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,# • *• « JP«iP«rlna of Achieving Wedded t; , -jj|» They Unite to Acc<p. piish Their Purpose. r*r 'J < COMPETITION % KEEN Jfttarlitg of Qmn Ribbon H tSgn CM It Quito Sorioue and Wants to Get Married--Must Obej Sw>; £S; the Ruiee. .fa; OMy ' i/* *» £f -.v •/ '»i • JLlflbllg tfee huntfwflrf wf llluli- >-f ' |ands of surplus women in France, a group of Paris midlnettes have " . ;;V'V m-t rv is formed a marriage club. Their Insignia \;:fs a small' bit of green ribbon en the •oet, so that any man seeing a girl <ocorateot in this way knows right •way that she is quite serious and grants to get married. s' The marriage competition Is keen the girls, and the lonely ones » taken to this form of advertiset to settle down in life and hare a ce to leave the sweatshops. Due the facilities of life In Paris there *w» numbers of bachelors, many of , %hom would like to get married, only ~5PP to now they never seemed to mi •- n the right sort of girl. t\ • Fear to Make Break. fe»sSE«£'.5& •ri • Serious girls have hitherto mot at- ;|ractive young men on their way to <$forfc» an<* have seen others dally where ,<hey lunch, but they have never dared * the men to speak to them, nor Airt with the men, because they were ilfrald of being taken for something ;• .v-" 'jjhey were not. The girls never could i *; . the intentions of the men, and the 4 ; / ,:|lben always suspected women who noy < tlced them. Now hU this h«^ been j - • . '^hanged. *? The n,an who wants to got married A t%ear» a bit of green in his buttonhole, Yjtwut he must not take advantage of this going up and accosting the first' ^ i j jtfr* *ie meets a similar bit of St. k v. Patrick's color. According to the un- • ' •^rritten laws of the club, he must wait „ x . 4lntil he has seen some girl member a number of times. Then, if their daily ',|l faths cross, he can finger his bit of i Clbbon tn a suggestive manner. If she ' /\- approves dfklA showUl sidle, and then he can Introduce himself. • «.l;a-a-- - - gm , s m The «lub had its first meeting the other day in the crowded nelghorhood between the city hall and the Bastille, but the members failed to reach any agreement on how to get married. One suggestion . sswaod to carry weight That was to give a number to every holder of the green ribbon, but they have to prove themselves worthy of this and pass a medical examination. Then if a man's affections turn to some attractive damsel, Buch as XTZ-2UR8, he can go to the club and flu a form professing bis affections and giving a full account *of himself, which will be submitted to the girl he has decided on. It Is predicted that this suggeotion will not prevail, for ill Is too slow and complicated for Cupid. But there will be frequent dances and excursions, so that the young people will have an opportunity of knowing each other well. They say the men will havo a good to the natural surplus o~ France, which the war hat leu. CUBIST ART "OUTCUBED" Latest Movement in Painting tasks' Express Life and So«4 !» f,, , Geometric Unoa.:!?^,,^ -- /v. Parti---Geometric art,* i M« movement In painting -which seeks to express life and soul In geometrical lines Instead of in the soft strokes of the conventional school strikes a startling note in the fifteenth autumn salon, which held Its "varnishing day" recently. Artists of ten nationalities have hung In the exhibition more than fifty "line pictures,** which make the followers of cubism seem hopelessly conventional. The contributors to the new Idea are enthusiastic over lta possibilities, believing their movement will eventually contribute a sow school of art. Geometrlsm treats of conventional subjects, such as nudes, landscapes and interiors, but employs carefully worked-out lines according to the rules of geometry. The pictures are said to have a keen appeal for mathematicians. Pranks Played b3T Mark's Fluctuating Exohanoe Rate Sometimes Works to Advantage of German People. MINER HOW MUlTIMILLIOIUffiE St. Louie Man Leaves Brother In Germany $30,000, and Long Hunt for • -jSansfloiary Multiplies i F!^"* f BerflS.