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feria? Rásame of Happenings of
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Me Week Collected for
Our Readers.
Forty-seven per cent of the eatlmatr
•d merpente of the city of Baker for
1IS1 w ill he met by sources outside of
The total estimated expense
IB flS€,633.
The city of Bandon is looking for a
sew dump site. The present site is
so located that drainage from it flows
across land used by R. R- Davis for a
cranberry bog.
The total tax on motor vehicle fuel
oils during the period January 1 De
cember SI, 1910. was f 1,898,409.27, ac
cording to a report prepared nt Salem
by H al E. Hoaa, secretary < ’ state.
Salea Included S,803,374 gallon i
•lin e and 807,241 gallons of distiiL.:».
All but two small pieces of right of
way for the last section of the W il
lamette bigbway between Black can
yon and Oakridge have been secured
and everything is about in readiness
for the letting of the grading contract
by the federal bureau of public roads.
Property owners of Roseburg will
pay taxes this year slightly higher
than last year. The tax rate w ill be
48.5 mills as compared with 44.6 mills
last year. The Increase Is due to a
8-mlll tax for the north Umpqua high
way and additional levies voted by the
people.
Completion of a tunnel into tho
Ghost chambers of the Oregon caves
has been announced by government
contractors. Regraveling of the high
way leading from the Redwood high
way to the mouth of the caves Is
under way and will be finished before
the spring influx of tourists.
Eugene will entertain the Oregon
older girls* conference March 6, 7 and
8. About 500 delegates and 50 adult
leaders and advisers are expected to
attend. The conference is held under
the auspices of the Oregon Council of
Christian Education.
Bfeymated agricultural production
la the Klamath basin in 1930 was the
basis of a review prepared by C. A.
Henderson, county agent, and released
feacenUy. He gave the approximate
gross Income from agricultural prod
ucts as >5,722,250, or about one million
dollars less than last year's income.
H Work of spreading the coarse gravel
base on the McKensie highway on
grade completed the past summer has
been completed near Walterville. Work
will aow start on spreading the finely
crushed surfacing rock which, when
ssnunsr cornea, w ill be covered with
a two-inch layer of oil and fine rock.
<The Liaebta County Logging com
pany la making preparations to start
tagging operations near T a ft after a
shutdown since September. Only a
«mall crew of local labor will be em
ployed to log a 4,000,000-foot tract,
when It is hoped that conditions will
the camps to open with full
*»John R. Andrus, owner of the Goose
D ak. Valley Irrigation company, has
announced that the stockholders are
willing to sell their irrigation system
la the local ranchers at Lakeview for
8100,000. The debt would be secured
by a mortgage on the 10,000 acres of
land that the project was originally
constructed to serve.
The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon,
CANNIBALS BLOCK
SHIPPING OF GOLD
Hills of the Precious Metal
'* in New Guinea.
San "Francisco.—A fighting scientist,
now on the high seas en route to New
Guizga, told a fascinating story of un
told wealth in that cannibal-infested
country before sailing from this port
on the Matson liner Sonoma.
To the narrator, E. W. P. Chlnnery.
Australian
anthropologist,
fighting
headhunters is an everyday matter in
remotq, sections of the South Seas.
New Guinea is an Australian man
date, and It is Chinnery’s duty to ex
plore the interior with a view to bring
ing the savuge tribes into the fold of
civilization so that some of the wealth
in tlie inaccessible interior may be
exploited.
At present copra Is the leading in
dustry of New Guinea, but mining of
gold may soon surpass it if Chinnery’s
projects are successful.
New Guinsa’s W ealth
Untold.
“There is no more Interesting place
in the q-orid than New Guinea.” Chin-
nery stated before the sailing. ‘‘Its
wealth is untold. There are hills in
the Interior of almost solid gold, yet
the country is so wild as to make
wining operations extremely hazard-,
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Chlnnery outlined some of tlie diffi
culties which confront mining men
who seek to reap some of the interior
country’s natural wealth.
Although thg richest gold mines are
located only thirty miles from the
coast, they are eight days’ Journey on
foot. Mountain peaks 13,000 feet high
must be sealed to reach the gold fields.
In the unconquered sections, the
scientist declared, therfe dwells a sav
age race of cannibals known as Papu
ans. If their spears and arrows bring
down a foe he will be found on the
Papuan menu that evening.
