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The New York herald., 1922-03-09
J. X. Rice, Jr. & Co. Will Buy

j. X. Rice, Jr. & Co. Will Buy
n so Bucyrus Com. O. Pfd. II
so Casein Co. Of America
100 Franklin Insurance
III rs Fidelity Phenix Ins.
100 Horn g. Hardart (NY) Com.
100 Int. Cigar Machine
100 Johns Manvillc Pfd. II
so Mutual Gas Light I.
so National Fuel Gas III
so Singer Manufacturing III
200 w. Va. Pulp g. Paper
so Ward Baking Com. g. Pfd. II
j. X. Rice, Jr. & Co. Will Sell
III 25 Bankers Trust III
III 30 "Opens Smith Pfd III
\ 10M Int. g. CT North. s % Notes
100 Lchigh Valley Coal Sales
HI rs Mccall Corp. Com. & Pfd.
Nh so National Liberty Ins. III
4 20 Niagara InsTsace III
HI Is National City Bank III
10 New Nethcrland Bank III
100 Underw'd Comp. Mach. Com.
III so Universal Leaf Tobacco III
/ rs Ward Baking Com. a Pfd. III
J.k.Rice, Jr.& Co.
Phones 1000 to toio John % Wall ST.. y. \
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FIsK RUBBER NET $3,336, ,467.
Company Reports Also Profit and
Loss surplus xI.s53.4I7 for 1921.

The Fisk Rubber Company's report
shows net profits OF $3.336.467 for 1921
after depreciation and rebates, but be-
fore interest. After deduction of inter-
est its surplus was s2.011.379. An adj
justment Of Ss.39O,455 wiped out that
surplus and substituted In its stead a
deficit or S6.379.O76. Dividends OF
s5O7, 500 were paid on its first preferred
stock and S9.415 on its second preferred
shares.
A capital stock adjustment Of seso.S71
was added 10 the company's surplus at
the beginning Of the year and s1s,3s3
was charged Off for expense Of bond
amortization, making its total profit and
loss surplus as OF December 81, s1S73,-
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

LONDON, March s.-TradinE was quie,
and price movements were irregular on
the Stock Exchange to-day Quotations
at the close of trading follow:
Bar silver. 325sd. an ounce.
Bar gold. 95s.
Money. 2js per cent.
Discount rates: Short bills. 5%GA3is pcr
cent; three months bills, .3fs6JN per cent.
~ per cent consols. 564.
british per cent. war loan, 917s.
British ~ Per cent. war loan. 81.
he Beers. II.
Rand Mines, 2.
The New York herald., 1922-03-09
FORD ROAD TO ISSUE BONDS.

WASHINGTON. March s.-The Detroit,
Toledo and Ironton Railroad. owned by
Henry Ford. was authorized by the In
terstate Commerce Commission to-day
10 issue $451.0 in s per cent. fifty year
bonds. The application said that Mr..
Ford would take over tho entire Issue
and that II would be used to return to
the roads treasury sums spent IN the
last year on additions and betterments.
The New York herald., 1922-03-09

PARIS, March s.-Prices OF securities
traded In on the Bourse to-day were
firmer. Quotations at the close OF the
trading were as follows:
The New York herald., 1922-03-09
BRINGS 5000 BARREL WELL.

The VI. +. Wilcox Oil and Gas Com
pany has brought in a 5000 barrel well
on its tract in Bristow county. Okla
homa. oil men said yesterday that the
we'll proved up a new strip Of territory
in that state. which includes properties
owned by the Trsnscontinentsl oil Com
pany and the White oil Company.
The New York herald., 1922-03-09
WHITE OIL INCREASES CAPITAL.

DOVER. Del, March s.-rncrease in
capital OF the White oil Company, New
York city. from 100000 900 to s2O1,-
100000. was authorized at the state De-
partmcnt here to-day.
The New York herald., 1922-03-09
MAINE cENTnAL's VALUE sEr.

