fc/ivi SMIY IILLIONS HATS IN LONDON TOMMY ATKINS PLAYS 'HOUSE1 LOST ONE, WON THE OTHER ht procured masques, revolvers, knives, l&ndkerchlefs his victims, to bind HERE'S CHAMPION rubber finger Work of tha Government Geological gloves to prevent jBlrtwd to Cheek Rise in Night Accidents Game of Chinee That Is Mueh Indulged Attempt to Cure Army Officer el BUTTERFAT COW prints on the objects he touched. This Survey Is Having Cumulativa in 8treets of the British Mania for Betting and Whet In by Soldiera of Great vademecum outfit of the burglar became the Effect. Metropolis. Britain. Came of It. of this boy who before the dnema Portland, Ore.—Goldie's Nehalem evenlag,at played most faithfully, each The work of the government's oldest was Beauty, a three-year-old Under the heading "Luminous Haty When Lieutenant Hearst pnv It would be rather interesting to The home on the accordion." scientific bureau, the geological Jersey cow, owned by Clifford London, or a Wy-Time Device foi trace the origin of the soldier's game moted he reported for duty to the gamin of sixteen was condemned to survey,, is having a -cumulative effect, F. Reid of Portland,/ has been rkened Streets," the British official 'commanding officer of a western post of "house," which has such a vogue four years In prison.—Le Cri de Paris. as the years go by, in a thousand different proclaimed the world's champion ipress bureau has issued the following His superior officer treated him coolly, among our men in France, both,at the R?. ways in enhancing the economic butterfat producing cow. article, the New York Times States: base and "up the line." "House" makes according to the New Tork Times. efficiency of the nation. The foundation The Skirmisher. Goldle's Record has been two "London has invented, for war-time a no pretension "Young man," he said ,"I have letter to be other than a game of the geological survey's work John Blevlns was the most bashful and a half pounds of butterfat Use, a luminous hat whose dull phosphorescent trdm of pure chance, and as such it is recognized your former colonel down in is the construction of a great topographic a day fot an entire year. The blue helps to reduce the lad in a Kansas village. For three Texas, and he tells me that, although by the authorities, who, while map of the United States. Already years he had been keeping company previous record slightly under risk of collision in London's darkened efficient, you have a weakness for betting. rigorously suppressing all other forms 1,200,000 square miles, or 40 with Sallie Jaimes, but he could not that was held by Lass Seventyfourth Streets. Both men and women are I am opposed to betting. I won't of gambling, allow this outlet to the per cent of the nation's area, has of Hood farm. bring his courage up to the popping Wearing the new luminous hats, stand for it in this regiment, sir, do sporting proclivities of the Tommy been mapped. .The distinctive characteristic point. One Sunday night, as John was Warned thereto by the terrible rise The test was conducted you understand? Tou could not hire who wishes to have a "flutter." To set of these maps, which are minutely leaving the front yard of his inamorata, through the Oregon Agricultural In the number of street accidents since up a "house" of this nature does not me to make a bet. What do you bet accurate in every detail, is the he encountered the old man, who college. precautionary measures against Zeppelins about anyway?" require an elaborate outfit, says the contour lines, each line representing had begun to chafe under the diffidence compelled the blackening of the London Chronicle. A quantity of "Colonel, I'llTet you anything," said a certain altitude above sea level, the of his daughter's sweetheart. printed cards, on. each of which appear 'street lamps. These accidents, most the youngster. "I'll bet you $25 now intervals in altitude represented by "Look-ee here, John," exclaimed !Of them occurring after dark, totaled a 15 numbers between 1 and 90, that you have scar on your left the distance between the lines being paterfamilias, "Ton have been coming STUDIES FOR NAVAL RESERVE j84,575 during the first nine months ol no two cards bearing the same combination shoulder." 10 to 100 feet according to the character to see my daughter for several years 1916. Of these 577 were mortal. Re* of figures, is obtained. & "What, sir?" said the colonel. "I'll of the country. These maps are now, and I want to know what your jcently a coroner suggested that wornpn bag of counters numbered from one to take that bet." Off came the blouse, Vincent Actor and Other Rieh New of immense practical value. For example, Intentions are." should wear white hats at night ninety is all that is necessary to complete then the shirt, then the undershirt, and York Young Men Are Showing when the Lackawanna railroad "W-w-well, t-s-slr," stammered John* time. A tradesman took the hint and the equipment. the lieutenant lost the bet. Patriotism. decided to relocate 34 miles of its "I am aiming t-to m-marry her." Now for the game itself. The pro-* Invented, the luminous hat. This is Then the commander admonished main line a few years ago, the engineer "Aiming!" snorted the old man. ^ls story: prietor of the "house" proceeds to sell the lieutenant and afterward wrote the New York.