Gives Poland
Chain of Banks
Scene From the Spanish War in Morocco
American Amateur Banker De j space. Csually the bank occupied one
corner of the blacksmith's shop, or a
velops Successful Method of
back room in a seed store.
First Bought Food.
Financing Bankrupt
With their borrowed funds the farm
Provinces.
ers first bought a square meal for their
families, and hauled timber from near
by forests to build new homes. Farm CALF CURED BY BUTTERMILK
tools and live stock were so scarce \
that many long shopping trips had to Stung by Bees and Near Death When
be made. One eager customer trudged
Expert Applies Remedy Which
70 miles for a spade to dig up bis gar-
Worke Quickly.
With Borrowed Funds Farmers First den. Many a man walked 20 to 30
Fed Families, Then Set Out to
miles and returned leading his new i Middletown, N. Y.—A pedigreed calf
Rebuild Homes and Prepare
horse loaded with seed hags, and drag- ! five months, old, grazing at rope’s
K*ng a plowshare. Two buni|>er crops length, felt the urge to wander, pulled
for Their Crops.
have been produced by the clients of the stake and youthllke ami unwisely
New York.—Chains of things are no this chain of banks und much of the nibbled the clover path of appetite
longer a novelty in this country. We money has already been repaid, with straight up to a dozen hives of honey
are accustomed now to 10, la, 25-cent 4 per cent interest. Not only did they bees. The rope wrapped itself around
That the war of the Spanish against the Morocco tribesmen Is “civilized," warfare is ludlcateil by this photo»
stores, tea stores, sausages, drug save their own provinces from famine, the hives. The bees wrapped them
graph
of Spanish engineers constructing a pontoon bridge In tlie fighting zone.
but
they
sent
great
shipments
of
food
stores, self-service groceries, and beau
selves around the calf.
ty parlors, all done In chains. In Po products Into neighboring stricken sec- j All the blue blood in his vealy car
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
cass leaped into burning lumps. They
land they have taken up this idea, tlons.
0
»
stung him from Ids bleating lips to
starting out by establishing their banks
4
i Huge Buck Deer
In chains. Not Just a few huge re MEXICO CITY ARMS POLICE his wildly waving tail. Every time lie
4
made a new leap of agony they bored
gional affairs like our federal reserves,
*
Attacks an Auto 44
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___
but hundreds of little farm loan banks Pistols Replace Sticks When Public him in a new place. The calf was
t
in a fair way to die when Its owner,
scattered among the villages of the
\
Pittsfield, Muss.—With both « »
Criticizes Inefficiency of
Melvin Turks came along.
Lublin and Cholm areas.
* headlights smashed and the uiud- t
Gendarmes.
1‘arks knows calves, bees and blue
t guards of his automobile bent, 4 4
To be sure, the system was Installed
J Walter C. ltoehelo of tills city 4
by an American and It was American
Mexico City.—The purchase of 2.000 blood. He Just got a tubful of butter
« says Ids car was attacked by a 44
money that tilled the empty, dusty pistols by Governor Gasca of the fed- , milk and gave that calf a buttermilk
on nn unprecedented scale. Such cur
vaults. That Is, where there were any eral district Is taken ns an indication bath. In fifteen minutes the calf was Star Sleuths Prepare to Solve rents. culled "strays" or "atmosphe J great buck, estimated to weigh •
i 400 pounds, ltoehelo was pro- 44
vaults. Dr. John A. Morehead, Euro- here that Mexico City gendarmes looking for clover aguln.
Mystery When Planet Is
rics,” have been occasionally Inter
»
hereafter
are
to
be
armed.
peun commissioner for the National
preted us signals from Mura, when J ceedlng toward Pittsfield when 4
Nearest in 1924.
Naval Reserves Mustered Out.