Chlnnery lias headed many parties
into the Jungles of the interior. His
expeditions are always equipped with
modern firearms, which have more
than once saved him and his compan
ions from the soup kettles.
M ake*
Friend» W ith
Savages.
His methods of ‘‘converting” the
savages to friendship are unique. A ft
er defeating the natives in battle, doc
tors treat the wounded, gifts are ex
changed and confidence In the white
man is Implanted.
Once routed In battle, tbe savages
nre quick to fall In line, Chlnnery de
clared. Their friendship is won by the
care the white* give them and the
savages quickly learn the white man's
codes of morals and social relations.
IMnlnig interests. Impatient at the
necessarily long time that Chinnery’s
civilizing process takes, have resorted
to airplanes to carry equipment to the
mining region, but the dangers are
many and it is predicted that it will
be many a day before gold can be
safely brought out of the hills in
large quantity.
Eskimos Wh® Never Saw
. W hite Man Are Found
Montreal.— Eskimo children who had
never seen a white man were discov
ered by Rev. Fr. Duchaussols, official
historian of the congregation of mis
sionaries of the Order of the Oblates
of M ary Immaculate, during a trip
within the Arctic circle In Canada
from which he has Just returned.
These children were overcome by curi
osity and pulled the beards of the mis
sionaries to discover how they were
fastened on.
Fr. Duchaussols left Montreal last
June Knd- covered « total distance
of 6,500 miles of land, water and air
<o visit a handful of Eskimos and In
dians in 20 scattered missions in the
Far North.
Fr. Duchaussols soon will leave
Montreal for the African Jungles. His
parish Is the remote parta of the
world.
A. B. Lewellen, engineer in charge
of j h e bureau of public roads, has es
tablished aa office at T a ft and will
complete the surrey of the Taft-Silets
market road within the next month.
Mr. typeU en has a crew of ten and Bones Prove Man Lived
la pushing the work with all possible
in U. S. 20,000 Years Ago
spaed tg order to help alleviate the
Los
Angeles.— Human bones and
unemployment situation.
man-made Implements which definitely
The BUgene Pageant association, at
. establish the presence of man on the
Its annual -meeting held In Eugene, ^American continent at least 20,000
decided to hold another pioneer pa
years ago, In the pleistocene age,
gaunt in the summer of 1921. The last have been discovered in a gypsum
pageant, the Sunset T rail, was held in
cave, 20 miles from Las Vegas, Nev.,
1929, and at that lima It was planned Dr. James A. B. Scherer, director of
to hold the pageant every three years. the Southwest museum, announced.
The discoveries were made by Mark
The Waahingoa bi-eentennlal may be
R. Harrington, with the assistance of
linked with th .1 9 3 2 pageant
the California Institute of Technology
Federal Income tax la Oregon In
and the Carnegie Institute at Wash
1980 was $1.098,681 lees than In 1929,
ington.
seconding to comparative statement of
Tbe remains were found eight feet
Internal revenue receipts Just issued below the floor of thfe cave. vAt the
by the treasury department The re same ground level were found the
ceipts for 1929 were 88.057,883 and in bones of the ground sloth, Nothrothe-
riurn, known to have existed only In
1930 they fell off to 84,987,662. The
taxes from all sources collected by the the pleistocene age, Doctor Scherer
said.
government from Oregon amounted to
88^805,686 In 1929 and were 85,302,084
Bullet Ends Smoke Dream
ln lt iO .
There was a total of 71,494 tests of
as Man “Load»” His Pipe
Oregon cattle for infectious abortion
Circleville. Ohl'*.—John Peters, a
during the year 1930, according to a
resident of a small community near
T report prepared at Salem by Dr. W
here, recently purchased a supply of
cartridges at a hardware store,
ne
IL Lytle, secretary of the state live
stock sanitary board.
These testa placed the shells In a rear trousers
ware made by the livestock sanitary pocket and went home.
Not long after having made the pur
board In co-operation with the Oregon
chase he decided to smoke his pipe.
State eeliege. la 1929 a total of 37.836 He reached for his tobacco pouch, filled
tests were made. The percentage av his briar, and “lighted up.”
erage, of reactors was 10.8 in 1980, as
H e took a few pufTs and settled back
compared with 10.6 the previous year.
to dream.
