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Mtt Street Mm Maft Putt Hot Qui«tu» «i Son Wh» Was too mnmh.4, r v . STORT IS SSBinOWL 'ti Itephsw of Colonel Guffey, Whe Made " i^and LMt M*ny Fortunea, Him«K DM Same Very Spectacular ' i Thing* With ON ttecks. • York.--When the directors re- Ifgned the other day and the Tlde- Water Oil company, a Standard Oil subsidiary, thus got control of the Gnlfey-GUlespie OU company, Insiders knew Wall street once more had written "finis" to the career of a man who ft>lt ott mpre than he could chew." The victim was Joe Guffey, matte formally Joseph P. Guffey of Pitta- Jbtargh, and fully described thus: President of the Guffey-Gillespie Oil company, with leases covering 220,000 Jtre8 In the Mid-Continent and Texas ^President of the Atlantic Gulf Oil Corporation, controlled by the Atlantic,* Oulf & West Indies Steamship lines • fnd operating around Tnmplco. • President of the Colombia syndicate, jMntrolled by Guffey-Glllesple %nd ^Agwi" and owning a million acres of oil lands along the Magdalena river in flbuth America. ^ Director of Reliance Life Insurance .company, and several Pittsburgh ifc&nks. Democratic national committeeman JftPom Pennsylvania, promoter and .^angel" of A. Mltchel Palmer's last ,Residential boom. Former director of salja for the •alien property custodian. •;-v. • Unele Lost Many Fortunes. Back of this announcement lies ft "•lory seldom equaled in American business and political biography. It parallels the story of another Guffey of -A preceding generation. For J06 Guffty Is a nephew of old Col. James M. Guffey, also of Pittsburgh, said to have made and lost more fortunes in oil than any other person in the United s Btates. By 1919, when the partnership was .Unorganized as the Guffey-GUlespie Oil ? Company, it had become one of the largest in the mldcontinent field. In addition, Guffey ft Gillespie, with othr m ;• Pittsburghers, acquired 12(^000 acres of oil lands in Colombia, and the Colombia syndicate was formed. Then "Agwl" entered the Mexican field, organized the Atlantic Gulf Oil company, and elected Guffey president. Boosted Stock to $30. Last summer Guffey found the bears out fanning for Guttey-GiUespie stock, although it had earned $9 a sharl the year before. Guffey began the fight which ended Tuesday In total demit. Putting in almost every dollar he had and borrowing $2,000,000, he formed a pool to "peg" the stock with New York and Pittsburgh friends. Late In February Guffey's pool tried to rout the bears and boosted the stock from 22 to 30. The effort exhausted his strength, and the bears, buying In New York and selling by wire In Pittsburgh, flooded the latter market. When the price reached 20 the Pittsburgh banks called their loans. The Tidewater OU company took over the stock held as collateral and bought enough store to glv* It London.--Dr. A. Pannekeck, a Dutch scientist, has been demonstrating the existence of an incOnctUably vast object in the he£vtns. Its mass, he says, is 20t0iil9,0t)0,000 times greater than that Of the sun. He calls It a celestial gas or dust cloud. Doctor Pannekeck says this huge body is situated In the constellation of Taurus and his estimate of its size is greater than many estimate* of .the combined mass of the whole universe itself. v | .1 !====s===5=====sss^r==s==s control. Guffey, Gillespie and the old directors attempted to fight for places In the reorganized company. Tidewater asked for their restghatlena, and called for a receiver. M ' Stevenson's Prayer. *feive as to awake with smilta, five us tt> labor smiling. As the sun lightens the world, so let our loving kindness make bright the house of ouij habitation.--Stevenson. < I ' 4 Elixir of Youth . Found in Chicago Decrepit Old John SMbec Took But One Dose and Did Some Great Stunts. OF "DICCT STAR . I •>,. 8enile Cripple Overtook Trolley Car and Would Have Defeated Poliee* ~ flivver If the Street Crovtgt , t f a d N o t H a m p e r e d * * Chicago.