-—Vincent Astor and other of construction got down a geological "Well, don't you think it about time »«The difficulty, of course, was to his cards to any number of men up to following letter to the colonel In Texas: gilded young men here are pupils of a 'survey map and, sitting comfortably that you fired?" And a suitable substance. Phosphorus twenty or thirty who wish to buy a "Just as you said. This youngster New York navigation school which at his office desk, ran all the Is too dangerous—it is inflammable. It Bhare in the "house." The Ice was not in my office two minutes be* makes a specialty of preparing candidates preliminary surveys and even made fbmells and would probably damage Slept Twenty-seven Months. fore he bet me $25 I had a scar on my charged is usually 5 cents. Having disposed for Annapolis. the final location for his twelve million jthe hat. I discovered a firm who arc of his cards the "banker, or The curious case of a singer, thirtyone left shoulder. Of course he lost, but 1 Mr. Astor is not going to try for dollar improvement from the data jfemploylng a mixture of sulphides made years old, who has been in. a state hope he will be benefited by the ex* "house proprietor," sits down and proceeds Annapolis. He's twenty-five years on the printed sheet. It was only necessary Into a liquid. It does not damage the of lethargy for 27 months, has been perience." to fish out counters from his little old and married, and so barred from to shoulder a transit and go out material, is invisible by day, and gives described to the Medical and Surgical And then came the answer, which bag, calling out the number on each the academy. But his interest in preparedness Into the brush to verify the final location off a striking bluish light at night. ggclety of Bordeaux, France, by Professor as he draws it. If the number called said: "The youngster was right Before is so keen that he is taking add drive stakes. Charles Moreover, the more it is exposed to appears on any card, the owner strikes Berger. he left this post he bet me $10(1 this "means to increase his efficiency Frederick Carter in World's Work. Jdayllght or artificial light—the more The patient was among the troops It out, the game being won by the man that he would have your shirt off five as an officer of the Volunteer Patrol It shines. The firm have used it sue(eessfully mobilized for the battle of the Marne. whose card is first cleared of its numbers minutes after he met you." squadron, a fleet of power boats suitable WAR FORTUNES IN BRITAIN on the surface of paper, and He disappeared, but was found shortly in this way. The winner receives for scout and other duty. luminous paper is now made in large afterward In Brittany, since which the stakes, minus a-certain percentage WILL CARRY MAIL IN AIRPLANE Several other members of the patrol jbheets and is, I understand, already being time he has been sleeping, eyelids Big Profits in Manufacture of War which goes to the proprietor of the squadron are enrolled In Captain extensively employed. closed, respiration regular, but pulse Munitiona and in Other Lines "house." Uttmark's school. Among them is Hermann United 8tatee Government Has Closed 'But the paint was the stuff for my rapid. He is sensitive to excitement, of Industry. Oelrichs, son and heir of the an Alaekan Contract With bat. I painted the band of a hat and and tt is possible to administer liquid REDS ARE MAKING PROGRESS late Hermann Oelrichs. Other pupils a Flyer. also the quills and hatpins and persuaded food. War fortunes are being made in are Orson D. Munn, son of the founder a well-known lady to try the Great Britain, says theEdinburgh Scotsman, of the Scientific American Paul L. Earl L. Byers, nephew of H. W. Byers, Indians Learn English Language and AMERICANS ASKED TO HELP Experiment. It certainly made walking in the manufacture of munitions Hammond and Sigmund Cohn, all corporation counsel for Des Take Up the Ways of very much easier and less of a of war, in shipping, in coal, in many members of the squadron. Moines, la., has one of the most unusual Civilization. i^t 'Strain. People got out of the way, Requested to Pill Depleted War Re trades that have been stimulated to Although Mr. Astor joined the patrol contracts ever let by the United Some of them rather anxiously, 1 unusual energy and by fishermen—by lief Fund. last summer, his interest seemed States government. Twenty thousand Indians have .think but that was only because of the few who have been left to carry Washington, Jan. 9. Americans more in airplane training. He enrolled He has agreed to carry mail by airplane learned to read and write the iSngHah Ithe novelty of the thing. The stuff ate besought to refill the almost empty on that industry. Trawler skippers last May in the aeronautical over a route in .Alaska at a compensation language in the last four years. There 'does not -seem to have spoiled the European war relief fund of the are driving their own motorcars and corps of the Second Naval Reserve of $49,500 annually. are now 75,000, or 30 per cent of the hat.