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upon the trunks Of trees. Here, in this
drawer are only two bones, all that could
be found of another fire victim. They be-
longed to child between six and ten
and how do / know? AT six these plates
in the rear of the skull become one, as in
this case and at ten the cartilage in the
back of this elbow bone commences to os-
'sify, which process has not begun here as
yet. Then. in this other drawer over here
We have only a couple of vertebrate and
these few chips of rib. dug up in the back
yard of a suspicious house in the slums
They are all that remain of a young wom-
an between sixteen and twenty-five. L
know this because at the former age these
bony points commence to form In the
heads of the ribs. while at twenty-five the
vertebrate have not ossifed any further
than you see here. So on, step by step,
through the entire seven ages OF man
such new milestones appear.
Now. say. we have found the victim to
he between forty and fifty. But how tall
is she? We take one Of the few bones
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Why Mirrors Reflect.
From st. Nicholas.

Mirrors that are made OF glass have
metal placed on one side OF the glass.
The light will pass through the glass.
but will not pass through the metal back
ing. Light has the property of bound
ing from a surface that IL cannot pene-
trate, the same as a ball would when
thrown against a surface that IL cannoe
penetrate The light passes through the
glass of the mirror. meets the metal back
ing, and then bounds from IL. This
bounding of the light from the metal
surface Is called reflection, and mirrors
are said to reflect
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cupant-a picture sufficient to determine
whether the victim was Belle Gilmore or
some one else. The answer which the
British police are forbidden to sweat out
Of the suspects. the solution which the
London coroner and the sleuths Of Scot
land Yard cannot read In these CHASTITY
relics. is yet there. craven upon those
crumbied bones spelled by the loops and
angles OF those matted locks"
The learned specialist In legal medi-
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Man "Swoopers' at the
Bargain Counter Sales

work. and the way they do v-wedge to-
ward the mems counters and grab ahold
OF the piled-up stuff is something that
would gladden. the heart of women who've
been listening and reading about their
own bargain-counter Weaknesses all OF
these years.
I'VE get another swoopful big gang of
the men bargain hunters at the noon
hour. when they're out for lunch They
bolt their lunches, and then beat It for
the mems bargain sales, and they pick
and paw the gear over as busy as bird
oogs. Then late in the afternoon. there's
still another big mob of men bargain
hunters. There isn't a particle of diner
ence between the spirit manifested by
men and women at their respective bar
gain counters. except that the men are
sometimes rum5ingly growly, where the
women merely snap at each other-and
that's fundamental difference between
men and women that obtains every old
place, doesn't IL?
For example. yesterday we had a
sale OF mems marked-down straw
mats. We were closing line OF sure
enough three-dollar and four dollar straw
hats for VIZ. Men OF a provident
turn put these straw hats away for
next year. you see We had big ad-
vertisements for this sale I'm the papers.
When j got down 10 the store yesterday
morning you'd have thought strike or
mass meeting was in progress out in
front. The sidewalk wasn't wide enough
to hold the mob of men who'd dropped
on their cars TO be early on the job at
this straw hat sale. When the porter let
me In at five minutes before the regular
opening time he had all he could do to
bang the door shut upon 'em. They were
determined to burst right in at my heels
When the doors were opened they storm
ed in like gang of lynchers bent upon
dragging some murderer out OF his cell.
and they beat IL at a dead illop for tie
rear or the main floor. where the straw
hat sale was all ready. Their feet thun-
dered on the floor boards like an army
rs they darted for the rear. and the sales
women, not for the moment realizing
what was coming of. looked nervous and
scared until they found out the cause or
the noisy swoop Some OF the straw hats
We're stacked up on easily reachablc
shelves, with the size numbers on slips
pasted right below each shelf, but most
OF them were heaped up on long counters
placed In the middle OF the aisles. Well.
you wouldn't believe the way those fell
lows mobbe,l those marked-down hats
The scene reminded me OF nothing so
much as a big gang OF newsboys scram-
bling for silver coins hurled into the
street by a rummy with generous bun.
