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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11

nESPITE the hard working propa-
- gandists, the American admins
tration shows no signs Of willingness
to take part at present in all these
European negotiations. Its position
concerning Russia was made clear by
Secretary of State Hughes in his reply
70 a delegation of the Women's Inter
national League for Peace and Free
dom which asked him TO advocate the
immediate recognition of the soviet
regime. Mr.. Hughes told the women
that recognition Is In the control of
those who dominate the affairs of Rus
sia, and would be accorded only TO a
government competent to discharge its
international relations and demonstrate
ing a disposition to discharge them.
He added that there are no legal OBJ
stacles to trade with Russia.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11

subject of reparations was excluded,
and then detailed number of the pro-
posals which he said Russia would not
accept.
1t is quite apparent that what the
soviet government wishes is not a gen
eral agreement with Europe, but sep
arate treaties with the powers, such as
she already has with Germany. 1t
probably could do this with Great
Britain and Italy and the neutral ma
tons. and probably with some other
powers, and France and Belgium
would be left III an uncomfortable po-
sitiOn. And Russia will be able to
lay on France the blame for the fail
ure of the Genoa conference.
Soviet Russians defiant attitude to-
ward the world was demonstrated in
the May day doings at Moscow. Leon
Trotzky minister of war, reviewed
100000 most eXcellently equipped and
drilled soldiers, and in an address de-
clared that Russia twill resist until
her last drop of blood is shed any at
tempts of the capitalistic governments
to enslave her"
France consented TO sign the nOnag-
gression pact proposed by Lloyd
George on three conditions: That
every European nation signed; that
Russia agreed to recognize all her
existing boundaries for ten years, and
that France surrendered none of her
rights to take action to enforce the
Versailles treaty. The Russians re-
jected the second Of these and the
Germans the third.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11
Brief and Comprehensive.

Ben Dierks has an express agency
and transfer business In Il village In
Sonoma county, California. Recently
he detailed one of his teamsters with
a wagon and pair to take a San Fran
cisco man and wife TO their country
place few miles out of town. The
hill as rendered by the teamster.
read: Haul grip, grub, and people.
three hours. three dollars"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11

THE second plenary session Of the
Il conference was held Wednesday
and a finance report was submitted
containing 10 articles in the nature of
recommendations without definite com
mitments. The main ones were:
Return OF stability Of currency.
A meeting In the near future Of big
central banks.
Re-establishment Of the gold basis.
Balancing budgets.
Sir Harrington Worthington Evans,
chnirruan Of the finance committee, adj
mitted that the proposals could not be
carried out without the cooperation
OF the United States. Tchitcherin de-
Dnlared little could be accomplished by
spance commission because the
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11

NTHEN the fifth Pan-American con-
w ference is held next March in
Santiago, Chile, 1t may become an
ament. Acting 'on instruction from
his government, the Chilean ambas-
sador to Washington has suggested to
the Pan-American union that the ques-
ton of reducing military expenses of
the American republics be placed upon
the agenda.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11

Nothing to Choose Between Them.
Husband-IIa, ha, ha! Did you ever
see a funnier sight than a woman try
ing to drive Il nail?
Wife-Yes; man trying to wrap
up bundle for the laundry London
Answers
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11
east Buffalo Live Stock.

May 4-Cattle: Market steady Re-
ceipts 125 Calves: Receipts, 500;
steady; $3011. Hogs: Receipts, 1,6OO;
light is 10 Csc lower; heavy, $l0.50M11;
mixed. $11 25D11.40; workers., light do and
pigs, $11.35011.40; roughs. .S9@925; stays,
/, 500; slow; lambs 25c higher at S6M15.5O.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11

DURING most of last week the
- predicted battle between Gems.
WI Pel-Fu and Chang Tsao-Lin ragged
In the vicinity OF Picking. Judging
from the dispatches, WI was having
the best of the conflict. The casual
ties were rather heavy On Wednes-
day President Hsu made another eff
fort to stop the hostilities, calling to
the attention of the rival commanders
the fact that the foreign diplomats had
protested three times against the
fighting and had warned of serious con
sequences TO China should foreigners
suffer from the hostilities. Almost all
the plans regarding China made at the
washington conference have been sus-
pended because Of the warfare. The
Chinese press is almost a unit In de-
crying the fighting, asserting that 1t Is
only harmful to the country, which
ever side wins. Early In the week
General Chang issued a statement
that General WI had been killed by
artillery fire. This has not been con-
firmed.
Sun Vat Sen, head Of the South
China government at Canton, asserted
he had combined with General Chang
and would soon start for northern
China. Suns own government was
weakened by the detection Of Gen.
Chen Chlung-Min who resigned the
governorshlp Of Kwantung.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11
THAT France fully expects Germany

