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Resort of Th shcete dvn o poibtof. r yt Braille T Mos Work of' Schools for the Blind Is Simplified by Adoption of Uniform System. DOTS TAKE PLACE OF LINES Enables Blind to Receive Training Through Which They May Become Self-Supporting--Many Books Published. New York.-The Braille system of emihossed type hias now '.een adopted by all schools for the blind in this country, and since 19'.O no new book has been etinhossed I' any other 1ype. Dlozens of embossed types for reading by the finger have been designed front time to teie; the first practical one wits devised In Fraunce 130 years ago by Valent I Ilauy. Three syr (etns retalned popularity for inny years, but as this made It necessary for the blind to learn three different ,types, the leading educators of the country decided to make one system universal, and unanihously decided on the Iratille. MlIuch ingeituty, effort and tuoney have been expended In devising these systeins to enatble the blind to read and receive training through whlih they muny become self-supporting. All Jnay be divIded into two groups those cotnios)el of lines and those colaposed of points. In general the line types, whiclh (mtne first, were inil. tittlons of clharacters that had stir .vived as best at1(10 'Ied to rfnding by the eye. The point types, the chia rters of which are tmerely d(i ferent arrange ments and ntners of sitillar points or dots, represent arbitary systems just Iflecl hoth aiis being generai lly maore tangible lihan thie lilies, anid as being writabule ats well its rea~htble by the blInd thlemnselves. 'Te point systeonis haiive grad(ully3 driivent- out thtle line types, willh the ex'ep (t i oflte Moon type, wite isu Is larI ige antd (conIrse tt atnyboy ha3'tilving tute Iliast jia tince enni learn toi(4 readto with thle finiger. Agreed on a Midway Type. Th'le type~t iadop'ited 1 is called (lie Rie have bieten using thie,. type In two formus, one in lull sliellitng and1( other highly cont11raicted4 with manny arbi trairy abb~lr.eviatons(1. As textbtooks and1( lIterature shoiuldl lit mnodeis of goodl usage, t14'he led;ng eduentors of the blind1( in tils ('ountriy aigreedi on at ty3pe baetwn the'i t14Iw(. Tihis Amern ('tn grade Is ai sihillied type and (iin be readl by atnyone who knows eIther typ1e. TIhet musIc not1at ions for thte blind are now the samte everywhere, as tare ntotat itns wher'ever- l'nglishi is used. In tis wayit Othilicai ti of scoires and tablies utnay be avoided through Inter nti onal exchatnge. Alireaidy 208 dlit feretnt books halve been p)ubilied In this uniform type, bokfr tho blInd began with the founding oft the first school in this country in 1830. ARMENIA BADLY Supply Is Exhausted. American Relief Workers Report. Bread is Made From alt Sorts of Sub. stances-Break-up of Winter Re. veals Terrible Conditions Seed Grain Needed. Newv York.-A cablegram reelves by Chaurles V. Vickrney, general secre tory of Near Itast lielief, datted Alex andropol, tells of how investigation b.) Americatn relief workers has revealed ( terrIble staurvation amitong refugees aIll -orphans with the break-u~p of wuinter lIr the nountaini villatges of central Ar mienia. Foodstuffs thtrougthout the area art exhausted, tihe cable says, -and con tinuies: "Blread Is made fromn all sortb of substitutes, Including flax, chaff and awdust, having no apprecIable food falue. The people are extracting un *taeated innteriats from old refuse ant irsty Americans Destr W -. view fr"(n111lte narbr during the burnit Led at $2,0,0000. 'T he hotel was a favori ype. t Popular Books were made Us funds were avail able until 1879, when congress granted the Amerlean Printing House for the Blind at Louisville an annual subsidy of $10,000. This house at once be came the greatest producer of its kind in the world, and continued to he such into' the present century, when the number of blind pupils in the schools drawing upon this source for books had more than doubled. The cost of production and the in crease in demand eventually made the output of this .house insufficient, and in the emergency several of the schools put up emergency printing presses and assisted one another. One endowed enterprise set about manu facturing writing appliances and table games for the blind and selling them at less than cost. In 1919, how ever. congress increased its grant to the American Printing House from $10,000 to $50,000, which made pos sible the enla rgement and improve inent of the plant and the increase in the number of hooks to each school. Spreading Knowledge. In a report on the work to educate the blind and distribute books among them, 1Edgar IS. Allen, director of the I'erkins institute and Massachusetts School for the Blind, writes: "Most schools are glad to circulate