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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-02
GIRL s DEATH LAID
TO TUSSEL FOR GUN:
One Feminine Friend in Jail
and Another Held as Wit
ness of Shooting
BY the Associated Press.

MOUNT HOLLY, n. j., August g.
Burlington County authorities today
were searching for a motive for the
killing of Pearl McSherry. 26 an ac.
tress, in a Summer cottage at Browns
Mills, near here, last night.
Betty Queen is in the county jail
here, charged with firing the shot,
and Dorine O'Connor is held as a. ma
ter1al witness. They also are said to
be actresses from New York, who
rented the cottage a month ago.
Police information is that Miss Nc
Sherry was killed in a tussle for a
shotgun. Miss Queen and Miss O.Con.
nor became historical and efforts of
the police to obtain a connected &C.
count of the shooting have failed thus
far.
The shot was heard by Brewer
Clemensen, a neighbor, who found
Miss McSherry lying on the floor of
the cottage with blood flowing from
her chest. The other two women
were standing close by. crying. Glenn.
ensen saw the gun lying on the floor.
He brought the three women in his
automobile. The wounded woman was
dead when Clemensen arrived at a
doctors Office.
The three women came to Browns
Mills July 5, and rented the cottage
for two months.
Miss McSherry's father is said to
live in Florida and a sister is believed
to Nvedn Des Moines, Iowa.
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Hard to Satisfy

The pastor preached of politics, in
language rich and warm, of bosses
Wiles and heelers' tricks, and clam
ored for reform. His hearers left
their padded pews with anger in their
souls; they did not like such drastic
views. such worldly rigmaroles. "A
parson ought to preach the Word, and
nothing more" they cried lit Is out
rageous and absurd our statesmen to
deride. Our ears he never should
assail with sermons we abhor, but
preach of Jonah and the whale
that's what we pay him for" In
t'other church, across the way, the
parson. grave and slow, discoursGa
of men who had their day five thou.
sand years ago. From Abrahanr's
and Isaac's lives he drew a moral
high, and gave to Solomon, his wives,
the tribute of a sigh. He offered
sane and wise remarks concerning
sacred things, and touched on storied
patriarchs, on ancient seers and
kings. Then people left the cushioned
pews, they left the house of prayer,
and stood beneath the churchyard
yews, and grumbled roundly there.
Our parsons mind is red with rust,
men muttered low, by jings, he digs
around in ancient dust and sidestNps
modern things. The world is full of
problems dire we fain would under
stand, and evil, like house aflre, is
raging in the land. Oh, these be
fierce and grievous times that give
sane men the blues, dishonored laws
and waves of crime make up the daily
news. And does our pastor, then, de.
vote his time to trenchant themes
All, no, he talks of Joseph's cot, of
Samuel, his dreams" No matter
what the parson does, the critics are
at work, and he can hear them hum
and buzz in corners of the kirk.
WALT MASON.
Copyright 1920
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CLAIRE DUX TO WE'D
C. H. SWIFT TODAY
Chapel at University of Chicago to
Be Scene of Ceremony for
Opera Star and Packer.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August "A chapel set
among the Gothic towers of the Uni
versity Of Chicago. was decorated to-
day for the wedding of Claire Dux,
Chicago civic opera prina donna, and
Charles H. Swift, set for $50 o'clock
this afternoon. DR.. Theodore c..
Scares, head of the department Of
practical theology at the university,
will read the service.
DR.. and Mrs. Walter H. Winter.
berg, friends of the bride, will be her
only attendants, the latter as matron
of honor, and the former. to give her
m marriage. Harold H. Swift, brother
of the groom and president of the
board of trustees of the university,
will be best man.
Mr.. Swift, who is a vice president
of Swift G. Co., will take his bride
10 Wianno. AIass., for their honey.
moon
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Cat Left $500 in Will.

NEW YORK, August LR.--A cat
named Bunny at Belleaire, suburb,
ought to live in luxury the rest OF its
life. for its mistress, Cecilia Roman
Sttnson, left $500 by will to care for
the only surviving animal creature OF
her household.
Miss Stinson left most Of the rest Of
her $1,000 estate for prevention OF
cruelty to animals and to home for
moor cats"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-02
WIMlsX-RAY PAINTINGS.

