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Show I V BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER FERGUS FALLS, MINN., DEVASTATED BY A TORNADO fU 3H31 tornado that killed several Ruins of business buildings on Union avenue, Fergus Fails, Minn., destroyed by hundred persons and wrecked much of the town. u SAVE YANK CITY IN MACEDONIA HIS ONE AMBITION i i- Cross Cares for that is, to prevent the union ct An trla with Germany. Berchtold and Andrassy are la Zu- TOWN T 7 1 1 FrH. 11 OF EXILED KINGS " Poor in and Spirit ancf Funds' Moodily Waiting for Some- thing to Turn Up. W i SPECIALLY OBNOXIOUS Kaiser's Brother-li- ; Law Accepts Invitations to Banquets and Then "Cuts" His Hests Old Lud-wiSr.ddest of All. g Frontier. Switzerland is getting tired of exiled kings. They seemingly cause a rise 1b food prices, already toned up to breaking point, and give a good deal of trouble In international relations owing to their craze for political Intrigue. Their faithful friends plot to get them restored to their former throi Switzerland is now the favorite resort of dethroned and crownless monarcks. Many of them, unhappily for Swiss hotelkeepers, are fortuneless as woil, g Constantine of Greece, kno to his foes as "Tino." has not been paying his bills with regularity of late. Since Kaiser Wilhelm, his brother-in-lahastened into Holland, help from Germany fails to come. So hard up Is "Tino" and his family, who live at the Hotel National, Lucerne, that he has had to borrow from former subjects, notably a courtier named Thesto-kis- . Streit and the once Chlasso, A sailor on one of the battleships now stationed in the Hudson river, New '.York, initiating a very interested little; pupil into the mysteries of a ship's bugle calls. In this cool, cozy spot on the deck of one of Uncle Sam's' great fighting craft, this little chap plays at "sailor" to his heart's delight, and asks a million childish questions, all of which are promptly and willingly answered by his pal, the "gob." LACK MICE FOR STUDY OF CANCER first-clas- Itnlo-Swis- s Ex-Kin- per cent more, and goodness only knoVs how long they will be able to pay the weekly bill as it now stands. "Tino's" one extravagance nowadays consists of very strong cocktails. He quite recently asked"' Germany for a loan of 6,000,000 marfrs, but was curtly ..20 reiiised. Prino Wick and His Monocle. His brother, Prince Nicholas, walks a good deal o he lake side, with a huge monocle in1 Ms right eye his one Th crown prince's extravagance. cousin, known as the duke of Sparta, shares these melancholy walks. Prince Paul, his younger brother, kills time with a pretty little girl from Vienna; but as his whole Income is ?200 a month he cannot paint Lucerne red, and is content to listen to the public band, or to take coffee in a public garden where popular prices prevail. None of the family is popular In the little city, however. The Swiss say the ufc rough and diagresabW. They j certainly all look bored to death. Old King Ludwig. g The of Bavaria has taken a home In Switzerland, too an old feudal manor, half convent, half forin the canton of not far from Chur. Ludwig III, now seventy-fou- r years old, looks the saddest and most depressed of all the dethroned royalties now on Swiss soil. Karl, of Austria-Hungaris almost turbu-lentl- y gay in comparison with him, and even the "Tino" family look cheerful tressat Zizers, Grl-son- s, y by his side. The old king is all alone. His son, The weekly bill is 2.40(1 francs Euprecht, who till lately intrigued for ($480), a modest sum for even an the Polish throne, is supposed to be with a following of 00 peo- somewhere in Germany. He spends ple, all told. But even this bill (the most of his time studying botany in entire family and entourage are on the garden of his somber home, with regular board rates) is paid with great an old Bavarian general, the one and difficulty. only person of his suite who reads Had to Cut Him Out. books about hunting to him when he is Then,. "Tino" is no longer the little tired of the garden. The prince of god of all those war profiteers who Lippe, who lives not far off, leads stiil flock to Switzerland from the much the same kind of life. New Arrivals Daily. empires. They are tired of ')im. His way of accepting sumptuEvery day new refugees of distincous banquets and then cutting his tion arrive in Switzerland. Tirpitz is hosts and hostesses of yesterday when at Lausanne, to the disgust of the .mother dinner-give- r had arrived, has citizens, who declare they will turn finally bored them and invitations are him out. Hindenburg is expected at few and far between. where there is a beautiful No longer do his German, Austrian Locarno, lake and almost an Italian climate. and Greek admirers give balls for At Clarens, amid mountains, lives the him, where lights were turned out at exiled Prince Windisschgraetz, who, two in the morning, though the party a secret mission has says, gossip did not break up till several hours latire-eatin- g different times. Different types of