Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1895, Page 15

“THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1895-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE INBIAN ARROW fase Investigation “tuto the Uses of the “4 Weapon, HOW THE ‘SAVAGES MADE If Flaking Off the Chips of Ob- and split from tip to base by pressing the quill apart along its inner groove or mid-rib. The featherings were all chosen from corresponding sides of the mid-rib that they might be uniform. They were now laid flat on the shaftment, the bases of the quills toward the top, first the right wing, then the left wing, so called; finally, the tail; the latter transversely to the nock to serve as a cock feather. After all the shafts had thus been feath- ered, the whole bunch was taken in hand, the butts stuck against the ground or a one, then reversed and righted, and with @ puff of the breath thrown down, ends forward. According as the arrows fell they were carefully sorted into groups, and with the more highly developed tribes like the Zuni, the cock or tail feathers of each group were not trimmed and tufted WHO IS THE RULER OF RUSSIAt “UNDER THE WEATHER.” Why People Feel This Way and That "It In Needless Clea Strange Stories About the Action of the Young Emperor. ‘From the Manchener Allgemeine Zeitung. A few weeks ago I wrote in this column that more than ever the direction of all state affairs lies in the hands of the Em- Press Marta Fedorouna. We might have added, “‘and the Finance Minister Witte.” This latter fact, from a modern point of view, cannot be looked upon as a disad- ventage for Russia, as Witte is a clever, determined, strong-willed man, who will gc to any limits, if necessary. Such a ian, who is at the same time able to exe- y Shown. “Why is it that so many people feel ‘uvder the have tired feelings, and complain of weather,” semiations at this time of the year? ‘This is a question that is sery easily answered Frople naturally feel ¥eak and run down after the heat of summer because it thins the blood and lowers the vitality. The chilly weather of fall and early winter finds them unprepared to with- stund_ the change of termperature, and hence they suffer. This fact is plainly proved by the follow- img opiukins of scme people who speak from prac- teal experience: OF THE TREATY i at DIDLOMATIC MYSTERY. BY ‘hoy TERET i F i Med- No. 1K} Goldengate ave., San Francisco, Cal. “I have been using Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky for some time, and it does all that is claimed for it. Have used many remedies for my complaint, but none of them lasting. The only article that seems to be successful ts Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky. Respectfully, J. M. MARTIN.” Mr. John W. Crosby, 3547 Kensington ave., phia, ays: “I have used Duffy's Pure Malt Wlusky for loss of appetite and tired fecling, ust soy Ihave received great beneiit frow ‘othing has ever equaled this whisky for build- ing up the system, putting the blood in healthful Motion and tnvigorating the body. Thousands of People testify to its splendid tonic effgetain cases of extreme weukness. On tits acconnt no inferior “In Itatlons should be accepted from grocers or drug- gists who attempt to substitute something in- ferior. There 1s cothing that can take its place. One Massive Solid Oak Hall Rack—un- usually large mirror—top elegantly carred— large box receptacte—side arm umbrella racks—a plece of fur- niture to be proud f— in ie ee = SAO Another * Hall Rack, Also in solid oak—elaborately carved— splendid French bevel plate $ mirror—large seat—side arm umbrella stands—cut from $50 to.. 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Ave. se80-311,28 to take to Atlanta is an important con- eration. What yo baggage people will be be that you'll be incon- ou get your trunk. se _will do—if you get a goodly sized one. You'll be surprised how me will contain. We haye them at G3e., SC. $1.10 and $1.25— . to Soe. iess than others® Kneessi, 425 Seventh St. se 2a -~—No matter how fragile the fab- ric, there’s not the slightest injury to LACE CURTAINS when clean- ed by us. Wagon calls. Anton Fischer, 906 G St. MATCHLESS PROCESS DYEING AND CLEANING. (Copyright, 1895, by Irving Bacheller.) (Continued from Monday's Star.) “But how could he possibly have got the information?” “How, indeed? We have taken every Possible precaution. We hold our sittings, as you know, at the, foreign office, in an immense saloon upstairs. The walls and cellings are prodigiously thick We sit at 1 table in the middle of the room, and never raise our voices; there is no occa- sion for us to do so. Perhaps you suggst the chimney—something was once done in that way, or supposed to be done, for I never quite believed the story. But with us it is impossible, for we keep up a roar- ing fire. Neither is it through the blotting paper tkat our secret has been betrayed, for we