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Pmrf 14 CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL LARGEST SEARCHLIGHT IN THE WORLD This, the largest searchlight to the world. Is the Invention of Elmer A. Sperry. It has 1.2S0.O0O.OO0 beam candle power, and Is so powerful that its rays will light cigarettes and melt lead at a distance of 12 feet MRS. LEEDS NOT ROYAL Recent Marriage to Christopher of Greece Did Not Give Her That Status. PRINCE RENOUNCES HIS RANK American . Woman's Only Title Now Is Countess Gluecksburg, Official Athens Gazette Says Similar Cases Recalled. New York. Cable dispatches from Athens effectively contradict the as sumption that Mrs. William B. Leeds, through her recent marriage to Prince Christopher, youngest brother of for mer King Constantine of Greece, ac quired the status of a princess of the blood and the title of "Eoyal High ness." The latest Issues of the Offi cial Gazette of Athens publish an an nouncement by the Hellenic govern ment. In the name of the crown, that mnce Christopher, before he married Mrs. Leeds, was obliged to renounce his rank as a prince of the sovereign house of Greece and his place in the line of succession to the throne. The renunciation automatically erased his name from the official roster of the princes and princesses of the royal nouse. Renounces Danish Rank. Nor waa this the only renunciation that the prince was compelled to make In order to obtain the consent of his brother, the present King Alexander, ana tbe consent of the Hellenic gov ernment. He was a royal prince of Denmark, and he was obliged to re nounce his Danish royal rank and his place in the line of Danish succession. His father, the late King George, assassinated at Salonika In 1913, was a prince of the reigning house of Den mark prior to his election to the throne of Greece. He was so appre hensive as to the tenure of his king ship In Greece that he required the protecting powers, Great Britain, France and Russia, to guarantee him an Income of $80,000 a year as long as he lived, and to permit him to re tain his royal rank and status In the house of Denmark. All of his sons and grandsons continue, therefore, to rank as princes of Denmark, all ex cept Christopher. The king and gov ernment of Denmark agreed to give ALL GERMAN SHELLS LEFT All that German shell fire left of a church In northern France was this font, about which, In the deep grass, a family is shown, gathered for the baptism of a child. , PRINCESS Finds $1,200,000 Order; Returns It; Reward of $2 New York. Harry Hahn. seventeen years old, stepped on a piece of paper on lower Broad way. He picked It up and found that It was an order on the Bank of Montreal to give the bearer $1,200,000 In raftroad bonds. The boy returned It to a brokerage firm and received a reward of $2 and the Infor mation that he was an honest lad. their consent to the marriage only af ter this further renunciation. According to the Official Gazette, the former Prince Christopher was re warded for the various surrenders of royal rank with the consent of the kings and governments of Greece and Denmark to the union with Mrs. Leeds and with the rank of count In the Danish nobility. His title Is now Count Gluecksburg, and that is the GERMANY SWEPT BY CRIME WAVE Burglars, Holdup Men and "Aris tocratic Swindlers" Are Reaping Harvest. MURDERERS ALSO ARE BUSY Cafes and American Bars Are Resorts for Pickpockets and Thieves Smashed Skulls an Everyday Oc currence In German Capital. Berlin. Berlin Is being swept by a crime wave such as perhaps no city In Europe has known In modern times. A German minister remarked a few days ago that profiteering now is hard ly considered a crime, and that If It were possible to tie every profiteer In Berlin to a lamp post there would not be enough lamp posts. However, It Is not alone the profit eer who holds Berlin In his Iron grasp. Equally menacing Is the daring bur glar who will not stop even at mur der; the outlaw who defies the law and all authority and who holds up men and women In the street or In the road; the so-called "aristocratic swindler," who, with an Imposing title and a female companion, preys on the stranger and finds his victims In the expensive hotels and restaurants. It has been remarked truthfully that It would be difficult to recall in mod ern history a happier hunting ground for cutthroats and