SMART CLOTHES FOOL COPS
French Police Allow a Modern "Raf
fles" to Walk Calmly Past
Them.
A gang of young criminals, with
more than fifty burglaries to their
charge, is now being tried. Their mis
deeds extended over a period of two
years, and one of their victims was
the present minister of the interior,
M. Malvey.
The burglars are of good families,
and they made a feature of always
"operating" in the most scientific man
ner, with implements perfected in ac
cordance with the latest thing in bur
glarious art, and they were always
faultlessly dressed in smart man
about-town style.
On one occasion, when surprised
while at work in a flat, the member
of the gang charged with the opera
tion, escaped to the roof, crawled
from there into another flat, sending
a woman who was dressing there into
a faint by his sudden appearance, and
then calmly descended the staircase,
slowly walking past half a dozen wait
ing policemen who did not dream of
suspecting that this well-dressed man
was the burglar whom they had been
sent to catch.
From the house of M. Malvey the
gang succeeded in making off with a
large quantity of valuable silver, a
part of which, curiously enough, they
returned in a mysterious manner a
few months afterward. —Paris Cable
to the London Chronicle.
TO CUT ADULT DEATH RATE
Expectation of Life for Man of Forty
Is Year Shorter Than It Was
Decade Ago.
The statement made in a recent bul
letin of the New York board of health
by Dr. Charles F. Bolduan that the ex
pectation of life for a mau of forty
was actually at least a year shorter
than it was ten years ago, receives
confirmation from Australia in the re
port of a commission appointed to in
quire into the causes of death and in
validity.
The Lancet (London) quotes this
commission's report as saying that the
principal risk of middle age is in high
blood tension. The principal causes of
this are found in overstrain and in
chronic poisoning of the blood by foods
and drinks, and from the bowels and
the throat.
The Lancet says the recommenda
tions of the New York and the Aus
tralian bodies are somewhat vague,
but it welcomes a campaign against
avoidable adult mortality which it
says, "need not become an opportunity
for the exhibition of rampant faddi
ness, though risk lies in this direc
tion."
Palace Furnished Food.
At a harvest festival held at Bishop,
Ca!., the principal attraction was a
great palace built of alfalfa. The city
of Bishop is located in a hay-growing
center, so there was ample material
with which to rear the unique struc
ture. Baled alfalfa —more than one
thousand tons of it—was used, and a
number of men were employed for sev
eral weeks on the job.
The palace was designed to be an
exhibit half. It was 90 feet wide and
370 feet long, beautifully proportioned,
with an imposing entrance and walls
turreted all the way around. At night
it was outlined with hundreds of elec
tric lights, making a picture more
charming than it presented by day. It
was built around and under towering
Lombardy poplars and other trees and
was open to the sky, bat so arranged
that all exhibits which required shade
were protected.
Journey Was Over.
The little son of a prominent rail
way man was playing with the draw
ing-room chairs one afternoon when
his father entered, accompanied by a
man whom the child had never particu
larly fancied.
As the visitor took a chair the boy
remonstrated, "I beg your pardon, sir,
but this is a train of cars."
"Very well, my lad," was the answer,
"I'll be a passenger."
But the youngster didn't want the
grown-up for a passenger, so he said,
"Where do you wish to get off?"
"Cincinnati."
"All right," said the boy, "this is
Cincinnati."
Rather Strenuous.
"That new neighbor of mine told an
acquaintance that I was a jabbering
idiot," said Meeker, "so I started out
to make him eat his words."
"Good for you," said Naggsby.
"And did you succeed?"
"No," replied Meeker, in tones redo
lent with sadness. "He proved to be
one of those strenuous chaps who
would rather fight than eat."
Friendly Criticism.
Criticus —I say, old chap, what was
your idea of painting that picture of a
fried egg in a hayloft?
Artist—Why. you idiot, that picture
represents a summer sunset in the
Rocky mountains.
Criticus —Well, I don't think much
of the sunset, but the mountains are
certainly the rockiest ever.
Let Them Go to It.
Visitor in Courtroom —What is this
lawsuit about?
Stranger—The creditors of George
Bump, bankrupt, are suing his trustee
in bankruptcy.
Visitor in Courtroom —Are you inter
ested in the case?
Stranger —Not in the slightest. I'm
George Bump.— Life.
