The Sunday Oregonian., February 11, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Page 4, Image 62

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American territory. Fairway Rock and
Little Diomede btongr to the United
States. The third would unite mo with
Russia, to which nation Big- Dlomede
belongs, and the fourth also would belong-
to the Russians.
There have been those who have
talked of bridging the strait, or of run
ning a railroad ferry across from con
tinent to continent. It Is claimed that
there are many places In the channel
where the water is not over 20 feet
deep, and pillars could be erected to
support the bridges which might be so
made that they would swing to allow
the floating icebergs to pass through.
This seems ridiculous to any one who
understands the great ice floes of the
arctic region. It Is doubtful whether
the bridgescould be made on account
of the depth of the strait, and they
would certainly be destroyed by the
Ice. Contrary to what many believe.
Beriner strait is Beldom covered with
Ice. It connects Bering Sea with the
Arctic Ocean, and there is a strong
current which flows through it to the
north. This keeps it open in Winter,
but there are ice floes on each side of
it, and the waters carry such masses
of Ice that it Is navigable only in Sum
mer. Today about the only ships that go
through the strait are a small steamer
or so and the whalers which ply the
Arctic Ocean to catch the right whale,
a single one of which will often net as
much as $10,000. Some of our revenue
cutters also go through, and there are
regular steamers from Seattle each
Summer which carry supplies to Kotze
bue Sound and the northern ports of
the Seward Peninsula.
Moreover. It !s questionable whether
bridges could be built from shore to
shore on account of the difficulty of
connecting the mainland and the
islands. Cape Prince of Wales and
East Cape, Siberia, are both bold and
rocky headlands connected with the
mainland by a low neck of rolling
tundra. Cape Prince of Wales has on
one side walls about a thousand feet
high, and these rise Into -uplands a
Half mile above the level of the sea.
When the weather is clear you can see
this cape almost anywhere inside the
strait. The Diomede Islands have steep
shores which rise to flat-top summits
that occupy nearly their entire areas:
and Fairway rock looks like a mighty
haycock rising out of the water.
Bering Strait was not discovered
until more than two and one-half cen
turies after Columbus first crossed the
Atlantic, and there was no positive
knowledge that the North American
continent came so near Asia until
almost J00 years later. The first record
of any men going through this strait
was that of Simeon Deshnef, a Rus
sian, who rounded Hast Cape, Siberia,
and wintered at the Anadir River
about 13 years after Boston was
founded. The strait is usually foggy
and Deshnef did not see North Amer
ica. About 60 years later another Rus
sian visited the East Cape and brought
back rumors of a continent to the east
ward. This was Popof, a Cossack, who
was sent out to make the Eskimos of
to be in four sections-. The first would eastern Siberia pay their tribute to the
be 20 miles long, the second about 10 Czar. Popof described the Diomede Is-
miles longr, the third, between the two lands, and must have seen North Amer-
Diomede Islands, comparatively short, lea. as Cape Prince of Wales is plainly
while the fourth, ending in Asia, would visible from them. When the news
be only a little longer than the first, came back to Peter the Great, who
rrhe first two tunnels would be on was then Czar, he wanted to know
XCopyrlg-ht, 101T, by Frank O. Carpenter.)
OME, Alaska. The railroad now
building from Seward to Fair
banks is only the beginning of a
eystem that will eventually cover a
great part of Alaska, Congress has
proposed the expenditure of $35,000,000,
end of tjils only $26,000,000 is to be
spent on the railroad now being con
structed. The Government engineers
have made a large number of other
surveys. They have secured full infor
mation concerning the country between
here and the Copper River Railroad,
which was built by the Guggenhelms at
a cost of about $20,000,000, and they
have surveyed a connection between
that road and the new Government line.
The latter begins at Chitina and runs
through Copper Center to the Mata
xiuska coal fields, reaching the main
line at Matanuska Junction. In addition
the Copper River road may be extended
to Fairbanks and further extension
will probably be made from there to
the country north of the Tukon.