Several of the men would grab at the
same instant for hats resting on the
shelves on which the size numbers were
pasted, and the fellow whose hand got
there first and who snagged out the hat
and tried IL on had to stand for the
-Growls OF. the unsuccessful reachers- 1
never heard SO many " vans. In my
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Many Curious Occupations
in Running the Government

nature from morning till night Secretary
MacVeagh was appalled, by the mass OF
treasury warrants. vouchers and other
routine papers which the law required
tnat ne should sign. Other secretaries
had been the slave Of the same custom
Secretary Manning came nearest to free
ing himself from the irksome require
ment. His name, save for the final letter
ments by a clerk. Mr.. Manning supplied
the missing letter and the controller said
1t was all right.
Secretary Macveagh improved this
scheme by inducing Congress at the re-
cent session to pass a law authorizing a
clerk to do his signing. Now John Kiley
attends to this job. affixing his name
for Franklin MacVeagh." Kiley will
sign from 800 to 800 documents q day.
He has just finished six-week task
OF putting his signature on 10000 Treas
ury warrants to members Of the Cherokee
Indian tribe, the money being In payment
for sale OF lands belonging to the In
dams.
Down at the Department of Agriculture
three scientists are engaged In the inter-
estiag occupation Of examining the con-
tents of the stomachs of birds. They
have done nothing else for the past two
years They are trying to find out
enemies o. farmers. Special agents In the
field STAY the birds by the hundreds and
ship their stomachs to Washington in
alcohol. These are microscopically exam
ined by three scientists. who tabulato
everything they find.
The results have been surprising BY
this method Ii has been discovered that
hawks and owls are not the wicked birds
of prey the farmers thought them to be-
In the old days the farmer took keen sat-
isfaction In shooting these supposed ma
RAIDERS. Now the intelligent agricul-
turist protects these birds. He realizes
that although they may occasionally kill
a chicken, they perform valuable services
in hunting the voracious rodents which
destroy alike grain products, young trees
and eggs of birds.
Three women have recently come to the
front In the government service by rea-
son OF exceptional ability or the perform
ance of unusual duties. They are Miss
Anna H. Shortridge Of the State Depart
ment, Miss Margaret Kelley of the Treas
ury Department and Mrs. Mabel p Le-
roy of the Interior Department
Miss Shortridge Is said to be the high
est paid woman in the government serv-
Ice. her salary being $500 a year She
is a lawyer and an authority on interna-
tional legal points. She was formerly en-
ployed in the Department OF Justice,
where her remarkable talents attracted
he was the Attorney General. He fire.
quently detailed her to prepare govern
ment briefs in important cases
When Mr.. Knox entered the State De.
partment the first thing he did. was to
ask for the transfer OF Miss Shortridge
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Ut of those rags
and b o n e s and
hanks of hair dug
from the quick
lined pit under the
cellar floor OF DR..
Crippen's mystery
h o u Sc. Hilldrop
Crescent, medico-
legal science can
reconstruct a pic
ture of that long
hidden graves oc-
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From the Wide World MaRazine.
In Hungary wedding presents are only
given to poor couples to help them get
their home together. The girl friends OF
the brides show attention by making
cakes OF various kinds to be partaken or
at the marriage feast. Other gifts there
are none. And this Is q custom that one
could wish were more general There II
no wedding cake. either. as We under
stand II, but each guest receives a kind OF
sweet cake Of the substance Of cracknel
biscuits. made In the form Of ring about
ten inches In diameter.
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IAN Be Conjured Up Out
- of the Scraps of Bone
and Tangles of Hair Found
in Cellar of Mystery House
How Sex, Race, Age, Stature,
Etc, Can Be Accurately De-
termined From These Ghast-
ly Relics - Tests Clearly
Explained by Medico-Legal
Expert.
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His View.

Tailor-Sir. have made cio;hes for
some OF the best houses.
