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anaconda, which was the primary cause of
the breaking of the camp
frobabiy most of the laborers had seen
Ahacohdas before Certainly l had They
could be seen coiliHg around the bra inches
OF the trees at a distance. On most occa-
sions we did not come within speaking dis
lance or them, but at this time the great
serpent was asleep, apparently despite the
noise Coiled around a great black tree
with its spots visible and its appearance
making one shudder. it awaited its victims
in the small animals of the forest Some
men surrounded the tree jabbering among
themselves and intensely Interested
Two or them went very near to the tree
actuated by some mistaken idea of brav-
cry and evidently scheming to entrap the
monster, which was coiled several times
around the tree. Perhaps the boa awoke
just at that minute. Perhaps he had been
only waiting, but in an instant he Partly
uncoiled from the tree and caught the two
men together in his power.
Hears Their Bones Crack.
ut must have been thirty feet long. and
with its monster strength 1t crushed them
SO that those at some distance heard their
bones crackle like kindling. Then it buried
its great fangs deep in the body of one of
them. quickly sinking into the pool OF wa
ter at one side of the tree for we had been
working along the side of stream. 1t was
horrible sight, and the men were fright
ened, some of them superstitiously, as
never before.
They made it known that they wished
to go no farther and murmured among
themselves like mutineers at 1t was
In the afternoon of the same day that we
heard that the material had been stopped
at headquarters and so there we were.
without means to go ahead. There was no
food and no money to pay the men Against
them there were but four engineers, in
Guiding Captain Balfour and a man
named Averdick and myself. They de-
manded our provisions, the follow
ing day they grew hungry. We had but
little and could give them none. and then
came the deluge. The grumblng grew to
threats and the threats to a Wild riot the
men burning the entire camp.
'Perceiying danger, for they had
threatened our lives, those / have men
toned, including myself, took the three
mules in the camp and made off back the
way we had come in building the road as
fast as we could. The fourth engineer. a
Swiss, we left there, as he could find no
mule. OF his fate we never learned, ar
even of the fate of the road we were igno-
rant. for we soon took ship for England
and never saw the tropics again"
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WOMEN IN POLITICS.
Headquarters Opened in Philadelphia
for Campaign.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, October 21.-Never
before in any American city have women
taken such an active interest in a political
campaign as in this city during the present
campaign.
Today the headquarters of the Women s
City Party Campaign Committee" was
opened In the real estate building at Broad
and Chestnut streets. where early next
week banner will be displayd. This Is
the first time In the history of the country
that a body OF women has come out boldly
TO take hand in the soliciting of votes for
candidates for political office.
Under the charge of Miss Annie Davis. a
well-known worker in the college settle
ment in the slums of this city and a woman
who proably more than any other In Phila-
delphia has had to do with the carrying
on of reform work. the headquarters were
opened.
The headquarters and the work to be
done viii be conducted in exactly the same
way as at the headquarters just across the
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utation by advertisements and news and
editorial statements from your subsidized
insurance press, denying my charges, at
lacking my character, all at the expense of
your policy holders and without their APP
prevail.
You employed James M. Beck, ex-assist-
ant attorney general of the United States.
then and now chief attorney for Henry H.
Rogers. the Standard Oil Company, the
System and the Mutual Life Insurance
Company to ridicule my utterances and as
perse my honor In addresses in the cities of
Philadelphia and Boston.
You employed James H Eekles. ex-con-
troler of the currency of the United States.
now president of the Commercial Bank and
representa- tive of the System in the west,
to attack my arguments and distort my
motives in Chicago.
You ordered Vice President Perkins of the
New York Life Insurance Company, to per-
form similar service in Philadelphia: and
The burden of these documents, adver-
tisements and disguised advertisements and
addresses was: Lawson is an unmitigated
liar and scoundrel, whose sole reason for at
lacking the insurance companies is hat we
refused him insurance" ."
Today you and your fellow plunderers
stand convicted in the eyes of the world
not only of juggling the money of the widow
and the orphan in the stock market. but of
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Merits of the Thistle.
From the London Chronicle.

