Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1921 — Page 6

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AGED RAILWAY BUILDER QUITS No More Construction Problems to Tackle. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. July 25 Be cause there are bo more great railroad construction problem? to tackle. William Hood, chief engineer of the Sbuthem Pacific Company and dean of his profession in the United States, tiring of office routine, has retired on the fifty-fourth anniversary of hia first connection with the company. Mr. Hood’s life history Is the history of the expansion of the Southern Pacific lines over great stretches of difficult Tahachaipl pass in California. He built the great Lucia cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, conceived an "8” line to cross the Siskiyou mountains between Cali fornla and Oregon, constructed th Dumbarton cutoff across lower San Francisco hay, and completed a line between San Diego and Arizona. COVERED LINE ON FOOT. Almost every one of the 11,000 miles of the Southern Pacific system was covered by Mr. Hood on foot before the rails were laid. All his work was done in the open. Now. with no more lakes to bridge and no more mountains to tunnel, Mr. Hood decided to leave his office post, with its “unit cost’’ discussions nnd the line, and. at the age of 75, to open his own office. He is not retiring because of his age or of failing health, for he is as active and vigorous as a man much younger. Back in the pioneer days of 1567. Mr. Hood Joined the Central Faeific, after having been mustered out of the Union Army at the close of the Civil War and having cut short his college work at Dartmouth He soon became chief assistant engineer and in the late ’709 built the Tehachaipi loop and sent the road to Los Angeles. To ’'make distance” for a gradual slope, Mr. Hood twisted his line in a down-slanting loop completely around one of the peaks, completing the circles of seven tenths of a mile when the track crossed its starting point in a tunnel seventy-seven feet below the upper lever. BRIDGED GREAT SALT LAKE. Later, when the Southern Pacific wanted to get across the Salt Lake. Mr Hood decided the cutoff could be built at a practicable cost, despite other views held by other engineers, ne decided to cover eleven miles of the lake with a trestle and rear a solid ridge of earth across th" rest of it. Despite the soft and treacherous bottom, the project was completed in little more than a year. An average of 1.140 feet of roadbed was completed each day. The crossing of the Siskiynus was another problem solved by Mr. Hood. His “S” line crosses the Sacramento River eighteen times and passes through sixteen tunnels, one 3,000 feet long. The construction of the line between San Diego and Arizona involved cutting through Carriso gorge. One of his greatest feats was construe- < tion of the Dumbarton cutoff, a line which : eliminates a freight haul of thirty-five miles.

GOES TO JAIL TO GET EVIDENCE Prosecutor Poses as Prisoner to Trick Suspect. FT. WORTH. Texas. July 25.—Thrown into jail on a supposed charge of bootlogging. Jesse Martin, assistant district attorney here, acted the part of a prisoner so well that he trapped the sir... r of J. B. Loper, special officer for 'he Frisco Railroad, who was murdered here Oct. 20. 1920. The slayer, Ernest Vickers, confessed the killing after Martin's ruse had succeeded. “I told Loper to stick 'em up. He didn’t. I killed him,” he said. Vickers had ben going under the name of Kelley recently and was in Jail at Belton, Texas, on a burglary charge. Martin, accompanied hy County Detective Rhodes, went to Belton, where Martin induced the authorities to place him In Jail with Vickers. While there the other prisoners held a kingaroo court ind fired Martin $4. which he paid, nnd gladly, for it dispelled whatever suspicion Vickers might have -had that he was not a bootlegger from Ft. Worth. For a long time the authorities here did not know the identity of Leper’s assassin. Then Bennie Atkinson, a prisoner in the county Jail, made a statement which leaked iDto the district attorney’s office. W. P. Darker, district attorney, talked with Atkinson, who admitted that Vickers, the night of the murder, came to bis home, stayed several hours and Informed him that he had killed a man In trying to stage a holdup. Then, only a few days ago, word was received that a man answering Vickers' description was in the Belton Jail. The evidence was only circumstantial and Vickers still had a good chance to frame up an alibi and It was in order to frustrate this attempt at proving an alibi that Martin entered the cell, where In casual conversation Vickers told him he was In Ft. Worth the night, of the murder and that he had visited at Atkinson's home Martin was "taken” from the cell and soon Vickers was sent for and to hia amazement found his cell mare waa the assistant district attorney at Ft. Worth, that he bad the “goods" ou him and that denial was useless. His confession came In a few minntes after tne interview began. He was brought to Ft. Worth at once and promptly indicted for the murder. Loper's murder was one of a long series of high Jacking crimes in Ft. Worth. Fred Haney, who got a lire sentence for robbery with firearms, was orce charged with killing Loper. but because of lack of evidence was not tried.

