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BLUFFED HIS WAY HOMEWARD War Veteran, Stranded in China, Fvnail/'Got Back to the States on His Ne;ve? J , Eftrl Stanley, young American wa? hero ai^l world traveler, walked boi<i!y Uj> the gangway leading to the Cliius olail liner, China, while the Vessel was a? Hongkong, presented his passports to the proper authorities, picked out $ s convenient officer's stateroom and oepositea nis two suucases. iuu <$one, he picked out a deck chai* where l$e could take in his new surroundings and proceeded tox inakt bimself at home and comfortable. Fcr a period of 48 hours young Stanley enjoyed the hospitality of the "vSessel without any interference from t?e officers of the China. Then he \va> aisked where his ticket was, who he ^as, whither he was going and a lot of other questions. I "" Xq the fir?t i^erro^ation he nonskated told his "interviewer that he did not have a ticket calling f(>i ijis passage, w&at iiis name was," and he Jived in Pasadena, CaL, with San" Francisco as his port of bidding adl?u? to the China. He also wiiuiteered the information .Chat he wa> a SNraeat at Occidental college before the traveling tug entered his head. Stanley's chances of reaching his desired destination were slim, as he \f"ould be ejected from the vessel at cme of the nearby ports, when Chpt! i. C. Daily and Robert Pitt, traveling on the craft, appeared as happy mediums. After hearing of Stanley's embarrassment they quickly settled tfie matter by arranging to pay his passage. Pauley was with the aviation corps the war and later started ou h*fg jaunt around the world. He suffered financial reverses vyfcen Hongkong was reached and was forced tc make the last link of his trip by tha method described.?San Francisco 1 Chronicle. " FATAL FUjTiM^ BLUFF Dilatory Young Woman Had Ocer. 'looked Oa#. &nportan\ Point, and tt SpoiiecT tha^ V^holtf Thing. $he had Just discovered a ne\y waj K to to ^ hatr, a \yaj that took ui lgaft half an.hour lender than usual and the result was that she was us - - * - A >1 4k< usually late tnat morning, au u? wfcy down on the car she cudgelec' tier' brain for a Satisfactory excuse all the stock phrases sounded toe vfcfeak* so sjbe finally gave up in dfr spate. Half-way down? however, sh< saw two fire-ruined Rouses with om I erne hose wagon standing in front amj af crowd of curious visitors gazing al tji?"wreck. "Ah!'1 she thought, 'INii ii a arood enough excuse for anyone r .Arriving at the office, she did no? even give the bos? rime to comment on her tyte arrival, b'uttuirst excitedly in the room crying.: "Oh, 1 saw the biggest fire! Two or three houses were burned Uown clear to tlie ground and the. people were landing around ai*d t?e hose was across t^e t^ack.' *** e*e etc. As she saw a strange incredulous look on the boss' iace she elaborated the story until one woulc tfeink It was a second Chicago fire At'list when she stopped tor breath k and started to take he? hat off with ? 3,$$-satia8ed, well-fooletf-'em look, tht Km. niftiwwi rm t"ho mftrmnp r>nr>er anc c i i quietly said: "Yes, that happenec yesterday."?Indianapolis News. ;m*r A Child's View. A Columbus woman and her four>;^r-oId daughter attended a moving ^Wtfire show recently, and the picture developed rather an unexpected angle, in tkat a person who had appeared oil tie screen for s< ne tune, appeared to; be the spirit of a man who had renirned to qgrth in order to mulct a confession and right a wrong. The %omari was discussing the picture a friend, and both expressed as tonistynent at the outcome of tht story, saying they never had dreameti * it vtxs a man back from the grave. ' The little girl listened witfi intense interest, then said: "\Y?li, mother i?ow that I think of it, I did think thai * man had a sort of moldy look."?In cBanapolis News. Motors in United States. Five billion passengers, or nearly iotfr times the 1,234,000,000 revenu* passengers of the steam railroads Were carried by automobiles in th< United States, last year. Motor truck: hkuled 1,200 million tons of freight Of nearly half the 2,504 million ton: carried by rail lines. Growth of tb< automobile business has not been com petitive with the railroads, howevei Much of it is directly tributary, a io bringing passengers from farm t< train and in suburban service to cities The 1920* motor car passenger figure represent an increase of 400 rnillioi over tlie preceding year, and the rail roads showed a gain of GO million rev enue passengers in the same period. * ???????? Invented Useful Machine. Mr?. Harriett Hill, who died re cenfiy in New York, was the invento of the familiar vending machine fo the sale of paper drinking cups in rail way station's and other public places She was sixty years old and for man: years had been employed head o a paper-products manufacturing coin pany. Cost of New Lamp Is Low. 4. pew incandescent lamp, tilled wit] Neon gas, can be burned continuous!; at a cost of about 3S cents per montli as it consumes current at the rate 0 only firo watts per hour. The re< light emitted- is used for signaling.Fopular Mechanics Magazine. (, ,f? -> Five Minute Chats ; on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN '2- ; (Copyright, 1920, by James Morgan.) J j CLEVELAND CAME BACK ; |? ?? | Sl * nn/> mm w a a ai - It j less?wiarcn ?