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Show This Week By AHTHTIR BRISBANE ME. WELLS' CHIMPANZEE 18,000-FOOT BUBUMNG PAGODAS : SHAKEN SHAMING DIME NOVELS Did you Tead H. G. Wcl's' Interesting In-teresting statement about the higher apes? They can think ahead a little. No other animal except nan, not even monkeys with talis, can do it. Without being taught a chimpanzee chimpan-zee will take one stick, insert it in the hollow cf another stick, and, with the added length, draw a banana into its cags. Since the beginning of time no other animal but man could tliink as much as that. Consider what man does now, weighing the stars, measuring the electrons inside of an atom And only twelve thousand years ago he was using sharp flints for weapons, wea-pons, not far ahead, mentally, of the chimpanzee. What will he co 10,000,000 years hence? Engineer Charles M Schwab's organization, figuring stress bearing bear-ing and weight carrying capacity of steel construction, say it is mechanically me-chanically possible to build a skyscraper sky-scraper 18 000 -feet high. Such . a building would have 1800 stories and require a large base. W5th modern building conditions, all the ground floor space in the building would be for elevators. But human intelligence will overcome ov-ercome that, and Mr. Otis of elevator ele-vator fame is working now on the problem cf multiple elevators in one shaft. The writer ence rode in such an elevator in London. It moved slowiy, the cars attached in an endless chain that turned around and came down without turning irpstde down. Neis from Burma tells of many deaths by earthquake and tidal wave. Ancient pagodas were rrk-ea rrk-ea to dcftmction. From the top of or.e. the Shwe-Dagon pagoda. I there fell a hiipe weather vane, of j solid fold, said to be worth Jl -j 200.OOO. I Mary devout Eurmans doubtless 'asked tbemse!es what par.A i.lar ' God had beorre anncyed, ju.ii what htd annoyed him and how ! he couid be placated, j ... ! Debated B-.rrr.ar.s know U.r.t ;t cr.:y vn.s old earth iry-n? '' sei'-le ci-n ir.u. 7r.v.&r.r.t :ri.';T-' Thst prcfiv v.-,:; r.-.nl;:.;je Ur ; -,v r f c'r.lur.e. ... The Favl.'rf f.vt f'r.os r.f ws of f-.c-r to'.r ftt .er r.'ar V' An-Ff An-Ff . In New Vrrk. f r. the other '. ;.r.. 'r e ti e rrr. : rr' ; r tr.i.ri'..f at -r.:l r.-.r" i.'.j i-s vr.'.'rn. ; . : ;.-?. t r. uc n 'J.' n.-'., r...rc:f- cf ll'.'r.i .r. rr.-i.r.y f'?.l' nr.rcrt ..ra: ly, are b..'.-f b..'.-f rl to is :r'' r.n.ary. V.l'.y fer.y rr.an. jUc.c ' ar-.r.'t an ir.d.v.o :.al . :!-: v as a ? :.-,. cr h.rwe.f -...1:1 to a ( r.a:.'.r ; ,r.f and burn beautiful trees that could not offend him, is beyond comprehension. compre-hension. . . There Is a great deal of a tion in modem killings, now r.o frequent fre-quent that 11 ifi hardly worth while writing about them. Near Chie.vo, I Chief Mitchell, of the La Granr'' police, Kitting with two other jki- ' licemrn in a lonely rpot, wft' won- j derinK why a machine ahead U:p-p:d U:p-p:d by tSc road and put ou' i: j lights. j Investigating, he saw a man. ; hf-nds aiid fe t tied, ryrcmg "iivl I n,e a hrr; " Tlie rfply wa.- "I'll . b?:.K your h hd," and .r. e.f 1h" ! pang r'-rjiM the virtirn out II, . t,( ad ""th -a r.-stol butt. ; Tti:c a.', a rojK aro.ir.o t:, mi.n i-'-ek, it.iown cvr the l.n.b ' cf u t:f.t. I. a.!. ti a l.;.r; n; 1 ... Tl.e pclx e ' ;,j 'Li;n d the it.nrl-. ed murdf-rf r... tv-o of whom ha1 i i-r in ial) fir,.) f.-e paioi"! " ; ere if a ).: :. f' O rmfh pa- j ij.l.rc. n- v.et.jr., a od (.;.."-' m' t a (!.-" an l i-.i.f.r.r " . . ' the F'-r. !ir ,; " ar.:-d her. Ti;'; ai.i; o .'. o a ). torpfef cf both. ... If yo.i !.s that in a '!-' ' '" ' yo;i d jiv: "la.yr.nV.t i.' ; ' ... Cltrt.r.n hi': twer.f.etn ) vcrrary as King of England uixt F.mpror of India, King CVeorKO. last week went to the races frr the first time rinec his serious illnews. Itu kingham palixe and the rov-erTiment rov-erTiment buiUliiiKS were lecorat,-d with flaKS. Ilis MrheU rejokietl. le ha- Von a pood kirip. awnrtr that the busiiie.v. of a HrltL-.h ruli r i 1 li.'K'n to hif. nJnirtrrs, tltiv i n by the j07,l, and ray "AriU'ii" whT, I J e y iiave rp.ken. Lcokinr b:uk over twenty yars. Kmc Oeerye mwrt ft- 1 fraU'-Iij! f'r the firmrii-:: f Itir, throne, orje A tde few involved in thi v.i-iid war, ttiat rurvivd It. ... VJIr.i.i y ej.ie tn.l.k tH- mV' rUul. V.iy :.! r. 7jf'-i r it y ift U a eon-f(h eon-f(h rahi ex;T.t a matter ol p,y-eM.lo-y . |