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DRIVE STARTS IN MEXICO
Revolutionists Forming to Advance
on Capital of Country.
Oil lias been discovered in the Tan
li.im riiatrirt nriiir Tuxuan. state of
Vera Cruz.
Tho United States supreme court
announced Monday It would recess
from December 10 to January 2.
The 13 convicts who escaped from
the Kansas state penitentiary late
Sunday by burrowing through an
abandoned tunnel are still at liberty.
liesides having his message to con
gress broadcast to tho four corners
of tho United States, President Cool
idgo may got back a permanent record
of It registered on a long string of
piano wire.
Tho finding of a boy's skeleton, to
gether with evidence making identifi
cation positive, in a swamp near Gree
ley, Pike county, Pennsylvania,
brought to an end a search of more
than eight years.
An unknown man, believod to be a
tramp, was burned to deatli in a fire
that deslroyed the farmers' warehouse
elevator at Irby, Wash., Tuesday. Loss
on tho building, which was empty, was
fixed at 10,000 to $12,000.
Charles Kunkel, internationally
known pianist, and ranked nationally
as one of the leading music publishers,
died in St. Louis Monday at tho age
of 83 years. Mr. Kunkel was a native
of Germany.
Prohibition agents are not civil of
ficers in any strict or constitutional
sense, Federal Judgo Woodrougb of
Omaha declared Tuesday in a written
opinion. Ho also stated they are with
out lawful authority to servo search
warrants.
Ono of the articles of Tutankha
men's funerary stnto in which iiiikI-
emu. citncciullv women, will lake a
sentimental as well as artistic Inter
est, Is the Pharaoh's great ostrich
feather fan, now awaiting treatment
in the tomb of Set! H, which has been
fitted up as a laboratory.
Slgnor Marconi, pioneer In the field
of wireless communication, declares
his belief that a revolution In the
method! employed for communication
with distant countries would bo pos
Hiblo as the outcome of important
li sts carried out by himself and C. S
Franklin, (ho Ilritlsh expert.
A duel with opees, ending In a
trickle of blood from ono of the rivals'
right forearm, and kissing and recon
dilation between Hie two antagonists,
took place Tuesday at Varenne, St
lllllaire on tho Marne, between Slgnor
Hi li t II. a Corsican statesman, and
Henri Omessa, a Corsican editor.
Tho work of finding the bodies of
the 000 or more victims of the Hit
gamo. Italy, flood disaster continues
over tho extended zone devastated by
(be waters, but the rescue parties are
encountering difficult Ion. The water
has receded, leaving Uergamo valley
burled under several feet of mud.
Crude oil waste from tin1 Arkansas
oil fields, flowing on tho surface of
tho Oulchitu river, is causing tin
death of thousands of wild ducks, uc
cording to hunters who have been
along tho stream north of Monroe.
The oil gums the feathers of tho birds
making it impossible for them either
to fly or swim.
Itroadus White Sox, a senior year
ling Aberdeen Angus steer owned by
A. A. Armstrong of Camargo, 111.
Tuesday was crowned the grand chain
pion of the International Livestock
show at Chicago. In accordance with
the custom, tho fate of tho grand
champion Is to bo slaughtered for
Christmas beef.
The tariff commission reported to
congress Monday that rate changes
on 127 commodities had been applied
for thus far under the flexible pro
visions of the tariff law. Thirty four
of the applications were for changes
in rates on chemicals. Investigations
Into rate schedules ordered by the
commission number 33.
Mrs. Kthel O. Glliksen of South
Vera Cruz. The column of revolu
tionists, proceeding by way of the
inter-oceanic railway for Mexico City,
is taking with it four batteries of 75
millimeter guns and four batteries of
machine guns, in addition to sufficient
ammunition for both categories. The
column was able to increase its gun
power from pieces obtained from the
San Juan de Ulua castle and from the
warships In the harbor here.
Another column of troops, said to
be under tho personal command of
General Guadalupe Sanchez, Is being
formed and will go toward tho capital
by way of tho Mexican railway to aid
the columns already advancing.
Advices from the port of Frontera
said that Colonel Vivanlo was carry
ing out tho orders sent him by revolu
tionary headquarters here to march on
Villa llermosa, capital of tho state of
Tobasco, against Governor Garrido, a
follower of President Ohregon.
