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Evening star., 1923-12-12
Intentions and Results.

Politicians have some notions
That do not seem working right.
They set out to end oommotions
And they start another fight.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

President Coolidge says he is a can
didate, but does not say it as often as
Hiram Johnson.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

Slippery Times on Eastern sho'.
From the oussnstown News.
We shall be sorry 70 part with
Kent Island, bat the eeolog1sts say it
II gEaApaaly slipping into the bay.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

do fact dat q speechraker has a
big audience" said Uncle Eben,
"don't prove dat his talk is eonvincin'.
A lot o. fnllks 10 dar 1ss' 10 pass Do
time &Way.S
Evening star., 1923-12-12

One prominent visiting democrat
said to the writer, The President is
going to be a hard man for US to
beat on that one proposition alone"
Senator Johnson is for that and the
bonus too. but will have to show
how both can be effected, 1t is said.
Evening star., 1923-12-12
The Welcome Stranger.

'sWhy don't you put UP speed-limit
signs In Crimson Gulch?"
Don't need 'em," replied Cactus
Joe. "The roads bad. and If any one
wants to break an axle and hang
around awhile faint fur us to seem
inhospitable."
Evening star., 1923-12-12

Jud Tunkins says in his town the
Yuletide would be more Joyous if it
didn't cause traffic jam that irritates
the police.
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Distribution,

"The unequal distribution Of wealth
leaves many people in a deplorable
situation
ct can't help it, replied Mr.. Cum.
rox, "and I don't feel personally re-
sponsible. The way my wife. and
daughters spend money seems to me
to give a whole lot of people chance
to obtain some."
Evening star., 1923-12-12

There can be no question of the
reaction on the Presidents proposal
to reduce taxation. 1t might be de-
scribed as tidal wave of approval
that increases as ii advances. Sen
ators and representatives are ap-
praised OF 1t through their daily mail
from their constituents; while the
press of the country would seem 70
he in hearty accord. II Is said ~
this proposition that 1t fs an issue
which any man can understand and
contains nothing abstruse. Every
citizen can figure out just what the
tax reduction would mean in Goi-
lars and cents to himself. 1t needs
no eXpounding.
Evening star., 1923-12-12
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Evening star., 1923-12-12

No sooner had the news OF CleVe-
lands choice for the republican ma
Evening star., 1923-12-12

(The person 1Cho loses out is the
one lpho glLeSScS. The person tCh0
gets or Is Qltcdys the one ich0 acts
anon reliable information. This po-
uer eu1pIops Frederic j. HGSkin to
conduct an information bureau for
the public. There IS no charge e1-
cept 2 cents in stamps for return
postage Write to him todGp for
day facts yotG desire. Your Inquiry
should be addressed 10 The StGr In
for,n11tion B,ueais, Frederic j. Has
KIN. director, 1920 North Capitol
Street.)
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Evening star., 1923-12-12

Gov. Pinchot's plan would author
ize the coal division TO issue manda-
tory orders for compliance with its
recommendations when the public
interest requires. Appeal would be
authorized to the United States Cir
cult Court OF Appeals as IN the case
of appeals from the Federal Trade
Commission.
Penalties would be provided as in
the case OF the stock yards act of
Congress of 1921.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

Q. Can holly be used for a hedge?
B. l.. a.
A. 1t is often used, as Il. hears
clipping well.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

O. How many bo0ks have been
published?-C. w, o. -
A. 1t is estimated that over $4,000
books. pamphlets and magazines arc
published annually, and that 1i,00o.-
900 separate works have been pub
lished since printing was invented in
the fifteenth century.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

Yesterday, for the first time in its
history, the republican national COM
mittee invited women to participate
in It's councils. A woman delegate
from each state and territory sat in
the committee in person or by proxy.
At the national convention next
June they will be given full voting
power and become permanent COM
ponent part Of the organization.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

O. Does the temperature Of water
at great depths change?-A. Il. r.
A AT the depth of Ace fathoms or
more the temperature OF the ocean
remains approximately the same all
the time. Thus, at latitude 70 de-
Rrees north the temperature Of the
water at that depth remains steady
at 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

O. Where is the Oldest and 10
cent store?-P. D.
a, A woolworth and 10 cent
store in Lancaster, Pa, is the oldest
store of the kind in the world.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