Customer.-Maybe they will 1T a house
They certainly won't fit a man.
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economize. His eye caught the
names Of two women listed as waste
basket examiners?"
What's that?" demanded the Secre-
tary.
They are the women who inspect the
contents Of the waste baskets" was the
reply. They are paid $3.50 a year each.
and as We received last year $1.6OO from
the sales Of the waste paper which passed
through their hands there would be no
economy in dropping them"
secretary MacVeagh was interested. He
learned that the two women occupy a
room In the Easement Of the great gran
te building and that they spend the en-
tire gay pulling over the scraps Of pa
per, red tape and other articles that find
baskets: They are experts In this hum
pie GAZING. The paper is sorted ac-
coIolng TO Its quality, and all bits OF
tWine and rubber bands are thrown to
ore sloe. IL takes the two women the
greater part OF the day to scrutinize the
output OF the baskets for the day pre-
yious.
Inc chief purpose OF this examination is
10 guard against the loss Of money and
valuable papers. 1t would be an easy
tnihs Tor bundle Of bank notes or Treas
ury notes 10 slip into a waste basket. The
women have caught more than one val
uanie packag, of this kind Also they
nave a Keen eye open for official letters,
reports ana other documents which might
nave come to their baskets through the
careiessness of clerks and messengers.
on the Top floor of the same building is
chemist who tolls all day long amid
samples OF oleomargarine, near butter
ana rake wh!slS.es The samples are sent
10 MN by suspicious government agents
Whp think the butter manufacturers and
uisuiers are evading the law against
auuiteration. In addition to being high
ciass chemist, this man is an expert W.T.
ness. us skill in both lines recently won
.ne governments suit against a certain
pachhs company. In which the latter
was nned $4,000 for selling oleomargarine
coiored TO initiate butter.
Another man enjoys q sinecure IN inc
bureau or engraving and printing. he IS
pau So.Wo year simply to watcn over
the plates and dies from which the gov
elnHnents paper money and ponus are
printed The law makes the Secretary OF
me treasury personally Responsible ioI
.hls valuable property. The secretary IN
turn ihtrusts IL to q man In whom ne mas
,oihpiete confidence and who Is responsi-
oie 10 the Secretary and TO no one else.
AZ the close OF each day the man gatneis
up the dies and the plates. puts theih IN
me SAFE, and the next morning nanos
them out again.
John kiley has a unique Jop IN tnc
treasury Department. He writes ms sis-
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life One little chap, not blessed with
long reach, was beaten to ii two or three
times running by tall fellow who had
the same sized head. and finally the
little chap got hot around the fichu.
Hey, y big rum, what's on yuh any
how? he grumped at the tall fellow.
Dye want t hog all tn lids In tn
dump? Are yuh goin' t start a hat
store?
"They were lined about five deep about
the aisle counters upon which the hats
were heaped and the Impotence OF
those in the rear rows over the 'hoggi-
ness as they called 1t. OF the fellows
who We're up in front trying on the tents
as marked and considerably more
grouchy in it's expression than the impa-
thence OF women who find themselves
pocketed in their rushes for the bargain
counters.
Look a-here. are you ginks goin' L
stick UP front there all week. the ones
behind would growl, and then the ones
up front would turn their heads around
and say out OF the corners OF their
mouths. 'Ah, g'wan.' and 1t sure was
lovely from every angle.
"One fellow up front tried on q hat
that was several sizes too small for him.
But 1t was hat of quality, as everybody
could see, and he just hated to think
jam 1t down on his head, but It wasn't
any use. The lid wasn't within an inch
of being his size. Suddenly a man away
back In the rear row reached out q
hand and grabbed the hat of the head
OF the man who hated to give II up.
Cant you see that ii won't flt you.
you lob?' growled the grabber at the
man from whose head he had snatched
the hat. And it's just my size. he added
as he put it on, and he Hoped UP to one
Of the clerks. stuffed 81 90 into the clerk s
hand. and vamoosed like a man running
away from a cloudburst.