CHILDREN MADE ‘LITTLE MONKS' Present School Methods Condemned by Woman Teacher. POCGHKEEPSTE. N. Y.. July 26 - Present methods of mechanical education are fast turning normal, restless children Into “little, old, inactlre monks full of Information and dead languages." Is the belief of Mrs. Avery Coonley of Wash tsgton. in speaking before the Yassar College alumnae on the subject of “Teh Educational Responsibility of the Mother." —“- A ■ympa'hetir attitude toward labor, knowledge through experience, development of concentration and an nnderstandlng of human relations are the fundamentals of education, said Mrs. Coonley, who condemned, in passing, “seats •crewed relentlessly to the floor" and other common formal arrangements that stifle the development of the individual. “In the beginning, onr educational yshem was shaped in the monaatery." said Mrs. Coonley. “The monk was a learned man. but not a man wbo knew children, nor did he know life and Its activities. We do not picture him as using bis hands, with the exception of the printing and illuminations. And as I look at it we have ben trying ever since to tranir form these lively, active, colorful children into little, inactive monks full of information and dead languages." Mrs. Coonley has been experienced in reaching and In school management and be’leres firmly in the value of teaching children to do something.. in the active lntycet of parents and the general co "•piftcfjon between paberts. teachers and children.

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Miss Irene Mclntyre, the Salvation Army girl who helped win the war with her homemade doughnuts, soon will become the bride of Lieut. Robert E. Walbridge. The romance began in a Salvat lon Army liut in France. Miss Mclntyre's father Is head of tha New England dis trlet of tho Salvation Army.

SHORTEST WILL GIVES FORTUNE Eight Words in Bible Stand Court Test. DALLAS, Tex , July 25.—" Sadie McKinley to have all that I belong.” That’s the shortest will ever probate in Dallas County or in' Texas. And yet those eight words transferred a fortune of some SBO,OOO. The will Is that of “Diamond Jack’’ Klein, pioneer of the old West, and was filed here last week. Sadie McKinley is an aged negroes of the antebellum days and was houaekeeper for "Diamond Jack” for e number of years prior to his being shot to death here seven years ago She gets the property of "Diamond Jack.” "Diamoi and Jack. ’ old timers say, was a square man and, hence, bad no need of lawyer* during his life. Not being familiar with the legal professions ideas of a will. “Diamond .Tack’’ scrawled his last will and testament on the fly leaf of an old book as he lay on bis death bed. It was scratehed out —those eight words— with a pencil he used in keeping tab of customers who had their drinks charged at the saloon where he was bartender, and was written two hours after he was shot down as he was crossing his own threshold. It stood the test of the court and the fortune now belongs to Sadie. HAD FANCY FOR DIAMONDS. “Diamond Jack,” got his name in Dallas because of the number of gems he wore and his fancy for the stones. It is said, however, before he came to Dallas be was called “Jack of Diamonds" because he won a fortune on that card in a mining camp. Klein was wearing eight diamonds when he was shot down as he went to enter his house Those diamonds were worth $20,000. He had more of them in the house that were worth about SIO,OOO more. Other jewelry about the house was valued at $. r >.‘>oo and his other property was worth $5,000 more When "Diamond Jack” died Sadie- produced the will and took possession of the property. N° one protested, for "Diamond Jack” was known in Dallas. He owed no man a dime and had no relatives. The property was his and the signature to the strange will was genuine. So Sadie lived on at the place and live3 there yet. The wi’l would probably never have been probated but for a discovery Sadie made this week. While searching through some of her former master's effects she found a queer looking book with some writing in it. She knew "Diamond Jack ’ wrote bnt litttle and as she could not read she took the book to a lawyer. DEPOSITS HAD LAIN’ IDLE. It was a bank book showing deposits amounting to about $2,500. These depos Its have been drawing compound interest for the last seven years. But the bank would not recognize the will of "Diamond Jack” unless it was probated. Hence the legal action, the only one ever ronneeted with the affairs of "Diamond Jack" —the probation of the shortest will on record in order that Sadie could get the money and the bank might be relieved of It. The murder of "Diamond Jack” has remained a tdystery. The police know it was not for robbery because there were diamonds on him when he was shot down, besides a lot of money In bis pockets. The police worked for years on the case and then gave it tip. BIT SCENERY IS FINE. NEW YORK. July 28. Short skirted women make our city streets look like the burlesque stage and drive men to crime, said Frank A. Brooks, chairman of the Massachusetts parole board, who, in that manner, explains partly the increase in the number of persons sent to penal institutions in hia State last year.

