KIEL NOW DESERTED; POMP ONCE REIGNED PANAMA CANAL IS NOW MAKING GOOD AMERICAN TO STUDY RICHEST OF MINES "Big Ditch’* Earn» «18,000,000 Defeat Most Clearly Shown in Once-Famed Port. Klei, Germany.— Nowhere would Ilie kuleer, were he to return to hla country, find u more poignant con- treat between the present and the past than In Kiel. William II was the creator of thia powerful naval fuatnean, with Ila huge docks and all the uppurntua of ship building and repair. He was the builder of the foruildulde fortlticu- thma defending the aeu approaches. This was the acene of some of his great niotnents when as commander In chief of the fleet, he steamed Into the harbor us rounds of applause poured from dozvns of guns. All la Deaarted. Today the harbor looks empty, The forts are partly dismantled. The na val academy Is closed. The castle In which 1'rlnce Henry, the kulaer'a brother, lived la un office building. The yacht clubhouse, presented by the elder Krupp, la now a sclentine Institute. It was there the kaiser, surrounded by hla admirals and gen erals, made many un utterance that caused flutters In foreign chanceller ies. Everywhere are suggestions of decay mid neglect and change. The kaiser baa not been here since that afternoon of June 28, PJI4, when he was occupied with arrangements respecting the regatta. An aid de livered a dispatch, saying that Arch duke Frans Ferdinand and hla wife had been aaaaaalnuted at Sarajevo. "Now, I must do everything over again,'' were the emperor's first words. Flags were ordered half-mast. He terminated the regatta, sent messages to Winston Churchill, who was on an English boat In the harbor, to the prince of Monaco on hla yacht and to others Invited to dinner that eve ning, composed a telegram to Frans Joseph, and took a special train for Berlin. Prince Henry colnes to Kiel occa sionally but not often since he left It In a closed automobile flying a red flag when the revolution broke here tn the early days of November. 1918. This manner of leaving la the subject of adverse gossip among the towns people. They say also that hla demo cratic manner which made him a pop ular personage Ims changed; that he Is now distant, brusque, somewhat bit ter In speech. The prince Ilves on hla estate, Heinmrlanmrk. near Ecken- foerde, not fur from Kiel. The sailor- prince bus become greatly Interested In hla farming and stock raising and shows hla visitors tine cattle with as much pleasure ■■ he formerly took In the equipment of bls flagship. Flag Hauled Down. The war appears to have placed the United States rather outside the prince's sympathies. An American yachtsman living In Hamburg, who is a member of the Hanas Yacht club, after the treaty of |>euce was signed, flew the American Hug almve the Hansa pennant, having first obtained n letter of assent from the club's sec retary. Prince Henry was displeased and some of the club members ques tioned the propriety. The American explained that although the club au thorities had approved of the Amer ican flag, he would remove the Hansa pennant and hoist that of the Royal Banish club, of which he also was a member. That he did. Representatives of American auto- mohllo companies, members of the Hamburg Automobile club, were a lit tle annoyed Aver the prince's Insist ence In hla S|»»ech nt the opening of the new clubhouse, that good «¡er- mana should not buy foreign cure; that the money wenf out of the coun try and that German cars were all right. The prince at one time drove an American car. However, the prince 1s described ns having the most agreeable recollec tions of bls American experiences, of his cordial receptions, and of the suc- cesVul political effect, ns he believed, of his mission. Ship’s Doctor at Sea Aids Injured Priest Ashore Montreal.—The Increasing uses of radio were clearly demonstrated re cently. when the C. G. M. M. steam er Canadian Forester, by a constant Interchange of messag* s between the ship's doctor and a shore station, was able to render valuable medical assistant e to the parish priest of Clarencetown, Long Island, Bahamas. According to the story, us relayed to the Canadian Marconi station here, the Canadian Forester while nt sen received tin urgent call from sta tion GGM for tin- service of n doctor. There was no doctor on the Island, the message said, and the parish priest had fallen from a horse and Injured hla leg. The steamer carried a doctor, but It was unable to get to the Island, so the wireless operator wits directed to ask the shore station for further particu lars about the priest's Injuries and to stand by for instructions. A message soon came back to the ship that the pnrlshlonefti were standing by to ren der what aid they could. The ship’s doctor, standing beside the wireless operator, then gave the shore listeners definite instructions ns to how to pro ceed. A week Inter, ns the Canadian For ester was homeward bound, the doctor received a wireless message from the Bahamas informing him that the wire less prescriptions had been followed to the letter and that the patient was making satisfactory progress. for Government. Washington.