A very important survey Is that
which has been made to connect the
Government line with Fort McGrath at
the head of navigation on the ICusko
kwim River. TTiat line will have
branches to the . Idltarod and Innoko
cold fields, and also a possible con
tinuation across the Tukon and about
Norton Sourtd to Nome on the Seward
Peninsula. There are some who proph
esy that the Nome branch may some
lay be extended to Cape Prince of
Wales, and thence cross Bering Strait
to Asia, and form part of a great trunk
line connecting Europe and North
America by means of the railroads of
Siberia.
Most of these extensions are a matter
of the distant future, when Alaska,
"having developed along the lines of
Finland, Norway and Denmark, will have
a population of one-fourth as many
anillions as it now has thousands. The
enthusiasts here claim that the terri
tory will easily support 20,000.000 or
25,000,000 people, and they look for
ward to it as the great stock-breeding,
agricultural and industrial empire of
the North.
A railroad across Bering- Strait would
eeem to be the wild dream of a fantas
tic imagination, but it is not an im
possibility in these days of tunnels and
hridges. Bering Strait, between Cape
I'rince of Wales, Alaska, and East
Cape, Siberia, is only 60 miles wide, and
there are three landing places from
one coast to the other. These are Fair
way Rock, a flat-top pinnacle with an
area of seven acres, which is 20 miles
from Cape Prince of Wales. Beyond
that, 10 miles distant, is Little Diomede
Island, and still further over is. Big
IMomede Island, which is about 25
miles from East Cape. Siberia. Bering
Strait is so shallow that if the Wash
ington monument were dropped Into
it. two-thirds of the shaft would show
uhannel is solid rock covered with sand
and silt, and tunnels might be made
running from North America to Asia
connecting with the two Diomedes and
Fairway Rock. The tunnel would have
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more about the new continent, and
ordered Vitus Bering, a Danish cap
tain of the Russian navy, to go there
and explore. Later on Catherine of
Russia carried out this plan. Bering
crossed Siberia and built, two small
vessels on the Bay of Okhotsk. He
sailed through the strait, but came
back without having sighted the Amer
ican continent, and it was not until
50 years later, when Captain Cook
passed through, that the strait was ex
plored and named Bering Strait.
The railroad from Nome to Siberia
would probably run along the coast,
touching at Port Clarence, which is a
little south of Cape Prince of Wales.
That port would be the great supply
point for railway materials. It is about
the best harbor on Bering Sea. It has
an Immense inner basin, walled with
steep slate precipices, and vessels of
good draft can lie there at anchor.
This was the port from which the en
gineers of the Western Union Tele
graph Company expected to stretch
their cable across Bering Strait to
Asia. The scheme originated in 1863,
when expeditions were sent to both
Alaska and Asia to lay out the route.
George Krnnan was connected with the
work in Siberia and Robert Kennicott
was the leader of the party which did
the work in Alaska. Kennicott and his
men ascended the Tukon and crossed
the Seward Peninsula. Some of their
old stakes are atill visible at Unalaklik,
on the eastern shore of Norton Sound,
and near that place are the ruins of
one of the stations with a few poles and
some wire. The wire was distributed
here and there along the route, and
much of it was taken by the Eskimos
and Indians and used for jewelry. The
survey was going on rapidly when the
Atlantic cable was proved to be a suc
cess, and the old world and the new
were Joined together by that great wire
rope 'across the Atlantic. The cable re
moved the necessity of any land line.
The men were at once recalled and
steamers came to Port Clarence and
took them away.
The Kuskokwtm extension will open
up an empire of mineral and agricul
tural possibilities. During my travels
down the Tukon I have been with Mr.
J. L. MpPherson, the civil engineer who
made the railroad survey of that line.
