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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
SEVEN HECTIC DAYS N GOTHAM

oushiy enjoyed this touch os slap stick weather were Cakonitt and Ca mile. thr i and te-ycar-ol1 Eskimo children whom Capt. Roald Ainunsen, the Arctic explorer brought here on his journey to Norway. 1'hes were dcmure little, slant-eyed, dark s-.inned eirlies who thought th Pennsylvania hotel a very bis iglop indeed, and hailed Broadway as T million. times more dazzling than any northern lights that ever played above their native settlement. For Cakonita and Camille the blizzard was voice from home.
 Women's Smoking Room,
 Impervious to Rev. John Roach Straton's inVictives against the cigar cite, theatre has opened the first smoking room designed exclusively for women; heretofore it has been only a mans privilege to trample the feet of theatre patrons when ne goes out for a whiff between the acts and comes back just in time to disturb Che first dramatic minutes after the curtain has risen agaia B'tt m this. as in so many other % 'ds. woman has claimed an equal share with meE and obtained il.
 Moreover. the 30 clubs which. un- der the auspices of the girls com munity club held a luncheon for house directors the other day, heard several directors hold out for allow ing girls to smoke openly in their clubrooms. It was the general inn pression that the LOGO girls living in the 60 clubs would be harmed less by smoking publicly than by puffins their cigarettes secretly behind closed doors.
 Honorary Deputy Police Commits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15

| the motor show, the cyclone blizzard or the synurae. Many hundred new cars. Haunting their excellencies against a background ef-what do , you suppose e?"Disarmament blue, raised two queries; Is it possible to make a more exquisite and service able bit of machinery than the 1922 car? And why not disarmament vose?" The only people with the dis Armament blues are the munitions manufacturers.
 Microbes Dramatized
 The synurae are on everybody's
 tongue, being the quaint organisms ! which at present make New York water taste like an old shoe with a dash of cod liver oil. The synurae have even been matized-Queen Synura and her attendant germs ap- bearing in triumph at the costume ball in the Ritz Carlton given by so- ciety and stage folk for the benefit of the Soldiers and Sailors club. The health department promises to scare the synurae, out of years growth. and toward that end it is ever and anon dumping into the city water supply all sorts of foreign flavors which send the average citizen pell- mell into the arms of the nearest tboouegger.
 As to the 7O-mile gale and bliz.
 gard which blew the town galley west on Wednesday morning an l froze it that way Wednesday night people are still telling how they started to cross Madison Square at the Flat Iron building and were waited two blocks across icy pave
 ments before bringing up against an overturned taxi CT a friendly letter
 box. The only people who thor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
New Method of
 Reducing Fat

A news item from abroad informs us that the American method of producing slim trim figure is meeting with aston shing success. This system. which has made such wonderful impression over there, must be the Marmola Prescription Tablet method of reducing fat. It is safe to say that we have nothing better for this purpose in this country. Anything that will reduce the excess flesh steadily and easily without injury to the stomach. the causing of wrinkles, the help of ex- ercising or dieting. or interference with ones meals s mighty important and useful addition to civilizations neses sities Just such catalogue of good results fol- low the use of these pleasant harmless and economical little fat reducsrs. We say economical because Marmoia Prescription Tablets tmade in accordance with the fn- nous Marmola Prescription) can be ob- tained of any druggist the world over or from the Marmoa Company, 4s1a Wood ward Ave, Detroit Mich, for one dollar a case. which is decidedly economical price. considering the number of tablets each case contains. They are haralsss.-- Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15


 fall of Briand and the ascendancy of the fighting spirit is discussed in the cafes and in the government of fees, but in the homes of Paris and all of France, you hear today little but talk of the Tulle recorder who dIed in an insane asylum, crying; Don't arrest me; don't arrest me-" At the funeral yesterday the ven- etable old prefect made discourse in which he said: M. Gilbert was muredered by the most hateful weapon there is, by weapon that strikes in the back under cover of dark. All of us who come here to grieve come with hearts disturbed by wrath for that nameless one who for three years has sown lies, calumny. hate and now death Tn our quiet city"
 Who Corrupted City:
 Who is the man who corrupted Trlle? That best detectives of Paris appealed to when the local officials failed to uncover a single clue--are trying hard to find out But derredations reveal him man as bitter, as persevering in his terrible vengeance, and as good psychoi- ogist as that Mark Twain character who corrupted Hadleyburs. And ap- parently he hates the entire com munity with hatred as inclusive.
 Three years ago Tulle was rather proud of the fact that there seemed to be less scandal in 1t than in most other provincial towns. Hadleyburg, it will be remembered. was proud of it's "commercial honesty" In the story man felt that the stingy, virtuous town had done him an in jury and he sought to revenge him- self upon the whole community. To do that he arranged a diabolically clever anonymous scheme to unmask the leading citizens as weak char acters capable of dishonesty ana ccwardice for sake of gold.
 In the Tulle actuality some un- known man or woman constructed and put into effect plot that has already proved leading citizens have secrets of which they are fearful ana that the majority of the community hearken to scandal and pass It on
 Climax Not Yet
 The town is continually in strange. tense state of irritation; hate darkens the face of those who were once friends; people do not speak 10 each other upon the street. Every one suspects that his neighbor IS hiding an ugly skeleton, or-iar worse-is the unknown plotter. NOT is the climax yet in sight.
 It began three years ago. several citizens, noted for their patriotism and their probty, received anony nous letters. They were pleasantly worded, interesting letters on a u- versity of subjects but each con tained a barb one said that Madame x. had been seen in a compromising situation with NJ Y; another that M. Y.-while carrying on with Madame K was paying attention 10 Madame Z., etc
 If the letters sowed an ugly sus- picion in the minds Of their reclp- ients, they did not show it. More letter were received, and disregarded. Apparently more than 20 people, all prominent, received anonymous let ters in the following months. Then the tactics of the unknown one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15