---Vreaklsh pranks playtlfby the fluctuating exchange rate are writing a colorful chapter In the life of Germans. While the low value of the mark in most cases is spelling grief, it sometimes works to advantage Of the native^ '.'V; >;, New Plan to Prevent ST V1' This has been demonstrated In the ease of Selmar Meyrowltz, a Berlin orchestra leader, who regrets that he did not receive a heavier fine than was meted out to him last summer for attempting to take cigarettes across the Csech border. Meyrowltz was motoring to Marlenbad and, having a number of acquaintances there, be went well supplied with cigarettes, which bo purposed to distribute as gifts. Hto Impression that the frontier customs control had grown lax was dispelled when the Czech customs aathociUss fined him 10,000 marks. Cut Fine in Half. Repeated pleas for clemency failed Meyrowltz, even after he had pictured the sorry straits of the Intellectuals of nowadays. Finally, however, the Czechs decided to cut the fine In half, and Meyrowltz has now received a check for more than 446 kronen, the rebate being reckoned according to the rate of exchange at the time sentence was pronounced. Four hundred and. forty-six kronen today are equivalent to nearly 60,000 marks. A Bochum miner named Bagenakl, living in humble circumstances and tho father of six children, became a multimillionaire in marks over night through a legacy of $30,000 received from the estate of his brother, a St. Louis hotel owner. The brother went to the United States some thirty years ago and had been believed dead many years. Tho miner, after his brother's death, bad changed his place of residence, and during the time he was being sought that the bequest could be given him its value computed In marks *TT*1Yf**m had multiplied many times. _ Inherits Millions. A young woman habitue of one of Berlin's dancing places has fallen heir to 70,000,000 marks left her by an aged American who died of heart disease while visiting' Germany. The old man met the girl casually in the dance hall several days prior to his death. Business called him to Westphalia. He became 111 while making the journey. The girl was informed and reached his bedside just before the end. A few days later a' notary delivered her a sealed portfolio which her acquaint- L'| Fire tool boxes, containing tools sutiiek-ut to equip five, ten and iwenty- I ance had willed her because she had ®ve men or more, are placed on a pack- mule and stationed throughout the na- I brightened his last days on earth. It tlonal forests by the United States forest service to fight forest fires. This contained Jewelry, $15,000 end conaidphotograph shows a ranger and a mule loaded with a fire box which la to bo i erable other foreign currency, tbo placed tn m strategic position. t / .>V v i mark value footing up 70,000,000. ' ii i •1 1 , , , -- •' i Orphans in Syria Show dratitude to Americi " Work oft Project Is Resumed as (Miprd Is Given U. S. Engineers to Finish Job. $7,400,000 MORE IS HEEDED Wgantlo Dam and Other Sections of Construction to Furnish Work for ' 2,000--All the Big Machii«> ery Haa Been Bought. ' v fc-'v-W if. I VlorenMt Ala.---The roar at --_ rtructlon work on the great Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals is again sounding through the valleys and over the hills along the Tennesee river. The government haa stepped in to rescue from possible decay the huge war" time nitrate and power projects Involved In the building of what will be the world's largest water-power dum. United States army engineers, just furnished with $8,100,000 in congressional appropriations, are once more • proceeding with the work of harness- , Lag the mighty waters of tho Tennessee under a government program which provides for the completion of the Wilson dam, the installation of power-generating machinery and the distribution of electrical "Juice" by late 1925 or early 1926. The army appropriation bill to be Introduced In congress December 4 Is to ask $7,500,000 additional for the work of th# fiscal year 1923-1924. It will require but $7,400,000 more after that before a finished job at the dam and power house will make it possible to send out thO electrical current. The Engineers' Task. Tho army engineers do not vex themselves with the