'WHAT? YOU REMEMBER ME?'
One Secret of Success of Well-Known
New York Hotel
Owner.
One of the many things which have
contributed to the success of the late
George C. Boldt, the well-known hotel
man, was his ability to remember the
names of his guests.
Early in his hotel experience Boldt
discovered that there is no item of
courtesy which pleases a guest much
more than simply to be remembered,
to be called by name. And so Boldt
made a special effort on this point.
Finding that he was rather lacking in
this phase of memory, he set out to
develop his mind in this direction.
He found that even the simple proc
ess of repeating over to himself two
or three times helped tremendously.
You are introduced to a man, and are
apt to be looking at him so intently
that you do not even hear his name
when it is spoken. Boldt always made
it a point to catch the name —to have
it repeated if necessary. Then he said
it over to himself two or three times,
while associating it with the man's
face and with his general appearance.
He made a mental picture to himself
of the way the name would look when
written out. —American Magazine.
TEACH YOUR SON CITIZENSHIP
Few Mothers Realize Ideals of Citi
zenship Carried by Sons Must Be
Fostered in Childhood.
It was not long after the war broke
out that Queen Elizabeth of Belgium
protested a little that her fourteen
year-old son was in the trenches.
And it was King Albert who ex
plained to her gently: "I have him
with me to teach him how serious a
thing it is to be king."
To every American mother should
surely come at some time the desire
to teach her son "how serious a thing
it is to be a citizen."
Yet how few mothers realize that
the ideals of citizenship which their
sons carry with them must be fostered
in their boyhood days.
Every time a mother teaches her son
to regard the interests of the family
as a whole she is teaching him to be a
good citizen. And every time she
teaches him that being a member of a
family carries with it obligations as
well as privileges she is teaching him
the meaning of citizenship.—New York
Evening Sun.
The Great Adventure.
The romance of the great towns!
Do the city-bred ever thrill to it as
we of the small towns? I wonder.
Not vulgar bedazzlement with glitter
and swirl—your minor poet or Broad
way dramatist can dish up that emo
tion —but the mental intoxication of
guessing at the epic sweep of human
destinies interwoven in these inscru
table buildings, these teeming streets.
I mean a glamour as of first hearing
a majestic symphony, long ago learned
from a piano score, performed by full
orchestra; I mean those first weeks of
our Great Adventure, of the sense and
sound of the city drenching us with
hope and dread; of lifting eyes to the
upper murk shot rose-pink from the
glare of boulevards; of the muffled
road borne vaguely up into remote
brick courts as from spring freshets
thundering in deep woods oyer the
cataracts of life. —Seymour Deming, in
the Atlantic.
Panama Fans Want League Teams.
Baseball fans in the Isthmus of
Panama are booming that section as
an excellent location for one or more
training camps for the big league
teams. It is claimed the sanitary con
ditions of the canal zone, under the
care and direction of the army and
canal officials, are excellent and that
with the dry season extending from
December to April the major league
ball players could not find a more
satisfactory location for rounding into
shape for their pennant battles. Base
ball is exceedingly popular there and
the teams would be sure of good gates
at any exhibition games that might
be staged during their stay in the
canal zone.
Wonderful High-Speed Engines.
The past few years have seen won
derful strides made in the develop
ment of the high-speed engine. A
shorr time ago engines which would
develop their maximum power at
speeds in excess of 1,800 or 2.000 revo
lutions per minute were marvels of
scientific design and workmanship.
Today we find gasoline engines pro
duced in this country and abroad
which not only stay together at speeds
of from 3.000 to 4.000 revolutions per
minute,' but which actually develop
their greatest power at speeds in the
neighborhood of 3,000 turns.
Proof Positive.
"You can't fish here," said the farri
er to an angler who was gloomily
making his preparations to quit the
post. "Don't you see that sign. 'No
Trespassing' ?"
"Oh, yes. I see the sign," replied
the fisherman, "but I wasn't convinced
that I couldn't fish here until I had
waited nearly seven hours without get
ting a nibble."
Misdeal.
"Ah, there, Jack!" exclaimed the cal
low youth as he slapped on the back
another young man, who was walking
just ahead of him.
The young man, who proved to be a
perfect stranger, turned and sr.id: "Old
chap, you have evidently made a mis
tical. I'm not a Jack; my name is
King."
