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Hm Banwtll PcopltHScatiiMl, BamraD, & C, TharMAT, Dcceatw «, I9S4 \ Clue of the Brass Check I T WAS In September, 1916, that an enterprlilng conOractor, Abraham Sagalowiti, determined to build a row of two-story houses at Hegemann ave nue and Powell street, in New York. The Work of excavation proceeded expeditiously, but the workmen had not gone very far when they discov ered a skeleton, v A few minutes later a second skele ton was brought to the surface. The authorities were notified and the remains were taken to the bureau of unidentified dead of^the New York police department Life is supposed to be held cheap In the metropolis, and it would have been quite easy to have dismissed this gruesome find as an unsolved mys tery. But the police did not take that ▼lew of the matter. They felt that a crime had been committed and they went about the solution 1 with all of the ardor of de fectives of fiction, but with a great <leal more common sense. By means of a brass check that was One Business Man ■ hi. -- By ANNE CAMPBELL' Houiewife's Ides Box P ICTURED here is a dam which France says is the world. It is on the River Isere and has been constructed to supply elec tric power for the Paris-Lyons- Mediterranean railway. T HEY say'in business be plays chess. He takes no stock In happiness* Or the well being or the hope Of those who work for him, and grope Back to the light of day again. TImT boss plays chess. . His pawns are men. He sits aloof from those who try To please him, with a wary eye I Upon bis Interests . . . and feels Himself a man of high ideala. With no thought but of gain, he plays A game of stalling and delays. I think there la a Power that sees His many needless cruelties. And sometime, though the years are long, That, halt the week, and -feed the strong. The Boss will hear, as lights grow dim v “Checkmate I” ... It will be said to him! WNXJ Mnrlc*. found oi: the first skeleton the re mains were Identified as those of Ros- sarlo Passerelle, s laborer, who had been well known In the Italian colony In East New York. The second skeleton was not so read ily placed. But it was discovered that Passe relle had a friend named Dominic La Rosa, and that they were Inseparable companions. Also It cams to light that Passe- rclle and La Rosa had strangely" dts»~ appeared at the same time. Incidentally, It was suggested that the two men had been In bad odor with some of the wretched secret so cieties which had imported their bad habits from Italy. * In a word It was feR that the twa dead men had been the victims of the dreaded Black Hand. But before going after the murder ers it was necessary to make sure that the second skeleton was that of La Rosa. In order to demot.’sfrate that the. detectives of New York city jferfbrmed a most remarkable piece of work. They reconstructed the remains of the dead man. Around the skeleton was built a face, some hair, and by the use of cos metics these were made to appear statural. Two gold teeth that had been found In the lot, and which undoubtedly be longed to the deceased, were placed In such way as to attract immediate attention. His old felt hat was perched on his head. A coffee can, covered with newspa pers, served as a neck, ai.tl around this false form was draped the ragged coat of the man. It was a ghastly reproduction of •what had once been a human being. Photographs of tills exhibit were taken and shown to those who had known La Rosa in life. The detectives presently located a blacksmith who lived near the lot where the skeletons had heen found He said that It bore a striking like ness to a man whom he had seei. 1 very often In that locality. While all of this was going on the police department had .been, busily qn gaged In rounding up suspects. On a fixed day It was resolved to make a test by having the friends of La Rosa, and those suspected of the murder, file past the reconstructed body. It was a gruesome scene, these son. 1 and daughters of sum.y Italy march Ing in that procession^ One, rwo, three, five and ten, the: filed by without any sign of emotior beyond a natural repugnance ovei looking at such an abnormal corpse. Presently a woman in the line wav •red. She wa* young, with an olive com, S lexion, with great long black ear hgs, a large gilt breastpin and dresse* In bright red and yellow, i Her face paled and she uttered t scream: “Santa Marla! It Is the ghost of Dominic La Rosa!" Almost at the same moment Bhi turned on one of the suspects In th< line and cried out in a wailing voice , “You devil! Why did you kill him?' He was taken into custody, was thl- Giovanni Romana, and before night fall another Itallah, Victor Plcdojtto living near the scene of the murder was also arrested. Both, charged with homicide, wen held to await