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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04
FEW KNOW ABOUT THE SHAKERS
An INTERESTING, GOD-FEARING
PEOPLE WHO HAVE GIVEN THE
WORLD MANY IMPORTANT
DISCOVERIES.

We may not accept their peculiar religion,
beliefs, nor can We enter Into the spirit Of their
sacrifices. 1t is not necessary to believe as they
do, but We can and do respect their sincerity oil
purpose ard 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
classes of men, and that is in cultivation of me-
dcinal herbs ard plants and their preparation for
USE They have made It study for more than
one hundred years. 1t is of their peculiar
industries. Their lives have been devoted to it.
Their latest and greatest achievement is the
Shaker Digestive Cordial. 1t is not offered as
a cure for all diseases. IT does not pretend to be-
but disease it will cure and that is indigestion
Sufferers who resort to its have not long to
wait to the result The effect is almost i'm.
mediate. The first dose usually gives relief and
If continued permanent cure will follow.
1t not only contains already dige.ted food but II
digests food as well, thus toning up the general
system. An interesting pamphlet is now being
issued by the Shakers and can he had for the ask
ing at almost any drug store.
Try a twenty -fve-cent hottie OF Digestive Cordial
and what II will do for you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04

ness at the top of the building. and that
was easier than climbing nineteen flights
of ladders. 1t was his own choice"
His own choice!' gaspea Aunt keturah.
Mercy! What a daredevilr'
mot at ALL answered the superntend-
ent; lit is perfectly safe, if the man is
ccol and his grip good, provided no accident
happens.
II an came down to them, standing on the
Zig hook at the end of the cable, and re-
ported to the superintendent: mo, sir.
He is mistaken. That irregular beam is
degrees. The one required must have
ttirty-four. The right one has not been
sent"
Il wish you would ask Mr.. Marcy for the
number, If you can find him."
HE is up there now
Good Get the number and I'll telephone
to the works for it, at once
By this time another beam was ready
to go up, and the young man started with
it, as before. He was not fifty feet above
the sidewalk. when it was clearly apparent
to those looking on that something was
wrong with the hosting engine at the top
OF the structure. The ascent was much
more rapid than usual. and its speed was
nome ntarily accelerated. 1t seemed as if
the engineer had lost control. Should he
have done so, the inevitable result would
be the hosting of the beam to the head of
the crane and the giving way of something,
urder continuance of the terrific strain,
with the consequent fall of the beam to
the street John Burroughs realized all this
as quickly anybody else, but was not
alarmed. He waited until he was sure that
something had gone wrong, then gathered
himself for spring to one of the platforms
as he darted Up by Them coolly calculating
what allowance he would have to make
for his momentum to avoid having his
brains dashed out by beam instead of
aighting on the platform beneath it. Of
course, if he missed the platform or was
shot beyond it into one of the vast interior
chasms Of the skeleton-lille structure, that
would be the end of him. Finally. he
leaped, clutched a column as he flew, and
hung dizzy and faint 800 feet above the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04
A Story of Mystery.

Do you know what STORY of Mystery
is? 1t is a continued story of which all but
the last chapter is printed, and then guesses
are made as to the solution, then the fna
installment is printed.
On October seventh a most interesting
mystery story, when the War Was Over,
will be started in The Star, ana five hundred
dollars will be given for the first absolut ely
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.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04

pavement. At the same instant seemingly
the cable hook gave way and the beam
plunged downward, going with a thunder
Gus roar through the sidewalk timbering
into the deep excavation below.
CONTINUED in tomorrow's Starr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04

Copyright 1885, BY Bacheller, Johnson Bachellerl
Amid tornado of excitement the win
ner darted under the wire, winner by a
head. On the grand stand ladies and gen.
tlemen waved handkerchfefs, fourished
hats and shouted themselves hoarse The
home stretch and space about the judges
stand were filled by a surging crowd of
men, who Joined in a mighty yell when
the official announcement went up on the
blackboard Calm returned gradually and
people talked of what they had won or lost
ut was grand race exclaimed a young
man. seated in the front row on the grand
stand. addressing a comrade land 1 don't
begrudge what I lost. Give me light
You must be made of wood, to be able to
look at heat like that and keep your cigar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04
A Florida Incident.

