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. + ' ? A * % ' | Inherits Millions From ? Woman He Befriended l.uiit Junuary Capt. H. L. Zeitun, a tifty-y ear-old soldier of fortune? by (urn soldier, Inventor, merchant and secretary ? met Mrs. Jnlla Stone Woods navies of Excelsior .Springs, Mo., In Rome. She wns 111 and he befriended her, obtaining medical attention, etc. So she offered him u position as sec retary at $100 a week. Four months later she sailed for America for a short trip and he remained In London, be coming Interpreter at the famous Bovr Street police court j At her recent death it was discov ered that she had made two wills dis posing of all her property In England and In all other countries ? upproxl mately $14,800,000 ? leaving all to Zel t tin exceptNr few he<jMests to her fa vorite charltl^a. Arrangements for the wills were made by her Immediately after the recent deoth of her father. I>r. Wil liam Stone Dnvies of Excelsior Springs. Zeitun, an undischarged bankrupt, said bis first act upon receipt of the bequest would be to pay all Ids cred itors with Interest. He has led an adventurous life us a globe-trotter und gone through several fortunes. Much or Ms life was spent In the Orient. Mrs. Dnvies bad been four times married and her widower, it Is report ed, . pi. ms to fight the will.' He was expressly cut oft In he.r testaments. Villas Built Upon Site of Cferthage London. ? After hundreds of years of desolation, the site of ancient Car thage Is again inhabited. While the department of antiquities of Tunlsiu In collaboration with a party of American excavators Is seek ing unknown treasures within the gretit sea wall of the Punic capital, villas are being built on the site of Mif dry destroyed by the Romans In 14U B. O. Carthage threatens to become a suburb of modern Tunis. I^and Is be ing let and buildings are going up. ft round Is being dug to provide the foundations for new houses, but 'not necessarily deep enough to reveal whatever remains of the ancient city mav lie lower down. The sea wall lts?lf. with Its pillars, many of them fallen, but unbroken, might contain lonKon.1 in the history of military arrhlteeture. Within the city, In spite of limited means, the explorers have already un earthed 05 buildings, or scattered frag ments of buildings, sufficiently pre fer vml to be of Interest. whatever the areheological value of the Punic remains of Carthage ? and there are persons who doubt whether much of value Is left ? the ex oavaHons now going on may furnish ?urprlaea. It must be remembered that successive cities have risen on th* SHuifi site. Ruins of Roman build ings stand on Punic foundations, and the city flourished In the early cen t?iri ? m of the Christian era. Pere DeUttr* has uncovered much of what remains of the early pillars ornament ed with animals which show an evolu M >ri similar to that Which took place !n Kiirr>j>e. Sweden Plant Railroad to Cost $12,600,000 Stockholm.? The first coast-to-coast rai;rt?n<l electrification In the world, ??x:. i.<l!nu from Stockholm, on the Jial tl>* h.-j, to Oothenburg. on the North is heralded In the official request ! n.ade to the Swedish government state railway administration tlui? it ()f, empowered to be^ln lmmedl a'-'v -.v'.th the expenditure of the 28, '?"Vixxi crowns which have already h?*r> npprnprlated toward tM? project. 1'hN Is an Important step In the irr"H * movement which has already re i in (j,p electrification of hun dr?.j, nf leading industrial establlsh Qtt'iii^ nnd at least T>0 per cent of all t ." running area In Sweden. 1 "he trunk line from Stockholm to ''?' 'I'-nhurR. which carries heavy traf fl<" h?,rh of freight and paaaerifterSp Is rno miles in length. work ?f electrification can be carried thr.juKh within two year*, says the r,i'w?> administration, and If It !? Wun Immediately the total coat will "hout 47,000,000 erawu, m about NIGHT IN THE PRISON CELL Plctur?$qu? Description Of Hour* of Dark^cM Spent in Vain Regrets and Unavailing Sorrow. The (lay Is done. The sun has de parted beyond (Ii*- western whII, the tyi/xards ha\e ceased their leisurely wheeling in tVit4 Nky add all nature has gone to rest. We have flpAafied our daily tasks, ciiton our evening meal and have returned to our con structed cells. Th# holts are shot home and we are safely housed ami protected agaffist the temptations of the great world. The long evening drags wearily away, punctuated now hy desultory reading and now hy aimless smoking and listless converse. The warning hell has sounded, we have crawled each Into Ifls narrow hunk, the lights are out and night Is hvrfc. For some, sleep and oblivion, blessed release from the Iron In the soul; for others, wakefulness ami the weary retravellng of life's pathway;, first, one llghtlieartedly turns liolne ward, but the vision Is evocative of sad