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IJ3 'MtMrwtaT esriliebitBts W sea else awe Hakis Sanaa. United Prest Leased Wire Bepert. And Brreaa of ilrewlatioAs. Paper City of Bxi Tk mm U. c. wttM. m ruik Aww. . Aim, MM Tmum . j we WIDXESD1Y, AUGUST U, ltftt. rna TW inn f MawA t. lSse Tea Anas aaeelarlA mm hinlmil WwMMmHM naMneeS fcjr aartlAw m lie aai naj m Mm Im Mm! eeattouaae m it Mlllll MM WMN WOllaia." It J Kt fciffHUM It to at cMunur to-, tot tt is trws. Urn Anstralia mi ee f the trst esvtttrtos to pro Ua by It for equal swSragt for ran. Snath Australia adopted .ynmm suffrage I UN, West Austfultejs UCt, ui fAdeha wom an's suffrage wee granted -1 WO. ; tan of U stetas withheld the right of woman tor some yaArs New South Wales granted tt la MM, Iwt Taaaaate aot -til yaar later, while Queensland aot unUl IKS, mad Victoria waiM aitUl IMS. V It wllfi ba seen, however, that the Austra lians not 'only, early saw the need of giving women an equal steading with sea before the law, bat also the equal right with sen to make the laws and administer them- V: j.-; There Is no deprivation quite eo hopeless i having nothing to. growl about. V . The change from government control hasn't pads it any easier to open a car window. Says Uoyd George to BarAi Wracgel; If jwi've got to wrangle, wrangle by yourself. , l'lt Trotsky and Lenine might about as well tegln picking out their country places in Jtlolland. . i,. Do you suppose that scientists who say taming spiders is a hard Job ever tried pushing bee? : If there is not a decided drop in the cost of living this fall, it will take a lot of eiplaining (g show the reason why. J The woman who awoke from a sleep of two years must have heard the shouting down it) Nashville, Tenn., when the suffrage act was t endorsed. 1 ! Sir Conan Doyle naively Inform us that rwhen dealing with spirits lights are as preju diced as they are to the development of a tfeotographic . plate." Or, when dealing in Sflrits. Hence, the term "moonshining." And there is more than one kind of moonshine at tfeat. The Australians as a people have proved themselves to be not only brare and capable in war, bat progressive, Just and wise In peace. v Disaster Coining? ' Oswald Spongier has written a book, the "Death of Western Civiiiiatlon," which re viewers regard as noteworthy. He compares the future with the past and declares that the civilisation of western Europe (which of course includes America) has reached its limit and is about to come to an end. When a civilization is broken up it means dirsster for individuals. Even a railroad strike may starve a city- Bat if disaster overwhelms the civilized peoples of today it is .their own fault. Some writes attribute the fall of Rome to the weakness caused by malaria; but today medical science is competent, as it never was before, to overcome the plagues that once laid peoples low. i With scientific. agriculture and a world to draw on for supplies, no country need be starved by local famines. The wider civiliza tion spreads the less it has tofaar from bar barian invasion. The invention of local self goernment within a nation diminishes the chance of despotism. In all these respects modern civilization was an advantage over all those that preceded it What threatens it most is mutual misun derstanding between its own different nations or classes. But here also it has an advantage over former civilizations. Christianity and Buddhism are both religions of peace and sym pathy. Slavery, once universal, is a thing of the past; and 'the exploitation of othera is recognized as bad morals and (in the end) bad economics. : 1 14 ml MSIfC UC9 MAMS ANCIENT CNCMY, - , OUU.CAMC WtW DISINTERS THE UMLOVEO CU9S, cv wkurstt ciJxw run t r-,?- n " "T tmmmmmma,mJ 5 s . . Davenport is now paying a cent more street eir fare thin the cities on the Illinois side through court mandate and dot by the grace of a pat He utility commission. At that it is but a Just difference relatively speaking, since for the most part, the people in the Illinois cities gave been putting up with higher street car transportation charges than their Davenport fteljhbors. The lines pay better here, and Since all added corporation expenses are passed lek to the people, the new difference in our tavor is Just while it lasts. I 1 A Progressive Province. Tha British nmvIncA nf Anatratia ih a tair,nt r S- """'w w " .USl gBIU entlnent of the Pacific, is perhaps the most progressive country In the world. ' It has Init M rerorms in governmental affairs which lave been borrowed