Brings Cold Water
to Tropical Coast
Battle of Concord Is Fought Once More
DID SHE KIDNAP HIM?
Humboldt’* Current C«u»e*
* Auto* Crash; He Sells
Climatic Paradoxes.
Other Fellow Policy
WuBhlngton. — The Huml ddt, or
Omaha.—Ornalia claims ths
Peruvian, current which ha* bathed
champion salesman of th* uni-
the tropical desert coast of Peru with
Icy water* and *o ba* given rl»e Io
John lloscnzwele, debonair
numerous climatic paradoxe*. I* re-
representative of a llfu Insur-
portiti i > bo changing It* courne,
anes company, was arrested on
A
working havoc to unlmal Ilf*.
a reckless driving charge, and
■teamer captain recently pamdng up
when taken to thu police slatlo*
the const report* that lie encountered
declared himself "happy to be
thousand* of dead bird* «nd fish In
arrested.” While beak Sergeant
the sea. Other report* state that re
Payne arranged Hosenswel*’*
gion* rulnle** for jear* ure having
bond the salesman lectured him
rain* und that river* have formed nl-
on the Importance of life In
night In the one-tiiu*
llloMt
surance, ami before lie was re
parched desert.
leased had Payne's signature on
A bulletin from the Washington
the dotted line. Now be'* wait
headquarter* of the National Geo-
ing to meet the Judge.
graphic society quotes a communlca-
Recently lifter a collision with
the society from It. E. Coker
Jackson Barnett, »event y-five-year-
another machine llosenzwcle ex
telling how I’eru's cold current has
old oil millionaire of Oklahoma ami
plained to the disgruntled mo
conditions along Hie coast.
* richest redskin In the world, with bls
"The Humboldt current, supple- * torist that It was a miracle be * wife, the former Anna Laura Lowe.
wasn't
killed
and
then
sold
him
mrnted no doubt by the upturning of ■
She Is suing the Creek Croesus to es
* a policy on the spot.
mnlnt*ln*
cold button)
tablish her claim to 1200,000 worth of
*
■taady course for thousand* of mile«,
s»*«*«««*»*»***«»«»*««*«** Liberty bonds. Barnett, through hl*
from Icy Antarctic latitude* to tin
guardian, avers the pretty Kanan*
equator," says the bulletin. "Thu* It
Ity of the aneli >betu* Is such that widow “kidnaped" him and lured him
I* that tropical shore* are bathed by
their number* nre still mid"talned. At Into marrying her. He accuse* her of
cold ocean waters, nnd. with thl*
being a "designing and unscupuloua
fundamental contrast, the stage Is set times greU urea* of Uie sea are made adventuress" and says the “gift” was
red
by
myriad*
of
small,
brightly
for an array of phenomena not fully
colored shrlmpllke Crustacea ; and the result of extortion.
paralleled In any other part of th*
these, too, play a part of Importance
world.
Fleas Cause Trouble
ns food for the fishes und birds.
Cold Current Prevent* Rein.
Akron. Ohio.— Because the flea popu
"Not _ll of the bird* nre of equal
"Only two event* In that Interesting
Importane, from th* commercial point lation In the neighborhood of the coun
serie* command oil” present attention
of view.
Indeed, three specie* vir ty d»g pound at the fountain park fair
These ure the absence of rainfall und
tually suppert the guano Industry at ground* Is so prolific, notice has been
the consequent accumulation, through
the preseat time the white breast served on the county commissioner*
ceniurlc* untold, of a mine of wealth
cormorant (gunnay), the big gray pell- by the Summit County Agricultural so
which might have been dissipated by cun. und the white-head gannet.”
ciety that the pound must be moved.
o few season* of rain.
‘•Guano, It will be understood, Is
primarily the deposit of fish eating -
birds, Into which may be mixed und
Incorporated-- In greater or less pro ,
portion—a variety of other rub- I
•tance*. such as the eggs ami ttodle*
of birds ami the d<posits and the
bodies of sentions. It mny be found
mixed ■ Ith gravel nnd sand In very
símil I proportion or sometime* to an
extent rendering It unprofitable to
extract.
The lines are full of grace and the
•"Peruvian guano’ I* practically New Di*covery Rivals Her
figure amplifies the beauty of the hu-
synonymous with nitrogenous guano
man form with fascinating charm.
