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The Washington times., 1922-12-12
BY Frank e. Mason.
Ineernational News service Staff
Cogreepondent.

1hCDRCss1Coss
N ARIS.-Monsieur Tiercellette,
the grizxled little man who
keeps the old curiosity shop
In the rue Vielle-du- Temple, was
awakened by the metallic clank of
footsteps In the antique store be-
meath his bedroom. The heavy
tread Of steel-shod feet grated and
creaked to the stairs-then the
ghostly tangle began to mount, to-
ward Tiercellette's bedroom.
Tiercellette hobbled from his
bed and with trembling fingers
lighted the candle. At the head
OF the stairs the flickering light
Of the candle was reflected by,
Tiercellette's favorite antique,
genuine suit Of fifteenth century
armor. which, with rusty creak-
Ing, was slowly mounting the
steps.
1t was an unequal encounter,
but Tiercellette was not q knight
to shirk q joust. even against
odds. With the bravery Of Don
Quixote he seized q broom and
poked at the oncoming medieval
apparition. The ghost threw up
his hand to ward off the brush,
lost his balance. tottered and then
crashed down the steps with the
din Of q coolstove on a rampage
falling downstairs.
Tiercellette hobbled to the bot
tom Of the steps and put his foot
on his vanquished foe. He would
have kicked him, but he feared
for the effect Of the steel plate
upon his bare toes.
Help screamed the armor.
Get upv commanded the VIC
torious Tierceilette.
II can't; I'm. wedged in. The
joints are 30 rusty ! can't move
my>feet," the armor groaned.
: Tiercellette called q gendarme.
Yes, even At three in tho MORN
ing ono can find q policeman
for this happened In Paris. With
the help of the policeman, q
screw driver and q hammer Tier
cellette succeeded In removing
most of the tinware-all except
the breastplate and corselet. the
combination lock OF which had
been badly jammed In the fall.
So they loaded him into the patrol
wagon and carried the canned
burglar to the prefecture Of police.
The matron Of the police station
offered q can opener, but 1t didn't
make q dent In the coat-of-mail.
Groans of pain were the only
answer the erring knight errant
made to the desk sergeant's ques-
tions a. to why. he had broken
into the antique shop and the
armor. II was impossible to
awaken q locksmith at in the,
morning. 20 the man-at-arms slept
the best he could sitting UP In
the corner OF his cell. Several
safe-cracking cellmates offered
their services through the bars
but nobody could solve the
medieval combination with his
bare fingers.
The next morning the police
plumber filed off the rest OF the
armor. and OcthvU Denise, for
such vas his mama vas hailed
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON
APE EVOLUTION
Animal Constantly in Association With Man
Would Acquire Many Human Habits,
But 1t Alone and Not It's De-
scendants Would Benefit
by the Experience.

which he could hand on to his
descendants.
But the Lamarckian ideas have
been under a cloud since Weiss
mans theory of heredity came to
the front. for. according to that.
there is no Inheritance of ac-
quired characters" What the in
dividual gains from his peculiar
environment he may fully enjoy
for himself, but he cannot hand
on his gains to his descendants.
Only He Would Benefit.
In this view we might picture
John Daniel as personally intro
duced q little way across the
threshold Of the human paradise,
the entry to which he could never
have opened for his descendants.
However far in civilization he
might himself have advanced, II
his life had been prolonged indef-
initely, his offspring would have
had to start just as far back az
he did. That is the teaching Of
pure Weismanism.
On the other hand, the most
extreme defender of Lamarck's
theory would surely never think
of assuming that John Daniels
descendants, in the best of cir
cumstances, could ever evolve
o into human beings. 1t would be
an ape civilization that they
would develop: more or less. It
may be, an imitation of the hu-
man, but without its roots.
The two races would remain
distinct, each depending on its
own foregoing line Of evolution.
There could be no mingling OF
currents, or no combination Of
branches with complete loss Of
identity. The civilized ape and
man might proceed along roughly
parallel lines, but they would not
blend into one.
We must look backward in
order to find the meeting Of evo-
lutionary lines. The branches
once separated do not unite
again. They may influence one
another, and some of them may
run parallel, but their individu-
ality is not lost. The horse has,
we may say. become civilized.
having acquired from human as
socia ton and instruction habits OF
conduct. social character, and. %
to speak, ideas" that have
transformed it's life. but it Is not
imaginable that the most teach
able breed of horses, even under
the operation of pure Lamarckian
evolution, would ever blend into
the human race. although the an
clients, with their centaurs, made
an imaginary approach to that
idea.
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
Lucy Lowell Tells of Crippled Boy
Who Would Sacrifice Himself
for Others
BY T. E. Powers
cepyrisht, is7s. b. Star Company.

