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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30
CAVEAT TO WILL
Heir of Henry Dickson Objects to
Bequest to Charity.

Frank A Quail. a second cousin and
her-at-law of the late Henry Dickson.
who died recently in Nice, France. and by
his will devised the bulk of million IDOL
lar estate to the establishment of the
John Dickson Home for INDECENT Men in
the District, today filed caveat protest
ing against the admission of the will to
probate.
AS grounds for his objection, he declares
that. Mr.. Dickson was not resident of
the District, and the District of Columbia
was not the place of his domicile, and
claims that Mr. Dickson was domiciled in
Nice. France. He expressly attacks the
clause of the will establishing the John
Dickson Home and declares it to be void
by reason of antiquities and uncertainties
existing therein. No averments of insanity
or undue influence are made.
Mr. Quail is represented by Attorney
w. NJ. Ellison. The Washington Loan
and Trust Company is executor under the
will, which contains no bequest to the
complaining cousin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30
Society Acts in Real Circus.

From the Gentlewoman. -.-
Five and twenty years ago NJ. Moler
an excellent sportsman. hit upon the orig
NAL idea of opening a small circus in
Paris with a company whose members
belonged to the fashionable world
The idea took on tremendously. All the
best swordsmen, fencers. horsemen and
gymnasts of the smart set offered NJ.
Molier their gratuitous services. and as
their mothers. wives, sisters and sweet
hearts were anxious to see these gen-Ie-
MEN dispdrting then1se yes in the arena
NJ Molier not only had a company that
cost him nothing, but an aud ence such as
can rarely be seen at any other function
NJ. Molfer has stuck to his origfria
program and the undertaking today. has
the same. tcachet as when he opened for
the first time the fashionable little circus
in the Rue Benouvi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30
Tragic Amboise.
From Cornhill.

Amboise is "a little white-faced town
staring across an admirable bridge"
says Mr.. Henry James. The Town is
SO small and the castle so high and
striking that the clustered houses at
the base of the rock are like the
crumbs that have fallen from a we'll
laden table, and not even from the
terrace of Chaumont-that other Chau-
mont. Chaumont on the Loire. Chau-
mont of the towers, the pinndcles. the
fair front of the chateau psnrhed above
its fringe of garden"-does the river
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30

IVY THAT does foot ball cost the
Nv country each season?
NAi For the benefit of the cyni-
w CAL it may be we'll to supple
ment the query with the ex-
PLANTATION that it is the cost in dollars and
not the tax on life and limb which is
under consideration
Some body may hazard a guess that
good many hundred thousands are spent
as result of the great gridiron contests
each fall.
But the truth of the matter is that foot
bali puts a good many millions into cir
culation each year-say about $2ooOo.OOO,
for instance.
The statement may seem extravagant,
but all one has to do is to look at few
figures Then it becomes apparent that
foot ball. while only an incident in the
years program of entertainment in point
of time, is one Of our costliest amuse-
ments.
In the first place there is the money
spent to prepare the teams for the games.
then the money paid to see them play d.
and added to both the inciGentals. Perhaps
the cost of incdentalS-this is. the money
spent for things which would not nave
been bought had it not been for the foot
ball games-make up the big end of the
bill.
There are two big gal mes each year which
serve as standards by which to compute
in a general way the annual foot ball
bill There are the Ya!e-Harvard and the
Army Navy games, events in the sporting
and social world which are famous the
country over.
According to a Boston foot ball statis-
tician, the Harvard game puts 81
coo, 600 into circulation every season. If
this may be accepted as a reliable esti-
mate-and there is every evidence to
support it's correetness-it is safe to say
that the great annual struggle on Frank
lin Field at the University of Pennsyl-
vania. between the Naval Academy team
and the West Point eleven, represents the
expenditure of a like amount.
So with 50 100000 charged against the
two big events of the season, it is easy
to see how the many other games played
by the big colleges and the endless list
of minor contests crowded into the short
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30
ing vivid semi-precious stones. mounted

