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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-10


TNlit greatest religion OF the East which
l. inc East would havc none "f and which,
th"rrior"' went westward and is slowly
CINllizing u" almost in spite of ourselves.
mas on inc Whoic made a better showing
cvon on our hard hearts that il has touched
than Buddha or Asoka or Lao Use or Con-
tu"ms, Will their nearly eight centuries
start. made with their PHILOSOPHERS and
raths--or ways.
To b" sure ono OF IN" bnttlcShips which
We now are sending 10 the Pacific to impress
the East with our civilization and power
costs in interest on tho Investment and on
urkecp about thrH" imcs more for one year
than tho tamIn" fund We sent over SO until
we revprS" the amounts 10y help in times of
trOubl" rather than by warships We cannot
be said to hav" taken our religion greatly
to heart. but even n pcSSimiSt would agree
the Hindu nundltS. who hold 50 many ladies
in thrnll in California and elsewhere. have
hlGh thinking. ny MG WaN ct showing OF re-
SuirrH a't'u n'n'H wv" years ol mESu"lsm
Nv t"''"M''T Hx"ua! r'n1IH nor St0p IN
r"i!EH'"Ns !E!t ~ ~ H''"rhia, h'F ShonId go
I" llo't anu I"uIu "h" nl,h ana conteln'
pla'P WI Md'at ~ '.E S,'Llg" @. EASTERN religion
mas u""c LOT 'h' ""FNlhS people
TUE curious tang ab"ut tn" present very
L fashionable fCcling for the occult the
revival of mcdiunliStc consultations and thc
sort OF daring questioning Of unseen powers.
Christian religion and disrogardcd BY many
as TOO conventional t0 be- interesting or cf-
fcrtivc is being revived under different
treatment and elevated into kind of half
forbidden cult.
Speaking to the unseen Spirit when il il
called prayer is part Of church Worship and
is recorded nc being a common custom of
the founder Of Christianity Communica.
tionS with departed spirits md visions of
them arc taught a. having been cXpcricnccd
by jesus Just as communications with Him
and the seeing nf Him after His death nrp
taught as tho experiences Of His friends
Yet the odd thing about the psychical ro.
search people and all their books is TINT
they seem 10 think of Themselves ny TINT in.
triguing thing g-unorthodoX
Tho truth of the matter is. norhinp that
is taught us is very real until we fool il nv
some Experience that is personal and tb"I
we conclude We have dt>covcrcd a new new ldca' '
HAVE often bccn a,1n.cd ot tho ,,.o,.
| r,,o, ,i;., .,;.',' " t' way
tiin,iL n,,''i,', o,,I d uhII IN t"P
- nmcryIiu ,,Lih iooJ .ro,,, Nv ''re .I S
"' i;hort '"''S '''"' 70 '"ke really
..,', tnI ,L.L
ana ,Lira ,rat .o,,, ,',ro' proves luSt
Wv" WV ,T,e %e 49,, I ''i, ".c "SH 'i'hu' IL
anu ,."' ,,a,n' Wv, GG,'l,> !. open l"T nus use
10 s'l S"'','M ~ n',e j.. nnr'ruiar Iut the
"rH!"HGF NI',,'.sm '"IF.t artieSSlN believes
th"l L'I - Wv. niS' WHY" man VINO mas dlS-
cSNJ!]'I ] n.,n, '''''' "'' '"' II u MS py rlsht
| or "Is'"N"rH,
louhH party NI summer hotel folk
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-10
NOW MYIDEAIS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Phiadephians Subjects They
KnoU Best

the groups represented in this part of the
city-Jcwish and Italian. immigrant and
Ncgro--it is particularly hard to inculcate
the Importance Of hygiene and sanitation.
''To walk out South street from the insti-
tute on Saturday morning is TO be trans
ported to foreign quarters. Especially from
second to Fifth street, where purchasers
from puShcarts arc so much in evidence.
docs the Ghetto spirit prevail. People swarm
IN" sidewalks and jostle each other in their
effort to buy at the cheapest rates. The
streets arc full of stagnant water. torn
papers. demolished cabbagcs and uncollrcted
gnrbng". The whole atmosphere is sordid.
unCStEC
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
FLEMISH TENACITY WINNING OUT

etons of German soldiers, buried in the
mud OF the User river banks, wheat
and barley, corn and potatoes. flowers
and young apple trees are now -four
iShing.
For two years the Belgian peasants
lived in hutS, the ruins of their homes,
or in German concrete shelters, suffer
ing untold hardShipS in winter, but i'm
bued with the spirit of regeneration.
They worked to remove the barbed
wire and uneSptoded shells, and many
OF them lost their lives when the pillow
met some buried shell. But perSever-
ance won. From $4,000 souls in 1914
the population dwindled 10 nothing in
1918, and back TO $4,000 in 1919. There
is now population of 1900.
The ministry of agriculture, under
the management OF Baron Ruzette and
his staff of specialists, with III. Boer.
enboom at their head, organized the
relief work. Motor tractors were
loaned by the government. The fields,
soaked with sea salt. were revived
with chalk and chemicals, and Elan
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
Eegenerating Efforts of Peas
ants Restore Flanders Fields.
BeIaians, Working to Rebuild Homes
and Salvage Barren Lands, Aided
by Loans of Motors.

