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jungles and mountains or on the outskirts
of a small village. They are cieaniy and
abstemious, spend much lime I'm fasting and
prayer and affect an exalted standard OF
moral purity.
To this class belongs the mystic Abdul
bin Abdula. a Mohammedan Punjabee.
whose portrait. made from a photograph
taken in Bombay. is given herewith. IL
was the good fortune Of the writer to meet
him in that city just after the photograph
was taken. and to obtain from him "A brief
description of his life and his reasons for
wearing constantly about ca pounds OF
iron chains and other ornaments.
Abdul bin Abdulla said ne was born Of
Arab parents who migrated To India about
fifty years ago. He is now nearly sixty
years of age, and his friends and admirers
declare il is within his power to continue
to live on indefinitely or until he considers
it proper to die. 1t is but just to him, how
ever, to say that he does not admit the
truth of this declaration, although he does
not deny it. Many years ago-how many
he said he did not know-he began the
study of religious philosophy under the tu-
ition of Mohammedan fakir i'm one Of the
villages of northern India. He was taught
that in order to acquire occult power and
secure an eminently satisfactory position in
paradise II was nee eSSaTy not only TO re-
frain from indulging in human passions and
appeutes, but to conquer and drive them
out of the flesh. that the most effective
method of securing this result was to NOR
tify and torture his body. and thus obtain
dDSolult CONtTOl over All It's sensations.
His teacher outlined course Of training
for him, and then departed from the viii
Iage, leaving him To work out his salvation
alone. Failing to accomplish what he had
expected he evolved a system of his own,
which he felt confident would bring abolt
the desired results This was a gradual de-
velopment of his muscular power. accom-
panied by persistent repression Of the
senses. He began by wearing about his
neck heavy iron ring. to which he at
tached from time 10 time as much iron as
he could carry conveniently. Later on
these weights We're replaced by heavy cable
chains, the lower ends of which were fas-
tened by rings To his arms and ankles
When seen by the writer he had accu-
mulated chains and other metallic orna-
ments aggregating in weight "a maunds, or
GI2 English pounds. This enormous load
was never removed. but was worn night
and day. In fact, the mass was SO secure
iy welded TO the neck. ankle and arm rings
that ii seemed impossible to take IL from
Mss body without using a file or steel saw
lie assured those who talked with him that
his purpose was to add to his burden untl
the total weight was 81 maunds or nearly
l.Joo pounds; that as soon as he had ac-
ccmplished this he would have fulfilled his
mission upon earth and would leave his
body forever He declared that ho felt no
pam or Inconvenience i'm carrying his load,
but rather enjoyed ii, as ii reminded him
OF the great bliss in store for him in para
disc
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ALMOST INCREDIBLE,
System of Espionage About the EN-
peror of Russia.

Prince kropotkin in the Atlantic.
The system of espionage which is exer-
cised in the palace, especially around the
emperor himself, would seem almost in
credible to the uninitiated The following
will give some idea of it. One of the grand
dukes received a severe lesson from a ST.
Petersburg gentleman. That gentleman
had forbidden him his house but, returning
home unexpectedly, he found him in his
drawing room, and rushed upon him with
his lifted stick. The young man dashed
down the staircase, and was about jumping
into his carriage when the pursuer caught
him. and dealt him blow with his stick
The policeman who stood at the door saw
the adventure and dashed to report it to
the chief of police. Gen. Trepoff who, in
his turn, jumped into his carriage and
rushed to the emperor. to be the first to re-
port the Sad incident" The emperor sum-
him. Now, a couple of days later, an old
functienary who belonged to the third Sec
ton of the emperors chancery, that is, to
the state police, and who was an old friend
at the house of one of my comrades re-
lated the whole conversation. The empe-
ror," he informed us, was very angry, and
said to the grand duke in conclusion: You
should know better how to manage your
little AFFAIRS" He was asked, of course
vate conversation, but the old mans reply
was very characteristic: 1.-The words and
the opinions of his majesty must be known
to our department: How otherwise could
such a delicate institution as the state DO
lice be managed? Be sure that the emperor
Is the most closely watched person in all
st. Petersburg"
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.
: DAY, LYNCH & DAY,
!: LAWYERS.

