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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-04

some time It should he well rubbr.
With lnseed oil before using IL. n
unstring the how hold II rs in string
Ing; then press down the upper limb
exactly as before and as if you wished
10 place the eye OF the string in :,
higher notch This will loosen tie
string and liberate the eye, whcn il
must be lifted out Of the mock by ihr
fOrehnger and suffered 10 slip down
the limb. Before using the bow hold
1t In perpendicular direction with the
string toward you and .see If the line
OF the string cuts the middle or the
bow Ii not. shift the eye AMI moose
OF the string to either side SO as Ia
make the two lines coincide This
precaution prevents n very common
cause OF defective shooting, which il
the result Of an uneven string throw
ing the arrow aside. After using the
bow unshlng Ii. and, IL large party il
shooting, after every lend" II should
he freed from it's state of teusion
But in this respect there Is great DIFF
ference in different bows. some good
ones soon getting cast from their nue
shape and others, though inferior bows
IN other respects, bearing any ordinary
amount of tension without damage
Two points must be attended to wl,cr
taking aim-the lateral direction aut
the distance-since there is no bow
which will drive an arrow many yard.
! perfectly point blank, and consequently
a slight eleration must in all cases b'
New-York tribune., 1905-06-11

1t was not long before al that was lncomQre-
hensib1e became clear Watching her opportunity.
the 9uakh1rka took advantage of the confusion
caused by the capture of Prince Melnikoh to secure
the escape of jacques Dumanet, known to her alone
as the son of her daughter, Maria Llvans1
The old woman was aware of the secret path along
the face of the precipice. Giving him directions.
with horrible threats of the fate he would endure If
ever again he fell into the hands of those whom he
had betrayed, she lowered him down the rock with
a rope. Nearing the ledge, he was discovered
by the lurking Cossacks posted there by the
Prince In his terror, not recognizing them IN the
darkness. he shouted to the beldaue to haul HIM
back While she was endeavOring to obey his iren-
zied cries, he was run through by a too-zeaLous
soldier and Maria Petrovna eXertng all her energy
pulled to the balcony pallid corpse.
She concluded instantly that Ivan StePhanoVltch
had suspected her and had posted men there TO
prevent in this fearful manner the rescue OF her
New-York tribune., 1905-06-11
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for JUNE IL. 1905

| too have sworn and | do not break my Oaths.
If one generation of Melnikoffs can be dlsnherted
by the Gar. so can another.
The Prince turned him with a dignity and
forbearance that would have silenCed a man less
headstrong. Peace, Ivan!" he said. You have
done mischief enough Let me repair some OF the
wrong you have helped me to in1ict-"
What? Draw back now that YOU are in my
pOwer?" He uttered a terrible Russian expletive
''Not T. | have killed men and beaten Govern
rnent to win my way. l shall not halt because
dying woman bars the path
If YOU utter another word | shall proclaim to
all the world our true relationship
What do | care? If there was law in Russia |
should be the ruler of Bannofka. Nature made
me so, and | retain the power if not the place
Hear me- all of you This man, my brother, is
11surper. His father held the position which be
1onged to the father of Natushka. He ike his
son, married a of the people and disowned
me- his eldest-born favor of the son of sOcalled
princess | vowed to Natushkas father, who saved
my mothers life and mine to right the injustice
in the way best fitted to serve those of
said it, and it shall be done 1t is not in the power
of man woman devil to prevent me from car
rying out my purpose"
The door was flung open behind him. He looked
around to see who it was that entered so unCere-
mOniOuslv.
1t was the endkh1rka. Her tottering frame ap-
peared to be endowed with an extraordinary strength.
Her eyes blazed with intensity that signIted
madness With queer. elfn CRY she flung herself
furiouslv at the giant Russian and struck him in
the throat with a long narrow -baded knife she held
concealed under her cloak. He uttered a groan
and fell forward.
The witch-doctor, having glutted hate which
New-York tribune., 1905-06-11