rogues than Is the German capital. Indeed, life here has reached such a state of insecurity that It now takes much to shock or even cause a thrill of interest among the people, so accustomed have they grown to murders and robberies and unnat ural crimes. Nails Children In Barrel. Many of these crimes which are be ing committed In Berlin are unexDlaln- able from human standpoints. For instance, a case was reported where two children remained away from their home too long on the occasion of their mother's birthday. When they returned home their mother dragged them to the garret, thrust them Into a barrel and nailed down the cover. Another case was that of the murder of a feeble and aged fortune teller for the sake of a few coins which she had saved. I Device Shoots Words as Gun Shoots Shells London. In a smnll nmin at the Imperial College of Tech nology, Soiilh Kensington. Prof. A. O. Rnnklne Is perfecting nit Instrument which shoot mea snges as a gun shoots shells. A person talking Into a t rum pot attached Jo a minute mirror reflecting a strong light cnn send a message to any distance reached by the light without fear of the words being Inter cepted, It la said. The words sokcn can lo heard distinctly half a mile nwuy and are transmitted through projectors to nil electric battery uttached to a piece of selenium fitted to an ordinary telephone receiver. The larger the receiving battery the great er distance can the message ho sent. only title that the former Mrs. Leeds may lay claim to. She Is- nut a prin cess of either Greece or Denmark, and on her appearance1 at any mon archical court would have to he con tent with the title of Countess Gluecksburg. A Similar Case. A former Instance of similar renun ciation occurred when Prince Aage of Denmark, eldest son of Prince Waldo mar and of Princess Mario of France, married the daughter of Count Calvl dl Bergolo, minister plenipotentiary of Italy at Copenhagen. He was not permitted to marry the girl he loved until he surrendered his royal rank and right of succession and had ac cepted the rank of ordinary noble with the title of Count Rosenberg. Still another case was that of Prince Frederick of Schleswlg-llol-steln, who fell In love with Miss Mary Esther Lee of New York and was not permitted to marry her, as he did In 1864, until he had definitely renounced his status and prerogatives as a prince of the blood. Still another Instance was that of Duke Henry Borwln of Mecklenburg-Schwerln, who married the former Miss Elizabeth Prutt of Kingston, N. Y at Dover, England, In 1911. The marriage was declared Invalid In 1913 by the Supreme Court of the Grand Duchy because It was held that the duke had evaded and violated the laws of his country by marrying without official sanction. In all the long list of American women that have married foreigners of rank and title, only one, Miss Alice Heine of New Orleans, ever entered the royal circle. Her first husband was Armand, Due de Richelieu, and after his death she became the con sort of Albert, prince of Monaco, a ruling sovereign In his own right. The output of maple sugar In the province of Quebec Is about 15,000,000 pounds a year. - In the midst of the dally and night ly holdups and the murder wave which Is sweeping Berlin there wns one case which attracted wide attention be cause of Its horror. It was known as the Falkenhagen Forest murders. The murderer when he was arrested was unable to remember all the murders he had committed or his outrages on lnnnocent persons. In one Instance he locked his victims In a house and set fire to It, meanwhile shooting Into the house while It burned. The exploits of the Strauss brothers was another case which attracted wide attention here. Before the war these two men were burglars. One of them Interrupted his criminal career to fight for Germany. He won the Iron Cross, but as soon as hostilities ceased returned home and Joined his brother In the old pursuits. Finally they were arrested, but one of them manuged to escape from prison. Frees Brother From Jail." He soon returned to the Jail, how ever, overcame all opposition and re leased his brother, with the result that they went back to the business of robbery. A nationwide hunt for them followed. When the police lo cated them there was a battle In which two policemen were killed and two wounded, and the Strauss broth ers again succeeded