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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.
Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street,
Telephones—Main 3500, New ÜB-351
MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUPEAU OF CIFSCULATIONS.
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Advertising offices j X(>w York, Boston. Payne, Burns ft Smith. Inc.
INCREASING city taxes sufficiently to increase the city’s revenue more
than 13,000,000 ought to be sufficient to produce an increased balance at the
end of the year. ✓
MAYOR JEWETT now denies that he promised the south side repre
sentation on his boards. Perhaps the News misquoted him in its exploi
tations of his campaign!
Mr. Howe's Candidacy
Citizens of Indianapolis generally have the utmost respect for Mr.
Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler College, whose formal an
nouncement as a candidate for mayor has been made.
Mr. Howe Is an educator of note, a successful business man and a
gentleman possessed of a most winning personality. In a limited circle he
is well-known as a man of integrity and lofty purpose.
Standing alone, his announcement that he will seek nomination and
election as mayor could only be regarded as the entrance into the political
field of a man of the type that seldom is willing to give of his time, comfort
and energy to the interests of a community.
But Mr. Howe’s announcement does not stand alone.
Back of it is the story of a deal made between the administration forces
led by Mayor Jewett and the management of the Indianapolis News by
which the administration agrees to elect Mr. Howe mayor and the News
agrees to give to Mr. Jewett the complete support which it has been s eadily
withdrawing as the Jewett administration approached its end with its
promises unfulfilled and its popularity steadily waning.
Mr. Howe is the long-time personal and business friend of Hilton U.
Brown, general manager of the News, who would have this community be
lieve that in all the years of his management of the News he did not know
that Its ownership was vested in Charles Warren Fairbanks instead of
Delavan Smith, as Mr. Brown repeatedly swore—before a notary.
The forcing of the Jewett administration to accept Mr. Howe as its
candidate for mayor indicates more than any other one thing that Mr.
Brown has finally determined to assert the control of the News, which he
has long possessed, and use it in the promulgation of his own conceptions
of what Indianapolis should have, rather than furtherance of the dreams of
power that come to Richard Smith.
The time worn scheme by which it was sought to make it appear that
the candidacy of Mr. Howe was “forced” by a popular demand from the
people of Indianapolis collapsed in its first stages. Perhaps, if Mr. Howe
were generally known in the community there might be a popular demand
for his candidacy, but as it is, the demand is confined entirely to the office
of the News and its puny efforts to obtain detached demonstrations of this
demand have so far been less effective than it obtained several years ago
with a carefully staged meeting at the Grand Hotel for the bringing out or
John W. Holtzman, its counsel, as a candidate against Joseph E. Bell.
Mr. Howe’s candidacy, therefore, must be contemplated as the candi
dacy of the News faction of the Republican party. By acceptance of the
Invitation to be its candidate for mayor, Mr. Howe lends his approval to
the Jewett administration. By responding to the News-made call for him,
Mr. Howe puts upon his candidacy the stamp of the News approval.
And the stamp of the News approval is the same badge worn by Alvah
Rucker when his deal with the notorious bootlegger, Bob Sloan, was ex
posed in Federal Court; by George V. Coffin when he chose to resign
from the police force rather than face a canceled check; by Claris Adams
when he compromised judgments with the notorious booze vender, Pop
Leppert, and by Jim Collins when his leniency toward criminals caused the
Legislature to contemplate extending the number of offenses in which sus
pended sentences are forbidden.
In short, the circumstances under which Mr. Thomas C. Howe’s can
didacy for mayor is launched are in themselves sufficient justification for
opposition to a candidate against whom nothing of a personal nature has
or is likely to be said.
"By their friends shall ye know them” Is an adage that always holds
good in Indianapolis politics.
Mr. Thomas C. Howe's candidacy is backed by an administration that has
failed to carry out its promises, by a newspaper that for years deceived the
public as to its ownership, and by a number of personal friends who are
being used by these two agencies to mask their attempts to continue in
control of the affairs of the city.
If these two agencies are powerful enough to nominate and elect Mr.
Thomas C. Howe they will certainly be powerful enough to control him.
Therefore, the sole question involved in the candidacy of Mr. Howe is
Whether or not the people of Indianapolis wish a four-year continuance of
the News-Jewett domination of their affairs.