THAT France fully expects Germany
TO default on the reparatiOns is
indicated by statement in Sketch Of
London, which says 1t has learned
from a reliable French source that
preparations are being made for i'm
mediate mobilization of the 1913 class
of reserves, numbering about 10000.
Mr.. Lloyd George gave up his plan for
a meeting of the nations signatory to
the Versailles treaty in Genoa to take
up the matter Of enforcing the German
payments, but still hopes it may be held
elsewhere. The French insist that no
such meeting be held with after May 81.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11

A S FOR the other current war, that
"A between the Irish factions, 1t ran
along as merrily as a Donnybrook fair
until midweek. Then De Valera him
self asked the Dali Eireann to take
steps to stop IL. Accordingly truce
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11

THE senate finance committee has
Il adopted McCumber's soldiers bo-
nus plan, with the bank loan provision.
Smoot still clings to the 20-year en-
dowment life insurance plan.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-11
Dairy Products.

Butter markets steady at TO cents
lower than week ago. \ part OF the in
crease in seasonal supply is moving into
storage although somewhat lower prices
are expected as the supply for storage
Increases.
Closing prices, 90 score: Chicago 80 1-2
New York 81; Boston and Philadelphia
81 1-2 cents.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
Bird HeIplessness.

EMINENT naturalists have pointed
out that certain Of natures most
active creatures show strange help
lessness under certain conditions.
Place a vulture in a pen six or eight
feet square entirely open at the top
and the bird will be as absolutely
prisoner as if it were Theoretically
sealed in the inclosure.
This is due to the fact that vultures
never begin a flight from the ground
without starting on run Of three
or four yards. If they cannot have
that preliminary run they either can
not or will not attempt to fly. and
a vulture will remain a prisoner for
life in a Jail with no top.
So with the bumblebee. One of
these lively insects dropped into a
goblet or tumbler will remain there
always unless taken out, because il
never notices the means of escape at
the top. but persists in trying to find
some way out through the sides of
the glass near the bottom.
A bat cannot rise from a perfectly
level surface. These winged mammals
are remarkably nimble in their flight
when once on the wing and can fly
for many hours at time without
rest, but if placed on a floor or fat
ground they are utterly unable to use
their wings. The only thing bat
can do in such situation is to shuttle
helplessly and doubtless painfully
along until it reaches some trifiing
elevation from which it can throw
is off like flash.
AS a vulture will not escape from
an open pen, so a wild turkey will
continue indefinitely in duress with
an easy avenue of escape available.
One of these birds penned Up never
looks anywhere but upward for means
of escape. Capturing wild turkeys by
pen tripping is made possible by their
looking aloft habit.
A pen built on logs and inclosed on
every side and rooted, the only en-
trance being an opening beneath the
bottom log on one side, is all that is
necessary to entrap the otherwise
wary and watchful wild turkey. The
girds, eagerly following Turing train
of corn, are led along to the pen and
up through the opening under the
log and into the pen. The instant a
turkey finds itself in the pen it knows
it has got itself into a scrape and
seeks to escape. but it pays no at
tention to the opening in the log by
which it entered, and persistently
dashes around the pen, its head in
the air. looking upward for place
to get out.
The old-time pen-trapping turkey
hunter never had any anxiety about
his game escaping from the trap, and
he had only to wait a sufficient time
to find it filled with the foolish birds.
all with their necks stretched full
length, looking for q place in the
roof through which to take wing, and
ignoring the big opening under the
log that let them In.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
A Story Of the Orient

