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Evening star., 1925-05-12
BONDS CONTINUE
UPWARD SWING
Rail, Public Utility, Rubber
and Oil Liens Extra
Active Today.
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW. YORK, May 12.-The strength
in today's market was distributed al
most uniformly throughout the list
In the high grade section the feature
was Atchison general As above 80, at
the highest price since 1922. This par
ticular bond is considered the leader
in it's group, and it's rise is deemed
especially significant of the demand
for investments of the highest grade
The tendency of United States Gov
ernment bonds was also upward to-
day, the Treasury As and Treasury
ANS being relatively stronger than the
Liberties. This, too, is significant
inasmuch as the Treasury issues are
bought more for permanent invest
ment than are the short-term Lib
critics.
French Bonds Strong.
OF the foreign bonds. French issues
attracted the most interest. French
Republic IS got above 102 to.the high
est point since the financial crisis.
which coincided with the change In
the government. Other French issues
were moderately higher. There was
a brief advance in Belgian TVS.
which, however, did not hold. and
among the South American bonds
City of Montevideo Is equaled their
high of the year.
Speculative and semi-speculative
rails did much better than Monday.
Both the income bonds and the re-
funding 5s of the Chicago, Terre Haute
and Southeastern road were very
strong. There was also some buying
of the St. Paul issues, apparently fore
casting early reorganization. st.
Louis-San Francisco incomes recov-
cred more than a half point of Mon
days loss.
New Issue All Sold.
Rubber and tire issues were the
leaders of the industrials. Skelly Oil
6Rs were up a point. Sugar Co.
bonds were steady.
Among the days new offerings the
S15,000,000 Florida East Coast SIS.
prices to yield $50 per cent, were
quickly subscribed.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
TODAY'S SILVER RATES.

NEW YORK, May 12-Bar silver
671a; Mexican dollars, So.
Evening star., 1925-05-12

sOdd lots.
tPartly extra. Playable in preferred stock.
Dividend rates as given in the above table
are the annual cash payments based on the
latest quarterly or half-yearly declarations.
Unless otherwise noted. extra e speciai
dividends are not included.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
New Ranks Staff Increased.
sHORT-TERM SECURITIES.

Quotations furnished by Redmond & Co..
Evening star., 1925-05-12
Joins Local Bank staff.

Ben G. Davis, disbursing officer of
the American embassy at Havana, has
resigned to become assistant cashier
of the Takoma Park Bank. He is
now en- route from Cuba and will
assume his new position on May Is.
Mr.. Davis for a number of years
was connected with the War Depart
ment Later he served as chief clerk
of the State Department until June
| 1. last, when he was given the Ha-
yana assignment.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
Banking Students Examined.

Study courses of the local chapter,
American Institute of Banking, were
terminated last night with an exam
ination in the negotiable instruments
class.
On Thursday night the annual cleo
ton will be held, the polls being open
from to pm, while at $50 the
election results will be made known.
In the interim the Riggs Bank Club
NinStrelS will entertain
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27

I ONDON, Dec. &c. - After two
years of careful and judicious work
by the office of works the ancient
Jewel Tower at Westminster has been
restored to the state in which 1t stoo ]
in the fourteenth century.
Not only we're the walls badly dis
integrated but their outward bulge
made the condition of the groincd
work precarious in the extreme. The
timber roof threatened to collapse, ow.
ing to the inroads Of the death-watch
beetle. Now these defects have been re-
paired and the fabric has been given
a new lease Of life.
After the removal Of plaster and
paint many hidden beauties have been
revealed. Though some Of the outer
masonry is Of greater age, there seems
no doubt that the vaulting, nodded
ribs and carved bosses Of the lower
chambers are of the period Of Richard
III, and the similarity Of the work TO
that in the cloisters Of Westminster
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Jewel Tower Restored

Abbey points to the fact that they
were built by Abbot Ellington be-
tween 1862 and 1886.
The building is mentioned in "the
Kings License granted in 1477 to
the Abbot Of Westminster as "the
Tower called the Jewel House." It
seems clear that this tower, as well as
the ncighborins Chapel Of the Pyx,
was used as a royal treasure house at
a time when banks and strong rooms
were unknown. Notwithstanding pre-
cautions, the royal regalia and treas
ure to the value of 100000 in mol
ern money were stolen from the Cha
pei Of the Pyx in the reign Of Edward
/. Later Charles / and the clerk as
sistant Of the House Of Commons re-
tired to the Jewel Tower after the at
tempted arrest Of the five members.
The Jewel House is now used as n
place Of deposit for imperial standards
Of length and weight.
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Dream Realized