--John Shebec, who fi' years old, discovered the elixir of youth the other day. Before taking he was stooped, lame, decrepit, hopelessly senile. After one dose he was able to hop a speeding street car, outrace a flivver, and stand on his ear. Mr. Shebec was first observed by Detective Sergeants Blerndt and Janaccak at Western avenue and Madison street. He was limping. "Oi*e me a quarter for carfare. Keeping the Czech and Magyar Apart §>' f' Only at certain hours on Sunday may persons cross this bridge. Hint then h'HBder strict supervision, for it is the bridge between Hungary and Caecho- Slovakia, over the Qonau ri*er,at Kxtergon, Hungi^-( please," he asked them. Blerndt started to explain that transportation In this City of the Horn may be purchased, theoretically, at a nickel a ride --and, if one Is traveling in the suburbs outside the precincts of the city hall, at 8 cents. He meant to follow up this information with a remark that the old man's two-bit demand whs a bit exorbitant. He was Interrupted, however, by a citizen who burst from the corner saloon. He Seee a Star. "You old rascal, I just gave yoq carfare," shouted the maa. "Aha,* quoth Blerndt, "come with me." He exhibited his star. One carnal glance at the glittering elixir worked a marvelous transformation. It penetrated the ancient's system lnstanter and Invested his feet with a seat for voyage. The next Instant Shebec was ten yards away. The Instant after that he was scarcely discernible for dust. "Holy haste!" exclaimed Blerndt. That guy's exceeding the speed limit. What he needs Is a pair of brakes." The detectives jumped Into their fllwer and tore after the vunishlng Shebec. About a block ahead was a street car, traveling at the rate of numerous miles per hour. _ It saw the ancient chasing it and trljjgl.lp^get • "Too DumdS^lew." V No use!, With an easy leap Shebec had achieved the step. Then he looked behind him and saw that the police flivver was making better than the street car. "You're too durned slow," said he to tfie conductor--and off he jumped. The particular section of the metropolis Into which the ancient leaped was a bit populated. The abundant citizenry impeded bis progress and made straight running Impossible. In the zigzagging which ensued the 'flivver had time to catch up and Shebec was apprehended, In his pockets were found twenty $1 bills and about $5 la coins. "I think Pll enter that bird In the Indianapolis sweepstakes next year,' said Blerndt at the station. "He runs without gas and never has tire trouble. He's the fastest thing I ever mp «a panta." PROFITEERS ANGER TRAVELERS #- Extortion Practiced in Arouses Americajfc. Paris jfrench Authorities Tell ThimHie v Remedy Is In Their Own Handa. Parla.--The effect of the high coat at living In Paris upon tourist trade, as indicated by the growing frequency of complaints of extortion by Americans visiting France, is occupying the «pttentlon of the government I The authorities hold that the tourists have the cure largely in their own hands, exaggerated prices being doe In large part to Indiscriminate spending by visitors; aided by the spendthrift tendency of French profiteers. • It is admitted that abuses practiced In amusement resorts, where ' peals, wine and dancing are provided, r^ive their effect upon prices In general, but how to correct that evil without discouraging the most profitable trade Is a question. Undersecretary of State Palsant. discussing the question with Americans, proposes publicity as a remedy. He has invited American visitors to join In a protest which will be published In the Paris press, and he also will take up personally individual cases of extortion brought to bis attention. The moat frequent causes of complaint are charges for lodging* In hotels and apartments. Mr. Palsant told the Americans he had decided to ask hotels to publish their rates in the papers. This remedy would not, however, affect apartments, which are the subject of profiteering on a scale hitherto unknown. There are very few an furnished apartments to let, according to the real estate agencies; as fast as vacated by tenants, they are transformed,. Into furnished apartments and either Jet at rentals of from 300 to 1,000 per cent higher than the average before the war for furnished apartments of the same class, or rented at an Increase of 200 to 300 per cent above the average for unfurnished apartments, with the proviso that the tenant buy the furniture at excessive figures. ^ , ----- Wool Clip of West Winnipeg, Man.