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SUGAR ARGUMENT RETURNS TO PLAGUE Administration Now Proposes Duty Once Declared to Be - Burden on People. TREASURY "NEEDS MONEY" Words of Senator James in Favor of I'lacing Commodity on Free List IJecalled" Deficit Will Not Be Wiped Out. ORKGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash-Jngton.- Oct. 30. If Congress, at the behest of the President, repeals the free sugar clause of the Underwood tarif law, it will, according to no less JDemocratic authority than Senator James, of Kentucky, impose a tax of 7 on every American fami'y. and, ac cording to the same authority, will in crease the price of sugar to" the con sumer by- 2 cents a pound. Senator James led the fight in the Senate in the ball of 1913 for free sugar. He was the mouthpiece of the Adminis tration. If the arguments made by Senator James in favor of -placing sugar on the free list were true in 1913, they must be trtlA tnrim- unil ' ' - c . i. A, . ' w inu imngs then said by the Kentucky Senator ii,icic.MiOB reading, now that the Admitlitmtinn ni-nr,n,A . duty on sugar because "it needs the Senator Wants Whisky Duty.' At the time it was well understood that Senator James was in favor of free sugar because the Administration opposed a reduction, of the duty on whisky, that prime product of Ken tucky, and in repayment for his fight for free sugar the Administration later aided Senator James in preventing the inclusion of whisky among the articles to be doubly taxed under the so-called war-tax" bill. In the Senate, on September 8, 1913, when Senator James- was attempting to read out of the Democratic party the two Senators from Louisiana be cause they were opposing free sugar, the Kentucky Senator said: The Senator from Louisiana tells.us that $4 per family is all it will cost the people to have a tax on sugar. This I deny. It will cost 7 per family per year. But suppose it cost only $4. Is that any justification for it? Can any mar rise in the Senate and say. -I want to take only a little money from each consumer.' and justify a wrong upon the theory that he only takes a little?" Money Aeeded for Treasury. Furthermore, it is recalled that Sen ator James, as presiding officer at the Haltimnm rnm-i.ni i . . 1010 a - . 1,, -1 . 1 , 1 1 1 rt u a speech, in which he touched on the v rueai. i Deiieve in free sugar," said Senator James on that oc casion. "It will save every householder in this country 2 cents on every pound of sugar." Now the Administration proposes to do away with free sugar, and, if Sen ator James is correct, proposes to tax every individual 2 cents additional on every pound of sjrar he consumes. Sta tistics show that the per capita con sumption of sugar in this country is 80 pounds per annum. This means, according to Democratic authorities, that the' Administration proposes to impose a tax of $1.60 on each man. woman and child in the United States, in order not to wipe out the deficit in the treasury but to prevent the deficit from growing larger. WINES WORK FOR FRANCE Germans Killed 'While Drinking Liquor in Woods. NEW YORK. Oct. 22. "Even the wines of France are fighting against the invasion." said Aston Knight, painter, recently, in telling of some ex periences in the zone of operations of the Marne battles. He related the ex perience of a friend, a. winegrower at La Fere Champenoise. with the Ger mans. Mr. Knight's friend, who is an officer of reserve in the French array, told his steward that when the Ger mans came he should open all the doors of his establishment to them. In one corner of his cellar he carefully walled up the best vintage wines. Then in an other corner he placed a great num ber of bottle of very inferior wine, and walled that up carelessly. He hoped the Germans would think there was valuable wine there, and. breaking down, the wall, look no further. The main part of his cellars he kept as usual. Only tell me." he said, "where the Germans go when they have gotten through with the cellars." The Germans came, entered the cel lars and began pillaging them. They took what they saw, hundreds of bot tles, without looking further, and left. The steward managed to get word to the owner, who, knowing the country, informed the nearest artillery comman der that he could probably get results tiy shelling a certain patch of woods Dear by. The goods were bombarded for an liour with shrapnel. Two days later, when the French retook La Fere Cham penoise, they found in the woods bodies of more than 3000 Germans, surrounded with the debris of the wine bottles. The vinter had been correct in his guess: the Germans had retired to the woods for a