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Vf ^ THE McttBlfBY PLAINBEALEB, MeHBKtT, TT.r. $$0; ^ QmcreU protects against FiWt Tomqjfo and JEarthquaV 4 i i "V '&• Ask Dad- See If He Knows \ Father sol mother are always think- , log ol your welfare--there isn't a thing within reason they wouldn't do for you. But they may unknowingly have ben risking your life every day. When you are at dinner tooigjht with ^«dt flair him fViia qwstion: "Dad, is our school £resaie?*» Perhaps he won't be able to an«wtt*-- he may not know. x • Ask dad if he knows that somewhere In the country a schoolhouse burns every day. Ask him if he knows that onethird ol all the schoolhouses in the country are nothing better than firetraps--maybe your school is one of them. Of course dad knows that buildings can be built that will not burn. They are being built everywhere, every day. If your school is firesafe, you're lucky. If it isn't, ask dad what he is going to do about it. You have a right to know. • • • The highest type of firesafe construe? , tion is concrete. Our illustrated booklet * "Concrete Schoolhouses"contains a wealtp ; of information on firesafe construction with which every parent ought to b§ familiar. Write today far your fret cop% *Bwld So It Won't Burn" PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION 111 W. Washington St. CHICAGO ^National Organization to Improve mtd - Extend the Uses of Concrete OPFICB8 IN 30 CITIES .3 ' ffllCT/Qfr Tbtlcwii'LjftaiihNat friction top. Buy to open «m| cloac. Always seals tight ud aafe. Soap lc a Bar Make it yourself this easy way--No Boiling! Now make your own hard i without boiling. Use grease yon otherwise waste. Save 5 to 6 cents a bar. It's easy with good Lewis' Lye. Actually easier than putting op fruit. Get a can of Lawis'Lye from yoar Grocer today. Full directions coma like Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co. Nothing take* the place of with it, how to make fine pure homemade soap without boiling. Write today for FREE 56-page book TheTruth ASoat a Lye. Givm* over 50 tested ways to save money and labor with Lawis'Lye. Just send a postcard. No obligation whatever. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania LEWIS'LYE Home Stayero Ton can appreciate the great change tn the lata hundred and fifty years When yon remember that on his mld- 'aflght ride Panl Revere found most of the folks at home. Too never can telL Lots of people who are sure they are right don't go ahead. First Time Teller The first dated scientific Instrument known Is a Persian portable astrolabe used by travelers to calculate tlma In the year 084.--Science Service. The city of Rome is planning the erection of a municipal bath house, built on the lines of the ancient Roman baths. Star Cuftur $393, f. * f loating, Mich, MORE Lowcost Transportation^ Star® Cars Faicssi /. a. k Lmathg, COMMERCIAL CHASSIS, . ROADSTER e• • »- ^"-Y • TOURING . ... i # S COUPSTER . , . , , . COUPft • • • • • CO ACM , • • • • SEDAN e „ . . . . . . $m 1325 |525 )593 1675 1693 >775 DURANT MOTORS, Inc. 250 West 57th Street, New York Genera) Sales Dept.--1819 Broadway, Nrw York Ptt/frt m Sennet Statttm thrtugfunt ikt Votttd Stout Cantd* s*d Mtxu* * Pkun* EtaSwtfc, N J Laa*tafc Mkh Oakland, C*. Toroaao, Oat. Flames Destroy a New York Pier1 n ' <*-..?• \ ' * Scene during the big fire that wrecked the Furneaa Bermuda pier at Fifty- Ifth street and the Hudson river, New York. for Old Estates Some Seek Ancestors' Properly, Others Money. New York.--The recent court action brought in Washington, In an effort to clear the title of an lnch-and-ahalf strip of land held by an asylum for 58 years is only one of a series of lawsuits involving old estates and wills made scores of years ago. A suit which bore striking similarity to this and which was likewise brought up In the nation's capital about a year ago involved a claim for property in Maryland and the District of Columbia worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Mrs. Nellie Drake Pascoe, the plaintiff, said that Just before her father died he told her of the possibility of her becoming immensely wealthy and gave her documents showing that what are now the District of Columbia and Prince George's county were at one time the property of James Anthony Drane II, who came to America with Lord Baltimore's party in 1634. Aoraaga Not Known. Drane, according to one of the papers, bought land in the neighborhood of Beltsvllle, Md., and settled in Prince George's county. How many acres this property included is not definitely known, but it was supposed to take in part of Washington^ and It also extended five miles north and ten miles west. Although no information exists that would throw any light on Just how the land got out of Drane's possession. It Is believed by the claimant that "squatters" took It. Although Washington has had its Share of such cases, it cannot compare with New York city as the claimants' paradise. It is estimated that at 'east one suit is brought every year in an effort to recover old Manhattan estates. In July, 1924, a New Jersey woman, eighty-two years old, announced that she Intended to try to obtain a portion of the land supposed to have been left by Annke Jans Bogardus. This myth, like many others of its kind, originated In the tales that ancient estates remain unsettled on Manhattan island. The myth, however, had its Inception in real history, for Anneke Jans Inherited the land from her first husband, Roelo Jans, who purchased It In 1686. According to this story, she left the property under a 99-year lease to its occupants, with a clause that It would revert to her heirs when