Opium Smugglers Are Foiled
njXJO.OtiO.t , >. In il> ».
the consumption of ilgt, < • -I«
United States Increased .at p-i •
Thia year the munufuctui -r» are •
to be turning them out at the •
of three a day for such man ri-
woman In the country over iwn
one yenrs of nge.
Eighty per cent of the forest fir.
in the United States are man eunaeit
During the last season smokers wer
responsible for 40 per cent of moi
caused fires, in the woods.
worms, the piles of the piers sre
caked with pitch, the pavements are of
the same material, and the black chil
dren of the Island play with dolls
whose little black faces and bodies
are made of pitch.
Columbia Saw Island Peaks.
“The Island Is really a beautiful re
sort, Its roads sre excellent, end It
Is easy to reach from the Venezuela
shore. Its green trees towering on the
horizon, and at dawn the aurfaca la
sky line from far ouf at sea. On bls
third voyage Columbus saw Its three
“About every three days, however,
mountain peaks, which gave It Its
the pitch swallows up the rails and
name, rise out of the sea on July 81,
the sleepers and they must be raised
1498. At the foot of these hills clus
and readjusted on the surface.
ters the group of buildings which
“The subtle movements of thia queer
forms the capital city. Port of Spain,
pool have produced some •spooky’ ef
a rather nondescript modern town
fects—Islands wander like lonely
which has grown up on the charred
ghosts from shore to shore; sometimes
ruins of the old Spanish city.
s tree trunk sticks up out of the sur
“Though the island has been Brit
face like the arm clothed In white
ish since 1797, It la as polyglot as
samite which bore ‘Excalibur,’ points
Zanzibar; negroes, mnlattoea from
Its warning Anger, and again Is drawn high yellow to ginger. French Span
back Into the Clnjmertan depths.
iards, Venezuelans. Chinamen. East In
“One writer has estimated that at dians, Tamils, Americans and English
least 10,000,000 tons of the mixture loiter In its streets or bang over Its
have been churned-Into asphalt by gas balconies.”
during the ages in Pitch lake, which is
known as Devil’s cauldron among the
Have Poor Sight
natives. About 4,000,000 tons have al
New Tork.—Of approximately 12,000
ready been removed, and by 1920 the
surface of the lake had fallen 15 feet children undergoing vision tests con
below its former level. Once during ducted by the United States pubUe
its history the viscous fluid overflowed health service. 37 per cent were found
Its banks and made Ite way to the sea to have defective vision, according to
near Ln Brea. Now the world's supply a statement by the Eyesight Conser-
Is shipped from Brighton, which fairly vstlon Council of America, which, an
reeks of Its stock in trade. Asphalt alyzing the results, calls such condi
boulders stick up out of the sand along tions deplorable as constituting neg
the shore like mysterious black sea lect of eyesight in the nation’s schools.
Asphalt Supply
Is Inexhaustible
Interesting Facts About
“Devil’s Pool’’ in Trinidad-
Washington. D. C-'Th. pavements
of city streets cry to the cloop of
horses’ hoof» and the whir of auto
mobile tires. Trinidad.' In tribute to
the Island’s asphalt deposits. Radio
Maryland Man’s Lost Time
and telephone wires reverberate the
piece Is Returned.
refrain. Even the walls of bouses
shut out these sounds, as well as the
eold, with the world famous product
Baltimore.—Wade O. Bournis
of this emerald island of the southern
Allen. Md.. looked at his watch Jus
Caribbean,” says a bulletin from the
before retiring al 11:30 p. m. las
Washington (D. C.) beadquarters of
December 23. at Chestertown. Md
He did not see It again for more than the National Geographic society.
“The moot southerly islsnd of the
a month and then only when be tdenti
West Indies and the largest of the
tied It for a stranger who bad beet
British Islands In the Caribbean with
Fifty cans of opium were found under the flooring of the S. S. t.otlih trying to find Its owner.
Prince by port officials when the steamer docked at New York.
Meanwhile the watch had traveled the exception of Jamaica, lying Just
a few hundred feet from the Venezuela
shows Agent Jack Sterling, wb» directed the search, with hl. aldaa. Kilduff far, although the only point It la po«l
coast, Trinidad ships yearly to the
lively
known
to
have
reached
Is
Three
■nd Steffek.