ORIGIN OF KHAKI EXPLAINED
Dun-Colored Cloth So Widely Used for
Uniforms Was Discovered
by Accident.
The dun-colored khaki so widely
used for uniforms was discovered by
an accident. For many years the Brit
ish troops in India wore a cotton cloth
of a greenish-brown, but it always
faded when washed with soap.
While talking over this defect with
some British officers, a business man
from England said that a fortune
awaited the manufacturer of a cotton
drill that would not fade. One of
the officers, a young man, took the
hint.
When he got home he employed a
skillful dyer, and the two began a sys
tematic search for an olive dye that
when used on cotton cloth, would not
yield to soap or soda. They spent
years in experiments, but without suc
cuss, and had almost begun to give up
hope.
One day, however, they found among
numerous scraps of dyed cloths one
that retained its color under the most
severe tests. The puzzling part of it
was that this scrap had been taken
from a piece of cloth which had gone
through the same processes, but which
had failed when tested. For a long
time the experimenters tried to solve
this riddle. The one bit of cloth men-
tioned was the only piece that kept its i
color against all attacks.
Finally, by the merest chance, they
hit upon the secret. The dye in which j
this scrap had been dipped had re- !
mained for some time in a metal dish
of a peculiar kind. This metal, in com
bination with the chemicals of the dye,
had furnished the very thing needed.
They made the experiment with other
pieces; the dye held, and their for
tunes were made.
WHY NOT IMITATE ANIMALS?
Universal Instinct Teaches Them to
Go Through Certain Exercises
on First Waking.
All the higher animals go through
certain exercises on first awaking
There seems a universal instinct which
teaches that certain stretches, expan
sions and breathing are necessary at
tiiis time. The movements of animals j
011 awaking are yawning, deep dreath- j
ing. expansion and stretching. But
men rarely take such exercises. As a
matter of fact, man possibly takes
more time, whines more, and does less
than any other animal between the
moment of awaking and standing j
erect.
Although the stretch has been care- !
fully explained by science, few know
the real meaning. The stretch ex
tends the body so that the veins, where
congestion is most liable to take place
and where pressure of blood is weak
est, are so elongated that the blood
flows more easily from the arteries,
where the pressure is strongest,
through the veins back to the heart,
and circulation is equalized and stimu
lated.
The yawn is similar to the stretch.
The yawn is a stretch of the lungs,
while the stretch is a yawn of the
muscles, And both express a hunger
for oxygen. The half hour between
waking and rising should be freshened
by thoughts of joyous things—chuck
ling, laughing, stretching and yawn
ing.—New York Sun.
Guarding the Bank of France.
There are plenty of ingenious burg
lars in the world, but he would have to
be a very ingenious burglar indeed who
should find a way to rob the Bank of
France. The measures taken for guard
ing the money are of such a nature
that burglary would seem to be impos
sible.
Every day when the money is put in
to the vaults in the cellar, and before
the officers leave, masons are in attend
ance whose duty it is to wall up the
doors with hydraulic mortar. Water
is then turned on, and kept running
until the cellar is flooded.
A burglar would thus have to work
in a diving suit, and break down a ce
ment wall before he could even begiD
to break into the vaults. When the of
ficers arrive the next morning, the wa
ter is drawn off, the masonry torn
down, and the vaults opened.
Hard Winters of Long Ago.
Why do most people believe that the
winters were more severe and were at
tended by heavier snowfalls in their
childhood days than they are now'
The myth of the "old-fashioned win
ter" is almost universal, and is another
proof of "counting the hits and not
the misses." Heavy snow and intense
cold produce a more lasting impres
sion upon the mind than open, mild j
weather. We remember the excep
tional weather of the past, and forget
the normal weather. In some cases a
change of residence accounts for this
belief. Some parts of the country
have a much heavier snowfall than
others. In any given locality the
weather conditions are usually uni
form.
Sure Sign.
A minister, while visiting his peo
ple one day in the bush, was asked to
stay for dinner.
While sitting down on the veranda.
a little boy, about five, came round tc
him, and alter talking a little while, :
said:
"You can't guess what we are going
to have for dinner?"
The minister said he would give it
up. after several guesses.
The little boy then said:
"It's roly-poly puddin', I know, 'cos
mother's only got one stocking on." —
Weekly Telegraph.
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It was reported in Rome that King Con-
Btantine of Greece would be deposed by
the allies because of his so called pro-Ger
man sympathies, and the Duke of Aosta, a
cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, would
be placed on the Greek throne. This de
cision is said to have been reached at the
recent conference of the entente leaders
in Rome.
This action, according to report, has the
full approval of the Venizelos faction and
will be carried out under the leadership of
the former premier.
The Duke of Aosta comes of a family of
kings. Victor Emmanuel 11. of Italy was
his grandfather, Humbert I. of Italy was
his uncle, Victor Emmanuel 111., the pres
ent Italian ruler, is his first cousin. His
father, Amedeo, duke of Aosta. became
by election, for a short and stormy season,
the king of Spain.
For a number of years the dazzling
vision of the Italian throne itself was held
before the duke's eyes. While his cousin,
the present Italian monarch, was still the
prince of Naples his health became so im
paired thet the duke was looked upon by
Italy as the heir presumptive to the
throne.
That this alluring hope came to naught
was a bitter disappointment to the Duchess
of Aosta, it has always been said in Eu
rope. The duchess was Helene of Orleans,
daughter of the late Count of Paris, and
was' one of the most beautiful women of
the European nobility. Her wedding to
the duke took place in England twenty
two years ago, at a time when his pros
pects Tor a crown appeared the most
happy.
"EARLY TO BED" OBSOLETE
Benjamin Franklin's Motto Does Not
Apply to Modern Life in Busi
ness World.
Early rising hours for students with
classes at 8 a. m. are recommended in
the annual report of the dean of Co
lumbia.
A sound and time-saving reform,
maybe, for the academic world. But
it reminds us that business of recent
years has tended t6 begin the day
later and later without, so far as can
be seen, any loss of volume or effi
ciency, remarks the New York Eve
ning World. Time was when city
stores and offices opened their doors
never later than eight in the morning,
but today a visitor in this city would
find it hard work to transact much
business before nine or even ten. We
venture to say the number of New
York professional men who are at
their desks before ten o'clock in the
morning is not half what it was a gen
eration ago. Yet nobody would assert
that less work is done or that braiD
workers are lazier than they used tc
be.
The obvious explanation is, of
course, that labor-saving devices, like
dictophones, typewriters, index sys
tems, etc., enable the modern business
or professional man to use the time his
father passed in pushing a pen or
studying ledgers in concentrated, rap
id-fire attacks upon the day's work
which disposes of it in half the time.
Correspondingly, the modern way is
far more tiring. The tendency is to
begin the day's task later and leave
it earlier.
Benjamin Franklin, whom we have
to thank for familiar sayings that hit
us hardest on the score of our late
habits, rose at five, went to bed at ten
and worked from seven to six. Today
there would be little trouble in pre
paring a goodly list of citizens as capa
ble and successful as Franklin, many
of whom rarely show up at their'of
fices before eleven and leave for the
golf links soon after three.
WHEN IGNORANCE WAS BLISS
How Elderly German Came to Pick the
Winning Number in a
Lottery.
When the old Louisiana lottery was
still running full blast, the barber
si aujl ci' stores in most p q-ts of
In the present war the duke has proven ;
himself an Intrepid general. Even before
Italy had entered the European struggle
he had been one of the first to place him
self at the command of the minister of
war. He led the Italian army in its drive
on Trieste in August of last year. This
advance swept across the Carso plateau,
and before it Gorizia fell.
The Duke of Aosta is fifty-two years
old. His mother was a member of the fa
mous Flemish house of Merode, and from
her he inherited a large fortune.
A great part of his income has been cut
off since the Germans occupied Belgium,
in which country he owned coal mines and
estates that yielded an income of 5300,000 a
year. He is an enthusiastic horseman and,
like his brother, the Duke of Abruzzi, has
been an eager and extensive traveler.
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the "country <Toalt in tEe~tickets tor the
monthly drawings, and men, women
and children played.
One morning early an elderly Ger
man with a strong accent appeared in
the central part of New Orleans seek
ing ticket No. 43. He put in several
hours hunting through the numerous
agencies of the lottery before he final
ly found "43" and bought it. When
the drawing was held, a couple of
weeks later, the old German's number
drew the capital prize. The next morn
ing he appeared in the barber shop
where he had bought the number to
claim his reward.