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Clifford W. Smith, newly appointed secretary of the I'nited States Shipping Board. .Mr. Smith was a Washington newspaper correspondent for several years. His home is in Benton Harbor,

NEEDS ANNEX FOR NEWEST MEDAL

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”Ha! ha!” says ‘Stubby,” smiling, as you plainly can see by the photograph. “Maybe there's something In this clog's life they talk about, after all. Gen :ral Pershing Just pinned a medal on me. Maybe you ean’t see It, because kings and others had stuck so many others on me. But it's there. Because I'm a wounded hero and everything. I’m a life member of the Y. M. C. A., with three

DEATH MENACES LIFE’S ROMANCE Fate Twin Throws _ Shadow Over Miner. SAX FRANCISCO. July 2d.-Ten years go fate cheated John Rollln Magill, Oakland mining engineer, of a bride, and now death is about to cheat him again. Ten years ago Magill became engaged to Miss Sera Wilson, of Oakland, but fate wi led that she should Journey to the rtilllpplnes as Mrs. Sara W. Oahundon. Death ended Mrs. Callundon'* romance in the Phiilipires shortly aftr r her arrival, and the widow returned to Oakland. T,ove bloomed for Magill and Mrs. Callundon. They became engaged, but determlued to put off the wedding day until Magill amassed sufficient, wealth to keep them for the balance of their lives. The years slipped past until ten of them were history. Then Magill suffered a stroke of apoplexy. Taken to a hospital inf Oakland, Magill sent for Ms flnnncee. Although Mag Ula ph.vsicjan held out, no hope for the stricken man's recovery, Magill and his fluancee determined to cheat death, even though death might triumph in the end. And it s<. happened that Stewart Gemmel. dlerk In charge of the Alaroedo county marriage license bureau, hurried to. the hospital, accompanied by Mogul's father, the Rev. Thomas .Taints Magill, and issued the license. So weak that he was unable to sign the register, Magill affixed a scrawling cross over his signature, and then the stricken mans father said the words tbur made Mrs. Callundon Magill s brido. So overcome was Mrs. Magill that she had to be helped from the hospital, unable to voice her emotions. NO PAY FOR 23 YEARS, SEES. SPRINGFIELD, 111,. July 26.—A suit to collect wages for 23 years’ service as. g domestic has been started in the Sangamon County Circuit Court by Minnie Ziik against Charles Simon. Promises were all that she received for her labor for almost 23 years, she said. She seeks $3,000. FINEST HAXDKEKt HIEF. LONDON, July 26. -What is claimed to be the finest cotton handkerchief tha: the world can produce was one of the exhibits at the Cotton Congress at Lancaster. It is made fgom an extraro linarlly high count of yarn, sixteen pounds '•f which, it is stated, can be stretched f?t;m Liverpool to New York.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 26,1921.

