Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 170, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1926 — Page 6

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KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA beekeepers number approximately 20,000, and they annually market more than eight million pounds of honey, which is valued in excess of $2,000,000.

THE WALB DEBACLE One certainty stands out from the Reed hearing at Chicago. That is the fact that Chairman Clyde Walb attempted to put out a wholesale slander in order to meet the rising tide of indignation which is sweeping over the State against the machine which he led two years ago as a figurehead and which he heads today. In an effort to stem the tide of protest against Stephensonism which still has its fangs in the body politic of the State, which still has power, Walb did the stupid and unforgivable thing. Only a most desperate man would have dared to insult the intelligence of the voters of this State, or the intelligence of the United States Senate by writing the letter hich he sent to Senator Borah and which resulted in the probe by Senator Reed. In that letter Walb made the direct charge that there was “evidence everywhere’’ that the international bankers had money into every precinct. He located, in his letter, that money in the pockets of those he called 1 'fakirs.” He furtner charged that these same “fakirs’’ with this corrupt money in their pockets, were behind the demand for a probe of the charges hurled from his cell by the man who once ran his party in this State and through it high offices and the legislature. There was nothing evasive about the charges. The one fault was that they were untrue and when called to the stand Walb did not even pretend to defend or prove them. Instead he hit upon a few religious leaders who are intent upon ending all wars through the mild process of education and assailed them for distributing literature. He denounced a most noted public speaker and accused 16,000 school teachers of the state as aiding this “conspiracy” of corruption. He insulted one of the most outstanding educators and authors of the State by the inference that he is a paid propagandist, a man whose work will be a monument, remembered long after those Walb hopes to see elected are forgotten. He admitted that he did not know of a dollar sent to any precinct for any corrupt purpose. He did not even attempt to name one man in any precinct who could be listed as “fakir.” He did not even attempt to link the educators and religious leaders with the exposure of Stephensonism as he had assured Senator Borah could be easily done. Jf one were inclined to use harsh language, there could be found a very short and ugly word to describe the letter which Walb wrote to Borah. What a pitiful spectacle was presented by this head of a political party which boasts a Lincoln and a Roosevelt in its lineage. Into what low levels it has sunk when it depends upon such frauds upon the people for an appteal for support. AVhat claim can Senator James Watson or Senator Arthur Robinson make for support when their spokesman and manager is convicted out of his own lips of such bold and unparalleled attempts to hoodwink the voters? Will not the conclusion be driven home that those two senators, seeking re-ejection, must be hard driven for excuses for themselves when they perihit such tactics? . For Walb speaks for these candidates. He is the man who represents them. He is the head of the organization, which has stolen the livery and name of a glorious institution and prostituted it to its own purposes. That letter to Borah is the perfect picture of the Walb campaign—baseless and without foundation. When exposed to the test of investigation, it is found to be without substance, a mirage rising from muddy marshes, a fraud and a deceit.

AN INEXCUSABLE LIE If there be any influence among the alumni of the Indiana University, it should be extended now and at once to forever make it Impossible for Clyde Walb to ever again insult and attack one of its most revered professors. • When Walb, driven to expedients to cloak his own utter lack of'any foundation for his charges of wholesale corruption and graft, gave the name of Dr. Amos Hershey to the Reed committee as a paid propagandist, he uttered what every educator and every student knows to be an utterly inexcusable lie. Dr. Hershey is one ities on international affairs, a deep student, and a renowned educsftor. He is one of the reasons for the Indiana University," fearless and courageous, seeking the truth and disseminating truth as he sees it. The implication from the dragging in of his name by Walb, when linked with Walb’s statement that there was money of international bankers in every precinct who were behind the Stephenson charges for the sake of discrediting Watson and Robinson was that Dr. Hershey was a part of a crusade of slander. It must have been a desperate man who would have dared to take such a step, a man so desperate when caught In the mesh of his own making that to try to tear down the State University to further his own ends. S&M&i many thousands of men and women Dr. Hershey who will properly and such a lie. man who can afford to bear no •• himself, whose fame ar.d A- fou, " leil *° ,H ‘ shaken l>v such ||r THE FEAST ( B some consternation in the ' %-■■■ jftfboys. There atv signs that A \ t , * s *' business may desert then.. jAidCU’ A ,'*jß ln ‘l other nationally known