Oaks. Mich. It came back to Ila owner United States more asphalt and bb
tumen than all the other countries of
from the Michigan city.
the world combined. Our 80.000-ton
Some 15 or 20 days ago Mrs. Char
Importation from Trinidad, however,
lotto Frank of Baltimore receive«!
is only about one-fourth of the quan
from a drygoods flrm In Three Oak
tity used In the United States Much
a parcel post package containing >< of our road material Is a by-product
donation for a lodge lo which she be
of the petroleum and coal tar Indus
longs. On opening the bundle she «11»
tries.
covered In addition to the expect.-,
Supply Seems Inexhaustible.
goods, a smaller package contalnln
“
When
Sir Wolter Raleigh stopped
a watch on the chain of which wit-
on the shorea of Trinidad to 'pay' bls
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—■ suspended a key and as a charm
vessels with pitch from the famous
baseball engruv.
In the practice of forestry. This miniature gold
lake,’ he declared that there was
New Bill Sets Forth Pro tlons
“
W.
G.
B."
with
the
Inscrlptl«-
would result eventually In putting un
enough of the substance for all the
der forest management through private “Washington, L F„ Captain. 1922.
gram for 1 en Year«.
vessels of the world for centuries to
ownership a much larger acreage than
No left fielder of the Washing!'
come, and even the demand which
that
purchased
by
the
government.
program
American
league
club
possessed
an
Wsshlngton.—A
modern civilization has ptft upon the
Furthermore,
thia
group
of
forests
Inquiry
showe
under which «W.OOO.OW would tie au
such Initials
supply has scarcely changed the truth
thorlzed for Hie purchase of national could be made to furnish recreation Further search for an owner led I
of Ids statement.
forest lands In the eastern half of the spaces for three-fourths of the na the discovery that W. G. Bounds ho
“About a mile from the shore, near
United States is contained In a bill tlon's population, besides producing been captain and left fielder on th-
La Brea, the peculiar phenomenon,
Just IntrmJurrd by Senator Charles L timber and pulpwood and protecting baseball nine at Washington colleg.
. . year.
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Whei
which has been variously termed an
Chestertown. ...
Md., that
McNary (Rep.. Ore.) as 8. 378«. and st ream flow.
•inferno,’ a ’Stygian pool.' and ’the
he
was
located
in
Baltimore
he
»»
by Congressman Roy O. " oodruff
F
I
rea.
Cigarettes and Forest
fountain of Styx,’ Is located. Had
able to give u convincing descrlptlo
(Rep, Mich.), as II. R. 11031. Accord
The increasing use of cigarettes ano
Dante known of Its existence. It prob
of the watch and establish his title t
Ing to the American Forestry associ
the increasing number of forest fires
ably would have served to stimulate
ation which la sponsoring the bill the chargeable to the cigarette bull IL
,
Mm Frank wrote to the Three Oak* his Imagination to still more fantastic
fiscal program outline«! la the next es
should suggest lo the manuracurer of
flights.
However, the lake about
drygoods cotnpany from whom she re
sential step In forestry legislation. It
‘‘fags’’ a res;a>nslblllty on their part
which so many interesting stories have
1 celved the parcel and had a repl'
would make possible the completion
tn keep before their customers the
been told does not deserve its repu
of forest land purchases In the White public menace attached to careless j Haying that no one there knows any
and Appalachian mountains author
t thing about the watch. Bounds Bay- tation. A man who contemplated sui
new In the use of their products
he forgot about putting It under th« cide in its black depths would die of
Ized by the Weeks low of 1911 and
According to figures Issued by the
starvation before the ooze dmgged
the acquiring of 2,500.000 acres In the United States Treasury department, । pillow Until the night after he did s<
him in above his knees.
southern pine regions and a similar the total number of cigarettes con- when he bad gone away from Chester
‘The situation produced by walking
and on writing a friend ther-
area In the lake states. The pur- sumed annually In the countn is uow town
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»„„„n
over its surface is much like that of
Chases In the lake states and In the approaching tie astound ng figure of hg was Informed It could not be foun.1
treading upon some great beast whose
Fouth are made possible by the Clarke
flesh gives beneath the feet—It Is soft,
McNnry law. passed In June, 1924.