FIND LOST CITY IN TEXAS RUINS Believed to Have Been Buried by Flood. PERRYTON. Tex., July 28.—Further striking of an ancient civilization that once inhabited the upper Panhandle region of Texas and was perhaps spread over a good part of the region that is now embraced in Western Kansas, Western Oklahoma and Eastern Colorado, have been fougd recently by W. E. Lilly of Gage, Ok., and others while excavating upon the site of what is now known as "Lost City,” eighteen miles southeast of here. Ruins of large houses, built of dressed stone, have been unearthed many feet below the existing level plain. Judging from the nppearaneo of the t-ulns, the city was destroyed by a flood. Pottery of fine workmanship, implements of industry and war, Homestic utensils of various kinds and many other relics were fonnd. The street swere broad and well laid out. It is the theory o fLUIy that the city had a largo population at one time and that it was tne shore of s lake, which has now- entirely disappeared. He also believes a second race of people that may have come long after the wiping out of the first once occupied the "Lost City,” and that this second invasion was succeeded by the Indians of today. Scientists are finding also that the Fanhaiulle region is a prolific field of research work in connection with early animal life. To the south of hero near Siiverton were found the remains of the primitive two-toed horse, which had a height of only two feet. It was from this species that the equine race of today evolved, according to scientists. The whole territory Is said to be rich in fossilized remains of prehistoric animals. FAVER9HAM IS BCED. NEW YORK, July 28.—Papers in a suit for $4,1)00 against William Knversham have been filed In the county clerk’s office. The suit arises out of a promissory note dated May 28 lust year.

bones a day and a place to sleep guar arifeed. Pretty soft. What?” That's the way “Stubby" feels about It all. •Stnbby,” a bull tprrler, went through the World War with veterans of tha 102d Infantry, has been wounded nnd is the wearer of three service stripes. “Stubby's" latest medal came from the Humane Education Society and was presented by General Pershing at Washington.

RETURNING TO NATIVE FRANCE

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The Count and Countess Edouard de Warren, the former a membet of the French mission to Canada, returning to Paris. ,

HOTTEST SUMMER IN NEW YORK IN TWENTY YEARS

The heat wave sweeping over New York city for the past month is still unabated. The merry youngsters seen in the picture are gasping for breath when the cooling water first drenches them. In the crowded tenement districts the above picture is a familiar scene. This is the hottest summer in twenty years.

JAPAN COSTLY TO AMERICANS Single Man Must Spend $291 Month to Live. TOKIO. July 28.—Living costs for ! Americans In Japan are far higher than ! in the United States, and with the ex- | eessive taxation and more than onebalf of the collectable revenue being j expended upon armaments, there is no | hope of any decrease. In fact, tbero are soma indications of higher prices. The figures have been compiled by a committee of the Tokio Yokohama post of the American Legion, which sent a questionnaire to all ita members asking for itemized accounts for their monthly expenditures. The cdtSnnittce which prepared the report ia composed of Dr. J. :F. Abbott, commercial attache of the j American emhasssy; H. B. Pierce and S. O. Bartlett. First of all, it is pointed out that liv- ; ing is fur less comfortable than in the I United States, whether in hotels, lodg- | Ings or in homes, and also that in the j matter of servants they are so tneffi- : cient that it requires two to do the work ordinarily done by one In the Imperial Hotel in Tokio, for instance, the number of servants Is one and a half for each patron of the hotel, and the Inefficiency of those is a constant soflree of worry to | Aisakul Hnyasht, the managing director, j In the hotels of Kobe, Yokohama, Osaka. | Nagoya, Nikko, Nara, Mlyanoshita, Ky- ; ota, Shlraonsekl and Nagasaki the other j Japanese cities usually visited or lived in by foreigners, conditions are even j worse. : As to Tokio and Yokohama where ! the members of the legion who were canvassed are domiciled, the returns ! show tae following actual living ei- | penses, in American dollars, monthly: ! Single men, boarding ....$291 Single men, in mess .. -75 ! Family men, boarding 606 Family men, renting houses ~.. 611 Out of the total of men who filed in the questionnaire 46 per cent see little prospect of any change in living costs in the lmmedalo future; 30 per cent anticipate lm-renscs of from 5 to 20 per cent, i while 25 per cent hope for decreases of j 6 to 10 per cent.

NEBRASKA WILL FIGHT AGAINST ‘VAMP’ BANKERS Financial Wreckers Leave Guarantee Fund to Make Good to Depositors. OMAHA, Neb., July 26.ZNehraska banker* are going to start a drive against “vampire’’ bankers who, in the last fw months, have wrecked a number of Nebraska banks and have caused the Nebraska hank guarantee fund to be called npou to pay about $2,000,000 to depositors in the failed banks The ’’good’’ bankers j are getting tired of putting up money I for the ’’vampire" hankers to carry on i speculations and gambling At tho annual State convention of the bankers held last week in Omaha, bankers were called upon to "go after” bankers of the speculative class. A number of years ago, following the collapse of a number of Nebraska banks, the State inaugurated a bank guarantee fund for the benefit of depositors of failed banks. This fund was made by .sesslng all backs in the State pro rata according to deposits In the individual banks. There was not a bank failure for a number of years and the guarantee fund grew into a large figure. SEVERAL BANKS HAVE FAILED. But lately a number of Nebraska banks have gone to the wall. Different reasont; for the failures have been given—but the State guarantee fund has been called upon to pay depositors of many of these foiled institutions. About $2 000,000 has already been paid out in this manner. And still the breaking of banks is going on. “Let’s put on a drive to clean out tho financial vampires that Infest Nebraska.” urged T. L. Mathews of Fremont, speaking to the bankers' convention recently. It’s time to stop this sympathy stuff that Is so generously expressed for the managers of wrecked bauks on the plea that they were overcome by an unselfish desire to help their customers. "That's all bunk.” “I undertake to say that every bank that failed in Nebraska last year failed because the manager departed from good banking practices. "The guarantee fund Is not a pork barrel, nor a charity fund, but a trust fund for bona fide subscribers.” The day after the close of the State convention the bank guarantee fund was called upon to put up s7o>.o(*o for the A. Castetter bank of Blair, Neb., which went to the wall last. fall. Notice was given that the assets of the broken bsnk would probably lake care of the extra J IOO,OOO for which the guarantee fund was not called.

ONE OF STRONGEST IN STATE GOES. The CastPtter bank, named after Its founder, was thought to be one of the strongest banks In the State. But one day the manager of the Institution walked out of the building and disappeared. lie wrote a note to his wife saying he n-as going away. The State took charge of the institution and the State guarantee fund last week was called upon pay out $700,100 of good, hard monnj* contributed by other Nebraska hanks. Two weeks or so ago the Pioneer State Bank of Omaha went to pieces. The bank guaranee fund has heen called upon for about s3f>o,ooo. A portion of this will be recovered. I There was a bank at Decatur, Neb., of which a painter and paper hanger seS cured control. The hank had not paid Interest on the stock for a number of years. Within two or three months after the new manager received control It had paid 100 per cent dividend. Afterwards if “busted.’’ The State guarantee fund wa* railed upon to mike good—at the expense of the other banks. Sometimes a banker gets sent to prison for violating the banking laws. But that Is the unusual, not Che usual. And that docs not help out the Stale hank guarantee fund. In the last few months seven banks bearing the name of “Farmers’ State Bank" have gone to the nail. They were located In Allen.. Belvldere, Dlx, Hadar Hoskins, Page and Pleaston. In practically each case tha “good” banks were forced to pay out good money through the State guarantee funds. Lack of Mothers LONDON, July 26.—“ What Is wrong with Methodism is the want of Christian mothers,” declared a speaker at the Primitive Mothers' Conference at Sheffield. “Let us be honest," he added. “We are not growing Methodists. Don't you know that D is the fashion today to limit families?” , FINLAND’S FOREIGN TRADE. HELSINGFORS, July 26—During the first t tree months of this year Finland's Iniporls amounted in value to 1.432 000.000 -narks and her exports to 1.438.000.000 marks. In the same period of 1920 her nuports were 1.382.000.000 marks and her exports 1,350,000,006 marks. '