WASHINGTON, March S.--A tentative
valuation was fixed on the property
owned and used OF the Maine Central
Railroad to-day by the Interstate Com.
neree Commission at 6i.09l,3sA
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

came to be in correspondence with Mime. Hera
Mirtel' She asked me to come and see her when
had leave, and sometimes lunched with her in COM
pany with her husband and her daughter.
JUDGE GILBERT-Did Nine. Bessarabo speak
sometimes of what was happening in her home?
A.-She complained of being deceived by her
husband Mile. Paue Jacques very bitter against
her stepfather, who had made her lose opportun-
ity to marry.
THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR-Dd you know
about the plan of Nine. Bessarabo and her daughter
to go to Mexico?
Anime. Bessarabo told me about that plan;
accompanied her and her daughter to the steam.
ship company where she was to get her ticket. As
she found herself 900 francs short Of the needed
the evening before the disappearance of NJ Bessa-
rabo, went to her announcing that could get the
money but not until six o'clock in the evening. She
declared that it was too late that she would not
The Washington times., 1922-10-01
"That last awful scene, when

tell of the secret of the trunk which to me is
mystery?
So far did my opponents 60 in their efforts TO
convict me that they attempted to throw dis
credit my literary work and to seek to prove that
my books not read. One of my friends and
comrades in literature, Nine. Emma Mackentz,
testified to the high esteem in which was. held in
the literary fraternity Of Paris. The Public Prose-
cutor sought to against me weapon of rdi-
cule this letter which my admirng friend wrote me!
Madame and Adorable Sister in the Ideal:
when read your letter felt the emotion which
sezes at the approach of happiness long
pected. From the day that heard you at the house
of Nine. Aurel have prayed to know you. Ny
thoughts are mingled with yours. Never has such
emotion come to me from the heart of woman.
During the long Winter evenings work beside my
lonely freside. Living in the midst of miserable
creatures incapable of feeling the least inspiration
of beauty, thank God for giving the joy of
templatng the woman who is at once the Isis and
Minerva and is both the mother and the virgin
through the glorious purity of her soul. Never has
woman appeared to me radiant within her beauty.
Your soul walks amid truth and love- it is illumi-
mated with goodness, with courage, with cairvoyant
generosity. You know where lies the beauty of the
true woman and you never let your footsteps wander
When learn that you sacrifice the genius that lies
within you for the happiness of your daughters ,
admire you still more am not vain hatterer but
as so many things are superficial, PROSTATE myself
in alteration when have the happiness to encounter
something that is really divine Your soul is spark
that has become flame
EMMA MACKENTz."
repeat this letter here not in a spirit of vanity
but to show my readers how my literary efforts have
been acknowledged and appreciated.
And yet by the blind error of human justice all
the worthy abors and achievements of my life count
for nothing. l, Hera Mirtel, authoress, poetcss,
dramatist languish in my prison cell, branded as a
murderess awaiting the hour when Divine justice
will remove this cruel stain
(The End)
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

make the journey.
Q.-Wken you
announced to. the
accused that you
would not have
the 1000 francs
until six o'clock
in the evening,
did she appear to
be annoyed? =?
A.--They made
me say so at the
public investiga-
ton, but l do not
remember having
seen any sign of
a n n y a n c e to
which you make
allusion.
Q.-On August
2 Mile. P aul e
Jacques came in a
taxi to your resi-
dence, went up to
the apartment Of
your mother and
told her that she
had urgent need
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

to you at five O'clock at the office Of NJ. Dauphin
What great interest could there be in this interview?
Al know nothing about it.
Q.-That is incredible. Was it not that day that
they introduced you to NJ. Dauphn the future and
only secretary of NJ Bessarabo2
A.-No, not in the least under that form.
Q.-But what did they wish with you?
A-They wanted no doubt, to call me to tell me
the story they were telling everybody.
Q.-What story?
A.-The story about the stenographer. Nine.
Bessarabo said that her husband had gone away
with Mile. Ncot that she had letter from
the latter making AN appointment with her husband
at EVan.
Q.--Then she must also have spoken to you of
the trunk2
A.-(Wth amazement.) About the trunk?
Q.-Yes about the trunk; come, tell us the story
of the trunk.
But M Piement remained sent-how could he
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

because we were threatened by the scaffold But
against those terrible moments l have thousand
recollections of ia love and respect, and 1t is of
those that /, broken-hearted mother, must think.
never killed Georges Bessarabo any more than
| did Paul Jacques my first husband.
1t is difficult for woman kept under lock and
key for two years and Immediately after such a
drama to bring the proofs of her innocence. An in
nocence which it ought not to be necessary to prove
since justice has had to FIJI in the gaps in its proofs
with all sorts of legends-gaps clearly shown by
the luminous speech Of Matre de Moro Gafferi, my
counsel.
But of the one hundred and thirty witnesses
asked for, one hundred and twenty are missing
Many there who will ask to be heard, and who
will be heard and who will, feel sure, bring fresh
proofs yet unknown of my innocence which. is
proclaimed not only by my conscience but also by
my whole past, which has been devoted to creation
and not to destruction.
In their irrational and inexpcabe eageness to
ruin me the prosecution needessly dragged in the
name of the young soldier whom befriended during
the war and to whom l acted as "marraine" (god-
mother) as many patriotic French women did.
Although he was pressed to join in the caumnies
against me, his testimony was triumphant Vindca-
ton for me, as you can see from his sworn words
GUSTAVE PILLEMENT-(C Called to the stand,
Nine Bessarabos adopted soldier, twenty-four years
Old) have never been the lover of Nine. Bessa-
rabo. In 1917, when was at the 'front.' my COM
rades wrote to Paris asking women to be godmothers
to them, and they gave my name, It was thus that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

