Show SOCIAL Ml WAR GIVES j r UNCLE M SAM SA PROFIT Two Mrs L Leeds Leeds' Rivalry in European Resorts Re Re- called THAT NECKLACE Government Collects Extra Duty ut to Be Added to i Cost York Thc fIe social war Mis l W. W B. B Leeds No o. 1 dl- dl 1896 from thc Iho Un plate P-ag P aen In a u dowry of or a cold mil mil- ail h his prese t vie wICe who V was Miss May Ia Stewart w Worthington of or in tool look a 1 aT n new nt V turn today a agents enL for COl Mr x ll Ir Leeds wore were forced to pa pay Into ti the treasury department at I n I v UJ be added to tho ho time cst cost of a a. quartel of oC mi a million dollar Jar necklace bought in ParIs last ni year Car Thc The money moncy will wl ai remain re- re main in H thc lie h hands of the thc United States government go c t It If the thC general board of tL the n decides that at the dut duty duly on bauble should be GO per percent edit cent U ad valorem Instead of 10 per cc cent n t. t War vai With Jen els Friends an and foes of or the thc two Mrs 1 Leeds are arc fond Cond of telling of tho ho social war Ear Eari In Europe they ought fought with ith Jewels i f The he The Mrs Irs Leeds Leeds- ln In n addition addi- addi addition tion to thc lie settlement on Oil her ner had Iati a tune fol-tune of oC her own as well velh and was well able ablo to lo maintain mE her lter- self In luxury It was In the course of ot travel that she met mCl her former Cormel husband and his second wife fiCo on their honeymoon an and the ho coincidence of ot their arriving simultaneously at watering places about Europe gave gE rl rise c to the thc story of or the thc rivalry of oC the two women in fn which each strove to outshine the thc other In iii splendor However HO It b be it is a n fact well established since b by volumes of oC court records that the thc present Mrs 1 Leeds acquired a pearl necklace that was a beauty to behold Tho The sUing of I pearls was vas collected b by Bernard Citroen of if Paris It H happened that tho same 1110 string of pearls which dazzled Europe to say y nothing of oC the divorced dl Mrs Leeds arrived cd In this country In a bag bug unstrung un un- strung and Bernard Citroen named as us tho the Importer for foa Mrs Irs Leeds swore ore that lint It 11 was only liable Hable for Cor a dut duty of 10 per cent cOmit not hot being a necklace The rue duty of oC 2 was paid and Mrs Mn Leeds Leeds' seemed to 10 be In full possession of ot her hI necklace lace I I ta l t Demanded But tile the government O demanded de ItC- a l They declared de de- de- de I elated that the necklace was liable to toan toan toan an additional GO iO per pei cent duty This made an un of Tho The necklace was vas seized Bernard Bornard Citroen protested The government gO appraiser said aId nothing but kept the tho pearls The he Cu ct O uMi wW H carrio ed l thin Ilia United States Stales circuit court There lucre It k decided J i that hat Cill Citizen mU must l pay the amount of or I the protest l Jn lw appeal 1 I from from th the decision l nl or the thc local board hoard ot or appraisers rat rii This amount was vas puhl today loday Added ll to I th till i original cost of the tho necklace th the GO per cent duty raises rats's tile price of oe the bauble between between be be- tween the two WIl Mis l Leeds to something something some some- thing lII like e To Tn this is il added G 6 per 1101 cr cent Interest t which Uncle Sam Insists must be hi his hiis No Inan man muan said rold sIr Mr Schwab Schwall realizes real ral I izes how bald he Is No man consid considers ers himself actually h bald No man Is act actually bald there are alwa always s a 0 few fes' hairs hahs on Oil tho the scalp and amId those these lh e hairs viewed In fn a u. certain nattering light make mako a respectable showing l' l Furthermore Further Further- more moore the crown rown of tho ho head which Is always the thc baldest spot is never visible to Its Ils possessor So we wc waste our OUI pity on Oil the lie bald baM They dont don't realize realize real real- ize their affliction |