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TRAGEDY WRECKS WAR HERO'S LIFE This city of glorious past in hi# tory, art and literature, once the thome of Leonardo da Vinc! and Mi-- «helangelo, of Machiavell! and Sa-- anarola, "Supreme -- Florence," its --@itizens called it, this city is a fAtting setting for the tragedy of this youth with the face of an old man. early morn until dusk, with a beap of eolored chalks by his side, in an old, faded suit of clothes, old army cob-- bled shoes and a broad black mourn-- ing band on his left arm he sits on the pavement before the. world--famous UMzi gallery and creates on the ce-- ment blocks before him the master-- pleces that hang in all their glory in the building above. Answered Country's Call and Still Waits for Girl 'MD~ He Left Behind. Antonio Abruzzino, born in sunny Naples, once with a love song on his lips and a brush that streamed beauty and delight on canvas, now shattered by war and faithlessness, his mind a deep pool of brooding confusion, but with bands restlessly moving as If by wnkd propulsion to draw and the works of his student days, sits before the river portal of this old palace gallery close to Ponte Veechio of Medic! fame unseeing, unhearing, an inert mass except for ever moving Angers. If the story of.this man were not so tragile, one wou!ld, smiling, think of the old ballad, "The Face on the Bar-- Room Eoor." There is in reality much in com between the story of the ballad and Antonio. A shattered love as in the song sent him to the depths. But never has he either mentioned or pictured the face of the woman he loved. The-- Madonnas be draws are those of Raphael, Del Sorto, Guido Rent, -- Titiano. They are beautiful pleces of tender workmanship, which each night he very carefully washes off from the pavement so that no care-- Tess feet should tramp them, Passersby, tourists, the curious, look him over, watch him work and some tiimes a Jfré is.thrown on the pavement before him. He pays no attention. Only recently an American, moved perhaps by the spirit of mischief, let a dollar drop on his work. The fingers of the man drew back wtartled and trembling. The figure grew tense, and the crowd that always surrounds him drew back In fear. With a snarl, yet without moving from his sitting posture he snatched the bill and hurled it from him. . Faor a few moments he shook as if with the ague, and then col-- lapsed and began to cry. That day he disappeared and was gone for a week. _ His chalks. left behind him, en care of by the old flower wom-- an at the bridgehead. Each morning she would put the package where he bhad left it. When he --reappearéd he was as before--silent, unspeaking, un-- hearing. He carefully -- washed the traces of the unfinished drawing off the pavement and began it anew. $ Both Are Struck Down. For a fAvelire piece the motherly old flower wommun told a bit of his story. She told it with a prologue. Her "bambing," Guillo, had been a scomrade of Antonio in the war. Gulllo hed falltn. He and Antonio had been great friends. Antonio was an artist, but it made no difference to him it Gulllo was a mule driver. They had seen great friends. Once in a night mid they had a terrible fight. It was dark; one could not see,. One jJust stuck and stabbed and clubbed. An tonlo had been knocked to his knees. Fhat instant there was a flare of light. An Austrian stood poised with bay-- met, blinded by the sudden light. It was flashing on Guillio, who, recovering, wtruck down the-- enemy. After that they were close friends. In the great Irive in 1918 when Italy smashed the Austrian front, both were struck down. -- Guillo never rose. -- Antonio my a long time in many bospitals, and then disappeared. Last"November he seturned and has been drawing ever since. He knows no one. She has ried to talk to him, but there is only vilence. It is so terrible. He was gifted. 'There was always a 'song on als lips, Guilllo had said. Now--and with a shrug and the making of a 'ross with her hand, she, too, became dlent. Ogure in the Bohemlan quarter. _ Life was light and love was a smil Ing caprice to this talented Neapol tan. ~Until he met Blossom Mahoney, Blossom worked in a downtown store, She ~was red heanded, Irish and a bundle of laughing blue eyes and lips. Antonio decided that life was neither light nor love a caprice. He loved with the wild ardour of his Neapoli-- tan nature. Blossom was willing to be courted by Tony, but youth was too jJoyous to settle down and be mar-- vled. ®Bo It went, with a foss and a awn stidio and Agure in the I}« From official sources the rest of the stoty was obtained. Antonio had as 1 youth come to Florence with his mother, a widow, and studied art, He was talented, an eager worket, In his second.. year in Florence his mother died. Apparently there were no other selatives.. For a while he studied in ¥Venice and even in Rome. Then he went to America, settling in New York, this was in 1910. For a wh;le he worked for an American artist in Greenwich Village who --turned out hand--painted copies -- of -- (X¥4 World masterpi¢ces. -- Later he opened" h;s awn stadio and became a well--knowp ,'lorence.