r Os ANGELES, Dec. 26.-For ten
IL years, Normand Rifkind, 2S, de-
tested work yet kept position be-
cause he could not live without an
income.
In all the time that he had been
working he planned suicide, at least
that was the assertion in an unusual
note found by the police beside Rif-
kinds body in the bath room Of his
home. 744 Steward street.
Mrs. sybil Rifkind, mother Of the
man, yesterday heard a shot in the
bath room. Finding the door locked,
she summoned a patrolman, who broke
in.
The young man had apparently shot
himself in the head with q gun pur-
chased under an assumed name. De
tectiye Hickey OF the homicide detail
investigated and reported that Riff
kind had died by. his own hand.
The note beside his body reads In
part as follows:
Dear Mother and Sister:
II have absolutely nothing to live
for and for the last ten years l have
wanted to commit suicide. have been
miserable and suffered untold mental
anguish for the last ten years. Don't
grieye or feel sorry. as ! am better
dead than alive. / hate work and ]
cannot live without work. bought
this gun yesterday Under an assumed
name for the purpose Of committing
suicide. IL this bullet does not kill me
instantly, have Che police put another
into my head. With love, goOdby.
(Signed) NORMAN RIFKIND."
Another short note was left al
dressed to the doctor. II said: III this
bullet does not kill me, send me in
stantly 10 a painless death. i am moi
worth having. never was a man.
never could be one.
u sm nothing but a soda jerkc=
and death IS better" He made be
quests amounting 10 several thousand
dollars TO his mother and sister,
Esther.
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AS was once ssid By that old Greek
"A foller, Homer, the one who in
vented Baseball Batting averages, OF
something, @Never trust your New
Years Resolutions any further than
you can throw a piano.
And II was brooding over the
above warning got l and George
that's my husband, to make the ex-
eeption which proves whose rule. In
other words, 1t got us where 1 was
able to think up one resolution for
the both of Us that we amt broke as
yet, and the coming week is conner
show can a New Yrs. Res. actually
last an entire annum, or not.
This all come out of the experience
we had last year, when the season of
postcards Of greetings and post-mor-
tens Of Xmas presents was at its
height. and we was pretty well ex-
hausted, both by the presents we had
bought and give, and by those we had
reed. and hid away. Well, says Geo.
to me, 1 suppose you viii want to
dash out on New Years Eve, and wear
away the city pavinss with the rest
of the folks that are keeping each
other awake until midnight, the same
as usual !? And / says why dear, i
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Mutter-I have thought.
Mumblc-well be good to it, it's
an orphan.
--Mutter-I mean was thinking
Mumble-That's wonderful.
Mutter-wait a minute, haven't
told you what was thinking.
Mumble-You don't have to, the
fact that you're thinking Is wonderful
in itself.
Mutter-Does your wife need doz-
en- napkins?
Mumble-Don't get sarcastic, Mrs.
humble has q very tiny mouth.
Mutter-You ought TO give her
some beautiful linens, don't you like
toast off Of nice tablecloths?
Mumble-No, we use plates.
Mutter-Maybe she'd like n bridge
lamp.
Mumble-I don't think so, she never
reads on bridges.
Mutter-What has she in the shape
of carpets?
Mumble-Rugs.
Mutter-Does she go to the opera
very often?
Mumble-Yes, once in a while.
Mutter-Then why don't you buy
her some glasses?
Mumble-She doesn't drink.
Mutter-Has she any shoes for the
opera?
Mumble--Certainly, do you think
she goes in her bare feet?
Mutter-I'll bet you she'd like an
ermine evening wrap.
Mumble-Thats fair enough, III
make you a bet, too.
Mutter-What Is II?
Mumble-Tll bet you she doesn't
get it.
Mutter-You know, Mr.. Mumble'
wives are an expensive luxury at this
time Of the year.
Mumble-They certainly are Mr..
Mutter, but I've always got one thing
to be thankful for at Christmas.
Mutter-ls that go, what?
Mumble-That I'm not a bigamist.
Copyright 1925. King Features Syn, Inc.
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"The Battle Hymn Of the Republic"
that wonder song composed BY our
own Ring W. Lardner and indirectly
responsible for his present vogue as
first French horn tutor Of the
municipal opera at East Roslyn.
1t is in the nature Of coincidence
that Mr.. Lardner was rendered this
melody on new musical soblets, pre-
scented to him by Miss Jane Cowl
on the occasion of his glass wedding
anniversary, when the representative
of THE GREAT NECK NEWS.
equipped with an Alpine stock and
a set Of barbed shoes belonging to
my Uncle Sage, a telephone lineman
in Weehawken, frisked up the perpen-
dicular driveway leading to his kiosk
on East Shore Road.
NORDIC CREE REMEMBERS.
20, yes." said the big Nordic cor
daily, when l told him my errand.
You are working on a mighty fine,
ditto hustling, little property and I
have always longed to have my name
in it."
before / forget" I said, "did you
also write the words to that beautiful
thing you were just playing?'
mo, no! The word were written by
Bobby North and Julie Ward Howe.
Julie !" He smiled reminiscently. "How
that shrill could Charleston. Though,
Of course" he added, glancing out the
window at both his acres, "they were
then calling it the Altoona instead of
the Charleston, on account Of the
war;"
/ asked Mr.. Lardner how many of
his plays had been produced. He took
it good-naturedly.
"The last one" he said, must have
been darb. Ziegfeld turned it down
without ever seeing the manuscript,
and in spite of the fact that we had
named it after him-''Going South 1
wrote 1t in collaboration with Gene
Buck, who lives on Nassau Drive, in
the Yale Bowl"
Il know the place." I said. Il got
lost In his wonder living room one
night and nearly died Of exposure and
thirst before my cries were heard or
my rockets seen. Now, Mr.. Lardner,"
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L and George : By Nina Wilcox Putnam

