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Evening star., 1924-10-26

evidently do not know how badly of
they are.
On this ride we passed many women
carrying great burdens. Some had
baskets of earth and stone on their
backs Others were harnessed like
horses and dragged huge loads up the
hills. All the bricklaying and road
mending and coaling is done by both
sexes, and the only difference In the
labor is that the men get the most
money. Much of the brick and stone
is carried up the hills by women, who
are paid 20 or 80 cents a day. Each
has across her shoulders pole with
a basket fastened to either end, and
the baskets are filled with bricks or
stones. A good lusty girl will carry
one hundred pounds at a load. and,
bare armed and bare legged, she
grunts as she tolls her way up the
hill.
X X
INDEED, human labor is the cheap
l. est labor in Hongkong, and hu-
man muscle the cheapest muscle. The
Chinese are the pack animals, the
beasts of burden, the drays and cab
horses Of the city. 1t makes one feel
like king to travel these hills car
ried by coolies, who are prohibited by
law from charging more than a few
cents. I can hire a jinrikisha, sort
of baby carriage on wheels, at one
half a cent a minute, or whole hour
for 10 cents. 1 can take a trip al
most anywhere for 5 cents. Think
of being hauled across town for the
price of a glass of soda water. That
is what we have here. 1 can be car
red about in sedan chair on the
bare shoulders of two big coolies; and
the law says 1 must not pay more
than 35 cents in silver per hour. l
can have them all day, from 6 in the
morning to 5 in the evening, for Is
cents gold.
The chair is comfortable. 1t is a
sort Of wicker box with a soft wicker
back, against which one leans as he
rides. There are resting arms for
your elbows, and it is under these
arms that the carrying poles are fast
ened. These poles are about as big
around as your wrists and 1S feet
long. Between the poles, in front and
behind, stand the. two bearers, bare
headed, yellow skinned coolies who
rest the poles on their shoulders and
trot along. The poles make the skin
of the coolies so calloused that it is
thicker than that of your heel, but
sometimes they rub off the skin, gall
ing the bearers as a saddle badly ad-
justed gals the back of a horse.
In the rear of the big business sec
ton, which has magnificent arcaded
buildings, with pillars as big around
as a hogshead, are the retail stores
run by Chinese and East Indians.
Their establishments contain all the
wealth of the Indies and here the
Evening star., 1924-10-26

quite simple; you just have him sum-
him Of extortion, or malappropriation,
or perversion, or arson-it doesn't
matter what All crimes are alike to
him. He's been accused of all of
them. His part in the quarrel is to
keep on saying I'm very sorry, sir
when you get yourself worked up
into complete infuriation with him.
then tell him you will leave the hotel
This is supposed to crush the life
right out of him. Then when you
have him reduced to pulp the mo-
ment has come for suddenly discover
ing that he was right and you were
wrong; you give way to a burst of
generous enthusiasm, call him to
you and kiss him. give him five
dollars and swear to live with him
in the hotel for ever This little
comedy can be observed going on at
all times of the day between the
guests and the Head Waiter.
But the principal charm of hotel
life Is the meals What more ex-
quisite than to draw ones chair in to
the breakfast table and have the
pleasure of selecting breakfast out
of a list of two hundred items.
Every morning when l sit down in
the hotel dining room to order
breakfast 1 spend at least twenty
minutes in deep thought over the
bill of fare.
At the end of it 1 order bacon
and eggs.
Very often-in fact, usually call
the waiter into consultation as to
what kind of a suita BILE, agreeable
more or less novel breakfast a man
might profitably take. When he has
done his talk, l order bacon and eggs
Sometimes 1 get the Head Waiter
in on it, and ask him questions about
fish. I ask him how is his sole this
Evening star., 1924-10-26

