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4 Where Striking Miners Dwvll in Tents Martin Justice, a striking miner, pre* sid% over its destinies as "president," having: been elected to tha^lfice by the colonists after he had select* ed by the union to supervise the distribution of strike benefits and supplies. With him are some 60 men and women and about as many children. The striking miner* busied themselves during the summer months with their gardens, but this winter they are seeking such work as they can find, o{her titan work In the nonunion mines. The women occupy their time with their household duties and* with looking after the children and chickens. The children have nothing to do but play, as no provision far schools has been made for them. Miners and their, families in the eight tent colonies in the district res reive support from the United Mine Workers. Each man is allowed $5 a week, each woman $2 and each child $1. also Is suppUei as is fuel WILLIAMSON, W. VA.--Life* la the striking miners' tent colony, • along Tug river, is interesting to the Msitor. When the miners in the Mingo county field struck last July to enforce their demand for recognition of the union, many of] them left the coal company houses they occupied, in some instances subp fltantial brick cottages with electric lights, and went to live in tents pro- Tided by the union. There the most of them have remained, with their , Wives and families. * | •.> A typical tent colony is that known • v Lick Creek. There are 21 tents, ^ iheltertac approximately 100 persons. w^: " -it * V:" ,'..k *»- " -V"( * ... M The breaking of an electric wire which short-circuited In the oil-covered waters under the Jahncke dry docks at New Orleans, is believed to have caused the fir® which spread with incredible swiftness, enveloping the docks and ships, where 800 mieenn wweer«e wwoorrkkiinng|.. ? "E stiniates placed the damage^ 9hU» bfi^g iftcludjed "f* -v ^ i ' ' * "" V * ' > 4 4 , ' < 5. - ~ t 1 ^ When Mr. Markin Falk in Love c •HICAGO.--Mrs. Gertrude Rossner told the world at Madison and Wells streets that she positively would Sot be a bird in a gilded cage for Samfeel Markin. It's a sad story. Mr. Markin, until a few fleeting weeks ago, chauffeured * goose at the sartorial establishment of Samuel Shatx. 208 West Madis&n htre£t. Mrs. Roftsner Is employed there as a cutter. "See that shrimp," said Mrs. Ross- Mr, seizing Traffic Policeman Murphy's arm. "That's Sammy Markin. I want him pinched. He won't take no for an answer, and he hounds me night •ad day. I have to slam the door in his face every evening." "Listen, officer," expostulated Mr. Markin. "I love that woman! Oh, how 1 love that woman, officer! Look!" ai>4 he prepared to kneel upon the icy • pavement. But his foot slipped, a manhole cover popped open, and he •kidded feet foremost into the yawning chasm. He was caught under, the shoulders by the cover and the rim. 1 j "I love her officer," Mr. Markin con- 1 tbiued, gesturing toward Mrt. Ross- •jm. "Help!" ; Mr. Murphy reached down and rea- {TLQVE HflCs \OfflCEfr J tM Si cued him. Then he summoned the patrol and the party motored to the Central station. Mr. Markin en route ceased not to press his suit. "I bought her a wrist watch and candy for the kids," he said at the station. "I would have bought her a diamond ring." "I don't want the diamond and you can have the wrist watch back," said Mrs. Rossner. "And I'm through with you at the tailor shop," said Mr. Katz. "You're canned. Why should I keep a man who is so lovesick that when' he should be cutting out trouser seats -he cuts out hearts?" "I love her," repeated Mr. Markin. I^ii)dt His Wife Handcuffed to Murderer %k%* 1AEW YORK.--Emma Brooks is the ™ wife of a Chicago insurance man ^John Walter Brooks. Her husband belongs to that great group of citizens Often called the "respectable^pilddle <#ass." Lucille to thirty-five, « goodlooking woman, not overdressed, not ^painted, not of the Broadway type. :J But Mrs. Brooks stepped out of the flkiddle class respectably long enough to land !h the brightest of New York's ttost unsavory limelight. She was arted as a material witness in the lling of Police Lieutenant Floyd Hor- Hon, who died in a Broadway gun battle. She was the companion of three fren who staged a pistol fight'to the death from a motorcar. She was herself wounded.' One ot her companions was killed. t Her husband met her for the first <tlme since the affray In the Criminal court building, while die was on her way to the district attorney's office. She was handcuffed to one of the other members of the murder car quartette Mr. Brooks was in Chicago. He had told John