Two-Story Home !n
London Just a Bluff
Would you believe Hint In l.nndm
(horn I it two dory house coiiiplotit
villi front iliMir, windows, mid hub
'iinlii, hut only llvi feet llilck from
front to Illicit iiml iohminnIiii no key
hole, dour hell, Idler box, or Inhiihl-
tlllllK? Well. tlll'IO It, Mill If Jdll
vii nt to see It you tin vn only lo nsk
u tnxldrlvor In tului you lo No, 2.'l
Li-luster giirilons, Ilo will probably
think you urn pulling his leg, fur
luod of ilicm know nil nboiit It,
Hero U t In Kiory of this queer
house tlmt Ihii'I n house nt nil, Mnhy
yours ii)jo the Underground riillwiiy
built it lino through I.cIumI -r gar
dens, otin of l.oinliin'ii most dignified
residential quarters. The Inhiihlluulg
of tlin gardens protested violently
HKHllINt till) hllll'OUStleS of mi open
culvert nt tint mouth of tint tunnel
beneath them. Ho the, railway poo
ilu covered It up hy building n dum
my Iioiiho. From thi railway track
It I (Imply n lil ii nk wnll; from the
KKrdoim It look II Ue n Well built
limine, coiiiplctu In every del nil.
Tho Iioiihh Iiiin lieeil tlitl (cello of
tunny prin tlciil Jokes. Not long ago
hundred of Invitations were (cut
out hy Mime Jester to a purl y there.
Meantime It U nlivnyg providing pur.
r.lc fur trade raiiviidors and others
Who link pollceuieii where to find
tho tetter IhiX mid the dour hell thill
do not exist, -Fxchnngu.
Educator Refuses to
Sre Limit on Learning
Instanced of elderly people who
linve necoinplldied prodigies of learn
hi it nre frequently ndduced mi Vn-rniiriiiti-iiieut
to the nveriu'M permni of
mature yenn. If ao mul ho. the fu
lliotid tuusli'hin, cmild learn Hebrew
t eighty, Hun John .Siuiilt need nut
despair of mattering uny subject he
limy fiincy, even tlenn;h hl years of
youthful vl.ur in n-! ulnlt lm mny he
lone li.-l liid liliu. Thus the argument
has run. probably without quite con
vIio'Iiik Juhn Smith. For he lim
fi-lt. in mini uf nil feel, nit liicreiifdim
illlllculiy of cunccnlnillun and retcii
t Ion n hlii m liiiul it m cuilitt years
tut v receded Into the punt.
I r. llerhert Sorentun uf the 1'nl
verslly of ,Mlniicutn Ihh heeii milk
ing experiment1! nnd he mi) Hint the
only truiihle with Juhn Smlth'g mind
nt fifty In Hint he hutn'l kept it
cifrclned. Wiiterluiry Itepuhllcnn.
Hard to Figure Reason
for Ilia Staying Away
"Women eel away with murder,"
remarked Jin k I o)le. fight promoter,
"heciiti It li uelienilly lliulersto.i.l
thut they don't menu what they say.
Thin Mill II) d Kit e thelil n loophole
H hell IhlltiCd p 11 ri',
Funny purl of It In thut tho wm
etl tholimelvcd ilo i,.I Hcelll til think
their remarks Mhoiild he taken literal
ly. I.Ike (Suentiy.
"'What's the troiihle between you
and Freddie?' n friend u-ked her.
"'I'm sure I don't know," mild
Gwcnny. 'He hnsu't he n to mc me
for n week, Jiint bemuse told him
I neier winded to me him again.'"
Fxchunge.
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W. N. Portland, No. 51-1930.
Garfield Tea
Wns Your
GrandmolherS ttrincdy
For every mom
nch iiml ItileMliixl
III. Thin Km"! old
fufthloned herb
huiui! remedy for
e o li I I p h t Ion.
ioin:nh IIU und
other diTurifrf
menu uf the nya-
teui mi pruiHlent thci dil In In
neli greiiter filtor H a fmiilly tne,
Iclne lliiin In )mir Krnn, limit !,er'
rtiiy.
Dank Catli Paradoi
The pnrndut of u run on u hunk lit
ell t'lprfNtcd hy tho cue of tho
liillllMho Impilred of hi hunk W hetll
er It hud cu-!i iivullulile fur piiylnu
thn iimuuiit of IiU deposit, (iiiIiik:
"If you run pny me, I don't wmit my
money; hut If you en n't, I do." All
tlepoHitors mint to lie mire their
money "In there." Yet It never Is
there nil nt one time.
Thart'i Alway tha Weathar
"Fverjhoily miikea mlHtiikeit or
there'd he no need of ruhheri to
lend peiicll," retniirkei the hrumlillc
idilloHopher.
"No, nnd thn newnpiirT wouldn't
havti niiytlilin to print." rorllnnd
Ki promt.
Unitad Slatrt Bank
t'p to June, I'.i.-.l, there were Oil
minimi ki vni."( luiiikH In the l ulled
Sttiteit nnd "17 Ktut k mivinct luiuki
III the I'lilted Stilted. Ill the New
F.iinlnnd (tided there were 3s I mu
tual Hit vines hiiukN, In tho eiiHlern
(tit teg there were '.'I dock citlncit
hunk. In gout hern utalcK there were
elKht (lock, III the Middle Wed there
were GTU dock nd 1!) unit mil. In the
western (In I en there Were l.'l dock
Mivlimg hit iik n, mul In the I'uclMc
(tnted there were -I Hock nnd U
Uiutunl gnvliik'S hunks,
Write a hitter letter
hut don't (end It.
If you must.
Why doeg troiihle (It Hcldly on
nmn with a freckled face?
K : m aiV f.A At il ' I
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MUS. CLARA RILEY
2100 rmon & 4th Avt., Sloui City,
lwa
,(I began to take Lydia E
rinkham's Vcgctalile Cora
pound nt Change of Life. Now
I take it every spring and fall
and it keeps me In good health.
I nm able to take care of an
eight-room house and garden
at the age of 71 years. I will
praise the Vegetable Com
pound wherever I go for it is
a wonderful medicine for
women. They should give it a
good trial hy taking about five
bottles." Mrs. Clara Riley,
MRS. miRTIIA STTPHEN9
21 E. Huai !x., Lancaaitr, l'cnntylvanta
'I was very nervous and
rundown and weighed less
than one hundred pounds I
felt tired and weak and I often
had to lie down I took Lydia
Ei Tinkham's Vegetable Com
pound because I read the ad
vertisement in the paper. Now
I eat well, sleep well, and have
good color. In fact, I couldn't
feel any better and I weigh one
hundred fifty-five pounds lam
glad to answer letters from any
woman who wants to know
more about the VcgctablcConv
pound." Mrs. Bertha Stephens
tnf-m Jwfftrwi'ffm'r "Sm-WnJ),., tNWiiHaili ai'
it
4 V
AMKS n. MortltHM. wng n urndti-
nte of two Amerlciiit uni vithII U-
did Frencli one. lie hud
I'.iirhelor of Artg deirree, Mno
ter of Artg degree, nnd a Imctor of
Lung diKreo. Ilu (poke four Inn
Kiiuueg fluently, nnd knew the plimu,
violin, and oriui, till three of which
he pin) eil with hrllllHiicy, to miy nolh
lti of (urh h n-er limtrumeiitg an the
It ul tn p and huii Jo.
When he wag twenty-five, hid pntrl
miuiy rondxted (olely of hid tii;i ifli lfl
rent t'duciitloii am) whnt tmturul till
intd were (O geiierounly IiU.
The (enhir Morrell, dig futher nnd
die gurvlvInK relullve, hud died a
week After he hud lout hid cnormoug
hohlllik'g In a Wall Street CniHti.
The Incredlldo neipiel to tlmt pro
cedure Iny In the fact tlmt youiiK Mor
rell, IliMtend of ficllliK the cru.-h of
Hidden poverty, reull.ed within him
lelf (eiinn of flnthin and relense,
that nt flrnt wed liiroinpreheiiHllde to
Mm. Whnt hnd hMppcned wim thut
viiKnliorid, who hnd nil hlg life heen
Impil'ioiied hy clrcuiiuituncp, felt him-
elf (inldeiily freed.
For the fird time In hid rnrcfully
dedlgned life, the yuime Morrell dured
to admit to htmnelf tlmt he deHpNed
the profed un of In w that hud heen
iimpped out fur him nn the n of IiU
wenithy futher; tlmt he depUed the
Hoclul routine In which he hnd heen
burn nnd hred ; that he wnd n free
Innee nt heart nnd tlmt nt liiht he wild
t llherty to ho hlniHclf.
Tlmt la hew, durliiit the next five
J en m In the I'.uhi'iulun qMHi ti-rd In
pruHlenlly every lurite city nnd (ea
purt the llfiire (f Jiimeg Morrell win
to heeome a f.iuillliir one. The tull
(lender young felluw, cultured, nun
ilinlHiit, hut a vncuhotid In dre.dd nnd
ninnner of llvln?, hecnnie a wanderer
In the varlotid l'.ohemliig of the world.
A .mull ukulele, hid only hit of lutf
Rni;e, he tinkled for a living.
Jameg Morrell wandered from capi
tal city to capltiil city, from (eaport
to geaport. from Shdiichnl to Seattle;
from Seattle to Roaton; from Itoston
to Triente; from Trlente to (Nindantl
iinjile; from Coiiitdtitlnople to Itome;
from Itoino to I'nrla ; from I'nrlg to
MurM-llle; and (o on and on, tinkling
away on hlg ukulele fur which. In re
turn, he received hli almple hoard and
lodging-
For the flrot time la Ida carefully
militated, rxtremely gophlgtlcated
young lifetime, Jbiihh Morrell waa
Imppy. A vaguuomL A Dilnatrel. New
(cenci, tiew peopleg, new pn.itlmc.
No etriifrgle for eilntenre becaude ex-,
latuuce could bo 10 almple. The
world waa what you made It. Young
Morrell hnd tnade hl a playground,
a rnrclcg garden In which to gun him
self. Hie hudlneag, hlg detlny, hlg
respoiialhlllty pnsded hi in by. There
wud never anything hut hmee change
In h!a pockfta, a noe Jingle In hlg
(lugertlpg nnd a tionchnlnnce In hln
lieHrt.
Jamea Morrell, Jr., who had been
reared aa the only child of a million
aire, turned gratefully to I'-olieiula.
It waa In the I'.ohemla that Id New
York's, gome five and a half years aft
er the death of his father. Hint young
Morrell walked Into a situation that
whs to deter hlg footdtepg from their
wllly-nllly wanderlnca.
Tinkling away his evenings In a
Greenwich Villnge enfe, where ho re
ceived In return a cot In an attic and
Ida three meals a day, young Morrell
met and fell In love with a girl named
Itnehel Tnylor, eighteen, blmrrely
beautiful, and an art student In the
quarter.
She wns the daughter of a conl mer
chant In Plttdburgh and her foray Into
I'.ohemla waa the equivalent of a year
abroad after a finishing school.
The spirit of Bohemia was no more
the spirit of Rachel Taylor, than the
spirit of Madagascar.
Young Morrell was not to know thnt
until after he had married her. He
fell In love with her la the physical
environment of Rohemla; he first be
held her In the cnmlle llt ahndowg of
giirret studios and cellar cafes. To
him (he wns drenched with this spirit
of vsKnliondnge, nnd It must be an Id
for Itachel Taylor tlmt ahe believed
hemdf to be filled with thnt gypsy
ItiNtlnct.
They were married on the cnpltnl of
two dollars and forty cents between
them, and the young troulmdour felt
himself on the pinnacles of romance.
For the first yenr they lived In a gar
ret, wlille Itachel painted futurlstlo
Indies on satin cushion tops, and tried
to sell them at women's exchanges,
nnd James tinkled his ukulele for
their evening men! nnd tho slant roof
over their hendn.
At the end of tho second yenr, with
their romance lying In ruins about
them, Jnnies, no longer able to with
stand the Importuning of a wlfo who
wns with child, accepted a position of
apprentice In a Pittsburgh law olllce,
which hnd been ohtnlned for him by
his coal merchant father-in-law.
That la the beginning. If ever a
mnn wns predestined for commercial
success thnt mnn wns Jnnies Morrell,
As his father-ln-lnw, who hnd In the
beginning secretly despised him, put
It, everything; thnt Morrtdl touched
turned to gold, nnd the curious part
of It wns thnt It did not seem to be
due to any genius that the fellow
brought to Ids work.
There wns something of a chained
wild heiiNt about Morrell. Ho en
dured hlg micccKg In much the same
way lui endured his environment, hid
wife, ur.J even hlg c! lid. He nuw It
piling up nboiit him i I he let It pile.
He (tood In the cour;room dedalmlng
In behalf of the great corporation ho
represented, und It aometlmeg accmcd
to him that souio one on tho outdldo
of him was doing the (peaking, while
he, the shell of mi Individual, stood
there caring not ut all.
It could almost ho said of James
Morrell thnt he did not turn a hand,
coiiNldering the magnitude of hlg so
called achievements. He hnd nn eye
for the law, and a tongue that could,
on the proper occasion, grow eloquent,
but so hnd other men of less success.
When she wns thirty, Itachel Tay
lor, who loved the life of creature
things, creature comforts, and cre.
ture magnificence, saw herself slowly
climbing townrd the very pinnacle of
such sttnlnnients.
Jumeg Morrell wns easily the fore
mod lawyer of the state to sny noth
ing of the prospects of political power
and (tosltioii which Iny ahead.
They used to say laughingly of
Itachel Tnylor Morrell that she hnd
more than once referred to her hus
band as the future President of the
United Stnteg.
I'.e that ns It may, there -wns no
doubt that the beautiful reddish eyes
of JtHchel were directed toward tho
(eat of the mlchty which she expect
ed Morrell one day to occupy. One as-M-ct
of realization came to her In a
vicarious way while James was (till
In his highly successful role of corpo
ration lawyer. The lovely daughter
of the Jumeg Morrells, Annlce, aed
eighteen, eloped one day In a hydro
plane with the only child of one ot
tho great oil magnates of the world.
In Ilnchel's opinion, that wns tha
fronted plume In the cap of the Mor
rells that had yet been planted there.
Ten years later, the two grandchil
dren of the James Morrells had been
presented with a trust fund of five
million each by thilr paternal grand
parents, mid Jameg Morrell had fas
tened on his wife a lifetime income
thnt amounted to over one million a
year.
Two months subsequent to this le
gnl act, the cltlts of Pittsburgh and
New York awakened one day te head
lines nnnounclng the mysterious dis
nppenrnnce of James Morrell. Secret
st'iirchlngs had been going on for over
a period of weeks before the general
alarm was finnlly given out to a dis
quieted world.
After months of publicity, search
Ini,' ar.d expeditions of secret service
men to various parts of the world,
the publicity was suddenly hushed up.
Mrs. Morrell resumed her haughty
Impressive life aa social lender. News
papers, for one rongon or another, left
oft" their playing up of this meaty story
of disappearance of James Morrell.
It wag whispered about among those
"In the know- that It had cost Mrg.
Jameg Morrell a king's ransom to
thug gtamp out the 'conspicuous hap
pening of her husband's disappear
ance. The trath of It, of course, was thnt
Jameg Morrell had finnlly been fer
retted out, playing his ukulele In a
fantastic hnrbor cafe at Marseilles.
After one conference with her hus
band, Rachel Tsylor Morrell, who hnd
a good hend on her, realized the fu
tility of attempting to bait or lure or
threaten her husband back Into his
proper setting. As she talked to him
In bis slit of a room In Marseilles, she
realized that here was a man twenty
five years younger than the one who
had left her a few months before;
here was a man who had grasped
back hut hnppinegg after It had ail
slipped from him; here was a beloved
vagabond In his proper setting.
James Morrell Is pretty well forgot
ten .now, even by Rachel who divorced '
li 1 111 and Is married agnln.
He may be found tinkling his way
through the different Bohemias of the
world. Ills ukulele Is always with
him and his worldly possessions are
the few pennies that jingle In his
pockets.
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A Japanese Newsboy,
Just Customg Iaeident
She wag watching the passengers of
an ocean liner as they opened their
bngg for Inspection.
"What have you to declare?" the cus
toms officer asked of the timid Uttls
woman,
"I have only a silver tray I bought,"
she replied as she delved Into her bug.
"You see, I had to bring something to
my daughter, and I didn't have much
money ... I didn't buy anything
else, It cost such a lot."
Sin presented the tray to the mnn
with a little spirit of pride. "Pretty,
Isn't It?"
The nAn looked at It nnd looked at
the woman. "Hut, madam, It Is so ev
idently not silver . . . er, that Is,
yea, I supposo It cost quite a lot.
There's no duty; you see, you are al
lowed to bring In a hundretl dollars'
worth." New York Sun.
Forest Wait Alarming
Roth tho supply of timber nnd the
expected growth full fur short of the
needs of the nation, writes E. P.
Melnecke In the Journal of Forestry.
Devastation of productive forest land
through forest Arcs and destructive
logging, promoted by waste In the
woods, In manufacture, and In use, Is
progressing at an alarming rate. The
main difficulty In dealing with the
decline of American forests lies in
the chaotic condition of the lumber
Industry which controls four-fifths of
the forest lands of the country. This
condition Is due partly to oppressive
stnte taxation but mainly to Internal
disorders of nn economic nnture aris
ing from land speculation and Ill-advised
flnnnclng In the past
(Pr(aral br tha Nml'inal Cianfrapbla
Society. Washington. D. C.) '
THE recent burning In Tokyo of
the plant of the Japan Adver
tiser, best known American
dally newspaper In the Orient,
arouses Interest In Its Japanese com-
petltors and the way In which west
! era newspaper methods have been
i adapted to conditions In the Land of
the Rising Sun. That Japan should,
in the very few years since her mod
ern metamorphosis, have so speedily
j cuught up with the van of periodical
publication Is less wonderful when
! one remembers that the Orient Is the
birthplace of the "art preservative,"
; and that China possesses the oldest
1 newspaper In the world,
j There have been similar newspa
pers from remote antiquity In Japan;
I small sheets roughly struck off from
! wooden blocks detailing some great
political fact, or describing some crime
j or some generally interesting event
The first attempt at a modern Jour
nal In Japan was In 1SC4. when the
1 Kualgal Shlmbun was undertaken by
j Jogeph Hess, a picturesque character,
; who tn ISTiO was cast away In the
j wrecking of a Junk, rescued and car
1 rled to America. Here he lived for a
I number of years, acquired a sraatter
j Ing of western Ideas and methods, and,
when Japan was opened after the
I visit of Commodore Perry, returned
I to his native land as an Interpreter,
j The first modern newspaper month
, ly worthy of the name waa founded
j by John niack, an Englishman, one
j of the first foreign residents of Yoko
j hama. This was In 1872. Since then
j Japanese Journalism has grown with
wonderful rapidity, both In volume
and In character. There are now some
eight hundred newspapers and mag
azine published in the empire, of
which more than two hundred are In
Tokyo.
Of tho newspapers there are the
Kuampo, which la the official gazette,
containing tha government announce
ments, such as laws, regulations, and
appointments; the Kokumln, much
quoted In press dispatches from Tokyo,
as giving the government opinion of
things International during the pre
miership of Prince Katsura, and the
Nlchl NIchI, aa expressing popular
sentiment of the better sort
Of magazines there are scores of
every sort and kind literary, artistic,
legal, medical, scientific technical
along all lines of modem accomplish
ment and endeavor.
JiJI-Shlmpo la "Tha Times."
The Jljl-Shlmpo corresponds In a
measure to our words "The Times."