changed little and for weeks he concentrated his poison upon certain municipal officials. including police officers. The petty, daily graft of these, he said. could not be compared to their eontemptible compIaisanee or stupid blindness as to the conduct | of their wives.
 Accuses Officials Wives
 For the first time then there ap- peared an indication that his plot ] was to succeed In his charges against the officials there was in- ciuded certain established facts. The letters became a shrewd mfxt4re Of fact, convincing versimilitude and horrid scandal People began to wonder: Can they be all true?r The lfbelled officials formally demanded a more vigorous effort to apprehend the culprit.
 The letters were studied by ex- ports, They revealed nothing. All 1 were written in the same suited. | apparently masculine hand; they bore various cancellation stamps-those of Tulle and of nearby towns They dio not always come in the mail. They were occasionally found upon the street and in at-Ieast two in stances in the confessional boxes of 1 the twelfth century cathedral
 While the search was proceeding anonymous letters were received by two divisional police chiefs, letters so well composed that they set both officials at loggerheads. They pur- ported not to come from the writer of all the others but from still an other "disinterested person." and they intimated to each chief that the other was the prolific letter writer, engaged in a plot for political ad- vaneement. The people of Tulle by now were irritated with constant 1 discussion of scandal They were ready to suspect anyone. They were ready to suspect the officials Paris detectives were called in. They did little but clear the two officials.
 Dies In Asylum
 i suspicion was then directed against NJ. Gibert A hundred in- dications contained in the letters were by now interpreted to mean that seme official was the guilty one. M, Gilbert one day received a letter ! saying tha. if he would look he would find an incriminatine letter i ln his wife's purse. The next day he heard the whisper of the rumor that he was suspected of being the anony- nous letter writer. The bewildering, calumnies worried him. He was an old man. One day he began to humble; "Ime not guilty, I'm not guilty Don't arrest me" The phrases he said over and over again. Four days aftey arriving in the asylum he died
 Nj. Martin, the chief of police. says; T dare not go before the mag istrate without absolute proof The people are so exasperated, so sus- picious, that if I admitted the slight est suspicion of someone it would be as good as a condemnation.
 Many homes have been completely broken up already by the poisoned letters and I fear there will be more tra gedies before the mystery is solved"
 As Hadleyburg became a com munity of suspicion and greed for gold, Tulle has become an unhappy place of suspicion and hate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
LEGION ENDORSES BONDS

Albany, January A.-(Special.)-- Resolutions indorsing the good roads bond issue, to be voted on January 30, were adopted last night by the Nor gan County post of the American Le- zion at it's regular meeting. The post decided to meet every Thursday night, instead of on alternate Thurs day nights. This arrangement, 1t Is expected, will create much more in terest in the activities of the organi- zation. A committee composed of Post Commander Roy Billings and Fi- nance Officer Joseph Woods, has been appointed to meets with the Alban, Chamber of Commerce In regard to the club rooms now sought by tno most
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15

sioner Mrs. George w. Loft. whc heads the woman's precinct In the old IleUs Kitchen district. went be- fore the mayor recently 10 ask for q woman's court building. Mrs. Loft pointed out that a girl who might he entirely innocent of the charge upon which she had been arrested was. un- der present conditions. taken to BlackWell's island if it was necessary to hold her overnight, and this brought her into contact with hard ened offenders.
 Commissioner Loft wants s750. - coo building for a correction center that shall include a woman's court and detention quarters. If thls plah is carried out the first offender or the innocent girl who ought not to have been arrested at all will not be locked in q police van or a cell with criminals but carefully sheltered in cheerful dormitory until her case can be investigated. The eNtraordl- nary feature of the plan is that the biggest and most modern city in th4 world has not adopted it long ago.
 Il has been busy seven days for people who like 10 keep track of con trasts The biggest diamond ever found in the western hemisphere was brought here from British Guinea by q Harvard geoloEist. Meanwhile. d number of folks in the factory sec ton of Brooklyn were wondering where their next meal was coming from when fate took a hand in the matteE The intervention was in the form Of a fire at nearby factory, during the course of which hundreds of yards of macaroni were thrown into the street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15

