Gives Poland
Chain of Banks
Usually the bank occupied one
American Amateur Banker De­ space.
corner of the blucksmlth'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-'
ers first bought a square meal for their
Provinces.
INNOVATION PLEASES PEOPLE
With Borrowed Funds Farmer» First
Fed Famine», Then Set Out to
Rebuild Home» and Prepare
for Their Crop».
New York.—Chains of things are no
longer a novelty in this country. We
are accustomed now to 10, 15, 25-cent
stores, tea stores, sausages, drug
stores, self-service groceries, and beau­
ty purlors, all done in chains. In Po­
land they have token up this idea,
starting out by establishing their banks
In chains. Not just a few huge re­
gional affairs like our federal reserves,
hut hundreds of little farm loan hanks
scattered among the villages of the
Lublin and Cholm areas.
To be sure, the system was installed
by an American and it was American
money that filled the empty, dusty
vaults. That is, where there were any
vaults. Dr. John A. Morehead, Euro­
pean commissioner for the National
Luther Council of America, is the
amateur banker who set up this no­
tably successful method of financing
whole provinces of bankrupt, home­
less people of Europe.
Works Out Simple Method.
Perhaps It was the commissioner’s
very greenness at bunking technical­
ities that did the trick, lie worked
out the simplest, easiest, quickest
families, and hauled timber from near­
by forests to build new homes. Farm
tools and live stock were so scarce
that muny long shopping trips had to
be made. One eager customer trudged
70 miles for a spade to dig up his gar­
den. Many a man wulked 20 to 80
miles nnd returned leading his new
horse loaded with seed bags, und drag­
ging a plowshare. Two bumper crops
have been produced by the clients of
this chain of bunks and much of the
money has already been repaid, with
4 per cent Interest. Not only did they
save their own provinces from famine,
but they sent great shipments of food
products into neighboring stricken sec­
tions.
MEXICO CITY ARMS POLICE
Pistols Replace Sticks When Public
Criticize» Inefficiency of
Gendarmes.
Mexico City.—The purchase of 2,000
pistols by Governor Gasca of the fed­
eral district Is taken as an indication
here that Mexico City gendarmes
hereafter are to be armed.
The local police department for
some time has been severely criti­
cized for Inefficiency. This was at­
tributed to the fact that they were
allowed to carry no arms and were
dependent solely upon a stick to en­
force their commands.
Ring Caught in Fence
Pulled Off Boy’s Finger
Scene From the Spanish War in Morocco
A ring which he was wearing
cost Robert Friedman of Phila­
delphia his finger when Frled-
.man was trying to vault a fence
to obtain shelter from a show­
er. As he swung over the fence,
the ring, which was rather loose,
caught in an iron picket and
twisted the finger oft.
CALF CURED BY BUTTERMILK
Stung by Bees and Near Death When
Expert Applies Remedy Which
Works Quickly.
Middletown, N. Y.—A pedigreed calf
five months old, grazing at rope’s
length, felt the urge to wander, pulled
the stake and youthlike and unwisely
nibbled the clover pnth of appetite
straight up to a dozen hives of honey
bees. The rope wrapped itself around
That the war of the Spanish against the Morocco tribesmen Is “civilized,” warfare is indicated by this photo­
the hives. The bees wrapped them­
graph of Spanish engineers constructing a pontoon bridge in the fighting zone.
selves around the calf.
All the blue blood In his vealy car­
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cass leaped Into burning lumps. They
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stung him from his bleuting lips to
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Huge Buck Deer
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his wildly waving tall. Every time he
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Attacks an Auto 5
made a new leap of agony they bored
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him in a new place. The calf was
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Pittsfield, Mass.—With both J
In a fair way to die when Its owner,
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9 headlights smashed and the mud- *
Melvin Parks come along.
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Parks knows calves, bees and blue
9 guards of his automobile beat, J
9 Walter C. Rochelo of this city
blood. He Just got a tubful of butter­
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milk and gave that calf a buttermilk
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9 says his car was attacked by a
bath. In fifteen minutes the calf was Star Sleuths Prepare to Solve on an unprecedented scale. Such cur­ 99 great buck, estiuiated to weigh J
rents, called “strays" or “atmosphe­ * 400 pounds. Rochelo was pro- /
looking for clover again.
rics,” have been occasionally inter­ 9 ceedlug toward Pittsfield when J
Mystery When Planet Is
preted as signals from Mars, when * he saw the herd of deer In the «
Naval Reserves Mustered Out.
