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have the means at hand to pursue their highly Important work. Only a month or two ago, an entire ly new species of tuna, one o f the most valuable food fishes In the world, was located and described by the di rector of the Miami aquuriutn, and If these great fishes of the horse- mackerel family can be developed In a commercial waj It will have an inter develop links between the sea and esting bearing on the problem of low land animals that will add much to the ering the high cost o f living. world's knowledge of this Important question. Since the question of food -4 t-ns been accentuated as an aftermath 0 * of the world wur, the eyes of econ Villa Debt» to Be Paid 0 omists have turned to the warm sens in Full by Government 0 # to develop the possibilities o f Its In 0 numerable fish life. 0 All personal loans obtained by 0 Just as the shoemaker’s child Is Francisco Villa, Mexican bandit . 0 0 proverbially without footwear, so it leader, who recently surrendered 0 was that there was no nquarium or to the provisional government, 0 0 biological stutlon on the entire Atlan will be paid by the government, 0 tic coast south of Philadelphia, and, it has been learned. The loans 0 0 consequently, no extensive and ade amount to $40,000, Mexican. quately equipped and situated Institu Villa is said to have given re •J 0 tion to which the Ichthyologists of the ceipts for all the loans he ob J country could make pilgrimages and 0 tained and these will be refund 0 study at first hnnd the wonders of the 0 ed upon presentation of the pa fauna of the Gulf stream. Heretofore 0 pers to the government by claim 0 these specialists In zoology traveled to 0 ants. Villa still is at Sabinas, the aquurlum at Naples, Italy, and to 0 awaiting the arrival of the sup 0 other European Institutions, simply be ply train which was to take him 0 cause there was nowhere In the warm 0 and his men to Torreon. 0 seas surrounding the southern part of our own continent a place where they Southern Port Is Blockaded Attempt to Land Tefegraph Cable at Miami Brings About Queer Situation. MIAMI IS IN THE LIMELIGHT United States Warships Blockade a . United States Port In Time of Peace— Geographic Society Offi cial Tells About Place. By JO H N O L IV E R LA GORCE. Vice-Director National Geographic Society. Miami, Fla.—Probably for the first time since the stirring days o f the Civil war we find a southern, port blocknded by United States warships. Happily, however, It Is no crisis brought about by an uncompromising demand for the integrity of state rights, but to prevent a cable ship en tering the port o f Miami, the most southerly city on the Floridian main land and the third largest In the state, from the standpoint o f population. Nestling beside the beautiful waters o f Biscayne bay and separated from the Atlantic only by the peninsula of Miami beach, the city has rapidly come into Its own, due to the strategic geographic location It occupies on the South Atlantic coast, and It gives promise to rival Jacksonville as a port of call. When one realizes that one-tlilrd of all the grapefruit In the United States comes from the county In which Miami Is situated and that one-fifth of nil the animal life In America north of Panama is to be found in the waters of the Gulf stream which lave the golden strand of Miami beach In its front yard, and with the great potential agricultural wealth of the Everglades at Its back door, small wonder that Miami has grown, as sfc-own by the last census report, 440 per cent. Upper Slesvig Celebrates Return Afternoon strollers In the downtown streets of Chicago were eutertulned the other day hy a dazzling parade of models wearing the latest and most beautiful designs In woiueu’s wear. Some o f the manikins are here sees admiring a window display on Michigan boulevard. GERMANS ARE TIRED OF W A R * Lovers Tie Feet; , J Plunge Into Sea t » J * British Officer in Cologne Finds Only Professional Soldiers Anxious for It. CHANGES IN CITY_ ON RHINE People Submit Calmly to British Rule — Street Car Officials Are Now Almost Servile— Busi ness Picks Up. Rivals the Riviera. Blessed with a year-round climate that rivals the Riviera, with ever- blowing trade winds that temper the semi-tropical sun, Miami bids fair to take rank with anything of its size in the United States for development along highly profitable and thoroughly businesslike lines. ; It is not surprising that a telegraph company desires to bring the Barbados cables Into Miami Instead of Key West, a hundred odd miles south of this point; but there Is some diplo matic hitch about England’s control of cables which has caused this pratlcal- ly unheard of situation o f United States war vessels blockading a Unit ed states port In the time of peace. Three years ago the money on de posit In the bnnking institutions of Miami amounted to something like $4,- 000,000, In the summer of 1919 to $12,000,000, in March, 1020, to $17,- 000,000, and today the amount is up ward o f $20,000,000. Moreover, In permanent population it has grown In ten years from 5,471 to 29,549. During .the winter months there are nearly as many traflic “ cops” on Its well-paved ■streets as there are In the national capital, ten times Its size. One of the most Important develop ments of Miami beach is the Inaugura tion and completion o f the Miami aquarium and biological laboratory, located at the beach terminus of the wonderful 100-foot causeway stretch ing three miles In length which spans Blscuyne bay, Connecting the city with the ocean beaches. As* the scientists generally agree that all land animals .came originally out o f the sea. the study o f the myriad forms of life in the tropical seas will, It Is believed. Parade of Fashion Models in Chicago Streets Cologne.