In escaping. Finally they were arrested In the east end of Berlin. Almost dally one hears of some body's skull having been smashed "only a few blocks from where I live" or that somebody was stunned and rob bed "before my eyes." The police seem powerless to control the situa tion. The so-called "aristocratic swin dler" and robber Is reaping a harvest. He finds his prey usually In an Ameri can bar, becomes acquainted with the man he Intends to rob and offers him a "prepared" cigarette, which promptly blinds the victim. The thief then pro ceeds to pick his victim's pocket In a leisurely and dignified way. Street battles between robbers and persons whom they would rob are fre quent occurrences. In one of these battles in the Wedding district re cently two civil guards and a burglar were killed. On another occasion two parties searching for a thief fired on each other In the dark with fatal consequences. FROWN ON TOO MUCH LOVE Family Authorities In Japan Dlecour. age Anything Like a Surplus ef ' Conjugal Affection. The general rule of llfo Is that the woman stays when tier husband love her, but there Is one little country In the world where the women not In frequently are sent homo by their In laws because their husbands love them too much. "hat country Is Japan, we are told by Amos 8. and Snsatme Itcrshcy In their book on modern Japan. Thl paragraph, one of many Interesting ones on the Island kingdom, describes the particular condition which some times sends the little Jap wife back to her own people: "In considering the Japanese family one must bear In mind the complete absence of romantic love In marriage and the absence of romantic gallantry In the feudal code of the Samurai. If love develops during wedded llfo It must not appear In open denmnstra tlon, and whenever the demand of duty are pressing affection must be renounced for the higher duty. Indeed, It has not boon an uncommou occur rence for a wife to be sent home be cause her husband was too fond of her, as too much affection for a wife was considered a sign of weakness and demoralization In the husband, which might lead to neglect of other family obligations. Of loyalty and chiv alry there was plenty In Ilushldo or the Way of the Warrior but It was always between lord and vassal, nm; ter and servant, and never Included women, at least not during the last ten centuries." HARD TO GET CONDOR EGGS Only Seven Are Known to Be In Ex istence, and the Bird Itself Is Near Extinction. The Academy of Science In Phila delphia, some years ago, lost an egg. Presumably It was stolen. It was- the egg of a California condor, and worth a lot of money. Only seven eggs of that bird are known to exist In collections. It fre quents the most Inaccessible peaks In southern California, and hatches Its young at dizzy heights In rave In the faces of cliffs. Thus the task of pro curing an egg Is one Involving utmost danger. The species, a gigantic vulture, has been almost exterminated. Cattlemen and sheepmen poison carensses to de stroy wolves and bears; the condors cat the bait and die. That an ostrich egg may be danger ous, If overripe, was discovered a while ago by Doctor Bauer of the Smithsonian Institution. While he was boring a hole In one, It exploded, the flying fragments cutting him bad ly. The eggs of some orioles are marked with grotesque figures, often resem bling Chinese characters. Experts In oriental languages have on occasions been asked to read them, but no sat isfactory translation has been ob tained. Famous Egyptian Queen. ' Annies Nefertarl was the great an cestress of the N'ew Empire nt Thebes In ancient Egypt, 1700 n. C. This dy nasty, the elgtheenth, was that of the Thothmes' mighty warriors and build ers, and of the famous Hatshepsu Pharaoh, woman Pharaoh and dis coverer. On the rock-tablets of Mas sarah opposite Memphis on the Nile, and In the sepulchral chambers of the Theban Necropolis, this great woman Is remembered ns "the benutiful con sort of Aames." and as "the wlfo of the god Arnon" (Amon-Ra). On her head she wore not only the crown of Egypt united, but the vulture head dress signifying motherhood, for the "vulture" was the symbol of Mut, the second person In the Egyptian triad of gods at Thebes Anion, Mut, Khon su. Great Names Worthily Borne. Somebody of an Inquiring mentality and a good stock of patience hns been examining the personnel of the