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mt:-" '• k'-A W4'$ •', J r «« »' «-1- -•.;:'.tx'-v UPM $ SfewsWR afsri^a^i _!* S. r ' ^/; 4 Unpopular Kitty Shows He's Perfect Gentleman ^urbank.iCalif.--Think of police offlcers releasing a reported "gentleman" after they had actually found plenty of evidence that he wns guilty of unlawful entry and what's more, think of th« fact that the aforesaid officers mere actually glad to release him! i* That's what occurred at the home <rf Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bartlett when Captain Hamptofa and Motor Sergeant Lombard found the asserted "gentleman" In complete and unauthorized possession of a back screen porch >ud^ particularly of a refrigerator. ,After a survey of the situation Captain" Hampton ordered Lombard "To make a noise like a saucer of milk." Evidently the' ruse was successful, because the skunk slunk out of the refrigerator that he had made his own. A wide avenue so as to leave no hindrance to his escape was opened to him and he was permitted to return to his native hills without molestation. Hampton insisted, tm his. return to police headquarters, that the sfcunk was a "gentleman," inasmuch as he did not attempt a skunk's usual retort parties interfering with him. : Motive Power Supplant* Horse on Modem Farm Kew York.--Old Dobbin, the mainstay of power to the American tiller of the soil since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, has finally yielded the place of honor in his last stronghold, the farm, to motive power equipment. A survey of 1929 conditions on farms announced by the American research foundation shows that of the total horse power hours of work on farms, horses and mules now yield 44 per cent 4as compared with more than 57 per cent in 1924, while the work done by motive power equipment has increased from slightly more than 42 per cent in 1924 to 56 per cent in 1929. DEAD BABY BRINGS HELP TO HUNGRY Body Left m Street {i Clew for Searchers. Fiad Ancieat Cirria|i Belgrade.--A carriage thought 40 be a relic of the Bronze age, has been unearthed near the village "of Dupljava ill Vojvodlna. It is a three-wheeled affair and bears an effigy of a birdbeaded diety. It is made of baked New York.--A poverty ridden'mother who, when her baby died, dressed It In Its best clothes and left the body on the street for the police to find and bury, was found In a poorly furnished house in Brooklyn. With her, all half starved, were her mother and three little children, from three months to Ave years old. The woman's husband deserted her six months ago. I Early one morning Patrolman George Hackett found the rlgiid bod* of an eighteen-months'-old boy on the sidewalk in the Bushwlck section. An autopsy showed that the child had "•led from natural causes. Detectives were Instructed to find its parents. On the covering which wrapped the dead child the detectives found the tag of a Broadway store. Through a saleswoman they learned that the purchaser of the wrapping lived in the Bushwlck section. They made a house to house canvass, checking up on families and their circumstances, asking questions. - The two detectives Anally located the right house. They found three little children lying on the floor. Detective John Quinn was munching a piece of candy as he entered. The children ran up to hiqj, begging for something to eat In the rear of the wretched house the detectives found Mrs. Willetta Knight, twenty-four years old, and her mother. Mrs. Katherine Johnson, forty- eight. They, too, were suffering from hunger. The women admitted having taken the child, after It had died, probably from malnutrition, out into the street at night and leaving It there. Mrs. Knight, the child's mother, said they had only 32 cents in the house when the child died and there was no tpioney for funeral expenses. The police took the family to the Station. The hat was passed, and from the contributions the two women and the children were fed. ; dl} Medical Belief Old practitioners believed that the flesh of the lark strengthened the human voice and increased its sweetness. Mad* Uniform Rule* At the international postal tmlOO which was organized at xBerne, Switzerland, in 1874, and which represented practically all the countries of the world, except China, rules regulating weights, rates, etc., were first established. ff f> ijt sp.!.: || i-f nit -mi- TH* M'HENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930 , ^ f , / / M. f ^ t ' *<?'v m ' T ' ' SHORTEST RAILROAD ^ 'iS RUN AT PROFIT Engineer Is President and f ; • General Manager* Chisvllle, Mo.