--The woof ctlp "for western Canada this year will be In the neighborhood of 5.000,000 pounds. Alt>erta's wool clip is estimated at 2,200,000, which Is about the same as last year. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia are expected to contribute about 8,000,000 pounds to the total. $30,000 Home for White Rata, New York.--A $90,000 home for white rats will soon be erected by the Wlstar Institute of Anatomy. The building will be entirely devoted to the housing of the thousands of rodents kept by the Institute for It biological r e s e a r c h work. •? •" WANTS TO LOSE HIS LIONS tMntr Asks Court to Rid HlSfl of Animals Taken for Oetot Nfew Haven, Ootm.--Instead of having » white elephant on his hands, Felix O. Rustand, a former circus and Coney Island animal trainer, has lions, but he Insists that there Is no difference- in respect fo the consequences. -Rustand attached the lions and took H|em from Bridgeport to his Short Ileach shore home to satisfy a claim against lime. Irene Castello, a perfarmer, who was exhibiting than. He appeared before Judge John Booth to seek reUef through a court order, alleging that it was costing more to keep the animals than to lose the claim against Mme. Castello, as the lions were "eating their heads off." He insisted that they should be Classed as "perishable," subject to Mgy* T" """!n v . . mmi f>--MHif 10* Booth I»mn a»cUlQ». waters- . • •• THIS MAKES MR. HAYS His Policy W Humanizing the Peat* offloe Department Results In Saving • Woman's Life. Washington.--Postmaster Hays probably is the happiest man in Washington today. His slogan "Humanize the Postoffice Department" has been carried out to what appears to be the limit. Here is the story: In a little Nebraska farmhouse a woman lay dying for lack of medical attention. The nearest physician was Dr. Selby at North Platte. True, North Platte was only two miles away, but between the dying woman and the physician was the South Platte river, flooded to a raging torrent that had swept away every bridge near and tar. Dr. Selby had telephoned to every town within a radius of twenty miles. At each turn It was the same disheartening story--bridges gone and Just when all hope seemed gone. Dr. Selby remembered something. Somewhere he had read that the postmaster general was "humanizing" the poetoffice department He rushed to the telephone and asked C. A. Sluder, manager of the air mall field at North Platte, to take him across the river In an airplane. "Sorry," said Sluder, "but I couldn't without getting authority from Washington first." "But the woman Is dytafc" the physlcian urged. "In that case," replied Sluder, "we will take you first and get the authority afterward." 80 it was that the life of a woman in an humble Nebraska farmhouse was saved just because the postoffice department has been humanized. And so it is that Postmaster General Hays Is probably the happiest man In Washington. Ufe In Balance for Several Day& He leaves Hospital Two j Weeks Later; OT WHILE AT PLAY Doctors Say It la the Moat Remarkable Caae In Hlatory of Hospital-- •oven Buckehot Pellets Upds*t In Heart Mueclee. Uortlfioatton Over Automobile Accident Causes Colorado Boy ^ir*Yake His Ufe. p-f r ^ ^ Bohlder,' Colo.--Mortification" oiw an automobile accident for which he was held largely responsible and a subsequent reprimand from his father, is believed to have prompted C. W. Lawrence, eighteen-year-old Boulder lad, to take his own life. Young Lawrence disappeared after he had been held in connection with the serious injury of William R. Brownell, twenty-two^ In an auto crash at Fourteenth and Pearl streets. His body was found by his brother Paul, eleven years old, in a shed in the rear of the Lawrence home, 2245 Mapleton avenue. A lullet wound was Intlicted In his right temple and a 32 Colt au Coroner A. E. Howe, who took charge of the body, declared young Lawrence had been dead several hours. Neighbors reported that a shot Paterson, N. J.