An explosion awakened him from
Tbe big landslide on the Siuslaw his reverie. An Investigation revealed
highway th a j has bothered contractors
that one of the bullets he had bought
ever since grading work was started
had found Its way Into the tobacco
pouch and then into the pipe.
below Mapleton is again reported to
ba oa the move. It broke 800 feet
above the railroad track and threatens
If a public official neglects his duty,
to aaove farther down.
he is considered inefficient, and if
Tbe entire 1911 crop of tbe Wood- he does it, then he is accused of
• bum Fruit Growers* Co-operative as- truckling for votes.
eodatiou. estimated to reach 2000
tone, bafe'beea contracted for at a
fixed price that la said to be aatisfao- - Good * opportunities are always
tory to growers and in almost every knocking, and some people are will
ing to accept them if somebody else
onto la ns high as that of last year.
will get up and open the door.
(© by McClure Newapapar Syndicate. >
Bella knew the dangers that larked
fo r Minna, and she knew, too, tho
dangers that lurked for herself. Mis
taken renunciation. Futility of sacri
fice under certain conditions. I t took
courage to realize th a t Sometimes
there crept into Bella’s., heart the Im
pulse to cast aside this impending op
portunity for happiness, and let her
destiny flow /along with her sister’s.
B ut most of the time Bella kept her
courage in band. Why wreck her own
chance of happiness and possibly
Myron Dodge’s when she was not even
sure of achieving happiness by such a
renunciation, for Minna?
And so when Myron Dodge, fifty,
hale, hearty, wholesome and astonish
ingly welhto-do, actually proposed
marriage to Bella Mitten across a
counter where, for twenty years, she
had dispensed needles, spool-thread.
Invisible hairpins and huck toweling,
a heart-hurting situation was created.^
There enters the fam iliar complica
tion of an, older sister impelled to
renunclate, in the name of the
younger. And it must be said that
Minna, perhaps because she was
frailer, fought off, if not in actual
words, then with the terror of her
manner, this marriage of her sister’s
Minna was frightened, desolated, panic
stricken. It seemed impossible that
she could go in a world that contained
Bella, married.
And the marvel of it is that Belin
did not make the stupid sacrifice In
the name • of" sisterly love. After a
struggle. It is true, a long heart-break
ing one, and with Minna’s unspoken
attitude making It all the more d iffi
cult, Bella decided that the really gen
erous art toward her sister and her
self, to say nothing of the man she
loved, was to marry Myron Dodge.
It meant heartache, it meant heart-
hurt, it meant a residium of fear and
p ity in the heart of Bella even as she
stood a hrlde. But deep within her per
sisted the Instinct that not to have
married Myron Dodge would have been
one of those purposeless, sentimental
sacrifices which in the end only em
bitter all concerned.
I f there bad ever lurkfed in Bella
any fear thfet Myron might not rise to
tlie occasion of treating his sister-in-
law with the pampered indulgence to
which she was accustomed, that fear
was quickly dispelled.
For the first two years of their mar
riage, the Myron Dodges traveled
abroad, accompanied every inch of the
way by the smaller and frailer Minna.
And if she had been indulged by Bella,
before this marriage, twice that kind
liness, twice that forbearance was ex
pended in her behalf by Myron. It
was his way of paying Bella a tribute
he knew would mean most to her.
The three of them finally decided to
settle down In a lovely old Sussex cot-
tnge In England for a year or so. Life
Is pleasant there. Almost unbelievably
so. Tranquil. Full of beauty and hap
piness.
Bella never haa any regrets over her
wisdom In not making the sacrifice in
behalf of her sister, indeed, on the
contrary, she often figures pleasantly
to herself th a t if she had not had the
strength to Ignore her scruples and
make this marriage, Minna, from the
fastnesses of the little notion store,
would never have met up with Cleve
land Aley.
Cleveland Aley is a prosperous
squire in 8ussex whose attentions to
Minna are becoming more and more
marked.
WORLD RADIO SETS
¿NUMBER 24,000,000
United States Has 10,500,-
000 of Total. *
Washington.— More than 24,000,000
radio sets, valued at about «1,500,000,-
000, are now in use throughout the
world and 10,800,000, with a value of
8676,000.000, or about 45 per cent of
the world’s total, are in the United
States, according to a survey Just com
pleted by Lawrence D.- Batson of the
Department of Commerce. The total
investment In broadcasting stations, he
said, was estimated at approximately
829,000.000, of which one-half Is rep
resented by stations In the United
States.
