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Evening star., 1925-01-18

Scene changed This is Can
Won City. That's Gonzales, the
clerk from New York, one of the
men drinking, and that other is Dan
Yegg, the bad man, and the rest, ]
guess, are bandits -. they must
be. Now, Gonzalez is explain
ing. Hes telling about Bessemer
Steel and Ascot Wright coming to
hunt for the gold. .. Look how
excited they get
Now it's changed to Ascot and his
friends They're mounting on
horseback Doesn't Maisie look nice
in that short skirt? Look at the
armed men! quite a troop of them.
L. Big Jim, the sheriff is point
ing and giving advice: 1 suppose
he's telling them the trail There,
they're off--clattering out of the
town and away
Separated from Their Armed
Escort Ascot and His Compan-
ions Make Their Way into the
Heart of Dead Mems Gulch."
What's this? They've stopped.
Ascots pointing Look-written
| on the wall in strange lettering:
Pedro Alvarez De Estorga
1921"
They gather round it. =. They're
reading the inscription. Now
| they're going on--a sort of tunnel
! in the cliff--it's opening into great
! cavern and therei bones of dead
men,-and a steel breast plate and
part of a broken sword and over
| in the corner gold piled up in bars,
and great nuggets of it heaped up.
| Ascot is picking up the gold and
| showing it to Maisie. Bessemer Steel
! has taken up nugget and is exam
lining it. Ha. He's showing it and
! speaking:
"I Estimate That There is at a
Conservative Estimate Two Mil
| lion Dollars OF Gold Lying at
Our Feet"
Great Heavens! They hear some
| thing-some one in the tunnel. Here
they come dashing into the cavern
armed men-GonZalez and Yegg and
| the bandits. They rushed at Ascot
and the banker-three of them are
fighting Ascot all at once go
| to it, Ascot, attaboy-
Now he's down-no, he's up again
he's down-they're clubbing him
and the banker, Dan Yegg has him
down and is throttling him-Thats
! the way, choke him-keep IL UP
Now this is really enjoyable.
Evening star., 1925-01-18
Film a Throbbing Thrill

They're both nsensible-inanimate
on the floor of the cave-now they've
grabbed Maisie-they're binding her
with cords.
There, they've gathered her up
they've put the gold into bags
they're carrying Maisie and the gold
down the tunnel.
Now they're lifting her into a motor
car they're off out of
the gulch Il. 80. fading into the dis
tant hills gone.
* y
IT'S inside the cave again. AS
H. cot and Bessemer Steel fat on
the sand. Look. Ascot moved
his arm he's reviving
Bessemer Steel is reviving too
They'll both be all right in few
minutes. They were only clubbed
with rocks and stabbed and choked
Didn't I tell you?
Ascot has stood up he is
speaking to Bessemer:
"They Have Walled Up the
Mouth of the Tunnel"
Look at the horror on Besseme1
Steels face now's he's speak
ing:
ascot, We are Lost. There is
Nothing in Front of Us but a
Slow Death"
But look at Ascot see his sci
jaw and his clinched hand and his
brave face! See what he says.
''We Are Not Lost, Mr.. Steel.
Can Save Us Yet"
Whatever is Ascot doing now?
he's picking up the broken bits OF
the old Spanish armor he's fit
ting things together . . what's he
making? He's taken out long thir
wire from his pocket, a coil of it
he's fastened a weight to it, he's
thrown it to the roof of the cave
it's caught on jag of rocks ;. now
he's fastening it down tight on the
ground and attaching something tc
it. Alb, ] catch on, / see it, dom
you? There it is
Ascot Wright with the Aid of a
Wire and the Fragments of old
Armor and an Electric Torch
Makes a Radio. Mr.. Steel, in Five
Minutes 1 Shall Be in Communi-
cation with Canyon City"
LookI He's getting into commune
cation zik-zik-see the BIZ
Continued on Sixth Page.)
Evening star., 1925-01-18

noles, accustomed to the warm cli-
mate of Florida, refused to move
North and West. That is how they
came to be a race without a home,
tribe without recognition.
AS settlement advanced in Florida
the remnant Seminoles wormed their
ways deeper into the impenetrable
Everglades. There they continued
their nomadic existence. Plaques and
disease decimated their numbers To-
day, in all Florida, there remain less
than 500 Seminoles-the leftovers of
Indian families which once numbered
many thousand.
Chieftain Jack TigertaiI was the
peacemaker of the Seminoles, just as
Osceola was their fighting leader.
Tigertail always was anxious to ac-
cept the peaceful offerings of the
white race. Time and again, after the
days of Osceola, Tigertail, by his
diplomacy, saved the Seminoles from
Evening star., 1925-01-18

