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Show LmAtBistdu , ' xv My I V " ?! I 4! I! I 1- -- tlj 'aiiMtinrttr?'"' T"irfi-ri--'inli rm v nHTirt-in rvir ''"" "--- -r 11 Jiw 4 at A Young Llechtsnstelner. Prprd bjr tha National Oeotrapbla SucUty, WublUKlou, D. C Prince Jobnn II ot the WHEN principality of died a few weeks ago In bla eighty-nint- h year, there came to an end the longest reign la the West since tbe days of Louis XIV of France, seventy-on- e years. But more than tbe reign of Johan ended. Under provisions which this fatherly monarch bad made, his little moun d domain ceases to have a princely ruler and becomes vlrtuully a part of Switzerland. ' If you are a map traveler, Liechten-stein- bound, follow tbe castled Rhine, skirt tbe Black Forest to Basel, awing east past the Fulls to the shed at Fried rlchshaf en, and you are on the Lake of Constance, or Bodensee, shared by Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. Turn south for 20 miles up tbe broad valley between Switzerland and Austria and yon reach the northern tip of the princi-pality of Liechtenstein, which for the next IS miles looks west across tbe Rhine, , To reacb Liechtenstein In person requires One must leave Paris and Switzerland behind and stop short of Vienna and Buda-pest Forego an evening in Parts, be aboard the Budapest sleeper Just be-fore 9, and before luncb time you wlli arrive at Buchs, Switzerland. A few miles to the east you will be set down at Sehnnn-Vaduz- , the division line station between Schellenberg and Vaduz, once separate units and fiefs of the Roman Empire. To the right the narrow plain be tween mlle-hfg- b mountains and tbe Rhine stretches away toward Surg-ans- , off the south tip of the Lilliputian land. To the left is tbe "low coun try." .... rises aflove the looms of an allied weaving mill equipped wltb the latest apparatus for humidifying the atmos-phere. The raw cotton comes from America. The clotb Is sold In Buda-pest The 300 weavers come from the valley towna and down from the Trlesenberg. Views of Mountain and Valley. ! South of Trlesen there Is little evidence of man's works. At Bulzars a Inrge memorial church and a rock mass surmounted by Burg Gutenberg, never captured, but now need as a hotel, are dwarfed by the Mlttogspltce and the Falknls, and are almost Inst In the broadened plan whence a valley road mounts Luzenstleg. At the foot of the Swiss Flascherberg, which bal-ances the Schellenberg, is Klein Mels. Tbe small cluster of homes Is merged Into a green plain cut by a white road leading to the Kletn-Mel- s Trubbarh bridge, one of the d wood-en structures which furnish communi-cation with Switzerland across tbe man-time- Rhine. To north, the arms of the Y confine a wide triangle of level, marshy land, with three small groups of houses spaced across Its farther edge. Above them rises the Schellenberg, a low rolling hill dwarfed by flanking moun-tains. Above Schaan towers a wild rock face, scared and - torn by time's shrapnel. Closing In the southern end of the landscape Is the Falknls group, almost as rugged. Between the 7.1 K0-fo- Kuhgratspltze and 8.420-foo-t Falknls the country's backbone dips to a scant 0.AO0 feet, so that one can took across this saddle to the Naaf-kop-f, whose 8,441 feet, shared with Austria and Switzerland, marks the highest of a dozen or so more-than- - mlle-hlg- b peaks In this pigmy prln-- i . One who thinks of the principality as a part of the Swiss customs union expects this small mountain-sid- e atute to be west or tbe Rhine, leaning against St Gotten Instead of hang-ing to the shoulder of Verarlberg. But political changes hurdle a river easier than mountain-hig- h mountains do. Until 1019, free Liechtenstein was economically allied to Austria. The "K. K.,H denoting kaiser and king, on the Schaan post office, though partly obliterated. Is still visible. Agriculture and Industry. Here the Rhine is no romantic river for deep-wnte- r sailors, with a prima donna mermaid parading her tresses before bobbed-haire- tourists It Is a shallow stony torrent bed, now dry-I-spots, now foaming with the force of Alpine glaciers. Man has taken the river in band, overcome Its meander ing habits, and confined it between prosaic, though curving banks. Between the Rhine and the sway back ridge of Liechtenstein Is a nar-row plain .devoted to bay, corn and grain, with orchards here and there, stately poplars marking some roads sad vineyards on tbe gentler slopes At the place where It curls up to cliff and mountain meadow, a road, split Into a T by the Schellenberg, unites the valley towns from Ruggell and Schaanwald to Klein Mels. Schaan, with 1,400 inhabitants. Is at the focus of the three branches and the short international road to Buchs. Its chief landmark Is a