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ONE IN 500 BURIED
ALIVE IN EUROPE
Doctors Start Movement to
Halt “Errors. 11
Paris.—With official announcement
that an average of one person in every
500 burled is interred alive In Europe,
a group of 85 deputies, nearly all of
them physicians or surgeons, have sub¬
mitted a project of law to tin: govern¬
ment requiring a verification of de¬
cease by a medico-scientific proof be¬
fore a permit for inhumation Is de¬
livered.
The parliamentary group requests
the cabinet to consult the Academy of
Medicine and the Academy of Sciences
to aid in adopting the surest means
to ascertain that a person is dead.
Miser Attitude Blamed.
Doctor Dervleux of the medico legal
Institute, Ip an interview asserted that
statistics reveal that two per thousand
are buried alive in most advanced con¬
tinental countries and that in certain
others—Balkan states for example,
the percentage probably runs much
higher. The figure includes newly
born infants.
Most such cases occur in the prov¬
inces and are due to the miser-like
attitude of peasants who refuse to call
a doctor to pronounce a patient dead.
When a patient expires, or seems to,
his relatives or friends rush to the
doctor who has been attending Min¬
or her—and tell him there Is no neces¬
sity for making another call, that the
patient has expired.
“The best method of Insuring that
death 1ms arrived,” said Doctor Der
vieux, ‘‘and the process which will be
adopted doubtless, is an injection of
flourdesclne. A small dose of this Is
not deadly and will not hurt a patient
who Is not dead. If It is Injected in¬
to a corpse it spreads over the whole
body which takes on n greenish hue.”
Doctor Dervieux asserted that burn¬
ing the soles of the feet had been sug¬
gested as a test. ‘‘But a person could
be burned so gravely that he would
die from the effects,” objected the
doctor.
Might Open Arteries.
«4 Opening the arteries has also been
suggested. Blood will not flow from
a corpse.
“Stabbing a pin inches long through
the chest into the heart has been pro¬
posed.” said the doctor. “There would
be a tiny flag attached to the protrud¬
ing end of the pin and any pulsation
of the heart would make the flag wag.
But there might be draft in tbe room
nnd tlie flag would move and every¬
one would think tlie person was not
dead.
“Injections of ether have been sug¬
gested. Ether runs out again as soon
as the hypodermic needle Is with¬
drawn from n corpse nnd only re¬
mains in the body of a living person.
“One of the surest signs of dentil is
tlie greenish spot yrhleh appears on
the abdomen of a corpsp at tlie end of
24 hours, due to the beginning of de¬
composition; also rigor mortis, but
that might be confounded with cata¬
lepsy. ■ > the.
In many cases In Europe fu¬
neral of a person is held within 24
hours of death, ns It Is extremely rare
that corpses are embalmed. Even
Foch and Cletnenceau were not em¬
balmed. and there are only two under¬
takers in Paris who do embalming,
and they do it exclusively for Amer¬
icans who die here.
Trust Fund Left to Tree
May Grow to $750,000
New London, Minn.—Before death
Myriea Orcfcrn Davey, now sixteen
years old. will lie worth more than
three-quarters of a million dollars be¬
cause of a trust fund of $11X1 estab¬
lished here. Compound interest is the
answer.
Myriea, who lives in a public park
liore. owns the passbook in which tlie
$100 deposited liy a godfather, James
A. G. Dave.v, of Kent, Ohio, will grow
to $750,000 before My idea's normal
expectation of 200 years of life have
been readied.
Myriea Oerefera was known to the
Pilgrims on the Atlantic coast ns the
ba.vberry tree and candles were made
from its berries. These wax-like ber¬
ries also were used as a medicine to
cure dysentery.
Pays $125 in Taxes, But
Forgets to Give His Name
Grand Island, Neb.—County Treas¬
urer Hugo Sieves is in receipt of $125
lu currency, to be applied to some
one’s back taxes—but the writer of
the note that came with the money
forgot to sign his name. Tlie money
came in an envelope bearing a Grand
Island postmark. Since then the treas¬
urer lias conducted a long search for
the sender, hut is still holding the
money.