by the United States after laving been experimented with in Australia tad found beneficial. The most Important of these reforms is the ballot now used in this ar nntry -called by the appropriate name "Aus-" trallan ballot." Previous to the adoption of this form of casting ballots at elections it was an easy matter to manipulate the votes of the electorate, corrupt the ballot box. and commit Other frauds where elections were close and tea could be found who were corrupt enough The Lafayette Statue at Metz. (New York World). In presenting to Metz the statue of Lafay ette by Paul Bartlett the Knights of Columbus truly spoks for America. The spot was well chosen. There in the city where for almost half a century the Germane had exercised their alien rule over the province wrested from France, the interest of the young French noble man in the struggle for American independence was first kindled. It was fitting that, gath ered there, on French soil restored to France, a century and a half later, Frenchmen and Americana should do honor to Lafayette's came "by rededicating themselves to the union of France and America. It was from the lips of a royal visitor from Etgland to the commander of the garrison at Metz that Lafayette, then a young officer in the French king's guards, ,heard how the Ameri cans were fighting for their liberty. He was only 19 when later, against his family's wishes and in defiance of the orders of the king, he sailed for America in a vessel bought and out fitted at his own expense. From the Battle of Brandywine to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown he served with the American army under Washington, though the French troops with Rochambeau and Saint-Simon played a leading part In the later campaigns of the war. To the bonds formed during the War of the Revolution new strength has been given by the World war. Never has there been ah associa tion between nations, military or moral, in wuch sentiment was so potent a force. It has been dominated by the spirit of Lafayette, the youthful, unselfish friend of liberty, and In their tribute to him Americans testify eag erly to the lasting friendship between the two nations of which he laid the secure foundations. ' 8ATHICAL SOXSIT&r-L Hall to the politician, kindly man, who erlevea so sorely o'er the people's And while he weeps matures his cunning plan With which he hopes to crash the people's foes. . .-"'-Xo selfish purpose bide within his soul. No hope hath he of any sordid gain; The people's triumph is his glorious goal And they shall not appeal to him in vain! No single virtue doth he ever lack. A shining halo hangs athwart hia ears The while he gladly bears upon his back The people's burdens and doth soothe their fears ... Bnt on election day alas, alack! The people, as of old, still hold the sack! CANDIDATE COX sets forth in a state ment which we suspect refers to the Republi can "war chest" that in his Pittsburgh speech he will "advise the country as to matters of which the senator (Harding) claims to be ig norant and I will prove my charges." In o. w., what tne gov. is geuing ai is mat ne will tell the world the Republican campaigners are a gang of crooks and highbinders who are brazenly attempting to purchase the holy of fice of POTUS. F you find POTUS mystifying, perhaps this story will shed a bit of light. A press telegra pher in Montreal was transmitting a news story which made reference to the "president of the United States." Press dispatches are transmitted speedily by the use of a code' of word abbreviations and combinations. An in experienced "receiver" failed to interpret the word "potui." He broke. "Who's 'Potus'?" he asked. . "President of the United States," clicked : back the "sender." "Hell, you're crazy." replied the verdant one. "Wilson is president." Don't They Xeed a Pulmotor Instead . of a Pastor I (From the Rockford Star). Winnebago, Aug. 20. The First Pres byterian church will remain closed until Sunday, Sept. 5. The pastor, Rev. J. W. Whiter with Mrs. White is at Winona Lake, Ind., for the intervening period and on his return will conclude bis pas torate of the local charge, having ac cepted a fluttering call from the First Presbyterian church at Galena. THE droll Senor Villa has trotted away into the mountains with 2,000,000 pesos entrusted to him by the guileless provisional Mex. gov ernment. Now we understand why Pedro Zamora wanted to surrender. A Real Endurance Test . (From the Moline Dispatch). Lawrence Aabye says he carried El len May Knudson at Crown