do not use any; we powder our writing in the good old-fashioned style. In fine, it is absolutely impossible for any outsider to get sight or hearing of our pro- ceedings. And what makes the incident all the more painful is that, in the discussion of this particular clause, we decided for the sake of gveater security to dispense With the attendance of a secretary.” Of course, I saw the significance of this. It seemed to point to treachery on the part cf one of the diplomatists. I hinted as much to the prince, but he was stanch in defense of his order.” “No doubt,” he said, “it looks like it. No ctker explanation seems possible, and yet that explunation fs impossible. Diploma- tists, as you and I know, are not consid- ered a specially serupulous class of people. But there is honor amongst thieves, and int Sehrievaljies. diplomacy itself would become impos if there weve not a certain backgrow confidence amongst diplomatists. FH. fn so many. other cases, a rigid profess!onal etiquette serves as a sucecdaneum for c sefence. When we act individually doubt we are ijable to do all sorts of queer things. But when we agree to act colle>t- ively. and mutually pledge our honor to keep our proceedings secret, we know we can trust each ether.” I was aware from my own experience that there was a great deal of truth in wnat the prince said; still, my curiosity Trompted me to ask him who had acted as secretary when the real secretary was ab- sent. “Oh, there need he no secret ubout that,” said tHe prince; * is Shrievaijieff. How pleased he will be if Le Grand upsets the treaty! My chief difficulty has been with him.”” I knew Count Shrievaljieff well, but did net care much for him. He was a tall, fine man, between fifty and sixty, excep- tionally ugly, but with wonderfully supple, and, if I may so speak, adjustable man- ners. And, to match these, he had an ex- traordinary command of the facial mus- cles. When in perfect repose the clean- shaven skin looked very like a sheet of tight-drawn parchment, except that the color was much browner than that of parchment. But, when he wished, he coui? wrinkle up the entire surface of his face into a series of concentric curves, which seemed to represent the ne plus ultra of human suavity and benevolence. But they came so suddenly and disappeared so com- pletely that it was impossible not to harbor @ suspicion that they were wholly super- ficial, and that this many-wrinkled smile stood in no vital relation to the man’s in- ner nature. In fact, it reminded me very much of the grimaces of an Ind!a-rubber doll when you squeeze its plastic counte- ce. mit was said that the count had devel- oped this talent for facial contortion to such an extent that he could, when he chose, make one side of his face assume a different expression from that of the other, so as to be able to present a sym- pathetic aspect to two different interloc: tors at the same time. This was, of cours not literally true, but I always fancied that he turned a natural defect to such good ac- count that there was an element of trui! in the statement. For whilst his right eye was in all respects normal, the lid of the left cye drooped permanently over the eye- ball. This eye was, moreov always suf- fused with an excess of moisture, which gave it a somewhat lachrymose appear- ance. ‘This, no doubt, he sometimes turned to g20d account, when paying a visit of condolence. The explanation probably was that the left eye was an artificial one, as the irritation caused by is apt to ov glands, At an the lachrymal was generally be- lieved in diplomatic circles that the count was blind of the left eye, though he him- self never acknowledged the defect’ Whilst I was conjuring up in my mind this image of Count Shricvaljiei, the prince had been prodigal of lamentations over the stolen treaty. is “It touches me more than any one,” he said, “for it is precisely this thirteenth clause in which my gracious master 1s most interested. And I had just succeed- ed in arranging matters as I know he wishes them to be arranged. It has given me a world of trouble, and now Le Grand is going to upset it ali. It is monstrous that the press should have such power. “Is there anything a can do?” I asked. “If so, pray command me. “Well, T thought that, as you know Le Grand, you would not mind trying to sound him, so as to find out, if possible, how much he really has discovered. He ts such a braggart that he might commit himself.’ “J will see what I can do,” I said, “but I do not expect that I shall get much out f him.” car nk you so very much,” said the “you are always doing something it. Le Grand was staying at an hotel near the chief post office, so I bent my steps in that direction. I did not wish to call on him if I could avoid It; it would be far better that any conversation we might have should spring up casually. I was therefore not a little pleased when, as I was drawing near the post office, I saw my man a littls distance in front of me. It was impossible to mistake his huge figure, and curious shambling gait. By an instinct he s2emed to know that some one wes watching him from the rear, for he suddenly turned round and, catch- ing sight of me, turned back to meet me. “Ah,” he said, in his grand manner, “go- ing to the post office, I suppose. It is the real center of civilization.” I thought tt would be well to accom- pany him, so I said something about buy- ing stamps. | i “We entered the post office together, Le’ Grand prepared to write a telegram. he unbuttoned his coat to take out -his own special pencti—the gift of some mon- arch--I noticed the end of a blue official envelope sticking out of an inside breast pocket, and could not help wonderipg whether it contained the draft of the treaty. = When he had finished writing his tele- gram, he came up to me flourishing it in his hand. “It is in one way lucky,” he said, “that we correspondents have sbeolutely no news to send, for the censorship is very strict. Ne cipher telegrams are allowed to be sent during the sitting of the congress, and the erdinary telegrams are detained, or sup- pressed, or mutilated, as it sults the au- thorities. I have no doubt, too, that the black cabinet is at its old work of opening letters. However, it you have no news to communicate it makes no difference. They can hardly object to a telegram like this— can they?” With that he handed me the telegram to read. It was very short and was addressed to the office of his paper in London: “Cannot obtain much information. good waiting i the hope tonight.” I-have a trained’ memcry, and when I Tead this telegram I teok care to fix it in- delibly in my mind. Then I returned it to Le Grand, and he handed it to the clerk, who accepted it without a demur. I had hoped that I might now get a lit- tle private conversation with the great man, but [ was disappointed, for the mo- mert we got outside he made his adieux, and, hailing a droschky, was driven back to his hotel. There was nothing for me to uo but to return to mire; but, meanwhile, I tock out my note book and wrote down the telegram word for word. Two or three things had already struck me with respect to it. The first was that he had evidently wished me to see it. This by itself was suspicious, as Le Grand seldom did any- thing without an object. The second was why should he telegraph at all if. he had ro news to cunvey? The third was that, transparent as the telegram seemed, there was still scmething a little suspicious in its length. Why not have simply telegraphed: “No news?” Altogether I was satisfied that there was some deception about ihis telégram, and I therefore proceeded to treat it as a crypto- gram. Now the plan of such every-day cryptograms is not, as a rule, very com- plicated. Unless, as was the case with me, there is some ground of suspicign to start with, a very simple cryptogram will ef- feetualiy cmceal the meaning of the writer. But, knowing what I did, I had something. to work upon; and thus helped, I svon de- ciphered Le Grand’s real meaning. At least I felt Morelly certain I hed done so. I merely took the initials of the words in their order, and found that they made up this presrent sentence: “Coming with T. “T" of course stood for treaty. This wgs not only a piece of information, but just the p:eze of information that m'ght have been expected. For, if Le Grand had really secured a copy of the treaty, he woutd, of course, be mos! anx‘ous to trans- mit ‘tat once to London. But how? It was imposs:ble to send it by telegraph. No cipher telegrams were allowed to pass, and any other, however ingeniously constructed, must necds betray itself througi the proper names and countries, out which the treaty would be mere nonsense. Nor did I hink it I'kely that Le Grand would com-. mit such a momentous secret to the post, knowing as he did the unscrupulousness of the black cab’net. There remained only one course of action at once feasible and pru- dent, and that was for Le Grand to convey it in person to London, As he would travel by the mail, he would arrive just as soon, rT and no doubt would enjoy the evation wh.ch he would assuredly rece.ve. I looked at my watch. lt was already 7 o'clock. The through train started at 8. J, told my valet to pack my valise and to put in some official paper and envelopes. This No done. 1 drove to the station by myself. As ! yet there was no sign of Le Grand. I Waited about on the platform in the hope that he would make his appearance, but I waited in vain. Ai last, at five minutes to &, it suddenly occurred to me to make a thorough inspection of the train. It was well I did so, for there, huddied up in the cer.er of 2 first-class compartment, with a oy "c Wan no concealing those huge proportions.” traveling cap drawn down over his face, and the collar of his overcoat pulled up