MEANEST MAN STEALS HOSE Makes Socks From Wife’s Silk Stockings. KANSAS CITY, July 26—This narrative deals with the mea- est man. There were doep lines in her face. The shoulders were stooped and she appeared tired. Yet there was a kindly look in her eyes yesterday as she approached W. J. Burke, attorney, at Free Legal Aid Bureau office. | "My husband has not worked for months," she started on that most com- ! raon and typical of all plaints heard at the bureau. “He is a plumber out of work. Las - , night he wanted to go to a dancer as usual. I had only one pair of silk stockings. He found them and cut off the tops so he could wear them to the dance as socks.” The woman was told to obtain a nonsupport warrant. Bell Ring-er Tolls Own Funeral Knell BERLIN, July 26.—1 tls probably unique in the annals of campanology that a bell ringer should toll his own death knell. It was done by Rupert Miller in the Church of Xassenbeuren, In Bavaria. Hearing the death bell toiling at an unusual hour, the villagers hurried to the church. They were received with revolver shots as Soon as they got near, which came from the direction of the belfry. After one member of the congregation had been killed a number of the younger men formed a storming party and rushed the belfry, where they found the bell ringer shooting indiscriminately. It was evident that he had suddenly gone mad. They chased him into the bell chamber, and a struggle followed among the bells up in the tower, during which one bell, poised for ringing, suddenly fell, hitting the bell ringer on tlie head and breaking hts, skull. Irish Sod Barred NEW YORK, July 16.—Tears welled in the eyes of Miss B. A. Shanks, 60, when customs officers told her she could not bring ashore from the Caronla the “bit of the ould sod" she had brought from her girlhood home on the banks of a brook near Limerick. ’Twas a small bit of sod with some shamrocks, a tiny ; boech tree, hawthorn and ferns grow- ' ing on It. Purser Owen, an Irishman himself, rescued tho sod and will keep it. in the ship’s sun parlor.

Invents Alarm

William J. Luse, a member of engine company No. 19, York City lire department. has just invented an automatic telephone, which, when a fire starts or a burglar chters the home, flashes its signal to police or fire headquarters. He has patented it in foreign countries, as welt as In America. The device Is absolutely foolproof, and very little false alarms. If any. are likely to occur. The device Is small and compact and can five to eight yearslto make his invention perfect.

MANY MIXUPS IN DAYLIGHT TIME Confusion Results in Small Cities by Saving. HARRISBURG, Pa., July 26.—Although Harrisburg has adjusted Itself to the daylight saving schedule, many of tha surrounding towns lure hiring somethin® of a struggle In keeping pace with their larger neighbor. The lack of uniformity in time in the smaller towns has been the cause of most troubles while railroad and trolley schedules have caused no small amount of confusion. At Lewistown the hotels maintain two times, and some of the time traveling men don't know which kind of time they are going by, depending upon the clock they are reading. The trolley line between Lewistown and Reedsville uses daylight saving time for two trips during a day and standard time for two trips, and the Miffla end Center county branch of the Pennsylvania railroad operates on the same kind of a schedule to accommodate the employes of the Standard Steel Works, which has adopted daylight saving. The trouble at Lewistown started with the drawing up of the ordinance which, when completed, signed, and sealed, called for the clocks bo be “turned back” one hour. The resolution had to be recalled and rewritten. -. v There have been a few hitches In the plan at Mechaniesburg, where everybody observes daylight saving. Churches were slow to adopt tha new time, and one now operates on standard time, and the result was that on severs! occasions part __ of the congregation on its way to church met the other half returning after the service. It is rumored in Mechaniesburg that petitions are to he started which will call for the rescinding of the daylight saving ordinance. Gettysburg does not like daylight saving at all and the chamber of commerce declares that it is adding insult to Injury when railroad companies change their schedules to suit the places that are observing daylight time. The daylight savers, they say, ought be made to endure the ineonvenience of the plan. The Gettysburg chamber of commerca has become so incensed because the Reading railway advanced the time of trains to Harrisburg one hour that it is sponsoring a move to have a bus line established between the two places.