Point, Ind., Oct 19, 1919, five days after she was di vorced in Cook county, Illinois, and that he was told by her that she could legally; marry. ... "I'LL bet," bets J. W. C, who pilfered the Dispatch wheeze, "I'll bet he was dern tired after those five days whadoyouthink?" WELL, it all depends. The young man who carried Sappho up three ' (or was it five?) flights of stairs was not utterly exhausted, as we recall. is Distinguished From a Tiny Small Pulley. (From the Monmouth Atlas). Francis Peasley received a blow in his chest Tuesday from the breaking of a huge large wooden pulley that almost stunned him. . "ASK to see our quality -woolens ran cine between $55 and $65, tailored to your individ ual measurements," reads a clothier's ad. "They'll speak for themselves." Huh! If that were literally true the dealer would experience many an embarrassing moment Frinstance, wiien someone asked a 65 suit how much it had cost in the first place. ONE frequently reads of persons having been "born and raised " but it seems unlikelv - Sex Hygfese, , A mother writes, evidently in great Anguish, bow aha had reason to feat max ner son, agea 11, neeaea eewBsel concerning his own - wel fare, and how After prolonged worry and anxiety, ah finally wrote what she wished to say is the form of a letter, sealed it, and handed it to the boy with the re quest that he read it in privacy. The next morning she asked the boy if he understood and he said yes. But mother is still anxious and she writes to me about it, ' I dont know, but I doubt that mother took the proper course. I think she should have asked 'the family doctor or any good doctor to have a quiet talk with the boy and give him auch information as a boy should have. It tor some unusual reason this was not feas ible, then the mother might baye sou get tfie aid 01 literature wmcn is available from various sources nowadays. The Public Health Ser vice, Washington, D. C, sends on request free pamphlets on sex hygiene for boys and young men; or pamphlets for girls and young women. Every progressive state health department has the same pamphlets for free distribution. The American Social Hygiene associa tion. Inc., 105 West Fortieth street New York City, publishes innum erable pamphlets on every phase of the subject and makes only a nominal charge of a few cents for the pamphlets. It is quite evident, in many let ters I receive from parents, that there is a sad misunderstanding of the vital facts even by parents. Therefore, the parent is not compe tent to undertake the instruction of son or daughter without the assist ance from some authoritative source. Most of the books purporting to tell the truth about this subject err in various ways. Unimportant trifles are grossly exaggerated; common and significant occurrences are misrepresented and made to seem dreadful; and the real dan gers, which are terrible enougby are rather concealed in mystical phrases or vague suggestions. There is one thing absolutely es sential in the instruction of young people concerning the truths of life, and that is frankness. You can not deceive a child for long. And when the child finds out that you have misrepresented something of such paramount importance, what will be the child's feeling toward you and all your teachings? Another serious aspect of the 0 Frederic Hacking Letter problem is the effort of unquali fied teachers to impart such knowledge to children coming under their influence, in school or in Sun day school.' Unless the teacher has had eneciai training in uue oranca of pedagogy he or the should sot attempt to give sucn insirucuon. Certainly the parenfa approval ahonld be sought ,berore anytning of the kind Is Introduced to A class of young people. , QUESTIONS AHD ANSWERS. The Cure of NeJsser Infection. How lone should it take for a fellow to get a complete cure of a case of gonorrheal infection? (A. u.i Answer Two out of three such "fellows" are a good long while getting 4 complete cure. , One out of three consults his physician promptly, follows the physician's directions implicitly and is com pletely cured within three or four months from the date of his infec tion. Too many victims drift into a chronic state and are never cured. This depends largely upon the early management of the disease, which is as serious as any disease a young man can have, though the poolroom halfwits and the cigar store sports and the other street loafers do not understand that untiU they are hopelessly diseased. By cure I : (Seen total eradication of the inf ec- j tion, not merely a