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The Winning Trick.

Joseph II. CHOATE. at a dinner at the
J Lawyers Club in New York, said OF
a piece. OF legal chicsRery:
1T was mean. too mean 1t reminded
me Of a sneak OF Q lawyer in practice in
the far west. This chap WAS defending
q man in a promissory note case, and he
knew ne was going to lose. But In the
lunch hour. in his tricky way, ne sneaked
back into the courtroom and changed the
markers in all the prosecuting counseys
reference books. The Judge. after con-
sulting all these reference books tive
hours later. pronounced sterniy:
~ should certainly have decreed for
the plaintiff, but on referring to the eta
tions quoted by plaintiffs counsel I find
that they none Of them bear even re-
motely on the case before US. and I I'm
cline to think that a gross Insult has
been perpetrated on this court Counsel.
with idiotfc levfty, has referred me to
the action Of a Frenchman who sued q
geological society for having been bitten
by bear. The second reference fs to q
case OF Islander. Next i am directed TO
an infantacide, a forged will and Q safe
robbing. What have these things to do
with an action TO recover on q promissory-
note? But perhaps the most shameless
insult TO this court Hes in counsel's final
reference TO the notorious Lippman versus
Henshaw cause.-The siiiiest and most RI
bald breach OF promise suit In all the an
nails OF western Jurisprudence. judgment
Tor defendants, with costs.
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are of the shape of an eye. There is one
special kind made in Hebron which is
very effective. 1t is bead of blue glass
of the shape Of hand with five fingers.
1t is worn as a charm.
Some of the children are clad in blue
gowns with white circles stamped on
them. Every store has some blue inside
it, and in some silver hand is hung up
on the walls. The bride wears blue beads
at her wedding, and in wedding process
sions salt, rice and sugar pfums are
thrown at the bride and bridegroom to
keep off the evil eye and bring luck
j have been warned that l should al
ways have some alum in my pocket. This
is charm which will keep off the
witches, and 1t is usually carried along
with the beads. Some beads are made
with a small piece of alum inside them.
and people who are ashamed to show
their belief in the beads often carry
alum in their pockets. If child goes
out without charms the mother is greatly
alarmed. and if she thinks that some one
has cast an evil eye on it she takes a
bit of the child's clothes and burns it
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we reach a church belonging TO the
Greeks. at the front of which stands
marble column as high as a chair and
about as big around as a four-gallon
crock This is the center of the world,
and is honored as such | saw Russian
peasant girls kissing it, and further on
observed them kissing holy place after
holy place until it seemed to me their
lips must wear out. Kisses are pressed
upon these spots by thousands OF mouths
every day, and if every lip leaves It's
microbes all the diseases: of the world
must be in the bacteria here.
1t is hard to estimate the value of the
offerings which the pilgrims lay on these
shrines. Those who come are Of all
classes. and some bring the savings of
years The poor lay their pennies In the
hands of the priests and drop them in
the slot boxes which may be seen at al
most every corner. There is much gold
and precious stones. A life-sized image
of the Virgin Mary which l saw in the
Greek Church was covered with diamonds
The image was made of wax, and was
dressed in satins and silks. Its face was
painted. An oval pearl as big as the
end of my thumb hung on the forehead.
while the waXen fingers held a score or
more rings. Some of the rings were set
with diamonds. some with sapphires and
rubies' and other with opals. Opals in
Palestine are looked upon as the sign of
good luck "rd rot bad as with US.
The most of the rings were costly, and
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FEAR THE EVIL En- r..
even more gorgeously decorated although
some of its jewels are said to be paste.
4 -
The Church of the. Holy Sepmlchre is
beehive OF superstition. 1t is supposed
to stand on the spot where Christ was
crucified. The Bible tells US that this
was outside Jerusalem but the Church OF
the Sepulchre is today far within the
walls. This, however, is not proof that
the place is not correct, for the walls o;
Jerusalem have been thrown down and
rebuilt again and again, and this Is es-
pecialIy so of those on Mount Zion. where
this great church stands. The hill where
Christ was crucified was made up of ter
races Of rock, and that is the nature Of
the foundation of this church. The place
was located by St. Helena. the mother
of Constantine the Great, who came here
about 300 years after Christ died and
found the true cross among the rubbish
on the side of the hill where the church
stands. She had the cross dug out and
carried to Constantinople, whence later
on some pieces of 1t were sent to Rome.
One section as long as your arm is said
to be he-e in Jerusalem. and there are SO
many other pieces scattered over the
world that / venture You could build
house with them.
Shortly after this discovery church
was erected on the spot and since then
others have been built, destroyed and
rebuilt until we now have this great
ediiice, which has, 1 venture. an area Of
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BRN7E46Z NzYYE:R md OLN9gER,

regulars was one of the pioneer expert
mentors, working TO fortify our troops
against possible starvation during the
stress of war. Finally. in 1906, there was
adopted our first emergency ration. in
which were embodied some OF his ideas.
II contained hard bread pea meal. bacon,
coffee. saceharine and tobacco. But in
the. haste Of preparation for the Span
ish war only paper was supplied to
wrap it up I'm. and. being never quite
ready for the haversacks of the men, il
never served it's purpose In that strug-
gle. Then In 19O1-before Gen. Sharpe
was put in charge of the commissariat of
the whole army-;he emergency ration
which the newly invented one Is designed
to replace was adopted.
How much more compact is the new
one than that now in use the ac-
complaining photographs show. The
old one is in can half again as
heavy. long and as thick as the
new one. To be more exact, it meas
nres six inches In length and nearly
two inches in thickness. and the food
inside the can weighs twelve ounces.
whereas that OF the new one weighs
only six. And the contents OF the cid
emergency ration are: Cooked wheat
tdried and outer bran removed, six
ounces; desiccated meat. salt. pepper
and ground -four. three ounces: choco
late and sugar. three ounces. The
cooked wheat and meat are mixed and
pressed into three three-ounce cakes.
while the chocolate and sugar mixed
(equal parts) are in three smaller
cakes. OF an ounce EACH The bread
and meat cakes are to be either eaten
dry. stirred into cold water or boiled.
and the chocolate eaten dry or boiled
Any chocolate manufacturer can turn
out the new ration in time of war. and
if such an emergency presented itself all
Of the country's big firms engaged in
that business would probably set to work
at once pressing the little slabs.
The new one is the most compact emer-
eency ration now supplied by any army
of the world. except the British, whose
soldiers are provided with little tin box
about the size of goOd-sized can of
sardines and containing only six and a
half ounces Of chocolate and proteids
(such as the lean Of meat. gluten Of
wheat. casein OF milk. white Of eggs),
compressed into one solid cake. groOved
so as to break into three bars one for
each meal This keeps perfectly for five
years, but has only three-fourths the food
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several acres. 1t is surmounted by a
cross rising from dome as big as that
of our National Capitol.
The Church Of the Sepulchre is not
beautiful and its position in the heart OF
Jerusalem surrounded by bazaars, con-
vents. monasteries and hotels is by no
means imposing. The front OF IL is COW
cred with carvings. some of which are
from ancient temples, and over the doors
are bas-reliefs of scenes from the Bible.
One of these represents the raising OF
Lazarus. with the Savior standing at the
front and Mary at his feet. At the
command of Christ Lazarus Is seen ris-
ing from the dead. and in the background
are spectators. some Of whom are hold
ing their noses as an evidence perhaps or
the corruption which had begun to take
place before the corpse came to life
1t is under the dome of this church that
lies the tomb OF the Savior. 1t is in
closed in a chapel Of an ivory white
marble, which stands in the center OF
the rotunda. 1t is perhaps twenty feet
high and twenty-six feet in length and
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value of Gen. Shapes new emergency
ration.
Compared with these, the German iron
ration provided for emergencies looks
tremendous. consisting as. IL does OF Ave
separate packages-a cylindrical can coli
taining half pound OF meat, square
tin inclosing Ave and half ounces OF
pea meal ito be made into SOUP. q small
tin OF coffee, queer little wooily bag
OF salt dig enough to hold an appie) ana
a cheesecloth bag. Of Eweibach Chard
bread) made into a nine-ounce loaf. The
total Is a pound and a half or three
times as much as provided in Gen.
Sharpe's new ration.
The French soldiers reserve ratisn'
weighs trihe over a pound and half.
and consists OF ten and one-half ounces
OF canned meat, an equal weight OF war
bread about three ounces OF sugar. an
ounce and quarter OF coffee tablets.
an ounce and three-quarters OF canned
porridge and two and one-fifth ounces OF
brandy. Part of this would be carried i'm
the knapsack and part I'm wagons follow
ing the troops.
4 sample Japanese emergency ration
which Gen. Sharpe hes in his once, to
getiler with specimens OF the others de-
scrlbed, includes two packages q oan
containing thirteen and ene-haif ounces
of meat. preserved with the juice in
which IL has been cooked; and the other,
a square bundle neatly wrapped IN yel-
low oil tissue. which contains three little
pure white cheescloth bags, containing
one-seventh of quart Of rice. which has
been dried. steamed and crushed. And
under the same cover il little cube Of
salt.
Emergency rations for horses have been
adopted by the Germans and are being
experimental with by the British. That
provided for the kaiser's war horses con-
ssts OF about thirteen pounds OF oats and
three and One-third pounds each OF hay
and straw. That which the English are
testing is a compact mixture OF. carrots.
fresh raw meat. currants. sugar and
cocoa leaf
As soon as he completes some elaborate
experiments purposed to thoroughly test
it's keeping qualities Gen. Sharpe will
finally recommend his new emergency ra-
ton to the Secretary OF War for adoption
by the army. -
JOHN EEFRETH WATKINS.
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name of God at the beginning of every
sentence which contains the name OF
ones friend.
The Jews carry about texts of the Scrip
lures. The Christians have relics or
saints and some of the natives here
think they have pieces of the true cross.
The people OF Palestine do not like to
have tho mselves complmented without
you use the name of God in the sentence
containing the compliment Such express
Sions are bound to bring miSfortunes and
possibly trouble and death If You call
q boy or girl pretty its mothers heart is
filled with terror and she straightway
throws out her hand. extending the in
deX and little fingers in such way as is
supposed to ward off the devil and
the evil consequences of your re-
mark. If you wish to remark upon the
beauty of child you must begin the
sentence with, May God surround thee"
and you may then go on you please.
If you should pat the child on the he ad
and fail TO use this sentence, the mother
upon returning home will take the child
into a room and put ii in the middle of
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He'd Stand Pat.

WILLIAM JENNINGS BYRAN occa-
" sionally eniivens one OF his power
full temperance addresses with an sppro-
pirate story.
Thus. In an after-dinner speech in Lia-
coin. Mr.. Bryan. illustrating the terrible
strength of tho drink habit. said:
A Lincoln doctor. after examining q
patient, declared TO him, soIemniy:
You VIII have to give up whisky or
else lose your sve0ght'
1.-The patient rose to his feet With q
sigh.
"'well. doc, he said, I guess I've seen
pretty much everything"
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A WITCH OF ENDOR IN 1910.

She first prays over the child. waving
this about as she does SO. She then
throws the charm into an open fire and
holds the child over 1t. AS the alum
burns it gives off smoke which takes
certain shapes and the mother believes
that by looking at them she can learn
who has cast the evil eye on her child.
This same process is gone through with
by pretty girls who feel i'll on coming
home from a call. They work this charm
to find out who has cast a spell on them.
One of the most common guards against
the evil eye is text from the Bible or
the Koran. One from the latter is some
Arabic words which mean Break down
the spell of the eye, and another which
is by the blessings of Cod These
phrases are written and framed and
hung up I'm many OF the houses. They
are carved upon furniture. For thei
same reason il is customary TO use the
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boys. He is the first inventor YOU ever
heard of who hopes that there will never
be any demand for the prize fruit of his
genius. And this is because this inven-
tIoH is an emergency ration, whose use
would mean, in the first place. war-which
Cen. Sherman rightly defined as hell
and. in the second place. an unfortunate
emergency of war resulting from a cut
tins off of the supplies OF an army in the
field.
The sky-bEe can which holds an emer-
sency breakfast, dinner and supper all
Within its tin shell. is four and .hree-quar
tiers inches long, less than three inches
broad and an inch and a quarter thick.
You can wear one in yot,r hip pocket
without arousiag the least sns picion that
.|ou are bearing refreshments. less proper
and polite.
Noj' ntea;.s out Sss. with The Japs. the
Germans or the bloomin British. Each
Yankee brave in Khaki has one of these
cans of irst-a;d-to-th e-empty dropped
INTO his haverSaCk. where ii keeps fresh
FOR months. and where il must DE reg
G'ariy accounted 20: al inspection until
aus the Unhappy day when the enemy
'uts off the coT1missaria; and the pabu-
Then each boy in drab squatting by
The good campfire. grabs the loose end of
the blue bandeau enwreathing the head of
after the principle of the tin ribbon
around the fragrant sardine can-only it
really works
From the package fall three slabs of
something very like the brown cakes of
chocolate that small children buy from
train butchers and with which they de-
light to cruInb up the plush seats of the
coaches.
The hungry soldier may draw but one
slab. From this he removes the tightly
pressed wrapper of figured tin foil and so
he sits down to supper. The other two
cakes must be put back in the can and
saved. one for tomorrow's breakfast and
the other for tomorrow's dinner, If need
be.
If his palate does not take to his COM
pact meal in this dry form he can. with
knife or bayonet scrape his slab over his
tin cup and boil the scrapings three min
utes In the cupful of water, thus brewing
a hot beverage which in chill weather
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and it is used at all other ceremonies con-
nected with children.
X
The evil eye also is possessed by
spirits who inhabit human beings. The
people here believe in one class of spirits
who live underground, but who are fed
by those who live upon earth. They come
UP and take the wheat from the thrash
ing floors and the bread from the ovens,
and the only way to keep them from do
Ing so is 10 utter sentence from the
Koran or Bible as you put the bread in.
These same spirits hover about the fire,
and if you quench it without asking
Mahomet to protect you the spirits are
liable to beat you or perhaps lame YOU
for life.
These underground spirits are known
as the Jan Their favorite place of resi-
ience Is below the front doorsteps, and
Tor this reason women are not allowed to
sit on the doorstcps. The Jams are sup
posed to he an organized body, having a
sultan a court and regular officials They
keep guard on the food stores and are on
the whole fairly good fellows They are
said to be fond of human company, and 1t
Is whispered that they sometimes assume
human shape and marry nortals. They
are most common i'll Egypt. one may
attract Jan by WhiStiing, and it is
laid that the girls here frequently
whistle. Some OF the men of Palestine
are jealous of the JAMS. thinking they
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paes"iS mere III Jef HS,iieih - tlat mar
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This Is believed by the native jews, and
Instances of ii have recently occurred on
account or me drought We nave mad no
M Peon,e M. ".ra ''s - a. rolant
paralysis, which has been carry ng off
the tn-cfeh. me people thhk that God
t,s,,.,,Isa .h O." : - -,
panty Him thev have hi1 weddings in
the cemeteries. which IS considered most
~! uc"y place Tor starting up3n the lie
matrimonial mecca, II Is 50 uniuckN
,,'..r,.ian 49, ,au 10 III pe.pie 10 re.
niaca 49, uoo, it, a,,,'t o,.,,i'.li s.,}s,
IN .oId rd 10 ga f|. -, ,.aors
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ya,.am aY,hi e.; H. 80 -.
f,o1a han,'n l., 81, ~ 80
iate cn,nins aud t,5e ;, naa ,r,,sI,in.r. ~
I'D .ssamS,ed %. 10 ,o..a,.,a,,, TnJ
to r,a1t For ~, So. ''' s.,,l III liz
carried in uaGer a canopv and fooli her
niace on ono ia, ~ - 80 ~.
wEtle tho hrid .fond ~ 80
Stan6ing thn. 80, ,.riaya -, -
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.,o nI.1,ad hu+ ;. H. a;ain,,i.f - 80 III
ine cnnniss rs sn,i, ,1.rr;aga 4ra sun-
nnea6 =, ba aiS,S,,on N.''er,b,Ies. ~
charm seems Tn 10 ,,,l,inp INC wind
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butter ard it is sad btu, true I,he gen
rral and Dir. Wiley have had Il r heads
together over all OF these matte.>) that
the chocolate manufacturer lays aside
much. OF this most nutritious constituent
of his food product because. when fold
separately. as s.-cosmetic, il demands a
much higher price than WREN left in the
chocolate. So as a precauton. against the
ioSS OF this excellent form OF nourfshment
the comnissary general demands, in his
specifications the exact proportion of
cocoa butter which must he present.
You are probably wondering also VIVA
nucleo-casein' il. Case!s itself is what
NE mist.. cali the lean o. milk. IT is the
been taken Ont. Cheese made from skim
;uilk Is almost pure casein. Reduced to
powder. this valuable i1tiScle-formilg con-
sttuent OF milk becomes tnuclee-casein.
And "desicc3ted eggs of course means
nothing more no. less than dried eggs.
Thus YOU have about the most nutri-
tious foods that nature affo-ds-milk. eggs.
chocolate, malt and sugar-deprived OF
water and other unnecessary portions the
whole mixed together and pressed into
cakes so dry that less than one-twenty-
fifth part of them is moisture.
Doesn't tempt you. you say? NO. not
now, but if you had been on hard NIKE
IF it all day and there were nothing bet
ter, it would go reasonably well. especial
ly when seasoned with the assurance that
il contained the glue that sticks bo.y
and soul together. and the stun that will
drive the wolf Sinking from the door.
Aviatoy, aeronauts, campers. hunters
and explorers-to whom news OF it lately
leaked out in some way--are already writ
ing to Washington to learn where they can
obtain these little cans. The bird-man. find
ing himself landed in some isolated des-
ert waste or forest fastness, miles and
miles away from the nearest habitatiOn.
would look we'll upon a pound or two of
this stuff distributed among his pockets.
During the civil war the Union troops
had their marching ration OF pork or ba-
con- bareback, coffee and sugar, but reg
ular emergency ration for the American
soldier was unknown until 1894, when
Gen. Sharpe, then young captain OF
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the floor. She will then shovel up some
dust from each of the four corners and
throw 1t into the fire, crying: ''Fie on
thee, evil eye"
Similar precautions should be taken in
admirinS horse or donkey If
a man has spirited horse which
he fears the people may admire
he carries with him some salt. AS he
rides through the crowds he will now and
then sprinkle little salt under the feet
OF the horse. especially ii he sees the
crowd looking at il. If any one asks
whether he Will sell the animal he must
answer yes. but if asked what he will
take he makes the price so high that the
man cannot buy. AT such times he usu-
ally requests the would-be purchaser to
stop thinking of his horse for fear II
may bring misfortune.
Another superstition i'm regard to salt
relates to babies at birth. II is sprinkled
over their bodies 10 keep off the devil
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A Queer Belief Which
"A Prevails Throughout
Palestine-Silver Hands and
Blue Beads as Charms-How
Satan Hates Alum-Spirits
Who Live Under Ground
A Marriage in Cemetery
Superstitious Pilgrims-1n
the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre-Images Covered
With. Diamonds-At the
Tomb of Our Savior.
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may even send your soul to eternal dam
nation. Those who possess the evil eye
are devils incarnate. but you cannot tell
who they are. They go about in the
shape of innocent-looking men. women
and children, and you will not realize
that their spells have been cast upon you
until misfortune comes.
This belief exists throughout Palestine
and is common in this part of the
world. Every house in Jerusalem, wheth-
er Jew. Moslem or Christian, contains
charms TO ward off such spells, and every
man, woman and child carries a talisman
10 keep off the witches Some of these
charms are in the shape of hand COM
ing from old Jewish belief or saying
that the hand of God will arrest all s.
ssters, and of Mohammedan one
calling upon the hand of FatinSa
the daughter of the Prophet to
guard them from evil. Silver hands are
sold as charms and the better classes
wear hands of gold tied to their necks
Every Jerusalem house has a painting or
carving of hand on its front door TO
keep off the evil eye; and in the new
houses which are now going up they are
putting hands over the windows, and also
at the front doors. They tie bags of
charms over each door, which contains
an egg. a piece of alum. some garlic and
a large blue bead
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knife and spare my teeth, 1 hacked off
with my trusty blade a square inch frag
ment which compensated me for the pie
and cheese end of luncheon which, in
my haste to meet the general, l had just
foregone.
1t tasted much like the popular brands
of milk chocolate, but not sweet.
Chocoate-Which French tourists have
long esteemed as an emergency travel
ration-is the base of the compound.
The exact constituents are:
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each was presented to the Virgin as .
love Offering On the silken lap Of the
image lay a great golden heart as thick
as my fist and about six inches in width.
It was studied with emeralds and dia-
monds. This heart is a present from
Franz Joseph. the Emperor of Austria.
who has made many costly gifts to the
Church Of the Holy Sepulchre. In the
grotto of the Church of the Nativity at
Bethlehem is similar statue, which is
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JERUSALEM
AVE you ever heard
OF the Evil Eye?
It is abroad in
the Holy Land, and
a glance from il
will bring you mis-
fortune. II will lame
your horse, cow or
camel, and 1t may
cause your child TO
sicken or die. 1t
can ruin you r
health or your
business, and Ii