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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. fTTAII He. Is the Contract Bridge Champion (A A 00-CC00- - A And the alarm In Great Britain "increased enormously" in June, 1S31, when Londoners received the news that the cholera had reached Riga, where "700 or S00 sail of Eng- POSSIBLE SPREAD Item in Newspaper $ Reunites Brothers OF YELLOW FEVER X Clyde, N. X. An Erie (Ta.) Experts Foresee Danger newspaper which mentioned the nan.e of Edward Dam of From Airplanes. Erie brought about the reunion of Edward and bis A "new aviation peril," said to be brother Joseph of Clyde, whii sensational in its possibilities, came had not seen each other for up ior uiscussioii ai me annual con- 34 years. lereuce vi uie lii iiiMi aie uicai assoA relative noticed the name and notified Joseph. The 0 ciation. Sir Malcolm Watson called 0 brothers were separated when V attention to the likelihood, almost the certainty, of "aircraft carrying y Edward decided to "see the 0C 'yellow fever from West to East y world." If that happened, he claimed, 0 0 . there was nothing to prevent it from 'spreading to Asia, from completely the brontosaurus, or thunder lizard, 'paralyzing Itself. Other physicians now In the Peabody museunTat New Jat the conference undertook to show Haven. When alive its weight Is how airplanes might be the means of estimated to have been about 40 'propagating plague, cholera, smalltons, and It lived about 120,000,000 pox and typhus." And Sir George years ago. The jaW of the tithano-ther- Buchanan stated that, as there was to which family belongs the a possibility of aircraft Introducing modern horse, tapir and rhinoceros, new types of influenza and cerebrowas found In the White River Bad spinal meningitis into England, the Lands of South Dakota in 1S40. subject was engaging the attention of both the air miuistry and the ministry of health. For himself he Border Smuggling Cut regarded It as "an Important matter by Help of Mexicans requiring measures In the yellow Juarez, Mexico. Smuggling op- fever zones to prevent the spread of Paso the disease." erations along the Juarez-E- l Almost simultaneously W'ith these section of the Fi!o Grande have been cut In half since the Mexican gov- deliverances, though without any ernment ordered armed patrols sort of connection with them, came along the boundary. Gen. Miguel S. an article In the London Times setGonzalez, Juarez garrison command- ting forth facts regarding the transmission of cholera over the world er, declared. never will be able to after Its appearance at Calcutta In "While stamp out smuggling, we have cut 1817, and asserting that by 1S31 It activities to a minimum," General had become certain that no country was secure against the Inroads of Gonzalez said. "Our greatest trouble Is In air- the disease. Appearing successively We are not yet at Bombay and Madras, It reached plane smuggling. equipped to cope with It and, as Ceylon In 1S19 and spread thence and planes allow night operations at from India over eastern Asia and the inland towns or secluded spots, we Islands of the Indian ocean. By 1S23 are in a difficult position." Syria was reached and Europe threatGeneral Gonzalez said that a ened. It disappeared from Turkey, large amount of merchandise being but began to push north and west Into Mexico from the again after ravaging Persia and the smuggled United States also has been seized lands south of the Caucasus. In Rusby his men as well as a large quan- sia more than 250,000 human beings tity of liquor being taken into the died as the result, in Cairo and AlexUnited States from Mexico. andria 30,000 were swept away in e, jp Ancient Fossils Common in U. S. Washington. The discovery In Texas of the dorsal armor of a giant phytosaur, a crocodile-likcreature winch lived more than years ago, emphasizes the fact that the United States Is still a fertile field for paleontologists seeking the fossils of prehistoric animals. Traces of many species of these monsters have been found from time to time. Judging from the number of tracks found, the dinosaur, or "terrible reptile," seems to have been the most common in all parts of the country. Beside the Connecticut river near Northampton are pre- served dinosaur tracks said to be the most perfect ever found. Neare ' er New York, at found by one expedition. One of the largest skeletons of this beast was found In Utah In 1923 the of the species. This specimen was 71 feet long and the pieces discovered weighed about 52,000 pounds. This creature Is supposed to have lived 170,000,000 years ago Mastodons, It is believed, were abundant here about 25,000 years ago, whereas this animal was thought to have become extinct In Europe 1,000 centuries back. Mastodon teeth 7 inches long have been discovered in the ocean off the New Jersey coast ; and the vicinity of Niagara falls has furnished a fertile field for such discoveries. Huge Thunder Lizard. Near Medicine Bluff, Wyo., was found the skeleton of one of the largest of Hhe prehistoric reptiles, Serve to Keep the Individual election district. You can't talk i bachelor out of his time-triethough often eccentric ways of enjoying hlnself. d Do you choose your friends or do they choose you? 2-- parts of their bodies will not be painfully pierced. All of this, of course, Is merely another form of a most comforting philosophy a comprehension that there are flaws In the advantages that are enjoyed by the most enviuble. "'Buck,' I said, referring the subas I do most puzzling questions, ject "The rose