the action of the grant Jury. Lest It be forgotten, attention shook 1 be called to the fact that the Idea ant the 'work of reconstructing the bod: was due to Lieut Grant Williams, oi the New York police, and Dr. Pecchlni of the city testing laboratory. WHO Sanrlc*. Bedtime Story for Children By THORNTON W. BURGESS PpTER LISTENS FOR SOMETHING T HE leaves of the trees turned yel low and red and brown. They be gan to drop, a few at first and more and more every day, until all but the spruce treea_and. the pine treea-and the hemlock trees and the fir trees and the cedar trees were bare. The fur of Pe ter’s coat was growing thicker. The grass of the Green Meadows had tnrned brown. All these things were signs which Peter knew well. They meant that rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost were on their way down from the Far North to stay. Peter spent a great deal of time in the dear Old Brier Patch just sitting ■till and listening. He didn’t know what he was listening for. It just seemed to him that there was some thing he ought ’to hear at this time of year, and so he sat listening and. list ening and wondering what he was list ening for. • • Then late one afternoon there came floating down to him from high up in the sky, faintly at first, but growing louder, a sound unlike any Peter had heard all the long summer through. The sound was of many voices mingled. “Honk! Honk! Honk! Ka-honk, bonk, ^honk, ka-honk H they cried. Peter gave a little jump. “That’s what I’ve been listening for,” he thought “Honker the Goose and his friends are coming! Oh. 1 dP hope thej\wlU stop where I can pay them a can.’’ bad never aeen, but of which he had so often heard. Suddenly Honker turned and headed In the direction of the Big River. Then he began to slant down, hla deck fol lowing him. Presently they disap peared behind the trees along the hank glgh. “They are going to spend the night there,’* thought he. “When the moon comes up I will run over there, for then they will come ashore, and I know just where. Now that they’ve arrived I know that winter Is not far away. Honker’s voice Is a* sure a sign of the coming of winter as Is Winsome Bluebird's that Spring will soon be here." C. T. W. Burgeaa.—WNU Mnrlc*. I PAPA KNCWS-l He hopped out to the edge of the dear Old Brier Patch that he migjit see * 4-444+ + He Saw a Flock of Birds Moving Steadily From the Direction of the Far North. ^ better, and looked up In the sky. Very high up, flying in the shape of a letter V, he saw a flock of birds moving steadily from the direction of the Far North. By the sound of their voices he knew that they had flown far that day and were tired. One bird was In the lead, and this he guessed to be his old friend Honker. Straight over hla. head they passed, and as Peter listened to their cries he felt within him the very spirit of the Far North, that great, wild, lonely land which he P»Y01 J Know- Buttons on Men's Sleovsp Buttons on men.’s sleeves Is an or nament of fashion of which the origin Is unknown, but ono story says the practice begin with the Prusslan king Frederick the Great He la supposed * tn her* TOdufed «~ y row of buttons •owed on the upper side of his army's coat aleevea In order to prevent the soldiers from wiping their face* wit) their sleeves, thus sotting their uni forms. Later, the buttons were shift ed to the Mde of the sleeves and ht • matter ef atylA That “chop suey” is un known in Chinn—except in n few semi-foreign restau rants. It was “invented** and named in the Southern Paci fic railroad camps in Ameri- ca, more than half a century ago. A cook for Chinese workmen threw in a little of everything and called it “chop suey.** half cupful of breed crumbs, salt, pep per and a tablespoonful of butter; mix well. Fill six medium-sized onions and top each with a mushroom cap* Put Into a baking dish with a little water, cover and bake In a moderate oven about one hour. Remove the cov er the last 15 minutes and brown. | They are delicious without mush- | rooms, or with a bit of sausage. Walnut and Salmon Salad. Separata Into flake* one-fourth of a cupful of canned salmon. Take one- half cupful of walnut moats coarsely chopped. Shred three-fourths of a cupful of cabbage, - let wand tn water to crisp. Drain, mix with salmon gnd nuts, add one cupful of cooked salad dressing and servo on lettuce. i Uatae. When Doing Fine Sewing When doing fine sewing your hands ist be kept absolutely free from perspiration, but some women find this difficult. In order to bo sure that they stay dry and clean, make a solution of alum and water. Dip your hands Into this before starting to aew. Dry them thoroughly and -you "will have no trouble in keeping them dry. THE HOUSEWIFE. Copyright by Pnbllo L*dg«r, In*. WNU Mrvlc*. the 'Pop, what la scrutiny?** 'SctsntttVs glance.