--The Cassvillo and Exeter, America's shortest railroad, runs at a profit and a good one. The total trackage of the midget line is four and nine-tenths miles, which, according to the Interstate Commerce commission, makes it the shortest independently owned and operated steam railway in the United States. And to this designation may be added, very probably the shortest in the world. The president of the line, the general manager and the locomotive engineer is Dave Dingier, railroader for 43 years. Dave Dingier and bis partner; James C. Ault, recorder, secretary and owner of the other half of the stock, do not favor the suppression of women. Mrs. Dingier is first and only vice president and Mrs. Ault Is treasurer." Ob Sundays they generally hold a director's conference along with chicken dinner, prepared and consumed from first to last by officials of the road. Attitude Help*. The line connects the picturesque old Village of Cassviile, the county seat of Barry county, Missouri, with Exeter, a station on the main-line Frisco. The Tom Thumb line takes advantage of altitude. Its terminal at Exeter Is 196 feet higher than the station at Cassviile. Accordingly, trains have to be pulled up to Exeter and lead down to Cassviile. Pulling them up is considerable of a strain, but escorting them home Is a pleasure so long as the brakes hold. Once each day the midget line runs separately an all-passenger and an allfreight train. At Exeter they uncouple the petite passenger bearer from Old 20, more familiarly known as "Mary Ann" the superannuated locomotive, and let the little passenger coach roll on Back down to Cassviile. Then Mary- Ann escorts the freight cars. The Cassviile and Exeter owns no rolling stock other than the little locomotive and the 32-passenger coacli which hitches on behind. Freight cars are willingly loaned by neighJt}QCiQg -roads. ! ^ Freight Business Pays. But Dave Dingier and his ers would have it understood that nobody need snigger about their Mary Ann. For the little puller is neither a freak nor a curio. She Is a tenwheeler with a 32,000-pound tractive effort, 63-inch drivers. Southern valve gear, automatic bell and senders and a deep-set throttle. She takes them there and brings them back and she has been doing it for near onto thirty years. Dave Dingier keeps books on over head and he figures that so far as repairs are concerned, Mary Ann costs him about $5 a year. The officials say with appropriate frankness that so far as the Cassviile and Exeter is concerned, passenger hauling hai never paid; that it is merely a turn in courtesy, an appendage to make more complete the line's offering of service. But the freight business does pay and rather substantially. The short line has a rather startling volume of traffic considering Its length. It is said to carry more fruit to the rail mile than any other line in the country, and Its freight business Is gradually Increasing. TWO LOST LETTERS BETRAY eRIME RING f r&m & candidate for the office of County Treasurer independent of party or personal factions, on my record as a citizen, contrary to reports that have been circulated that I am a candidate of certain pers o n s or f a c t i o n s in t h i s and o t h e r p a r t s of t h e c o u n t y . ' Furthermore, I have confidence in my ability to give tile taxpayers of the county competent service. If elected I pledge an honest, economical, efficient, courteous and impartial adminstration of the Treasurer's office, under my personal supervision, ^ivin^ tot t^e office the best service I can<render. Heariftdtlx solvit the support of all the citizens,; ?T ' both men and women, disregarding all factional affiliations, and in my candidacy I sincerely appreciate the good will of my supporters. Taxidermy Disappearing, Veteran of Art Says 8t. Louis, Mo.