Sister of Milo.
nnd bus lung been recognized a* the
The
face somewhat resembles the
best nitregenou* fertilizer that I*, ns
Home.—A new Venu* which may at Capitoline Venus and shows a Ilo-
n fertilizer of generally high nitrogen
value In which the nitrogen com tract the homage of the world away man beauty's facial contour with del-
pounds are found l> n condition most from the better known Venus de Milo, lente finesse.
now In the Louvre at Purl*, has been
“The Bl ashing Venus' " head 1*
readily assimilable by our plant*.
"Consequently, a peculiar Interest uncovered beneath the shifting sand turned slightly and gently bowed, por
traying the modesty the artist Intend
attaches to bird* of the Peruvian Is dunes of a north African desert.
It I* "the Blushing Venus," a ed to depict In hl* bashful subject.
lands, which have long served to aid
the world's agriculture. They nre th" charming, timid creature In stone that Two strands of hair hang gracefully
numerous sen f<MvI of the const, which has lain beneath the sands of 1 ripoll over each shoulder. One arm Is re-
find their abundant food In the ocean since Septi* Magna, the magnificent Inxed across the breast and the other
and make their nest* upon the Island* city of the Emperor Septimus Serve- hangs naturally. There Is a shrinking
rus, was overwhelmed centuries ago hunch In the shoulders, accentuating
or points of shore.
by the rolling dune* and disappeared the spirit of modesty. The arms and
Acre* of Fl*h.
legs are sculptured with delicate at
from sight.
“The peculiar climatic conditions
So alluring are the coy chnrms of tention to anatomy, with the right leg
previously mentioned offer merely the "the Blushing Venus" that the Italian slightly genuflected and
relaxed. The
proper environmental conditions for government plans to erect a hotel ut
left leg Is rigid and supports the
the preservation of the product, The the village of Homs, three miles dis
weight of the body.
primary requisite for abundant bird tant from the ancient city, to care
Find Other Art Works.
life Is the existence of n plentiful food for American nnd other tourists who
Beside the African Venus a winged
supply, and this Is found In the mny be lured to see n graven benuty
schools of small fish. culled linchó fit to alt beside the Capitolina Venus Victory was discovered, decapitated by
betas, that swarm Jn the Peruvian cur
the rough usage of time, but one of
or the Venus de Milo.
rent. There 'shoal*' of fish, acres In
the great examples of Greek art, nev
Status I* Intact.
extent, re often pursued In the wa
ertheless. The statue Is a life-size re
The blushing one equals. If It does
ter by bonltoes and other large fish,
production of Victory, a female figure,
while beset from the air by thousand* not surpass, the Melos Venus, which with folds of drapery hanging about It.
Is the standard of perfect feminine
of birds.
Hundreds of other statues have been
''Billions of pound.« of 3*h must be proportion. Unlike the famous slater, uncovered beneath the sand dunes that
la
Intact,
and
consumed each year by the bird*, be “the Blushing Venus" Is lotset, end cover the site of the former great city.
side* the Incalculable quantity de Its tinders declare It to be one of
voured bv other fishes ; but the fecund- the finest examples of Grecian art.
New Englander* celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, r*-
enacted those famous fights In vivid fashion. Above are seen the Minute Men rushing across Concord bridge in hot
pursuit of the British redcont*.
Blushing Venus
Found in Africa
• Strange Visitor From Honduras
Tells Age of Salmon
by Lines on Scales
Seattle, Wash.—Salmon nnd trout,
like rattlesnakes, have a way of tell
ing their age, according to John N.
Cobb, director of the college of fish
eries of the University of Washington.
"Every year adds a series of half
circles to the scales of trout and sal-
mon," said I >enn Cobb. "Each series
Is distinguishable from the preceding
ones by a line. The lines are similar
to those on a cross-sectlcn of a tree,
and the method of telling the age of a
fish is Ilkj that used by woodsmen to
ascertain ages of trees.
•‘Salmon reveal the amount of food
consumed each season. When salmon
have n good year with plenty to eat,
the lines are wider than in lean years.”
Experiment* are being conducted by
Dean Cobl in telling the uge of other
species of fish.
it************************;
* Cronies 30 Years,
They Die Same Day ;
C'dlllac, Mich.—They lived to- ;
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This nn mal, strange to northern climes, was found dinging to a bunch of
bananas upon arrival In Cincinnati from Honduras. It has been Identified
one of the Iguana family of lizards noted for Its beautiful Iridescent coat of
claws which enable It to cling to smooth surfaces nnd climbing walls, It*
green and gold
It Is almost 10 Inches long nnd has extremely long sharp
tongue Is tint and like Hint of a human. It has token up its new home at the
Cincinnati .Zoological gardens.
