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Steck Sees Little Hope for
Democrats If Feud
Continues

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Oct. 2S.-
UNLESS both AL Smith and w. G.
McAdoo step out and down our
party won't have a chance in the
1928 Presidential election" Senator
Daniel r. Steck of Iowa, Democrat,
said here today.
There is no doubt that Presi-
dent Coolidge, If he seeks what
would be technically a third term,
would provide the Democratic
party with an ISSUE" Senator Steck
said, but there isn't an issue
under the sun that would prove Of
any benefit to the party II the
Smith.McAdoo fued Is continued"
Senator Steck believes Mr.. Cool
idge will be q candidate for re-
election.
some Middle Western leader, he
thinks, may be q formidable cam
didate for the Democratic PresidenN
tial nomination.
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FREIGHT FIGURE
AIDS MARKET
b TnternatIonaI News Service

NEW YORK, Oct. 2s.-For the
first time in transportation history
the volume of weekly freight traffic
on American railroads exceeded
100000 cars, recordings to the Rail
way Associations report for October
Is, issued today.
The stock market was buoyant In
the first hour, but only In isolated
cases were price gains more than
point or two. Shorts in United
States Steel and General Motors
paid about a point more for stock
than yesterday. There were some
conspicuous weak spots, both the
railroads and industrial groups.
Hudson Motors was wobbly.
Wall Street was disposed to look
for some more favorable announce
ments from the directors meetings
Of important corporations today, in
Guiding Bethlehem Steel, which Is
believed to be on the threshold OF
dividend resumption. Consolidated
Gas Of New York and Household
Products. Thus far this week the
record has been excellent in the
matter Of dividend increases. Com.
modify markets were steady In the
early trading and call money I'm.
changed at ~ per cent.
The market drifted into a reac-
tionary trend In the second hour.
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MEXICO ENJOY to Stick
Sheffield Again Denies Rumors
He Will Resign Am
bassadorship

James R. Sheffield. ambassador to
Mexico. today denied a report that
he contemplated resigning. He also
denied that there was any friction
between himself and the Depart
ment Of State, and added:
my plans were to return to
Mexico next week, but the boat
upon which I would have sailed has
been taken out Of service. and I
will be forced to wait until the
following week."
This is the second time that re-
ports have spread that Ambassador
Sheffield intended to resign.
He was here yesterday for a con-
terence with Secretary OF State Kel.
logg, and It Is understood that
Charles Beecher Warren, former
ambassador to Mexico, was also
present at the conference.
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.L ANSNEN
ENMESH
WATSON
b International News Service

oy INTERNATIONAL News Service
FEDERAL BUILDING, st.
LOUIS. Oct. 2S.-A new story
Of q political deal by which the
Ku Klux Klan Of Indiana endorsed
Senator James E. Watson, Repub-
lican Of Indiana, for the Vice
Presidency in 1924 because the
Hoosier senator had aided the
khan to seat enator Earle B. May
field, Democrat of Texas, was told
today by George Meyers, former
kan organizer, before Senator
James A. Reed, Democrat of Mis-
souri,, at the resumption Of the
slush fund inquiry.
In Watson's Office
Sweeping Watson deeper than
ever into the political vaccinations
Of the Khan. Meyers said leaders
Of the hooded organization had or
dered the endorsement of the In.
diana Senator because s'the Khan
was under an obligation to him"
Meyers also drew the name Of
William r. Zumbrunn, general
counsel Of the Khan, into the In
quiry. Zumbrunn's duties in Wash.
tngton, he said, consisted partly Of
enacting legislation favorable to
the Khan and partly in seating
Senator's
Another amazing story Of Khan
activities was told by James v.
Bolen, former Khan secretary of
Indiana, who declared a delegation
Of KIansmen took the mayors OF
Indianapolis and Evansville to
Washington to get the approval Of
Imperial Wizard Hiram w. Evans
on local appointments.
The trip was taken on Khan funds.
he added, chiefly to get Evans to
approve the appointment of Charles
]. Orbison, Democrat, as corpora
tion counsel of Indianapolis by
Mayor John L. DuvaIl, a Repub.
lean.
Duvall was one Of the party.
The same trip also was described
by Meyers who said the Klansnnen
met in the office Of Senator Watson
while in Washington.
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ITALY WILL BUILD
~ NEW WARSHlPS