Seminole hunters use bows and arrows,
as well as modern guns, in these sallies
into the wilderness after deer, honey,
panthers, bear, wild turkeys and vari-
Gus game birds.
The dress of the Seminoles, con-
sisting of gaudy- -colored blouse and
skirt, ranks among the brightest gar
ments worn by any American red
skins. Red, blue, green, yellow and
black are popular among them, to the
extent that their free-1owing gar
ments look like the costumes of q
modern circus.
The squaws wear dozens of strings
of beads twined around their necks
like collars. The men OF the tribe
follow the novel custom of using the
upper part of their bodies as minia-
ture wardrobe trunks. For example
If Seminole brave has six blouses
and a dozen gaudy handk erchiefs he
Will wear them. The handkerchiefs
Evening star., 1925-01-18
MRS l.. J. ACKER AND THE CAR WHICH
WASHINGTON TO FLORIDA

other wars. Tigertail was a power
full Indian of fine physique. Today his
pictures are used on direction signs,
in different parts of Florida, which
show the way to Hialeah-
Chief Charlie Willie, a veteran Sem
mole, 20 years old, is head of the ex-
hibition village which Mrs. Acker super
vises. Within the palm leaf walls of
the stockade are the homes of the In
dians, open on all sides and made of
similar material. Even chickens are
raised, as well as wild ducks from the
Everglades, which have been domesti-
Gated.
The Seminoles live chiefly on meat and
rice, as well as fine and coarse corn
meal, which they grind themselves.
They use curious hollow sticks like
pestles to aid in this milling process.
Fresh meat for the Indians is furnished
by regular hunting parties that go into
the Everglades after wild game. The
Evening star., 1925-01-18
BY STEPHEN LEACOCk.

II. now it's going to begin.
" Look at that notice on the
n Dead Mems Gold In Which
Full-Blooded Men and Women
Live and Love Among the Cactus and
ChaparraI Authorized by the Censor
of New York State"
It looks good stuff, doesn't it? Now,
we're off
"Bessemer Steel of New York,
Banker and Financier Has Spent
His Life in the ANA ssing of Mil
lions"
There he is in his office. See all the
desks and stenographers round him.
See him speaking into his desk tele-
phone. Say, isn't he authoritative?
Now he's signing a cheque. Now he's
receiving a telegram . in fact, by
this time l think we've quite grasped
the idea that he's a rich banker with
no soul. Look at this:
THE Only Tender Spot in the
Bankers Heart Is for His Daugh-
ter, Maisie. To Her He Denies
Nothing"
See. the pictures are about to estab-
1ish the fact that Maisie is denied
nothing.
ascot Wright, Etudent at Har-
ward"
HAS Discovered in His Re
searches in the Harvard Library
the Locate of a. Lost Gold Mine
in a Cavern in Dead Mems Gulch,
Near Graveyard Canyon, in Dead
Bones County, Nevada
Here we have him-Ascot Wright
researching in the library, the way
all Harvard students do.
x <
NOV seei Evidently he's struck
something among the books-see
him take a paper from the leaves o.
an old volume! He's examining it
feverishly. Say, l can just tell that
Ascot has discovered gold mine
The Manuscript, Written in
Latin by the Dying Spanish Ex-
plorer, Pedro Alvarez De Estorga,
Is Deciphered by the Harvard
Student"
There's Ascot. Look at him with
the paper in front of him, decipherine
it! Now, what's it saying?
1.-The Harvard Student Lays His
Discovery Before the Great FL
nancier."
Evening star., 1925-01-18

will be knotted loosely around his
neck, cowboy fashion. He will wear
the shirts one above the other.
x x X x
DOISONOUS snakes are the most
dangerous enemies the white
hunters have to guard against when
they go on hunting trips into the
Everglades. AS a result, they wear
high leather boots, puttees and SINH
lar protectors against snake bites.
One Miami sportsman has lined a pair
of canvas putteeS with aluminium
plates, linked together like ancient
armor. You can throw a sharp knife
against one of these armored puttees
and the sharp point will recoil as
from a marble wall.
Notwithstanding that the white
hunters need leg and foot protectors
of this variety for their Everglades
hunting trips, the Seminole Indians
Evening star., 1925-01-18