L IG H T S ► ÄÄ52S
• t NBW YORK
Although, lo thlfe Ufe of machine
transportation and machine guns, moat
of the larger animals are disappear
ing, there still are horses In New York.
I do not mean the pets of the equine
•pedes, ridden by generals, policemen,
or weight reducers In Central park,
but the horse In Its natural state, at
tached to a wagon or truck. Yon find
them down on West street, around the
market section, palling m ilk wagons,
and coming across the bridges from
Long Island track farms, or, In sum
mer, dragging a wagon full of bright
and potted plants
I can remember
when there were ordinances provid
ing thaL If any boras showed alarm
at an automobile, the owner of the
gas-buggy npiat pull to-the aide of tho
road and stop hla motor. And It was no
light thing to atop a motor in those
days of cranking. The chances were
good that It mighh require an hour
to get It started again. Bnt now the
horses do not mind machines They
have become resigned.
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Reading advertisements to worthwhile
TO PLANT MILLIONS
OF MEMORIAL TREES
Plan Is Feature of Washing
ton Bicentennial.
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New York.-—Throughout the United
States during this year and next,
trees w ill be planted in greater num
bers than ever before. Tea million
memorial trees are to be the feature
of the 1982 bicentennial of tho birth
of George Washington, who was him
self one of tho earliest and most ar
dent of tree lover« and tree planters.
The commemorative planting began -
last autumn, when the first tree was
set out In the grounds of the capltoLxLr
Richmond, V o , by Governor Pollard,
with ceremonies attended W repre
sentatives of the original thirteen col
onies. This spring millions of trees *
w ill take their places as memorials,
many of them singly, others In splen-r
did memorial avenues asd In proves
and forest plantings.
To Be Dedicated In 1932.
The American Tree association la
urging that so far as possible all
memorial trees shall be set out and
There Is one apple seller In New
registered this spring, so that living
York who still considers the horse a
and growing trees may be dedicated
dangerous beast This enterprising ex
In February, 1932. By setting the
ample of the unemployed decided to
trees out this year, planters will dis
go Into the chain store business, so he
count the probability of any dead or
selected opposite corners on Forty-first
dying tree« being dedicated, because
street and set up a box of apples on i where losses occur replacements next
each.
To these boxes be attached
fall will be possible.
empty tlh cans Thus customers at
Civic organizations on Long Island
the unoccupied station could help
are planting a memorial tree at every
themselves and drop the money in the
spot Washington is known to have
can, cafeteria fashion. A lone horse
visited. In every state the patriotic
and wagon was stopped by the tra f
societies, the Boy and Girl Scouts,
fic light beside one of the boxes on
civic bodies and other organizations >
which the apples were piled. The ap
are carrying oht group plana, and are
ple seller was on the opposite corner,
urging every citizen to plant individ
completely shut off by the moving traf-
ually a memorial tree.
f , c. The horse reached out and helped
I t la urged that every such tree
tself to apples neglecting to put any
shall be registered with the American
money in the tin can. The driver was
Tree association. Each tree will bfe
Improving the short rest by reading
recorded and the records filed for per
a tabloid. Only the apple seller saw
manent preservation with the existing
what was going on and there was
records of other historic trees. In a
nothing he could do about it.
nation honor roll of trees A pam
phlet giving information aa to regis
It was at a corner of Eiglity-flrst
tration and instructions for planting
street that I saw another horse wait
has been prepared and will be sent for
ing for the light to change. It was In
return postage by Miss Grace Tabor,
the front rank of halted traffic and a
thirteenth floor, 250 Park avenue, New
teacher was crossing the street with a
York city.
horde of small pttpila. When the driv
“Every region of this continent has.
er, a countryman, saw some of the
or had, its characteristic trees,” says .
city children look at the horse a bit
Miss Tabor In the Woman's Home
apprehensively— they probably never
Companion.