—-With another good year's record In sight, the Panama canal has apparently reached a basis that will yield the United States gov ernment IIAXXMI.OOO or more each year. The steady growth of the *'blg ditch" joining the Atlantic and the Pacific, leads government officials to predict that It not only will pay for Itself hut also prove one of flie beat Investments of the government. With receipts for the fiscal year exceeding *19JMX)JIU0, the canal has two months to go to pass the 1925 tolls of 119,021,419.77. The Panama railroad, power plant, and other busi ness adjuncts also ure showing hand some profits. The cunal, following a period of un certainty after Its completion In 1914, now la earning money at the rate of J d per cent on the Investment. Most : of the funds with which the canal was built were derived from govern ment loans bearing 2 or 3 per cent Interest. The net cost of the canal and Its adjuncts Is figured at $200t«XX).0«X), and net earnings for the last two years have exceeded $15,«XJ0,(XM). In the fiscal year ending June 90, 1924, net revenues were mure than 917,000,- 000. The business of the canal has in creased ulxfold since the first fiscal year, which ended June 30, 1915, the net tonbnge Increasing from 8,792,572 to 22,855,151 tuns. American shipping has gradually taken first place In use of the canal. Purlug the first year American and British tonnages were almost the same. At present American tonnage Is more than double the.British. Tonnage of commercial vessels of the largest users of the canal during the last fiscal, year were: United States, 12J771,487; England. 5.949.391; [ Japan. 823.809; Norway, 072,003; Ger many, 723.007. DR. T. MICHELSON Mexican Wealth Producer Over 400 Year* Old. Washington.—The mines which gave their wealth of gold and silver to the Toltecs of Mexico whw the Span ish conqulstadorrs discovered them 400 years ago, and which have pro- due«*! unceasingly since, will be In cluded In a mineralogical survey on which a Hmlthaonlan geologist left Washington recently. Dr. W. F. Foiling, assistant curator of mineralogy and petrology In tbe National museum under the Hmlthso- nlan, will make the survey under tbe auspices of the Institution and of the mineralogical department of Harvard university. He will go to Chlhunhua, Durango and Coahuila nnd other Im portant mining regions of northern Mexico, us time permits. In spite of the great age of and great wealth produced by Mexico's mines, no one has ever described the mineralogy or geology of the region. Even collec tions are rare. Doctor Foahag will help to remedy thia lack. Richest In World. The richest sliver mines In the world are at Guanajuato, 12 hours by rail from Mexico City. In histor ical times It has produced nearly a billion dollars’ worth of metal. The Comstock lode In Nevada, which was the richeat de|>oslt In the United States, produced $340,000,000 In tbe 30 years of operation. The great main shaft upon the Vets Madre vein at Guanajuato la one of the mining wonders of the world. It is 80 feet in diameter and 1,700 feet deep. To the depth of ¡100 feet It la Hued with masonry, but for the re mainder of tbe distance the rocks are firm and do not require timber ing or masonry. Tbe reason for the great width la to permit eight or more windlasses to be worked at once. Until comparatively recent years these greut mines had no machinery. Even the water was baled out of the ahafts In cattle skins to be dumped. Production has therefore been slow, which accounts for the long centuries of operation. Discovered by Convicts. Two escaped convicts discovered the Santa Eulalia mines in the moun tains south of Chihuahua, where Doc tor Fosliag will go first. In 1798. Not daring to return lo civilization, they sent Indian carriers to a priest with fhe request that he Intercede with tbe government in their behalf. They