@. How did the expression scot
free" originate?-V. Q.
A. Scot means a tax, contribution
or fine. Scot free is a natural combi-
nation of words conveying the idea or
being free without payment OF fine.
Evening star., 1923-12-12

many lamp globes frosted?-H. o. T.
A. The effect of frosting the upper
part OF a lamp is to diffuse the light,
which would ordinarily 60 through
the glass without alienation OF dl-
rec+inn By this the light is sent out
more uniformly in all directions, the
frosted glass becoming a secondary
source OF light. There is also small
increase in the light sent downward
through the clear part Of the bulb,
due to this diffusion.
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Great Britain Rights Reserved.
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Stops All Hurting Instantly
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rs Just wonderful how ''Gets-It" ends corns
and caliouses. Put a few drops of Gets It. on
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CHAPTER XIV.

1.-TWO hours had elapsed. Cas-
sandra's refreshed body had
been massaged. She felt
better, but so depressed that she
could have opened her veins.
The curtains between the pillars
were drawn right back and in the
little interior court-plunged now
into ashen shadow-there was
plot of daffodils, hyacinths and
violets. The spring sky was still
azure overlaid with amber, though
the sun would soon set.
There was beauty in the world
even though it was rooted in
slime, or in a mould MANFRED with
rotting things. In the wonderful
legends of the Olympians the
white, roseate shapes OF nymphs
and goddesses cleaned from rout
of satyrs and beasts, swine, bulls,
rams and goats.
Did she, indeed, hate herself to
the point of suicide, or were her
senses purring over their blurred,
hectic memories? Was it death or
life she wanted-the leap into
dark Lethean waters, or the out
f1inging of her whole beings arms
to the brief, wild revels of the
f1esh-the lavish banquet, naked of
shame, whereof even the gods had
partaken, as their legends told?
She moved to the space between
the pillars, her white, diaphanous
draperics trailing Was it to
be life with its shame and it's ex-
elements, or death whose inexor-
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ably chaste brows were bound
oblivion?
The girl laid her hands upon
the rounded shafts of alabaster
between which she stood. They
were cool as the touch of a skull
and from them a soft chill struck
through her. There was a bland
warmth in the air. The hue of the
sky was -deepening-in half an
hour it would be night
Her hands dropped from the pill
lars. Her body Strengthened and
seemed to tauten. She drew a
long, inward breath. How much
sweeter was the spring than wine
mingled with honey! The flowers
growing IN the court were trans
lucent, like precious stones. She
herself was a thing of smooth
movement, of muscles that could
be exquisitely stretched like supple
thongs.
Cassandra turned back into the
room. 1t seemed a prison. She
wanted adventure
Zlllah!
eyes, lady"
"Tell Sclene that if the lord of
the house asks for me before the
morning she must say that / am
sick and cannot see him."
eyes, lady"
81 am going, Zillah. You must
come with me and say nothing to
any one"
eyes, lady"
Cassandra's heart had quick
ened. Life lay before her like an
obscure wood filled with dangers
and wonders. Philip had explored
its depths. 1t was hers also to ex-
piore.
The night came quickly, follow
ing upon the Spring dusk with a
single stride. Cassandra en-
wrapped herself in a draping of
such a dark purple that it APP
peared black. 1t hooded her head.
She had coiled her long hair into
a heavy knot upon the nape of her
neck and through it's thickness was
thrust a miniature dagger with
an ornamental hilt formed by two
entrusted golden serpents. Her
movements were hurried. 1t was
as though she were about to meet
some one and must not miss the
appointed hour.
The lamps We're extinguished.
On the threshold of the darkened
room, whose very darkness was
impregnated with the perfume OF
oil Of roses, the girl paused for a
minute. This was adventure
The dat'odils CLEANED palely
from the floor of the court. The
faint Spring smell was Of such
sweetness that it was painful. Be-
You'd was another open-frOnted
room, a corridor, terrace where
sleeping peacocks perched, the
garden wilderness where the
statues seemed W e, naked
watchers, and beyond--a road
The road was soft track for
eamels and for peasants traffic.
P0plars just breaking into new
leaf sentineled it. Between their
tops the stars were visible. Upon
the right, as one went toward
Capernaum, the fresh waters OF
the Sea Of Galilee made a per-
petual music as they washed to
and fro the innumerable little