The local police department for
t
he saw the herd of deer In the 4
Luther Council of America, Is the
they cuine with a regularity that
t
Washington.—The naval reserve of
nmateur banker who set up this no some time has been severely criti
seemed to be directed by a human J road. Four bucks and three »
cized
for
inefficiency.
This
was
at
the
United
States
Is
virtually
abolished
tably successful method of financing
*
does
Jumped
to
one
side,
hut
the
»
Intelligence.
Rut they huve been
i
whole provinces of bankrupt, home tributed to the fact that they were under an order Issued by Secretary
shown most unmistakably to be con J lender snorted nud, with horns t
allowed to carry no arms and were Denby disbanding all classes except
*
lowered,
leu
pis
I
nt
the
auto,
less people of Europe.
»
nected with sun stmts.
t
dependent solely upon a stick to en one and six. and affecting approxi
Works Out Simple Method.
The scheme, attributed to I). David ! , which was going slowly. The «
force their commands.
mately 155,000 men of the reserve.
*
Impact
stopped
the
touring
car
»
Ferhnps It wus the commissioner’s
Scientific Eyes to Strain at Telescopes Todd of Amherst, a well-known us- j i and stunned the buck.
»
4
very greenness at hanking technical
tronomer,
of
using
a
great
abandoned
j
and Wireless to Be Tried to Read
<
t
mine shaft In Chile for the muking of
ities that did the trick, lie worked
♦
Sky Secret—Chilean
a colossal telescope, has been the sub
out the simplest, easiest, quickest
Venture Derided.
ject of no little scientific discussion.
This shaft, which Is said to huve u tor, would magnify 25,</X),000 times,
New York.—The secret of Mars may
00-foot diameter. Is located near the which would bring Stars optically with
he rend In 1924 when ttie red planet
equator. It is, therefore. In the plane in a mile and a half of the earth. At
makes Its closest approach to earth,
mi which the earth and all the other first thought this would seem to give
I although astronomers are skeptical of
planets whirl round the sun. The the astronomers n sight of Slurs equiv
the theory of Marconi that the Mar
shaft telescope bus the disadvantage alent to that which an air pilot ob
tians are signaling us by wireless,
(bat It could never he shifted, anil tains of the enrth ns lie fill's a mile
Transport Agent Grasps Beast’s hunter and the literature of the chasi ami tnke no stock in the 00-foot whirl could only be used for that part of anil u half above It. At that height
Is almost endless.
Not all liol ing dish of quicksilver which It is the heavens which passes over It. Rut nn airman could see cities, towns anil
Tongue During Battle. But Is
hunters are strictly truthful, however promised will magnify the power of it is calculated that Mars will pass individual buildings, farms, orchards
“For Instance, in a remote Afrlcai vision to 25,000,000 times its normal directly over it w lieu it becomes a big, nnd a thousand marks of the nctlvlty
Eventually Killed.
village," says the writer, “I once cam« strength.
of man. Under the same advantages
red disk in 1924.
In 1824 Mars will come within about
across a deeply tanned prospector
an astronomer would soon know all
Many Astronomers Scoff.
Ite-
hunter, who swore that Ids fuvorit« 35.000. 000 miles of the earth.
Many astronomers huve scoffed nt about Slurs, where the creations of In
method of hunting lions was to get th< cause of Its eccentric orbit, compared the theory of such n colossal tel- telligent beings are believed to ex
animals to sneeze themselves to death to the more nearly circular one of the escojie, alleging that If the mechani ist on a much grander scale than on
“ ‘It is quite simple,' lie sutd. *Ir enrth. Mars approaches that close only cal difiicultics could be overcome the earth.
One Explains Simple Method of lion country you build a little arch oi once In fifteen years.
The
enormous magnification sought would I But here n difficulty arises.
In 1924 observatories will be much
stone. Just big enough to allow tin
Making Animals Sneeze Themselve»
lie useless, because the observer would | nirmun Is unconscious of the rota
better
equipped
to
study
Mnrs
than
lion
to
enter
with
comfort.