--mr; % 'uuh--;fl. quarrel joyous h:::dfl': Seventy--five -- millimeter : being used. The firing las twenty minutes. Italy's participation. In 19105 the Ital-- ian ambassador to America issued at mwflh?_pvmtmlcnll Loulaville, Ky. ---- Concus heavy artillery fire at C# more than -- twenty--five in caused two broken water n '" " lm'"h' repor Jarred from their shely Camp -- Knox frightened wakened between 1 and 2 0 their homes were shaking feared an earthquake. to all American--Btallans to return: to a.u fatherland. Italy was engaged th her centuries--old oppressor, Aus-- Among First to Respond. * Antonio was among the first to re spond. ~He made but later withdrew a request for a brief delay while he Anished a portrait of Blossom he was making.. He intended the picture tor exhibition in the spring Art academy salon. Blossom the night before he salled kissed him and told him she would walit for him unt!il he returned. He gave her a benutiful locket con-- taining the miniatures of them both, Antonio was wounded first in 1916. In 1917 he was badly gassed, and in 1918 terribly shattered in a mine ex' plosion in an assault on an Austrian position. It was not until 1920 that he could leave the hospital He was a changed man. After leaving the hospital he disap-- peared. The fext that was heard of him was in July of 1921, when he was taken to a hospital after being found unconscious in the streets in New York. His case was reported to the Itallan consul, who took steps to pro-- vide for his réturn to Italy. He was sent back in 1922, and again dropped out of sight until last year, when he took up his ;;t'ce before this gallery, where years before he had come as a gay youth to learn and to paint. What became of Blossom Mahoney is unknown. 'There were found in his pockets when he was picked up sev-- eral old letters from her, badly worn, and one, poorly written and incoher-- ent, by him, which was evidently In-- tended to be mailed to her. Did she dizappear, did she die, had she ceased to care? , Reattle.~--Immigration Inspectors; ex-- amining 238 Jnpanese who arrived here aboard the liner President Mc Kinley with passports from Japan, found gcores who clairoed Jong years of residence in this country who could not speak a word of English, accord-- ing to officers of the immigration sta-- tlon. & + New Jap Immigrants Fib as to Residence in U. S. Sinee February 21, regardless of head winds, snow or frigid weather, Pilot Kielson bas made regular trips on schedule, carrying mails and keep Ing the outposts of progress knit to etvilization. KNow all the northland is telling the simple --story of his timely service, which opens up a whole vista of gigan-- tic possibilities of worthwhile service and heart interest. In New York he perhaps would not be permitted to draw as he does on the pavrement before Palazzo UMzi But then, sunny, idie Florence is not New York. Here he sits, while his Angers etch tender--smiling madonna® and lovely--faced bambinos. Here this eonce joyons, talented youth works blankly and mechanically, everything still" and motionless, everything but restless fingers and. memorles--per-- McGrath, ~Alaska. --A -- couple of weeks ago William Himmell, oid--time sourdough of the Kuskokwin district, lay seriously ill near here, where there never has been,a doctor. He was faced with the exposure and hardship of a ten--day trip by dog sled over the trail to Nenana or almost certain death from lack of medical attention. Aertial Mail Pilot Ben Eielson land-- ed here, and the suggestion was made that be take the sick man aboard his plane and. carry him to. Fairbanks, 200 miles away. In a few hours the sufferingy iminer was on a hospital ecot under the skilled care of physi-- cians and nurses and is now report-- ed as recovering rapidly. 'At the rear they have movable tud-- ders and elevators like those of®an ordinary airplane. The idea of the Inventor is that. a number of ; these bombs can be carried by heavy planes to a great height, outside the reach of anti--aireraft guns, and then re-- leased. By means of wireleks flashes from the big plane the gliding torpe does can be 'directed with some ac-- curacy, and -- steered toward the ob jJectives which are intended for de-- struction. Takes Dying Miner To Hospital in Plane London.--*"Flying torpedoes," steered by wireless, is the latest achievement of the research experts in the Rritish war ministry. The new projectiles bave bodies approximately similar in shape to those of the submarine tor-- pedoes, but have fitted to them curved metal wings sufficient to sustaln them In a gliding flight. "Flying Torpedoes" by British War Ex Guns Break Pipes ussion -- from Camp Knox, tnlles away, main=. Cit-- I woere bout rer i1d United States TM lesues Neow Securities to Take Place of «w1¥ts. High--Rate Paper, -- Predsury experts have calculated !th-t a saving of approximately $22,-- 000,000 in annual Paterest charges will result from the change im the public debt situation accomplished in JTne. About $150,000,000 in new securities '\bnve gone on the market from the treasury this month, but proceeds from these with balances on band and pay-- meénts in the second tax installment will retire something like $445,000,000 in treasury notes 'and tax certificates which matured June 15. The most noticeahle eff« ish a however, has !» w Of the eolony, -- now average nearly $50,00(¢ ally, which is ten times th« value for 1913. The British m Slave trade ong, fare, with the r are expending th and more benefic have betcome zo trial workers in .fi farms wit! $22,000,008 1N ANNUAL INTEREST CHARGES SAVED The na part are Uving on never kn« Washington.