ing vivid semi-precious stones, mounted
as buckles.
In walking boots and shoes the browns
and tans with cloth tops are preferred to
leather. Tan leather vamps are sewn to
cloth tops. varying in shade from that OF
the leather to a deep, cream. while others
have tan leather .vamps and Trimmings
witch means covering on seams with a
narrow strap and pure white cloth tops.
Next in favor to brown IS shoe with
a patent leather vamp, the uppers of cloth
in different colors.
There are blue, tan and garnet.
Heels on all walking shoes are in Cuba n
style, from one and one-half to one and
three quart RS inches high. ....
Smart dressers will be attracted to
shoe in black patent leather CAMP
mounted with suede, the seams covered
with the patent leather and the high
Cuban heels polished to match:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30
Unseen. Hostesses.

From the Bystander.
A modern hostess may spend the morn
ing in l..r bedroom or boudoir. the after
noon lying down or writing lettsrs-so
long as she, appears well dtessed and in
good form for~dinner-and not single
guest will miss her If there is :congenial
company and amusement to be had-both
of which, Of course. she has to. provide,
as it were, from the background.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30
Poor Fellow !

From the Penny Magazine.
Prisoner at the bar said a Shelf
field Judge, eft will be my painful duty
to direct the jury that you are convicted
by the clearest evidence of the brutal
murder of your father and mother. Have
YOU anything to say in extenuatien OF
your crime?"
II throw myself son the mercy OF my
fellow countrymen," said the prisoner in
a broken voice II am an orphan.
The Judge and jury struggled with one
another to fall on the prisoner neck, and
cried: Acquitted.
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lHOUSANDS WATCHING
ARr1Y nND Navy CATE AT
''-'" FRANKLiN FIELD

IVY THAT does foot ball cost the
country each season?
MAJ For the benefit of the cyni-
w cal, it may be well to supple
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-12
L lOllOW
AiilAM

of the shells among his fierce follow
ers. tIlAiI
In the Solomon Islands shell money
is strung In ropes six feet long and
wound girdle like ABOUT the house.
Keepers waist. Their value appears
TO depend on color and shape. The
Fiji Islanders buy their food with
whales teeth painted white and red
these are worth twenty times as
much as the white teeth. One will
see Fijian millionaire stalking nude
beneath the featherly palm tufts with
his wealth carried about his neck
the brilliant red and white of his
glossy dark skin. And when he mar.
ries,. his humble bride will present
her dowry of whales teeth to a con.
noisseur who will accept nothing but
the lest
There are jade heads as money IN
the Loyalty Islands, with queer little
coins made of tufts of fur from the
flying fox. And feather money is
found in the island of Santa Cruz, of
the same group. 1t is made of the
red feathers from the wings of gor-
geous parrots extremely difficult to
capture. The natives cake the birds
by smearing sticks with viscd
lime. Only certain of the wing feath.
er are accepted as genuine coin of
the realm: and these are made into
rolls fifteen feet long. and then coiled
up and placed between two flat
boards.
In the New IIebrides there are
curious coins made OF quantity SLAP.
ed rings of snow white quartz. flat
tened by rubbing and scraping. In
certain other islets of Melanesia mat
money made of grass woven in intri-
cate patterns passes current In
Abyssinia bars of rock salt will buy
ammunition for muZzle loading guns;
and among the Wanyoro tribes of
Uganda rough iron spear heads,
known as majembe, are largely used.
1t was found by recent explorer
that two majembe sufficed to support
an army OF six hundred natives for a
day.
Money and Weapon Combined
In the Molua country of Central AZ.
RIGA the savages ingeniously combine
money and weapon In the shape of a
cruciform ingot of copper ore twelve
inches long. In the Niger States the
money is enormously heavy rings of
brass and ivory, worn as armlets and
anklets, and so adding to their use
as coin the office of personal adorn-
ment. They are precisely like the
coinage OF the ancient Egyptians or
the weighty ring money, adjusted to
certain weights, which Caesar found
when his legions invaded Britain.
Bales of calico. brass and copper
rods specially cast for the purpose in
| Europe, Young slaves of both sexes
and shining beads-all form part OF
Africa's loose currency. But perhaps
the querest, and one that has all but
passed away, is the faded finery oil
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-12

