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A CAPITAL OF EUROPE'S WINTER PLAYGROUND Nice Is Meeting Place for Pleasure Seekers. Washington.?Local weather coodlr tions In Europe seldom get into American news. Recently. however, millions of Americans read with Interest ver their breakfast coffee that It had rained at Nice. Why a rain made cable news is ejcpained In a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographical society. The unusual downpnur had come day after day during carnival week? the red-letter period of pleasure in the gay 'winter capital of the world."* ays the bulletin, "apolltng tens of thousand of dollars' worth of bunting and no one knows how many millions af franca* north of gayety. Qayety at Carnival. "Nice Is often caviled at as too boisterous, too crowded, and too noisy,** the bulletin goes on, "but it continues despite all that to be the capita! of Europe's winter playground, the Riviera. Cannes draws to its villas and hotels those of quieter tastes. M*n,2 tone lures lta Invalids, while all the other scores of resorts along this sunbathed Mediterranean coast draw to themselves appropriate groupa of those In search of pleasure, rest, or health. B\it Nice is the meeting place for all as wHl as the place of temporary residence for thousands who find this bustling city and wellequipped reeor*. rolled Into one, exactly to their liking. "Nice's gayetv rises In crescendo to the carnival which takes place Just before the beginning of I^ent each spring. This more or less historic celebration, a type for numerous festivals around the world, began as a modest fiesta many years ago. It became an organised celebration in 1871 and has drawn Increasing crowds aioce. It must be admitted, toe. that It has grown Id rewdytara. There are quiet-loving soul* whe leave Nice for the carnival Juat aa there are those w.be Sack there far It. The celebration centers aboat the baitl# of flowers In the Promenade de? Anglais. There are parade* that feature the ludicrous as well as the beautiful, ana the Inevitable domlnoe. masques. isongs. Mrpri iianeea, noma una confetti. "There is a considerable English colour at Nice. It dates back ninny years as one might surmise when he learns that the Promenade des Anglais has borne ita name since 1821. Some of tho earliest of the seekers of winter sunshine from the British isles were in the modest Riviera town that year when t unusual cold snap ruined the orange crop. They clubbed tog'ther p and gave the unemployed natlWs work by building a road along the onshore- t!ie Promena-V des Angiitis. A wng has said that this roadway was built by the tttiefoiployed and has been used by the unemployed ever since. The chief boulevard aud shopping street in Nice Is the Avenue de iu Victolre. With Its smart shops and smartly dressed shoppers. It is a tyje Ical Parisian boulevard in miniature. "New Nice, with its wide streets and bright buildings, has grown over a large area, almost obscuring quaint old Nice. One finds the old town in seemingly compressed quarter across a little torrent from the newer city, between the stream and a bluffllka pronscntory, ; 'astle hill, which was the acropolis of the earliest settlement. l*n one aide cf the stream are narrow, crooked streets, houses centuries old and here and there ruined palaces. It la a medieval-looking place, but Is Inhabited by thoroughly modern mechanics, tram drivers and other less opulent inhabitants of the city, ua the other side of the stream lies the new city with its avenues and promenades, theater# and casinos, weeping uphill in I cud to o zone of hotels, palaces and villas. Road of tncomfsarablo View*. "Although many criticize Nice for its modernity and Its too rapid growth, all agree that Its setting on a spar eioua, sparkling bay enfolded by green a**d lavender hills, is superb. To eee the city and its surroundings at their heat one should ride over the famous Grande Gorniche road Frem Kice It climba to a high shelf (the name means 'great cornice or shelf) on the Inland hlil* overlooking the motire region both seaward and off to the enow-capped Alpa Napoieoa built tha road bat ween 1900 and 1912 to facMitate military eipedttlons toward Italy. Now It la given over almost entirety to pleasure traffic. Ovet It "during the season' whiz char-a-bancs and motor busses and private cars After warm weather brings an end to the season this road of incomparable views Is almoet deserted." Amsterdam to Keep Its 650th Anniversary Amsterdam.?