inc Colonial tail-lights, vibration. re-
movabl epaint and a lot more of etc"
Where are it, il anywhere?" re-
nounce Hon. Sails.
When lastly seen 1t were fastened
against a talefone post" negotiate
Sydney.
Therefore he lead Hon. Sails to St.
Corner where that twin screw Battil-
Ak '25 were resting on its pieces.
This it?" require Sails.
u.s." dictate Sydney.
Hon. Sails poke it in the nose with
his stylish foot.
II have been in this business Is
yrs" he exclam, yet never before
have I observed SO many Features on
one % car. Do it run by water
power or do you hire q bull to draw
it around? Goshes! Ono of the head
lights are sticking through the car
buratter. That are Wonder Car"
Should 1 put it in the Ottomobile
Show" require Sydney.
'Perhapsly," renig Hon. Sails. "if
there are a Side Show there it should
take 1st. End & 3rd prize
With those opinion he slope away.
leaving us so fitfully vexed We could
swore.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly,
HASHIMURA TOGO.
Copyright 1924.)
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Glasses for Color Blindness.
THE possibility of at least a partia

THE possibility of at least a partial
cur for color blindness was
pointed out at the meeting Of the
British Association for the Advance
ment of Science, by H. E. Roaf. NJ D.,
professor of physiology at the medi-
cal school of the University of Lon
don. LAS result of the examination
Of color blind Individuals" reports
Prof. Roaf. "it has been found that
some of them are sensitive to as
great an extent of the spectrum and
apparently with intensity equal to
that Of normal people. Therefore, the
difficulty of these persons must be in
their failure to dinerentiate certain
wave lengths of light. Such indi-
viduals can recognize their mistakes
by examination of their color matches
through colored screen. 1t is possi-
BILE that II such a person wore a COL
ored glass over one eye he might
learn to recognize colors like normal
persons while wearing the glass"
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Loss of Eye-Balance.
THE man who is clumsy with

THE man who is clumsy with his
l. hands, who cannot perform deli
cate tasks with tools, shoot straight
or play such game as base ball
probably lacks q correct balance be-
tween the muscular systems of his
two eyes, E. c. Clements. British ply
sician and aviator, told the psycholo-
gists Of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science. This
observation resulted from studies Of
eye disorders which rendered British
pilots incapable of landing airplanes
successfully during the war. Two
factors are involved in successful
binocular vision, he said. The i'm
pulses which are received from the
two eyes must be interpreted cor
rectly by the brain. In response to
this stimulus there must be efficient
coordination Of the muscles respond
ing. In many cases. says the Medical
Journal and Record. such defects can
b. removed by special visual training
exercises
Evening star., 1924-10-26

To Editor The Star, who must know
that many great Statesmen is like
ttomobiles-the more Noise they
make the less they gets somewheres.
~ EAREST Sir: Last Satdy pm,
social day for all servant
girlish employees, Sydney
Katsu Jr. Jingle me up by
talefone and require with
voice:
Togo, you wish go with me for an
enjoy ride in my bttomobile?"
20 very earnestly?' / report with
sweethearted expression.
Then meet me near an alley" he
dictate cordial.
How shall I know when you have
cameo" ask to know.
BY the crash," snuggest Sydney &
ceased.
Then 1 shall tell you. Mr.. Editor.
find a Alley and while awaiting !
dishcover sound resembling 80
washboilers quarreling with several
brick-yards. Police come rather quick
to see how many corpses had been
slane. Yet what was there? Merely
Sydney katsu Jr. & otto.
Let us advance quickly" report
Sydney.
will it eo?" l require.
AS oftenly as not he reject while
screw-drivins the magnetic. jerking
several stove-pokers & kicking his
feet like a bicircle. Sounds of ar
tillery! Earthquacks,, La b o r
trouble,.! Fights in lion cage!M!
We have exploded!HM
Then while Police holla Stop &
Sydney couldn't we commence scooch-
ing away without hitting anything
axept a talefone post.
do not mind the noise," deplore
Sydney when my teeth came out. "It
are merely the exhaustion escaping
through the gas-pipe."
Il hope it have got away without
getting hurt" I jibbit. What style
or breed of car are this, if any?"
1T are a twin screw Battilax '25
mudde.'
1882" l requisition.
1925" he narrate. 'It are fooly to
shoot my money away on new otto
mobiles when this one can be heard
3 or times farther than the latest
Middle. This car have got some Fea-
lures you cannot find in next yrs
samples on Ottomobile Row. Look
at the self-opening back door. the
flexible wheel-post, the ottomatic
backfire, the genwine Colonial tall
lights. Look at the vibration. Look
a the way the paint can come off
without even touching it. The engine
are the great feature of this car. /
tdiI get HoEe neat out OF II IN one
CD block than Mr.. Packard can OBJ
tain in 400 miles. Why, I ask it,
should 1 get ridd Of this carr"
You are getting rid of it gradual
ly." 1 quivver when one % spoke
drop off from wheel
20 that are NEARLY a extra part"
pronounce Sydney with brightly smil-
ing. Il think l lost a spark plug
also just then. But / are not a Old
Maid about such small D. Tails I
are good loser Moreoverly, / shall
get it back. l are always dropping
things on my tripps. but on my re-
turn I pick them up again. Some
times persons find them & save them
for me. They are very honest. They
say they do not know whether those
things dropped out of a ottomobile
or bathtub."
Hugchunk,.
What were that, you sippose?"
Il think it are missing" l renig.
To what are you referring to? Ny
engine or my right forward mud
gard?" he negotiate.
Evening star., 1924-10-26

