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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-08-19
NOTICE FOR RECONvEYANCE

10 the owner or owners of any
and all interests in or liens
upon the land herein described:
Take Notice, that sale has been
lawfully made of the following
described land for unpaid taxes
thereon, and that the under
signed has title thereto under
tax deed or deeds issued there
for, and that you are entitled to
re-conveyance thereof at any
time within six months after re-
turn of service of this notice
upon payment to the undersigned
or to the register in chancery of
the county in which the lands lie,
OF all sums paid upon such pur-
chase, together with one hundred
per centum additional thereto.
and the fees of the sheriff for the
service or cost of publication of
this notice, to be computed as
upon personal service of a declar-
alton as commencement Of suit,
and the further sum of five dol
lars for each description, with
out other additional cost or
charges. If payment as aforesaid
is not made, the undersigned will
institute proceedings for pos
session of the land.
Description of Land-State of
Michigan, County of st. Clair. A
piece of land in northeast corner
of section 20, town 8 north of
range II east, bounded north by
Beck lot, east by Lake Huron,
south by Boyce property and west
by Port Huron and Lexington
road.
Amount paid, S11.36; taxes for
years 1911 and 1912.
Amount necessary to redeem.
S2772, plus the fees of the sher-
if.
w. HOWE and ISAAC
HUGHES, Place of Business,
Port Huron. Mich.
To WILLIAM ]. DELL.
Return of failure of service
personal and mail. State of Mich
igan, County of st. Clair, IS. l do
hereby certify and return that
the within notice was delivered to
me for service on the 9Th day of
July, 1920, and that after careful
inquiry, which has been continu-
ed from that time until this date. |
am unable to ascertain the |
whereabouts or post office address
Of William J. Dell, the person |
appearing by the records in the |
office of the register of deeds of |
said county, to be the last gran |
tee in the regular chain of title |
10 the within described lands at |
he said date Of the said delivery
Of such notice to me for service
Or of the heirs Of said grantee, or
he whereabouts or the post office
address of the executor, admin
strator, trustee or guardian of |
such grantee or assigns upon
the foregoing described lands.
Dated August 18th, 1920.
JAMES ID. AUSTIN, Deputy
'0-4 Sheriff of said County.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-08-19
ANNOUNCEMENT.

Owing to the confusion in the names
of two Doctor Frazers on Military ST
DIR. II. q. Frazer, specialist on Eve
Ear, Nose and Throat diseases wishes
to announce his Office OH the ground
floor Of the Yokom Bldg, opposite the
Harrington Hotel, l011 Military street
Port Huron, Mich.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-08-19
Poultry Wanted

| will pay the highest market
price for all kinds of poultry. If
you have anything to sell notify
me and ] will call. Will buy ev-
cry day. Call SO ii Is.
1926 A. c. Sperry, Yale.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-08-19
bring ON YOUR LINK

l will pay $500 q ton for old
iron; 1c pound for rags; sc
pound for rubber boots and rubber
shoes. 1926
John Sexton, Yale.
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MINSK: AN INCUBATOR OF
BOLSHEVISM

One of the least interesting among
Russian cities in its physical aspects,
MInsk has an economic history that
helps in understanding how bolshevism
spread so readily among the Russian
people.
The Industrial history of Minsk,
where the Poles and the bolsheviks
met to discuss peace terms, Is espe-
cially significant in view of present
conditions in Russia. 1t was one of
the centers where ideas long germi-
mated which blossomed forth so sud
denly into bolshevism under the hot
house influences of war distress.
There, in the early ninetieS of the last
century, group of dllettantes formed
a Working Mans union, later more
accurately termed the Union for
Struggle. PRONUNCIATION of literature,
smuggled into the country or printed
in secret, was major activity of this
group in Minsk. Few workingmen be-
longed to it.
In the course of five years these
groups, working In Moscow, st. Pc
tersburg and Minsk, had accumulated
a number of followers, few of whom
agreed. They gave wide publicity to
the doctrines of Marx, mixed indls-
criminately with every variety of rad
icalism, native and imported. With
such a diversity of aims little was
accomplished, and 1t was with the
hope of formulating n definite pro-
gram that the Union for Struggle and
a committee of the Jewish bund held
their notable convention at Minsk In
1898. From that meeting arose the
Social Democratic Working Mems
party.
MInsk is built upon the Svislotck
river, nearly 500 miles southwest Of
Moscow by rail, and has population
of 1O5O00, fully half Of whom are
Jews. It was the capital of the old
Russian government of Minsk, which
included some OF the least fertile and
least developed regions of the fallen
empire.
The annual fair, held In March, fur
nished the chief event In the towns
life Its trade, mainly in corn, lum-
ber and leather, gained perceptlbly
when 1t became the intersection point
of the railway from Moscow to War
saw and that from Lihau to Kharkoy.
Formerly it maintained municipal
pawnshop.
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LONDONDERRY: "MAIDEN
CITY OF IRELAND"