From the Savannah News.
w. A. Roberts of Tallahassee was sitting
on his veranda Monday afternoon reading,
when the faint echo Of a Winchester was
heard in the distance. An instant after
ward the ball took piece out of his fore
finger and inabedded itself in the wall be-
bind him. 1t IS said the shot was fired at a
buzzard over a. quarter of a mile from
where Mr.. Roberts was sitting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04
RULES OF THE COMPETITION:

4. Inquiries not considered fully an
swered here will receive proper atten-
ton If addressed to Prize Story Edl-
tor, The Evening Star, Washington,
d. c.
g. The $500 will be awarded under the
foregoing general conditions, accord
ing to the best Judgment of the Iulges
appointed by The Star, and they will
have complete control and final decision
in all matters relating to this contest.
6. "A complete and correct solution"
can be made in the readers own lam
guage and In the. number of words
DecessaIy for an absolute statement of
the readers guess. 1t must disclose
the mystery and such material facts of
the plot revealed in the development Of
the story as may be deemed necessary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04

1. But ore solution can be entered BY
reader.
2. All guesses must be sent by mail
TO Prize story Editor The Evening
Star, Washington, d. G.
g. In order to put Out-of.town readers
of The Star on time equality with city
readers. they will be permitted to go
cure from their local postmaster an In
dorsement on the back Of the envelope In
which their guesses are forwarded. indi-
eating the day and hour Of delivery Of
the letter to him, and such guesses will
be accepted at the Washington post
office on the day and hour certified.
The Endorsement. plainly written in ink,
must be personally signed by the post
master or acting postmaster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04
A Mental StiInulus,

The first installment Of the great mys-
terry 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.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04
III

When the winter season opened and
Constance was back in New York, her hope
revived. for she felt that If John Bur
reughs was in the city she must meet him
somewhere, at theater, opera, ball, party
or some of the various bird beast
shows in which society deigns to af-
feet an interest. Still. however though
she went everywhere, she was doomed to
disappointment.
One afternoon, late in spring, she and
Aunt Keturah, walking up lower Broadway
from her lawyers office, halted for a mo-
ment to look at the interesting and i'm
pressiye spectacle of one of the enormous
'steel-frame'' office buildings in course of
erection. 1t was simply stupendous cage
of ponderous columns and beams, twenty
stories high. Workmen swarmed all
through it; cranes on its upper line, SEEM
lEgly in the sky, dropped long wire cables
to the sidewalk, where men attached to
them by chains huge forms of metal
Just as the lacies stopped to gaze one of
those forms, a great steel BEAM was made
fast, guide lines were tied on its ends and
signal to some one controlling a hosting
engine, far aloft, caused the taughtening
of the cable AT the same instant one Of
the workmen, stalwart young fellow in
his shirt sleeves, Sprang nimbly on the
beam, seized the cable to steady himself,
and was carried up with the ascending
weight.
"Oh! Ny gracousv' exclaimed Aunt
Keturah in alarm. He will be killed. I'm
sure he will!' Her excitement prevented
her observing that her niece also uttered
a cry and caught the lamp post beside her
for fear of fanting. And Constance's emo
ton could hardly be wondered at. For in
that young man, exposed to what in her
eyes was deadly peril, she recognized John
Burroughs. 1t seemed impossible. but it
was true; she could not be mistaken.
While they still gaZed with the fascina-
ton of horror, the beam reached the top of
the structure, stopped, and the young man,
carelesSly leaping across the gap between
it and the twentieth story platform, dis
appeared. Aunt Keturah ran across the
street to big man who seemed to be in
authority, and in fact was the superin-
tendent of construction, and fairly ex-
ploded at him: You've got to find some
other way of having that work done. In
the name of humanity, 1 protest against
it."
The superintendent, a large, deliberate.
Illuminating sort of creature. stared in sur
prise. having not even a little idea of what
she meant.
Don't look at me as if your mind was
off chasin' wild geese, and Jack-o'-lanterns.
l tell you you've got to find some way of
gettin those bee ms up there without
riskin' "a human life every one to keep
it straight
AS he comprehended her, smile spread,
slow and broad over his big face, and he
replied: 1.-The guide ropes steer the beam
He had nothing to do with that. He SIM
ply went up that way because he had bust
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Sc en- or heard of John Burroughs and, "
he said. Il have conluded that he must
have gone to Europe. and as he hadn't a
dollar, he must have walked. Yes that's
it: he walked across" But he had learned
what explained the young mans ,impecu-
niesity within a little over a year after in
heriting million. Not a dollar of the es-
tate had been squandered, but all was
temporarily tied up by the Vaccinations of
gang of rascals with whom Jacks father
had become involved in an extensive land
and mining speculation. They had trumped
up claim for an enormous amount
against the Burroughs estate, and, by
corruption, it was believed, had obtained
favorable decision from a lower court.
But that was only the beginning, prac-
tically, of the legal fight, and until it was
ended the estate might well be at the
lotion of the Dead sea, so far as any
good to Jack was concerned
LAS a mere matter of lur.osity," remark
ed Constance. I really would like to know
what has become of him."
Amy smiled knowingly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-04