shnrn-splre-d church whose architect bor-rowed Inspiration from the needles of rock above It , To the right the mowing-machin- e blade of a saw-toot- h factory roof cuts the green of pine and beech. Farther soutb is the capital, wltb the' otd chateau, founded on Roman ruins, hanging over It like an eagle perched above Its nest and looking at the eggs between Its feet To the right of the castle the bot-tle green forest veiling the foces of half domes upon whose tops are pleas-ant plateaus, merges the broken pat-tern of the rolling Trlesenberg, whose chalet groups dot a park-lik- region between barren terminal mountains. Below Is Trlesen, from whose one fac-tory chimney Rhur coal smokes when winter ties up the otherwise Inex-haustible water power. The mowing-machin- e blade between Schaan and Vadus edges a splnning-wll- l roof. The Trlesen smokestack cipuuiy. , At the sag In the rtdge the cross-country road saves a few feet of height by means of a short tunnel Joining the populous Trlesenberg with the deserted slopes of the Sam-In- a. valley. In summer one walks through this dripping tube, from the hush of hsyflelds to the sound of grazing cattle swaying melodious bells. The Samlna valley, narrow, thickly wooded for the most part, nnd light-ened at Its bottom by a sliver-green- , Impetuous river, cannot he seen from the Swiss slope, hut as the observer Includes In his view the heights be-yond It he can safely he said to com-mand the entire country In one glace. Travelers Can Set It All. Probably , no other state except Monaco has been seen In Its entirety by so many people. Neither Andorra nor San Marino Is so advantageously placed. Every visitor In the Swiss so-ciety resorts of Davos and St. Mortis could look the length of the principal-ity from Rnrgnns before his train turns south away from Liechtenstein. The traveler to the Lake of Constance and Cermany passes the whole land In review. The passenger train to Inns-bruck and the Tyrol or the Orient express rides the rails that separate Liechtenstein Into the high-lands and low. Schaan, express stop and metrop-olis, has plate glass windows In which ready-mad- e gowns In late styles are displayed, though the women usually spend their money for durable ging-hams. One shopkeeper has tempted fste by keeping modern millinery. The homely Inn at Vaduz might not please fastidious travelers. The only running water Is In a stone trough outside one's bedroom window. Yet one looks back on It with longing. What If the lower hall was a thor-oughfare for half the town I Even so humble a capital must have Its Pea-cock alley. The bed was clean and comfortable. The food, too rich and plentiful for all but active folk, was designed to satisfy one who had trav-eled along mountain trails. From the first day. one becomes Man. mnld. and child, all look over one with keen but friendly ap-praisal. And rhat a deltght It la to pass this Informal Inspection and be greeted with the password, "Oruss Oott." usually shortened to "Sgott." with neighbortlness compressed even Into that short syllable! 4hHhH 't (t $ ft .j. s ft .H iy COUNT LUCEMERll THE SEA DEVIL f Copyright bjr f p.ublMuy, Dwa 4 By LOWELL THOMAS t ji t t 'I J frtH" A ,t, AAA4, A ,t, )t, (t, ,t, A A a AAitiitAttAAAAttA. to proceed to Chrlstlanla and there pick up a cargo. Why not a cargo of lumber for Melbourne! I ent to Coienhagen, donned old clothes, and got a Job as a dock wal lper no the pier where the real Mu-lcts wus moored. That ennhled me to study her. There was one thing that promised to be difficult to terfelL That was the log book. This precious volume contained the life his tory of the Mttleta, when she left the Argentine, what kind of cargo she car rled, what course she steered, the wind, the weather, observations ot sun and stars, etc, etc. That log nook must he In the captain's cuhln and I must have It. But a watchman was stationed aft, so how could It be done? I discovered that the captain and both males were still In Norway wltb their families. So It would he some days before the loss of the book would be noticed If I got It So one night. In the uniform ot a Couat tucaner toll el btlnf eraeree tali eoaieaand to ol Mills, , IS, to run tbe Britlak blockade. Th. meet waa vwt ana cerrtee era of lit. It rae dieaiBeea m that tu nl mmtm miU Ml m Hwcxrmd nnpt bj a am xpkto wrinMv t vu rlulw4 Itwl Um cm w to U Httht4 u NanmW Luckaar eauld totok Nor. wsa fliMaib'. CHAPTER II. Continued 3 It would have looked suspicious for a naval officer to be directing work of this kind wltb such Infinite pains, to at the ship yards I posed as 1 1 err fon Eckmnnn. Inspector of the naval ministry. An old retired captain of the Ship Inspection service happened to be stopping in the same hotel, ills ove for bis old profession caused