ivory tusks taken out OF the ground
that measured twenty feet. and the
skulls of these animals were bigger
than 40 shilling pot.
There are impressions OF ferns to
be found that show the vegetation to
nave been hundred feet high.
Among all these evidences of animal
life, however, there is not sign OF
the existence of man. What amuscs
me is the way the so,called scientists
approach Alaska. They assume to
have explanations for everything in
nantre: hui the moment they get up
Into Alaska and see the wonders of
The earth there and are Intercepted
by the practical miners who have liv.
I'd there for years all their ideas van.
ish and they disclose the fact that
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-12

civilization. A decade ago ingenious
men returned from the interior to
Chinde, Mombasa, Sierra Leone, and
Cairo with large fortunes in ivory,
gold, gums. and ostrich feathers, oh.
tanned by bartering dingy uniforms
iull of gold braid ana scarlet stripes,
ragged shirt waists of brilliant silks.
admirals' cooked hats, stage shoes of
gold and silver fabrics, and Christ.
mas tree junk of glass balls. and airy
trifles of that kind.
Chinese money Is traced back three
thousand years before Christ One
Emperor objected TO copper coinage,
gathered whole ISSUE together, bur.
led 1t deep into the earth, and threw
In on top the workmcn employed in
digging the pit. The pm and tao cur
rencies were struck In the form of
scraps of cloth or knives for lurter,
and were in existence from about the
seventh to- the second century before
Christ. The commonest OF Chinese
money is the cash, round metal disk
with square hole in the center: a
thousand of these are worth barely
seventy-five cents. Ones cook I'm Chi.
ma goes to market with great strings
OF this heavy money round neck,
shoulders, and waist: but even when
weighted with as much as n strong
man can carry, very little of our
money is represented On the Rus.
so-Chinese borders green tea pressed
into bricks has been the money Of
the country for n thousand years.
The Orient's Great Medium.
But crude bar silver is the great
medium of exchange in China, Bur.
ma. and Siam. In the village street
sits the money changer. who will
hand out so many strings of cash In
exchange for Il sycee bar of any shape
or size. The ingot known as nen may
weigh pound: 1t also passes cur
rent In lndo-China. stamped on one
side with n Chinese inscription. Civ.
Ing the weight, with the merchants
name who weighed it, and it's esti-
mated value. Woe unto that man If
he has erred dishonesty or in ig-
norancei
Then there are hat money, shoe
money, beat money, snailshell money
and willow leaf money. All these are
derived from the actual form taken
ny 'hO ohNSE ulltl II ltiNGS luf VI
chile and mold. The oldest of them
is the snailshell money, which is real
ly bubble of silver solidified into
the shape of a she'll Each piece bears
marks of Identification showing the
crucille in which it was melted. In
the same category one should put the
bullet money of Siam-crude globes
of solid silver bearing tiny stamps.
The largest Is an ounce in weight:
but there are specimens rs fine as
small shot. The gamblers of Burma
and Siam use porcelain currency
bearing grotesQue emblems. with an
inscription in Chinese stating how
much this or that merchant will give
for them.
Perhaps the queerest money in the
world, however. is represented by the
hoy and girl slaves of Mohammedan
Africa. One of these Will buy two
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-12
Alaska Puzzles Scientists.