temporary dis-! appearance of the more pronounced symptoms. A cure ie not to be con sidered complete until careful microscopic examination' by the physician has failed to demonstrate gonococcl (tne causative germs; after the expiration of three months from the date of infection. This little precaution, so readily neg lected by hail fellows-well met, would obviate some tragic occur rences in life if it were rigidly de manded. Hardness of Drinking Water. We use water from an artesian well. It is pure, but very hard and rather constipating. The tea kettle constantly showa a white deposit. A physician said constant use of this water would hasten old age and hardening of the arteries. Would you advise purchasing a fil tering outfit? Mrs. S. D. H.) Answer- No. If the water is fit to drink, its hardness is of no con sequence so far as health is con cerned. Filtering would probably not alter the hardness. Distillation would remove the hardness. There is no reason to imagine that hard water has any such influence upon the arteries. Brand-New Antiquities. Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 23.1 when it was excavated it contain Heart mm g y & MRf. Home EL.1 ZABETH THOMPSON Dear Mrs. Thompson: Sometime 1 over something which no longer such a phrase will ever appear in the Sher rard Bulletin. Tha Bulletin recently carried a headline, "Rearing Chickens." - A CHICAGO person advertises in the Sioux City Journal for "blonds or brunettes, wanted for musical comedy; prefer those who can sing." Ability to sing, however, is not an essential. BUT an eloquent figure la! R. E. M'G. r WHIRI JOURNEYS END. " By Elisabeth McGann. (Copyright. 1920, by Wheeler Syn dicate, Inc.) The noonday sun beat merciless ly down on Slmtown's main street ata the vary cobblestones under feet gave forth the heat of an oven. Kajbr Carter's sorrel mare, her - Mag hanging limply, like that of a toy horse on a worn-out elastic, hat in stolid patience the flies ; busing about her ears too weary t twish her tired old toil. ,Ct the ancient little lady who t&djdown the reins and alighted Dvl the shabby buggy seemed wljlly unaware of the torrid heat. ; Urw thin shoulders beneath a worn, fct-greening black alpaca Jacket, r'tlt have been clad in sheerest Jki so impervious did she seem to Mr atmospheric conditions. After the wholly unnecessary BfUCtuMOtt of tying the drowsing ' SAT to a nearby hitching post the wclow of the late, well-remembered I'rjof Carter made her way past a TOW Of languid radishes and droop tog lettuce .beads which adorned U front otv Klmtown's combined foeery store and . meat market Can inside, she rested her capa cbMa msrket basket upon the coun ter as with an abstract air she awaited the clerk's attention. "Good morning, good morning, r-i. Carter. Aiat you a little late " ting down this morning r Wsalted to herself by that wor i voice, (she inquired gently:. Ave you some real nice tender- steak today? About two Is. I think." is, ma'am,- the butcher re t ordially; "right off the ice!" V the Uay packaiw he put tn 'Va haakwt sever to the tion of what she had ordered. This of a rose-bush the little fact however, passed unnoticed: she was calling for three dozen of eggs and four loaves of bread. The butcher, his back turned to shield his action from the lady's eyes, put three eggs in a bag. These and a single loaf of bread be plac ed beside the meat in the basket Still, with the same occupied air, his customer paid what would have been a surprisingly small amount for her purchases and departed. The diminutive figure of an "er rand boy," who had been interest edly observing the transaction from behind the shelter of a cheese box, now steppe into view. He ad dressed himself to the man: "That's the way yuh do 'em. it it!" The butcher turned wth a sud den softened look in his eyes. "Poor old soul." he said, "she can't remember they are all gone. She comes in here day after day, ordering food enough to feed a fam ily of tour men. I dont suppose she has ever rightly gotten over the shock two sailor sons drowned at sea, the youngest lost In France and the major snuffed out over night Folks say she Just lives in the past, always waiting for those boys and wondering why they don't come.