Is This Detraction
Controller Bryson made public a financial statement of the city of In
dianapolis last week.
The statement disclosed that in 1920 the city administration actually
expended $3,354,372 more than it did in 1919; that the income of the city
from all sources, including direct taxation, was $3,873,842.90 greater than
in 1919; that the balance left in the various funds at the end of the year
exceeded the balance left in 1919 by $519,470.10.
The two evening newspapers In Indianapolis gave rather voluminous
expositions of the report
One newspaper emphasized the fact that it cost the people of Indian
apolis 68 per cent more to operate the city government in 1920 than in 1919.
The other newspaper laid Btress on the fact that after spending 68
per cent more in 1920 than in 1919 the city administration still had ap
proximately half a million dollars more left in its various funds than it had
left at the end of the year 1919. In no part of its report did that newspaper
explain to its readers that this balance in the funds was due, not to decrease
in expenses, but to an INCREASE in the amount of taxes taken from the
Citizens.
And now the newspaper that makes a specialty of misleading its read
ers, even to the extent of concealipg its ownership, is attempting to class
those persons who refuse to accept its deceit as “full time detractors” of
the city of Indianapolis.
It Is a long way from detraction of the city of Indianapolis to show
that its financial strength is such that it can stand an annual increase in
the cost of government of $3,354,372.
In fact, It is a fine compliment to the forbearance of the property own
ers of this city that they have not arisen in open rebellion at an unnecessary
Increase in expenses which they must pay of 68 per cent a year, and far
from being a detraction it is high praise of the financial ability of the com
munity that this enormous increase in the amount of taxes taken from its
citizens has not pinched its property owners to a point of rebellion.
The attempt to designate as “full time detractors” those persons who
had the honesty to set forth the facts concerning the financial affairs of
the city without distortion is, of course, a continuation of the dishonest
effort to accredit the Jewett administration with economy where economy
does not exist
The differences in the treatment of the Bryson report by the two news
papers is due wholly to the fact that one of them is bound to a continuous
defense of the city administration regardless of its acts and the other is 1
free to present the truth to its readers.
We do not believe that the people of Indianapolis are so benighted as
to prefer propaganda to plain truths.
Sacrificing Lives to Propaganda
A little boy in Indianapolis under the care of a physician who
prohibition, lay in a very critical condition. The physician, .who knew bet
ter, declared to the members of hid family that only whisky would save the
boy’s life. Then he told the relatives that he knew of no way for them to
obtain whisky since prohibition was being enforced in Indiana.
As this physician very well knows, the only medicinal property of
whisky is the stimulating effect of alcohol. As he also very well knows this
stimulation may be produced in other ways than through the prescription
of whisky, which is illegal.
When this physician failed to accept for relief of this boy any one of
the many stimulants that the majority of his profession in this city are
now using successfully, he failed to do his duty to his patient.
If this physician did not kpow how to practice medicine without whisky
his ignorance should bar him from practice.
If, knowing how to practice without whisky he failed to exercise that
knowledge in the case of this little boy, in order to discredit prohibition,
he showed himself a traitor to his profession and to his country.
The sooner this community is rid of physiciMM and others who preach
that whisky is necessary tcmn&dicine the it will be in
whsch to live. flk ~
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WHEN A GIRL MARRIES
A New Serial of Young Married Life
CHAPTER CXL.
By the time the famous black velvet
curtains had fallen on the first act of
the most brilliant musical success of
the season I was as miserable, bored and
disgusted as a woman could be.
Now and then, for fear people would
notice how out of it I was, I made some
comment to Phoebe or Mr. West. A brief
answer and then they returned to their
interest In the stage and each other. No
one spoke to me unaddressed. I felt as
if every one In the theater must be no
tlclng, and, noticing, must be saying to
every one else:
‘•What a dull, stupid, unattractive
woman that one in gray chiffon seems
to be. The people In her party don't
notice her If they can help It. They
must be bored to death by her.”
My mouth seemed to twist of Its own
accord into the queerest grimaces, and
I kept struggling to quirk it up at the
corners so it wouldn't look as If 1 were
unhappy to the verge of tears.
When the curtain fell it was no better.
I burled myself in my program and
turned the leaves over and over a-gain
with absorbed attention, but what I was
reading I couldn’t have told.