“George
Washington
had been that close to a horse before
chose from bis own forests practically
— he Immediately grew ImportanL
all the trees which he disposed around
“Go right ahead, lady.” he called.
the grounds or park at Mount Ver
“Go right along, children. It ’s all right.
non on the Potomac, having them dug
Cross right over. W hoa!” he shouted
up aa young saplings and planted at
suddenly, with such vigor that he
the spots appointed by him. Later he
scared a couple of chllden out of six
added trees which came to him as
months’ growth and almost roused tbe
souvenirs from friends In ail parts of
horse, which had crossed one front
the world.
foot over the other and was sleeping
“There were also many specimens
peacefully.
grown from seeds brought bark by
The crossing was made In safety, the
Washington from battlefields, since It
light changed, and the driver threw
was his custom to pick up as he strode
the horse Into first si>eed ahead by
along an acorn or two or a handful of
slapping it lustily with the ends of
beechnuts, hickories, walnuts, horse-
the reins. I should Judge that horse
chestnuts and ao on, apd take these •
could remetikber when Cleveland wag
home and plant them. But nothing
PreshlcnL
dominated tbe splendor of tbe trees
• • •
originally brought from the forests,
If I were a stHre s»«r and wished
and Mount Vernon today Is dominated
to get some publicity. I ’d not have
by these.
my Jewels stolen or make a parachute
Douglas Sprue« Popular.
Jump. I ’d merely drive a tandem or
“Certain civic organizations are
four-in-hand down Fifth avenue from
recommending the planting of the
Fifty-ninth
street
to
Washington
- Douglas spruce for Washington memo- ■/
square.
rials. This Is regarded as appropriate
• • •
because it Is an evergreen tree that Is
There Is a purser on a ship, which
at home over the length and breadth
runs out of New York down the At
of the land, even though it is native
lantic coast, who is spending any spare
to the western regions only. More-
time In Improving his education. He Is
ever, It Is recognized all ovey the
taking some correspondence courses,
world as characteristically American.
but the manner in which he studies
I t transplants well and is of excep
French Is to tune in to French les
tional beauty, alike In form, color or
sons given over the radio. Some day
foliage and In the decorative quality
he hopes to transfer to an ocean liner
of its ruddy cones.”
and get to Paris. He Intends to be
Generally speaking, evergreen trees
ready for that experience.
are not everywhere as suitable for
(©. 1SS1. Bell Syedleate.)
memorial plantings aa are deciduous
trees. But where they can be appro
priately used they are recommended
Barbers to Give Free
by the Tree association as desirable.
Haircuts to Poor Kids The pines have a special tradition
Marion, Ohio.-—Children of unem
associated with them, for it was the
ployed in this city will not hove to
belief of primitive peoples that the
go without haircuts this winter, for
first tree to rise from the bosom of
the barbers have pledged their serv
the earth was the pine. Among many
ices free.
races It stands as the symbol of
The barber shops will give free hair
eternal life.
cuts to public and parochial children
every Tuesday and Thursday between
35 Syrian Bandit« Are
the hours of 7 and 9 p. m.
Children who apply for haircuts, the
Killed in Border Fight
barbers stipulated, must present a
Jerusalem.*—The long period of dis
properly Indorsed Dote from one of
agreement over the frontier between
their school teachers.
Syria and Turkey has led to alarm
ing outbreaks of lawlessness and ban
ditry In tlio disputed region. The lat
Jobless G ood a t H o o tin g
est series of crimes committed by a
Missoula, Mont.— Unemployed men
notorious gang In the Nlrslbln district
with a real desire to keep down food
near the border led the Syrian gen
bills were the most successful during
darmerie to organize a systematic
the big game hunting season In the
search for the bandits. The expedi
West Fork district according to a rec
tion
met them and a pitched battle
ord kept by Ranger 8. M. Lukena.
reunited. The bandits were routed,
leaving behind 85 killed and many
wounded. Only a few escaped. The
Accident at Sea Bring«
corpses of the dead gangsters were
Reunion of 2 Brother« exposed In tho public square a t Mardin
Boston.— An accident at sea recent
as a grim warning to other bandits in
ly led to the first reunion In several
the country.
years between Skipper Ralph Ogilvie
and his brother, Hilton.
Woman Dentist in Ohio
The brothers are skippers of the
Has Practiced 73 Year«
•chooners M arjorie Austin and Peace-
land, respectively, and for years they
Pomeroy, Ohio.—Dr. Amy L Whaley,
had been plying the same course be
believed to be the oldest practicing
tween Parrsboro, N. 8., and Boston,
woman dentist In America, recently
without ever meeting.
celebrated her ninety-second birthday.