- - . " Twenty minutes later Martha Carter drove the mare . into the bam, quite as 'ramshackle an af fair as the beast itself. When she turned her tired feet down the path worn to tne utcaea oor by the three boys, whose happy, hungry faces aha was always esnectiajr to see, her mind was pitilessly sane. xxo, taey vtsaM aever aoasrhack; they were gone. gtwe. Only she. a bumed-flut old candle, was ML Eh statped bytes f which she and the major had plant ed so happily when the first baby came. - The bare, brown canes were leaf less. But there was no surprise in her faded eyes; she had known now for several weeks that it waa dead. Jim's rose was dead; yes, and Louis they were all ' dead. The tears streamed unheeded down her thin, brown cheeks; her heart was dead, too. At last, with a small trembling hand, shedried her eyes and turned to go. But of a sudden, something caught Her attention. She stooped quickly over the tiniest bush and the pulse in her withered throat fluttered tor a heart-breaking sec ond stood still! John's rose was alive. Yes, yes, there was a wee bud on the stem! Yet, why if It had aot died, did it wait till July to leaf out? There' waa no one to answer the unspoken question., 1 but . the warm drops that sparkled on the last little bush were tears of glad ness.: ,':. ".-;;;.."-:' ti-.- . The rest of the day the widow spent in reassuring herself. Why, of course, her baby couldnt have left her. Before her eyes flashed a picture of the day more than 20 years ago, when John, yellow-headed and round as a butter ball, first wobbled on his uncertain little legs. His rather waa holding the tall of hia lacy white dress, while she on her knees, waited with outstretched arms to receive the bold adventur er. What bravery that Journey re quired! But he had come two courageoua steps and he was crew lag to her ansa, triumphant "Oh, dwrtmg, dArting" she had bush your. Journeys always end in your lint, nixkk.'. ' The sun sank at last, and with the sweet grassv-scsntaii n.t that sense of waiting which for so long had pervaded the mother's heart deepened. She felt her boy coming, ueiore the dim mirror oer me aucnen alnk she patted her soft hair. She "tidied up" her black- dress and smoothed the creases from a fresh white apron Once, even as she trimmed the lamp wick, she caught herself hum ming a bit of gospel tune. ' The stars were shining n the deep sky when the kitchen door opened iquietly. A tall boy stood on the threshold, hia tanned face radiant with Joy. From beyond the yellow circle of the lamp's light a little, white-haired figure emerg ed, eager anna extended. Oh.. Johnny boy, Johnny. I knew you would come!" . And as he pressed his cheek sgainat her tear-stained face, the boy whispered: "All Journeys end in mother's ansa. ie-t31ng a kiss in the vlak ago I was introduced to a very handsome and attractive man by a friend of mine. Later I learned he : has a wife and four children, and j this girl knew it. I no longer go! with either of them, but I cannot! forget the man. The same girl introduced him to another of my girl friends, and although I have told her the story she still continues to go about with him, and they act as if they were Just married.- His wife lives in1 another city and I feel sure she knows nothing abouthis conduct. I have talked to the man and the girl, but the answer of both is the same. "There is no harm being done." If I had not known this man was married I could have loved him bet ter than anything in the world, but my own heart tells me how I would feel if I were his wife. His wife is very attractive and his children are beautiful. It would be such a pity for her to find out these things. . What is to be done when the conscience of both 'seems to be dead? They are too wrapped up in each other to even think what might be the con sequence. Isn't there some way to stop it? I know what will be the end if his wife finds out, and it fcriiUs my heart the suffering it will cause all the parties mentioned, even though some of them deserve to suffer. THE FRIEND. You are breaking your heart concerns vnii Ynnr nhliratinn on it ed when jrou stopped going with the man yourself, 1 because you learned that he was married. It was also right for you to tell the other girl that the man was mar ried. I question the wisdom, how ever, of further expressing your opinion by advising the two parties concerned as to their conduct. Trust to a higher power 'to straighten this tangle. 