<Jr?at preparations are afoot to celebrate the MOlh anniversary thla yesr of Amsterdam's status as a city. It was in the year 127B that the municipality received Its flrst charter aa such from Fhruis V. count of Holland. The center of attraction la to he an exhibition in the famous Ryks museum and the city museum of all painting, prints, sculptures and other works of art having relation to Amsterdam during the last six and a half centuries. In addition to such famous Rembrandts aa "The Night Watch" and Vthe "Rtaalmeestera" many others by the same uiastei ?111 be brought tiem Parks. Purlin and other (European capitals. having been temporarily Ins ret' tm the oeceeleA. f ? ' i n ?i" TRAIN YOUTH IN PEAK CLIMBING AuitrUiu Move to Curtail Casualties in Alps. Vienna.?Reared In a country wbOM mouutnin ranges rival the peak* of ^ Switzerland, the youth of Austria, both j Km-Ii -4-1- - < ' IWJ" ouu fcirin, trv eillllWitlBliC umuutain climbers. But this Is often a dangerous pastime, and each year the Alp* j take hea*y toll of young and valuable UVM. To protect these venturesome youngsters there has been organized a moontatn-cllnibing school, with facilities for 400 students. The Instruction Is to embrace theoretical lectures and practical training. The lectures will treat of meteorology and weather predictions, and will fur ther deal with the comparative value of various textures for articles of wear and equipment for tDonntnineerlng. Then tlrst aid and transportation up and down gradients in case of accident. methods of sheltering frocn wind, avalanches, rain and snow, and lastly, nutrition affd physical endurance, will likewise receive attention. . The practical] training will be equally diversified. It wlli demonstrate the" ' beet ways of conquering the many hindrances which place themselves In the climbers' puth. methods and utility i - ... I or roping ana tne tin mousing of rocks ] i in rescno work and ascending and de- < | seen ding the sheer fuce of precipices. (; Lastly cornea the correct handling of picks, axes and alpenstock*. A second i conrac will deal with the use* of skis i , and anowahoet In Alpine tours. I , One Word Badiy Written | Put* Realtor Out $1,000 i Kalamaroo, Mich.?Bert Cook, & real estate dealer, is out $1,000 because a ? Jury In Circuit court decided he wrote the word "net" into a contract, lie auya he wrote the word "with" Instead. The suit filed hy Cook against Casslufc Rockwell was one of the few wordconatmctton cases arer called In Circuit court here since the advent* of the ( typewriter. , One sentence of the ee.itracC. which , was written In long hand, reads, according to Oook. that the farv he dla- ( posed of for Rockwell was to be "sold for $10,000, with no commission to Mr. j Cook." According to Rockwell, the , contract read "sold for $10,000 nee. no , commission to Mr. Cook" Under the ] plaintiff's construction Cook would i have been entitled to all fce money he ! received for the farm over and above ' $10,000, which was $1,000. Under the defendant's construction Cook was not , entitled to any commission If he sold j the farm for less than $13,200, that be; ing the amount of Rockwell's $3,200 j mortgage plus the $10,000 net. The j Jurors decided a dot placed above the ' word was a cross for the "t" In net. j instead of a dot for the "i" in "with.** ' i Father Gives Son, 12, $10,000,000 Building New York. a. Lefcourt, gar( mem manufacturer, realty operator i and builder, announced the ?ifi to his ' twelve-year-old son of flO.OOo.ooo ?n j the form of a deed to a 30-story build- j lng he intends to erect. Lefcourt, who i at the age of twelve- -a little more ! I than thirty year? ago?was shining ' shoes and selling papers on the East ' side streets, said his purpose was t? Inculcate In his son. Allen, a sense of j thrift and responsibility and "the necessity of observing the future of this wonderful city." "1 want my sou to have all the adi vantages which I was denleu as a boy," Mr. Lefcourt explained. "I wunt to instil) in him now the ideals I have fostered for many years, and J train him sc. that when he reaches his majority he will he ready to take hold where 1 leave off." I Biggest Ranch in World Is Owned by Woman, 93 KiiuCKville, Texas.?In a palace ranch ! house, 150 miles from her front gate, j lives Mrs. Henrietta M. King, owner ' of the largest ranch In the world. For three hours, by train, one rides across her ranch. And still a two- | J hour Journey is ahead before tne last fence poet of her vast estate is i reached. Ttie ranch comprises 1,250,000 scree ! and stretches through seven Texas counties. A grazing ground for 850.000 head of cattle, the eats'e is conservatively estimated as worth *50. 