** e. Ml Syndloot*.—WNU Mnrlc*. Upholstery Satin As He Understood Song Ourtis, who has just passed the five-year mark, Is getting a big kick out o' kindergarten. Hla parents have been amused at the enthusi asm with which he has entered Into the activities of the class, even though he occasionally has not fully understood what they were all about He likes the games and drawing las- sons, bat his real delight Is the mu sic. Every day he has come boms singing t new song, or snatches of It Recently he astonished hla parents | by lustily singing n refrain that sounded familiar, but whose words rer* strangely twisted. “What's that you're staging. Our- tiar his mother asked. “Here We Ge Around the Mul berry Books," replied Curtis, who hadn't encountered mulberry hushes In his short lifetime.—New Tork Sun. — SOME TESTED GOOD THINGS “The trouble with most wives,’’ eayt knowing Norah, “la that the only time they will lieten to what their husbands have to say is when they talk In their •leep.** A Bell Syndicate.—WNU Servlca. QUESTION BOX By ED WYNN ... The Perfect Fool Dear Mr. Wynn; I went into a restaurant the other day and ordered some “liver and ba con.’* The waitress brought me some bacon, but said I would have to wait for my liver until after the two men at the next table were served. What answer have you for that? Truly yours. PHIL HARMONIC. Answer: That is the toughest ques tion I’ve had, but I’ve worked it out The two men must have ordered be fore you placed your order. They prob ably ordered liver, the same as you. She served them first because she didn’t want you to have your “liver out of order.” T HERE Is an old saying that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” and an onion a day keeps everybody away. A good time to Indulge In the odoriferous bulb la at a time when you will not annoy others. Onions are such wholesome vegetables that they should be served at least twice a week Id some form during the entire winter. An onion sirup cannot be ex celled for a cough, and a poultice of chopped raw onion, mixed with rye flour with a bit of vinegar to moisten, makes ■ remedy for any lung trouble. Not pleasant, hut very effective* Lemon Pudding. Mix one cupful of flour, two egg yolks well beaten, one lemon, juice and rind, one teaspoonful of melted butter, and one cupful of milk. When well blended fold In the well-beaten whites of the eggs and bake In s shal low baking dish set into hot water. Rake three minutes. Serve hot or cold. Bakod Stuffed Onions. This makes a most satisfying main dish. Peel and cook the onions In boiling salted water for ten minutes. Take out the centers, drain well Par boil a small green pepper and remove the seeds, peel 12 large .mushroom caps, cook in three tablespoonfuls of butter with the onion scooped from the centers, finely chopped. Add on* Path to Soccom There Is but one method of so* cess, and that la bard labor.—8yd- nd£ Smith. MercolizedWox s S^in Young For Man and Women who will learn Siv« yoa o ml i while yoa Iwm. Write booklet No. BB W. sad Ms yoa to a good ; or Upholstery satin appears for eve ning wear in this white and fuchsia striped gown of Intriguing cut The skirt follows the new line—fitted at the waist with fullness from the hlpe down. The corsage matches the fuchsia stripes. Putting State Heroes on the Skids Dear Mr. Wynn: I just arrived la town today and noticed some signs on the lamp post I am a little nearsighted and cannot see what are oh the signs. Can you tell me what they are for and why they are bp so high? Yours truly, - . • ‘ L VORY. Answer: They are put on top of the lamp posts so that people passing will see them. You are supposed to climb up the post and read the sign. If It says “fresh paint” then you know you shouldn't lean against the posU Dear Mr. Wynn: I am keeping company with * young woman who la very fond of horses.- I am thinking of marrying ho 1 . Every one tells me a woman who loves horses will make a good wife. Do you be lieve that? Sincerely, L M. A. BOOH Answer: All ! can say la that It Is tnie a woman loves anything she can drive. Den Mr. Wynn: I am a married dren. I ke* to make both ends I del n with three chit- hot seem unable meet What shall Aik TRUISTIC. : That's assy, if joe cant *m* //i i * A ff % .-ass Jill* Mouth A PLATE! By MM Mm Siam Fal . . SIAM Too take your own impression in plaster the seine us • dentist does. Send 12.00 for “Impresskm Bite Box’* Money returned if you ore not satisfied when youexandne U, MIAMI DBNTIITf 219 ShoreJand Bldg., Miami, Fh. Root of Happiaess Happiness does not come from what we have, it comes from what we enjoy. [REOMULSION •TATUE8 of state in Statuary and toe henry that thirty of oi John ot the United fttstts. tn the Capitol at far safety, as to to ethai according to ■Beams sloSbiwmm? nSSSlMsaKa