out his pay Holland signed him up
and now is paying his way thru kan
sas university in order to secure him
for next season. But the Southwest
ern league assumed these debts, paid
Pierce, and he still remains with the
Topeka club, Barbour explained
Barbour had written the national
MANAGEMENT on this point
Barbour believes the concessions at
Topeka can be sold for $4,000 if
sealed bids are called for He also
believes $500 can be obtained from
the fence advertising if properly
handled. He also believes the Topeka
club will pay dividends if a stock COM
pany is organized.
The men who are behind the propo-
sition are getting down to business
now, and the organization of a COM
pany will be perfected soon. it was
said. 1t is planned to organize before
January D, so Topeka can have a rep
resentation at the meeting of the
Southwestern league to be held in In
dependence, Kan, on that date. At
that time a president of the league
will be elected to succeed Barbour,
who resigned recently because he
owns the Muskogee club of the South
western league, and believes a presi-
dent should be someone who does not
own a club in the league
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
TAKE UP BASEBALL CASE
President Barbour Outlines Plan TO
Topeka Business Men

IODGka EuSAnC@S
Selecting a group of business and
professional men to be the head of
a baseball corporation, and the or
ganization of that corporation, are
matters to be brought before the bust
ness and professional men in Topeka
TODAY by a baseball committee from
the Chamber of Commerce. This de-
cfsion was reached at a meeting OF
Topeka baseball boosters anu PresI-
dent Ensley Barbour, OF the South-
western league, at the Chamber OF
Commerce Wednesday evening
Barbour explained that the $5,f ~
which he is asking for the francnlse
in Topeka is to pay Indebtedness IN
CURED last season
money. is a question that has been
asked by business men, Barbour eA-
planned it by saying II VIII give ~
peka the franchise, will give II thlr
teen players, valued by Barbour al
$4,000 a five year lease on the local
bali park with four years yet 10 run
cancellation of debts which nave peer peer
assumed by Barbour and the leag : :
park concessions, which last year s oIo
ror $1,000 and billboard concessions
which sold for $1,000 last year
~ was pointed out by Barbour tnaS
$4,000 of the S5,72O was money palu
by Dick Cooley for a five-year lease on
the park to the Santa Fe club Also
money paid by the league to members
OF the Topeka club in back pay IS III
cfuced IN the amount. Had the saI-
aries Of these players not been paid
they would have become free agents
and could not have been kept for the
Topeka club. Barbour beAeVes the
players OF the Topeka club are worth
at least S3,5OO. He pointed out that
Pitcher Pierce can be sod for nice
sum of money. Jack Holland, man
ager of the Oklahoma City club, wants
him and believed he mad him. When
Pierce left Topeka last season with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
WINTER
SPORTS
B =
Telephone 1881

Getting Topeka into organized base
ball on a sound business basis LOOKS
like a reality at last Baseball Iol-
lowers in Topeka have become DIS
gusted with the way organized base
ball has been conducted for some
time and the fact that a number OF
business men have become enough m
terested in it to start formation or a
sound business company Incorporated,
will meet with considerable support
from everybody.
For the last four years Topeka has
either been out of organized baseball
or else someone who has bled the
town has had charge or the club here
1t is very evident that Topeka viii not
support baseball unless it is put on a
sound business foundation.
It looks very much like it will be
placed on just such a basis. A group
of sound business men discussed the
proposition at the Chamber of Com
merce wednesday evening, with Pres
ident Barbour, of the Southwestern
league, and those present feel opti-
m site over the results. Now going
out and getting the right men to head
an organization, the formation OF a
corporation and the selling of stock
to put the club on a going basis is all
that remains to make it a success.
Topeka has a string of good play
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
SALINA IN WESTERN LEAGUE?
Kansas Town and Muskogee Compete
for Sioux City Franchise.

