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CURIOSITIES OF
CHARM AND AMULET
BY DIR. PLOWRIGHT.

beer so used from remote antiquity. In the
revised version read of the crescents
that were on their camels neckS" Judges
vii, 2D. This crescent was the symbol of
the goddess Diana. 1t is the symbol of the
Mohammedan faith, and may have come to
us through the Crusaders or from Hispano-
Moorish times. At any rate 1t is now our
prime favorite.
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badly made crescent approaches in out
line the horseshoe. still our commonest
amulet. Our doors, If not so often pro-
tected by 1t as they were in bygone days,
are still guarded frequently by knocker-
amulet This may take the form of a hui
man hand. either holding ball or having
the fingers variously extended, an amulet
exceedingly common all over the south of
Spain. 1t is found incised upon the Tore
de Justlcia of the Alhambra. or as
knocker on most of the modern houses in
Seville and other Andelusian cities. A bat
with extended wings, goats head with
well-developed horns, an elephants head
with the trunk, and fauns heads with their
characteristic. pointed ears are all very
common on English houses. All were orig
inally amulets. now they are surviyals only,
used because the manufacturers supply
knockers of these particular patterns, and
they make them because their predecessors
made them The owner of the house be-
slows no thought on the matter-he takes
what is sold to him and is content To him
door knocker is knocker which knocks
on door, and there the matter ends. In
many drug stores scent amulets are Of
feEed for sale. They consist of yariously
shaped. brightly colored objects for suspen-
sion from childrens necks. The show
cards on which they are fixed assert them
10 be in all fashionable perfumes, Won
derfully strong and sweet, but a faint
s.ckly Odor suggestive of orris root IS all
most persons can detect. Although called
amulsts they are little more than orna-
n.ents. The camphor locket belongs to a
different category-here we have, still in
use protective charm--the odor of which
numbers of people still believe TO be pro-
iective against "fever''-the idea that strong
doors are prophylactie against infectious
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house was built by John Parke Custis in
T1s. 1t stands about 300 yards back from
the Potomac river and half mile north
OF Four-Mile run, Va. 1t may be plainly
seen about a quarter of a mile east of the
railroad by passengers passing between
Washington and Alexandria by either Of
the rail routes. The house and the fields
around it are owned by a brick making
company and the dwelling is occupied by
Mr.. Allwlne, foreman of the company, and
his family.
John Parke Gusts is conspicuous IN
American history. Not that he was great,
but he was ward of George Washington,
and one cannot read much of the life and
times of the father of his country without
often encountering the names of the MEM
bers of the Custis family. John Parke
Custis' was descended from John Custis.
who came to Virginia from Holland in
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Custis. It was soon after the death of
married to Eleanor Calvert, daughter Of
Benedict Calvert of Mount Airy. Prince
George county. Md. Young Gusts bought
from Gerald Alexander 100 acres of land,
on part of which Arlington now stands.
He built Abingdon House. and there in 1779
Eleanor Parke Gusts (Nelle Custis) was
born. John Parke Custis, an aid on Wash
ington's staff, died near Yorktown In 1871,
and Washington adopted Nellie Custis and
her young brother, George Washington
Farke Custis the builder of Arlington
Bouse). The two children thereafter made
their home at Mount Vernon Nellie re-
manned there till she became the wife of
Lawrence Lewis, the builder of Woodlawn
Manor, and George Washington Parke
Gusts continued to live at Mount Vernon
till. on the death of Mr. Washington In
1902, the property came into possession Of
Judge Bushrod Washington.
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NO WONDER
HE WAS CROSS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES **sss