000.000. This great ranch was acquired within the space of one lifetime Quite as remarkable Is Mrs. King's city? Klngsvllle?known in these parts as the Garden of Bdcn. a thriving place, where 5.500 persons live, located In 1 . urr umu i-Tuici Wi lint Jimi ' itm ii. >mi 11; i 11 111 m 11111 i i-f-i-i h i ; Stealing of Sawmill Charged Against Six ;; Boulder, Colo.?Stealing ? saw- "" ;' mill la the unique charge against . six men who have been jailed In ! I " | Boulder and Longmonr. The six men. alleged to have ! I *' been ied by Krnest Hertzke, a farmhand, are said by sheriff'* .. " | officers to have purloined the ] j lumber mill from the farm of 0. * ! W. Pace, weit of Lyons. The officers said they found .. various parts of the mill about \ [ * | the homes of the arrested men ? In Allenspark, Lougmont and ! * 'r Lyons, is having been diant&n- ' tied and scattered. The imlll ! | was valued at $886. tiMimiiHiimiiiimtt THE WAT AUG A DEMOCRAT?t INDIANS INCLINE. I TO BUREAU RULE i Feel Their SUiut Mort Under Uncle S*m. Washington.-?The little lad *li? hub i weakness for war paint, featiters and liidiun tales may take heart at the Indian bureau's announcement that here are still 34r?,0U<> of these primeval Americans in the land. The attention of the Sixty-ninth concrete will be called to the fact that, miess the nation's lawmaker* make >ther provisions, the period of governnent wardship in the five civilized ribes will expire in 1931. There are ibout 17,<AK) Indians uuder federal supervision in the live civilized tribes, ind elsewhere in the country the bueau of Indian affairs has 200,000 *rartrlcted" Indians who are supervised. The Indians themselves, Indian bu eau ofllcials aay, are anxious to have he restriction extended, as they delire government guardianship to coo- , ?erre their lands. Under the Jane, 1924, law, all naive-born Indians are now citizens of he United States. There are 190 rites, many of them being small ' groups. The number of Indian children In 1 irhools, the health appropriations by j congress, Indian hospitals and the mine of farm products raised by those citizens have materially lncreaoed in he last decade. I Farming and stock raising have developed appreciably among the Inlians, and large sums of money ara >etng spent by the government or irrigation projects on their land*. the In- 1 Jiatis being the country's first lrrlgaJoniste. The Navajo Indians in pardcular are great sheep raisers, their a omen being noted weavers of blankets. I Red Swears by Emblems: Hammer, Sickle and Cork Paris.?"1 will only consent te be ! worn on the symbol* of mj religion,"* declared Raffia Dugena. former Contnuxdat deputy, when be appeared before the parliamentary committee, which Is investigating election campaign funds. Chairman tfistrai said he was afraid be could not oblige the witness with the necessary symbols, hut M. Dugeas aid he was prepared for that. Kroxr t portfolio he drew forth a hammer and sickle, the point of the blade guarded hy a cork, crossed them on the table, raised his hand and declared in a loud voice: "I swear, on this emblem of the union of the workers of the city and of the lie ids, to tell the truth the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.** The members of lite committee held their sides in laughter. iMirens. who wns recently expelled fr ini tho rommiinie* t.uftv ' to pulili.