ROME, Oct. 28.-Preparations are
being made at the various Italian
naval ports for building eight new
torpedo boats and six submarines.
The vessels are scheduled to be off
the stocks in 1927.
The new submarines will be the
largest in the Italian navy.
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WIDOW SUES DRY AGENTS
FOR $25, 900 DAMAGES

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 49,
Suit for $4,000 damages for the
death OF her husband three years
ago was filed in Federal Court here
today by Mrs. Sallie Green, of New.
market, Tenn, against the Rev. G..
w. Cant and w. o. Hill, former
prohibition agents.
Green was killed while supposedly
resisting arrest after he had de.
Hvered a load of liquor. Criminal
prosecution of the case was dis.
missed more than a year ago.
UPt UP! UP! That's the trend Of
HOME BUYING in WASHINGTON, Every
day the market gets more active,
~eWIM with the rising tide Many
fine buys are advertised every day In
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COP ON TRIAL FOR ARREST
OF BALTIMORE INSPECTOR

Policeman Lawrence G. Miller to-
day was arraigned before the police
trial board charged with disorderly
conduct. He II accused OF attempt.
ing to arrest q Baltimore street In.
spector for jay.walking on a Balti-
more street October 8.
Eergts. William J.. Baker and
Frederick w. Dunn, OF the Balti.
more police force, testified that NIL
Ter grabbed Inspector Kent Prather
by the arm and dragged him to the
sidewalk. The Baltimore policemen
demanded to know by what right
he had made the arrest. Miller was
unable to prove his identity and
was arrested. Prather did not ap"
pear before the trial board.
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WOMAN BEATER
SLAIN BY COPS


NEW YORK. Oct. 2s.-Police
touring the upper east side in quest
Of John J. c.Bum'D Rodgers. motor.
ious outlaw. early today shot and
killed an unidentified man as he
was fleeing the scene where Q
woman had been attacked.
The police were drawn 70 the
section by reports that Rodgers in.
tended paying q visit to his old
haunts. Passing Ninety-second
Street and Second Avenue, they
heard a woman scream. Investt.
eating, they found a woman VINO
gave her name as Mrs. Edith
Baber, SO, who said she. had been
dragged into a hallway and beaten.
A suspect in the neighborhood
refused to halt on police orders
and shooting ensued. A revolver
was found near the mans body.
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BELL
NEAR DEATH
~ international News Service

CHICAGO, Oct. 2S.Maj. Cen.
George Bell. IT., u. s.. A.. retired,
famous officer and commander o.
the Thirty Third Prairie1 Division
during the World War, was re-.
ported near death today at his home
Ii O. Chicago hotel.
General Bell IS suffering from
pernicious anetnia.
General Bell 10 So. He was re-
tired four years ago.
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BENSON HOLDS SHIP
HEARING m ATLANTA

ATLANTA, Ga. Oct. 2S.-Ad-
miral w. s. Benson arrived here
today to conduct public hearing
on the question OF private or pub
lie ownership Of the American Mar
chant Marine.
Benson said sentiment in the
South favors private ownership
with Government aid.
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invites
MARKET MEN
By ROBERT 3. THORNBURGH

Representative OF advertising
agencies. Industrial and commercial
concerns. economic foundations,
magazines and newspapers have
been issued invitations by Sec
rotary OF Commerce Hoover to at.
tend q conference on market re-
search here October 20.
Officials anticipated that the con-
ference would first draw up a list
Of the principal problems confront
ing the marketing Of Americas
$50, 00O, 000, 900 annual production.
Secretary Hoover has always con-
sidered. the losses occurring in the
distribution OF American production
is one Of the industrial wastes
which may at least partially be
eliminated. The subject never has
had scientific consideration.
It was expected that both the
domestic and foreign markets would
be considered In all their phases.
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and his relations brought her to their
minds once more
Each night the Katydids' rasping
chant was repeated again and again !:
Katy did, Katy did, she did, she did |!
But since in any crowd there are al
ways few that want to be different
from the rest, now and then some
member Of Riddles clan insisted that
Katy didn't-somewhat in this fash
ion: Katy did, Katy did; she did, she
didn't
However, there were always so
many others to drown any such puz-
cling statement with their shrill clamor
that Katy really did do it whatever
it was that nobody paid much at
tention to those who didn't agree.
On warm, dry, midsummer nights
the Katydids all made a terrific
racket But there wasn't one of
them that outdid Riddle. He always
had the best time when he was max
ing the most noise. And since he liked
to station himself In a tree near
Farmer Green's house, his uproar
often rose plainly above that of the
other Katydids.
Lying in bed in his little room I'M
der the caves, Johnnie Green some
times wished that Riddle would keep
quiet long enough to let him go to
sleep in peace.
To be sure, the balmy breezes
waited many other night sounds
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portunity to learn. He will still be
child even at twenty-five.
hadn't seen Payton for a year OF
so until one day last week.
How are you getting on?' I asked.
81 was wretched for months" he
answered, because got on badly,
because / was failing, and when ]
failed always blamed it on some
one else. I've come to see now that
if fail in an undertaking it's because
I've had the wrong spirit or the wrong
method or l haven't worked at the
job persistently or hard enough. I've
come to see that if / am to get on
must learn something from each
failure / make.
When we fail in the sale of our
selves or of our products, we should
learn from the failure something that
will next time help us to succeed.
(9. 1925, Western Newspaper Union.)
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KNEW MORE ABOUT
SHEEP THAN "KIDS"

