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I Moose, Grizzly and Unknown Tenderfoot ANCOOVER, B. C.—Few big game * hunters In the Yukon are as 'well known as Mrs. W. W. Dickenson, a middle-aged woman wllo has hunted moose, deer, caribou, mountain goats and bears for many years in immense Stretches of territory which are still marked "unexplored” on recent maps of the Far North. She has just returned after a se ries of exciting adventures in the Te& lln Lake country, where she spent some time hunting moose and griz jsHes. j To avoid being frozen in, Mrs. Dick «ason had to make a flying trip out of the country, with plenty of provi sions, but only a leaky 32-foot boat; and a white guide. For nine days she and her companion battled -with the turbulent waters of the Hootalln qua rl.ver, said to be the wildest stream in the Yukon, frequently hav ing to rush for the shore and bale out the'boat to avoid sinking. Every morn ing the boat had to be chopped free of ice before it could be launched. While'Mrs. Dickenson failed in her objective, bagging only game of aver age else, she did see the skin of what she believed to be the biggest grizzly ever, shot in the Yukon. It was shot, curiously enough, by. a tenderfoot from Chicago. The tender foot and his guide came across the partly eaten carcass of a splendid moose, evidently killed only a few hours before. For half an acre the ground was torn up, showing a terrific fight had raged. • The guide was confident the moose! had been attacked and killed by a griz zly, and tbat only a bear of extraor dinary size could have overpowered1 the big moose. Knowing the grizzly would return later to finish his feast, the two men waited until evening. The Chicago hunter got his game. Who is the Chicago tenderfoot. No body seems- to knd\v. ; Father, Mother, Baby and Mother-in-Law duu jmoi MUJ. If.-iUl, George Neon were married less than three years ago. The arrival of the baby 18 months ago increased their happiness. The young husband sug gested they live with his mother here until his bride and the baby were stronger. Here is what followed, as she narrated it -to Recorder Weber, when she asked for separate main tenance from her husband and the cus • tody of the baby: • ' ' ; "From the day we went there, my mother-in-law never allowed me to . touch my child. She would not let me hold the little fellow or bathe him, or care for him in any way. She r would m>t mi iu£ caress him once, or even kiss him as he slept. “She thought modern girls were not fit to be mothers and rear chil dren. My mother-in-law had five chil dren of her own. I do not understand Why she should envy me my little one. She treats it very kindly, to be sure. lf- "But George, Jr., is my baby, not her’s. I do not want him brought bp a stranger to bis mother.- I do not want his love diverted to any other woman. I Just bad to leave and fight for my son.” - The young husband stood beside his wife as she spoke • and made no de nial. Recorder Weber directed that the bs returned to ft*?, rooter and that Neun make sufficient allow ance to provide for both. Neun re turned to his mother's home. Mra. Nenn looked alter him, weeping.. She said: 11 _ “When I find an apartment 1 will; live with my baby. If my husband wishes to come with ns, we will be glad to iiave him; but baby and I will not be separated any longer, no mat ter what happens." Amazing Story of Betty and Josephine f<SHE WAS AFRAID/# J; TO WtfUSF /J Milwaukee—xne arrest of two pretty girls here brings oat an amazing story, which starts ten months ago with the arrival from the rural town of Big Bend, Wls.,. of Betty Bergermeister, nineteen. Betty went to work, at the Toyo Art store In the' ^Plankington Arcade. At a dance one bight she met Josephine Tan Der Ei - sen. Both were of the same age, and they became fast friends. Josephine worked in the Kesselman-O’DriscolI - company music store, 517 Grand ave nue, and lived at 645 Twenty-seventh " street;-' • ■ 'f " f They went to dances together." There was always the contrast of clothes. Josephine’s were many and of the finest; expensive hats, gowns and .shots. Betty’s $15 a week provided her with but few pretty, dresses. For months she wondered at the source of Josephine’s seemingly endless supply of money. Josephine was noncom mittal. Betty never asked. A month ago Betty found out. She found In Josephine's purse a crumpled bill of sales slips of the Kesselman OUriscoIl store. She also found money.' Betty said nothing to her chum. In the meantime Josephine took Betty to Chicago, lavishing money on her chum on several trips. Back in Milwaukee the girls were-together a great deal of the time. Then Jo- | seplilne received an anonymous letter. It demanded $>100, saying the writer knew of her irregularities and would pvnncn her if the swuey ws? sot Isft I as an answer to a "blind ad” that would appear In the local newspaper. Josephine put $100 In an envelope and left It at the newspaper office. A week later' a second letter asked for another $100. Developments led ".to the arrest of the two girls. Both confessed—Betty to writing the black mailing letters and Josephine to tak ing mopey from her employers. v She Makes Wise Old Gotham Take Notice i. NEW YORK.