Cavanngh, superintendent of the apartment house where Mrs. Brooks lived to look after her. Cavanagh -suggested a party. Nicholas and. Joe Laresch went along. They went to the Tenderloin and visited several "soft drink" places. Joe Laresch stopped the c$r and went into *an apartment house, where he tried to hold up a man. Mrs. Brooks says she was "pretty well dazed" by this time. She remembers hearing several shots. She remembers something hitting her arm. Then, she says, everything went black. It was during this time* that her companions, pursued by Lieutenant Horton, who finally leaped*to the running board of their ear,' unlimbered their "artillery. • m Find Strange Picture Writings in Oregon t PORTLAND, ORE.--Recent reports of astonishing finds of the skeletons of human beings, their ornaments and war and domestic utensils, Bear Big Eddy, on the Columbia river just above The Dalles, that It Is thought might reveal the existence of * a race who inhabited Oregon antedating the famed Indian confederation ef the Wauna, received an additional Impetus when B. Frazier brought to Portland photographs of picture writlags chiseled on cliffs at Roosevelt, "Wash., across the river from Arlington, Ore., by a people that wonld seem to differ from the Indians as they are fcbown at the present tiipe. *" Frazier, who is a traveling sfclesaaan. stumbled upon the find during a taunting trip and brightened up the Writings by means of chalk to enable kin» to make photographs. The writ- ^rlngs are thought to be very ancient, r Jn few respects do they resemble the tHinore usual Indian writings. Speculation has been aroused by ^. the finds of the skeletons of the lost f£ ? tribe with the sea shell ornaments Governor Harding Says Reserve Banks Increased Instead of Restricting Loans. nearby that were of a character never found on the Pacific toast beaches. According to reports from The Dalies the countryside in the vicinity of Big Eddy is thronged with investigators, who want to delve Into the pits that had been opened up by the crews working on the Columbia highway grading. Officials of the state highway con? mission are taking steps to preserve the finds from the curiosity seekers, and the Frazier writings may be vis Ited shortly m an effort to decipher their meaning and connect them, if possible, with the relics taken-, the tombs across the rlv«R Ml I No Wonder He Thought* It Was* a Stork A StlOJGTON, N. C.--For many years Representative Small of JSYrth Carolina has by agreement been presenting to R. C. Bland, a Carolina ^farmer and one of his constituents, a ew suit of clothes for each addltionl <hild in his family. Having prented 13 suits, and being recently notified to'send the fourteenth, Representative Small has informed Bland •that the contract will be "off" with *Blr. Small's retirement from congress on March 8. •Small and Bland made their comjract a dumber of years ago when jSipali was making a campaign speech ' at Kobertsonjille, near here. Biand ' then had 20 children; he now has 34. Twenty-six of the 34 Bland children are living, and the present Mrs. Bland, Bland's second wife, is the mother of 19. nine of whom were born during the last ten years, Including one set of twins. Eighteen children still live at home, but Mrs. Bland declares sift gets lonesome sometimes "because so many have gone away." Mr. and Mrs. Bland recently had a group photograph taken of the family still remaining on the Bland farm. While the photographer was working a buzzard cast Its shadow on the ground. Bland was asked if he was superstitious. "No," he said, "I'm not afraid ol buzzards, but at fii^t I thought the blame thing was a stork." Some of the "children" were grown men and women; others were barely able to toddle forth, and one still was being carried in arms. Bland says it is no more trouble to bring up 50 children than It 4* IN raise tea, • - -r' - FIGURES REFUTE CHARMS More Than Two-and-a-Hatf Times as Much Paper Was Discounted In Eleven Months'of 1920 as In the Year 1»1ft^Report to Gronna. Washington.