He took a party of engineers and trav
be built from both ends. The supplies
for the eastern end could come from
Seward, or Anchorage, up the main
line, and those for the western end to
the mouth of the Kuskowim and up
eled with pack horses across country, that river to Fort McGrath. The build-
exploring the land north and south and
picking out the bet way for the rail
road. He had a pack'train4f 20 horses
at the start, but when they reached
Fort McGrath there were only seven
left that could carry freight. The road
was so heavy and marshy the horses
could not travel more than three hours
a day, and some of the jjountry offered
great difficulties in the way of sur
veys..Mr. McPherson says that the raiU
way can be built at a cost of less than
$12.00.000, and that, with the exten
sions to the gold mines of the Innoko
Idltarod gold regions, the cost will be
under $18,000,000. This includes track
to the extent of 443 miles and that at
an estimated cost of about $41,000 a
mile.
The main line of this road will cross
the Susitna Valley and go for some dis
tance along the Skwentna River. It
will wind its way up the Happy River
Valley, and will cross the mountains
over Houston Pass, in a great bend
running to the south, then west and
then north, before (starting toward the
northeast and Fort McGrath. Much of
the region through which it goes is
covered with spruce, ranging from
eight inches to two feet in diameter,
and there will be no lack of timber for
ties and piling.
Mr. McPherson says that the route
offers no great engineering difficulties.
Houston Pass is only about a half mile
above the sea, and the slopes are such
that it is easy to approach.' It is the
lowest and best of the three passes
across the mountains.
There will have to be bridges across
the Susitna and other rivers, and if
there is an extension beyond the Kus
kokwim, that river will need to be
crossed at .Fort McGrath, where it is
from 1000 to 1500 feet wide. The Kus
kokwim is now navigable for steam
ers to Fort McGrath and the road could
lng of the main line would entail an
expenditure not much larger than the
amount left from the $35,000,000 fund
after the Fairbanks road Is completed.
The extension of the Kuekokwim
branch to the Tukon. via the Innoko
gold fields and thence on 'to Nome
would coFt many milions more.
There is one feature of the Kusko
kwim region that will have to be taken
into acount in building the railroad.
This seems trifling until one knows
Just what it means. I refer to the mot
quitos. A great part of the KiMskokwim val
ley is covered with swamps, and these
lnects breed by the milions. They
begin to come In May. with the first
Spring vegetation, and last until the
frost of September. These mosquitos
are the most bloodthirsty and numer
ous of any in Alaska, and Alaska has
the worst mosquitos in the world. They
have been known to kill horses and to
drive white men crazy. The prospec
tors who go through the region wear
headnets and long gloves, which they
tie tightly about the wriets. The man
who exposes his bare eyes or face soon
loses his natural appearance. His eye
lids swell up and close, and his face
becomes a mass of lumps and fiery
pimples. This information comes from
Ivan Petroff, one of the census com
missioners, who is considered an au
thority on all things Alaskan. He say
that the mosquitos sometimes torture
the Indian dogs to death, and that the
Eskimos wear mittens in midsummer
and anoint their bodies with rancid
r ew people nave any idea or tne em
pire that would be opened up by the
building of this railroad. The gold
fields west of Fort McGrath are rich.
and should the line be built to the Sew
ard peninsula, it would have acqess to
hundreds of millions of dollars in the
gold of the gravels of that region. It
would open up also the- Kuskokwim
valley. Until within the last year or
so the Kuskokwim region has been
practically inaccessible, but the coast
and geodetic survey has recently ex
plored the channels at the mouth of
the river and found a route up which
large ships can go to Fort McGrath
and beyond.
The Kuskokwim river is as wide as
the lower Potomac, and at its mouth it
broadens out into a great delta, form
ing a stream 10 or more miles in width.
This stream tapers to a width of three
quarters of a mile a short distance in
land, but it maintains a good width
and depth from there on up to Fort
McGrath and beyond.
The work of the survey was done
by Captain R. R. Lukens. who had the
steamer Tukon and a party of 16 men.
He charted a new. channel through the
mouth of the river and expended his
survey Inland to Bethel, a Moravian
mission settlement 75 miles Inland. The
steamers now go in to Bethel and on up
to Fort McGrath. which is ajmost 500
miles from the mouth. Smaller steam
ers can sro still farther inland.