culturists have accomto a man who has Ideas, 'don't you plished so much in the development think that, with all the advance horof blooms that I have often wondered ticulture has made, the experts ought why they have not been able to do to be able to develop a rose without away with the thorns," said Mr. Cato a thorn?' Ninetails. "Perhaps It Is impossible, " 'Perhaps,' he responded ; "but why or perhaps. In some Instances, they should they?' have succeeded, but the roses of the "'Why, because thorns hurt peogarden still have thorns; and vicious ple. They are bad things that serve enough they seem to the amateur, no good purpose." who, when he prunes his bushes or " 'As you are wrong,' he dehis climbers, should be sheathed In clared. usual, Thorn3 serve a very gool even do not the experts plate armor; purpose. They keep people within escape unscathed, I understand. I bounds. In fact, they ought to be on have sometimes had the feeling when a good many other thing3 than rosea. I was applying an antiseptic solution Infor Instance.' to my lacerated arms and hands that Accelerators, News. dianapolis roses shouldn't be allowed at large, but that their cultivation should be Jack Mail Route wholly within guarded boundaries The carrying of the mails has progwhere they could do no harm. And yet, a rose In bloom Is a rose In ressed so rapidly In late years that bloom! And as long as such blooms the airplane now ,speed3 across tha are produced It seems highly prob- country with mail in only a fraction of the time required by trains of a able that we'll endure the thorns. "In horticulture rose thorns are few years ago, yet In spite of all the there Is one mail route menacing; In literature they are progress which goes on unchanged In the 30 monitory. Many of the classicists, for Ua operation. In Edwards, many a century, have recorded the years of which has been made by so Colo., W. U. Wellington, a veteran discovery of the mail service, bas the contract many other people that there Is no rose without a thorn; and then, with for transporting the mail from tha their usual Ignoring of facts, the post office to the railroad station, and thrice daily for 30 years he has metaphorists talk of driven the mail back and fortb In a as of and beds the ways delight, paths buckbonrd wagon drawn by a Jack comroses as couches of luxurious of fort. Fellow amateur, who has done mule. Uis Is believed to be the only conveyance In the fedsome of his own rose pruning, would mail service. eral to a walk like you along path or lie on a bed of roses? You In Agreement needn't answer. I'll answer for you. "Mow Is your boy Josh getting Certainly not I 'Let ua, then, bear all this In mind along with his employer?" as we contemplate the superior bless"Well," replied Farmer Corntossel, ings of our more fortunate fellows. "they have come to an agreement at Those whose ways lead along last Josh said he was goin' to quit paths must often find them an' the boss, he said so, too." rather painful to the feet, and those You can be tolerant of the foolwho lie on beds of roses probably have a good deal of difficulty In ad- ish, but how about being tolerant justing their posture so that tender of the intolerant? Within Bounds. rose-strew- d rose-strew- n rose-strew- Tiny Mummy Found Vernal, Utah. A strange discovery, the mummy of a mature person only 32 inches In height, was made In Ruin canyon recently by Lee Sny der and E. S. Noe. Woodbridge, N. J., dinosaur tracks were discovered last year measuring 20 inches across the toes. They are thought to date back to the cretaceous period of the Mesozolc age. Haunts of the Dinosaur. iie haunts of the dinosaur in Kew Jersey were discovered, In 1858, and a mounted skeleton is in the State museum at Trenton. In the western states and in the r Canadian province of Alberta dinosaur bones have been most frequently found and most easily excavated. Some huge tracks, 38 inches "S--- Air Mail Grows in South America Sao Paulo, Coffee Center, Now Gets Service. how-eve- r, Sao Paulo, capital Washington. and businpss metropolis of Sao Paulo state, Brazil, is one of the latest cities to be enmeshed by the network of air mail routes which are spreading over the South American republic. The trip from Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo takes 12 hours by rail. The air mail schedule calls long, have been discovered In Colfor a three-hou- r trip between the In near and Dinosaur orado; canyon, two cities. Flagstaff, Ariz., 300 tracks were "Sao Paulo Is one of the oldest cities in South America," says a bulletin from the National GeoAncient Cuban Letters graphic society, "but Its age has not to Be Placed in Case deprived It of modern commercial Havana, Cuba. Valuable docu- development. ments written by General AlbeBoom Started In 1875. marle, who led the English Invasion "Fifty years before the Capt of Cuba against the Spanards In 1702, are to be placed on display John Smith Pocahontas episode at under glass In the ancient city hall Jamestown, Va., a Portuguese sailor founded Sao Paulo and married the of Havana, It has been announced daughter of a native Indian chief. by Mayor Tirso Mesa in Uavana. Some of the most historically val- Later Jesuit missionaries estabuable documents In the archives of lished a church at the settlement Havana, they were written on and held the first religious service parchment and are In a fine state on the feast jday In celebration of of preservation. They Include mi- the conversion of St. Paul. Hence litary orders and decrees and a num- the name of the city, Sao