The last canned Day is a half brother of
Judge Day.
From the very first the new law firm was
successful. 1t took the business that came,
M clvii aho crliiilnai aike, ana the pract1ce
in Importance to none in the region It
has been heard in nearly every prominent
case in eastern Ohio for more than a quar-
ter of century, and during all of that
time President Mckinley has lived on the
same street with Judge Day, and has been
one of his warmest friends and clients
President Mckinley lived in a small two
story wooden house, much the worse for
the stains of weather. 1t had a lawn in
front with a picket fence, which relic
hunters have recently Clipped away. Judge
Days house was much larger and more
pretentious. 1t stood far back from the
street. and 1t Is of cream-colored brick,
wide and hospitable, with a generous l.
reaching out at one end and a vine-clad
arbor at the other. 1t is the old Shaefer
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TO MORTlFY THE FLESH
An Indian Pakir Who Carries an Enormous
Load of Chains
The story Of Abdul bin kbduIIa-rer-
ribie sclf-Torturc-FuIflII
His Mission

Written for the Evening Star by M"1l,i Iskanicr
Travellers in India quite frequently en-
counter native fakirs who stroll about thu
country In a state Of almost complete mud
ity. their bodies covered with dust and
ashes and their hair smcared with soft
clay and matted into long ropes reaching
sometimes below the waist. Sor,r OF these
fanatics perform acts OF selt-tarture. which
seem marvellous: but as a rule they are ex-
ceedingiy careful not 10 hurt themselves.
They live upon aims whecdled from the
lower classes of natives and from mis-
guided Europeans. The major portion OF
their time is spent in squattiug upon their
heels, trying 10 look wise. and eNhaling a
fragrance which Is sometimes accepted as
the odor of sauctity.
But there are other fakirs i'm India of
quite a different sort from those who stroll
about the streets and infest the temples
and bathing CHATS along the river banks.
They seldom appear in the larger cities or
towns, but seclude themselves in the
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the geological maps he is prepared to be-
heve the last prediction, but if his maps
ere drawn to large scale he will probably
doubt the fist. a railroad approximately
parallel with the Pacific ocean from San
Francisco TO Berirg straits must traverse
many hundred miles of wilderness mat can
yield no local traffic for same generations
TO come, and however great may be the
development; of the kIondike gold fields the
through trade could not go far toward sup
porting / continuous railroad line across
:hese wildernesses.
Apparently, We shall have to content our
selves fer a good many years yet with
ocean transportation from San Francisco
and Seattle and the other northw stern
5crts to ST. Michaels, and so by river
steamers Lp the Yukon; or to Skaguay or
Dyea, and tn nee by railroad over the
passes to ne gold fields of the Upper
Yukon.
We know tnat there are great gold de-
posts in Alaska spread over vast regions.
We know that there is considerable coal
and that there Is copper; but the physical
geography. the climate and the resources
Jf that immense territory are vet so little
known that IL would be foolish to try to
predict It's development with any accuracy.
As We go up the Yukon we come $50 miles
from its mouth IL direct line tnany mere
miles as the river runs) to Fort Yukon lust
within the Arctic circle, the nOrtheramost
point touched hy that river in it's course of
1000 miles. Here at Fort Yukon the tenn
peratUre ranges from 1l2 in the shade down
TO 6s degrees below zero. The ground is
frozen to a depth of 100 feet or more. and
never thaws the mosquitoes are the hard
lest and the most ferocious of their kind,
and even the Indians protect their faces
and hands by daubing them with grease
and charcoal, and they paddle with a
smudge in the bow of the canoe. 1t must
take great temptations TO induce men TO
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Needed Everywhere.

From Puck
'Swiggs has invented another kind of
metal street car fender"
what is it?"
He wears it over his knees to keep peo-
pie from stepping on his toes"
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His Early Successcs.