--Alive with seven pellets at buckshot la the muscles of his heart, and apparently suffering slight, If an^ ill effects, is the remarkable case of twelve-year-old Lawfence Setterfleld, of Bloomingdala. N.4 tomatic Tay at "his side! 3., according to doctors of the Peterson General hospital. The boy was accidentally shot on May 1. He left the hospital two weeks later, having prevailed on his parents and the staff doctors to let him do so, declaring he was all right, and did not want to stay Indoors any longer. Ills pleading won the consent of the attending surgeons, but not before a further X-ray examination was made. The result showed the pellets all remaining In the muscles of the heart They could be seen moving around when the boy was taking long breaths, according to the statement made by Dr. Samuel Thompson, of the hospital staff. . Remarkable Caee. » "When this little fellow waa first brought in," Dr. Thompson said, "he hovered between life and death for several days. When he left here he was apparently none the worse for his accident. I find his case one of the most remarkable ever entered In this hospital, or thbt has occurred |n Passaic county during my memory It Is almost beyond belief." On Sqnday, May 1, the boy, with his two cousins, Thompson Yatman, six years old, and William Yaturn, fourteen years old, were playing around the grounds of the Yatman home in Bloomlngdale. Thompson went into the Yatman barn and brought out an old shotgun belonging to his father. It.was the old story, "we did not know It was loaded." % * The children began the usual boyish game of "bandits." The old shotgun in the hands of Thompson, youngest of the three, was discharged. Part of the load of shot struck William Yatman In the left leg and a scattering of the shot penetrated Lawrence Setterfield's left side, lodging In the heart muscle. Name "qayer" on Genuine Hli Body Was Found by His Life Hung in Balance. • Hearing the report, the father of Thompson and William ran out of his house and found his eldest son and his nephew lying on the ground partly had been beard about 9:90 o'clock. No one bad attempted to investigate the source of the gun report at that time. Concern over the ind was reported to the Boulder police when he failed to come home at a late hour. He bad been employed in a garage owned by his father, Henry Lawrence, at Eleventh and Walnut streets. He and some other lads "borrowed" a large touring car stored in the garage and went out for a joyride. On slippery pavement at Fourteenth and Pearl streets the automobile skidded Into, a smaller vehicle and seriously Injured Brownell, who was attempting to start the latter car. He was rendered Unconscious, several ribs were broken and a leg severely sprained. Lawrence and a companion, Harold Metcalf, who was driving, were held to blame for the crash. Metcalf was placed under arrest and fined by the police magistrate. Lawrence was taken to task by his father and severely rebuked for removing the car from the garage, It Is alleged. Remorse, following the accident, and the censure of his father Is believed to havg led the lad to commit suicide. BUILDS 28-FOOT SPITE FENCE Was Accidentally Shot. unpeniPlou8. Commandeering an av> Immobile he rushed them to the 000* eral hospital at Paterson. Setterfield's case was. diagnosed at once as "extremely critical." For two days his life hung in balance. As the little fellow accompanied by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Setterfleld, walked out of the hospital, the surgeons who attended hint shared his happiness. Though William, his cousin, was less seriously wounded, he did not leave the hospital, being still confined to bed. The heart Is surrounded by a muscular structure that propels the blood by alternate contractions and dilations. 8uee Doctor Who Cut Up Son's Body. Denver.--Declaring that the physician had no right to perform the autopsy, Mrs. Florence B. Loom Is, mother of William C. Baker, has brought suit for $15,000 against Dr. Matt R. Root, who used the knife to determine the cause of the boy's death so he could report to the city authorities. Boy Has Committed Nine Burglaries. " New York.