Wireless communication between
headquarters in Vera Cruz and the
headquarters of General Enrique Es-
trado, commander of the western
forces, was being freely carried out.
Among tho new prisoners who ar
rived hero Monday from Jalapa, which
was captured by the revolutionists
Saturday, is Angel Casarin, who was
acting governor of the state in the
ibsence in Mexico City of Governor
Tejeda.
New Boiler Reduces
Electric Cost Half
Hartford, Conn. Production of elec-
tricity for power and lighting purposes
at approximately one-half tho present
financial cost by the use of the new
mercury boiler process, tho success of
which was recently announced by the
inventor, William Leroy Emmet of the
General Electric company, was dem
onstrated hero before representatives
of the press at tho Dutch Point plant
of the Hartford Electric Light com
pany. Representatives of tho com
pany, who have been operating the
only commercial mercury boiler in
xistonco as part of tho local plant,
xplained tho process, which was de
scribed by them as revolutionary and
the greatest advance in this respeel
since the invention of tho steam tur
bine,
How soon it will be possible to pass
this decreased cost of production on
to the consumer in form of reduced
rntoB for electricity was said to bf
dependent entirely on tho possibility
hi producing mercury boilers for com
mercial purposes. While still in an
experimental stago they stated the
operation of the boiler as a unit of the
Hartford plant has boon entirely suc
cessful. Tho production of enough mercury
in lake care of I he demand w hich will
follow tho manufacture of mercury
boilers was admitted to be another
problem which might enter Into the
general commercial use of tho now
procesi.
NTERIOR REVENUES
SHOW BIG
INCREASE
Secretary Work's Department
Has Great Record.
OIL LEASES PAY WELL
Indian Affairs and Patent Office Re
ceipts Take Big Jump. Alaska
Railroad Improves.
Washington, D. C Hubert Wori;,
secretary of the interior, in his annual
report to the president, which was
transmitted to the congress Saturday,
says:
My tenure of office as secretary of
the interior extends over but a small
part of the past fiscal year. I took
the oath of office on March 5 and the
fiscal year expired on June 30, 1923.
The department of the interior, in
eluding its various bureaus and insti
tutions, appears to have a remarkable
record during the fiscal year contain
ed in this report. The appropriations
for its operation during the 12 months'
period amounted to 327,931,100.07,
which is a sum $22,584,159 less than
was appropriated for its maintenance
during the previous fiscal year ol
1922. Notwithstanding this large re
duction in appropriations to cover its
expenses, the receipts of tho depart
ment have increased from approxi
mately $48,012,528.95 in 1922 to ap
proximately $63,5G6,G41.08 in 1923, or
a gain of $14,954,112.13.
Most of this increase came from
royalties on oil leases on Indian lands,
the gain id receipts in the bureau of
Indian affairs during the fiscal year
of 1923 over 1922 totaling $14,722,000.
Tho patent office increased its rev
enues from applications and from the
sale of photo-lithographic copies of
patonts, trado marks, etc., by the sum
of $156,000.
The revenues from the Alaska rail
road through additional passenger and
freight traffic, increased about $191.
000, followed by the bureau of miues
with a gain in receipts of $134,900.
the national park sorvices with a gain
of $75,800, the geological survey with
a gain of $51,000 and tho bureau ol
education with a gain of $1451 in iis
receipts from sales of its publications.
Only three bureaus showed losses in
receipts.
Tho functions of the interior depart
ment are both constructive and elee
mosynary. Eliminating the eleemosy
nary bureaus and institutions and also
moneys appropriated for the payment
of pensions, Its annual cash receipts
exceed Its expenditures. In addition
a campaign of rigid governments!
ouomy is being conducted.
Bonds to Be Offered.
Tacoma, Wash. The Tacoina mu
nicipal sinking fund board, composed
of Mayor A. V. Fawcett, Commission
er J. W. Silver of tho finance depart
ment and J. M. Roberts, controller,
will meet at the end of ten days anil
decide on a dato for bids on tho $4,
000,000 boud lssuo for unit No. 2 of
the Cushman power project on the
Skykomlsh river in Mason couuty.
That there would have beeu a mar
ket among Tacoma citizens for the
bonds had the council seen fit to dis
pose of $1,000,000 of them in $100 and
$500 denominations was asserted by
Mayer Fawcett, a number having
called on th emayor to say they were tlu third section crashed into the rear
il Isappoillioil in noi Having h wan
to buy bonds nt smaller denoni illa
tions than $1000.
