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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 4 Jan 1923, p. 7

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Finds Bono* of Man. ^The site of the excavations Is 'parked by several eroded mounds f|hich the scientist believes were com- ®unity houses of the Omaha or Paw- |»ee Indians. It Is his theory that these mounds were built upon the foundations of the houses of the earlier tribe, possibly ancestors of the Mid-West Indians. In support of this Belief, he has discovered that the up- Jier structure--declared by him to liave been built with mud and stone tides covered with thatch--had an entrance on the south, whereas the %wer excavations clearly show entrances from the east. Using the Darwinian accumulation theory--one inch of earth to each century-- Doctor Gilder calculates that he has reached the 4,000-years-ago surface Ifcvel and there he has discovered portions of Iranian skulls, arm and foot bones. ,'1 Peace-Loving Race, He Says. .. i; His discoveries include, asbea? dafllared by him to be roasted human (tones. From this he evolves the thefty that the early Inhabitants were aftnnibals. Some thirty or forty implements of bone and wood he has fpund are almost identic with creations unearthed by European archeologistg, who have ascribed their area f preceding the historic. "We have established the fact," de- 1 tjbe doctor, "that there lived in of the North American peace-loving race prior to the m&m the P8HM. as we comrnanly .aggiy the Inn. I deduce this fneih the fact that the houses were large enough to accommodate from ten to twelve families and that the dwellings are separated by considerable territory. If the race had been warlike, the individuals would have felt a common der,l-v for close association and would have built house* in groups for mutual protection." Prickly Pears for fthaag. Johannesburg, S. A.--Rxperfrfients on the government agricultural farm at Orootfontein proved that a sheep can exist for 280 days solely on a diet cf prickly pears and, if a little/lucerne plant is added, for 500 days without a drop of water. That beats the camel.' strutting dams; FALLS Ova* Edge 0f Roof of New AuiWJng In*; A Detrott--John Hancock, years old, of 510 Abbott street, push lag a wheelbarrow into a hoist shaft on the roof of the eight-story building at Third and Baltimore avenues, sought to save himself by letting the wheelbarrow hurtle down the shaft, but was dragged forward, and plunged over the edge of the roof and into the alley below. The wheelbarrow at the bottom of the shaft was a total wreck, but after the surgeons had looked John all over very carefully, they could not find anything wrong with him. ' . 1 Lalce Low; Blame Besi^C51" Mlddletnwn, N. T.--Shortage of wat «r in Electric lake, near Branchville, N. J., which has caused much Inconvenience to the borough lighting, plant has been traced 10 the operation of beavers. The animals have diverted a considerable amount of water from Its natural channel by con- Brm«& wSiffim v:-'M ,118 Ar# Soviet Victinis Astounding Statistics Showing Executions in Russia Since November 7, 1917. FARMERS ft HEAD OF LIST Practically Half Total Number Executed Were Farmers--Stories <"f Religious Persecutiohs Born* Out--Murder 28 Bishops. Washington, D. C.--Washington offlclals and members of the diplomatic corps are astounded at statistics received here. tending to show that 1.766,118 persons were executed in Russia by the soviet government since it came into power on November 7, 1917, to the end of 1921. This total Is given la what are claimed to be official rtatlstlcs which have been received here by the diplomatic representatives of a European country which is generally regarded Brave Boy Scout Gets Council's Medal as not unfriendly to the Russian government. Farmers Lead List. '^According to these statistics the par* -eons executed were classified by the soviet authorities as follows: # Farmers, 815,000; intellectuals, 855,- 250; soldiers, 2fi0,000; laborers, 192,- 8P0; officers, 54,650; gendarmes, 48,- 500; property owners, 12,950; police officers, 10,500; physicians, 8£00; profeasors and; teachers, 0^775; priests, 1*215; bishops, 28. The statistics did not indicate, it Is