him to take a most embarrassing Interest In my work. One day. he met a bona Ode ship Inspector and asked bltn whether he knew me. "Von Eckmunn? Let's see, I know for our "Norwegian" sullors, eacb set totally different from the other. Of course, the atolen log of the Ma leta guve us a lot of useful Infmma-tio-about her crew, and our fake let-ters were made to tnlly with this In-formation. Women In the admiralty and foreign ottlces who knew Norwe-(ia-n wrote them for us. We got oi l Norwegian stamps and Norwegian postmarks of various ports the letter were supposed to have been sent to. Then we aged the letters In clieml calstore and smudged some of them. I picked as my otlkers men wno like myself had spent long years b fore the mast, who knew Norwegian, and were of the right spirit First r Kllng had been a member of the Kllchner expedition, In which he hud distinguished himself. The ottlcer whom I selected to go aboard captured ships wus a former comrade of mine, a fellow of six feet four, whom I met by chance on a dock. In response to customs Inspector, I stole aboard the Muleta. The watchman, as usual, was sitting near the captain's cabin. The ship was moored to the pier wlih ropes fore end art. Steulthlly I tip-toed to the bow and cut the ropes, not quite through but almost. A stiff wind was blowing. The ropes cracked and broke. The ship swung around. The watchman ran forward shouting, and at the same moment I run aft Turn bling around the captain's cabin I at first failed to locate the log. finally. I discovered It under the skipper's mattress. Shoving It beneatb my belt. I sllped out. On board now, and also on the pier, half a dozen men were shouting and throwing ropes to haul her back so she wouldn't side-swip- e a nearby ship. I joined In the shouting, pretended to help them for a minute, then clmn bered on to the dock and burrlcd oft in the dark. We now put on the final touches that were to turn the Pass of Balmaha into the Maleta. We painted her the same color as the Maleta, arranged her deck the same, and decorated the cabins with the same ornaments. In my captain's cabin, I hung pictures of the king and queen of Norway and also of their jovial relative. King Ed ward VII of Englund. The barometer, thermometer, and chronometer, and all the other instruments were of Nor-wegian make. I had a Norwegian li-brary and a Norweiglan phonograph and records. We bud enough pro-visions from Norwegian firms to last us through the blockade. It would hardly do to have any Bismarck her-ring, sauerkraut, and pretzels In sight If the British boarded us, would ItT The names of the tailors sewn In side my suits and my officers' suits were replaced with labels from Nor wegian tailors. On my underclothing we embroidered the name of the cap everyiwujr in ine service. There Is Do Von Eckmnnn on the roster." "Then," blurted out the old captain, "be must be a spy. I always said he bad a typically English fuce. I'll watcb blm." Through mistake, two letters enme for me without the usual cover ad dress. Both of them gave my full name and rank. I argued wltb the head waiter, trying to get him to give me the letters for delivery to "my friend. Count I.uckner." The old cap tain happened to be snooping near by. altbougb I didn't know It. By now. anything I did was suspicious He already bad me hung and quartered as bis country's arcb enemy. "What did that fellow want?" be In Quired of the bead waiter. "He asked me to give him the let-ters for Lieutenant Commander Count son Luckner." "Ha r I suspected nothing. That evening I took the train for Bremen. A de-tective entered my compartment and demanded my papers. I gave them to blm. "Count von Luckner," he exclaimed, astonished and embarrassed, "I must have made a mistake. I am looking for a spy from Geestemunde." I grew worried. Could it be that enemy secret agents were watching the work, on my auxiliary cruiser? "Where was the spy reported?" "He lives at Beermann's hotel." That wus my hotel. The spy was watching me. I told him that I would take upon myself the responsibility ot saying that there were the most or gent reasons why this spy must be caught, and that he must wire his principals that the utmost vigilance must be used. "We already have the railroad cov-ered at both ends. But we will In rreflRp our nrecnntlona." he refilled my quesuoo wiiviuer ne wumeu to ac-company me, he asked: "Is it one of those trips that Is like-ly to send you to heaven?" "Tes." "Then I'm with you. My name Is I'relss, and you are after prizes. 