While at the university he was a men,
Der of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and
took prominent part IN such mental tests
of scholarship as came to him. There was
never any doubt in his mind, so his mother
told me, to his course in life Immedi-
ately on leaving college he became a
student in the office of Judge G. F. Robin
son, afterwards entering the law depart
ment OF the University of Michigan where
he took years lectures. In 1872 he made
his home in Canton and formed law part
nership with William A. Lynch. Today
there is this sign on the windows of a lit
tie office over a candy store not far from
the Canton court house:
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V + r y d / s I | y =
guished mining cngi-
neer lately said: Il
expect within ten
years to step into the
Bcring straits ex-
press at San Francis
CO. The same gem
tleman predicts that
within our time there
viii BE- one great
mining camp from
southern Mexico TO
the Arctic circle.
" hen one looks at
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that the Comte Boui
d e Castellane h a S
bought a new over
co a t is the m o r e
startling when one
learns what kind of
overcoat ii is. Just
as he dislikes to be
called the young man
who married Anna
G oul d, so h e | S
pleased to be known
as the best dressed
nf riSiapS Tn 1907
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NJ A ID r l D NEWS
paper, commenting
. on the personality Of
the members of the
American p e a C e
commission. said of
its president:
He is a provincial
! a w y er without
knowledge of diplo-
macy"
A witty writer in
the London Mail re-
ferred to this remark
in these words:
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WHARVES AT SkAGUAY.

live in such a country. OF course there are
regions Of Alaska more cOngenial to hui
man life and effort than this, but the con-
ditiouS OF Fort Yukon suggest some of the
estimate a. the future of this part Of the
United States empire.
Different Routes.
We will. therefore, dismiss for the pres
eut the BeIing straits railroad and conhne
ourselves 20 the kIoudike and to the Of
forts that men are now making to get
there by a short railroad from the nearest
pCrts on the coast. The aII-water route is
So long, and confined To so small a par, Of
the year. and the wealth Of the klondik.
country is so great. that a large expendi-
tUre Of capital TO eliminate the river route
is justifahle Within a single year the gold
taken out OF the kIondlke country has cx-
Cecdcd the purchase price of the entire
territory of Alaska. and no man can fore
see the limits to its returns In the frs,
ten months of this year. SIOu0OO0 of Yu-
kon gold has come To the United States. 1t
would be strange, therefore, if enterarising
men had not turned their attention TO sat-
ter means OF access 10 this source OF
wealth.
From Seattle TO st Michaels by sea in
about >, ID miles. and up the Yukon to
Dawson in the klOndike is 200 miles more
This ~" miles takes about forty days
anu the river is frozen from October to
June. Much the shortest route and one
that can be followed the year round bv
those who have strength, and TO which as a
consequence the railroad builders have
tGrneI their minds, is by steamer to Ska--
Uay or Dyea and thence packing by trail
over the mountains. and So by various wa
tvrways down the tributaries of the Yukon
10 Dawson. From Seattle to Skag is
1.l15 miles. over the mountains to Lake
Bennett is forty miles by the White Pass
tran. From Lake Bennett down to Daw-
re- IL ms wa 1tearT ys ,t.,v,,
40 miles. j total of say 1,6DO miles, as
against 1900 miles by the all-water route
up the Yukon b It what one gains in time
and distance he pays for In hardship.
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homestead, Judge Day having married Miss
Mary E. Shaefer on August a. 1876.
Lived Side by Side.

