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PAGE TWO BREST-LITOVSK MAY BE RECONSTRUCTED American Funds Offered to Rebuild Polish City. Washington.—American funds have (been offered for the restoration of ; another war-ravaged European city— jßrest-Litovsk, Poland, according to a mews report from Warsaw. Brest-Litovsk, which is famous for the separate treaty which representa tives of Soviet Russia and Germany signed there, today consists of a fine railroad station and practically noth ing more. Buildings which housed 50,000 people were laid waste and the (large refugee population lives prin cipally in caves and huts. “Before the war Brest-Litovsk was ione of Russia’s most important trad ing centers -and fortresses on her eastern borders,” says a bulletin of the National Geographic society from its headquarters in Washington. Center of Communication Web. “Complete restoration of Brest- Litovsk would mean recreating a city busy with buying, selling, carrying and transferring the products of a large agricultural region. Railways from Odessa, Kiev, Moscow, Warsaw, Vilna and East Prussia intersect at , ttlie lonesome new railroad station, j (But Brest-Litovsk is more tlian a rail j center. It lies upon the inland water way from the Baltic to the Black sea. A canal east of the city connects the ’Mukbovets river and the Pripet river, which are, respectively, fingertips of waterway arms reaching from the (north and south toward each other, j ‘Thus the city is served by a well- j nigh perfect syi'eni of communica tion, extending in a!! directions. “Brest-Litovtk lies 100 miles due .east of Warsaw. Normally half its population was of Jewish blood, and it long lias been a Jewish stronghold. It never developed an industry, but •depended instead upon commerce. ‘During the Sixteenth century the synagogue of the city was regarded as ti e first in Europe. “Grains, hides, soap, wheat and timber were the staples of its exten sive trade. The lumber in which it dealt was floated- in great rafts down to Danzig. Flax, some of which went to Ireland and Belgium to make Irish and Flemish linen, was extensively grown in the country surrounding the town and formed another impor tant article of its trade. “Tiie familiar geographic reason for the existence of a town, namely two -rivers meeting, gives Brest-Litovsk Its excuse for being. The navigable Bug and Mukbovets rivers join and sit the point of confluence once stood the city 'fortress. Older fortifications were east of the city and covered four square iiniles. The defenses were the pride of Russia. “But the World war showed what ♦history had been reporting for years; that Brest-Litovsk was far from In vulnerable. It was first mention* d in ancient documents on the occasion of (Its capture by a Polish monarch in 1020. Next Casmir the .lur.t of Poland (built a tight castle. Princes of Ga licia, Vlohynia. Lithuania, grand mas iters of the Teutonic Knights, Tatar ‘chieftains and kings of Poland held land stormed the city in turns, and j going out from it gathered spoil from (the countryside. Climax of Russian Tragedy. “All of Brest-Litovsk history, how lever, records no such high moment as jit experienced late in 1017. Thing* [looked black for the allies. Russia, ‘which had been hold'ng Germany on itlie east, had collapsed internally un ifier the pressure of war. Kerensky, 'who still espoused the allied cause, (was soon displaced by the Soviet regime. Germany had driven deep into Russian territory. With this set ting the last act of the Russian trag edy took place in Brest-Litovsk, which iby that time had degenerated into a [war camp are) nothing more. y' “At the headquarters of Prince Leo ipold of Bavaria, Soviet representa tives signed a separate peace with i Germany which put the entire burden [of carrying on the war rn England | j France, he United States, Italy and i their allies,” » Sparrow Finds a Way to Get Meal on Auto \ Berkeley, Calif. —The irrepressible (English sparrow has learned to make (the automobile contribute to its bill | of fare. k According to ornithologists’ observa tions in such widely separated regions ias Illinois and California the resource fful birds have been making a practice of collecting toasted grasshoppers and 'other insects that have become wedged in Hie fronts of automobile radiators. In central California large [numbers of sparrows were observed “working” the front of car after car parked along the streets, says H. S. Swarth of the department of zoology of the University of California. In spite of conceited drives to head It off, the indomitable sparrow’s march across the continent has proceeded un • Impeded and the rowdy ragamuffin ihas ingeniously turned to its own ad vantage the machine that, by elimi : nating the horse from the streets, had (deprived him of an important source !Of food. _____ Claims Sea Record j Swansea, Wales.—Miss Anna Dale, -an immigration inspector, claims the |marine travel record of all time for •passengers with a total of 1,500,000 (miles. GAME OF LOVE BY TELEPHONE ■ ■’k,..