A well-regulated citizen who lives on
Washington Heights boarded a city-oound
Mt Pleasant car the other morning in a
rather preoccupied state of mind His face
bore the marks of either late hours, dissi-
patton, uneasiness of mind or sudden ca
lamity. In fact, his friends on the car, to
whom he nodded grudgingly as he entered.
were undecided as to just what was the
matter.
Anything ailing you this morning.
asked a friend who was on very intimate
footing with the Washington Heights citi-
zen.
.'Everything's ailin' me-" snapped the
well-regulated gentleman half savagely.
I'm all in, 1 am. I've been fighting it off
for three weeks, but it's an unequal battle.
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those of our pagan ancestors, lest the sus-
ceptibility of the people should be too Sc
verely strained and that they should revert
Internationally to the religion OF their fore
fathers Neither has public school educa-
ton been altogether effective in Graduating
our tendency to superstitious atavism.
Are there not hundreds of people today
who carry protective charms and amulets,
In more or less covert manner perhaps,
but still they carry them. 1t may be a gall
van!c ring, a combination of copper and
zinc hidden beneath a coating of gold, or
magnetic belt of incredible cost under their
clothing, or pieces of sealing wax or
lump of sulphur concealed in their pockets
These good folks are not only satisfied with
the efficacy of their charms. but are quite
ready to explain their action on the ground
of generating electricity. 1t does not mat
ter that the current produced Is INSULT
Gent to defect any ordinary galvanometer
1t is quite enough to drive their rheumatic
aches and pains out of the tips of their An
gers and toes. They firmly believe these
charms do them good, that If they do not
cure they at least keep their rheumatis
in check, that they would be worse without
them, that their pains are not so bad as
they were before resorting to these meas
ures, and did not their fathers or their
grandfathers or their next-door neighbors
receive immense benefit from these simple
means? Less educated and less wealthy
people have to be content with a pair of
moles feet-hands to be accurate-tied up
in a parcel and carried in the left-hand
pocket; in the country ladies' pockets still
go in pairs. Magnetism and electricity do
not afford an explanation here, but the
wearer knows that for a man 1t should be
the mole's left hand, and for a woman the
right hand. but in order to make quite sure
it is better to carry both. These people do
not tell you SO, but these mole's hands
must do good, for whoever heard of a mole
having rheumatism. and yet the creature
spends its life in that most rheumatic re-
gion-the damp, cold ground.
Chronic rheumatism is a disease of ad-
vancing life; its aches and pains are most
wearing; 1t cripples so many OF our friends
that 1t is not surprising people who begin
to feel it's grip are ready to try anything or
everything for its arrest. A stolen potato
worn in the left-hand pocket is a very
widely employed charm for this purpose in
England. 1t is one which offers many
points of interest to the folklore student.
1t is of great antiquity, dating from the
time of the Romans and before. In those
days certain root was carried by such as
were anxious to avoid not only disease, but
other ills
This was the famed mandrake. south
European plant, belonging to the same nat
t,raI order of piaufS aS tho deadly nipf,f-
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Gus gums were burned during the plague
times of the middle ages-today the smell
of carbolic acid or chloride of lime Is
imagined by many educated people to be
healthy and to prevent, at any rate to
retard, the spread of disease. It seems i'm
possible to get people TO understand that
human beings are more easily killed by
aerial disinfectantS than are microbes; that
a deodorant is not necessarily a disinfect-
ant and that ''the way not to do IT. is to
hide up one smell with another rather than
to open the windows of the sick room.
What hosts of charms are employed
against whooping cough. In country places
fried field mice. in towns the domestic
mouse prepared in the same way-live spi-
ders tied up in muslin and hung up the
chimney or round the necks of patients, or
the sufferer is made to pass under a bram-
BILE or placed on a donkey's back and
marched nine times around a gate post, or
carried TO the gasworks and made to inha1e
the tdr-fumes or given milk that a ferret,
fox or cat has previously partially lap
ped, or dosed with drugs mentionable and
uncomfortable, or rubbed with embroca-
lions of various odors and hues. Each
cure is nfallible--until 1T fails, in which
case there is no lack of substitutes. Event
TALLY the child RECEIVERS, for whooping cough
like similar diseases runs definite course,
generally from six to eight weeks, then the
last remedy used attains in its turn the
title of infallible.
Well nigh numerous and diversified
are the charm cures. employed for the re-
moval of warts from children's hands and
ringworms from their heads. These too,
are successful. more or less, when they are
applied late enough in the disease. Both
these affections are due to parasites, one
microbic, the other fungod, which sooner
or later, as a farmer would put it. cease
to grow because they have exhausted the
soil, and leave the patient as proof against
these contagious diseases as a pock-pitted
man is against smallpox.
What a remarkable tendency the human
mind has to bark back to the beliefs of the
past, After all the blood which has been
spent in religious wars to convert nations
to the right faith how strong is the tend
ency to revert to the religious beliefs of
their ancestors. Take the instance of the
Jews how they fought for pure monotheism
against the idolatry and polytheism of the
nations they vanquished, and yet, when
Moses left them for short time. did not
his brother Aaron, who should have known
better, set up a golden calf with the most
disastrous results? Nor could Moses quite
free himself from this tendency. for did not
he have recourse to ..Brazen Serpent?' Yet
what short shrift the children of Israel gave
to idol-worshiping nations they conquered
Did not the founders of the Christian
church. many centuries later. find it neces-
sary to mold their feasts and festivals upon
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BINGDON preserves little of its an
"A Client splendor. The houses in
~ standing, the original frame sup
n porting roofing and weatherboard-
ing which though stained by
tho years are comparatively new The
grand old garden that fiourished when the
American revolution was being fought has
been nearly effaced. There are reminders
Of II though In box trees. cedars and lilacs
that grow before the house, and In what
IS now a plowed field. The jonQuils have
not been exterminated, this persistent an
nual still clinging to the place generation
after generation.
Abingdon a Gusts home, and in this
way directly or remotely associated with
nearly all the colonial and revolutionary
families Of Virginia and Maryland The
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Real Sufferers.