We'll, OF all the GALL grunted the
man from whose head the bonnet had
been snatched.
" He was dead right growled the fell
z lows in the rear rows who observed the
incident 'Whatchoo want to do-hang
around up front there all day and give
nobody else a chance?
Its only in quite recent years, you see.
that men have come to appreciate the
cleyerness Of the woman's idea in buying
bargain stuff out of season. Women, for
example, right now are taking advan-
tage OF the really worthwhile sales OF
shirt waists. They're fixing themselves
up with shirt waists for the warm wealth
er of 1911. And there are thousands OF
women who pick up decided bargains in
furs when the weather Is meltingly hot.
Well the men. as / say, have got next
TO what a good scheme this is. and that's
why they've become so snoopy after BAR
gains in mems goods.
Yes, it's time to dispense with this
comedy about women bargain hunters.
They're keen and nifty at that work. but
they haven't got anything whatever on
the male folks at that kind Of work these
days"
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But how. professor. can they tell
whether a bone is that Of a man or a
woman" l inquired.
Here is a piece Of jawbone.'' he said.
lone OF the few fragments of a charred
skeleton found lately in a tenement fire.
In a minute after II was handed to me
I told the police that 1t was from the
body Of woman. How? Here is the in
strument that did the work"
And the professor clapped the black
ened bone onto a hinged board with a
brass arc, which measured the angle
which the bottom OF the jaw made with
the side that goes up toward the ear.
In woman this angle is greater than
in man." he added. Likewise other
bones have their sex characteristics. par
ticularly the pelvis. which is much deeper
and narrower in the male than in the
female.
THE victims age is the next question.
Every year Father Time leaves some
mark or other upon our bones. as he does
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@NE Of the very latest aids to be
called upon by a long-suffering pub
lie in its efforts to reduce the pres
ent high cost OF living is the humblest of
the nut family, the peanut. Recent re-
ports from men who have been privately
investigating show that hundreds OF fam
lilies In Philadelphia. New York and other
great American cities have cut out meat
entirely from the daily diet and have
placed on their tables heaping bowls of
the succulent groundnuts.
Capitalists in New York who have been
watching with interest the progress and
rapid spread of the new fad are prepar-
ing to invest large sums in purchasing
vast tracts in the south and In South
America for the cultivation of the plants.
and the product bids fair TO occupy in
the near future an even more important
position than IL has In the past In the
markets Of the country.
Prominent physicians throughout the
country have declared the peanut TO De
an excellent substitute for meat. IL Is
true that to gorge on the kernels. unless
one is blessed with exceptional digestive
powers, is to tempt severe internal as
orders. but eaten sanely the nutritious
portion Of peanuts Is readily assimiiateo
by the weakest stomach.
The person who buys q nickeIs worth
of peanuts to MUNICH at the ball game.
to feed to the SQUIRRELS I'm the park, or
to gladden. the hearts OF the k1ddles at
home. scarcely realizes that he has con-
trfbuted to an industry that last year
farmed a millon-dollar crop. and whlcn
placed on the market in various forms
reached the enormous sum OF Soo'oo'ooV.
But II Is q fact.
This seductive little nut-a resolution
to "eat Just one" is soon forgotten
whose birthplace is America. was until
comparatively recently unappreciated
either as to the money In them or as
a really nutritious product. Today the
peanut plays an important part In pleas
ure. from the swell dinner party TO the
ever-present democracy of the circus, ball
game or picnic After all. what Is ball
game a picnic or a circus without the
peanut accompaniment?
By far the largest part or the crop Is
consumed from the peanut stand. the
little whistle sign OF the roadster being
the signal for the average youngster 10
suggest to dad or ma that some of them
would be very acceptable, and the pa
ternal or maternal parents Willingness
nine times out OF ten-to invest. Yet
there are millions OF bushels that go TO
the fattening of hogs throughout the
south. the feeding Of poultry, while the
vines. often cured as hay, feed thou
sands OF head Of cattle. and even old
Mother Earth is nourished by the roots
of the plant. which furnishes nitrogen to
Ii from the air.
