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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-19
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-19
FUNERAL NOTICES

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-19

l15 Columbia st, Just orr End Ave.
Opp. Blk. California. Phone Ell lot
64S6
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08

The size of the box of candy you should give a girl depends upon how many brothers she has.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION NEEDED

What is all this attack on Attoroney Gen eral Daugherty about?
 Anybody who has had experience with per secutons of this kind knows they are not due to failure to be aggressive in performance of duty but are always due to powerful enemies that have been offended by a just and inn partial performance of duty.
 The plain question in Attorney General Danugherty's case is therefore, not what has Attorney General Daugherty failed to do, but in what vigorous way has he enforced the law which has caused some big interest to hate him and to go out to "get him." and to stir up its big hired lawyers and its little owned poli- tcians to attack the man who has offended this interest and to say things that will be printed in newspapers even though they are never proved nor even attempted to be proved?
 The investigation of Attorney General Daugherty has fallen utterly flat.
 No proof of any allegation has been pre- sented The chief accuser, and on the flimest of pretexts, has even refused to testify; and the evidence which has been heard from the most honorable and independent men, like Senator Hirman Johnson, has all been ill de- fense of Attorney General Daugherty, and in support of Attorney General Daugherty and
 
 What is needed now is another investigation, to find our who the big interests are who are attacking the Attorney General of the United States, and who are trying to discredt him and weaken him and weaken the force of his official procedure.
 Is it the Whiskey Ring, against which the Attorney Generals office has been especially active?
 Is it the War Profiteers who were so power ful with the late Democratic Administration
 Is it the Palmer Garvan outfit, who fraudu- lently confiscated alien property and delivered it to their friends, and whom the Attorney General has exposed?
 Most surely there is some big interest and some corrupt interest responsible for the at tacks upon the Attorney General of the United States, which attacks up to this tune have been so utterly baseless and futile as to make them an insult to the American people whom the Attorney General represents.-Was Washington Herald
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08

I've a letter in my pocket l don't
 want my wife to see! If she finds it I'll have trouble; she
 will spoil the day for me. I can't burn it, and I wouldn't dare to
 throw the thing away. What if any one should find? There
 would be the duece to pay Here I am upon the threshold of my
 happy home, alack! I was told to mail her letter, and I've
 brought the darned thing back!
 Let woman try to hide her age and she will show it in thousand ways.
 The length of a woman's legs is settled by nature, but the length Of a woman's skirt will always be moot ed question figuratively speaking.
 Even after they get down to busi- ness, some fellows don't.
 Strange how every year we pin our faith to some new cure or belief. Stranger how quickly we forget the ones of the previous year. This year every one is talking about COue and it's hard to believe that we ever looked the same way upon the Ouija board.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08
TO VOTE-THE DUTY OF A CITIZEN

Recent discussion of the large proportion of eligible voters who do not actually cast bal lots on election day has served to call atten- tion once more to an evil that goes to the heart of our system of government The worst feature of the matter is that among the non-voters are some of the most intelligent and supposedly most patriotic of our citizens Too freouentlv when substantial citizens of community are staying away from the polls the irresponsible enemies of good government are avaIing themselves of the opportunity to cndeavor to place in positions of power and trusted mon of their own type. Too often they succeed.
 We are conducting in this country an Standardization campaign desi gned to pre- pare aliens for the duties and responsibilities of citizenship This is well, and yet it seems an anomaly to be doing this when we have so many native-born Americans of character and intelligence who do not exercise thelr right to participate in the" most important functions of popular government. The Amer. canization movement is taking too marrow a scope.
 What remedy can be adopted with a hope of curing the evil, it is difficult to determine. In some states laws require the payment Of a poll tax as a prerequisite to the right to vote, and this has a doubtful effect Pre- Isumably it withholds the right to vote from those who do not help support the Govern ment, but there has often been evidence that it places the voting power in the hands of men who desire to use it in a corrupt manner. Payment of one mans poll tax by another who wishes to control his vote, IS a practice gener- ally understood to exist in many places.
 It has been suggested that the states pro vide by constitutional provision that failure to vote for a specified time unless excused on accout of absence or illness, shall deprive the citizen of his elective franchise. Federal constitutional amendment to the same effect has also been proposed. It is clear that such a provision would be drastic enough to cause most men who prized their voting power to take care not to lose it. Some such remedy as that, or a fine suspension of some other right of citizenship, might have the desired effect. Instead of charging poll tax upon those who vote, it might be better to charge the tax upon those who fail to vote.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08

