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difficulty save where they are illus trated. As you see, we keep four charts with these patterns grossly magnifed. The composite pattern is what its name implies and we do not encounter it often. Now this infallible record of that Jacksonville convict Is filed here and if he ever comes in on any charge we have only to look at his impressions and we have him. Then we wire the word to Jackson vile. Isn't it easy?
 Surprise to Criminals.
 Are the criminals surprised when we tell them who they are and recount their exploits performed in distant parts of the country and sometimes in another hemisphere? Surprised isn't the proper word; they gasp and take us for a ouija board.
 'They appear under different names with plausible stories. In former days justice might find 1t hard to get the truth Not so today. We read their finger prints, and these always put us on the right track.
 Most criminals are indifferent about having the impressions taken, while they protest. distort their faces and try all means to circumvent the cam
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the European countries, for there hourishes the international rogue.
 Similarly when bad man is caught in Newark or some more outlying city of New Jersey his finger tips are null tigraphed and added to the collections of all our cities. Upon receipt of an inquiry into the offenders past, ac- companied by this pictured record, MT. Hammersley or another expert looks him up in the vast cabinet col lection of police headquarters to see if the criminal under investigation has metropolitan record.
 But out of collection of over 300,- how can one little set of impressions of ten Cor less) digtts be accurately found?
 Easily and infallibly," answers MT. Hammersley. eff that particular crim- tnal was ever down here and had his finger prints taken we can find them in a couple of minutes. In this respect the bureau in the thirteen years I have been with it never has failed.
 Finger Prints More Important.
 For case in point. take this noti- flcation from the Chief of Police of Newark. On one side of this printed paper are two photographs of thief:
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Photo by Underweod.

the charge, it would be shattered to bits, just as 1t would if the charge were on top of it.
 The only explanation lies fn the fact that on 8 stone slab there rests weight of nearly nine tons of air. Air, if moved slowly, does not offer much resistance: but when an attempt is made to move it swiftly, such ss by exploding dynamite, it's resistance be- comes enormous and it is as if the dy- namite was trying to blow through sand. Therefore, the resistance o6 tho ground beneath the explosion is about the same as that of the air, with the difference that the hole made in the air is instantly filled up again, snd the hole in the earth remains to puzzle us. When sdynamite explodes it merely means that gases liberated expand so swiftly that whatever is in the way is pushed out
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presented these suffering extremities for test by which Inspector Faurot's ideas must stand or fall. The expert ment proved the former, for the i'm pression of whorls and loops and arches-lines on the finger tips-was stronger than if he had not ground oil the skin. The test showed that these lines are not like beauty, merely skin deep.
 There are no more doubters, says Lieut.. Allen, who is in charge of the finger tip bureau. And William Ham mersley, finger tip expert, who has been at work therein storing up data since the bureau was started, said that this method of detecting and cata- loguing criminals is now used all over this country and in most of the other civilized countries of the world, France, which dotted on its Bertillon system, disliked to admit the suprem- acy of England, which was the first to adopt the new plan, but eventually had to fall in line.
 Thousands of Impressions.
 In the New York bureau there are filed more than 300,000 fnger-tip inn pressions. Not all of these ara orig inal with New York, for they come from police Investigations made in all parts of the world. Should a crim- inal come before the authorities in Japan, China, India or even the islands of, the Indian ocean and his finger prints be taken copy Is sent to be filed here. More ordinarily these prints come from England and
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on the other are the records of his fingers. We pay cursory attention nowadays to the photographs, and our closest attention to the finger impress sions. This mans fingers show whorls and loops; they count up to certain number, and by counting under the microscope the complete or broken lines (they may be either) from Greek delta to delta, that is where the lines converge, we obtain a common de- nominator. Thus we obtain certain infallible numbers which put this criminal in certain class of finger impressions. He can be in no other. Whorls and loops, you understand, have a numerical value, and we go at once to the cabinet and the section where the records of this valuation are kept.
 But suppose the man had three fingers amputated from his left hand and one from the right hand, then he would be safe from your folio because you couldn't reckon up the valuation; isn't that so7"
 Allow for Missing Fingers.
 This was the question put by the knowledge seeker, who thought it was g poser. It wasn't
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era when we seek to take their ike ness for the Rogues' Gallery. Once in while we get wise one who obs jects to having his finger tips iuss pressed. In many cases we do not let him know that it is being done, for why should we invite trouble? It is so easy to take them. If he will hold 8 piece of white paper in his hands VIC have him; his finger tits are there but not yet visible. Would you like to see how it Is done7 Well, lay your hands slightly on this sheet of common writing paper, leave them there 8 frac- tion of a second only, now place it on this desk. Do you sec anything on the surface of the paper7"
 Of course not. What was there to see?
 The expert then lightly sifted some ordinary graphite powder over the sheet of paper and there appeared in strong contrast to the white margin complete impressions of the finger tips.
 This experiment shows how help less any person is who would pre- fer for any reason not to leave 8 rec ord Of his fngers."-New York Sun and Herald.
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;. Prejudice Against Finger Prints Is Disappearing

"We a lew for the loss of fingers said the expert, land given the equa- tion we always are able to arrive at the common denom1nator; ascertain the valuation and class the man where he belongs.
 Today, even, we had such a case; record was sent to us of a pick pocket arrested in Boston recently. He had lost one finger from his right hand and two from his left Here Is the record sent to us and Che turned to a cabinet, took out 9 portfolio and produced another record) here is ours- You see the figures, the numerals, are the same in both. We can give Boston a complete criminal history of their pickpocket.
 We are asked to find an escaped convict from Jacksonville, Fla, and the Chief of Police there has furnished this bureau with a set of finger prints. You sec they are of the composite type. There are but four types of finger marks-the composite, the arch, the loop, the whorl. We call them our four patterns and everybody's fingers fall into one of them The loop may be ulnar or radial, but these classifl- cations can be distinguished only with
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-15

EE THEN, in the year 1906, In
 WW spector of Police Faurot of
 New York returned from a coarse of fnger-print study at Scot lsnd Yard iii London, he was bursting of detecting criminals, which was to superseie the intricate Bertil1on sys- tenn. that he had little difficulty in per euading the Police Commissioners to adopt it. But the Inspector couldn't convince everybody In headquarters, and one of the most incredulous was the veteran custodian of the building. This confirmed doubter would have burned Copernicus and Quartered Ga Eleo if he had lived in either astrono- ynner's century. Living in the nine teenth and twentieth centuries he ad- nlitted that the sun might be the cen ter of our system and that the earth mi ght move round it, but of one thing he was sure,- and that was-this talk ing of finger impressions Inspector Faurot was so confident would be an infallible means of recording crim- inals was piffle!
 A Convincing Argument.
 In order to convince the officers in the newly organized department that they were wasting time and the city money the doubting custodian was willing to sacrifice some of his skin i; he descended into the depths of the Police Headquarters building where he had a grindstone and ground off the skin of his finger tips. Then he
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age ability can work his way through college in three or four years and make g living as a doctor. lawyer. en- gineer, etc., as long as he can work. He can spend his life studying women and never make living at it and be sure will die broke. and, Kipling again:
 The end of it all is sitting
 And thinking he11's fires to see.
 But the boys will try 1t and as they will be better armed they go the bet ter for them. So when they start out they would better get sphysmomano- meter. Just like that. sphygmoman- ometer. When you have sphygmo- manometer in the house you can go up against the woman problem much better than if you have only deep study of Schopenhauer. Nietzsche. Ellen Key, Selma Lagelof, Freud, Havelock, Ellis and mere men and women of that sort to help you.
 No man with a girl or a wife, no boy with a mother or sister, no person who takes an interest in the study of women should be without a sphyg- momanometer. Next to coal in the eel lar and food in the pentry. the sphyg- mornanometer is the most essential article of furniture in the American home.
 Tells All.
 It will tell you all about women, more than you can hope to learn in any other way. Very few people have ever heard of such e thing as a sphyg- momanometer. It is great little ma chine, like wrist watch. You just attach it to the pulse beat of the young person of the female sex in whom you are interested and 1t tips you off to a lot of facts about her that she does not know herself; facts 1t will do you no good to know but which you feel you just must know.
 In plain words, the little old sphyg- momanometer gets into the blood of the subject and indicates on its cute little dial just what is running in that young woman's blood, and mind.
 Dr. Max Baf, professor of psychol- ogy at Clark College, is an expert in the use of the sphygmomanometer He can make it do tricks. While most users of the cute little machine-it Is a machine something like wrist watch-can use 1t only by attaching it to the wrists or upper arm or to the juguIar vein or calf of the leg or something like that. Dr. BaR can
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-15

Explosives deteriorate with time. Chemical decomposition begins sooner or later if the mass of explosive is not kept at safe and constant tempera- ture The temperature of the water of Pyrenean lakes never varies more than four or five degrees.
 Hence M. Lefevre would sink Frances stock of war explosives in waterproof tanks in the lakes and keep them thus for decades.
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Adams and similar number of Eyes, and that the originals once had great dispute as to who was the most impor- tant, the man or the woman. To prove the matter the woman spat in one great jar and the man in another, and the jars were then sealed for nine months. At the end of that period they were opened, and from the wom- ems jar 1eaped pile of snakes and worms, while from the mems jar came beautiful boy and girl.
 In spite of their strange beliefs they are very industrious, honest, hospitable and kindly, although steeped in dense ignorance. one phase of their re- ngion forbidding them to learn letters.
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1OST SECRETS OF WOMEN REVEALED SPHYGMOMANOrETER
Little Instrument Like Wrist Watch Informs Eminent Physcho1ogist That Blood of Women Contains Germs
 of Rest1essneSs


 attach 1t to the lobe of the shell-hke ear. hang 1t there like an ear-ring. and 1T she does not brush 1t of in a 1iffy he knows all about her family history, her own secret life, the love affairs she has had, her speed, her desires. her temperament, what she will do in the way of adding to the gay little crop or merriment the daughters of Eve nave managed to raise up and store away in this old world, the kisses she slipped the boys under the stairs or behind the door or in the pantry of the little old efficiency now empIoved by our best families in lieu of a ree7,- lar home.
 Perfectly Understood
 Where other sphygmomanometerf go about using the instrument as if it was tooth extracting forcep Dr. Bafr can slip it on an ear, under a glove hang it on the neck like a Ia yal1iers and by throwing half an eye on the indicator learn all that young lady knows, ever knew or ever will know
 "Restlessness." says Dr. Bafr. "1s +ba most striking attribute of the sex"
 Why, Is 1t not plain that If men did not put women behind bars, hold them with chains, that they (the women) would run away all the time? Why did the old patriarchs put their women behind the bars of the harems Then when men got too poor to keep several wives in harems did they not imprtson the one wife with conventions? Won- en could not do this nor that nor any, th1ns, especially run away from their old men.
 TO run away has been the great impulse of women. That's why men nave locked them up behind bars and stone. behind conventions that were stronger than bars and stones," says Dr. Baf of the sphygmomanometer
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They Worship the Devil
G M G

N NE of the strangest religious B seets in the world is known as
 the Yezedi, race of mixed Kurdish and Arabian blood. They worship the devil and believe he will rule the earth for 10000 years, of which 1000 have already passed. On the theory that Jesus is good and will not harm them, they give most of their devotion and sacrifice to the devil, who, they assert. will at the end of the next 5000 years be put into hell. where he will weep so hard he will put out the fires and then will be par doned and given back his rightful place h heaven.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-15
DYNAMITE'S FORCE.

~\HERE is general belief that
 dynamite -exerts it's force
 downward, and in proof of this the average man will point to the fact that dynamite exploded on the ground will tear hole in it. This is true enough, but if slab of stone, say three feet square, was raised just over
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-15
QUEER STORAGE.

A MORE LEFEvRE, French Min "A tster of War. also a dis
 tinguished chemist, recently startled the Chamber of Deputies with the proposal to store the French stock of guncotton and nitrocellulose explo- sives in one of the lakes of the Py- renees.
 France has on hand about 9o,0o0 tons of high explosives, enough to last her 300 battle days, even at the enor- nous rate at which powder was con- stunned during the war.
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 %E PANT to know about women?
 ~ Of course you do. Pope,
 W the poet. said something about the proper study of mankind be- ing man. May be. But it Is not what the English call. in their perfect lang uage, "interestin'" Man offers no complex study. Feed him, clothe him. let him smoke, drink, sleep and talk about himself and about the ball game. That will be all. A mere bag ate1le, to begin-an to complete. the study of man. "Uninterestfn'." But the study of woman. An! that's task worthy the best brains Great men have gone crazy at 1t and learned noth- ing. That does not need to stop you.
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young man. It Is the most difficult, the most expensive, the most unre- munerative study in the world. It's like the study of one of those terrible diseases, to learn about which doctors must submit to infection and probably to death. You can learn about women from other men. But you won't What is it Ktpling says along that line:
 Be warned by my lot,
 (Which I know you will not),
 And learn about women from me.
 No Chance.
 No, every man must learn what he can about women on his own hook. It is a terrible task. A fellow of aver
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-08-12
Weeks EVENTS
IN SOCIAL REALM

One OF the most pleasing social af-
fairs to be given in Montpelier was
the wedding reception rendered Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Hartman by the
brides parents Mr.. and Mrs. John X.
Brennan, Monday afternoon eat the
home of the Brennans. The calling
hours were from to 8 p. m, and
during that period scores of friends
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hartman called and
felicitated the popular couple.
In the receiving line were Mrs. j.
II. Brennan, Mrs. Thomas j. Hart
man, Mrs. Russell GrOo, William o.
Pace, Miss Zina Peterson, Miss Jean
Groo, Miss Virginia Brough and Miss
Merle Barkdull. Mrs. Pace presided
ut the punch bowl. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hartman received many beautiful
gifts.
So many friends were guests Of Mr.,
and Mrs. Brennan during the re-
ceiving hours that a complete list OF
heir~names- could not be obtained foI
h0 Examiner,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-08-12
SERVICES FOR OLD
TIME RESIDENT

Funeral services were held in the
chapel Sunday afternoon
for Neils Peter Larsen, old time and
highly respected resident of George
town. who died az his home In that
city on Thursday. July 2S, at the age
of SS years The speakers were
President Henry III. Hoff. Bishop AL
ma Hayes. Elder w. w. Clark and
President Silas l.. Wright. All the
speakers paid a high tribute to the
life and character of MIR. Larsen.
who had been a faithful church work
er ever since Joining the church In
his native land In 1889,
Mr. Larsen was born in Denmark
on June 26th, 1898. He emigrated
to Utah IN 1868. crossing tho plains
in the Capt. Murdock company lie
came to Bear Lake county In 1885,
making his homo I'm Georgetown
where he has resided ever since.
Mr., Larsen was preceded IN death
by his wife, who died five years ago.
Surviving members of the family are
three daughters and two sons. The
daughters are Mrs. Sophia Johnson
and Mrs. Mary Winehell OF George
town: Mrs. Julia Clifford OF Soda
Springs; two sons. l.. y. Larsen oi
Blackfoot, and HyTum Larsen OF this
city. There arc also 20 grandchild
rem and Is great-grandchildren.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-08-12
SHORT LINE EARNED AND
PAID ANNUAL DIVIDEND
OF EIGHT PER CENT
Gross Operating Income Of 1920 Was
ga, $50 900 An Increase
OF 50. 800, 900 Over
Previous Year.

