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Clearwater Republican., 1921-07-08
See skin capsIxs In Gale.

VANCOUVER, B. C.-Death of one
or more persons by drowning was in
dicated recently when a 16-foot skiff
under full sail in gale. was seen to
capsize in Burrard inlet, near here.
The boat was towed ashore. but there
were no means Of identifying the own.
er or occupants.
Clearwater Republican., 1921-07-08
Alchemy,

In the little town Of Beulah. New
to see white woman, two men, Stone
and Wood. were standing on the side
walk, when well-dressed young lady
came tripping down the street. Wood
turned to Stone. and Stone turned to
Wood. and as she passed they both
turned to rubber.-Science and In.
venti0n.
Clearwater Republican., 1921-07-08
GERMANS TO PAY IN GOODS
OF Indemnity Due In 1922 Only Part
Need ee In Gold.

BERLIN.-The interallied guaran-
tees committee has decided that Ger
many will be asked to pay only 800,
100000 gold marks In money out Of
the second instalment Of 1000. .000,0 900
marks. It was announced here Tues
day. The balance, which Is due May
2. 1922. may be settled by payment in
goods and from the proceeds of the
export levy.
German financiers expressed the
hope that this would relieve Germany
Of the necessity OF buying large
amounts Of foreign exchange.
Clearwater Republican., 1921-07-08
APPROVE FIVE U. s. HOSPITALS
Mellon Announces Plans to Expend
$500, 900.

Mellon Announces Plans to Expend
$3,100,Oo0.
WASHINGTON by the
treasury department of the cOnstruc
tion at soldiers homes of five hos
pitals for the care of former service
men suffering with tuberculosis was
announced Monday by Secretary Mel
Ion. The new buildings will cost $3,-
100000 and are expected to be ready
by January /.
The Battle Mountain sanatorium at
Hot Springs, 8. D., will be equipped
for 100 patients and the soldiers home
at Leavenworth, Kan, for 200. The
other projects are to go to Milwaukee.
Dayton and Marion, Ind, and will
have q capacity Of 500 men.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
FRENCH STANDING
ARMY IS LARGEST
Counting Active and Reserve
Forces Italy Leads as
Military Power.

ashingtou.-France has the great
est standing army in the world, &C
cording to information sent to con
gress Friday by Secretary Baker, but
counting its active and reserve forces
Italy is the worlds leading military
power.
Frances regular force is 10000
consisting of conscripted French and
colonial troops. and in addition it had
l $50 0OO men enrolled in the reserves.
Italy's regular force numbers @5o.oo',
but its reserve consists OF 4,62'ooo
men. including 100000 mobile militia
of the first line. 100000 territorial
militia as second line reserves ana
114,O00 carabineers and royal guards
men.
Japan's military forces, according
to the secretarys figures. comprise
$4,000 men. including a regular
army OF 273 goo, a first reserve OF o"2,-
900. a second reserve OF $4,000,
national army, consisting OF men be-
F
POO. 600 men enrolled for requirements.
/ Great Britains army OF white troops
totals 295. coo, the report said, with
( 10000 additional native and colonial
troops, plus $4,000 men in the terri
torial armies.
Italy's army expenditures for the
current fiscal year were placed at l.
$4,000. 900 lire; Frances at 4,23EOoo,'
600 francs; Great Britain's at l90,155.
600 pounds sterling, and Japans at
210,000,000 yen.
Regarding the strength OF the Jap
anese army next year, Mr.. Baker said
1t is known on good authority that
it is in excess of that for the fisca
year ending March 81. 1921
The German army, the report con
tinued, was 10000 men, allowed until
January /. 1921. under the Versailles
treaty.
Germany also has $4,000 armed pc
lice and 100000 additional emergency
volunteer troops, but its army mus
eventually be reduced to $4,000 mel
under the treaty.
German army expenditures for the
: present -fisess<kssry were placed a
4,1S9, 200, 900 marks. Secretary Baker
added that German estimates of main
tenance costs per soldier has increas
) ed to 24,6OO marks, as compared will
r 1900 marks annually under conscrip
ton in 1913.
The figures furnished by Mr.. Ba,ie
5 were in response to request from thu
2 senate military committee which de
sired to consider them in determining
; the size of the American army mex
year.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
GHOSTLY LOVERS ON WATCH
Legend of thercity Of Mexico That
Makes Peculiar Appeal to Super
stitious Residents.