Hut
yoi
to Death— Story About the
set» nothing hut n blur. On a small tion of the earth, because gravity pulls
must tnke care to build It of Jagg»*« they were in 1909, w lien the planet last
Roosevelt Expedition.
scale. Dr. Robert Williams Wood of the earth and air and the airplane
stones anil to see that the center stoiu appeared at Its biggest and reddest in
Jobns-Hopklns
had built a practical with a uniform motion, (in the other
In 1921 Mars will he the
London.— From Nairobi. East Africa, of the arch Is a particularly Jaggei our sky.
concave-mirror telescope on Long hand. If Slurs were brought within a
one.
cynosure
of
telescopes
all
over
the
says a writer In the London Dally
Island by rotating a basin of mercury mile nnd a half of the earth It would
“ ‘Then you go out and shoot n zebrr earth. The 100 Inch Hooker telescope
Mail, comes a thrilling story of the
until
the liquid metal shaped itself Into he whirling so rapidly that the fea
death of a transport agent named or some other toothsome creature iron at Mt. Wilson, nnd tlie marvelous the proper concavity.
There are tures of the landscape would he lost
instruments
and
methods
for
analyz
the
lion’s
point
<
>
f
view.
You
drag
tin
Klopper, who, pinned down by a
limits to Its use, however, according to the eye, as are markings on the
lioness he had wounded, made a corpse under the arch, pep)>er II ing light which are in use there, may to astronomers. If the attempt Is propellers of an airplane revolving at
definitely solve tlie questiou whether
desperate bid for victory by putting heavily and then retire to your teul
made to build the abandoned mine tel- full si>ced.
to sleep.
Mars is Inhabited.
both hands into the animal's mouth
escope.
If a magnification of 25,000,000
As the distance of Mars from the
Dr. John A. Morehead.
and gripping its tongue.
Tiie grentest telescopes now In use times or anything like It could be ac
Sneezes Self to Death.
enrth
varies
from
85,000,000
to
284.-
Africa Is a paradise for the Hon
sometimes achieve a power of 3,000 complished the observer could only see
methods, because he did not know any
“ ‘In the night the lion comes, 000,000 miles, the wireless signals from times as greut as flint of the unaided a small patch of Stars. Mars rotates
better. What he did know was that
creeps under the arch to his feast, gets ! that planet, if there are any, will hnve vision. This Is oidy when the state Its 12,000-nillo circumference once In
thousands of fertile farm lands In the
his nose tilled w ith pepper, and has an j u better chance to register In 1924 of the atmosphere is at Its best. Or- u little more thnn 24 hours, so that
devastated sections of Poland w ere1
Overpowering Inclination to sneeze. He over the comparatively brief span of (llnurily astronomers have to he con at Its equator It Is making a s|teed
lying barren and desolate, and that j
Find Skeletons of
sneezes, nnd In the act throws up Id- 35.000. 000 miles.
tent with much less, sometimes with of about ten miles n minute, or about
the farmers, most of them returned
Those "Signals” From Mar*.
bend and dashes Ids brains out on tin
Prehistoric
Beasts
a magnification of 2l»> or 300.
five times the speed of n racing car.
exiles, were helpless, robbed of their
center Jagged stone of your nrch.'
For the last 20 years Mars has
"The atmosphere fixes nn outside If the observers were content with see
implements, and with their homes in
"I do not vouch for the truth o: been reported frequently to l>e a t limit of magnification,” said Dr. Frank ing Stars 15 miles off, the portion vis
Toronto.— From
the
rocky
ashes. Furthermore, he knew what j
that story.’’
tempting tn signal to us by wireless Schlesslnger, director of the Yule ob ible to them would still he streaming
tombs In which they hnve been
miracles American money could bring
A party of men trekking In Rhodesia I rays, by flashes of light, nnd even, ac servatory.
preserved since prehistoric days,
"Limitless
magnifying past the telescope nt the rate of a
about if louned to these sturdy, cour- 1
In an ox wagon heard a commotion cording to some Imaginative specu powers could not lie used. Telesciqies mile a minute.
the skeletons of four huge dino
ageous peasants.