- notice as ? .no of the Kientl-al pilgrims during the war. going to that Swiss village to meet representatives of the ilcinian Socialists. He now la accused by his political opponents of having accepted a check for JS.000 francs toward IiIh expenses In the last electioos from an advertising agent He readily admit ted the fact to the committee, declaring . "To tight Mistral's gang I would ka7e accepted money from the devil." Ankles to Be Seen in | Next Courts in England London.?If dresses designed for the next courts at Buckingham palace, now on view at the shops of various modistes, are followed, there will be less material seen than usual, and more of the wearers' ankles. Most of the models on view have the extremely short skirts which have i cooie into vogue since the last court was held, and against which there is at i present no official regulations. The cat i of the neck is very discreet, while the length of train and the veil la also re- : strict od as at previous courts. One dress on view is of silver and j lace finished with ostrich feathers, j Another is of pule piafc brocade with a i ] girdle of brilliants and a train of goid lace, while a third is of sliver and pale mauve. j 1 1 1 H I 11 I 1 H 1 H t 1 llfl HI*! Find Petrified Forest Near Tonop&h, Nev. ;: j , Tonopah. Nev.?That there is i j ! a petrified forest. one of the ]! j moot beantlfnl in the country. ! within 40 mllea of Tonopah, la ( a fact not generally known ' , . Mora than 100 petrified tree* . | [ are stiil standing. Just as they ;; | grew originally. Little has heen I; written about this forest on ac- ] \ j count of Its Inaccessibility. ( I The forest cover* several hnn- \ , fired acres. The ground - is , !1 strewn with the fossilized bones !, of animals and here and there , ! | are small caves. [, The entrance to the forest Is ; ; through a smell canyon which . - , widens Into a rirer bed, which. 1 In design, reminds one somewh.it . of the Grand canyon. ; " ! William Gomm of Tonopah. ; | with a party, recently visited the [ '] scene and brought back several ; | sacks of bones and teeth of ] \ , enormous size. He said the ( I | trunk of one ot the petrltled 1! j standing trees was fully fifty ;; j feet high and fifteen feet In dr "! j cumference. ' j ! ! Goinin has written the secre- !! ; ; tary of the Interior suggesting ;' , i! that the foreat he aaade a na- J| | ; -ional park. \\ | ; mi i-11~ It RY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C finger print data on 7,000.000 men Army Can Locate Any Regular in 20 Minutes. Washington.?Finger-print Identiflution has been developed by the iriny to the point of efficiency where iti Blinliiutinn ?? Hmnu ?l,u ? i.mva ICO "IUU IUC hrU!s of detective fiction. -Any unidentified man who baa lerved in the regular army can be lor&tod la from ten to twenty minutes, ?nd hlg fuli record laid bare. In that diort time a searcher 0Dd3 him unong the more than 7,000000 men vho have beet in the army since 1900, chen the fingerprint system was inroduced. He may hare been one of he 50.328 Smiths, the 40.101 John ioiir, 28,902 Browns, or one of the 27.138 named Williams. Ail the army Leeds is his finger print, to find his vcord. Index System Thorough. Walter S. Kaye, in charge of the mreau, says the indexing lias been vorked out so efficiently that even a lew clerk, one never before having iad knowledge of the system, can be{in work aa a searcher with little preiiuiuary instruction. The science of finger-print reading s based on the study of the curious, circling network of all but Invisible inet on the ball of the thumb and !uch finger. Examination of millions >f specimens allows that the normal briDstion is the whorl, or the scroil rhich winds these lluea from the outer !dge in a gradually reducing circle to heir inner termination at the core I f the network. A majority of huwRn j >eingr. are marked with this scroll, but j here are others whose finger-print j ine* run in flattened figures or in I :ompl! cat ions of figures far removed ! rom the slmpie, easily-read who Ha. 1 ['he first step in identification has to to with determining the broad general llvtsion in which the prints under en- ! imi nation are to be sought. There are but fonr main groape or Hasaifleatioaa of prints, arch eft. loopa. vhoria and compoaitos. Koch typo las tts gradatloatol caseo. Tho whoria lave 1.024 values or combinations and he loopa. arches and composites huvo sach their respective values to simplify segregation for filing and to make j hem easily located when ideritificaiona are songht. The evaluation of priuta thus made has overcome ali