Ambassador Harvey wears a plug hat and drives a Ford at the same time Diplomacy is becoming more in tricate as the years go by.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08
FOR SALE

Large library table suitable for hotel or lodge room, cutting table, adjust able dress form, glass cabinet, roll top desk, two room furnished cabin. In- quire s. J. Jones or Cordova Dry Goods Go.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08


 I'm getting sicker and sicker,
 All do is rave and crave,
 Beer, light wine and likker. says she never had chance to get married as whenever a young man called on her her mother sat in the room with them for fear the young man would go to sleep. o, Heinz, pre- serve us!
 Housework is announced as a cure for neurathenia. We have always suspected that our cook was really a duchess taking rest cure.
 About the only excuse some people have for living is that they are hang ing around to see what their neigh bOrs are doing.
 One of the mysteries of this world is that, while most newspapers have "Lost and Found" columns, you never see any found ads in them.
 OLD MAIDS SONG
 Be it ever so humble there's no form like your own.
 The size of the box of candy you should give a girl depends upon how many brothers she has. Ambassador Harvey wears plug hat and drives a Ford at the same time. Diplomacy is becoming more in tricate as the years go by. Amos Fash says neither depression, unemployment nor Volsteadism has kept cider from working. That's it's business-wOrking.
 Some birds are not satisfied with the natural noises their flivvers make, but they have to have a few tire
  to the din.
 Friend-"My, vot a rotten cigar you giff me-
 Storekeeper-"You should worry. You got vun, got five hundred
 No matter what happens somebody always knew it would.
 The height of fashion is said to De descending. It's hard to think meanly in the open air.
 Shoes guaranteed for 10000 miles is pressing need for children. I can tell you what some fellows would do by what they suspicion l would do. The auto has done lots of people and done for lots of people.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08

About the only excuse some people have for living is that they are hang ing around to see what their neigh bors are doing.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08

One of the mysteries of this world is that while most newspapers have Lost and Found' columns, you never see any found ads in them.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08

Housework is announced as cure for neurathenia We have always suspected that our cook was really a duchess taking a rest cure.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08

A prominent local spinster lady says she never had a chance to get married as whenever young man called on her her mother sat in the room with them for fear the young man would go to sleep. o, Heinz, pre- serve us!
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08
APOLOGIES TO COUE

Day by day in every way
 I'm getting sicker and sicker, All I do is rave and crave,
 Beer, light wine and likker.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-08
OLD MAIDS SONG