One of the strange legends Of the
City of Mexico has TO do with the Gale
de los ParadOs (Street of the Two
IdlerS). According TO the story there
was beautiful girl Dona Maria 1Sa-
bel de Vallejo Y Nezca, who lived on
the street. and was beloved by two
men. one a young officer and the other
n young merchant. After the custom
of the land ut that period (ahout $500
they Indicated their love by standing,
one at each corner of the block. until
the dOna appeared.
\ plague fell upon the city about
this time and the girl died without it
becoming known to her lovers. She
was taken out and baripd1 10y night,
also unknown to the SuitorS The
next day they stood at their respective
posts waiting i'm vain-' The day after
they stood. and the day after that,
week after week, month after month,
and year after year. They at last
died. still on their posts and their
ghosts are said To still stand at night,
cloaked and CHASTITY, in the darkest
shadows of the streets.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
HARDING'S ELECTION
FORMALLY DECLARED

Washington.-The election of War
rem G. Harding as president and Cal
vim Coolidge as vice president OF the
United States was formally declared
Tuesday at a joint session of the sen
ate and house in the chamber of the
latter.
With dull solemnity and without a
ripple of demonstration the two bodies
canvassed the votes cast by the cleo
tors chosen last Nov. =. The formal
vote as declared tailed with the In
formal results known to the public
on the day after election with 404
votes for Mr.. Harding and Mr.. COOL
idge to 1877 for James NJ. Cox and
Franklin d. Roosevelt, the democratic
standard bearers.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
WOULD TAX LANDS
Of SPECULATORS
CONVENTION DELEGATES WOULD
EoUALizE BURDEN OF
STATE BUILDING.
HOME BUILDER PENALIzED
Are Thousands of Acres OF Onlm'
proved CuItivatabie Lands Held
BY Land Owners for Specu-
lative Purposes.

Donaldsonyille. La Ways and
means to bring about The trNat.on on
q fair aud reasonable basis OF unlHl-
urovcd cultivable lands held for spec
ula.iye purposes should receive t.-
attention of the Constitutional conFtH-
ton. in the opinion OF c. c. Weber.
delegate TO the convention from Asceh-
sion parish.
Mr.. Weber believes this is one OF
the most important questions that VIII
come before the convention. II TAX
alton system is devised whereby spec
Native land owners of this type will
be forced to either improve the lana
or sell it TO hOme-builders. he THINKS
Il will bring about an era OF develop
ment in the State His idea Is to TAX
unimproved cultivable lands on ratio
to that of the same class Of improved
Curivable lands.
There are thousands Of acres OF
unimprOved cultivable lands IN TINS
State" Mr. Weber said. that are be-
ing held by land owners for specu!a-
tive purposes. Much of this land IS
not for sale. and that which is for
sale is held at eXhorbitant prices. An
nually when the assessments are re
viewed the owners appear either in
person or by counsel and plead for low
assessments on the ground that their
land is unimprOyed and is not pro
ducing anything. Almost invariably
they have been able to get off with
small assessment, which means low
taxes.
often these lands adjoin farms that
are among the best in the State. The
adjoining farms are assessed to their
full value because the land is in
high state Of cultivation through the
thrift and energy of the farmers who
own them.
The unimproved and is just as rich
in soil as that which is in cultivation
II improved and placed in cultivation
It would produce crops as bountifully
as the adjacent farms. The owners
are making no improvements and are
holding it for speculative purposes
only The more farms that are placed
in cultivation adjacent to these large
tracts just more valuable they become
This has brought about a situation
whereby the home-builder and the
home-Owner is penaliZed. He is forced
to pay taxes on a high valuation be
cause he has done something for him
self and his State, while the specu
lator gets off with a small tax bill
Il am in favor of going after thes
land.hogs by the taxation route. TAI
alton of such lands should be on
ratio to the same class of lands i
cultivation Then the land-hOgs wOul
be compelled to do one of two thing
improve their property so as to mai
it productive. or sell it.
IF they improve the land, the
would be placed on the same footir
with owners of adjacent cultivate
land. If they decided to sell it rath
than improve it or pay the increase
taxes. the land would pass into q
hands of homeseekers and hOme-ow
ers That would bring prosperity a
development to the State, for If the
valuable tracts of lands are thrown
the market it will attract thousan
of homeseekers from other parts
the country.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
WELL To Do FARMER
GAINED 20 POUNDS
H. w. Boring Says He Is In
Better General Health
Than He Has Been in
Years Since Taking Tan
lac.

