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theater, but it elected no reply from
alleged wonder workers as we are told
exist in India.
GIN a work dealing with the history
of the reign of one of the Moguls,
nearly 400 years ago, / read of band
of fakirs or jugglers who for the EN-
peror performed among other tricks the
difficult one of tossing a chain in the
air which stood perpendicularly and
up which monkeys, lions and tigers
were made to climb and disappear by
this wonderful outfit. [ have pursued
faithfully every clue to the existence
of magician who could do something
more than juggle balls, handle fangless
cobras and secrete boys in a circular
basket, from which they were supposed
to disappear, and have never seen any
thing done other than the most trite
and commonplace sleight-of- hand tricks
which are only comparable with the
front and back hand palm of our
dexterous coniurers who can do fifteen
minutes of mediocre jugglery in vaude,
Vile Everywhere have I sought.
81 went at midnight in Java to see
a reputed wonder in an alley in the
shade of the moon where it was full
land I have since thought that I must
have been also), and after listening to
iargon for half an hour, he borrowed
one of my rings, placed it upon book
on bench. that he sat upon, fully
covered. beat a tom tom, and present
" the book bobbed up and down, as If
someone were pushing it up with a
wire or something similar from be
meath the bench. This though seemed
wonderful TO my good guides who so
kindly piloted me thither. I appear
for their elation in the greatest state
of supefaction and incidentally paid
two guilders for the rare sight.
''In China I witnessed the feats of
innumerable Ching Lung Foos which
were all similar in execution and con-
sisted of the bowl trick-that is, the
production of huge bowl of water
under cloth. I never saw any Chi
nese produce a larger bowl than would
contain quart of water. In compari-
son to the one | produced for them,
which weighted 116 pounds and from
which three buckets were filed, their
feat looked insignificant.
Clearing paper and restoring it. eat.
| ing fire and splitting out sparks, spin
ming plates and ordinary juggling feats
comprise all the Chinese wonders which
| I had the honor to see. When I ar
rive in Benares I was told that here,
| of all places in the world, I should see
the greatest of modern miracles. Ny
disgust may be imagined when 7 be
! held as the greatest possible Of these
men, the growth of the mango tree.
SIN Singapore I saw it done much
/ better. There the fakir secreted a
| live cobra under the cloth and upon
the blowing of his reed mouth instru-
| ment, the cobra rose under the cloth
to the height of eight or nine inches,
| and it looked for all the world TO the
initiated as though the tree was
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actually growing under the cloth
which covered it. The cobra was then
showed into a bag in front of the
squatting Hindu, and a bush mot
tree) stuck in the sand in place there
of, and which appeared to be the same
height. This feat was applauded as
being something marvellous.
"A young Englishman a few mo-
ments later told me in the Oriental
Hotel that he beheld the most wonder
full trick possible that same day (not
asking me if l had seen it), and then
described how a Hindu made q large
mango tree grow from a seed in the
earth before his very eyes, without
any covering, if you please, over the
seed. / believe he could have told me
where TO see the rope trick # l had
inquired. for it il, l believe, due to
Continued on Page Eleven.)
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lands for new and wonderful feats, he
relates:
"Uuon my arrival in India [ renew
cd my effort 70 witness something
great in the way of magic, but without
any great success. In Bombay and Cal
eutta | offered reward of Rs. 5000 to
any native magician who would show
me the rope trick, but to no purpose.
This reward was published in the daily
papers in my advertisement for the
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Business Care Brings Nervous Wear


the
to tfing
tunder condition of health.
usually nourhd and in
quickest relief had
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Stearns' Wine of Cod Liver Extract

enh the blood
need This condi-
suffer
restfu ses Wine Of Cod Liver Ex'
STEAMSHIPS genuine
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Charles J. Carter, the magician, who
with his $4,000 pounds of luggage and
company Of eight people is at present
in Honolulu on his tour of the world
for the second time, says that his globe
trotting experience has shown him that
the. foreign opponents of mystery are
fssA behind the American variety. In
referring to his searches in distant
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-27
BRANCH OFFICES.
NORTHWEST


