Ml MUN'CH COSTUME PARADE He looks just tike one of the flg Bres on those old-fashioned German clocks—but really he is a very modern resident of Munich. The quaint cos tume and quainter "bicycle'—a true heirloom—are accounted for by the fact that he is taking part in a recent costume parade and festival in Mu . nich. All costume societies in Bavaria and Wurttemberg took part in the festival. Does Graze With Cattie. . Hazleton. Pa.—Two does astray from the state game preserve *in the Hickory Run section are grazing with the cattie on ihc farm of Rnnsome Young in Butler valley, north of Ha zleton. They arc so tame that they can be approached without diiticnity. Georgia's Smudge Fish to Rid Spain of Mosquitoes Madrid. — Minnows imported into Spain from Augusta. Ga., may eradicate mosquitoes which carry malaria in many districts in Spain. Experiments have been conducted for the purpose of acclimating tin- fish, and it. is found that the work of scientists in the direction has been suc cessful. The minnows which belong to the species Gambusia Ailins, are known to iced upon the tnrvae of morqnRocs and hope is ex nr s-'',) that they wil! prove an eficic.it weapon agatnst malaria. PtCKS "CUSSERS" FOR RiSKS profane, Fat and Married Men Are ^ Most Reiiabie, According to ^ Surety Man. ^ Atlantic City.—Profane men. fat men and, above all, married men, are considered best risks by surety corn panic t - Derick '? "o . , representative of the National Surety company of New York. I'rofane men, he said, give vent to their cussedness by cussing and rarely appropriate to their own use other peo ple's money. Fat men arc good feed ers and after surrounding a sirloin 'steak pat their stomachs affectionate ly. lick their chops and are too satis fied nith the world in genera) to indict harm on their fellow met). Married men, because of the io\o- the' d'-m their v*fves ami fami!' :n -to - honest than bachelors - " - 6 to 1. Mew York Zoo Has Albino Rattlesnake on Display New York. — The Zoological park in the Bronx has on exhi bition a white rattiesnake found in the Berkshire hiils. The snake is about twelve inches long, has pink eyes and is said to be an atbino. /,It is about a year and a baif At the park it is re gard# 8H a great curiosity since in'* 'P^P^ast twpnty-one years therenas been no report of such a white rattier. The snake is transparent when held to the tight. Haynund L. Ditmar:.. curator of reptiles, discovered ibe snake. He was uuabie to capture it when it ran into a rock piie. He made another trip and met an amateur snake hun ter, Boies Smith of SheiHeld, Mass., who promised to see that tbe arake was captured and ful tiiied his promise. State News Items John Whitman, aged 35, drop ped dead Wednesday in his yard at Salisbury. Heart failure. An examination for postmast er at Wilkesboro will be held there August 13. Seventy moonshine stills have been destroyed in Wake county in the past three months. A report from Washington says that Camp Bragg will be abandoned. Camp Jackson is also to go. The tobacco markets in east ern Carolina opened last week. Good tobacco is reported to be bringing good prices. The Carolina Ship yards at Wilmington were sold last week to the Maryland Wreck ing Co. Weldon Glenn, of Greensboro was drowned in a lake near Richmond last week while in swimming. The peach crop in the sand hill counties is reported bounti ful. The crop is now being gathered and shipped. Salisbury is planning to buy the Whitehead-Stokes sanatori um there and turn it into a city hospital. The mid-winter session of the North Carolina Tress Associ.t tion will be held in Winston Salem. Elizabeth City has a new aft er paper, the Evening journal. Mr. Shackel, formerly of Win ston-Salem, is managing editor. Members of labor organiza tions in Asheville contributed one day's pay last week to the textile strikers at Charlotte, Concord and Kannapolis. Winston Salem has sold $325, OCO water, sewer and street im provement bonds to the Wa chovia Bank and Trust Co. of that city. The Lexington hosiery mills arc reported to be rushed with orders. The mills are running full time with a full force of op cratives. Charles Nooc, of Beaufort, was struck on the head by a pitched ball at a game there last week. He died almost instant ly. Louis Poteat, aged 31, of Ma rian, was killed last week by a dj namite explosion while en gaged in road construction work m Tennessee. Sidney Kincaid who cut his wife's throat while drunk ne:tr Morganton last week will be tried for his life next week in Burke Superior court. Dr, Peacock, freed murderer of Policeman Taylor at Thomas ville, has grown tired of the in sane department of the peniten tiary and wants to be removed to one of the state hospitals. R. H. Kluttx, foreman of the car department of the Southern Railway shops at Spencer, suf fered a stroke of paralysis last week. His condition is report ed as critical. Mrs. J. E. Efird, mother of the Messrs. Efird, of the Efird de partment stores, died at her home at Polkton Wednesday. She is survived by the husband and ten children. Down m Raleigh there is an old rock quarry filled with wat er. Some days ago an automo bile was found in it. lnvestiga tion proved that there were 2 number of cars in the pool tha had been reported stolen anc the insurance collected or ' them. W. H. Bird, city sanitary of ficer at Asheville, was discharg ed from office last week. He is charged with accepting a bribe in the sale of some city proper ty. 4 Ed Sneed, colored, of Bruns wick county, shot and killed his wifeJast Sunday, hid her body in a swamp, then attended Sun day school of which he was superintendent. John A. Cuthrell, aged 20 years, of near New Bern, was caught in a saw at a mill he was working at Wednesday and was sawed to pieces. He is sur vived by a wife and baby. The report that the south was suffering.from pellagra due to famine and poverty is stoutly denied by health departments of all southern states. There are fewer cases reported in this state than for several years. J. N. Roberts, a farmer of the King section, sat down on the tracks of the A. & Y. railroad at King and fed asleep. Several bones were broken and one lung badly lacerated. He may re cover. Employers and stiikers of the Concord cotton mills failed to agree at a conference held last week and as a result the mills will remain closed. Some of the mills have been closed since February. B^rt Slate and Ed Watson j biokejail at Mount Airy and made their escape Wednesday night. They were charged with robbing a store at White Plains some time ago. Judge Boyd has issued an in junction against J. W. Bailey, collector of internal revenue, restraining him from selling property to satisfy assessments made against persons in the Western district by the commis sioner of revenue and the com missioner of prohibition for al legged violations of the Vol stead prohibition act. The United Daughters of the Confederacy are protesting against the use of Muxzey's history book in the schools. It is claimed the book is unfair to the south. Rev. Ennis Pearson, pastor of a church near Wilson, was shot and killed from ambush near his home last week. The guilty parties are unknown, but it is thought to be the work of moonshiners. Police Chief Proctor and two other policemen of Durham, were suspended for ten days without pay for firing upon an automobile one night last week. Proctor resigned immediately. 'Russel P. Bryson, wife and lit tle daughter were captured in Columbia, S. C., last week and brought to Lexington and plac ed in jail. They are charged an automobile from J. B. Evans at Lexington. Iredell Superior court is in session this week. Dewey Bost, Arthur Aldridge and Paul Rook are to be tried for beating up James Norman, a jitney driver of Concord, near Statesville some weeks ago. Congress is talking three-cent postage ag