to offer my congratulations that YOU are safe and
under your fathers protection" he said
1t had been better for all of us had my daughter
and | never been separated, broke in the Earl
vehement1y According to his code of honor, the
Prince had lied not once but many times, and
to one whose notions were eminently British and
aristocratic a lie unforgivablc.
1t is the fortune of war-and other things"
said the Prince bowing again.
There are others here to whom your highness's
good wishes also may be extcndcd,' said Sassul-
itch. Let me present to your highness your wife
and your son.
The bitter polteness of his words in wise
mitigated their extraordinary effect the Prince.
He placed his hand to his side, for he was badly
bruised and suffering much pain. He made no
pretense of ignoring the older man nor misunder
standing him. Olga Sassulitch was lying prone on
the couch Insensiby Armstrong and Carlingham,
who CHANGED to be standing that side drew apart,
and Prince Melnikof could see the wasted figure,
with thin hand grasping the plump fingers of
the boy
The Prince walked unsteadily to the bedside.
For the first time in many years his eyes met those
of his wife. He looked at her without finching,
and who can say what memories crowded his sur
charged brain7 He was a strange man. He
stopped and caught the disengaged hand which lay
listlcsslv on the fur robe which covered her.
Olga" he said with quiet pathos that brought
a lump into more than one throat, Il am to blame
in some ways not in all And-I never knew
there a child"
You deserted me, Boris" came the feeble words
for the strain of events had exhausted her. You,
or your hired assassin murdered my sister You
have inflicted untold suffering my people: yet
forgive you, and l pray that God may forgive
you-yet be His justice will overtake you!'
New-York tribune., 1905-06-11

Olga" he said again why did you not tell me
of the bow" And he looked at the wondering
child who gazed from his mother to the big hand
some stranger with awe and sense of fear.
He was born in prison. she said without any
emotion or resentment "It was not fitting birth
place for one of your line though some of your an
cestors have died there"
Il am sorry" he murmurcd with bowed head.
Sorrow comes too late | dying, Boris.
And your Car says l am not your wife. Maybe
he has the power to do me that wrong. If you go
to him he also may tell you that you have no SON.
Will YOU believe him-or me-"
Listen, Olga! Itmay give You some consolation;
solemnlv swear, before all present, that shall
not repudate child! l shall procure the annul-
ment of the decree. "
Ivan, comprehendng the significance Of the scene,
broke in with a voice of thunder: You seem to
forget all of you, that | am the Prince here! Let
me hear none of your vows or death-bed promises.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-11

staircase leading to the living room, advanced with
a torch to search for his chief opponent, who, he
believed had escaped the explosion.
When he caught sight of the Prince yet gaSpng
for breath and nearly spent, he did not ccr at him
as might be expected of such a
You see Boris he said, you fight against
fate Now indeed, you are beaten.
Still dominated by the desire for revenge, Mel
nikoff raised the revolver he held in his left hand.
Unseen in the semi darkness one of the insurgents
was covering him with an antiquated pistol. This
man fired to protect his chief His aim was good,
and the Prince received violent blow in the chest
that flung him headlong.
Ivan. regardless of the danger he from the
infuriaed Cossacls rushed to the fallen man, lifted
him in his strong arms and STROBE away with the
burden as if a colossus almost mighty as himself
was a truss of straw.
There was that in his which stillcd the
clanor of the others. TroOping at his heels, with
no thought of further struggle the Cossacks mixed
with the insurgents together they climbed the
stairs leading to the 1iving-room. Stephanovitch
laid his adversary the ground near a stove.
Bring a light" he commanded hOarscly.
Tearing open the furs and tightly buttoned uni
form of the Prince whose face was crimson and his
eyes distended, he small round object roll on
to the floor 1t was the spherical bullet and its
impact evidently had been resisted by something
uncommonlv hard. A moments scrutiny revealed
how Boris Me1nikof had been spared a serious If
not mortal wound the great tireopal lay shattered
into fragments in his waistcOat pocket
The resultant blow had stunned the Prince,
knocking out of him such breath was left by the
explosion. Manifestly, all that he wanted now was
air and drink of water set him his feet again.
The first rumor that reached the anxious
gathering in Ermyntrude's rOck-chamber, where
New-York tribune., 1905-06-11