The Kuskokwim was first ascendea
15 or more years ago. and long be
fore we took possession of the terri
tory Russian traders had established
themselves several hundred miles" rrom
the mouth. There are now fur-trading
stations and canneries here and there
along the river. There te a canning es
tablishment at Bethel, and somethlrxg
of a settlement at Fort McGrath. The
greater part of the population, how
ever, are Eskimos, and outside of mis
sionaries, about the only whites who
live in the valley are prospectors and
miners.
The Kuskokwim Valley covers a
country as. large as the state of New
York. A great part of it is flat, but
the upper portion is rolling, and much
of it will make good farming land. En
gineer McPherson says that he found
an abundance of feed for Iris horses
all along the line of his survey an
that there is no place in Alasks where
red top grows more luxuriantly. It
has also vast areas covered with cari
bou moss and is one of the best rein
deer pastures in Alaska.
As to the fertility of the soil, there
is a little farm just opposite the poat-
offlce" at McGrath where a man has
cleared two and one-half acres of land.
He has less than an acre in potatoes
and his crop last year netted him more
than six tons of these tubers. He
showed 'Mr. McPherson nine potatoes
which averaged over a pound each, and
said that they all came from one bill.
The farmer sells his potatoes to the
mining camps nearby. They net him
10 cents a pound, and at that rate his
last years crop should have paid $1200
a big profit from less than an acre
of ground.
The missionaries at Bethel report
that they are raising good potatoes
there, and that they are also succeed
ing with turnips, radishes, cabbage and
cauliflower. They have been making
sauerkraut. Nearly every family has
its garden and raises its own veletable
supply.
The greater part of the valley offers
good grazing for reindeer, and the
lower part of it will support large
herds of these animals. There are im
mense areas of wild grass in the val
leys farther eastward and with the in
troduction of cattlo acclimated to
northern conditions a dairy and meat
industry might be built up.
The great value of the Kuskokwim
extension will be in the opening up of
the mineral territory. The main road
will pass through the Tentna gold dis
trict, which has already produced sev
eral hundred thousand dollars and
where there are large areas of gold
bearing gravel fitted for dredging. It
will open up the Skwentna mineral
territory, and that along the south fork
of the Kuskokwim. Mr. McPherson.
said he found gold grains half the size .
of a pinhead in the gravel bars there.
As to the Innoko-Iditarod gold coun
try, that has long been known among
the gold-producing camps of Alaska.
More than $10,000,000 has been taken,
out of the placers of the Iditarod. and
the Guggenheims are now dredging
the creeks. There are about 1000 peo
ple in the town of Iditarod. They get
there by way of the Tukon and Iditarod
rivers. The latter is a small stream
that can be navigated only by gasoline.
The river curves so, tho miners allege.
that on some of the bends the pilot at
the prow can reach back and shake
hands with the cook in the galley.
During the Winter these gold regions
are reached from Seward by dog teams,
which go across Rainy Pass to Fort
McGrath. The distance traveled is 400
or ' 500 miles. The road consists of
trails, and there are roadhouses here
and there along the line. There is also
travel in Winter to Falrban'-s by dog
teams. During the Summer much of
the freight comes in via the Tukon.
The boats from Fairbanks go down the
Tanana to Holy Cross, near the mouth,
of the Innoko, and up that river into
the Iditarod. or they may cbme up the
Tukon from Bering Sea and transship
at Holy Cross.
As to freight, the present tonnage at
Fort McGrath is not more than 1200
tons per annum. This would be in
creased enormously by the building of
the road, but it is doubtful if the rail
way would ever pay. except as a devel
ing proposition. The settlement of the
country will not be accomplished until
far in the future. It is in the same
latitude as Norway. Sweden and Fin
land, and the people claim that it is
richer in resources, minerally and agri
culturally. They say that these coun
tries have 11.000.000 inhabitants and
that the Kuskokwim Valley could
support millions. They point to the
trans-Siberian road, which in one year
transported more than $30,000,000
worth of butter, and to the roads of
Finland, which have gross receipts of
$10,000,000 a year, and they ask why
this road should not do as well.