REH's MODERN PHARMACY, 9TH and E
SITS. Main 1917.
NEW YORK AVE. PHARMACY. New York
ave. and n. Cap. 81.
CHAS. C. HORNUNG, Christiana Pharmacy,
sw. cor. 7th and SITS. Phone n. 1888
NICHOLS PHARMACY, 18th and Pa. ave.
Phone NJ. 1870.
PARK ROAD PHARMACY, 18th and Park
road. Phone c. 1851.
[. T.. TAYLOE, cor. eth and P SITS. Phone
n. 1852.
R. A. VEITCH, 10Th and NJ SITS. Phone n. en7
y. V. PATTIE, 1928 Georgia ave. Col. 1885,
MALTBY'S PHARMACY, 1867 Calvert st.
c. 1851.
MATTINGLY's PHARMACY, 18th and L.
Phone n. POPS
H. 7. BUTTS PHARMACY, 9TH st. and
Massachusetts ave. Phone NJ 4O49.
YARNOLD. 1901 18th ST. Phone Col. 1871.
QUIGLEY'S PHARMACY, 2lst and SITS.
Phone W. 653.
r. D. HOWARD. 14th and w Phone n. 2101
GOLDENBERG'S 9TH and K SITS Phone NJ.
s. KANN, SONS & CO., sth and Market
space. Phone NJ. 200
GREENE'S CAPITAL A YERTIsIN
AGENCY. I145 18th ST. Phone Il. 1908.
D. W THROCKAI ORION, Cigar Store, 18th
and r. Phone $3.50.
J. FRENCH SIMPSON, cor. 18th St, Rhode
Island ave. and st Phone n. 240l-
GESSFORD'S PHARMACY. 9th and y SITS.
s. n. WAGNER 6, CO.. LIST and h Phonv
l. 744
N. McNULTY & SON, Cigars and Tobacco,
1886 14th St Phone North 2427.
PAUL PEARSON. 18th St and Florida ave.
n ". Phone ~ 3197,
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synopsis Of Chapters Already Published

Tom Moore. a Georgia boy making his
way through Columbia school of mines I'D
New York becomes an habitue of the
Chinese restaurants through curiosity
and ia one OF them is made prisoner by
Chinese Cutthroats during a row in which
Ferdinand Bates an Oriental importer,
is murdered and his niece. Florence Car
son, of Chicago, is carried away Moore,
She girl and the body of Bates are carried
through an underground passage and
Bates body is thrown down a manhole.
MllicenL Ward, who was in the restaur-
ant with Bates and his niece and escapes
by hiding under a table, starts a search
for the missing people under the impress
sion that Moore was the murderer plac-
ing her entire fortune at the disposal OF
Register Spargur, Bates partner, for the
search. Mr. and Mrs. Carson come on
from Chicago TO help fnd their daughter
and Carson receives a visit from man
who offers To produce Moore IN tHe
meantime Moore is told he viii be thrown
Down the manho]e that received Bates
body and that the rats viii make away
with him there. The leader OF the chi
nese, a white man, spares Moore lot
hours and tells him he can save ms ne
by Joining the band and becoming us
leader, as he wanted TO get away from
the life of slavery ne was leading, Du1
did not dare.
The leader of the bandits a white man
spares MOOre's life on the sonolioh ina
ne take his place and let the leader es-
cape from the life of bondage he has ieu-
Moore agrees, feeling sure be VIII escape
al some time The change escapes ue-
lection and Moore spends a week LyILs
ro lind the way out. He Is ABOUT In
give ND in despair when one OF the
band asks him To come test the III
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A hr1ling Story Of The
Chinatown Tongsl
ByDOUGLASP PIERCE