— ■- ' By LUCY G. BARROWS u -- —n 1© by W. G. Chapman.) //-v TO!" SHOUTED Simon Bar ley I clay in a thunderous tone, T|| crushing out the fondest of human hopes, immov able as a rock. His pretty niece, Hetty, covered her face with her hands and broke down utterly in a storm of tears. “Cruel —cruel!” she sobbed. “And a last meeting with this gay gallivanting young man —understand?” pursued her callous-souled relative. “You are breaking my heart!” moaned Hetty, and really believing it. “Lt isn’t because Ned Monroe is after your little fortune, as most young fellows are nowadays.” j “What —what is it, then?” faltered j poor Hetty. “It’s because he’s an electrical maniac. Huh—telephone! Who heard of such a thing in my young days? Gossip-breeders, 1 call ’em! Worse than that —catering to laziness. Tried i lo get me to put one in my house. I’d like to see ’em! Now I’ve said my | say. Drop this beau, or i’ll send you ! off a thousand miles to my sister, where you can’t see him.” Antiquated, narrow-minded Simon Barclay had invented a new name for the most estimable young man in Redfern. He hated all innovations, j especially a telephone. There was a | reason. Simon had bargained too I slowly in the purchase of a piece of property he coveted, a shrewd neigh- ; bor had got to a telephone and out bid him. lie hated telephones after that, and Ned Monroe in the bargain, ; for was not that energetic young man the head linesman of the district tele phone plant? Hetty moped around the house all day. She was disconsolate. If ever a girl loved a bright intelligent young fellow, it was site. As to Ned, she knew that she was to him as the | apple of his eye. She dreaded meet- j ing him, but she was loyal to a prom ise she had made to her uncle that there would he no exchange of notes, no clandestine meetings. * Hetty knew that promptly at 5:80 Ned would pass the old orchard road near the farm. | Fifteen minutes earlier she repaired to the old tree that had been to them a favorite trysting place. Ned came spinning along on his bicycle, not a moment late, a line specimen of a healthy, buoyant young man interested and happy in his work. He swung a coil of wire and his tool bag to the road and was over the fence in a joyous leap. “Dear girl!” he said fondly, and then stared at Hetty in alarm, for she was weeping. Bit by bit the miserable story came out. He consoled her, he reiterated his love. He said nothing of revenge, elopement or discouragement. “Little lady,” he observed in his hopeful sanguine way, “all right! If I can't see you. I can keep on loving you, can’t L?” “Yes, yes,” murmured Hetty bro kenly. “hut I shan’t hear —those lov ing words! Why. not to have you tell me how you think of me every day ” “But you shall,” announced Ned definitely. “You have agreed not to write to me. Don't. You have prom ised not to meet me. Keep your word. I’ll arrange all that, hut—trust me to break down this wall of preju dice. Oceans shan’t part us. In the meantime, until things settle down — this.” Ned drew from Ills coat pocket one of the tools he used in putting in wires. He waved it buoyantly. “Yonder,” he said, pointing to the barb wire fence, “is a conductor right at hand. I'll connect up half a mile down tlie road with Farmer Moore’s house line. The feeder will go up there,” and lie pointed among the. 1 Drenches of the-ok! npjde live. “Oh, Ntd!” cried Hetty, clasping her hands in ecstasy, “you —you don’t A hat I am going to put a tele phone 'specially for you up in that tree. Why, every evening we can talk over the line for hours, if we want to.” “You darling!” exuberated Hetty breathlessly. “Oh, how fortunate It is that you know all about tele phones !” y “I'll be at my task bright and early tomorrow before your uncle is up and about,” planned Ned. “Come here to morrow evening, climb up in the tree. There's a comfortable seat on the sec ond branch. Take down the receiver. Oaii up ‘XX.’ I’ll arrange with the switchboard girls as to what that | means. Then —last kiss here, hut I’ll \ send you a dozen over the wires j every evening!” Oh. the delight of it! That blissful twilight hour! The deft hand of the nun ter workman had arranged the wires so that only a suspicious, search ing person could have guessed the mission of the double wire loop run ning from the fence up into the old apple tree. For three consecutive evenings Het ty sauntered carelessly down the road, ller uncle supposed she was going to j visit the daughter of the farmer just ! next to them. Hetty had noticed him I standing at the door of the house the I last evening of the three, watching | her till she was out of sight. She made a cautious detour to reach the old tree. The fourth evening Hetty did not start away until she raw Mr. Barclay busy in what he called his Jittle of fice, looking over his business [Miners VHE CHATHAM RECORD U was quite dusk by the time she reached her destination. She had climbed into the tree and had herself comfortably disposed, when she was startled by a low quick whistle. A man came over the fence, rough looking and sinister. He stood directly beneath her leafy shelter. Lt was he who had uttered the whistle and in a few moments a com rade of the same type slouched into view. “Well, how’s the outlook?” queried the first comer. “Capital.” “Girl gone?” “Half an hour ago.” “And the old man?” “In the room where his safe is, all alone. There's a rich haul, partner. Come on.” “Mercy!” gasped tlie startled Hetty, , as the two strangers disappeared in j the direction of the farmhouse. “They are going to rob uncle!” Her wits worked quick. She was aware that the men folks on the next farm were not at home. Then a bright idea occurred to her. She snatched free the receiver of the tele