the period expired. A will Is supposed to have been made, but actually the property was transferred to the governor of the province, and later Queen Anne presented It to Trinity church. Other Claimants. Two jhore claimants for Manhattan land were lured In February of the same year, when a woman In the South wrote to E. L. Brooks, assistant solicitor of the Title Guarantee and Trust company, In regard to ten acres, now densely populated, which she thought she had a right to claim. The other claim was concerned with an area in Greenwich village, including Washington square. Other ancient lawsuits based, however, on stronger evidence, such as a deed or will, have lately been fought and won, after many years of litigation costing thousands or millions of dollars. In December last, for Instance, a woman at eighty-three won Suicide Warns Papers and Cops of His Plans El Centra, Gal.--X. laie Zamora, forty-five, press agented his ow^ death here when he notified the papers and the sheriff's office he was going td take his own Ufa. lie wrote a glowing description of himself, then concluded with a statement that he was in 111 health and friendless and wanted to die. He gave a messenger boy $20 to deliver the note to the sheriff and triplicate carbon copies to the local newspapers. Officers hurried to the hotel where Zamora was staying and broke down the door just aa he died from taking cyanide. R W a will light extending over thirty-eight years by finally establishing her rights as legitimate daughter of George M. Chapman, who died In 1887. Another aged woman early this year obtained, at the age of sixty-six and after waiting near 15 years, $6,242 left her by an aunt. The money had been placed In a bank to her credit, but it was brought out at the trial that the niece had not known of the deposit or of the existence of the book among her aunt's effects. Electricians' Union Bans Cursing on Job Montreal.--The modest claim of the "well-bred captain of the Pinafore that bad language or abuse I never, never use," shortly may be the proud boast of the workmen of the Montreal Light, Heat and Power company, If the efforts of R. Blanchett and W. P. Lavertue, president and secretary of the electricians' union, are successful. In a communication to the company they announce that the union has resolved to place a ban on the use of bad language by its members, "while on the job" and they ask that the company co-operate in the enforcement of their resolutions. The public is being asked not to Irritate workmen or tempt them to use "cuss words." 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Kick Causes Stroke Cedar Rapids, Iowa. -- Laurence Heaton, twenty-two, son of a farmer of, Elberon, is in a local hospital, suffering from paralysis on the right side, caused by the kick of a horse. The boy was harnessing a team when one of the horses gave him a vicious kick. . J. U'Vifii. li I long wear means less cost ' RUFF-SHOD' Boots will give you a new standard of value. There is longer wear. There is greater comfort. The Converse "foot-shape" last is the final word in foot ease--no breaking at instep no shucking at the heel. The heavy extension sole and exclusive Stubgard* toe saves the uppers--from wear and leaks. CABOOSE--The best known and longast wearing work nibber mad a. (Idantifyitby the White Top Band. ' Thara ara Converse "Big C'shoaa fipr every member of the family. Look for the 'Big C' on the anla COHVOtSB RUBBER SHOE co, m W.Jackaoo -- Tfim.il. Su the Shows That Winds Blow Up and Down Accident to Shenandoah Due to Vertical Blast. Washington.--That winds blow np and down as well as horlxontally was forcibly brought home to many people for the first time by the destruction of the Shenandoah. Far from being unusual, such "vertical winds" He at the heart of some of our best-known weather phenomena, according to a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society. "Every flash of lightning that you see, or that you hear as thunder, and every pellet of ^hall that falls is probably due to a "vertical wind,'" says the bulletin. "These are the fruits of rather violent upward and downward blasts. If you consider as well the gentler rising and falling currents--the 'vertical breezes,' let us say--you must take pretty much the whole field of weather for your sphere. Important Weather Factor. . 1 "Practically every surface wtad, whatever be Its direction or speed. Is moving along to replace air which has risen. Clouds, too, 'are built by rising ODD TREE BRINGS EIGHT-YEAROLD CHILD A NICE NEST EGG $at» f£,000 for Early R*dd« ing Apple Limb. Mulllca Hill, N. J.--Through a quirk In the process of the evolution of an apple tree, an eight-year-old boy here has, on deposit for him In the bank $6,000--a sum that has been set aside to give him a college education. A biological sport is the term horticulturists and agriculturists apply to the chance production that gave the boy the money. "Peculiar," said neighbors around here, casting a passing look at the valuable apple tree. Recently the biological sport, or natural phenomenon, came in for Its share of acclaim, when fruit growers, termers, agriculturists and horticulturists from many states Journeyed to the farm of Lewis Mobd, several miles outside of Mulllca HI1L Almost 1,000 persons gathered in the BO-acre orchard to look at the phenomenon that appeared on Mood's farm. A graceful, low-sweeping apple tree, with Its limbs heavy with the burden of green fruit. In appearance like any other apple tree. At first there seems little difference between this tree and hundreds of trees in the orchard, except that it Is confined In a wire