Derry, or Londonderry. in Ulster,
known in song and legend as the
Maiden City of Ireland" has the
charm of the CHEEKY, busy town and is
truly characterized by the stirring
marching song which these Irish sing
on their days of celebration:
"where Foyle his swelling waters
rolls northward to the main,
Here, Queen of Erln's daughters, fair
Derry fixed her reign;
A holy temple crowned her, and COM
merce graced her street;
A rampant wall was round her. the
river at her feet"
These four lines briefly tell Lon
donderry's story. Along the two-mile
quays of the river Irishmen jolly each
other as they load and unload the for
eign, colonial and coasting trade of
the docking vessels. For the Foyle
is wide and deep, and large tonnage
ships flying the flags of France, Aus
tralia, Brazil, the United States, and
India bring their wares to her port
Busy looms In the city make linen.
and then laughing. twinkly-eyed Irish
girls make the linen into shirts before
1t leaves Londonderry. The salmon
fishery on the Foyle is important and
the town has timber mills, grain mills,
and shipyards.
But Derry has for the traveller
charm greater than its hustle and up
-and-doing atmosphere-the story of
past replete with romance, devotion
to principle, and the exhibition of
indomitable spirit. COLUMBIA, the
greatest of the Irish saints after Pat
rick and Brigid, in 546 looked on the
oak-clad hills and coveted them Here
he founded his abbey, known as Daire-
Columbkille, or Columba's Oak Grove,
within the shadow of the great fort
on n neighboring hill, the stronghold
of the lord of Tyrone, in order that
his sanctuary might have the protec-
ton of the fort. But in vain did he
reckon his chances against the Danes
and Saxons who, time and again,
pushed their boats against his shores.
Despite their plundering and burnings,
the settlement, of which he had made
the nucleus, grew and maintained Its
independence until 1909.
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Derry was then given to the cor