Be it ever so humble there's no form like your oWn
Evening star., 1923-02-04

work was all done IN the famous
Asscher factory. The splitting was
performed by Joseph Asscher him
self. It was with a brother Of Joseph
Asscher that l went through the es-
tablishment today and saw scores Of
experts at work Transforming rough
stones into gems for the market Be-
fore starting I was shown a model
Of the Cullinan diamond as 1t came
from South Africa. The stone was
big as the fist Of Chief Justice Taft,
or about the size of a large dinner
goblet. 1t was OF tho color of
frosted glass, and had a rather
greasy appearance; but Mr.. Asscher
said that one could see the fire shin
ming out through the rough surface.
He says the model Is a fair represen-
tation of the diamond when found.
1t seems strange to think Of saving
and splitting diamonds like 20 much
stove wood. But that Is what they
really do here in this Asscher factory.
At least, they saw and split the rough
stones, which all agree are the hardest
things known to man. I watched the
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gradually works its way through.
This may take hours, or even several
days, depending on the size OF the
stone. saw the saws working.
They went so fast that 1 could see
no motion whatever and was tempted
to touch one to soc IL it was actually
moving. Mr.. Asscher warned me.
however, that II carried out the in
clination it would result in the los. OF
my finger.
1t surprises me to learn that dia-
monds are like wood in that the
grain runs but one way, and that the
saving is done across the grain and
the splitting is done with the grain.
Any boy who has had to split kin
ding for the family fire knows what
splitting with the grain means DIa-
monds. as they come from the mine.
are more or less irregular in shape.
They often have flaws and must be
divided into two or more parts to
make the beautiful. regularly shaped
gems sold by the trade. It is neces-
sary first to study the diamonds to
see how each can be cut to the great
est advantage. The stone must be
Evening star., 1923-02-04

knees, the game would pay no at
tention to him!
Afterward, when game was thick at
the water, two or more Of US could
walk around in plain sight on the
outside Of the blind as long as we
travelled on hands and knees and none
Of the wild animals would pay the
least attention.
But let one man stand on his feet
have often thought that man could
go down to the water and almost
drink with them so long as he travel
ed on his hands and knees.
In 1914 A. J. Klein and I made a
trip to Lake Natron to try to photo
graph buffalo. 1t was the only place
in Africa that I knew Of where buf-
falo grazed in the open in the day
time.
After two weeks steady travelling
we camped near the river Guaso
Nyiro and began hunting for the buff
falo with a camera.
Klein operated the camera while
stood by him with my rife ready.
We succeeded in getting quite close
to several scattered bands and on one
occasion large herd grazed past quite
close to US.
One morning on our way out in
search Of buffalo we came upon ten
lions out in the open plains. There
were three trees a few yards in front
of them. We rode along and got quite
close. AS they reached the trees they
at once lay down in the shade.
We went to within nearly one hun
dred yards, expecting to see them
gallop away. But to our surprise they
only lashed their tails and growled,
as much as to say they intended lying
In the shade and did not want to be
disturbed.
We made 1t a point never to fire
shot near where we were trying to
photograph game, SO we made de-
tour and left them in peace.
4, The next morning we ran across
| them again. We were undoubtedly
the first white people that they had
| ever seen and probably they had
never heard the crack Of q gun.
/ We passed them again that evening
and Klein proposed that we try to
photograph them. His idea was to
kill a zebra and build a blind close
| by.
/ The lions were so tame that he felt
sure they would feed on the meat in
the daytime.
X y
WYE had been successful with the
! w buffalo and now decided to give
Evening star., 1923-02-04
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
AMSTERDAM, Holland

I AVE you bought that engage
|" ment ring yet?' I mean the
one you were pricing last
week for the most wonderful
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whole process today from the making
of the saws and axes to cutting the
diamonds. The saw is circular in shape.
II Is a disk as thick as a playing card
and about four inches in diameter. The
metal is phosphorbronze and looks just
like copper. This thin saw Is fastened
between two round metal plates beyond
which the disk extends perhaps one
fourth Of an inch all around. There is
a hole in the center of the saw and
when put on the wheel 1t flies around
at the rate Of over 1000 revolutions
minute, or more than fifty times a
watch tick.
But only a diamond win cut dia-
nond. It is the prince Of gems. and
can be cut only by a member of its
own royal family. One must have a
diamond saw to cut a diamond. and the
bronze disk must have a diamond
edge before It can cut. This is put
on by dipping It into diamond dust
mixed with oil. The diamond to be
sawed, embedded in wax on the end
OF q stick as thick as q broom ham
die, IS then pushed against the re-
volving cutting edge until the saw
Evening star., 1923-02-04
Hunter Believes Balloons Able to Count Up to Five