The sailors ran for shelter and the
street policemen put on raincoats
and caps over their turbans. The
rikisha men and the chair bearers
dragged out coats of palm leaves and
covered their heads with hats of
bamboo as big as umbrellas. The
hats were painted bright blue, the
palm leaves looked like feathers, and
as they trotted along inside the
shafts they seemed to be yellow
legged birds, with blue topknots,
harnessed to the chairs and the car
riages.
Copyright, 1924. Carpenters World Trsvels)
Evening star., 1924-10-26

there is an ease and charm in her
conversation not found in outside
society.
DERSONALLY, md that for
L, pleasurable excitement the best
thing in hotel life is to pick a quarrel
with the Head Waiter. In a good
hotel the Head Waiter expects 1t and
is trained for it. 1t is part of his
job Picking a quarrel with him is
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Hon. Sails Man Gets Biggest Surprise
dentdF Feature scrbe by Irwin.

To Editor The Star, who must know
that many great Statesmen is like
Ottomobiles-the more Noise they
make the less they gets somewheres.
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ERE CRAMPING SPELLS,
/ PAINS IN BACK And SIDES

Icramping spells at all, and my
health was as good as anybody's.
/ am feeling fine now and | give
all the credit to Cardui, for ]
had been suffering for years be-
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For over 40 years, Cardui has been
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For over 600 years, medical authori-
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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-11-13
LONG. WEST VIRGINIA

The health of our people is good
Everybody busy and all rejoicing over
the Election returns.
Last Saturday, Mrs. Ira Shockey
was called to Barbour county on the
account of severe sickness in the
family Of her son, Burr Shockey.
j. B. Of Buckhannon returned to
the Three Fork Mines where he is
employed.
Mrs. Lummie Thomson mas re-
turned home afer spending some two
weeks visiting at and near Buckhan-
non.
Mr.. W 7. slauter has moved to
Classify
Forest fires We're extinguished last
Saturday night BY a good rain.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-11-13

trouble has been periodic
y spells" says Mrs. C. G.
|of Atlanta, Texas. "F0r
Tears these have come on
bid that / had to quit my
Id go to bed. Every
would stay in bed from
Two days. The pains in
! and sides were awful.
went on for several
bitter / was married UNI
lime when / was having
|peD, my husband sug-
hat / try Cardui. / said
try it, so he got me a
the store and I began
it.
kemed like / improved
] very first dose. When
ken one bottle / was very
tier. | did not cramp so
next month and / ate
! better. / was not near
kvous, either. / thought
vas fine, so / continued
ment until / had taken
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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-11-13
Che Uhu
SuperStitions
sCRAPING OFF DISEASE
By Il. lRDlNG KING