question at what Is to become of the electrical energy to be taken from the waters of the river. It makes no difference to them Whether nitrates or fertilizer Is made there, whether the power is to move the street cars In distant New Orleans, drain the swamps of Florida, run an up-to-date electric halr-curllng Iron for a girl In Mobile, or whether the farmer in Mississippi, Tennessee or Alabama Is to light his house and barns, pump his water, or drive his machinery with the electrical energy to come from the harnessed waters. Whether Chattanooga, Memphis, Pensacola, or other communities are to use the electrical energy for cheaper power for manufacturing, gives tho army engineer dam builder no concern. His concern is that the work has been halted since April 15, 1921, by lack of money. The dam was one-third completed then and the air began to be filled with the roar, not of tho dam building, but of who should final* ly use the dam. The dam was projected In war time to furnish nitrate tor explosives for the army. Now, with the construction resumed* about 1,200 jpen are at work on th« dam. Soon 2,000 will be at work and the call Is going out for a small group of able civilian engineers to assist. Snow Melts From Cross for First Time in History Bed Cliff, Colo.--Snow hss melted from the cross which gives the Mount of the Holy Cross Its name for the first time within the' memory of the oldest Inhabitant here. The outlines of the cross are, still discernible, however, from a distance of 20 miles. in war days tho government had a payroll of 55,000 men on the <fmw project. The men at work today are being paid at the base rate of $2.50 a day, but, as this la a government payroll, and congress has granted a bonus to government workers, they actually receiv§ about $8.20 a day. Machinery Bought. All the big machinery for tho power Installations was bought long ago. It consists of four unit, 80,000 horsepower turbines, capable of generating a total of 120,000 horse-power. It Is on the ground, ready to be Installed. Construction equipment on the dam works has already been Inventoried at $5,000,000. Col. W. J. Barden, Corps of Engineers, u, S. A., Is in charge of the dam construction. He has retained during the Idle period a small nucleus of tho civilian engineering force and Is now searching for a few more high engineers but is unable to locate them, probably because tho government does not pay very high salaries. The work will go on all winter, because there usually is uo Ice in the Tennessee. In 1917 and 1018 there was something in the nature of an Ice-Jam at Muscle Shoals, bat as a rule the winters are open. The dam builders expect to finish the foundation work In the north channel by January 1. They expect to finish the foundation In the south channel by January 1, 103*. They expect to close the openings under the dam and create tbo "pool" by January 1, 1925. This "pool," as the engineer* describe It, will in reality be a lake eighteen miles long, formed by the water backed up by the dam. The "pool" ready, the electrical machinery will be Installed and then the electrical current will be ready. The construction plant, cofferdams and temporary structures were depreciating at the rate of $400,000 a year when congress voted tbo now funds. Car Hangs on Tree After Long Fall. La Crosse, Mo:--After plunging over an embankment a motorcar came to rest in the top of a tree. Five passengers In the machine climbed to safety without a scratch. The car was owned by Eugene Hammes of La Cross*. WILL TAG BABY SEAGULLS Scientists Plan Marking Tour to lo lands in Lake Champlaln--Te Study Their Habits. Burlington, Vt--Tho migratory habits of seagulls which year after year nave'made the Four Brothers islands. In Lake Champlaln, their breeding place, will be studied by a party of scientists who plan to visit the islands next summer. Prof. Harry F. Perkins of the University of Vermont probably will head the Investigators. Full and authentic information concerning the habits of the birds Is lacking and. In an effort to clear up some disputed points, the scientists propose to attach small bands to the legs of the young birds to serve as Identification marks during the migrating season. The task will not be accomplished without difficulty, as the old gulls are known to resent strongly any Interference with their offspring, and the Investigators look forward to receiving some severe buffeting* from tho outraged parents. PLODS 500 MILES BACK HOME Collie 8ent Away Makes Long Trip to MM* Old "Family" and Wlna Permanent Domicile. \v .. i- East St. Louis, III.