Tbe M arjorie Austin recently dam
She passed the state dental examina
aged her bowsprit and Jib boom and
tion In 1857 and when her husband.
then ran Into fog and storm. This
D r. David C. Whaley, died In 1913,
upset her schedule sufficiently td re
she took charge of his business. Doc
sult la the brotherly reunion that en
tor Whaley employs a registered den
abled Ralph and Hilton to have din
tist, a laboratory expert, and an office
ner together in Boston.
assistant, but she personally super-
visor all work.
H E Misses Mitten kept one of
those neighborhood n o 1 1 on
stores that artf a panacea for
housewives. There, at around-
the-corner distance, were needles for
that emergency, tape, red-and-whlte
checked gingham to fit a last-minute
8ocket Power Leads
determination to make kitchen cur
Socket-power sets account for 52 per
tains, rubber teething-rings, baby-rib
cent of the total number In use in
bon and sewing-silks that matched.
North America; for about oue-balf of
Even in the heart of an enormous
the sets In Europe and one-quarter of
City, with an elevated railroad bang
those In South Amerlcs Crystal sets
ing past its door and the roar of tra f
are fewest In North and South Amer
fic on four sides, the notion store of
ica, representing^ and 2 per cenL re
the Misses Mitten had managed to be
spectively, and highest in Russia and
come a sort of neighborhood rendez
Turkey, where the ratio is areund 20
vous People from the tall surround-
per cenL
g apartment houses, little house-
In the majority of countries outside
eepers, men whose business brought
the United States and Canada, Mr.
them home at three o’clock in the
Batson said, the cost of broadcasting
afternoon, the youth of the block, had
is paid by a system of license fees
formed the habit of dropping in for a
levied on the radio sets in use. These
few moments’ chat with the Misses
range from as low as 89 cents Io
Mitten.
France to as high as $44 per set in
They were precisely what you would
Turkey.
The average license fee,
suppose them to be from the nature of
however, runs between 83 and 84, and
tlie calling and from the name itself.
the amount paid yearly by radio fans
Mitten.
Neat-mouthed, neat-minded,
between $40,000.000 and $45,000,000.
neat-bodied little persons who had
According to Mr. Batson, there is a
grown up In the neighborhood, who
definite trend in some foreign coun
had Inherited the buslneas from their
tries toward adopting the American
parents and whose faces were stamped
system of a sponsored program, but
with a starved kind of virginity.
he added that most foreign countries
Minna was forty and Bella was
prefer to retain the license fee sys
forty-two and. as is almost Inevitably
tem, having a prejudice against mix
the case in such relationships, the
ing advertising with radio entertain
younger, although even slightly so,
ment.
had kept the fluffier. Minna was like
Am erican Seta Best.
a little kitten. She had a high, in
American
radios, according to Mr.
cessant little laugh like a small bell
Butson. are generally regarded as su
ringing. Her pale hair had fuzzy ends
perior to the great majority of for
and she had the innocent ways of a
eign makes. A fter the United States,
little girl—she was given to clapping
England and Germany have made the
her hands in surprise or tilting her
greatest advance In radio development,
head askance or pouting prettily If
he said.
crossed.
The United States today is the
Bella, who was heavier set and
world’s largest exporter of radios. For
whose brown hair did not friz, had in
eign soles rose from something more
evitably taken on a maternal attitude
than $9.000,000 in 1927 to $12,000.000
toward this kitten sister. She babied
in 1928, and more than $23.000.000 In
her, worried about droughts and diet
1929. Figures for the first ten months
and her habit of wearing too light
of 1930 show total export sales of ra
clotlflng In the winter. They were
dios and equipment valued at $17,-
sweet togethef and a nice example of
800.000.
'sisters managing to live harmoniously.