So Toptit strode along a though to
pass the rooming house. Opposite the
entrance he suddenly turnod, and In
two strides had his hand on the door.
knob. He opened 1t, stepped inside.
and closed the door behind him.
X + \ X
A N instant later he would not have
obtained entrance. Two slant
eyed men were already in the hall
way, hands under their robes. His
entry had halted their advance. Top
tit regarded them with keen scru-
tiny and showed his right hand into
his pocket. The menace Of this gas
ture was significant.
what you want" demanded one
of them roughly.
"Crayton," said Toptit. where IL
he?"
The two Japanese uttered exclama-
tions Of relief. One vanished. The
other beckoned. ''You come" he said.
Toptit followed his guide to stair
way. and upstairs to a long corridor.
The yellow man knocked at a door.
and the voice Of Crayton came in a
below from the room.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
LITTLE TOMTIT-

polite note suggesting that he sell
the Chang Now screen to Crayton.
What can he do? No Chinaman dares
to infringe the sovereignty of the
Japanese quarter. The mandarin
might know exactly where Miss Using
is held prisoner; he might know exactly
where to find her, he might know exact
ly who carried her away-and what can
he do? Just nothing. That's straight
goods. Toptt! Japanese magistrates
would simply augh at him. A Jap can
walk into our city and shoot me. for in
stance. .'then go back to his own quar-
ter-and remain untouched"
Topttt sucked at his pipe for a mo-
ment. regarding his informant mar
rowly.
Look here" he exclaimed suddenly.
How d'you know so much, anyhow"
Evening star., 1922-01-22

panels were Of blank brown silk,
bearing only the vermilion seals Of
mandarins who had owned the screen.
Toptit expressed his admiration. and
the mandarin discussed the screen
with loving tenderness.
"You will observe that there are
six ideographs." said Wing compla-
Gently. 1.-The first four read 'Ku Mo
San Mow'-Old Syce and Travelling
Horse. The others give the name Of
the artist, Chang Now or Jung Moh--
a Manchu name, I think. The artist
Is not remembered. The entire value
Of the picture, Mr.. Toptit. lies in"
TN the red robe of the old syce."
said Toptit. The mandarin beamed
approval
Good. good! Yes, that red robe
is painted with some precipitate of
gold, and the secret of this dusky.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
CAPITAL SIDELIGHTS

I'm Congress are a number of men
who, in addition to holding their
L seats by right Of the suffrage OF
the people back home, also hold them
by right Of ancestry. because the
roots of their family trees are buried
deep in the colonial soil of this new
nation. Fmebears Of some Of them
played around Plymouth Rock soos
after the Pilgrims landed and par
ticipated in the first Thanksgiving
feast with which the InAians were
regaled. In the Life and Letters of
George Cabot" and in the short His
tory Of the English Colonies in
America" Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
today representing the United States
in the international conference on
limitation Of armament, has written
unostentatiously of the part his an
cestors took in the early days of the
nation.
Senator Joseph Irwin France of
Maryland is proud that his ancestors
settled in Baltimore, Md, before the
revolutionary war. His great-great
grandfather was Capt. Thomas Boyle,
who commanded the Chasseur and
Comet in the war of 1912.
Representative Edward c. Little of
Kansas is seventh in direct descent
from John Little, who came from
Dumfrieshire, Scotland. to Tinter
Falls, N. J., more than 200 years ago.
Seven of his ancestors were commits
stoned officers in the revolution and
two were killed. He has had ances-
tors in the war Of 1912, the Indian
wars. fighting King Philip at Qua
boag. and in every other conflict
that disturbed the peace Of this ma
ton. His wife is also descendant
Of the famous Steeles. who fought
in 1872 and the battle of Bennington.
She is ninth in descent from John
Steele, founder Of Cambridge. Mass.
and of Hartford, Conn.,. first secretary
of the Connecticut Colony and
twenty three years In its legisia-
ture. Three Of their ancestors-
Steele, Taylor and Weeks-were at
Louisburg. Jonathan Taylor, con-
gressman and brigadier general was
one Of sixteen who volunteered for
''the forlorn hope assault on the
island battery"
Senator Joseph s. Fre1inghuysen Of
New Jersey is descended from Rev.
Theodorus J. Frelinghuysen.N who
came from Holland and settled in
New Jersey In 1920.
Representative Dan r. Anthony Of
Kansas is nephew Of the lannon's
Evening star., 1922-01-22
A Triple Whistle.

