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1 been just as well to employ simpler words. As an illustration, he says, take the word oyster" described as "a bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea," while if the Photographer simply said that it is fish built like nut, everyone would grasp the idea at once.
 Alex Johnston says that when a woman sees man wilt his collar dis ] cussing her clothes she just laughs up where her sleeve used to be.
 "You no longer see children walk ing along the street hanging on to their mothers skirts" remarks Ben Doney. "The yacn't reach 'em." Al Simms says the reason the fish all grow flat in Lake Mary is because the water is so shallow that if they didn't they'd just get that much more sunburn.
 Davy Joy says he guesses it must be dangerous to eat horsemeat, for s'posin' when you were just swallow ing a piece of it soemone yelled "whoaw
 Sign in Ireland: "Until further mo- tice every vehicle must carry light when darkness begins. Darkness be- gins when the lights are lit" | Mrs. Bud Waters was playing an air from one of Meyerbeer's operas. Turning to one of her auditors, she asked: Don't you love Meyerbeer
 I have never touched intoxicants in my life," replied the young man, coldly.
 ! Congressman Carl Hayden, up here the other day, remarked that congress reminds him of the story of young woman who asked her father:
 "What do you think about my en- gagement to Harold?"
 q think" replied her father, "that I am getting to be the senatorial branch of the family. My advice and consent are considered only when it is too late for them to make any diff | ference"
 "There's no use telling a man to drown his sorrows" opines Ben Doney, because he knows he's certain to be arrested for murder right away afterward."
 | Professor John Q. Thomas, Flag. staff's new school superintendent, re- calls two funny excuses received from parents:
 Please excuse Mary for being home at recess. He got a pain in the boys basement and couldn't get ur the stairs"
 "Please escuse Mary for being jumpy. She just got better of St Fido's dance."
 When Eve took off her fig leaf dres! (She little cared, we must confess), And dived into cooling stream
 (By gum, we'll bet she was dream, Because she wore a one-piece suit ] (The kind we now would call "beaut") , Her spouse rebuked her as she swan (We hear she said, "Who cares, Ador, 2vl
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Very Stout Old Gentleman-"Here, my lad, is nickel for you. Now tell me if my shoes need polishing"
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Pretty near time our new fire en- zine got here. When it comes, some one has suggested, it ought to be named.
 That is very good idea; and the naming should be accompanied by some sort of appropriate christening or dedicatory ceremony.
 We suggest as a toast appropriate to the occasion: "May she be like the dear old maids of our village always ready, but never called for"
 Sir: Am about to go to Oak Creek for a few weeks vacation. Can you recommend some good fiction for me to read while away Mrs. D. A. Mitall.
 Uh-huh. Your husbands letters to you.
 P. F.. Kidder, whose name is partic- ularly appropriate because the cuss cant get along without kiddin' some one no more'n most of us can help rubberin' on windy days, and who keeps from laffin' hisself to death by jugglin' figgers in Babbitt's ac- countin' department, says he heard two niggers talkin' thisaway:
 "Look-a-yere, nigger, if yo' don quit pesticatin' me I'll jes' nachally put yo' whah yo' kin prove if dem spiritualists am right or wrong"
 "Sho! What you'all mean by dat ?" "Jes' whether it am true dat de daid kin talk"
 "There's a lot of wranglin' bout what animal makes the nearest ap- proach to man," spiels Jack LeBar- ron, "an' I'm here to tell you it's the ,cootie."
 A lady who lives on Aspen avenue reminds us that the human geography is sure wonderful thing, informing us that she gained 50 pounds in one year and her skin never cracked.
 Dr. E. s. Miller says an English man, Scotchman and an Irishman were talking about various races they had seen. The Englishman said the closest race he ever saw was between two horses. One had some foam on his nose and it was only by the thick ness of the foam that he won the race. The Scotchman told about a boat race, in which the boat that won led its competitor only by the thick ness of the paint on it's bow.
 The Irishman listened to their sto- ries, but said nothing, until finally the Englishman asked:
 "Well, Pat, what was the closest race you ever saw"
 'The Scotch race" said Pat.
 Asked Joe Crawford the other day what he had in the shape of cucum- bers.
 Nothing but bananas, today" he said
 Henry Aphold, our county treasur. CT, is thinking of buying a new car Says he rather thinks he will get 2 Venus four.
 Stripped chassis, Henry?
 Dr. L. B. McMullen says some of tho definitions in the International diction ary are about as plain to the average person as though written in Sanskrit and wonders why it wouldn't have
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two women had driven to the jail for a visit with prisoner. Under the seat they found copy of the Amer ican Legion Weekly addressed to Hawkinson. The women were arrest ed and the automobile returned to it's owner.
 In the hope that the bodies of Lieut.. Charles G. Little, Newburyport, Mass, and Mechanic Lloyd E. Crowell, Charleston, N. C., American Legion men killed when the giant dirigible ZR-2 exploded, will be recovered from the wreckage, the Legion post at Lon don, England, is planning an impress i've ceremony in their honor. If the bodies are returned to America, sim liar rites will be observed at the port of New York by the Legion of the city and state.
 Arrested and facing detention in jail for trial for violating traffic ord finance, James Anderson, Nashville, Tenn, was passing unhappy moments when his policeman escort noticed his Legion button. Here, I'll go your bond, buddy," he said. q wear the same button" It developed that the men belonged to the same Legion post. In an address formally opening the new quarters of the Holyoke, Mass, post of the American Legion last week General John c. Pershing compliment ed the Legion for not participating in
 politics.
 With the recent receipt of their state bonus checks, members of the Sturgis, s. D., post of the Legion have pledged $11, ,00O of their money for the erection of a $25,000 community building which is to have a gymnas- ium, shower bath, bowling alley, rest room and dance hall for the entire town.
 Policies favoring navy men of the Legion will be discussed at the first conference of the newly appointed committee on naval affairs of the Le- zion. Edward E. Spafford, New York, chairman of the committee, has called the conference in Chicago, September 20.
 The third annual reunion of the Thirty-fifth Division, composed of
 Missouri and National Guard units,
 will be held at Kansas City on the same days as the national convention of the American Legion-October 31 and November 1 and 2.
 Brig. Gen. Charles Dawes, Secretary of the Navy Denby, Governor Miller and John G. Emery, national com mander of the American Legion, will address the third annual convention
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of the New York department of the Legion at Jamestown, N. r., Septem- Der 23 and 24.
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two women had driven to the jail for a visit with prisoner. Under the seat they found copy of the Amer ican Legion Weekly addressed to Hawkinson. The women were arrest ed and the automobile returned to its | owner.
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Give The Sun Your Job Printing.
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Dr. L. B. McMullen says some of the definitions in the International diction- ary are about as plain to the average person as though written in Sanskrit
 and wonders why it wouldn't have
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CHEERFUL CHIRPS
 (By "DEL.~ Mostly nonsense those when real idea comes along and is grabbed off,
(By "DEI..")

been just as well to employ simpler words. As an illustration, he says, take the word oyster" described as "a bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea," while if the Photographer simply said that it is fish built like a nut, everyone would grasp the idea at once.
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"There's lot of wranglin' bout what animal makes the nearest ap- proach to man," spiels Jack LeBar- ron, "an' I'm here to tell you it's the >cootie."
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-09

Brig. Gen. Charles Dawes, Secretary of the Navy Denby, Governor Miller and John G. Emery, national com mander of the American Legion, will address the third annual convention
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Alex Johnston says that when g woman sees man wilt his collar dis. cussing her clothes she just laughs uT where her sleeve used to be.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-09

A lady who lives on Aspen avenue reminds us that the human geography is sure a wonderful thing, informing us that she gained 50 pounds in one year and her skin never cracked.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-09

In an address formally opening the new quarters of the Holyoke, Mass, post of the American Legion last week General John G. Pershing compliment ed the Legion for not participating in politics.
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Henry Aphold, our county treasur- CT, is thinking of buying a new car. Says he rather thinks he will get a Venus four.
 Stripped chassis, Henry?
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The third annual reunion of the Thirty-ffth Division, composed of Missouri and National Guard units, will be held at Kansas City on the same days as the national convention of the American Legion-October 31 and November 1 and 2.
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"You no longer see children walk ing along the street hanging on to their mothers skirts," remarks Ben Doney. "The yacn't reach 'em."
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Asked Joe Crawford the other day what he had in the shape of cucum- bers.
 Nothing but bananas, today" he said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-14
Us Air Dreadnought Is Ready for the Big Hop
Craft Is Large
Enough to Fill
Times Square
Dirigible Is 700 Feet Long
an das High as the Hotel
Aston; Makes 20 Miles an
Hour; Can Fly Backward

Lieutenant +. G. Pennoyer executive
officer.
Regular instruction started the very
day after the first detachment arrived
in England, with Flight Lieutenant A.
II. Wann serving as chief instructor
This instruction consisted of a course
OF lectures on construction, mainte-
nance and operation Of rigid airships.
His majesty's airships the R-32, R.Ss
and R-34 were used for Instruction.
purposes. The R-32 was assigned ex-
clusively for the training Of the Yank
flyers. When the Americans landed in
England the R-S2 was out of commits
sion and large part of the work Of
commissioning was done by the
United States Navy men. Special in
structlon was given all mechanics at
the Sunbeam motor works. All officers
and men spent some time at the royal
airship works at Cardington, where the
ZR2 was built Lieutenant Pennov.,
spent six weeks at Calshot. HAMPSHIRE
at the school of naval cooperation and
aerial navigation.
The British flying men loosenes u,
and taught the Yanks everything they
knew about handling a big drigiblc.
And the Yanks just absorbed that in
struction like sponges. The course has
been most thorough. The navy flyers
have not only been taught how to op-
crate a rigid airship, but have been
thoroughly instructed in airship con.
struction.
The men found time to play in spite
of the difficulty of getting games with
teams that played American football or
baseball. A navy team met the team
from the U. S. s. Pittsburgh at base
ball in the summer and at football the
following fall. In August the r. A. +.
held sports day, and the Yanks won
seven events. Little Miss Page Maxfield
the daughter of the commanding officer.
won the children's race. The Americans
scored just as heavily in the last meet.
held June of this year. And nov.
within ten days, they are to come flying
home, and at Lakehurst, N. j.. there
has been erected in anticipation Of
their coming monster hangar.
Captain Frank Evans, son Of Eight
ing Bob" will be on the receiving end
or the Jersey side when the silvery
bulk of the ZR-2 looms up far out at
sea. The hangar at Lakehurst is an
other mammoth building project. II Is
doubtless familiar to New Workers WHO
motor in New Jersey. The huge shed
will provide fitting resting place for
the mightiest dirigible airship in tire
world, and to many the real thrill will
consist of seeing the Stars and Stripes
whipping to the breeze high up on the
monsters back.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-14
Body in Tomb
Is Preserved
1900 Years
French Researchers Uncover
Vault Containing Corpse
of Beautiful Woman Just
as 1t Had Been Buried
PARIS, August

PARIS, August /.
~ AWHILE JULIEN, a men,
Der Of the French Academy,
recently submitted TO that
body a sensational report on
the archaeological findings in the neigh
borhood of Clermont-F errand Capital
of the department of Puy de- Dome, PIP
miles southeast of Paris, which. as it
we're, bring to light the whole daily
life of small market town of the time
Of Roman Gaul In the Canton
Martre- Vegre some people while
working with pick on d property
struck ON something hard, which
seemed to be the lid of Gallo Roman
sarcophagus. Upon lifting the lid they
found wondrously beautiful woman.
whose flesh was perfectly preserved as
on the day Of her death, eighteen CEN
turtles ago. Also the tresses of her
black hair seemed as if unaffected.
The finders. however, had onlv a
brief enjoyment of this astounding
sight, under the action Of the solar
heat the woman's body in few
moments crumb.cd into dust, so that all
shat remained was skeleton wrapped
IN dress. Further searchngs and cx-
cavatons yielded FIVE more equally
well preserved tombs, in which objects
Of the greatest archaeological interest
we're found, such as coins, vases, pot
terry, baskets, toilet articles, women's
garments, shoes, and even fruits. barr
~ shriveled up, and box-tr twie
still perfectly green.
The savants who examined t..esc
Gallo Roman findings are convinced
tnat the miracle of the prcscrvation Of
The corpscs through eighteen ~sn.afies
vas due 10 the nejghborng springs,
from which escaped carbonic acid gas
which, being heavier than the air dis
placed the air from the collins, and
preserved the bodies, perfectly fresh.
Tor 300 years. The scientific experts
declared that never before have been
found bodies and objects from that
period in such perfect preservation.
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located in the keclway. This kcclway
is long corridor extending the length
Of the ship, about eight feet wide and
seven feet high. There are two large
balloon fabric, which are used rs
quarters. That of the officers is for
ward, and for the men, aft. The quar-
tcrs are equipped with comfortable
chairs, tables, benches and a Victrola
with a good assortment of records
When the ZR-2 "shovcs off" that crew
Of enlisted men will be the least con-
cerned in the entire party. The chances
arc that for the most part they will
sleep when off duty, and undoubtedly
be bored and feel aggrieved if some
thing out of the ordinary doesn't hap
pen. A little thing like flying across
the ocean will scarcely provide them
with sufficient thrills.
The hunks arc placed along the keel
way at various intervals. Each bunk
has, IN addition to.a good mattress and
blankets, a furlined sleeping bag. How
ever in the summer months this sleep
ing bag is not necessary.
"And how is the chow on this flying
transport" many an ex-doughboy will
wonder. Each power car is equipped
with 4 cooking arrangement which
consists of Il lead from the exhaust
pipe of the motor to the cooker. Tho
hot exhaust flames arc brought in con
tact with the bottom of the vessel il
! which the food is being cooked. The
hot food is served on the tables in tn,
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crew dining room. A likely menu
would be: For breakfast, shredded
wheat, bacon and eggs and strawberry
jam. For lunch, tomato soup, cold
roast beef and sliced tomatoes with
lettuce; for dinner, clam chowder, roast
beef, saute potatoes, sphagetti, pickles,
bread and butter, canned peaches and
coffee.
How they suffer, these poor enlisted
men! Something like the men At avia-
ton school at ST. Paul during the war,
who were forced to eat similar fare,
while sixty-piece brass band fur
nished music-but that's another story.
And may be those youngsters manning
the cloudsweeping ZR-2 won't develop
healthy appetites! There will be no
cocktails needed beyond breath of the
ozone thousands of feet up.
The history Of the naval detachment
which invaded England and assisted in
producing the ZR-2 is an interesting
one. According to the meticulously
wordcd statement from the Navy De-
partment the Omitted States rigid air.
ship detachment arrived at the Royal
Air Force Airship base, Howden, East
Yorkshire, England, on April 20, 1922
The detachment consisted of twcnty-six
men, and in July, 1920, second draft
Of thirty-six men was sent over. Con-
mander l.. H. MaXfeld will be at the
helm when the ZR2 points her nose
for the U. S. A. Lieutenant Commander
v. n. beg will be chief enpineer ard
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tempted to bring hir up for murder.
And up to few days ago he had al
ways succeeded in reaching into the
maze of complicated rcd tape of the
law to grasp a knot
One of the important witnesses for
Landru at the forthcoming trial will
be Mile. Fernando SECRET, little
Partisan girl, who will testify that she
has known the alleged murderer for
many years and his conduct always has
been most correct and proper
Notebook May Be Evidence
OF Methods With Women
But from Landrus notebook and IN
formation procured from Nine Lacostc,
sister Of Nine. Buisson, one of the
missing women, the story of how he
met these women and carried out his
purposes will be patched together.
Nine. Buisson met Landru through a
matrimonial advertisement published
May /, 1915, under the name of Frem-
yet. She assured him that she would
make him a good wife, and regretted
that her fortune was so small along
side of his. May %, OF that year, she
estimated her fortune for him, saying
it was about 1900 francs, of which
10000 could be counted upon for sure.
Soon their relations became quite close,
and Nine. Buisson expressed her one
aim in view-to care for him and to
cherish him.
However, from June, 1915 to April
1917 Landru's notebook makes no fur
Their mention Of Nine. Busson. Rumor
had spread among her friends that he
had gone to Tunis on business, but
other indications show that he was
occupying himself with other women
Finally the relations began to take
shape again in 1916, when Landru was
presented to Nine Bussous sisters,
Nine Poulet and Nine Lacostc, and tc
her son, who had come to Paris from
Bayonnc. Soon, when the youth had
returned to tho province. Landru per
suadcd Nine. Buisson to abandon hel
home and take UP residence at IT,
Boulevard Ney with him and his zap
prentice as he designated his son
Charles At this time ono Of the sis.
ters fell i'll, and Landru, apparently tc
captivatc definitely Nine Buisson's
confidence, FASTENED to her sisters
aid. When death arrived he attended
to all the necessary formalities of the
funeral.
August 8, Mime. Buisson cntircl,
scduccd, drew from the Credit Lyon.
naIs her bonds, and charged Landrr
with the administration Of her fortune
he 10Th, she left for the villa at Gam.
bais and was never heard of since.