Selectivity is a primary requisite In
‘ O f course—do not mistake It—there
radio sets designed for use in Europe.
was nothing particularly exhilarating
Mr. Batson said. In the United States,
about the lives they lived. Indeed,
he pointed out. the system of chain
.there had been a time when such a
broadcasting, whereby identical pro
state of nervous depression had set
grams are broadcast by large stations
tled upon Minna, that Bella, sick with
In various parts of the country, makes
dread, had feared for her sanity. Tbe
this factor of less Importance.
routine, tnX dullness, the lack of so
cial opportunity and diversion had
done IL Bella herself, when much
Sister«, Long Separated,
younger, had passed through the same
Meet at Mother’s Grave
troubled waters. Their youth had
been a > shut-up, starveling youth,
Baltimore, Md.—Two young sisters,
without any of the gay sties natural to
telephone operators, who were sep
It
arated soon after birth of the younger
and who have been working in the
Bella had fought through alone
same office several years unaware of
Minna had fought through to the un
their relationship, met for the first
derstanding mlnlsterings of her older
time as sisters at their mother’s grave,
Bister.
A ll that was past now. The Misses
In Baltimore.
Each girl was adopted by foster par
Mitten, ostensibly at least, had be
Chinese B a a D a n c in g
• come resigned to the fact that there
“Here all evil tending to encourage ents.
a r t gray moths and emperor moths In
The death of M rs Martha Thomas
degradation must be suppressed,” says
the scheme of things, and that their
the preamble to a formal order Issued ended a fruitless contest for years is
role apparently was gray.
by the Nanking (China) government, the Baltimore courts to regain custody
And Just about this time, there came
which prohibits foreign-style dancing of the children, parted from her
through circumstances beyond her con
Into the life of Bella, the elder, a io hotels, cafi»s or cabarets In the city
good-natured, good-humored, middle-
of Nanking. "Dancing,” the order con trol at the time.
The sisters— Miss Dorothy Matoska.
aged bachelor, a retired stock broker
tinues, ‘‘is nn evil, and not a healthy
twenty, and Miss Bertha W lttig, nine
who lived In the neighborhood and
recreation. The practice of dancing
who liked to while away Idle moments
by men and women throughout the teen, had only a speaking acquaintance
in their contact aa telephone operators.
In the notion store. W ith what In night is detrimental to public health
It was the first knowledge of Dor
credulity these two sisters met the
nnd public morality.
It has been
othy that Mary Matoska, with whom
situation Is past the telling. Here was
learned that nome hotels and cafes in
she had made her home since child
something so unforseen, so outside the
the capital have sold dancing tickets.
pals of hops, so fantastic in Its pos
This must be strictly prohibited in or hood and whom she had called “moth
er,” was not of her own flesh and
s i b i l i t y that the Misses Mitten, be der to prevent our young people from
blood. She asked to attend the fu
tween the two of them, could scarcely
going astray.” The order concludes by
scare up the realisation to take it In.
notifying all officials, city, govern neral. There she met Miss Wittlg.
ment, garrison commander and others,
Romance was leaning a shy, half-
to “pay special attention to festivities
reluctant heed into the narrow little
Coyote Hunt« by Motor
of this nature, a n t take prompt steps
World of the Mittens.
to prohibit and suppress them.”
' The kind of life that bad passed by
Car Latest Desert Sport
these two sisters with never a glance
,Reno, Nev.— A new sport for motor
In their directien was slowing as it
C liff Fur«i«h«« M edicine
ists is coyote hunting, using the auto
flowed by thetr stoop.
Peachy Head is being swallowed by
mobile instead of guni, to kill the an
patients at St. Thomas’ hospital, Lon imals.
I t was nothing short of breath-tak
don, at the rate of two» tons a year,
ing "to have the shop door pop open
The Great Black Rock Desert of Ne
says an article in the Montreal Fam
and a florist's boy, carrying a square
vada is level, flat as a table, and is
ily Herald. Tbe chalk of thia famous
corsage box, or a long one with the
without any form of vegetation. It
cliff Is the chief Ingredient of a new
end cut out for still longer rose stems,
would be possible to drive for hours
powder that has reduced the number
burst in with the words, ‘‘Miss Bella
blindfolded, turn all the sharp “cor
of operations at the hospital for the
Mitten?” on his lips.
ners,” zigzqg or perform any other
relief of certain stomach troubles
Flowers for a M itte n !
stunts, without harm.
from one or two a day to one a month.
Then, too, the new excitements.