From the Chicago News.
Rodrick-"They say automobiles are ter-
rible on the nervous system"
Van Albert-"I believe it,
Rodrick-"But you have no automobile"
Van Albert-"No, but / cross the street
occasionally"
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This was the famed mandrake. south
European plant, belonging to the same nat
ural order of plants as the deadly night
shade does, which. by the way. also In
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Stock Reducing
Preparatory to Stock Taking.

1 EVE just closed of the busiest weeks this section
WN\Ul much magical influence
price-price that bargains the goods
Every Washington appreciates quality
ing apparel she recognizes quality
style and good TASTE i'm what have offer And when
such apparel quoted prices that evidently
value it's natural result selling
should reach almost sensational proportions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-09

We've divided the entire balance of stock
into the two lots. Coats in "a and full length
styles = made of fine imported linens and
trimmed with straps and detachable lace col
lars and cuffs. Some embroidered coats in
the lot
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Col. John II. Flroh returned to
Occur d'Alene on Thursday from the
headof navigation on the st. Joe riv-
or where be hAd gone with tho last
shipment Of supplies this winter for
the Mastodon Occur d'AIone mines.
Col. FIrch, Charley Pelham and
soott's logging camp outfit started
By daylight Wednesday morning TO
return on the steamer schley. but
after having forced her way through
the thick Ice for four or iive miles,
luckily . man hailed the steamer and
running in to shore to take on this
party the captain requested the pnrs-
or to get out on the Ice to examine
the hull Of the ship, when II was
found that the Ice had cut away sew
eral Of the iron plates and twisted
others which permitted the exposing
Of the timber OF the hull to the SHARP
edges Of the ice until II bad nearly
cut through, TO the emminent danger
Of causing the ship 10 sink 10 one d
the deepest parts OF the river. The
steamer ColfaK went TO the rescue.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1905-12-02
THE CHURCHES.