equally well-known array of foreigners, are sounding a cry for lower tariffs which, before its last echo dies, is bound to be heard from one end of this broad land to the other. In of the most remarkable documents of a generation Morgan and his associates frankly lay much of the blame for post-war Ills on customs barriers which so many countries have seen fit to raise. The high cost of living, currency inflation, international trade stagnation, the falling off of imports and exports, and the unrest and ill feeling everywhere observable, says the manifesto, are all in part the evil offspring of high tariffs. “There can be no recovery in Europe," the surprising document sets forth, “till politicians in all territories, old and new, realize that trade is not war, but a process of exchange, that in time of peace our neighbors are our customers and that their prosperity is a condition of our well-being. If we check their dealings their power to pay their debts diminishes and their power to purchase our goods is reduced. “Restricted imports involve restricted exports and no nation can afford to lose Its export trade. Dependent as we all are upon imports and exports and upon the processes of international exchange, we can not view without grave concern a policy which means the impoverishment of Europe ” The G. O. P. has always been the high priest of “protective” tariff in this country. In recent years it has raised its own ante and made it almost a prohibitive tariff—the highest in the world. And Big Business has always lined up to a man behind this bulwark of privilege. Now there are indications that this support is wobbling. Far sighted business men, it would appear, are beginning to see the super-tariff thing can be overdone—that eventually it might prove a boomerang. And the Administration, realizing that 1928 Is just around the corner, is certainly guessing if not worried. Trup, the manifesto is expressed in general language and one of Morgan’s co-signers, John J. Mitchell of the Illinois Merchants Trust Bank, says it was not intended to have any reference to the American tariff. Maybe so. But whether it was so “intended” or not, it must of necessity include it and for cause. It was signed by several representative business men of high tariff America and, second, no decision of high tariff as an international trade issue, can possibly exclude America because hers Is the highest of them all. Fancy American business men, protected by au almost insurmountable customs barrier, telling Europeans to come out from behind their comparatively low ones and compete in the marts of trade. “Os course we’ll not lei you sell any goods in our country,” we would be saying to Europe, “but if you know which side your bread’s buttered on, you’ll fix it so we can flood your country with our goods.” We have no way of knowing, of course, what was in the minds of Messrs. Morgan. Mitchell, and the others when they put their names to the destined-to-become-famous plea for lower tariffs. But unless they Include our own country in it, then the paper becomes the most colossal piece of impudence and hypocrisy that has made its appearance in this country since the day we Americans began smugly to tell Europe how to run her business.