'Think no more about the man. To covet him in your thoughts is evil, too. Try never to think of things you would not be willing to have your actions carry out 'Dear Mrs. Thompson: When re ceiving an invitation to a wedding out of the city which yon cannot attend, is it proper to send a pres ent? If you do not send a present should you write a letter to them when you are acquainted with the bridegroom only? Also, what is the proper thing to do when receiving a wedding an nouncement from a distant city when you are acquainted with the bridegroom only? MARTHA. A wedding invitation calls for a present Write to the bride-to-be, expressing your regret that you cannot attend the wedding. , Also wish her happiness and say that you hope you will have the pleas ure of meeting her at some future time. Write to both together and wish them happiness. The great, and only industry In Colorado Springs is the entertain ment of tourists, a tew oneas ana 'brooms are made somewhere with in! the city limits, but such small enterprises fade into insignificance beside the large and highly organ bed business of selling nature to the public Colorado Springs itself is not spectacular, but it is attractively located at the base of the moun tains; is famoua for its healthful climate, and is the most comforta ble habitat in the Pike's peak re gion, which also includes Colorado City, Manitou and a vast stretch of gorgeous scenery. Where the orig inal supply of scenery runs short, moreover, a new supply has been provided by various scenic produc tion companies, so that there is enough to keep the sight-seer busy as long ss his money holds out Among the principal points of in terest in this region, for example. are the historic ruins of the an cient cliff dwellers, located At Phantom 'Cliff canon, at Manitou. These are not original. In scat tering out southwest with their mysterious dwellings, the ancients failed to foresee the future tourist demand of this particular area and neglected to build here. But a lew enterprising 20th century business men have. They nave reproduced as accurately as possible the cliff dwellings of the Mesa Verde Na tional park, st an alleged cost of 9100,000, and are now gathering large returns on their investment by exhibiting the new-made ruins at the price of S2 a glance. Upon climbing the steep road leading up the canon, either by mo tor, burro or foot the tourist first beholds an adobe Indian dwelling of the type built by the present day Pueblo Indians. It consists cf two floors, connected not by stairs but by crude wooden ladders. The first floor contains the inevitable curio shop,, with some unusually interesting Indian relics, and the second floor is occupied by a Pu eblo Indian family, which ia em ployed by the scenic production company to Indianise the atmos phere and amuse the tourists. Here the visitors are organizea info sight-seeing parties, if they are not already so organized,' an 1 conducted by a guide a young lady of pedagogical appearance, carry ing a small awitch for a pointer to the nearby cue dwellings, built under the overhanging ledge of Phantom cliff. There are eight curious houses in all, connected with small, crumbling passageways and perforated with tiny, myster ious windows and doors. They are built of stone. According to the guide, the only difference between these modern ruins and the an cient ones is the plaster usea on the walls. The ancients used some sort of an adobe mixed for mor tar, which could not be analyzed by the reproducers, so they were compelled to use cement. The Guide Holds Forth. "The cliff dwellers," says the no signs of fire. The next Is a sepulchro. -Un. stories high, where the ancienu "" """ i ioe Mai on their right side. When th tht floor, which waa used first, was iil ed with dead and tbelr persou! property, the aperture was sm'IT and the second floor opened as a receiving morgue. The dry clinm, and the air-tight room are rappof. ni iu uBfe iiRu a mauunuying tf feet upon the dead, for many of tk cliff dwellers have been excavattd in mummy form. , "Next we come to tha balcony bouse, which is larger thsn nost of the dwellings. When this houu was excavated in the Mesa Verdt it contained a rugh mattress ituj a crude form of bedstead. The cliff dwellers were just beginning, tj make furniture when they becaiu extinct" The round watch tower of tbs Mesar Verde is also a part of th Phantom cliff ruins, and the speak er's house has likewise been crowd ed under the rocky ledge, porch and all. There is also a mods', at one of the prehistoric storehouses, wneie uie ancients stored their grain. The Bones of Ihe Aueieita, In connection with the ruini a bmall museum containing speci mens of the cliff dwellers' htndl. ork their baskets, water Ditch. ers, sandals, turkey-bone ,neeillt, toys and bone huttons much Uk ours. There is also a uiattreu made of rushes of the kind that was found in various excavated houses, and a couple of prehistoric