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Evening star., 1923-10-21
WIFE AND OTHERS
ARRESTED IN DEATH
Girl, 18, Alleged to Have Helped
Poison 73-Year-0ld
Husband.
Rr the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BRONSON. Fla, October 20.--Mrs.
Lorraine Wood, eighteen years old;
her brother, L. Hudson, and ID. c.
Daugherty, a friend, were in jail here
today, lacking $1,000 each with which
to make bond, on charges of being
responsible for the death of Leroy
Wood. seventy -three-year- -old husband
of the girl, which occurred at their
home near here about two weeks ago.
according to Sheriff T.. Walker of
Levy county. The sheriff stated that
about two weeks after Woods death
the three held here went to Fort Ben
ming, near Columbus. Ga, where Hud-
son intended to enlist in the Army.
Shortly afterward relatives Of the
dead man had the body eXhumed and
the vital organs examined by chem
lists at the University of Florida.
The sheriff said the chemists re-
ported poison was found in the stom-
ach. Mrs. Wood and Daugherty were
taken into custody when they re-
turned here few days ago. and Hud-
son was arrested at Fort Bennine
and brought back here by Sheriff
Walker.
Evening star., 1923-10-21

the interval. The Neanderthal man
didn't just die in the open and form
meal for the wild beasts. Some
where the idea of a Supreme Being
and future life had come In. A
crude grave was hewed out for him
by comrades in the rocks.
He had a brain. Although the bony
structure of his head was different
the actual size of his brain was about
as large as that of a human being
today. A great advance in culture
had been made.
The bones found in the next stage
of human progress show that men
We're cannibals. They are broken
and seem charred by fire-evidently
discarded after their owners had been
eaten.
There can be no question of the
authenticity. especially of the later
remains, DIR. Hrdicka says. This is
true also of the implements found
adjacent to the bones. He claims
that when flint tools show signs not
only of having been carefully sharp
ened. but also bear handles evidently
designed to be grasped by a human
hand 1t requires no stretch of the i'm
aglnation to impute them to ancient
men.
In all, about 100 specimens Of men
who lived before the dawn IF history
nave been recovered in Europe. Tney
, are found for the most part in caves.
s'1oii5 river BANKS Where the water
mas eaten into the rock strata. and
/ In stone quarries. Just as Or. Hrd-
licka left Europe this summer new
skeletons were found in southern
France which may have an important
bearing on the future of the science.
Additional discoveries, DR. Hrdficka
says. sometimes tend to obscure the
tralI as Well IS to clarity it, 1t is
becoming more and more useless to
attempt any computation of the real
age of mankind upon the earth as
new remains are found from year to
year.
Europe is singularly rich in ami
maj remains as well az those of men.
Near Lyon. France. the skeletons of
nearly 100000 prehistoric horses are
scattered. In one cave in Morayia
there are enough mammoth teeth to
fill Small-Sized hall.
DR.. Hrdlicka brought back to the
Washington Academy OF Sciences
which he addressed Thursday night,
an appeal for more interest in pre-
historic anthropology on the part of
American scientists. lest the trail be-
yond records be lost again.
THE work in the past" he said.
"has been carried on by enthusiastic
anna teurs. They have accomplished
much. But great many of the
younger men were killed during the
war. Others were so impoverished
that they cannot continue the work
Evening star., 1923-10-21
CLAIM BROKER HURLED
PHONE THROUGH WINDOW
Baltimore Man Pays Fine for
Unique Way of Ending
Service.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. October 20.-Harry
n. Palmer, a stock broker, has an
original way of discontinuing tele-
phone service.
Angered, he said, because he could
not get an operator to give him a
number early today, he tore the tele
phone from the wall in his Office in
the Equitable building, carried it to
the telephone office and threw 1t
through the plate-glass door with the
remark that it was mo good to him.
according to testimony of John Turek,
the watchman, in central police court
this morning.
Palmer denied that he threw the
telephone and he said he attempted
to hand it to Turek, but that the lat
ter refused to take 1t and pushed him
through the door. smashing the glass
Magistrate Stanford, however, fined
Palmer $40 and costs for smashing
the glass and S25 and costs for as
saulting Turek by hitting him with
the telephone.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
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Evening star., 1923-10-21
THREE HELD IN DEATH.
Girl Wife of Slain Man, 70, Among
Those Arrested.