"Since Tanlac has overcome my
troubles I have gained twenty pounds
In weight and am in better general
health than for years past was the
straightforward statement made
few days ago by II. W. Boring
prominent and well-to-do farmer liv-
Ing at Overland Park, Kans.
During the two years | suffered |
tried everything | knew Of TO get re-
lief but nothing seemed to reach my
case until l tried Tanlac. My appe-
tite was poo" and my digestion was
so had l could hardly retain my food.
Nothing agreed with me; in fact |
was almost confirmed dySpeptic.
My whole system seemed to be out or
shape. l would have pains across the
small Of my back 50 bad at times l
could hardly move around.
My nerves We're all unStrung and
I would become upset at the least
little thing. I seldom slept well at
night and, finally, became SO weak and
rundown that I lost weight rapidly.
was also troubled great deal with
catarrh and Of morning. had To spend
a half hour or more clearing up my
head.
This is iust the condition I Was in
when I began taking Tanlac and it
certainly has been a blessing To- me.
1t just seemed TO he made especially
for my case I improved from the
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
FOR HURRIED READERS.

Kantwood. More than goo acres of
straw berries. 100 in cucumbers. in ad-
diticn to many of English peas beans.
tomatoes and other truck. are being
grown in this enighbOrhood.
Lake Charles.-Lake Charles Is to
have two Masonic blue lodges. An
application and petition for the new
lodge was presented last night to Lake
Charles Lodge No. 1856, +. 4 \. NJ
The application will now so to the
Masonic Grand Lodge and it is eX
peC.ed that dispensatiOn, under
which the new lodge will work for q
year. will shortly be granted.
-hibodeaux.-- At the meeting of the
Th bldeauxLafourche Association o
Commerce. Secretary Manager Or. II
s Smith gave notice that at the term
nation of the present year, June 80, h,
would not stand for reelection. Tn,
Chacahoula road came i'll for consid
cradle discussion. during which it wa
shown that it will be necessary 4
s. r&lghten out d part VI lhe lOuIe -
that the assistance of the State High
way Department may be received.
Denham Springs-Charles Harelso
was seriously hurt by blow on tn
head by a piece of timber, which fe
ON him while at work at the plant c
the Constant Sand and Gravel Con
uany. on the Amite river near here.
Baton Rouge.-Rev. Father NJ. I
Grace of Mobile was a visitor at tn
State House. Father Grace is an o
firial Of the Springhill College at Nj
lie and was formerly food admini
t.ator in St Landry parish. at thi
]. .ng president Of st. Charles COLES
IL Grand CoteaU
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
READY FOR THAT PROSPERITY
Mrs. M Was in Something o. a
Hurry to See Husband Make
Good His Promises.

Now, Mr.. NJ is a strong Repub-
lican. and Mrs. M Just as strong
a Democrat Before the election each
tried TO influence the other. Mr.. M
talked of Republican prosperity and
Mrs. NJ of Democratic peace.
Eagerly on election day they both
watched the election reports And as
one after the other came in Mrs.
NJ was viSibly disappointed. But
she said nothing, and went quietly to
bed.
The next morning She was up early
cheerful. smiling and dressed in her
Sunday hest. Mr.. N was plainly
surprised. "Why. mother, all dolled
up" he exclaimed. what does this
mean?'
"Oh, nothing" was her calm reply.
except that am getting ready to en-
joy Republican prosperity with my
husband. "-IndianapoliS News.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
New Orleans Rice.

New Orleans, Lathe local rice
market Saturday continued TO fuIe
quiet and dull, with little movement
of clean rice other than some going
to foreign countries. Confidence Is
far from being restored in the market'
and until such time no Improvement
in the domestic movement can De
hoped for. it is declared. Sca. .',lo 1,7
sales of fancy Blue Rose were repo, q I,
ed having beer made at prices p 1am7
ing from SC to 314c pound. o ~, ~
Rico continued to buy low graues, G ~,
the demand from foreign co""'i' o'
Stacked up considerably.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
Disturb His Rest.