*M their wives and daughters ride in them American Red Cross In an open letter battalion and helped to raise $8,000 Byers will make two trips each week total, who can use English. More than by Woodrow Wilson, as president clad in costly furs. Potato growers for a hydro-airplane. The year before between Nome and a camp 381 miles 190,000 Indians have discarded the JAP'S IDEA ON RELIGION of the Red Cross, made public at the are gaining great wealth by the rise In he had a hydro-airpJlane built and was inland. He will carry mall and passengers, native dress and adopted the white headquarters of the society. "spuds." "A little over two months taught to operate it by his. pilot, Clifford and his service will bring the man's costume. Accompanying the letter is a statement ago," says the Scotsman, "a South Webster. Viscount Kaneko Tells of the Growth mining camp three weeks nearer the The income of the Indians from to the public setting forth that Lincolnshire farmer sold his 1,000 of Christianity in His outside world. various sources is now more than $28,000,000, from August 6, 1915, to September 30, acres of growing potatoes at £40 an Country. The country over which h^ will fly an increase of $6,000,000 in AUTHORITY ON ANTHROPOIDS 1916, the Red Cross received and disbursed acre, on the assumption that the price four years. They own $30,000,000 Is mountainous. There are no level for European war relief $2,144,966, would be £5 a ton. He made a profit Viscount Kaneko had kept In mind tracts on which to make a landing In worth of live stock and are cultivating of which supplies used In Allied of over £20,000, but the purchaser la the various points he had made, and 678,527 acres of land. There are 36,00« case his engine should stop. In winter countries represented $1,121,766 In a position to sell today at double before turning to a discussion of politics, actual farmers, an increase of 7,000 the snowfall is between 25 arid 30 feet and supplied for the Teutonic nations the price he gave, and to make a profit he summed them up to give me in the last three years. deep. Even should Byers* airplane $348,669. on the deal of £40,000. Imagine a chance to get them clearly in mind. Living conditions are better among make a safe landing in the snow between £60,000 from 1,000 acres of potatoes! "Friendship recognizes faults, but the Indians. They are gradually turning terminals it would be impossible -So much for the romance of the humble Ice Bound Ferry Freed. triumphs over them. Christian leaders away from the medicine man when for the operator to get away again. Mackinac City, Mich., Jan. t. tuber, the staple food of so many must be well trained to do effective in need of medical attention, and as All of these possible troubles jwere The car ferry Chief Wawatam, which hundreds of thousands of poor people, work in Japan. On account a consequence the death rate has fallen considered by Byers before he took the was caught in the ice floes in the who will soon grimly wohder where the high character of the graduates from 30 to 1,000 in 1915 to a little of contract. On a trial trip he carried Straits of Mackinac, has been released. the romance comes in, if today's abnormal more than 22 per 1,000 in 1916. The of Christian schools in Japan our four passengers, the weight being 1,000 The ferry carried 300 persons prices are not immediately readjusted, men are very friendly toward Christian death-rate from tuberculosis has been pounds. He Is using a Curtiss and potato exploiters taught and became wedged in the ice schools. Christianity is a practical reduced 15 per cent. Better sanitary tractor, with various ideas in aerial one mile out from this place. Dynamite that there is a limit to prollt mongerIng, religion, and is now spreading conditions have reduced the death navigation worked out by himself to was used to open a way for It. even although the nation is in arqong our best men in all walks of rate of children. In 1914 there were meet conditions in Alaska. the throes of a great war." life like wildfire, while Buddhism Is 2,391 deaths of children under three Suspects Arrested for $10,000 Hold-up. on the decline. But the higher a place years of age, and in 1916 there were Strange Cause of Fire. Christianity wins, the better and only 1,303 deaths. Pittsburgh, Jan. 9.—Three men who How a terrible fire that gutted an Bryan to Help Drye. broader should be its leaders. Japan m... are alleged to have participated in the entire New York tenement house was Madison, Wis., Jan. 16.