ALASKA battles science" says F. c.
Miles, who has spent much of his
life in that country. 81 have known
scientists to 90 into that country with
the most plausible theories I'm the
world. but they went out of it with
none of them left
at is impossible for them to ex
plain the frozen condition of the
ground for distance OF $50 feet
down into the earth or to account
for the finding there of giant masto-
dcns and mammoths. | have seen
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-12
go se@oesesso0sa 90
ss QUEER KINDS OF MONEY W

Ihere seem no people SO low I'm the
social scale as to be without Mt lens
some equivalent of money. Even the
pyemies of the Semliki Forest pass
slabs of hippo meat, and receive in
exchange bows and arrows; and the
bushmen of Central Australia barter
skins for spearheads.
The wampum belts Of our own In.
dams are too familiar to call for more
than passing mention. They are made
Of an exceedingly hard shell known
as quahog. Hard as 1t is, however,
the Indians carve tiny coins of differ
ent shapes, while other shells are Dor.
cd as beads. A single string of white
wampum is valued at one dollar and
quarter for each fathom's length
A purple string represents about two
dollars and q half,
Among the commonest of all saw.
age ctirrencies is the shell, which is
found all over Africa, as well as in
the coral isles of the Pacific and in
parts OF Asia. In remote cannibal New
Britain of the Pacific, the shell mon
ey is called tambu. 1t is a tiny rare
shell dug out of the sand by the ma
uves OF Nakani, on the West Coast
When supplies of this irritating cur
rency arrive III n village, every man
squats down and punches holes
through the backs of the shells, that
he may thread them on long strips
of cane. They are next rolled into
coils that vary III length from one
hundred to five hundred fathoms, and
are carefully wrapped In banana
leaves and hung in guarded treasure
houses against the rainy day.
Buying a House With Shells.
The cowry is the commonest form
Of small change in Indian bazaars.
Last year an intelligent Hindu of
Cuttack paid for his new bungalow
entirely in these little shells. The
cost amounted in orr money TO two
thousand dollars; and as slxty-four
shells eQualed one tinp copper pice
equal to three-fourths of one cent?
no less than sixteen million cowries
were paid to savage laborers and ar.
tlsans.
In many parts of Africa and Asia
long strings of these shells adorn
village gods and fetishes; and Las
kets of them should really figure in
every missionary report. as having
been offered by natives toward the
support of the ,slocal jungle church
near the Niles sources or In far Siam
In Dahomey, n fierce West African
region where human sacrifice was
dreadfully rampant. before the French
came, shell money plays an important
part. Periodically the savage King
goes forth in barbarlc procession will
nil the wealth of his treasury horne
before him in hundreds of baskets
The whole does not represent on,
hundred dollars; but wild enthusiasm
and excitement follow when the gen
erons potentate hnrls n few strings
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-12
they really know nothing WASH
ksgton Post
What He Thought.
want;

Customer lin cigar store)--T want
to buy pipe stem.
salesman-Yes, sir; how long would
you like it?
Customer reckon | can keep It
as long as it lasts, cant I?--York !:
Dispatch.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-12
Easy.

Judge-You said the defendant
turned and whistled to the dog What
followed?
Intelligent Witness--The dog
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-12

camels. It is n currency much fav-
ored, for it will carry itself, and in
creases in value like the best real
estate.
Arizona republican., 1907-01-18
DICTIONARY WISDOM.

Peel and pare" are not synonyms.
 Peel. is from the Latin "pellis," a skin. and means ito skin" or take off the skin." Pare" is from the Latin "paro," meaning trim or make in or der; smOOth.'
 The word peel" then. denotes a nat ural, the word pare" an artificial process. According to Crabb. the for mer excludes the idea of a forcible sep aration. the latter includes the idea of separation by means of knife or oth- CT sharp instrument.
 Potatoes and apples are pared before they are boiled. and peeled afterward. An orange is peeled. a cucumber pared.
 So, the skin may sometimes be peeled from the flesh. and the nails are pared.
 There are three syllables in rabies and the word is correctly pronounced ray bi-ease," the ''l' short, as in pit.
 "To rob Peter to pay Paul'' is said to have had its origin thus: John Thirle- by, the first and only bishop of West minister Q541-155O), having wasted the patrimony allotted by King Henry VIII. for the support of the see, was translated to Norwich, and with him ended the bishopric of St. Peters The lands of Westminster were so di- lapidated that there was almost noth- ing to support the dignity. They were invaded by the gerat men of the court and the rest laid out for reparation tC the Church of St Paul, pared almost tc the very quick in those days of rapine.
Arizona republican., 1907-01-18
From ChiCken-P0x
 to Cholera
cure-AIIs No Longer Tolerated.