Suddenly Ewy’s voice, which hhd been
keyed low, rippling along with throat
little gurgles meant only for Jim’s ear,
ran gout In husky challenge:
“Bored, Donna Anna? It's a shame that
your cavalier Is so late. It isn't like
PUSS IN BOOTS JR.
It was lucky that the little Mennaid
Princess stopped giggling before I com
menced this story, tor otherwise 1
wouldn't be able to tell you what hap
pened after that.
“I wish to state that I took this lit
tle trip for my health,” continued the
Star Fish.
"Jly doctor told me I must go south.
So I boarded t.he Iceberg Express at
Cape Cod, intending to spend the sum
mer In the mountains.”
“To the mountains:” roared King
Seaphus-. “l'on don’t go to the seashore
for mountains! You should have gone
inland, to the White Mountains or the
Catskills—those are well-known summer
resorts.”
•‘May It please your Royal Highness."
said the Star Fish, stroking his beautiful
purple coat with one of his five 'little
fingers, “I was bound for the Caribbean
Sea, which is as full of mountains as
New Hampshire and Vermont. Os course,
none of them have caps of snow like
Mount Washington, for IPs nice and
warm in the Caribbean Sea; that's the
reason I want to go there. But if the
Iceberg Express Is wrecked, how am 1
to continue my Journey?”
’Sufferin’ mackerel!” exclatmed King
Seaphus. This time he uttered the words
aloud and not under his breath. “Bnffer
ing mackerel! I'll see that you get there
if I have to charter s special train.”
“But what about my finger ?” asked the
Star Fish.
“Oh, I’ll reimburse you for your
ticket," exclaimed the King. “And now,
what can I do for yon?” he asked, turn
ing to the Polar Bear.
“Train porters have very low wages,”
replied the Polar Bear.
“Very well,” answered King Seaphus,
“I will sea that yours are doubled.” and
he waved the two visitors away with a
haughty gesture. The court page then
escorted them to the door.
“You heard what I said,” cried the
King, turning to the Prime Minister.
“Now go to the General Manager of the
Sea Bottom Subw-ay and inform him of
my wishes. Also that he must have an
express* ready to start for the Caribbean
Sea tomorrow morning without fail.” The
Prime Minister bowed respectfully and
departed.
“Whew!" exclaimed the King, smiling
at Puss Junior and his daughter as the
three wefe again alone, “if that Star Fish
wasn’t a walking encyclopedia. Ho had
everything at his five finger-ends!”
“I think i'll take the same train as the
little Star Fish,” said Puss, "for I’ve
never been to the Caribbean Sea."
“May- I go with him?” asked the Mer
maid Princess."
BRINGING UP FATHER.
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Fighting the Rabbit in Australia
By Ann Lisle
Tommy, either, where a woman—like you
is concerned.” ■
Every one chuckled at the elaborate
point Evvy made of hesitating when she
had seemed almost to suggest that Tom
was gallant to all women, and then
swung her barb Into a sort of compli
ment to mo. My face burned, but be
fore I could reply Bvvy went on:
“Oh, here’s Sir Thomas now! What
will you give me, cousin mine, for the
privilege of hiding away cozlly here in
the back of the box with your—Donna
Anna ?”
“Hello, e.very one—-every one, hello”
spoke up Tom Mason genially. “My, we
are cozy! But I say, Jim, don’t you
want the choice place up In front for
the last act? They say there’s a won
derful dance.”
“Jimmie wouldn’t deprive his wife—or
a guest—of a chance to see that dan<-
to the hesi possible advantage for the
world,” gushed Evvy in her strangely
husky voice.
Again every one laughed. There was
such a knowing note 1n Phoebe's mirth
that I Just ached, remembering the de,n
little girl Neal had loved ouly a tv w
weeks before.
“Well, I'll swap everything you or the
stage have to offer tor one friendly smile
from our hostess,” said Tom easily as
he took his place in the hitherto empty
chair Just back of me. “Glad to see me,
little lilac lady?”—Copyright, 1921.
(To lie Continued.)
By David Cory
“Well, I don’t see why not,” answered
her father, after a pause, “only you must
get back Inside of a fortnight for your
mother will be home by that time,"
“I must see that my mother-of-pearl
trunk Is packed,” said the Prluceit.