II will be communion day st the
Presbyterian church on Sabbath. In
the morning the sacrament Of the
Lords Supper will be observed and
an opportunity for any who may wish
TO join the church. Pastor Lither-
land will speak on "Divins Friend
ship. A the evening service ths
subject will be Christian Courage
versus Moral CoWardice." Illastra-
tions will be drawn from PHILOSOPHY,
theology, and human consciousness.
The Presbyterilns have been so for
tnuate az TO engage DIR. Hutchinson Of
Tacoma. as evangelist for this year.
He 10 TO be In Occur d'Alene during
the month Of February and his min.
istratioBs will do much for the cause
Of the Master. lie IL q tlne Chris
tian gentleman and earnest and pleas
Ing preacher Of truth and love.
Services At So. Lnke'S church Sun.
day a. follows: Sunday school Al Ia
=. M, Holy communion at ii u. m.
Baptisms ~ p. M. Evsnnig prayer
at : so .. N. Because Of conflict Of
dates With another religious body,
the Guild Of 81. Lakes church hal
decided 10 bold the fair aud supper
December In the old Pavilion.
Note the date IL changed to Decem bel
The ladies have been making
saany usefg. articles rs veil as beau
titml ones. These will be on sale
The supper will be served from 5 &
5 o'clock p. N. All are invited &
I come.
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Identifying methods that iniure
the akin and health are dangerous.
BE beautiful without discomfort By
taking HOllisteF's Rocky Mountain
Tea. Hunshiny faces follow its use.
80 cents 1T the Occur d'AIeps Drug
Store.
The musicians who furnished mus
10 for the Catholic fair and dance
which closed Thursday evening we're
handsomely entertained At dinner at
the Inn Thursday evening By Father
Purcell. The party was composed
OF DR.. Webb. LsslIe Mcfarland,
Frank Nigro, Joseph ProndinzsEy.
Joseph BFobinsky and Z. G. Rauch.
they donated music for the occasion
aud Father Purcell took this means
Of showing bis appreciation. IL IL
taid 10 have been one u the most
plesssnt private gatherings Of the
day.
A number Of persons from this city
attended the opening ball aud ban
buss given BY the Spokane Knight
Templars At the Masonic temple Ia
that city Wednesday evening. They
report most pleasant time. Among
those who went from here we're Mr.
aud Mrs. Warner, Sir. and Mrs.
Moon, Dir. aud Mrs Case, Mr. and
/ Mrs. GearRs Williams. Mr.. and Mrs.
Marshal Taylor, Sir. aud Mrs. JahE
Gardner. Mr.. and Mrs. LAYins, Mis-
Plsyfair. Miss Blanche Williams
Miss UrsnlA Williams. MIss Robin
son. Miss FiieWood, Misses Arnquist
Dir. George Fsyzstt, Sir. r. r. vii
llams. Mr.. Walter Williams. MF. 8
u. Jones, Mr.. A. Morbeek, Mr.. cid
Walker. Nr. Fred Read.
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4 Age makes tie aourl Spray az
the Falls. Blue stem wheat one year
old. It Bsdsii s Irvine.
Our stock Of rubber footwear IL now
complies. We can MI your wnnts
for anything In this line ct the right
prica. The Idaho Moro. Co.
Red White and Blue, the -four
you have bssn waiting for. just re-
ceiyed . car at the Idaho Mercantile
Co.
For the best and largest assortment
on womenss. misaes' and chiIdrsn's
coats and jackets ever shown In Occur
d'Aiene. you want to see our line.
We will save you money on Spokane
prices. The Idaho Mercantile 20.
II you want the most serviceabIe,
popular priced school shoe. 60 70 the
Idaho Mercantile CO.
Dry wood Fir, tamarack and pine,
sixteen inch and four foot. The
Idaho Mercantile Co.
new and complete line OF caakera
at 7. E. Hedal's.
A good room dwelling, and full
sized lot IN desirable location. at .
low price. For sale OF rent. See
Jas H. Harte.
For hack service, call up me
Occur 'Alene Drug Store.
1 Weakened systems need q mature.
wholesome, mellow liquor that's 1.
w. Harper Whisksy -the kind your
grandfather used. Sold By leading
dealers.
Far sale, one acre lot, about 90
rods west Of Corbin's planning mill.
Has email house. barn and shed and
chicken house Wster close BY.
Terms. Frank Cerveny. 2tp.
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When yon Sc an especially attrac-
tire carriage pasaing, ron may won
der II II Il not one Of those that Dr.
Watts is offering At . bargain.
10 order 10 reduce our stock We
will give 20 per cent of on boys'
oyeEeoAts for the next two weeks.
Idaho Mercantile company.
II yOu are In need Of insurance.
get 10 on q FIRST class standard com
pany, and let George r. Steele Ak
ron up q policy.
I. z. HedaI, the furniture dealer,
will sell you 3 $50 high grade sewing
machine Tor e35 and $40. This ls
your opportunity to buy at q small
margin above cost.
II. B. Keller 4 Co. have just re-
ceived q car Of Csrstana, tbe famous
hard wheat -four.
Thirty ave choice lots IN simm 4
addition at q special price for 9
short time. Perfect title. Bee James
n. Harte.
While pt Spokane, eat at the Model
Bakery Cafe, $40 spragne Ave.
II you use Ceretana -four, you
always have good bread. z. B.
Keller 4 Co.
After November l the price fol
sawing wood will be advanced TO Sc
cents for one cut, rs cents for two
cuts and 81 for three cuts. Occur.
d'Alene Wood Saving Company.
Two good miIch cows for sale at /
bargain. Call at this Office for fur
Their information.
DO you like a good cup of coffee
Try Golden Gate at 40 cents pc
pound. There Is no better ut an.
price. The Idaho Mercantile Co.
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MCFARLAND WANTS RECEIVER
To Taks charge Of Lumbsr Company
uuainsss.