phone. “X-N” oh, quick, please! please!” she breathed frantically. And then as the connection was made: “Oh, Ned! come tjuick, with help. There are two burglars here who are going to rob uncle!” i “Will they never come?” she cried, standing out in the road and looking townward. Then her heart took - hope. Two distant sparks grew brighter, the lamps of a speeding automobile. Then she could, hear the cliug-chug of the flying machine. She i ran out into the road and waved her - neck scarf. ■ Two town officers accompanied her lover. One guarded the front door ot - tlie house as they reached it. Ned and the other man went around to the porch that opened into the office of j old Simon. ; “Just in time!" announced Ned, and lie and the officer sprang into the | room. One of the burglars was guard ing their victim with a revolver. The other had just lifted his strong box from the safe. ! The officers departed with their prisoners. Ned explained. ; “A telephone dicl it?" muttered old ! Simon, closely hugging his treasure j box. “But for that —Join hands!" lie i s;iid abruptly. “I’m converted, Hetty, i This young man may put in a ’phone in the morning. As to coming here regular, I fancy lie’s earned the priv ilege.” And so love by telephone led to love directly under the home roof. Not Easy to Obtain Admission lo Tribe Appreciation of the beauty of the ceremonies and the sincerity of the religion of the Navajo tribe led Chissie Nez, a white man, to investi gate tlie meaning that lay back of what he saw enacted and as a result | of Ills Interest lie was adopted into j tlie tribe. He went to Denver from ! New England in search of health, and | drifted to New Mexico to find diver sion. Winning the friendship of the Indians, he was asked to become a member of their tribe and he sub mitted himself to the nine-days’ cere mony- The candidate for tribal member ship must first of all he purified. He lies in a trench filled with herbs and charcoal and the.-Steaming is believed to purify him. A daily ceremony Is addressed to the four points of the compass and sand paintings that must he completed during the circuit of the sun are made on three different days in the lodge of the medicine man. The candidate must gain certain things for his fetish bag, including 24 feathers from a live eagle. To do this lie lies in a trench covered with brush. On top is the bait, a rabbit, and as the eagle swoops down, the man seizes it, lie also must obtain a deer and kill it without bloodshed, and must find “a hear of turquoise and a horse of white ivory with blue eyes.”— ‘ Denver I’ost. . I Industry It is that only that conducts us through any noble enterprise to a noble end. Wlmt we obtain without it is by chance, what we obtain with it is by virtue. ... It is the gift of tongues, and makes a man under stood in all countries and by all na tions. It is the philosopher’s stone that turns all metals and even stones into gold, and suffers no want to break into its dwellings. It is the northwest passage that brings the merchant’s ships as soon to him as he can desire. In a word,, it conquers all enemies and makes fortune itself pay contribution. —The Earl of Clarendon < l727 >' ! To Induce Sleep 1 Napoleon’s method of overcoming wakefulness is reported to have been as follows: Imagine the inside of the head as a circular room, the walls of which are lined from floor to ceiling with small file drawers. In each drawer are thoughts. When sleep will not come, Napoleon fancied it was be cause these drawers were continually opening out into the room and project ing their contents, or thoughts, on his mind. To induce sleep lie had to keep these drawers in their places. The mental effort used in pushing back the drawers brought the desired unconsciousness to him ip a short ! time. More Important “You say your husband’s life is not insured?" “>o: it takes all our spare money to nsur • the car.” J BOILS FOR YEARS NOW ALL GONE Ylp.bamian Says Dodson’s, Liver Tone Gave Him Brand New Liver worth Fortune Experience seems to indicate that ~eople store up in their systems cer ain poisons that break out all at once : n a series of boils. Sometimes they are fatal. Willie Hapes says: “Ever since I grew up boils broke out on me just when the planting season began, and I had to lay up. Blood remedies were worthless. The only remedy was calomel, but it seemed to turn |my stomach inside out. This spring | I .hot a bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone and I feel sure it nut a new liver in to me worth a fortune, for it cleared off the boils and for the first time in years they didn’t come back.” The reason for this is the fact that a spooonful of Dodson’s Liver Tone ’oosens up the liver, lets go of a gorge of impurities, sour bile, fer mented food and gas and breaks up the most obstinate constipation. And yet it never makes you sick—no gripe, no pain—e~ en though it may drive out quarts of sour bile as black as ink. And this result is absolutely guaranteed. Ask your druggist for a bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone and take a spoon full tonight. If it doesn’t start youi liver and straighten you right up bet ter than calomel did in all your life and without griping or making you ; sick, go back to the store and ge J . your money.” MOTHERf Clean Child’s Bowels with "California Fig Syrup” Hurry Mother! 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