BrusselS.-"No Mans Land" again
belongs to the brave Belgian peas
ants, an apparent miracle having been
wrought in Flanders fields by these
courageous people, who, with the help
of the Belgian government, have re
gained the ground which once seemed
devastated beyond rehabilitation. Not
satisfied with the deaths of soldiers,
murders of women and children and
devastation of cities, the German in
va5ers sought to wipe out nature en-
tlrely, hut their efforts were In vain.
On the very places where, two years
ago, tie armies were rushing TO lib
crate Belgium, and where the sea wa
te~s, reeeding uncovered grinning skel-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
When the sriten Got Home.

EaglShman and American sitting In
room with four visible doors in Il.
The American got weary doing moth
ing, so he said to Bob: "Tu bet ron
50 there are five doors in this room. ="
The Engiishman replied: whats the
matter with you? You can see blamed
well there are only four"
American-I am game. Put IN YOUR
money, and let's be doing something,
anyway
The bet was made.
The American commenced to count,
One door, two doors, three doors,
four doors, cuSpidor, i've.
Engiishman-Ha, ha! BalIy good.
Wait till get back TO the old country
and TIL pull that one sure.
When the EngIishman got back TO
his club and found q room with four
doors, he pulled the JOKE. He com
menced 10 count: lone door, two
doors, three doors, four doors. spit
tOon-" and does not know yet where
his foot slipped-Chicago Herald and
Examiner.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
Can Open Any
Safe With Wire

said the king. Mr.. x inserted the
wire. felt with the wire inside, deli.
cately twisted It here and there, then
opened the safe door.
Here, your majesty, your safe Is
opened"
The king was very much astonighed.
and said: ''You are the most danger
Gus man have ever met" Mr. Y re-
piled: Il would be were / not hon
est
Mr.. x is rarely In his store, as
his fame has Travelled abroad and he is
often telegraphed for to start at a
moments notice. Before the war he
was called many times to Berlin to
open the ex-kaiser's safe and he was
recommended also to Francis Joseph,
who often left his keys inside his Sc
cret safe, and would allow no one but
Mr. x to open or try to open it.
Many Diplomats Call Him.
Diplomats. lawyers. doctors, all call
him when they need a reliable doctor
for their safes. When asked how he
did the trick, Mfr. x said: at fs
purely a question of touch. am like
specialist who, without operating,
can tell by examining a patient, by
touching him what is the matter in
side. Jamming of safes is like a case
OF iockjaw. With my wire I can To-
cate the trouble inside the lock. Be
sides. my experience 1 inherited from
rather, who in his time was the only
lock specialist in the world"
Sometimes It takes five minutes, and
often he has to probe for 20 minutes
or half an hour, but never in his life
has he had to damage a lock in order
to open safe. He is the most ex-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
King Victor Emmanuel Calls Lock
Specialist Europe's Most
Dangerous Man.
SERVICES MUCH IN DEMAND
Employed by People Of All Nations
and Professional Men to Open
Safes That Have Jammed-
Does IthY Sense of Touch.

Rorne.-The man whom King Vic
tor Emmanuel halls as the most dan
gerous man in Europe is neither Com
munist, Socialist nor criminal. He,
like his father and grandfather be-
FORE him, keeps a store where safes
are sold. This in itself Is not an I'M
lawful profession, but he inherited
from his father, besides the small
store off the Piazza di Spragna, the
knack Of being capable of opening any
safe in the world with the help of a
bit Of stiff wire.
Never in his life has he been forced
to break safe open. He has been
summoned by people of all nations and
professional men to open safes that
had damned. But not only private in
dividuals call him; the other day King
Victor Emmanuel needed his services.
The king had left his keys in his pri-
Vate safe, where his wonderful coIlec-
ton of coins is kept He was worried.
as his faEOrite amusement every day
Is rearranging these coins. He was very
much worried until they told him that
a specialist for safes lived in Rome
and would be called to the royal villa.
His Real Name Withheld,
Mr. y (his real name must be kept
secret, as the tax collector would levy
4 heavier income tax were it known
that he was called to the yilla)
FASTENED to the Villa Savofa and found
the king pacing up and down the
study.
You must not damage the safe, as
there is my precious collection inside"
said the king.
mo, your majesty" replied Mr.. x,
Il do not need even to damage the
lock" Mr.. Y looked with a profess
sional air at the safe.
Il am afraid you will find it a diff
cult task, as it is a Chubb Special, 4"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
THE WOMAN WITH THE "EVIL
EYE"