BRONSON, Fla. October 2O.-Mrs.
Lorraine Wood, eighteen; her brother,
Elwood Hudson, and d. c. Daugherty,
Il friend, were in Jail here today, each
lacking $1,000 with which to make bond
in connection with the death of Leroy
Wood, seventy -three-year- husband
of the girl, which occurred near here
about two weeks ago. According to
Sheriff E. Walker of Levy county, rela-
tives had the vital organs of the dead
man examined by chemists at the Uni
versity of Florida, who reported poison
was found in the stomach
Evening star., 1923-10-21

SERVICE
All material sold loaded on your truck
or cars. Delivery made to any surround-
ing territory at small additional ex-
pense.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
WIN CONTROL OF C. & o.
Van Sweringen Interests Said to
Own $e, ,ooo, 900 Common Stock.

NEW YORK, October 20.-Control
of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
has definitely passed to the Van
Sweringen interests of Cleveland, who
have bought sufficient common stock
in the corporation, both in the open
market and otherwise. to add to pre-
vious holdings, it was learned yester-
day. The Van Sweringens have dis
tributed their holdings to subsidiary
corporations controlled by them, 1t
was said.
The passage of control was reveal
ed in circular distributed by the
New York, Chicago and ST. Louis
Railroad Company-the Nickel Plate
announcing that advantageous in
terchangfng arrangements had been
made with the Chesapeake and Ohio.
1t is believed that the Cleveland in
terests have $9.000,000 worth of
Chesapeake and Ohio stock, includ-
ing that of the Huntington group.
Evening star., 1923-10-21

The German universities, in paTtic-
ular, are in pitiable state. There
is no money.
Americans could carry on this
work at comparatively small ex-
pense. Sites where human bones have
been found and where probably more
VIII be- found could be leased for in
definite periods at a small sum. Other
wise there is great danger that lhev
will be dug up by people VINO know
nothing and care nothing for science.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
PARIS PUBLISHER IN U. S.
Senator Dupuy to Study Features
of journalism,

NEW YORK, October Ex-senator
Paul Dupuy of France, owner of the
Petit Parisien and Excelsior of Paris
and score of other publications in
his native country. arrived on the
steamer Paris today for a study of
real estate finance and Sunday de-
partments of American newspapers
with distinct personalities"
He will visit Philadelphia, Cleve-
land, Detroit and Chicago.
Evening star., 1923-10-21

Largest wheat farm in the world
is in Montana and contains 10000
acres.
, 1923-02-22
Prosperity and Protection

THE RESULT of the doctrine of protection is
L seen in the figures Of the. c~ountry's develop.
ment. a review of the past will readily disclose
whether or not the country has prospered finan.
cially since the nation celebrated its centennial, so
graphically portrayed in the Philadelphia expo.
sition. The census of 1870 is as near as we can get
to that historic date:
When the population was $4,000, 900 in 1870 the
wealth was so, 000, 100000 or $500 per individual.
When the population was 10000, 900 in 1880 the
wealth WIS $43, 100000, 900 or $3.50 per individual.
When the population was $4,000, 900 in 1890 the
wealth was $65, 0OO,O 100000 or $1,000 per individual.
When the population was 100000 in 1900 the
wealth was $ss, 000,000,0 900, or SLIGO per individual.
When the population was $1,000 1000 in 1904 the
wealth was 100000 00, 900 or 81 800 per individual.
When the population was 95,OOO,OOO in 1912 the
wealth was s1s7, O0O, OO0, 900 or 81 800 per individual.
The figures for 1922 are not available as yet, but
if the same rate of progress is conceded during the
10 years from 1872 our national wealth cannot be
far from $400, 900, 000, 900. This amount is 20 per
cent less than the supposed initiation value was
in 1920. In arriving at this conclusion initiation
and deflation were taken into account, as was also
the fact that our national income in 1912 was $685.
900, 10000, 900.
If the average profit of industry in general is
only 1919 per cent instead of a higher figure, and
the income for 1922 iS1 800, 600, 000y 900, as economists
assert it was, We will not be far afield in estimat-
ing the national wealth as very close to $500, 000,.
100000, and that is what the census figures will
show when they are finally compiled.
In the publication entitled "The Things that are
Caesars" the wealth of the world from the begin
ming of time down to 1850, as a surplus of produc-
ton over consumption in all the thousands of years
since time began, is given as approximately only
800. 600, 900, 0O0. .
The wealth of the world today is probably one
thousand billions of dollars. What is true about
some countries having Jared badly and others
worse, in order to fairly estimate their value to
get this grand total, is not in any sense applicable
to the United States. Our prograss though tenn.
porarily arrested at times, has been foundament-
ally sound and consistently progressive and en-.
during.
The reason for this economic advancement was
the form of tariff policy in effect. For more than
20 years with few exceptions a protective tariff
was in force. Under its beneficial provisions
American labor industry and commerce enjoyed
unrivaled conditions. as a result our, citizenship is
of a higher standard because of the opportunities
our public institutions were able to offer. What has
benefited our people socially has in no lesser de-
gree benefited them economically.
, 1923-02-22

