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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
The Proverbial Tortoise.

was walking down the street,
on my way to work. when l glanced
down. at the ground and saw tor
toise creep from the shelter of the
curbstone, to c'oss the street.
am interested in such animals. be-
cause at one time l made a collec-
ton of twenty five or ~. There
fore my interest was c-"used for
the safety of the little fellow who
had started to cross the street. /
stood on the curb and watched its
progress. 1t would go a short dis
taEce, stop. raise its head and look
about, and then resume its walk.
II repeated this several times be-
iors Ii finally reached the other
side of the street. During the whole
time 1t took the tortoise to make
the distance, not an automobile
passed by. AS soon as l was sure
of the safety of the little animal,
I resumed my walk to the car
T. F. M. 1904 Fifth street north
west
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
Forgot Her Automobile.

My wife met me at the Treasury
Department yesterday in our car
and took me home. At our door she
said, You go in and lie down and
take a rest. and I will drive round
to the grocery store and get a few
things"
When she returned with her arms
full of groceries, l said to her. did
you put the car in the garageT'
oh" she exclaimed, Good grac-
ious, Did you ever hear of such a
thing! l left the car at the storer'
She Immediately went after 1t, two
squares away and l continued to
laugh.
Lazy man." do I hear you say,
why didn't you go and get it?"
wanted to do so. but she wouldn't
let me-she desired to punish her
self.-M. J. s.. 1906 Eighth street
northwest.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
They Start Young Now.

In passing along a quiet resi-
Dental street, 1 noticed three little
girls-perhaps eight or ten years
old-seated on the steps of house.
near the sidewalk. Evidently there
was a happer in the family for
they had raided big sisters vanity
case and their very youthful cheeks
were brilliantly rouged. and their
lips startlingly scarlet. could
not help pausing a moment to OBJ
serve this remarkable spectacle.
You're beginning young" 1 said
with a smile.
For a moment they stared blankly
at me. then, understanding, they
grinned sheepishly.-N. F. B., Els
B street northeast.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
Mails Letter Found on Car.

This morning / sat on a George
town car going west and. as the car
was crowded Gas usuaD. could not
find a seat. so had to stand until a
girl got up to get off. In her hurry
she dropped a letter. addressed to
Mrs. Lizzie English, westmoreland.
w. Va. which did not have a stamp
on. so. thinking that perhaps she
had written to her mother, 1 placed
stamp on II and sent 1t on its
way. II the writer of the letter
sees this she perhaps will feel re-
lieved in knowing that her letter
will reach its destination.-F. w. o..
Alexandria, Va.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
Science of Parking Gum.

A little colored newsboy, having
sold all his papers. boarded a street
car and sat down on the seat direct
| yin front OF me. He was vigorously
chewing gum. and carried an apple
in his hand. Presently he decided
to eat his apple. so, without the
slightest hesitation, he removed the
chewing gum and stuck 1t on the
back of his not acknowledgement
neck, just below the ear. Later, hsv-
ing finished his apple. and even the
core. the boy removed the chewing
gum and placed 1t in his mouth
again.-V. S. S.. 2724 Eleventh
street northwest.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
Moved by Kittens Death.

The other evening while walking
out r street shortly after dusk I
was attracted by a rather unusual
crowd. / had to investigate. There
I saw an old woman around 60 ten
Derby paying the last respects to
her pet kitten who had just been
killed by an auto. In the party
were several little street urchins,
but a mofe serious cortege was
never witnessed.-E. f. Pons. 3S17
Thirteenth street northwest.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
Toothpick as ChrOnOmeter.

If you find bits of matches or
toothpicks laid on the brake band,
or on the spokes, or in some other
unlikely spot of your parked car.
yoa will know that the Police d.
partment is coSnizant of certain
things. 1t has noted that your car
is parked urder a time limit, and
the period of time elapsed is indi-.
Gated by the pieces of wood. If
you have followed the rules you
will have been caused no incon-
venience by the system of time
keeping.
Your reporter saw a cop" ex-
ploring odd hooks of the cars On
Fifteenth street, observed his meth
DDS, A query. the cop smiled, AMI
your reporter smiled, and they went
their ways.-E. L. j., sos Seven
teenth street northwest,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
Sparrows' Apartment.