--More than two and one-half times as touch agricultural paper was rediscounted by Federal Reserve hanks in the 11 months down to December 1, 1920, as was rediscounted during the entire year of 1919, according to estimates furnished by Governor Harding of the federal reserve board to Senator A. J. Gronna, chairman of the senate committee on' agriculture. The estimates furnished show that farm paper rediscounted last year amounted to almost $2,000,- 000,000. The estimates are: 1920, $1,-* 980,033,000; 1919, $729,286,000. The farmers have been complaining that Federal Reserve banks discriminated against them, and Instead of making credits to the growers more elastic, actually restricted loans. Treasury officials have consistently maintained that credits were not restricted but were greatly Increased. Nevertheless, the farmers have insisted- that they have been discrljninated against, and on this contention they have based their demand for a revival of the War Finance corporation. The bill reviving the corporation has been passed by congress. More Loans Than Are Tabulated. In his letter to Senator Gronna, Governor Harding intimates that while his figures are merely estimates based' oh the production and sales of farm products, undoubtedly much more money than is tabulated was actually loaned to the farmers. He writes: "In compliance with the request made in your letter of December 14, for information regarding the amount at actual agricultural paper rediscounted during the years 1919 and 1920 (to date), based on agricultural production and sales of the respective years, I have the honor to submit herewith copy of a tabular statement compiled from telegraphic data received from all Federal Reserve banks. "Section 13 of the federal reserve act provides that notes, drafts and bills drawn or issued for agricultural purposes or based on live stock having a maturity of not longer than si* months, aae eligible for rediscount by a Federal Reserve bank, the limit of maturity In all other cases being 90 days. The Federal Reserve banks rediscount large amounts of agricultural paper which has a maturity not exceeding 90 days, but such paper Is classified with other paper of like maturity. "Therefore, agricultural and live stock paper, as shown by the Federal Reserve banks, applies only to paper having a maturity of longer than 90 days. The board receives this Information from day to day and the amount of agricultural discount at each Federal Reserve bank, that Is, paper having a maturity of from ninety days to six, months, is published each month in the Federal Reserve Bulletin. , "The special figures furnished by the Federal Reserve banks In accord-* ance with your request are in all cases estimates, no exact figures of the total volume of loans «for agricultural purposes being available at the Federal Reserve banks. In the first place, most of the borrowings' at Federal Reserve banks by member banks durjng the year 1919 and a considerable proportion of thege borrowings during the current year have been In the form ol the borrowing banks' own notes, secured by government obligations or by commercial, Industrial and agricultural paper. It is known that member banks in New Tork city have made large loans to their correspondent banks throughout the country, and it Is reasonable to suppose that part of the proceeds of such loans have been applied by the borrowing banks for agricultural purpose?, but it. St Impossible to state the amount. . Conditions Similar In Other Banks. "The same is true with respect to loans made by member banks in Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, New Orleans and other financial centers throughout the country. Nonmember State banks lend large sums in the aggregate for agricultural purposes. But as they have no dealings with the Federal Reserve banks their loans to farmers are not reflected in the figures furnished by the Federal Reserve banks, although it is a fact that all Federal Reserve banks have been lending a large amount to member banks, which have in turn rediscounted paper for nonmember banks. "It should be borne in mind also that the total amount of farmers' notes rediscounted by Federal Reserve banks gives no Indication of the aihount advanced by the Federal Reserve banks to finance the production and sale of farm products, since large amounts advanced to member banks In other districts on commercial and Industrial paper are used by these banks for loans to agricultural Interests. Only the Federal Reserve banks of Richmond, Atlanta, St. Louis and Minneapolis have taken account of loans of this character by increasing proportionately the amounts formally classed as fanners' paper. , "In view of th,ese facts, it Is evident that the compilation transmitted herewith is valuable merely as indicating the Increased amount of agricultural paper rediscounted by the Federal Reserve banks for member banks during the year 1920 over the year 1919. "The board transmits also a table prepared from figures'publisbed In the Federal Reserve Bulletin, showing the holdings by each Federal Reserve bank on the last Friday in each month during the years 1919 and 1920 of paper classed by the Federal Reserve banks as agricultural and live stock paper. This classification does not Include anything but notes having a maturity of longer than 