Yes, Germany Still Has Quite an Army
With as muc!) of an army as is permitted by the peace treaty, Germany keeps well up to date in military
matters. Above are seen members of a gun crew, equipped with gas masks, firing their gun during recent maneuvers
at Dobertiz.
Lieutenant Williams in His Mercury Seaplane
Lieut. A. J. Williams, U. S. N„ in his 1,100 II. P. Mercury seaplane that was built for competition in the Schnei¬
der cup races at Cowes, England..
Omnibus College Girls at K. P. Duty
These Nebraska girls,-members of an omnibus college that stopped at a
tourist camp in Washington, were caught while doing their turn at kitchen
police. Their schoolroom is a motor car.
Calf Triplets,, and All Doing Well
Here are the three healthy calf triplets that were born recently on the
Zwissig Brothers’ ranch near Decoto, Calif. Farmers are surprised that all
three should survive and be so healthy.
CLEVELAND COURIER
MEXICAN BEAUTY
Senorita Aurelia Colomo, one of tli«i
most beautiful Mexican girls ever re¬
siding in Washington, Is to be pre¬
sented to society in the National Cap¬
ital this autumn.
NAMED FOR GOVERNOR
John Garland Pollard of Williams¬
burg, Va., who was nominated for
governor of Virginia by the regular
Democrats to oppose William M.
Brown, Republican and anti-Smitb
Democratic nominee.
Not Read
“This letter is marked ‘Dictated but
not read.’ ”
“Well, if he didn’t consider it worth
reading, why should I?”
Growing Cities
Out of every hundred inhabitants of
the United States, sixteen live in
cities.—Farm and Fireside (1S81). The
number to day is much more than fifty
of every hundred.
GIRL PLAYS CUPID
AND EARNS $2.50
Finds Occupation Not Remu¬
nerative in Paris.
Paris.—In spite of the hectic, hard
boiled kind of life that Paris is pic¬
tured as living, romance is not' alto
getiier dead in the city on tiie banks
of the Seine.
Some one who can prove this is a
certain young American girl. She isn’t
the heroine of the story. Instead, she
played tiie part of cupid.
In recounting the affair the French
■newspapers refer to her as Miss X.
She arrived in Pahs with no clear idea
of what she could do, until some one
suggested she become-a guide for se¬
lect young ladies. Now guides for
young ladies select and otherwise are
as numerous as the fishes in the ocean ;
the idea seemed good to her.
The girl inserted an advertisement
In English in the French and English
language newspapers in Paris and sat
down to wait for answers. One came.
It was from an automobile mechanic
in New York.
“Dear Miss,” he wrote: “I don’t
want to be guided about Paris, but
there is a girl I met over there in
Paris towards the end of the war that
I should like to know about now. She
was so beautiful her face haunts me
still—”
He couldn’t remember her name, but
he had her last address, lie recalled,
too, that she played tiie violin. The
girl went to the address indicated in
the Avenue Jean .Tnures, traced the
little French sweetheart of tiie Ameri¬
can doughboy, and hurried hack to
write a letter to him to tell him so.
More letters passed and in one of
them the boy in New York asked Miss
X to propose for him, which she did.
A few weeks later mademoiselle and
her mother sailed for New York. And
Still later came a final letter for Miss
X. It contained a check from the
bridegroom for two dollars and a half.
Since even people- who act cupid
must live on something, the American
girl is now back home.
Build Dugout on Rich
Lot; Live on in Luxury
San Francisco.—Habits of “dug
out” dwelling in France proved.an
inspiration to Frank Schroeder and
Frunk Madero, who a year ago con¬
structed a hit of “front line trench”
in the heart of San Francisco’s busi¬
ness district. The men were “broke”
and the fact that file vacant lot they
chose was valued at $100,000 didn’t
matter to tiie veterans, who sought
assurance of a regular place to live.
Among other things tiie pair made
the lot, formerly an unsightly place,
a flower garden and repository of
beautiful shrubbery. Because of tiie
Improved appearance no one objected.
As the weeks sped by the cave im¬
proved In appearance. Flowers and
shrubs concealed most of it, and en¬
largements were made. Telephone
service was installed about eight
months ago, and with prosperity came
a radio and other comforts of home.
Schroeder and Madero boast of be¬
ing the only “cavemen in San Fran¬
cisco,” as well ns possessing the-dis¬
tinction of having “squatted” on $100,
000 worth of property and gotten
away with it.
Family Tombstones Sold
by Former Aristocrat
Moscow.—The artistic gravestones
on tiie tombs of her parents are help¬
ing support a former aristocrat now
reduced to beggary.
Lady Maria Skaratina-Demskaya
was once among the most brilliant
figures in the imperial court at St.
Petersburg. Now she is a familiar
figure on the streets of Moscow—an
old, sick woman who begs kopecks
from passersby.