Haircut 4Oc = Beckllnger Barber
Shop, basement.
, 1923-02-22
THE souAREsT CITY
Thank Heaven It's Over

PROFESSIONALLY the people Of Wyoming re.
~ joice at the adjournment of the seventeenth leg.
~islature. Not because of the danger of making
an ass of itself for it did that very thing from the
beginning. The real danger was that it might do
some positive damage to a state that deserves no
such treatment.
It was without question the very worst legisla.
ture in Wyoming history.
The entire session, after the first two weeks,
which were frittered away in doing nothing, were
devoted to the most amateurish game of politics
ever witnessed. The session was marked by an
obvious and open sparring for political advantag e
that would have brought the blush of shame to a
bowery caucus in the interest of the Tammany ma
chine.
~ The majority Republicans were not alone to be
blamed, the Democratic governor and the members
of his minority party kept up their end to the ex.
tent of their ability.
If the attempted crime of consolidating the in.
surance department with the state treasury was
committed in the name of the Republican party,
merely to remove the appointment Of the commits,
sioner from the jurisdiction of the governor, then
honest Republicans should repudiated the action.
This sort of thing is too small a matter for self
respecting Republicans to engage in; and never
could be construed as a question of party pol
ities. Rather is it a matter of petty spite and a
mark of poor craftsmanship.
The insurance, department is a large and i'm.
portant department and in point of revenue too
vital to be made an adjunct to any other branch
of the states business. Any plea of economy IN
the transfer is puerile and cannot stand.
The source from which the majority drew its
inspiration or accepted its orders to do the many
and varied utterly foolish things it did, was not
a fount of Republican political wisdom, that is
certain. For never has the Republican party of
Wyoming had greater cause to hang its head in
shame than over the forty days spent in mussing
up the laws of Wyoming by some of its members.
And if the Democratic party can secure any com,
fort or take any pride in the performance of their
members, they are easily satisfied and have a very
peculiar notion of public service.
The Tribune is not alone in this view of the leg.
islature just closed, it is shared by numerous mem,
bers nd hundreds of citizens who have expressed
equally harsh opinions of the work done or at
tempted to be done.
AS has so frequently been said, the state and the
people would be the gamer if the legislature did
not come in session for a period of ten or a dozen
vears. And we are sure that anyone who took the
pains and possessed the patience to follow the pro.
ceedings will readily agree.
, 1923-02-22
Pittsburgh and Stogies

When four old men in Pittsburgh
die, It 80 said. their demise is going
to be mourned by others than their
bereavinE families. Many Pittsburgh,
ers prominent In business and civic
life will be greatly disconnected.
These four old men. all upward Of 65,
are engaged in rolling a certain form
of smoke known a. the rat tail.
For the benefit OF those who are un.
familiar with the rat tail. which is
often confused with the stoEie, Il is
n long thin, hand wrapped roll of to.
bacco. similar in appearance to the
rodents tail. These four ancients are
said to have been trying to teach their
art to younger men and women with.
out They maintain that
young folks VII not devote the time
and patience, the coordination Of
brain and hand necessary in the man.
ufacture OF this particular brand OF
Smoke"
The lowly stogIe, also Indigenous 10
Pittsburgh, differs in waist girth and
in other respects from the rat tail.
Rat tails are seven for a dime and
, 1923-02-22
Disturbing tho Dead