Also, lie had the
one night among their tethered oxen. I l a t e s , by writing sign messages of will probably be made larger than at
saurs, those gigantic and mys
A camera of Instantaneous action
cash that American Lutherans had
; and rushing toward the spot puui|>cd planet-wide size over the latitudes by present for use on mountain tops and ■night take pictures at this s|ieed on
terious creatures that roamed
sent. That was all that was neces
about a dozen shots Into the heaving ' means of the Mnrs cnnnl system. It especially favorable locations, but the enrth, hut It mult) not he made nn
the plains of this continent some
sary. Without a single nourish of red
mass from a distance of, say, fort.v has even been suggested that we ac tendency Is to lose In distinctness ns Stars.
millions of years ago, have been
A magnification of 25,900,000
tape, Doctor Morehead got busy, and
yards.
knowledge receipt by forming words magnifying power Increases.
disinterred by a party of scien
Event times would incnn that the light of
through local committees a long string
The mass diminished, nnd they ad j In vegetation over the blank of the ually the object gazed on becomes a Slurs would be diluted to one twenty-
tists and will shortly be Installed
of little hanks were opened. It took
vnneetl to find one of tlielr oxen hor Sahara desert.
In the Royal Ontario museum.
blur, ns If seen through a hent haze. five-millionth part of Its brightness la
$280,000 to load up the tills, because
The Marconi wireless communica Only through great Instruments like the sky, which would not he adequate
rltti.v mauled by lions.
The find was made near Puricia,
by the time It passed through that
Alberta, by a party sent out from
They “dosed" the corpse with strych j tion theory Is more plausible than that at Mount Wilson, nnd then only fur rapid-fire photography or even for
highly prejudiced European exchange, !
the museum, anil Included two
nine
and retired to their camp. The.i liny of the others, because that great under most favorable conditions have ordinary vision.
It wus transformed Into stacks and I
practically complete skeletons of
heard
the lions busy at the enrens- { Inventor rejmrts that he has picked objects magnified os much ns 3,000
bales of purple, green, nnd gray-blue
the duck billed dinosuurs and
all
night,
und in the morning they up wireless waves 100 miles long, times been seen with an unblurred
marks. Opening ceremonies were ex
DEER FLEES TO MEN FOR AID
two Incomplete specimens. The
found
that
Hie dead ox had practically wlille tiie greatest produced on earth vision.
tremely Informal.
Crowds attended -
hy artificial menus are about ten
skeleton
of
the
larger
of
the
two
disappeared,
hut
lying
near
the
spot
If
Mars
Were
a
Mile
Away.
however, many standing outside for
Many ways of explain
complete specimens measureJ
were five full grown Hons—two male- miles long.
The mine telescope, If It met the Doe Runs With Fawn Into Lumber
hours for their turn to pay their re
ing this have occurred to skeptics, but sanguine expectation of It projec-
Camp In California to Escape
about 32 feet In length.
* and three females—all poisoned.
spects to the note teller. The com
tiie Marconi signals have more tn
Mountain Lion.
That
wns
a
very
runslilernhle
hag
mittees had economized upon floor
got by Illegitimate means, but lien > them to Interest conservative scien
Downlevllle, Cal.—That a wild deer
Is the true story of a better hag got tists than any of the previous types.