--A collie dog, shipped from this city to Owen, Wis., has found its way bade, a distance of S00 miles. The pnp was but six months old when sent by the owner, George Schaub, to John Welty of Wisconsin. It appeared to be content In Its new home for a period of two months and then disappeared. Five weeks later It scratched at the door of the Schaub dwelling here, footsore, emaciated, and with toenails worn to the quick. The Schaub family has agreed never to part with the wanderer again. JAP WOMAN HOLDS CITY 10B Educator la First In Nippon to Gals TM* Distinction--With Hue* tion Department. Osaka, Japan.---Mrs. Hldeko Yamamoto, wlio has been appointed secretary to the Osaka education department, Is the first woman In Japan to hold a municipal Job. She has been engaged In primary education for twenty-seven years and is an advocate of European dress for Japanese women. She la also Interested In physical culture and has served as secretary of the Physical Culture Society for Women. business Wi Feared Heart Troalii "Since Tanlac has over •ase of indigestion and •f three or four years* ne. my work here in the atom' Measure, and I am certainly or the good health it has fill •aid Mrs. J. W. Plcklns. of Old M> St., Los Angeles, wfcp ewas ntes the book store at 219 Place. "I was so run down that I felt mlsef^^l able all the time. My sleep waftiroken. and restless, I had no app«t!te. j* the gas from undigested fOod eflaiimsfi my heart to palpitate so I tfcc had heart trouble. For a time I had^ a swelling in my legs, too, and It wag< an effort for me to get about. "It Is wonderful how Tnnlae Img given me such perfect relief fronfdfcllprW troubles. I eat heartily now. Uke a child at night, and just feel flu* all the time." • f Tanlac is sold by all good ' --Advertisement Strike Halts Executioner. According to a report printed In Golos Rossi, an anti-Bolshevist Russian paper of Berlin, the workers of Afffe" angel went on strike when the dontfeS sentences of three priests and five men for having resisted the confiscnr tion of church property was afinuuncod by the soviet revolutionary cout. After the strike had continued tWW. days a telegram was received froaaflMV All-Russian central committee In ' cow commuting the sentences to thro* years' imprisonment, and work waa ro-, suraed. THE BOLSHEVIK »T ERROR ABATES But Things Are Not Yet Quite . Dprm^l in Mpsooyir. , PrirtftnOrtr Ar* Released Arte* tang Term Behind Bars--Peasants II* Volga Region Dividing Land ;"f"^1;,#itd Mapping Farnwu MftseoW.--The Bolshevist ttfcrofr has greatly slowed down In Moscow, but things are not yet quite normal. Only a few weeks ago a whole gang of Greek and other foreign peddlery who had Imprudently crossed the Russian frontier for trading purposes, were arrested at the Nikolaevsky railway station and sent to prison by the Cheka, or G. P. U. (government political department), as It is now called. They have since been released. The assistant German representative at Tlflls was arrested at the same time, and also two British subjects, since released. On the other hand, some foreigners, long In prison, are being released. One was the Chinese cook of Colonel Johnson, a British railway officer In Siberia in 1810. captured by tho BolahovllcL This cook, though unable to speak a word of Russian or English and absolutely ignorant of political Intrigue, was kept in prison by the Bolshevlkl since December, 1010, and released only recently. His case is typical of many equally Innocent. An extraordinary movement, unnoted so far by the outside press, is going on throughout Russia, particularly in the Volga region. That Is the division of land among the peasants and the mapping of every farm, thus making Russia the greatest peasant state In the world, fundamentally