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OH! MY BACK!
The Expression of Many IA Kidney
Sufferer.

A stubborn backache is cause to sus-
pect kidney trouble. When the kid
neys are inflamed and swollen, stoop-
ing brings a sharp twinge in the small
of the back that almost takes the
breath away Doan's Kidney pills re-
vive sluggish kidneys-relieve aching
backs. Here's convincing proof of
merit
l.. J.. Logan, sheep raiser, Third St,
Douglas, wyo., says 81 had a dull
pain through the small of my back and
the pain was something fierce at times.
| knew that my kidneys must be af-
fected so | got n box Of Doan's Kidney
Pills. The first box helped me quite "A
bit, SO | used three more boxes and
was entirely rid OF kidney complaint"
Price zoe. at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for n kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Logan had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Mfrs, Buffalo, n. Y.-Advertisement.
, 1923-01-11
aRound Robln.n

A round robin is n form OF petition.
protest or appeal signed by "A number
of persons whose signatures are ar
ranged In a circle so that no slgner
can he Identified from the position Of
his name on the document ms a leader
In lis composition. II Is not author
lied by army or navy regulations,
which are designed to provide ample
opportunity for registering dissatlsfac-
ton through official channels. Resort
has peer had to 1t sometimes by
military men to protest against the
conduct. plans and behavior of com.
mnnders deseryedly or u~ndcservedly
unpopular.
, 1923-01-11
Evolution of
the Calendar
An Interesting History Bound Up With
That Of Development of Human
Life Through the Ages.

The evolution of the calendar, from
the days when man could count only
from day to day, through the time
when the lunar month was reckoned
as a year to the present time of an
almost universally used time counting
system, is a romance of the history of
men. Piecing together the few known
facts of the calendars life story, sci
entists have found different interpreta-
ions and uses for well known facts
and remains of early life.
For instance, according to Moses b.
Cotsworth, writing in a recent publ
cation of the ~Pan-American Union. the
well known Egyptian pyramids were
not erected by early monarchs of that
realm as monuments to their great
but were huge sun dials with the aid
of which the yearly professions of the
e%quinoXes was discovered and the cal
endar divided.
The pyramids were constructed by
mathematicians and astronomers. Mr..
Cotsworth holds. The size, height and
slopes of each were determined to aid
astronomy. Each of the piles in lower
Egypt was built at a different period,
until the last was found TO be the more
nearly perfect for studying the sun
and stars on the meridian of Egypt.
Not until zach was abandoned for n
better. he claims. was a pyramid given
over to the uses of "A royal tomb.
The pyrimidal form, in conjunction
with the obelisk. was devised to cast
n shadow Of sufficient sharpness to
be measured and analysed day by day.
The wonderful Washington monument
at Washington. ID. c.. which shadow
measurements found to be constructed
perfectly from base to peak, while fol-
lowing the form of the Egyptian ODE
lisk. is too high. he found. to cast a
shadow useful for solar measurements.
The blending of the suns rays-around
the top. at that distance. blurs the
shadow. However. he declared, the
shadow was used for certain measure
ments which prove that September %
and not September 21 is the day of the
fall equinox.
The pyramid was the result of the
Egyptians efforts to get n sufficiently
long shadow to measure the months
and years more accurately, and along
its sides the early astronomer gazed to
mark the movements of the stars and
planets.
~Stonehenge. al ancient monOlithic
ruin in England. attributed TO the
Druids. was another mechanical means
of determining solar and lunar move
ments, 1t was said. as was the purpose
also of several other similar ancient
o constructions in various parts of
the world
The primary reason for the calendar
in early days was the need of knowing