the disease are treated differently, but It is often found impossible to discriminate between the different classes of symptoms in men. When mice were Inoculated with the germs, however, effects were produced which readily classified the disease. Doctor Wood reported that various changes in cancer statistics has resulted during the war, especially in England, where large classes of the population', had been sent to the war, but that a careful analysis of the figures showed that the changes were mainly due to dislocation of classes of population, not to any remarkable increase or decrease in the disease itself. Death Rate Jumped. ter. The orgies of "red balls" and As cancer is most prevalent in per"pink balls" and even "black balls" MRS. MORTON F. PLANT sons over the military age, the propoi d because the lights went tlon of deaths from this cause nr.tur-all-y out beforejust the party broke up, and jumped, where the proportion of everybody wore black when the lights men of younger ages was reduced. were on, and all the decorations were In this country, likewise, the records black) began to shock the decent were found to show that cancer was health or s pleasure-seekerat Saint most prevalent in Vermont and least Morltz, and other resorts, so Lugane so in JCJtah and Montana, but this wa9 that the Swiss police had to intervene, explained as being due to the fact and "Tino" was cut off from these that a large percentage of the youth lurid for the sake of public deof Vermont had migrated and that a cency. joys in larger proportion of the population To crown all, the exchange is so bad the western states was composed of for his dearest no friends that newcomers, generally young men and longer have the money to they on spend women. his amusement. And so he has to Among countries, cancer mortality walk up and down the shores at Luwas greater in Switzerland, and was cerne on foot, for he has not even a highest generally where the highest motor nowadays. civilization was found. Doctor Wood Kaiser's Sister Sees No One. supposes this to be due, Bt to any The rest of the family pass their connection between cancer ond a high time as best can. His grandstate of civilization, but t) the fact daughters and they for the lack of nieces, that cancer Is less often diagnosed a carriage or a car, go about on bicyand reported as the cause of death In cles. People turn round to look at countries like Russia. them, not because they are exiled princesses, but because they happen Saved After Twelve Years. to be very pretty into the bargain, china-ware, Altoona, Pa. High-pnce- d with fair hair and dazzling complex-Ions- ; rings, piece of silverware and and beauty is not arong the other articles of value-whicwithstood list of Swiss women's good qualities. the flames when a depirtment store "Tlno's" wife, Sophia, Kaiser on one of the most promlent corners sister, goes nowhere and sees in the business district was destroyed nobody. She is clothed in melancholy d by Are 12 years ago n being recoT-eresilence and takes her place at the from the ruins tTuitng tfi excava head of the family table In the public Mrs. Morton F. Plant, an active Bed tion work for a new btsiness block. A ' dining room of the hotel with nn ex- Cross worker who was married to whole unopened barrel of china dishes of settled melancholy. They Col'. William Haywardl commander of pression was recovered, only a tow on the top Imply can't afford to dine In their the Fifteenth infantry,, the famous being broken. Moras, because it wovld1 cost at least negro regiment. h 's n "w Swiss are tiree People made garments. - IN BULGARIAN rich. But the list of exiled monarchs, ministers, field marshals and notabilities of yesterday now eating pension food in hotels of various grades and killing time as best they may on incomes which the average New York business man would pity is too long to go over in full. They all have the same characteristics. They are poor, shabby, look bored to death, older than their years, grouchy and dyspeptic. And they all keep as far away from one another as they can. Some Swiss recently remarked that It would be enough punishment tot Kaiser Wilhelm to bring him to Switzerland and make him live in close touch with these fallen idols and heroes. They would give him such a bad time of It, blaming him for their fallen state, that he would clamor to be tried for his sins by the enemies within c week of his arrival amonj; "friends and colleagues." and honored on both sides of the water. The family of each dead hero will receive letters regularly from one small protege who during its whole lifetime will hold the name of their boy in reverence. The Clarinda cliizent have paid $"50.5010 cents a day for each child's a year, through Ore Fa;, tVUiCUl BuU support for 4 loitttnn IVAnA chnoc clilnpil 1111'. 1. 