in the shrunken form of Prince Melnikos FORGOTTEN
wife or in the budding loveness of the English
girl or the Circassan?
The men would have gone to ascertain the TRUTH
had not Sassulitch entered
The attack has failed he said, with a curious
restraint III ms voice that seemed to presage an
imminent CRISIS. Ivan Stephanovitch has secured
a prisoner OF Importance. He is bringing Prince
Melniloff hithcr"
sharp cry of dismay came from Natushka
She, better than any other present, knew what a
torcetul character was Ivan's He would be de-
TERED by no consideration from attaining his object
They all were in his power
Melnlkof appeared He was disar1ned and
closely followed by Ivan and some of his hench-
men. Nothing could rob the Prince of one dis
tinctiOn-he would be courteous at the foot of the
scaffold
Dothng his astrakhan cap with easy grace. he
advanced toward Ermyntrude Let me hasten
New-York tribune., 1905-06-11

none understood. and
least of all he who
suffered, rushed out
again into the gallery.
She was followed by
Natushka, who gave
one Mortified glance
at the man she loved,
and then, true to the
traditions of her race,
sought vengeance on
his slayer.
The child, fright
ened by the knife
and the heavy fall
of Ivan, began to cry.
Armstrong and Car
lingham, nearest to
the Russian, stopped
over him and endeav-
ored to stanch the
flow from the wound.
Their efforts. bravely
supplemented by Er-
myntrude, who tore
strips from her dress
to provide bandages,
were of no avail.
The big man died
at once helplesslv.
With his last flicker
of ordered thought he
turned his eyes toward
Prince Melnikotf. He
endeavored to speak,
but failed. Then he
seemed to abandon
hope. and collapsed.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-11

Olga SasSulltCh was
stretched, apparently
1ifelcss, on a couch,
with her little son sit
ting by her side, an
nounccd Prince Mel
nikoff's death. The
news hushed their talk
into sudden silence;
but the dying woman,
whose life cbbcd and
flowed with the un-
canny fluctuations of
the last stage of con-
sumption, sat up with
wonderful energy.
"Dead?" she cried.
mol God will not
permit that. Death
is a relief. Boris
Melnikoff must live
to suffer-
Her semblance was
of one speaking from
the tomb. No greater
contrast could be of
cred in life than the
presence of this wan,
attenuated creature
in the same room with
two such types of
health and vigor as
Ermyntrude and Ma
tushka. If the Angel
of Death was visible
in that dim abode,
where would one look
for his wocful signs
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20

He went to New York from Louis
willie last week. and was at the Fifth
avenue hotel Last Saturday he wired
President Jefferson his resignation as
director of the Western National.
A Prodigy and a Paragon.
He bought a controlling interest IN
the Western National two years ago
and became it's president. But, ow-
ing to dissatisfaction among the dl-
rectors over his administration he was
forced to resign on July 10 last. HE
was succeeded by I. l.. Jefferson, the
present president of the bank
MI jefferson and the other members
of the directorate exerted all their en-
ergies TO hold the bank up, but August
81 the controller of the currency or
dered 1t closed. The bank has since
reopened under favorable conditions,
Smith is 80 years old. He came here
from Paducah. where he was Interested
in several enterprises. AT the age OF
Il he was cashier of the Lewlsbufg
Banking Company at LeWisburS, ky"
and two years later held similar po-
sition in Slaughterville, ky.
In 1902 Mr.. Smith helped to organize
the Globe L nix and Trust Company
In Paducah and became its president
He remained in this position for two
years. going to Louisville year later
While in Paducah MIR. Smith took
prominent part in church affairs ana
taught class in, the Broadway Meth
odist Sunday school. He owl I'd an
interest in the Ledger. He also had
stock in the jackson Wing, news
paper published at Jackson, Tenn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
BRIDE COSTS $40 900
Ohio Man Cut Off by Wife's
Will When He Re-
married
ESTATE is WORTH LARGE SUM
His Attentions to Girl Before His First
Wife's Death Caused Her to Insert
Provision in Will Which Deprived
Him of Snare in Estate if He Should
Remarry.