when to SOW and reap. how to handle
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latter.
According to Mr.. Cotsworth's theory.
the early Egyptians were faced with
he need Of maintaining and increas-
ing their population to ward off inva-
sion by the Assyrians on the north and
the Philippians on the south. To do
so they had to increase their food sup
plies, As no more tillable land was
available ii was up to them to increase
the yield of their lands by intensive
and careful farming. 1t was then nee
essary to know just exactly when to
sow and when to reap, and such inten-
sive crops could only be developed by
locating the precise points in the sea-
sons.
Precise knowledge depended upon n
study Of the sun, and as the Egyptians
had neither telescopes nor sun glass,
observation of shadows was developed.
To have better shadows the pyramids
were gradually evolved as a huge sun
dial, and the need was fulfilled. Three
crops of certain grains are still har-
vested in Egypt.
In Central and South America the
Aztecs, Mayas and other early civilian
tions also devised calendars, such as
the Aztec calendar stone now in the
museum at Mexico City. Being so
much closer to the equator than the
Egyptians, the latter's form of pyra-
mid observatory was impossible be-
cause an increased angle of slope
would be necessary and this was i'm
possible to build then. Their open
step pyramids, then, were only capable
of determining the years length to the
365th day and not the fraction of the
366th.
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cattle and to determine other propiti-
Gus days. All peoples, it is supposed,
used the periods of the moon as their
longest time SAGE, but this was varied
and unequal through the year. Noah,
it was said, adopted the early Egyptian
calendar of n five-month year. 80 days
to the month IL three ten-day weeks,
as n better way to ration the tribal
supplies.
Bundles of small sticks were the
first known means Of actually keeping
track of the passage Of days, and
even today some American Indians
keep five bundles of 80 sticks, pulling
out one stick Zach day. The last bum
die is repeated in each h~alf-year to
even things up, and the middle bundle
is split in two equal groups to deter
min the approach of midsummer and
midwinter days. In the Fiji Islands
the moon stick was used. on which
IA notch marked the waning of each
moon.
The Hebrews evolved a siXmonths
year when Jacob set out stakes from
IA central position in n line to the hor-
lion to mark where the sun rose and
set on the longest, shortest and median
day of the year. The extreme ages
given to early Bible worthless were at
tributed to counting moons as years
and later five and six months as full
years.
One of the means used by the early
priesthoods to impress the masses, it
was explained, was the secrecy attend
ing the determining of the seasons and
years. Sacred rod used to measure,
the shadows by which the time of the
year were determined, were. jealousy
guarded and when, on the set date,
the priests measurd out on the ground
the lengths of the shadows, the cere-
mony was accompanied by great show.
Today, in BOrneo. expert calendar
makers among the Dyaks have secret
measuring rods and setting in the
ground pegs at certain distances by
the secret rods. They tell the farmers
49, punt VI tap NiNh AAi'
poles shadow touches certain pegs in
the middle of the day. At the end of
the harvest they return and gather the
tithes of the crop which are their fees.
SO accurate were the measurements
of the early Egyptian astronomers. ac-
cording TO the writer, that they were
able to determine to the third decimal
point the exact length of the year,
which they set at 365.242 days.
The famous Egyptian Sphinx is
neither a nor a tomb, Mr..
Cotsworth declares, but was designed
and built primarily as another astro-
nomical instrument by which the sun.
rise and setting points of spring, sum
mer and winter were fixed. That meas
urement was not so accurate as tn,
observation of the MONDAY shadows
so was abandoned in favor of the
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Eyesiaht of Birds and Bees.