THE SHE-MAX IS COMING

By X. I). Cochran

The she-man is coming along faster than I expected. The girls hre moving up into the front seats pretty fast, but I hardly expected to see the boys of the rising generation slipping back so rapidly. Here comes a news story from Sacramento, in the glorious State of California, that ought to make a Heman feel like biting his Initials in an iron trolley pole. The story brings the sad news that a he sewing club is flourishing in the State of big raisins, moving picture actorines and sunkiat oranges; and that the boy needle experts are going to compete with the girls of that county for the right to attend the State sewing meet. ' / We used to make fun of the men milliners and tenor opera singers, but male sewing clubs darned near reach the limit. If this degeneration keeps up the next thing we know human beings supposed to be of the masculine gender will be sewing, tatting or Embroidering their way into Congress. Biologist tell us that we are all bi-sexual. We can understand that. Being born of woman and sired by man, every mother’s son or daughter of us has in his make-up some of the characteristics of both. The gland sharks say that the trouble with Oscar t\ ilde grew out of the mix-up of paternal characteristics. His father. Sir William Wilde, was A celebrated surgeon and a big he-man physically; and his mother was a big woman. Before Oscar was born his mother hoped for a girl, and was much disappointed when the doctor who officiated at the natal ceremonies told her, “It’s a boy.” But Mrs. Wilde was so anxious for a girl that she dressed Oscar in girls’ clothes until he was a good •sized youth. The result was that she encouraged the feminine part of his make-up and put a damper on the he part. So Oscar became what he was, a human animal with a terrific battle going on inside of him between the he and she instincts. In the light of what scientists know now of human nature biological chemists say that Instead of being sent to Reading gaol Oscar should have gone to a hospital. Now we can begin to understand why men rave over Jack Dempsey Gene Tunney Babe Ruth Alexander the Great Ernie Nevers and. other he-men when they get out in public and play men’s parts. It must be a sort of feminine worship of what she-men would like to be but are not. Most men would like to fi£ht and bust somebody in the nose, but they haven’t got the nerve—or, as Senator Wheeler of Montana calls It—the intestinal stamina. Cross-word puzzle experts will find a synonym in a shorter and more vulgar word of four letters beginning with g and ending withs. Probably the reason why woman are becoming more masculine and men more feminine is that reformers have succeeded too well in making boys be good—in the way that reformers understand being 'good. That is, they are making sissies of the boys and can’t boss the girls enough to keep them in long / skirts, high-necked dresses and whalebone corsets. / What the finish will be no one knows. But If the boys are going to take to sewing, tatting and embroidering, it’s a cinch the girls will start in the other direction and take to baseball, football and prize fighting, as they have already taken to swimming the English channel. What effect on opera will be isn’t so easy to guess, but probably there will be a fg.lling off of basso pro-’ fundos and a growing crop of male sopranos. Next — A Lemon a Day Keeps the Voter Away.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tracy Indiana Voters Too Busy Reading Favorite Authors.

By M. E. Tracy Amid such exaggeration, hurt pride and political balderdash the story of Xian rule In Indiana is gradually being developed. You couldn’t believe one-half of it and maintain your self-respect, but you don’t have to In order to sense the rottenness. Indiana people must have been too busy reading their favorite authors to notice what was going on. Otherwise, how could a man like D. C. Stephenson have gained control of the dominant party? But that is a rather Inconsequential question compared to some other aspects of the situation. Indiana seems to have been picked by the Klan for Its most aggressive and nastiest work. Perhaps this was because so many “prominent” leaders lent their ears to Its siren song. To let one former cyclops tell it, no less a personage than Senator James E. Watson permitted himself to be groomed for the presidency by the hooded order, it was a magnificent delusion on all sides. -I- -I- -IMuddle Over Tariff This Government would better keep out of Europe’s tariff muddle. It can’t go Into court with hands that are exactly clean, or with a policy for others It Is ready to practice itself. Unless Coolidge and Mellon are willing to advocate lower duties for America, how can they boast free trade for Europe. Besides, why should we be so generous with advice, while willing to assume no responsibility. If European bankers and financiers want trade barriers removed in Europe, that Is their business. We certainly don’t want them messing in our affairs and If we don’t, the best way to make them see propriety of It Is to keep out of theirs. •I- -I- -IEdison’s Invention It was fifty years ago yesterday that Thomas A. Edison, then a man of 37, sealed a loop of carbonized cotton thread in a glass bulb from which the air had been pumped, brought it in contact with an electric current and made light. On the following New Year’s day 6,000 peopla visited his Menlo Park laboratory to see this almost unbelievable piece of magic worked. We can’t understand their interest or emotions, because, with the exception of grandfathers and grandmothers, we know nothing of that good old time when the kerosene lamp and tallow candle reigned supreme. Mr. Edison Is one of the few men who have lived to see one'' of their inventions change an Important custom. It must be a source of great satisfaction for him to contemplate the millions of homes that have been made brighter and happier by his incandescent lamp.