cage. Closer observation reveals a splash of red among leaves and the green apples that hang from the bough. Then It Is seen that one of the limbs has apples already red. while all of the other apples on the tree are green. For that one limb, 00 which t]ae apples color three weeks In advance of all the other apples on the tree, a western nursery firm four years sgo paid Mood the sum of $6,000. Now with grafting to other trees the firm will be able to supply thousands of fruit growers with small trees of the early coloring fruit. Eleven years ago Mood found red apples on off limb of a tree bearing fruit still green. He called In neighbors. They thought nothing of it, but he realized the commercial Importance of the development. Apples that developed a rich, red color before they hud ripened could be picked at once, kept through the winter and sold at a- higher price in the market. He got In touch with the nurserymen from whom he had purchased the tree. They came East to see the phenomenon, and four years ago purchased the limb for $6,000. This sum Mood immediately put aside for the education of his son, Lewis, Jr. air. The elusive little circles on weather maps that denote 'lows' and 'highs' are In final analysis the representation of upward and downward air currents. Where cold air from the upper regions flows down It compresses the surface atmosphere and produces a 'high'; where the air, because of heat, Is rising, It relieves the pressure and forms a 'low.' Most weather phenomena are due to the Interplay of forces between tilghs' and 'lows,' which bring In their train changes in wind, temperature and humidity. "The most spectacular of the effects of •vertical' winds are thunderstorms. As the tracer bullet marks the flight of projectiles for a marksman, so the great, towering thunder head' marks the upward rush of the invisible wind. Often these thunder clouds may be seen growing before one's eye. Seldom is the growth slow and orderly. More often It Is violent, and the upsurging clouds appear to boll madly. Thunderstorms are usually local arfalrs and the wind that has rushed upward must come quickly earthward again to restore the atmospheric balance. In the rear of thunderstorms, therefore, 'strong downward currents are usually encountered. It was such an upward and then downward rush of air, apparently, that played an Important part In the destruction of the Shenandoah. Where Lightning Comes From •"tTntll comparatively recently the origin of the tremendous charges of electricity In a thunderstorm baffled science. Now It Is pretty generally believed that they are caused by the upward gusts of air--that these are in truth the dynamos of the sky. The building up of the electrical charges Is supposed to be brought about by the gusts blasting raindrops to pieces, the smaller fragments carrying negative charges upward while the large droplets with positive charges remain behind. Hostile forces are established jind when the strain becomes too great It Is relieved by a lightning flash. When the negatively charged upper cloud floats away before the strain Is relieved the flash la to the earth. "'Vertical winds' are also credited with the production of hall, and their onionlike .structure bears out the theory. Raindrops carried upward by the less violent gusts, according to this hypothesis, are frozen In the cold upper air. Sinking in the boiling cloud, they acquire more moisture on the lower levels and are again carried to the freezing region. On the number of skyward trips made before they escape from the boiling cloud and fall earthward depends the size of the hailstones." Rubbed Marital Maze Peter Jersen of Hammersmith, England, recently married Miss M. Chandler, whose sister and brother were married to the groom's, brother and sister. CONVERSE LINE A man has quite a romantic If he is thrilled by the screech owl's notes and the mocking bird's, too. DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN Aspirin Markpd With "Bayer Cross" Has Been Proved 8afe by Millions. Warning! Unless you see the name "Bayer" on package or on tabletB you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 25 years. Say "Bayer" when you buy Aspirin. Imitations may prove dangerous.--Adv. The Old and the New The old-fashioned girl who used to bring in the milk bottles when she woke up now has a daughter who brings them in when she Is going to retire.--Providence Tribune. Cutieurs Comforts Baby's 8kln When red, rough and itching, by hot buths of Cuticura Soap and touches of Cutlcura Ointment. 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HAIR BALSAM I Beaton* IHnfcng Diem Hair MBtS Baltimore Boys Sentenced to Form Ball Team Baltimore.--Nine boys, whose ages ranged from nine to fourteen, were sentenced to form a baseball team, when they appeared before Magistrate Lasch in Juvenile court on a disorderly charge. "I will dismiss you boys this time because you haven't done anything <ffeal bad. However, form a ball team and keep out of trouble," the magiatrate said. "There are nine of you here, Just enough to start a ball team." Upon promises to do so the disorderly charge against them was dismissed and the boys smilingly left the courtroom. Saved by Blind Girl Yonkers, N. Y.--A blind girl, whose name was not disclosed, was the, heroine of a fire in the dormitory of' tb« novelist. the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind. Awakened from her sleep by the smoke, the girl aroused four elderly blind women In the dormitory rooms and then shouted an alarm, as a result of which 29 children marched from buildings to safety. 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