bloop-warm, and the wrinkles over Its
which authorises the acquiring of land
surface in the blinding light of the
for the purpose of timber product’on
sun seem to rise and fall with his
on the watersheds of navigable
breathing and the water which gath
streams, ns well as for protection of
ers In the furrows suggests that the
stream flow. Much of the land may
be secured at prices consistent with
animal is perspiring.
the government policy of national for-
“It Is said that the -area of the
eat purchases.
pitch-bearing lake Is 110 acres and no
one knows how deep it Is. There is
Purchase of Foresta.
an almost uncanny feature connected
Officials of the American Forestry
This was bad enough for the adulti* with the removal of the asphalt from
association point out that 3,000,000
the area. Ralls and sleepers have
acres additional sflould be purchased Parents Urged to Turn Chil- but. worse still. It sets a bad exampl
been built out into the lake and each
to their children.
In the White end Appalachian moun
dren Loose in Snow.
day the laborers dig up chunks of the
“The change of popular opinion I
tains In order to extend and consoll
regard to fresh air and ventilati««! pitch, which break off with dry, blue-
date present government holdings In
filntlfke fractures, and throw them
Albany. N. Y.-The advantages for came when It was found that fresi
practicable administrative units and
into a car which runs on rails. Each
to complete the group of national for children of ciptdoor play In, winter air, which in the northern states dm
day they make a trough along the
eats planned under the Weeks law were dlscuased by Dr. H. L. K. Shaw, Ing winter Is often ^old air. Is the be»
aides of the track with their picks and
During the past 13 years only a lit consulting pediatrician of the state and surest cure for tuberculosis No-
when they return the next morning the
tie over 2.500,000 acres have been pur department of health. In a talk broad this fresh air sentiment has extends
trough Is filled again level and solid
chased. The 1 lie lands available for cast recently from Station Will at beyond the needs of the consumptlv
national forest purposes In the South Schenectady. Doctor Shaw believes to the homes and to the school» for them to dig up—a furrow that is
are especially suited to the production that children nee«! to get outdoors I. School authorities recognize the nee* never finished.
Scars “Heal" by Night.
of timber. A similar condition exists winter even more than In summer ow for fresh air, but unfortunately on a<
"Like the Burning Bush, the lake
in the lake states. Thia region has ing to the fact that they spend so count of lack of space In the city
seems never to be consumed, and like
contributed most of the timber for much time In crowded schoolrooms schools only a relatively few chlldre!
are afforded the advantages of ope
the daughters of Danaus, who had to
the development of the great agricul and overheated homes.
tural belt of the Middle West, and It
••Thvrt* was 11 widespread belief not air classes. These are generally re catch water in a sieve, the men never
see the results of their labors. At
la stated by frlenda of the new bill so many yean, ago," said Dr. Shaw, stricted to children who are unde-
night a great gully runs across the
I
that this region, under wise manage “that cold air and night air were In nourished, debilitated or diseased
ment. can '-e made to do Its part In jurious to health and were to be has been definitely proved that chi
forest restoration. A system of na avoided. Many iwople used to follow dren who attend these open-air class,
tlonal forests encircling the larger cen the example of the bear and the wood or who study In well-ventilated scboo
ters of population and utilising areas chuck, who crawl Into their holes and rooms are better scholars, more ale
adapted only for the production of tim
sleep all winter without fresh air. and show better powers of concentr
ber should be effective as demonstra
Uon.
• “You should urge your child by e
ample and precept to love the open ।
the winter. Outdoors in winter offei
Just as much fun as in summer and >
Just as comfortable for the child, pr*
vlded he Is dressed for the part. I
the cold weather it Is not necessa1
to be overclothed and overburden»
wlth outside coverings. Do not dre-
your child as though he were going
the Arctic regions In search of tb
North pole. Comfortable mittens f>
the hands, ears protected and f>
kept warm and dry are the eswn't ■
points for winter outdoor dress. F.x«-
cist, whether playing, running o
walking, keeps the body warm an
brings a healthy glow to the skit
Rain or snow will not harm you
child, provided he 1s properly dress
and protected. There Is a real <■'
hllaratlon In walking In a ralnstorn
the raindrops striking the face are
wonderful tonic for the cotnplexlo-
Walking briskly In the winter Is ex
cellent exercise, but it Is not popub
with the ordinary school child; It
too much like work and he sees no fu
In It. Do not let your child be a ’«I
by-the fire.'"