to the eyes, was Le Grand. And he must have been there for nearly an hour. He had done his best to disguise himself, but there -Was no concealing those huge proportions. I jumped into the carriage just as the train began to steam slowly out of the station. (To be continued on Wednesday.) ge WILLOW-WARE PLATES. Fashion’s Demand for China Our Grondmothers Thought Common. From the Charleston News and Courier. A dealer in antiquities, if furniture and such things often less than a century in age can so be designated, said that the chief article of demand in his line of busi- ness was the old “willow-ware plate.” “There are any number of new ones,” he said, “but people want the olf ones, and, do what you will,” he added, With charming frankness, “you can’t make the new ones look old—never mind what you do with theni.”” : Fifty or sixty years ago these plates were in common use in Carolina, as well as elsewhere, but were not considered “fine’— being used only when there was no com- pany—French china and, more especially in Charleston, East India china, being con- sidered the proper thing on state occasions. Now, however, the old willow-ware has been nearly all broken up or else put in a colleetor’g cabinct. The description of the Plate is as follows: To the right is a man- darin’s country seat. In the foreground is a payilion, in the background an orange tree, and to the right a peach tree in fall bearing. The estate is inclosed by a fence, and through it flows a brook on the way to the sea—in which there is an island high up at the left side, with a cottage on it. Over the brook there is a bridge, with three figures on it. The famous willow tree stands at one end and a gardener’s cottage at the other, while high above soar two birds. These birds are meant for doves, and the figures for the mandarin’s daughter, with a distaff in her hand, her lover and the mandarin with a. whip. The story is this: The mandarin had an only daughter, Li Chi, who fell in love with Chang, her father’s secretary, who lived in the island cottage at the top of the plate. The man- darin forbade the match, and the lovers eloped and lay cencealed for a time in the gardener’s cottage, and thence made their escape to the home of Chang. The father pursued them with a whip, and would have beaten them to death had not the gods changed them intd turtle doves. ——+o+____ A Mental Stimulu: The first installment of the great mys- tery story, “When the War Was Over,” by Frederick R. Burton, will be published next Monday. Five hundred dollars in gold for*the first correct solution. Particulars in another column. The golden remedy, Dr. Bull Ms t%e ye 11 Sidian, ote AN INTERESTING Mr. Frank H. Cushing, before the Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, at its recent session read an interesting paper on the arrow: “One of the most ancient of the things man has made," he said, “is the arrow. There is no weapon the lin- eage of which can. be traced to a simpler beginning. We have been apt to lcse sight of this through associating as inseparable, alike in orizin and use, the bow with the arrow. But I think I can show that the arrow had been perfected in well nigh all its parts long before the sim- plest bow had been thought of or fash- joned. If this be true, then the arrow in its embryonic form was older than either the store ax or the shaped knife of flint. It was the chief reliance and resource of primitive man iu the* two main activities of Hfe—war and the chase, it speedily be- came his first—at.d ever remained, by rep- resentation, at least, his highest instru- mentality for divining the fate or fortune its use so often decided, and in this way came to affect as no other single object ever did the development and history of mankind the wide world over. When I was a barefoot boy, less than ten years of dge, my father’s hired man, whilst plowing one day, picked up and threw to me across the furrows a little blue flint arrow point, saying: “The In- diars made that; it is one of their arrow heads.” As he turned again to his plow I took it up fearftly, wonderingly, in my hands. Nothing kad ever aroused my in- terest so much. Thet little arrow point decided the purpose and calling of my ‘ole life. When I had gathered in course ef time a collection of some hundreds of relics from all ovet central and western New York, I began a series of experi- ments to learh how these arrows had been made. There was a farmer in our neigh- borhood who, when younz, had gone to California, and had been ‘pinned in the shoulder by an Irdian arrow. He may not’ have killed the Indian, but at any rate, he had his whole sheaf of arrows—quite as perfect a sct as I ever saw. They were all poirted with obsidian tips, like mine in ehdpe and in finish, but smalier. In recog- nition a my passion he gave me two of em. ‘I’ thought the pots were glass, and forthwith added all the thick pieces of