the bait This gave him the oppor-
tunity. and he went to the remnants
and fed In peace.
When daylight finally came I drew
q breath of relief. I could see the
lions. some standing around and
others filing away. They had fin
ished, and all had left by the time
rosy dawn was appearing.
Now. in after years. can hardly
forgive myself when I sit leisurely
thinking Of those desperate chances 1
then encountered when I could have
relieved my anxiety by firing.
(Cppyright, 1881
Evening star., 1923-02-04

divided at the flaws. SO that they may
be cut out. After flaws are split off.
the diamond is shaped and polished.
It may be again sawed or cleft. The
artist who studies the stone draws
the dividing lines upon it with black
ink. The splitting is done through
the flaws and with a diamond axe.
Or, at least, the ak makes the notch
by which, with a soft metal chisel,
the diamond is split.
THE axe used for cutting the notch
i has q blade on a wood handle
The blade Is a diamond stuck in ce-
ment on the end of a stick, which is
not unlike the handle of shoe
makers awl. The stone is SO inserted
as to leave a sharp surface exposed.
AS the cement hardens the diamond
axe Is firmly held. The rough dia-
mond to be split is then fixed into a
similar tool and the cutter scratches
the latter again and again at the
faw, making a noise as though
sharpening a gritty slate pencil.
Within a moment or SO a notch is
cut The man then sets the stick on
which is a rough diamond in a hole
In a lead plate on the table before
him. He picks UP a blade Of steel
about an inch wide and about three
inches long and fits its blunt edge
into the notch. He then gives the
blade a slight tap with a steel bar
about a foot long and the wedge
splits the diamond in two.
After a diamond has been split it
must be cut or rubbed into facets, so
that it may have the greatest bril-
liancy when the light strikes It..
Here. again, one diamond is made to
cut another, the polishing being done
Evening star., 1923-02-04
Giant Birds.

TN that long, narrow triangle which
/ forms the southern extremity of
South America, and which, since the
first visits of Magellan and other
early navigators, has been associated
in the imagination of many persons
with the storms OF Cape Horn and
the mysteries of Terra del Fuego.
geologists have discovered the re-
mains Of q class Of gigantic birds
which, in many respects. differ
from all birds that are known ever
to have existed elsewhere upon the
globe.
These birds. it is believed. could
not fly, and their great jaws were
SO like those Of some four-footed
beast that when one Of ther-an
under Jaw about twenty-one inches
in length-was exhibited in England.
many naturalists would not admit
that it had belonged to a bird at
all, and asserted that it must be the
Jaw of some animal resembling q
gigantic sloth.
More recent discoveries. however,
have proved that no mistake was
made In ascribing the jaw in ques-
ton to a bird. Specimens of entire
skulls and Of other parts Of skele-
tons have been found in Patagonia,
which show that long before the
records Of human history began. and
possibly before man had made his ap-
pearance on the earth. such birds In
habited that country.
Their leg bones were proportionate
in size and strength to their jaws
They had wings, but naturalists think
that these wings. like those OF the
ostrich, were not used for flight. but
simply as an aid In running.
Gigantic fightless birds. some even
larger perhaps than those OF South
America, are known to have lived in
other parts of the world, but there
are certain peculiarities Of structure
which separate the extinct Pata-
gonian birds from all others. This
gives them a peculiar scientific inter-
est, because it has been found that
many OF the four-footed animals in
habiting South America in ancient
times were unlike those Of the other
continents.
Such discoveries are as full OF
meaning to the geologist who is
trying to read in the records Of ma
ture the history of the globe as are
the ancient inscriptions and human
remains found In the tombs and caves
and temples to students OF the early
history OF man.
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mile deep. The stuff taken out was
as it is called; it was peppered with
diamonds all the way down.
There are other diamond pipes
about Kimberley, all of which have
produced vast quantities of these
precious stones, but the greatest pipe
of all is one near Pretoria several
hundred miles northward. That pipe
has an area of more than eighty
acres, and drills sunk to a depth Of
more than one thousand feet have
shown it to be spotted with diamonds
throughout. 1t was in this latter
field that the mighty Cullinan stone,
the greatest diamond ever discovered,
was found.
It was early in 1907 that went to
the Pretoria mine and had a talk
with Wells, the Irish laborer who
discovered the Cullinan diamond,
met also Mr.. Cullinan. the owner Of
the mine. The event took place
shortly before my, visit. The miners
were just ending their work for the
ooS o.Ao S"O Aas1 ia9 VI ehe sun
were shining on the size OF one of
the excavations when Wells saw a
ball OF fire as big a his fist in the
midst Of the stones. He rushed
across the great hole where he
was standing, climbed up and grab
bed the huge crystal in his two hands.
He then ran with it to the Office Of
the company and gave it to Mr.. Culli-
| nan. 1t was weighed and pulled the
beam at 3,025 carats. Mr. Cullinan
told me that they sent the diamond to
Europe through the mails. 1t was
sent registered and arrived safely.
Just a month or so after I left Pre-
toria Gen. Botha induced the Trans
vaal government to buy the Jewel
Evening star., 1923-02-04

and give it to Edward VII. who was
then on the throne. in token of the
loyalty Of the South African people.
The next thing in order was the
cutting OF the huge stone. This was
done here at Amsterdam by the firm
OF l. j.. Asscher & Co., who
have perhaps, the largest and best
known diamond factory of the world.
They received the crystal IN 1908 and
it was on February 10 of that year
that IL was split into two large and
several smaller stones. The process
Of polishing the largest stone was be-
gun the next month, and from then
the work went steadily on. the sew
eral pieces being ground and polished
and sawed into shapes they now hold
in the crown of old England.
4 u y
THROUGH letters Of introduction
i from the United States consul at
Amsterdam, Frank W. Mahin, I
have been able to meet Joseph
Asscher. the man who split the Gull
Imam diamond and cut and polished
the gems which came from IT. The
Evening star., 1923-02-04

the lions a trial. We shot zebra
near where we had seen the lions.
chained one leg Of the zebra to q
drag it out Of reach of the camera.
and proceeded to build a blind.
Usually blind is made from thorn
bushes which are covered with long,
sharp thorns. two inches or more
long and sharp as a needle. A blind
can be built with this material that
q lion will not tackle.
But after looking far and near we
found that the only material was
some straight bushes that grew six
or seven feet high and about the size
Of ones thumb. We could make a
very good-looking blind with this,
but knew it would be useless in case
Of an attack.
We started by digging a circular
trench two feet deep and seven feet
in diameter. We stood the sticks end
wise, butts down, in the trench and
packed the dirt back around them.
The boys found some bark that
made good strings and the blind was
considerably strengthened by lashing
other sticks around the bottom, mid
die and top.
There was a small opening left on
the side just large enough for man
to enter .on hands and knees.
The camera was put into position
and the lens focused on the zebra.
A cot was put in on one side and
the one thorn bush drawn butt first
into the opening, which acted as the
door.
The idea was to sleep on the cot
until morning and be there ready to
photograph the lions while they were
eating the bait.
Klein and I were to take turns, and
Klein stayed the first night. The
lions found the bait just before day
light, but that particular morning
the light was SO poor that we thought
best to make another trial.
We killed another zebra and
dragged 1t to the place, and I took
up my position inside the blind just
before dark.
AS soon as the sun went down
took of my clothes, put on my pa
jamas and lay down preparing for g
good sleep but had no sooner hit
the cot than I heard coarse. savage
growls near the bait.
looked out and in the dim light
I could see the lions filing up out o,
the darkness. They had learned the
location the morning before, and in.
stead of waiting until morning came