l think we would be safe in saying
that, on an average, birds see one
hundred times better than man, writes
l.. E. Eubanks in Our Dumb Animals.
BY watching each others actions birds
will go a hundred miles to u carcass ;
and under favorable atmospheric con.
ditions Il bird can see a worm on fresh
ly plowed ground at a distance of 300
feet. The bee, though the strength Of
its sight is not remarkable, has a won
derful ocular equipment-five eyes, a
cluster Of three on top of its head, and
one on each side. biologists say that
the compound eye on top is so made
as to be specially adapted for detect
ing moving objects; and this seems
reasonable, as the bee has many en-
emies that fly above it.
Anything you wish to buy or sell?
Try our want-ad column.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
LATEST MARKET
QUOTATIONS
-Furnished by-
U. s. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington. D. O.
Fruits sad Vegetable

Prices reported. Main. craa
49, o po.a.oes IN bulk. {2lO 10 iSa.
per iVV pounds In New York civ ~
whites. &L60 to sl.s5 i'm no tound|
markets. $3.50 to Si35 Z. o"sNEmin9|
ern round whites, soc to 81 a. worth
easo. 12c to soc (. O. b. Idaho r",i m .hi-
s1S 10 .oe Z; o. b. New York BaldwI.
Southwestern extra fancy boxed oa,tel ARE
seps $3.50 to 52.75. Florida VINE.
type cabbage S3 to 1880 per IL ppanted
hampsr; nam, Texas-Alabama and Louisians.
% Tssas stSs stSsk 'ISO ~ to to s,5o per barrel
Louis. New York and Northern nass Ia 81
stock mostly $50 to y75. Midsla.alsa
ern yellow onions 81 to "a Ia na,,st vest
pound sack In Eastern cities, t27is
Chicago. '-'' 10
Market generally firm. Quoted. y. i
! timothy. Philadelphia &23. PittsbutnS9s
sgi,so. Cineinnati $3.50. Chicago III
! alfalfa. Kansas City y2i.25. MempSI.
t32. No. J prairie. Minneapolis tia
Kansas Ci;y 3li.25. w.
Demand quiet. Quoted: Bran ,,s,,
middlings S2s.50. Flour middIiny, ~;
Minneapolis: SO per cent cotton.ssS
meal $4o.6o Memphis. f41.50 Atlanta: II
per cent linseed meal {47.75 Minneapo.
lis. 1876 Buffalo: gluten feed Nss;
Chicago: white hominy seed ,,s 4,
Louis. $3.50 Chicago.
Live Stock and Meats.
Prices at Chicago: Hogs. top. us;.
bulk of sales. 1890 to $3.50: medium
and good beef steers. IS to $40; butchs.
cows and heifers. 1925 to SIS; feess,
stears.. ss.1s to 1926: light and medium
weight veal calves. i!.25 to &lO.25; "a,
1886: fat ewes. 1850 to ;ss5' Sc Tho 10
Eastern wholesale fresh meat price,
were generally lower for the week
to S24: mutton. si3 to sI4; light pori
loins. Sl4.50 to 1880. heavy loins. III
to $3.50.
Grain prices narrow and unsettled
during the week. but closed slightly
higher. except corn. Closing prices ia
ter wheat. s1.3o: No. 2 hard winter
wheat, $l.20; No. mixed corn. 74c; No.l
2 yellow corn. 75c; No. white oats
46c. Average farm prices: No. mixed
corn In central Iowa. Gle. No. | dark
Northern wheat in central North Ds-
kbta, sl.o2; No. hard winter wheat n|
prices: Chicago May wheat, siiyS
Chicago May corn, a NC: Minneap0it4 !
May wheat. sl.leh; Kansas City Nay
wheat. s1.1ln: Winnipeg May wheat
J.13A.
Cotton.
apot cotton prices declined point
during the week. New York March fu !
turc contracts declined - points Spo |
cotton closed Mt 30.i6c per pound. New
York March futures at 30.55e.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets unsettled. Closing
prices. % score butter: New York is
Philadelphia Acc. Boston soc, Chlcas
i7nc.
Cheese markets barely steady PRICE,
at Wisconsin primary cheese markets.
Twins 23ac. daisies 22hc. double dali
sizes 90 n C, longhorns 2ic. square prnt1
25L.c.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
Now Rail Line for Wyoming.

Omaha, Neb.-A S12,OOO,OOO contract
for the construction of $50 miles of
railroad was signed in New York by
Edward Peterson of the firm of Pc
terson, Shirley & Gunther, Omaha con-
tractors, according to ]. z. Shirley.
The road is to extend from Casper,
Wyo, to Miles City, Mont, via Sheri-
dan, and Is to be operated by the Mid
Ole States OIL Company. Work on the
job VIII commence April 1. The cost
VIII probably run close to S12,OOO,OOO.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
Cliff Durant Breaks Speed Records.

Los Angeles, Calif.-R. C. (Clif)
Durant, automobile race driver, in
speed tests on the Los Angeles speed
way, broke all worlds records, both
competitive and non-competitive, for
the five and ten-mile distances. Du.
rants time for five miles was an.
nounced as 2:32 40, an average of
1882 miles an hour. Durant made Il
record 5 :04 :05 for ten miles, an aver
age speed of lisa This broke
Jimmy Murphy's non-competitive rec.
ord for the distance of 6:14 go made
at Sheepshead Bay Nov. IS, 1919.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
Jury Frees Woman of syavino.

Mineola, N. Y.-Mrs. Mary Eliza
beth c'Billie'D Wells, tried for the
murder of Captain james NJ. Petit,
Massapequa inn keeper, was acquitted
by jury of men. The verdict, re-
turned by jury selected because OF
Its professed ability to try the case on
its merits, unhampered by the defend
ants sex, was n victory for two wom-
Mrs. Wells and her attorney, Miss
Helen Mccormick, former assistant
prosecutor for Kings county. The
jury was in executive session about
two hours.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