bottle glass and window-plate I could gather to my‘store of new materials for practice. With this I worked now and then throughout a‘ whole season; but the pro- ducts of my ‘hammerings,though fair, were but crude com ared with those of the field. A Bay'nc Enthusiasm. When nearl¥ ‘fourteen years of age I discovered in the“woods south of Medina, N. Y., an ancient Indian fort. I built a hut there and used to go there and live days at a time, digking for relics whilé the sun shone, and on, ratty, days, or at night by the light of {he camp fire, studying by experiment how. the more curious of them had been made and-uset: One evening I unearthed a beautiful harpoon of bone. I had a tooth brush. I chopped the handle Of and .greund:it down on a ptece of sand- stone to the shape of the harpoon blade, but-could-notigtind theyelean-cut barbs in its edge. I took-amy store of flint scales and chipa-andisetsto worl.on it, using the fint flakes im my-tingers, of clamping them between splitd stidks, saw fashion. The flint cyt the-bone nway aswell as a knife of steel woul@ have cut it, but left the wor] sppaeh Now, ip; trying to smooth I made a W€scovery. No sdoner had I begun to rub the bone transversely to the edge of the fitnt than the bone began to cut the flint away—not jaggedly, as my ham- mer store would have chipped it, but in long, continuously narrow surface flakes whervver the edge was caught in the bone ‘at a certain angle. I never finished that harpoon. I turned it about and used it as an arrow flaker, by tyirg it to a little rod of wood with my shoe string, and pressing it at the proper angle to points on the fiint which I worked to remove. I made arrow after arrow thus in the joy of my new discovery, untit my hands -were blistercd and lacerated. I did not know at that time that archeologists the world over were ignorant, as I had been, of just how flint implements had been made; and I did not learn until my noble, lamented friend, Prof. Baird, called me to the Smithsonian In- stitute in 1875 that I was the first man, or rather boy,.te have practically discovered how to make implements of glass and flint flaked frpm side to side, indistinguish- able from those made by primitive peoples. Paleolithic Mins Existence Brief. I have told’ this history as it occurred, for a three-fold reason; first, to instance the manner in which I discovered flint flak- ing by chancing ignorantly to follow pre- cisely the course primitive man must necessarily have followed; and secondly, to convey to you the lesson this boyish ex- perience taught me—that I could tearn more by strenuously experiencing with sav- age things and arts than others or I could have learned by actually and merely see- ing and questioning savages thems-lves about such things and arts; and thirdly, there is anotaer lesson of later develop ment this experience has taught me—that paleolithic man of the French cav@, at least that man who is said to have known no other art of working stone than by rudely breaking it into shape by blow of other stones could not have existed in such primary status of art for more than a few seasons at most. In finally forming arrow points from these trimmed “blanks” (stones already partly shaped) the smallest of them were chesen. The first care in fashioning one was to remove protuberant points from its edge and sides and to thin it down by means of a pitching tool of buckhorn. It was now further shaped, sharpened, necked or barbed, or serrated—according to intended use. When a number of the points kad been finished, they were warmed by the fire and rather ceremoni- ously enwrapped in buckskin or fiber; not mcre to keep them safe than to cure them of this rough handling and win them to favor and strength. Then twigs were cut with due sacrifice to the wood sprites, were brought head or upper ends foremost, passed over the gtore of points, to make them “acquath: ed" and laid down with their tip ends to the east or south, if for the peaceful hunt, to the west or north; if for war. Th ere peeled upwardly, or from butt to Up, Yhat their way of working be not balked; scraped and shaved to uni- formity, alsq from the butt upward, and Placed alongside a hot fire or buried in moist, hot sand, 16 soften or “ripen” them, and afterward /'clamped between one nether greoved pléce of sandstone or sand- ed wood, and one‘bmall flat piece, held over it firmly in the left hand, was shoved and pulled twistingly back and forth, until smoothed and rounded and further straightened, Finally, each was both sea- soned and pélished, then straightened to a nicety, by passing it under heavy pressure over a smooth, grooved piece of very hot soapstone, or else, better still, by heating and stretching it, turning it at the same through a veritable drawplate of bonehorn or hard wood, furnished with a single medium hole or several beveled per- forations. Feathering the Arrow. When fully