1 1(1, . u. L t V 11 cnl.llira .1 H 11 ...." In KllStOmlcl.' H - kJUlllll,! o,f an Ameri--iatherless ebiHdreji mem so nave otners garlan city. Most o tj children have uo shoes, while at with organizatfpn. headquarters 'badly worn that thej practically useless; "Their clothes are lite;! hang-ln- g 41Q South MlchiKPR fivehue, Ciileago.. " their bodie from j&gs, V tout tens of thousands of American They sent In doctors, nurses and medical supplies. ;v," Mari destitute by Bul-- r They distributed hundreds of thousands of loaves of bread made of garian& American flour. They established shelters for the homeless wfimen and children. They cared for the hordes LIKE REAL AMERICAN CITY of broken and dispirited Greek ar ? Serbian soldiers who had been released from vile prison camps In BulHeadquarters of American Oil aHd Togaria. bacco Interests Opens After BuIn ttiefr demotion to the task of See lgarian Occupation Awful rescuing the typhus-stricke- n populau.. Picture of Misery. tion two of their number lost their lives and three nurses contracted the dread disease. KlValla, Macedonia. Few canS, except those in the tobacco Industry, have ever heard of this little HAVE NO ONE TO PUT IN JAIL POTt on the Aegean sea. Yet it has rtlany features and activities to comof Canton Wants to Know mend it to the interest of the people Mayor Use the Prison Is in What f the United States. His Town. Here the finest tobacco in the world he bulk of which Is consumed in Canton, O. "What good is a jail Atnerlca is grown. Here the great when there is no one to put in it?" American tobacco companies have exThis query was sprung by Mayor Here the biggest Poorman, and when he failed to port headquarters. get oil company of the United States and any answers from other officials he anAmerica's greatest relief organization, nounced he would recommend that the American Red Cross, have distrib- the old In the basement of the city jail uting centers. city hall be abandoned and the space Indeed, Kavalla has come to have bo repaired and converted Into office some of the aspects of a real Ameri- rooms for the city building commiscan city. There are so many Amerision. cans here that one feels himself only "The jail is of no use now," said a few hundred miles from home, inMayor Poorman. "It has only been restead of in the heart of a remote used for several years for drunks and gion whose beginnings antedate the slackers and now we have none of R-t-L of Christ. these. The new jail is sufficiently large Bulgaria Wants Harbor. to take care of all prisoners," the may' Tor years Bulgaria has looked upon or added. Alrtavalla with a covetous eye. though defeated and subdued, she )oked hopefully to the peace con gress at Paris to give her Kavalla ns e port. Yet Kavalla Is not a harbor. l is merely a roadstead affording good Mchorage for coastwise steamers. Millions of dollars and endless development would be required to cons cert the city into a port. But Bulgaria, which now has only the Doctor Wood cf Columbia Rehallow port of Dedeagatch at the mouth of the Gulf of Enos, was and ports Shortage Because Is anxious to get an outlet through Armies Needed Them. Macedonia and the sea for her large live of stock, tobacco, wheat, output Bilk and attar of roses, and would be quite ready to spend any sum in de- HELD UP RESEARCH WORK veloping and deepening the harbor. Kavalla Is situated on a rocky peninsula and is dominated by the ruins War's Absorption of Scientists Who ef an old Venetian fort. It is protectEntered Service Also Retarded ed from the south by the Greek island Investigations in Disease-De- ath of Thasos. Back from the seacoast is Rate Jumps. a mountainous district known in Maceas the donia Pangaion. New York. of cancer during Coursing through the valley, on the war was Study not only by takimpeded, is the eastern slope, placid Pangalon's work research from physicians ing some which historical Anghista riyer, of mice, writers believe to be the stream where but because of the shortage Taul baptized Lydla. On all sides of which were used in large quantities detecthe mountains in this region is rich with the allied armies for the cerarable land peculiarly adapted to the tion of gas and the diagnoses of tain types of disease, according to the In leaf The best of tobacco; growth the world Is grown here, and so valu- report of Dr. Francis Carter Wood, able are the fields for tobacco culture director of the George Crocker special research fund of Columbia university. that very little else Is cultivated. Thousands of mice which had been During the war the Bulgarians work were turned adopted in Kavalla' the same ruthless raised for research The mice to the over occugovernment. fn followed all practices they are and far more breathe devery rapidly and pied territory. They pillaged stroyed. They made every effort to sensitive to gases than human beings, make the land uninhabitable. They so that they were kept in exposed sectors and observed closely, because furoff trees carried and cut down the niture and everything made of wood. their behavior would indicate the comcould be deThey sacked the homes and drove ing of gas long before it It was also human tected out. beings. by Inhabitants the Greek mice had been sent As a result