Recently, when it was announced
that a monastery where her family
tombs are located would he razed, she
reclaimed the sculptured gravestones
over her father's and mother’s tombs
and sold them.
10,000,000 Candle Power
Leads Flyers to El Paso
El Paso, Tex.—Visible between 100
and 150 miles, tiie 10,000,000 candle
power light atop Mount Franklin
near here, guides aviators nightly
over Texan, Mexican and New Mexi¬
can wastes to El Paso. Sixteen thous¬
and pounds of material, moved up
the rough mountain side by man pow¬
er, were used in making the 50 foot
tower.
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after a fashion without that ap
pendage in the roof of her
mouth, but her parents in Moor¬
head, Miss., noticed she suffered
some discomfort and failed to
grow normally.
Surgeons in a hospital here X •{•
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Inez from her right arm. The *»•
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£ taehed to the roof of her mouth.
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ESKIMO BOYS FLEE
TO ESCAPE DISEASE
Ends Experiment With
White Civilization.
Toronto.—Ben and Sam, two Eski¬
mo hoys on .whom the hopes of their
race had heen pinned in an experi¬
ment with the civilization of the
white man, are fleeing for iheir lives
back -to .the safety of (he Arctic
wastes. Not from the roar of the
cities are they fleeing, nor from tiie
white man’s learning, but from a
mightier agency—disease. The ..experi¬
ment has failed.
Two years ago an Eskimo chief¬
tain, far up in the silent Arctic, askpd
the head of the missionaries to send
his son to the unknown lands to the
south to learn the ways of the white
man. “My people haven’t a chance
unless they are able to meet tiie white
man on his own ground,” lie said.
Attend White Man's. School.
And so nine-year-old Ben, son of
Chief John Eli, head of the South¬
ampton island Eskimos, accompanied
by his friend of the same age, Sam
Pudbutt, of Lake Harbor, Baffin Land,
were handed over to the headmaster
of the. Lakefleld Preparatory school,
near Peterboro. They had been
brought down from the North by
Rev. F. II. Gibbs, a returning mission¬
ary.
“It is of the utmost Importance
that these boys should be considered
in every way on the basis of white
men,” were the instructions of Ven¬
erable A. L. Fleming, archdeacon of
the Arctic.
Bon and Sam knew no English, but
they were good-natured, good sports
ami intelligent. They were unani¬
mously acclaimed as general favorites
by their new-white playmates.
But Ben and Sam were forced to
relinquish their studies to face an or¬
deal of sickness, from which they
barely escaped with their lives. After
influenza they took pneumonia,
measles, tonsilitis and underwent op¬
erations for mastoids and adenoids.
It had been pronounced that for
them to remain here means only one
tiling—death.
Sail for Arctic Wastes.
So Ben and Sam sailed from Mon¬
treal on a Hudson Bay company’s ice¬
breaker, the Nascopie. They will be
taken back by returning missionaries.
They do not want to go back to the
land of the midnight sun, and the
reason they expressed was just “Baf¬
fin’ Lnn’ too code.”
“Tliis experiment has been thor¬
oughly satisfactory from one point
of view,” declared Ven. A. L. Flem¬
ing, who bore the responsibility and
expense of the enterprise. “It has
shown that the Eskimo is in no way
inferior to the white man.”
The archdeacon said tiie Eskimo
was an intelligent but undeveloped
race. The way Ben and Sam picked
up the white man’s language and
customs in such a short time was re¬
markable. “I wish white men could
learn Eskimo as quickly as these
two picked up English,” said the
archdeacon.
Surgeon Gives His Own
Blood to Save Friend
St. Paul.—The story of how a sur¬
geon performed an emergency opera¬
tion on an old friend, gave tiie patient
a transfusion of his own blood and
then hurried away to perform another
operation was revealed here by attend¬
ants of a St. Paul hospital.
The patient, J. M. Riegei, widely
known northwest newspaper man, un¬
derwent an operation for the removal
of a kidney. As he lay on the operat¬
ing table it was seen that he needed
a transfusion; both a nurse and an
anesthetist, promptly gave some of
their blood.
Keigel was taken to his room where
his condition was found to be grow¬
ing steadily weaker. Close friends and
relatives of the patient gathered at
the door, eager to give him some of
their blood.
But with only moments to spare
the physician, whose name was not
revealed, refused to take the time
necessary for tests, but hared his own
arm and gave the patient some of
his own blood.
The surgeon then hurried back to
the operating room to complete the
day’s work, which Included another
major operation. Shortly after the
transfusion Reigel began a steady
improvement.
Find Cache of Tear Gas
Buried in Berlin Suburb
Berlin.—Residents of the fashion
ble v. r est end suburb of Wilmersdorf
were thrown into a panic last night
when an extensive cache of poison gas
was discovered in the heart of their
district, buried oniy a few inches
under the surface of the streets.
Workers found layers of small glass
bottles under the surface. Not know¬
ing the contents, they broke a few.