stretched it was grooved along three or sometimes four or more places on its circumference, with the tusk of a tuma or wildcat of flery eye—if for war; with elk, beaver or other gentler kind of tooth if for the’ peaceful chase, The point of this tooth was pressed into this shaft at the tip, inserted through one of the stretching holes and then the shaft was shoved through to the end of the shaftment or feathering point—twistingly, for at least every alternate groove—that it might form a wavering trail for the lightning to transverse from point to quill when the feathers whistled, speeding the sure flight of the arrow. Three pinion feathers, all from the right or all from the left wing of the eagle or hawk, were chosen PAPIR differently. from those of others, to denote their classes, as » one set’of the north, being, another of the west and the others re- spectively of the south and east. The top and mid-most shaft was zeserved as ‘a per- sonal arrow for special treatment, and the double shafts were left unfinished. At last in correspondence to the kinds of shafts as indicated by the cock feathers, the points were selected, the keen23t and dead- Hest for the north and west; the broadest and shortest for the south and the es The tips of the shafts were hocked “and rasped, each with the base of the point designed for it; and these were then seized on free-handadly, with sinew. All these in- creasingly solemn operations were con- cluded ty the orderly ribanding of the shaftsments with the colors of Jeath and blood—biack and red, or with the yellow of magic, or the gr: or blue of life and vic- tery. The arrows were finally iaid out to the west or the east, and breath-endowed with lives of their own; then placed with their parent, the fire arrow, all save its congort, the personal one, heads downward, feathers upward, that the lightning run not out or the feathers speak before th: time, but sleep till wakened for war counci.. — MOUNTAINEER INGENUITY. A Virginian Finds an Entirely New Field for One of Nature's Gifts. “Speaking of snakes reminds me,” began the man with the Loudoun-county whiskers, and The Star writer plumped himself down alongside of him on the truck. “What does it remind you of?” inquired the 8S. W. “Jimjams sometimes, and sometimes it don't,” he said, with a languorous Loudoun- county smile. “When it don't,” inquired The Star writer, politely following the Loudoun-county lead in the matter of grammar, “what does it re- mind wou of?” “Well, I reckon it reminds me of something I saw once when I was stoppin’ over night with a man livin’ up in the mountain, about four miles to the south of Ashby's gap.” “Something alive or dead? “Kinder betwixt and between; stuffed.” ‘What was it?” “Well, the chap was like a good many other mountaineers; he wasn’t a million- aire, but he had a tooth for good things, and not having money enough to provide what he wanted, he took to-nature for his sup- plies. Fruit was plenty, wild and tame, and fruit ain’t to be sneezed at in the way of good eatin’. But cans cost money, and there wasn’t any way of savin’ it that he could see, until, as I say, he took to nature and got what he wanted. He had been tellin’ me about it, and one night when I went past his cabin, along about Christmas, he called me in to see what he had in stock. It showed up as soon as I got inside, and for a minute I was so skeert I didn’t know whether I was afoot or horseback or had jimjams or what, for hanging down all around the room in festoons was the dernedest iot of snakes I ever see. It looked like a regular snake den, and I made a break for the door at first, but he laughed and called me back, and asked me to inspect his menagerie. I was mighty nervous, but I done what he said, and then I found that the snakes was only snakeskins stuffed with something or other. ‘What in thunder have you got into em?” say it was I. Fruit,’ says he. ““Fruit?’ says L “Yes, fruit,” says he. “What kind? says 1 “ ‘All kinds,’ says he. ‘I couldn't buy fruit cans, so I jist went out in the mountain and picked up what nater put in my way, which was snakeskins, and them I made Into fruit cans. I've got enough put up to last me all winter and sell off enough in the spring to pay my taxes with,’ and, by gravy, it was concluded the man with the Loudoun- county whiskers. “What did his wife kave to say about liv- ing with a colony like that?” inquired The Star writer, knowing something about a woman’s high esteem for the snake family. ‘Nary a word,”’ replied the story teller. ‘What kind of a woman was she?” “No kind; he was a bachelor,” and the man with the Loudoun-county whiskers pulled at them reftectively and winked at The Star man. — A Story of Mystery. Do you know whet a “Story of Mystery” is? It is a continued story of wh!ch all but the last chapter is printed, and then guesses are made as to the solution, then the final installment ig