Lived sue
Here the man who was to be President
of the United States lived side by side with
his future chief secretary. 1t was Judge
Day who fought McKinIeps contest for a
seat in Congress in the sos, and it was
Judge Day whom President Mckinley sup
ported when he ran for judge of the court
of common pleas, in 1856 Judge Day held
this office less than year, because he
could not afford, with his wife and the four
boys who were growing up around him, to
occupy a place which gave him so little
salary. EU
A little later President Harrison made
Judge Day a United States district judge,
but he was compelled to resign almost inn
mediately owing to the condition of his
health. These two horors have won for
Mr.. Day his universal title of judge. They
We're the only public positions he ever held,
and neither of them, nor his position in
Washington, yielded him returns equal to
what he could make from his own private
practice in Canton.
Mr.. Austin Lynch, who was one of Judge
Days partners, told me that one of the
most remarkable things about Judge Day
was his untiring industry student of
the law. Unlike many lawyers, he did not
stop his reading with his admission to the
bar. There was never q case too abStruse
nor even precedent too remote to engage
his attention. His associates in Canton say
that they never have known his equal in
presenting an honest, comprehensive state
ment of a case before a court a jury. He
never wasted words, he was rarely orator.
ical. AS q crosS-eXaminer he had the repu-
tation of being exceedingly shrewd, with
an astonishing quicknesS of repartee that
often Powered into wit.
Few people realize what a task it was
to persuade Judge Day that his country
needed him at Washington. Judge Day
was called upon to fill most difficult po-
sition. He was to be the real Secretary
of State with the title of assistant secre-
tary of state
As Secretary of state.
A little later he was called to be Secre-
tary of State, although he would much
have preferred to have had a place in the
judiciary department of the nation; and he
eral, directly in the line of his profession,
had he not felt it his duty to guide the
State Department over the rocky shoals of
its complication with Spain. Here he ear
ried on the difficult negotiations with the
French ambassador which led to the adop-
ton of the protocol. Here he watched over
the early negotiations looking toward peace
and guided the international discussions
of interference with Spanish rule and eX-
panSiOn. Ind aed, it is probable that few
people realize what difficulties he overca?ne
| in his dealings with foreign nations rela-
tive to the war with Spain They will not
be fully known until they have become a
matter of history in the published reports
His subsequent career in Paris is 100 re-
cent in the public mind to need comment
Judge Day returns to the United States
with the thanks of the entire ration He
was the American who was needed and he
has done his duty as an American.
JOHN STILES
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Defined

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
Bobby-"Popper, what is a respectable
fortune2'
Mr.. Ferry-"One big enough to make its
owners opinions on any subject entitled to
respect"
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Over the White Pass.

This White Pass CT SkaCuay route is only
a recent improvement over the Chilkoot
Pass. or Dyea route. which lies just to the
northwestw ird and parallel with the White
Pass route. The Chilkoot route and the
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Anna Gould's Partisan Husband and
His Gorgeous Raiment.
HAS an EYE FOR COLOR HARMONIES
Why He Creases His Lovely Trous
ers U p the Sides.
HIS FANCY WAISTCOATS

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, December -, 1898.
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HE TOLD THE TRUTH
Reason Why Judge Day Got the Best
ofthe Spaniards.
AN ABLE LAWYER and HONEST MAN
Like Many Another American He
Rose to the Emergency
STO RY OF HIS CAREER
AN ABLE LAWYER and HONEST MAN
STO RY OF HIS CAREER

Written for The Evening Star.
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Inneriteu n Legal Career.
His father was Judge Luther Day of the
supreme court of Ohio. His mother was a
daughter of Judge Rufus p. Spaldng a
legal authority of much repute. His great
grandfather on his mothers side was Judge
Zephaniah Swift of Connecticut. Every lad
who has tOiled over Swift's Digest knows
the Swift who was Judge Days ancestor
His paternal grandfather, David Day was
"A keen-witted and ingenious man, a pioneer
American.
At Canton | called on Judge Days mother
at the Day homestead, a quiet, keen-eye ed
Old lady, Stepmother, in fact, but with all
the pride of one who has followed an illus
trious son since he was three years old
He was not vigorous physically as a
boy" she said although he was slim and
wiry, but he always had a keen mind and
there were not many boys who could get
ahead of him when it a question of
wit. From his very earliest years he was
fond of oratory and of disputation"
He attended one of the country schools
of Ohio. He was Ohio boy, born in Ra-
VIENNA, April Il, 1919. After leaving the
country schools, he prepared for college
and entered the University of Michigan
with the class of 1870. All the way through
he exhibited unusual abilities as a speaker
and as keen -witted, clear-headed student
He athlete. Practically his only
diverson-and it is still diversion with
him--was watching game of base ball
He never rode a bicycle in his life, al
though in later years he found pleasure in
driving
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Written for The Evening Star.