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getlier, died together and they * •
are to be burled together. Such ♦ ;
epitomizes the Ilves cf two old ■
cr nles, mill employees for the :
snme company for 30 years, who ;
are to be burled at one service
here, following their death* on
the same dny.
Frank Victor, fifty-seven year* ;
old, died on a Monday morning, :
and his roommate, Adolph Eric- •
son, sixty-three years old, died !
later the snme day. Each suc-
cumbed to pneumonia, following
an attack of Influenza.
They had lived together In the 11
tame rooming house for more n
than thirty years. Neither had
nny relatives tn this part of the > i
country.
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$3,688,873 Expended
for War-Torn Area
fype of service changed constant-
Committee r for L/evastatea Tbe
|y wHh
the
needi ot the
people.
The
first
task
was
emergency
France Reports.
/-
relief—to provide places to sleep,
Washington.—The final report of the food and clothing, to care for the chll-
activities of the American Committee dren, to resto.e the soli to production,
for Devastated France, Inc., covering | Then came a need for public health
the period from its establishment on measures, hygiene, physical education,
April 1, 1918. to the formal ending of agricultural aid, libraries, schools—a
Its work In the war-torn area* of service to meet the barest physical and
France on March 31. 1924. has Just spiritual necessities of a people who
been Issued. The report disclosed that were taking up life anew in a region
the committee received a total of $4,- ruined by war."
813.749 In cash and supplies and of
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The report
disclosed
that —
the -------
sum
this sum 76.85 per cent, or $3,688,873. of $204.741 was spent for educatlon-
was sent to France, or spent tn the al and children’s work, and that $87,-
United States for the benefit of France. 590 was expended In agriculture. For
In making public the report, llouget public health and nursing the sum of
D. Jenkins, executive vice president $11,670 was used, while In the re
of the committee, said that the prin habilitation and relief of villages $28,-
cipal services developed In France by 958 was employed. The committee
the committee had been taken over by spent $26,279 In the purchase of food
French committees. This step was in from the American army, and $3.000
line with the original policy of the or for church bells. Discussing the chief
ganization. which sought to reduce to a services which the committee estab
minimum the after-waste of war and lished and maintained, the report said:
"Transportation—In a territory where
Insure the continued effectiveness of
the work. Miss Anne Morgan, chalr- all normal means of transportation
man of the executive committee of the had bee* destroyed or disrupted the
organlzation, wrote a foreword to the whole service of the committee was
dependent on Its own transportation
report.
"The American Committee for Dev system. In order to accomplish this,
astated France," «he said, “has com 63 camions and camionettes and a
pleted its work. Its records show a repair «hop were maintained.
“Cor.struction—Obviously there was
total of more than $4,000,000 received
and disbursed.
The committee re an tmn. Hate need for building and re
garded Itself always as a trustee, re pairs. Sawmill, carpenters' and join
sponsible to Its donors and friends. To j ers’ shop- were established at Bler-
them It now presents this summarized ancourt. and employed an average of
statement of Its activities.
To the j 175 workmen; prisoners of wnr first,
thousands who gave so generously of and then needy refugees. In addition,
their means, their time and their repairs to buildings were made and
thought In order that Its purposes furniture manufactured for schools
might be realized, the committee ex and libraries. The staff also took on
private work at Hie rate of 300,000
tends Its deep gratitude."
francs a month, the profits going to
Established Forty-Five Canteens.
civilian relief. The business thus es
Even before the organization applied tablished was finally sold to a con
itself to the civilian problems of the tracting firm and the money obtained
war zone it was called upon to aid the was turned Into the promotion of the
military forces. In this work 45 can public health service.”
teens were established, and more than
Furnished Farm Implements.
SGO.Oqt) American and French soldiers
In the way of agricultural aid the
were served, and. In addition, six committee furnished farm implements,
women doctors and ten nurses went Ure stock, vegetables and seeds, dis
Into service In emergency hospitals.
tributing them below cost. Aban-
“In retrospect," said the report, “the
committee's program appears to have
been planned at the outset and car
ried through to the end. Actually, It
was forged on the anvil of demand.