--Virtually every variety of wild and domestic fish, fowl, and animal have oeen rendered immortal, according to Kirk Keller of St. Louis, who for 6 years has been following his trade of taxidermy. Glancing around his shop, which if In Itself ft museum of natural history, Kellet fetalis the days when bison roamed the prairies and when wild animals were shot In what are *ow staid St. Louis residential sections. Keller says that stringent game lawa and the disappearance of the "den" in the modern home. Is causing hlfl profession to vanish. "Where my assistants and I prepared six or seven thousand specimens a year five years ago, the number has now dwindled to a few hundred," he said. . Customers from England, Prance, Germany, Belgium and .Canada ape listed on his books. > Counterfeiting and Dope ' . Peddling Uncovered. Kew York.--Two letters dropped carelessly on a Times Square subway platform and sent to Federal Attorney Charles H. Tuttle by an anonymous finder have led to the uncovering of a drug ring, a fence for stolen goods hnd a counterfeiting nest that has an International twist Danny Ross and Peggy Pearl, a petite, fair haired, rather attractive girl, who have a marriage certificate said to be forged, are charged with being the New York end of the crime triumvirate that was broken up within two days. They are held in $20,000 bail. Washington Is preparing extradition papers for 12 more said to be implicated in the rings in Montreal, Both letters were addressed to Danny Ross at 30 Post avenue, Manhattan, postmarked Montreal. One was signed "Joe," the other, "our pal, Larry." . Mentioned "Phoney** Bills. In the letter from Larry there Is this line: "Peggy told me^that you had Some phoney $10 bills." That was enough. George Mintzer, In charge of Tuttle's dope and drug division, thought the letters showed possibilities. They did. He went to 30 Post avenue and found a man, naked, cooking opium. It turned out to be Danny Ross. There was a girl there, too, in a sealskin coat. She said she was Peggy Pearl, that the two were married, but the marriage certificate, federal authorities claim, looks very much like one with other names erased. And Danny Ross said his real name is David Rosenberg. In his pockets were found $300 In fake $10 bills. Stolen goods were found throughout the apartment, officials saying the place was a "fence." There was another line in the letter from Larry: Montreal Gets Busy. * "I'll phone you #ben I know something." Larry did. But Chief of Provincial Police Doria In Montreal had been tipped off first. A few hours later from a Hungarian restaurant on St. Lawrence boulevard, Montreal, a call was put through to Lorraine 3647 In New York. This Is the phone number at 30 Post road. But Danny wasn't there to answer It. A telephone girl in Montreal hesitated a bit In plugging through the call and notified the Provincial police as instructed. A few minutes later two men who said they were Joseph Palmer ahd Max Goldberg--who is Larry--were picked up. Others are being sought and the ring may reach 12, Tattle believes. / a?,'1 fan -i. . l\cl« Eben '- "Some folks," Mid Uncle Eben, "Jest natchelly don't want to be happy. Dat's why ghost stories was Invented."-- Washington 8tar. Some Good in Vanity A Tain man, wrote Goethe, can nevif he altogether rude. Desirous as he- Is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. Guest Sues Host After Cutting Hand on Razor Parts.--If a pending law suit In Paris is won, Frenchmen in the future will be more careful where they place their razor blades. The case grew out of a visit a man paid to the home of a friend. Before dinner he went to the bathroom to wash his hands and in reaching for the soap he grabbed a loose razor blade which sliced his fingers deeply. Angered he left the home of his friend and filed suit for heavy damages. The court, after hearing the strange,, case, asked for more time in which to deliberate before renderteg-% Verdict. .aii 'tjLW i W "Collector of Keys" Runs Afoul o Berlin.--There are, of course, no limits to collectors' fancies; they colt lect anything from champagne corks to tins. But even such hobbles may prove dangerous. A man was recently arrested in Berlin merely becausa a collection of 3? keys had been found, in his possession. He vainly protested that he was "a passionate collector of keys." The police could not suppress the suspicion that the collection might serve some eminently lucrative but illegal aim besides the merely esthetic pleasure that a collector takes in his treasure. Husband So Athletic Wife Is Given Divorce San Francisco.