Several were so severely poisoned
they were taken to hospitals.
The police discovered the cache was
located on the site of a war-time tear
gas factory and that 100,000 bottles of
the gas were buried there when the
production of the poison was aban¬
doned.
Lightning Empties Well
Indianapolis—Police Sergt. George
R. Liese believes that a flash of light¬
ning that struck his house evaporated
95 barrels of water in his cistern.
Liese discovered the cistern was dry
FINDS HAPPINESS
IN SHARING RICHES
Wealthy Man Cuts Down to
Moderate Means.
St. Louis, Mo.—Giving away a for¬
tune has provided happiness in tiie
declining years of life for Robert S.
Brookings, of tills city. Thirty-three
years ago Mr. Brookings was a
wealthy man. Today he has only a
moderate Income—because he believes
a man can enjoy money more by
spending it wisely than by hoarding it.
Mr. Brookings is now seventy-nine
years old. ■
The philanthropist began ids busi¬
ness career as a shipping clerk at a
salary of $25 a month, which was just
enough to pay for his room and hoard.
He was promoted time after time until
he was. high in the employ of a large
manufacturing business operated by
Samuel Cupples, in St. Louis.
Just 33 years ago Mr. Brookings and
Mr. Cupples held one of the strangest
conferences in history—tiie former
asking his employer just how was the
best way of getting rid of all his
money except what he would need to
support himself.
The ultimate result of that confer¬
ence was that Mr. Brookings has or¬
ganized three institutions for study
and research In problems of govern¬
ment, developed a tottering little col¬
lege into an institution of world-wide
fame, Washington university, and de¬
voted much of his time and money to
patriotic service for his country. There
are hundreds upon hundreds of homes
in St. Louis today which are more lux¬
urious than his. But he is happy!
Says Garden of Eden
Was in South Africa
New York.—The cradle of mankind,
the spot where man came into being
as a new species and from which he
spread throughout the world, can now
bo placed with fair assurance in South
Africa, it was announced recently by
Alonzo W. Pond, assistant curator of
Logan museum, Beloit, Wis., who re¬
turned on the Frencli liner De Grasse
from an extensive exploration of pre¬
historic sites in Algeria.
Pond brought back skeletons and
parts of skeletons of 13 individuals,
two of whom he is convinced lived
more than SO,000 years ago and 0,000
flint and hone implements which he
collected from tiie 47 prehistoric habi¬
tations which he excavated. Beside
these lie found charred fruits which
may furnish information as to the
character of tiie vegetation in North
Africa 20 to 25 centuries ago.
The wealth of prehistoric material
which he found almost wherever he
searched in the Saralia strengthened
his belief that the scene of the actual
“Garden of Eden” might be found In
Africa and his investigations just con¬
cluded provided much additional evi¬
dence. Included in Pond’s investiga¬
tions was a detailed study of the*
routes which man has followed in hia
migrations. »
Medal for Aid to Blind
Given Vienna Doctor
New York.—The Leslie Dana gold
medal for 1929, awarded in recognition
of “the most outstanding achievement
in the prevention of blindness and the
conservation of vision,” will be pre¬
sented to Dr. Ernest Fuchs, of Vienna,
at the International Ophthalmological
congress in Amsterdam, on September
10. This will be the first time that
any other than an American is given
this honor, Lewis H. Carris, managing
director of the National Society for
the Prevention of Blindness said in
announcing the award.
“Doctor Fuchs charted the way for
all prevention of biindness work ac¬
complished throughout the world in
the last 45 years,” said Mr. Carris.
“He did this when he won the prize
at the Fifth International Congress for
Hygiene at The Hague in 1884 with
his essay on ‘The Causes and Preven¬
tion of Blindness.’ ’’
Sea Return* $300,000
Ventura, Calif.—A trunk containing
$300,000 worth of negotiable securities
was washed up by tiie sea here. The
papers were made out to Bartlett
Heard and Ids father, Dwight B.
Heard of Phoenix, Ariz., newspaper
publisher, who died last March.
Bakes 140,460 Cookie*
Bakersfield, Calif.—For eight years
Mrs. Dora Wilson has been a charity
worker here. During that time she
has baked 140,400 cookies. She in¬
tends to keep on baking.
Veteran Missing 14 *
Years Finds Wife Wed *
Pavia, Italy.—Luigi Rossi, a 4= *
mechanician, who was supposed
to have given his life for Italy
amid the fiercest fighting in the
battle of Asiago highlands in
1915, returned to his birthplace
recently to find his wife married
again and the mother of three
children.
Signor Rossi, upon his arrival,
was received as one returned
from the dead. He said that
the Austrians had captured him
in a battle 14 years ago and
that lie had been living In the
* wildest spot in Bessarabia since * *
the war.
4= He decided to permit his wife *
ijj to decide what she is going to *
| do about IL y
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