Dean Inge," the gloomy DEAN pro-
poses very radical form of birth con-
troll for England" said Mrs. Mildred
Melville Madison, the birth control ex-
pert, in a lecture. 1.-The dean would
limit the number of children to three
three to family.
Radical, very. Yet, isn't 1t true,
dear friends, that in the matter of
children the half is better than the
whole, that the fewer the children,
the higher they are valued-the fewer
the higher, so to speak.
was travelling in the West last
year. and stopped at farm house for
a drink. A troop of children were
playing in the garden.
Those children all yoursr 1 said
to the farmer
Surest thing We know said he,
Goodness How many children
have you got?' asked.
Let's see,' he said. Them eight
playin' that, and Willie and Joe in
town makes ten, and the three girls
out to service Is thirteen, and-er-
now let's see
"Just then splendid flock of sheep
came over the hill.
'Yours?' 1 said.
"'Surest thing We know said the
farmer.
How manyY
Jest S92.' said he."
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9zHe TALE oNA
KIDDIE NTYDD Il -
22Artfrur Scott Bailey NEaSb

through Johnnie's open window. From
nearby came Chirpy Cricket's cheerful
piping. And In the distant swamp
the musical Frog family held sing
Ing party every evening. Johnnie
Green liked to hear them. But he OBJ
jected strongly TO the weird hooting
and horrid laughter of Solomon Owl,
who left the hemlock woods after
dark to hunt for field mice.
As for Kiddies Katydid, he paid lit
tie attention to any other Of the night
cries. No matter what anybody else
said, he solemnly hurled back at him
that neyer-endlng refrain, Katy did
Katy did; she did, she did,
You would have thought. If you had
heard Kiddie, that somebody had dis
puted his statement But such was
not the case at all. Since no one eX-
cept the Katydids knew anything
about the mysterious Katy, nobody
was able to say truthfully that she
didn't do It, In fact, the whole affair
was great secret, so far as outsiders
were concerned. And one night John
ME Green even thrust his head out
of the window and cried impatiently:
"All right All right! / admit
that Katy did it. And now do please
keep still~
OF course, his plea failed to silence
Riddle Katydid. But 1t relieved John
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TOUCHING FOR WARTS

TN A BIG bank, in big eastern city,
L there is porter who has a reputa-
ton all through local banking circles
of being able to cure warts by touch
ing" them.
Now and then Is found a man who
Is thought to possess the same cura-
tive powers of touch which are ac-
credited to the bank porter of the big
city. 1t appears as If to certain hum
BILE individuals had descended the mi
raculous powers which formerly, and
for many centuries, were supposed to
be possessed by the kings Of France
and Enthusiastically Of England
when they touched for the kings
evil" otherwise scrofula. The custom
of touching for the kings evil" In
England can be traced back to Ed
ward the Confessor definitely, and Is
probably of q much older date. 1t
was continued by the British mon
archs up to and during the reign of
Queen Anne and the ritual for the
touching" was retained in the Eng
lish Prayer Book until well toward
the middle of the Nineteenth century.
The touching" of the bank porter
and his congeners is apparently an
echo of this old-time royal practice;
upon investigating the methods of the
porter In effecting his "cure" 1t was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-01-15
LEARNING FROM OUR
MISTAKES
BY THOMAS ARKLE CLARK