their emhossed books beyond their own pupils and do so as far as they can. Iut the reading hunger of the blind outside of Institutions is chiefly satisfie(l by circulating libraries lo cated here and there throughout the country. Libraries 1111(1 schools inler ('st('(d have collected miuch literattire, and some nut hors have been induced I ANCIENT SCRIPT I Writing Similar to Chinese Dis covered in Idaho.4 Scientists Will Explore Caves and De-. cipher the Writing Before Reveal ing Location-May Find I .Valuable Relic. Iloise, I dahIo-Syambols and signs, t'hiiseled, It is hllevedi, ages ago, were discovered recently oin lava rocks lii at remo~te section)1 of Owyhelie county, Manyi3 of the inscriptions bear striking resemiblance to Chinese al phabet charamcters of today, it was' saId, althlougha archeologjsts Say they' miay be anywhere from -400 to 30,000 Discovery of tihe insc'riptions, wvh eh are saidl to be a mine of archeological treasure, wats mnade by IRobert [im hert, al Boise taxidermist. TheIr exact !ocation wIll noit be made publie uintil summer by3 a numbller of scientIsts who are coiming here. Thle volcanic toeg on which tihe In sciptions tare carived is scattered Over a 30-acre sagebirush flat. In the imt mediate vi(elnity are several ha rge caves, atrotund tile ent rnace of which the rocks atlso are inscribed. It Is be IN NEED OF FOOD giving it to the children. Ilealth con ditiotns are critical. Gastric andit in testinal troubles pirevail, dute to mnal nutrition. A large per cent of the people arte suff'ering from skin diseases. One-fourth of the adults aire incapaci taited atnd bedridden. "In the villages Visited there are 1,500 orphans wvho should he' removed imamedhately If they are to live. 10ven in smallI villages the weekly deathl list includes ten child'ren. In matny' villages all childrey have lost their hair (luring the winter. Several cases were so des perat that tile p~eole resortedi to eat ing human tiesh, wvhich practice wasi sharply punished by the authorities, Officials said they are doing all they can to prevent it, but the people lose thteir senses from hiunger. At Maha maudchuk a family of fifteen persons was visitedl a month ago. Now, only Ithree of the faimily remain. The dead include all the miale members of thte family. Oreat anxiety is expressedi Iabout securing seed and grain tow Dyed by Fire Ti " ig Of t.ie big Colonhil lotel at Nassau, te stopping place of thirsty Ame~ricans to mfeet the cost of publishing a book or two in lBraille. "By far the largest number of hlind flfnd partly blind pupils in the United States, as elsewhere, attend the resi tential schools comminonly called Insti tutions. There are now 43 such fehlools, with a total attendance of rbout 5,000. The day-school move lient started in Chiengo considlered all its 1u1l1111 blind, and taught th eiA Is such for years until in a few eities ertain of the semi-blInd were segre atedp and taught as sei-sighted pu ptas, chiefly through the eye Instead of the fingers. "The mnovement for such segrega tion is scientitleally correct, aind rep resents a great eduentlona advane in the propier methods of reaiing~ rhildren not sufferlng from bindness but from seriously defective eyesight.' Bankrupt Town Sold. Portland, Me.--The sale of a towvn was containe yir In a Federal court or der recently when Judge W. er. Sher piardl chnenlte to the eentase of the $f.ng0 brs of 1". G. I'lu of Chi ngo for the mssets of the Towun of ValIpa raiso, wh I ch has been In liti gation for sointi ti . There were tw hids, the one coiming from an associa tIon of unit holders, who were unnbale to p it before bank closIng hour the repiired ceiifled check for $5.000. The other hid was iin cash. The bank ruBt town Is in the Southern art or Okaloosa county. - aMule Fell on Him. Greenslrg, Ind.--CreNVce .elish of this city wvas the victI Ef aiin un usual accident the other day whi I digging a ditcl here. A mifus e, diiveti by Thionas Bui timon. fell in the diteli at the e point where Melish was work ig, 'and lhe waIs held prisoner by thle weight of the iois uuntil it was re movedl by fellow worki ng. Melih mhe reud an Injured hipe) anid a few inor hi wes 3 FOUND IN WEST leved thes caves never have been xloredi. J'ossily, it la said, they ofntain many relics of sclentific value. Twuo distinct types of carvings, ideo riphic iand pictographe, have iven oye1h. Archeologists believe the ideo rieinc antedates by misny years the >ict ographie. Both Systemas hiave been '0und( together on one rock and near hem can be dliscerne~d what appears o lie a third system, suppo~sed1 to ante late both of the others, but which has veathered beyond possibility of deci ihiering. Clear hits of this prehistoric writing Ire found on one huge water-worn )owldler 25 feet long, 14 feet wide anid