Cincinnati, o., Oct. 20.-When DR.. J..
l.. Holden, ex-mayor Of GAINESVILLE, o.,
married Miss Hazel Coyle in Cincinnati
yesterday the will of his first wife was
filed in GAINESVILLE. 1t provides that IL
he married second time he shall be
cut off from all participation in her es-
tate, valued at $4,000
DIR. Holden's first wife died about a
month ago. the end coming suddenly.
At her gravesde, while sorrowing
friends stood beside the bereaved nus
band the dead womans sister demand
ed a postmortem. The funeral was
stopped and the coroner called in, but
it was determined that she had died OF
natural causes.
For the last five or six years Hazel
Coyle has been almost a member of the
family of DR.. Holden. Dr. Holden Of
ten took her with him as he made the
rounds of his calls on his patients. Last
winter DR. Holden went to New York to
attend series of lectures. During his
stay in New York Miss Coyle. who is
HOW d DeduIllul WOlIlhL OL 10, visited
in New York.
Mrs. Holden, while her husband was
absent from GAINESVILLE, became anger
ed at him and filed a suit regarding
property interests. Soon after she was
taken very i'll with fever and efforts
We're made to locate her husband. On
his return to GAINESVILLE his wife be-
came reconciled to him and wanted to
withdraw the suit because Of the law
yers' fees connected with such action.
The suit was still pending when Mrs
Holden died.
Wednesday night reporters found
sDr. Holden at the Grand hotel As he
was registered CDR. ]. L. Holden and
wife" questions as to when and where
he was married were put by the re-
porters.
ooh, by Squire Jones in Covington,"
laughed the doctor.
But the wedding did not really take
place until Thursday and in the mean
time kilograms from GAINESVILLE told
that the will of the late Mrs. Holden
had been filed and has as one of its
provisions that If her husband remar-
ried her estate of 100000 should go
to her child. Pearl. aged S years, with
a wealthy niece of the late Mrs. Hold
en- as guardian.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
RACE SUICIDE IN ENGLAND.
Bishop Of London Scores the Middle
Glasses for Low Birth Rate.

5iShCp OF Ion0on SCORES tne MioQI0
Glasses for Low Birth Rate.
London, Oct. 20.-The falling birth
rate was the subject of interesting
comment by the bishop of London, DR.
Ingram, in an address to the clergy
of his diocese in St PauFs cathedral
yesterday afternoon. Like President
Roosevelt, he warned his hearers of the
dangers of this decrease. 1t was i'm
possible, the bishop said, to describe
with what dismay he viewed this d.
minution of the birth rate not only in
England but in the colonies. 1t APP
peared to him to be an artificial
diminution by artificial means.
The practice of the deliberate pre-
vention of conception had spread like
a blight among the middle classes AMI
must be viewed by the Church of Eng
land as sin. The prevailing love OF
comfort was largely responsible for this
and the clergy must learn themselves
to teach others to live the simpler and
heartier life, which their forefathers
lived
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
HOME AT STATE UNIVERSITY.
Preshyterians to Establish Headquar-
tiers for Students at Urbana.

Champaign, H.. Oct 20.-The Pres
byterian synod of Illinois. in session
here. has ascertained there are 900
Presbyterian students in the University
of Illinois. and movement has been
officially undertaken to raise $4,000 to
be used as an endowment fund III
building ana maintaining q home for a
special minister whose chief work will
be to look after the best interests OF
and promote systematic Bible study
among these young men and women
at the state institution. Chicagoan
whose name is withheld has agreed to
give $4,000 toward the project.
AT the twenty fifth annual meeting
of the Womcn's Synodical Society for
Foreign Missions, held here yesterday,
Mrs. c. G. Brown, of Springfield, was
elected president.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
THE MoSLEM BIBLE.