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{ to three years for grand la re- *
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serve of the minimum term. His *
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TIP TWICE REFUSED
OUSTS CUSTOMS MAN
Bill Slipped Into Pocket by
Arriving Passenger.
New York.—Because a $5 tip which
he had twice refused was slipped into
his pocket by an arriving passenger,
Theodore Kessler, a customs inspector
for 20 years, was dismissed from the
service.
KegRler, who was popularly known
on the New York docks as Teddy, is
the first vitjtira in a war declared re¬
cently by customs heads at Washing¬
ton against graft.
Two other Inspectors have been
charged with bribes in connection
with the smuggling of narcotics, but
their case is still pending.
Three weeks ago Kessler was as¬
signed to inspect baggage from the
North German Lloyd liner Europa at
the army base, Brooklyn. One of the
.passengers whose baggage he inspect¬
ed was a Chicago man, who twice of¬
fered Kessler $5 as a gratuity, which
he declined.
The passenger good-naturedly
slipped the tip into Kessler’s pocket.
The act was seen by A. J. May, an
undercover agent of the Treasury de
partm ent.
May searched Kessler and found
the $5. He Instantly ordered a rein¬
spection of the baggage. Nothing duti¬
able which had not been declared was
found. The passenger admitted giv¬
ing Kessler the tip.
A disciplinary board found the in¬
spector guilty and recommended he be
suspended 00 days. A commissioner of
customs at Washington said that the
verdict would not be accepted. Kess¬
ler was thereupon dismissed.
The speed of his dismissal, which
usually takes from three to six
months, shocked the customs service.
Kessler entered the department in
July, 1007, and was appointed an in¬
spector three yenrs later. He resides
at 2021 Tllden avenue, Brooklyn.
New York Schools Cost
Almost Million a Day
New York.—The daily cost to tills
city of edncating the more than 1.-
200,000 pupils registered In the vari¬
ous divisions of the public education¬
al system is now more than $030,000.
Figures computed on the basis of
tlie annual statistical report of the
board of education stiow that, at the
present rate of increase in annual
budgets, the cost of the school sys¬
tem for each of the 100 days of the
academic year will rise to $1,000,000
in a few years.
The school system total expendi¬
tures during 1020 reached a record
figure of more than $171.00.000, Ex
cepting a possible increase in ihe
capital outlays during 1030, it is esti¬
mated that the educational expense
will rise by more than $0,000,000 this
year.
The cost of Instruction proper was
$504,001 for each school day during
1020, and this year it is estimated to
reach more than $616,000. The daily
expenditures of the system include,
in addition to salaries of supervising
and teaching forces, the average
daily cost of supplies, physical
maintenance of the school plant, its
operation, ttie administration, busi¬
ness and general outlays, repairs and
the per diem average disbursements
for (lie construction of new buildings
to provide additional sittings made
necessary by increased registration.
Fleet of Planes Attack
Clouds, Break Up Storm
The Hague.—Sunshine or rain at
will, in any desired quantities, were
promised by (lie Dutch “rainmaker.”
Herr Veranrt, today after tie led an
attack by a fleet of airplanes on a
bank of clouds over tlie North sen.
The clouds were broken up and wiped
from the skies. Herr Veranrt. with
tlie co-operation of tho Dutch war
ministry, led five Fold; or planes
against the clouds about 12,000 feet
up. The planes attacked the clouds
with ice dust. After about 7.000
pounds of the ice dust had beou
strewn over tlie clouds they disap¬
peared. Herr Veranrt plans to make
experiments on a larger scale soon.
Gobbler Wants to Set on
Eggs; Is Given Chance
Sharptown, Md.—A large turkey
gobbler belonging to Mrs. Mark Coop¬
er, near town, showed a great desire
to set on eggs and each day would rout
a turkey hen from her nest in the
barnyard and take her place.