Lord Brownlows recommendation of
bracken and the nettle as valuable and even
delicious foods suggests a still further ad-
dition to our dietary. Let no man hee-
haw at the mention of the thistle Culpeper
praises it and informs US that it is EFF
fectual for agues and to prevent and cure
the infection of the plague, as also I"
against the jaundice. 1t cleanses
the blood exceedingly: and In spring. If
you please to bofl the tender plant (but
cut off the prickles unless you have a mind
to choke yourselft 1t will change your blood
as the season changes, and that is the
way to be safe" Moreover. "the decoction
of the thistle In wine being drunk expels
superfuous melancholy out of the body.
and makes man as merry as a cricket
and my opinion is that 1t is the best remedy
against all melancholy diseases that grows"
And this gives us the answer to the dues
ton. Did you ever see dead donkey?"
He is not such an ass as to die He has
discovered the secret of longevity In the
words of the nursery rhyme,
He's high bred,
Thistle fed,
Merry I'D bundle Jig.
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lures sufficiently large to warrant 1t
quietly began operations.
THE FIRST DIRECT RESULT is THE,
INVESTIGATION NOW BEING HELD.
THIS INVESTIGATION HAS PROCEED
ED FAR ENOUGH TO PUT BEFORE THE
PUBLIC ABSOLUTE PROOF OF ALL THE
CRIMES HAVE CHARGED. AND
THREE TO THIRTY TIMES AS MANY
MORE
1T is NOW EVIDENT TO ALL THAT:
LIST. The policy holders in the great COM
panies have yearly paid into their company
scores of millions more than necessary.
I'd. The policy holders have been robbed
of hundreds of millions.
Sd. The vast funds now on hand have been
habitually used by the grafters now In con-
troll of them In the rankest kind of stock
gambling.
4th. These funds have been habltually
used to corrupt the ballot box and the law
makers of the country.
l repeat absolute proof of all this has
been made public.
1T SHOULD NOW BE EVIDENT TO
ALL THAT:
1st. The funds now on hand are I'm actual
jeopardy. because they are in the absolute
control of unprincipled scoundrels.
I'd. Unless something is done - at
once by the policy holders every
one of the largest companies may become
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
THESE INDIANS WERE GIANTS.
Evidence That Bears Out Capt. John
Smiths Story Of Tribe Of Tall Men.

From the Baltimore American
Gigantic skeletons of prehistoric Indians
nearly eight feet tall have been discovered
along the banks of the Choptank river, in
this state, by employees of the Maryland
Academy of Science. The remains are at
the academys building on Franklin street,
where they are being articulated and re-
stored by the academy expert, John Wild
geon. colored. They will be placed on pub
lie exhibition early in the fall.
The collection comprises eight skeletons,
of which some are women and children
They are not all complete, but all the
larger bones have been found and there Is
at least one complete specimen of an adult
man. The excavations were in progress for
months. and the discovery is considered
one of the most important, from the stand
point of anthropology, in Maryland in a
number of years. The remains are believed
to be at least 1000 years old. The forma,
ton of the ground above and the location
of the graves gives every evidence of this.
During the excavations the remains of the
camps of later Indians were revealed. These
consisted of oyster shell heaps, charred and
burned earth and fragments of cooking
utensils These discoveries were made
fully ten feet above the graves which con-
tanned the gigantic skeletons.
There have been other discoveries in
Maryland of remains of men of tremendous
stature. A skeleton was discovered at
ocean city several years age a'hfch meas
ured fraction over 7 feet inches. This
skeleton was inferred in a regular burying
mound and beads manufactured by white
men were found upon it. The dead Indian
was probably one of the tribes mentioned
by Capt. John Smith, who, in July 1908,
made voyage of exploration of the Chesa-
peake bay.
At the point on the Choptank where the
remains were found there are steep shelly
ing cliffs of sand and gravel that extend
to the waters edge. Beneath the bank is
layer Of mari The graves are In the sand
few feet above the hard mari, and have
deposits of between twenty and thirty fee:
of sand and gravel above them. A peculiar
feature OF the discovery is the charred
state of the bones of the women and chill
dren. Those of the men are untouched by
fire. This seems to indicate that the an
Client Indians cremated the bodies of all ex-
cspt their warriors. The wet resting place
of the bones for so many centuries has
made them very soft and fragile. and 1t
was with the greatest difficulty that they
were removed
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manipulating these trust funds for the bene-
fit of your own pockets.
Notwithstanding the turpitude al
ready exposed to the people. you still imag-
Inc you can so conduct yourself as to pre-
vent the investigators from fastening on
you and your associates the more desperate
crimes that have been committed in the
past-the $15o.Coo.000 to 500. 100000 stolen
and diverted or used in corruption.
But you have mistaken the tempers Of
your eountrymen
HAVE BEEN AUTHORIZED IN WRIT
ING BY OVER 10000 POLICY HOLDERS.
CARRYING OVER FIFTY-FOUR MIL
LIONS OF INSURANCE, TO ACT FOR
THEM
1, had intended to await the finish of the
New York investigation before proceeding.
but as have had placed in my hands dur
ing the past few days evidences of the de-
termination of yourself and your accom-
plices and fellow conspirators to face it out
regardless of consequences, and as believe
men capable of committing the acts that
have been proved during the past few days
fully capable of taking the transportable
part of the billion and quarter funds to
foreign countries and using them to keep
themselves from their justly deserved pun
ishments have decided to act now.
Thomas w. Lawson.
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NEWS OF LEEsBURG.
Funeral Of Edw. G. Marlow-Services
at Methodist Church

