fafartt for Annual Budget of league of Nations M 1 ON^-*<**tor Bpeneal'litf Itflascmn read Into the Cmf—lonal " recehtl^ an ontimtie of the annual bndret of the Ltamp of

fecentljr an csamtie of the annnnl bndeet of the Leafne of pwpered int K. A. Doiph of Waablngton at the rrooeet of the

^trlccliarel M»cladoa. Ur. -

wj* to part- -

ecnoefle that ! have no data or loh 4s tr Q&>Cf« of comm Is- Sf T ,*- 0n * m to Return with proper pomp and ■MBlhl to his Britannic m«y»o y»4H A *a* of the saltan of Mlkwawf. H to Us majesty the kto£

»-U«Jas Jtha .Koran of the caliph ttmea. i&or the rrtnm at the Mhertflptych of tho mystic

I and Industry, listed the 170 tribunals and commissions that an ae...'i/ nemed and created by the Lores of Nations by the Joint treaty of ■BHa-Mth Oe -taony, and have made what I consider a fair estimate to each mmm ef tN

attach appropriate schednlee flv>n< the detail data open which i base MatoUrlai reneral eatlmatc. Salaries and pay roll: First class. S£0R parMh at mOW. 96S.060.000; second class. 12^52 persons, at $5,000, 931,7®,third class, 16^810 persona, at $2,000. 9332,820,000. TrarUln* cxW—m: One-third of these empioyen at 98,000 each 9185,107®0; office ■■C heat and H*bt: $31,478J«i; wear and tsar, fnrnltnr- and otBce eqalp■*tot mm.700; miscellaneous: Prlntto*. exclusive of labor, piants, furni»h% office equipment attendance, witnesses at haartofa. etc. $508,000,000; wm.

LITMUS To TEST DEATH

Decades of American Progress in Porto Rico

-ranch SoMtt DUmert U«Btod to Prove It life l>

Ertinel

••hi niVDOrS pregrr-s* has marked the Brat 20 yearn

#A$pthmAB. JPo

to Porto Rico. In the opinion of <Jov. Arthur Te*er.

two decades of progress made by Porto Rico tinder the American dag

taken all together constitute a record, which, I bdlere. cannot be equaled by any people anywhere to the world to the same length Of ttme. It to a record creditable alike to the Porto El cans them selves and. to the great fro* ropublic to which they owe allegiance."

PRECtOBES BCSUL ME

n life

cblj the moat striking evidence of these Changes to shown In the public Improvements of the Island aid the 1 of the system of public education.

Agrtost the public debt of $10,068,000 there have been expenditures for £na*sent public Improvements amounting to $15.8»A864-or more than #L66 ■ *w»nent Improvements for each $1 of debt. This tadudee expenditures «* 1**0,882 fo, reads and bridges, $4,213,404 for public buildings and $4.-

■ I " B for an Irrlgmtic® syotem.

-Aero has baas created Jn Porto Klee a modern democratic school ayetomk xfferint free education to the children of the Island. As i result, the

There has been eoi

among medical men during

Jnst over as to the possibility of a cooaldenible number cf ente-mortem burials of soldiers who received their

Cf adult iflltwacy has been reduced from 7»P to UW to teas'’than ^'cartog^er* d^^retdy Aper-eeut In 101U. In 18B0 there were 2h87S children atteodlng echool. as wounded uZ toe

tire kind.

PrecedenU at Hand.

Occasionally c new spaper can lea a story of a victim of catalepsy or hysteria undergo!ns a narrow escape from

M| u I pretnatore burial, and. recently an

' , “ d ‘ t«« n-JM w* in 1«01 u I p^,„. mm .•

- ■■ ■ onmm or monnl. nnd who vnn

; placed to a coffin ready for burial.

* cf adult iflltwacy has been reduced from 7&B to 18W to tew than weeut to IBIH. In 1889 there were 214573 children attending schools as

■wired-with 1®,7M children to 1816.