machines to the proofreader. who removes all mistakes with hsmmss and q nail punch
 Plates then are sent to the press room. where they are placed on cylia- der presses, which use paper that has been immersed in water for .f hours so that the texture will no be torn
 Lack of a single code complicates the work of the establishment, Mss Merwin says. There are three codes the New York point, the Ameri- can Braille and the revised Braille Type of all these systems ls used at the plant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
SLIGHT PREFERENCE

From Wayside Tales.
 Mrs. Fryer: Did you say it was ySur hub that was damaged in the accident"
 Mrs volubie "No-my hubby,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
MASONIC HALL OPENED

Geiger. January 14.-(Specialo-on last Wednesday evening al o'clock the Masonic hall of Geiger was opened to the public and the evening was spent in real pleasure to the Masons, their families and many visitors. Arter two hours of god social time, the officers of the Jorge were pub licly installed. This lodge was or ganized little more than one year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
MRS. WALTERS BURIED

Troy, January 1f.-(Special)-The funeral of Mrs. James Walters was held Friday morning at Il o'clock at the family residence on Brundige street, being conducted by Dr. J. E. Northcutt of the Methodist church. Interment followed at Oakwod ceme- tery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
Here Is q De Maupassant
 Story Of Modern France
City of the Twentieth Century Is Torn and Ruined and Set Against Itself by the Soaring Flame of
 Anonymous Scandal
By NORMAN H. WATSON Special Gable to The Age Herald Copyright, 1922, by The Age-Herald)

Paris, January 14France, the delight he French simply must have every life would not be worth the vng nevertheless the strange death of the recorder the Tu
Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-02-09
RATTI ELECTED
POPE WILL BE
NOW Plus XI
Cardinal of Milan ID
Chosen as Head of
Catholic Church
ASSOCIATED Pressl

Rome, Feb. 6.-Cardinal Achille
Ratti, archbishop Of Milan, was to-
day elected Pope. He has taken the
name of Plus XII.
An elaborate ceremonial followed
the election Of the new pope. Purple
canOpies over thrones of all cardinals
were let down, except over the throne
Of the new pontiff. The cardinals
in order Of rank kissed, first feet and
then the hands Of the new pope,
after which the pope embraced them
and bestowed his first apostolic bene-
diction. From the central balcony
of st. Peters, the dean Of cardinal
deacons announced to great crowd
the election of the pope. The new
pope from the balcony at the en-
trance inside the cathedral bestowed
upon multitude his first public
benedictiOn and returned to the Vat
lean where pOpes remain virtual
prisoners until DEATH
Cardinal Ratti was for several
years Papal Nuncio in Poland where
his discharge Of important ecclesias-
tical functions when the Polish ques-
tion became acute earned for him
the esteem Of Benedict XIV and the
gratitude of Vatican authorities. 1t
was because Of this service that the
red hat was conferred upon him on
June 10, 1921. when similar honor
was bestowed on Cardinal laurent.
Cardinal Ratti was born in Italy
on Oct. II, 1858. For many years
he was librarian of the Ambrosian
Library and archives at Milan. Later
he became librarian of the Vatican.
In this position he remained until
the new republic Of Poland estab-
lished official diplomatic relations
with the Vatican at which time Ratti
was appointed archbishop and was
assigned to Poland as the represen-
tative of the Holy See.
That country was then torn with
the arrangements from religion
brought about by the Communistit
propaganda from Soviet Russia anG
Archbishop Ratti counteracted the
spread Of radicalism. He also wor
the esteem Of Polish Catholics by his
efforts in behalf Of destitute children
orphaned by the war.
Cardinal Ratti as the Archbishop
of Milan presided over one Of the
most important archdiOceses In Italy
The city being great Industrial
center, one Of its main requirements
is that the cardinal shall possess
thorough knowledge Of political and
social problems. He is big physical
lIy and is reputed to have liberal
tendencies.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-02-09
LECTURE COURSE THIS WEEK
Taggart, Entertainer and Quintet
Next Numbers