SaIina, Kan, Dec. 21.-This city has
a chance it is said. of landing a
franchise in the Western Baseball
league. The Sioux City contract is re-
ported to be begging for a home and
Muskogee and Salina have been Sc
Iected by league officials as the home
of the Sioux City club in 1923. Mus
kogee is said to be preferred because
of the probable larger attendance. Sa-
lima is regarded as an ideal stopping
place between Denver, a league mem
Der, and the eastern cities of the cir
cult. The matter of placing the Sioux
City franchise will be decided at In
dependence on January 5, when Pres1-
dent Ensley Barbour and other league
officials hold their annual meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
SPORT BRIEFS

Chicago-Jimmy Burke of St Louis, was
announced as having been chosen as assist
ant to Frank Chance, newly appointed man
ager of the Boston Red Sox.
New York-Walter kinsella, worlds pro-
fessionaI squash tennis champion, retained
his title by defeating James Reid, In the
second of three matches scheduled.
Memphis-Tommy Long, pitcher, for sew
eral years with Louisville, American AS
ISOLATION club, was purchased by Mobile
of the Southern Association.
Grand Rapids-Harry Foley OF New Or
leans, heavyweight, and Farmer Lodge OF
ST Paul. boxed ten rounds to draw
Chicago-Patsy Flanagan of st. Louis
won a decision over Eddie Anderson OF
Maine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS

Quenemo-The basketball season
opened here Wednesday night with
two games. In the girls games be-
tween Michigan Valley and Williams
burg, the Michigan outfit won from
Williamsburg, 20 to 18- Quenemo
high school took the first game from
Michigan high school, &c to H.
Abilene-Abilene defeated Enter~
prise, % to p. in basketball here
Wednesday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

For the boy or girl. Nothing
that you can give them will be
more appreciated by the little
folks.
A large, rubber tired, Go IN
ball bearing ,Ve1ocipede ~ OsOV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

ers who will play good baseball if they
are managed by a competent player
manager, and are given the right kind
of consid Grafton. Selection of the
disadvantages can easily be accom-
plished by the organization of business
men who head the organization.
1t didn't take a detective to see
that the ball payers in the Topeka
club last year were not treated prop
erly. They received little, if any,
baseball coaching, We're not given the
right Kind of treatment by the last
years manager, their salaries were
rot paid on time, their manager was
with them on the field only when
he felt like it, and when he was there
he never commended player for a
good play. They were given a mighty
poor deal and could not have been
expected to play the brand of baseball
they were capable of.
With the right kind of management
the team members this year, to a
man, have promised to show Topeka
that they can play good baseball.
And we are sure Topeka fans are not
going to be disappointed over the
players in this years club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

SAVERS, Lowney's and Douglas
Candies in Xmas packages. Rosser
Bros, Orpheum Bldg, 107 West Sth.-
Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
IN VoLLEYBALB TOURNAMENT.
Last Game in Evening Division Will
Be Played Saturday.

More interest than ever before is
being shown in both the evening and
noon classes of the Mems volleyball
tournaments which are being held in
the Central Y. NJ. G. A The last game
of the evening tournament will be
played Saturday night.
The standings of the teams:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-04
JUNGLE STUFF.

Down the tropics. takes place one OF the most
interesting psculiar.ies of great mystery life.
This deals with a partnership between plants
and insects for mutual protection.
Come into the jungle. See the leaf-cutting
Of the destructive insects of the tropics.
They frequently strip a Of its entire foliage in
a night
The lug away the leaves roads which
they have built. These roads six inches wide,
sometimes a mile long and kert in repair and
free Of vegetation by squads OF whitening" ants
At the end OF the road the turn the leaves
into a compost or fertilizer from which springs up
a fungus growth. a kind Of mushroom for which
the ants gluttOns.
These minute insects have become expert mush-
room growers says DR.. f. j. Seaver. who tells the
story in a lecture at the New York Botanical Garden.
The leaf-cutting turn from the trees and at
tack certain jungle plants. Maybe these plants
have intelligence maybe not
At any rate, they seek a of protection.
Presto An idea" comes to them. They change
their shape alter their until they become
email hotels
Colonies Of lighting ants observe that the plants
have provided ideal housing and feeding quarters.
they move in.
And they protect their homes. Let leaf-cutting
marauding tn--and it never gets out alive.
The army ants kill it. They also protect the plants
against all other insects
a military alliance what do you think of this
~abnation between plants and ants?
The arrangement between the jungle Plants and
ne army ants you'll observe, is $3.50 proposition.
The plants give free rent and get protection. The
ants get the free rent and give the protection.
There is no sentiment about it. It's give-and-
take dollar dollar. No gets any more than
he pays for. Nor does he pay for more than he
gets It's a natural law. "A fair exchange is no
robbery" If we humans lived up to this natural
law getting good living would be easier for all Of
us-and the average standard of living would be
higher than it is this day of trying get some
thing for nothing
G. to the ant thou sluggard. Consider her ways
and be wise.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-04
A REAL HERO.