—The woman drove up to one of the biggest Fifth avenue department stores in a gorgeous limou sine, told “James’* to wait, and strode straight to one of the department heads. Impressed by her beauty and nonchalant air, he offered to conduct her personally. Iler mission was to select $0,000 worth of the most ex pensive sort of goods. . Having finished her purchases, the "distinguished shopper’' suggested that she pay $500 on deposit, and "take the things along In my machine, you know.” After a consultation, it Was agreed to let one of the store de tectives escort her—and the $5,000 worth of goods—to her home, which - she said was in Flushing. “Home, James,” she commanded the chauf feur. Off whizzed the limousine. But instead of driving to Flushing, the car was taken at top speed to Young’s ..sanitarium, a place where inebriates are cared for, , "Be back in a moment with my hus hanH gnH anmp tn fjftrfy ^ things Inside,” she said to the detective. I . .. Inside, she sobbed out. her taje of woe. Her “poor dear husband,” she said, was outside in her automobile, “having one of those horrid fits, when be doesn’t know who he is and what he is doing.” Indeed, be thought he was_ a department store detective. Out rushed two of the huskiest at tendants of the sanitarium. The store sleuth tried to explain. The next mo ment the iiletective was carried inside. No sooner had jthe trio disappeared behind the sanitarium door than the heroine slipped into the limousine and —that was the last*seen of her, and of the finery. - i'*r, •' is o w, 1 A detailed air photograph of the Brooklyn navy yard, showing much of the modern equipment and facilities for handling the largest ships of the navy. ; • : . r‘ . j. FOR PREVENTION of blindnessI Wonderful Progress Made by the National Committee In That - Direction. WORK IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Conservation of Vision Classes Grow ing In Number as Educators Die foyer it it. Practicable *o Open Classes in Small Cities., New York.—More than 4,000 sup porters of the work of the National : Committee for the Prevention of Blindness were reported at the.sixth annual meeting In this city. This re port shows a remarkable Increase from the 65 charter members In 1015. The work for the last year showed much progress for the conservation of vision In the publie schools and col leges. ' The report continues: "Conservation of vision classes In the public schools are 'growing in number as educators have discovered, through the efforts of our committee, that it Is • practicable to open sneb classes even in cities smaller than the largest. .The present census of such clnsses Is 68, of ’which 12 have been established within the last year. So far as known, the classes which now support such classes include Illi nois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne sota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington,. There Is no more hopeful part of our work than this, and we are proud to have contributed a considerable part to the establish ment of these classes. Blindness In Children. “The ehiet cause of blindness among children 1b due to ophthalmia noeonatorum. The percentage this Orear Is 22.5 per cent as compared with 15.7 per cent for last year of those who have newly entered the residential schools. This disease is an inflammation of the eye usually contracted by newly born children. The percentage Is even higher in the public classes. We have reason to re gret this unfortunate relapse. This is the first year bnt one that has npt shown a considerable decrease, but we . —4^ i are quite Sure that our figures are ! more accurate than In the years gone | by, and possibly some of this Increase is due to the greater accuracy of our reports. We must faithfully and per sistently pursue our fight against babies’ sore eyes and continue to re duce the number of children who need not have been blind. ‘Trachoma’s victims {one of' the most dreaded of contagious eye dis eases) have been discovered in «ey. era! states where It was not suspect ed this scourge could be prevalent. Not less than nine states have during this year initiated Or renewed their hght sgalnst the spread of trachoma. In Illinois, particularly, there lias been a marshaling of the forces for systematic operation in the stamp ing out of this disease. In all cases j it has been the function of this com mittee to serve as a helpful agency in this work. Caused by Wood Alcohol.. "Wood alcohol poisoning still causes I much blindness through drinking this substance masquerading as a familial stimulanr: This condition wns not a surprise to us, anil We had issued a warning which was used throughout - the United States. Much activity re sulted because of the newspaper ac- -. js counts of the dreadful situation, arid considerable work has been done by them toward eliminating this cause of needless blindness.’