The evening of September Landrr
returned to Paris to sec his "stcady'
sweetheart. Mile. SECRET, and on The
10 Of that month he sold ostcntat!ousl,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-14
Henry Landru Accused of
Death of Eleven Fiancees

marriage from those of the fair sex
who sympathize with his position.
Landru is an enigma OF French
criminal history. The police dossier
on his case is filed with astounding
charges which, if proved, will put him
down as one of the most Infamous
murderers Of European records of
crime
Prison guards admit that they can
not help but have doubt that the
heinous crimes charged against the
docile little man are wrong. His per
sonality completely ovcrcomcs what
might be called a simian face covered
with black beard and heavy black
eyebrows. He is ultra polite, cour-
tcous and meek. He spends hours each
day working on his defensive brief
and then begs book of Balzac from
the prison library. At other times he
Will dispense with the book to fashion
small paper fans, which he sells to
buy more paper for the distracting
luUuSI4 y
Ii the police have collected the
proper evidence, psychologists are ask
ING what was the power of this human
over women that caused them to sue
cumb to the advances Of his little black
bearded, unattractivc face and form
BY what power even in prison can he
compel the sympathy of hundreds of
the faircr sex who shower him with
gifts? What mental makeup allows
him to outwit the best of local legal
minds who have sought for two years
to bring him into court? What will
be the defense in the voluminous dos
sicr he has been preparing for months
Criminologsts of Europe
To Study Case in Court
Criminolog ists from many capitals OF
Europe are expected in court when
l>andru rocs to trial at Versailles III
November-and many women.
The police story Of Landru follows
After the mysterious disappearance
of scvcrnl women the gcndarmcs, aidec
by inform alton furni shed by friends OF
the missing women, arrested on sus-
r'cion, ON April -. 1919, one Lucien
Outlet, engineer, Of 76 Rue Roche,
chouart. in Paris. Outlet turned GU,
to be Landru. AZ soon as the arrest
became public and his photograph hac
been printed in the newspapers wit
ncsscs came to tho police, among then
inhabitants Of Gambnis, the scene OF
the alleged murder villa. Detectives
searched the villa. They discovered
feminine objects supposed to belong t.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-14
Peruvian Tribe
Used Wireless
Centuries Ago
Messages Sent Hundreds
of Miles by Incas With
Device Consisting Only Of
Hollow Trunks Of Trees

PARIS, August 1.
TT OW modern the lncas were is
shown by the fact that CEN
turies ago they had a wire
less telegraphy. This is pointed
out by the Danish traveller Ebbe
Worncrup, in the latest number
Of the Dcutsche Rundschau. in his
description of Peru 1.-The Incas," he
writes, chad wireless telegraphy. The
apparatus consisted of two followed
out trunks Of trees, with openings like
those Of an hour-glass; even now there
are in the museum of Lima good spec
mems.
"One log served for sending the tcle-
grams, the other for receiving them.
You strike the hollow log and produce
acoustic vibrations. A few strokes with
short pieces of wood call forth unique
vibrations, SO that it is no wonder tina.
they can be heard in the distance, at
the receiving apparatus. Besides, the
instrument is constructed possibly
after many centuries of experience,
every generation contributing some
thing of its own to it. The wood IS
hard and yet of the same elasticity as
v!olins wood, and it is in some way
heated and dried. The length and
! width of the instrument, as well ss its
pose. Nowadays no one can produce
anything similar. The hour-glass oper-
ings, in particular, which are connected
through another opening of fingers
breadth, are most exactly calculated"
kilograms went from Cuzco to Tia
gunnaco, or as far as Chile and furthsr,
to Quito, as quickly as the kilograms
of our time, which first must be written
and delivered and dispatched in sue
ccssion. With the incas letters also
went by courier actually quicker than
they go to-day by railway. The knot
letters were placed in a hollow stick
and delivered to the running messenger
and then passed from hand to hand,
for at every kilometcr there va
fresh courier, who snatched the stick
and ran with it to the next man, who
stood after the fashion Of relay race.
They ran on the ancient Inca roads,
still in existence to-day, over noun
tain paths, through valleys and over
daring bridges. And the Inca, the king
at Cuzco, ate every day fresh fish
from the sea, which was brought in thd
) same way over the mountains.