OF what stuff are heroes made? Are they OF finer
soul and greater courage than the first YOU
meet on the street? Or do they merely answer 20
common call when opportunity beckons?
Had you known John Fallon in New York you
would have said that ne was ordinary man.
Ladies with sensitive noses and with parlcu-
lar tastes might easily have pulled away from him
had they met him in his rough clothes he walked
TO the nearest subway with a dinner bucket in his
hand.
His place in life was away from the spotlight and
the blare of music bands. tie dug in the huge
tunnels which spread like spider webs beneath the
surface Of great city, and at night. went home
tired. worn and spent with days work.
There was an accident IN Of these tunnels the
other day. Something went wrong with the excava-
tion and the supporting tmbers shifted and dozen
men we're being trapped by the rush OF earth and
rocks which were barring the passage to the open
air.
Fauon was nearest to the opening. He might easily
have saved himself by leaping to a point OF safety.
Instead he put his broad shoulders against the
falling umbers stuck his heels firmly into the
ground ard shouted warning to those beyond.
They rushed past hin. the last one escaping to
safety just as the final bit OF his strength way
and Fauon went down buried beneath the wreck
age.
Poets sing OF the courage of men upon the field
a battle and delight in stories of brave men who
march with eyes erect TO the martial music of the
drums.
Novelsts describe with fervor the bravery of men
who stand upon the decks OF ships as storms sweep
above them dauntless in the face of death and
smiingly facing fate.
Give all these their need % praise and then write
down the name OF Fallon. just ditch digger, a
common man who save his life that his pals and
comrades might live
He was real hero one who caught the real in
spiration and the real meaning Of life. who reacted
t. his normal impulse Of human brotherhood when
he went 10 a dismal death that dark tunnel.
Heroism? Bravery? Courage?
Fauon had them aU-and something else that
makes him brother 10 the immortas
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-04

communication with Italy. 1t pass
es from a point near Modane, in
France. under the Col de Frejus.
about is miles west Of the actual
Mont Cents, into Italian territory at
point near Bardonecchia about "a
miles from Susa. The length Of the
tunnel is about 7.6O16 miles. The
side walls are feet 8 inches thick
throughout. The work was begun
in 1857, and for three years hand
labor was used entirely. In 1851
power drills were put to work, and
in 1872 the tunnel was open for
traffic.
Q.-What IS the total length Of
all the New York City subways?
A-The InterborOugh. 233.4s
miles; Brooklyn RAPID Transit, So
miles; Hudson and Manhattan, H.
AZ miles; total 293.9O miles of single
track
Q-Where is Buffalo Bill buried?
A.-The body of W. f. Cody.
Buffalo Bid is buried on Mt. Look
out. just outside of Denver. Colorado.
Q.-Is the blackberry good to eat?
A-Yes.
Q-where can obtain a cata-
lOgue of parts for making a small
model of a railway locomotive?
A-The firm of Bassett-Lowke,
Ltd. Northampton, England. is
probably the best known firm of
railway model makers in the world.
They issue a very interesting cata-
logue and make at least one model
Of an American Pacific" type loco
motive. They also supply all sorts
Of fittings, such as steam and water
gauges. pop valves, etc.
Q-Please give dimensions Of the
Keokuk Dam? When was II built?
A-The Keokuk Dam across the
Mississippi River between Keokuk,
Iowa. and Hamilton, Ill. was COM
pleted for use in 1913. IL Is a rela-
lively low concrete dam OF great
length. The dam extends 427S feet
towards the Iowa shore. then
changes to an abutment 29O feet
long, then turns downstream in the
form Of a power house 1900 feet
long. and finally continues as a lock
dam, perhaps 500 to ZOO feet long.
AT the lower end OF the forebay. The
masonry IS p feet above normal
water level and the stop planks II
feet more. or s. feet in all
Q-How many Peace Dollars
were coined?
A-I.006.473.