Paulo, which means St. PauL ber of personal letters. "For three centuries Sao Paulo enjoyed Isolation, unfettered by co- "Cows Recognize Calves; lonial laws of Portugal. It was Man Arrested as Thief about 1,000 miles from the PortuHarper, Ore. Four calves pas- - guese government officials who tured In R. Faust's yard. Faust were, at that time, at Bahia. In J denied he had stolen them. So four 1875 the ball of commercial prog-Incows belonging to Virgil Smith were ress started rolling among the driven up. The calves seemed glad habitants, and newcomers were Into see them. The cows gave every stilled with a boom spirit In slightevidence of fondness for the calves. ly more than 50 years the city has Increased In population from 20,000 So Faust was accused of larceny. jfyi to more than half a million. New streets that were built were made broad and straight and flanked with modern buildings. t lie railway depot, municipal and state government buildings, museums, libraries, schools, and some of its new business buildings would be flattering additions to many cities of the world of the same size. inree huge public gardens and more than 50 parks break the mo notony of the miles of streets. City That Coffe Built. "Sao Paulo might properly be called the city that coffee built. Many of the palatial residences are those of coffee 'barons.' In Sao Paulo streets huge trucks, heavy carts, and perspiring men laden with sacks of coffee are always within eyeshot. Coffee was not in troduced Into Brazil until two cen turies ago, but the price of coffee now largely governs the rise and fall of Sao Paulo's prosperity. While Ethiopia Is the original home of coffee, Sao Paulo state has adopted the greater portion of the descend ants of the original coffee berries. If all the coffee plantations In the state were In one' plantations. It would cover an area as large as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. In a single year more than one and a quarter million pounds of coffee are produced In the state. There are more than seven coffee trees for very man, woman and child In the state." Fir. tout HAKE OF TIRI "Id. BAR ilZf JH g, ing on an average of 510.2 pounds. The men having the greatest lung power were found among the shortest In the pound class. Their lung force was measured at 154 millimeters. So far as general strength went. It was found that the taller men were for their weight, the less strength they had on the average, and the shorter they were for their weight, the stronger they were. This rule applied through practically all weight groups. 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Generally, heavily built men were found to be stronger than slender men of the game weight The tests were made to ascertain the pulling, pushing, handgrip-plnlifting and lung power of men between the ages of twenty and thirty-foubetween the weight of 120 and 100 pounds, and belween the heights of Cf and 70 Inches. The greatest pulling power was Remonstrated by men In the heaviest weight class, between 100 and Impounds. Then In the two heiiv-Teclashes, 150 to 15!) and 100 to 109 pounds, tied as the most powerIn each of these ful pushers. weight groups the taller men proved to bo the best pushers, with a force of 121 pounds, the record figure. In the hainlgrlpping contest the ,vfia!Ut and heaviest men gave the most powerful hand grips, with a l" s . I? Fir.. Ecli PAGAN GOD UNVEILED Measure Man's Power in Series of Tests IQpll! fe&gp COMPARE PHII2F.fi th r, lish vessels, loaded chiefly with hemp Sole Voter Leaves Precinct The city of New York will save $400 next primary election day, four men will be out of work and Manhattan will be minus one election district, because George Schrader has moved. Mr. Schrader for two years has enjoyed the distinction of being the only voter In the Thirty-eight- h w-- United States Fertile Field for Paleontologists. THINKER HAS GOOD WORD FOR THORNS and flax," were waiting to come to It was then, after an orEngland. der had been issued for the quarantining of all ships from the Baltic, that "the plague established itself in England for the first time." Yet all through that period, beginning with 1S17, there were none of our modern airplanes In existence, and no possibility of the cholera beAre they In ing carried by them. any way specially fitted for the conveyance of contagious diseases, for stimulating to special precautions, and for thus alarming the world? Must it not be assumed that there Is a like risk In the trips of our ocean steamers and sailing vessels that have been so long connecting the continents, the latter for Introduced many centuries past? disease, whether Imported by airplane or steamer, is dangerous In any case. The call Is to prevent such Importation so far as that can be done, but especially to continue the fight against disease In all the countries which are affected or serve as Its breeding ground, so that there will be as little as possible of It to export And this Is the task at which the scientists and the physicians are working In their campaign against that enemy of man, the poison oooooooooooooooo David Burnstine, the contract bridge champion of the American Bridge league, with some of his trophies which he has won since the first of the year. days. 1 it Non-Ski- d Depth, tncbe. More Pile Under Tread . . . Saaia Width, Inch... Sama Priea . . Firestone Every Monday Tj. . Xationiclde Aeticorlt Jc '" Tlr T,M dwTlr. dwTlf. 18.00 17.80 17.02 16.10 .658 .605 .598 .561 .281 .230 .2S0 .231 6 5.20 $6.65 5 6 5 5.20 $6.63 4-7- 5 4.7S $4.8$ Ht.85 |