house, which is more up-to-date, aided
and abetted by a healthy human
chorus Joined in with 4 question al
to
Does your mother know you're
out. Ce-ceil-yah?"
This was too much for Geo. and
he sprung from the springs with q
yell, and commenced shouting and
pounding on the walls, but all it got
him was applause from the neighbors
and a voice yelling remarks what a
rough party them George Jules must
be having, my, listen, they are even
hitting on the walls, it's a wonder
the police don't interfere!
The answer to this which George
hollered out the window was luckily
lost in the New Years whistles and
bells, which just then commenced to
get into action, and last IL hour or
more, during which 1 and Geo. wig
wagged to each other, well, thank
Heaven that is the last Of it. Then
we looked out the window to see the
noise and If this yr. looked any diff
ferent from the old one, and then we
went on back to bed.
But no sooner was we tucked In
again then we found out where our
dog was. he was on the front steps,
bowling, and 1 guess he must of been
over to the neighbors smelling the bot
ties in their trash heap, the way he
acted, on account he wouldn't pay no
attention to Georges threats or coaxes,
neither, but finally staggered off down
the street, out of sight.
THE NEIGHBORS ROLL HOME.
Well, we went back to bed, then,
Just in time to get up again to see
who was it starting all the row across
the road. 1t was them people that
lived there, being deposited by friends,
rs could clearly be heard through the
otherwise still night, with many friend
ly words such as can you get lin all
right now, dearie? Have you got your
key? Some party, Ell? Thanks a lot,
see you in church, yeh, sure, see you
soon, dearie, g'night, g'nisht. And etc.
Then the folks on either side COM
menced leaving in the same tone of
voice, after which all was quiet in our
thriving town of Dinglewood, or would
of been only for our cat, who had
made the holiday a alibi for another
of his parties, got full Of catnip, and
was telling the moon just what he
thought Of it in fluent catelepsy, or
whatever language them animals
speak. But finally Just after daylight
/ and George did actually manage to
fall asleep, for five full minutes, when
we was awakened by dear little Junior
running in our room yelling Happy
New Year Nom and Pop. Confound
his, L mean bless his, dear little heart!
Well, there was nothing for it then
but to get up and dress, and as he
done so Geo. lit cigarette and / says,
my slippers got all wore out last night,
dear, give me some money for new.
And he SAYS there The both of US has
smashed our resolutions already. And
/ says no such thing, anything said
last night is all off, / am making only
one resolution, which is this: From
now on i am conner ignore our regular
New Years, get me a big bunch Of
firecrackers, and celebrate the Chinese
one, instead! As long as the celebra-
ton has to be noisy, why not go the
limit?
Copyright, 1926, by Republic
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Mutter and humble
10y J. p Medbury------

NHUTTER-Hello there Mr.. Mum.
AVA bic, 1 see you have your arm in
a sling.
Mumbles-Yes, I've got writer's
cramp.
Mutter-From addressing Christ.
mas cards?
Mumble-No, changing the figures
on price tags.
Mutter-Your hand looks injured.
Mumble-It is. / cut it on a pres
ent?
Mutter-How could you cut it on
q present?
Mumble-The bottle broke.
Mutter-Fm not passing out any
liquor, but I'm giving away an awful
lot of cigars.
Mumble-Well that was certainly
an awful lot Of cigars you gave away
last year.
Mutter-How could they bother
you, ] didn't give you any.
Mumble-I know you didn't but you
gave a box to the man next door an 1
he blew the smoke toward my house.
Mutter-Don't be silly, / dug those
cigars up in Havana.
Mumble-Then you should have
taken them back there and buried 'em
again.
Mutter-I give what l like for
Christmas.
Mumble-well. why don't you give
something that other people like!
Mutter-Don't &c. sarcastic, every.
body appreciates cigars.
MumbIe-YOu're crazy, my sister
doesn't.
Mutter-It's difficult to buy any.
thing for women.
Mumble-At my house it isn't diff.
cult, it's hard 20 get out Of IL.
Mutter-I bought my wife a fur
coat this morning.
Mumble-Is that 20, what fur!
Mutter-Because it's Christmas.
Mumble-Pm going TO give Mrs
humble something for the house.
Mutter-Thnt's a good idee, why
don't you get her broom1
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says, that night stuff is all boloney,
a. far as / am concerned, / says,
have seen too much Of it In the past.
Hot Bozo says, remember the time
we was out with that Joe Bush Of the
Hawthorne Club and his wife, and you
and Joe would insist on riding up on
the front with the tad-driver? Do
II says Geo. / sure do! And the
way you and Mabel was tickling all
them strangers in the Club Yourhead?
Ha hal That was a big night! Yeh,
] says, and big expense, as well.
A BIG TEAR-UP.
But how about the time we went
out to the Hawthorne Club, and had
al them paper horns and paper caps.
and paper plates full of chieken-sal-
ads, not to mention lapsful Of the same
before the riot was over, nor the paper
busters, or the paper rolls Of paper
ribbon We tried to sock each other
with acrost the room, why creo., /
snys, II all the paper that was used
that night was TO be wadded up there
would Of been sufficient 70 make nests
for all the nest eggs Of the combined
population Of England, America and
the Malay Peninsula, 1 says.
And Geo. says yeh, but that child
kh nonsense makes me tired in more
senses than the one, he says, for the
luyTs tripe, 1 hope you amt going
10 want to 20 out there again And
tsys no, ] swallowed enough roll
fetti that evening to stick in my crop
for some time to come, but it wasn't
near 50 bad as the select home party
ne was to last yr. when all We done
was set around and watch Mabel make
a Weleh rarebiL weleh when the fatal
time come when we hadder eat It, and
then set around the rest Of the night
waiting for New Years and the doctor
" AtAlts LAANf bu9c ONps JUL Hudl Al
we do. then, to celebrate? And 1
says whatter you want TO celebrate
the New Year for. anyways, don't
you realize it is merely the date when
a lot Of bills come in? What say
We 80 TO bed early, get a good nights
rest. and have our strength to handle
The mornings mail with, instead?
sNUBBING NEW YEARS.
Well. Geo. says, that's o fine idea,
let US do that little thing. lets US
act just the same as II it was any
other evening, don't bet Us even make
any good resolutions. And / says
sure. that suits me fine, what's the
sense making new resolutions, when
thr same A. any other fiat tire, the
old ones can ~ patched up to run for
a. far A. ven want to go with 'em.
And Geo. says well maybe but I be-
heFs I'm conner cut down on smok-
ins q whole lot this coming year.
And ! nerelg says d. you believe Il.
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when that Mabel Bush called on the
phone and told me where she and
Joe had q table reserved at the Covert
Cafe. So / says III bet it won't be
reserved in the least, once you get
there. And she says, well, sorry you
won't make it a joint party, and 1
says i don't like joints Of any kind,
and she says why, dear, is that one
Of your New Years resolutions? And
I says no, and she says haw do you
make your New. Years resolutions,
anyways? And I says 1 make them
with a few mental reservations and
then we hung MP.
ALL HUNG UP.
Well, by the time Geo. come home
1 felt hung up, in more then the
one sense Of the word. In fact / felt
lost strayed or stolen. incarcerated
and stranded on a desert island while
all the gay world passed me by, and
etc. / could see where Geo. felt the
same when he parked his coat and
kelly on the hall rack for the night
with air Of committing a final act.
But onct Junior was in bed the two
Of us set down in the living room
with airs Of determined eheerfulness
and common sense, and pretended 10
darn stockings and read the paper,
each according to sex, Just as IL it was
any Monday night.
And Geo. says now Jennie, isn't
this a whole lot nicer then tearing
around with a bunch of prohibition
vets, making a fool out Of Ourselfs
and spending a lot Of good jack for
nothingf And 1 says you bet it is,
dear, there Is nothing like the old
home stuff. And all the while we
was saying this, We was listening 70
each other with one car, while the
other ear was taking in all the
sounds Of merriInent passing on the
street. such as Tin horns doing solos
and duets, choruses and trios. Also
cars full Of laughing folks, going by.
and the neighbours scrost the way
starting out for no good and yelling
hey. you, sit back here with me,
Ella not much, IN conner sit On
Eds lap, ha! hs! bs! And etc.
SWEET SUNDERLAND.
Wen, ] and Geo. stood the strain
just as long as we could, which was
TO about nine-tkirty, and then we de-
eided where IL would be good.
sensible idea TO beat it up to bed,
and forget all in dreamland. So we
done that at least we went on up
to bed. But for some reason the
mattress seemed more like a relief
map Of The Rocky Mountains than
usual, anyways, ! had q swful time
getting to sleep. what with the
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Ring Tells All to Waiting World

would take . great many molss t.
make one coat for any Of those fell
lows"
II don't snare any but giant moles"
explained the famous danseuse. "The
skins Of two Of them would make
sleeping bag for Justice Taft
HIS KIDDIES' NAMES.
"What are your kiddies' names:" /
asked.
"Pola Negri," said Mr.. Lardncr.
IAN Of them?"
"Sure!" he said. "You can't show
favoritism among your own children
But" demonstrated, "when you
want one Of them, how do you call
him?"
whats the difference?" said the
handsome mine boss. ale amt coming
any way"
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TO the editors
= / must exclaim at the start that
1 am q resident of Great Neck on
Longs Island and Great Neck has
got q weekly paper which everybody
l know reads it from cover to cover
and one of the features that makes it
popular Is a weekly interview by
Miss Marjorie Klein with this or
that citizen Of our wonder little
city and finely it come my turn so
I seen that Miss Klein was tired so
/ says would write it myself, but
pretend like she wrote it and she got
permission for same from Mr.. Hal
W. Lanigan, the towny little editor
who incidently is the man who
christened our little city Wonder
Great Neck. So here it is in toto:
Our Miss Marjorie Klein, rs.
signed this week to interview Mr..
Ring w. Lardner at his country
place, The Mango, on Great Neck's
East Shore Road, fell . victim on
Monday to . virulent attack Of
writer's cramps, whereupon Mr..
Lardner volunteered to write the
interview himself rather than have
il left out OF our paper. But
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Mumble-My wife doesn't do her
own work.
Mutter-Well whose work does she
do?
Mumble-Don't be silly, she has
two servants.
Mutter-Who's the other one?
Mumble-I'll have you understand
that I'm my own boss.
Mutter-Well you certainly have
bum foreman.
Mumble-I think a lot of myself.
Mutter--That should be easy, you
haven't any competition.
Mumble-Will you please be sensi-
Bile and help me think of something to
give my wife for the house.
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Mutter-Why don't you get her a
vacuum cleaner =?
Mumble-We haven't any vacuums
that need cleaning.
Mutter-Maybe she'd like some
shoes.
Mumble-No, she has one.
Mutter-How about something for
the table?
Mumble-That's a good idea I think
I'll give her a bottle Of furniture
polish.
Mutter-I mean you could give her
something in China.
Mumble-I can't do that.
Mutter--Why not?
Mumble-We won't be there.
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Americas Only Woman Humorist
Jennie and George Make Firm Resolve
Not to Celebrate New
Years Eve.

I don't, 1 says, but I tell you one
thing for a fact, and that is, l am not
conner spend cent for anything this
next two months SOS we'll get q
chance TO catch up with our bills be-
fore they get beyond speaking dis
lance. And Geo. says aw shucks, at
the end of two more months you
won't need TO be caught up with them
bills, you will of seen en- SO often
you will know them by heart, without.
Well anyways, with them pleasant
little domestic remarks, we agreed
to have a sane, quiet, peaceful mex
pensive n. Yrs eve and by the time
the day arrove we was actually stick
ing to it, nobody having tempted us
to anything else. / will say, about 4
o'clock of the afternoon of the 31st
inst. this made me feel a little like a
lost orphan or something, especially