Hope. disappointment. failure,
resignation and. finally, the ges-
ture that was made first on Cal
vary: y.
VIII he write me his name and
details In care of the New YORK
Evening Journal? There are
many to help him to q happy and
useful life. I shall do what l
can to see that the supreme sacri-
flee he il eager to make for the
good Of others shall not be nee
essary.
This IL his letter.:
Dear Miss Lowell:-Please
don't laugh after you have I'm
ished reading this letter, because
It might strike you as funny.
Every word written here is
meant.
81 am Q young man Of twenty
four and have been suffering from
infantile paralysis since baby
Of two.
Both my legs are affected, and
my hands to some extent.
II am affected just enough to
have made my life one miserable.
long, dark night, and to be q
burden to my family.
"I can never be self-supporting.
az the only way I can get around
is with the aid Of braces and
crutches. and every way i try TO
make q living have found myself
Handicapped and had to give 1t up.
"As I have lost all hope Of ever
being happy or useful to anybody
or smyself, I am writing to you
and ! hope you win help me In
my plan.
Dear unknown friend. do you
know Of any doctors or institu-
tons where paralysis cases are BE-
ing studied, who would be willing
to take me and practice on me?
IT would let them operate on
me ~ much a. they would like,
az long a. know that I am sac
rificinR myself for q GOOD cause.
Through me the doctors might
find out how to help the thou
sands of children who were made
helpless through paralysis q few
years ago and might be able to
help me q little.
II give you full right to print
this letter II you wish to do 30 be-
cause your paper IL read by many
doctors Iwho might be Interested
In my plan.
"I am not inclosing my name
or address. But II you wish to
see me. let me know through your
paper where and when and ! Will
come to see you and you win see
that everything In this letter In
true"
Such sacrifice. dear boy. 10 un-
necessary. Write me and you'll
see. But we all hail your brave
spirit, and I salute you!
(Copyright, 1888. By King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
Death and Homicides
Increasing
Birth Rate Falls. Maine Forbids Ice Water.

Murder Is increasing in the United States in that
interests you while the birth falls and the natural death
rate also increases.
In 1921, 1910 murders committed in twenty eight
American cities The average is 93 per 100000 But
those that the somewhat appalling figures mis-
taken conclusion that prohibition failure because
murders have not decreased.
Murders due drunkenness HAVE diminshed undoubtedly
for there is less drunkenness But there new crop Of
murders the booeggng industry which involves hun
of millions year. and many murders among the
booeggers themselves The also has helped When
urge thousands Of young kill strangers few
of them inevitably will kill when they come back home
The death rate tho country highest in the State Of
Maine
Perhaps by way Of getting rid Of the doubtful honor that
goes with the nations highest death rate Maine by law
fobds the serving of ice mixed with kind OF drink In
public place. You can't have ice in your water
The law wise one, framed account Of germs For
germs which destroyed by heat NOT destroyed by
cold important fact for there would be life
this planet it had been impossible for the germs Of life
alive through the fghfuly cold ether from
life bearing globe.
Ice aricaly made Of absolutely pure water is harmless
regards But ice usually comes from rivers or lakes
infected and the germs kept alive in the Ice
Many children get typhoid by eating piece of ice while
skating.
Also it should be mentioned that Ice water and ice drinks
generally abomnaon because Of their bad effect
digestion Much dyspepsia in this country due to ice water
and other excessive of ce And much hasy eating and
nervousness
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
Chinese Big Knife Like Ku Klux Klan;
Fights Corruption

administrator than against the
foreigner. In fact they seem to be
a natural evolution Of the Ameri-
can big stick" clan.
Nevertheless there IL q certain
amount of danger to the outlying
missions, in view Of the dis
ordered state Of China's army and
the demoralized finances which
permit their pay to be regularly In
arrears. With a mass Of starving
people confronted daily with fla
grant examples of wholesale Off
cial corruption a serious outbreak
easily might be inspired.
The Boxers" grew out Of an or
ganization similar in name called
the Sword Society" It's members
were required to take an oath by
the sword. after a lurid ceremony.
in which the neophyte danced him.
self into a state of frenzy. Their
bodies were painted and they set
themselves forth to. purify China.
among other things cleaning out
the foreign DEVILS"
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
WORDS FROM
1.-THE LIPS OF
Nv is E M E N