skeletons. The latter show the clllf dwellers to have been flat-headed, a state which they achieved by at taching a heavy weight to the back of the head of each Infant cliff Cweller and keeping it there until the head attained the proper form. They also bad fiat noses and pro jecting teeth. The skeletons in this museum, moreover, are not small, but of goodly size. As a matter of tact the cliff dwellers were probably about the size as the modern Pu eblos, who are supposed to be their 1 direct descendants. It is true tha the two differ in many particulars, one of the most obvious being the fact that most of the present-day Pueblos build their hauses of sun baked bricks, or adobe, whereas the ancients used cut stone. But both are agricultural peoples, both build the same sort of doors and win dows small for defensive pur poses and both use the same ges eral form of architecture. There are, however, 13 different tribes of modern Pueblos, each of which speaks a different language. On their great feast day, which oc curs once a year and which is at tended by all the tribes, the lan guage spoken is Spanish. The Hop! tribe is believed to have mors m common with the cliff dwellers than any of the others. Moses, the Red Man. The Indians at Phantom cliff are from the Santa Clara Pueblo. Whit euide. hotiine uo the expedition they think of their ancient ances tor a brief historical spiel, "were tors they refuse to say, but they Argus Inf ormation Bureau 1 a prehistoric people wnose origin is unknown. They left these tracs of their existence in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Archaeologists have solved many of the leading mysteries concerning this long-vanished people, but many baffling features are still to be explained. "Notice the small size of the doors and windows. These lead us to believe that the cliff dwellers were a pigmy people, probably not more than two and a half or three and a half feet in height an as sumption which has been borne out by several skeletons recently excavated. - "On the wall of this first room you will see an example , of their ancient hieroglyphics. These have never been translated. Tlia rock containing them , by the way,' is original, having been brought here with the rest of the materials. "This," continued the g'lide, as she led the party through a small passageway, "is the milling room, where they ground their meal. You will see by the specimens on the floor -that they used stone imple ments, living in the stone age. over here is a niche in the wall, evidently used to hold their imple ments, showing that they were orderly."' Again the party lowered its heads in proceeding to the next room, which contained one of the cliU dwellers' curious T-shaped doors. "The Hopl Indian also used this same T-shaped door in their dwell ings," explained the guide. "nre is a strange stone box. Scientist? think that it was a fireplace, but (Any under can ft the anv to an? qowtioo by wrtUn Tha Arpia Inf s na tion Bureau, rnderie 1. Haakin. Director. Waahintlan. O. C. Give tuU naaw aad ddraaa and endow two-cent atomp ior ratnrn postate. Ba brat. All iaauiriea an confidential, the replies beios aeat direct to each individual Ko. alien uou will b paid to anonnnoua letteral. How many automobiles are fever, yearly, regardless of the fsct Q. States Today's Birthdays Blanche Bates, one of the lead ing Actresses of tap American stage, bora at Portland. Ore, 47 years ago today. uenry Jones Fora, member of the V. S. Interstate Commerce commission, pom at Baltimore, g Frank D. Beott rrnresarilailia to oaa trees ef tha alawnta wik- fett district, boa at Alpena, Mich make an In stolen in the United year. R. I. W. A. Figures compiled by the Na tional Automobile Dealers' asso ciation covering 1 index cities show :hat there were il,49 auto mobiles stolen in 1919, compared to 25,613 for the same cities in 1918. S j , Q. Can cast iron be cut by an cxyacetylene. torch': AT. A. Recent experiments indicate that this can be done with coiiimerr cial success. In one case four cuts vere made through cast iron 5 inches thick, eacn cut being 17 inches long, yet each waa made in ft minutes, requiring only 24 cubic feet of oxygen ana 4 cuoic feet of acetylene. Q. Where is the nearest plsce to Detroit. Mich., for a civilian to apply for surplus na.