printed. On October seventh a most interesting mystery story, “When the War Was Over,” will be started in The Star, and five hundred dollars will be given for the first absolutely correct solution. In case no guess is abso- lutely correct the amount will be divided among those nearest to a correct solution. ‘The guesses will be confined to: women read- ers. Fuller particulars elsewhere. ——_—_ George Took the Hint. From the Detroit Free Press, “That makes thirteen times I’ve kissed you, darling,” he said, as he put on his hat in the doorway at 11 p.m. “Oh, George, thirteen is an unlucky num- ber,” she answered, thoughtfully. FEW HOW ABUT THE SHARES AN INTERESTING, GOD-FEARING PEOPLE WHO HAVE GIVEN THE WORLD MANY IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES. We->may not accept their peculiar religious teliefs, nor can we enter into the spirit of their sacrifices. It is not necessary to belleve as they do, but we can and do respect their slacerity of purpose and the honor and uprightness which marks all their business dealings. ‘The Shakers have always been successful in- ventors, and some of the greatest of the conven- fences of the present day found origin in their settlements. In one particular they excel all other men or classea of men> and that is In cultivation of me- dicinal herbs and plants and their preparation for use. They have made it a study for more than one hundred years. It is one of thelr peculiar industries. ‘Their lives have been devoted to it. Their latest and greatest achievement is the Shaker Digestive Cordial. It 1s not offered as a cure for all discases. It does not pretend to be, but one disease it will cure, and that is indigestion. Sufferers who resort to its use have not long to wait to see the result. The effect is almost im- mediate. ‘The first dose usually gives relief, and 1f continued @ permanent cure will follow. It not only contains already digested food, but it digests food as well, thus toning up the general system. An interesting pamphlet is now being issued by the Shakers and can be had for the ask- ing at almost any drug storé. ‘Try @ twenty-five-cent bottle of Digestive Cordial and see what it will do for you, DO YOU KNOW mat NATROLITHIC SALT Is a valuable remedy, and will prove most beneficial in HABITUAL OONSTIPATION, AFFECTIONS, OORPULENCE AND OBESITY, PILES AND OTHER CONGESTIONS? tain and harmless. Try it. 50 certs per bottle. All druggists, or COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO., hington, sel7-tu,tf,82 ro is It will give tone to the stomach, and is safe, eer- | Office Hours: 9 to 11 a.m., 2 to 4 and cute his political plans, who does not go half way or give up, has long been want- ing in Russia. But the striking retirement of the czar and his young wife- causes much comment and a feeling of unceg- tainty. They. avoid all intercourse with others when possible, and even avoid giv- ing audiences to the foreign ambassadors. The audience of the French ambassador. M. Montebello, was only accomplished’ by the appeal of the minister of finance to the dowager empress. And then the continual shoving forward of the dowager empress en all occasions and other things add to the discontent. We hear even of attempts on the life of the czar made in Peterhof palaee, fortunately without serious conse- quences. The truth as to these reports is difficult to get at. The officials deny that such things happen, as a matter of princi- Te; at least, one never hears the full truth frcem them. The foreign ministers resi- dent here know absolutely nothing of what goes on behind the scenes. Those who do heppen to know dare not talk. Investiga- icns also lead to naught. But in the last few weeks, certainly, no attempt on the life of the czar has been made. The retirement of the emperor is assurediy only artificial. Recently, it is sald, a diplomat went to Peterhof and asked for an audience, but he was told that the czar and czarina were ill and could not receive him. Perhaps the dowager empress, if the minister wished it, might be the go-between. The ambassador did not wish this, and returned to B8t. Petersburg. Again, the people are excited hecause the coronation of the young pair has not taken place. They do not like to have it pestponed unti! next May. Here seem to be some of the reasons for the state of af- fairs in Russia. In Russia the czar and cvarina are not looked upon as “full” unttl they have been Growned in the Kremlin at Moscow. When this is accomplished the people of Russia will grow more quiet. The confinement of the young empress is ex- pected in the first days of September. Big Money for an Imagination. A little exercise of, your imagination may be worth five hundred dollars in gold to you. Read the particulars in another column of The Star's great mystery story, “When the War Was Over,” by Frederick | + « R. Burton. 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