6o I'll bring you luck." My artillery and navigation officer, Lieutenant Klrchelss, was a wizard navlgutor. Engineer Rrauss was our motor expert The boatswain, tha carpenter, and the cook, the three mulnstays of a voyage in a sailing vessel. I picked with like care. Of the men who were to go wltb me I only needed twenty-seve- n with a knowledge of Norwegian. There were Just twenty-se-ven aboard the real Maleta. In selecting my men, I interviewed each candidate personally but gave him no hint of why I wanted him. I tried to read these men's souls In order to dis-cover In them the qualities of courage and endurance that would be needed. Now we needed a name for our raid-er. We needed one that she coold take for her official name as an aux-iliary cruiser after running the block-ade. I wanted to call her the Alluit-ros- s out of gratitude to the albntrrws that saved me from drowning when I was a lad. But I discovered that there was already a vessel wltb that name, a ndne layer. Then I wanted to call the ship the Sea Devil, the name by which I personally wus after-ward to be called. My officers favored some name that would suggest the white wings of our saltshlp. So we compromised on Seeadler, or (Jea Eagle. On a pitch-dar- November night the Seeadler, wltb a small emergency crew, raises anchor and sails out of the mouth of the Weser Into the North Sea. There, some distance offshore, we drop anchor. At a remote place along the do-k- s at wiineunsnuven, men appear one ny one. By the light of a dimly burning lantern I gather my crew. Next morning a scow of lumber lay alongside, and we stacked timber to a height of six feet over alt the deck, and fastened It down with wire and chains. Every man had bis role. Every man must now prove his mettle as an actor. Officers and sailors were given the names of officers and sailors aboard the Maleta, They had to get used to their new names. Frits Meyer wus now Ole Johnsen, Miller became BJornsen, Huns Lehman became Lars ('arisen, and they knew me only as Captain Knudsoo. We had long prac-tice drills until the new names slid off our tongues without getting stuck. Each man also bad to learn a lot about his native town that be never knew before! I had already assem-bled as much Information as I could about the towns listed in the stolon log book, and the rest we Invented. Eacb man had to leurn the names of the main streets of his town, the prin-cipal hotels, taverns, and drug stores, as well as the names of the mayor and other officials. Much of this sort of mnterlal bad already been woven Into the letters we bad prepared for the sailors. Each man had to famil-iarize himself with the set of photo-graphs that bad been allotted to blm, and the names of them all, the con-tents of his letters, and fix In his mind a whole new past life, according to the life of a sailor of the real Maleta whose role he was to play. (TO BE CONTINUED.) "The spy will surely be caught." In Bremen at Hlllman's hotel I was Igaln stopped by a detective who de tnanded my papers. Again my papers confounded and bewildered him. "The description of the spy fits you exactly." he said. Once more I urged that the head quarters of the secret police be com-manded to catch the secret agent at ny cost At the Trocadero. I sat with a bottle of wine In front of me. A provosi officer with two men In uniform came up to me. "Come wltb as. Jou are under ar-rest" I flew Into a rage at these repetl Hons of stupidity, as I thought them to be. "1 am a naval officer." "You are a spy. Come with us H The usual spy mania spread through-out the restaurant. Blows were threatened, chnlrs were brundlshed nnd there were shouts of "Kill the spy. kill him 1" on all sides. If the officers hadn't fought the crowd off, I would have been badly beaten. At headquarters I was shown a de-scription nnd even a picture of myself So there was no doubt but what I was their man. "Coder what name does this spy travel?" I demunded. "Under the name of Marine In ipector von Eckmnnn." "Why. I am he." If . "But you Just said you were Count von Luckner." I was compelled, wltb great Injunc-tions of secrecy, to take tliem luto my confidence, and had them tele phone the admiralty for confirmation The prying old captain at Geeste munde soon took blmself to other parts by request I As I explained, my plan was to slip through the British blockade as a ueu tral and If possible disguised as some other ship that actually existed. There happened to be a Norwegian vessel that was almost a dead ringer foi the Pass of Balmaha. She wus sched uled to sail from Copenhagen. I de elded that we would take her name, and suit the doy before she sailed, so that If the British caught us and wire-lessed to Copenhagen to confirm out atory they would receive word thut such a craft had left port at the time we claimed. This other ship wus named the Maleta. For some time she hod been discharging grain from the Argentine. From Demnurk she was ; McCarthy Not Sure : Joe McCarthy, Chicago Cubs man ager. seems to tblnk the Cubs' chance of