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I TALES FROM I 1 BIG CITIES I Ihe riiwer Has Conquered the Jungle OAKLAND, CAL.—The flivver has conquered the jungle. And all the beasts of the East African ■wilds are taking the rest cure today. For the fleet and tireless “monster” that wheezed and sputtered, but al ways managed to outrun them, has gone. H. A. Snow, his wife, his son, Syd ney, and seven-year-old daughter, Norma, who made up a strange tender foot expedition for the Oakland public museum, are on their way horrfe with many rare specimens, their three-year “flivver hunt” at an end. In those years they have packed a lifetime of thrills and hairbreadth escapes, in which the mother and child figured prominently. Snow, who knew nothing of the East African wilderness, figured that with a stripped down and antiquated car he could chase the lions and antelopes and when the wild things were fatigued snap them with a camera oi a rifle at will. A twenty-mile chase of a herd of giraffes was but one of the many experiences. "Finally,” he re cites, “the giraffes gave up, but showed an amazing curiosity in the thing that outrun them. One of them bent his great neck and peered at us in the seat. They gathered around in an ex cited group and stared.” The flivver was covered with a heavy wire network to keep lions and leopards from leaping aboard. ' Mrs. Snow and her daughter, while sitting in their tent at dusk, narrowly escaped death shortly before the expe dition broke up when a herd of black rhinoceroses charged them. The Snows have with them for ex hibition in Oakland sixty-five groups of from five to twenty animals each, 30,000 butterfles, 5,000 spepimens of birds and reptiles, and 150,000 feet of motion picture film. Mr. Snow and his family journeyed through Somaliland, Rhodesia, Ger man East Africa, British East Africa, New Zealand, Zululand, and one or two other lands. Odd Superstition of Life and Death \7‘ flNONA, MINN—The bodies of Miss Frances Bloch and her brother Joseph are likely to re pose forever undisturbed in their cof fins in hillside graves, side by side, in St. Mary’s Catholic cemetery here, with public curiosity satisfied. After inspecting the body, Chief of Police H. C. Biebau announced that the story told by Thomas Bloch, sixty nine, her father, a former member of the local police force, that he had not mutilated the bodies of his children, 'when he and a neighbor, Thomas Kobus, opened the graves was correct. The action of the authorities was to determine the reliability of persistent rumors that Bloch had exhumed and decapitated the body of his daughter, In a superstitious belief that by so do ing he could end a series of deaths which had taken away four of his sons. Bloch said he was made almost fran tic by the death of four sons since the death of his daughter five years ago, and by the illness of his fifth and only surviving son, Frank. Driven to desperation, he said, he acted on the repeated suggestion of friends, who told him that the spirit of the. first to die in a family “calls” the spirits of the survivors and that only by beheading his daughter’s body could he save Frank’s life and even tually that of himself, his wife and four married daughters. He and Ko bus, whom he hired for a few dollars, opened the grave of his daughter. Nothing remained of the girl’s body, he declared, but the skeleton, and for this reason,- he said, the grave was re filled without the body having been mutilated. They opened the grave of his son, Joseph, who died four years ago. Again, he declared only a skele ton was found. The next day Frank died. Tale an Absent-Minded Professor NEW YORK, — High-brows, you know, are dreadfully absent minded; Its a hall-mark of genius. Prof. Ralph Culver Bennett, D. C. L., LL. D., and A. B., rang the door bell of Prof. William H. Carpen ter, A. B., Ph. D. (both celebrated in “Who’s Who”), long and brusquely. Professor Carpenter hit Professor Ben nett with a cane. Professor Bennett punched Professor Carpenter In the eye. In Washington Heights court Profes sor Bennett was held in: $100 bail for hearing on a charge of disorderly con duct. Eight witnesses, all doctors of law or philosophy, or bachelors of science or art, testified against Pro fessor Bennett. ' Professor Bennett Is forty-three and lives at 421 West 117th street. He is president of the Metropolitan College of Law, Inc., of Dover, Del., a former professor of law In Webster Law school, Chicago; a former assistant state's attorney in Chicago, and a former member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. Professor Carpenter is sixty-seven, Is provost of Columbia university and former Villard professor of Germanic philology. It developed that Professor Bennett absent mindedly supposed 'that he was ringing his own doorbell, but he came to sufficiently t% resent the manner in which his colleague corrected this mis apprehension. As evidence of his dis pleasure he rang Professor Carpenter's doorbell some more. Professor Carpen ter "brushed away his hand with a cane,” according to the brusher. Breach of Promise Works Both Ways DENVER.