drinking bout and the French guns had caught them when they were helplessly intoxicated. DEATH PREFERRED TO KNIFE Woman I-caps From Hospital When Doctors Decide on Operation. NEW YORK. Oct. 25. Fearing to face an operation. Mrs. Jeanne Smith, 43 years old, a widow, chose death in stead, and committed suicide recently by jumping from the fourth floor of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children at 221 East Fifteenth 6treet. Mrs. Smith had been 111 for some time snd her nearest relative was an uncle. II. C. Gordon, in Huntington. V. Va. She was admitted to the hospital on Octoher IS suffering from a complica tion of organic troubles which made an operation likely to be necessary. She lived formerly at 45 Horatio street. REPUBLICANS EXPECT GAIN Oklahoma Man Says His State May Be Won in 1016. WASHINGTON. Oct. 30. That Okla homa may return a Republican plural ity in the next Presidential election was the cpiuion expressed by William H. P. Trudgeon. a banker and lumber man of Oklahoma City, who is at the fchoreham. "The Socialists are recruitintfiUaiost f-n t i rr 1 f ..I 11,11 tw . -1 , . , ------- - "-"I'l' 1 .1 1 adiu ,ur. rrudgeon. "Last year the Republicans lost the state by only 3500, a falling oft in the Democratic vote of 16,500 from the election of 1912. Before the annexation of the Indian Territory Oklahoma was Republican. The Demo cratic stronghold has always been in the southern part of the state and the majoritv in that section until the pres ent has alwr.ys offset the Republican majority in the north. The Socialist gains are principally in the southern part of the state and every new So cialist means one less Democrat. "There is much dissatisfaction among the business people with the Demo cratic state administration, which has driven capital away from the state. Had it not been for the war. which has created prosperity. Oklahoma would be in a poor way. But the war has prospered the oil industry and the farmers are getting top prices for their crops. The great cry is against the exorbitant taxes, which are eating up the profits of the farmers. "In Oklahoma and farther West the Republicans are beginning to take a lively interest in the candidacies of aspirants for the Presidential nomina tion. It has been my observation that ex-j,enator Burton has the best chance of capturing the Oklahoma delegations, as well as thn. nf ntns. ... ' Southwest. Senator vk. . good impression. The Republicans, lor the most n r, r-t l0j0, - . - ".i-ji.ii uitti uie next t"m must have two qualities first van ne elected and second that RUSSIA BUYS INSTALLMENT OK TRUCKS ABOUT TO BE One wonders what on earth any government can do with $13,000,000 o u.u,uu.iea w mis enormous amount have been furnished to Russia b newspaper man, in connection with his father. H. S Friede within the space of but a few short months Mr. Friede has tied up a turers for their entire output until the Fall, and is even now at work t , -., i manutaciurers nave been compelled to close up sh T iT . uccuueni naa Deen tied up by Mr. Friede. ment of the trucks, he has a day and night shift working on his piers, w rtaSS ? rD8,l!P1ent- He has his own woodworking plant,- with hand. The J. G. Brill Comnanv. the rhiirfci,i., ' , . t bodies for the trucks. Not an unusual sight is to see a dozen or so fre cars, going down the Hudson River larir, thai- . . ,. Friede is now arranging to ship navigation. he will protect business and we think Burton has both." GIRLS TOLD TO DRILL VASS.VR. STUDENTS HEAR ADVICE TO PREPARE FOR AVAR. Hardy Outdoor Life Declared Need of Modern Woman and Senti ment Is Rapped. NEW ORK, Oct. 31. "I never saw a man who wanted to trade places with his wife, but I've heard hundreds of girls wish out loud that they were men," Mrs. George Haven Putnam, a former associate professor in history at Barnard College, declared recently. Mrs. Putnam ha-d just returned from the 50th anniversary of the founding of Yassar College, where she had made a startlingly new appeal to the college women to stand ready to assume the manly art of self-defense, should ur gent need arise. "There are three . good reasons for a man's contented acceptance of his masculinity," Mrs. Putnam continued. "A man has a stronger physique, is a more powerful economic factor and has more nervous and emotional sta bility than a woman. There is no such thing as sex inferiority. But women must face these facts of masculine ad vantage if they ever realize a new and better democracy. "Girls have been taught for genera tions that it is feminine to shriek at a mouse. Instead , of that it's the height of the ridiculous. Women need to play dangerous sports