said, whether the former C*ar Nicholas and his family were Included in the fateful list. Some diplomats and officials said that while it Is Impossible either to confirm or refute it officially there was much information to support an assumption that the startling record of execution and wholesale assassination was approximately correct. May Explain Famine. The fact that practically half of the total number of persons executed were Canal * -«1M to Kaow HovSm A view of the new canal which has just been constructed between Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium. The locks and "bridges give proof of the excellent work a ceo capllshed in its construction. i m New York Pier ail: Pirates :Daring Waterfront Freebooters Are Proficient at Looting Cargo* - of Vessels. IKE 9S FORTUNE W COOPS Modern Thieves, With Value of Loot Mounting to £ifty Millions a Year, 1&4K* Captain Kidd LooH M*» % ^ ••• Mara P»kar. > \ " None of who live (Hfietly in the cramped apartments and narrow houses of New York city have any first baud knowledge of robbery, beyond enforced association with rent thieves, coal highwaymen, and mercantile crooks. They will, therefore, be surprised to discover that the populous waters about the city yield more than $50.- 000,000 every year to the modern pirat and sea rovers. All the buccaneers of termers had occasioned some surprise, j antiquity, whose names and deeds are and is interpreted by certain officials WI"itteu fast Into the texture of mem- S WlBluixi Cannon, age sixteen, Los Angeles Mgh school student, IKtHlg pffe- 'nted with the National Boy Scout council's bribery medal. A year ago at ahana bay, Hawaiian islands, William plunged into the water twice and Mrs. Martin .TheUaa and her daughter Madeline from drowning. as indicating that the conditions among the Russian peasantry have been much worse than commonly believed, and as explaining to some da> gree the ^shortage of foodstuffs la Hussla. Stories of religious persecutions la Russia seem to be borne out by the execution of 28 bishops and 1,215 priests, and unofficial reports received ory, never approached sat-h capitalistic magnitude. Government Wages Campaign. The modern thieves steal more each month than Captain Kldd is said to have accumulated out of ail his flagrancies. In the last few years the federal government has waged a campa'gn against these thieves, aided by the railroads which deliver goods to tidewater, by the diplomat furnishing the statls- ! the owners of ocean-going ships and tics are to the effect that more church officials have been executed by soviet authorities this year than in any preceding year. BIRTH RATE IN FRANCE DROPS 73,000 Excess Over Deaths Last Year - «Wa to Only 9,000, Lataat " i Records Show. K*.' Paris.--Vital statistics for tha first six .months of this year show a decrease of 25,000 births and aa Increase of 39,000 deaths over tha responding period in 1921. The excess of births over deaths, which last year was 73,000, Is only 9,000 this year. Births and deaths from January to July of this year numbeiVl 396,000 and 387,000, respectively. In 1921 there were 412,000 births and 348,000 deaths. W ' ' * harbor craft, the companies operating piers and decks and, particularly, by the great marine insurnn<« companies. A number of gangs of river and harbor pirates have been broken up and a trickle of the robbers has run into the prisons, but the losses are as great as ever and promise to increase' Probably ^three-fourths of the stealing near New York city is aimed against exports. The merchandise is consigned to Europe, to Asia, to Africa, to the furthest isles In the southern seas, and the out* ermost ports and lands. It may b& months In transit. If part of a consignment Is stolen who is to discover the crime until the bales and cases arrive at their far-off destination and an examined by receivers? Pier Officials Oo Crooked. One of the typical ways of accomplishing such robberies l| made clear Garbage Wagon Horse Is Blue Ribbon Winner Naw York.