BY the Judges to a clear and full ex-
PLANTATION Of the mystery.
The names and addresses of the winner
or winners Of the cash prizes will be
date possible after the publication of the
final chapter.
No condition Of subscription to The
Star is imposed. Guessers must he
women and girls, and necessarily. they
must be readers Of The Star. hut they
NAV read the story in The Star taken by
any member Of the family and need not
be regular subscribers themselves in order
to enter the competition. While only
the prizes, they can receive help as to
their guess from any member, OF their
family or from all the family.
The Green Forest tribune., 1895-08-22
More Railroad Talk.

A London Associated Press cable to
the Springfield Republican says
Mr.. Nolan Of St. Louis, Mo. has
placed before the group of English cap
italist scheme for railroad from
Springfield. Mo, through Arkansas to
some point in Texas. Tom Scott is
said TO be fostering the scheme, and
Mr.. Nolan, his attorney thinks he
will be successful in securing English
capital to build the road "
The road mentioned in the dispatch
is the one for which Phil Dougherty is
now making the location survey.
MI Dougherty was shown the cable
gram Sunday morning and said that
while he bad known of Mr.. Nolan s
mission to Europe for several weeks he
thought the plan was not yet ripe for
making the plans public.
lie leaves Monday to make.a person
81 inspection of the land south of the
point where the preliminary survey
stopped in Arkansas last year and will
be gone for several weeks. On his re-
turn he will take his location party
back to White river and run the loca-
tion to The end of the preliminary sur
vey. By making an investigation of
the lay of the land now while the sur
yey party is on vacation he can push
on his preliminary survey as soon as
reaches his present terminus.
From ali appearances there will be
little delay in building the road, and
Springfield north and south railway
can now be considered an accomplish
ed fact
The Green Forest tribune., 1895-08-22
Rain aud Crops in tie Territory.

Again we pick up our quill for the
purpose of let ting TIE TRIBUNE read.
ers know that We are still alive and
we'll Ne would have come sooner but
the fact is SO much rain had put us
so far behind with cur fishing that i
was impossible for US to do any thing
else m I'll we could catch up.
Fishing and peddjing whiskey is the
order Of the day now, as the 'peds"
like ourselves, had gotten universally
behind with their work
But laying al foolishness aside, this
country is bles sed with as fine crops
as Il has been eur lot to see for many
wears and health is excellent consider
ing the amount of wet weather we
have had Last year We had three
months dropth and this year nearly
three months rain.
Last wear when everything was lit
orally parching and it looked as though
It would never rain, the Methodist
concluded to try the efficacy of prayer
to make t rain, and when the Metho-
dist fail to bring down rain no one else
need try-not ever Meiborne. Well,
they failed. There was an old sage
who attended their meeting and who
after the effort Of the Methodist had
failed. told the people
that ne thought he coall solve
the mystery. He said, black in Car
liny we had just sich droath as this
oncst an nothin' could make IT rain,
and, by hockey, there was a man in
that ghborhood that was whipping
his wife, an friends" he went on 10
saw. II never knowd it to fail in my
life that when there was man in the
country whipping his wife the dry
weather would continue Till he repent
ed or left the country And sure
enough tia was the case with this
country last year, but finally the tide
turned. That brave little wife showed
fight and by using a !nop handle rath-
er freely she came ont victorious. But
| by some means she overdia the thing
some how. GUY FUNK.
The Green Forest tribune., 1895-08-22
T.,int in the Blood.

