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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spinster sees her birth notice reproduced
in that popular "news of 40 years aso today"
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