Nearest in 1924.
they came with a regularity that 9 road. Four bucks and three *
Washington.—The naval reserve of
seemed to be directed by a human 99 does Jumped to one side, but the r
the United States Is virtually abolished
intelligence. But they have been
leader snorted and, with horns *
under an order Issued by Secretary
shown most unmistakably to be con­ 99 lowered, leaped at the auto, r
Denby disbanding all clusses except
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nected with sun spots.
one and six, and affecting approxi­
The scheme, attributed to D. David 99 which was going slowly. The J
Impact stopped the touring car »
mately 155,000 men of the reserve.
Scientific Eyes to Strain at Telescopes Todd of Amherst, a well-known as­ 9 0 and stunned the buck.
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tronomer,
of
using
a
great
abandoned
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and Wireless to Be Tried to Read
mine shaft In Chile for the making of
Sky Secret—Chilean
a colossal telescope, has been the sub­
Venture Derided.
ject of no little scientific discussion.
This shaft, which is said to have a tor, would magnify 25,000,000 times,
New York.—The secret of Murs may 60-foot diameter, Is located near the which would bring Mars optically with­
be read In 1924 when the 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, on which the earth and all the other first thought this would seem to give
although astronomers are skeptical of planets whirl round the sun. The the astronomers a sight of Mars equiv­
the theory of Marconi that the Mar­ shaft telescope has the disadvantage alent to that which an air pilot ob­
tians are signaling us by wireless, that it could never be shifted, and tains of the earth as he flies a mile
hunter and the literature of the chuse and take no stock in the 60-foot whirl­ could only be used for that part of and a half above it. At that height
Is almost endless.
N’ot all lion ing dish of quicksilver which It Is the heavens which passes over It. But an airman could see cities, towns and
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 n remote African vision to 25,000,000 times its normal directly over It when it becomes a big, and a thousand murks of the activity
village,’’ says the writer, “I once came strength.
of man. Under the same advantages
red disk In 1924.
In 1824 Mars will come within about
across a deeply tnnned prospector-
an astronomer would soon know all
Many Astronomers Scoff.
hunter, who swore thut his favorite 35,000,000 miles of the earth. Be­
Many astronomers have scoffed at about Mars, where the creations of In­
method of hunting lions was to get the cause of Its eccentric orbit, compared the theory of such a colossal tel­ telligent beings are believed to ex­
animals to sneeze themselves to death. to the more nearly circular one of the escope, alleging that If the mechani­ ist on a much grander scale than on
“ ‘It is quite simple,' lie suid. ‘In earth, Mars approaches that close only cal difficulties could be overcome the earth.
Hon country you build a little arch of once In fifteen years.
But here a difficulty arises. The
enormous magnification sought would
In 1924 observatories will be much be useless, because the observer would airman Is unconscious of the rota­
stone, just big enough to uliow the
lion to enter with comfort. But you better equipped to study Mars than see nothing but a blur. On a small tion of the earth, because gravity pulls
must take care to build It of Jugged they were In 1909, when the planet last scale. Dr. Robert Williams Wood of the earth and air nnd the airplane
stones and to see that the center stone appeared at Its biggest and reddest In Johns-Hopkins had built a practical with a uniform motion. On the other
of the arch is a particularly Jagged our sky. In 1924 Mars will be the concave-mirror telescope on Long hand, If Mars were brought within a
one.
cynosure of telescopes all over the Island by rotating a basin of mercury mile and a half of the earth It would
“ ‘Then you go out and shoot a zebra earth. The 100-lnch Hooker telescope until the liquid metal shaped Itself Into be whirling so rapidly that the fea­
or some other toothsome crenture from at Mt. Wilson, and the marvelous the proper concavity. There are tures of the landscape would be lost
the lion’s point of view. You drag the Instruments and methods for analyz­ limits to Its use, however, according to the eye, as are markings on the
corpse under the arch, pepper It ing light which are In use there, may to astronomers, If the attempt is propellers of an airplane revolving at
heavily and then retire to your tent definitely solve the question whether made to build the abandoned mine tel­ full speed.
to sleep.
Murs Is Inhabited.
If a magnification of 25,000,000
escope.
As the distance of Mars from the
The greatest telescopes now In use times or anything like it could be ac­
Sneezes Self to Death.
earth varies from 35,000,000 to 284,- sometimes achieve a power of 3,000 complished the observer could only see
" ‘In the night the lion comes, 000,000 miles, the wireless signals from times as great as that of the unaided a small patch of Mars. Mars rotates
creeps under the arch to his feast, gets that planet, If there are any, will have vision. This is only when the state its 12,000-mlle circumference once in
his nose filled with pepper, and hus an a better chance to register In 1924 of the ntmoephere Is at Its best. Or­ a little more than 24 hours, so that
overpowering Inclination to sneeze. He over the comparatively brief span of dinarily astronomers have to be con­ at its equator It is making a speed
sneezes, and in the act throws up his 35,000,000 miles.
tent with much less, sometimes with of about ten miles a minute, or about
Those “Signal»" From Mara.
head and dashes his brains out on the
five times the speed of a racing car.
a magnification of 200 or 300.
center Jagged stone of your nrch.'
For the last 20 years Murs has
“The atmosphere fixes an outside If the observers were content with see­
“I do not vouch for the truth of been reported frequently to be at­ limit of magnification,” said Dr, Frank ing Mars 15 miles off, the portion vis­
that story.’’
tempting to signal to us by wireless Sclilesslnger, director of the Yale ob­ ible to them would still be streaming
A party of men trekking in Rhodesia rays, by flashes of light, and even, ac­ servatory.
“Limitless magnifying past the telescope at the rate of a
in an ox wagon heard a commotion cording to some Imaginative specu- powers could not be used. Telescopes mile a minute.
one night among their tethered oxen, lnttsts, by writing sign messages of will probably be made larger than at
A camera o. instantaneous action
and rushing toward the spot pumped planet-wide size over the latitudes by present for use on mountain tops and might take pictures at this speed on
about a dozen shots into the henvlng means of the Mars canal system. It especially favorable locations, but the earth, but It could not be made on
mass from a distance of, say, forty has even been suggested that we ac­ tendency Is to lose In distinctness as Mars. A magnification of 25,000,000
yards.
knowledge receipt by forming words magnifying power Increases. Event­ times would mean that the light of
The mass diminished, and they ad­ In vegetation over the blank of the ually the object gazed on becomes a Murs would be diluted to one twenty-
vanced to find one of tlielr oxen hor­ Sahara desert.
blur, as If seen through a heat haze. five-milllonth part of Its brightness In
The Marconi wireless communica­ Only through great Instruments like the sky, which would not be adequate
ribly mauled by lions.
They “dosed” the corpse with strych­ tion theory is more plausible than that at Mount Wilson, and then only for rapid-fire photography or even for
nine nnd retired to their cnnip. They uny of the others, because that great under most favorable conditions have ordinary vision.
heard the Hons busy at the carcass Inventor reports that he has picked objects magnified ns much as 3,000
all night, und in the morning they up wireless waves 100 miles long, lln.es been seen with an unblurred
DEER FLEES TO MEN FOR AID
found that the dead ox bad practically while the greatest produced on earth vision.
disappeared, but lyifig near the spot by artificial means are about ten
If Mars Wars a Mils Away.
were five full grown lions—two mules miles long. Many ways of explain­
The mine telescope, if it met the Doe Runs With Fawn Into Lumber
Camp In California to Escape
ing this have occurred to skeptics, but sanguine expectation of It projec-
nnd three females—all poisoned.
Mountain Lion.
Thnt was a very considerable bag the Marconi slgtinls have more In
got by illegitimate means, but here them to Interest conservative scien­
Downieville, Cal.—That a wild deer
is the true story of a better bag got tists than any of the previous types.
HERE’S A REAL ROMANCE
There was a sensutlon In 1900 when
when hard pressed by some enemy of
legitimately. Incidentally, It is a very
the animal kingdom will throw Itself
Interesting example of sportsmen’s It was reported that signaling from
Mars had been detected at the Lowell
upon the mercy of Its human enemy
luck:
was proved near here recently when
When the lat$ President Roosevelt observatory at Flagstaff, Arlz, This
a doe led her fawn into the wagon
nnd his son. Kermit went to Rrltish was based on a misunderstanding of
yard of a lumber camp to escape a
East Afrlen, In 1900, they were ac­ a telegraph message concerning some
mountain Uon.
companied on their hunting trip by projected lights over the rim of Mars.
The loggers were jnst 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 Hon hovering In the
be from 17 to SO miles above the sur­
fringe of timber.
Roosevelt’s Luck.
The doe and fawn stayed in camp
face of the planet.
Selous was particularly anxious to
until apparently satisfied that all im­
Sim ilar Project isos From Moon.
secure a specimen of the East African
mediate danger was passed.
Similar Isolated projections of light !
black-maned lion, but on the whole had been seen on the moon, but this J
trip he never even got a shot at one. was easily discovered to be the sun­
School House a Distillery.
But Theodore Roosevelt got three nnd light tipping the mountain tops, an
Emerson, Man.— When citizens of
Kermit Roosevelt eight—and neither effect visible on earth In mountain­
this town spread reports that an old
of them had ever been on an African ous country when the rising sun gilds 1
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 But
trekking through Portuguese Zambesla still in darkness.
the spirits were of the moonshine va­
were followed for ilays by a gnant old
But Mars has no mountains, ac- !
riety. The school house, which bad
Hon, who took one of tlielr donkeys cording to general agreement among
been sold to a farmer recently, was
each night until only one of the whole observers. It was believed also to be
visited
by the police. On the teacher's
team was left.
almost cloudless.
The occasional 1
platform they found a huge still, with
This donkey the terrified Greeks high lights, however, are now agreed J
were determined to retain st «11 costa. to have been clouds which are thought ■ The master of Kinloss, grandson of a capacity of 45 to 65 gallons dally.
When they made their camp that to occur, though somewhat rarely.
the late duke of Buckingham and son
City Gats Big Fund.
night they built around It a great
Electric currents which apparently ’ of the Baroness Klnloss, with his bride,
stockade of bushes and thorns, and In wander through eternity hit the earth the former Katherine Beatrice Mac­
Manchester, England.— A pageant
the center of it tliey tethered the sole here and there, causing a mysterious ' kenzie Jackman, daughter of a village parade brought In $25.000 for the ben­
surviving donkey to their tent pole. hissing and crackling In wireless ap- ' blacksmith whose forge is situated on efit of Mezleres, France, which has
But notw ithstanding these precau­ paratus and sometimes upsetting hu­ the historic ancestral estate of Stowe. been adopted by Manchester. The re­
tion«, that night Ihe pertinacious old man electrical contrivances, aa t h e ; The young master of Klnloss is a built French city la dedicating a
lion got the last donkey.
great magnetic storm of last May did j clergyman.
street to Manchester In return.
Science Seeks
Secret of Mars
MANY THEORIES ADVANCED
Fight for Life
W ith Lioness
Transport Agent Grasps Beast’s
Tongue During Battle* But Is
Eventually Killed.
HUNTERS TELL WEIRD TALES
On» Explains Simple Method of
Making Animal« Sneeze Themselves
to Death—Story About the
Roosevelt Expedition.
London.—From Nairobi, East Africa,
says a writer In the London Dally
Mail, comes a thrilling story of the
death of a transport agent named
Klopper, who, pinned down by a
lioness he had wounded, made a
desperate bid for victory by putting
boti» hands Into the animal’s mouth
Dr. John A. Morehead.
und gripping Its tongue.
Africa Is a pnradise for the lion
methods, because he did not know nny
better. What he did know was thnt
thousands of fertile farm lands In the I
devastated sections of Poland were
lying barren nnd desolate, and that
Find Skeletons of
the farmers, most of them returned
Prehistoric Beasts
exiles, were helpless, robbed of their
Implements, nnd with tlielr homes in
Toronto.—From the rocky
ashes. Furthermore, he knew what
tombs In which they have been
miracles American money could bring
preserved since prehistoric days,
ubout If loaned to these sturdy, cour­
the skeletons of four huge dino­
ageous peasants.
Also, he laid the
saurs, those gigantic nnd mys­
cash that American Lutherans had
terious creatures that roamed
sent. Thnt was all that was neces­
the plains of this continent some
sary. Without a single flourish of red
millions of years ago, have been
tape* Doctor Morehead got busy, nnd
disinterred
by a party of scien­
through local committees a long string I
tists und will shortly be Installed
of little hunks were opened. It took
In the Royal Ontario museum.
$25(1,000 to load up the tills, because
The find was made near Parlcla,
by the time It passed through that
Alberta, by n party sent out from
highly prejudiced European exchange.
the museum, and included two
It was transformed Into stacks and
practically complete skeletons of
bales of purple, green, and gray-blue
the duck-billed dinosaurs nnd
marks. Openiug ceremonies were ex­
two Incomplete specimens. The
tremely Informal.
Crowds attended
skeleton of the larger of the two
however, many standing outside for
complete specimens measureJ
hours for their turn to pay their re-1
spects to the note teller. The com- j about 32 feet" In leugth.
ndttees had economized upou floor,
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First Picture From Famine Region
A wayside scene nt Barnnovttchl. Russia, showing a mother combing
the head of her child with a piece of wood. Pictures like thia are seem along
thousands of miles throughout the fauilne-strtcken section, whero the Amer­
ican relief committee la eugaged tu aiding the unfortunates.
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