opposed to Bol shevlst principles. The soviet government at first Intended dividing the land Itself, but recently It found It could not handle such a big proposition, so it said to the peasants: "Divide the land yourselves." The movement began on the Volga, and many students knowing something of surveying have gone Into the country to carry out the order. All these students are getting good food for the first time in many years. Thus the muzhik becomes complete master of his farm, which can never be nationalized, as even Lenin capitulated to the peasant, and a man stronger than Lenin is not likely ever to appear again in Russifc»-r ^ -"----'-'"------»t~-" ' ^ • - Oil Wells Pay All of Long Beach's Expenses ll Help That SMI A RE you tortured ^ ache--tired, weak, all after the leant exertion? you worn out and dil _ look to your kidneyfll WImb the neys weaken, poisons In the system and cause »*|[|"i nabbing pains, headaches sad Ton feel nervous, irritable aa and likely raffer an regularities. Don't wait. Neghwt Wgf lead to eerioug kidney aicknam. tSa DOOM'* Kidney Pillt. Ooon'a Im helped thouBnna* and should he Ask your neighb<w! An Illinois Case E. Qroasmsn, tired tSroMK Wt Merchants Otissl, Effingham, III., says: "I cow hardly get arooad, my hack was s» •tiff sad sore. 1 tired and ooamft cause the si'sj-a «of my kid. read K id and bought.a supply. _ Doan'a regulated the action neyp and the ache* and pains left,' GvtDwrtat Aay9taM,a6calM DOAN'S vsa* FOSTBt-lllLMJRN CO., BUVMI0!.** GREEN MOUNTAIN ASTHMA IM at druggists. quickly in? paroiysws. 65 yearn IM IWtt St laSK experienoe te traktaMBlr si throat and I--S dlHMS* % Dr. i. a. GundTYiunintuE BOX, TrMtlaswa , causes, tnatai upon KflHai I 3. H. GUILD CO., KtfHERT, VT. •M .-'H ••'ii Jap Women Right on the Job. The Japanese women were qdkft lO take advantage of the raising ef tbo ban which formerly prevented tfcaaa'- from taking part in politics. This was; lifted on May 10, and In *he evening of the same day there was a meetiQS called at Kobe which was largely -al* , tended. The attendance was largely composed of men who were botti for and against suffrage, and the women speakers had considerable trouble in making their speeches because of'tlw Interruptions of the masculine tion. One of the orators said that women of Japan had been held for centuries by having it Impi upon them that they were first to their parents and then their husbands and finally their sons when their huepassed away. , m., ' Not in That Lextaoau " J| Sft# wrote him a note which read? "Dear John: Meet me at the tryst- l||| Ing place at 6:30 this evening, without fale." ' •• And John answered: "In that lexicon of youth which flate has reserved for a bright manhood there is no sucb word as fale.'" Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION They appreciate the big hearts of the Americans who have sent them relief--these Armenian orphans parading :%n the grounds of tho Nesr East Belief orphanage at JabaU, Syria, about twenty-five miles north of Beirut. i Buys Church to Have race "in Which to COss" Los Angeles.--Henry Singer came to Venice from New York with $230,000 in cash and bought a church In the beach city so that he could "have a place tn which to cuss." This his wife testified in Judge Hahn's court in defending a suit brought hy Ben Letter against Singer on a $1,500 note. Singer has been declared Incompetent and tbo wife is sow his guardian. fx**;:' -fijr.v-' '> m m :• j - r J """ " ' 1 1 1 , 1 1 111 i Sots World Record In Potatoea. London.--What Is claimed to be a W: ; SA'- World's record in potato growing is reported from llkton. In the pr°«ence JSC s large humber of people a farmer named F. Peel weighed potatoes totaling 324 pounds .6 ounces, all of Which wet* produced from m THIS BONIFACE RUNS THE JAIL Hrtelkeeper in Vermont Village . Has Two Kinds of Guests. Steel. Barred Entrance Stands Qrhn and Foreboding Across From Hoopitable Passageway Into CoanfortaWo Hotel Lobby. lfewfane, Vt--The county Jail and the local hotel are combined under one roof In this town, and the functions of keeper and landlord are performed by one and the same individual. The plan has its advantages and, as a