WATCH BACK AFTER
STRANGE TRAVELS
Forty Millions
Asked for Forests
Winter Sports
Health Builder
Farming in New York City
Right in the Bronx, New York city, surrounded by a
™ *t>v^l
one million. Frank Zavlstoskl of 664 Sherman avenue makes his living by real
farming as he has for the past 20 years. All about him are lofty apart-
m nt houses but he refuses to move from his farm of four acres, which is a
part i t h"
estate. He is shown above with bls family and his horse.
a X
Youth Hid Money
While in a Daze
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Messenger, Who Lost Mem
ory, Faked Robbery.
Many Japs in Hawaii
Here In shown the new Worthington double-acting two-cycle Diesel en«ln*.
described nt a recent meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engi
neers ns one of the most advanced steps In modern engine construction. It
has lust completed a 30-day test and Is said to hold revolutionary possibilities
for ImXn merchant ship, by giving perfect performance with .weight re
duction of almost 100 per cent per volume of horse power delivered.
Honolulu.—A total of 1.265 Amer
can citizens of Japanese ancestr
registered as voters In the terrltorlc
election in the last fiscal year, accor
Ing to Gov. Farrington's report •
Secretary of the Interior Huhe
Work. The number of American clt
zens of Chinese ancestry who régi»
tered was 1.840.
Of the Japanese population o
125.368 In the territory. 66,647 wer.
born in the Islands, and are, there
fore, American citizens. Governo
Farrington said.
was sent to another bank with checks
and money. He failed to put in an
appearance at his destination and a
search was instituted. The messenger
was found in an outlying posfion ol
the city several hours later. He was
suffering from exposure and incoher
ently told a tale of being dragged and
robbed by three bandits in a motor car.
An old man, a woman and a youth, ac
cording to Ralph, were the bandits.
Memphis.—Police, as the public
prints have It, stay In a continual state
of perplexity from pondering over the
dark mysteries of crime, but members
of the Memphis force have an extra
wrinkle or two In their brows while
puzzling out the strange case of Steve
Story Stood Up.
Ralph, twenty, bank messenger.
Ralph, a messenger for the East
Police investigated and could find
Memphis Bank and Trust company. nothing to discredit the story told. An
investigation Into his habits and asso
ciates only confirmed the belief that he
never drank, smoked, gambled or kept
late hours. They accepted the state
ment.
A detective. In the rather far-fetched
hope that the youth might see and rec
ognize his abductors, had been riding
the messenger through the city In a
motor car, and, growing discouraged,
was taking him to his home, when
Ralph requested to be driven to a cer
tain street Intersection. The motor
car stopped at a vacant lot not many
blocks from the city’s principal busi
ness section. Alighting from the ma
chine Ralph, walking as a man in his
sleep, according to the detective, went
to a little patch of weeds and picked
up a little bundle that had been in
plain view of the hundreds who passed
the place every day. Ln the bundle
was the missing $10,000.
Has Dizzy Spell.
To police officials after the recovery
of the securities the boy said he was
seized with a sudden dizziness after
leaving the bank and that his mem
ory left him when he boarded a street
car. He remembered nothing more,
he said, until he found himself In the
outskirts of the city some hours later,
minus the money and securities In
trusted to him by the bank. He
frankly told the authorities he fabri
cated the story of the holdup because
he could not remember what be did
with the funds In his care.
“All at once what I did with the
rW.
money came to me when I was riding
in the motor car." be said. "1 told
the detective to drive me there for J
was afraid they were gone, and when
I found that they weren't, I told the
truth.”
Members of Ralph's family confirmed
his story he was subject to seizures,
resulting In fainting attacks and low
Architect's sketch of the Morrison hotel. Chicago, us It w*11 be "hen the of memory. Bank officials and an In
annex about to be erected Is completed. It will be 506 feet high, the a h«t surance firm accepted the messenger’s
bote) in the world. There will be 850 rooms In the new part and on the root 1 tale, and apparently there will be no
will be a steel and concrete bungalow for Henry C. Moir, president of t i
i prosecution.
hotel company.
Will Be Highest Hotel in World
Diesel Engine Does Great Work
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