II has been almost two months
since the last number Of the Abilene
lecture course appeared here. Two
excellent numbers are to be here this
week end. Mr.. Charles r. Taggart,
a musical humorist, will appear next
Friday and the very popular Smith
Spring Holmes quintet on Monday.
Mr.. Taggart is a Yankee from
Vermont. He will do sketch Of the
old country fiddler. He plays, while
he talks. DR.. Frank Dixon, who is
we'll known In Abilene, says Of him,
"Mr. Taggart Is an artist In his
musical impersonations unsurpassed
by any whom ! have heard"
On Monday, February 13, we
shall have the Smith Spring Holmes
quintet with us again. 1t Is the Gus
tom to repeat the number which
proves most popular, and the Smith
Spring Holmes quintet returns be-
cause of the insistent demand made
by the patrons of the lecture course.
A number of conflicting reports
have been circulated about the mum
Der of available seats for these at
fractions. The truth Of the matter
is, that there are two hundred seats
available for the Smith Spring
Holmes number. These will be on
sale the evening Of the performance
at 35 and 80 cents. Plan now tC
come
Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-02-09
WHERE'S HILLERY'S MONEY?
Herington Man Can't Find McCarty
Either

A Garden City company the sugar
manufacturing corporation of that
city, is being sued in the district
court of Finney county. Harmon IL.
Hillery of Herington is plaintiff. The
suit grew out of an investment Mr..
IIillery made with the McCarty Land
company, which ran excursion trains
to that district in the spring Of 1920.
Mr.. Hillery alleges that he paid
$4,000 cash on a contract to buy
for $32, 900 a Finney county quarter
section. McCarty is alleged to have
taken the money and the sugar peO-
pie, owners Of this and many other
lands on which he held options,
claim they received not a dollar OF
the money and are not entitled to
furnish a deed. Mr. Hillery had sold
an Illinois farm and paid Mr.. Nc
Carly the proceeds, which he now
demands the sugar company shall
repay. Mr. McCarty, who had offices
in Kansas City and Chicago. and
whose books show sales Of more
than two million dollars worth of
land in this way, seems to have dis
appeared and is not represented In
the suit. Attorneys Of Garden City,
Lakin, Colorado Springs, Omaha,
and other cities are engaged in the
trial
Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-02-09
CAN'T DO THE WORK

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Mrs. Lena Schultz, 315 e. 3rd st.
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When stopped I became awfully
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Nearly three years later, Mrs
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Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-02-09
TAXI DRIVE
NEARLY COST
HIM DEATH
Kidnappers, Two Men
and Woman, Go to
Penitentiary
tAssociatsd Prsssl

Joplin. Mo-, Feb. S.-Mrs. James
Kidd, "a, and Kenneth HOyt, ner
1s year old SON. -in-law, and Clyde
Booth, 18, pleaded guilty to highway
robbery and were sentenced, to 20
years Imprisonment following their
arrest in connection with kidnapping
and robbing II. ID. Bowles, Jitney
driver. Mrs. Kenneth Hoyt, 16-year-
old daughter Of the convicted wo-
man, and Mark Kidd, IA, will be tax
en- to the juvenile court. According
to BOwles the five hired him to drive
them to Pittsburg, Kansas, and a
few miles from there robbed and
beat him and took him to Mound
Valley, Kansas. where he was Inn
prisoned In hotel until liberated BY
the police. According to the police,
Mrs. Kidd said the plan was to Kill
Bowles and drive to western Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-02-09
MYSTERY In
film COLONY
STILL DEEP
Stars Letters Found
and Chauffeur Was
Night Caller
GAssociated Press

Los Angeles, Feb. 8-Letters from
Mabel Normand and Mary Miles
Minter to William DesmOn Taylor,
murdered film director, are reported
by the police to have been found and
returned to the writer's. 1t Is report
ed that a man connected with the
film industry took the Normand let
ters in the confusion, following Tay-
lor's death and returned them after
threatened with grand jury investi-
CATION. A representative Of Miss
Normand said the letters have not
been returned to her.
The man seen by Mrs. Douglas
MacLean at the entrance Of the Tay-
lor house the night of the murder
is now believed to have been Howard
Fellows, TaylOr's chauffeur, who told
the police he rang the bell several
times to see If Taylor wanted him
again but receiving no answer went
away,
Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-02-09
KANSAS is KANSAS, MAR0OT

o Margot OF the Icy tongue
Which Islander to the world has flung
You know too much of courts and kings
And not enough Of other things.
Now Kansas Is a bit OF land
Whereon are hogs and stlos and
Rich wheat which like a golden sea
Rolls gently meath the breeze so free
We only smoke our meat out here
Our drink is water, crystal clear,
we form the heart Of the u. g. A.
And beat the world most every day
But come on out and see us. friend,
We have surprises here--no end.
You may not know who we are yet
But we know lots of you. just bet
O Margot OF the scathing pen
Which spares no peers or common men
You know too much of court and Kings
And not enough of other things.