Special Correspondence Of The Star
LEESBURG. Va. October 81, 1905
The funeral of Edward G. NARROW of
Washington. who died here Wednesday
night, was held yesterday afternoon at
2:30 O'Clock from the residence of Miss
Fannie Edwards. DR.. James w. Morris.
assisted by Rev. w. l.. Dolby, officiated.
The high regard in which deceased was
held manifested by the large number
of friends who followed his remains to the
grave The acting pall bearers were Ed
ward F. Conkling of Washington, Judge
r. H. Tebler Mr. Thomas w Edwards
Mr.. John H. Alexander, DR.. A. Lee Pennei
and Mr.. II. Harrison Russell. The honor
airy bearers were Mr. Thompson Paxson
Mr.. Joseph L. Norris, Mr.. James Swartz
and Capt. w. B. Lynch. Interment was
in Union cemetery.
series of services Is being conducted
at the Methodist Church In this town by
Rev. c. B. Buiia of Winchester, Va. Rev
J. s. Engle of Baltimore editor of the
Southern Methodist, will preach morning
and evening Sunday, and Rev. E. v. Reg
lister of Baltimore will conduct the services
all of next week.
The first meeting of the white teachers
of Loudoun county for the session of 1901
06 will be held at Paeouian Springs this
county Saturday. October Is TIE meet
ing will be addressed by distinguished
speakers from abroad. among whom will
be Prof. c. G. Maghir, examiner and in
spector, fifth circuit.
Announcement is made that Mr.. William
James of Washington, d. c., and Mrs.
Elizabeth Ruse of Hamilton, Va, VII be
married Tuesday, October "A, at the home
of the bride in Hamilton. The ages of
the prospective groom and bride are given.
respectively. as seventy-one and sixty-five
years.
Mr.. Walter B. Fry of the Indian bureau.
Washington d. c., with his wife and little
daughter. spent several days with friends
In Leesburg this week.
Rev. Frank p Berkeley of Buena Vista
has been extended a call to the Baptist
churches of Leesburg and North Fork.
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COMMUNICATION FROM
HENRY EVANS.
Offer to Refund Money " Hyomei Does
Not Cure Catarrh.