Finally Mrs. Cooper made a nest,
placed some turkey eggs in it and put
the gobbler on them. For four weeks
he sat there patiently and at tlie end
of that time was proud to find twelve
baby turkeys. Two have disappeared,
but tlie remaining ten follow the pe¬
culiar call of tliis proud gobbler and
are growing fast
Snap Shot Hits ’Gator;
Ends Duck Mystery
Chelsea, N. Y’.—The mystery of
what has caused the continued disap¬
pearance recently of ducks in a lake j
on the Irving Bergen country place
in New Hackensack, near here, was
solved when an employee shot at an
object he saw skimming over the wa¬
ter nnd found he had stunned a four
foot alligator.
Investigation showed the alligator
had been brought from Florida, had
escaped from a farm in the vicinity
to a brook and from there reached
the lake and began slaughtering the
ducks. Tlie alligator was captured.
CLEVELAND COURIER.
WIFE WINS BATTLE
FOR RIVAL'S CHILD
Legal Adoption Gives Wom¬
an Mother’s Right.
New York.—An unusual legal hat
tie between a tall, aristocratic woman
with graying hair, and her husband, a
middle-aged scientist and bacteriolo¬
gist, which had been smoldering on
and off for almost a year and which
revolved about the custody of an
eleven-year-old girl, has ended in vic¬
tory for the wife.
The scientist is Dr. Rafael Y. Sar
miento, of noble Latin lineage and a
former Venezuelan consul in Boston.
He is the father of the child.
His wife, who received custody of
the little girl with an interlocutory
decree of divorce from the scientist,
is Mrs. Edith YVebster YVoodin Knrmi¬
en to, descendant of Daniel Webster.
She is not the mother of the litrle
girl, Mary Trinidad, but the tot was
reared by Mrs. Sarmiento almost from
the first day she was born.
Real Mother Miss’"'’).
The child’s mother, < Torre
grossa, a former laboratory assistant
to Doctor Sarmiento, was only a
vague shadow In the courtroom bat¬
tle between the doctor and his wife.
She had a secret romance with the
scientist while he was married to Mrs.
Sarmiento. After little Mary was
born she went away—whether she Is
living or dead is not known—and per¬
mitted the doctor to register the lit¬
tle girl as ills own.
Justice James O. Cropse.v of the
Queens Supreme court, in granting
Mrs. Sarmiento the custody of Mary,
based his decision upon the ground
that Mary was the legally adopted
child of the Sarmientos and that Mrs.
Sarmiento waS therefore her proper
custodian.
The judge’s decision, however, will
be made the basis for an appeal by
Doctor Sarmiento. During the pro¬
ceedings ttie scientist’s lawyers con
tended that the court did not have
Jurisdiction over little Mary inasmuch
as she had been born In Venezuela
arid was, therefore, a citizen of that
country.
Wife Adopted Her.
Mary was born in 1910. about two
years after tlie doctor had married
Mrs. Sarmiento. Three weeks Inter
tlie doctor confessed to Mrs. Sarmf
ento. She consented to rearing tlie
child ns their own nnd later the lit¬
tle girl was adopted.
After Doctor and Mrs. Sarmiento
and Mary came to America Mrs. Sar¬
miento was Informed that the doctor
was being seen in the company of an
other woman, Mrs. Anita Klein of
Long Island.
Slip did a little Investigating of her
own and her findings resulted in a di¬
vorce action. Doctor Sarmiento there¬
upon Instituted proceedings to compel
his wife to turn over the custody of
Mary to him, but be was unsuccess¬
ful. Justice Cropsey, in granting tha
Interlocutory decree, ordered tlie doc¬
tor to contribute $10 weekly toward i
tlie child's support.
Woman Social Worker
Finds Romance in Jail
New Orleans, La.—Love nestled be¬
hind the cold steel bars of u jail ceil
here for Miss Marie Flebbe and John
Tatum. And a quirk of fate proved
Tatum innocent of a crime for which
he faced a long prison sentence and
enabled him and Miss Flebbe to become
husband and wife.
Tatum was iri jail awaiting trial for
robbery when Miss Flebbe, a social
worker, stopped for a chat with him
He asserted liIs innocence but said
that live witnesses had Identified him
as the robber and that lie could not
hope for acquittal. He was a stranger
in the city and had no alibis.