Derry was then given to the cor
poration of London, which tackled on
the prefix London. Three years later
the Irish society. to which London
derry and much of the surrounding
country had been given, pledged itself
to enclose Derry within walls, and
and four, are excellently preserved
today, perhaps to the inconvenience
of the inhabitants, but certainly in
accordance with their sentiments ana
wishes. Any one who expressed n
desire that they be taken down would
be treated as a traitor. Long ago
they grew too small to encompass all
the Inhabitants of the hustling port,
but they stand like a stiff belt around
the waistline of the hill on witch
the city is built. The most inc5n-
venient thing about them is that.
though they are more than mile in
circumference, there are only. seven
gates leading through them. Because
the walls defended the city In the
siege begun by James II, busy man
must make quite jaunt out of his
way to find a passageway through
them, but, true to Irish sentiment,
he does 1t without murmur. ON one
of the bastions of the wall an old
gun, affectionately known as 'Roaring
Meg" points her nose over the city.
Here, too, on the hill in the center
of a crowded old graveyard stands
the quaint, squat cathedral with its
queer pinnaclcd tower. 1t is called
after st. Columbia, although 1t is not
on the site of the old abbey built by
the saint fourteen centuries ago.
On high, inaccessible hill in the
distance, looms the stronghold of the
lords of Tyrone. 1t is said that st.
Patrick came to the fort to baptize
Owen, who first set himself up to rule
over the province of Tyrone, and st.
Columbia visited 1t before his exile.
Here. too, captive Danes who had
threatened the peace of the city were
dragged In triumph.
Though every trace of the old cas-
tie has been obliterated, the massive
stone wall fourteen feet thick and
eighteen feet high, resembling the han
diworlS of cyclone, has stood out
grimly against the centuries. A small
iron gate hnngs across a two-foot door
way, the only entrance to It's huge
amphltheater-llke Interior, which re
veals further devices designed for the
protection of the inmates.
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| ny. 1t also had its own refuge of 49,
600 acres. So the state is now In pos
session of 234,30O acres of refuge.
This land is worth not less than $40 an
acre, at low estimate.
And this is not all. Gov. John NJ.
Parker, Conservation Commissioner
NJ. L. Alexander and Mr.. McIlhenny
have plan to Increase the total acre
age to 100000 in one big tract.
The Rockefeller foundation and
Ward McIlhenny tracts are separat-
ed by two other tracts. One of the lat
ter is tract of $4,000 acres, lying in
Vermilion parish and owned by the
Vermilion Bay company. The other
is a tract of $4,000 acres, belonging
to several owners. By the addition
of these two tracts the big bird refuge
would have an unbroken frontage of
75 miles on the gulf
Commissioner Alexander believes
that the next year will see the pur-
chase of these two tracts by the state
and their addition to the refuge. 1t
is stated that n majority of the own
ers of the $4,000 acre tract have
agreed to sell to the state for refuge
purposes at price approximating So
an acre. This is virtually a gift to
the state of half the value of the
land.
Mr.. McIlhenny has been called the
father of wild-life conservation in
the SOUTH" Apparently he deserves
the title. Anyway, 1t was he who In
fluenced Mrs. Sage to make the Marsh
island purchase.
The fisrt work of the department
was to eliminate the market hunters
which was done by means of armed
wardens, authorized as deputy sher-
ifs and marshals, travelling In motor
patrol boats equipped with small rap
id-fire guns. 1t was a hard fight.
Louisiana has long been the haunt of
swarms of market hunters and plu-
mage hunters. Many battles were
fought between the wardens and the
poachers. The most sensational. pos
sibly, was that in which Rene Sau-
nier fought three-hour gun battle
with six market hunters. The warden
was shot in the eye and the lung, but
arrested all six lawbreakers. Saunier
nearly died, but finally recovered. All
six of the pOachers are serving terms
In states prison and Marsh island is
free from their kind nowadays.
Soon after obtaining the Russell
Sage foundation gift Mr.. McIlhenny
went again to New York and, with
Mr.. Wards assistance, succeeded III
persuading the Rockefeller foundation
to take action.
But long before Mr.. McIlhenny was
instrumental in securing these two
tracts for the state he was at work
on his own particular bird refuge on
his plantation of 10000 acres on Yer
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tIon in the Civil war, Colonel Paine
took an ardent interest In yachting
and became a master of yacht design
ing and sailing. 1t was in 1885 that
he formed the syndicate that built the
Puritan. and also served at the head
Of the committee which had charge of
the races Of that year. Later he be
came sole owner of the Puritan, but
later sold 1t to Commodore Forbes.
In 1856 he built the Mayflower,
which defeated the Galatea, and the
Volunteer. which successfully contest
ed the Americas cup with the Thistle.
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CUNNING FOR PROFITEERS
AN ANCIENT PRACTICE