of all' this,, when the announced that for the Greek commission of the American out on board every' submarine, Red Cross established relief posts same purpose. Mice React to Gas. Uere, a few days after the armistice, most common troubles on of One the found' living their representatives almost conditions unsupportable. submarines has been from chlorine, due ta wet batteries. The mice react First Red Cross Base. Kavalla was the first city 1 Mace-Jonl- a to the gas long before It Is dangerous, to become a base for Red' Cross or eve& perceptible, to the crew, thus enabling them to find the difficulty operations. The natives speak' wltM unbounded and repalu It before the air becomes so tainted as to be dangerous. In the jcratitude of the help given' them by British army hundreds of canaries fooct the say Americans. They the defamished by the Ahierlcan Red Cross were used, as well as mice, for the to supplyras the first substantial' nourishment tection of gas In addition ing thousands of mice to the governthey had In four years. re ' No section of the Balkatis ever ment, the George Crocker special search fund' raised enough, however, more a picture depressing presented When the to- supply many medical schools and of misery and squalor: Amerlcnns came " In' they found' the research laboratories throughout the Inhabitants dylnjr by the dozen- frota country. The other use of mice In the war famine, exposure and typhus. soup wan in discriminating between the vaThey Immediately established 7ctei and dispensaries- and' gave- rious types of pneumonia prevalent at Red FRENCH SOLDIERS Prance, of which Marshal Joffre Is the head. The organization will see that the adoption of each child is made in the fianie of and as a memorial to & dead soldier of Clarinda. The town plans to repeat this sum annually for each fhild until it is capable of caring for itself , ..A It has been demonstrated that 10 Cents i day, to supplement the pension of the sanie iltuotltit which the French government, straining Its resources, granted its war orphans at the time of the early disasters, will suflice to keep soul and body together in a little victim of the war and enable It to remain with its mother or other living relative instead of being placed in an institution. From the prayers of such a child the name of the brave American soldier who died for France and the world will never be absent. RICH, BUT DOESN'T IT KNOW Sailor's Farm in Texas Turns Oil Lake While He's Into Gone. Eastland, Tex. Somewhere on the Seven Seas Ell Perkins is by all oddsi the richest man in the United States Knowledge of naval service. foi .rr tuiH-!.-- father has been r hisMa rt to tr'locate n " trying" but what warship he is on has not been learned. When Perkins enlisted in the navy more than two years ago, he owned a farm of 80 acres north of here. The soil is poor and has an intrinsic agricultural value of perhaps $400. When Perkins entered the navy he left the farm in charge of his father, with full power to act in nil matters connected with it. With the first indications of an oil boom the elder Perkins leased t"ae 80 acres for 25 cents an acre, redlining for his son the usual royalty of any oil that might be produced. When the field began to develop one-ha- lf of the royalty was sold for $40,000 cash, which sum wa deposited in a local bank to the credit of young Perkins. Now the big thing lias happened. The Sinclair Gulf Oil company, which has a lease on the 80 acres, has brought in the largest well upon the tract that there is to be found in any of the central west Texas fields. It is producing crude petroleum at the rate of 10,000 barrels a day, each barrel valued at $2.25. The present income of the young man v about $1,500 a day, and with the bringing in of other wells upon the farm it may be increased several times this sum. He could easily dispose of his rovalty rights for $3,000,000. one-eigh- th one-eight- h Bears Third Set of Twins in Third Successive Year Mrs. Annie Cholick, 24 years old, of Shamokln, became Penn- - mother svlvania's champion when the third set of twins in throe years made their advent at the Shamokln State hospital. The first twins, two boys, wer born in 1917, the second pair, a boy and a girl, in 1918, and a few days ago two boys arrived, giving the woman a record of six children In three years. LIVING MONUMENT TO i DEAD Town to Care for One French Orphan for Each of Its Dead Soldiers. little French Chicago. Tventy-on- e war orphans constitute a living monument which Clarinda, la., has planned for Its soldier dead. A fund has been contributed by Its citizens to care for one little war waif for each Clarinda boy who died In France, thnt their names may be kept alive, to be loved Two-Heade- Trout. d St. Paul, Minn. A trout, d one of the nature freaks at the state fish hatchery, Is thriving,, according to Eben W. Cobb, state su-- i perlntendent of fish hatcheries. Th Inches-lonbaby trout is now about 1 and gives promise of attaining ripe old age, Mr. Cobb said, d Glen-woo- ' ""jr |