—The British army appears to have acquired a strong grip on this section of occupied Germany, and the soldiers get along very well with the people. They mingle freely with them King Christian of Denmark mounted on a white charger entering Upper In the streets, restaurants and cafes, Slesvig for the first time through an arch of triumph erected at Frederlcshol, and pick up colloquial phrases very Upper Slesvig, which until 1864 belonged to Denmark, voted to return In the readily. TheM had been very little friction between the Tommies and the recent plebiscite. Inhabitants. All disputes between the army of occupation and the people of Cologne have been brought before a court of arbitration, and the Germans so far have not complained of any of the awards. There Is more business In Cologne In commercial and trade circles than In the other large German cities, which #--------------------------------------------------------- -- Is owing to? the business transacted with England nnd Holland. The Dutch World’s Record Broken at Exer less polyglot than It used to be before merchants are sending all the food the war. Encli of the orators spoke stuffs they can lay hands upon Into cises in U. S. School in his native tongue, according to the Germany, which keeps the prices very traditions o f the American school es high In their own country nnd Is caus Constantinople. tablished 57 years ago. The school ing strong protests to be made by the has American standards and Ideals, working classes In Rotterdam, Amster and a majority of Its teachers are dam nnd other cities. The goods are Americans, but Its aim is to educate brought from Holland to Dusseldorf men for service In their own countries, nnd Cologne by freight steambonts. rather than In English-speaking coun There Is considerable activity In the Armenian, Turkish, Greek, French, tries. factories In Aachen, Dusseldorf and Cologne. The people In these centers Bulgarian and English Used In Ad Cosmopolitan Crowd Attends. Armenian, Turkish, Greek, French, are paying attention to their business dressing Cosmopolitan Crowd Bulgarian and English were the lan nnd ure more optimistic In regard to at Commencement guages used by the orators, and the the outlook than the Germans In Ber Constantinople.—The world’s record chapel of the college was filled with a lin. Hamburg and Frankfort Fight All Gone. for the number of languages used In cosmopolitan crowd typical of Con The British officers of senior rank At the Its commencement exercises will prob stantinople’s Intellectuals. very time Admiral Bristol, the Amer with whom I have conversed here say ably go to Robert college this year. Orations were delivered In six ican high commissioner, was advising that they do not believe there Is any tongues, and, at that the program was the 32 graduates to devote their live» probability of the nation wanting to to a lessening o f the racial and re fight for many years to come. The ligious hatreds of the Levant, wat Germans, apart from the officers and was going on at four distinct fronts underoffleers of the old army, who in the Turkish empire, the British, have been trained to arms as a calling, French, Greeks and Armenians all be will not go to war In a hurry because ing engaged In the conflict with the they have renllzed very clearly that It does not pay, and they do not wish Turkish nationalists. The band o f the Second battalion their sons to be trained as soldiers as British Cheshire regiment, which Is soon as they leave school and sub guarding Constantinople from nation jected to the tyranny of the drill ser alist attacks, played for commence geants. An English officer of high rank, who ment and warships o f the allied pow ers lay In Bosphorus at the foot of the heights on which Robert college stands. Students Orate in Six Tongues GREAT CROWD IN ATTENDANCE Blacked Boots Here for 52 Years speaks German fluently nnd 1ms trav eled all over the country In the last year, said. In speaking on this subject; “At the present time Germany could put a well-equipped army o f 000,000 officers nnd men Into the field If they could be organized to tight together. The major part o f this force is the army of the Bnltlc and the smaller bodies o f troops who have not yet been disbanded. The ordinary German workman, so far ns my knowledge goes. Is fed up with war, and desires to live with his family and pursue his trade peacefully. “ The French mllltnry authorities do not agree with this view In regard to the Germans and believe that they are secretly organizing to avenge their de feat. The officers, especially the Prus sians of the old regime, would no doubt like to do this, a3 fighting Is their trade, but the rank and file would refuse to follow them Into the field. “The Germans have plenty of air planes, arms nnd ammunition. Out of 28,000 field guns they possessed when the armistice was signed they have de stroyed only 2,000 so fnr. It Is very difficult to get the German govern ment to carry out the conditions of the peace treaty, which demand that these guns should bo destroyed, and that the forts nnd strategic railways constructed In the course of the war should be demolished. The claim Is put forth that all this work would oc cupy a long time nnd would be unpro ductive nnd expensive to the govern ment, which has no funds to meet it. Personally, Judging from the slow manner In which things have been done so far, I think It will be years before these conditions are fulfilled, If ever. "There Is one thing certain to any sane person who knows the conditions existing here at the presold time: that Is, If Germany Is to pay the Indemnity, or any portion of It, In the near future she must be supplied with raw mate rials to start the