“Come with me, Puss Junior.” Tbeu.
bowing to the King, they swam up the
water stairway to the room of the Utile
mermaid.
The next morning found Puss Junior
and tlie Mermaid Princess anxiously
waiting at the station for the Iceberg
Express. On the platform they recog
nized their little friend, the Star Fish.
In a few minutes the express thundered
into the station. “Watch your step,”
yelled the Polar P.rsr porter as he helped
Puss and the Princess on board. Then,
with a rush and a roar the Iceberg Ex
press started on Us Journey for the
Mountains of the Sea I—Copyright, 1921.
(To Be Continued.)
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TOP —SKINNING RABBITS. Noto the line of stretched skins In the
background. These hunters are far from a packing house and therefore
they are interested only In preserving the skins. Before rabbit skins be
came valuable hunted only to get the liberal bounty which the gov
ernment offered for extermination of the “vermin.'’
RABBIT HUNTERS’ CAMP. Rabbits multiply rapidly, as everybody
knows, and in Australia they set anew record. Australia had no rabbits
until a man imported three pairs and turned them loose. Soon there was
a plague of rabbits. The fertile parts of the country were overrun, crops
and pastures destroyed. For a time it looked as if many districts would
have to be abandoned to the rabbits. Now, however, rabbit-proof fences and
bounties hold the plague in check. The rabbits have been driven largely
to the poor lands bordering the desert country, where professional hunters
and trappers keep up the fight against them.
BOTTOM—GOING TO THE PACKING HOUSE. The rabbit is killed
as a pest, but In recent years the sale of rabbit meat and skins has brought
considerable revenue. Wagons go along the country roads collecting rab
bits that have been trapped and killed and take them to the packing houses
to be prepared for shipment is frozen meat and hides. In one year frozen
rabbit to the value of $1,400,000 and skins to the value of $3,000,000 were ex
ported by Australia.
(Continued front Saturday.)
BOUNTIES, poisoning and an effort
to Introduce a parasitic disease
among the rabbits lu Australia
all failed. While thousands were killed,
million* were born. It Is said they were
so numerous that three million were
poisoned at a single waterhole in one of
the drought years. But It was found the
only way to meet the peat was to put up
fence*.
These rabbit-proof fences, bnilt and
maintained at great cost, are seen every
where, dividing the country into great.
Irregular blocks. New South Wales had
(<8 000 miles of fence at last reports.
South Australia since 1891 has erected
29,148 miles of force*. In ths South Aus
tralian act of 1914 the rabbit-proof fence
is described as being made of wire net
ting, three feet wide, get four Inches
into the ground and topped by a strand
of barbed wire placed above the netting.
Asa result of the fence system and
bounties, the rabbits for the most part
are now confined to the poor lands bor-
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EASTER LILIES FROM SEEDS.
Q. Con Eaater lilies be grown from
seeds? M. T.
A. The Department of Agriculture has
been conducting experiments along this
j lino and finds that It Is feasible to
! propagate the lilies from seeds. They
can be brought to full flower within fif
teen months of thn time of planting and
are found to be almost free from diseases
which Infest foreign bulbs.
CORN USED IN DISTILLING.
Q. How many bushels of corn were
used for distilling before the prohibition
amendment and since? S. A. W.
A. During the year 1917, 38.972,208
j bushels of corn were used for distilling
j and brewing. In 1918 the amount fell to
! 14.M4.8A5 bushels and In 1919 only 8,890,-
347 bushels of corn were so used.
FRESH WATER OF GREAT LAKES.
Q. What port of ail the fresh water
In the world Is contained In the Great
Lakes? E. C. D.
A. Ths nydrogrnphlo Offics says that
an exact computation of the total amount
of water In the world has not been mads,
but it Is estimated that less than one
tenth of 1 per cent of the fresh water la
contained In the Great Lakes and UiMr
tributaries.
PRTTNO STOVE WOOD.
| Q. Does It make any difference wheth
; er stove wood is dried under cover or
In a pile out of doors? A. J. B.
A. There Is no appreciable diffetence
in stovowood that has been dried under
cover and that dried outside.
MACHINE GUN RECOIL.