—Entered as a complaint In the District court Is “another one of. those breach of promise cases.” But It’s different.; The woman, according to the complaint, is the one alleged to have broken her promise, while the man is the one who claims he was stung. . Fieldon R. Mayes, fifty years’ old, a printer employed by the Smith-Brooks Printing company and living at 2810 California street, Is the plaintiff who has put reverse English on heart balm. He wants $25,000 damages from Mrs. Grace M. Hill, forty-two years old, formerly proprietor of a dressmaking parlor at. Greeley and recently a room ing house owner in Denver. Says Mayes: ■ , “My advice to young fellows is that this breach of promise business works both ways. When women fool around ' with you, when they tell you they love you, tell you they would be de lighted to marry you, then keep put ting you off, keep postponing the mar riage and all the time accept presents from you, don’t hesitate—sue ’em. A,. .... , .Ji, ....., . > . .. . .. There's no use moping around; there’s no use losing your appetite and sleep. Don’t think about going to China or South America—go, into the courts.” “I spent so much money on her,” comments Mayes, “that all during the! time we were engaged X was tied up in a financial knot. I kept getting tied up here, tied up there, till there; was hardly anything left to tie. May be I was a fish, but you know how it goes. She had nice eyes; then, too, she reminded me of my first wife. She wrote me beautiful letters. When she finally refused to marry me, the suit was my only remedy.” \ , • s > «- _• •• I *...» * ..a -U «„• '■•'i: New Way to Teach Every Day Mathematics ttriaatiaMBS What is said to be a new method of instructing children in mathematics has been introduced at the Armstrong school in Chicago. At' this school they have a grocery store where the children are taught not only to buy and sell, but how to figure'the cost of their sales and purchases. Whale Tows Men Out to Sea They Harpoon the Monster But He Refuses to Play the Game as They Figured. SLAPS CAPTAIN OUT OF BOAT Valiant Southampton Veteran* Have Exciting ^.Time When They Go to Assistance of Brothers Who Had Caught Whale. Southampton.—For the second time In two weeks fishermen took to their boats and went out after a whale. They had him hooked, too, and if the durn thing hadn't up with Its tall and knocked Cap’n Silas Edwards out of the boat just us be was about to spear it, there might even now be a dead whale on the beach. The whale was sighted by Captain Frank H. White, the sea-bitten old mariner who tends the life saving sta tion here. When he first saw the whale it was about two miles off shore and moving out to sea with the Cooper brothers from Water Mill. As a matter of fact the Cooper brothers had caught the whale. The only trouble was that, having caught It, they didn’t know what to do with It. It was some time earlier in the day that the Cooper brothers had seen the .whale and started out in their little motor boat to capture it. They had with them a lance bomb gun, an In strument highly recommended for whale hunting. This gun Is supposed to save wear and tear on the animal by exploding a charge inside it and thereupon rendering it more or less hors de combat. Starts for 8omewhere. So the Cooper brothers went after the whale and had the good fortune to be in excellent firing position at a moment when it saw fit to come to the surface to blow the water out of Its nose. “Thar she blows I" yelled the Cooper brothers, who had taken a correspond ence course In whale bunting, and bang! off went the lance bomb gun. The lance struck the whale squarely In the tonneau and the fishermen waited expectantly for the dull ex plosion which would Indicate to them that their quarry was about to roll over and ask to be taken home. No such explosion happened. The fishermen waited and waited. All in a wink the whale started for somewhere. And the Cooper brothers, ■ having lodged their harpoon securely in the whale, found themselves accompany ing it. fliey tried reversing the engine In the hope that by so doing they might convey to the whule their lack of In terest In any extensive sen voyage. The motion was entirely lost on their captive, who kept right ou. The Cooper brothers then tried to Increase the speed of the boat so that thpy might overtake the whale and ex plain the situation, which, in a word, was this: The line connecting the boat with the whale was taut, and the fishermen could not free themselves. As fast ns their boat went the whale went faster. There was nothing to do but admire the scenery as It passed them. They had gone about a mile and a half, and were still going, when Cap tain White saw what was up and piped all his trusty whale hunters to their posts. In response to the call came Captain Silas Edwards, Ed White, Frank Burnett, William Bennet and Erastus Howland. Ihey launched a boat and headed for the whale and its regretful cap tors. By the time they reached the scene the whale had Its mind on some thing other than additional whale hun ters, so they were able to get up close to It. They even circled around once, looking for a soft spot for the lance they Intended to toss into It. Then steadying himself In the bow of the boat, Cap’n Edwards rose to the best of his sixty-flve years of ability and stood posed with a long lance In his hand rendy to end everything. Just at this moment, however, the