Profiteering in foods and high wage
demands by labor are far from being
ultra-modern problems.
Ancient Egypt flogged Its profiteers
in the market places and medieval
England passed maximum wage laws,
according to communication by
Ralph A. Graves to the National Geo
graphic society, which says:
"FollowIng the devastation of the
Black Death in England in 134s-1349,
cultivation of the fields was utterly
impossible and there were not even
enough able-boded lnbOrers to gather
the crops which had matured. Cattle
roamed through the corn unmolested
and the harvest rotted where it stood.
"Out of the situation which resulted
from the impoverishment of the labor
resources of the kingdom grew the
first great clash in England between
capital and labor. The peasants be-
came masters of the situation. In some
instances they demanded double wages,
and whereas formerly landowners had
paid one-twelfth of every quarter of
wheat as the harvesting wage they
were now forced to pay one-eight.
"Parliament hurrIedly passed dras-
tic laws in an effort to meet the new
condition. Statutes provided that
every man or woman, bond or free,
able In body and within the age of
threescore years. not having his own
whereof he may live, nor land of his
own about which he may occupy him
self. and not serving any other, shall
he bound to serve the employer who
shall require him to do so, provided
that the lords of any bondsman or
land-servant shall be preferred before
others for his service; that such scrv-
ants shall take only the wages which
were customarlIy given In 13i7' (the
year prior to the first appearance Of
the plaguc).
'"The first ordinance in English his
tory. designed to curb the greed Of
the middleman, was passed nearly Il
century earlier Tin 1851 when there
was n bountiful harvest, but destruc-
tive rains caused the heavy crops to
rot in the fields.
But England did not originate food
control measures. A low Nile in 907
A. d. resulted in famine the follow
Ing year, which swept away COCOON
people In the vicinity of the city of
Fustat G'awhar, a Mohammedan Jo-
seph, founded a new city (the Cairo
of today n short distance from the
stricken town and Immediately organ
lied relief measures.
"The Caliph Mo'izz lent every assist
ance to his lieutenant, sending many
ships laden with grain; but price of
bread still remained high and Gawhar,
being food controller who had no
patience with persuasive methods, or
dered his soldiers to seize all the mill
ers and grain dealers and fog them
in the public market place. The ad-
ministrator then established central
grain depots and corn was sold
throughout the two years of the famine
under the eyes of a government In
spector."
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uge. So, while Louisiana did not help
the women to realize their ambition
for ''votes for women in 1920" she Is
going to help them keep their swear
off on wearing aigrettes and wild-birl
plumage on their hats.
If all tho plans go through Louisi-
ana's bird refuge will be a huge one.
In any event it's big one, as such
things go. OF course. some of the big
national parks with their thousands of
square miles of wild-life sanctuary are
bigger. But Louisiana's refuge Is
quite big enough to accomplish Its
purpose. And geographically 1t is just
exactly where 1t Is needed. 1t fronts
far enough to take in rolling prairie
and wooded upper land, ideal terri
tory for the preservation and propaga-
tion of bird life of various kinds. 1t
lies directly In the paths of migration
north and south through the Mississip-
pi valley, up and down which, accord
ing to observers of the United States
biological survey, passes more than 81
per cent of the migratory game birds
that enter the United States from
either direction each season.
By this action of the legislature Loui-
siana became possessed of 164,3OO
acres through two gifts. One is S5,-
600 acres in Vermilion parish from
the Rockefeller foundation and the
other is 79300 acres, including the ia
nous Marsh island, from the Russell
Sage foundation.
These two tracts were allotted to
the state five years ago on the condi-
tion that the state conservation de-
partment should demonstrate for five
years its ability to protect the wild
life and to establish breeding places
for all the resident birds and for all
the visitors from central and South
America, Mexico and the north. The
conservation department did a good
job and wrote Q. Z. d. at the end of
these five years. Thereupon the two
foundations Informed the state that
they were prepared to turn over the
tract in perpetuity. So the legislature
passed enabling acts, permitting the
state to receive these tracts and to
preserve them forever as wild life
refugees.
Prior to this legislative action the
state of louisiana had been the recipi-
ent of gift of $1,000 acres in the
same part of the state from Charles
Willis Ward and John Avery McGlen-
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WILL ALAND ISLANDS BE-
COME A BALTIC FIUME?

Caught in the swirl of the minor
hurries that disturb Europe are the
remote AIand islands, where Swedes
and Firms clashed In manner sug-
gestive of the dispute between Jugo-
Slavs and the Italians along the Adri-
attic, according to newspaper dis
patches.
For more than 200 years the Aland
Islands, which are situated like cork
in the wide mouth of the Gulf of
Bothnla. have been sort OF Alsace-
Lorraine question between the Swedes
and the Russians. After having passed
back and forth several times, they
were finally ceded TO Russia in 1909
During the reign of Nicholas they
were strongly fortified, move most
distasteful to Sweden, because the
islands occupy strong strategic posi-
tion with respect to Stockholm, the
Swedish capital, which is less than
100 miles to the southwest from Bo-
marsund, the chief fortificatlon of the
islands.
These Notifications were short
lived. In 1854, during the Crimean
war, Franco British fleet, under Sir
Charles Napier and Paraguay d'Hil-
liers, destroyed the works, and after
that time the islands We're left un-
fortified, in accordance with an inter
national agreement.
The Aland group, which Is separated
from the Swedish mainland by Aland
bay (Aland Haaf) and from the Finn
ish mainland by Skiftet sound, is
composed of some 300 Islands and
rocky islets. the total area OF which
is not more than $50 square miles.
The largest island, Aland, name sig
nifying land of streams." is almost as
large as all the others combined, hav-
ing an area of 24T square miles. about
twice the size of Martha's vineyard
Cattle raising and fishing are the
chief occupations of the 25,0OO people
who live on the islands. Some cereals
(barley and oats) are grown on the
thin soil, and there are n few forests
of birch, spruce and fir.
Finnish troops recently were re-
ported marching through the streets
of Mariehamm. This attractive little
bathing resort is the chief town of
the islands, having population of
1,400. In times Of peace daily
steamer service is maintained between
this port and Abo, the Oldest and
historically the most interesting city
in Finland. The voyage from Abo to
Mariehamm takes about 10 hours.
1t was in the water adjacent to the
Aland islands that Peter the Greats
navy won its first important victory,
defeating the Swedes in 1717.
Only about 90 of the 300 islands are
inhabited, and the fisherfolk. in the
main, are of Swedish descent.
Sweden's desire to hold the islands
arises In part from the fact that they
control the entrance to the Gulf of
Bothnia. through which most of that
Kingdoms internal trade is carried on.
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OLDLETTERS REVEAL LOST
CHAPTER IN WORLD
HISTORY