OF the many pedestrians passing to
and fro each day through Lafayette
Park, 1 wonder how many have noted
the "Sparrows' Apartment House"
located in the jackson Statue" or
rather in the horse upon which the
figure of Jackson is mounted
There is a wonderful apartment in
the head with three entrances.
through the two nostrils and the
mouth.
General Jackson's boots are the
residence of other families, and the
inside of his hat must be a delightful
home for summer.
The trappings also afford commodi-
Gus apartments.-M. L. W., 1444 n
street northwest.
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Old-Fashioned Dresses.

Two young women were seen
walking down the street in dresses
of long ago. With long, flowing
skirts. basque waists. pulled sleeves
and collars that were real chokers.
they were typical old fashioned
ladies. Upon investigation 1t was
found that they were participants
in an old-fashioned play. and that
they were to be well rewarded IL
they dared walk the streets in their
costumes.-A. F. Kimball. IL Quincy
place northeast.
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WON'T USE TROOPS,
SAYS GOV. NEFF

DALLAS. Tex, July I5.-Texas
STATE troops will not be called into
strike service to guard railroad
property. Gov. Neff announced here
tonight following conferences
with Adjutant Gen. Thomas Barton
and Ranger Captain Thomas Hick-
man.
Conditions may arise at any mo-
ment to change the present status.
he governor. made It plain
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very Reader a Reporter
The Washington Herald.

the tallest one. She wreather her
face in smiles to greet a supposed
ffriend. who she thought was trying
TO amuse them. Upon turning around
she was somewhat surprised when a
young man said, II beg your pardon.
i. too, was interested in the same
paper. so didn't see where / was
going. H. H. p, 428 Tenth street
northeast.
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Expressmen for Shoppers.

Enterprising youths in the north
west section have adopted a new
revenue scheme. With their small
express wagons marked conspicu-
ously, Express for Hire" they may
be found in. the vicinity of the chain
grocery stores and when heavily
burdened shoppers emerge. solicit
their patronage. Saturday is their
big day.-T. NJ. c.. 22o1 Champlain
street.
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Nominated for Postmaster.

Samuel J. Davis. brother of Sec
rotary of Labor Davis, was nomi-
mated yesterday to be postmaster
OF Mooseheart. ILL.,, by President
Harding.
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Headlines Cause Collision.

Yesterday morning while waiting
for street car. two girls were scan
ming the headlines OF The Herald.
Someone coliided from the rear with
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
THE TRUTH
ABOUT
ASPIRIN
See What Science Has Done
In Tinsie's Laxo Aspirin

Washington, d. c.: A statement
made by the Therapeutic Research
Laboratories definitely establisbe.
mat aspirin is non narcotic or
hasit-forming, but that taken in
ordinary form 1t does disturb a.
gestion. Despite the fact that tn.
world OF medicine recognizes In
aspirin the most powerful or ali
pain reiiefs. people believed Il
!narmfui because 1t so often inter-
es with digestion. Many people
would give them, yet feareS IN
take IT because Of the after dis.
comfort. They will welcome thsI
new. improved aspirin.
Science TriumpAapt
Men of science have worked
taithfuily and thoroughly until
now you get in TINGLE'S LAxOI
ASPiRIN tablet that overcomes
All these former objections. Al
gentle laxative has also been add
ca. ana once the pain Is gone, this
cleansing assures you thorourh
] ] !. ]
elimination of
| the cause.
| It's the as
~ pirfn men and
! wome en- are
| carrying with
| AEyIv9<5Jj.Iil them daily.
| The aspirf ~
with the three
points:
| I -1t's absorbed easily
LIT relieves PAL. SnfekIy
Its . gentle laxative
I s u
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
'ecial July Clearance Sales Briefed

for Herald Readers For full description these listed items
ouncenents in todays Star and Post Tomorrow begins second
W JULY CLEARANCE SALES and specially priced items will be
every department all the house. Check off items that you
his list with you.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
The Musical Bootlegger of Nice

