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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Mussolini Goes Through Practical Selassie Snake Killed One Which End of the Gun? Mussolini's men entered Addis Ababa, driving out the Ethiopian looters, bring- n J Ing safety to various va-rious foreigners, Including our own minister. Rome went wild with joy; and no wonder. In seven months Mussolini hag conquered Ethio-pla's Ethio-pla's millions, killing and wounding 250,-000 250,-000 of them, marching stead- Arthur Brisbane dangerOUS valleys val-leys and high mountains, driving out the Ethiopian armies, that were directed by skilled soldiers from Turkey, Scandinavia and elsewhere. else-where. Those Impressed by the high qualities of Ethiopia's Arab slave-trading slave-trading ruler will note that 1n the great crisis his presence of mind remained. The Associated Press says he took with him on the British Brit-ish boat "the Imperial family jewels, jew-els, many cases of gold bullion and gold coins." On his way from Addis Ababa to the British ship he stopped to take all the cash from the treasury and customs house at Diredawa. In Florida, a well-meaning preacher, who thought it his duty to let rattlesnakes bite him to show the power of God, actually did let the snakes bite him without with-out first removing their fangs. He Is dead, the jury said, "by the bite of a rattlesnake through his own carelessness." The poor fanatic succeeded only' In proving the power of rattlesnake poison. The laws of the universe could hardly be suspended to justify jus-tify the whim of one well-meaning fanatic. It makes a difference, even to the No. 1 Public Enemy, "I'll-never-be-taken-alive" bandit, which way the gun is pointed. Mr. Kar-pis Kar-pis Is taken, much alive, with no struggle, beyond holding a straw hat over his face to baffle photographers. pho-tographers. Much efficiency in cash rewards; Dillinger defied all the "G-men"; a reward was offered, and a red-haired red-haired lady delivered him to the "G-men" bullets, and got $5,000. Whether the $7,000 reward offered of-fered for Karpis tempted some friend of that courageous one remains re-mains to be seen. The criminal is in business for money, and when he can sell a mend for So.000, that seems preferable prefer-able to risking his own life. The reward system should be extended; $5,000 reward for evidence resulting in arrest and conviction of any murderer. The Carnegie Institute announces a "new law of matter" having to do with the "cohesion of infinitesimal particles of matter within the atom." If It were not for that law, according ac-cording to scientists, "the universe would consist of nothing but light hydrogen gas." That should Interest Inter-est politicians, who, after the big conventions, will live, until Novein-ber, Novein-ber, In a universe consisting of something some-thing lighter than "light hydrogen gas." England's new king, Edward the Eighth, is said to be engaged to marry mar-ry the Princess Alexandrine Louise of Denmark, twenty-one years old, the English king's third cousin. The uncle of the young lady says he and her father know nothing of It, Nevertheless, it Is difficult to believe be-lieve that King Edward will remain a bachelor, whether he marries this charming young princess or some other, possibly a good healthy youn" Scotch girl, if one available could be found. Dr. Walter Emerson Brlggs, who tenches dentistry In Tufts college says "women can take any klndof pain without a whimper." Women endure pain more courageously coura-geously than men. Childbirth has taught them to suffer and endure in isolation. Man shows his heroism preferably in crowds, In squadrons platoons; often he would not do that' if It did not take more courage to stay behind alone than to go ahead with the others. Two misguided Mexicans decided to ring bells of the ancient mission church at Juarez, Mexico, to celebrate cele-brate the nomination of a National Revolutionary candidate for governor govern-or of Chihuahua. The pious ladles of Juarez thought I hose old bell, should not be rung for any revolu-tlonary revolu-tlonary candidate, and. It became necessary for troops to ,-esvue Ihe bellnngers from the Infuriated women, giving a good Imitation of Lurip des man hunting Bacchae. 1 When women start they mean n KIICl-nli.r,.tSv,ul.,ill, lm. .NUSm.. ' |