a LDEN had made a good many mis-
4 takes the first half-year he was In
college, and they had been mistakes
so serious as to make it impossible
for him, for time at least, to con-
tinue his work. He had shown very
little initiative, he had seriously under
estimated the amount of time neces-
sary to devote to his books, he had
not formed the right sort of friends,
and he found himself now out in the
cold.
1t was a very depressing situation
for Alden's father, who had set his
heart upon the boys doing well, and
who now felt that the bottom had
gone out of his hopes for his young
son. He had forgotten that the boy
was young, that years work at this
time might be just as well for him,
perhaps, as a years study.
1--WE made sad mess of It," the
boy said to the dean. "Can man
ever atone for his mistakes?"
Every man makes mistakes" the
dean answered, "and the wise man
makes the most of these, learns some
thing from them, steers his craft in
the future to avoid the rocks which
have this time wrecked him. You
should be a wiser man from this time
on and a better one from having made
mistake. You will know better how
to avoid error"
I have always argued that when
young fellow has reached the age of
eighteen, we will say, that 1t is better
for him to go out into the world and
learn things for himself.
1--WE want to keep George at home
with u.s." Mrs. Layton said to me, "be-
cause we can look after him If he is
at home, and keep him from making
SO many grave mistakes
1t is quite true that if George stays
at home he will be better clothed, bet
ter housed, his clothing and his health
and his habits will be more carefully
supervised than If he launches out for
himself, and when he comes to MAX
ing decisions which involve Judgment
and experience, his parents will know
more than he; but so long as they
make the decisions. so long as they
supervise his affairs he will fall into
few errors, and so will have little OPP
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A Royal Practitioner of Piracy

DOYALTY in the role of a patron
IN of piracy has never been so un
usual, but few monarchs have en-
gagged in the practice themselves. An
exception to this is the case of An
CORA, sultan of Timor, East Indies.
Angora fourished in the days when
the East India company was a power
in international affairs. But Angora,
unimpressed by its Importance, refused
to allow the company to station gar
risons on Timor, and the mighty COM
pany marshaled its forces, overran his
island, and drove him into his chief
town, also named Angora.
Burning for revenge, the sultan
turned pirate and set out to sea in a
fleet of five prows and several galleys.
His first capture was a brig, command
ed by Captain Hastings, relative OF
the famous Warren Hastings. Hastings
was carrying dispatches from Calcutta
to the British general besiegfng An
CORA. When the pirates swarmed
aboard his ship he threw the dis
patches overheard to prevent their
seizure. For this he was promptly
hanged and his crew sent as prisoners
to Angora, where they were poisoned.
The sultan's next capture was the
Edward, ship of the East India COM
pany, whose crew was also poisoned.
Next he defeated vessel sent out by
the government to capture him and
followed this by attacking ship from
Burma. with whose ruler he had al
ways been upon friendly terms. The
sultan drowned every person on this
ship, except one woman.
His next victim was Malay praam,
the crew of which he shackled and
threw overheard by way of variety in
murder. Then he sailed into Bombay
harbor, and finding the garrison unpre-
pared, easily captured the fort, blew it
up and sailed away with load of rich
booty. Shortly afterward he seized
an English packet, the st. George, tor
tured the captain to death, and forced
the crew to join his service.
BY this time the walls of the East
India company had forced the British
government TO action. One of its great
est ships, the Victorious, was sent
against the sultan-pirate, but he
slipped past the man-of-war out Of the
harbor of Angora at night and success
fully made his way to Trincomalee in
Ceyfon. There he retired from fur
Their piratical practice and the East In
dia company decided that 1t would be
well to let we'll enough alone. So the
sultan-pirate rounded out his days In
peace, and his career is an interesting
one in that it proves that not all pi-
rates finished up at the end of rope.
However the fact that he was royal
pirate may have had something to de
with that.
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nN==
CHa @M94oEp
TALKING LADIES

"yKIHAT do the Earthwomen talk
Wv about?" wondered Jazzbo. the
man from Mars. sit would be Inn
possible for me truthfully to reflect
the life on this planet In my forth
coming book unless gain an accur-
ate impression Of the distinction In
the conversations of its various classes
of women. will start at the bottom. ("
And he betook himself to the poor
est section of the great city and he
hearkened eagerly as Mrs. HARDEST
conversed with Mrs. Fermjaw across
their mutual back fence.
81 don't know what we're comm
to a-tall, with servants gettin' so i'm
pudent and Independent" Mrs. Hard
fist was saying. would you b'lieve
it, Mrs. Fermjaw, the little hussy
says to me only this morning, she says,
Mrs. HARDEST she says, 4 know Mr.
HARDEST gets $3.50 for every 20 bricks
he lays now, and won't come In and
help you with the dishes any more
for less'n dollar an evenin'," she
says.
"Most interesting" reflected Jazzbo.
And he HE'D himself to Mrs. Van
Boosters sumptuous drawing room
where an informal tea party was in
progress, just In time to hear Mrs.
Peyster-Luggs remarking, "Rully. la
dies, what the end of it all will be,
/ rully don't know. My maid Celeste
demanded another increase of $40 a
week yesterday, rully."
"Odd, very" thought Jazzbo, and
waited himself to meeting of the
Ladies' Browning and Shakespeare
club, where Mrs. Highbrow-Specks,
the president, was saying, The sit
uation Is one not to be lightly dis
missed, you know. My cook gave no
tice today because refused to give
her So more week and the use of
the automobile"
1T think I'll omit that chapter" said
Jazzbo apologetically to himself, and
went to take lesson to change the
subject.
90 by George Matthew Adams)
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IS LOOT
~ ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Red Beard, First Great Pirate

DIRACY is as old as history. The first
savage man who followed out log
with fire and padded around in this
precarious craft probably fell victim
to the first act of piracy when he met
another savage travelling on log on
which he had spent no labor.
From time immemorial the Med
lterranean sea was ravaged by pirate
fleets which made Asia Minor and the
Islands near 1t their headquarters, from
which they dashed out for raids on
the ships Of Rome. There is the story
of the pirates who captured the young
julius Caesar and held him for ransom
for six weeks, during which time the
future consul lived on excellent terms
| with his captors. He told them that
he would one day cruelty them all,
| whereat they roared with laughter at
this pleasantly. But it was also
matter of record that he kept his word.
Piracy in the Mediterranean contin-
ued long after Rome had fallen, and
early in the Sixteenth century 1t gave
to history the first outstanding pirate
leader, the famous Barbarossa or "Red
Beard" Red Boards real name was
Uruj, and he was the son of a Turk
ish renegade and a Christian mother.
He was born on the island of Lesbos
in the Aegean sea, a stronghold OF the
Mediterranean pirates, among whom
he rapidly rose to place of accepted
leadership.
But feeling the need for more con-
venient base from which to conduct
his operations, in 1904 Red Beard es-
tablished his headquarters at Tunis
and became the first Of the Barbary
corsairs whose raids went unchecked
until some youthful commanders of the
United States navy taught them proper
respect for the freedom of the seas.
Red Beard had convenient arrange
ment with the sultan of Tunis whereby
that eminent ruler was to be given one
fifth of all the booty he took in return
for royal approval and protection
when it was needed One of his first
exploits was the capture of two gaileys
belonging to Pope julius ii, which had
sailed from Genoa, and the richness or
the loot from this expedition showed
the sultan that he had made no mis-
take in agreeing to partnership with
Barbar0SSa.
The next year the pirate chieftain
showed his daring by capturing
Spanish ship with 500 soldiers on
board, and in 1912 the Moors invited
him to join them in their never-endlng
war on Spain. They attempted to take
the town and port Of Bujeya, but after
eight days fighting, during which Red
lost an arm, the attack failed.
Although Barbarossa became rich
and powerful after he had captured
the town of Algiers, where he set him.
self up as sultan, his embodiment with
Spain proved his undoing. Charles v.
sent an army of 10000 men to Algiers,
defeated the corsair and Red Beard
was killed in battle.
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HULDAH

THOUGH some etymologists claim
= that Huldah. the prophecies of
the Old Testament, should not be
identified with the Swedish Huldr.
the evidence seems almost conclusive
In favor of the assertion that they
are one and the same name in differ
ent forms.
The old mythical Holda, or Huldr
(the faithful or the muffled) was
white spinning lady, who makes her
feather bed when 1t SHOWS. According
to the legend, she brings presents at
the years end; rewards good spin
ners, and Furnishes idle ones. She Is
supposed to have a long nose, wear
blue gown and white veil and drive
through the fields in a car with gold
en- wheels.
In the Scandinavian countries,
where she is very popular, they call
her Huldr, the propitious. Germany