“I believe in you,” Miss Flebbe told
Tatum.
The young woman visited Tatum tn
his celt often after that, and one day
they became engaged. Miss Flebbe
promised to wait for him and to be¬
come his wife when he had paid the
penalty.
The dramatic climax came in court.
The five had testified against Tatum,
and his assertions of ids innocence np
parently carried no weight with the
jury. Just then a telegram was hand¬
ed to the district attorney. It said
Edward Dunbar, under arrest, had
confessed the robbery for which Tatum
was held.
The man was freed—and now he
and Miss Flebbe will marry soon.
Will Free Pheasants
Olympia. YY'ash.—About 20,000 Chi
nese pheasants from the Steilacoom
and Walla game farms will he liber
ated 'by the state in YVashington’s 39
counties this year.
130-Year-Old Marriage Pap er
Portsmouth. England.—When a to}
drum made in Germany was broken
here it was found to contain a parch
ment marriage certificate issued 130
years ago.
I! Rome Finds Remains
of Unknown Soldier
• • I.om’cn. An unknown sol
“ dier, Roman, who died abom
•• 1,700 years ago. has been re
“ moved from its resting place
on
•• tlie site of a new building on
1! the Thames and his skeleton
•• presented to the Royal College
“ of Surgeons
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Onion Seed and
Set Management
Some Soils and Climatic
Extremes Are Not Suited
for Industry.
/Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
To assure themselves of better seed
than the general market offers, many
leading onion growers in the North
and on the West coast now raise their
own seed. About 2,500 or 3,000 acres
of onion sets are grown for market
each year in districts centering in
Louisville, Ky„ and Chicago, 111., In
the Platte river valley of Nebraska,
and in southwestern New Jersey.
Most Satisfactory Soil.
The United States Department of
Agriculture points out that the rich
sandy loam soils near the North At¬
lantic, bordering the Great Lakes, and
on the Pacific Coast are satisfactory
for the onion seed industry, but that
the soils and climatic extremes In tem¬
perature and rainfall over most of ihe
country are not so suitable.
It ts common to grow two crops
simultaneously—a planting of seed to
produce bulbs and a planting of bulbs
to produce seed. In California, where
a large part of the onion seed grows,
the producers take care to harvest
seed when the interior of the seed is
doughy. As a means of removing in¬
ferior seed they submerge the threshed
seed In troughs of water for ten or
fifteen minutes and discard the lighter
seed that lioats to the surface.
Disease Precaution.
As a precaution against diseases,
onion-set growers in the vicinity of
Louisville, Ky., select and store their
over-size bulbs and in the spring send
them to farmers in the hill country for
seed production on bluegrass land nev
er before planted to onions. Onion-set
growers In New Jersey have found it
more profitable to grow a mixed crop
of all sizes from sets to marketable
bulbs and to sell onions smaller than
ttie standard market size as “stewers,”
“plcklers,” and “sets.”
Farmers’ Bulletin 434,-F, "The Home
Production of Onion Seed and Sets,"
by YV. R. Beattie, recently revised b,v
the United States Department of Agri¬
culture, gives directions for growing
both seed and sets, with special ref
erence to the market gardener and
truck farmer. This bulletin will be
sent free to those requesting it.
Increase Corn Crop by
Use of Lime on Soil
Ten bushels of corn for one dollar
is the price that Clifton Davis. Mor
gun county. Illinois, farmer, pays for
production of corn since he applied
lime to his fields where he grew corn
the last two years, according to C. M.
Llnsley, University of Illinois.
Two corn crops grown on a field
that was limed yielded 60 bushels an
acre more than similar land not limed.
The three-fon-an-acre application cost
him about $6 and Ills increase has
been added for 10 cents a bushel and
the lime is in the soil to last many
years yet to benefit other crops.
The yield was not the only Im¬
provement in the corn crop, but the
land where sweet clover had grown
nnd was plowed under produced a
higher quality of corn.
Canada Thistle Worst
Weed in Iowa State
Dr. L. H. Pammel of the Iowa ex
periment station considers Canada
thistle the worst weed in his state.