difIcultv of uriih luwa ;ions of Stiver markings, such as are to the array files. linger prints. Hi nee their adoption n 1P0U, have exposed frauds, protected innocent men from Injustice, kept undesirables of the criminal type out >f the service, protected the govern nent from unscrupulous claimants and uncovered the guilty. Many interest,?g accounts of such instances are contained in official papers of the War lepc.rlment during the last 15 years. Never a Mistake. Those who have worked in the Identification bureau since Its establishment are authority tor the statu meat, that never has a mistake been made, rhey have made more then 200,000 identificatioua. "The linger print system," Mr. Kayc lays, "is superior u> any other system o far devised, in that it permits of ao error. This may seem a strong statement, but the finger print, when rl early made allows of ao misrepresentation; it is an actual presentation and dees uot per mil the personal equation of error to en?er. Other systems allowed errors of measurement and errors In location of marks." In the more than 70.000,000 digit photographs in the identilicutiun bureau's tiles, Mr. Kaye says, there are no two of Lliein alike. "There is just as much chance of finding two prims alike as there would be in going into the fields ana finding two flowers exactly alike ' Find* Old Indian Cave at Grand Tower, 111. Grand Tower, Hi.?High ever the Mississippi river, commanding a broad riew of the opposite shore and the river for miles, a cave has been discovered near the top of itig hill, or Mountain bluff, near here, whose walls ue marked with hieroglyphics, ludicattng early Indian occupation and probably Indian religious worship. Ran>oleue?ft of the cave and condition of markings, when discovered by Frank Sol omen, sole inhabitant of the kill, indicate the ciarka are aery old. When found they were covered with a Bort of moss or mold, and there were fto evidences the hidden recess had been altered since the early occupants left. Chief of the markings, giving: ? dear picture of the bend in the river as it turres sonth from Chester, twenty nUes away, is a hollowed-out half ipbere. about a yard across. Most of the marks in it are now obscured by the erosive effect of chances in climate. but four are discernible. * ?'C * Bromine From Sea Water Mew Tort?The steamship Ethyl, ID sail April 15 from Wilmington, Del., to ox t mot bromine from the >eean. A world shortage of bromine, rhlrk Is said to threaten both Indus !ry and science, caused the Bthyl to >e fitted out as a factory for recover ag bromine from aea water, the Amercan Chemical aocietj announces The Cthyl will call at no port, but will nam the ocean and extract from the ira'era her cargo of bromine, which a regarded as eeeentlai to medicine, notion pictures and to tha ethyl fintd rf motor fuel. !FREmi WORLD WAR TOTAL IS 3,531,045 Compilation of Man Power d.: i i? r> li* >\aiscu vj I\CPUD1!Q. Paris.?The anny comiDlttw of the ; last chamber deputies undertook. Id response to a resolution by the chain ber to prepare a statement showing the losses in dead and wounded suffered in the jrreut war of all the belligerent nations. The array committee of the present chamber has continued this work. The first installment of the report, covering the French military effort, has been complied and appears in a document written by Deputy Louis Marin. As a preliminary to the lots tabulations, it presents a picture of ? Ka 1 IH.,.1 - ? ' runic ? .i- .- utaium rnw and the enormous French contribution to allied victory. Lucira Chaasalgne has given in an article In Le Journal & hljclily interesting summary of the finding*. He says: "In 1914 France had under the colors ihe classes of 1911, 1913 and 19T2, representing 992.905 men?817,000 Ru ropeans, 53,705 native Africans and 52.200 native colonial* 8,501,045 Men Mobilized. "During the war there were enlisted in the military service (outside tha reguiar classes) 792,500 Europeans. 240,051 Africans and 223.089 colonials. Including the 34 classes subject to service, the total of men mobilized reached 8.501,045. . I "The number of officers In the ac| tlve and supplementary services roae I to 50.000. | "From the 1st to the 15th of Angus*. 1914. the mobilization brought 288.000 men from the complementary list a inta the active army. In the following ten months the effort continued, and 2.740,WHi men were recruited from the old classes, dating back to 1887, and from the classes of 1814 to 1915. ' The picture of the contribution of tnese classes 18 * curious one. and proven the robustness of our rare. The class of 1887 had 244,000 m?k* living at I he time of the original mobilization. Of these, 54.000 served actively during the war. The proportion increased very rapidly. The class of 1897 gave a contribution of 81 per cent. As foe the younger men. they served in the proportion of 89 per cent. "The writer of the report follows step by step the efforts at recuperation (the return of the incapacitated) and the figures pay a striking tribute tc. our sanitary service. For the years 1916. 1017 and 1018 the proportions of wounded cured and ret urn to service was 79 per cent This recuperation procured 650,000 men for the noncombataui arms. Volunteer* Total 229.037. ' ' Voluntary enlistments r?*ttched a to| tal of 229.087, of which 2,480 were I made by men more than forty-six years j <-Id. The foreign volunteers numbered | 29,796, the Italians taking the lead with 7,125. "Here is an important point. On i TV-comber 1. 1918. the ilst of slackers j contained only 42,227 names. As to j the deserters. 74.592 were caught in ' the interior or ahrmiH hi-i v ?**. front. "Kilher sit the time when the classes were in<*orporated ?r in the course of hostilities. 1,020.88"! tneu were discharged for physical disability. ' The natives mobilised consisted of 1T3.019 Algerians 80.3.39 Tunisians. 40.no8 Moroccans, 1S1.512 Senegalese. 1 41.35b Malgaches (natives of Madagas! car), 48,922 In do < 'hincso and 3.5H0 Spinalis. On November 1. 1918, 2.S40.i 000 men were in the armies, 1,297,000 in the interior, 1.387.000 ir. factories or in reserve and 25.000 on leave. On the same date 2,6'9.000 men were on the fighting lines in northern France and 227,000 were in the army of (lie O^ent. "The distribution of the troops shows the broadening of the scope of the fighting. On May 1. 1915 rhe Infantry comprised 1,526,000 combatants; m April. IMS, 1,036.'KX). and on Octo ber 1. 1918. only 351,000. The cc?nbalaius In the artillery showed a movement ir. the opposite direction. In 1915 they numbered 395.000; in 1918. COi,000. A3 to the air fighters, they increased in the same period from 8,0t)0 to 51.000. while the auto service was expanded from 18,000 to 91,000. 'T'n# nvimher tsf the n?in?'?mhonintw by reason of our industrial necespitle*. Increased steadily?from 101.000 la 1916 to 665.000 In 1918." Strauss Write# Concerto for One-Armed Pianist Vienna.?Richard Strauss has composed a concerto for piano and orches tra especially for a one-armed Vlen nese pianist. Raul Wittgenstein. It it entitled 'Tarergon to the Symphonla Domestics,** the latter symphony being one of Strauss' best received musical offerings. Wittgenstein will give the concerto its premiere next winter at Dresden with Fritz Bunch, general musical dl rector of the Dresden opera conductinc. Palestine Population I# Increased 9,814 in Year Jerusalem.?Official returns show that 11.851 Jews. 4.673 men. 3.836 women and 3.442 children, entered Palestine as Immigrant* during the twelve months ended December last During the same period the Jewish emigrants numbered 2,037. so that the not increase of the population through Immigration during the year was 9.814. The corresponding increase la X66M W9M s,rsa? PAcr SPV- | -j SI OCk SWINDLERS USE MAGNETISM Hit Upon New Methods to Keep Up With the Times. New York.?The financial un?if<r? wvrld which fringes Wall street sttnidlb hits upon new methods to keep tip with the times and abend of the law. Its jargon is elastic, Impromptu and bizarre. For example, swindlers who fleece the public through soles of fake stocks work by telephone in what is called a holler room. Telephone salesmen are said to "hook the suckers." Dynamiters, so-called, "build ap" the victims a?id hoodwink them into switch in* from standard securities, first held out as bait to attract investment, to worthless stocks which the consplrators are in l> lslnes? to unload Gone is the "gold brick," gone the bunco man who itrtirk up acquaint ance with prosperous visitors from the interior at metropolitan railway depots in the '90s. The get-rlch-qulek man of today has Imagination. Avoid ing the mails as much as possible, be strikes over the telephone and tele graph, of?eii to bring down quarry as much as several states away. Thes?? Twiudlers operate frotn offices that usually are obscure, sometimes merely desk room, so customers will find telephone calls hard to trace. In the larger plants there often Is a bat .cj u: n> many as eigne teiepnone*. | This is the boiler-room, the term he ] In? derived from the practice ?