--From tha shafts of a garbage wagon to Fort Riley, Kansas, a chestnut gelding dubbed Submersible by a bock private who sometimes drove him to a post laundry wagon, leaped into fairiie at the national horse show as a blue ribbon winner, capturing the coveted championship for chargers. The former laundry horse might still have been going the dull, routine rounds at the fort but for the eye of a lover of horse flesh, who saw possibilities in the animal. Submersible was relieved of his arduous tasks, the unkempt tall and the long *• mane got better attention^ # Fourth avenue, Naw York city. Viva heavy cases of merchandise, valued at close to $40,000, were sent to a pier to be loaded for South America. The cases got Into the hands of a truckman who was working with. the harbor thieves. He took the cases to the pier, got a signed bill of lading from the shipping company, turned his truck about and drove oft the pier again without ever unloading. The trick was accomplished, of course, by inoans of collusion. One of the offlcfiis of the pier was working with the thieves and he had supplied the truckman in advance with a pass, which the guard at the land end of the pier was bound to recognise. "We found pine trees six feet in diameter growing on the ancient rock dumps. There is an area two miles long and half a mile wide, over the whole of which we found remains o< human habitations. "There were larger pits which had been dug for homes. They ranged from eight to ten feet deep and were protected by carefully built stone walls which kept them free from water. The people Incidentally used communal dwellings In some instances, as several of the pits were 20 by 40 feet, and one, which may have been a fort, was 20 by 50 feet "These people mined in solid rock the whole Island over, but did not dig their shafts more than 20 or 80 feet deep. Tljelr tools were black eggshaped stones of great hardness, such as a rewound on the north shore of Lake gpperior but not on Isle Royala." ! FIND PREHISTORIC, BUILDINGS Anelent Homes on • Isle Royala Be- / Itavad to Have Bean Uaaft by Copper Miners. Port Arthur, Ont.--The remains of homes believed to have been used by prehistoric copper miners, have been found on Isle Royale, In Lake Superior, says William P. Ferguson, archaeologist, of Franklin, Pa.' fHALES MAY BECOME EXTINCT "Mining was In progress there a| toast 1,000 years ago; bow much lotigt> y tha case of a silk goods exporter of er we do ndt know," says Ferguson, SMYRNA ARMENIAN LOSS BIQ Twenty Millionaires Pennllass 28,000 Missing or Made Prisoners by Turks. Athens^--The lossea of tha Armenian community In Smyrna total $118,000,- 000, according to a tabulation made by a committee under the direction of the bishop of Smyrna. Sixty millions of this total Is In real and personal property, and the remainder In Intangible assets like stocks and bonds lp Armenian companies operating In Asia Minor. The annual income of 8,000 Armenian families In Smyrna used to be $7,500,000, of which It Is declared that 15 per cent was given p> charities and to the church: Smyrna, which was the richest Armenian community in the world before the comlntr of the Turkish army, had 20 millionaires, but today every one of these men is virtually penniless. The largest losers are the land owners, textile Importers and exporters of fruits, cereals, carpets and opium. The number of Armenians killed in Smyrna, according to the committee, Is 4,000, and the number of persons missing or made prisoners, is stated to be 8,000 men and 15,000 women. The most prominent Armenian business men killed were Sarkls and Ka»- parian, land owners, *nd Qurualfau* and Panossian, textile merchants. Boy Kills Brother In Wild Wast Oama. Austin, Pa.--Playing '"wild west" cost the life of Raymond Koeoe, thirteen years old. Picking up a revolver which he thought was not loaded, Robert, Raymond's brother, aimed and pulled the trigger. The bullet pierced the boy's heart, killing him instantly. Valuable Industry Overworked, Says British Expert. Urgas 4.e0f*tatfon AgalnM Pirther Hunting of Whales--Present Rata of Killing Will See Extermination in Another Decade. London.