MISS FANNY BERGEN, in-her col
ANA lection of superstitions current in
this country, cites the case Of man
who cured himself of fever and ague
by tying himself 10 an ash tree and
then crawling out and leaving the dis
ease tied there. Kindred methods of
cure are rather common In Europe
especially, it would appear, In rural
England-and are not infrequently
within this country. Crawling through
a cleft tree, through the low arch of a
bent twig stuck In the ground or be-
tween upright posts set close together,
are some of the methods of scraping
off disease practiced in Europe; and
in Britain there are ancient stones
with harrow opening between,
through which men crawl today in the
hope of leaving their affections be-
hind, Just as they crawled through
those same stones for the same pur-
pose in the days when the Druid
priests cut the mistletoe with their
golden sickles from the neighboring
oak
The superstition can be traced far
back and is survival of primitive
mans sympathetic magic of the con-
tagious variety. Mr. Caveman rea-
soned something like this: If he
crawled through narrow opening lie
would scrape his clothing off-if he
had any on. II he did not he would
scrape his skin off-a part of 1t, at
least. His disease had become part
of him, like his clothes or his skin,
and like process would scrape that
off. Then disease was caused by evil
spirit, and from time immemorial an
approved way of getting rid of evil
spirits was to lure them into tight
place and leave them there.
The mans cure was three-ply. BY
crawling out of the rope he trans
ferred to It the Substance of the dis
ease" Then there was the magic of
the Constructive knot" which kept the
fever tied, and lastly he had appealed
for relief to the sacred ash. Any ordi.
nary case of fever and ague ought to
yield to so powerful treatment.
20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-11-13
RED CROSS DUTY
TO AID VETERANS
Spends Nearly Four Millions in
Year to Lessen Burdens of
Disabled Soldiers.
SERVES $500 IN HOSPITALS
Every Case Is Given individual
Service-Assists Families of
These Men Everywhere.
SERVES $500 IN HOSPITALS

Washington. -The need OF individ.
ual assistance by ex-service men and
their families from the Red Cross is
as pressing today as it was imme-
diately after the end Of the World
War. For six years this work has
been foremost of all Red Cross ser
vices. and in emphasizing the steady
public support of this work the Red
Cross National Headquarters urges
the largest enrolment this year dur
ing the membership campaign open
ing on Armistice Day, November IL.
Nearly four million dollars OF Red
Cross funds spent for disabled veter-
ans and their dependents during the
year ended June 80 last presents some
idea OF the magnitude of this work.
The current year. it Is estimated, will
call for still further disbursements of
funds for the reason that the Red
Cross, through more than $500 Chap
tiers In as many communities in the
United States. has been called upon
to help the ex-service men in making
out their applications for the adjusted
compensation granted in the so-called
bonus law.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-11-13
A SOFT HEAD.

A SOFT HEAD.
II hear that De
Sapp has run
through his in
heritance and is
looking for a job.
He won't have as
soft a thing as he
has had"
"Oh, 1 don't
know; he'll have
q soft thing as
long as he doesn't
lose his head"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-11-13

Texas leads the Union in the mum.
Der of farms, that state having
436,O33.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
washington Stock EXCHANGE


Capital Traction 5s-S1 600 at 9s 60 ono -
80 $1,000 at 9S. 81 900 at 9S
american Security & Trust Colo st an5
% continental Trust Colo at So 10 at Sd.
~ az 80 80 at Sc, 10 at s8. 20 at So.
Snlon Trust Co at 10
at l3. Co'-IVo
Lanston Monotrpe- at 76
1701a. at LUZ at
National Mtge. & Inv pfd.-5o at aE
100 at 9ls. 200 at 9h, 30 at e1k 200 a; al
90 90 at ais, 800 at 9i4, 100 at 81, 90 at 81.
20 at sl4, so at sas, 80 at 9ss.
AFTER CALL
Capital Traction Co.'S at 93I.. at aa1,
Washington Gas 6s-S1OO at 101L sioC
al aOl $1,000 at 1921: S-'0
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd.-1o at ISL
Atne[iean a anS security & Trust CO. at sos.
WaF6Tna1 WaFdmsn Park Hotel 6s--s5oo at 100.
oS a, at 531a, at JS1a, 3 at 5SGs 90 al
rrot2m2c Electric 6s '53-s1, 900 at 1o41.
capital Traction 5s-S1 500 at asL
National Mtse. Inv. pfd.-20 at ej5.
Money-Csll loans. and 6 per cent.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