*> urover uieve- : ! | land inaugurated a second j time, aged fifty-five. I ' j May, a great panic began. July 1, Cleveland went under surgical operation I | for cancer. * j Oct. 30, The Silver act re1 I pealed. 1 ! 1894?July 4, Cleveland sent | troops to Chicago to inter- ; vene in railroad strike. II j Aug. 27, the Wilson-Gorman tariff became law without president's signatiye. 1 t 1895?Feb. 7,' Cleveland made arrangement with J. P. Morgan and others for protection of gold reserve. j Dec. 17- sent in his Ven- ; ezuela message. , 1908?June 24, Cleveland died j at Princeton, ty. J., j aaed seventv-one. ill - ii1 . i * . * G ROVER CLEVELAND had no j more than left the presidency in j l. defeat and settled down to the prac- | t tice of law in New York City than it I , | ; 1 j was seen that he was still almost as j much the leader of the Demi^eratic j 1 ! party as when lie was in the White j ! ? House. In the four years of his retirement, j ' j he seldom saw party leaders. Yet so : j strong was the reaction against the ; ! | Republicans and so loud the call for I ' j him in 1S92 that he returned in trc- j j uinph to the White House. j One of the periodical panics of the I j 19tt century smote the country with a j financial and industrial paralysis in ! , 1S93. only two months after the in- j auguration. As usual, the party iik j power caught the blame, and day after j day a leading Republican newspaper ! r i shouted in gleeful headlines: "Another j i bank gone Democratic!" j As the first means of restoring con- i | ftdence. Cleveland called a special ses- ! I i i I 'II - ' ;! -| i j Grover Cleveland. slon of congress for the purpose of bavins it repeal the Silver act of the j ; Harrison administration. The ne?t day j ' tie submitted hijnself to the surgeon's . , ? i ! guile tor tne removal 01 a caiiceruus I ulcer which had appeared in the roof I of his mouth. His grave physical coni dition was concealed from tlie panicky > mind of the public, and the operation ; i was performed in the closest secrecy ' aboard a yacht as it steamed slowly up #ie East Kiver, off New York. Not un- ! > til many years had passed was it [ known that when congress assembled j ie faced it with a rubber jaw. * i +V\r\ nf thu ni>oclflOTlt' ; lut {ntooim. V/JL IUV. wtuv ? : t $he Silver act was repealed, but oniy ; : after a bitter struggle which left the ! - Democratic party hopelessly split. The passage of a tariff bill divided the par- ! ^y still more. It was such a lobbymade, log-rolling measure that Cleve* , land refused to sign it, but let it be eome law without his signature. After | that the Democrats went down in de' feat in the congressional elections of i 1894. In the depth of our domestic j troubles the president sent his famous j Venezuelan message to congress, in c it he announced that the British gov- , eminent had rejected all our appeals ^ for the arbitration of a land dispute s which it was pressing in South Arner" ica, and he boldly proposed that we ourselves should decide the question s and then proceed to enforce our tie- i 11 j cision. -! Stocks tumbled headlong in Lon- j don ami New York, anfl there was much wild talk on both jtfde3 of the j Atlantic. But the president confidently : reassured his troubled prirate sec-re- { f-1 tary, "Thurber, this docs not mean j rj war; it means arbitration." And that vwas the outcome of all the hubbub. : -1 Cleveland's outburst of plain speaking j had the effect of awakening the Eng- 1 Y j lish people, as never before, to the val f ] ue of American friendship, end it -! opened a new era in the relations ol the two governments. Cleveland's hardest, longest battle In I his second administration was for the fi i gold standard. Almost alone he upheld v It through four years, abandoned by i,! most of the Democrats and unaided by i r the gold Republicans in congress, who iij were afraid of "hurting the paitjf* j . i ^rith the silver people, , _ j CHANGE MADE FOR TOURISTS i I I Pictures in Museum of the Louvre i "Standardized" With Idea of Pieasing Americans. Even that sedate, historic pile, the 1 Museum of the Louvre, has nut es- < caped the effects of the "preparation" < which all Paris has been undergoing j for the reception of ihe American tour- ! ist. It was decided some time ago ; that the old method of hanging the ! , pictures according to their merits and ! , according to the lighting effect de- 1 sired was tot) haphazard and too prone i | to confuse the visitor who was unfa- \ ( miliar with the old works, their period J , and school. Some one suggested : ] "standardization." There was a howl i , from the French press, which shrank from the thought of touching even a ] picture cord in the famous pillory, but the thought was advanced that if the ; ( corning thousands