Me not know" returned the other.
simply in that blank Chinese way
which may mean nothing or a thou
sand things.
don't try to talk folly Lead or now,
we've wasted enough time with your
tOmfOOleTy.'
But the man stood stockstill. Chief
go first he suggested shrewdly, a
sparkle of maIevolence in his sOmber
This was a poser To- certain. The
only possible conjecture which Tom
could hazard as to the location of the
elevator was evidently wrong
For a moment the Georgian gave him
self up for lost; then, like a drowning
man grasping at a straw. lac played
the big stick policy for all that it
was worth.
What He turued upon the man
with an assumption of royal Offense.
taking a deal toe much 90 yourself late
". and it is about time thar 1t came
10 a stop Who are you, that you should
dictate to II what I should or should
not do?
Il told YOU to lead on; and when 7
give an order, I expect to have it
obeyed. If you are not careful, my
man, the sewer viii have another vic
tim, and il VIII not be a prisoner hut
one of the highest members of the
tong. You know the penalty for dis
obedience"
It proved a trump card. Moy Sing
the name by which the lieutenant was
known in the organization, for each
member was provided with a pseudonym
the better to shield his identity-cringed
like "A cur under the lash.
Chief not get mad he pleaded
hastily, Me jOke-eeH
"A Joke, Ell? snarled Tom. well,
let me tell you it was a mighty poor
one Now, enough of this. Let US set
down to business
The man saIaamed humbly. He prob
ably still entertained his suspicious, Tom
reflected, and might endeavor 70 make
trouble later on; but he was at least
subdued for the present.
Nor did the pTetender intend to relax
for a moment in the future the power
which he had found he could WELD
Lead on" he repeated, even more
irnperiously, and without an instant S
further hesitation the other obeyed.
Warned by his previous error, Chief
this time discTeetly hung behind, and
framed up plans whereby TO confOund
his pilot, If the latter should be seeking
to get him into a hole by leading him
astraY-
But the lieutenant, overawed, at
tempted no trickery on this occasion.
4 step or two beyond the leaders door
he laid his hand upon q slight projec-
. ton from the side of the corridor, and
at his touch a section of the seemingly
solid brick wall swung back like cur
tain disclosing to Toms astOnished
eyes a hitherto utterly unsupported pas
sage.
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CANADIAN REGATTA
DRAWS AMERICANS
Philadelphia, New York, De
troit, and Buffalo Will
Send Crews.

ST. CATHERINE, Ontario. July a.
The Canadian Henley regatta viii be
held here on Friday and Saturday. and
the town lis busy with preparations.
Carsmen from many cities ia Canada
and the United States who are to com
pete in the various events began 10 ar
rive today.
While there is keen disappointment
here because Of Winnipeg's decision not
to send crews this year. il viii not mill
tate in any degree against the success
OF the regatta on account Of Ottawa,
Halifax, Vancouver. Detroit, and Buff
faIo coming so strong Then there Wall
be the three Toronto clubs.
The New Workers and Philadelphiaus
also will help 70 make things interest
ing. sun other American Oarsmen may
attend.
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Lem Powell, who beat Young Erne,
of Philadelphia. some time ago, has
been matched TO box Chick Hudson at
San Francisco on Saturday,
Jim Savage, Ct Orange. n. J., has
been matched TO box Johnny Wains
tonight at the Brown Athletic Club,
New York
Pal Moore. Of Philadelphia, and Patsy
Kline Of New York, viii meet in a
ten-r0und bout at ROCkaway Beach
New York, on Friday night.
Battling Nelson has declined a ten
round match in New York, and he also
refuses TO box Cyclone Johnny Thomp-
son on September 8, and viii do no
boxing until late in the fall.
The ministers Of Butte. Mont, all
preached on Sunday against the ter
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CHAPTER XIII
THE tones FRONT DOOR.


WITH wildly beating heart. Moore
w quickly followed his guide into
the unexpectedly revealed opening Al
last, he was to learn the way TO free
don't
Let him but once gain a knowledge
of the path to go and his durance In
this gloomy cellar would not be long
continued. The tong might spy upon
his movements outside as much as they
wanted TO; he would find some way Of
communicating with the police, and
would arrange for such a raid as had
never been known in Chinatown, one
which would wipe the murderous band
out Of existence
But his exultatiOn was destined TO be
short-lived. Hardly had his companion
and himself proceeded a dozen feet, be
fore they were halted by a sentinel and
compelled to submit their eyes to
blindfold.
Then. in total darkness, they were
led by a long and devious route
through a multiplicity of doors and
sliding panels, and with an almost
constant Interchange Of pilots.
Evidently, with its usual caution, the
tong had arranged that no one man
should ever master the secret OF that
road in its entirety Even the pickeJs
posted along the way could only know
a section or two of it, for they no doubt
were also blindfolded and led in going
to and returning from their stations.
When at last the bandage was re-
moved and Tom could see again, he
found himself and bis companion in
a little square chamber, which, he
Judged from the pitch Of the road he
had followed. TO be at least eight stor-
les underground.
He looked CUriously around for some
evidence Of the ''liftee machine" but
the only suggestion Of such a thing
W as the presence over in one corner
Of 2 highly efficient hydraulic jack.
presided over by another Of the masked
and gowned members of the brother
hood.
There was, however, no car. no wind
ing drum. nor cord none Of the ordinary
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-27
COMPANY ACCUSED
OF IRREGULARITIES
District Realty Concern at
Law Over the Sale of
Suburban Lots.