Special Correspondence to THE New YosK HERALD.
PARIS, May IL.
r N the Fifth ward of Nice, as in every
considerable city of France, there is
a Police Commissary or Magistrate.
While it is his business to be the benevo-
lent father of the quarter, he must also
keep a weather eye on what is going on
there. Now for some time back the police
heard that a green drink, smelling like.
the old forbidden absinthe, was being sold
in certain side street bars and cafes
where apaches and sports and other anna
teurs resort. The important thing was to
find out who was making the forbidden
drink-for at the beginning of the war
the old stocks were seized, the distilleries
closed up and absinthe, alcohol and all
were turned over to the Government fac
tories of high-power explosives.
The Commissary began by putting two
and two together. There was a musician
in his ward named Francois Ferrat, AZ
years old, married and living in a de-
tached house Of an unfrequented street.
The neighbors complained that he put out
the street lamp that was in front of his
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house far too early for their nightly con-
venience. Also, he was never known to
make any music to speak of. Other fam
lilies that lived in the same house COM
planned that he used more water on his
floor than all of them together, so that
their spigots often ran dry.
1t was also found that Musician Ferrat
did some kind Of silent work in his
kitchen, the light of which could not be
seen from the street, nearly every night
of the week, sometimes till after mid
night. The Police Commissary might
never have remembered all this IL one of
his policemen had not reported that the
musician boasted he could show the
police trick or two.
So one afternoon, when the coast was
clear, the Police Magistrate paid visit
to the musicians apartment. He was ac-
companied by the Governments controller
for alcohol, which cannot be stored In
France without license. by two of the
controllers sworn veriflers and by the
police station master. The musician was
not at home. as they expected, but his
wife received them without any sign of
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fear. She led them through all the rooms,
but, although they smelled alcohol un.
mistakably, they could not find the slight
est trace of it. On the chimney piece
there we're two little bottles of some
green alcoholic liquor-but that was no
crime. The wife was smiling until they
began sounding the kitchen floor
That's a new nail there" exclaimed
the Commissary, pointing to one Of the
boards of the floor from which they had
removed a heavy cupboard. Don't you
see?--the rest are all rusted."
The board was pulled up and there, in
a cavity, was perfect new-fangled still,
a demijohn of alcohol--and another of
absinthe, ready for distribution. The
secret was out-and two detectives re-
mained with the chagrined wife until the
husband came bicycling home in the
evening, when he was arrested and held
for trial. His wife, who had two young
children to care for, was left at home,
but was warned to be within reach IL
wanted.
Now, under the French law. even
Police Magistrate cannot hold a citizen
for bootlegging absinthe, that is, for sell.
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ling and distributing it, without proof.
The musician had transgressed the law,
indeed, by having alcohol and absinthe in
his possession-but where was the proof
that it was not for his family consump-
tion-not hootch but home brew? The
evidence was not forthcoming from the
bars and consumers, and the police had to
let the. musician out while awaiting trial
for illegal possession of alcohol. The
punishment for this is moderate fine,
which goes to the Government Admins
tration Of Alcohols, and means you must
not do 1t again." The alcohol and alb
sinthe were confscated and the perfected
still hung up In the police museum.
This is where the case is at present
quite triangular. The Police Commissary
still has his eye on the musician. The
musician virtuously has nothing to do
with bars. The bars never heard a note
OF the musicians music. And IL any tour
list says that prohibition of absinthe does
not work in France-real bona-fide alb
sinthe, with from 40 per cent. to go per
cent. alcohol and distilled aromatic, mar
cotic, nervestimulating plants-let him
try to get some in the Nice or Paris bars.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Home of the Dreadful HOrSen1en Whose
Ferceness Alvays Brought s'Finis,'
To Be Restored BY Modern Scientists