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odemPoullry Culture
Agricultural experts estimate
that almost $10,000,000 is lost
annually by diseases of poultry
of which a great part is due to
worms which are harbored in
the Intestinal tract and other
vital organs. The writer of this
article has made a close study
of the subject, and experimented
with drugs and means of ridding
fowls of these pests. Some of
the results of his investigations
follow:
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BT DR. B. F. KAUPP.
Poultry Investigator and Pathologist for
United -States Department of
Agriculture.
HE tube which extends, from the
throat to the lungs is commonly
culled th wi n 1 i rt It- Rcientifle
term is the trachea. As the result of
worms in the trachea, a condition may
develop which is called gapes, so called
because the bird in its later stages
-gasps for air by extending its head
feign into the air with mouth open.
True and False Uapea.
There are many causes for gapes,
iuch as pieces of cracked corn or other
particles of food being sucked down
the tracheal opening in the throat dur
ing the process of swallowing. Ex
amine the throat of a bird and you
will see a long slit open and shut at
the upper end of the larynx, or box
at the upper end of the windpipe.
There is no covering to this air open
ing, as in mammals, hence it is not so
well protected when the food passes
over it to the gullet or esophagus.
Consequently, if the . bird chokes or
frasps a small particle of food may
find its way into the upper part of
the windpipe and thus obstruct the
free passage of air. We once found
a . whole grain of corn lodged in the
upper part of the windpipe of a fowL
When the windpipe becomes ob
structed it is difficult for the air to
pass and the bird gasps. Obviously,
this is not due to worms. And since
the condition due to worms is called
Rapes, we call this other gasping
false gapes.
There is a worm, the male of which
Is i-ound. white in color and about one
fourth inch long, and the female is
about one and one-fourth inches long,
which find their way into the wind
pipe and cause true gapes. These two
worms are., usually attached,, making
a T-shaped looking worm, but which,
as Just stated-, is really two distinct
individuals. Many of these worms
may invade a single trachea and cause
serious trouble.
How the Worms Spread.
When filled with mature eggs the
female worm is coughed out of the
trachea, or the chick dies and the
worms then decay, and finally the f
eggs or minute worms are freed upon
the1 ground. These are devoured by
earthworms, which are in turn eaten
by the young chicken, and the bird
is affected by gapeworms. Old birds
appear proof against them. At any
rate they do' not produce serious re
sults. Earthworms taken Into the stomach
of the chick are digested, and the
minute worms (Syngamus trachealis)
are liberated. It must be remembered
that all, dead tissue is digested by the
stomach fluids, but the live worms
are so constituted that these secre
tions have no ill effects upon them.
The liberated worms now bore their
way through the wall of the stomach,
and finally become located in the
trachea. They attach themselves in
clusters to the wall of the trachea.
Their heads are provided with suction
discs by Which they hold on. The head
parts are equipped with microscopic
membraneous teeth that wound the
surface to which they are attached
and suck the blood. As the worms
grow the mass becomes larger. At
first, perhaps, they cause no incon
venience, later they induce grave
symptoms and death. As each worm
grows the al. passage gradually be
comes obstructed and the bird finds
breathing more and more difficult
Threatened with suffocation the bird
extends its head into the air and
gasps. The chick'then stands around
"drooped." feathers ruffled, sleepy,
listless, finally comb, wattles and face
turn purple and the poor creature
dies.
When Gapes Get Into the Floe.
Ground that is infestsd by these
worms annot be used successfully for
rearing young chicks, -x'he soil should
be plowed and crops raised upon it.
Move all chick quarters. It is . also a
good plan to raise the chicks away
from the flock of grown birds, allow
ing only the mother that broods them
to run with them.