90 days. It will be noted that there has been a steady Increase in these holdings since the beginning of the present year and that this increase has continued after October of the present year, while in 1919 normal reductions from the high Sep-' tember figures are shown during the months of October, November and December. , "The increased holdings of agricultural ' paper by the Federal Reserve bank of Boston during July and August of the present year, Represent In the greater part paper held under rediscount for other Federal Reserve banks. The comment made regarding the incompleteness of the figures In the first table applies with equal force to the figures in the table showing the monthly, holdings, which are exclusive of the Federal Reserve bank holdings Walked Hundreds of Miles To See Dying Daughter After -walking several hundred miles overland from their home in the Ozark mountains of northwestern Arkansas, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Alexander, carrying a shotgun and an umbrella, respectively, arrived at Monroe, La., in respens^ to letters from their, daughter, critically ill, who begged to see them before she died. Unable to buy railroad tickets, the aged pair started afoot They made the journey In three weeks, sleeping under trees. +»m ^m m » «.«« *<<K^ • of nonagrlcultural paper, the proceeds of which may have befp used by the member banks to finadce production and sales of agricultural staples." Governor Harding's estimate of the paper rediscounted with the Federal Reserve banks, based on the prqduetion and sale of farm products, follows: In each case the 1919 figures are given first, and the 1920 figures second. The figures, as applied to the Federal Reserve bank's in each of 12 cities, are: Here Are the Figures.. Boston 9 2,642,000 9 New York No data Philadelphia 2,971,000 Cleveland 612,000 Richmond 102,000,000 Atlanta A.... 91,900,000 Chicago 47,263.000 St. Louis «... 220,000,000 Minneapolis 76,000,000 Kansas City 123.4S1.000 Dallas 28,997,000 San Francisco 86,000,000 mss 3,580,COt 1,753,OOC 325,000,00c 230,000.00(1 128.406.00C 665,006,005 225,000,00c 229,432,00! 44,911,00# 122,000,000 Total for 11 banks.9729,286,000 91,980,063,008 \ The second table alluded to by Governor Harding, showing the total amount of live stock and agricultural' paper held by each Federal Reserve bank on the last Friday of , every month during the last two years reveals that the 12 banks began with $59,001,000 of this paper In January, 1919, going to $68,250,000 In June of that year and decreasing to $51,068,- 000 in December last year. From $56,- 905,000 In January, 1920, , the amount rose steadily until no less than $245,- 096,000 was in the banks In November of last year.' 3,000 GERMANS. TO BRAZIL Walt in Fatherland to Embark fo^ 8outh America--One Province Wants 1,000, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.--Three thousand Germans, some unaccompanied, others with their families^ afe watting in Germany to embaVk for Brazil, where they wish to settle, according to advices received by the Brazilian ministry of agriculture from the German emigration department. Governors of all Brazilian states have been asked by the head of the Brazilian immigration service whether they wish to accept German colonists and bear expense of transportation. Esplrito Santo state has replied that it is prepared to accept 1,000. Other states have not yet responded. * • Chicago-New York Wireless Opened Scene In the office of Mayor Thompson of Chicago, when the commercial wireless service between that city and New York was inaugurated. Chicago now receives press dispatches direct from Bordeaux, France. L0SCS S1J00 BY "BOX GAME" St. Louta Saloonkeeper Is Reduced to Penury by Series of Vtobberies. £oals.--John Olcertch, proprietor of a saloon, was swindled out of 1900 In cash and $800 in Liberty bonds by two men xvho worked the ancient "box watching" game on him In a room at the St. Francis hotel. "Cicerich several months ago was robbed in his saloon by bandits and more recently two strangers with whom he took a walk robbed him of *300. He told the police a stranger had asked him to see a friend who was dying in the St. Francis. In a room there Cicerich saw a man, fully dressed, writhing on a bed. The first man explained that the man on the bed was dying and that he wanted to leave his wealth to an honest person. Cicerich agreed to prove his honesty' by drawing all his money from the bank, and was made beneficiary of the "estate." The "dying" man plaesd a cloth-covered package Info a metal box, which was to ^receive Cicerich*? money also and be deposited in the bank. The key to the locked box wa* given to