---Fourteen years old, with nine burglaries already to his credit, was the rebord of which Howard Ward boasted when arrested. Howard and a chum, Oscar Anderson, were arrested after pedestrians said they had seen the boys at work on a safe In a shoe store. Music to 8oothe Harvard 8tudenta. Cambridge, Mass.--Music in ten-minute doses to soothe the Harvard undergraduate who Is nervous Is to be provided each morning in the university chapel. Dr. A. T. Davison, organist, has arranged a program of light classical selections. Keep thy word justly.--Sfcakuspear* Explosion of Tire Kills Motorist. Kansas City.--When an automobile tire, which he was pumping up, exploded, Dewey Jones, twenty-thiee years ^ j)*M* broken. - " " '* Atlantic City Woman Cuts Off Neigh* tor's Vlsw When Sued for M* . leged 8lander. "i,<; * A Atlantic City.--The erection of a fence, 20 feet high, between her property and that of Thomas M. Davis, on fashionable States avenue, Is the answer of Mrs. Margaret Workman to a suit to collect $500 damages for alleged slander filed by Davis. The fence reaches to the top of Davis' second-story wlndoaa The fence cuts off part of Mrs. Workman's view of the ocean, and It Is expected that neighbors on the land side of her property will institute action. Mrs. Workman was the original owner of the land occupied by Davis* house, and Davis, In his sdilt. alleged she attempted to dlcourage prospective purchasers by saying tiiere wat' a flaw in the title. Attempt to Chloroform Pet Cat Fatal to Man Frank Souders, a railroad engineer, of Paoli, Pa., lost his life attempting to chloroform an aged pet cat while his family was away. The cat scratched and struggled as Souders tried to hold a chloroform rag to Its nose. Souders fell unconscious and, died from the fumes. The cat ran away. Death for Many Cats. Boston, Mass.--During the fissal year just closed 42.504 homeless and suffering cats have been "humanely disposed or' by the Animal Rescue League. Also disposed of In like manner were 4,948 dogs, 700 horses, 272 birds and 58 small animals. Boy Converted into Human Torch. Port Carbon, Pa.--A big bonfire, which boys started caused death to Victor tihlpello, a seven-year-old boy. His clothes were caught by a fork , of the fin mes and before his companions realized It Victor was a human torch. Beat Mayor Who Failed te Give Job Charleston, 111.--Owing to injuries Inflicted by "Jack" Moody. Mayor Charles Dunn, was unable to appear on the street for a few days. Moody, wh«n arraigned, aa!d the mayor had felled to fulfill a campaign uledse. 1 Take Aspirin only a* told In each package of genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin. Then you will be following the directions and dosage worked out by physicians during 21 years, and I proved safe by millions. Take na chances with substitutes. If you see the Bayer Cross on tablets, you can take them without fear for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache, Lumbago and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists also •aD larger packages. Aspirin is the trade nark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcaddester of Salic,viicacid. OVERHEARD IN THE GARAGE Just sn Interchange of Pteasantriee Between Two of the Industrious (ty Colored Employeea. "Shake a nimble dog, colored man, an' clean them cylinders." "Who? Me? Take yo* ease, boy, take yo* ease. The week's got seven days jus' like It always had." *TU say It has; and, 'co'dln' to you, they's all Sundays." , ^ "How come they Is? Til testify I ain't seen you losln' no sleep 'roun' this garage. Clean yo' -own cylinders, bo, they's full o' carbon." "Y'all wanta give me plenty o' apace hea'bouts this mo'nln', son; or elae yo* wldder's goin' to laff eftit loud every time she sees a spanner like this a one." "On yo* way, mule face, on yo* way I seen yo' wife th' other day and, y'all know what she says to me 'bout youV She says: 'Go's far as you've a mind to wl/ him; 1'se jus' paid up the premium on his Ufe Insurance.'" fcjingn* City 8tar. Not Capable. Five business men compose the Terra Haute school board. Their duties are manifold, but still there are a few things they cannot do. Even the public recogitizes that, as this little story will prove. A teacher, who has a very uncouth child In her room, sent the mother a note, telling her that If she did not have the chili! cleaned up and her hair trimmed sh<} would report her to the school o»tt rials. The next morning the child returned clean, qnd with her hair bobbed. She also carried a note which read: "Dear Miss--This Is to certify that the school board did not bob my child's hair. I had a respectable barber do It."--Indianapolis News. 1 Old Cemetery Mystery, It's surprising," said the policeman on the New Bowery beat, according to the New York Sun, "how Ifng people can live in a place and know nothing about It. See that lot over there?" and he pointed to a square patch of ground SO feet from Chatham square, perhaps 40 feet each way, hemmed In on three sides by tenements, whose clotheslines made a tangled mare across the face of the lot. "It's a cemetery. When I first came on this beat if I asked one person what that cemetery was I asked a hundred; some didn't know. Some hardly knew It was there. 1 looked k up in the library and read that it was an old Jewish cemetery, consecrated In 1656, used as a fort,during the Revolutionary war and one of the first cemeteries laid out in the city." NS' ELECTRIC PASTS, it rot pm Mim iiifirtatr T lood *nd yroyrty »nd «w «inl«n of II w fc b Put* foraM tkaaa MM t for irstar Bad frrth ajr Bat* 4i»tioy food kod StMtm' BtoeUle UM bonding Ik and BJ0. V. 8. GOT if it t l»l» Ifc TO DEATH When the body begins to and movement becomes pnktfnl k is usually an indication that tha kidneys are oat of order. these organs healthy by COLD MEDAL The worid's standard nmedy for Udnsyt liver, Madder and uric add tnmbkl Famous since 1696. Take regularly and keep in good health. In three druggists. - Guaranteed as Look far Gold PAfeittjrs HAIR BALSAM gP"»--*gV innannfcj R--tur-- Caior mm _ SBBHTit h M, MoH all pala, carana iiiiO DAISYFLYK MDeUSAm.Bmhfra.H.1; my Right in His Line. Wlfey--Doctor can't you help husband? , Doctor--What's tha atattar with "almT Wlfey--Oh, he worries so. Doctor--About what} Wlfey--About his money. Can yao please do something for him? Doctor--Why send him around to roe. I'll relieve him of some of his troubles. > It Is s happy disposition net $9 dasire to "improve" others. KREMQU^S'g^S WHAT ST. PAUL REALLY SAIB Englishwoman Dscleras Men Hsvs Of* liberately Twisted the Words et * the Qreat Apostle, Men translated the Bible--and twisted St. Paul's remarks about wo»> en to suit their own ideas. That la divulged by Miss K. Raleigh to the British Women's Freedom league. The apostle's remarks about womeat she said, were badly twisted In trans* lation, and it could be proved by tha removal of a few dots and commas, that St. Paul did not: Forbid woomb to preach; command them to obey their husbands; Insist that forever *"4 aye, whatever the fashion of the country, they should wear hats in church, say that they should never wear Jewelry and flue clothes. "In the sentence, 'Women obey your husbands,'" said Miss Raleigh, "the correct translation of the word 'obey' is 'be considerate to."* St. Paul Is rehabilitated.---Ch!ca#S' Journal. * A woman Is always looking bright side--of a mirror. The Truth Comae Out. The ex-Widow--But, if yon dtdpft love me and pity my widowed statat why did you marry meT Her Latest Husband--Madam, I married you solely for the privilege of spanking those fiendish brats st yours. It takes s strong-minded man te lode to a young widow as a ^paae^f* In the presence of hie wife. I Thousands? show you the way Increasing numbers of people - who could not or should not , 1 drink coffee and who were i j on the lookout for something to take its place have fyu&rti . complete satisfaction in INSTANT POSIUM Fostum has a smooth, rich flavor that meets every re quirement of a meal-time beverage, and it is free from any harmful element* |conomical-Made Quickly "There's a Reason* /Web/ R>stum Cereal Companyjab Battle Creek, Michigan. 'i: <SESi£ii£& "'2