—Assurance will never ask Christians to compromise Pay in the Army. holdup of the express messenger, and caused by a combination of a milk that William Jennings Bryan, formerly on their faith if they have as Often questions come up in conversation who escaped with $10,000, the payroll bottle, a lamp and a peaceful tabby J&r-'SA secretary of state, will speak here 4 their representatives men whose training as to the pay of officers of the of the Flaccus Glass company at Tarentum, cat is one-of the inddents brought out January 22, at the opening of the campaign is broad, and whose manners are United States regular army in active have been arrested, and two in an article on "Curioys Fires" by for the referendum vote on statewide those of gentlemen dealing with service. Here is the schedule: Lieutenant others, also said to have been implicatBd, Charles T. Hill, in St. Nicholas. The prohibitipn, is announced by Assemblyman equals," he concluded. —The Christian general, $11,000 per annum will be taken into custody according cat in question was reposing in the E. T. Evjue, who exhibited Herald. major general, $8,000 brigadier general, to R. 'H. Jackson, district attorney. open back window of a first floor flat a wire from Bryan, saying: "I come $6,000 colonel, $4,000 lieutenant One of the men under arrest, he said, in the tenement of a spinster who to Madison at my own expense and The Accordion and Cinema. colonel, $3,500 major, $3,000 was Daniel E. King, driver of the autonobile was called into the front room just speak without compensation." Bryan Maitre Edmond B., pleading before belonging to the glass company, captain, $2,400 first lieutenant, $2,000 at the moment when an irate lodger will deliver his address in the stock the correction chamber of appeals in a second lieutenant, $1,700. Officers in which the money was being carried In the house at the rear, exasperated Judging pavilion-of the university. case where the culprit was a boy of below the rank of brigadier general receive by the nocturnal concert of two undomestic sixteen years old, said: "Before the 10 per cent on the yearly pay of Auto Bandits Steal Payroll. tabbies on the rear fence, shied Trial and Sentence Were Swift. cinema my client passed all his evenings the grade for each term of five-yearsr Chicago, Jan. 9. Five bandits a milk bottle at them which landed Texarkana, Ark., Jan. 16.—It took at home, playing assiduously on Itopped the automobile in which Harry serviee, not to exceed 40 per cent in wide of its mark and crashed against Just minutes to try, convict and 80 the accordion. Since then he has attended Schaaf, a piano manufacturer, his all. Thus the maximum pay of a the tenement window sill. The spinster's sentence to electrocution John Hawkins, many cinematograph representations. chauffeur and two friends were riding, colonel, with increase for length of tabby, dazed with fright, gave To Prof. Margarethe Zelenka the colored, for murder of Mrs. Ben He dreamed to realize the robbing Mr. Schaaf of the roll service, is $5,000 the maximum pay war seems like an unbidden intruder pay Diles and her 18-months-old daughter one fearful leap, clutched at the table crimes that there passed under his In which he carried $2,500 and of a lieutenant colonel is $4,500, etc. Dox cover and overturned the lamp. who has come to interrupt all the important at Ashdown, Ark., Nov. 8, in an attempt eyes. So to sob some wine merchants escaped. All officers serving outside of the United things in the world—and one to rob their home. A States, except Porto Rico and Sure Way. of the important things in the study Hawaii, receive 10 per cent increase Congressman Charles R. Davis of of the anthropoid- ape—at least to on their regular pay while so serving.* Frau Zelenka. The Munich lady scientist Minnesota relates that one afternoon Slump arrived in this country to attend A private soldier is paid $15 per a train on a Western railroad stopped month for the first enlistment, $18 per at a small station, when one of the a meeting of the American Association month the second enlistment, etc., up for the Advancement of Science. passengers, in looking over thir place, to $45 per month for the seventh enlistment. found his gaze fixed upon an interesting When the session is over she Puller The term of enlistment i«t sign. Hurrying to the side of the will visit her uncle in California and three years. conductor, he eagerly inquired: "Do while there will visit the aborigines you think that I will have time to get and study the soul life and songs of a soda before the train starts?" the American Indian, not forgetting to Risk Was Too Great. One Man Horse Power peep at the anthropological material "Oh, yes," answered the conductor. Sandy McTavish was a highly skilled the United States affords. "But, suppose," suggested the thirsty workman in a new aircraft factory. passenger, "that the train should Frau Zelenka is almost "the" authority Therefore it happened one day that The most complete line of land clearing machines in the go on without me?" on anthropoids. This study has wctfld. No matter how difficult your stump problem may be, Sandy was hsked If he would care to A money The KMa Stamp there is a Kirstin to solve it. Puller baa paid fw "We can easily fix that," promptly been her life work. During her travels back bend. accompany the works aviator on one Horse Power Pullers, many models, for the deeply imbedded myMacfeathatare A 15-year replied the conductor. "I will go in search of knowledge of this subject of his trial flights in a machine. roots of all kinds and sizes, and the big fields of many worth fiMaa guarantee BOW stumps Machines that clear your land rapidly and economically— aoa. along and have one with you."—Argonaut. she has made explorations in Java, Sandy, after some hesitation, agreed that will pull anything they tackle. a a a?" A, -W. T. TOM LI If Ceylon, and Asia. In 1907 the Japanese to do so. uiiBotackr.m. breakage. A One Man Stump Pullers get the biggest stumps, too. One government put 100 men at her man can cany, set and work them with ease. Horses unnecessary During the flight the aviator asked warranted come in two types, drum and clutch. 8moke Less, Read Less, Too. disposal for two years they dug and Sandy how he was enjoying it. laving of Horse Power machines equipped with the new triple power MjrKlntlahaapan. worked without asking her to pay one In the last year Harvard students from 10% to "To tell the truth," answered the device which greatly increases the pulling power, without •dovw SOOaiaava. strain on man, horse or machine. One Man Pullers equipped aooaol ta«Mi 50% over have smoked fewer cigarettes and penny to the government. The government Scot, "I wad rather be on the groun'.** a lap-«wtt 7 ft. dows with double leverage which ghres an ordinary farm bey a cigars and have played billiards and also assigned soldiers to |§lf giant's is Satamatta. ttaova "Tut, tut," replied the flying man. power. The automatic take-up. a great time-saver, CM methods. A no. on all machine^ one man power and horse power. guard the workers who were Mainy pool less than they did a year ago. *Tm just thinking of looping the loop.'* —C.9MaaUJM profit shar 20 Send Today for Our New Free Book— prisoners. There was a loss of about per "For heaven's sake, don't dae that J" ¥oUocfc,Mab« ing plan. Thm Cold in Yoar Stump Land I cent in the sale of cigarettes and Just before the war broke out she' yelled the now very nervous McTavish. $3,042 cigars. Harvard students spent had arranged for an expedition to Ceylon, It gfaea rateable Information an all kind* of had tlnai liig. It Mbd "I've some siller in my vest aboot tba Kirethi Haa of oallera—the moat moat aoaq" eomplote In the world—and IHratfn Service, foravar free 1915 $2,537 ID many t&an has vatiad. and for tobacco in and only but had to give it up. On her previous owners of Klratin luehuws. It has has many pbotograpba of atumpi pocket, an' Ah mlcht lose it." the Kiratia lat- In -rota tha men who palled them. Doa boy a pofiar until joa read this book. 1910. visit to Ceylon she came in contact Big Monw to time who Order Early. To firat bayara in every locality we offer a (pedal opportunity to loin $1,325 a fa qnr proflt aharing plan. Mo finwialag feat a wimngoaaa toahow your Kirgtin to your naighbeta. Don't For billiards and pool, wae \wsi with a remnant of a primitive Surgery Cures Imbecile. iuud the coupon today. 1915 $1,292 1916. Larreit Stamp MlwMaaataotarers spent in and In tribe and made phonographic records A. J. KIRSTIN COMPANY Mala St, Escaeaba,ttdb Surgeons at the Hahnemann hospital, tatbaWorldi Curiously enough, the reading habits of their songs. Philadelphia, are Interested in of Harvard men slumped last year. In Oie results of an .operation on a nineyear-old 1915, $1,325 Kintin Honm Power was spent for reading lis Kintia Hidod boy, who was relieved by surgery Orders Girls to Keep on Stage. Pottmr 1916, $1,292. fed til «f tftupt matter in from a condition bordering on Johnstown, Pa.—Because Mayor imbecility and Is now believed to be Louis Franke saw a shapely chorus Not Going South. girl serve what the mayor says was on the way to complete recovery. Redd—Is Black going South for th€ The boy is Robert Horner, son of beer to several occupants of the "baldheaded" winter as usual?.• row the other night, caperings Mr. and Mrs. Frank Horner of Gloucester, St., Eicanaba, Green—No. N. J. He was operated on by of chorus, girls in Johnstown will be lEichlgaa "What's the matter? I thought he Send me a free Dr. H. L. Northrop at a clinic held confined to the stage in the future. copy of "The Gold .liked it where it was warm in the The, mayor says he saw a girl pour during the Congress of Surgeons ol our Stump f.vin1:er." Kintin Onm Man Drum Type Machine Jr /A North America: last October. Doctor part of the contents of a bottle into "Well, you see, his wife's mother Northrop removed part of the boy's a glass. The contents of the bottle S»SH •has come to. live with them, and between ffi skull to relieve the pressure. Th« gurgled forth with the sound of beer, Town.*....... his wife and her ma he thinks Horner .family physician, Dr. R. T, it foamed like beer, and it bubbled like R.F.D. or P.O. Box_. jtbey'll make it warm enough for him It Fox, says the boy's condition Is Mt beer. Therefore, says the g»ayor, 'tot luipte tftls seaaoiu** Wearer normaL i!"'-,- jraa beer. agfc 5