"JIJl" means "timely evcuts" or "dully
svents." "Shlmpo" Is the word for
Journal or merely "paper."
The Jljl-Shlmpo Is a monument, In
a way, h the memory of Its founder;
; not more a monument than a constnut
j reincarnation of his spirit and Influ
I ence. It was founded 48 years ago by
' tVlk 1 It f A It'll lr 11rf tl'fl Vllb I mrttsk him m
v v guts a uw uvu n t a UBivui liV n 0,9
often called the Japanese Gladstone.
No account of Japan, however brief,
and particularly no reference to its
Intellectual and literary development,
would be complete without reference
to the life and Influence of this re
markable man.
The policy of the paper Is Inde
pendent. It Is partisan only In that It
Is liberal, devotod to progress, and
opposed to any retrograde policy In
Japanese civilization. When It takes
occasion to differ with the govern
ment, It does so with dignified and
logical criticism, and not with the
hysterical effusions that appear tn the
"yellow" Journals that have developed
In Japan as elsewhere.
Because of this scholarly and dig
nified character, Jljl-Shlmpo wields a
great influence and Its voice is potent
In shaping and controlling public opin
ion. The paper emphasizes Its commer
cial department and a staff of trained
men looks after this part of the news.
A foreign department of three edi
tors cares for the cable and telegraph
dispatches and keeps In close and In
telligent touch with International af
fairs. Domestic news Is gathered by corre
spondents In every city and Important
town of the empire, sifted, and ar
ranged by two editors.
Twenty men compose the city staS
and. In close harmony with the re
portorlal methods of our Occidental
papers, cover the local news of Tokyo,
a city of more than two million.
In common with all Oriental lan
guages, Japanese Is written and print
ed from right to left, and the title,
therefore, is in the upper right hand
corner of what would be for us the
eighth page. The lines of print are
vertical and read from top to bottom
and from right to left Each article
la In a small square surrounded by a
border.
How tha Type Is Set
Typesetting In Japanese Is a tedious
and laborious piece of business from
an Occidental viewpoint though the
many hnnds employed make it rapid
enough In an Oriental sense. Japanese
Is printed In two sets of characters
the borrowed Chinese, which are Ideo
graphic, each representing a word or
a group of words; and side by side
with these characters. In their vertical
line, runs the translation or explana
tion In the Indigenous grass charac
ters, a sort of phonetic or stenographic
script easily read and understood by
the common and uneducated people.
When an article or editorial Is ready
In manuscript It Is sent first to the
Ideographic composing room, where It
Is divided Into "takes" and given to
Chinese compositors. The room Is filled
with closely set racks, containing the
thousands of varieties of Ideographic
type.
Each compositor goes from rack to
rack looking for the character re
quired. That he may not forget what
he Is looking for, he sings It over and
over audibly, In a cracked, nasal sort
of aing-song. A composing room la
anything but a quiet place, resembling
the chorus of a Chinese theater.
When the article Is finished, It la
placed In a sort of galley, tied to
gether and sent to the real composi
tors, who untie It and proceed with a
pair of tweezers to place the small
grass type beside the Ideograph char
acters. This work demands scholar
ship of a high order, for It requires
not only an accurate and exact knowl
edge of orthography and language,
but general Information In regard to
the subjects discussed, thnt the multi
meaning characters may be Inter
preted. The type thus completed Is proved,
the proof carefully rend and corrected
and taken then to the Imposing stones,
where it goes into the make-up of the
paper.
All typesetting Is of necessity hand
work, as the peculiar character of the
language precludes the use of a lino
type. Stereotyping and press work are
along the ordinary lines required for
an American perfecting machine, from
which the paper comes, folded and
counted as In one of our own estab
lishments. The day's work Is similar to our
own although the hours differ slight
ly. The editorial department begins
activities about eleven In the morning
and Its work Is completed by five In
the afternoon. The typesetters are at
work by eight The business offices are
open from ten to ten.
The first edition is on the press by
eight, in order thnt It may catch tha
night trains for provincial circulation.
The city edition goes to press at
1:00 a. m.