and weary faces of dear on.es struggling against adverse fate. One Worries over the ailing little one, ovei; the sorr<?w of the /althful old mother with her accumulation of years mourning for her absent boy, her waning strength Inadequate for such burden-bearing ; over the heroic, fajthful devotion of the dear wife; over the chagrin and wounded feek ings of the children under the Jlbea uf their school mates; over the vicar ious punishment of all one's dear ones. Then one's mind traverses and re hearses the pettiness of the day just closed, as they come trooijhig In re view with vain regrets for unljnproy^d opportunities for kindliness, with poignant regrets for the grasped op portunities of hasty and Impatient speech, all these in photographic clear ness present themselves to the mental ftoforu rr The Jangling nerves are In open re bellion. Again to the trejulmlll amid the surging waves of thought und again we are wading through the deeps of the past. Slowly, how slow ly, the hours drag by ; the guard makes his quiet round with felt-clad feet, the hum of the human throng slowly falls away from the consciousness and ex hausted nature brings to the tired brain sweet oblivion, and to the weary eyelids sleep. ? flood Words. An Automobile Joke. If the victim of this joke reads this, and puts two and two together, there Is going to he trouble. He h?s an o/hre In a downtown building and pnrks his car in front. His neighbor In the building also has a car. but has to hunt for parking spnee and- # hell eves' the other gentleman hns a "pull" With the traffic officer who watches the parked cars. Finally he hit on a scheme to eliminate his rival from parking space. This was to hang a sign, "For Sale, $25," on hl? rival's car along with the rival's name and address. Passersby boarded the car, an expensive one with tines worth con siderably more than $25 each, and tried the upholstery, lifted the hood, etc. Finally an employee of the car's ojvner noticed the crowd and notified his employer that for some reason a large crowd of men and women were tearing his car to pieces. When the owner, breathless, reached his car, he was accosted by a hatless man who puffed out: "Key, mister, I saw th? sign first. Here's your $25." There was a near-riot as the owner drove his car to a nearby garage. ? Exchange, OH From Beechnuts. Not long ago measures were taken by the minister of agriculture 1b Hol land fo Increase the supply of edible oils In that country by making a full use of the domestic beechnut crof>. It Is estimated that between 2,000 and 2,600 metric tons of these nuts may be collected If every effort be made, and that from this amount of raw nuts 800,000 to 400,000 kilos of oil may be obtained. This would afford a valua ble addition to the stocks of edible oils In the Netherlands. Owners of private lands from which beechnuts are gathered receive com. pensation at the rate of 6 per cent of the sums paid to the gatherers, and they also enjoy the right to purchase cattle cake, prepared from the pulp of the nuts from their property at !J0 florins per 100 kilos. ? New York Her ald. German Translations. German translations 'of contempo rary foreign writers are very full. Among the English writers who have been translated recently are D. H. Lawrence, Arnold Bennett nnd O. K. Chesterton : and among the American* are Upton Sinclair, who is more widely esteemed as a novelist In Kurope than In America ; H. L. Mencken, who has never been anywise, hostile to any thing made in Germany,' and John Doa Passos, whose novel, "The Three Sol diers," la appearing serially In a German socialist newspaper. ? Living Age Too Much Ic?. Rooming only a few doors from my married sister, I often run in at odd moments and habitually rail "Ice" as I rome In the door, for It very much pleases my nephew, who rep<les In kind. Last Sunday, after an early dinner, I ran up the hack stepe, found -uo o twr-fn the kttehen, stuck my hwn) through the swinging door of the din* lng room, loudly calling "Ice." There sat the family, as well as two aston ished couples whom I had never as en before. I let them explain wttbosl BOOSTS THE "GOLDEN STATE" Report of Director of AgNculturo of California Cannot Bo Otherwise Than Encouraging. In Ills annulil report, IMreetdr of Af rk'uHuro (?. 11. Ileeke states thut the value* of the farm crops of the stato in 1022 wua$tt07,H20,000, Tho produo tlon i?f the year wos tho greatest In tho history of the state, hut, ??f course, values do not ?hjum1 that of a sonuv whut smaller tonnage at peak war prices/ The values given are farm values. With all the development of our fruit industries, the value of tield crops has hitherto exceeded that of our orchards and vineyards, hut. la 1022 our fruit crops brought $104, ? 8M,(xh>, as against $t8a,?^2,6o0 for tieia crop,*. This was due largely to In* creased fruit ucrcage coming into hearing, hut fruit prices were relative ly better than prices of Held crops. A large crop of wine grapes at $7IS to $100 a ton helped a lot. Concurrent ly with the report of the director cov ering last year's -output, the crop-re porting service .states thut the out look for the current year la excellent. Director llecke states that ( Calif or* nla Is now experiencing the most rapid agricultural development In our his tory. Not only Is cultivated acreags Increasing, hut better and more Inten sive farming Is getting better yields. Also more people are arriving to help till the soli. During the last two or three years we have frequently had oc casion to say that California was ths most prosperous spot In the world. That situation still continues. ? San Francisco Chronicle. SOUNDED FAMILIAR TO HER Letter of Old 8weetheart Mad Reco*. lections That Created Embar. raising Situation. It was while attending college that 1 roet a young man who was a veri table Hercules. Then, too, he was a westerner and affected a broad sonv ! brero In which he was especially no ticeable. Indeed, many fair young co? eds wore their handsomest smllei when he passed, which I had occasion to notice on my frequent walks with him. Naturally I felt singularly blessed In receiving his undivided at tention and was soon hopelessly In love. I had reason to feel my alTeo tlons were returned. # One week-end I went to visit a for* mer classmate .who was teaching in a nearby town. While there I re ceived a letter from my admirer. It was a thriller and I wanted 'to shar? It with my friend, so I read parts of It. Suddenly I noticed she was laugh ing. I asked what she thought- so amusing. "I thought you were reading one of my old sweetheart's letters, for it sounds Just like 'Dan.' " "Dan who 'C I asked. "Why, Dai) West. There aren't twe of him." Men are deceivers ever. ? Detroit Free Press. New Source of Electricity. Electricity from brown eoal is tht bold undertaking now belntf put through by the government of Vlo torla. The scheme provides for the ?rection of a generating station on th? coalfield with* an Initial capacity o! 60,000 kilowatts, but capable of doulv ling. The estimated cost Is about $12,000,000 for the Initial development, and over $26,000,000 for the final proj ect. The first section will includeyfoui 12,600-kIlowatt turbo-alternatojUK run ning at 3,000 revolutions per mlnuta, with an 80(Vkllowatt set for starting up the bigger ones. The boilers and the steel for the buildings are actually under construction, and preliminary steps are being taken for the erection of the high-tension transmission line of 112 miles to a point near Mel bourne. This line is to operate at 132, 000, volts, and will consist of ulunv Inum-steel re-enforced cable strung on galvanized towers 1,000 feet apart.-? Scientific American. Old English Cuetom Revived. An ancient custom of "rocking" the bfcby, In his church that had been al lowed to lapse for a century, was re vived by the vicar of Blldworth, Eng land, at the Sunday evening service following Candlemas. The latest born baby boy of the parish was taken to the church by its parents and placed In an old wooden cradle, decorated with Candlemas flowers and with two candles on either side, that was dedi cated by the rlcar (a bachelor) who "rocked" the cradle several times, in side the altar rails. The "rocking" la not a legend, but an Important village ceremony that recalls Christ's presen tation to the temple, and calls (Chris tian parents to offer their Infants to Christ. The ceremony died out be cause Candlemas was a bad time to expose a baby, for February breezea touch Infant cheeks very roughly. Judff? and Interpreter. In a recent trial in London Mr. Jus tice Darling examined a witness In Italian, and translated the answers to the Jury. lie Is also well known aw a lawyer, poet, painter And huntsman. Yet, In a debate at Inner Temple hall on whether education was a handicap In life, he said: "I never went to ?w-hool ; I never went to a university ; I am not an educated person." It will be ftffy year# next year urtnre he trsa Ailed to the bar, and he has been a Judge for twenty-aix years. On an other occasion he told an audience that he began aa a solicitor, but found tha life too strennon*. and became a bar rister because It' was the moat idle lite be oookl fled. ? Umikm Mail. WEALTH BEYOND HUMAN IDEA If th* V?lu*bl#? Found In "King Tufa" Tomb Had Been Invested Whan Ha Died. It has beeu estimated by Ia>t'<l Coir* narvon, who has bvon superintending the excavations nf the tomb of King TO t ? AWk h A i neri ueiF "T'ux or, ICgypt, that the total vulue of all objects found in the tomb Is about $l{\,tXK>,t*H). Somebody with a ? mathematical mind popped up and usked : "How inuoh would that have amount ed to If, lustful of having been burled with the king thirty-ttve centuries ago, It had been put out In safe 0 per eent ground routs and compounded Interest up to the present day?" Here Is the answer: $14,288,000,000,. 