whale came out of Its reverie and smacked the bow of the boat a gentle tap with its tail. Cap’n Edwards be ing in the bow of the boat he was next seen struggling in the water and yelling for some one to take him out. The Cooper brothers made use of the momentary respite to loosen their harpoon line. And the whale went on its way. The whalers then devoted their attention to rescuing Cnp’n Ed wards, and to expressing In broad terms their desire for vengeance. ASKS FORMER KING TO PAY DEBT Woman Claims William of Wied Owes Her 5,000,000 Francs. Mrs. Roberta Manges Corwin Hill Tearle, Formerly of Brooklyn, Asks the 8tate Department to Help Her Collect—Has No I. O. U. New York. — Lending money to kings—a "privilege” which doesn’t fall to the lot of everyone—Is nn experi ence which Mrs. Roberta Menges Cor win Hill Tearle, formerly of Brooklyn but lately of Paris, declares is exciting but not altogether profitable. She arrived recently from Paris bent upon visiting the State department to see what the Washington officials conld do to aid her in collecting 5,000, 000 francs which she claims to have advanced Prince William of Wled, who occupied the throne of Albania for seven months before the outbreak of the war forced him to flee. Mrs. Menges, who was known ns “the Pearl of Sheepshead Bay” before she eloped In 1902 with Young Halsey Corwin, a Brooklyn millionaire, is accompanied by her sister. Miss Ruth Menges, and her cousin, Capt. J, R. K. Jackson, upon whom she relies to sub stantiate her claim against Prince William. Captain Jackson explained that Mrs. Menges was introduced to the king of Albania at Monte Carlo in 1813 by King Constantine of Greece, whom she was entertaining at her villa there. She had met King Constantine through ■ Prince de Lynan, formerly a member of the Anstrian embassy at Washing ton, to whom she had been Introduced by her husband, Maj. Arthur Bill of England. “Prince William renewed his ac quaintance with Mrs. Menges at the Hotel Continental In Paris,” said Cap tain Jackson, “and borrowed 500,000 francs from her then." “Don’t think me too easy,” broke in Mrs. Menges. “You see, he watched me win 60,000 francs gambling at Monte Carlo, and living in a big villa there, and all that sort of thing, and he thought I had millions to burn. “He promised to pay it all in a year,” Captain Jackson added. “He also promised to make Mrs. Menges the unofficial ambassador of Albania at Paris, and said he would help her enlist the aid of continental ^police in finding jewels she lost In America." “Have you a receipt from Prlnca William?” Mrs. Menges was asked. “You can’t ask a king for an L O. y D.; you know that,” she replied. TRAPPERS FIND BIG GOLD VEIN , ,, 9 Reticent About Discoveries Made - in Kootenay District. Bring in Fine Specimens of Ore Show ing Visible Cosrse Gold Obtained From Carbonate Float—May Be Lost Vein. Nelson. Can.—Two trappers arriv ing from a district adjacent to Koo tenay lake—they will not be more specific—have brought In a fine sample of ore showing visible coarse gold ob tained from a Carbonate, float. They state the snow fell too early for them to locate the vein from which the float came, but consider It could easily be traced, as there Is very little overbur- j den In the locality. The advent of these trappers with a bully specimen beyond suspicion of any “doctoring,” has fired old-timers with enthusiasm. Some of them predict a minor stam pede when the snow melts. .. "wv -'fc-. -sk . *VrL V As In the olden times, the clew to the find Is carefully guarded, but It Is known to oe within fifty miles of Nelson, and near the lake—which nar rows the field of speculation, guessers are busy. Old-time prospectors believe It must be the vein discovered by two pros pectors tiiuny years ago round Kus kanook way, whose very names other than sobriquets are forgotten but It Is recalled that they took $12,000 out of their claim In two months, and “did It In” riotously. One of them was killed In a gamblers’ quarrel at Kus kanook. The other stole an Indian’s squaw In the Crow’s Nest and fell by right of vengeance to the red man's rifle. Tom Proctor, after whom the town of Proctor Is named, was to have been his partner, but himself died be fore a deal was struck. So the wbolo transaction was blotted out, and even the source of the gold faded Into the land of legends. Many prospectors have searched for the lost vein, and the Idea Is growing In Nelson that the two trappers have found It o This history ringing as an echo of an almost forgotten past has stirred Kootenay prospectors more than any thing which has happened in the last '■ two years. The report however, ta unimpeachable, and Is Indorsed by • prominent members of the British Co lumbia Prospectors’ Protective asso ciation to whom the trappers are known and who are familiar with the ancient tragedy. Men Students to Raise Child. Orono, Me.—The home economics* department of the University of Maine has temporarily adopted Frances Paul ine, four months old. The 18 young men students of North hall in caring for the Infant will use the latest scien tific methods. Little Frances is In perfect health and sleeps and takes nourishment on a well-defined sched ule. Germany is rapidly recovering her ocean-freight carrying trade. t