For this weed and others similar to
it. Doctor Pammel recommends deep
plowing, barrowing with a spring
tooth harrow and then raking and
burning tlie roots. Next, he says to
smooth tlie ground with a disc, nnd
harrow once a week until freezing
weather. More harrowing can be
done in the spring until time to put
in the following crops, which should
preferably be a heavy smothering
crop like Sudan grass or sorghum.
tirt.tMiraL-TTTr.TTTTam^a 1 1 n rat rant f if!
A worn-out mowing machine guard
makes an excellent staple puller. Drive
the point of the guard through the
staple between the wire and the post,
Any time is a good time to kill bur
docks. Cut them below the crown
with a sharp spade. This will prevent
future sprouts coming from the same
root.
Cleanliness is an important item
which no dairyman can afford to neg
lect, so everything about his dairy is
kept in perfect condition from a
standpoint of sanitation.
It is important to maintain a high
level of production during the late
summer and early fail months, since
a high yearly production must be se¬
cured. if greatest profits are to be
realized.
A good remedy for scours in calves
is warm lime water in half-pint doses.
This can be made up by dissolving
ordinary slaked lime in a gallon of
warm water. Use ail the lime the
water will dissolve.
Strainers and strainer cloths, as
soon as used, should be thoroughly
washed with warm water and wash¬
ing powder. They should then be
rinsed in clean water and sterilized
by boiling for five minutes, or with
steam for the same length of time.
Vets Recall Memories
of Ban on M Blackjack >>
Veterans who knew General Persh
ing when he first was called “Black
Jack," back in the days of the Philip¬
pine insurrection, answered to roi
call in the Baltimore War memoria
recently and organized the Maryland
branch of the Eighth Army Corps
association. did not
While all of those present
serve under the man who was to be¬
come the commander of the Ameri¬
can troops in the World war, they
recall General Pershing’s famous
order prohibiting the playing of the
game of blackjack in his troop of
the Fifth cavalry.
They told how news of the order,
which was posted on the company
bulletin board, spread throughout
the island army and was laughed
at by such men as Harboard, Sum
merali, Ligget and others who a few
years inter were to become famous
in their own right.—Baltimore Sun.
Crop Rotation Ancient
The principles of soil cultivation,
which are included under the term
“scientific farming,” were known to
the farmers of the most ancient
times, according to H. YY. Warner,
writing in the Farm Journal.
"The principle of crop rotation
was known and practiced to some
extent more than three thousand
years ago,” he says, “YYe find ap
plication of lime to the soil men¬
tioned in writings dating well be¬
fore the Christian era. The early
white settlers of New England found
the Indians fertilizing corn, and arti
ficial fertilization with guano was
practiced by the Incas in South
America 20 centuries ago.”
I Sad But True
You never realize how many
fr!ends you have untn you die or
buy a cottage at a summer resort
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j Beetle in More Churchet
j Stow, known as tlie "Motor Church
! of Lincoln" in England, is to lie re
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death watch beetle among the an¬
cient timbers and roofs. Boston's
famous "stump," which rises to with
in five feet of the height of Lincoln
cathedral, is another of England’s
famous churches that must be re¬
paired because of the insects’activi¬
ties. When tlie repairs at Stow are
completed, a chemical that is be¬
lieved to kill the death watch beetle
is to be applied.
Ail About Love
Really love a pdrson and you are
So caught up and away from self
that in a sense you are that person.
—Woman’s Home Companion.
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Childish Intelligence
The intelligence quotient or “I. Q.”
of a child is determined by multiply
ing its mental age by 100 and divid¬
ing by the actual age. Thus the in
telllgence quotient of a normal child
is 100. A child with an I. Q. below
80 is rated as subnormal, while one
with an I. Q. above 120 is rated as
gifted. About five children in 100
will be found to be 20 below normal,
and about live, 20 above normal.
Grouch Never Popular
The grouch is a pain in tlie neck
even to himself. When you are an
enemy to every one, it is natural that
every one should be an enemy to
you. But when you are friendly to
everybody, you'll find them that way
toward you, too.—Grit..