Baby of 22 Months
Uses Four Languages
Seattle, Wash. — Not every i
* snlld of twenty-two month* can *
* speak one language, to say ♦
nothing of chatting In four. a
Little Kathleen Draper is al- *
*
ready a linguist and mixes *
* Dutch, Chinese. Malay and Eng-
list In a medley of baby talk
»
* and makes known her every *
wish.
Kathle^! was born in
Java, her parents arriving here *
on a business trip. Her linguis *
♦
tic efforts are not the will of par *
ent's ncr teacher, but were ab *
a sorbed from her environment of
a
a daily life.
doned farms were worked and syndi
cate and farmers' »co-operatives were
organized. Fifty-two tractors were
used in showing the farmers of the
Aisne more progressive methods, and
wheat from 125,000 acres was thrashed
at three central points. Under the
auspices of the ministers of agricul
ture and of education demonstrations
In American methods of canning fruits
and vegetables were carried on for
four years In 36 French departments.
Including more than 100 domestic sci
ence and normal schools.
"The Infant mortality,” said the re
port, “in the committee's region was
reduced to 24 per 1.000, less than 2.3
per cent. The infant mortality in the
entire Department of the Aisne was
87 per 1,000. and as a comparative
figure the rate for New York city In
1924, which was 6.8 per cent, might
be cited.”
Ship 6,000 Miles Out
Claims Sending Record
New York.—A long-distance record
for radio transmission from a vessel
at sea was claimed for the l,50O-wa:t
continuous-wave transmitter of the
liner Beb’enland. when the vessel re
turned to New York from a round-the-
world »voyage. Thomas R. Walker,
ship's radio operator, reported that he
exchanged messages with San Fran
cisco on January 27. when the Belgen-
land was at Shanghai. 6.000 miles
away. Communication was maintained
with San Francisco all the way from
Shanghai to Hongkong, he said.
AERIAL WINDMILL TO HARNESS
GALE FOR WORK ON FARM
LOOK OUT BELOW!
Photograph
shows a four-
thousand- pound
bomb such as was
used in the Joint
army nnd navy
maneuvers in Ha
waii.
Bombs of
this size, it is
claimed, will de
stroy an entire
battleship, if they
make a direct hit.
British Expect to Generate
Cheap Electricity.
London.—Having failed to achieve
nny world-beating records In aerially
racing the wind, John Bull Is trying
to harness the “blawsted" gale.
An "airplane windmill,” Invented by
a Berlin scientist. Major Bilau. is the I
backbone of the effort. A specimen of
this Invention and four other types '
have been erected on the hilly ground i
near Hurpenden, In Hertfordshire,
where the Oxford University Institute
of Agricultural Engineering has estab
lished a testing ground.
Englishmen have been so encour
aged by the results of the experiments
to date E at they already have visions
of huge economies and a brighter coun
tryside, through the cheap generation
of electricity.
It is believed that a windmill will
eventuate capable of operating all
of the plant of a large farm or of sup
plying all the needs of the average
village—lighting
the
streets
and
houses, and, perhaps, running Its
"movie" house. After the Installation,
It is thought, the cost of operation will
be almost nil. All the attention re
quired wdl be the visit of a man with
an oil can once a month.
The steel sails of the Bilau aero-
dynamo are mounted on a stout post
some thirty feet high. They give the
appearance of a greatly magnified air
plane propeller. Ths sails are so con
structed that suction Is brought Into
play to get every possible ounce of
turning power from the wind. As the
sails receive they set cogs In motion,
which operate a dynamo contained in
a balloon-like attachment • behind the
propeller. The current so generated
is carried by wires to the power sta
tion.
The testing station officials hare
found a machine of the older type
generates three-quarters of a kilowatt,
with the wind blowing at five miles
an hour. Under similar conditions,
they say, the Bilau machine is appar
ently capable of registering at least
five kilowatts, or roughly the equiva
lent of a seven horse-power motor.
Dick Turpin Capes
Cloak English Women
London. — The highwaymans cape
worn by robbers in the time of King
George I Is coming into fashion this
spring fcr women. Capes generally
are In favor, but the style made fa
mous by Dick Turpin, 200 years age
and other notables in the robbing
game have been particularly popular,
most ot them dipping far past the
waistline, many of them scallopwlse.
Among the first to follow this vogue
was Miss Ava Bodley, well known In
society, who was married recently to
Robert Wigram, secretary of the tfrlt-
ish embassy In Paris. Mrs. Wigram's
golng-away costume Included a cape
over a long coat, which matched a
pale mlgi onette green dress and green
felt hat.