factories to work and with foodstuffs for the people. Officials Are Civil. “There Is a good deal of talk among the better class In favor of a constitu tional monarchy on similar lines to that of Great Britain, but that would he Impossible so far as any of the German princes are concerned. They do not know the meonlng of such a form of government and would Imme diately become autocratic dictators directly any one of them ascended the throne. It took England nearly a hun dred years to Dersuade the Hanove rian sovereigns that they were to be seen and not heard, so far as the gov- Iroquois Dedicate Memorial Site Turkish Girls Graduate. About the same time the Constanti nople College for Women, another American Institution, held its com mencement exercises. Two Turkish girls were among the 23 young women i graduated rtils year. The college In1 i notable for having managed to keep j Its work going throughout the war and for having kept peace among Its ; students from 17 nations, most of which were fighting either with or ' against America. The two Turkish j graduates wore the same black aca demic gown as their classmates, but Instead o f the mortarboard cap wore white veils draped about their hair. A little Turkish woman who Is a mem ber of the faculty also wore the white Moslem head dress. Admiral Bristol here also delivered the commencement address to the class, which contained one Jewish girl, nine Armenians, nine Greeks and two I Bulgarians. Music for the exercises j was furnished hy the orchestra of the | British dreadnought, the Iron Duke. ' and the diplomas were presented hy j Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, president and | founder o f the college which has con This aged Turkish bootblack declares that be has had this same stand ferred the degree o f bachelor of arts In Constantinople for 52 years and that he ooce polished the aultan’a shoes. upon 30 classes and numbers among Uilefh of the six nations composing the Iroquois tribe marking the south He says that for more than 90 years be has not missed a day. Hit stand la Its graduates prominent women In all ern boundary line of Ga-wan-ka In tbs Adirondack! as a permanent memorial Just across the street from the American Red Cross headquarter». to the League o f the Iroquois tba Balkan state«. I J * , J 4 J 4 J 4 J t J * 4 J 4 J 4 J 4 J * \ i 4 Hilo, Island o f Hawaii.— Strapped together as they leaped Into the sea to fulfill a double suicide pact, Uye Tnfuburo, a Japanese of North Kohala, and Maktno Kukuyanin, wife of an- other Japanese, partly failed In their endeavor. Tafaburo was drowned hut the woman was pulled from the surf hy W. Pine- liakn. Jailer of North Kolinla. I'lnehuka saw the pair, with ankles and bodies tied together, lenp ns one Into the sen from the rocks below Hnwt, on the North Kohala const. He scram- bled down to the water’s edge Just ns the tide washed the woman back to shore, the bonds that tied her to her companion having broken. Later Tafaburo’s body was recovered by Hawaiian divers. The woman's Infant child, wrapped in her obi, or girdle, was found hanging on a tree not far from the spot where she had failed In her attempt at suicide. * \ J » * t J * J * J * J * \ J 4 J 4 J t J # * * \ J 4 J ..................................................... i eminent of the country was con cerned, nnd It was not until Queen Victoria had commenced her long reign that this was accomplished finally by Lord Melbourne, who was prime min ister." It was a strange sight to visitors In Cologne on Saturday, June 5, to see the British troops with massed bandi parading the cathedral square In honor of King George's birthday. The people filled nil the side streets and crowded the windows of the shops and house) which overlooked the scene. They be haved In an orderly manner, and the mounted German policemen who were on duty had no difficulty in keeping the big crowd back. Before the war Cologne was very prosperous and had a large garrison. There Is n great change I 11 the bearing of the railwny and street car official) toward the ordinary people. Thlelt smart uniforms and autocratic man ners o f former days have disappeared. They now slouch nbout In old army uniforms minus the facing, and are civil to the public almost to the point of servility. There is a little more meat In Co logne than In Berlin, which Is due tc the supplies coming up the Rhine from Rotterdam for the British army, and the bread Is of a better quality. The Tommy gets hla rations and his white bread dally and pufehaaea hla extra supplies from the canteen. With the low rate o f exchange he has been liv ing In clover on his nrrny pay, nnd the majority hope that the occupation will last for years. The greater number of these soldiers did not tnke part In the great war, but are older men who enlisted for three years’ service In the occupied territory after the armistice was signed. WÔMAN, 87, TAKES AIR TRIP Yells "H lg h srl" to Pilot, Who 8tarts to Descend, Sayt She Will T r y It Again. New York —Mrs. C. J. Goff, 87 years old, tried out flying at Camp Edwards, Sea Girt, N. J., and gave It her entire approval. "Am I too old?" she asked Lieut. Paul MIcelll ns she presented herself In front o f the flyer's plane. “ Not a bit,” he assured her, and carefully strapped her In the passen ger's cockpit. The piano roared alone the ground, shot Into the atmosphere and climbed zenlthward. At 2,000 feet the pilot turned nnd looked at his pnasenger. She told him to go higher. He came down In a few dives and spirals. “ Was that ten minutes?" Mrs. GolT queried as she was helped out. 8he was assured that that time had also flown. “ Well, Tm coming back Sunday,” the announced as she left the field In en automobile for Asbury Park, where ■he la passing the summer.