Organization of the brotherhood Ma
be completed soon.
Two armed highwaymen bound the
proprietor and two employees, one u
young woman, in the q. Cramer jewel
ry store on an upper floor of down
town office building in Portland, ore.
and escaped with several thousand dol
lars In jewelry and watches.
A charge of first degree murder has
been filed in Vancouver, Wash,
against George Edward Whitfield, in
an attempt to establish his alleged
connection with the murder of ll-year-
old Anna Nosko while the child was
on her way home from school.
Three members of the California
Legislature and one former member
were among those held up by five
masked bandits and robbed of several
thousand dollars in cash and jewelry ut
the Dreamland Cafe. road house
twenty four miles from Sacramento.
Rezoning OF the state of Montana
for application OF insurance rates on
hail damage to crops, and preparation
of new forms and drafting of new rul-
irgs to comply with the new amend
ments to the hall insurance law. was
begun by the state hail Insurance
board in its first meeting Of the year
held nt Helena
Plates with which $4,000 worth OF
bogus so bills were made in a Seattle
boathuuse were found cached in a log
in Madra park by federal secret
service agents following the arrest and
alleged confession OF Paul Dimm.
Patrick Z. Sullivan, arrested in Van
couver. L. c. and Robert Yates, Fred
Elkins and Edward Nicodemus, under
arrest in San Francisco. are Implicated
in Dimm's confession.
Protest against the advancing price
of sugar is voiced in telegram sent
10 Herbert Hoover, secretary OF com
merCe, by Dr. E. 5. Barnes, president
Of the Northwest States Federated Co
operative Fruit Growers, Us result
of four-day conference of the grow
ers recently ended in Tacoma. In
creased cost of sugar for canning, the
telegram asserts, results seriously to
the fruit growers interests
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
WASHINGTON

Secretary of the Interior Work per-
formed one of his first official acts
when he took over historic piece of
ground in the states of Utah and Colo
radu, set aside in a proclamation is
sued by President Harding on March
., to he preserved for posterity. This
ground has been designed us a nation
al monument and the Indian word
"Hovenweep," meaning deserted val
ley" is the name that has been given
1t.
Modification of the national defense
plans resulting from agreements
reached by the arms conference are to
receive their first practical tryOut in
the Panama area. Carefully analyZed
in theory by the navy and army war
colleges. the operations are expected
to develop the enhanced importance Of
the canal as prime link in the de-
tense chain which includes the navy,
army, merchant marine and the ma
tionai industrial machine.
Vulcan's pipe was out again and
Lassen peak, after spouting smoke and
Steam for more than two hours has
resumed the same peaceful exterior it
has borne for many months.
Meetings now in progress among
ship operators in the west coast con-
ference, with the reported purpose of
agreeing on rates on dried and canned
fruits from Pacific ports to Europe
hold only an academic interest for
the shipping board, it was said off
cially at Washington. The emergency
fleet corporation withdrew u year ago
from the traffic which would be af-
fected. 1t was explained, and will not
re-enter it so long as adequate Amer
ican tonnage is assured to shippers.
Secretary Wallace of the Depart
ment of Agriculture believes the farm
credits act to be one of the most i'm
portant pieces of legislation passed by
the last Congress and that by stabiliz-
ing agricultural production and mar
keting it's effect will be reflected in
business generally. 1T marks an
earnest effort by Congress to provide
the farmer with the sort of credit he
must have to carry on efficiently" he
said, land to meet a need which has
been felt for fifty years"
The names of twenty-One women
have been approved by Acting Secre
tary Davis of the war department and
officially will be noted on the army's
roll of honor for distinguished and ex.
ceptionalIy meritOrious service during
the war. Approval of the new list
brings the total number Of names to
thirty-three.
Caudius II. Huston, assistant secre-
tary of commerce, has resigned to be
come president of the World Com
merce Corporation, new oil company
In process OF organization, which will
operate in South and Central America
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
Hay nnd Gruln.
DENVER sUGAn QUOTATIONS
Manufacturer.' quot
Denver.-Albert Lowery, II

Denver.-Albert Lowery, IL yea'
old, who the authorities say was v -
the road to playing an "Oliver tM,s' !
part to r. F. Smiley's the part u ,a
modern Fagin, was back in the CU'U o,,,
RADIO State Home for Dependent om
dren, from which institution ne ',sv "as
kidnapped a month ago, after sum- ~
was sentenced at Cheyenne, Wyor ~
eleven to thirteen years In tue W.
ming penitentiary for burglary.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
GENERAL