To the Editor Of The Star:
have been asked recently If the Advertisements
printed In your columns regarding Hyomei were
true where 1 offer to refund the money II this
treatment does not cure catarrh. I wish you would
please print this letter in conspicuous a place
as possible in your paper saying that we absolutely
agree TO refund the money to any purchaser OF
Hyomei outfit II 1t does not cure catarrh
This outnt consists OF inhaler of a convenient
size to be carried in the vest pocket so that the
user can breathe Hyomei four or five times daily
With this is included medicine dropper and a bot
tie Of Hyomef. The outfit sells for 81 90 and IA
most economical treatment. for the inhaler last,
a lifetime and there is enough Hyomel for several
weeks use while extra bottles can be obtained for
80 cents.
trust this letter win settle any doubts that may
have arisen 10 my willingness to refund The
money for Hyomei outfit, in case the purchaser is
not perfectly satisfied.
wish to say emphaticalIy that my guarantee on
Hyomei holds good, and win refund the money to
any dissatisfied purchaser who simply states that
he has used the treatment according to directions
and not been helped
Respectfully yours.
HENRY EYANg
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insolvent: that is. they may not be able to
meet the engagements of their policies. be-
cause of waste. of funds. tremendous falling
off of new business. tremendous cost OF new
business, and the nature OF the new
business-so-called graveyard business,
for l am credibly Informed that they are
now seeking to insure those who formerly
have been refused insurance because of
physical inirmities.
1T SHOULD BE PLAINLY EVIDENT
that If the policy holders move. and move
quickly, they be absolutely assured
that:
LIST. The funds as they are today will re-
main intact.
I'd. They will be added to by the restitu-
ton of from SID 600 900 to S15o, oag 900.
Sd. A score of the thieves who have plum
dered policy holders in the past will be sent
to prison. st IA
4th. The future payments OF policy hold
ers will be largely cut down.
9Th. The present swollen SURPRISES will be
returned in large part to policy holders.
9th. In the future policy holders will ac-
tually run the company.
It'll. All policy holders can be assured that
in the future they viii receive the actual
worth of their policy at surrender.
All this being so, IL Is most eminently de-
sirable for policy holders to act. and at
once
Thomas w. Lawson.
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To john A. Mccall, Presi=
dent New York Life I'm
SuranCe Go.

SIR: 1t is time your attention was called
to the moral sense of the American people.
1t is time you We're shown yourself
as you are today seen by the millions of
your countrymen, who, a month ago, be-
heved you to be a great and honorable man.
In spite of the TERRIBLE exposures of the
past few weeks, in spite of the I'M
yelling of the jugglery, grating and corrup
ton of your administration of the most sa-
cred trust that can be confded to man. you
remain unconvinced of your fall and I'M
penetrated by your shame. forget
ting that the enemy against whom your
maneuvers were directed was the American
people and that your character and
reputation We're as absolutely before the bar
as though you had been indicted for seques-
tration of the funds of some dead friends
wife
You have made yourself the custodian of
these funds under sacred pledge of square
dealing and honest administration. You
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
Prince Of Wales as Sportsman.

M. a =.
The announcement that the Prince OF
Walls is about to follow the example of
the king and breed horses for racing pur-
poses has naturally riveted public attention
upon his career as a sportsman. concerning
which comparatively little Is known OUT
side his immediate circle. Some little time
ago. when plebiscite was held in popular
magazine circulating among sportsmen as
to who were the twelve most remarka BILE
shots In this country. the result found the
Prince of Wales bracketed with Prince =
Victor Dhuleep Singh, Mr. F. e. r. Fryer.
Mr.. w. Stonor and Lord Falconer in the
fourth place, the first being filled by that
prince OF game shots, Lord de Grey. the
second by Mr.. r. CHARACTERIZATION and
Lord Waisingham. while that brilliant shot,
Mr.. Headiey Noble, occupied the third place
In the final order. To give an Idea of the
deadly precision of the princes aim, 1t may
be mentioned that he has performed the re-
nnarkable feat of firing both barrels of two 1
guns in such rapid succession that he has s
had four dead pheasants falling through
the air at the same moment, a feat requir-
ing the acme of accuracy. Che actual ag-
gregate head of game killed at royal
shoot rarely transpires, but when IN 1901
the king and Prince of Wales enjoyed their
first days shooting for the season In Wind =
sor Great Park 1t was significant that Of
the 800 pheasants that fell on that tempest
ueus day by far the greatest bag fell to the
deadly aim OF the prince
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
Transfer of Infantry

The military secretary is advised that the
Sd Battalion, 23d Infantry (eight officers
and les enlisted mem, has left Madison bar
racks New York. for Fort Ontario, n. Y,
for station, and that Company B. 26th In
fantry (three officers and fifty-eight enlist
ed mem, has left Fort Mcintosh, Tex, for
Fort Ringgod. Tex, for station.
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United States Supreme Court.