The owner of the shop, asked the old
man how he had happened to select
"43."
"Veil," said the old man, "I vas
dreaming von sefen und six the night
before. Und seven times six iss for
ty-tree. So I get dot number."
"It's forty-two; you made a mis
take!" exclaimed a bystander.
"Yes," said the boss barber ruefully,
"any time you beat that game it's a
mistake."
Money in Coconuts.
The discovery has been made at Co
.ombo that coconut water, better
known, perhaps, as coconut "milk,"
which has always been considered a
useless waste product, is an excellent
rubber coagulant. Millions of gallons
of coconut water allowed to run to
tvaste on estates can now be made use
Df at a good profit.
The coconut water is allowed to fer
nent for four or five days, after which
t can be used without further delay
as coagulating latex. This is said to
produce a fine rubber, superior to that .
procured with the use of crude acetic I
acid. The color of the rubber with
acetic acid fermentation is decidely in
ferior to the coconut water fermenta
tion. Coconut water is now made up
In bulk and shipped in large quantities
from cocount plantations to rubber es
tates.
Right Spirit Counts.
Let us keep a right spirit for it is
the spirit that counts. Let us pre
tend to nothing that we do not feel,
but feel everything that we ought to
feel. Let us dedicate a few moments
now and then to seeking wisdom for
our trying moments, and then when
the moments come let us apply it as
successfully as we can. If we fail
many times we shall succeed at last, i
and then part of the unpleasantness
will, be conqtierefL In time., we will
1 The duchess, like her husband, is enor-
J mouely wealthy. She Is a younger sister
; of the former queen of Portugal and a sls
ter of the Bourbon-Orlean Ist pretender to
the French throne. She became estranged
from her husband when his prospects of
ascending the Italian throne began to
«row dim. and this fact Is said to hav#
been the Incentive for her spending much
time in Africa hunting big game. During'
the Turkish-Italian war in Tripoli she dis
tinguished herself as a Red Cross nurse
and has continued her activities In thai
line since the outbreak of the present war.
The duke and duchess have two sons,
Prince Amedeo, born in 1898, and Princs
Aymon, born twrr years later.
Pictures show the duke (No. 2), the duks
and duchess (No. l) and the duke with
Prince Amedeo (No. 3).
conquer if air. The selfTralnlng w#
thus give our hearts and minds is tha
purchase price of love, appreciation
and success.—Unity.
Optimist Gets Most Out of Life.
The optimist litis the power of see
ing things in their entirety and in their
right relations. The pessimist look*
from a limited and a one-sided point
of view. The one has his understand
ing illuminated by wisdom, the under
standing of the other is darkened by
ignorance. Each Is building his world
from within, and the result of the
building is determined by the point of
view of each. The optimist, by his su
perior wisdom and insight, is making,
his own heaven, and in the degree
that he makes his own heaven is ha
helping to make one for all the world
besides.
Chapel in the Trenches.
In one of the French trenches th«
men have constructed a small chapel
underneath the earth. It is sufficient
ly large to admit 20 men at the sama
time. Every effort has been made by
the clever workmen who have built It*
skilled miners from the district of La
Lbire, to muke the underground chapel
difficult of bombardment. The inte
rior ornamentation has been carried
to high perfection, for a parquet floor,
carpets, candlesticks, kneeling chairs
saved from the ruined churches are to
be found in it. A wooden altar haa
been erected in the trench chapel, and
a magnificent French flag, the gift at
an officer, has been hung in It.
Corpus Christi Day.
Corpus Christi kept today by all
Roman and Anglican Catholics, 1®
connected with two towns prominent
in the present war. It arose from the
dream of a religious lady at Leige, and
was formally sanctioned in 1264 by a
bishop of Verdun who became Pope. It
came to England about 1320, and was
soon made a popular fete. In Wales
on this anniversary the doorways of
houses were decked with flowers, the
maidenhair fern bekig chiefly selected
for the purpose. Previous to the re
cent Anglican revival Corpus Christi
day was kept at the Oxford college. It
has been observed for five centuries
In the ?ity of London by the Worship
ful company of Skinners, who attend
In state their special service at St.
Mary Aldermary. But the "Skinners'*
who walk in the procession now cfirry
posies of flowers instead of the
torches" mentioned by Stow. —London
Chronicle.