What causes the recoil of a Drowning
machine gun, the expansion of powder
gas or the Inrush of air ufter the gas
leaves the barrel? L, G.
A. The War Department says that
when a Browning gun is fired the recoil
of the barrel is caused by the expansion
of tlie powder gas. The barrel < f the
gun recoils 1-16 of an Inch before the
bullet leaves the muzzle,
“DATS OF OBLIGATION.”
Q. What are "days of obligation?”
M. T.
A. These are festival days upon which
It Is obligatory for those of Catholic
faith to attend mass.
LESSON IN NATURAL HISTORY.
Q. Can the scent glands be removed
from skunks? M. C.
A. This operation can be performed
with little danger when the skunks are
WEST BY SOUTHWEST
WEST by Southwest of North
America lie the Islands of the
South Seas, New Zealand and
Australia, where W. D. Boyce, owner
and publisher of the Times, Is gather
ing material for articles and pictures
for Times readers, Mr. Boyce and
his party are now at work In New
Zealand. From there they will go
to Australia, and after that country
has been thoroughly covered In ar
ticles and photographs, they will ex
plore the South Sea Islands.
From time to time the Times win
carry Illustrated articles on the far
away eounlrles and strange places
West by Southwest.
dering the desert, where there Is con
stantly a fight, against them. Here the
professional rabbit trappers and their
dog3 am found.
4 or 5 weeks old. It is not necessary to
remove the scent sacs from skunks that
are being raised for the fur market. If
they are kept a* rat and mouse destroy
ers It is advisable. Bbunks are far su
perior to cats as mousers If these glands
are removed.
HIGHEST RAILROAD ALTITUDE.
Q. What is she highest altitude reached
by any railroad? R. T. H.
A. The railroad from the Multa River
In Chile to the Potosi In Bolivia reaches
an elevation of 1.1.000 feet, this being the
highest altitude reached by any railroad.
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Regal Hat Clips
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your old hat or make , A beautiful array of new ties in the knit effects,
come Inland* get te a pure narrow shapes, very attractive, priced
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Kiwanians and
State Dealers
to Join Forces
Two Bodies Plan Attending
Automobile Show Night
of March 9 .
The State meeting of automotive deal
ers to be held at the Claypool Hotel,
Wednesday, March 9, in connection with
automobile show week, will be marked
by the joint attendance of members of
the Indianapolis auto trade association
and the Klwanis Club, according to an
nouncement made* today by N. H. Car
tlnhour, president of both the State and
local associations of automobile men.
The Kiwanls Club will go In a body to
the automobile show at night.
“We have invited various clubs and or
ganizations to cooperate with us In
this spring’s show,*- said Mr. Cartlnhour,
“and the Kiwanians decided they would
make a day of It, and because their reg
ular meeting is on Wednesday we have
invited them to sit in and break bread
with the local and State dealers. This in
vitation has been accepted and the
Kiwanians are planning to add a lot of
pep both to this State meeting and to
the automobile show.
“We certainly are appreciative of the
manner in which all the business institu
tions and clubs of the city* are getting
behind the auto men for this show occa
sion and without meaning to throw
bouquets at ourselves, we feel we de
serve the fullest coperation. We are
spending many thousands for additional
advertising, many thousands for decora
tions, illumination and music over and
above any Such expenses for previous
local automobile exhibitions. All this in
spite of the dull period, a real low-gear
drag, for the past few months. It shows
the auto men have confidence in the fu
ture and we feel certain this auto show
will mark the overture, the first act cur
tain, of that long awaited drama en
titled, ‘Business as Usual.’ ”
The chief feature of the meeting of
State and local auto men wil* be the
address of George M. Graham, vice
president of the Pierce-Arrow Company
on “Making the Grade In 1921.” Mr.
Graham is said to be an orator and a real
Mg man In the automotive industry. His
message, It Is believed, will he a big
business stimulus, and the presence of
the whooping Kiwanians will be an
added boost, not only for the show, but
for business In general, It Is declared.
Other clubs and organizations which
are arranging to get back of the auto
men are the Optimists, who probably
will open the show Monday night; the
Rotarlans, who likely will pick Thurs
day night, and the new Indianapolis
Athletic Club, which is expected’ to at
tend in force Tuesday night. Saturday
night will be fun and frolic night and
will be the grand jamboree wind-up.