of American visit- i < ors to Paris were to properly enjoy ! _ the pictures they should be properly ] , classified according to their period and j , school. This has been done, and now J ] one passes through the big rooms as j < one might a department store. Here j , are works of the early Italian paint- j ers, here those of the Italian renais- j sance, there tlio^e of the early Flem- ^ ish school and there the products .of f . early Spanish genius. The Louvre, i 1 of course, is a sacred rife. Now it's a ] rite simplified, standardized and some- j 1 what stereotyped. Some pictures ; j which require strong light are almost ?' * in the dark, and others which would | ] Denent Dy a somoer surruuiuuiig *ui. i fer a glare. The guide calls this a j ^ "systeme American." Despite it the j , Louvre remains a rare treat.?World j ( Traveler. j , TURK LOSING HOLD IN EUROPE j Vast Empire Once Under the Crescent f ' Has Been Slowly Dwindling Since the Year 1699. Those who were in hopes that Tur- j key might take herself, "bag and bag- : gage, out of everything" and have j seen a setback- to tneir nopcs m um . Sevres revision, can cheer. up a bit j by looking at the map, says the : Christian Science Monitor. The chart of the Ottoman empire as it has ex- ; isted since 10S6 presents, indeed, a hopeful sight. The empire slowly and j surely has been going back to first j things. The crumbling began in 1090, i when Transylvania. Slovakia and a j chunk of Poland and Hungary were j lost. The Banat went in 1717, tho ! Bukowina in 1775, the Taurida and the J Crimea in 17S3. and the Odessa dis- j trict in 1792. The-next century was j even more disastrous for Turkey, who lost Bessarabia in 1812, a part of 1 Serbia in 1817, Georgia and Greece j in 1S-9, Algeria in 1830. Bulgaria in 1S76, northern Armenia. Rumania and j more of Serbia in 1878, Tunisia and i some of Greece in 1881. and Egypt ; In 1S82. Xor lms. the present century , been behind its predecessor. Libya ' was. a great loss in 1912, following the annexation by Austria in 1908 'of Bosnia and Herzegovina; 191.1 proved | particularly unfortunate for the Turks j in the Balkans, and last year there j slipped from their grasp the Hedjaz, j Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, the . strips along* the Persian gulf, Smyrna ! and some of Armenia. It is a tale j , of consistent disaster. rtn?ro Oct11;Ljr?r 11 oil ww19? , Nearly every one suffers pangs of , < anxiety when they see a child leaning I far out of a railway carriage window \ or pressing with its full weight ! against a door. Soon parents will not i need to tell their children to "come j away at once!" for an automatic lock- i ing device has been designed by a j member of the Immingham Dock staff j of the Great Central Railway com- j pany. j 1 Iiy this new invention the carriage j door automatically locks itself, and j cannot be opened when the train is in j motion, except by a special key, which ; will be in charge of the guard. This | key will unlock tbe doors even when j thev have been strained by intent or j I accident, and when the train slows | down the doors automatically unlock j themselves. The new device is worked from the j axle of the carriage and can be ap- j plied to single carriages.?Exchange. ! - ?? It Was Up to Her. A woman had just been hurt and j carrieu mco me uiuk suae um-u , girl reporter dashed up. She gathered the particulars from one who had ' witnessed tlie accident and then went j after details. First came the woman's I name. She asked several persons ;;nd j then a man who had been listening 1 to her questions said irritably. "Oh, j you curious women! Why don't.? you j wait until tonight. We can read all j about it in the paper then." "Xo you can't," she returned hotly, i "not unless I lind out and write it."? | Exchange. j I Made Pathway in Desert. Wire mesh is stated to have given j quite surprising results in the construction of military roads. In Egypt, loose sand was smoothed, then ! chicken wire was fastened down over j it, and the road so consolidated proved to be easily passable for troops and ' motor transports. The damage was i slight, thoiKh after the passing of 1 aniinal-drawn vehicles much repair- j lng was necessary. Jud Tunkins. Jud Tunlnns says gentlemen's agree- ! ments have worked out so well that maybe !,i international affairs gentlemen's disagreements can some day take the place of wars. MADE POSTMASTER IN 1633 f 1 r- ^ _i?.r? A m._ i rit?n<*ru ruiruarino ui suowu r\|?