CHARACTER writes its name
on a mans face In indelible
~ Ink.
Adversely IL . scale that gives
the correct weight OF our friends.
The universal idea Of Q level
headed man IL one who agrees
with us.
By avoiding their first quarrel
a married couple win never have
a second.
Every time a man tries to get
something for nothing. he ac-
quires q little more experience.
know that there are no errors
In the great eternal plan,
And all things work together.
For the final good Of man.
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
BY Garrett p. Serviss,

Eminent Astronomer and Authority
on Subjects Of Scientific Interest.
"Would the anthropoid ape
evolve into a civilized creature
by bringing him in contact with
civilization for an indefinite
time? BY contact mean hav-
ing the simian live as much as
possible as we live."-R. p. ].
H.. New Rochelle.
r r we knew more about the
origin, and the basal nature.
II of the difference between the
human and the anthropoid, or
simian stocks, a definite answer
to your question might possibly
be given.
In any case. II the answer were
affirmative, 1t would be a tri-
umph for the Lamarckian theory
that acquired characters are in
heritable, that new wants and de-
sires, aroused by change OF en-
vironment, stimulate the growth
of new organs and consequently,
the modification Of species. and
that "all that has been acquired.
laid down, or changed in the or
ganization of individuals in the
course of their life is conserved by
generation and transmitted to the
new individuals that proceed from
those who have undergone the
changes"
II that were all so. the cele-
brated ape, John Daniel who
died in New York a year or SO
ago, should have been capable
Of giving rise to a race OF civil
lied apes" more closely resem-
bling the human type, at least in
their conduct and ways OF life.
than any apes or monkeys now
in existence. But Vt would have
to be an age-long process, occu-
pying a stretch Of time almost
infinitely exceeding its length
any that can be covered by hu-
man experience.
Case of John Daniel.
John Daniels training did not
give him the germ OF any char
acteristics that he was unpos-
sessed Of before the training be-
gan. 1t ismply developed powers
that he had in him. but which
would not have expressed them
selves in Just the way they did II
he had grown up in the native
habitat and amid the native sur
roundings of his race. But. II
the Lamarckian hypothesis is
sound. his experiences Of the ad-
vantages Of human society and
supervision should have implant-
ed in him some. however slight,
tendency to evolutionary change
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
Mt. Rainier Dealers and Brentwood

One Of these Brentwood marshals
runs store in Mt. Rainier. We
see his customers carrying meat
down into Brentwood to be de-
voured there. He doesn't pay a
license in Brentwood on the meat
that Is taken into Brentwood. We
asked him to soft pedal on the
ordinance and he stepped on the
gas.
As a matter of fact. personally,
we have many good and true
friends In Brentwood, and some
Of them would be very glad to
have us sell their property for
them. In fact. the Mt. Rainier
dealers sell as many as fifty
properties a year in Brentwood.
We doubt II the people Of tho
town in general have known or
sanctioned this ordinance restrict
ing the disposition Of real estate
in Brentwood. Possibly they
elected the wrong bunch. II so
the matter win be rectified in
ONE OF THEM.
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
Burglar Beaten in Battle With
ShOpkeeper in Spite of His
Suit of ArmOr
OuIC vi ATHlOr

; before the police Judge. charged
with burglary. Monsieur Tierce-
lette insisted that Octave explain
what he meant by running q per.
fectly good suit Of armor only
500 years old.
II had heard that you are q
miser," confessed Denixe. II
thought II your armor appeared
to you in the middle Of the night
and demanded where you keep
your hidden gold you would roll
out OF bed In fear and I could
snatch the money from under
your pillow" .
Three years. decided the
Judge.
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
To the Editor Of The Times:

To the Editor of The Times:
Inasmuch as the real estate
6eaIers Of Mt. Rainier have been
brought under the public eye by
an article recently appearing In
The Times, evidently written by
some resident Of Brentwood. It be-
hooyes us to defend ourselves. In
explanation we submit the fol-
lowing statement Of facts, to date:
-Four firms have real estate Of
fees in Mt. Rainier. All OF these
have been selling, more or less,
real estate located in Brentwood.
During the summer Brentwood
seems to have passed an ordinance
recurring all real estate firms
selling property located in Brent
wood to pay q license fee and
take out a 1icense-fee, $40. A
notice was sent to each firm in
Mt. Rainier, ordering them to
make payment. These firms all
Aligned a letter Of protest to the
town authorities Of Brentwood.
stating our reasons for not wish
ing to pay the fee and secure tho
license. The reasons stated were
that We are each paying q county
fee of $3.50 and a town office
fee of IS; that these two fees
cover the whole matter and that
ends the matter Of license fees.
However, our letter did not satis-
Nv Brentwood. The authorities
have written us each two letters,
more or less. threatening and
ominous. They have had the
town marshal OF Brentwood ac-
cost us on the streets Of Mt.
Rainier and threaten what they
win do to us II they shall find Us
Allowing properties In Brentwood.
The Washington times., 1922-12-12

TYHAT the medical world has
won its battle against
Il "sleeping sickness" was an
nounced to some 5000 German
physicists and physicians attend
ing the centennial of the Physi-
cists Association Of Germany.
Prof. Martin Mayer, OF the
Hamburg Institute for Ship Sick.
nesses and Diseases of Tropical
Countries, told the delegates that
q preparation had been discov-
cred in q laboratory near Cologne
which had proved successful. He
cited two cases of sleeping sick.
ness that had been cured within
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
BY Lucy Lowell.

= FEEL as II had held . hu.
man heart in my hand and
l. its beats have shown me a
miracle.
You win find the miracle, too,
in the letter which was written to
me and which I am printing for
you to read. q vision Of a soaring
spirit bound to q malformed body,
the realization Of what life may
mean.
The boy who wrote the letter
has run the gamut of human
emotion that creates character,
the sole object, I believe, of life.
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
Thank You, Mr.. Clemenceau
We Admire You. You Have Rendered Service

Mr. Ceenceau welcomed and admired here has rendered
great service the United States but it Is not what he
for.
He made perfectly clear in his frank speeches what
and other European countries EXPECT Of the
States They expect to feel that responsible
WAR THAT THEY STARTED AMONG THEMeELVES
And they expect to feel that because three
million and sent ten thousand million dollars Europe
when suited to enter that morally obligated
to the thing through including settlement all THEIR
roubles-and Chat SPITE Of the fact that they con-
tnus cutting each others throats
Mr. Cemenceau urging upon interest in tho League
Of Nations feeling Of responsibility for Euope future
has made it quite ceranH it not certain sleadyha
the United States win keep OUT Of Europe hsr AFFAIR." her
League and her wars for many day to
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
Announces He Has Found Cure for
Sleeping Sickness

a few days at the Hamburg Insti-
tute by the remedy. One Of the
cases. he asserted, had shown no
recurrence of the disease after
having been watched for a year.
Prof. Mayer asserted that the
chemotherapeutic effect of the
remedy on the body held the
greatest scientific interest and
that its importance in the treat
ment Of many tropical diseases
was 30 great that 1t could not
yet be estimated. A German ex-
pedition was now in Africa test
ing on a large scale the power
of the remedy.
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
Something New IN Punting.

One Of the dwellers ON the upper
Thames has invented q new punt
Ing pole Of hollow. light metal,
which prevents the user from
getting wet or evan tired. Push.
Ing . boat through the eel-grass
borders Of this delightful river af.
fords much pleasure TO residents.
and those who come from London
for the purpo6A
The Washington times., 1922-12-12
SAP AND SALT
by BERT MOSES.