& 1880 there » $12 ailpa.-

yx pnwic health service has been built op and health conditlocs "tre ■*maty Improved." a modern ayat-m of taxation has been developed. k|w are declared to have been tocreaeed and the condition of labor much

s 1® miles of completed Insular roads; now the Island

Test Is Pbysloo-ChsmlMi and Has te Do With Alkalinity of the Body in

Serum Taken From Betfy.

Parts.—The fear of being burled alive to perhaps an elemental faareone of the hofrora that have haunted mankind through the agee. Not only the simple and Ignorant have suffered because of It but wise men as well, and some of our moat gifted writers have employed the theme of suspended animation for the bail* of weird and terrible talas end of poems of Daxt-

t'.-e body. He attaches a small pair of forceps to a fold of skn^'l&d damps them to place, tearing thesn to position far five or six eotoutes. At the and of iMa time the forooss are Vemmd and to the depreaHons on each ride o* (he “pleat" o£ fteshjpadc by .toqjxnitotog instrument are been to oae* aM<eral

drops of aaruuv The placed to contact with if 1: tune red there to no

the patient no longer Uvea, for the add tost to aatabBahad. Sometime* it to

» fctabjtow i 3 this ibid, r-o

for the change from blue to red to take place, but once apparent It te indisputable. & must be remembered that this t<at to useless before the

yodurod, to th. tittle more t A year the work has been in re tie*, food*-.-, rained at M&OW.OOO. the tureen of edoioa of the department of the

ijdapee of six hours, aa acidltj doe* not IbKoeghly eatabltoh itseir to a dead

of a vary atepta method for procnric;

a few drop* of aeroua matter from

the

idar tfc'i time.

It Is totKwsttog to recall to ccnm ttoo with Doctor lord's teat that o of the tests commonly employed u

of giaffiilng a fold cf flash with the forceps and remising It there for eev-

momente. In the case of a living body the "{dear i

“pleat" gradually return- to when life to extinct the of tha flesh peralau. Doctot lewd's teat (which baa been adopts;* in tiw MarseOIas hospitals) has a double value to that It to elude* the ptayslew teat of the compress!oo of

actabltoars a. state of acidity, tiras “making assurance doubly sure" and rwnovtoy from th* realm of chance the .eatabilshaent of death tot cues

TAKING MEN

Akaost Forgotten Incident in Our Early History 1°“ cl “"i ,i " ,m 9 i ” / dertaker discovered to hto berror that r j bar heart was beating removed I Wig house debite over th* bill (R. 2775) to i/romote the mining of coal, j her at one* to a hospital, where ehu ghrophate. dfl. gas and sodium on the public domain Representative ! was given elcctricKl treatmmt. under ApBrrws of NAraska. after referring to suggeatiou* to the effect that these j which she Anally crened her eyas and

weasara lands really belonged to the •totglnsi statea. which might coll for

IBs rentals, gave a Hat of the deposits J j | CAft ■■tot with the various sutes by the T W yW

toawmry under the met of June 22, ^

■* >*»****:

Hslue. $855,83825; New llamp- J ( $880,096.79; MassachurettA $1.-

$761,870. ®; Rhode Island. »; New Tort. $4.014.520.71: Jersey, $764,870®; l‘enn«)lb. $2.887.514.78; Delawtre. $2®.ffi; Maryland. $855AS825; Virginia. 3ff.lW.427®; Nortt Carolina. $J. 757®; South Chrollna. $1®1.422®; Georgia. $1,051,422®; Alabama. MB8.78; Louisiana. $477,019.14; Mtoslaaippl. $882,835®; Tennessee, $L *T®; Kenturty, $1,488,757®; Ohio. |2.007®0®; Mlaaouri. $382®6®; ■na. $J®.254.44; Ililnol*. $477®<»14; Mlch...n, $28*-731.48; /jkanma Em 46. Total. $28,101,444kl. U* said that at 4 per cent the principal and interest amount (a $121,000,He suggested a Joint resolution calling upon tbe stales for the return of asaney. under tbe terms of the act.