winning the National league pen rinnl this year hinges around pitching enougli of em. Mc ,I haven't got i'urtliy said referring to the alubmen evidently meaning he would have liked to have hud more youngsters on chance of rinding another regular Joe believes his will come through, and -o. Tthe think that hie Cuts, will pul victorious In the end tain of the Maleta Knudsea I bad learned In Copenhagen that a donkey engine was being Installed on the Maleta. Very well, we g"t o donkey engine ot the same make from Copenhagen and Installed It n our ship. The log book of the Maleta was solemnly put in place, and the tint entry was made, "Today put in a new donkey engine." We got up our cargo papers In reg ular form, signed and sealed by both the Norwegian port authorities vnd British consul. We also had a letter signed by his majesty's consul at Co-penhagen stating that the Maleta was carrying lumber for the use of the government of the Commonwealth of Australia. Tbe letter requested all British ships to help us If any emer-gency arose To prove that this was genuine, It was even stamped with the British Impcriul seal (made in Germany!). 1 also had a letter which a .iritish officer had supposedly written to my shipowner and which my shipownei had forwarded to me, wanting us agulnsl German search officers, but ad-vising us to place our trust In the British I A sailor wltb tbe loneliness of the sea upon him nearly alwuys tskes with him on bis voyages photographs of his people. Now the crews on Brit-ish warships know sailor ways, so 1 Inquired ail about the procedure from cuptulns of neutral ships who had bad their ships searched. They told me that the British always Inspected the to'c'sle to see that everything looked right there. I Immediately got togetb er a lot ot photographs to pass as those of Norwegian sailors' parents, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, sweethearts, wives and mothers-in-la- What did It matter whether the sweet hearts were good looking or not? Suit-ors' sweethearts are not always prize deautles. We sent a mnn to Norway for the pictures In order to have the names of Norwegian photographers stomped on them. The British are smart people, by Joe, and they know how to search a ship. They attach speclul Importance to sailors' letters. The sailor eagerly looks forward to the letter be will re-ceive at the next port He never throws the letters away either, but al ways keeps a stack of them in his sea ctiesL Sometimes yon will see him reading a letter that his mother sent him eight years before. So we had to get up a whole set of letters a ' Greenville of the South Atlantic lengue has purchased Bill Onsen, diminutive Inflelder. from the Knox ville club of the same league a a The sale of FrPd Spurgeon. former second hiiRenian of the Cleveland In tliuns, to the Kansas 'lt.v el.ih of the American association Is announced, a a a George CtimntliiR f professional. his winters In Kingston. Ja nu.icu. and his summers in Ci.nuda tthere he lots been with the Toronto liolf club for thirty years. I LIFE'S I LITTLE IV I JESTS PATIENT WITH NO PATIENCE Two women were watching the lion aa It paced restlessly up and. down It cage, occasionally letting oul an angry roar. Gracious," said the one lady, "wouldn't you hate to be Id the cage with thai brute?" --Oh, I don't think I'd mind It much, nw." replied tiie other "I've been living In the house with my hustisnrt, who hna been borne for week wltb the flu." ANY OLD ROOM WOULD DO He Do you think people should make use of mushrooms? She Oh, I don't think special rooms are needed for that Degrees of Culpability W know that aambllna a Which ronaclanca muat arruas. It's wrona to ajambla If von win. And much woraa If vou loaa. ' High Finance Mr. 8api They told me at the bank I'd never find nny one to take that Golden Goose mine slock off my hands. Mr. Simp They told me the same about my Dry Hole oil stock. Both l,et'a swap. CoMpicoou by His Color Wotniiu 1 was to tiuve met my hus hand here two hours ago; have yoo seen him? Floorwalker Possibly, msdam Any thing distinctive about hliu? Woman Yes. I Imagine he's purple by this time. Probably Explanation Blinks Queer Ides this of having bed linen come In colors. ... Jinks Probably they are adopting It so when the complexion conies tiff on the pillow slips It won't show so much. Not Interested "lie looks like tireek god I" ex-claimed the gushing girl. "1 cured for (ireek sods." re-piled Miss Cayenne "According fo H reports they were a most unruly lot." Washington Star.. ' "PARK HERE" e r j I' l( uxtlc (visiting city, -- Wh) don't you people start some of these park you goln' to maker Citizen What do you mean I Rustle Why you got signs with "Park Here' on em all over town an you ain't made one of "em yet Up-t- o