4Do MI GrahcOln's millions Keep
him awake at nightE
They DO. much to his sorrow"
"1Ia worries about his money, eh?''
.e\o. but n he wasn't rich. Mrs.
crahcofn wouldn't be doing society
and he could 90 to bed at nine O'Clock
very night instead Of being kept up
toto bv a lot Of people who acquired
tbefr manners before he got his mon
-. n-BIrrningham Age-Herald.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
p.iI,,av Loan Approved

Washington.-A loan OF SZS4 ,,-;e ~
the New orleans. Texas and Mexico
railway to aid the company III p, ~.
vidins.additions to equipment was oo %p
proven Monday by the interstate eoln
merco: ,,rnnoission. The carrier is re
quire8 b finance s28t'2fS to meet "
loan.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
vouth Is Executed

Ossining. n. Y.-Jes' was nut
to dia qfu in u the electric chair at Slhg
Sing prison Thursday lo no o sta
of samuel wolchak. BroT n Tovem.
TONER, whom he tried to ROD ->''
Der 8, 1919.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
. uA.a Is Sustained.

notor-President Wilson's We
to of a, bill to give tue 10 Nv ~ N11t
of swamp land IN Montana to lnr 'u ras
River valley Gun club of Montana ,@a4nx W." hy
sustained by the sel'~''
a voA of Al to 9.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
49,. official Resigns,

Mexico City-Pasqual oI'Ia and 5'T pub.
secretary of Communication s am
lie works, has handed his Fe''
to President Obregon'
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19

IN other words. the hog situation Is
s,mnle enough. We need more Duroc
7ln Poland Chlnas and Berk-
oSi-oe and others that we can feed up
,neteed OF so many that feed upon
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19

Canada expects its census TO show
nonuIation Of S,750O00 or about
% coo more than we have in Pennsyl-
vania.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
aradoxical.

"JOhn has such Il queer antipathy."
"He has rooted dislike to pOtted
plants. "-Baltimore American.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19

Tho worlds surplus Of wool amounts
70 about 100000 pounds not lncluo-
tho the half-fnished war mufflers.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19

The good man who goes wrong Is
in reality a bad man who has Just
been found out.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19

More English surnameS begin with
"W' than with any other letter.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
CHANGES COMING
IN WASHINGTON
--..ana aeaa@ma@a - ~ aa.a@@@a&@&@ Inul
NEW MEMBERS OF SENATE AND
THE LOWER HOUSE WILL BE
VERY NUMEROUS.
PARTY LINES TO BE BROKEN

Many Republicans Must Sit Among the
Democrats-SeveraI Additional Cor
respondents Are Likely to Be Ad-
mitted to the Press Gallery.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.


WaShlngt0n-The changes that are
coming in Washington Oh March 4
will be marked and many, ana they
will vary with various scenes of ac-
tivlty.
In the two houses Of congress there
will be almost revolutionary changes.
The Republicans in the upper house
will have majority of sixteen or
Whereabouts, and this means of course
that many new faces will appear be
low the galleries and that many of
the old faces once more will be made
familiar to the friends at home In
the lower house the changes will be
much more marked for there will be
enough new Republican members to
more than treble the present repre-
sentative party majority while "a cor
responding number Of Democrats will
be among those missing.
Now il might seem that such a
change as this would mean little or
nothing 50 far as house and senate
arrangements are concerned. but in
truth il means a good deal For the
first time in a long while il will be
necessary for the overflow of Rrpub-
liCan senators to take seats on the
Democratic side. \ change in the
rules Of the seating in tho house has
50 diSarraugcd things that. while all
the Republicans who can will sit on
the Republican side Of the chamber
the rest of them will find seats where
they can among the Democrats. There
will be no sharp line of demar6atiOr
between the Republicans and the
Democrats 50 far as those who sit or
/ the Democratic side Of the house arr
/ concerned
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19
Sit Where They Please.