Nine Killed In Train Crash.
Erie, Pa. Nine persons wero killed
and seven others injured, two prob
ably fatally, when the third section
of the Twentieth Century limited of
tho Now York Central railroad, yost
bound, telescoped the first section
near Forsythe, N. Y., 35 miles east of
here, Sunday morning.
The second section, which had gone
ahead of the first section at Albany,
when it encountered engine trouble,
struck an abandoned automobile at
tho Forsythe crossing. The train was
stopped to dotermino if any casualties
had resulted, and after placing dan
ger signals at the crossing the second
section proceeded. The first section
stopped to Investigate the signals and
Worker's Vision Is Poor.
Differential Is Upheld.
Washington, D. C. --Transcontinental
railroads were held justified Mon
duy by the interstate commerce com
mission In refusing to give the saint
rates on fruits and vegetables shipped survey of eyesight needs iu th
from Pacific coast points via Chicago Don's industry.
Into the southeast quarters of the In the Detroit plant of the Ford
I'nlted Stales as are given when traf- Motor Car company, says the report.
New York. -Fully 25.000,000 gain
fully employed Americans are suffer
ing from defective vision, it was an
nounced Saturday by tho eyesight
conservation council of America in
making public a partial report of ita
nu
nc Is routed via Memphis, East Si.
Louis or New Orleans.
Although shippers' organizations
protested the rates via Chicago, the
commission decided that tho route
29.000 out of 00,000 workers havi
feetivo vision.
de
Crisis Looms in Vienna.
Vienna. A govt rum. tit.il . risi . has
was too circuitous to justify the roads arisen OVOr tho insistent demands of
iu using it without a collection of ex
tru freight.
Portland. Me., placed hor 10 months
old daughter on the redhot coals In , by which ho recovered control of nine
the postal, telephone and telegraph
employes for increased pay. Chan
cellor Sclpel met a threat of a general
Government Loses Suit. strike by saying that in such an event
Washington. D. C -The government his ministry would resign. The gov-
falled in the supreme court Monday eminent insists It Is unable to matt
in an effort fo have mulshed a suit tile demands
won by Edward F. Goltra of St. Louis.
ME. BEAK WAS COLD
MR. BEAR was not very old. If
he had been he would not have
made the mistake he did once upon a
time.
Mr. Bear was a young bachelor. His
mother had warned him he should
take a wife, but Mr. Bear had said he
wanted some fun and did not wish to
be burdened with a wife tugging after
him..
"You will be sorry when it conies
winter," his mother told him. "It Is
lonesome living all alone and then you
will need someone to look after mak
ing your winter bed. Take my advice
and find a mate."
But no, Mr. Bear would not do this.
Instead he trotted off to another part
of the forest to live where his mother
could not nag him about getting mar
ried. He did have a jolly time. Nobody
to ask him where he was going or
when he was coming back and eating
all the honey he found and not hav
ing to share it with anyone. Oh, how
German Treaty Signed.
Washington. D. C. The new com-
her kitchen stove Tuesday, the police teen barges and tour towboats.
said, because she believed that spirits The craft had been turned over mercial treaty between the I nited
from Cod had called for the sacrifice! to him by the government soon States and Germany was signed Sat
of the baby and that she "soon was to after the war under a contract , urday by Secretary Hughes and Am-
follow. Neighbors heard the screams which gave him the right to pur-j bnssador Wledfeldt. The pact takes
of her other children and rescued the! chase them ut their appraised , the place of that abrogated during the
infant. value. I world war.
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"The Life of a Jolly Bachelor for
Him."
foolish he would have been, he
thought, If he had listened to his moth
er and taken a mate. Now lie could
sleep where night overtook him and
in the morning get up or stay in bed
Just as he liked. Yes, indeed, the life
of a jolly bachelor for him, vas what
Mr. Bear had decided upon.
The fall bad been nice and sunny,
so warm tbat It was late when Mr.
Bear crept into his house for his win
ter sleep.
He did not stop up the cracks or
openings to his house for the snow
when it came would do that, he re
membered his father had said. But
what be did not know was that his
mother always provided plenty of dry
lnov.w find L'PllSS.
Mr. Bear had not chosen bis home
wisely, either, for it was in the loca
tion where the cold north wind would
whistle through all the openings If the
snow did not come and close them.
But these things did not bother Mr.