$50 HE has the evil eye" said Dumas,
- "she will bring curse upon any
man who loves her"
History knows the beautiful woman
of whom he spoke as Lola Montez,
but she was christened Elizabeth, the
daughter of an Irish woman and Lord
Byron, by the left hand. Afterward
the mother married and went to In
dia with her soldier husband. When
the girl was sixteen, her mother came
back to England for a time, and the
young mistress proceeded to run
away, marrying a soldier and depart
ing for India.
Elizabeth left India, stopped In
Spain, and changed her name to Lola
Montez. she studied dancing and de-
termined to storm London. Her ap-
pearance In 1913 was heralded as q
great event, but she could not dance.
Her failure brought Kisses. and she re-
turned to the continent, wandering
through Germany and Belgium. Then
she went to Warsaw. She conceived the
idea of calling herself a Pole, for
whom everybody felt sympathy be-
cause of their struggle for liberty.
So Lola came to Paris, under another
name, and started to dance. Once
more Kisses greeted her. 1t was the
last straw. She flew irto'a fury. tore
Off her slippers md carriers, and threw
them at the audience.
Paris had been won. Lola, dropping
her other name, became the fashion
of the day. An editor was killed in
n duel about her, and Dumas pro-
nounced the line quoted above, which
drove her from the capital. She next
turned up in Munich and enslaved old
King Ludwig. Then folly took hold
of hef. She started TO rule the state
and soon got into water so deep that
she almost lost her life. A mob sur
rounded her palace and sangrily de-
manded that she come out. Lola
came. in her nightgown, pistol In
hand. she emptied the contents into
the crowd and barely escaped the
moh's fury when Ludwig arrived at
the head of the royal bodyguard. She
had to flee, and Ludwig lost his
throne.
Lola had exhausted Europe, She
came 10 New York and tried again to
dance. Once more she failed, and
went West, dipping into the mining
camps for while, then on to Aus
tralia, and finally back to New York,
Now she lies in Greenwood cemetery
Brooklyn, and not even an epftaph
marks her simple headstans.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
In Perpetual Torment

ders awakened from her sieadly sleep
and is again bright with vegetation.
The farms are bigger than ever before.
and the concrete shelters which, two
years ago, heard the German officers
yelling to the unfortunate soldiers
''Schweinhunde," now hear the grunt.
ing Of little pigs. for the thrifty Egam.
ish peasants have turned 90 account ali
OF the salyaged implements of warfare
which could be used.
Here and there are sacred spots
bright with bloody peoples, marking
the final resting places Of the bravo
Belgian, French, British and American
soldiers, untouched by the regenerat-
ing hands Of the Flemish workers.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19

letter received by Mr.. Shatzer was
signed with strange name, Harry e.
Thomas. 1t contained this story of the
disappearance of the new name:
In Perpetual Torment.
For Il years Hail, under the name
Of Harry E. Thomas Of Denver. has
quaked at the sight of a police officer.
He has avoided all persons he knew
when he was Hall. He has spent wake
tuI nights, fearing arrest for murder,
a wife and then a child served to add
to his anxieties. What, if they should
discover he had killed a man?
But the worry is over. Thomas was
walking recently on a Denver street.
He met the man for whose murder he
believed he was hunted, the letter
states The two recognized each other
at the same time. The murderer
man held out his hand in greeting.
4 thought 1 killed YOU" Thomas
gasped.
Land, no." the victim" replied. st
was only bruised a little"
In the II years since his disappear
Ance Halls family has mourned him
as dead. Relatives after a dfIigenr
search, took steps to collect his insur-
ance, but lacking proof of death, we're
unable to do so.
OF what happened after Hall, with
SITS in wages. left the harvest fields
the letter has this to say:
Il got into a dice game. won $3.50.
One Of the heavy losers was John VII
Hanson. He and / fought over the
game. then patched up our differences.
Friendly, we climbed into box car to
go TO Kansas City. We quarrelled
again, fought, and Williamson fell
from the train in the fight
Not Guilty of Murder.
The next day / read in q paper
that the body of an unidentified man
had been found on the railroad rfght
of way. l was not guilty of murder,
but to prove it was a different thing.
Others had seen US quarrel.
4 went West, changed my name 10
Thomas and grew up with the country,
Finally l settled in Denver, was mar,
ried and now have a daughter six
years old.
You cannot imagine the relief now.
Williamson went home with me, snd
we told my wife and daughter. i am
the happiest man in the country. We
are coming TO see you and all the resi-
OF the folks right away. I can hardly
watt
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19