Somet. nes he following method Re
lieves the victim. It may be possible
to feel the lu - in the windpipe, and
if so. take a large feat; er. strip all
the barbs. except tht tip. Dip this
tip in kerosene, grasp the bird, open
its mouth and pass the feather down
the windpipe past the lump of worms.
twist and withdraw the feather, en
deavoring to dislodge the worms.
Worms Found In the Trntlneo.
There are two kinds of worms com
monly found in the intestines, and
they have been found in 80 per cent
of the birds examined in this labora
tory. These are round worms and ribbon-shaped
worms, or tapeworms.
Some people think that a tapeworm
consumes food, but this is not so.
If we examine a tapeworm under a
microscope we find that they have no
Intestinal tract "or mouth at all. They
attach themselves to the lining of the
first por.-on of the intestines and float
back in the-intestinal tract among the
digesting food, where they absorb di
gested nutrients. This is "one reason
why fowls infested with these worms
Tttniimiiiiiii
are poor art-id emaciated. This absorp
tion is accompllshel by the worm in
much the same manner as the absorp
tion by the intestines.
The tapeworm attaches itself to the
lining of the intestines by means of an
apparatus consisting of four suckers
and a cluster of hooks, arranged in a
double circle between the suckers. With
the aid of a lens we find that back
Incubators have played such an
important part in the develop
ment of the poultry industry it
is almost superfluous to enumer
ate their advantages. To the in
experienced they sometimes sug
gest an intricate apparatus, re
quiring special skill and practice .
before one can hope for best re
sults. This is not so; reliable
incubators are so simple a child
can operate them. There will
be an article on the subject for
next week.
If the flock is founvi to harbor any
worms, the birds should be treated.
Oil of wormseed given in doses of one
teaspoonful to each doien birds once a
week will -o a long wiy towards rid
ding the flock of this trouble. Mix
this fluid in mash made, of wheat mid
dlings or wheat middliatgs and corn
meal, and feed it in such it manner that
all birds will get their rfliare. Follow
this with Epsom salts, giving one table
spoonful to every six fowls. Dissolve
the salt in water and use t-hte water to
mix the dry feed as above indicated.
Another remedy is to boil aquantity of
tODacco stems lor minuoest ana use
this water to mix a dry madh which is
fed to the birds. I .
win i t; cochins.
THIS is the white variety of the fa
mous Cochin fowl, which is
thought to have boomed the rear
ing and exhibiting of fancy poultry. Al
though variously called Shanghais and
Cochin Chinas in their early days, the
breed came from Shanghai. China, and
was first introduced Into England
about 1845.
As first the Shanghai was generally
of red color. Skillful fanciers devel
oped the Buff, Partridge, White and
Black varieties, and of these the White
Cochin is the subject of our sketch.
They are esteemed as large roasting
fowls, and are bred pure or crossed for
this purpose. The White Cochin is a
handsome fowl, large and round, with
heavily feathered legs and feet, and
long, soft curling feathers in all sec
tions, which should be pure white.
The hens get broody, sit. hatch and
rear chicks, making excellent' mothers.
The chicks grow rapidly, but feather
slowly, attaining considerable size be
fore they are fully feathered. The pul
lets reach laying period in about eight
months, but neither sex attains full size
until a year old. At that time, the
females weigh from eight to 10 pounds,
and males 10 to 12 pounds, and more.
These fowls are considered poor for
agers and are hardly suited for gener
al farm flocks.
of the head of the worm there is a
short, smooth neck which is followed
by segments. The segments farthest
from the head are the oldest, and each
is a complete individual. . It absorbs its
own food, develops its own eggs and
finally separates itself from the bal
ance of the worm and passes out to
the ground. There are thousands of
eggs in each segment. These are scat
tered on the ground, among food, in
the drinking water, and other birds pick
them up and are contaminated. As
fast as one segment drops from the
terminal end of the worm, another de
velops from the neck, and, as the dis
tance from the neck grows greater.
the segments are more completely filled
with mature eggs. Meanwhile these
segments are absorbing the nutrients
from the intestinal tract of the host.