United States army and makes the Interesting discovery that whereas there was only one George Washington la the army of 1776 there were seventy-four George Washingtons In the army of 1917-1918. Two Ulysses S. Grants and five Ulysses Grants took the field against Prusslun lsm; and with them marched seventy nine Robert E. Lees, an Impressive tribute, by the way, to the enduring quality of the affection and admiration that the great southern general In spired, Lands In Texas. The federal government ' never owned any of the public binds In Tex as. It was a republic for some years before It entered the union of states. When It came Into the Union It was stipulated by Joint resolution of con gress, passed March 1, 18-15, that Tex as was to "retain all vacant and un appropriated lands within Its limits to be applied to the payment of the debts and liabilities of the said republic of Texas," etc. The state established Its own land office, made grants to railroads, etc., and made Its own set tlement laws. Study the Ten Commandments. In almost every part of the British empire provision Is made for children to learn the Ten Commandments In school hours. A New Zealand circu lar urges that a "knowledge of these laws Is In the Interests of character building and good citizenship, and Is also an aid to good government." IDEAS IN FROCKS Pannier Model Among Latest, London W.-iter Says. Style Is Declare ii to Be Decided De parture F -m Slim Outline of Cl.emlte Dress. Among tlM- new Idem In dress, which arc im appearing, Is the pan nier frock, writes n l-omlun rashlon rorreMjKindeni In the Christian Science Monitor. Ii Is ii decided departure from the sImi outline of the chemise dress, which tins been our great stand by for so long, (if roiirne, wo art- not going to wenr panniers In any literal sense of the word, but this new mode demands that we shall he draped or frilled or bunched at the bins In or der to obtain the new silhouette. Some of tho stlffer silks, printed or woven with little bunches of flowers of charming old-world design, are ad mirably suited to express this fashion ; and shot taffeta, which has been little used of late and which was In no way suitable for the long lines of the chemise dress, will again come Into Its own. Mttle kilted frills nnd ruches with frayed edges will take the nlare of fringe In tho way of trimming, and this should ho plenslng news, as most persons will agree that the fringe has been terribly overdone. Oultu tinv fringe mny still be used for edging frills, but the long shaggy kind, so strangely reminiscent of the cave- woman, which used to hang tho entire length of a skirt, has gone, let us hope, rorcver. A dress which showed one way of expressing the pannier style, wns mndo of taffeta, changing from peacock blue to old gold. The top layer of tho three- decker skirt flared more tlinn the others nnd was bunched up nt the sides. The bodice crossed over In front and fastened nt one side, show ing a llttlo vest of peacock blue nlnon, embroidered with a fine gold thread. Now, It Is obvious thnt this stylo of dress will not suit every one though Its "bunchlness" can be reduced to a mini mum. Also, It must not be Imagined ROBES FOR SLEEPING HOURS Light and Dull Garments, Latest Fashions; Different From Old Time Nightgown. Slumber robes light and slumber robes dull Is fashion's program for the present season. Very different, Indeed, from the old-time nightgown are the new robes for sleeping hours. From bluck to white, with all the colors between, Is the wide variety of colors one has to select from. Fine lingerie, batiste, French voile, crepe de chine, washable satin, georgette, chiffon and crepe de meteor are among the materials one finds for bed-time wenr. A dainty nightie that Is simple, yet effective, comes In white French voile, double crossed with rose. It is a sleeveless model shaped to a point on either shoulder and edged with fine filet edging. Tho bottom Is also shaped and Is cut up slightly at the sides. It Is finished with the filet, and shows bits of old blue ribbon both on the shoulders and bottom. To de fine an empire waistline there Is a row of beading with old blue ribbon drawn through. This delightful model also comes In white voile, with squares mnrkod In lettuce green and trimmed with pale lavender squrfres, or you may choose squares of orchid on a white back ground with