Proceedings after The Star went to press
yesterday:
No. Is. Union Pacific Railroad Company.
appellant. agt. Mason City and Fort Dodge
Railroad Company. Argument concluded
by Mr.. Maxwell Evarts for the appellant.
Nos. 10 and 20. William Marvin, plaintiff
in error. agt Belle q. Trout. Argument
commenced by Mr.. George F. Pendleton for
the plaintiff in error.
Adjourned until Monday next at II
O'Clock
The day call for Monday. October %. will
be as follows: Nos. IL land 3d. ii % "A
(and 2I), 25, 20, %. 80. 81 and 81.
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Hair Ribbons.
From the New York Sun.

A passenger on the deck of an outward
bounl steamship watched the people on
board. In the crowd was group of girls
who looked like saIeswomen. Each was
well dressed and more or less SMART In
appearance. The passenger gazed at the
girls for some time and then remarked:
Now. see that beyy of girls. They are
clean. well greomed. hastily and carefully
dressed and there's nothing dowdy or SLOW
emily about any one of them They are
trim from the tip of the feather in their
hats down to the Cuban heels of their shoes
but how Is 1t that New York girls continue
10 wear greasy bow ribbon knots In their
hair after the bread and butter age?
These ribbons are all very we'll for lit-
tie girls In knee petticoats. but when girl
Is big and old enough to dress her hair
and use back and side combs 1t Is surely
time to discard the ribbon bow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21

intensive farming. On one-sixteenth of an
acre some sixth-grade boys in Washington
raised 1856 punches of radishes, 10 punches
of onions. 1858 heads of lettuce. 50 punches
of beets, eight bushels of beans, seven
bushels of tomatoes, seven punches of car
rots and one peck Of turnips, besides mas
turtiums and petunias Their produce was
valued at $50. which is as well as a good
farmer could have done with the same
area
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Suffering from a stroke of paralysis
Charles Davis, thirty years of age. resi-
dent OF Philadelphia. who is employed as
a brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad
was taken from the 9Th street depot to the
Emergency Hospital yesterday in a serious
condition. His friends in the Quaker City
have been notified of his affiiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21

Quantities of valuable pearls are being
found in the Kankakee river uear La Porte,
Ind. Scores of persons have gone to the
river to hunt for the gems. The operation
of huge dredges. which have reclaimed large
areas of land. uncovered the pearls. tho
search for which has become an industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21

The police have been requested TO recover
the brass sign of DIR. Amber A. MarsteIler
which. he says, was stolen from In front OF
his Office. 1924 + street northwest, some time
Wednesday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
Thomas w. Lawson.

Beginning year ago, Everybodys Magazine has steadily
attacked the localized robbers of the business community until the
whole has become keeny alive the evil which
struggling Destroy and which have been way
dent Roosevets Square Deal for Every Man,
This destructive until the money of widows
and orphans shall be sae until beef shall longer control the
food sppes until the concentrated of many shall
be shaken of the businesses of until
municipal and federal shall everywhere be clean
and honest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
An Open Letter to John A. Mccall
President New York Life Insurance Company

y Yd ymgh H d t liz de hEBn aIy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
Thomas w. Lawson.

Charles Edward RUSSELL his Foreword his eloquent
constructive Mans Struggle for Equality says some
the Americans will find for the evils bese and
hamper them old days they found monarchcal
despoism, and again for African slavery"
Lawson helping Russell helping Everybody's Magazine
helping Let who has for the undedo what
Mr. Russell has say in his beginning Eveybodys Maya
for November that he learn and think and when
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.It had rained during the night and the
sun had not been up long enough to. dry up
the moisture. which made the humidity al
most unbearable The place where we were
working was swamp land the black, rot
ting swamp vegetation over black al
luvial soil. 1t was here that we met the
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great veybody
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS