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**************** • » * Keep Potted on * HOMM MATTEHS By Roadlng Your » * » « LOCAL NBWSPAI'Kll » Devoted to X<ocaJ and Home Interest*. *************** * Mall Order Houses * EXIST BY ADVERTIBINO * To Get Business * Do Likewise. PUBLISHED BY ADIRONDACK NEWS PUBLISHING CO. ESTABLISHED 1887 TERMS, $1.50 A YEAR VOL. XLH ST. REGIS FALLS, N. Y. f SEPTEMBER 22, 1928 NO. 34 FOUND A \WANT\ AT HOME (fc) by U J. WaUh.) \-J A diminutive kinky head JL bobbed through lliu dining- room doorway with auspl- clous quickness. \Yns'in.\ ••What ure you doing there?\ shnrp- ly. \Have you beeu Into the augur bowl uguln?'' \No'ni—only Jos 1 a sniff.\ ••Haven't 1 forbidden you to go Into the dining room ut all ufter the tuble NVUI cleared and the things put away without permission? Don't do it again. Did you gather up the nas- turtium seed this time?\ \Yus'in 'deed 1 did.\ Pansy ap¬ peared with a saucer In which were a dozen or more nasturtium seeds. These were offered with au air of conscious pride. \Why I'unsy, only those? And you've been out at least two hours. What have you beeu doing all the time?\ •Them's only jest toler'ble seeds, Mis' Cath'rlue.\ \There are quarts and quarts, Pan¬ sy, (or 1 looked at them only yester¬ day. The ground Is literally covered. There's no eurthjy use for Mr. Price to pay $5 for another lot of choice seeds next spring when we can save plenty without trouble. You weren't picking up all those two hou'S,\ ac¬ cusingly. . \Not every single minute, 11 the child confessed, with abused humility in hei voice. \A pussou has to stretch up an* rest.' 1 \Didn't you talk with anyone?\ The humility became pert remon¬ strance. \Can't a body speak when they's rest in' to breathe Jest for a minute? I did pass a \how is yo with the colored young lady next door. But If—\ \That will do, Pansy. You were hired to me with the express under¬ standing that 1 try to make yo\ an obedient and Industrious servant. Your father said he didn't want you to grow up a trilling no-account like so many of the colored girls, as he expressed It. I don't think he'd ap¬ prove the way you've been doing. In fact, 1 have been several times on the point of sending you back home as nut being worth the trouble you give. Now, If you dip any mote Into the sugar bowl or treat the colored young lady of 12 next door to any more ot my preserves or Indulge again in Impertinent 'back talk' I Khali certainly send you home to «tny. w \Yes'm 11 In a how thoroughly sub¬ dued and apprehensive volc»\ \I'll go right out an' pick up mo' o' them seeds. Mebbe they're thicker where I didn't look.\ \No. I'll gather the seeds myself now. You've had two trials at It with¬ out getting much beyond your young lady friend. Did you wash the back porch floor before breakfast as I told you—though 1 suppose, of course, you did.\ \N-no'm. Pinky said they never washed theirs but once a week, au' I Mowed—\ \(Jet the pall and soap and do tt at once,\ ordered young Mrs. Price, with more Impatience than usual In her voice. \And mind, use the regu¬ lar floor cloth and not a best towel, us you did last week. I'll be round myself and look at It after a while.\ \Y'yasni walled Pansy. Pretty Mrs. Catherine Price, not yet twenty, laid down the \want\ sheet of the newspaper, which she had been poring over In hope of finding some¬ thing a woman could do at homo to help her husband. She had been de¬ vouring the \wauts\ for weeks now, and answering many of them, and had tried some. Hut the really prom¬ ising ones seemed to require trips out-of-doors, canvassing or some¬ thing. And Chitrlie had been so par¬ ticular since she lamed herself per¬ manently In saving an old Indy who had slipped from a moving trolley. Charlie had not got his raise and made only $50 a month. The house rent was $20, and Pansy's wuges $1. What was left couldn't be spread very far over necessities. Charlie worked extra all ho could and came home nights looking so tired and cheerful. Catherine's heart ached for., him. fclio was just as strong as he, ex-' copt for the limp and there were lots of wants like stenographers and ofllce girls and others of short hours, where nhe could do the work and get home In time to prepare supper. Hut Char- He wouldn't hear of such thins*, so all left was a possible chance of some IHMIIU want and to save all she could- The first saving she had about decided would be Pansy's $1 nit hough tho girl's father hod begged tnat she keep and try to Iniprove her. The Price lot wis small, only nine feet on one sljle« of the house, of which three were taken up for tha path. Tlil: left the same width on either side for grass or flowers. The Prices chose flowers—Improved nas¬ turtiums, which had been a perfect Maze of color through the rainless past two months. * In back was a space of 20 by 40— the width of the lot. Charlie had bought a patent revolving frame of clothes lines, so little space was taken up that way. All the rest was given over to flowers — more nasturtiums, sweet peas and other plants that bloomed profusely. Catherine as well as Charlie loved flowers, so things that might have been considered necessi¬ ties were passed In favor of seeds. KiIII • little Impatient at Tansy's declaration of, ''only JCHI toler'ble SCIMJM,\ Mrs. Price limped out with a pall that would hold at leant a gallon. She would show the black glii there were seeds. But the quantity exceeded even nor expectations. There hud been weeks of dry weather, until the surface of the ground was absolutely without moU* ture. This dryuess had brought out au excess of bloom and the ripened seeds falling upon the ground had uot found moisture enough to soften them or cause them to sprout, as Is usually the caso with seeds long on the ground. Catherine found thai seeds lying there for weeks were sliil sound and dry. So us she went to one side of the path, pushing apart the leaves so as to clean off the ground carefully, she was able to gather up weeds by the handful. Halfway down she found her pall full and she had to limp back for another, and then for a basket, rinnlly she. had nearly a bushel of seeds, twenty times as much as they could posibly plant another year. And still all the back &pace was untouched. But the spirit of gathering was upon her. She found the open air exhil¬ arating and she took her pall and some empty bags to the back garden, and by the time It was necessary to prepare supper she had the nastur¬ tiums there cleaned of their ripe seeds, more than doubling the quantity. 55lie did not say anything about It to Charlie that night for tear he might laugh at her. Besides, au Idea wus sprouting In her mind. , The next day she started upon the sweet peas, of which she found but a limited quantity, because the older pods had burst, scattering their seeds. And yet of these she gathered ten or fifteen pounds. With these carefully put Into bags, she turned to the drying rows of hol¬ lyhocks that had made the rou^h fence walls of beauty and followed them with balsams and candy-tuft and such other flowers as were ripening seeds. The next day she went to the seed store, where she and Charles had bought. There luck favored her. A customer, who seemed displeased about something, was talktng with the proprietor himself, of whom they had bought. At sight of Mrs. Price he came from behind the counter. \This lady tells me her nasturtium seeds didn't come up well,\ he said; \that she replanted twice; that the seeds were no good. I remember we sold you husband quite a large quan¬ tity, the very last of that particular lot. 1 feel sure these seeds were good. Hut of the next purchase 1 can't feel so certain. It was late in the season and we could get no more of then:, so had to buy what and 'here we could till tl.e late orders. If you can recall the date of your purchase and this lady hers we might reach some conclusion. I don't feel willing to make any allowance on tho lirst I \ which vas enthusiastically reported on by many of my customers. And still I want to be fair.\ •'We bought tho first day of May,\ answered Mrs. Price, \I know, because It was my husl and s salary da..\ \Well I put mine off till eurly June,\ the dissatisfied woman sutd. \The ground wasn't ready, and—\ The merchant's hand went toward his money drawer., but It wus stayed by: \I don't want my money back. 1 want seeds- good, fiosh ones. Can't you order me some early? I mean to start a lot In cold frames next spring.\ Mrs. Price laid tt small f box on the counter. \That's just what I came for,\ she smiled. 'Tve gathored such a lot of seeds that I don't know what to d> with them. I started with an Idea of picking up enough to save us from buying next spring; then kept on.\ \And will you sell me some?\ asked the woman eagerly. ••Glad to, If you want them.\ The merchant had opened the box. \Clean fresh-looking seeds,' ho com¬ mented. \Perhaps Mrs. Price will let you have these. There's neurly a pound, I should Judge.\ \Oh these are only samples,\ said Mrs.^ Price. \I have severul bushel? at home.\ \Then pcrhnps yon can stock me up, too,\ exclaimed tho storekeeper qjlck- ly. \I like seeds I can recommend. Wish you could raise me seeds like this right \long i.nd other kinds. I would be very glad to buy. I will be out during the duy to see what yon have.\ So youn a Mrs. Price found A way ?o help her husband right at home, for Inside of two years her seeds were bringing In as mud. as his salary. Aged Ru$$ian Poior Rudak, possibly the oldest person In Europe, recently died In Uus8ia In the village of Pitchanla, at the age oi one hundred and thirty- six, If local tradition Is to he be¬ lieved. Rudak asserted he had fought for the Russians against Napoleon 1, and was pointed out as the only per¬ son who had bridged the Interval \from Napoleon to the October revo¬ lution.\ His assertions were sup¬ ported by documentary proof of mili¬ tary service 120 years ago and by the memories of centenarians In the neighborhood. Slept Through Danger When Mr. and Mrs. Andrus B. En Crem of Rutland, Vt., both nearly eighty, arose In the morning they discovered that a bolt of lightning had struck their house the night be¬ fore. They heard the crash In thj night but did not know that they had been In danger. The bolt lipped off several clapboards and shuttered ob¬ jects In the living room. 1—Jaime Felix Tschlffely, Argentine archeoioglst, on his horse \Mancha\ which he rode from Buenos Aires to Washington. 2—Deck and gun turrets of the British battleship Australia which made an official visit to New York. 8—J. Ruben Clark of Utah (right) being sworn In as undersecretary of state by William McNelr of the State department. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Rescue of Rockford Flyers in Greenland—Zogu Now King of Albanians. By EDWARD W. PICKARD B ERT IIASSELL and Parker Cram¬ er, the Rockford (111.) aviators who set out on a flight to Stockholm and disappeared, were found alive and safe In Greenland by the University of Michigan expedition and lust week started for Denmark by steamer In company with Prof. W. II. Ilobbs, leader of the scientific group. Losing their way to Mount Evans, their Green¬ land destination, the flyers ran out of gas and lunded on tho Ice fields 100 miles Inland. For two weeks they tramped over mountains, around fjords, and across sand fiats, and finally at¬ tracted the attention of the scientists- by smoke signals and were rescued. Their Stlnson plane was uninjured when they abandoned It, but was be¬ lieved to have been broken up by lat¬ er storms. Though tinsucce8sful In making tho flight to Sweden, tho aviators believe they have established the fact that the Greenland route Is the best for flights to northern Europe; and In this they are upheld by Vllhjulmur Stef- ansson, the noted Arctic explorer who says that In Greenland there are tens of thousands of miles of perfectly level ice on which planes can land safely. Mr. S(.ofunsson suld the Greenland course In the future will be taken by airplanes and dirigibles to the prac¬ tical exclusion of tho southern routes over 1,000 miles of open water. A direct route between Seattle and Ber¬ lin, he explained, would combine a maximum of safety with a minimum of distance, and would bring the west coast of America almost as near to Europe In hours as is the east coast. F RANCE lost one of her leading statesmen lnfit week in an air¬ plane disaster. Maurice Bokanowskl, minister of commerce, aviation, posts, telegraph and telephones and youngest member of the cabinet, was killed when a plane In which he was flying from Toul to Paris crashed Just after its start. Ills four companions also perished and the bodies were burned when the wreck took fire. One of the worst recent American airplane disasters occurred near Po- catello, Idaho, whon a Fokker air mall plane crashed. Six passengers and the pilot were Instantly killed. E UROPE has a new king. Ahmed Zogu, who has been serving as President of Albuna, was elevated to the throne by the national assembly without a dissenting vote and assumed the historic name of Scanderbeg III. This Mohammedan, a former moun¬ tain chieftain, took a double oath as king, once on the Bible and once on the Koran. lie has guaranteed the country complete freedom of worship. Though the people of Tirana, the Al¬ banian capital, seemed happy to have Zogu as king, the chiefs of the Repub¬ lican party are said to have sent a protest to all European powers, say- Ing the Albanian people would resort to arras to restore the republican form of government. Italy wus the first power to recognize the new regime and It was believed the exam¬ ple would be followed by all the oth¬ ers. The king's first official act was the liberation of 2,000 prisoners, and the second was to give bonuses of one month's salury to ull stute employees. f ERMANY, constantly trying to vJT find some way to get the French army of occuputlon out of the Rhine- land, has made a definite proposition on the subject to France, and last week in Geneva llerr Mueller, chan¬ cellor of the relch, hud a long private conference with M. Briand, French minister of foreign affulrs. It was said that the German plan contem¬ plates the mobilization of a certain portion of the 11,000,000,000 gold marks ($2,750,000,000) In railway de¬ bentures as provided under the Duwes plan, for the floating of an interna¬ tional loan and the Uquidutlon of a large portion of France's war indem¬ nity claims. It provides for the fixa¬ tion of the total amount of repara¬ tions which Germany shall pay under the Dawes plan. The Dawes plan merely fixed the amount of annuities without stating how mauy years they should continue. It was realized by both Mueller'and Briund that the proposition cannot be developed until after the Presidential elections in the United Stutes and an agreement with the next administra¬ tion at Washington, because the bulk of the relch railway debentures must be tlouted in the American market. \17IIEN the Leugue of Nations as- * V sembly opened in Geneva the representatives of Finland, Sweden and Poland stirred up a warm debate by proposing Unit the league under- tuke an Investigation aimed ut cheek- lug the abuse of alcohol. The dele¬ gates from the wirs producing coun¬ tries of southern Europe protested and no decision was reached. II. J. Procopo of Finland, president of the league council, in his convening ad¬ dress lauded the Kellogg anti-war treaty as an instrument of world peace. That pact is still the subject of lively comment all over the world, and each duy more nutlons signify their intentlou of adhering to it. Con¬ gressman Britten of Chicago, ckuir- man of the house nuvul committee, who wus in Purls, guve out a warning against the idea that the treaty meant the curtailment of the American naval building plan. Congressman La Guar- dla of New York, also in the French capital, disputed this, saying our pro¬ gram could not be continued without virtually repudiating the pact. In Washington speculation was rife con¬ cerning the reservations which will be proposed in the senate by those who profess to fear foreign entanglements. It is generally believed one of these reservations will be to make it cleur that America will not permit itself to be drawn into European disputes, and that another will state thut We re¬ serve the right to use force, If neces¬ sary, to protect our position and in¬ terests on the Western hemisphere. After a pleasant visit in Ireland Sec¬ retary of State Kellogg sailed for home without going to England. DRERIDENT CALLES of Mexico in * his address before the congress declared he would not coutinue in of¬ fice either as a provisional or consti¬ tutional President after his term ex¬ pires on December 1 and would not again seek the office, lie made a plea for natlonul unity in selecting and supporting a provisional President and rejoiced that there were no \caudillos\ (military-politico leaders) left because they meant dunger for the country. While it may be true thut there are no caudlllos available, tho army chieftains still expect to dic¬ tate to the Obregonlst congress in the choice of a new President. W ISCONSIN'S Republican primary (eft political affairs in that state rather confused. Senator LaFollette was renomlnuted, overwhelmingly de¬ feating O. W. Mead, conservative. But Walter J. Kohler of Kohler, mil¬ lionaire and conservative, was victor in the race for the gubernatorial nom¬ ination, Seating Congressman J. D. Beck, LaFollettelte, and Governor Zimmerman, who sought the support of both factions. The other incum¬ bents of state offices were renominat- ed, defeating tho Kohler slate. The defeat of Beck was taken by the con¬ servatives to mean that the LaFollette regime was near its end, despite the personal popularity there of the young senator. Kohler's Democratic oppo¬ nent will be Mayor A. G. Schmedeman of Madison. The Democratic nominee for senator is- M. K. Rellly. In Michigan the Republicans renom- inuted Governor Green and Senator A. II. Vandonburg, and the Democrats named W. A. Comstock and MaJ. J. W. Bailey to oppose them. T\ ESPONSIBLE leaders of both the tv Republican and the Democratic parties deeply deplore the forcing | to the front of the religious issue in the Presidential campaign; but it is be¬ ing forced nevertheless. Governor Smith felt compelled last week to take notice of It when he learned that some of his