According to John Orman, show man
ager, “there ain’t no such animal” as
space left in the big auto show build
ing for this spring display.
“We are sold out. lock, stock and bar
rel," declared Orman today. "In fact,
if new bonding nad been just twice
its size we could have filled it. The dis
plays that will be shown will be the quin
tessence of beauty and merit, surrounded
and surmounted by the most glittering,
colorful decorations and illuminations
ever seen In Indianapolis for such an oc
casion. We are alt set, except the guar
antee of a tremendous attendance, and
we believe the public will cooperate with
us In this manner as never before. If
every one who really wants a business
revival will attend this show—oh, Mini”
WHITE HOUSE PAINT FORMULA.
Q. Please repeat the formula for mak
ing paint used on the White House.
IV. M.
A, This paint Is made of white lead,
70 per cent; French white zinc, 30 per
cent, and enough raw linseed oil to pro
duce a proper consistency.
APPROVE ORDER
FOR FIREHOSE
City Councilmen Further Plan
for Motorization of De
partment.
To complete the motorization plan of
the fire department the city council last
night ratified contracts for the purchase
of 12,000 feet of fire hose at an aggre
gate cost of $13,490.
The contracts were made as follows:
United Rubber Company, Chicago,
2.000 feet: Central Supply Company, In
dianapolis, 2,000 feet; Empire Tire and
Rubber Company, Trenton, N. J., 2,000
feet; Van Camp Hardware Company, In
dianapolis, 6,000 feet.
Friday morning, at the city street
cleaning headquarters at 1131 Shelby
street, several thousand dollars’ worth
of wagons, horses and other equipment
for which the city will have no use after
j Installation of motor trucks will be sold
| at public auction.
Appraisers have placed a value of
! $12,000 to $15,000 on this property. Nlne
: ty-five horses, six automobiles and some
i horse-drawn fire equipment will be sold,
1 according to Dwight S. Ritter, city pur
! chasing agent.
! Under suspension of the rules, the
I council appropriated $5,000 to the city
; department of law for settlement of
! judgments, compromises and costs. This
appropriation was necessary. Robert H.
Bryson, city controller, explained, in view
of a court decision which Is about to be
i rendered against the city. Mary DeUa
j Hill was awarded $323 damages to her
j property caused by the widening of
Bradbury street.
The board of cafety asked an appropri
ation of SIOO to defray the expenses f
Fire Chief Loucks and Battalion Chief
Herbert FulrneT to attend the New York
Fire College. It was announced the
board of fixe underwriters has recom
mended this step. Russell Willson, pres
ident of the council, instructed the finance
committee to obtain an opinion from the
State board of accounts as to the legality
of this step before making Its report.
The report of Robert H. Bryson, city
! controller, on the financial condition ©f
i the city was approved without dlscus
: sicn.
The South Side Woman’s Club and
j seventeen members of the 8A civics class
; of school No. 47, Ray street and Warren
i avenue, In charge of Miss Ruby Kee
< fauver, were present at the meeting.
HOROSCOPE
“The stars incline, but do not compel!”
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23.
After the early morning this day is
: not fortunate, according to astrology.
Mercury, Saturn and Neptune are all in
evil asj>ect
Newspapers may have much that is
sensational to publish at this time, for
Neptune is in a place that encourages
the uncovering of hidden obliquities of
all sorts.
Again publicity, especially where it af
fects personalities, is well directed and,
it should be a lucky time to start adver
tising campaigns.
I Persons whose birthdate it is should
; keep their business well in hand and
should watch their health. Temptation
to flirt may be strong and should be
i ignored.
! Children born on this day may be care
i less and difficult to train into methodical
ways, but they are likely to be exceed
ingly brilliant. Girls have the augury
of eventful careers.—Copyright, 192 L
SFE TO BREAK WILL.
KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 22.—Maude Heck
man and Fred H. Forest have sued to
set aside the will of the late Mrs. Susan
nah Gross, who left her entire estate save
a nominal sum to Dr. W. H. McClurg,
her family physician. She stated in her
will that he had never been paid for his
i services in twenty -five years and that a
i just bill from him would wipe out the
I estate.
REGISTERED V. 8. PATENT OFFICB