000, lXX>,0<>0t0(X>,0(X>, 000, 000,000, 0<XM*H>, - CKK?.0(K),()()t)1t)<K)ltKX)l(HX>ltHH)1lHH),000,tXK), . 0(MMXX>.0O0,(KK>,t>00.000. That Is, it Is the answer given by l?r, John Hogers MuKselnian, assistant professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins university. It's all vory simple, according to the mathematicians. You manage It by logarithms. How do you say It In words? There "ain't no such sum." There are mil lions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, qulntlllions and so on. Hut the humAn Imagination hasn't gone so far lu fig uring dollars up to the sums quoted above. It would exceed the wealth of the world. GRANDDAD OF ALL ROACHES Inaaot Baliavad to Hava Enterad Safe davanty-Flva Years Ago Still :i la In Exlatanca. ... - ' Atchison probably has the oldest cockroach In the world, nays the Globe of that city. In the office of Jim Byraiu and John Bobbins Is an Iron safe that wa s opened the other day for the first time In 20 years. On that safe Is a lock that had not been taken apart since 1840, the year the safe was man ufactured, And yet when Robblns and Byram took that lock apart the other day they found In It a huge cockroach which seemed to bo dead, but revived within a few minutes and Is now as pert as a flapper. There was no way for the cockroach to. get Into that lock after the lock was put together In 1849. You may doubt that a cock road can live 74 years, but your doubt fs not answering the question. How did that cockroach get Into that lock after the lock was put together In 1N49? Prof. Charles Kennedy says It doesn't seem possible that a roach could live to be seventy-four years old, and yet he Is not taking a positive stand In the matter, and says his great-grandfather had a cockroach that was sixty-two years old when a big footed woman stepped on It. New Guinea Rich Country. Fortunes In cocoa could be made in New Guinea, says Brigadier General Wisdom, who states that the soil and climate of the country are well suited for growing profitable vegetation. Itlce Is Imported Into New Guinea, though rice could be grown there In abun dance. Another opportunity lay In the distillation of commercial alcohol. The nepa plant, containing 25 per cent alcohol, grew all over New Guinea. General Wisdom said the country teemed with opportunities for men of enterprise and with a small amount of capital. I^sbor was cheap, natives being paid abqpt $1.25 per week, and the center of the Island could be cleared of the dense mangrove swamps. There were two navigable rivers, one 400 and ^the other 200 miles long, and If men with tropical experience could 'be got, thfe country would develop Into one of the bright est British possessions. I British Boilers. In some parts of England there are steam hollers still working that were Installed from fifty to one hundred years ago. They provide active wit ness to the excellence of British en gineering. A short time ago a leading British boiler expert had the curiosity to subject two old Iron boilers, proba bly about sixty years old, to careful tests. He found that the old Iron stood up astonishingly well under heavy hydraulic pressure, and he noted particularly that the slight cracks which had' been formed round the rivet holea in the original punching had not extended during the working life of the boilers. Thus he proved that the old kind of Iron used In these British boilers wns hardly surpassed by the malerlftl employe*! by the finest of up to-date plants. Nation's Forest Problem. Every year makes the forest prob lem of the United States more clean; says Col. William B. Greeley, chief of the forest service, United States De partment of Agricylture. The pr<xblem has two main features. The first fea ture I* the rising cost of timber prod ucts, which Is due primarily to heav ier transportation charges from more o.nrt more distant sources of supply. The second feature is the unproduc tive conditions of immense areas of land which are not adapted -to agricul ture. Affects Ail Countries. The international rhamhnr of com merce is a federation of financial, In dustrie and commercial forces of the world modeled upon the chamber * of of th?? lmlt*f| States for Tjiytlng business In the work of remov htt artificial and unneee**ary obsta cles to trade betweeti nations and over coming foreign trade resistance. It has more than 1.000 members In 25 countries, among which the U|1U4 State* U iBClsdsd. J, l>. Urewry, 40, a widower, is in jail at Chatham, Va., charged with the nuudor of Nelllo Dalton, 1!|, to whom ho hud lu-ott paying attention. Drewry attempted smVidv and may <i io. 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