lie In merely crossing a
street, for example ! Some one re
marked the other day as he dodged
across among the motorcars, "Why not
take a chance now and then nnd lead
a real life for a few minutes?"
I therefore recommend the life of ad
venture. It conceives each ray as a
fresh enterprise, full of delightful pos
sibilities and promise, and so preserves
the wine of life from growing flat.
Here is the secret of youth.
Going to Land Him.
"He was engaged three times before
he proposed to her."
"Yes."
"And she accepted him?"'
"Yets, but she's insisting on an Im
mediate marriage. Profiting by the
experience of other girls she Isn't
going to take any chance on his
breaking another engagement."
Result of Modesty.
"Jenkins changed color when yon
praised him before everybody."
"Yes, I noticed that when Ï said he
was a white man through and through,
he turned red."
As Usual.
"Is your wife canning anything this
year?"
"The servant girls, as usual."
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