Some time ago the house passed a
rule that members could sit where
they wanted 10. so long as Republicans
kept TO their side of the house and
the Democrats 10 theif side. In the
old days each member had a seat
which he was supposed tn occupy at
all times. Now, with the exception Of
men who are i'm charge of bills which
are up for passage or rejection, mem
berS sit where they want to.
The influx Of Republicans will force
many Of them over on the Democratic
side of the house 1t is possible, of
course, that one or two rows of desks
will be set aside for them, but if not
and they sit where they choose no
stranger looking at that side of the
: chamber can tel me Democrats from
the Republicans until they open their
mouths to speak on some party issue.
AS soon as congress comes together
the Washington correspondents who
are entitled to admission to the press
galleries will hold Il meeting for the
/ election Of a new standing committee
| of correspondents" The present COM
| mittee IS composed Of Gus J. kargar
| of the Cincinnati Times-Star, chair
man; Charles S. Albert of the New
/ York World. Arthur S. Henning of
! the Chicago Tribune and II. c. Stew
ems Of the Minneapolis Journal and
| the Seattle Times, secretary.
II is expected that when the new adj
! miniStration begins several newSpa-
perS in the United States not already
represented by correspondents in
Washington will send representatives
here who will apply for admission TO
the press gallery,
Press Gallery Membership Guarded.
One of the rules recently adopted
by the house Of representatives, the
committee on rules of the senate, and
the standing committee of correspond
ents. makes it impossible for any news
paper man TO secure the privileges of
the press galleries unless he makes
his living by the exercise Of his pro-
fesSion and is mot employed directly
or Indirectly by any stock exchange
board of trade, or other organization
or member thereof, or brokerage
house, or broker engaged in the buying
and selling of any security or com
modify. or by any person or corpora
ton having legislation before con
gress"
Every correspondent before being
admitted TO the galleries must tell
what other occupation than newspa
ner writing he has, if any, and he also
must show that the main part OF his
income is derived from the exercise OF
his profession. Otherwise the gal
Ieries will have none of him.
II readily can be seen that if cor
RESPONDENTS were admitted To the gal
Ipries who personally or for Others
wore interested in the success or the
defeat of any particular legislation
they would in sense become lobbyists
rather than newspaper correspond
entS The whole desire is TO Keep the
Galleries clean and above reproach.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-02-19

NatChitoches. - Joseph Lorens, a
Mexican, who resided in Montross,
this parish, was said to have become
mentally unbalanced and wandered
away from home Sunday. Search
failed to find him, and Tuesday he
was run down near the Bayou Pierre
trestle. four miles from Natchitoches
by Texas and Pacific passenger train
De Ridder.-The contributions &C
far received in Beauregard parish BY
]. c. Fowler. chairman of the Euro
pean Relief Committee, amount V
, S72S.7S.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-09-05
Three ARMY AIRMEN
RETURNED FROM PLANE

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Sept s.
Three of the five missing army airmen
were found dead on Twenty Mile
creek at $50 o'clock today. according
to a report received at aviation head
quarters here. Another was reported
severely injured.
There was no mention of the fifth
man, ut the opinion was expressed
that he was in the wreckage of the
bomber which fell Saturday afternoon
while travelling from Charleston to
Langley Field.
The machine, piloted by Lieut.. Har-
ry l.. Speck and carrying Lieut. Fitz-
patrick and three enlisted men, said
to have been Sergt. Arthur Brown OF
Kentucky, Corporal Alexander Hazel
ton, Wilmington, Del. and Private
Howard of San Francisco, was travel
ing with two other planes when ii fell
Three Planes in Formation
The three big planes were flying in
formation. the ill-fated bomber leading
and the others trailing as closely as
the violence of the electric storm
which was raging, would permit.
One of the men aboard plane No. "a
declared on reaching here that he had
plainly seen each successive detail Of
the tragedy with fliers fear may have
spelled death for all men aboard Thi:
was Private Ryston F. Zambro, Hag
erstown, Md.
The feet was travelling about sew
enty miles an hour at the time, ht
said :
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-09-05
CBy Associated Press)


SAMARA,' Russia Sept. 5-Hunger
and death go virtually unnoticed in
the neglected streets and alleys of
Samara Refugees from famine dis
tricts near this city, estimated from
10000 to $4,000 are huddled together
in deserted buildings, unused factor
les, tattered tents and in wagons mass
ed about the open spaces about the
railway stations and the docks along
the Volga river. ....
Hunger. typhus, cholera and exhaus
ton are carrying off hundreds of these
miserable fugitives, young children
falling victims readily to the famine
and its attendant scourges. Bedraggled
and ragged defugees are constantly
carrying pine coffins toward the GENE
terry, where unpointed wooden crosses
mark hundreds of new graves which
have been dug since the flight before
the advancing famine began.
From fifty to 100 starving children
are gathered up daily from the streets
or turned over to the central refuge
by parents who cannot feed them
Many of these little sufferers have
typhus fever, but the hospitals are
without beds and medicine.
Refuse to Believe in Help
Samara's only newspaper, a single
sheet of brown paper, has printed al
announcement that the American re
lief administration workers hav'