in their youth. Girls should be taught how to handle a sun and they should get used to carrying one. They should be ready for any emetgency. "I even went further in my address at Vassar," said Mrs. Putnam. "1 de clared that a full oattalion of girls, physically vigorous. prepared and trained to fight and thoroughly armed, would be a great assets to our country. The interesting part of that simple statement was that all of conservative Vassar loudly applauded the senti ments. So much for the coming day of the modern woman. "After all women have much to learn. How long will it be before they really wake up to the fact that high , heels, dangling earrings, ridiculous tight skirts and pinched waists are not es sentially feminine? "Girls have a right to their own lives. They should make their new democracy something more worth while than just an insistent clamor for the vote. Suffrage will never prove a cureall. Social and economic problems will solve political problems for wom en any day if they will only let their heads, not self-pitying sentiment, shape their rule of conduct. "Men now hold leadership in the world of big things not merely be cause they are stronger than women, but because they arc too busy for tri lles. Men put through big deals, while women waste precious hours trying to figure out why they are not happy. "I have known women to ruin their chances of doing a great piece of work simply because there was friction in the home. Sentimentality has wrecked more promising feminine careers than many people suspect. "There must be a radical change in the modern woman's ideas of life." Mrs. Putnam continued, "before the world will see the great things from its women folks that it has the right to expect. One basic fact must be ob served. Girls must improve their health. They must be able to-meet men on their own ground and they can't do this unless they have stronger bodies. "Every girl should be trained in a profession and carry it through to a succcssf.il conclusion. Marriage should not be allowed to interfere with any woman's life work. It should simply be a means to an end for the wife as it is for her husband. Women have a two-fol:l task their homes and their life work. To do both well Is a b:g. worthy job for any woman and that's the secret to women's 'equal rights' milleniuni. Suffrage will only prove a fool's paradise If women fail to equip themselves for a worthy place in the new denweriicy.' , L GETS AFFINITY Daughter, Aged 14. Captures Father's Young Friend. $15,000 CREDIT MAN VICTIM Edna belle Conger, ot Xew York City, Tells Court of Surprising Parent and Woman Upon Return From Trip Wife Given Alimony. KEW YOPIT r-f 05 -r.v- - , int; avui it 1 Vi r T.- v. l , 11 . . . . - . n oiiKer, n-year-oia daughter of Stephen D. and Jessie B. Conarer nnno-hr j ....... n .i i.itiii w 11 it is named In Mrs. Conger's divorce suit and struggled ta hold hpr until tha 1 ; : , - . " , . j . 1 v miivcu was related to Supreme Court Justice Phil- $13,000,000 WORTH OF AMERICAN his trucks via Vladivostok when the por bin, who awarded $50 a week alimony to Mrs. Conger. The alleged co-respondent is Miss Grace H. Murray, who is much younger than Mrs. Conger. Early last August. Ednabelle told the court she and her mother returned from a trip to Block Island and ' found their apartment chained and locked. While Mrs. Conger waited for the superintendent to open the door the daughter climbed on a window sill and looked into the apartment. In a bed room she saw her father nervously pacing the floor in his pajamas. She called to him to unlock the door and let Mrs. Conger in. but he did not do so. The superintendent finally opened the door and let mother and daughter in. Conger greeted them with a re proach for having waked him. Mrs. Conger stood talking to her husband while Ednabelle wpnt itn , ing-room. There, she declares, she nearo. muined breathing. She opened the door of a closet, found Miss Mur ray dressed en dishabille and very nervous. Ednabelle screamed and Mrs. Con ger ran into the room. The young woman refused to give her name un til Mrs. Conger threatened to call the police. Then she gave her name and address and said she was very sorry. "Papa." said the daughter, "wa very angry and threatened to throw us both down the dumb waiter." Mrs. Conger telephoned her brother, but when he appeared on the scene the commotion had subsided. In opposing affidavits Conger says that most of his domestic trouble has been caused by his wife's modern ideas. "She believes in dressing according to the present exaggerated fashions and insists upon wearing artificial coloring on her face. In addition she is so