that Ephesus was his home. The con-
sensus Of opinion, however, is that he was
born at Colophon, later was made citi-
zen of Ephesus, and may have died at
Co.'S The last named town possessed an
unfinished painting by Apelles, which
fact tends to clinch the argument that
he died there.
Apelles was born near the close of the
fifth century B. c. He studied in his
youth at Ephesus under Ephoros, and
then went to Sicyon. where he had term
of study under the celebrated teacher
Pemphilus of Amphipolis, where he is
thought to have projected the fine draw
ing Of which he was capable later.
After his schooling ended Apelles went
to Pella, in Macedonia, where he painted
portraits of Philip and became the friend
of Alexander, who would sit to no other
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ancient times. If he disliked his town
he founded another and forced the people
of his former home to go along or face the
possibility of extinction by armed on
slaughts usually led by himself
With the moving Of Lysimachus started
the gradual decline of Colophon. 1t was
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A N American woman, deeply inter-
~ ested in science is to have charge
of important excavating work
shortly to be started into the ruins of
Colophon, in Asia Minor. She is Miss
Hetty Goldman, Phi. D., graduate of Rad.
cliffe College, at Harvard.
AS one of her chief assistants she has
chosen Miss Lulu Eldridge of Cleveland.
who has specialized on archaeological sub
jects and who is to leave shortly for
Athens to join Miss Goldman.
These women will be aided by workers
of institutions in this country and Athens.
The work will cover several years. An
appropriation of $4,000 year for ten
years has been assured them by the Fogg
Museum of Fine Arts at Harvard Uni
versity.
For several months Miss Goldman has
been investigating sites for possible arch
geological studies in Asia Minor. DR.. B.
H. Hill of the American School of Classi-
cal Study at Athens has looked over with
her the sites at Teos and Erythrae. Later
they found that Cecil Smith of the British
Museum had decided not to excavate at
Colophon and they then decided to have
that section allotted to them.
The city of Colophon has been extinct
for more than twenty centuries. What
treasures lie beneath the soil, what shafts,
statuary, priceless paintings were buried
there when it was left to be blown over
by the winds of the desert are questions
these Americans will uncover during the
next ten years.
There have been found near the surface
of the soil such things as surgical in
struments which are said to have been
made in the first century before the birth
of Christ. They are the product of
Roman scientists, and are in the museum
of Johns Hopkins University. Prof.
David Moore Robinson, vickers professor
of Archaeology at the university. who has
investigated the site at Colophon, says
the earth thereabouts evidently contains
one of the richest treasures, from the
archaeological viewpoint, in the world
The late Alfred o. Van Lennep, Dutch
Vice-Consul at Smyrna, bought farm
located on what perhaps was once the
center of the city and lived there for
many years. 1t was on his farm that
were found many of the Roman surgical
instruments. They we're bought and pre-
sented to Johns Hopkins by William H.
Buckler.
Colophon gave to the world many cele-
brated artists, sculptors, writer's and a
regiment Of unsurpassed horsemen.
Publishers used to print in the backs
Of books their ornately executed trade
marks. These were called "colophons."
The name was derived from these cav
alrymen of Colophon. Those horsemen
were so fierce in their charges, which al
ways ended the battles, that the word
was coined as synonym for "The End"
or "Finis."
In ancient times there were twelve
cities that constituted the powerful
Ionian confederacy, and Of these Colo.
phon was one of the most prominent.
That was long before the Christian era
was ushered in with the birth Of Christ.
This city was on the River Halles inland
about fifteen miles south of Ephesus. The
site, now called Tracha, was located by
two German explorers, Schuchhardt and
Wolters, in 1887, while they were on an
archaeological adventure in Asia Minor.
What was the town lies near Devillkeuf
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greatest painter was Apelles, whose abil-
ity with oils was undoubtedly the most
celebrated of ancient times.
There has been three cornered argu-
ment going on among the learned men as
to the birthplace of Apelles. Some assert