-al supplies which are tor sale? N. E. A. - The navy department says that application should be made to the board of survey; appraisal1 and sate, navy recruiting station. Great Lakes, 111. Q. Is a man with a wife and one ebild and as Income of $2400 par year raqaired to make an income tax retnruT U.X.C A. The law rea aires that a mar. rled toon living with his wife must tax return when each that the 1200 exemption to which be is entitled for each dependent child, may make his return non taxable. , Q. How much silver is there in a billion dollars Q. B. D. A. To coin a billion dollars tt would require 31.250 tons of silver. J AAA . 1 . . ... i,04 ireignt cars would be .re quired to haul it to the mint Set edge to edge these dollars would stretch from New York City to Salt trftKe trey, uian. y Q. What Is England's largest war ressei; J. It. C A. England's greatest dread naught is the "Hood," of 40Q tons displacement, 12-Inch armor, and a peeu m 41 snota. it is an oil burner, and Its main armament consists of eight 15-Inch guns Q. Is Jimmy Wilde, the flly weight champion of the world, an American? v. E. T. A. Wilde waa born in Ponty pridd. Wales, In 1892. and ta, there fore, of British nationality. Q. How much land did Great Britain Acquire to East Africa from Germany? j. b. A. A. Great Britain was given tha mandate over tsl.OOO square miles of former German territory, or an ? sreater tha the whole rf Germany before the war. ft has bee nemod th TAagaayhA tarrt ory. . add politely that they like thetour- ists. The family consists of a min and his squaw and five children, including a young papoose, months old, who In popularity re ally outshines the cliff dwellers. All the tourists want to shake his tiny, brown hand, and to photo- eraDh him. "Moses." said his moth- er proudly fthe young chief's name is Moses), "have his picture lasen one hundred times a day." After each sight-seeing party has been through the cliff dwell ings it is led to the curio shop and shown various strange curios for sale. Including some deadly Indian clubs with which the squawi of early days were wont to visit tht local battle fields and kill th wounded. There is also an lntfisn maiden's wedding dress, mad? of leather, in which an Indian maiden is occasionally married near h cliff dwelling ruins as a special at traction to visiting tourists. In the midst of examining these relics, the sight-seers were stirt led by a sudden war whoop, sn4 there on the front walk. Just out- ( side the curio shop are gather the sma'.er members of the Indian family, clad in red and green ap parel, fathered head-dresses ana moccasins, brandishing tomahawk! and capering about in a ferocioui fashion. Seated on the doorstep their father, also much-painted befeathered, beating a tom-tom tev their antics. - At last, after everii rounds of dancing and yelping 1!J coyotes, the children pause. sn entering the curio shop, sedateiy oass their feathered hats to the de lighted tourists. Whafs In A Name? (CopriilM. 101S. by the Wheeler' Sradicata. Ioe.) ! MILDRED I JTELPiDA. Though not generally listed in English nomenclature and regard ed rather as a product of the south in this country, Melinda has in real ity an interesting history dating back to Spanish ballad lore. In that remote era, she was undoubt edly Mellsenda and first appeared as the name of the wife of Don Dayferos who, being taken captive by the Moors, on tha occasion of the feats that were represented by the puppet shows in which Don Quixote took an unfortunately live-lyinterest Another Mellsenda wss the Princess Mellsenda who changing moods. It will prove for Melinda a talisman against sorrow. Monday Is her lucky day and 1 er lucky number. j Today's Anniversaries in a uneasy crown of Jerusalem to the house of Anjou. it waa a most natural step to eliminate the over abundance of syllftbles and contract the name to our present-day euphonious Melinda. For some in explicable reason, it caught -the fancy of the south and its popular ity there is still unquestioned. The opal is Melinda's tollsmanlc stone. It ia the most mysterious And fascinating ef all gems end is believed to bestow upon its wearer the cham which comes fiea hrU-Uaae-, xmOmmm sad wrer- 1588 Elizabeth Pole, who founded the city of Taunton, Ma born in England. Died si Taunton, May 21. 1654. 1753 Prussians under Frederics the Great defeated the sians at Zorndorff, bloodiest battle of the Seres Yaara war carried 1828 Jane Lathrop Stanford. wW liberally endowed Stanford, Jr., unlversW. born at Albany. N. T, Feb. 28. 190s. . 1850 Discovery of first traces Sir John Franklin's ships- 157 Michael Faraday, one of world's greatest seientii died near London. Born" : Surrey, England, Sept 1918 Theodore Roosevelt dlW ntml hia Nntwl Peace Pru fund among Ttfiow