modern she sends her daughter to a seminary so she has plenty of time to visit dancing places and cafes." Conger is employed as a credit man for a Wall-street concern. He has an income of more than $15,000 a year. BIG THEFT PROBE ENDS DETECTIVES AT ODDS IN 7T,000 JEWEL LOSS IV EAST. Investigation la Closed on Orders and Hone of Recovering Any of Valuable la ' Ebbins. NEW YORK. Oct. 20. The Times said recently: Investigation of - the ?"7,000 jewel robbery at the Summer home of Mrs. James McMillan, widow of United States Senator McMillan, at Manches-ter-by-the-Sea, Mass., August 7. has been dropped, it was announced at the of fice of Samuels, Cornwall & Stevens, the insurance underwriters, who held $42,000 of the risk. George C. Stevens, of the firm, said he was convinced that the detectives had turned up nothing which would be likely to result in an arrest or the recovery of the jewels. Morris H. Aschner, of the Aschner Detective Agency, who worked on the case for the insurance underwriters, said he was satisfied that if the affi davits, reports and evidence which he had gathered were put into the hands of the District Attorney of the county in which Manchester-by-the-Sea is situ ated there would be an arrest within 48 hours. He said he did not intend to turn over the records to the District Attorney or Chief of Police Sullivan, of Manchester, unless they asked him for them. Mr. Aschner said Mr. Stevens had called him on the telephone and told him that he need not continue his in vestigation. Mr. Stevens said the Aschner agency had been called off the case several days ago. 'I am hired to save the insurance company from paying an indemnity." Mr. Aschner said. "That is all I am concerned with. If they want mo to discontinue the investigation, I don't see any point in going ou with it on my own hook. "With regard to the statement of Mr. Hall, the McMillan family's lawyer, in an evening paper that he called the detectives off the case, that mav be correct in reference to the Burns agency, aa I understand it represented the McMillan family, but Mr. Hall has no jurisdiction over me. I am repre senting the insurance company and 1 had not stopped a moment on the case until Mr. Stevens asked me to abandon my investigation." Mr. Aschner said his investigation in the case was complete and that the evidence which he had was sufficient to cause an arrest, he thought. He is strong in the belief that it was an "in side job." Mr. Stevens, of the underwriting firm, does not share the detective's belief that there is any tangible evidence or any clew which might lead to the ar rest of the thief or the recovery of the jewels. He said he would pay the in surance as. soon as he heard from Lloyd's, of London, with whom the in surance was placed. That would be a matter of several days, he thought. "I am not interested in the prosecu tion of any one. unless there is some likelihood that it would lead to the re covery of the jewels." he told & re porter. "Mere suspicion is not enough to cause an arrest. This robbery has been under Investigation for eight weeks and the McMillan family and Mr. Hall, their lawyer, have persisted in running every possible bit of evi dence down, for Mrs. McMillan was anxious to get her jewels back. TV'e have done all that can be done. I think, and there is nothing to do but to pay the insurance." Mr. Stevens. Mr. Aschner and others familiar with the case were certain that there was no dinner party on the AUTOMOBILES Photo by Underwood & Underwood. SHIPPED. f automobiles, even in war- times. y o. a. Tieae. a former New York number of automobila manufnc ying them up indefinitely. Incl- op because of the fact that the raw In order to facilitate the ship here all the autos and their parts about 2.000.000 feet of lumber on usy worKing overtime to make the ighters, each with a capacity of 36 r the Russian government. Mr. t of Archangel is again closed to night of the robbery, as Philip H Mc Millan, a son of Mrs. James McMillan, was quoted as saying in,Detroit. They said that Mrs. McMillan and her grand daughter, Mrs. Preston Gibson, dined alone that night. MAN DENIES PROMISE j "GIRL'S LIPS . LIKE GATES OF HEAVETN," SAYS ONE LETTER. New Jerseyite Declare He Never Pro posed Marriage to 17-Year-Old Innkeeper's Daughter. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Oct. 23. Vio lent throbs must have assailed the heart of Robert Gaskill, 60-year-old re tired lawyer ot Mount Holly. N. J., if he. wrote the letters offered in evidence in the f i5.000 breach of promise suit brought against him by Miss Kittv Abrama. 17-year-old daughter of the owner of the Red Lion Inn at Clarks boro, N. J. ..,.