* . - \ t H. F. J. Porter of the Society for Electrical Development delivered the annual address. The subject of Mr. Porter’s address was “Through Life’s f -Windows.” He. showed the great de pendence of man on healthy and well cared for eyes, which he compared to a pair of motion picture cameras. “In deed, the motion picture camera 1* made in imitation of the eye,” he con tinued. "The better the condition’ at the lens and the better the illumina tion of the object the better the re- . suit of the photographer’s effort. Just so with the more perfect instrument, % the eye, and it behooves every one to <; see that his eyes are kept In good con ditlon and free from eyestrain due to improper lighting. As It takes a long er time to take a good picture In poor light than In good light, so it takes ig longer to obtain a good conception rtf what is before us with poor eyesight and In poor light. Employers are wtse who provide against accidents from poor lighting.” RAVAGED BY LOCUSTS ;. . - -■YiWv;:- - I Disappear as Suddenly as They Come, Leaving Desert of Country They Pass Through. Buenos Aires.—A plague of locusts, like that which In ancient Egypt “cov ered the face of the earth," this year descended upon the province of Santa Fe. Similar offensives are almost an nual events in one part or other of Ar gentina. The locusts come Suddenly and with out warning. Where for a year or sev eral years perhaps not one of the in sects has been seen, a veritable cloud of them will one day appear and settle on the ground. These usually come from the northwest, from the vast al most uninhabited tracts in Bolivia, it Is supposed. They cover the earth like a moving carpet, gradually moving on. At first little damage Is done, aside from the Inconvenience of having lit erally millions of the Insects covering everything and even penetrating the bouses. But as they progress through the country they bore holes Into the earth, preferably In bard spots such as- • roadways, Into which they deposit their eggs. Within a short time the larva are hatched and come forth. At first these cannot fly, and it is at this stage that they devour. every living plant within their path, with the ex ception of a few species such as wil low trees. ' w A little later the Insects develop their wings and, leaving the country through whl/»K ♦how. kowo pnMuwj k desert, they disappear almost as sud denly as they came. Where they go to has *never been discovered. . - Argentina has had recourse to many methods of fighting the locusts. Tfca nation maintains organized locust fighting squads, something like those formed to fight fires, and these are seat every year to the sections Invaded. In - addition, every rancher is held respon sible for fighting the pest In his own locality. ,, INCREASE OF ALIENS Net Growth in immigrant Popu lation for Year 193,514. f Tot** of 633,371 Bought Entrance to United States in Last Fiscal chlnery overseas In co-operation with foreign governments through which aliens before breaking up their homes may determine whether they will be admitted to the United .States and leg islative consideration of the proposals of thc'second Industrial conference are outstanding recommendations In the annual report of Secretary of Labor Wilson. The report shows that 633,371 aliens arrived In this country during the last Sscsl year, as compared with 237,021 the year before. Of the total arrivals. 11,7&5 were excluded at the ports t; -ss ■ i-x where they sought to enter. Of those arriving 430,001 are classed as immi grant aliens and 195,570 as nonimmi grant aliens. Departures of aliens to taled 428,062, including 288,315 Immi grant aliens and 139,747 nonimmigrant aliens, making the net increase in the immigrant population for the year 193,614. ' Japanese admitted number 16,174, as compared with 14,904 the year before. The total number of Japanese depart ing is placed at 15,653, making, the re Port soys, the indicated increase in Japanese population, 621. Of those ad mitted, 9,193 were males and 6,981 fe males. Besides the immigrants turned back at the port of arrival. 2,762 were ordered deported during the year on mrr«nt«. compared with 3,068 the year before. Of those deported, 469 were classed as anar c*“5tS criminals, m audition, 691 others are awaiting deportation During the year 519,003 aliens took ■ ; <J»e initial or final steps toward cltJJ . gonohlp^ Mr. Wilson urges legislative action . to carry out the recommendations ' the second industrial conference, pro posing joint organizations of manage ment and employees for prevention, df Industrial disputes and a comprehen sive plan for adjusting such disputes when they occur. Return Hero Medal. Connellsvllle, Pa.—While a ncyo woman held up Sire. Anunbelie Germs ' along the West Penn street car lino, JK near the Gem a s home, two negroek searched her, took her pecketboek, containing about $30, but returning n ■ j .* gold service medal which the woo an s husband, the lute George GenoBS, had been awarded for service in the Spanish-American war. The trio ha& cd Mrs. Gepias with the request, „. , “Please give us your money, lady.'-’, Faulty Arrangement In some countries only fat won»a are considered beautiful, but they c-rfe poor countries even for fat women.— . Exchange.