Lava preserved the secrets of Ro-
man civilization in Pompeii; tombs
protected the records of ancient
Egypt's culture; and now there is pros
pect that some long neglected letters
may reveal one of the most fascinat-
ing chapters in the historic trail of the
Jewish people, and incidentally show
that Africa doomed larger in the mid
die ages than modern historians have
realized.
Hitherto Africa has figured not at
all in medieval history. 1t still was
"dark continent" when Stanley and
Livingstone penetrated it less than a
century ago. Yet, in view of remark
able documentary discovery made by
Charles de Ia Ronciere, librarian of
the national library in France, 1t
would seem Jews of the fifteenth CEN
tury had trading posts in northwest
Africa. and carried on vast com
merce with the natives from the Sa-
hara to the Atlantic and from Algeria
to the Niger.
Antonia Malfante, Genoese citizen.
traversed this region and wrote his
descriptive letters, In 1447, from Tim
buktu and Touat. Timbuktu was the
Chicago of the west African plains;
and Touat the center of the camel
caravan traffic that exchanged the
wheat and barley of Egypt for the
powdered gold of Timbuktu and the
precious salt from Teghazza.
All the places visited by Malfante
were so well known to the Jews of
his time that they were listed In a
Catalan atlas prepared three-quarters
of n century earlier for Charles V,
according to NJ Ronciere. But short
ly after Malfante's visit the Jews were
driven out of Spain, and since the
Jews were the only ones in Europe
who knew of the Nigeria country and
apparently permitted no Christian to
enter there except Malfante the jew
ish knowledge was lost in Europe. Not
until DR.. Gerhard Rohlfs began his
explorations in Algeria and Morocco
in 1860 did the rest of the world again
form a contact with the extensive re-
gions of Malfantes travels.
Landing at point west of Algiers,
Malfante worked his way south to
Touat, which Rohlfs believed himself
to have been the first European to WIS.,
it Yet Malfante dated his first letter
from there four centuries earlier.
Touat was an oasis, containing from
$50 to 200 villages, which together
formed vast commercial center.
Each had n chief. Travellers became
the guests of these chiefs and NAL
fante reported their protection su-
perior to that in states like Tlemcen
and Tunis. One of these towns was
Tametit. now decayed village. whose
people still recall the Jewish epoch.
Arabian invaders earlier had routed
the Jews, who were masters of the
Sahara and whose empire extended
south to the Niger. Tametit, Malfante
wrote, sheltered both Jews and Mo
hammedans, who lived In harmony.
The native negroes valued copper
highly, Malfante stated, and used 1t
for money. Profiteering, apparently,
is not modern vice. Malfante COM
planned, 1.-THE people here do not want
to transact any business If they do not
make commission of 100 per cent"
And their business was on a big scale,
at that. Half million head of cattle,
to mention but one item, were brought
to market in the caravan season.
Pushing on to Timbuktu, Malfante's
host was the brother Of a captain Of
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desert industry, man Of great wealth

and possessed of trade information
concerning all of north Africa. From
him Malfante learned of such flourish
ing places as Teghazza, famous for
its salt mines and unique for its archi-
lecture. The houses were made of
rock salt. Malfante noted that 1t nev-
er rained there, or the houses would
have melted away.
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Bad Stomach
Sends Her to Bed
for 10 Months
EafonIo Cots Her UpE

"over year ago." says Mrs. Dora
Williams, ~ took to bed and for 10
months did not think / would live.
Eatonlc helped me so much l am now
up and able to work. / recommend it
highly for stomach trouble"
Eatonic helps people to get well by
taking up and carrying out the excess
acldity and gases that put the stomach
out of order. II you have indigestion.
sourness, heartburn, belching, food. re-
peating, or other stomach distress,
take an Eatonlc after each meal. Big
box costs only trife with your drug
gist's guarantee.