'Communism, Christianity [ Russia Is apparently ready to war on the prevailing religious beliefs, as well as the • basic political doctrines of white civilization. The expulsion of the head of the V. M. C. A. may be taken a.-* evidence of her intentions. Communism seems unable to mix I with Christianity, which is probably the worse for communism. It is a weakness of revolutionists to think that they must destroy everything that smacks of the old order. Christiai tty itself can not pleaxl freedom from this weakness, for no sooner did it gain control of the Roman world than it went forth to obliterate the old art, science and culture, as well as the old faith. + •!• -IRoad Through Africa You can now drive an auto 'from Capetown to Cairo, a distance of 4.800 miles straight up the eastern side of Africa. This is hailed by the British government as not only marking the completion of a great engineering feat, but as of stupendous importance because of what it means to the development of Central Africa. Tt Is a reflection on western initiative and power to cooperate, that this “great north road,” as they call it, should have begn 'aid lengthwise through the “dark continent” before the new world could construct one from Cape Horn to Alaska. Europe, especially in its exploitation of Africa, will make us look to our laurels yet. -I- •!• +' Marines for Mails Two thousand five hundred Marines to guard the United States mall—shall we glorify it as a grand . jventure, or bow our heads in shame? It is necessary, of course, but in that lies the humiliation. What has happened In America that this greatest and most useful of all public services should have become the target of banditry? Sixteen million dollars have been taken by thieves from mail cars and postoffices during the last six years, and though three-fourths of It has been recovered, the crime remains. Scores of young men three brothers In one Instance, all of them under 26, are being stalked like beasts with a price on their heads, but not until they had proved them worthy of no other fate. We’re not going to cure the infection by merely getting mad, or “shooting to kill’* for a reason. Somewhere behind the scenes older people have failed to guide youth In the right direction, and until the fault has been corrected we can hardly hope for permanent relief. QUEER DINNER NEW YORK.—New York’s Chinatown still follows the quaint custom of serving a thirty-course meal. One of the delicacies Is cabbage that has been baked as dressing In chicken. But the chicken Is thrown away.

‘God Can Call a Person Just Any Minute and I Am Ready’ —Schumann-Heink

By Walter D. Hickman And the world cglls her “Mother.” There is room in every heart for Mme. Schumann-Heink at the age of sixty-five. Sitting on a bepch near a piano in her suite at the Claypool, this silver haired woman said to me this: “At sixty-five, God can call a person any minute. I am ready. I have never traded upon my art. My art has never disappointed me and it is the only thing that has given me the greatest happiness. “I am not calling this my farewell tour but It Is. A short tour next season of cities not visited this season will end my concert work. “I want to give the people my best. I want them to remember me and say ‘Oh, if we just could hear Schumann-Heink sing again.’ Ah, that will repay me.” And when the final public epneert is given, this "mother of song” is going out to her home in the west and sing only to the soldier boys of the late war who are In the hospitals. “Oh,” she cried as she clapped her hands together and as her eyes twinkled with honest Joy, “It Is great to see those great boys smile at me when I come to them. I sing. I hop about. I dance. I Malle and I Bing again. To see those faces smile at me—well that Is enough." In Opera Again She told me about coming back to the Metropolitan Opera in New York last season. “You know that my limbs, they Just shook ” she said with great alarm, “when my colleagues pushed me onto the stage for four curtains. And you know what that means at the Metropolitan. And what an uproar." Then her eyes became sad. “But in my dressing room, there was the tragedy,” she told me. “My beloved Scottie. He come with tears in both his eyes, lie gave me a great big hug. Oh, that would have been scandal ten years ago. But he brought back to me the glorious past. “And the greatest voice, the greatest singer, I tell you that person Is Nordica. No voice ever like hers.” And next season, she goes again [y another appearance with the Metropolitan Opera. I know that the “Met” will be packed again and I know the great love that Schumann-Heink has for all people will keep her voice always golden. Her hair may become more silver than ever and If Ood does not call, this woman again will cause the world to call her "mother” again. Being a mother didn’t Interfere with this woman’s career. “And when T go. I want in the easket the letter that my boy. George Wnshlngtoh Srhiimann-TTclnk. wrote me when her first went off to war. He first shoveled coal In a U. R. transport. He made many trips. My boys.” World Ivfs Her ■ And she loves boys the world over. She has the right because she finds in the hearts of men and women tJte things that are good. And now Madame RchumannHeink is saying farewell In sorg on her fiftieth anniversary, her Golden Tuhllee tour. The voice has always been golden. At sixty-five she is happy, devoted to her art and td her religion. Ts T was asked to name the happiest person that T know, I would say it was this "mother.” No scandal has ever entered her life. “Why I don’t even powder my nose,” she said with a roar. “Me no powder. 'No, my nose get all shiney. Never no powder.” And throwing out her arms, she said, “’.My greatest happiness has been my art. .\ly children. Yes. My art, my singing." And she found time to Invite me to her home In California. “When you come West, you come to see me.” she said. “I go to railroad station in automobile for you. I take you to my home. Then sometime, I drive you over into Mexico." Seeing that her eyss were poking great fun at me, I said: “Mother.