i feet high. Near the center is a eries of triangles believed to inNiE te IndIan tepees, and next to them nye rows of dots and dashes, thought to be numerals, IResemblance of many of the In scriptioins to the characters of the Chlinese alphabet w~as taken by some lo subistantlate the theory that theo Nor'th Amieriean native descended fromll a race wle~h caime from Asin b~y way Eof Bering straits. Indians now living in Idalho, when rluestionied regarding the carvings, 51ay the moiire mloderir or pietographic are the work of their forefathers, but the:, alsse(rt the others to be the work of spirits. ipring plantIng. The head man of the argest village saidl: 'If we can secure seed we shall be on our feet by mnid mmnmer. If we dlon't get seedi we atre 'Ioomeid to dheath." Near' F~ast Rtelief has sixty Amerienn ~ellef administrators, doctors aind iurses~in this area. During the winter, towever, their supplies and resources myve been so reduced that they have ieen able to do little more than care kor the large numbea' of orphians al 'endy aicceptedl in institutions, a single >rphianage numbering 18,000 children, secrletary Vickrey declares that not mnly the lives of the orphaned children his spring, but the food supply for :he entire population next winter de lends on the promp~t dispatch within the next few weeks of grain for food aind seed fronm the United States. Immune, Once there was a conductor who was not satisfied with his wages, and left. The next day, while looking for a job, he happened to step on the third rail. Did he get killed? No. lie ws a nonconductor.-.. Science and Inven tion Magazine. COTTON GETS BACK TO NORMAL BASIS COMMERCE DEPARTMENT COM. PLETES SURVEY OF THE SITUATION. AFTER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD Weather Conditions and the Boll Weevil Are Now Principal Factors to be Considered. Washington. -- Wbrid cotton con sumption has returned to its pre-war level after a five-year period of low consumption, according to a survey of the international cotton situation cov ering production, consumption and stocks, as of April 1, made public by the commerce department. "The striking feature of the situa tion," the department said, "is an in dicated consumption of 21 000,000 bales for the year ending July 31, 1922, approximately 6,000.000 bales more than was produced for the crop year." The world carry-over, the depart ment concluded from its survey, will return to normal by August 1, 1922, while the outstanding feature of in terest now is the degree to which the cotton production will return to the pro-war level, or whether it will con tinue on the basis of the last five years' average of 18.000,000 bales. Much depends, the department declar ed. on weather conditions and the ex tent to which the boll weevil proves to be a limiting factor. Little Change in River. New Orleans.-While water flowed through the three crevasses in the lower Mississippi river continued to cover more lands, the fight to prevent other breaks in the levees was carried on without any let-up. Thousands of men spent their Sabbath filling and piling sand bags to strengthen the weak places and to raise low stretches of the embankments to meet higher river stages than any yet recorded. In the third Mississippi levee dis trict alone no less than 10,000 men were engaged in the fight to hold the swollen river in its channel, the 4,000 employed by the government in this district being reinforced by more than 6,000 civilians who have volunteered their services for the common pro tection of their homes. Church ser vices were dispensed with in many places, the pastors leading their flocks to the levees, where the day was, spent in hard labor to prevent further flooding. Shoots Son and Commits Suicide, Chattanooga, Tenn.-Dr. W. P. Allen of Dayton, Tenn., who last December was aclhitte( of the murder of Burch C. Gardenhire, member of a well known Tennessee family, after one of the most sensational murder trials ever staged in Rhen county, killed his nine-year-oldl son, WV. P.. Jr., shot at his wife and committed suicide. The double tragedy occuredl three miles south of Dayton as Dr. Allen, his wife and son were returning from an automobile ride. Mrs. Allen said the shooting was done without any warning. She told Sheriff Blurnette, who made an inves tigation, that Dr. Allen, who was driv ing the car stopped at the side of the road,. dr-ew he~ revolver, shot the child through the head and then got out of the seat. She jumped out on the other side, she said, andl ran, as Allen started shooting at her. Captain Coleman Seeks Relief. . New Bern.