Receivers were appointed in Federal
Court at Buffalo, \. l., for the l.. Il.
Steel enterprises, in which the public
has Invested about S22,ooO,OOO.
All creditors of the Lincoln Motor
Car Company. purchased last year by
Henry Ford at receivers sale, have
been reimUu 'sed in full by Mr.. Ford.
The story of how Miss Evelyn Ly-
ons fooled the medical profession OF
Escanamba, Mich, newspaper men and
sympathetic neighbOrS for twenty-One
days through her ingenious fever-rais-
ing tactics by a hot water bottle was
unfolded by DR.. Harry j. Defnet, city
health commissioner of EsCanaba. The
hoax was made possible through the
aid of hot water bottle of the same
color as the girls night dress DR..
Defnet said.
An engineer was killed and a car
load of livestock was burned to death
when two freight trains of the Chicago,
Milwaukee * st. Paul railroad crashed
at Leaf River near Chicago, in a blind
ing snowfall. The dead man was ].
t1OSHn OIL ShNdUlldIl, III. Ills tram
struck the rear end of the other.
George Herman (Babe) Ruth has
been made defendant in suit for
$4,000 brought by attorneys for Miss
Dolores Dixon, who charges that the
baseball player assaulted her at various
times last summer, Ruth's attorneys
disclosed In New York City. The at
torney, Hyman Bushell, said Ruth de-
clared he was being blackmalled.
Floating on an ice cake in the Mis-
souri, river, near Omaha. to certain
death, with the banks lined with
friends and relatives unable to avert
the tragedy, two Iowa boys chose as
their farewell message the hymn,
Nearer, My God to Thee" For hours
the woung men, Harvey Mcintosh, and
his brother, Tom, of Mondamin, Iowa,
had been marOOned on a sandbar in
the Missouri river, thirty miles north of
Omaha, following a sudden rise of the
river that swept away their boat while
they were hunting ducks.
All persons riding in government
owned aircraft are now required to
wear parachute on every flight, ac-
cording to officers at Chanute field,
Rantoul, Ill.
Death, injury and damage were the
harvest of furious March storms which
recently swept many sections of the
region between the Rockies and the
Appalachian mountains.
Luis Angel Flrpo, South American
pugilist, who knocked out Bill Bren
nan In the twelfth round at Madison
Square Garden, New York City. is
looking for more worlds to conquer.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
FOREIGN

The French and Belsians by declar-
Ing that they are ready when Ger
many begins payment, 10 evacuate the
Ruhr and the territory recently occu-
pied on the right bank of the Rhine,
believe they have dealt a big blow TO
German propaganda.
Although offering no very definite
evidence TO support their statements,
some of the British correspondents in
the Ruhr assert that there is II ten
dency towards peace and that both
sides would welcome q settlement end
ing the strain of the past few weeks.
Nearly 800 prisoners taken in the
weekend raids in England and Scot
land are understood to have been
landed at Dublin from British war
ships, 200 men from one, and the bal
ance, including about thirty women,
from another All were conveyed un-
der heavy armed guard 10 jail.
II Is estimated that lJO Greek naval
officers and men were drowned when
the Greek transport Alexander cap
sized and foundered during Il fierce
gale between Salamis and Pirseus. The
transport had ON board 30 officers
and men, on furlough from the cruis-
ers George. Sayroff. kilkis and Lem
nos.
China's recent note to Japan, re
questing that discussion be held
with view OF returning Dulny and
Port Arthur 10 China, was interpreted
in Toxic as no less than communlca-
IA.lurtpsr 0hrnuuF.sI a. China
Japanese treaty of 1918, which embOd-
led the "twenty-one demands" The
terms of the Chinese note came US
surprise to Japan.
The German population OF the
RecklInghausen district has been
warned by General Laignelut. com.
mandinE the district, that il any
further French troops are Hssassinuted
or ambushed. the burgomaSter Of
Buer, who is held as hostage, to-
gether with four other town officials.
will be shot at once Us u measure OF
retaliation.
The foreign office N Paris received
a detailed synopsis Of the Turkish gov
ernments reply to the Lausanne peace
proposals. From the synopsis it ap-
pears that a large number OF the pro
visions OF the Lausanne treaty are
called Into question, and that accept
ance OF the Turkish contentious would
involve drastic changes In the original
draft of the treaty
1t has been reported that the Brit
ish government has formally protested
on legal grounds against the French
occupation of territories between the
Rhine bridgehcads. IL Is learned uu-
thoritHtively, however, that no formal
protest has been made, but only verbal
representations through diplomatic
channels pointing out the difficulties
created for tie British authorities in
the Bhineland.
The Free State government has def
initely rejected the latest, and What
many obSerS ers considered the most
promising, move for peace in Ireland.
Archbishop Harty of Cushei and sew
eral others, influential friends of the
government, in Munster, recently pro-
posed an Immediate truce under which
the Republicans would dump all their
arms under u pledge that they be
handed over to whichever party won
the next election.