--If tba killing of whalea abntinues at the present rate they #11 be exterminated before another 4fecade, is the, warning given by Sir Sidney F. Harmer, F. R. S., director of Natutrfi history department of the British museum. Recent investigation carried out In the whaling areas has revealed this alarming condition, he says. The whaling industry has survived Since the time of Alfred tha Great, despite the fact that there has naur a year known when scores wf tjpats did not leave the ports of Eng- ||Bd. Franca. Spain and Scandinavia to hunt the sea animals, Sir Sidney declared in a recent address in which he urged legislation against further hunting of whales. The Greenland variety of tha whale is already thought to be extinct, and the hunting of the last few years hss teen confined almost entirely to the southern seas. The profits derived from the killing of these cetaceans are enormous, and they Increase yearly as the retail price of the oil and bone increases. A fair-sized whale has a ton of whalabone in its moutb, which alone la worth $10,000. It also produces about HO tons of oil, worth about $100 a ton. In the season of 1915-16 the oil production from Antarctic whaling stations was 654,000 barrels, or about M,- 000 tons. During the war this oil was recognized as of vital importance in tile manufacture of nitroglycerin. It la now used in the making of soap. The principal whales caught today RUN OR RUIN THE WORLD entlst Explains the Force That Might Result From the Liberation of an Atom. l--By liberation of tha atom amy some day control a force which will perform the entire work of the world, but if It gets beyond his «entrol it may blow the earth and all tig inhabitants to pieces. Doctor Ashtan of Cambridge declared in a lecture, before the British association. The chances of such a catastrophe are practically negligible, he explained. ^ "Professor Rutherford succeeded In pranging a collision between the cen- -tfal portions of two atoms. The result «jas the transmutation of the atoms iato entirely different forms of matter. "The possibility of such transmutatk> n on any scale is of enormous hn- Jyartance. If the amount of hydrogen which goes to constitute a tablespoonfttl of water were transmuted into belium, the energy liberated would be ^00,000 kilowatt boors--one-seventh of -the total amount of electricity used In London In a day foe lighting and power purposes. "The possibility has been discussed, that this energy, when first liberated, would be out of human control. In that case, if all the hydrogen on earth were detonated into space, the successful experiment would be published throughout the entire universe as tba birth of a new star. The probability of thia catastrophe la practically negttfltMa." &$!$• Waives Menaoe Farmer4.^r. Warsaw, Ind.--Terrorized by the appearance of a flock of wolves driven from a swamp near here by fire one morning recently, fanners kept their children Indoors while others, with rifles and shotguns, accompanied their youngsters to school. Driven of school backs Also were armed. While Roy Tople went to a Held at the edge of the* swamp to dig potatoes s targe hound accompanying him was killed by six wolves. Cattle, sheep and hogs recently have been attacked by wolves. Families were organizing j $25,000, for a wolf hunt in whlc*- several ho* j were dev dred persons will participate. I *1?.* 8Pecle® °* rorquals, or flnwhales, thfe blue whale and the sperm ,atter• the hl""ing of which is principally conlined to Americans^ not only gives sperm oil but often contains ambergrig, which Is sold at $20 an ounce and used In the perfumery trade. The oil used for lubricating the wheels of watches comes from the dolphin and la tha finest oil known. WANTS 13-CENT STAMP REISSUED AIR SERVICE FOR HONDURAS Government Encourages Ambltiaua Plans for Mail and Passenger Transportation. Tegucigalpa. Honduras.--Tha capital cities of the republics of Central which was recently abandoned. College Class Shows How U. S. History Is Bound Up in "13." Paat OWes Department Petitioned to laeaa Stamps of That Denoininh •» tlon Again--Gives Some Interesting Facts. ^ Washington.--Postmaster General Work has received from members of the American history class of the Shepherd college state normal school, Shepherdstown, W. Va., a petition that the Post Office department again Issue stamps of the 13-cent denomination, America soon will be linked together by airplane service for passengers and malls, if ambitious plans to this end, encouraged by the government of Honduras, are carried out successfully. An Italian aviator, Luis Stomaloin, la now here with six Italian and thraa French planes. H<ydni»),rt^nr are at Tegucigalpa. Finds Her Lost Diamond In Chicken's Gizzard ' Baymond. Wash.