The Oregon Short Line earned as
we'll as paid, an annual dividend of s
per cent on its 500, O,OOO, 900 stock
held by the Union Pacific Railway
company, it is indicated by the an
nual report of the Short Line, filed
with the public utilities commission
of Utah.
The report shows that the Oregon
Short Line had gross railway opera
ing income in 1920 of S44, $50, 900.
which was an increase of $1,000, 900
over the figures for the previous year
Railway operating expenses were
$40, loo, 900 and taxes were paid to
the total Of more than s3,250. .OOO.
ehargeable against the operating rev.
enue. The net railway operating inA
come was more than $1,000 ,OO0. The
railway was operated for a part of
the year by the federal government
The report shows that the company's
net income for the year was $780,
1000 approximately after the company
had paid more than $3.50 ,000 inter
Test on its funded debt.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-08-12
TRENTONTON HAS
IMPROVEMENTS

TrementOn now has one of the fin
est paved sections of any city in the
state. This declaration can be made
without fear of contradiction for the
street paving which was completed in
that city on Wednesday afternoon is
the very latest of its kind and put in
in first class shape.
The city has seven blocks of full
width street paving and curb and
gutter, the type being biulithic top
on a black base. The work has been
done by Gibbons & Reed the same
contractors who installed the street
paving in this city and 1t is first
class in every particular. The very
latest formula for putting on the top
has been used and a beautiful job is
the result. The city now has It's en-
tire business section paved with one
block north and south at the inter
section where the road leads north
to Garland.
Complementing this splendid street
pavement. the city has installed {
modern white way street lighting sys
tenn after the style of that installed
In this city except that the standards
are heavier and carry a larger LAM
globe The standards are set in stag
ger line so that the streets are bril-
liantly illuminated at night.
As q result of these improvement
Trementon shows up in real metro
politan style and visitors to that cit
will greatly appreciate the beautifu
highway in contrast to the old cart
roads which were impossible to kee
in good repair.-Brigham News.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-08-12
ECHO CANYON ROAD
DISGRACE To UTAH
SAYS WGTHEHtAHAOON

james Witherspoon who ls In tha
automobile business In Evanston
right on the, Lincoln Highway n not
only good Judge Of roads but .
Judge Of good roads and IN the best
position In tho world 10 see and hear
H. himself aa far M the condition 0g
Echo Canyon In concerned. The fol-
lowing which Is quoted from an Ey-
anston newspaper Will touch Fe-
sponalye chord in the breasts Of
many who have traveraHd this stretch
ri road within the past few weeks:
1T Is abuot time the people of
Utah responsible for the condition of
tho Echo Canyon road. got busy. tt
| In tho most dlsgFRcefud stretch OF
road on the whole Lincoln Highway
according 10 people who traversed IT,
Jamea Witherspoon says several peo-
lple making tho tranRcontin8ntaA tour
relate thai az far as Chicago motor
ista complain OF IL aa being a dis
grace. IL IL up TO the Utah Highway
Commission or 10 the Board Of conn-
lty Commissioners Of Summit County
Ito take this matter up. and do u
lquiek. Hundreds Of ears pass over
this road daily and tho condition OF
the road Il a reflection upon the pso-
Iple who are responsible for Il. Tour
lsta speak Of tha excellent condition
OF tho roads In Wyomingt. a state
not half 80 popnlOue ~ Utah, nor
third as rich. West Of as they aeem
20 thing that II they spend all their
money paving near tho Utah metro
polis they can call Il day. and the
far reaches of the state can get along
very well with hog-wallowa. impoa-
si5.a dugways and nnEodly chueks
which they ara surely dOing. kemmer'
! or Republican.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-08-12
MUTUAL LAWN PARTY
SATURDAY, AUGUST 90

The officers Of the stake M. !. A..
are now busy planning for the big
lawn party To be given Saturday af-
ternoon, August 20, on the lawn OF
the Burgoyne and Williams homes
on North Fourth street The party
will begin at 3 y. IN. and continue
through the afternoon with a dance
later.
Among the entertaining features
OF the social will be a ball game on
the park opposite the Burgoyne home
fun contest. lunch and program. In
idiylduais are requested To bring
sandwiches, pickles and cake foI
their luncheon. The committee will
furnish leo cream aud lemonade. A
big time is In store for all who at
tend, and the officers urgently re
quest the attendance Of all persons Q
Mutual age from ~ years up.