matter of practical experience, works perfectly. The Windham County hotel, as the sign over the main entrance reads, la a long, two and one-half-story edifice, painted white with green shuttera after the conventional northern New England style. The northern, or main portion of tho building. Is built of brick, while th» long extension is of wood. On oaa sldo of pom passage, fadng • - &*• i'" ' " % „ - /vk ;V\ the visitor as he enters the building, is a door which stands hospitably open. It gives access to the office, with Its desk, register, hat rack, and the usual collection of armchairs. On the other side, grim and foreboding, is a steel door, closed tight, and only to be unlocked by the keeper's big key, leading to the Jail part of the establishment. H. B. Osborne, who performs th* twofold job of cartng for guests who come to him of their own free will and accord and those who are committed to his keeping by the county authorities, says he does not see anything very extraordinary In the combination and finds his dual duties all a part «r tho day*a work. Gets Thrills in Old Age. Mansfield, Eng., has a "flighty" centenrfrlan who has Heen up in the air ten times in twd years. She mad* her tenth flight at the age of one hun dred and tiflpe, accompanied by at ex-postman, C youngster of elghty-Sv* Because Signal Bill, Cal., bought by its neighbor. Long Heach. >wentiy tor public park pui p.«ses, hss become an oS producing territory'yielding Long Beaqfi royalties of $4U,0W> luouiitiy, Uie cit> wi Long Bead* U uow taking steps I® ®l away with taxation of ita citizens. It doesn't need the money. This Is a view of Signal Hill and lta oil' wella. BilMW ItfMaiSfM* POSTOFFICE NEAR NORTH POLE Canada Has Most Northerly Mail Station in World. • Mounted Police Squad Is Now Stationed C50 Miles rrom North Pole / yipMora Posts to Bo Added to ^1^5* Far North. '• Ottawa, Ont.--As the result of recent voyages of exploration in the North, Janada now claims the most northerly post office in the world--Craig Harbor, on Ellsmere island, only 850 miles from the pole. Another new post office in the northland Is at Ponds Inlet, on Baffin island. Both were established by the Canadian explorer. Captain Bernier, during the latest tour of his schooner, the Arctic. An inspector and six men of the Royal Canadian Mounted police are at Craig arbor, where they have established a poot; while four Uvea of the famous police corps represent law and order at Ponds Inlet. Sergeant Joy of the "Mounties" has been in the district a year Investigating an Eskimo murder. The Bernier expedition was sent for the purpose of taking first steps In an extensive program calculated to maintain efficiently Canada's sovereignty in the vast northern empire, known to be rich In mineral deposits. The vessel carried materials for the construction of houses and provisions for the maintenance oi posts. According to a statement Issued by i{iD Canadian department of the Interior, It Is the intention of the government to establish additional posts year by year, and to continue scientific and exploratory work. A patrol ship will visit the new northern posts annually, taking in supplies and mail to the men left there. A representative of the air board accompanied the expedition and will report on the possibilities of aviation In tho MorO. with particular refer- Firemen Extricate' Head * of Infant From Bowl Chicago.--Police and firemen were called out to extricate a baby boy who had wedged his head in a galvanized Iron bowl. The Bremen greased the boy's head and pulled off the bowL 6 Bellans Hot water $ure Relief ELL-ANS AN0 75* f*CKA0£S EVERYWHERE ence. to patrols,, survey work. axpiomuqr and Rusa Condemn Grafters to Die. Moscow.--Eleven directors and department chief* of the government textile combine have been convicted ot mismanagement and fraud on the state and sentenced tr> be shot They were accused of illegally disposing of products at less titan their cost of manufacture, causing a loss of more than $1,000,000 to the state. Thwhac boon oft trtaMor «n» week. > Lf>-:>v* ' «"£••• . - '.V!"5 *••>*. :.. -A . '•<< c,yf • ,v vy*'3: ' >f>V' **' '<» 4* "r-r-ft* isSs tifisiir ••• tUmZi smm