--In the gizzard of a chicken that she was preparing for dinner, Mrs. D. B. Rooney of Zebam found a diamond which was lost two months ago from tba setting of a ring she wore. The petition declares the entire history of the United States is bound up in the figure 13 and gives the following historical reasons why the 13-cent Stamp should be Issued: ' America was discovered on tin night of the 13th of the month. Tha republic orlglpflUy consisted of 18 enkatfaa. . f "v" f The first official flag bad 18 stars and IS stripes. The American eagle requires 13 letters to spell It, as does also the motto, "E Plurlbus Unum." The first word to pass over the transatlantic cablc was transmitted on the d3th of the month. Thfe silver quarter la written all arvar with 13. Around the head of Liberty are 13 stars; the eagle bears an olive branch with 13 leaves in one claw and 13 thunderbolts in the other. On his breast is a shield bearing 13 bara and in his beak is a ribbon bearing the motto with 13 letters, each wing has 13 feathers and It takes 13 letters to spell quarter dollar. „ There are 18 letters tap Ja^n Paul Jones' name. There were 18 ships In tha first American navy. Perry's victory on Lake Brie was won on the 13th of the month. The Stars and Stripes were raised over Fort Smnter on the 13th of the month. • : "",v- T^\ '? General Pershing Arrived In Franca on Jube 13. 1917. The ' Thirteenth amendment to tha Constitution freed the slavfes. It would not cost any more to maka a 13-cent stamp than any other one. ,The petition to Postmaster General Work also suggests several designs for the stamp, all commemorating the 13 colonies. * " - • "n> •„ n: ji'i.'j .i - Woman, 62 Years Old, ! Mother of Quintuplet# tifo Ernest C. Levy of New Tork city, president of tha American Public Health aaso> elation, announcee what he terms the strangest case known to medical science. It was tha birth to a sixty-two-year-old woman in Venezuela of five normal children withfn eight hour& The mother worked as a laborer in a mine until two hours bofore the blrthsT Was Milt Wdl krlyfe L HA. \umf* YafrfaUi CMBpand Tima, Ohio.--"Indeed, yoar medicine i Is all yoo aay it is! I had very severe troubles such aa wo> ? often have, and C: I do no hs«?y? ; •->! work. I was aide hi f> - 4 ym, «i ' ads. I finally aedtiea . , to taka Ma E. t' . Pinkham'a Vegeta- ble 1.1am. my o which I haven'tdona form-1 oral y&ara, and aaift walk long ^stances without thoee drag-1 gihg pains and weak feelings. TbsTif* etanle Compound is fine, and I natarl forget to say a good word for it toother, / women when they say tbey need some* «/ thing."--Mrs. G. W. Ham., 639 Haxe?' - Avenue, Lima, Ohio. *• £ ' J} There are many women who find their »•' iilL household duties almost unbearable ow- j. % * <'J . fng to some weakness <v derangement. | Tha trouble may be slight, yet cause " such M pains, weakness and'a nm-down _ Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-; pound is a splendid medicine for such conditions It has in many caaea relieved thoae symptoms by removing the cause of them. Mrs. Hall'a experience is but ana of many. „BETTER DEAD IJfeia a burden when the bufly is racked with pain. Everything worries and the victim becomes despondent and downhearted. To bring back the sutubine tabs LATHROPMI "m Vfettational remedy of HaUeadfomvcf > ; •' 200 yean; it la an enemy cf afi paina resulting from kidney, fiver and uric acid troubles. All druggists, three sises. GoM HAARLEM OIL Carfare. , For hours they had been together, on her front porch. The moon cast .' Its tender gleam down on the young} and handsome couple who sat strange--j* ' ly far apart. He sighed. She t Finally: ' ' ' ^ "I wish I had money, dear," ha aaM* <, . ftl "I'd travel." ' ... \ "Impulsively, she slipped her fcaadO.- - into his; then, rising swiitly, she ( ' sped in the house. Aghast, he looked) st his hand. In his palm iky a nickaL %i. 'v --Harvard Lampoon. Time Drags. "Mother will be here this afternoon for a few days." Husband11 *That% ,4- the way it always seems.'" Habit Is a stubborn thing when poasessed by a stubborn person. Divorced and Remarried in Five Daya. Belle Plalne. Ia.