Alleged Irregularities in the keeping
of the accounts of the District Realty
Company. charged by the affidavit OF
Expert Accountant William B. Cover,
led Henry II. Gilfry, on his own be-
half and on behalf of former Senator
William A Clark. Of Butte. Mont to
request the District Supreme Court TO
cancel a contract which GnfTy and
Clark entered into with the realty com
pany for the sale of lots in City View
Heights; TO grant an Injunction prohib-
iting the concern from selling any more
lots in the forty-one-acre tract on the
Bladensburg road, or receiving any fur
Their payments on lots already sold, and
10 order an accounting and the ap-
pointment Of a receiver.
Rule Is Signed.
Justice Daniel T. Wright this morn
ing signed d rule returnable August 4,
upon which date the realty company
must show cause why the prayers of
Gilfry should not be granted.
The affidavit filed in support of the
bill alleges that the system of account
ing employed by the realty company.
of which Major Erastus L. Hawks is
president, is "crude and incomplete.
II charges also LEldL lucIt Is sum dboNL
S4I70.7O due to Mr.. Gilfry as trustee
that an overdraft of considerable
amount appears in Mr.. Hawks account
and that portions of the money taken
in by the company have been used IN
OveTdrafts by the employees of the com
pany.
Through Attorneys A A Hoehling,
jr., Adds B. Browne, Evans Browne
and Alexander Briton, Mr.. GIfry de
clares that he and former Senator
Clark are the owners of the tract OF
land known as City View Heights, and
gave an option to Amos ". Hart for
the purchase Of the property at a price
quoted as S19S, 900, 10 be paid out of
funds acquired by Hart from the sale
OF the lots, as they were disposed of.
The District Realty Company was con-
tracted with as selling agent, and was
TO pay the respective portions Of the
collections to the parties Of the original
contract Of sale.
Claims Commission.
The bill further recites that when de-
mand was made upon Hawks for money
said to be overdue, he claimed, it IS
charged, that the money was not due
because Of commission which he
claims he was 10 have received on the
sale Of the lots.
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The Continuation OF This story VIII
be Found In TpmOrrOw's
Issue of The Times.
Current Notes and Timely Comment
From Professional Sport Fields

ribIv demoralizinz influences Of boxing
Ia that city, and they demand that
the boxing shows be closed up at once.
San Francisco is filled with boxers
and their managers, but there is little
doing out there now. The clubs ale not
drawing very well and II is hard for
any one outside Of a champion to get
any money worth while.
Manager Carr Of the Indianapolis Club
has announced that Frank BOWeTman,
= no recently resigned as manager Of
the Boston Nationals. has been signed
to catch for the indianapolis team the
remainder Of the season.
Pitchers Check and Ryan Of the Bos-
ton American League team have. with a
money consideration, been traded to St
Paul Of the American Association for
Pitchers Karger and Hall, who will re-
port to the Red SoX at once.
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MORE PROTECTION
FOR CAR PATRONS

For the protection of passengers
alghung from. OF boarding. a street car
the Commissioners are considering the
adoption of a regulation compelling all
automobiles to come to a stop II they
cannot pass a car which has stopped at
a crossing. at a greater distance than
six feet.
The suggestion regarding the proposed
regulation was received from an official
Of the Pension Bureau, who says that,
within his knowledge, two employees Of
the bureau We're run down by auto
mobiles while alightiTE from street cars,
one of whom was k He'd and the other
badly injured.
The Police Department, according 10
Major sylvester, has had a similar regu-
Iation under consideration for some
time.
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INFURIATED CROWD
SEEKS ASSAILANT

HACKENsACK. n. J., July 1.-Two
hundred men and boys secured the
woods and fields IN the vicinity Of
Teaneck yesterday for an Italian who
fatally stabbed a fellow -c0untTyman.
The belief is that he lies hidden ia
the fields and may make a break for
liberty during the night. The man
sought is Louis Zeipone an Italian
farmer He and John Mazza Quaweled,
and, Zeip0ne, II is alleged, drew knife
and stabbed Mazza three times. Mgzza
is al the hospital here where il Is
said that ne cannot live.
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MORAN GOES DOWN
BEFORE JOE WAGNER
Series of LET'S to the Jaw in
Eighth Round Puts
Gothamite Out.