promised tbnt if allowed to go unmo- tested they would build the “finest cathedral In the western hemisphere." The bargain was struck und Chihua hua cathedral Is the result—admit tedly one of the finest specimens of 'Spanish-American architecture In ex istence. Imctor Foaling has an Invitation from the governor of Durango to make hfs survey of thut state and has been promised aid In getting collections and Information. He will Inspect par ticularly the large gold, silver, copper and Iron mines, und possibly the opal and tin mines, studying modes of oc currence of the ores, minerals In the ores, and. If possible, how they were formed. Dr. Truman Michelson, of the bu reau of ethnology of the Kinlthsnn- Offers Timely Safety Inn Institution, whn him left Wash Hint* for Swimmers ington for the Fox reservation at Chicago.—Some timely safety sug Tama, lown, to study the old 1'ugan gestions for swimmers are contained rituals of the Fox Indians. In a bulletin Issued by the National Safety council, which says: Gorillas Seize African Don't swim if you have heart Women; Troops on Trail trouble. It Is advisable never to go In swim Madrid.—A Spanish military expe dition under the leadership of (¡eneral ming alone. If you are tired or overheated don’t Munex de Prado, tracing the frontiers of Spanish Guinea In Africa, reports go in the water. Wait at least two hours after eat that large bands of enormous gorillas ing before going swimming. are terrorising the natives. Dive only where you have accurate Above the cataracts of the Benito river near Otucho, the gorillas have knowledge of the depth of the water. Swimmers should not become ex raided the villages nnd have captured native women, whom they nre keep hausted. If you have overestimated ing prisoners In the dense Jungles your strength, rest on your back until you 6*1 strong enough to swim ashore. around the town. Do not struggle If caught In n swift Nightly the women's screams nre heard by the villagers, who are afraid current or undertow. The force of the current will bring you to the surface to seek to rescue them. The general announces he Is pre and then you can work in toward paring an elaborate military expedi shore. Be sure to learn the prone pressure tion to rescue the women ami to kill or to capture the gorillas who ulso method of resuscitation. Be capable of applying first aid methods to people are devastating the plantations. The Spanish gvvvernment Ims In who have been apparently drowned. structed the lender to capture the gor illas alive wherever possible for re- Gwinnette Signature f ,earch on the Voronoff gland experi Sells for $19,000 ments. New York.—A promissory note signed by Button Gwinnett, signer of Breaks Precedent Boston.—The Hub has broken an the Declaration of Independence from other precedent. For the first time In Georgia, was sold for $19,(X*> nnd a Its history, a woman. Miss Myrtle C. cut signature of the same patriot, Dickson, has been appointed principal detached from a memorial In support of a colonial political candidate, of a high school. brought $10,500 at the Anderson gal leries. The two specimens were part of the historical library of Dr. George * Russian Women’s Feet * C. F. Williams of Hartford. Dr. A. S. Rosenbach purchased the * Lost in American Shoes * document, bearing one of the finest ? Moscow, Russia.—Twenty-five * examples of the signature. Tbe price * thousand pairs of American * was $3,500 less than the same buyer J women's shoes recently shipped * paid last January for the Gwinnett * into Russia have proved unsal- * signature from the Col. James II. * able because of their large sise. X Manning collection. The present clear * Next to the Japanese nnd * and forceful signature was appended * Chinese, the Russian women * to a note for 14,305 pounds made out * have the smallest feet In the * by Gwinnett to John Neufville, of * world. The 25,000 pairs of dis- * “Charles Town," 8. C. * carded shoes will he shipped * * Into Finland, whore the women * Buys Napoleon’s Hat * are said to have considerably j Faris, France.—One of Napoleon’s * larger feet thpn their Russian * famous cocked lints hns been sold at t cousins. auction for 45.000 francs. The pur t* X ************************ chaser Is the'prince of Monaco, ************************** CERAMIC EXPERTS OLDER NEW YORK REPORT FINDINGS BEGS FOR LIFE —........... * Seeks to Preserve Charm of ■ Research Will Be Boon to Manufacturer*. ‘ • • • Washington Square, Urbana. III.