A Gay Flapper

She’s a gay flapper you often see at the theater. Her name with the answers to the rest of the questions appears on page 28: 1. Who is shown In the accompanying picture? 2. Has Europe or Africa the longer coast line? 3. How many provinces are there in Canada? 4. How many presidents of the United States died while in office? 6. What’s an ai? 6. Is 10-point type larger than 7point type? 7. Who wrote “The Scarlet Letter”? 6. What Is the largest city on the Great Lakes? 9. How often is the Federal Government census taken? 10. What is the Smallest State, in area, in the Union?

probably at sixty-five then the great scandal will come into your life.” Throwing back her head and with her eyes dancing, she cried, “I am a vamp.” And tonight, this "mother of song” will sing at the Murat before an audience which will pack every Inch of room in that large theater. This at sixty-five. Love, faith and hope—How great these jewels really are when placed in the life crown of Ernestine Schu-mann-Heink. • • • LOOKING OVER NEW BILL AT THE PALACE A peppy dance orchestra composed of six girls and two women dancers, make up the “Vanity Revue,” a pleasing melody and dance act at the Palace today and tomorrow. The orchestra plays the accepted numbers that one expects from a dance orchestra besides the accompaniments for the two dancers. The act is exceptionally well mounted In regards to sotting and appearance and provides good entertainment. Waily Jackson and his eccentric comedy are the whole thing when It comes to the features in “Number Please,” his act. Mr. Jackson takes the part of a man who is having more than his share of troubles in trying to get a telephone number. Later on in the act he does a couple of eccentric dances that are masterpieces of comedy. Wright and Dietrich, a man and woman, offer a number of comedy songs and succeed in getting quite a few laughs with their brand of humour. liave , some good stuff In their own impression of how some grand oj>era numbers should be sung. Making the little dummy he carries sing and talk and do a variety of things Lester, the ventriloquist, gives a pleasing demonstration of his art. While doing his work with the dummy Lester drinks and smokes as if it were nothing out of the ordinary. Herbert's Leaping Doga are to be seen in which the dogs are put through a variety of stunts. Included on the bill Is a photoplay, “The Speeding Venus." with Priscilla Dean and a News Reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) • * • Theaters today offer: SchumannHeink in conbert at the Murat tonight at 8:15 o’clock under the direction of Ona B. Talbot; “The Passing Show of 1526" at English’s; Will Mahoney at Keith's. Kay Sisters at Palace; James .1. Corbett at the Lyric; I "Mare Nostrum” at the Circle; “The Campus Flirt” at the Ohio; "Three Bad Men” at. the Colonial; “Tie Temptress" at the Apollo; “Flames” at the Isis: “Old Ixtves and New” at the Uptown and burlesque at the Mutual. DE PAUW REUNION HELD Bishop McConnell. Fortner President, Gives' Address. Bishop Francis J. McConnell, fort mer Ite Pauw president, spoke to t 150 students and faculty members attending the teachers association convention, at a reunion dinner Thursday night at the Severin. Other speakers were President L. 11. Murlln. Dr. Henry Longden, the Rev. W. Henry McLean, and Dr. O. H. Williams John A. Linebarger, Democrat, and Charles F. Miller Republican. both De Pauw graduates, who seek election as State superintendent of public instruction, wore present. EARIJIAM PRESIDENT SPEAKS T>r. David M. Edwards, Karlham College president, addressed 200 alumni at a reunion of former graduates who are teachers, Thursday night at the Claypool. E. T. Albertson and Miss; C. Augusta Mering of Indianapolis were other speakers.

