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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27

Special Correspondence of The Star
LONDON, October IS, 1872.
DOWN in the heart of Lancashire a
l. little old village is in d fiutter. A
woman from London is there hunting,
with the aid Of local volunteers, for will
which was hidden over two hundred and
fifty years ago, and which she believes
when found will prove her to be the heir
to fortune of several hundred thousand
dollars which is now in chancery.
She is doing this, she says, at the re-
quest of d ghost. restless ghoSt Whlcn
got into communication with her at the
first spirtualisric seance- she ever at
tended in her life and told her that il knew
where the long-lost will of old John Brad
lev. a rich farmer of Cromwelfs time,
whose lineal descendant she claims TO be,
is buried. This woman is Mrs. James An
derson whose home is in Gunnersbury,
one of the suburbs of London. The spirit
who claimed to know of the whereabouts
of the missing will, described itself as
that of John Bradley's wife, the only
person he told where he had hidden his
last testament.
Mrs. Anderson is not a spiritualist She
attended the seance at the invitation of a
friend. This was in August last and
hardly was the seance in full swing before
the medium announced that spirit
wanted to communicate with Mrs. Ander-
wrong had been put right Then il re-
vealed its identity as the wife of John
Bradley the wealthy Lancashire farmer.
and told about the will that is supposer
to be buried at Bradley Fold, a town
which is three miles from Bolton, and
takes it's name from John Bradley, who
lived there and owned all the land for
miles around.
Bradley was in his prime when the
and cavaliers were at each
others threats. and was as stern and I'M
Puritan as Cromwell
himself He was famous for his tact
turnity, rarely speaking to anybody but
his wife. and, in his old age. is said sell
dom to have spoken to her. When he
drew up his will disposing of his vast
property he hid it, and local legend de-
rlares that he told the secret of it's hid
ing place to no one but Mistress Bradley.
He made her promise solemnly, moreover,
not to tell any one-not even the other
members of his family-where the will
was secreted, until he was dead.
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BACK RAssLE TIL DOCKS FIR THEIR FEE"

IL
vote FIR anybody. We vote agin some
body. There ought to be colyum on
tn ticket where patriotic citizen cud
eXpriss his disapproval without commit
tin himsilf to annywan, dye mind. Vote
undher tn hammer wud be a GRAND
rallyin' cry.
"An' anyhow, We can't go wrong. Ills
sthrange how many good Prisidints
we've got out iv TIL bunch we've
had to pick firm. 1 can't reminder
wan in me time that looked bad afther
tin years had gone by. They're all fine.
Amy kind iv citizen with a good Chris
tyan bringin' up seems to be able to
guide tn distinies if tn republic. Mebbe
it's because TIL distinies iv TIL republic
ARE not ra-aly entrusted to him, but
go their own way an lave him go his.
He thinks he's in tn saddle, his firm
hand on tn reins, but tn rest iv us know
that it don't do him no good to pull an
spur an holler gid ap,' or whoa or
gee. TIL distinies iv tn republic go gall
lopin' on regardless iv him. They don't
know he's thryin' to guide thin. If they
did they'd stop an buck-jump him off
their back.
'Sure half tn time We wudden't know
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much that it can't keep its hands off him.
''Whin it said: Regardless iv what has
gone befure. we ar:re prepared to say
that he is tn noblest spicimin Nv hui
manity that liver throd TIL globe me
heart sunk in me. / says to mesilf, 1T s
all over TIL iditoryal tn mkt day was
more reassurin'. It begun: While jinin'
in tn universal sympathy FIR tn distin-
guished patient. yet we cannot - -
That cheered me up, an 1 told Hogan
there was a marked improvement. On tn
third day tn iditor wrote: 1t is absurd
to confuse tn great issues now befure
TIL people with tn deplorable act iv a.
manyac. TIL campaign must go on re-
gardliss iv sintimintality.' 1 says to me-
silf: Begorry, he's had a good night s
sleep, ordhered breakfast iv ham, eggs,
sausage wheat cakes. an tea, an is set
tin up in bed hurlin' back their compli-
minis at his inimies.'
"An' whin / r-rhead: NO amount iv
proper sympathy FIR tn victim Nv a
wound so thrivyal that no wan wud care
if it happened to us. should distract tn
minds iv tn people firm tn fact that tn
very foundations iv tn republic is still
in DANGER I threw tn paa-per to the
ceilin', an says I: It's all right. He's
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a few months afterward he died, and
all the rest of his kindred expected the
widow to produce the missing will forth
with. but the cd lady disappointed them.
With d sternness equal to Bradley's own
she refused to tel where his last tesla
ment was buried. and after many family
squabb and many futile searches for
the will on the part Of the wrathful rela-
tives, the latter gave it up and scattered
to different parts of the country. The
widow promised that she would reveal
the secret when she was dying and NOS
before. Then suddenly, says the legend.
she was stricken with paralysis. and thus
the only one who held the secret was
dumb.
Since her death faint echoes of the
story have passed down from grandfatf--
er to grandson in the district but the
mystery of John Bradley's will almost
had been forgotten there when it was
recalled in dramatic fashion by the ar
rival of Mrs. Anderson from London. The
latter says that for years she has had
papers in her possession which prove
her to be a lineal descendant of John
Bradley. but declares that the idea of
searching for his will never entered her
head till il was put there by the spirit
of Mistress Bradley.
Mrs. Anderson did not take the first
spirit message" seriously, however In
fact, she soon forgot all about it. Then,
a few weeks back, she went to another
seance. The restless shade of Mistress
Bradley turned UP again, and once more
besought her kinswoman to hunt for the
WILL this time giving a description OF
Bradley Fold and certain landmarks that
would help in a search. This proved too
much for Mrs. Anderson's skepticism.
and, few days afterward, she set off
for the little Lancashire village. When
she got there and her object in coming
became known, several of the oldest in
habitants Of the village volunteered in.
and in the past few days ex-
cavationS have been made in the neigh
borhood of the homestead where John
Bradley lived.
Mrs Anderson spent the last week end
at her home in Gunnersbury, but, when
seen, declined to tell what progress she
was making toward finding the last testa-
nent of the old Covenanter. A friend.
however, stated that she had great hopes
Of finding il, and described the spirit mes
sages received by Mrs. Anderson from
her long-dead ancestor as most re-
narkable.'
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"Ye have" said Mr.. Dooley. but ye
don't reminder it. Besides, ye're grow
in old an losin'. we're powers Nv inJye-
mint What dye expict in campaign
fr Prisidint iv these here United
States? Dye think this is q struggle
f'r honorary chairman iv tn Society f'r
Ethical Culture? Here we have coun-
,hry sthretchin' FIRM wan ocean &" n
other. occupied be ninety or hundherd
millyon people each wan " thin think
in he's tn on'y man that counts fr
much, seem that he's tn on'y wan he
knows. Along comes fellow that's
been d coolidge professor or colonel
~ a cowboy rigimint or a lawyer in
Cincinnaty an he says: Boys. I'm far
an away tn best " all ~ ye. ] want
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tomac Park citizen who owns a num-
Der of work horses follows the national
reapers and soon has the park hay under
cover.
In the White Lot. the Monument
grounds, the Capitol and Smithsonian
grounds the harveSters gather the cut
'ngs up into little heaps, and private
owners quickly carry them off
men keep in touch with the grass
G. program and are not far behind
the Lowers in gathering the crop. Much
of the grass is fed green to poor work
horses, and il is believed that this free
grass carries happiness into many hum.
BILE stall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27
Uncle Sam, Haymaker.
THE government Of the United

THE government Of the United States
is a haymaker. 1t harvests large
hay crop in Washington every summer.
The crop is not baled or weighed and no
record Of the cut Is kept, but anybody,
by following the activities of the national
farm hands, will note that the crop in a
good grass year amounts into hundreds
of tons.
The government devotes larger acre
age to hay in Potomac Park than in any
other of the federal reservations in
Washington. On that new land, red top.
broad top, blue grass, red clover and
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me whether tn threaty with Rooshya Is
good or bad. but ii makes a lot iv dn-
frence whether get me daily budget iv
bills firm tn gas comp'ny. offers iv
dimon necklaces an old masthers at ray
jooced rates, an fiatthrin appeals to me
inrosity signed be ]. Pierpont Morgan.
Jawn D. Rockyfellar. an Andrew Car
maggie to add me mite to gladdin' tn:
Christ mas " tn inmates iv tn home fr
needy curb-brokers Mannys tn time
was on tn verge iv room because iv
somethin that'd happened at Washnton.
only to be woke be Dorsey's whistle. an
sayin' to mesilf: All is well. TIL gov
ermint at Wash'nto still lives. Dorsey
is at wurruk.
Amy administration will be a suc-
cess. so long as tn hired help sticks. But
l don't want to discourage We. Injye tn.
Fiction. Be bullwark iv tn republic.
Go down To Tony's barbershop an cast
yeer impeeryal suffrage with tn feeiin'
that if We don't somethn' viii be put
across on tn heritage iv liberty. If i
need d shave I'll vote against somebody
mesilf."
The sthraw vote seems to SHOW"
Mr.. Hennessy began.
"Ye can't take annythin' so sthrong as
American pollyticks through sthraw
vote" said Mr.. Dooley.
Copyright 1912. 10y Finley Peter Dunne)
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who's Prisidint iv tn United States if ye
didn't r-rhead tn news firm Beverly,
Mass. TIL country gets on just as well
in summer as it does in winter, an
where's tn govermint thin? Congress
makes tn janitor a quorum to pass all
bills ON tn desk an adjourns; the Su-
preem Coort packs up its bombaZeen
wrappers an tears off FIR TIL mountains:
sistant sicrties h'ists their private pen
nants on tn most comfortable men-iv-
war in tn navy an sails FIR tn summer
resorts.
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''All tn other important officers Nv tn
govermint who ARE detained in Wash n
ton in tn. suffocatin' heat be their devo-
ton to jooty ARE out at tn ball park
hollerin' to Johnson to smoke 'em over.
But the govermint goes on just the same.
Whin I'm in me right mind afther ilction
| know that there ARE NANNY things
more important to me thin who's Prisidint
iv tn United States. | have nawthin'
to do with him but help ilict him, usually
be votin' FIR some wan that hadn't a
chanst to beat him, an whin I've done
me jooty that far / have no further in
thercoorse with him, EXCEPT through tn
intarnal rivnoo bureau or Dorsey, tn let
ter carryer.
"Divvle tn bit iv difference it makes to
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white clover have been sown and numer-
GUS varieties of coarse grasses have
sprung up without invitation. The farm
ers of the office of pubic buildings and
grounds NOW these extensive grass neids
when the crop needs cutting. or a east
when the parks ann
that the grass
moving '..tG
cli- dos OF ne MS
=; or shocks or ha ks
.ked UP into little piles anG he e
=. v.rnmental interest ends. Little ume
is given for curing. The cut grass is
public property. or public forage, to be
appropriated by the first conner. In 20
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27

Six columns erected in the portico of
The war Office. Washington. in ISIS were,
on the demolition OF that building in
April, 1879. transferred to the gateways
of this. Arlington National cemetery"
Above the entablature is a cornice wall
inscribed in large letters with the name
of Sheridan" Hence. this IS usually
called the Sheridan gate of Arlington.
Follow the yellow road and the red wall
about quarter OF "A mile southwark and
you stand before massive monumental
red sandstone gateway. For years this
gateway was twined round with vines.
but these have been cut away. Two sec
tional stone columns guard the gateway.
the south column being inscribed in sunk
en- letters that are Silded ''Meigs." Above
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27

ELL, sir" said Mr..
Hennessy, this is
q tur-rble cam
paign.
1T is not said
Mr.. Dooley. It's
tn reg lar cam
paiSn."
But I nlVer
heerd so much
abuse ~ tn can
fCnneSSy.
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LOW. RED Seneca
sandstone wall TOP
ped with thick
sla bs % PO,omsc
bluestone stretches
away 10 the right
and left-nOrth and
south - along the
west side OF a yell
low road, dusty or
MUDDY. lined with
telegraph 2 o ] 9 5
strung with webs
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At the Last Lock.

THE last lock, or 1t may be the first,
/ of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal is
at 10Th street in Georgetown. There the
canal Joins Rock creek. Twenty-nlnth
street crosses the canal on a stone via
duct. On the east side of this viaduct
is a brick balustrade topped with foot
high cement coping. The west side of the
viaduct is not only guarded by this ce-
ment coping, but the coping is topped
with a strong iron picket fence. The way
for the canal mules passes on the north
side of the waterway and across 18th
street. The towlines pass over the brick
balustrade and. it's cement coping and
over the picket fence, and when the boat
is ready to pass under the viaduct the
line is cast off and is hooked on as soon
as the passage has been effected. In this
process the towline passes over the north
west angle OF the balustrade ana lts
picket fence.
1t is interesting to note the effect Of the
rope wear on the iron. Embedded In the
top of the cement coping of the east bal
ustrade are two long. wide iron plates as
tenders. Deep grooves are worn IN them
by the ropes The iron picket fence SUR
mounting the west balustrade furnishes
the strongest illustration of the wearing
and saving done by the ropes. The pick
cts are an lnCn IN OldIuttcT dhu VI
wrought iron. The tops extend five inches
above the topmost connecting bar of the
fence. Forty-one of these pickets heads
have been sawed off by the ropes and the
remaining tops have been nearly cut
through. The thick iron rail or rod
through which the pickets are set is near
ly sawed through in half hundred
places.
Thirtieth street crosses lock of the
canal on a wooden bridge. The wooden
railing is in part guarded by iron tenders.
and these have been mostly sawed
through by the wet and gritty ropes.
Where the hempen line has touched the
wood of the railing the top beam has
been sawed through as though the timber
offered little resistance to the rope.
Thirty-first street crosses the east end
of another lock, and here the streetway
is also guarded with heavy iron pickets.
These have been sawed of or sawed
through. The heavy iron railing Is sawed
deeply in many places, and it gives a
vivid idea of the fractional power of rope.
especially when it is wet and gritty with
sand picked up by dragging along the
ground.
"A towline loaded with wet sand. with
two mules at one end and canal boat
at the other. will cut through almost
anything it runs against II you give 1t
time. But 1t takes time" said the man
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to get back in tn job. There's nawthin'
so much as retirement firm public life.
In pollyticks all goods on tn shelf ARE
garanteed pure. On tn first iv Novim-
Der a candydate will start all tn burglar
alar'rums in tn neighborhood goin' be
merely pokin' his head out iv tn dure-
On tn Fourth Nv March tn same man
comes back firm tn capitol at Wash'n-
ton on TIL wrong side iv tn carridge an
goes home to his native town. Citizens
iv all parties turn out to greet him an
he spinds tn rest iv his life in a rockin
chair on tn front stoop handin' out
wur-ruds iy warnin' to tn wur-ruld on
tn folly iv it's ways.
''Whin he dies tn iditor iv tn opposi-
ton paper goes to tn expinse ~ print
in colyum rules upside down to show his
grief an says in an iditoryal with a slug
iv black at top an bottom to expriss a
couple iv sobs: Durin his lifetime We
frequently or always had occasion to diff
passed away. Our jooty as poplar
journal compelled us to say that he was
an embeZzler iv public funds, while he
retorted that undher tn pretinse Nv bein
d profishyonal blackmailer We were en-
gagged in coinin' money in our cellar out
iv babbitt metal an glass.
But we ar-re happy to say that these
debates, while spirited. We're always con-
Quoted without acrimony, but with mu-
tual RESPECT an good nature, an now
that there is no further occasion to slam
him We ARE prepared to admit that
whin he takes his rightful niche in tn
temple iv fame ayether George Wash'n-
ton or Abr'ham Lincoln will have to
move out. To appreciate tn worth Nv
thrite, our readers have but to compare
him with tn marble topped foot-rest iv
tn predatory classes who at prisint dis
graces tn office
l.
tn florists wagon firm tn opposition
campaign headquarters backed up in
front Nv me candydate's house TIL
kindest things ARE always said about
TIL man whose vote will be counted as
'scatterin'.' Judgin' be what I've r-rhead
about him tn prohibition candydate is
his own worst inimy. 1 SUSPECT be tn
way they ARE handled that Chain an
Debs ARE not gainin'. an If 1 was Will
lum Taft's campaign manager I'd put me
fut down firmly on tn ginral tindincy to
speak kindly about that cillybrated law
student.
"'Whin me frind Tiddy Rosenfelt was
over on! tn south side 1 didn't have to
r-rhead tn bulletins to know how he was
gettin' on. Win tn docks were ex-
plainin' in simple language how NANNY
lookosites an nootryphiles had got into
him I turned to tn iditoryal celyums Nv
me favrite journal, which loves him so
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We 20 give me a certificate acknowlidg
in me superiority, a hundherd thou
san dollars a year to put in me jeans.
a fine three-sthory an basement house
to live in, a man-iv-war FIR a private
yacht, an guarantee to print a takin'
lfkeniss iv mysilf fr all time to come
in tn school histhries.'
Dye suppose he's goin to get away
with that without a wrangle? No.. sir.
Thank hivin whin a man has tn ow-
daeity to say IN public without blush
in that he's qualified f'r tn best job
in all tn civilized wur-ruld. to rule
over a law abidin' but naughty poppy
lace, We'll take tn conceit out iv him
befure he goes in. KNOWN full well
that he'll get it back tn day afther
he takes hold IL TIL, Office. This idee iv
swearin' in the candydate that gets tn
largest number iv chataqua salutes an
sindin' him a diploma on lilac-tinted
paper won't go with us Shown dis
RESPECT f'r tn candydates is wan way iv
shown RESPECT fr tn Office
In all tn years I've lived in this
country I niver yit see a good candy
date f'r Prisidint or a good Prisidint or
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numerous paths showing that children
gambol there, and the granite steps.
whence the descriptive lettering may be
reached, show the marks of many feet.
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out iv bed an in his clothes. He's fired
tn nootryphile an lookysite scales
through the window. He's thanked tn
docks an offered to go out in tn back
yard an rassle thin FIR their fee. He's
waltzed tn nurses down tn corrydor an
hoped into car. Eight to wan that
whin tn thrain gets to Altoona he'll be
on TIL finder helpin' tn fireman to shovel
coal
mo, sir; no wan knows betther thin
Tiddy Rosenfelt himself that pollyticks
amt a spelldown, an 1t amt a game iv
authors. It's a rough, able-bodied, out
iv-dures sport an amy man that takes
part in it must expict to get bumped. If
a fellow come along to run f'r Prisidint
an all TIL people in tn country said
about him: He's just tn man FIR tn
place I'd be in favor iv expoortin him
at wanst as menace to tn republic.
But it has niver happened. We're per-
fectly safe SO long we go to tn polls
inspired be a noble determination to vote
FIR somebody, not because we think much
iv him, but because he amt as bad as
somewan else.
ITO tell we TIL truth, most iv us don't
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the dand
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in the immediate territory surrounding
them.
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THE surviving hitching posts and car
riage blocks are reminders of ~
time when the proudest WASN'T
Mo
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-21
MUSIC OF TIE ABoRIeINEs
Norwegian Explorers Secure Some
New Photographic Records In
Northern Canada.

The explorers, Christian Leden and
Harald Tbaulow, have Just returned
to Christiania from an expedition to
Northern Canada which was underta-
ken with the object OF collecting phon-
ographic records Of the folksongs Of
the various Indian tribes and compar.
Ing them with those obtained in ear.
Her expeditions to the Esquimaux.
with the view Of establishing how far
was their common origin.
The largest tribe visited was tho
Cree, which numbers over 10000.
Their chief, Montonigik. was ut first
hostile, but, after few presents Of
tobacco and glass beads and after
having been told that the explorers
had been sent by the king Of Norway
to make his tribe famous, he became
more amenable to the wishes Of the
explorers.
They brought back with them q
most interesting collection Of films
and records Of Indian life and music.
Leden will go In the fall to Greenland
for further Investigation in the spring
Of 1918 and long final exploration Of
Northwest Canada which will extend
for three years. He will visit tribes
that have never been In contact with
the whites. he says.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-21
FOUGHT ON VEGETABLE DIET
Great Warriors o. Homer Were Not
0uffOroro From Insufficient DO
nOstle Help.

The heroes Of Homer prepared their
food VIII their own hands, and were
nor. therefore. sufferers from insuni.
Client domeStioS. In the happy sim.
plicity Of the Homeric ages, writes Mr..
+. w. lakewood In Good Cheer"
the great heroes who dealt such ter.
fible blows. leaving death and desc
Aauon behind them. when they TO
posed after their exploits, partook OF
. blAmeleGs dish Of beans or q plate
OF hominy lentilS.
It may be difficult to imagine Do
medes In the act Of peeling an onion
or Achilles washing cabbage. But al
though the wise Ulysses roasted, with
his own hands, . Sirloin Of beef, vege-
tables occupied the most conspicuous
places at al the great banquets of an
Client Greece.
which Hercules, as conQueror Of the
Nemean lion, crowned himself; Ana,
creon celebrates the plant as the EN-.
blem Of Joy and festivity. Fable makes
parsley the food Of coursers; the war
riors Of Homer fed their chargers with
1t for battle.
The cabbage was adorned by the
Egyptians, who raised affairs to It.
Afterward they made this strange god
the first dish In their repast The
Greeks and Romans ascribed to 1t the
happy quality of preserving from
drunkenness, and looked upon 1t as q
sovereign remedy against paralysis.
Alexander found the onion In Egy@>
where the Hebrews had learned to like
It He had It cultivated In Greece,
and given az food to his troops, In
the belief that 1t excited martial ar-
dor. Whosoever wishes to preserve.
his health, says an ancient saw, should
eat every morning, before breakfast,
young onions and honey. But this
does not sound like a very tempting
preservative.
Asia In said to be the native soil of
the asparagus. Yet the Romans cult
waited It with such marvellous success
that the stalks raised at Ravenna arc
said to have weighed three pounds
each, and we are asked to believe that
the African variety, grown In Libya,
reached q height Of Ii feet.