The result of all this is that scientists
claim that the peanut, which in the past
was not very highly regarded. is the
only food staple that will at once nour-
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ton OF a department store un-
cooled a little siam at the he
sex the other day.
The time has about arrived.
said he, for male persons to stop giving
their women folks the comic supplement
chortle over their. the women's. bargain
hunting activities.
'whyfore? Because in these days
women haven't got a single thing on the
male folks as bargain-counter fiends. The
men are just as keen the trail of the
marked-down stuff the women. and
they're every bit as pushy and scrappy
In their method OF swooping upon the
bargain junk at thar.
III you don't believe IL just stand by
for q little while ard watch the progress
Of q cut-price sale Of mems gear here to
md out what eager and sometimes peev-
ish bargain chasers men are nowadays
They don't make any bones about It,
either. I can easily recall the time when
over II when they attended sales OF
marked-down stun. They were sort of
deprecatorily grinny. and they would
glance furtively around 10 see IL anybody
they knew was spotting them
They plainly felt cheap and Uhcom-
Portable over their pursuit OF the bargain
stuff and often they took the attitude
that they were just looking around and
had just dropped IN TO see IL the ad-
vertised marked-down stuff really was ON
the level
"If they happened to be caught snoop-
ing around the marked-down counters by
acouaintances they'd look frustrated and
fiabbergasted, and they'd humble things
about how they were Just poking around
without the least intention in the world
OF buying any OF the cut-price sST they
were Just poking around that's all
Now though, that's all changed The
men who swcop upon the mems bargain
counters don't make the least effort now
adays TO hide or 10 look apologeic AS a
matter OF fact they appear 10 be rather re-
sentful over II when they find women folks
around the counters where mems marked
down stun is heaped up. They don't want
women around when they're bargain
counter!ng and they don't hesitate 10
show this either.
Nowadays whenever We advertise an e.
pecially noteworthy and attractive line OF
mems marked-6own stun we've got into
the habit of standing by for regular foot
ball rushes. It's no uncommon thing 10
find punches Of men folks kicking their
heels outside the entrances when the es-
adjustment Is opened up for business II
the morning They're the fellows who'vc
read the mems bargain advertisements
in the evening papers the night before OF
in the morning pa pers on their way dow
town to work and so they drop OF or
their way TO work to get the first whack
at the cut-price stuff before it's all paved
over and snapped up. This early-morning
crowd hasn't much time to spare. be-
cause. as ] say. they're on their way Il
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''And the hair found in the Crippen cell
lor will add to the picture which can thus
be conjured up from the few remnants of
bone that the medico-legal specialists could
work on. Since Bertillon master criminal
anthropologist of France. took up this
special branch OF study within compare
lively recent months. more is being learn
ed about differences In hair than science
ever dreamed of.
Il place a single hair. thus. in this
great long camera here, the photomicro-
graph apparatus which is so powerful that
you would appear as tall as Mount Everest
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cine then kindled his crusted pipe bowl
and launched into the graveyard gloom
that hung about us a welcome cloud that
expanded through the morgue smell oon-
ing from his rows Of specimens. Choice
chunks OF humanity picking everywhere
in glass jars upon the wall shelves, piles
of gnawed-like human bones here and
there upon a greasy table suggested that
he might be an ogre who had just licked
his bearded chops after a cannibal feast
amid this well stocked larder.
Now, suppose We were 10 take this
complicated piece of mechanism aDart."
he resumed. opening the back of his sill
yer watch. And suppose we should take
this one little cog wheel TO a skilled
matchmaker. Do you think he would
hem and haw long over telling you the
make of the timepiece-its size. and its
age? 1t is the same with the human
skeleton. which has many more levers
and pivots and other parts than you will
find in any watch. and each of these
parts fitting only the one make Of man.
woman or child
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Copyright. 1910. by John Eltreth watkin.)