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Here Is Will

Will Mahoney

Many people consider Will Mahoney the “best one-man show” in vaudeville. From a medicine show “actor,” Mahoney has became one of the highest paid wits on the variety stage. He is at Keith’s this week. PLAY AT ST. GEORGE’S Stump Group Will Appear Tonight at Parish House. “The Booster Club of the Blackwelle Minstrel," will be given by the Stump Associated Players at St. George’s Parish House, Morris and Church Sts., tonight. It will be repeated Saturday night, at Waverly Hall, Waverly, Ind. John Bader, blackface comic, will play the lead. The production is directed by Fred Stump, also of the cast. TO SEEK Y. M. MEMBERS The Y. M. C. A. railroad department plans a membership drive, to open Monday. Arrangements were made for the campaign at a dinner at the Brightwood Y. M. C. A. C. A. Tevebaugh, State secretary, spoke.

Times’ Artist

Miss Frances McConnell

Judging by the requests for her appearances on Times' radio programs, Miss Frances McConnell has more than made good as a pianist. She will give four groups tonight on The Times' program over WFBM front the Severin.

OCT. 22, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can set an answer to an.v tionof lact or Information by to The Indianapolis Times Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be riven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other aueattons will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How many fights has Jack Dempsey had and what were the results? Exclusive of the last one (Sept. 23d, 1926) he has fought seventyseven times, scoring forty-seven knockouts; won eleven; lost two: been knocked out, one; no decisions, two; draw, four, and ten exhibitions. Do any States other than Ohio have a town called Cincinnati? The Postal Guide gives one in In- 1 dlana and one in lowa. To whom does Syria belong? It is an Independent nation over which France holds a mandate, granted by the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers and confirmed by the League of Nations. How fast do Swifts fly? No record has been made of the speed of these birds but men who ( have hunted them say they have ! never been able to shoot them. They , are faster than the Lanntr Gler Falcon of England, which according to speed tests made with aeroplanes, travel at the rate of 110 miles per hour. Is a square mile the same as a mile square? A square mile and a mile contain the same number of square feet, but a square mile is not neces sarily square in shape. A smile square is a quadrilateral, each side of which is one mile. Each contains 27,878,400 square feet. Mil at is the size and color of the Japanese beetle? About one-half inch.long, one-third inch wide and a bronze, green color. Was Betty Compson on the stage before she entered movies? She was a violinist in vaudeville for a number of years. Her screen career began in comedies under the auspices of A1 Christie. She appeared in George Loane Tucker’s picture, “The Miracle Man,” and became n star. When was the United States bat tlcship Kearsage retired from commission? She arrived in Philadelphia on her last voyage Aug. 30, 1919, and was declared out of commission May 18. 1920. Who Issues Carnegie hero medals” The Carnegie hero fund commission, Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Wliat are “The Jonathan Papers?" A volume of essays that appeared originally in The Outlook, The At lantic’Monthy and Scribner’s Maga zine dealing chiefly with outdoor top ics, especially gardens and flowers. What Is an average yield of cot oanuts per acre? In scientific propagation the average is fifty trees to an acre and an annual yield of fifty nuts per Where did the gam© of chockWs originate? It is thought that Homer describes the game in the first book of the Odyssey, as being played by suitors of Penelope to amuse themselves and which, according to Philostratus, was invented by Falcmedes at the siege of Troy. On the walls of The bes Ramoses if I is depicted unmistakably playing checkers with a lady, and in the British Museum arc many specimens of ancient Egyp tian draughtmen and draughtboards. The boards were checkered, but wereunlike ours in size or shape and the draughtmen are of various shapes, although none are capable of being "crowned” as In the modern gamci What is the duty oil a pair pf sample field glasses? The tariff act provides that coni mercial samples can enter the United States free of duty if they remain in this country only six months. What is the meaning of tlie so! lowing names: Alice, Lucy, an I Beatrice? Alice, “a princess;” Lucy, “shsn ing," and Beatrice, “happy.”