Bade Sam’s War on Automobile Thieves Is Now On

l. the new fed -ret law curb the automobile thieves? At any rate the rw tow to now In active oiwration and federal prosecutions all over the r have been stithortem] from Washington. By providing heavy punish tarot for Interstate .’raffle In stolen Ydu kteteT r * p *- R will donhtlaaa check local ■ irraiaJv cuttinv flown the market, Fmser aatat '* tbl bnatue*» of <h. tkrevdtogly dangerous. The new tow to likely to make a lot of business for nutted Bta'e* dts trtet cturneys. Tbe dcp«r:mvfu of Jcst'c* ee<imates that 8,500,000 car* are 1c use today, totaling an c'.peodl ture of $7®0.00AV00. OMcagn suA^Sh! the loa* of 2401 car* stolen tn 1BI8. according to go* t flgurr., rmi was »«rond hardest hit of dtlM to the coautry. A Urg af 1®4 lailreflo care were recovered, the report add*, and Detroit alone bm* eh..»r Chicago to tiu year’s l.w« The middle Wmt tost more than IB® aero by theft, and organised bends ere operating to (he anlpmrnt of

ottered a few Incoherent words. Such authenticated Incidents cause the reader to ask If there ^ not some infallible tret ot death known to the

mediae! profession.

In tho “Bartow of Comparative Pathology" Dr. Sererir I card of Marecilies gives the retails of hto tovestlfetlon* to program during a tong period Into thU subject. His test to phrstco-chemkat vad has to du with

th* alkalinity of the body to life. Ctber nurds, as long as life to present in the human organism tbe fluids (with the fcstvptiou of tbe urine, the gaotric alkaline. On after death

For a abort ported after death the tissues are both alkaline and add, nnd •he litmus paper test ahowe both bine and red. But eevaa or eight hours after death to sappoeod to have taken place the teat to positive; tl life U extinct the odd test to unmistakable and the blue paper becomes A deep whir red. This pamege from alkalinity to acidity to found In nil the animal eerie*, and na far back ns UflO It was urged

Finnish Women Take Up M Kinds of Emptoymnt.

Evan Serve as l^rtere on Steeping

for the stranger In Finland Is the number of vomer engaged la almost ovary field of empto/mect. In jSoglaad dorto the sight of women performing various kinds of work to nhlrt prevloee-

M 4Sr«

ly only i

i the

But to

sloe that tbe women are doing evary-

Not only aaa they at heavy a

have become ■killed as reerbunh have Invaded bnatoees aflteas to tent that to probably undreamed any other country. In banks the proportion at i

s PQsmoNS

Of what to left to required far military service. The Finnish business woman to remarkably keen and intelligent. She hrn a kind of masculine Interest anu absorption to her work that seems to admit of no mcrgtn for sentiment or frivolity. She drew, simply and smartly, as do the majority of the citybred women of this country. An American walking through the principal streets of Helsingfors might well

brisk walk cf the Finnish * that be was in the heart ot Chicago.

GAVE A BOOK; OCT A HUSBAND

Hew York Qlrt Evidently Was •west as Poetry Volume

New Tort.—When the “Boos* for BoWiere" campaign was at Its height "arty tost year. Mias Basel Bell Gil best of Cbeepehead Bay. a daughter of Detective hergaant Gecrg* P. Gilbert of th* bomb squad, turned to a

soda led Preae correspondent Mdired that wotneu war- bolding office* that would be entirely beyond the aspirations of their alxtere to the state department at Washington or th* British foreign office. This change ho* come about almost

been greatly depleted, and a large pen

the book, with her name on the fly »d Its way to a rest station behind the firing lines, end there fell into the hands of Lieut. William J. Edwards of th» marine corps, who vrou her a letter asking bar If six

menu brought to Ug "iSgSln*.. tn* first retry in the boob-, fe later Ohio became s atato. Tbe county at thst W**** times at Urge tk tt is today. Eh? duplicate Mowed a total of f the territory sllott^! to .Wj eoaniy to 1797 were tb* l Marietta. GsUlpolU. Wd<!tete«;di Waterford. Salem and F Bdpre.