To Tsks charge Of Lumbsr Company
Businsss.
The application Of g. o. McFar-
Land for the appointment Of = receiv-
er Tor the Largey Lumber company
IL 90 be beard by Judge William u.
Hunt Of the United States court at
Butte ou Monday. December IL. Al.
exandsr Mackel, counsel for McFar-
land. appeared before the judge this
week and stated that the application
waa 10 readiness for presentation to
the court. and Judge Hunt eel the
date Of the bearing.
This 10 the case In which McFar-
land alleges be was taken in as =
partner 10 the Largey Lumber com
pAny by Mrs. Lulu LAieey and was
given a portion Of the stock Of the
concern.
/ Later, he alleges, he turned oves
bic stock TO Mrs. Largey, who stated
that she wished - use IL as security
I 20 get obey on. The stock was
turned over and accepted as collater
al by the State Savings Bank, aftel
which IL Is alleged by the complaint
ant, be vas let out OF the conceFt
and has never been able to regain his
interest.
Lawyer Mackel, in reviewing th,
case briefly to the court in askinl
for the hearing Of the application
for a receiver, stated that McFarlan,
alleged Encouragement on the par
Of the company and asked for re
Ceiver. IL was stated that three year
ago the company was indebted 20 ID
amount Of $3.50. 600, and that IN II
answer the company admits that
has been operated at loss for th
past trhee years, aud that the indeb'
edness Is now ell. 7eo, 600.
The title Of the case he McFarlau
ya. the State Savings Bank, Lulu I
Largely, tue LarRey Lumber compan
aud others,
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To whom IL may concern: Notice
Il here BY given that At tbe last reg
uIar meeting Of Fort Sherman Union
Of Carpenters and Joinsrs Of Ameri-
o.. held on Nov. III. 1905. the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously
passed via That on and after Febru-
airy /, 1906. 8 houTs shall constitute
3 days Roik and that As cents per
hour shall be- the minimum wages.
And be Il further resolved that a copy
Of this resolution be Published in the
papers for four weeks.
Dated Nov. IL. 1905.
e. W. CHAMBERS, Pres.
F. Q. SMITH, Rec. Sec.
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HERMAN MoLKENTHIN

The members and friends of the
Methodist church are invited TO a
shower party ct the "a. 3, parsonage
on wednesday afternoon, December
8, from two until ave, for the bene.
Eit Of the Mother Goose bazaar to b
held on Friday December 9.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1905-12-02
whore should We my Fruit Treess

where should We Bus Fruit TreeeS
This 10 ar Important question to
those who plant fruit trees. have
had trees from Salem aud The Dalles,
Oregon, aud half IT them died because
they did not have the necessary roots
and we're raised In climate differ.
ent from ours. For theae reasons
the Oregon trees do not do we'll here.
THE year placed an order with the
Washington Nursery company, of
Toppenlsh, Wash, aud received the
best lot Of trees | ever saw. They are
all rooted and acclimated and car
recommend them to all who intend
setting out fruit trees as the bets OF
the market.
HERMAN MOI. KFNTHIN.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1905-12-02
Baking Powder

Food made with alum
baking powder carries alum
to the stomach unchanged.
Scientists have positively
demonstrated this and that
such food is partly indi-
sesibIe and unheaIthful.
The Washington times., 1905-01-29
PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS
hIDDIES At ANNAPOLIS
Will Also Make Trip to Philadelphia
and Speak at Union League
Club.

President Roosevelt viii leave Wash
ington tomorrow morning at $50 O'Clock
On q special train over the Pennsyl-
Vania road for Annapolis, where he will
deliver an address to the graduating
class He will arrive at Annapolis about
I0:45 o'clock
The President and party will lie driven
at once TO the Academy and will he
received by the entire battalion of mid
shipTnen- At the graduating exercises
the President will deliver brief adj
dress.
Secretaries Morton and Taft and sew
eral officials of the Navy Department
will go TO Annapolis by another train.
After the exercises the entire party
will be entertained at luncheon. by Su-
Perintendent Brownson.
At o'clock the President, accom-
panied by Secretary Loeb and his i'm
mediate party. Will leave for PhiIadeI-
phia, where in the evening he viii be
tie guest OF honor at the banquet of
the Union League CIslb.
AT the banquet the President will de-
liver an important address
The Presidential party viii arrive in
Washington about O'Clock Tuesday
morning.