COME time ago there was put into
use by big electric railway
company q giant triple whistle. Four
times a day this mammoth whistle
is Nown and it can be heard for ten
miles, north, south. east and west.
In being connected with an cleo
trio clock, which is guaranteed not
to vary five seconds in a year. this
whistle has proved a most valuable
time dispenser. Residents in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the power
house anticipated trouble when the
big whistle was first talked Of They
expected to hear only shrill and OBJ
jectionable sounds every time the
big affair was blown. But no one
has had an opportunity to. complaia
Of discord sat whistle time. .
Evening star., 1922-01-22

freight elevators. ca!liopes. rideing
breeches, doilies, church bells, etc.
X y y "
THAT Is the way it always goes
with SO called reductions in the
high cost of liveing, namely you read
about them in the paper and get all
steamed up over them. but when the
cards is all laid out on the table 1t
don't mean nothing. Like for inst.
the rumor goes around that meats
and grocerys is down to where they
was at before the war. but take your
gal down town and try and buy the
dinner for 5 smackers. Fat chance
Evening star., 1922-01-22

unlest one of the oysters makes her
sick.
So when I says a vile ago that I
supposed you had noticed how much
cheaper l;veing has became since the
1st. of the yr. why 1 was just make
ing a joke which 1 guess they don't
nobody laugh themself to death over
same. RING w. LARDNER.
Great Neck, Jan. 20.
Evening star., 1922-01-22

Susan B. Anthony, equal outrage
pioneer.
Representative Francis F. Patter-
son, jr., OF New Jersey comes Of peo-
pie who have lived in New Jersey for
more than ESQ years.
Representative Albert W. Jefferis
of Nebraska boasts that his fore
fathers settled along the old Brandy
wine long prior to the revolutionary
war.
Senator Robert Owen and Rep
resentative Charles D. Carter, both
of Oklahoma, can trace back their
ancestry in this country to before the
white men landed, because both of
them have the blood Of the original
aboriginal Inhabitants in their veins.
Senator owen records that he is of
"Scotch-Irish and Indian ancestry"
His mother was Narcisse Chisholm of
the Cherokee nation. Representative
Carter was born in the Choctaw ma
tion, lived on the western frontier
of the Indian territory, attended the
Indian school at Tishomingo and
later was, superintendent Of the
Chickasaw schools.
Representative Charles F. Curry
Of California because Of his maternal
grandfather was. one Of the pioneers
Of that state.
Representative Alanson B. Hough-
ton Of New York, who is to be am
bassador to Germany, traces his an
cestry back to the Pilgrim and Puri-
tan days and had many Of his kim
folk fighting with the Minute Men.
***
THE some-months-ago argument
about dirt farmers" has brought
out the fact that Representative Carl
w. Riddick of Montana is the only
man in Congress whose primary and
only business or profession or source
of livelihood outside of Congress is
farming. There are number Of 9TH
ers in Congress with whom farming
is a side issue. but whose main busi-
ness is banking, manufacturing or
some profession. Years ago in In
diana they wanted to run Riddick for
Congress, but he sold out his paper
there and settled with his young fam
lily on government reservation in
Montana, thirty miles from a rail-
road, and mail by a stage coach once
week. He went there to get away
from politics and enjoy home life
undistracted. Now he's in Congress
and chairman OF the publicity COM
mittee Of the republican congression-
al committee. Riddick put himself
through college By setting type 1T
! the case. II. = ?
Evening star., 1922-01-22
Taking Off the Luxury Tax
By Ring W. Lardner.

"O the Editor: Well friends, I
suppose you have noticed how
much cheaper it is to live
Il since the lst. of the yr. on
acct. Of the govt. takeing or the tax
on all the different luxurys and etc.
and 1t is now wks. since the big
reduction and they has been time
enough under the new scale of prices
SO as person can figure out what
amounH Of money they are going to
be able to save by same. Well friends
can't speak for nobody only myself,
would estimate that in a years time
the reduced schedule will enable me
Evening star., 1922-01-22

s.
who value only color: others supply
wholesale bazaar dealers; the aristo-
Gratis Of the profession seek really ar
tistic things, museum pieces. Under
this last head fell Crayton. who was a
business man, and Toptit. who was
. poet.
Toptit naturally suggested Tomtit,
and Little Tomtit" had been fastened
one the poet from the first. Calmly
oblivious, he went his way and Great
ed chaos among his competitors. He
had his own methods OF doing busi-
ness. and they were apt to be surpris-
ing at times. He came to Fukien
with letters Of introduction to Wing
from an obscure Tientsin poet.paint-
er. and the mandarin welcomed him
with grave courtesy. There was no
mention Of business, though each man
knew that the other man understood
perfectly.
Immediately he came into the house
Toptit perceived that something was
terribly amiss. The servants were
frightened. Wing himself. q stately
man with wispy beard and mustaches.
was inferior in quality. Host and
guest, however. ignored all this and
exchanged many compliments.
At dinner Toptit saw the screen
for which he had como. It was the
only object in the room, a screen of
three panels. The center panel held
= painting on brown silk. showing
. groom or syce with his horse be-
meath . gnarled tree. The two side
Evening star., 1922-01-22