Hsvv the Koran, According to Tradi.
ton, Was Given to Man.
IN Arabic the word Koran" means
that. which ought to be read" The
Koran Is divided into IA chapters call
ed suras, word meaning really row."
order" series" In manuscripts
these chapters are not numbered, but
bear titles. sometimes derived from
the subject matter, but usually from
the nrst important work. Some chap
tiers have two Or more names because
Of differences ~ the manuscripts fol
lowed. Each chapter is divided into
smaller portions, called vorses by non
Moslelas, but IN Arabic known as
"ayat" signs or wonders. The entire
book again is divided into sixty equal
portions, called "ah5ab," each subdi-
vided into four equal parts. or into
thirty parts called "ajsa," each consist
ing of two ''ahsab," and again divided
into four. All the chapters except the
ninth begin with the bismillah, I'm
the name Of the most merciful God"
Twenty mine begin with certain letters
Of the alphabet, which are believed to
be the peculiar marks Of the Koran
and to conceal several profound mys-
teriss, the understanding Of which, the
more intelligent confess, has not beer
communicated to any mortal. their
prophet only excepted.
According to Moslem tradition, the
Archangel Gabriel paid $4,000 visits
to earth while revealing to Mohammetl
the wishes of the Creator. Some few
chapters were delivered entire, but the
greater part was Sevealed piecemeal
and written down at the prophets die
tatlon By 4aid, his secretary. The first
revelation, 1t ts generally agreed, con-
tanned The first Eve verses Of the nine
N-sirth sura. After the passages had
been written down they were published
to the prophets followers, several Of
whom took copies, while most learned
them by heart, and the originals were
then placed In chest In no particula,
order For this reason it is uncertain
when many Of the passages were re-
vealed.
Abu Behr, Nohammed's FIRST success
sor, collected tba originals, which were
on pakn leaves and skins, and had
copies mode By zaid from the dictation
Of those who had committed the pas
sases to memory. He further placed
the suras in the order still followed,
putting the longest at the hsad of the
HIST without regard to historical Sc
euence. Some time later Osnan had
the Koran copied in the qurassh dia-
lect and suppressed the versions made
nv A. N-pr--.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
How. This7

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
f. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned, have known F.
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believe him perfectly honorable In all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
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walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
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Testi1. ,onials sent free. Price Is cents
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Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
BANKER SHORT 100000.
A Kentucky Napoleon Of Finance is
Indicted.


Louisville, KY, Oct. GOV. B.
Smith former president OF the West
ern National Bank of this city, known
as the Napoleon Of finance of Ken
lucky and a Sunday school teacher of
presumably unassailable reputation,
has been indicted by the federal grand
jury on ten counts, charging pecula-
tons aggregating s19S,o1S.92.
His methods, it is alleged, were out
right embezzlement, the making of
false entries, and the misappropriatfon
of funds, the steals having been divid-
ed by these processes respectively as
follows: Fifty thousand dollars, $780,
966.65 and s12,047.27.
Mr. Smith is said to be in Porto
Rico, and it is claimed a cablegram
has been received from him saying he
viii return to Louisville on October -.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
GIVE MANY INSTITUTIONS AID.
Methodist Women Report Wide Range
Of Work in Home Mission Field.

Indianapolis, Oct 2O.--At the meet
ing of the Woman's Home Missionary
Society of the Methodist church yes
to-day it was reported that while the
main effort during the year has been
to raise 100000 as a silver offering
for the twenty-ffth anniversary of the
organization, new work has been car
ried on at Austin, Tex: a home for
girls at Boaz, Ala; school building
at Asheville, N c.; Harvard home at
Albuquerque, children's home near
Pittsburg and training school at
Kansas City. 1t was stated that mis-
sion buildings were needed in Homo
lulu Porto Rico and El Paso. The APP
preparations made for the coming year
reached S272, 1898
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
Don't Borrow Trouble.

It is a bad habit to borrow anything.
but the worst thing you can possibly
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
a wAafs.s J.wbo.es.

The jawbones Of whale are some
times twenty feet in length, and the
mouth, whom wide open, Ia IL by IL
feet. The throat, however, IL 80 small
~ scarcely to admit hens egg. The
whale gets hts living By strNining the
animalculas and small asA out Of the
water he takes into his capacious
mouth. It must be slow work, but
then he has plenty Of time and nothing
else to do, 50 hA attsnds to hts eating
80 regularly that he often accumulates
q ton Of oil in hts hNlFv avstem.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
NEAR END OF PEST EPIDEMIC.
Only Eight New Cases of Yellow Fever
at New Orleans Thursday.

New Orleans, Oct. 20.-With no
deaths and only eight new cases of yell
those of light type, the epidemic in
this city can be declared to be near its
end. The cases under treatment are
rapidly being reduced, and the small
force left at the marine hospital head
quarters will soon be abolished entirely.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-20
New Cure tor Cancer.

All surface cancers are now known
to be durable. by Bucklen's Arnica
Salve James Walters. of Duffield, Va,
writes: II had a cancer on my lip for
years, that seemed incurable, till Buck
lens Arnica Salve healed it, and now it
is perfectly we'll" Guaranteed cure for
cuts and burns. 25 cents at Mcdonald
& Mahood Co.. drug store.