Harvard Man Seeks Proof Of Au-
thenticity Of Work.
NEW YORK, August [P).-Alan
Burroughs of the Fogg Museum at
Harvard sailed today with X.ray ap.
paratus to begin compilation Of
'rogues gallery" Of the works of old
masters in the Louvre.
1t is his belief that paintings bear
marks signifying who made them just
as accurate as the finger.print system
used BY the police. He is interested
in a "Bertillon system" for valuable
paintings which will prevent fraud.
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Patches in Politics

Ferd Funk, secretary of the Aetna
Building and Loan in Topeka, and
Henderson Martin, judge of the Indus
trial court used to be high moguls In
politics in Marion county. Funk is
Republican and Martin . Democrat.
4In-the old days dressed with be-
coming dignity for a county ofiicer." /"
said Funk. Il wore Prince Albert
coat and clean collar.
Henderson Martin used to have his
wife sew patches on the elbows of his
coat, the seat Of his trousers and on
the knees, just as soon as the clothes
came from the tailor Then he would
go out on the stump and tell the farm
ers that they should not support me,
because of my good clothes, bnt should
support him. because Of the patches
on his clothes."-Kansas City Star.
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Matter Of Hypnosis

The following episode took place in
boys class in the primary depart
ment of the Sunday school of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church the Sunday
following the week when Thurston
had been in the city:
Each Sunday morning Miss Eleanor
Kirby. who has been superintendent
Of the department for more than fifty
years, tells Bible story to the entire
department, which is reviewed by the
class teacher the following Sunday as
a part of the lesson.
Miss Kirby had told the story Of
Philip baptizIng the Ethiopian, and a
seven-year-old boy was trying to re-
view it, "And then-and then-Philip
baptized him." One of the older
boys interrupted: "Oh, you baby He
didn't baptize him. He hypnotized
him. You baptize babies; you hypno-
tize indianapolis News.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1926-03-12

There are no doubt mistakes and
anachronIsms to be found in the pic
lures at present hanging in the Royal
academy.
But the days of real anachronism
belong to past age, when artists of
Florence and Venice painted the sta
BILE Of Bethlehem like a palace. the
peasap virgin like queen and the
apostles and martyrs like grand dukes |,
In a picture representing the death
Of the Lying prophet the dead man
wears coat and trousers. In Poussins
great picture. '.The Deluge,' there are
quite number of private boats eruis-
ing about, whilst the same artists "St.
Jerome shows the saint looking with
much interest at an eight-day clock,
although such timepiece was not in
vented until hundreds Of years later.
Albert Durer, In his picture entitled,
sThe Birth Of the Virgin" introduces
tent hedstead, commodlous cook
ing range and an array Of china can.
dlestick1 surmounted By modern can.
dleu whilst another transgreasor, In
picture entitled erhe Expulsion From
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Hair of Men and Women

In the two extremes among the diff
ferent races of man the difference of
length of hair In man and woman is
scarcely noticeable. In some lank-
haired races mems tresses are as long
as women,s; for instance, the Chinese
pigtail. and the hair of Redskins,
which grows to the length sometimes
Of upward Of nine feet. In the frizzy-
haired peoples, men and women have
equally short growths 1t is chiefly iu
the wavy types of people that the diff
ference in the sexes is marked. Among
European men the length rarely ex-
ceeds twelve to sixteen inches, while
witt, women the mean length is be-
tween twenty-five and thirty inches
and in some cases has been known
10 reach six feet or more.
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Blood in Insects

The blood of an insect does not cir
culate through system of closed blood
tubes, as in man. but, instead, 1t more
or less completely fills that part of the
body cavity which is not filed with
other organs. Oxygen is thus brought
in contact with the blood by means of
the tracheae. Insects have the most
powerful muscles of all animals of
their size. Relatively, an enormous
amount of energy is released during
the jumping or flying of grasshopper.
The tracheae pass directly into the
muscles and other tissues. Here
oxygen is passed into the tissues and
oxidation takes place when the work
Is done.
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Tibetans Kill Party
Inrorfinp Machinery

London.--High up In the Hlmalayan
region on the border of Tibet band,
believed to have been made up of III
betans who were transporting modern
machinery to Lhasa. the Holy City"
. in the Land of the Lamas" is report
ed to have been massacred.
At an altitude of 1900 feet in a
mountain pass the party is said to
have been overwhelmed BY represent
stlyea Of the new 1sbetan government
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Didn't have ter git off-war's done
>-we'all Is licked" the taller one said
heavily.
Ine bushy brows OF the Old man low
ereu.
Don't pear to see Jim with yo'-
aiiss' ne said.
Inc shorter man nudged his com
panlon ana the latter rose.
~Oio man, yo' Know is been frien
OF Jim's al my life'" he said, with a
certain rude eloquence- But tell
so' Ell had knowed In time would
emptied my gun inter him to kept
yer from this; jim deserted the night
I aiore the surrender He stopped sud
aenly and looked expectantly at the
old man.
Boys, I didn't know yo'-alls was
sicn blamed )lsl' he said, contemp-
tuously. Jim deserted2 tell yer,
boys, l know JIM am the last one
OF the Bakers alive today"
lie rose, and with unsteady steps
walked to the brow OF the hill and
gazed into the valley where the Chatta-
noochee made a silver line In the hazy
distance.
The two men exchanged a glance
and then went quietly away.
An unbroken river Of blue poured
over the bridge and up the hill. The
races Of the men were free from care,
they would soon turn their faces to
the North again, the war was over,
they were going home.
As the advance guard gained the
crest of the ascent an exclamation Of
astonishment came from a dozen
throats. A quarter Of a mile from the
road, on another hill, showing clear
and red like a saber cash, was a tiny
earthwork-and in the center. from
sapling that had been stripped Of
its branches there foated hullet-torn
iag-the red Saint Andrews cross Of
the dead Confederacy.
AS they looked. from the works
came tongue of flame, and without a
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Harduood Floors

In addition to the beauty and com
fort hardwood floors give to a home,
considering the small cost added nee
essary to their installation, they are
really economical. 1t is questionable
II a home can be called modern that
II without hardwood floors, and as a
time and labor saver there is nothing
among the things that are considered
extras in home construction that af-
fords greater satisfaction.
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Varying Dialect of
High and Lou Dutch

Nineteen hundred years ago. Juliu
Caesar. in describing Germany. calle'l
that part Of the country Inhabited by
the lowland tribes Germany Inferior
or Lower Germany. and the more ele
waited regions. to the south and south
eastward, Germany Superior.
In time tile linguistic designations Of
Low Dutch and High Dutch, or Low
German and High German. came to be
applied to the dialects used by the
inhabitants OF these two regions.
There are. in fact, more than
score Of distingulshable dialects In the
speech Of the common people Of the
Teutonic or German race. These dia-
leets shade into one another, the diff
ference increasing with distance, trav-
cling on a line from the highlands Of
southern and southeastern Germany
toward and through the lowlends bOr-
dering on the North sea and the lower
Elbe. The Low Dutch language com
rrehends several dialects of the north
of Germany as well as the Tristan,
Dutch and F1emish tongues. Inc hlgh
German dialects are usually classified
in two divisions, as South German and
Middle German.
But since the time Of Luther, who
translated the Bible into new High
German lin distinction from the cruder
literary language Of the antecedent old
High Germany, all these dialectic diff
ferences have been dying out, and are
now perpetuated only in the spoken
language Of the peasantry.
OF the Low Dutch languages, the
old Frisian is practically extinct; but
Dutch remains as the national Ian
guage OF the Netherlands, and has a
literature of its own, and Flemish is
waging determined fight to keep
Itself from being submerged by the
French language in Belgium.
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Many Blunders Made by Famous Painters

Paradise" makes flight of hewn and
polished stone steps leading out Of the
Garden of Edenl
In Flemish painting several corpu.
lent Beers with clay pipes in their
mouths are gazing in wonder at Da-
vid, who is carrying about with him
the head OF Goliath.
A Spanish artist represents Abra-
ham about to shoot his son Isaac with
a pistol instead of using the scriptural
knise. In picture of st. Anthony OF
Padua, who Is tradltionally supposed
to have preached to the fishes of the
sea, the artist has put among his scaly
congregation quite number of boiled
Holsters!
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Not Enough Aluminium

Men of middle age remember when
aluminium was curiosity. Last year
the world used more than 100000, 600
pounds of the metal, says DIR. Robert
Anderson, aluminium expert. Since
1900 the worlds output has doubled
about every FIVE years. Doctor Ander-
son predicts aluminium will stand sec
ond to copper in consumption by 1895
or 1910 Although America has an
aluminium trust and is one of the great
producers Of the metal, the demand
exceeds the supply and We import alu-
mInum from Germany, Great Britain,
France and Switzerland, while Its uses
multiply.-Capper's Weekly.
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ana murdered. Some 300 tons of elee-
tricat equipment, which was to have
been used in lighting the forbidden
City" was destroyed and thrown over
a preciplce. All the members Of the
party are said to have been cruelty
murdered
The report, printed by the Daily
Mail, says the machinery, which was
manufactured in England, would have
been the first of its kind admitted into
Lhasa, the capital Of the Dalai Lama,
the supreme head Of the I.amaist
hierarchy. he is surrounded BY his
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The small son of an Indianapolis
photographer recently was reprimand-
ed by his teacher about his writing.
"You are very poor scribe, Joe, !"
she said, severely. 81 Just don't know
what to do about IT."
"You don't need to worry about me, .
he answered quickly. ut don't mat
ter. I'm gonna be doctor, any
way."
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Women Agriculturists

Under the states relations service
Of the United States Department of
Agriculture cooperating with state de-
partments more than 1000 women are
employed in home demonstration work
In rural districts. as leaders of girls
clubs, specialists in nutrition, etc.
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TN FINANCIAL circles the immedl-
1 ate result of the Nickel Plate rul-
ing was the biggest days trading in
the history Of Wall street. with per-
pendicular decline in prices that in
volved practically all stocks and in
one extreme case reached so points.
The stock market had been in state
of comparative collapse for several
days, anyhow. and this was a stagger-
ing blow TO the bulls Trading
eclipsed every former record, which.
had stood for years, The total for the
day was 3,S64,6 shares The size Of
the market may be judged in COM
parison with the Northern Pacific
panic market on May o, 1901. On that
day 30z2, ,2o5 shares we're traded in.
Stocks had been technically weak
ened In seven previous days of drastic
decline; the confidence of shareholders
in the speculative shares had been
shaken by loss of from five to fifty
points or more In then holdings. Many
margin traders had reached the end
of their tether.
The excesses OF the wild upward
speculation in many shares which had
continued over long series of months
since the election of President Cool
idge were being corrected and brought
down to wholesome level by the mar
ket itself stocks were engaged in seek
ing their true market value, based on
earnings rather than on merger pros
poets, or stock dividends, which this
year and last have famed the specu-
iative flames.
The collapse of the stock market,
which was accompanied by severe re-.
actions In the grain and other specu-
lative commodity markets, was de-
scribed by experts as mainly specu-
latlye orgy of powerful groups and
professional operators The general
public was not caught to any great ex-
tent.
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Women Wear Less

During the last 20 years, according
to figures recently made public by one
Of the official departments in Wash
lngton, the quantity of material need
ed for woman's dress has decreased
from fourteen to four yards.
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nv CLOSE votes the house military
D affairs committee junked all the
pending army air service legislation,
this including the bills for separate
air corps, for unified air service, for
the creation of a department of ma
tional defense and for the adoption Of
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The Egotist

There's no denying that Bill has a
pretty high opinion OF himself. He
thinks he's one man in thousand
"Not Bill; he thinks he's the other
.ee."-Roston Transcript.
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WHEN THE
ROLL WAS
CALLED

By EMMETT c. HALL


.HE long gray column cfawled
slowly along the white road
the April sun blazed fiercely
in n speckless sky. The cow
hide shoes OF the tramplng regiment
raised cloud Of dust that hung heavy
in the still air, and then settled slowly.
From time to time expectant but list
less glances were directed to the rear.
Suddenly bright speck flashed for
an instant upon the hill In the rear,
and a moment later torrent Of blue
clad horsemen poured over the crest
and swept down the road. The column
faced about, spreading out into the
fields 1t was troublesome to climb
the rail fences, so they pushed them
down.
In a swirl Of sabers that flashed pret-
tily In the bright sunlight, the horses
came on. A sharp command was
spoken and sheet Of flame leaped
from the gray line, haze of smoke
was slowly dissipated and the hills
gave back an echo to the crash Of the
volIey--a bugIe called shrilly.
In strange postures litter OF men
and horses were scattered over the
ground. Farther back, the retreating
cavalrymen bent low on their horses
necks.
With unconcerned weariness the
gray ranks fell together and tramped
down the road. The rear guard of
the Army of Northern Virginia was
used to cavalry rushes.
At the tag end Of the column long
limbed mountaineer slouched, a dis
consolate look upon his sunburnt face.
Occasionally he gave vent to com
plicated oath.
"How much longer is this fool bust
ness to keep up?r he growled savagely
to comrade. 'rm blamed tired Of
running, myself! No Baker was
a-runnin' befo', L know" He lapsed
Into moody silence.
Far back In the white road the dead
men made black dots.
When night came the men simply
dropped down on the dusty grass by
the roadside. Far In the rear twinkled
the camp fires Of another army
Look at them fires" said Jim
Baker, indicating the distant lights.
"Them fellers air a-bilin' coffeel" He
chewed savagely at a mouthful of
parched corn meal
Out in the darkness came the sound
Of a galloping horse and the sharp
Halt! Who goes there?" Of the
picket. A muttered word, and the
pass on. friend" of the sentry.
Soon a whisper passed from man to
man, a whisper greeted by some With
sntears and by some with curses-a
ruce was ordered.
called In the chill dawn Jim Baker
failed to answer to his name,
.Anybody seen JIm?" the sergeant
asked at large.
"Seed him last night" soldier vol
unteered
.'wouldn't thought it OF Jlm,' was
the muttered comment In the ranks !;
never would thought Jim would be
a deserter, Lord that sho' will kill
Jinl's old paw. He fit with Jackson
In Mexico--told Jim never to come
home eff he had to come with his tail
betwixt his laigs-
The color sergeant rayed and swore.
Nowhere could he find the tattered flag
that he had placed beside him the
night before.
When the rolls of the Army of
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Annoying

'Hey, doc. has Spenders paid you
get for his dental work."
NO, he's digging his grave with my
teeth"
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Great Jewish Scholar

Leopold zunz, the celebrated Jew
lsh scholar, generally considered the
founder OF the modern science of
Judaism was the pioneer In the
study ot Jewish literature. He died
at Berlin March IS, 1885.
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NEWS REVIEW OF
/ CURRENT EVENTS
Rejection of Nickel Plate
Merger Is Factor in Col
lapse of Stock Market.
By EDWARD W. PIckARo

NHERGBR of the Nickel Plate,
1N4 chesapeake & Ohio. Hooking
Valley. Pere Marquette and Erie rail-
roads, as proposed by the Van Swer-
ingen. brothers of Cleveland, was dis
approved last week by the interstate
commerce commission, and those So
called wizards of the railway world
will have to devise a new plan If they
wish to try again to bring about the
giant combination. Their work on
the rejected scheme is said to have
cost them between two and three mil
lion dollars. If 1t had gone through,
according to those who opposed it,
the brothers would have pocketed
profit of about SlOOO00,000.
The commission based its disallow-
ance of the merger on a disapprovai
of the financial structure of the pro-
posed new Nickel Plate company. hold
ing that the terms and conditions of
the proposed acquisition of control by
the new company of the other COM
panies were unjust and unreasonable.
The commission held that the merger
would be In the public interest from
the standpoint of providing efficient
transportation. leaving the inference
that it would have been approved had
the finafetal provisions been above
criticisiM
ave cannot escape the conclusion
that the plan was arranged with the
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p aurs you're wrong thsn baek v.
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TN MOROCCO the French and Span
J. ish armies are preparing for great
offensive by which they hope finally
TO crush the Riflians. But Abd-el-Krim
is alert and already has started the
fighting himself attacking the French
and certain tribes that are unfriehdly
to him. Both sides are trying for stra-
tegic positions from which to negoti-
ate peace.
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At THIS writing the prospect is
"a that the session Of the League Of
Nations council In Geneva will be ex-
eeedingly lively and that the net result