--Divorced and tben remarried within five days 's the unusual record of Mr. and Lirt. Elmer R, Rusk. The Iowa law prohibits divorced persons remarrying within six months, so the couple crossed Into Missouri for the second ceremony. Tenants Get Landlord's Estate. Los Angeled.--Tenants of George Leow, who dl were his jk. '.i^L '<"• f '• ' ntly, learned they < estate, valued at five houses, which families occupying ived by no knows BANDIT POPULAR HERO IN CUBA Popularity With People Makee f ^ Hit Capture Difficult 1 Cscapes From Mantansas Jail t Blowing Hola In Wall at, Mlddaj^ ftaateneee Totaling 200 Yea«i i Hang Over His Head. 4^ Havana, Cuba.--With sentences totaling 200 years In prison hanging over bis head and 250 "troops and rural guards at his heels, Ramon Arroylto, Cuba's modern Jesse James, is still at large. His latest feat of escaping from the Jail at Mutanzas through a hole blown In the thick walls at •sldday has again made him a popular hero and added to the difficulties of the authorities, for they.claim nobody will help them follow his trail. Arroylto took to the „higb road ed, be operated In every part of the Island before he went into retirement after' two years of hectic endeavor, and with a fortune variously estimated at from $50,000 to $200,000. But last spring, while very prosaically traveling from Matansas to a nearby village to attend a cock fight he was captured by two rural guards, acting as a train escort, who held him first for carrying arms without a license, but loaded him with chains when they discovered be was the notorious outlaw. Brought to Havana, Arroylto was greeted by thousands at the railway station arid his trip to the city Jail resembled a triumphal procession. While being tried and convicted on numerous counts he perfected his plans for breaking loose from Jail, and only the accidental presence of a mounted policeman on the harbor side of the Jail prevented a clean getaway where he was lodged to await trial for kidnaping, is credited to a former pal, Julio Ramirez, whom Arroylto once rescued from jail at Jaruco by holding up the warden and turnkeys single-handed in broad daylight. Aid Breathing M Hours; Lives. New York.--After 06 hours of artificial respiration, Simon Shulin, 10, of Brooklyn, with paralysis resulting from a broken neck, regained his normal breathing and is on the road to recovery, according to a statement Issued by the orthopedic hospital authorities. The boy sustained a broken neck when he dived into shallow water at Coney island. A MAN WHO BECAME FAMOUS r, 1 Doctor R. V. pierce, whoae plctara e « }. appears above, was not only a success- ,i * * 2 ful physician, but also a profound student of the medicinal qualities of | •* Nature's remedies, roots and herbs, and by close observation of the meth- . ods used by the Indians, he discovered g.if. ilf their great remedial qualities, espe- 4^ daily for weaknesses of women, and ® after careful preparation succeeded In giving to the world a remedy which ; J has been used by women with the beat results for half a century. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is still In great demand, while many other so called v "cure-alls" have come and gone. The reason for Its phenomenal success is ... because of its absolute purity, and Dr. Pierce's high standing as an honored citizen of Buffalo is a guarantee of all that Is claimed for the Favorite Pre- ; script I on as a regulator for the U)i peculiar to women. Send 10c for trial pkg. to Dr. Pierced Invalids Hotel. Buffalo. N. Y. .i: 1 about three years ago, and If the toldupa, ktdnaplngs and other unlawful ' three months ago. „ acta attributed to him at/iweli found- J His escape from tha Mstantaa Jail, Asks Planes Keep Away From Chars*, 8anta Monica, Cal.--An appeal to city authorities to prohibit airplanes from soaring over his church during services has been made by Rev. W. a Cornett, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. He says the splutter ot tha engines throws the hymns sung his choir sadly out of harmony; Comfort Your Skin With Cuticura Soap and Fragrant Takaa 2Sc Qtiaiwaainf 7$ $$£, Tafcs»Sc. Ntw Hair rt M ioM. r,w

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