Bear, then, for he was very fat when
he went to bed, and It was warm
enough In his bouse. So he gave a
few grunts and snuggled himself up
for a good long sleep.
He slept for a long time, It was
past the time for the first snow, hut
it had not come. And poor Mr. Bear
awoke and shivered; then he sneezed.
He rolled himself up tighter, but It
tvns nn use! he was cold.
Without opening his eyes he began
to feel for more bedcoverlngs there
were none. He had not thought about
coverings when he went to sleep.
The wind whistled and shrieked
about his bouse and through it as well.
Mr. Bear could feel it blowing his fur
and he was not as fat as he was when
he crept Into bed. He would have to
get up and get more bedding, that was
certain.
Poor Mr. Bear crept out of bis house
and began to hunt. It was a desolate
looking place outside, no green leaves
or grass, only dry twigs and bits of
grass tufts and dead leaves.
He worked a long time before he
had enough to make his bed comfort
able and decided' that his mother knew
more about what he needed than he
did. "The very first thing I do In the
spring," said Mr. Bear as he pulled
his bedding around him, "is to find
some nice Miss Bruin and ask her to
be my mate. This bachelor life is all
right in the spring and summer time,
but when It comes to winter and the
house needs looking after a fellow
needs a wife mother was right."
I by McCIure Newapaper Syndicate.)
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HAND
How to read your char
acteristics and tenden
cies toe capabilities or
weaknesses that mailt
for success or failure
as shown in your palm.
THE HAND OF A DOCTOR
TOR a successful physician, the line
of fortune, which starts at the line
of life, near Its end, and runs to the
finger of Mercury, the little finger,
should be strong and well marked, to
indicate personal merit. The mount
of Mercury Itself sometimes hears two
parallel vertical lines, to show suc
cessful ability In the healing profes
sion, and the making of money there
by. Lines on the same finger, running
from the bottom phalanx to the top
of the middle phalanx, show scientific
or medical knowledge.
The mount of Mnrs, lying between
the outer ends of the line of the heart
and the line of the head, should be
well marked, to signify courage, pres
ence of mind and quickness In diag
nosis. The same qualities are shown
by what Is called sometimes "the sec
ond mount of Slars," lying at or near
the Junction of the thumb with the
rest of the hand ; that Is, above the
mount of Venus, the ball of the
thumb.
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Ostrich My, what a nice restau
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future!
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MEN YOU MAY MARRY
By E. R. PEYSER
Has a Man Like This Proposed
to You?
Symptoms: Soft voiced, self
made, glories In It, well
groomed, close-fisted, only
spends his time or money on the
girl he thinks wants him for a
spouse. Dependable, unexciting,
likes to play bridge to bridge
his small accomplishments, al
ways ready to do things If yon
suggest them. No education, his
English often on the blink, aw
fully good natured, wears light
top buttoned boots, proud of hi
physique though small In stature.
IN FACT
He is a small proposition.
Prescription to the Bride,:
T A dose of unprohibited
fc stimulants dally and an
other nightly.
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Superstitions
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APRON STRINGS
TF YOUR apron string becomes
loosened your true love is think
ing about you" Is a common supersti
tion with unmarried young women.
This arises from the idea of the an
cients of the magical power of knots
to trammel and obstruct human activi
ties, physical and spiritual. In mat
ters of love and marriage knots might
obstruct the relations between a bride
and groom and act as obstacles to
the course of true love.
Professor Frazer says that as lately
as 1718 "the parliament at Bordeaux
sentenced a person to be burned alive
for having spread desolation through
a whole family by means of knotted
cords"; and cites a case In Scotland
In 1705 where two persons were sen
tenced to death "for stealing certain
charmed knots In order, thereby, to
mar the wedded happiness of Spalding
of Ashintllly." These magic knots,
you see, had to be found and untied in
order that their baleful effects might
cease and the two persons who stole
and secreted them had thus prevented
the untieing.
Now the knot which holds your
apron strings may be a charmed knot,
obstructing the thoughts of love. If
it comes untied of itself your lover's
thoughts flow to you free and unob
structed. Far hack In early classic days ex
amples of this superstition of obstruc
tive knots is found and It prevails to
day among nearly all the savage
tribes of Africa. It Is primitive In Its
origin and based on homeopathic
magic "like produces like."
Itlt, by McCIure Newapaper Syndicate)
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