Cicerich by one of the swindlers*. At the bank Cicerich discovered that he bad beep duped. Both men bad fled. Cicerich declared he was now penniless. ; And Commercial Lines. Most of the wrinkles In a buslntiftp man's face are ^itadeBiarliar-"WwM City Journal. / V Among the no< the first, to Boycfapiiiy A$M|iC was D#NM&*r 18, '8*. Studied medicine a number of yeAl* before he came to this country on a vessefceontaining'ii|XXJRptoi9> refugees who left their conatr| lifter the defeat of Kapoleon Bonapaiis. fjK# was appointed ship physician, aiift 'MCcessfully treated an epidemic of dyagotery which had brpken out during tfcs passage. . v Coming to Pennsylvania, he settled in the Lehigh Valley, and gained prominence by treating a large number of people who were attacked with a mysterious disease which he finally diagnosed as bilious coll<V resulting from eating apple butter. He early made a study of the system of medicine founded by Hahnemann, , and in 1828 dispensed the first remedy In Pennsylvania, in accordance with the law of similars, and during the remainder of his life was a demoted homeopathist.' Doctor Detwller formed an Intimate acquaintance with Hahnemann, who gave him a wonderful reception in Paris, where he met other noted physicians and scientists. He gave many natural history specimens to various colleges, founded an iron Industry and finally died at the advanced ago Of ninety-two.--Chicago Journal. 'HILL 60* BOUGHT BY BREWgR Hotel May Be* Erected on Ground in , (France That Will Hold Immortal Memories. "Hill 60," whose record is written In British hearts with the blood of her young array, has been sold to a brewer. "It li expected," says the London Times, "that a hotel will be erected there. From battleground of immortal memory to hostelry Is a fate which may be deplored, but it, is possible, even probable, that by an enterprise however foreign to sentiment, all that is associated with the place may be preserved. "Hill 60," sacred with the memories of Loos and of many a subsequent resurgence of the tide of battle, consecrated as few other' sp6ts of earth have been by repeated baptisms of heroic blood, long ceased to be a hill. It was held, as one commanding officer reported, geographically, though its military value had beep utterly destroyed. "The 'hill* Itself was blasted to dust long before the struggles for Its possession had ended. Its name will endure as long as British history, and it is perhaps as well that a monument should mark the site of so many heroisms, even if the monument presents a commercial aspect." Pueblo-Type Cottage* Are Cement , All the quaint charm of the old pueblo style of architecture is preserved in concrete In a series of little cottages now under construction in Monrovia, Cal. The one-story buildings are most remarkable for their complete us« of cement, wbodwork being practically eliminated. Even the roofs are concrete, and thq doors are made of magnesite, dtcordlng to an illustrated article In the January Popular Mechanics Magazine. The poured walls, five inches thick, lnclosn a web of waterproofing material, while thd cement floors are stained in Spanishleather effect, waxed and polished. The little structures are wholly fireproof, and easy cleaning is assured by the absence of moldings, casing and baseboards. Inclosed courts off the kitchen and sleeping chambers, partly roofed and partly screened, provide outdoor protection and.privacy. Making Pictures Popular. • circulating library of pictures^ Instead of books, has been opened by the Y. W. C A., of Brooklyn, N. Y. Good reproductions o4 the best pictures of today and earlier periods are kept on hand to be loaned out for two weeks or a month. Accompanying each picture is a brief account of the artist's life, the significance of the painting and data about the school and period of art to which the artist belongs. The idea behind the scheme Is to familiarize the subscribers with some of the best examples of art, which they might not otherwise obtain and which they may eventually wish to own, after having live# with them a short time. .. 'A effectively gifrpftfrad, They Are of UtSk-" menee Imjwrtance In; Improving .. ' Appearance' 'of House. -r . (^3^ sometimes happens that; htm* • • ' ,1' are necessarily of greater size thai -. ^ the dwelling, and so have the appeal^: ance of ^eip more. l|aporj!»nt. Yej^ , * .*3| Unsightly Barn*. Ifea building of chief importance . ways is the home. That fact can b^ ' \ made plain by manifesting special*^,' » '• regard for the appearance of the houses „ Trees and .shrubs will hide the eng|f?f croaching but necessary service bulldst' •.$ ings etad emphasise the true center With Trees an# Shrubs. 