NEW YORK, July 27.-Joe Wagner
knocked out Johnny Moran last night
IL the eighth round Of what was 10
have been a ten-round bout at the
Olympic Athletic Club.
Moran was no match for Wagner, and
was badly punished. Body blows put
Moran In a bad way in the third round,
and Wagner followed up his advantage
in the fourth, causing Moran 10 clinch
repeate 1ly to save himself.
In the eighth Wagner got home two
stiff body blows, and then in miz-up
caught Moran with a left on the jaw,
ending the contest.
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WOMAN ENUMERATED.

NORFOLK, Va July 27.-Mrs. John
Kane. who shot and killed Reilly o.
Martin last week at the Pine Beach
Yostofhce because he used abusive Ian
guage 10 her, was eXOnerated today by
a cOroners jury on the ground of self
defense. Mrs. Kane is the mother of
three children, including twins six
MeHks old.
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COLLISION is FATAL.

DETROIT, July 27.-John Hause, Of
Clayton, Mich, was instantly killed two
miles west of Dearborn yesterday, when
a Detroit United Railway freight car
struck the automobile in which tfause
was riding. Chester Dwyer, who was
in the car with Hause, vas tossed over
a fence, but was uniulured.
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PHlLLIES SIGN UP
ANOTHER BATTERY

LEXINGTON, Ky, July 27.-The Phil
adelphia National League Club. through
Scout Martin, has signed a conditional
contract with Pitcher Toney, of the
Winchester team az the Blue Grass
League. and the noted squirrel hunter
is to join the Philues the lst Of Sep
TENDER.
Martin has been scouting through this
league for the past two weeks and has
also condluonally signed Dawson, the
biz catcher and first basemau Of the
Richmond team
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DairYman's - Reopened.

The DaITyman's National Bank. Of
sheyb0gau Falls. Wis. which suspend
ed on June g. was today directed by
the Comptroller Of the Currency to open
its doors for general business, its capt
tai stock now being uuimpaired and
other requirements Of the comptroller
having been met.
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BANK THEFT STILL
REMAINS UNSOLVED
National Examiner Ordered to IN
vestigate $4,000 Shortage at
Upton Institution.

Upton. Ind, July 27.-National Bank
Examiner Fraser today assumed tenn
porary control Of the First National
Bank, whose officials claim TO have dis
covered a cash shortage of approx
mately $4,000 since the alleged dlsap-
pearance Of Noah r. Marker, its as
sistant cashier.
A number Of bonds supposed 10 be
those Of CEyahoga county Ohio, which
were recovered from the Farmers and
Citizens Live Stock Insurance Com
pany OF Lima, Ohio, by repleVin were
held by the insurance company under a
bond double their value. They had
been turned over to the Insurance com
pany, it is said. by Noah Marker, for
examination.
The original owners. having demanded
the return Of the securities Noah Mark
er Is alleged TO have borrowed $40 900
from an Indianapolis bank. effecting q
settlement although there is no record
is az a loss 20 understand the method
By which the so 600 IN silver was abb
straCted from the vaults OF the bank
The time lock having been set for
O'Clock Monday morning the officials
Of the bank were kept in ignorance OF
the amount OF the missing funds until
that hour.
Under telegraphic orders from the
Comptroller Of the Currency. Bank Elk
sminer Miller Weir is fastening from
St Louis 70 Upton Ind. 10 investigate
the condition OF the First National
Bank. Weir telegraphed today that he
was being held up by railroad wreck,
but would reach Upton late this after
noon.
Bank Examiner w. 3 Frazer report
ed the bank in good condition on June
q. The comptroller judges from adj
vices that the banks securities are un-
touched. II this proves the case and
they are Of sufficient value 20 warrant
IL. he will permit the bank 10 reopen
shortly.
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TWELVE MINERS DIE.

CLERMONT-F e r R A ND, France,
July 27.-An explosion of fire-damp oc-
,-s.rred today In one of the mines near
here. causing the death Of twelve
miners
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NORTHEAST

McChEsNEY & JOACHIM. cor. I'd and E
SITS Phone L. S29.
LADpON PHARMACY. 1900 Florida ave.
Phone L. 1876.
Phone l. 1891
TAYLOR & LAMB. Inc. 18th and z. Cap.
SITS. Phone L. 102.
CHAs. H. BLUMER, n Cap. and r SITS.
Phone n. 3015.
McCHEsNEY & JOACHIM. 8th and sits.
Phone I. 2f92
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