Motorists try to get a coyote en the
In the out-patients’ department a hun
Concert tickets (three) for Sunday In
desert, which is situated about 70
dredwelght of the powder is used
the Stadium. A two-pound box of nut-
miles north of here, and run it down.
every month by two hundred or more
filled chocolates every Wednesday
Sometimes the coyote give« out first
patients. The powder consists of a
n ig h t One Saturday afternoon while
and frequently the car does.
mixture of bicarbonate of soda, mag
Minna remained In the store, Bella
neaia, bismuth and chalk. Bismuth
and Dodge went shopping. Shopping,
Man in Billion« 1« One
costa the hospital 9 shillings and 9
mind you, for a black fox neck scarf
pence a pound, while chalk can be
which Dodge had seen in a shop win
Able to Square Circle
bought for 11. shillings a hundred
dow on Madison Avenue and was-de
Rome.— Prof. Giuseppe Tschenetti
welghL
And
chalk
gives
Just
as
good
termined to see around the neck of
is one man in billions, If reports about
results as bismuth.
Bella in order that he might decide if
hla prowess prove true. It has been
It became her. That w as'to be his
announced that he has solved the
birthday g ift
L ittle Thing« Im p o rta n t
problem of squaring a circle.
His
A Mitten receiving a fur scarf birth
The big Jobs are usually bandied by
results are to be examined by em
day g ift from an admirer!
■ men who trained themselves by first
inent mathematicians who will see, if
Small wonder that a new excite
doing the little things with painstak
his findings are correcL If they are.
ment purred through that menage.
ing care. Neglected details are a sure
Professor Tschenetti will be the only
8mall wonder that two timid, mouse * sign of shiftlessness. The man who
man In the world to succeed in the
brown women. Inured to routine and
cannot master little things seldom gets
problem.
petty pastimes, suddenly found them
a chance at the big ones.—GriL
•elves rushing about on feet that
T«»t Tough Steak«
•curried.
London.—A machine has been In
4-H -H -1 I H U H ! l l-H - H - M -H-1-
There was an air, |n the tlfiy house
vented to test the toughness of beef
hold, of some one always about to
Breaks Swim Mark,
<**; steaks. A dial attached to the blade
catch a tralm Every opening of the
of the Instrument records the degree
shop door, or ring of the bell, was the
Haa to Seek Bed j f of difficulty the blade encounters In
occasion for a start or a Jump. Every
Worthing,
England. — Saftl-H
cutting through the tissue of the meaL
minute held Ito potential thrllL Its
Ahmed, a twenty-flve-year-oldIn
W o m a n *« Id e a l S ta tu re
potential heartache.
dian student of Osmanla univer
The
Society
of D irectors.of Phys
Bella knew that, and sometimes a
sity. Hyderabad, arrived in Lon
An explosion of a gas tank near
fear settled on her, chilling and
don In a police ambulance, and
Thomas Cogshall, British war veteran, ical Education has set forth the fol
threatening her. Was her happiness
went straight to bed. where be
restored his hearing which he had lowing standard fo r the ideal woman
of today-: HalghL 63% inches; breadth
about to cast tragedy over the life of
la to stay for three days and
lost through shell shock.
of neck, 8.8 Inches; girth of neck, 12.1
her sister? W ell Bella knew tbe old
nights.
fam iliar situation. Two women, grown
inches; breadth of shoulders, 14.7
Two hours earlier he had
inches; breadth of watoL 8.6 inches;
as they bad grown, into middle years,
clambered from the Corporation
Silvio Viscorfti, noted Italian brig girth of walsL 24.6 Inches; breadth of
dependent upon each other In a bnn-
Swimming baths here, after hav
and, sentenced in 1870 to “perpetual hips, 18.1 Inches; girth of hips, 85.4
waya. Afraid even to contem
ing broken the world's swimming
imprisonment,” has refused a pardon inches; girth of calf, 1X8 Inches; girth
plate a life which did not contain the
endurance record by swimming
by the king. He is now 94.
of upper arm, 10.1 Inches; girth of
old regime. Women who had missed
continuously for 69 hours and 2
thigh, 21.4 Inches, and forearm, 9 J
somehow, the love of men, and who
minutes
inches.
1- -
V-
clung to the mutual solace of each
pth«r.
I
Friday, February 13, 1931
Extensive Air Travel
Seen in War Maneuvers
London.— Some idea of bow much
territory a fleet o f airplanes engaged
In war will travel was recently given
her when the fed colony and the blue
colohy of the British royal air force
engaged In a sham battle. Two hun
dred and fifty planes took part and
flew mors than 800,000 miles. More
than 2,980 men and officers took part
In the imaginary combat