PhyrophoSphaCe OF soda is recon-
meated for the removal of ink stains.
This salt does not in5ure vegetable
tiber and yields colorleSS compounds
with the ferric oxide of the ink. II
Is best to tirSt spply taliow TO the
NIX SPOT, then wash in solution OF
Phyr0PhoSphase until both Tallaw ana
ink have disappeared Another sos7nu,a
Is to use mixture of four parts &c
tartar and TWO parts OF p0wcsR
alum, THIS IS not injurious u cloth
other stains also maye be removed
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
THE GIRL WHO WON AND RULED
a KING.

WE HEAR a great deal today
~ about the Ubiquitous vampire.
II Is one Of the curious sideIights
vi history that the vampire has helped
u shape the destinies Of the greatest
uleh ana empires. And certainly none
vi the famous women who might
answer to that description had
stranger beginning than a little girl
Dorm at Paris In 1921. Her supposed
iather was Francois Poisson, an officer
IN The household Of the Duke of
orleans. But common report held
that her real father was a great
nnancier Of the time, who undertook
10 direct the girls education. 1t Is
said that In her early youth he rec
ognized In her spark of genius and
SNAPPED the girls education so that
some day she might be the kings
mistress.
at the age of twenty this girl was
married TO nephew of her protector
and became the belle Of the wealth
lest circles in Paris business life.
But that was long way from the
court, which she never entered until
chance threw her In the way of Louis
XIV, at public ball. He was capt.
waited and not long afterward the
young bride cast aside her husband
for doubtful position at Versailles.
Louis bought her an estate and from
this she took the name by which she
became famous-the Duchess de
Pompadour.
POmpadour was a woman of IN
doubted genius. She paid court to
the literary leaders of her time,
notably Voltaire, and soon became a
power in the realm. This power she
extended by every possible means,
corresponding regularly with gen.
erals in the field, dabbling in affairs
Of state, and finally becoming the IN
crowned queen of France.
For years French policy had been
to oppose Austria by alliances with
the German states. Because Fred
crick the Great wrote scurrilous
verses about Pompadour she swore
to be avenged, and when Maria
Theresa of Austria wrote her a
friendly letter, she upset Frances
national policy overnight, forming an
alliance with Austria. This brought
on the disastrous Seven Years war
and indirectly prepared France for
the troubles which ended in the Revo-
luton.
Pompadour did not live to see the
working out of her statecraft.
When a fateful Illness overlook
her, at the age of forty-two, she
calmly heard the doctors sentence,
had herself dressed in court costume,
and bravely lay down to meet her
fate
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
FROM TAVERN MAID TO EMPRESS.

II ID ICTURE to yourself a tenth cen
fury wineshop in Constantinople,
then called Byzantium. Imagine that
the door is flung open and a party of
gay blades enter. They are led by
Romanus, son of the emperor. They
drink, and Romanus admires the tav-
ern keepers daughter.
In 956 this same girl, Theophano,
was married to Romanus, his imperial
father being an indulgent man who APP
parentiy cared little whom his son wed.
But the mother and five sisters of
Romanus scorned the tavern maid. In
eo9 the emperor died, supposedly of
poison administered through the agency
of his son and Theophano. now become
| greedy of honors.
N Romanus was a profiigate and Theo-
lphano evidently suspected that she
might be put aside. So she cast her
eyes upon Nicephorus Phocas the
greatest soldier of his time and a
power in the state. This Phocas was
religious man who continually wore
hair shirt as penanee. Theophano
soon made him forget his hair shirt,
and The two conspired together. Ro-
manus died in s63, at the age Of twen-
ty-four, and the historians hint that
mis- wife poisoned him. Then she had
Phocas proclaimed emperor, and a sec
ond time became empress of Byzan-
tium. This brought on q contest with
the church, which refused to sanction
the marriage. But the vampire was
woman of wit as well as seduction,
and she helped her new imperial hus-
oand to maintain himself Phocas won
notable victories against the Saracens
anu greatly extended the power of By
zantium. Then he seems to have ex-
pcrieneed turn of feeling and went
oack to his hairy shirt. In any event
Iheophano tired of him and looked
about for new conquests. She cast her
favor upon Finishes, nephew of the
emperor, and a gallant young soldier.
ohce more her conspiracy took shape,
and Phocas was assassinated. Then
the church demanded that Finishes
drive Theophano forth from the palace
before his self-proclaimed accession to
the purple would be recognized. To
the CONSERVATION of Theophano, he
promptly agreed ana she was bundled
on to prison. But the willy vampire
who had risen from the tavern to
throne still preserved her cunning, and
was not long until Finishes also
Passed away, poison victim.
Theophano's two sons by her first
husband divided the empire and she re
surned to the palace, History fails to
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
FROM PALACE TO GUTTER AND
BACK AGAIN.