(?le letter contains this outburst: hen you put your lovely lips to mine the gates of heaven seem to open and let rue in." Another letter contained these words: You know my whole soul is wrapped up in you. You write such lovely let ters and I am always glad to put your signature to my lips after I read them, lou are sc sweet and lovely to my eyes I certainly love you with a heart full of love and best wishes." The ijirl's lawyers offered in evidence a book of Eugene Field's poetry pre sented to her by Gaskill, they said, after ue had autographed and under scored passages. Part of one poem thus marked was: My lady's eyes are bright and blue; Her hair is soft and golden: Her voice is sweeter than the coo Or turtle doves when turtles woo. Her bright smile would embolden The faintest love: far more than this one often clamors for a kiss. Another marked Field selection was: So. Princess, what shall I bring. When low I bend at thy throne'.' My heart for an offering? E'en that has long been thy own. But. as a witness. Gaskill emphatic ally denied he had ever proposed mar riage to Miss Abrams. His lawyers introduced cafe checks and hotel bills from Atlantic City as proof that he was not in Clarksboro at the time when it is said he asked the girl to become his wife. He asserted that the $75,000 demand ed in damages represents his entire for tune at this date. Two years ago he said, he was rated at $437,500. but his fortune had melted. He did not tell how it had gone. ' Gatskill's counsel asked him if he knew that Miss Abrams had been court ed by Joseph Markley. of Clarksboro. or if he had been aware of a corre spondence between Miss Abrams and a youth named Willetts. Gaskill said he had been ignorant of the existence of either person until after the suit was started. His lawyers say they have 406 letters from Miss Abrams to Markley. OSTRICHES CHEAP AT SALE Three Farms Sold and 56 Birds Worth Million Bring Few Thousand. BLOOM BU RG, Pa Nov. 1. The re ceivers' tale of the personal property and real estate of the American Os trich Farm & Feather Company marked the end of the connection of former President W. H. Hile, promoter, with the company. Wilkesbarre stockholders in a poo' outbid h'.m ou the three farms which the defunct company owned and got title as well to 56 of the company's 66 ostriches. The highest price per pair pan was $1000 for African birds, while American birds brought as low as $30 a pair. They were supposed, during the company's prosperous days, to hav had a total valuation of almost II 000 -000. v" Leaders of both factions feared per sonal injury and Hile had a bodyguard, while otl:r special officers were on hand to see that Hile caused no trou- SLEUTH KILLS WIFE Murder Is Confessed by New . York Detective. : NAGGING GIVEN AS CAUSE Man Also Accuses Mate of Faith lessness Five Bullets Fired Into Woman's Body Follow ing Quarrel in Home. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. In the mild, soft tones of a despairing weariness, with hardly a trace of emotion, Samuel Leitner, of the Leitner Detective Bu reau, confessed before Coroner Fein berg to the murder of his wife, Sarah, whom he shot and killed in his office. His confession, after repeated asser tions to the police that two strangers, "gray-capped men," had entered his of fice and shot her. came without warn ing. He started slightly when asked if he had anything to say, and then, after casting a pitiful glance about the room, drifted into a long story of trouble with his wife, culminating in a descrip tion of how "she worked me up till I finished the job." It was a result of a quarrel, which Leitner fays his wife started, that he fired five bullets into her body, and this quarrel, as Leitner told the story, appeared to be the climax of the in tense strain of 11 years, during which, he said, his wife was unfaithful and frequently said, when he protested against her neglect of their five chil dren, "I should worry!" Wife Makes Threat. "I think it was about 5:30, maybe it was & quarter of 6 some time around there," said Leitner in a tired, wornout fashion as he pressed his hands between his knees, his eyes fal tering as he looked about the room. "She came in and told me she'd just come down from Fourteenth street. Then she started it and said: "You're the cause of my being so nervous. "What have I done to make you nervous?" I asked her, and she Just got mad and threatened me with a hatpin, then went off in a crazy fit of holler ing. "There was a gun lying there on my desk. Suddenly she grabbed for it. She got it. and I grabbed it away from her. She fought me and kept saying things and worked me up and I finished