BALTIMORE. Md, December 10
(SpeciaD aD.-Potatoes, new, 100 pounds,
1.O0a1.50; sacks, 1.75a2.25; sweet po-
tatoes. barrel, 2.50a550. Yams, bar
rel. 3.50a400. beans. barrel, '5.50a7.50
Beets, 100, 400a5.o0. Broccoli and
quart, 10a15. Cabbage. 100, 3.00a5.00
Savoy, bushel, 50a6O> Carrots, 100
4.0Oa6.OO. Caulif1ower, crate, 2.00a3. %
Celery, crate. 200a40O. Cucumbers
bushel, 2.50a6.00. Eggplants, crate
2.50a5.00. Lettuce, basket. 150a2.5O
Onions, 100 pounds, 2.75a3.0o. Oyster
plants, 100, 6.00aS. 90. Parsnips, bas-
ket, 50a60. Peppers, crate, 3.5oa6.50
Pumpkins. 100, 15.00a25.O0. Spinach
bushel, 75a85. Squash, 3.50a6.50: crate
3.o0a4.o0. Tomatoes. crate, 3.50a6.5o
Turnlps. basket, 25a40.
Apples. packed. barrel, 3,00a7.00
busheI., 75a2.OO; loose basket, 4oa75
box apples, 2.oOa3.0O. Box cram
berries, 5.0oaS.O0. Grapefruit, box
1.5oa2.75. Oranges, box, 2.50a375.
Selling Prices at Noon.
Wheat-No. 2 red Winter. spot
1891: No. . red Winter, garlicky
domestic, 1891; No. 3 red. Winter
garlicky. 1864.
Sales-Bag lot of nearby at $50
Corn-Cob, new. yellow, spot, 565
and SIS per barrel; track corn, yel-
low, No. 2, lao.
Sales-None.
oats-No. 2, new, 65 per bushel;
No. 3, 81.
Rye-Nearby, 1.10a125; No. 3 rye
spot 1.4112.
Hay-Receipts. % tons. There is a
limited demand for the better grades
OF timothy and choice light clover
mixed hay, of which class of stock
the supplies are not excessive. Me-
dunn and low grade hay of all de-
scrptlons is in ample supply and hard
10 move at any price.
quotations today-No. timothy
ls.5 5Oa2o.50; No 3 timothy. l6O0a1s. 90
No. ! light clover. mixed, Is.5oa19 90
No. l clover. mixed, 17.50a1S.0O; No
z clover, mixed. 15.00al6.O0.
Straw-No. l wheat, 12O0a13.o0 per
ton; No. l oat, 13.00a1400 per ton.
An advance of 25 cents per barrel
on winter patent and 10 to Is cents
per narrel on Spring patent and West
ern grades of flour was announced
here today.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
TONE is IMPROVED
IN COTTON MARKET
Prices Shade Higher Today on Bet,
ter Cables From Liver
pool.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 10.-The
cotton market was very quiet in to-
days early trading, but the tone was
a shade better on steady Liverpool
cables and reports that the dispute in
a Lancashire mill had been settled.
The opening was steady at an ad-
vance of to IL points. Active
months ruled about to Q points net
higher at the end of the first hour.
January selling around 22.90 and
March 1926. The effect of the firmer
Liverpool cables was offset to some
extent by reports of continued dull
ness in the domestic goods market.
New Orleans Quotations.
NEW ORLEANS, La, December 10.
Cotton futures opened steady. De-
cember, 23.17, bid; January, 23.09;
March, 23.15; May, 23.40; July, 23.43,
bid.