In early days every barber shop was an operating room and the town physi- elan resorted to bleeding as the sure cure for all ailments from chicken-pox to cholera. As a result. many. includ- ing our first President. died prema- turely.
 The present low rate of mortality is due in large measure to the advances made in medical science and the knowledge of the specific treatment needed for each disease known.
 There is no disease more common among American and English people than dyspepsia. So prevalent has it become that thousands suffer with it half unconsciously. consider the symp- toms as natural to their physical con stitution and resign themselves to liv- ing on in that condition.
 There is a remedy for dyspepsia, and only one, recommended and endorsed generally by .physicians: Stuart's Dys- pepsia Tablets have stood the test of years of use by millions of sufferers, have been subjected to governmental analyses in Europe and America and alone have been found to contain the tlelneHlS WHICH NdluIt ndS put lulO the stomach for digestion-pepsin, di- astase and other ferments
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 Stuart's Dypepsia Tablets cure nothing but dyspepsia. waterbrash, sour stomach and kindred ailments re- sulting from the imperfect digestion of food, but these diseases they posi- lively cure.
 We will gladly send you a trial package to prove the truth of our claims. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets can be gotten of all druggists at 50 cents. F. A Stuart Co. 69 Stuart Bldg. Marshall. Mich.
Arizona republican., 1907-01-18
LOOKING AT HIMSELF.

A St. Louis lady who owns a very pretty little King Charles spaniel had an unpleasant experience on Christmas day. On her dressing table the lady has a triple mirror and it has always been thought a cunning trick of the dog to jump up on the table and look at himself in the mirror just as his mistress is ready to take him out for walk. On Christmas day she received a powder box of cut glass from friend in Italy and had removed the cover, the powder puff being visible within. The dog jumped up as usual to look at him. self. but spied the puff, which looked to him like a furry little animal of some kind. which it was his privilege to worry. In a moment the glass box. the puff and the dog were rolling over to- gether on the floor and before they could be extricated, the pretty box was cracked and ruined and the puff, ex- cept the ivory handle. had disappeared. St. Louis Globe e-DemOcrat.
Arizona republican., 1907-01-18

would probably have no time to go
 back to the dock with him. If he was
 in good form he would take him along
 with the rest of the cargo and if he
 was too feverish and yellow he would
 tip him overheard. The morning after
 the ship sailed from Kingston the
 captain was very much surprised to meet MT. Edwards on deck. That's all
 there is of that story, but Mir. Edwards
 having opened up this memory cham
 ber he found considerable interesting
 brio a brac. knocking about in il. He recalled that his being in Kingston was
 the closing incident of quite a stormy
 and adventurous chapter in his life calendar. He had accompanied a party
 of fortune hunters who had been
 knocking about the West Indies. the
 Caribbean, and nearby shores. for a
 year or so. Among their projects was
 that of digging what gold they might
 need in later years out of the Chagres
 river placers, which were then as fla
 nous on paper as are some of the
 present day placer finds in the west.
 The party landed at Colon, hiked up
 the river to the little branch gulches
 ana lOunu lue pldceTS- luey NtIc NiiSA '
 all right but the gold was not demor- alizingly plentiful. They sifted out the biggest chuncks and by economy were able to pay expenses and get away again. The doctor says he is quite in- terested in President Roosevelts effort to utilize his old Chagres sluicing ditch as a section of an interoceanic canal but he will make no effort to contest | the title. In fact the county record: were pretty badly mixed at that early | day for the Spanish settlers had beer ! juggling with the titles for some three | hundred years before. Asked how mucf gold he got away with the doctor re- piled that he had about three little vials full, vials that he had taken dowI | there filled with Ayers pills as an an | tidote for fever and ague. At thu | juncture Mir. Edwards face began C
 take on a pained expression as othe memories crowded in upon hin. and was deemed but charitable that hi dormant thoughts should be quickene' | no more.