opponents were charging that if he were elected he would head the federal departments and bureaus with Roman Catholics. In reply he called on Robert Moses, a Republican and o Jew whom he appointed secre¬ tary pf state in 1027, to tell tho re- llglous and political affiliations of the members of his cabinet and appointees and of others whose appointments have been approved by him. The re¬ sults of the Inquiry, as given out at Albany, were: \Members of the governor's cabi¬ net totaling 14; Protestant, 10; Cath¬ olic, 8; Jewish, 1. Republican, 8; Democrat, 4; Independent, 2. \Other present state department and mujQr division heads totaling 25; Protestant, 14; Catholic, 11; Demo¬ crat, 14; Republican, 8; Independ¬ ent, 3. \Other present state officials, whose appointments were approved by Gov¬ ernor Smith, totaling 150: Protestant, 105; Catholic, 33; Jewish, 11; undeslg- uuted, 7; Republican, 72; Democrat, 58; Independent, 9; undeslgnated, 17.\ TTERBERT HOOVER has been told ri by his advisers that the Middle West is safe for him, and so will not make any campaign speeches in that region. He will deliver but one ad¬ dress in the South—at an industrial celebration at Ellzabethton, Tenn., on October 0. Senator Brookhart of Iowa was one of those who told Mr. Hoover he was dertaln to carry the agricultural states, the only neces¬ sary thing being \to let the farmers know Hoover's real war record.\ On the other hand the Republican party In North Dakota has split, the inde¬ pendent wing indorsing Hoover's can¬ didacy and the nonpartlsan wing re¬ fusing to do so. The latter faction apparently controls the state central committee. Republican efforts to break into the solid South are resulting in some queer conditions. Republican mana¬ gers in Alabama and Georgia have consented to the withdrawal of Re¬ publican electors from the ticket and the substitution of the names of Dem¬ ocratic electors. In Florida an agree¬ ment has been made whereby half the Republican electors on the ticket will be Republicans and the other half Democrats. Assurances have been given that If the Democrats running as electors on the Republican tickets In Alabama and Georgia and Florida receive more votes than the electors running on the ticket beaded by Smith and Robinson, they will vote for Iloo* ver and Curtis. p acquires its first bllllon- ^ dollar ttnuncial institution through the merger of ;the Continental Nation¬ al Bank and Trust company and the Illinois Merchants Trust company, de¬ tails of which were approved last week. The consolidation forms the biggest banking institution in the country outside of New Yor,k. It will rank either second or third In the United States, depending upon wheth¬ er all the assets go into the merger or whether some of them will be seg¬ regated and liquidated. T HE home mission board of the Southern Baptist convention an¬ nounced from its headquarters In At- luuta that it was unable to pay cur¬ rent salaries becuuse of the discovery of a $1,000,000 shortage in the ac¬ counts of Clinton S. Carnes, treasurer, who disappeared August 15. It was found thut Carnes kept a secret file in which were enteted special loan transactions with more than 150 banks In the South, transactions which never came under the scrutiny of regular uudltors or of the church. The Joint committees of the church said none of the obligations Incurred by Carnes would be repudiated. S EVEN mid western financiers were charged with a conspiracy to use the mails to defraud through the sale of nearly $1,000,000 worth of secur¬ ities in farm loan companies in a joint indictment returned by a federal grand Jury in Boston. Those named in the indictment were: Guy Huston, John E. Huston, John L. Boyles and Harold A. Smith, all of Chicago; Wal¬ ter E. Cravens, Kansas City; Oran F. Schee and Vernon U. Slgler, Dei Moines. The charges involve the sale of securities in three companies, the Missouri-Kansas Farm company, the Farm Company of Massachusetts, and the Farmers' Fund of Illinois, MILLIONS TIED UP IN ROYAL JEWELS Costly Gems Used to Bedeck Ruling Monarch** Washington,—Old Turkish sultans who loved to guze upon their Jewels perhaps would turn over In their graves If th( • knew that the row Turk¬ ish ofllciuls were considering the sale of their precious horde to establish a stute bunk. \The Turkish crown jewels, for many years hidden in the green v mi Its of Constantinople, are among the world's lurgest collections,\ says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C. hcudquar- ; ters of the Natlonul Geographic so¬ ciety. \The Sultans' throne is <.t mus- hive beuten gold, studded with dia¬ monds, rubies and emerulds set in mosaic. It bus been appraised at more than $15,000,000. •'Few travelers have ever broken through the seclusion of the treasure room to see the Jewels und only lately have photographers been permitted to take pictures of the collection. There Is- another throne of ebony and san¬ dal wood, inluid with mother-of-pearl, rubles, emeralds and sapphires; a toilet set thickly studded with tur¬ quoises and diamonds; and armor, pistols, saddles, sandals, simitars, turbans, daggers, swords and canes, all bejeweled, not to mention the long strands of pearls as large as cherries, rings, bracelets, anklets, and all sorts of other gorgeously designed jewelry for various uses. \One wonders if the old sultons were thrilled to drink out of the tankard gleaming with 3,000 diamonds, or to stick their hands into a salud bowl containing a half bushel of unset stones or a half peck of buttons stud¬ ded with diamonds. One of the world's largest emeralds, as large as a man's hand, Is included In the collection.\ Tsar's Dazzling Crown. \Since the Tsar was overthrown the Russian crown jewels now in Mos¬ cow, have been in the spotlight with rumors of their sale. Some authori¬ ties claim the Russian horde to be the world's largest. The head of the Tsar must have dazzled with 82,800 carats of diamonds and rows of pearls at royal functions, when he wore his best headdress. There are other regal crowns of magnificent filigree work, artistically Ret with colored stones above a base of expensive fur. **The famous Shah diamond which formerly hung In front of the peacock throne when it was in possession of the emperor of India, is in the collec¬ tion and scattered here and there among the gorgeous array are dia¬ monds as big as walnuts, rubles and emeralds as large as pigeon ejrgs, In¬ laid golden plutes, bejeweled wall hangings, robes, swords, scepters, pen¬ dants, canes, staffs, religious emblems, tapestries, and what-nots. The famous Orloff diamond reposes In the handle of Catharine the Great's scepter. \The brightest spot within the grim gray walls of the Tower of London, if not In London itself, Is the Jewel room where the crown Jewels of Great Britain are on exhibition. To reach the large glass case which Incloses the gems, one has to run the gauntlet of guards from the lowly but dignified 'beefeaters' (Yoemen of the gunrd) to some of the picked guards of the em¬ pire. And should a visitor attempt to take one of the gems he likes most, he would find that an unseen steel safe would Immediately encase the treasures, the door behind him would become fast, and the outer gates of the tower walls would clang shut to avert his escape. Appraisers admit that $30,000,000 is t low estimate of the value of the royal Jewelry. \One of tho most striking pieces Is Queen Mary's crow \ Lying on a white satin pillow, It scintillates with many Jewels Including the famous Kohlnoor (Mountain of Light) diamond. Some of the smaller diamonds were cut from the Culllnnn, the largest diamond ever found. In the rough it weighed 3034% carats. \Fortunately the king wears the crown of England but a few minutes during his coronation ceremony. It Is a magnificent creation weighing five pounds—somewhat heavy for com¬ fortable headdress. Its golden form Is nearly hidden by diamonds, rubles and sapphires. The king's crown, of lighter weight, contains the Black Prince ruby and beneath it TOO dia¬ monds cut from the Cullluon stone. Carptt of Ptarls. \The princes of India have been col¬ lecting Jewels for thousands of years and among them are some of the most elaborate displays of gems. It was from India that the famous Peacock throne was taken to Teheran, Persia. Shah Jahan, one of the great Indian moguls dally snt on this solid gold four poster seat, dispensing justice. The monarch's back rested against rubles, emeralds and sapphire* which tidorned the peacock's toll, while over¬ head was a pearl-fringed canopy. His turban was ablaze with diamonds, his chest hidden by ropes of pearls, and his fingers literally wrapped In Hold and precious stones. **The carpet of pearls, In the Nuzer- bagh palace at Baroda is one of the world famous Jeweled creations. It Is 8 by 0 feet square. Besides the pearls which form the larger part of the carpet, there are three large diamonds, 32 small diamonds, 1209 rubles and 509 emeralds which form a flower de- sign In the center. \The Gaekwar of Baroda Is said to have the largest collection of pearls and the Maharajah of Indore runs a close second. A royal wedding or state function attended by the Indian princes In their Jewels represents many millions of dollars.** BOTTLE IS SWEPT ACROSS THE OCEAN Message Brings Reply From North Sea. Baltimore, Md.—This Is the tale of a bottle, a seagolug wine bottle, fa¬ vored by au oceuu's vugurles and wufted by helping breezes from the Grund Bunks to the sundy shores of Sehleswlg-llolstein. Strange currents and white-capped breakers curried the bottle thousuud* of miles throi-gh the South AUuntie and the cold wuterv of the North sea buck UKUIII to the GSenuun luud whicL it hud left months before. On April 17, five duys out from Bre¬ men, fourteen-yeur-old Theobuld Zuhn dropped the bottle into the oceun from the deck of the steumer Berlin of the North Germuu Lloyd line. Recently young Zuhu received ft postul from a lighthouse keeper at Westerhever, on the shores of the North sea, suyiiig the bottle hud b»»en found, wushed ushore by the tide, and the note Theobuld hud inclosed wus pluinly decipherable. Theobuld, ac- compunled by his mother, Mrs. Frieda Zuhu; his sister, Armandu, eight, und brother, Tony, twelve, left their native home near Munich to join Mr. Zahn in Baltimore. Off the Grand Banks, Theobald wrote his note and stoppered the bot¬ tle. '•Good-by, Germany—we're going to Amerieu,\ be wrote on u piece of pa¬ per in German, und followed it with his name and the uddress ut which he expected to live in the new country. The postul, postmarked Osterhever, Schleswig-Uolstein, und addressed to the \Famllie Zuhn,\ caused consider- uble excitement in the TOO block North Duncuu street. It wus signed by Jukob Pauls, the lighthouse keeper, and reud: \Dear F. Zuhn: The bottle post was found by my son ou the sixth of July on the suuds of Westerhever. Kindly uuswer if you get this curd. WitU best Germuu wishes.\ Two Mountain Climbers Die in Alpine Tragedy Vlennu.—Two young Alpinists died and u third wus retrcued with frozen feet after being marooned for three duys unu nights as the result of their utteinpt to scale the sheer sides of Dachstein, the tallest peak of Us range In the Austriun Alps. Four others In the party were unhurmed. The seven young mountulu climbers had tscended about 8,000 of the D.500 feet to the summit when they encoun¬ tered a snowstorm. They took shelter on a ledge. One youth, named Sturm went mud. ills companions roped him to the rock, but he freed himself and dlBuppeured over the precipice. A rescue party climbed above them and lowered a rope. One by one they were drawn up, but as the fifth waa being hoisted the rope broke and he was hurled back down the mountain¬ side to his death. Before u new rope could be knotted together, night shut down and the last member of the party was forced to remain over another night. Pendulum in France Proves Earth Rotates Bordeanx, France.- Simple proof that the earth still rotates has been produced by making again the famous experiment of the French physicist, Foucault. A.great pendulum, a fine wire with a weight at the end, was suspended freely from the top of the stock ex¬ change cupola and made to swing over a graph sheet. The pendulum continued to swing in the same plane while the graph sheet showed that the earth, and naturally the building, turned under it. A pendulum 75 feet long was used, each oscillation lasting four and one- half seconds. This was the method used by Fou¬ cault, who made his test in the Pan¬ theon at Paris. Suicide Uses Dynamite Akron, Ohio.—Placing six sticks of dynamite under his body, Edward Gertensohlager, forty-five, of Wads- worth, near here, lighted them with fuses and blew himself to pieces ID a barn at the rear of his house. Bant Cigarettes West Orange, N. J.—Any employee caught smoking cigarettes in Thomas A. Edison's laboratory building will be fired Instanter. Notice to that ef¬ fect, signed by the \wizard\ himself, has been posted op. New Diamond Fields Found in South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa. —Diamonds have been found on the coast of Namoqunland, southwest Africa. Dr. Hans Merensky, noted American ge¬ ologist, had long held a theory that the great Orange river, which drains a large portion of southern Africa and empties into the sea of Namaqualand, must have washed down vast quantities of diumonds during the centuries. He therefore went prospecting along the Namaqua¬ land coast and was rewarded by fVndlng the seashore dotted with large precious stones that hod been swept up again from the sea bed by the waves. COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQ BARRINGER METEOR BEING EXPLORED Long Enshrouded in Mys¬ tery and Indian Fable. Wlnslow, Ariz.—Mining operations) are under wuy to explore und deter¬ mine the actual content on the giant Hurrlnger meteor of northern Arlftotw, greatest known meteor ou earth auu hitherto enshrouded In mystery and ludlun fuble. The Hurrlnjrer meteor, 22 miles from Wlnslow, creuted a cruter u ml In across and approximately 1,000 feet deep wheu it crushed to eurtn thou¬ sands of yeurs ugo. It displuced over 300,000,000 tons of rock In the impact The cruter thus created has b#en the center of scientific and geological interest for &0 yeurs, und for the last liO yeurs vurious efforts have been made to reuch the greut shooting star itself and determine its content Namtd for Otologist. The work hus beeu carried on prin¬ cipally by D. M. liurringer, Philudel- phiu geologist, for whom % the meteor waB named. / Hurriuger finally located the main body 1,370 feet from the south rim of the cruter. Tests showed it to be ap¬ proximately 400 feet in dlumeter and to contuin 90 per cent meteoric iron, 7 per cent nickel, 2 ounces platinum and .1 ounces iridium per ton. The main body is estimated to weigh. 100,000,000 tons and the nietul con¬ tent to be worth approximately $50 per ton. Age-old rumors that diamonds ex¬ isted in the ore were disproved by the tests, which showed only so-called ral- scroplc diamond points of no cominer- ciul value. Actuul mining operations just start¬ ed are under the direction of Bar- ringer and Qulncy A. Shaw of Boston of the Calumet & Hecla Mining com¬ pany. The enterprise Is being con¬ ducted privately. Contracts for erecting power plant nnrl hoist machinery and sinking a two-compartment shuft have been let, and initiul construction work U under way. Thousands of dollars have been' spent in past years in futile efforts to locate the great star and its esti¬ mated wealth of $500,000,000 of met¬ als. The United States Mining, Smelt¬ ing and Refining company, one of the lurgest corporations of its kind in the United States, gave up the attempt after spending over $100,000. LarQtst Evtr Found. Barringer, however, has stuyed with the problem for over 25 years, and after expending his personal fortune finally located the great ore body with suftk-ient exactitude to bring to his aid the funds and engineering assistance of Eustern mining cupltal. The attempt this time will proceed with more data and directness than any of its predecessors. The most vuluable mineral found In the diamond drill test* Is lrldium worth $275 an ounce. The Barringer meteor Is the largest of the only three Siderite meteors (containing ore) ever found on earth. The other two are the Cape York me¬ teor, weighing 87 tons, discovered bj Admiral Peury and now in the New York Museum of Natural History, and the Bacublrito meteor found near Ba- cublrlto, Mex. Neither of the other two Siderltes contained platinum or lrldium. H Collie Arrested a> Thief Wai Al»o Stolen Lynbrook, L. L—A trained collie \arrested\ In New York city for com¬ plicity in a $30 theft was brought back to the home of Dr. Maxwell Galloway here recently, a wiser and more ex¬ perienced dog. Doctor Gullowny's collie bad disap¬ peared on July 5 last On the same day Leon Isaacs, nineteen, of 103 De Kaib avenue, Brooklyn, passing through this vllluge, was held on a charge of disorderly conduct. The two incidents were at first not connected. * But the other duy the doctor, who had been looking for his trained dog In vain, saw a newspaper picture of a dog much like his that had been taken Into custody by the police of the Kllzubeth street station, Manhattan, along with Isaacs. The tale was told that Isaacs had stolen from Joseph Kits, Munhattan electrician* While KUs looked the other way, Isaacs, the police suld, took the money from the till and passed it to the collie, who then run with It to a confederate out¬ side. Doctor Galloway then went to New York, Identified the dog and took it home. \Ue was a good dog,\ said the doc¬ tor, \and though well trained, was not trained to steal. He learned such things from others, but he's going to unlearn them with me.\ The collie bung his bead and wagged his tail. Shows Sea Monster Vancouver, B. C—A nameless ml- line creature six feet long, having an eel-like body and a head resembling that of a sheep, was on display at provincial police headquarters her* recently as evidence of the existence of a \sea monster\ In Lake Okano- gnn, In the interior of British Colum¬ bia. Seedless Cucumber Hazlemere, B. C—Production of a comparatively seedless cucumber Is claimed by J. & fiteele, operator of a market greenhouse here, by a process in which be has been specializing.