- . pcint2c! by Massachusetts General Court in That Year. The first account of the formal es-; tablislmieut of a postmaster is found In the records of the general court of Massachusetts. by which, in IttJO, it ivas "ordered that notice bo given that Uk-hard Fairbanks, hi* house in Ilos- j toii is th<? place appointed for nil let- ; tors which are brought from heyond , the sens or are to he sent thither to ! t?e left with him and he is to take ' care that they are to he delivered or j sent according to his direction. And ! tie is allowed for every letter a penny ; [ind must answer all miscarriages through his own neglect in this kind." - - .. i In May. 1093, bv nn net 01 tne gen * 11 eral assembly it was provided that a "general post office may bo erected by Andrew Hamilton at Philadelphia" j! find ih:)t Arii^rtfW Hamilton "or some }, other shall be appointed by the j: king' should be postmaster general , "in these parts and his deputy or dep- j uties in that office should demand, re- I eeive and take postage, etc." fn 3710. by act of parliament, a j| Dostmaster general of the colonies ij was appointed by the crown and ail- J Lhorized "to keep his chief letter office" in New York and other chief let- I ter offices at .some convenient place or plaees in oilier of his majesty's provinces or colonies of America and also j to appoint all deputy postmasters. In IToT Ken jam in Franklin was ap- ! pointed postmaster at Philadelphia, and published the appointment in his, own newspaper in these words: "No- j tiee is hereby jriven that the post of- j fice of Philadelphia is now kept at I B. Franklin's house in Market street! and that Henry Pratt is appointed j riding postmaster for all stages i>e- i; tween Philadelphia and Newport in j Virginia."?Kansas City Star. Proved Value of Milk as Food. The value of milk in the diet is i shown impressively in an exhibit of j two stuffed rats prepared by the Uni- jj ted States Department of Agriculture, j! The rats were of the same age, and ij were selected from two cages of six fj rats each. Tlie rat which had its j cereal diet, supplemented with milk is !; a largo-boned, well-developed speci- j men, while the animal which was fed ; no milk is an undersized weakling I with skin clinging to poorly developed I hones. In life the rat supplied with I milk displayed healthy tissues, rnus- ij cles and bone, and was marked br j smooth hair, bright eyes and good ; color. The protein of the milk builds j muscular tissue. The mineral, espe-j ciall.v lime, produces strong bones, and tbp food accessories, or vitamines, in- j sure growth and health. The rat de- \ prived of these necessary food constituents had weak, gelatinous bones, thin muscles and small growth. Both rats hfcd wheat biscuits. On March 24 each cage o? six rats weighed 483 grams; on May 4 the milk-fed cage had 1 " - ^ <o ' Vmf the increased i<> ^iuuu, um. ?.? >. other had lost 102.7 grams, or 17.1 grams, for each animal. \ J From Mars? The world's greatest authority in 1 wireless telegraphy, Marconi, believes that radio messages have been received from the planet Mars. The announcement has set scientists in many countries discussing the possibility of wireless messages being sent from 1 -- - *- * * 4-1. T 4- cuAn^ tn one pianci 10 unuuin. ii ?vmo agreed that the ether, or whatever it is called which, lies between the heavenly bodies, is capable of transmitting wireless waves, so that it is 1 scientifically possible to send such j messages, even from Mars to the j earth. Some scientists believe that the mysterious signals received by Marconi were caused by tricks of our own atmosphere. Nevertheless, Marconi and manv others believe that we l Rre at the opening of a marvelous ne\? era of long-distance communication with neighboring planets. TUo l/r-ntviacnnranhf!. I J IW I VI v/|| IMI vy v?|?*.wa There has boon invented in Europe i a music typewriter called the kromarographe. With the aid of this instrument. it is said, the composer may produce a typewritten scroll without the trouble of making the characters by hand. All that he has to do is to place himself at the piano and give free play to his creative fancies. Every stroke upon the keys is registered in regular musical character upon a drum. The machine operates through a system of electric contact.-! with the piano keys. The registering apparatus, which resembles an ordinary typewriter in size, may, in order to remove discordant sounds, be placed at a distance from the piano, even iu an adjoining room. Get Rid of Dying Trees. Two men with a crosscut saw onn bring down a tree in letter shape than one man with an ax, although an ax is go<>d. hut slow. In many communities where wood is plentiful a company of men run a power saw. This is an easier and much more efficient method than the handsaw way. So sharpen your trusty ax and lay it at the foot of some dying tree. Put it out of its misery and at the same time make yourself some extra fuel for the kitchen stove and fireplace.? Exchange. The Quiet He Misled. "You used to say that life without me would be an aching void," said Mrs. Oahson. "So I did. my dear," replied Mr. Gabson. wearily. "But I didn't stop tc think t*.ar the void would have the redeeming quality of soundlessness/ Birmingham Age-Herald. Before you place for Letter Heads 1 n?ll ? ? 1 O a a . _ i oili rieaas, otaiei : kind of Printing with you. | We only do firs k | ? Bi ni*irA6 ss I JM1*. with the quality ,3%. :~ ' ' ?f ?. I we turn out. IJL lAiM %MM.m Jas. L Aul l ? 1 I) l_tli V ClUpC-9; I nents or any j let us figure I t-c!ass work I IMvII S a j| ft j|