he was born a native of Cos and others
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station on the Smyrna-Aidin Railway,
two miles from the farms and hamlet Of
Malkajik. The country roundabout Is
under cultivation, and there is little to
be seen of this. proud city of ancient days
except some remains Of walls.
However, several tombs containing
rich antiquities have been located beside
the roads leading to Colophon. These dis
coveries naturally have awakened the
keenest desire in arch@ologists to explore
the city proper, and the town has been
marked for years as probably the best
one in which to delve for the remnants
of ancient days.
Long before the coming into power of
the Roman Empire Colophon was great,
fourishing city of Ionia. When it was
founded is not exactly known, although it
is fairly certain that its founder was
Andracmon of Pylos and that it was at
the height of its prosperity in the eighth
and seventh centuries B. c. That popular
ity doubtless continued until Gyges of
Lydia moved against it with his forces
in 665 B. c. and stripped the town of its
valuable movable things. From then on
it gradually lost prestige in the sense of
popularity, as did practically all ancient
places after they ewere once pillaged by
an enemy.
1t is certain that in 2S7 B. c. Lysima-
chus-a powerful Greek General-founded
new city called Ephesus and that thou
thence with him, or at his bidding That
was one of the habits of General of the
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painter. Apelles
is said to have
been one of Alex
ander's cl o s e s t
friends, and the
King allowed him
much freedom of
speech, which was
denied many of
the courtiers Of
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the world conqueror. His most celebrated
painting of the king represented Alex
ander as welding the thunderbolt.
But the most celebrated paintings of
Apelles were NEUROLOGICAL or allegorical.
Among these were "Anadyomene" and
"Artemis Surrounded by Maidens." His
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known as the democratic party, ane
The question Of protection with recipro-
city must be forced to view through
the republican party.
by thus dividing the voters we can
get them to expend their energies in
fighting over questions Of no impor-
lance to us except as teachers to lead
the common herd. Thus by direct ac-
ton we can secure all that has been
50 generously planned, and success
fully accomplished. =
Oppressive court injunctions, the de-
mand in some quarters for an extern
sion of the tyrannical Kansas can't
strike law to other states, incorpora-
tlon OF trade unions, etc. are only ma
terial for another chapter which is de-
sired BY the hidden power behinl the
throne. Every member Of organized
labor should read and keep in mind
the foregoing statement. printed in a
circulating exclusively among
bankers.
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bench and be correct and complete
fin it's first theoretical model.
We're the business Of production
and distribution, IF architecture, agri-
culture, and mechanical invention I'll
confined and limited to the bIighting
forms Of ANTICIPATED creeds. all made
TO fear experimentation. as has been
done in the field Of ethics, manners
and customs, We should still Be strug-
Cling in the dark ages.
Thanks 10 the daring of few. We
have already attained progress in many.
fields through experimentation. and 81
much have we reaped By this method
that we know that there can be no pro-
gress without experimentation that
those who have dreamed. theorized
and speculated are now gradually be-
ing dislodged from every position Of III
fluence BY the life force of advancing
humanity.
TO live under free institutions with
a guarantee OF freedom and equality, |
under the ideals of human brotherhood,
under the educational system called
inductiye," designed to develop. slim
llate and vitalize social individuality |
and consciousness, means that all our
mutual affairs Of our personal exist
snce, our food. clothing, shelter, and
relations with each other, So long as
We do not invade the rights Of others
and prevent them from having the
same liberty as we. is the one true rule
of life. the one sure road to happiness.
he one philosophy that can insure the
highest human physical and social pro-
sress. Judging social problems from
he standpoint Of selfish privilege, is
he cause Of all error in theory and
practice and this shows how Important
t is to do rational, accurate thinking.