Date Bag I anw you lltti Brefty Tou worry ml bit Wot when vou ae a traffic cop Tou .now tout tall-ligh- t' lit Wielding No Influence) ; "Several Intluenllul diplomatic at-taches have naked to dunce wltb you "They mistake my position." said Miss Cayenne. "I am soelally Incline! but I am not In politics." Washington Star. Botb Had Good Reaaooe Poet Yea. I come t the seashore every year to guze at the long, bine roll. Pickpocket And I come to gaze at Ibe long, green rolls Playing a Long Shot The lllusirnior I uoilce that you always Insure the manuscripts you send out at $M each. Ever lose any in the mail! The Author No, but I'm still hoping 1 may. The Naked Truth Husband You are extravagant Yon spend money on unnecessary clothes. . ' Wife Absurd! Unnecessary clothes are not In fashion. Almoat Impoeeibla Photographer (busy posing client -- before camera) Yes, Increased wages and the high cost of malerluls have compelled me to raise the price on my pictures 100 per cent Now, will vol. please look a little pleasant? That Interesting, Bird The Fatner Well, Johnny, don't yon want to come In and see the new little sister the stork brought you last night? . j Four Year-Ol- d Nope, but I'd like to see the stork. ItMay Be Z ' fi H C tt Wwnyour Children Ciy forlt Caatoria is a comfort when Baby to fretful. No sooner taken than the tittle one is at ease. If restless, a few drop soon bring contentment No barm done, . for Castoria is a baby remedy, meant for babies. Perfectly safe to give the youngest infant: you have the doctors' word for that I It la a vegetable pro-duct and yon could use It every day. But It's In an emergency that Castoria means most Some nlgbt when consti-pation must be relieved or colic pain or other suffering. 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S Next time a hearty meal, or too rich a diet has bronght on the least dis-comfort try - ; ; nlLLiCaf Milk . of Magnesia Fsrmars ta Use Plaaas Many owners of lurge farma In South Africa are considering the use of airplanes for trips to the city. Farms In that country are enormous In size, as a rule, and planes could als be employed In making trips of .In-spection. Yards are so large that there Is ample spare for landing at the owner's front door. Keeps Flab la Cbaanal To keep young aulmon from and being lost In Irrigation canals and diversion ditches an en-gineer has devised a way of creating an electrified zone of waten which acta as an effective stop sign for the fish and turns them back to the main route. Rebuked Director Now. Miss Boyle, In the next scene you come on In the tout ensemble. ' ' ' '" Movie Star Say, Mr. Olnsbolg, doncha think tt'd be sorts more pa-triotic to use an Amurrican carl-L- ife. The Birth of London No one cun suy when London be-gan ; the beginning Is lost In the mists tf time. London Is first mentioned in a passage In Tacitus, a Roman his-torian whose uncle. General Aglcola, spent most of his active military ca-reer In Britain. Tacitus describes the Roman London of A. D. 61 when It was sucked by Queen Boodicea the British warrior-queen- . It Is one of the strangest thlnga In London's history, that she should first appear at the moment when she was sacked by a British queen, and that that queen's statue should now stand In a place of honor under the palace of Westminster, looking down the Thames. It Is strange, but It marks that peculiar position of London a the meeting place of tbe races out ot which tbe English people were made fireproof wrapping survive, but the ordinary paper Inside was not even scorched. Paper That Won't Burn A paper thnt does aot burn has been discovered. The German Inventor, Mr Franz Franck. gave a demonstration recently. He took a sheet of ordinary newspaper, crumpled it into a hull and wrapped this highly combu'Mihle object in a sheet of his fireproof pa oer. Thus protected, he held It for a ew minutes in the flame of a labors-- " ory blast lamp hot enough to melt a glass w'jidow pane. Not only did tbe Rookie Wouldn't Sign Clyde l'iiy. Pea Ridge. Ark enjoys the distinction of having been a big league holdout without even havlnc played a major league gHine. .Day who played with Omului In the West ern league last year, returned his con tract unsigned to the Chicago Cubs Cub officials said a boost In salary was made but that It was unsatisfactory They returned Day to Omaha. It Is an untisiia' procedure for n rookie not to take advantage of a chance la the majors. ' Channel Tunnel Begua About two and a half miles of tbe tunnel under the English channel were constructed by 1SS5, In which year the project was abandoned on military grounds. Three-quarter- s of a mile was completed on the English side, be-ginning .at Sltakespeare cliff," Dover, and one and a half miles on lbs French side. |