well. come on in! That you, To-
kima Hase?' :.
NO." said Toptit, standing in the
doorway. "Its t.
, 1922-10-22
BY RUPERT HUGHES

but he was utterly convinced that
whatever God might be. He was not
this man-made Cod who inspired Doc
tor steddon with such hatred OF HIS
world and its ways
He advanced to the contest. there
fore. with a lust Of conflict. He felt
himself a and OF Sir Gawain with a
Lady on the pIrion. riding into a dark
forest to conquer the giant ogre who
denied her her realm.
But when he reached the castle he
found 1t a humble cottage; the ogre
was an undergraduates. old parson
afraid Of this world and the next. but
most afraid OF his beloved daughters
health. And at the ogre's side on the
drawbridge the esress was a fright.
ened mother wringing wrinkied hands
with terror r
Seeing Mem returning with the doc.
tor. they had come out on the porch
, 1922-10-22

Death IND disgrace were mere IN.
timely than her heart realized in its
grief. The very perils Of the enter
prise msds II a little interesting. But
chiefly she .ound It acceptable be-
IN II was odious and difficult and
n sacrifice for others sakes. And so
at asst she consented to play the part
as best she could.
Mem rose to go. She wa in haste
to begin her career But she gasped
and sank into her chair with a death
ly dread Her first audience must
be her rather and mother. and she
was paraiyzed with stage fright. sick.
dizzy with confusion and the abrupt
collapse Of memory.
Doctor Bretheriek put his arm
about her. nned her to his breast,
and upheld her like a tower Of
strength. quoting the words Wal,
Whitman used to the wounded sol
, 1922-10-22

his hands together and whispering to
his Father to spare him his unbear-
able punishment
A hurricane struck the little town
OF caiveriy on the day Of Elwood's
funeral When Mem expressed e
wish TO sing with the choir At thu
service over their late feIlow-sinEer,
bota mother and father forbade her
TO think OF It. Her mother cried. "A
girl who's got TO BE- shipped out West
has got no right to 90 out in weather
like this"
Mem cit u a crowning betrayal o.
Eiwood to let him be carried out to
a pauper's grave in such mercress
rain. Her heart urged her to dash
through the streets. burst into the
church. and proclaim to the world
how she acored the boy. But she had
to protect her father and mother
from such selfish sc.s-sacrifioe and
such ruthless atonement.
So she stayed at home an stared
through the streaming windows. She
saw her poor Did father set out to
preach the funeral sermon.
He had h vaior Of the priests
which leads them to risk death in
order to defeat death: to endure all
harcships lest tho poorest soul go out
of the world without a formal congo.
Doctor steddon ciutched his old over
coat about him and pIunsed into
rain that Matched tho air in long,
slanting lines. He had not reached
the gate when his umbrella went up
ward into a black calyx. He leaned
It against the fence and pushed on.
Then his hat blew off and skirled
from pool TO pool. He ran after II.
his hair afiutter. his bald spot spat-
tering back the rain.
Miss steddon was not missed at the
church, for there was nobody there
to miss her. The whole choir saved
its voice by staying away. Only the
Farnaby family went dripping up the
aisie and bach
The hearse and $40 hacks moped
; past the window where Mem watched.
on tho boxes the drivers sat. the
~shabbiieS. men on earth at best. bu,
5 now peculiarly sordid as they slump
t ed in their wet overcoats. Disguised
and detected. their hats blown W.
their faces, their whips aggravating
the misery. but not the speed. of the
sodden nags hat might have wished
1t their own funeral.
Mem had TO lave the window. He
Impulse was to run out and follow
I the miserable cortege, to tear we
+ flowers frop: the gardens n strev
5 the road with them. to fill the gray,
( with them and shelter Elwood from
e the pelting rain. It was a funera
/ like that in which Mozart's body was
lost and. like his widow. Mem had &c
5 mourn at home.
CONTINUED Next sunday.)