We wish the telegraph would cease
sending all the horrible particulars OF
the Holmes business, says an eX-
change. We cannot understand the
object of the transmitting that charac-
ter of news in nauseating detail, eN-
cept it be to give scroundrels new ideas
of committing crimes. Almost as bad
are the rep orts of the Durrant trial at
San Francisco. Why advertise to the
world all the details of that miserable
trial. Why not try the man in a dig
nifed manner and decide whether
he is lunatic, and treat him accord :
ingly. There is so much trouble in the
world just now that the bad passions
in men are running riot Why should
those passions be fed by a II the in2enu
ity that an imaginative reporter or
news gatherer can supply? 1t does
not prove anything, except that, IN
measure, education is a failure; that
there are certain depraved natures that
ought not to be permitted to learn to
read and write, but onght to be kept as
hewers of wood and drawers of water
all their days. The question Of heTed-
ity and Of parental Influences are both
brought prominently to mind, as SO
serious are they that when few more
exhibitions of this reversed human
nature shall be given, the state will
have to take up the matter and see
that amendments are made, in the in-
terest of the public, to the laws which
now govern marriage. We do not be-
lieve that any human being, brought
up in civilized community, Of himself
or herself becomes utterly depraved.
We believe the shame and sin can,
in every case where care is exercised,
be traced to insanity or depravity on
the part of ancestors, and it is a legit-
innate thing to studyit to see if a pre-
ventative cannot be administered in
, time so that no such unbalanced Great
ures can be borne. But whether that
is yet feasible or not. certainly it is
not essential to feed the morbid tastes
of individuals by parading al the de-
tails of horrible crimes before them
daily and give to the dull block OF
wood which, if lighted, might become
freband. a match to warm all latent
sinister instincts into active life.
The Green Forest tribune., 1895-08-22
EX-Confederate Association.

The third Annual Encampmcnt
Of the Carroll County ex-Confed-
crate Association, and the John G..
Fletcher Camp No. 638 will be held
at Allen Wards spring, one mile
southeast Of Green Forest, Ark,
on the y, 13, aud IA OF Sep. 1895.
The committee to have the
grounds prepared, and on Ways and
Means selected at the last annual
meeting consists OF comrades. P. B.
Fry, chairman, DR.. D. F. Ray, and
B. K. W. Bradley; and offers of
the day are as follows:
First day, comrade 6. n. Norris;
Second e, Il, Smith;
Third DR.. A. J. Gibbs.
All ex-Confederates In Carroll
county are invited and are expect
ed to be promptly on hand at
first roll call on the morning of
the first day, and to come prepar-
ed with provisions, Fashions and
Judgments for three days camp on
the grounds.
All ex Confederate soldiers and
ex- Union soldiers are invited to
come and enjoy camp life with US.
! he people, generally, in the
county arc Invited to meet with US
from day to day and are requested
to bring baskets and boxes we'll
filled with provisions.
Good speaker will be invited
for each day Amusing entertain
ments and stories given relative
to soldier and camp life, refresh
ments temperately served.
Officers of the association for
next year will be elected on the
third and last day. This August
Il, 1895.
J, P. FANoHER. Pres.
N. G. CHARLES, sec'y.
The Green Forest tribune., 1895-08-22
Morning Star Mine.

The Morning Star Mine deal has at
last been closed whereby an English
company buys it cut for $3.50, ,000. E,
'. M. Powell has returned to Harrison
from St. Louis where he arranged the
trade. Only s., ,000 was paid down but
a heavy payment is due Oct. 10.
George j, Gould visited the zinc fields
around Harrison this week and it is
thought he went there ia connection
with the Missouri Pacific extension
scheme. Leader Democrat.
The Green Forest tribune., 1895-08-22
Old People.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowies and kidneys will
fnd the true remedy in Electric Bitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey nor other intoxi-
cant, bnt acts as tonic ana Alternative.
III acts mildly on the stomach and
bow3es, adding strength and giving
tone the orgar, thereby aiding nature
il the performance Of the functions.
Electric bitter is AZ excetient appetiser
and aids digestion. Old people find it
lust exactly What they need Price 90
cents per bottle at j &. Harber's drug
store,
The Green Forest tribune., 1895-08-22
Why not You.

When thousands of people are
taking Hoods SarsapariIa to over
come the weakness and langor
which are 50 common 1T this season
why are you not doing the same!
When you know that Woods Sar-
sapariila has power to cure rheu,
matisn, dyspepsia and all diseases
caused BY impure blood, why do
YOU continue to suffer? Hood's S
cures others, why not you?
Hoods Pills are brompt and ef-
ieient. 25c.