—Unaffected by world fame that has come lo their university with the discovery of Illinium, newext of chemical elements, students and professors engaged In research at the University of Illnols are carrying on with tbe same painstaking spirit Two of them. Prof. Cullen W. Par melee and Pierce Vf. Ketchum, gradu ate assistant, both of the department o*» ceramic engineering, have an nounced some Interesting findings, fol lowing Investigation into tbe txans- locency of porcelains, that are ex- pected to prove of practical value to manufacturer.» of art and table ware. The object of their Investigation, Professor Parmelee said, was to ac quire additional knowledge 'of the na ture of translucency together with a satisfactory means of control and measurement; this knowledge, he said, would be of valss Ln many kinds of ceramic work. "While* It Is true,” he added, “that translucency In art and table ware Is valuable to the purchaser only from an esthetic standpoint, to the manu facturer ft determines the price which can be obtained for his product. “Translucency is a property of por celains which lends itself «mslly to visual measurement. A trained ob server can distinguish between two pieces with only small differences in Home of Coopar. The Rhinelander* home has been translucency by holding the fingers converted Into an apartment building. between a piece and a lamp and not Johnston's granddaughter. Mrs. Rob ing the clearness of the shadow pro ert De Forest, resides in his old home duced. “The degree of translucency of any at No. 7. William Draper, who made the first piece must be determined by the char image of a human face on a photo acter, amount and distribution of the graph, and S. F. B. Morse, who de minerals which make up the body. veloped the telegraph, were faculty Porcelains consist of quartz particles members of the New York university, Imbedded In a fused matrix composed whose old building stood Ln the square mainly of feldspar, together with granular and crystalline mullite. many years. “Among others, the following con A No. 1 Fifth avenue. Is a three- story brick house, which once was clusions were reached: Translucency Miss Lucy Green's private school for Is not Inversely proportional to the girls. On the faculty were Elihu Root, thickness of th® specimen; in bodies then a bashful young man; Lyman composed of clay, feldspar and flint, Abbott. John Flake and John Bige those with the highest feldspar con low. tent have the highest translucency and Mark Twain and Washington Irv those with the highest clay content ing lived at No. 27, which now Is a the least; Increase of burning tem lodging bouse. Richard Watson Gil peratures gives Increase of translu der. editor of the Century, and T. B. cency, and the fine grinding of bodies Aldrich, tbe poet, also lived in the gives a striking increase in trans neighborhood. President Tyler mar lucency at the temperatures used." ried Julia Gardner In the First Pres byterian churgh at Twelfth street BEST YOUNG ORATOR The first big town house of Com modore Vunderbllt was between Greene and Mercer streets. Just off the square, where business buildings now stand. New York.—Hidden away In Wash ington square—one of the last old residential sections of Manhattan— are many places of historic Interest which are fighting to retain their ori ginal state. Skycrapers of near-by streets rear their beads Into tbe clouds around tbe square, but until a few months ago none dared an invasion. Now Its resi dents and those of Fifth avenue, which begins at the famous Washington arch and Is known as the child of Washington square, are seeking a xon- b‘g law amendment to save the cen ter’s quaint cliarm. , Early In the 1830s John Johnston, a Scotchman who lived In. Greenwich street, began looking for a placg to build a new home and selected the square. He and several friends built a block of houses running from the northeast corner of Fifth avenue to University place, and for this reason ths Washington Square association credits him with being the founder of the center. Later, William G Rhinelander of ths famous New York family, built bls home on the opposite side of the ave nue, facing the square. These resi dences of the Georgian style of archi tecture still stand, though changes have been made in some of them. Paris Police Now Use Radio in Their Work Paris.—The Paris police force has for some time employed radio as an auxiliary weapon for bringing law breakers Into line. Wireless has taken a still more Important part In the po lice system since the new prefect came Into office. The detective force of the Seine department, wherein the capital Is sit uated, now has made special provision for the newest type of radio apparatus to be Installed, and efficient operators are on constant duty. The new system set up In the Palais de Justice, the vast pile of court buildings on the banks of the River Seine, which flows through the heart of Paris, com prises a central receiving and trans mitting station, four transmitting re ceiving stations mounted on specially built automobiles and two ambulance stations. The power employed on the transmitting side Is about 50 watts. With the new Instrument only a couple of seconds nre required In or der to get Into working trim, where as with the older instruments some twenty minutes were necessary ere a message could he sent. A fine per manent aerial Is In use and In the police garage nearby In the transmit ting room is another auxiliary aerial system. The four mobile stations have the flat type of aerial, which can be raised over tbe car roof, thus permitting communication with beadquarters while the brigade Is on the move. A loud speaker is also attached so that the operator need not sit all the time with the head phones on. Woman’s Speech Restored by Visit From Sister Corning, N. Y.—Tbe shock of see ing a sister front whom she had been separated for 45 years, restored speech to Mrs. Betty Lundgren ‘of this city, who in consequence of two paralytic shocks, had been unable to talk. 'When Mrs. Lundgren met her sister, Mrs. Anna Rloomquist of Chicago, she was so startled that she began to speak. Her restored speech is nearly normal. *************************£ * Lock* Cemetery Gate* * * to Keep Out “Petter*” * * J * $ * * * Sc * * * ♦ $ Concord, N. H.—Because "pet- ters” Infest Blossom Hill ceme- tery, near here, the gates will be locked each day at sunset, Fred Hammond, superintendent. hns announced. Motorists thought nothing of cutting across graves nnd rip- ping up the turf nnd flower beds, it Is chnrged. Hourly vis- Its by police did no good, Mr. Hammond asserts. ? J * * * * * * * * * * ************************** Herbert Weuig, seventeen-year-old high school student of Hollywood. Calif., who woe first place in the third annual national oratorical contest In the Washington auditorium. Seven students, the pick of 2.000,000 all over the United States, took part In the finals, which were judged by (?hlef Justice William Howard Taft and four of his associates on the Supreme Court bench. A cup was presented to Wenlg by Vice President Dawes. He Cured Seven Leper* by Freezing Their Germ* Berlin.—A new treatment for lep rosy has been devised by Prof. S. Paldrock of the University of Dor- pat, Esthonia, who, in an article in the German Dermatological Journal announces that after many years’ ex perimenting lie has succeeded in killing the leprosy germ by means of freezing. Carbonic ncld "snow" was applied to diseased tissues with the result that of sixteen patients treated, seven al- readly have been discharged as wholly innocuous to society, tbe article said. Specialists here regard his discovery as of momentous importance. Bottle Takes 10 Month* for U. S.-Ireland Trip New York.—A corked bottle bum|H'd ashore and lay on the sand at Creven shore. County IXmcgal. Ireland. William Dawson, resident of Inver bay, County Donegal, hap pened to pass that way. He found a scrap of paper, slightly damaged by moisture, in the bottle. It bore nn Inscription, John Scott, Jr., of New York, also a request to return the bottle to an address in New York. It has since transpired the bottle was thrown from the steamship Manchuria off the coast of Florida July 19, 1925, and took lt> months to reach Ireland. 4.0>0 miies away. ANCIENT ATHENS TO YIELD UP SECRETS American Scientists Asked to Direct Explorations. Washington. —- American scientists have been Invited to direct explora tions of (he Agora at Athens, proba bly the richest prize of archeology in the world today. Tbe plan calls for an etcurslon Into the real estate busi ness to replace tbe confiscated homes by dwellings in some other sector of tbe city. Although England, France. Italy, Austria and Germany have had ar cheological “ambassadors” in Greece for years, they have all graciously stepped aside for the American scien tist* “The Agora was to Athens what tbe country crossroads general store, with its flour-barrel rostrums snd soap-box