-At the jail here Arthur Coleman, captain and owner of the British schooner "Message of Peace," convicted of selling whiskey and sen tenced to six months in jail by .Judge H. 0. Conner, said he erpected to be0 released on bail,. His counsel. John D. and Emmett Bellamy, wvent to WViI mington to attend to securing the b)Ond wvhich was fixed at $2,500. Captain Coleman declared that he was far from being through with the case. He expects to sue for the recov ery of his ship and its cargo, Many Children Hurt, Rome, Ga.-Frive children were se riously injured, one probably fatally and 18 others suffered bruises when they were thrown out of a truck tak ing a curve near her-e. Ruth W~est, 13, of Lindale was -re ported to have suffer-ed a fractured skull, and was not expected to live. Four others, Houston Hendricks, Richard Bean, Louis~e Mathis and Walter Green, also were taken to a hospital painfully hurt. The injuries to the other-s were chiefly minor cuts and bruises. Marshal Joffre Leaves New York, New York.--With the strains of "Auld Lang Syne,"' played by a mu. nicip~al band as the liner Celtic speed ed up off the Statue of Liberty, Mar. shial Jeff re waved goodl-hye to Amer. lea and began the last lap of his world tour. The band was aboard the police boat John F. Hylan. The marshal stood at attention foi a moment after the band began, then suddenly waved his red and gold hat grew more enthusiastic and wavedii cane, while the big liner slippetd awa3 toward the open sea. ROBBER DE LUXE RAIDS 200 HOMES Makes Confession to Chicago Po lice Accounting for. More Than $500,000 Loot. HAS CLEVER "SYSTEM" All Other Smooth Workers Are Boobs Compared to "Master Thief," Say Police Officials-Only Weap on Ammonia Gun. Chlcago.-Well-d-essed men and .vomen of an exclusive South side neighborhood crowded the Hyde l'ark police station to identify Sllverware, furs and clothing stolen from them, following the astonishing confession of Edward Collins, alias George Wil llams, IS East Twenty-first street, Chicago's "de luxest" burglar. Collins, whose criminal record dates back to 1904, when he was sent to Jollet for burglary, was arrested by Sergeants John Mulcahy, Fred Web ster, and John Ituddy at Forty-sixth street and Woodlawn avenue. They had been looking for him for weeks. His confession, made to Capt. Patrick J. McCaley of the Hyde Park station, a1(1 to Chief Fltzmlorris, will account for $500,000 worth of stolen goods and incidentally disclose a huge "dope" ring, po'ice believe. Collins robbed more than 200 homes. "System" Wins 9olice Comment. "All the smooth workers I've ever seen are boobs compared to Collins," said Captain McCauley, in grudging admiration of the burglar's "system." Collins always made sure his victim was away at the time of his call. To make doubly sure, (i entering the hallway he would push the door but ton three times. The rest-the jimmy ing of the locks-wns en sy. IHis only tuols were the jimmy ant an ammonia pistol, filled with water, that looked like an automatic. He said that in his long career he has used it but twice. A special velvet-lined trousers pocket was for diamonds alone. After rifling the householder's choicest ef fects he would pile them into a suit cage (also found in the apartment), telephone for a taxi cab and saunter leisurely downstairs. Recover $10,000 Worth of Loot. Loot to the extent of $10,000 was recovered in his Twenty-first street abode. Although he has stolen ap "Ilv -~-- - - :eu,"oeo hWsuvdctimwle Tte In theitcasc. station wher-e Collins was affably as sisting in t he return of property. "1 remember that perfectly," would be his reply. "I was there at three o'clock on Februar-y 22. I got two furs, a necklace and a suitcase there'." Sergeants Peery and WVebster uin packed half a dozen sultcnses and handlbags in the station squad room. Out came silverware, furs, men's and womenm's suits, an Ivory toIlet set, and three automa tic revolvers. Collins' vie tinms examined it eagerly. The loot, whlichl covered a long table, wVas mnele ly a suggestion of what was found at his add ress. Collins, a Chicag'o prodluct, well dressedi, affable and( said( to be a capa. ble0 linguIst, first got "in bad" in 1904, when sent to Joliet for burglary. I~e was par-oled and resentenced at inter vals up to 1910. Penny Bombs Seized by Police. New York.-Toy bombs selling for a ipenny and used by school children to amake noise during recess were seized by police of New York city when a schoolteacher complained of the (disturbance. Chemicals in tile glass tubes causedl the children's eyes to smart, tihe teacher said. About 1,000 bombs were seized 1mn a store patron ized by tile children. Officer FInds Own Daughter Drowned, Mluskegon, blich.-When a report came to police that a girl had been drowned in a creek, Ofmcer Edgar Johnson was dispatched to tihe scene. He arrIved in time to see neighbors lift his own fiye-year-old daughter out of three feet of waer,. 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