--The June Ascal opera-- tions of the treasury, * 1 among the sallest of -- tlal issues, will have a wider nent effect in the way of cuts in Axed expenditures of the government than most of the quarterly operations in the last fAive years. s TT' * London.--An example of the henefits of rule by a large power over an in digent people is found in the Case of the British domination in Nigeria, says Sit--HMugh Clifford, the Nigerian gov-- ernor. who is in England on--leave. ~ 'The treasury has issued only $150,-- 000,000 in new securities, while it has retired and destroyed a total of $521,-- 000,000 in outstanding debt. _--*The sexton is a useful man. Be' rings the bells at five in the morning so the people know they may sleep two hours longer. At eleven he rings the bells again, indicating to the farm-- ers in the field that they should be-- come hungry. In the evening there is more bell ringing, which indicates to | small children that they will get thclrp ears boxed if they do not run home | rapidly. Sometimes the sexton is very | troublesome, especially when he rings at night to announce a fire. 'The sex--| ton thrives on weddings, christenings | and the dead. He earns the most money through death. Therefore hbe 7 is glad when many people die." 1 Nigerians Prospering | Under Rule of British The tax certificates bore 4 per cent and the treasury notes, which were is-- sued in 1921, carried 5% per cent in-- terest. The new certificates pay only 2% per cent interest, the lowest rate of any government security since the Issue of Panama canal bonds. At the same time the British gov-- ernment made a payment of $69,000,-- 000, which, under the law, must be used to retire the American wartime debt. That payment therefore: will ecut off $69,000,000 of TLiperty bonds bearing an average of almost 4 per cent interest. Munich.--Schoolboys in a Munich suburb were instructed recently to write a comyocmun about the-- sexton in the local church,"and the follow-- ing effort attracted so much attention that it is being reproduced in many Bavarlan newspapers : While the cut in the total: debt brought about by this one operation appears as a drop in the bucket when considered alongside the national debt of more than $21,000,000,000, treasury officials point with satisfaction to the amount of interest that would have to be paid, and that means taxes to be ralsed, provided there was no reduc-- tion in the debt. -- The whooping cough treatment is ¥ery like that. which Presidgent Cool idge took in Washington for his cold. The only difference is that it requires an hour's inhalation of gas for four successive days--and that the ratio of gas and air is slightly varied. Coincident with the announcement of the new cures, army physicians pre dicted, that a few years will see a spe cial gas chamber in every school, with specially trained nurses to administer the treatment. The result, they say,. will be a higher standard of health among school children and the virtua) disappearance of bronchial and nagal epidemics. i Sexton a Useful Man, Rings Bell, Writes Boy No longer must fond mothers wait for the allment to "run its course"-- a traditional "course"> of six weeks. Army ingenuity and chlorine gas will send Johniny and Mary back to school in four--days' time. % Washington.--Members of the army "gashouse gang' swung their black-- jJacks on another disease, They an nounced discovery of a cure for whoop-- ing cough. ie u U. S. Army Doctors Find Whooping Cough Cure Experiments at Edgewood arsenal, Md.,> where the Chemical Warfare service has its laboratories, have es tablished the eficacy of chlorine gas for a number of bronchial ailments. who is in England natives of Nigeria U LP€C nd on--leave,. Aa for the most contented and life : they . have r Hugsh says,. : destroyed the d tribal war tha: the people ercios in other X anmue estimated _of Brit-- n In the e exports 8, M or indus{ ~ of oper-- ment su-- V "While the 'sharp fluctuations in the output of basic -- commodities tend . to magnift the unsettlement of business, the responsiveness of the industries tochanges in demand is a wholesome feature of current "An exampleé of the«e wide fluc-- tuations in a Brier period is found in the steel try. °. In-- three months. -- from -- December _ to March, average! daily -- output -- of steel ingots increased 41 per cent to the largest out in the history of the industry. In the next three months a decline of 49 per 'cent brought the output to the lowest fi-- cure. since January, 1922.. The nresence of a temporary surplus of labor in many industries increases the elasticity bt the physical equip-- ment. * 1 _ garding the which still 3 terizes many branches of in , there are ev-- M gf ' & optimism re--» varding the tremm of business in the i mal. 