>f cre-j atlng an atmosphere of bustling activ-' Ity to impress Inquisitive suckers whoj ennnot he kept away. The bristle Is not wholly fictitious.: the better business bureau Investigatora have found. Hour lu, hour out. salesmen with good voices canvass by wire a list of names selected either from a secret "sucker's list" or the telephone directory. They hook tlieir man by offering to let him Buy some active standard! stock guaranteed to advance on a partial-payment pian. He can sell out at the rise and take a profit perhaps: equal to as much as he has paid in. The money la dnlv received, but the stock is never bought. An attorney In Toledo. Ohio wia reached by long-distance telephone from Philadelphia and New Tork. He placed WIS on a curb stock here and won. He was persupdod to switch to m tr<irlh1*dc mlnln.. .. ? J -* HimiMfc PI?? n BDU njci l.'Vll I to Fond $2.W> more. Postpl Inspectors' nabbed one of the swindlers at a tele l graph ofllre as he was welting for the' remittance, Later rh?y caught two others. Tunnels to Save Users $20,000,000 Yearly & New York. -TraRic ?>xiw?rts of New Jersey estimate that tlie II<?lland tunnels under the Hudson river will save! merchants and others $20,0d<k0o0 a' ye n because It will shorten distances between this city and Trenton. V J., and points between and thai the Lin-! coin highway will afford such an out- I let : < to prevent congestion and the j consequent delays f??r years to come. The Lincoln highway runs from Jer-! s.\v City to Trenton, touching the big-1 . per centers on the way like Newark, [ K'izabeth, Railway. Metuehen, New ! Brunswick and Princeton. Fred Luvia, , assistant construction engineer of the! i New Jersey state highway department,. 1 made the $20.0(Ml,OtM) saving estimate.! The basis of bis figuring was that trii>s between Important points will be| made in so touch shorter time that at least one dollar will be saved on each; trip by vehicles and thai the nui?k?er < of these trips will be at least 20.<XH>JKM>; : a year. lie pointed out that this amount, oapitallzeu at 4 per ? e:il. itidic.itos that $500,000,000 nbglti prohiabl.v be spent . to eliminate present deluys to iratlie. . Gir!, Two. Knows letters and Quotes From Bible I Fergus Fails. Minn.?Mary I.ouise, i two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Malson of Fergus Falls, is ex! citing the curiosity and admiration ot residents of this city because of her{ mentality. In her second year Mary Louise surprised ber mother by walking into the kitchen and naming all the letters ou the oven door. The prodigy" not only know s all the let. him buy some active standard i recite nursery rhymes and jiarue pictures of animals and Biblical scenes. 1 * w-i-f-w-* 11 : n n 11 n m i m ; ;; Woman Is Killed by "F'ace Peeling" ; ;f Los Angeles. Cal. ? Drtoc- ' ;i tivrs inquiring lmo the death of [ [' 1 Mrs. Jesvie Gilchrist during a ' ( "face-ncc line-" rtri,r.rUTi i. "~i +' ? lltfl- I ] lywood. wer^ investigating a re ;! I I! port that Mrs. Gilchrist under1' went another face modeling ope- ] [I ! ration las? June, at the hand* ! ' of Dr. Gertrude Steele, "beauty ' I 1 doctor," who fled to Germany I !| | ' after she had been charged with ' j 11 manslaughter in connection with . ! ] \ the death of a patient. \ |i I . It was believed possible that ] | Mrs. Gilchrist's death might ' j have been due Indirectly to the 11 first operation, as well as to the \ operation under which she died. |! Chemical analysis of the wont- \ an's brain showed trace* of ' ! phenol poisoning, and the theory ! ! ; was that the operation last June 'I 1 may have left her particularly ! |; sensitive to the effects of the ' " . . phenol solution commonly used . !j ' ' In face-peel in* operations. 'I tl
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