headquarters to Marietta, k

1808* at the risk of tl wage of $8^5. Indian* r

lag**, ao th* tax coitoctor j incky to retitre “body v' In 1798, according te fl district was divided Into*

places a Tbe cements*!on chore 1 three members a to that year.' Meeting* were held at £ Joseph C Lincoln. » war hero, and a a Ohio company w! etta, the first town tn ? ritory. Judge* received 75 i wbeniver they worked <

each session. Six crets paid a Judge for each The foremen of tbe calved W cents a day i %) cents and 8 cents i to and from court. DUbursement* for Atlantic coast and New papers are mentioned la showing advertising was a

that day.

Roumanian Military Men Tbe Roumanian, at toast’ resident ’s extremely fume, scented soap, rouge, and other artificial aids This applie* not only but to tbe men.

Th*

wcresiiyn

army officer Is scented.

often. It to a

HI* habits mrk him for o g_ of :aUlery on tbe par: of forMgn o cere and visitor*. In ‘ 1 faultless as a Beau 1 manner a* polite «« a Lord < fletd. He to *e« at hi* b dr>y or Bunds; rfe.rooaa 1 Celse Victoria (the Fifth i

Bucharest).

Drewied la e toy-bine unlfcrta. & Uy trimmed with red. bigii p«tfl leather boots with slivered *pu 1 dink musically •> he walks, j tng eword at side, whit* kid glove* « many rallltary decorutions. Re * a striking figure.

When he rome boms be rolled, and apparently found her ao, for they were married th* other day at th* Gravesend Reformed church. Aftet a boiwymcxm to Bermuda. Lieutenant Edwards and hto bride will live tn Waablngton.

TO MAKE MAPS FROM AIR

Airplane* to B. U,ed to Chart

Amazor A"w.

French Is parts Plan to Survey Route

of River From Flytofl

Mechlnea

valuable freight

There are insneuae rivers in French Guton* which. »-rou*e of th* presence of many rnpHU ore now only navigable tn ennoan. which take weeks to transport freight over distance* whlc* tho hydro-elflph- use can cover to ns many boors, with always large •tn- j Btrrtchea of smooth water offering

Ghtrogo got suthorily early te take up fndont) prouccuttons under th»' rero law District Attorney tfiyn* opened the campaign by bolding thro.■MW- m-ruerd of the inirrsute lrnn;i>ort«tloo *w stolen srs snd recamuesid- ■$ W' 1 * nt rel* acnanpimy wan auto pmchase. ehowtng legal tlti# to gtejar l-y wary owner. wbotiMtr the car be new or a jeirren of tbe second Fred y. law of tsdlsuspolls was held under $1®!: hoods for farther wreiac before Oomml •hwu-r Mtrt A. Foote. He to charged with tnurtport ns a car to Chicago which to said to nave been stolen to Mnncir, hid. WU teto Leuletw.ry end Carton Klorr nt Kalamaaoo were held for further hear ■B e» ehsrae* of having driven U on automobile said y> have be«u atotre to 1b« totter am* turned over U. fed*;*' st’fhbstttos by ffia Ghlcage

faro. Hraxli- — — — — — — - ——— ployed to map the valley of the giet suitshte surface for landing and "take-

Ainu son river. If the French are sui !

easelu! to their effort to use aircraft The freight chargafl nw ea'd to be for surveying th* routes of the rivers high, and the trr ffic is expected to woof French Guinns. It to understood ' sl*t nmlnly of ffi'ld, balato '.nd

much danger nnd difficulty. Specially trained halato wortrere. wall armed, traveling to Uade of 15 or 20. have bean emptey**, to explore the forests, end they hart to carry with them sup

Number* fee Fong tings.