lust how much of sincerity is there in all we
q hear about the "sacredness of the grave and
"respect for the dead" in view of operations new
going forward in the Valley of the Kings?
The reality and strength of feeling is unques.
tionable when it comes from the relations and
friends of the recently deceased or in the case of
personages of Importance who, while alive, we're
held in reverence or admiration by many people
still alive. In other instances, except in countries
like China, where ancestors are worshipped and
are credited with power to punish the disturb
ance of their bones, graves are "desecrated" for
any one of n hundred practical or financial rea.
sons with no real opposition and with hardly a
word said about it.
Railways are not expected, or at any rate are not
compelled to go around old cemeteries when to
do so is inconvenient or expensive, and there are
few growing cities in which one or more ancient
graveyards have not been built over and forgotten
or emembere only by a few sentamentalists
who want to be held particularly sensitive and
delicate.
And no protests we're heard the other day when
the grave of a sailor in Brooklyn was opened be-
cause SOM people said, and other thought that II
was inst possible that in the coffin were some
struggled gems. Archaeologists never have respected
graves that were old eISought to be interesting to
them, and their dissertation always has been
much more thoroughgoing than that of other grave
robbers. Yet archaeologists as n class think very
we'll of themselves and their claims to be gentle
men as we'll as scholars rarely have been disputed
, 1923-02-22
The Original Hatchet
Story

The first life Of George Washington
was written by Rev. Mason Locke
Weems. He was born at Dumfries,
Va, in 1850, and died at Beaufort,
s. c.. in 1928. He studied theology
in London. and became a minister of
the Protestant Episcopal church.
Fol a number Of years he was rector
OF Pohick church, which 10 known
as Truro Parish. This church is not
far from Mount Vernon, the home OF
Washington. Washington was one
of his leading parishioners during his
ministry at that place.
Weems' Life OF George Washing.
ton" was published in Philadelphia in
1900, and for many years it was the
most popular biography OF the noted
General and President. It was one
Of the first books cad by Abraham
Lincoln.
To Weems goes the credit Of being
the first person to put the cherry
tree tradition into print. There. Is
a statement in his history Of Wash,
ington that the cherry tree story, as
f. appears in his book. was written
in the exact words of a woman who
was a relative of Washington and
l - was INN . I many OL InE
incidents OF his youth.
The cherry story, as written by
Weens, runs thusly:
when George was about six years
old he was made the wealthy master
Of a Ratchet, Of which, like most
little boys. he was immoderately
fond. and was constantly going about
chopping everything that came in his
way. One day, in the garden. where
he often amused himself choppine
his mothers peasticks. he unluckily
tried the edge Of his Ratchet on the
body Of a beautiful young English
cherry tree. which he barked SC
terribly that I don't believe the tree
ever got tho better OF It.
"The next morning the old gentle
man, finding out what had befallen
his tree, which, by the way. was a
great favorite, came into the house
and with much warmth asked for
the mischievous author, declaring al
the same time that he would not
have taken five glineas for the tree
Nobody could tell him anything
about It. Presently George and hii
Ratchet made their appearance.
George said his father. do yoJ
know who killed that beautiful llttl,
cherry r yonder In the earden?'
This was a tough question and
George staggered under It for a mo
msnt, but quickly recovered himself
and looking at his father, with tn,
sweet lace of youth frightened will
the charm of ail-conquering truth
he bravely cried out.
"I can't tell a lie, pa: o know
I can't tell a lie. I did cut Il Will
my little hatchet.'
run to my arms, my deares
boy cried his father. In Transports
run to my arms. Glad am I. George
that you killed my tree, for you hav,
paid me for 1t a thousandfold. Suel
an act OF heroism In my son is wortl
more to me than a thousand trees
though blossomed with silver an,
their fruits OF purest gold"
, 1923-02-22