The presence of worms adds to the
discomfort of the birds; they cease to
lay, become poor in flesh, young birds
do not make proper development and
may cause death.
It has been found that one kind of
tapeworm has for its intermediate host
the common house fly. The fly eats
the eggs of the worm. In this fly the
eggs hatch and pass through one stage
of their development Into a tiny cyst.
The fly is then eaten by the chicks.
who are elways after bugs and other
insects. The tapeworm larva matures
and new worms attach themselves to
the wall of the intestine of the new
host.
What to Do for Worms.
It is a good plan to open the Intes
tines of birds killed for table -use. an J
Long;, Draped Veil iVi&nart
on High Turbans 1
Pretty Little Bolero Jackets lVra
With Dancing Skirts of Spangled
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WITH the small, high-crowned stiiaw
and silk turbans of Spring, OJie
long, draped veil is exceedingly smaivt.
These veils come in fine mesh patV
terns with all the decoration on th p
border, which is often deep and quit
elaborate. Soutache embroidered bor-
ders are most striking.
These veils are draped around the
small turban, pinned at the back and
allowed to float around the shoulders
and in long ends at the back. Black is
the favored color in Spring veils of
this character, though taupes. grays,
browns- and even plums are noted in
face veils. The latter are drawn in
neatly beneath the chin, giving hat
and hair a neat, trim effect. Some veils
have patterns so arranged that the de
sign comes over the front- of the hat
Instead of over the face portion on the
veil.
Pretty little bolero Jackets of tinted
silk are worn with dancing skirts of
Bpangled net; but the Jacket is so short
and so much, cut away in the decol
letage that one might really call it a
high girdle Instead of a bolero. A frock
of crystal pailetted net over pale
salmon-pink soiree silk has a straight
skirt, gathered in four shlrrings at
the waistline to form a sort of high
belt, and a Blender strap of crystal
beads hides each line of shirring
though to be sure the shlrrings are
put in with sewing silk and not with
the ugly substitutes for such silk that
are sometimes found in ready-made
evening frocks of which one would
think better.
- Draped over this shirred and. beaded
waistline is "a short bolero of the
salmon-pink soiree silk, the front and
center back slashed up higher than
the sides to show the shirred belt be- '
neath. The bolero has shoulder-straps
of crystal beads and is quite sleeve
less. Paisley silk evening coats promise to
be much the vogue for warm evenings.
The silk Is shirred at the neck, a long
loop hanging in Burnoose fashion at
the back. This loop is edged with
black velvet which brings put the rich
colors of the Paisley pattern, and is
weighted with a large black tassel.
WIFE'S LOYALTY QUESTION
Sicilian Insult Avenged by Riddling
Slanderer AVltb Ballets.
PITTSTON, Pa., Feb. 2. When An.
gustino Schandro. aged 33, of Hughes
town, raised two fingers of his right
hand to express the Sicilian symbol of
the insult, "Tour wife is unfaithful."
Angelo Corfeno hastened to avenge the
Insult by shooting Schandro through tho
heart. The shooting took place on Par
sonage street. Hughestown.
Dozens witnessed the tragedy. Chief
of Police Joe Taviglione was standing
150 feet away and saw the first shot
fired. By the time he had reached tho
scene, pounced upon the slayer and
snatched away the revolver, three other
shots had been fired, polntblank. into
the victim's body, killing him instantly.
Corfeno offered no resistance. He has
ii wife and five children.
Fight Wins Her $3 00 Rise.
DENVER. Feb. 2. The controversy
ower the appointment of Miss Clara
Ru th Mozzer as Fourth Assistant At
torney General has led to the abolish
ment of the office by the Legislature
and to her selection as Third Assistant
Attoiiney-General. with an advance of
$300 .(-early in salary, it was announced.
The' 'Vhird Assistant Attorney-General
resigned to accept another office and
Miss IVIozzer will be named for his
place. Women's organizations joined in
the fig tit to prevent the dismissal or
Miss Mitzzer by abolishment of her of
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