0* merest--the home. The illtwtraj^ tlqps show how the scheme may b% carried out to ,the best advantage. EASY TO GROW GRASS *2 Perfect Greensward May Be QulcW^i/i;ft Realized by the Use of Novel p English Method. 11* |s proverbially a slow bosipest getting a good grass lawn In a garfex':S" den, but a new English Idea makes 1|- * possible to secure a fine stretch of ^ verdure Just as one would buy a car*- pet at the stores. Grass seed Is sowi| ! thickly on strong canvas and, when . ~ this Is thickly covered with growth if: /•': ]• is ready <or making the lawn. The site is well prepared, bein^ " ' made perfectly level, and special at*?'; ^ M . tehtion Is given to getting the soil s<p, y that It is a favorable rdoting mediunfU for the little plants. Then the gras&y mats are put down on Sections, thes^fe, ^ $ being closely fitted together. As tim^f" goes on the roots push down through^- . the canvas and, in this way, establish ^ a permanent lawn. Ultimately th$. > v' material will rot J The value of this^vv lies in the fact that an Immediate ef^ }l«> fect cfcn be secured. It is quite easjP#^,; to have a splendid grass lawn in • ( situation where, a few hours befor^^ .. there was nothing of the klndgjv % Thenceforward the grass will go oify. improving and the little plants speed#:' ,ily take a hold on the soil.--Scientific American. > Threaten American Induotry.^ ^ Spain is one of the greatest Ironore centers of the world, shipping ore heavily to other European countries, as well as to the United States, and while it has some large iron and steel works. Its outptft of the finished product has never been commensurate with its ore developments. Now, however, there Is a well-defined project of the Krupps to set up a great branch at Bilboa, Spain, to manufacture agricultural machinery for the purpose of driving out of the market American companies who now have a large share of this business. ^ Trees Beyond Valuation. Ten million dollars' damage' %nnt ally is done to the shade trees anc hardy shrubs of the country by shac tree Insects, according to estimate^ made by the bureau of entomology United States Department of Agricul ture. It Is very difficult to estimate money value of the shade trees shrubs of the country, but a very eonP servative estimate would place theift; value at $1,000,000,000. These figures - were reached after extensive eorro* epondence with the forestry and otheift; , authorities of states and muai£pali|\^ | tleig. A more definite census is atrnftd ' - at, but the figures are taken as de-' pendgble for general'purposes. They' are based pn the value of trees t# cities, parks and private property, an<|~ have no reference to the bare intrin- p*,^ sic valtid pf wood or lumber. An old ' ffv"T oak tree which, because of its condi^; - tion is not worth $2 for'lumber, mai'^'iC-"' add $500 to the value of the city lot - ° ^1; on which it Is located. ' J-v • • • The 1S7 Varieties..? Of the 157 varieties ot passenger cars made in'the United States, thirty- five come from Michigan. Indiana Is next with twenty-three, Ohio has twenty-two, New York fifteen and Pennsylvania and Illinois are tied at ten each. There are 122 automobile manufacturing concerns outside ot .Michigan. • "<»..* Serious inbjoot^f^ ^ ; , City Has Right Idea. A tienipalgn *tn beautify schoef iS v roundings has been started by tMT architectural-engineering department? J j i=of the public schools. About $35,009 Vi , will be spent*this year. It Is announced* ; yr~:^ A. Dl Weeks, director of the deSt^^-f;^ partment, says that from a landscape?' ^ standpoint Detroit schools rank poorly 0 in comparison with eastern cltle^f "For years men have yapped that women ought to dress sensibly." "The girls are wearing woolen stockings this winter." "And they deserve encouragement I am determined not to make any Jokes on that subject."--Louisville Courier-Journal. , , / s if Measuring Widowhood. Vicar--Let nte see. flow long havw. yon been a widow. Mm Brown? Mrs. Brown--It'll be ever since poor Mr. BroFa died, air 1--Loudon Mali* a.,- " iW though they compare favorably in architecture. III the past, work of this sort ha^. : v: : been largely assumed by the pupll^ * fee. who performed the labor and bore, iense.--Detroit Free Press. - Dwelling In the Open. ' ^ 4 they -•A 'man's house Is his castle.*^ "If the landlord carries out hi* f , threat, my house wiii be a castle * the air.' A \ Fragmentary Conversatloippf Pamela--"She let fall a few "itmarks--" Shebba--"That's why sho spoke In such broken tones." »!„, 1 Cant Help the Drift. ' . ' ] •' ^liese are dreadful times. ^vary«-.-*,-,-L"^ ] thine is higher." "Ybs," eveni the &sr» j ewy keeps going ^ t