the job.". . "You mean you fired the five shots that killed her?" Coronerl Feinberg asked. Leitner looked at the Coroner help lessly for a moment, then said with a weak gesture of his right hand, "I did." "Is there anything else you desire to say?" Leitner sat very still for a minute; then, as a dry sob choked in his throat, said monotonously: "What else can I say?" Coroner Expresses Sympathy. Then Coroner Feinbersr. whn Tiort listened closely to the man's story of s ii years oi married lire, said feel ingly: "I'll have to hold you on a charge of homicide for the inquest. I deplore this affair for the sake of the inno cent ones who must suffer your five children. You have my deepest sym pathy in what you have to face." Leitner's confession of the shooting came at the close of his story of troubles with his wife for nearly 11 years. ! "I first met my wife 11 years ago," he said, when the Coroner had offered him a chance to speak. "She had just come out or the House of the Good Shepherd. We went together for about a year, till I found that she behaved herself, then I married her." GIANT CHASED 20 MILES Komance or Mrs. Wiggins' Cabbage Patch Aired In Court. MINEOLA. L I.. Oct- 31. A romance of Mrs. Wiggins' cabbage patch de veloped recently when her husband. Harry H. Wiggins, a wealthy retired merchant of Floral Park, testified in the Supreme Court here that he had found John Borglund in her room late one night. Mr. Wiggins asked for a divorce. Mrs. Wiggins, who is 63 years old, employed Borglund, a young Norwe gian giant, to tend to the cabbages, tomatoes and other things in what she called her cabbage patch on her large country place at Floral Park. Mr. Wiggins, who is past 60, testified that after he had chased Borglund from the house he had followed him 20 miles in a buggy and that Borglund escaped only by swimming across a river with his clothes on. Mr. Wiggins also produced several letters in which Borglund addressed Mrs. Wig gins as "My dear Marie" and made lots of X's at the bottom. When Borglund was called he said he supposed those X's meant kisses, but he said he was of a very affection ate disposition and that he even ad dressed other farm hands as "Dearest" and "Sweetheart," Both Boiglund and Mrs. Wiggins de nied her husband's accusations and Mrs. Wiggins asked for a separation with alimony. Mrs. Wiggins denieo that she had said when Borglund was ill that if he died she wanted to die also. JITNEYS TAKE PROFITS Car Company Asks Aid Against Busses at Atlantic City. ATLANTIC CITY. X, J.. Oct. 31. More thai 300' jitneys during the Sum mer robbed the trolley company of in come that caused it to ask the city authorities and hotel men for protec tion. If this is not provided it was intimated that there would have to be a curtailment of service affecting the four cities on the island or the com pany would have to relinquish its con tracts. The Hotel Men's Association. City Commissioners and Chamber of Com merce have called a conference to see if some means out of the difficulty cannot be devised. The Qity Solicitor has told the Commissioners that the jitney service is legal and that they cannot suppress them. - H00SIERS ARE FLATF00TS War . Department Statistics Prove but Don't Explain Fact. INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 1. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson stood in front of the Crystal Palace and watched a group of male tourists passing by. "Those men are from Indiana." re marked Sherlock Holmes casually, flicking the ash from his cigarette. "How can you tell?" inquired Dr. Watson, amazed. "Because they are flatfooted," replied Sherlock Holmes. "It is a simple mat ter of deduction, my dear Wat:-on. You see, statistics, ot the United States War Department show that there are more natiootea men in Indiana than there are in any other state in the Union." - "Mar-vel-u-ous." exclaimed Dr. Wat son. "But, my dear Holmes, there are natfooted persons outside of Indiana. i nese men might be tlatfooted and not be from Indiana at all." "A simple matter of rtrtnrtinn dear Watson. Were there only one llat- luotea man 1 would not make my state ment positive, but. as you will notice, there are perhaps a dozen and all flat footed. Naturally, as the percentage of flatfooted men in Indiana is so much greater than elsewhere in this country, they can come from nowhere but Indi ana." tou pre a wonderful man. my dear numies. murmured Dr. Watson as the two hurried away. The person who heard a conversa tion to this effect and outlined it in the foregoing imaginative form to G. W. Harrington, recruiting Sergeant of the Indianapolis Army recruiting station, learned that Indiana is noted for its flatfooted persons. "It is true," said the Sergeant, "the lloosler State is world famed in many ways. It is a literary center. Indiana is a political hotbed and producer of many great men. It may be said, with- ' oi successful contradiction, that the great majority of them are flatfooted. "Whv Indiana should produce more uaiiouiea men tnnn . nhn l tiu-ky or Kansas remains an unsolved mystery, out it Is a fact." BELLES COMPARE FEET SOI THERX BEAUTIES IX NEW YORK TALK ABOUT WOMEN Visitors Seoff at "Careers" and Say Frankly They I Mud Vocation In Husband and Home. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. "New York women have big feet!" Dainty little Irene Miller, one of the five Southern beauties at the Vander bilt Hotel, who are on their first trip to New York, is the authority for the statement. Miss Miller's foot is eight inches long. She wears a No. 13, the largest child's size made. From toe to heel, the lovely little foot of the Southern girl certainly carries out her assertion that a foot to be good-looking must be small. "I think your women have well-shod feet," the girl hastily added with true Southern tact. "But they do look large." She thrust out her own high arched feet for inspection. "I've noticed that especially in your business women. Sometimes they look almost masculine, they are so broad." Other members of the Florida quintet who are seeing the wonders of the metropolis crowded around the reporter in the lobby of the hotel. "Our men like small feet on women," one of the girls suddenly exclaimed. "So we don't waste any time wearing ground grippers." Then the conversation suddenly be came interesting. Speaking of hus bands, your true Southern girl imme diately blossoms forth as a clever dip lomat. "You Northern girls have the career bug lots worse than we have down South," Jesse Ruth Snow, side partner of Miss Miller, announced. "Down our way we've given our careers the hus band cure. Why not?" The rirls laughed. "The only difference is that we're more honest about our man hunt man you are. "That is why the Southern girl cares more ior evening clothes than she does for street costumes," another sofe voice broke in. "Fifth avenue hasn't any thing on Jacksonville when it comes to style, only you seem to dress for other women here in New York, while we frankly dress for our men. "I don't see why New York women make up so much," little Irene Miller interrupted. "We all like color, but it can be overdone, you know. That's one thing New York does for a girl it makes her grow old so fast. Down home we refuse to age. Our men folks like us young, so we manage the trick just as long as we can. That's one excuse ror being lazy. It keeps your good looks longer and gets you a hus band sooner." TREES ON CAMPUS STUDIED Washington University Classes Es- . timate Timber Contained. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Seattle. Nov. 1. Nearly two-thirds of a million board feet of lumber is con tained in trees more than 12 inches in diameter growing on the campus of the University of Washington, as shown by compilations made bv stu dents in the college of forestry, who recently cruised the timber. Much more is contained in smaller trees. Dead tim ber amounts to 131,235 feet and the majority of the logs would be good only for cordwood. The forest mensuration class under Professor E. T. Clark did the cruising. The class was divided into parties of three. One member of each crew measured the diameter, another the height and the third, by means of ta bles, worked out the volume of the trees. The exact figures show 651,130 board feet on the campus. There are in the neighborhood of 30 varieties of trees on the ground occu pied by the university, which Dean Winkenwerder contends gives the col lege of forestry a great advantage over similar departments in other uni versities. The laboratories are now within a few feet of the classrooms and few field trips are necessary to acquaint the students with trees na tive to this and other parts of the country. The college operates a nursery in which there are mora than 100 varieties of. trees and this number will be in creased to several hundred in the next few years. WIFE BITTEN; 'WINS SUIT Alleged Scion ot French Nobility Ac cused of TTnseemly Conduct. SUNBURY Pa.. Oct. 30. Mrs. Louis L. Durand, of Milton, whose husband claimed tc be of royal French birth, has been recommended an absolute separation on the grounds of cruelty by a special master in the Northumber land County courts. According to her testimony, Edwin Paul, master, reports that Durand bit her thumb until the nail came off, tore a necklace from her person and bumped her head against the wall at their home. They were wedded in March, 1911, and separated two years later, af ter a tempestuous, wedded life. Durand is now living in Port au Prince, Haiti, the report saya. BEREAVED PARENTS ACT Child Is Buried AVl.ile Performers Suffer on Stage. DL'QUION", III.. "Nov. 1. While Mr. and Mrs. VJ. R. Holtnian. members of a theatrical company, enacted their roles at a matinee a few days ago they did so with the knowledge that at the tame hour the funeral of their boy, "Billy." 