philosophers Is to Bird Center,” says a bulletin from tbe National Geo graphic society from its beadquarters in Washington, D. G “The Agora Is Important because it is the most fa mous market forum in the world. "When one thinks of Athens, one thinks of the Acropolis. But the A- cropolis on Its nature-made 250-foot pedestal of limestone rock, was Ath ens' sanctuary, its church. A tourist, in tbe days of Herodotus, the traveler, went to the Acropolis. But an Athe nian went to tbe market place, the Agora, where he could buy flour and olives, Hymettlan honey in lieu of sugar, and currants from Corinth. Or he tarried and listened to homely snub-nosed Socrates standing In an arcade confusing an Athenian by a few cleverly selected questions. "Athens today is estimated to have a population larger than it ever sup ported at the peak of Its power. To tbe 298.000 residents of the Greek cap ital there can be added quite properly the 133,000 population of Piraeus, port of the city. Athens and Piraeus are less than five miles apart and there fore bear the same relation to each other as Los Angeles and San Pedro harbor. Fortunately modern Athens has not bitten deeply into the sacred ground of old Athena. A View From the Parthenon. “There will be much In the news papers and magazines of the excava tions In the Agora during the next fifty years. Imagine that one has climbed to the Acropolis and that one Is sitting on the southwest corner of the Parthenon with feet dangling over a mellowed marble foundation block. “Directly south will be Piraeus, on the Gulf of Aegina, and tn the mind's eye one may exchange the liners and sponge boats at anchor for Greek gal leys. A straight, smooth, macadam road shoots north out of Piraeus, but its destination is seen to be west of the Acropolis rock. “Directly west of the Parthenon gallery seat, about the distance of two blocks Is tbe Aeropagus or Mars hill, second in height to the Acropolis. “Crowding up on the north flanks of these three hills, Theseum, Mars and the Acropolis, Is modern Athens. The closest quarter Is a hodge-podge of dwellings and bazars. It is the old Agora, and a market today Just as It was in Athen's youth. “Sprouting among churches, dwell ings and stores, one can see a few remnants of ruins that have been un earthed already. By agreement, all the modern stores and homes must go. The archeologists will peel back the new to discover the ancient Present «xfcupants most take new homes or stores In modem Athens. “Continuing the panorama to the north one sees this modern city occu pying the whole enp of the plain en circled by the Acropolis, Mt. Lyca- bettus and Mt. Hymettus. An Athenian “General Store.” “Excavation of the site of an Ameri can crossroads store two thousand years from now would not reveal much. Although the Agora is by com parison also a market and a political storm center, it was somewhat differ ent. In Its exterior design an Athe nian general store, called a ‘stoa.’ re sembled a modern bank; a row of substantial marble pillars marched across the front of it. There was an arcade between the pillars and the store counters themselves. And at the rear of the stores were inclosed warehouses In which goods was lock«*! at night. The front arcade was a so cial center. If an Athenian had a lit tle time to loaf he didn't take a bath like a Roman or play a round of golf like an American. He found a shady store front and talked politics. Ev erything was made convenient for loafing. Benches were.placed about. “Free entertainment awaited the Idler In the Agora arcades. Acrobats performed. Magicians swallowed swords. One such building had a res taurant where the thirty city council ors were given a free meal every day by the government. But above all. there wns talk and discussion and speeches. And out of this idler's par adise came the first and freshest school of philosophy the world has ever known. Ln the Agora. Solon posted his laws which earned the per petuation of his name In our word ‘solon’ for lawmaker. Here Demos- then«»« delivered the famous orations against Philip of Macedonia and gave us the word ‘philippic.’ There. So crates stood stock still for twelve hours or more, oblivious to the curious throng while he thought out a new principle of philosophy. There also was the headquarters of the Stoics from whom we have the word ‘stoic.’ “It was through the Agora that the sharp-tongued cynic, Diogenes, wan dered with a lantern, fruitlessly searching (or an honest tuun.”