'With wally large produc-- ing capacity mnany basic lines of industry, th now a greater de-- gree of ela of output than ordinarily o ) In response to any large growlh of demand output can be pro '_ increased, --and when the un 'demand has been met the res curtailment of nroduction ten# to be correspond-- ingly abrupt.. Elasticity|»f Production. "This anti of better busi-- ness in the 6 e accords with the view that lh a period like the present a s sion of short but rather wide fi@tuations in the vol-- ume of indu production is nor-- Despite By U. 8. Government Veterinarian FREE OF CHARGE Notwit Phone Lbertyville 329 LIBERTYYILLE, ILLINOIS Offce with Farm Burean Dr. C. E. Arnold CATTLE TESTED for Turerculosis Examination of ~the --eyes with the atest scientific instruments. Ej' glasses fitted when reeded. Phone 3445 <or Appointment 24 N. GINESEE ST. »YOU USE ,, Inspector oPTOoNETRIST Waulszan, 11. tession _ There Marks of In-- Amism SIGNS > D TIMES * the -- depression Aeterizes -- many SDAY, JULY |_--Now, isn't all that erudite and in-- formative? And everywhere nature | sets up her bright stop -- signals: "Stop! Please your palate!" says the little dandelion; and "Stop! . Hold ' your nose!" says the gorgeous chrys-- | anthemum. But aren't the savants a | bit belated with their good words? i' Yellow has long needed a friend. The 'yellow peril has bulked large in the | public eye ... . & school of jJour \nalism is founded on the high visi-- bility of yellow . . .-- and the saf-- fron streak of human nature . . . who does not know them?" Like as not, colors take character from the persons who use them, and yellow is las yellow does.--The Nation's Busi-- ness, s -- tenunce of of finished modities, ~. _ 1 Advance in Stock Prices, _ |T».; i5 the percentage the Bureau of "An interprs of the recent | Into it a ::w originally trend of the stock market | 2s the 'corporation should pay as a possible of an early under the law of 1918 on the pro-- revival of by must take ac-- 'cceds of insurance policies it had ob ecount, among 0 factors. of the tained on the life of its president. erhancement of yalues of invest-- The policies yielded $97,000 and the ment as co with speculative | tax & at $84,000. ~Event-- securities. closer is the cor--|ually recegnizing extreme hardship, respondence a stock and a | the w-r of Internal Rev-- good bond as regards certainty of enue the tax to $55,000. That income from t'mity"the more | figure, too, looked confiscatory to the similar will be the effect of prevail-- | ~~~~--mmm===----=~--~~--~* 0o ing interest m' on their respec--| [ tive market k | 29W AB@NThen t ul domatairem > / wHY TRAFFIC siGNs A strong bright yellow is superior to all other rs in visibility and luminosity, s@y two scientists who make a busi of knowing all about colors. The brightness of yellow is the chief on for its use in mark-- ing directions, warnings, and safety zones for the oontrol of traffics So it is that , car--stop and other traffic signs ate painted in yellow, usually with lettering. "Yellow is symbol of light and wisdom, and py is he who follows wisdom's ways in running his auto-- mobile," says M. Luckiesh, director of the Laboratory of Applied Science, National Lamp Works of the General Electric Com . Further approval comes from Henry Turner Baily, dean of the land School of Art, who believes yellows: "From the standpoint of oblor alone they are not the most g, but from the standpoint of &Ior plus brightness, the yellow is best color that can be selected " l * semi--finished nce in Stock Prices, of the : in the stock m le € of an must tak ng factors. o nt yalues of ir o with specu mflfl' is the bright yel * rs in say two i of kn : brightne s for the main-- tive 'Inventories ARE YELLOW com as the h'mon should pay under 6 of 1918 on the pro-- ceeds of insurance policies it had ob-- tained on the life of its president. The yielded $97,000 and the taX WAS at $84,000. ~Event-- E + per cent as a rate of tax reac point of -- confiscation. That is the: ge the Bureau of Internal Revenue' figured originally A TAX OF 86 PER CEXT! se on c n kmatepare n : 192030405 YCaI'S--- Still a Young Car -- Phone 131--M Libertyville The Willys--Knight is a car you can keep and enjoy for years. A touring car with all the thrill of 42 horsepower--a car you can drive 50 miles and more an hour, hour after hour--without over--heating--with-- out loss of power-- without engine trouble ---- without carbon cleaning -- without ever needing valve grinding. 5 The Willys--Knight sleeve--valve engine is the most powerful engine of its size ever built--and the quietest--and the only type of engine in the world that actually improves with use. It is common for Willys--Knight owners to report 50,000 miles and more without spending a cent for repairs on the engine. . KNLGHT [ 1195 | _ WILLYS---- H. P. Suhling CAidle P «eompany and it went to court. l On May 26 the Supreme Court held the company did not have to any tax umtthil'L' ance, because the Bureau of Internal Revenue was wrong in its construe-- tion of the law. Saving 86 per cent \or even 56 per cent, is distinctly | worth while.--The Nation's Business. Of , ~discretion and tact prdnblzvm lead Mr. Dawes, in cer-- tain localities, to talk of Maria rath« er than of Helen.--Cincinnati In-- quirer. PAGE SEVEN 6 ho t