A hero 10 one who gets up
before the alarm clock goes off.
All promissory notes are good
up to the time you try to dis
count them.
Misfortune doesn't come TO you
20 frequently as you go to It.
(Copyright. fsaa. by Premier syndi-
, 1922-02-01
PARK COUNTY POTATOES
GROWING FAMOUS

Shipping potatoes to Colorado
sounds like sending coal to Newcastle
as thai state has long been recognized
as one of the great potato growing
states of the West, yet hat may hap
pen.
o. E. Knight living on the ]. B.
Buchanan place on Irma Flat has re-
ceived a letter from James Bolinger
of Brush, Colorado asking his price
on a certified seed potato called the
Irish Cobbler. The price quoted will
be $3.50 a bushel. This will be the
last car load for sale in this section.
Seven car loads of certified seed 70
have already been sold at $2.e0
a bushel.
Much credit for the improvement
in the quality of potatoes now raised
in this vicinity is due to the work OF
r. j. Allen, the County Agent, among
the farmers.
, 1922-02-01
CODY WILL HAVE GAS WITHIN YEAR
GUARANTEE OF CO. ASKING FRANCHISE.
Fairly Certain That Ohio Oil Company Has Been
Given Franchise by Mayor and Council
Red Lodge and Bear Creek on Same Line

Mr.. A. M. sellery. representing the
Ohio Oil Co., has been in town during
h week comforting with Mayor Cox
and other citizens of Cody with a view
TO securing a franchise for his com
pany to deliver gas into Cody, with a
guarantee that the line will be here
within a ear and operations prob
ably commencing in the early spring.
The Ohio Oil Company, a subsidu-
AIRY of the Standard Oil Company, has
only recently gone into the gas dis
tributing business, but during the
past year have made great strides
and are now reported to have secured
control or the greater part of the ga
fields of this section of the state.
With Standard Oil capital behind
them, it's not surprising to notice that
they seem to accomplish everything
they set out to do.
They have already piped the Elk
Basin gas into Billings, and gas
from the Byron field into Powell.
They were allowed a year to start
, 1922-02-01

The dread cattle diseas- hemor-
raghic ~septicemia, has ms it's ap-
pearance in this locality.
Eighteen head of cattle Belonging
to DR.. C. J.. Rhoades and W. H. Har-
formers ranch at the mouth of Rattle
snake Creek while two head belong
ing to Ben Shippers on the North
Fork died last week of the same NAL
ady.
DIR. Rhoades at once called a vet
Urinary from Powell who recognized
the disease from the symptoms and
the entire herd were Immediately vac
cinated with serum obtained from
the Cody Drug Store. and isolated.
Since then DR.. Rhoades has vaccinat.
ed the worst cases, some three or
four times, and has lost only one
which was in bad condition and be-
lieves that he has it under control.
Gus Kless is also vaccinating as a
preventative and it behooves other
cattlemen to take the same precau-
ton for the disease works fast and
the germ seems to be everywhere
like typhoid which it much resem.
bles.
81 examined the intestines of
some of the cattle that had died OF
it," said DR.. Rhoades, who is glad to
give any information which may be
of s to other stock owners, "and
found they were perforated with little
white ulcers as is the case in typhoid
fever.
THE first thing noticed among
those attacked with it is that they
Quit eating and hump up and stand
, 1922-02-01
CATTLElD|SEASE APPEARS
IN HE3)S OF LOCAL STOCKMEN
DR.. c. j. RhoadE Loses Eighteen Head and
Ben Shippers ! 8Fo of Hemorraghic Septi-
cemia--IAlccination the Remedy

without moving. Then the bowels
become loose and bloody. They
shrink to nothing within three days
and five is ABOUT as long as they last.
They are seized with spasms, frotk
they die in terrible agony. These
spasms last for two or three days.
1T attacks the fat cattle as well
as the poor ones, in fact, it seems to
get the young ones and those in best
condition soonest.
ut is not a new disease in the
country as last year it was in the
buffalo herd in the Park and killed
about seventy-ive head of them.
81 think it is brought from one &C.
ton to another by magpies, elk, deer,
etc. One of the herd gets it and it
is quickly transmitted to the others
81 am inclined to believe that eli
matte conditions nave much to do
with it, these sudden changes, lying
on ice and snow makes them suscep-
tible.
Believe me, from now on my cat
tie viii have shelter for it is my opin-
ion that housing is necessary, moi sta
bles but sheds as some protection
against the cold wind and snow OF
these northern winters"
1t is said that the symptoms are
not unlike those of what is known to
cattlemen as pack" which comes
from taking stock off the range and
putting them on dry feed. Cattle af-
fiicted with pack" have high tenn
peratures-scmetimes 105-and hem
~orraghes of the in~testines, but hemor-
ragic Septicemia is far more fatal.