--It wasn't the golf bug that bit Attilio Blglierl, but he was a "sport addict," and Mrs. Blglierl could, stand it no longer, she told Superior Judge Franklin A. Griffin here recently. "He played basketball three nights a week and baseball on Sundays," she said. "He is so addicted to sports that it's extreme mental cruelty." Her plea waC granted. . Aachen Pilgrimages to Be Resumed This Year Aachen, Germany.--The traditional pilgrimage to Aachen, whose cathedral contains four of the most sacred relics of the Roman Catholic church, will take place from July 10 to 24 this year, having been interrupted since the war. Formerly these pilgrimages were held every seven years. Hungarian* Eat Horses Budapest. -- Hungarians consumed 28,444 horses for food in 1928. Before the war when the country was more extensive and the population larger, only 13,787 horses vera and for food. ^ . Boa* Needles Once Used mere Is no definite history of the genesis of the needle. Chaucer men-' tions a silver needle In 1366. In pre» historic times they used bones, either of birds or fish. Popular Nam* for Port There have been forts by the name, of Fort Massachusetts in the District* of Columbia, in Massachusetts and la Virginia. Barnyard Weather Prophets Turtceys, ducks and geese are always clamorous and quarrelsome before the advent of wet weather, and make the farmyard hideous with their din. Colors and Shades Aubert estimated the solar spectrum to contain about 1,000 distinguishable hues, from which, according to Rood, 2,000,000 tints and shades can be derived. Perfected Robot W® suppose in time the electrical man will be humanized, at least to the extent of blowing a fuse when angered.-- Detroit News. "First Be Sws," Etc. £ "Don't be afraid to tell de said Uncle Eben, "but don't be in se*»| a hurry 'bout it dat you ain' positive*?, •bout all de details."--1! Star. ,w Origin of 6ld Saying -'*<$ "take a person down a pes*', comes from the custom of lowering *^*#3 ship's flag, which is regulated by a line attached to pegs. >i\- .1 y LOOK WHAT YOU ca\ no with a 0 Arthur Smith of Sycamore, Illinois, operated a"Catefp!tter"3l8 hourff at a cost of only $83.48 for oil and gas, and only one hour lost to replace a governor weight. Here's what Mr. Smith did in that time: Plowed 128 acres of land, cfisced 232 acres and cat (7 acres of grain. Clarence Lockwood of Marengo, Illinois, pulled 26 feet of discs and covered 8% acres p*r hour, with ^et solL Mr. lockwo«d : is proud of this job. , • Figure up how many'htbwiJ ybti W&uftf fi^Bd to * do the same amount of work in the same time--then you'll real- I N|ze what a big time and labor-saver the "Caterpillar" really is. |j And the "Caterpillar" does this rain or shine, regardless of J the prevailing weather conditions. * -Is it any wonder that more and more farmers are getting the f "Caterpillar" to do their work? You, too, can realize these bene- jj fits by having a "Caterpillar." Learn how inis new modei "Cat- . •rpillar" soon pays for itself. Mall coupon below for complete information and free booklet, also list of jobs and time required to do them the "Caterpillar" way. to. B. LOI Elt COMPANY ISS loath Jeffevsoa St, Chicago ... Telephone ianrlnlph (IN •All TNtt OOIINS TDMf-WWI **- pk' ;Fw. r lOUfl CO., 4m Se«tt» leaersoa Street CMcsio. 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Einstein plays the violin very well, and he also appears from time to time on concert platforms for. benevolent purposes. .Jt Louis Soon to Have Many New Hospitals St. Louis, Mo.--With hospital construction totaling $10,000,000 sched uled for completion during 1930, and Ave hospitals erected during the last five years at a cost of $7,900,000, St. Louis Is experiencing a phenoml&al development of hospital facilities comparable to any city la tbe United States. 7 to 12, inclusive *'• Snspidene , A young woman who drives a car often gives Mary Lou's daddy a lift. One evening after the father had been brought to the door his little four* year-old daughter met blm saying: "Daddy is you thinking about catting Me a new mother?" . •? 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