3 years" old. was bcinj? held ac Klsriru The parents received a mes sage apprising: them of his death, but were unable to set away. The parents acted their parts, thousM the mother was on the veri?e of col lapse several times during the performance. POLISH VISIT RISK H. Karmazyn Reaches Chicag After Series of Escapes. GERMANS ARE SUSPfCIOUJ Residence or Relatives Wreck ei by Shell and Several Days Passed Without Food Re turn to States Difficult. CHICAGO. Nov. 2. Harr Karmazyn. who was visiting his sick mother at Kalisz, Russian Toland, when the war broke out. has just returned to Chi- f.?;, ut he had to K through soma tnrtlling experiences before he could, get back to the l.and of the Free," aa ho expressed it. icin Krn"yn was born in Kalisz In l.!si and left Russia without serving Ire the army. Por this reason he was barred from returning. But hta mother was so ill in Kalisz that he decided to try to slip through. He had no sooner met his family in Russian Poland than the war broke, out. On August 30 the Russians evac uated Kalisz anc the German army entered the city. Drank Man Starts Trouble As the Germans entered the town tha people decorated their houses with flowers and gave the soldiers a recep tion which surprised them. Unfortu nately a Pole got drunk on the sama day. threw a brick at a German" soldier and almost killed him. 'The whole city knew the Pole to be crazy," said Karmazyn. "but for this outrage the German commandant ordered the town to bo burned. Tho Germans went into stores, into houses and shot people because of this one brick that the crazy Pole threw." Mr. Karmazyn said while the town was burning fighting was going on between the Russians and the Ger mans. Man Without Food Four Daya. -I lived with my family in a cellar for four days." Karmazvn continued "without a bite to eat. When a shell struck our house was frightened and ran away. My father, an assistant physician in a Jewish hospital, sug gested that we all go to the hospital, as it was the safest place. But when I saw a shell strike there, too. I left my family, and after walking eight days through woods I arrived at Lodz where my brother lived. One week after my arrival the Germans took pos session." Karmazyn stole out of Lodz, and after walking two weeks he reached Czenstochau. This made a total of 325 miles he walked. At Czenstochau he was seized by the Germans and held as n Riisainn snv T. v. : .. , ' J J " i.io Kuaacaaioa was his original American passport .. a. i.uaDiun passport WHICH his father had given him. This seemed to puzzle the German commandant and ha was taken to Berlin. T. Abercrombie, the American Consul at Berlin, loaned Karmazyn J20, with which he obtained passage to Rotter dam, where the American Consul loaned him 10 more. This sum enabled him to reach London. GIRL DIES IN BRIDAL GOWN Refusing to Postpone Ceremony, Sho Succumbs Before Wedding. BIXGHAJITON, X. T.. Nov. 1. Miss Edna Keyes. 23 years old. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Keyes. dropped dead while preparing for her marriage to Gordon Sweetland. Miss Keyes had not been in good health for the last few weeks, but all the preparations had been made for the wedding and she refused to consent to a postponement, especially as she had been feeling better for the last few days and she and her fiance had arranged to start immediately after the ceremony on a trip to the Califor nia exposition. She arose early and while putting'on her bridal gown collapsed. She died be fore medical aid could be summoned. CYCLE WHISTLES IN COURT During Trial Joker Sticks Pin in Pneumatic Tire. NEW YORK. Oct. SO. The trial for burglary of John Corso, 22 years old, of 107 West Third street, was held up 10 minutes in the Bronx County Court because some Joker stuck a pin In the tire of the motorcycle which Corso was accused of stealing, as it leaned against the judge's bench. The machine was labeled "Exhibit A." It was while Corso was testifying in his defense that the tire began to emit a whistling sound and the cycle had to be wheeled out of the room. 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