HERE’S A REAL ROMANCE
There was a sensation In 1900 when
when hard pressed hy some enemy of
legitimately. Incidentally, It Is n very
the animal kingdom will throw Itself
Interesting example of sportsmen’s It was reported that signaling from
Mars had been detected at Hie Lowell
upon the mercy of Its human enemy
lurk :
was proved near here recently when
When the late President Roosevelt | observatory at Flagstaff, Arlx. This
a doe led her fawn Into the wagon
nnd his son Hermit went to Rrltlsli j wns based on a misunderstanding of
yard of a lumber camp to escape a
| East Africa, tn list!), they were nr a telegraph message concerning some
mountain lion.
' eotnpanled on their hunting trip by projected lights over the rim of Mars.
The loggers were Just starting for
the late F. C. Selous, one of the , Instead of presenting a perfect out
line, Mars showed slight excrescences
the woods when the deer dashed ap
greatest hunters that ever lived.
of light.
These were calculated to
pealingly In, the lion hovering in the
lie from 17 to 30 miles above the sur
fringe of timber.
Roosevelt’s Luck.
face of the planet.
The doe and fawn stayed In camp
Scions was particularly anxious to I
Similar Projections From Moon.
until apparently satisfied that all Im
secure a specimen of the East African
mediate danger was |>usse«|.
Similar Isolated projections of light
tdnck-HMined lion, bat on the whole had been seen on the moon, but this
i trip he never even got a shot at one was easily discovered to he (lie sun
S c h o o l H o u s o a D ist ille ry .
j Rut Theodore Roosevelt got three and j light tipping the mountain tops, an
Emerson, Man.—When citizens of
| Hermit Roosevelt eight—and neither effect visible on earth In mountain- ,
this town spread retmrts that an old
of them had ever been on an African I ous country when tiie rising sun gilds
Isolated school house. In which mys
game bunting expedition before !
the summits when the lower parts
terious lights were seen, was Infested
Some years ago a party of Greeks of the mountains and the valleys are
with "spirits,” they were right Rut
trekking through Portuguese Zambesi a still in darkness.
the spirits were of the uioonshlne va
were followed for days by a guard old
Rut Mars has no mountains, ac
riety. The school house, which had
lion, who took one of their donkeys cording to general agreement among
lie«*n sold to a farmer recently, was
j each night until only one of the whole 1 observers. It wns believed also to be
visited hy the polb-e. On the teacher’s
! team «a« left.
almost cloudless.
The occasional
platform they found a huge still, with
This donkey the terrified Greeks ! high lights, however, are now agreed
•»ere determined to retain at all C' -ts to have been clouds which are thought 1 The master of Klnloss, grandson of a capacity of 45 to 05 gallons dally.
When they made their camp that to occur, though somewhat rarely.
the late duke of Rurklnghnin and son
night they built around It a great
City Gets Big Fund.
Electric currents which apparently of the Rareness Klnloss, with his bride,
stockade of bnsbes and thorns, and In wander through eternity hit the earth the former Katherine Rentrlce Mac
Manchester, England.—A pageant
the renter of It they tethered the sole here and there, causing a mysterious kenzie Jackman, daughter of a village parade brought In $25.01») for the ben
A wayside scene at Baranovltrhl, Russia, showing a mother combing surviving donkey to their tent pole. hissing and crackling In wireless ap blacksmith whose forge Is situated on efit of Mezieres, France, which lias
the head of her child w :tl » pb<e of wood. IV tu res like this are seen along Rut nothwithstsndlng these preven paratus and sometimes upsetting hu the hlatorlc ancestral estate of Stowe. been adopted by Manchester. The re-
thousands of miles throughout the famine-stricken section, where the Amer tions, that night the pertinacious old man electrical contrivances, as the The young master of Kinbias is a built French city Is dedicating a
ican relief committee Is engaged In aiding the unfortunate*.
lion got the last donkey.
great magnetic storm of last May did , clergyman.
street to Manchester In return.
INNOVATION PLEASES PEOPLE
Science Seeks
Secret of Mars
MANY THEORIES ADVANCED
Fight for Life
W ith Lioness
HUNTERS TELL WEIRD TALES
First Picture From Famine Region