THE story of Blanca CapelIa might
A well be called 1.-THE Face at the
Window" She was born In 1913
daughter of great Venetian noble
And no girl ever had a more alluring
future. But love interfered and she
ran away with a poor bank clerk to
his home in Florence. He had told her
that his parents belonged to the, gen.
try. Instead. she found them living In
a miserable slum.
Blanca soon became celebrated as
the flower of the Florence slums. One
day she was sitting at the window
when Francesca de Medici CHANGED by.
He saw her lovely face and the next
day she las summoned to court.
francesca was the son of the grand
duke, and soon her slave. She had
sickened of the bank clerk husband
and the trials of poverty. From a girl
entranced by her first love she had
begun to develop In her role of yam-
pire.
Francesco's father died and he be-
came grand duke. Now Blanca saw
her chance to a place beside him. A
child was borrowed and presented to
francesca by Blanca as his own.
Then. to conceal her plot, the real
mother was slain. A waiting woman
who knew of 1t was carried to a
mountain pass and left there for dead.
But adherents of Francesco's brother
found this woman and heard her story
before she died. The brother was a
cardinal and jealous OF Bianca's rise
to power. In some way she learned
that the cardinal knew her secret, and
/. boldly confessed it to the grand duke
Francesca infatuated, forgaye her
and insisted on treating the child as
If it really had been his own. But
Bianca's troubles were only multiply
ing, for Francesco's wife bore him
son when all hope of his having an
heir seemed lost. 1t looked as if
Bianca's day was over. But she left
Florence a year, then returned in
greater favor than before. And soon
the duchess died, her young son fol-
lowing her shortly afterward There
were hints of poison at Bianca's in
stigation. However that may have
been, the duke married her within
two months. The child first given to
Francesca as an heir was legitimatized
and it appeared that an unknown
foundling would some day rule
/ France. But Blanca still had one i'm
placable enemy, the Cardinal de
Medici. In an effort to make friends
she invited him to a great feast and
merry-making. Just what happened
may never be known. Some historians
, say that Blanca had prepared a
poisoned tart for the cardinal, but
that he substituted it for another tart,
imprisoned, and it was served to the
duke. When Blanca saw her husband
in deadly agony, it is said she real
lied what had happened and ate the
other half of the poisoned dainty.
Both were soon dead and Bianca's en-
envy had won.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
MiSsourian Meets Man He
Thought He Had Killed in
Quarrel Ia Years Ago. i.
LIVES IN PERPETUAL TERROR
Man Falls From Train During Fight
Which Resulted From Disagree
nent Over Dice Game and An
tagonist Thought Him Dead.

Kansas City, Mo.-Reuben E. Hall
OF Paris, Mo, met face to face in q
Denver (COlo.) street a man whom he
thought he had killed IA years ago
and the memory of whose alleged
death had haunted him all these years.
4 letter telling OF the remarkable
case came from Denver to l. II,
Shatzer, manager of the Tool Speciality
company. 1t was from Skaters half
brother, Reuben E. Hall.
Hall, young farmer near Paris,
Mo-. went to the Kansas harvest fields
to work in 1907. He disappeared. The
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
Deposit of Stone Age,
Mans Leavings Found

Mixnfry. Austria.-One of the
greatest finds of relics of pre-
historic man in Austria comes
from a cave near this place. The
Dragons Den" is being exca-
waited for its enormous deposits
of bird-dropping ph0sphates. In
a side cave evidences of human
occupation were. uncovered.
Great quantities of quartz i'm
plements and other utensils and
human bones have been taken
out.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19

Vienna.-Eorcin2 his employers
safe and tinding only about $40 worth
OF crowns Rudolph Twrdik hanged
himself, leaving a note that the dis
appointment after 50 hard a Job was
more than he could stand.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
Draft Evadscs Names Printed

Observation-Disclosures Of 1T.0ou
names of alleged draft GRADERS issued
by the war DEPARTMENT between June
and July t, were published Saturday
in the Congressional Record