shells that formed its strand. But
from the soft road that zig-zagged
like a cattle track these waters
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could be neither seen nor heard,
for gardens of fig trees, apple
orchards and melon ficl Is lay be-
tween.
This was the road of adventure
what waited at it's end? Cas-
sandra walked quickly as if to-
ward desired designation. Zillah
was behind, but she thought no
more of her than of a household
animal following her feet. Noe
turnal insects trilled, or seemed to
play sweetly upon tiny flutes, for
the night was mild.
Clumps of palms with dropping,
feathery fronds replaced the pop
lars. Whitewashed walls began
to appear. There were glimpses
of light, oily-yellow. A sudden
Whit of some vile odor that
seemed to have been begotten by
putrid fish. Another Whit as
though cedar and sandal-wood
were smouldering together upon
some hearth and giving off a
breath that was lie that of frank
incense. Huts of palm branches
and palm-fibre mating, abject,
vaguely outlined. Walls drawing
together until the way narrowed to
q lane running between them.
Capernaum-
The hurried beating of Cas-
dra's heart, rendering her p,lses
unsteady. All of her body was
wrought up to expectation. A
sort of ecstasy mounted in her,
straining like something on a |
leash. The frankincense odors |
seemed to rise from carved golden |
affairs of Joy, the noisOme breaths /
were like the sting of dissolution
that sets the edge of exquisite
keenneSs upon living.
The street that she had entered
was sinuous, dark as a path
through a wood. Overhead, slant
ing beams, crossing from side to
side at little more than the height |
of a camel, appeared to hold the
whitewashed house walls apart
from each other so that camel
and its load might pass between
them.
Light issuing yellowly from
doorways within each of which,
upon a ledge, was little lamp.
Behind the lamp hung curtain,
yelling what was beyond. Men
wearing long garments and with
covered heads entered these feebly
lighted doorways. Here and there
We're closed doors with a square,
barred opening cut in them. Be-
hind this grille was the smiling
and watchful face of a woman,
brow bound with silver, her eyelids
blue-painted her cheek touched
with gold dust.
"This is the street of love,
lady," said Zillah's cooling voice.
Love =
The words of the girl were
meaningless. The lighted door
ways were like painted oblongs
yielding admittance to nowhere
The divine urgency of her pulses
was the only reality to Cassandra.
A rounded archway and beneath
1t looped-up garland Of roses
and myrtle. Beyond it a court
lighted by 9 pair of torches
socketed in tripod stands. Double
doors, barely ajar, opened upon
this court. From behind them
came sounds of preparation. Carr
pets were being spread, hanging
lamps trimmed and the roses and
myrtles of Venus, Aphrodite, Ash
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was the young man
crowned with red roses.
This was rapture! Appolo
had pursued Ariadne, hadn't he?
No, Daphne. At the colonnade
she stumbled again and uttered
breath-catching laugh"
toreth-call her what you will
mingled and garlanded. Soon
there would be music-harp, drum
and tambourine, the sweat of per-
splration on the half-stripped
bodies of dancers, the chink of
coins cast at their henna-reddened
feet. On one side of the court a
rallied stairway led up to a latticed
gallery that ran around three sides
of it. Above the head of this
stair a lamp with three flame
spouts hung
A scream - shouts. Fierce
clamor with the note of death in
it. Running feet
ooh" 1t was a sharp scream
from Zillah.
The cries were as vivid as spurts
of fire. Above the sudden uproar
the shrilling of women, screaming
like scalded cats. A lad wearing a
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ranked. Ughl Life was at once
cynical and animal-its tide OF
flowers concealed naked skulls and
the hoof prints of goat-legged
fauns.
'I'll have a warm bath, Zillah.
Pour rose water into it."
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was Zillah. Black, clustering ring
lets framed her olive cheeks.
Through her pierced nostrils was
a large hoop of gold wire.
"Zillah- What time is it,"
"I'he third hour after the noon,
lady"
Cassandra sat up. A purple
covering embossed with gold had
been drawn across her. The room
was very dim. She saw the Loop
ard skin she had worn lying
athwart an ivory STOOL
"Where is the lord of the
house," In speaking of Philip she
used the Syrian phrase.
"He has not yet risen, lady"
No, of course not. Probably
she would not see him until the
following morning. In dull way
the memory of the red-haired girl
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There hauBeNo MreDoath" By DubieDearner