VERY YDIsTIN-
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KLONDIKE RAILROAD
A Most Difficult and Expensive Piece
Of Engineering.
ONE SECTION In RUNNING ORDER
Travel Over the Line is Pretty
Costly Matter.
MEANS MUCH TO MINERS
ONE SECTION IN RUNNING ORDER

MEANS MUCH TO MINERS
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"They cannot understood him; he means
what he says
one OF the most prominent judges of
Canton, Ohio, where the president of this
peace commission has lived nearly all his
life, said to me-
He is a genius at truth telling. When
he states case he does it so clearly and
honestly that the jury cannot help believ
ing him.
All three of these remarks although
taken from such widely different sources,
are truthful expres sions of Judge Days
character
Diplomacy has been defined as the gentle
art of lying: Judge Day hasn't it, and his
success in the peace negotiations of Paris
was tribute to sterling yet tactful Amer
lean truthfulness. Old world diplomats ac-
customed to verbal feints ard parties, could
not understand this quiet, determined
American, who said what he meant the
first time and stuck to it, BY raising
smudge of argument around the language
of the protocol they expected to confuse
the main issue. But this village lawyer of
Canton. accustomed to the clear statement
OF cases before befogged jury, saw
straight through their arts and argued
well for his mighty client, the American
nation.
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A MADRID NEWS
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Rise to the Occasion,

Gen. Grant was clerking in country
store at the outbreak of the war Lincoln
was small lawyer when he was called to
the presidency. Somehow, down deep in
the heart of every American, there is a
feeling that a man will arise for every
crisis. Judge Days success at Washington
and at Paris confirms this impression and
pays tribute to President McKinley's acu-
men in the choice of men for his important
positions. Although Judge Day desired no
office and sought no rewards from the peo-
pie, he Will go back to his office in Canton
as honorably known as any living Ameri-
can. He has met a great crisis with cool
ness. faithfulness and shrewdness
In no other country in the world could a
man rise in such way as Judge Day has
done. 1t is like an incident out of some old
tale of the doings of the Caliph of Bagdad
Yet Judge Day came by his success legiti-
mately. 1t is true that his life has been
serene. There have been no incidents to
separate 1t widely from the lives of thou
sands of other American citizens: but if
Judge Day had been schooled from his boy
mood up for the express purpose of becom-
ing Secretary of State and the president
OF a great peace commission, his educat ton
could hardly have been more adequate
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-12-21
Fleming Brought Out.

CHARLESTON, Dec. 20.-The hand
some oil portrait of Ex-Governor
Fleming that has for some time hung
on the inside of the outer wall of the
Governors reception room where ray
of light scarcely struck it, has been
removed to the opposite side of the
room and now occupies position i'm
mediately below the handsome pastel
portrate of Ex-Governor Wilson.
This was done at the suggestion of
Governor Atkinion, who said he want
ed Brooks Fleming" to be given a
fair show. The portrait is by far the
finest portrait of any of the portraits
in The room, but heretofore it has
scarcely been noticed owing to the
imperfect light in which it has been
displayed.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-12-21
The Facts in the Case.

There was trouble of some kind re
ported on the street the other night
and the editor told the reporter to go
over and get the details. He got
them, as may be seen from his account
Of the affair, which is as follows:
"a man killed dog belonging to
another man. The son of the man
whose dog was killed proceeded to
whip the man who killed the dog of
the man he was the son of. The
man who was the son of the man
whose dog was killed was arrested on
complaint Of the man who was assault
ed by the son Of the man whose dog
the man who was assaulted had killed.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-12-21

AND yet the demand for the Queen
Quality Shoes keeps up. 1t will al
ways increase.
HirSchmanS
Don't fail to see the art display at
Geo. C. Hayes & Co.'S.
THE Largest Line of Shoes in the
city at WATERS & WHITTINGToN.
WE sell you Banister's shoes at
$3.50 Emerson at $500 and the
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$3.50. Waters q Wilmington.
The Genuine BaniSteI. Shoe
in all shades and colors of tan, patent
leather and enamel, $3.50. AT
HfTSchman'S
THE best dinner for the money to
be had ats V. Thompson's restaurant.
You make mistake if you don't
buy your groceries at Postens.