stogies are three for n nickel. But
this is not why they are preferred.
Rat tails are tightly wrapped. and
stogies are more loosely rolled. The
tobacco also differs.
Pittsburgh men have been known
to smoke cigars when offered by a
genial host out OF Difference to his
hospitality. but In most cases the cigar
is declined or pocketed with a Have
one of these. I'll smoke my own. II
you don't mind" Then a thin case.
containing a half dozen odd brown
smoke pencils is produced, and there
are no hard feelings. The cigars are
offered only to conform to the canons
of society.
When the first Connestoga wagons
rumbled their way over the ALE.
ghen!es the Indians who lived on the
site of Fort Duquesne traded with the
pioneers the rough outlines of what
The name Connestoga became cor.
rupted to stogie.
Stogies are manufactured elsewhere
than in Pittsburgh. but that is the
heart of the great brown stogie belt.
The lush fields Of Lancaster county
and surrounding counties grow the 10.
baceo that Is used in their manufac.
ture. Tobacco from neighborinE
states also contributes to their manu-.
facture. ohioans have come t adopt
the habits of their ne!shboring state
and to make stog.es.
Funk & wasnalls calls n stogie "a
coarse cigar" That is their error. A
stosie is a stogie. and a cigar is a
cigar. Ask any Pittsburgh business
man. He will row peevlsh at such
ignorance. a stogie is as different
from a cigar as 'drammer" is from
burlesqus. or terrapin from 'corned
willy A stogie is a mild. pleasant
bunch OF weeds. dried together and
passed off as something to smoke.
A rat tail is a rat tail and n stogie
Is a stogie, and further classification
is unnecessary md impossible.
Tho smoke OF Pittsburgh is made by
the consumption OF these. All the
mills in the world could not give Pitts.
burgh her peculiar atmospheric flavor
That Is why they call It the Smoky
City.
, 1923-02-22

individual investors who have put their savings
into railroad stocks.
1t would make it impossible for railroads to
secure any new capital Whatsoever, for the pur.
chase of new equipment or construction Of new
lines or terminals. 1t would wipe out railroad stock
and railroad stockholders. 1t would wipe out rail
road corporations and transportation service. Rail
way receiverships would be common, and should
come, Senator Brookhart believes.
Once in a while wild ones like 'LaFollette and
Brookhart get into congress, by some mistaken no
ton of their constituents that men with such ideas
represent their own theories of economics and the
various other questions usually resolved into laws
governing the situation. We are certain Senator
Brookhart does not reflect the hard common sense
of Iowa farmers and manufacturers, nor the bank.
ers, nor the owners of railroads, nor the inves.
tors generally in industrial and transportation
enterprises which have done such a great work in
developing the great state in which they all live.
To send a man of the attachments and views of
Mr.. Brookhart as the successor. to William S. Ken.
yon, is rather a reflection upon the splendid rec
ord of Iowa, for furnishing in the past men of such
outstanding quality of craftsmanship, as the long
list of able men who have represented her in the
national congress.
, 1923-02-22
An Adjective Contest

II Is a popular supposition that the
highest form Of the extemporaneous
using Of a~djectives is achieved by a
man when he happens upon a golf
pan sitting in a railroad track. hut
TINS Is a ~fallacious supposition. The
highest form Of extemporaneou.
using OF adjectives is achieved by a
woman walking past store windows
In which is displayed clothing.
One day the editor of a thesaurus
LOOK his wife into the shopping dis
trict' This man. who was a veritable
waking dictionary. had a notion that
ne was pretty well up on the subiect
ot words phrases and clauses. But
ms man had before been out
shoppinE with his wife. and SO he can
De more or less pardoned for thinking
such things.
Presently they came to a shop win.
dow full of wax works. The way
WORKS were showing off wedding
gowns and there were some stunning
creations in silk and wool crepes. soft
IaHle. ~tricotine. Polret twill ana Don
lin' with darling fun blouses drawn
In with rubber bands at the wafstllne.
anu the minute this woman laid ewes
on those womenkins-what do you
want to call them mannik,ns for?-
III went right up In the air like n
balloon and remained there for some
minutes. Why she should be thus
elevated by wedding gowns when she
had been married IS years and had
no children to put any Of them on
If she bought one. except a couple
OF sons, is something you will have to
out for yourself.
She went up into the air. and. &C.
cording to the habit OF women in like
circumstances. she began to ask her
husband questions about The beauty
OF each and every article in the win
dow. And each OF her sentences en-
hraced an adjective which the parent
Of thesaurus. standing at her side. did
not any more know the meaning of
than II he had been n little child
, 1923-02-22
The Public Pays

THE BILL which the taxpayers have. had to pay
l. as a result of federal control of the railroads
for twenty.six months is at last being totalled and
1t will reach approximately $1,760,O 0,000. A last.
ing monument to Mr.. Wilson and his son.inlaw
Mr.. McAdoo.
The c%ountry's first experience with government
operation of railroads has been extremely expen.
sive for all the Taxpayers.
And yet there are those who are advocating a
repetition of the experiment.
Government ownership and operation Of tho rail.
roads would build up the greatest political ma,
chine the world ever heard of, at the expense of
the shipping and travelling public and the tax,
payer.
Political management of the roads during 1917.
90 should be enough for this generation at least.