Sac FfrJteiwo, CnL- So many Fong lugs appro rod tn charges of violation of tbe federal narcotic laws that Federal Judge Wltltem Vat. Fleet of the federal court here was forced lo place them to numbered chairs, such os “Fong Bing No. 1, Fong Ming No 2," •te- dawn the line. Each was treading on tbe other's toes, so to speak, and all the attorn*; ? and all the king's mm had a Iambi* time iwrtlng them

the Brasilian government will apply ! of nwewwod. Which are the principal ugaln. Forty-two Chlm-w fared th* th* ume method the merry nt the j ex^.rt* of the colony. Tbe paesenger charge of seiU&g navcotics ertthoat a

Aumaon and It* affiuonu. j burineM- I* not xpectort tn be b*ary jRcroee.

A French company Is Mid to hare Thcwu bydTO-Mrplnne* will also be i ‘ bMN! fonm-d to Osycnne. with hangur* j n;cO for iiragp-.-'tng the forests for Htt by Train, Carried to Safety on Phot. U1. Ih* Mnronl river, and Fm ch gvto- halate trees, width grow to *T”UP* Tuwalotwa. la,—Hit by ■ f a ,t t.-rs with flying agperienw gninert laiso thst the Mbice wn. tl U said, be; * , '* | kvr train, mrried eight mils*

tb('war are being Wnphiyed to rot the rendllj-distingBl^iietl by aviator* tly hydro-s.lrpiai>c7 wild to huv« btH-n low over tbs Aop* of the forest »rt furmstwd by he gm.-.-nmeut. lu the pm* >1«* ’ .-urtag of fr lu addition tw reeking maps, the mu isourro* of hala;» ha* bron r work

; t»w pilot uuronseiou*. and than rnllui.off by ride of the track, was the «-i (rerimre of L"Vte llnuim«t>. who lives

•to toll tbe tote.

P*jME!|L Th< uasignmeat in tbs gU a‘ffr J position doss at Sdplo wu < plying -if the feminine cqc when the teacher gave c coUnt, term. All 1 doke with the ansv qute and mure!] ioaci*, . brought no answer until Johutto s bled on to h's answer out of Ms e dny vocabulary—“terdy."

M— U. Ph,*,nrf, r . The gn* me;rrs to Near Fork a be read by photograph. Meter r*-__ employed by the gas company vrtBW equipped with small cameras wb!ds over the Indicator un the glri-r. L preaMug a button light to thrown 2 the dial and cii-.sure made, a the amount of go* consaaxd a la«: photograph.

. Reopening Irish C The ol «J «ypper mine* of to County Wste-ford. Ireland, are start working again. Engineers a thst the cliff still peeresses rich u of copper ore. and the Dmm » hare workable deporiu of crol proposed to start work at one* ®0 men.

Easy far Pans.

IJttle Joe's fathar ^ ^ after the funeral Joe cstted hto t; er nnd asked." “Msmtna. wb-.-daddy r “In heaven. ,1***;tuarumn Feplled. Joe exclalaMrigw. ain't that nice; to- ran re. I the bail ptraro frec.“--Chiea*g a *

lean.

Fwxted at Sink's Thirst My llttto daughter, after me I*our a bucket of water to ,„ •ink and seeing it dirappaeT JJ? j 'Oh. daddy, t)np« th, water, tour—Ghlrago Amorican.

Spain Wants I To eocourag* return ratotn-Fl-nto the governnretit « U | gi»,% prise* to lb* fontm-n end law who mosi dtettogulmb t Its cnltivation.

-r. * 70 ** I «P«Vtefl. rbe rtnetro prooaunred It a •ulo-intirrtrattnti.“

No, »r Eruption. Frotu a uorj ; "YslU of t dined up bis throat."—Bart, script.