BARBER QUITS AFTER SHAVING OLDEST PATRON Both Hold the Record for Punctuality Over Period of 45 Years. ROME. N. Y., July 26—Paul Schmidt has laid aside the shaving mug and razor, the comb and brush, and has donned his white coat for the last time as the tonsorial artist. • Forty-seven years ago Mr. Schmidt started as .in apprentice in a barber shop. Two years later he opened a barber shop nnd for forty-five years could be found at his chair. Mr. Schmidt has retired and with a nnique record. When he opened his shop forty-five years ago John Rovee was the first customer to enter his place of business. Mr. Bovee announced that he had brought along his own razor and always wanted to be shaved with It. Mr. Bovee also holds a record. Far forty-five vears he has been shaved twice a week. Wednesday and Saturday. Mr. Bovee has a record for punctuality. For forty-five years, twice a week, at 1 p. m., h stood in front of the Schmidt barber chop door waiting for Schmidt to return from lunch. During those ferty-flve years he did not vary a minute from 1 o’clock. For forty-five years Schmidt used the razor Bovee provided for his shaving. The old blade bad been ground many times and had several new handles. Several months ago Mr. Schmidt announced that he would retire. At 1 o’clock on the day set Mr. Bovee was at the shop and announced that as he was his first customer to be shaved forty-five years ago, he would like to be the last customer shaved. Schmidt locked the door and informed Bovee that he would shave his first and last customer. When the. Job was completed Schmidt placed the old razor In the case and handed it to Bovee. Schmidt says that when he started business forty-five years ago he received 5 cents for a shave and 15 cents for a haircut nnd when he quit he was receiving 20 cents for a shave and 40 cents for a haircut.

BOOSTS HIS FEE FOR MARRIAGES Minister Hopes Higher Rate Will Not Produce Shyness. LONDON. June 26.—That age-old suspicion that most of the dope of Beatrice Fairfax and other “advisers to the lovelorn" Is really shoved into print by various mere men, in overgrown beards and shirt sleeves, tongue In one cheek, gets a Jolt. Maybe It’s the ministers. A minister of the gospel, to the village of Fi'xley, pens an announcement which brands him an adept. If he hasn’t been conducting an advlce-to-lovers column, Northcliffe. the British super-publisher, should send one of hiT'bright young men Immediately to sign a contract. The high cost of being married has been increased by an addition to the cost of getting married. The Rev. 11. L. Warneford makes the announcement as follows: "The ecclesiastical commissioners have raised th fees for marriages. The clergyman's minimum, which used to be SI.GO (to translate), or thereabouts, ly now $3.38. “Let us hopp this raising of the fee will not make the swains in our parishes more shv, more hesitating, more cool and calculating. “If It does, then the village maiden* must riso to the occasion and see to their charms and show the stern and faltering by extra arts and blandishments, by an offensive more bewitching and coy, that they are well worth the extra $1.78. and a good deni more Into the bargain.” It Is not recorded whether the emigration of the village swains has started. Woman Kicks on Pay jRw YORK. July 26.—One dollar a we< \ plus one-half pound of butter a wee. i wns the normal allowance that Henty Kroder made his wife for housekeeping expenses, according to her affidavit filed In court. She asks for reasonable alimony pending her suit for separation. In his defense ha said that while making her a weekly allowance he bought all the food for the household because his wife was piling up charge accounts at stores. LOCOMOTIVE IN BAGGAGE. NEW YORK. July 20.—The baggage of G. Bruce Smith of Lima, Ohio, who sailed on the Vauben for Brazil, Ineludod a 1 wenty-seven-ton locomotive, which he Is taking to South America as a sample. He Is going to show it to officials of the Leopoldlna Railway. It was the largest piece of baggage ever taken out of this port by a passenger.