faced the garden court must be
drawn
The slaves - Zillah and the
others - must have found her
wherever she had fallen, and car
ried her here, and stripped the
leopard skin from her, and un-
fastened her gilt sandals. Oh, the
shame - the shame of it! Her
pride, her secret self-esteem
writhed like an impaled creature.
She loathed herself
Mind pictures presented them
selves-the house of her foster
parents, chaste, orderly; a temple
of severe good taste, consciously
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~ - -
patrician. Herself
scattering grain for
the pet peacock, read
ing classic poetry on
a stone bench beneath
a cypress tree, plait-
ing garlands of green
cry with which to en-
bellish the pedestals
of the austere-visaged
ancestral busts. 1t
seemed a hundred
years removed from
her - it was cool,
clean and lucid as a
drop of dew And
then the traders gal
ley-Evan. :
"Oh-h-h''
This second moan
was louder. The fig
ure on the bed twisted
as though in actual
pain.
LADY,"
Some one sitting
beside the bed, upon
the alabaster floor,
rnsa tn her knees II
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Co 1928. BY American Weekly. Inc.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-20
Recent Australian Discoveries.

Recent explorations in the very CEN
ter of Australia have resulted in the
discovery of hitherto unknown fresh
water lake. During the rainy season
1t has circumference of 20 miles.
The surface was described as "a NOV
ing mass Of ducks" At Alice springs
In the mcdonnell range, where set
Elements have already been made many
miles beyond the terminus of the rail-
way, the climate In July and early
August Is described as ideal. There
are frosts at night and sometimes ice
in the morning. Fruits and vegetables
are excellent and surprisingly prolific.
1.-THE white children of the pioneers in
this remote district look like English
children, and the adults are pictures
Of health"-at least in the eyes of
Australia's enthusiastic explorers
Living Age.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-20
COUNTY SEAT NEWS ITEMS,

DR.. w. F. Orr of Cottonwood
and DR.. G. S. Stockton of Grange
vile Monday operated for ap-
pendicitis on Luella, Is year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Collins of Mount Idaho.
The Idaho County Pioneer as
ISOLATION has elected Mortimer
S. Martin, president; Henry
Meyer, vice president; Henry
Telcher, secretary, and Mrs.
Bertha Long, treasurer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh O'Kane OF
Bend, Oregon, former residents
of Grangeville, are visiting
here. Mr.. O'Kane has pros
pered in his new residence, he
said. owning a large block in the
heart of the city and other
property, which nets him $500
per month income.
Exception is being taken by
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-20
MUST BE FREAK OR FOSSIL
Discovery In the Nevada Mountains
Has Split the Worlds Sclen-
lists Into Two Camps.

A stone form exactly resembling the
leather sole Of shoe, was found In
the Nevada mountains. Biologists,
paleontologists and other scientific men
were astounded with the specimens
similarity to a shoe, but none would
accept 1t as anything but freak Of
nature. This strange fossil or freak
was found imbedded In mass of Tri-
assic rock, which is considered by sci
entists to be from 100,OOO,OOO to 30O,-
100000 years old. BY those who con-
slider 1t a freak rather than a fossil
1t has been pronounced one of the
most remarkable natural limitations of
an artificial object ever discovered by
man.
Acknowledgements of the fossil reveal
very clearly the holes punched in the
sole for stitching. and even the twist
of the thread used In the welt is plainly
shown. Its warp Is brought out In I'M
mistakable prominence In every re-
spect 1t duplicates the exact process
which takes place In wornout shoe.
These facts would seem to prove be-
yond q reasonable doubt that 1t Is the
fossil Of real shoe, and that 1t was
done by the hand of man. The up
shot of the matter leads to one Of
these two scientific facts: Either man
has lived on the earth three or four
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-20
Rhubarb Valued as Tonic.

Rhubarb, which seems to have no
romance, has history. 1t was brought
into England in 1873 from the Volga,
but for two centuries 1t remained a
gardeners curiosity, so that its use
as an article of food Is of compare
lively recent origin. In 1910, when
a Deptford market gardener sent a
few stalks to London he was unable
TO find customers for it. However,
the use and cultivation of the plant
made rapid progress from that time
forward. 1t was brought to this coun-
try from England. Rhubarb is valu-
able not only for It's mineral content
and its acid. but for its flavor, and
Is therefore much In favor as fine
spring tonic.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-20

The mother country of linen is
Egypt, and linen tapestries were EN-
broidered In that land 1000 years ago.
Because 1t can be bleached to snowy
whiteness it was known as the sym
Dol of purity. 1t was used for sacred
yestments and was sometimes so fine
and delicate that it was worth twice
Its weight in gold.
Certain authorities state that the
reference made to silk In the Bible Is
mistake of the translators, since it
does not occur in the original. The
cultivation Of the silkworm in Europe
was known $50 B. c., but the Chinese
knew about 1t centuries before that
date. for the making of 1t was begun
by Sizing, wife of an emperor 2609
b. c.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-20
Pension Money Worth While.