light green ribbons. Bizarre slumber robes select black georgette crepe for their material and nne cnnntiny or Venetian lace for their decoration. Ono intniwi.,.. nightie" favors a deep yoke of tho lace, and accordion plaits on the lower Variation of Pannier Frock. (lint the one-piece dres Is going to disappear or become demode; It U far too useful anil convenient a garment for that, and It ran be Hindu with Just an Indication of the new outline In the way of n tendency to drupe slightly at the sides. Thu mat and skirt of (he more dressy or "dresMiimkery" order Is ! Ing rut rather on Louis XV Hues. Tim routs have a decided fullness over the hips, flaring over the narrow skirts, which, by the way, are not quite so narrow or quite so short a recently. The real talliiMiiiiile suits, however, pay no attention whatever ' to this change of outline, bul continue to be built on straight and narrow line. DOING SHOPPING FOR BABY Searching for Apparel for the Wee Tot Afford. Delight and Di version. The fascinating garments and other personal belonging provided for the wee baby and the buby of one or two Important years urn marvels of elfin daintiness thai lend a peculiar delight to baby shopping. Exquisite handwork Is lavished nn tho making and oruamentntlon of the wee baby's wanlrobo. Tiny tucks, hemstitching, feather stitching and needlework of all kinds with a very llttlo hand embroidery and lace dec orate tho small dresses, but ns a rule t lu-iio are very sparingly used, a re flucmcnt of simplicity being the 'de sirable end to attain. Th very first llttlo frocks are sim ply gnthered Into nn embroidered and lace-trlnnued neckband, but for later wear dresses are made with round, square or scnlloped yokes delicately embroidered and set on tbe frock with Valenciennes Insert Ion. While tho bottoms of the dresses are usually hemstitched innny nre fin ished with fine tucks and edged with Valenciennes either set on flat or edg ing a tiny ruffln, This rule of re straint In trimming Is occasionally broken In favor of beautifully em broidered christening robe which Is Intended to be worn only on Hint snd other state occasions and then to be carefully laid nsldo for sentiment's sake. HOME-MADE BOUDOIR PILLOW Decoration Easily Produced by the Matron Who Delights In Fsncy Needlework. This moon-slmpcd pillow of sheer est lawn Is but a trlllo for skillful fingers to fashion. A wreath of liny pink roses, cnught In four places by the Jauntiest of ilellcate hows outlined Combination of Frills and Bows. In blue, decorates the center. Tho frill of embroidered, lawn Is easily purchased by the yard, nnd Is an ex quisite finish for the frail boudoir pillow. The Christian Science Mon itor. 8mall Rings as Trimming. Small ring sewed on to blouses and frocks as ornaments are much In vogue. They are used Instead of bead trimming and sometimes In connection with strands of beads, the steel rings being very effective with steel beads Ii. strands. section. A bit of Chinese yellow cord lends nn attractive color note that gives tone to the somber black. For tho winter bride there was re cently designed a nightdress of peach colored chiffon, fine Inco and pale blue ribbons thnt wus exquisitely dainty. Straight and graceful It hung from lace shoulder straps. Tho ribbon was turned Into tiny forget-me-nots and laid across the breost. Iustend of the usual hem at the bottom, three rows of lnce ruffled Itself In true pettleoav style. Belts to Be Worn. Following their Introduction In plain, conservative styles, belts de signed to be worn by women with their coats or suits are now being de veloped In most novel not terns, tin. sides a vnrlety of lenthers nnd Imita tion leathers, stitching In different colors Is used to ndd to the attraction of theso articles. Designs ore nlso worked out by cutting the facing Belts of (ho sort described nre found on the majority of coats and suits selling to the populnr priced trade, and during the coming spring at least there Is promised more of a vogue for belts for women than for men. Fetching Danes Frock. A smart dance frock recently seetl was of pale pink taffeta with the drnp ery nt either side of the skirt arranged In a sort of Jabot effect, the taffotn be ing so cnught In ns to reveal a petti coat of silver lace. The bodice was of the silver lace over the taffeta. A sin gle panel sash finished the frock at tho back.