Soldiers of the Civil war now resid-
ing In Germany have been made multi
mlllionaires by the receipt of pensions
from the United States. During the
World war their accounts were sus-
pended and the recent payments of ac-
cumulated dues have mounted as high
as $500 for one person. That sum
amounts to more than 100000 marks
at the current rate of exchange.
There are 300 persons in Germany and
ten In Austria drawing regular Civil
war pensions from the United States
and consequently they now rank
among the envied rich.-Pathfinder
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-20

Grangeville people to a recent
newspaper article in which it is
stated that the road over the
north and south highway is in
bad shape and hard to make.
Dozens of people are making the
trip daily from south Idaho and
no undue hardships are COM
planned of. The Grangeville-New
Meadows stage make trips daily,
and parties who have made the
trip every year claim the road to
be in better shape than ever be-
fore. 1t is claimed there are no
dangerous places and no acci-
dents have been reported this
year.
The Grangeville Camp Fire
girls under the leadership Of
Mrs. R. r. Martin will go to
Winchester in the near future
for their summer outing. They
will meet the Orofino Camp
Fire girls who are directed by
Mrs. H. G. Netzel, and their
camps will be joined. 1t is under
stood the local Boy Scouts will
hold their summer camp some
time next month.
At a recent meeting of school
authorities it was decided to cut
the grades faculty by discontinue
ing the third grade teacher and
merging her work in with the
other grade teachers.
Grangeville taxpayers at a
special election, next Tuesday,
will vote on a $4,000 bond issue.
for the purpose of macadamiz-
ing approximately twenty-four
blocks of streets in Grangeville,
including Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Nichols, of
Whitebird, and E. F. Aldrich
and family, Orofino, were in
Grangeville Thursday enroute by
automobile to California, where
they expect to locate.
Wilson and James Paxton,
small sons Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. r.
Paxton, Walla Walla, were
drowned in Lake Washington,
Seattle, last Sunday, while sail
ing toy boats in the lake. The
boys are grandchildren of A. A.
Kinkaid, of Grangeville.
Bell in the belfry of the court
house, and which for years cal
led Grangeville children of de-
cade and more ago to their
studies, when the building was
used for a schoolhouse, was sold
at public auction Saturday to
o. T. Lingo, for $3.50. Mr.. Lingo
hopes to dispose of the bell to a
rancher, to be used as a dinner
DELL -i-- ,-Jl--i----kLssI- zas
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-20
NO ESCAPE FOR THE SEAL
Once Hooked by Eskimo Hunter, There
Is No Way by Which He
Can Get Away.

An Eskimo, when once he has gone
to the trouble of splicing fine spear
handle, does not wish to break 1t, so
the point is put on with tangle or
joint.
When seal or walrus is harpooned
the sudden struggle of the animal does
not break the spear, but merely I'M
joints the point, and the more the AMI
NAL struggles the more the point turns
crosswlse in the wound and the f1rmer
the barbs take hold
But the animal cannot escape, for
with thongs of skin the point is con-
nected with the spear shaft The ami
NAL merely swims away or dives deep
Into the sea, carrying with him the
spear. The long leather thong which
Is attached to 1t uncoils from the deck
Of the kyack and pays out. 1t carries
with 1t drag like kite, which re-
tards the animal and exhausts him.
but does not pull hard enough to break
the line. Even this draw is made of
skin stretched over spllced frame
work.
When the line Is all played out II Is
seen to be attached TO float. which is
also carried on the deck of the boat.
This is made of an inflated skin. 1t
has plugs and attachments of cleverly
carved ivory, for wood is far too pre-
cious to be used In this land of ivory
so far from the forests
The float serves as a buoy so that
the Eskimo can follow the animal and
find 1t after 1t gives up its struggle
and dies. Then, too, the float keeps
the catch from sinking and being lost
In the oceans denths
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-07-20

times as long hs has hitherto been sup
posed, or biologists are badly mistaken
in the age Of the Triassic rocks In
Nevada.