IN 1882, when the Topham store
was moved to 1921 Pennsylvania
avenue, the Kreessi store was moved
from the west side of Seventh street
into what had been the Topham
building on the east side Of the
Evening star., 1925-01-18

street. There it is today, bearing the
sign *. Kneessi's Sons" The bust
ness is owned by Kaspar Kneessi's
children, Frederick w. Mrs. Minnie
Gassman and Mrs. Anna Kelly.
Kneessi did a large business MAX
ing and repairing harness for livery
stables and the names of some of
these customers may stir your MEM
Ory. Among them were Jim Pun
phrey. who kept a stable on c street
back of the National Hotel: John
Price, who kept a stable on the east
side of Sixth street, between c street
and Louisiana avenue; and uptown
livery stables of Allison Nailor and
Evening star., 1925-01-18

Washington Nailor AIlcott's stable,
on II between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets, and Charles Earle, the
place of whose stable the Rambler
has forgot, were kneessi customers.
Old men about the store tell with
pride that the firm made the set of
harness used by President Grant at
one Of his inaugurations. 1T was
a gold-plated harness with white
buckskin lines" said one of the men,
and the lines hung around here for
a long time" This recalls to the
Rambler that he has the following
note on James f. Topham:
He furnished Gen. Grant with his
Evening star., 1925-01-18
Washington Woman Has Florida Exhibit Showing
Seminole Indian Village
Where Tribe Members Preserve Old Traditions
by GEORGE III. DACY.

YER the length and breadth
of Americas expansive map
there Is no other city that
can surpass Washington in
the number of women that
Evening star., 1925-01-18
BristIes on Head.

THE African crowned crane derives
it's name from the curious fan
shaped straw-colored crest of wiry
bristles that adorns the back of its
head, says Nature Magazine. This
crest, with the long neck, bare face
and bushy black feathers of the top
of the head, give the bird n strikiag
appearance
Evening star., 1925-01-18

T>HEN came the white settlers
Il Covetous to possess the finest
land and the best camp sites, they
gradually drove the red men farther
and farther back into the Everglades.
Treaties were made-and broken.
Finally, the Seminoles revolted, un-
der the leadership of Osceola, Johnny
Bowlegs and other eminent chieftains.
For seven years regiments of regu-
lars from the United States Army
fought and pursued the Seminoles.
The Indians knew the devious paths
of the Everglades. They were pro-
ficient in cunning strategies and in
woodcraft. Time and again, they led
the bluecoated soldiers into am
buscades. 1t was not until 1912 that
the Seminole warfare was concluded,
with Uncle Sans soldiers the victors.
| Ultimately, the Government pro-
vided lands and reservations for the
Seminoles In Oklahoma. The Semi
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
STRANGE HEALTH OFFICERS OF CEYLON.

; windows. They might climb In"
What are they?" asked.
ST don't know" said Bobby
trembling and crawling into my
bed.
Sounds like jackals to me" "
said Bunny not too composed
himself.
Since our rooms were on the
ground floor it didn't take mo
long to close our windows, can
tell you.
Nothing can happen to US
now" said, but aren't those
bowls terrible?"
I'm surprised some one doesn't
shoot at Them" said Bobby.
I was thinking that myself and
considered firing a load out Of
the window just to scare them
off.
But in the morning I found !
would have surely made a great
mistake If I had. I wouldn't have
been a popular guest in that vii
lage II 1 had fired one single shot.
And / will tell you why. found
this out from the landlord the
next morning
Terrible racket last night" I
said, as went into the dining
room
Nothing unusual" replied our
host.
do you mean to tell me that
you have such carryings.on every
night?" I asked In amazement.
Couldn't do without 1t in this
place." answered the innkeeper,
who was an Englishman.
please explain" urged.
This town wouldn't be fit to
live in AZ it weren't for those
kholashs--that's what the natives
call jackals," said the man.
And why not?" 1 asked.
They are the street-cleaners
and garbage-collectors, he an
swered. "They are protected and
allowed to roam about at will.
We never notice them"
"They may be useful and do a
good job-but they certainly
make an awful fuss about it,,
said Bunny, string his second
cup of cambria tea.
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<<wTES," said I, this Is the
island where they grow
- the tea. It is a great
industry. and tea is sent from
here to all parts Of the world"
I'D like a cup right now-not
much tea, but mostly milk" said
Bobby apologetically.
you don't want Ceylon tea,
Bobby. You want cambria tea"
1 laughed.
"some people call it Boys
coffee even II it is tea," said
Bobby.
Bobby had his tea when we
reached the little inn where we
were staying in a village in Cey-
lon, and we went to bed.
I was sound asleep in a few
moments and dreaming that I
was out in a jungle with chou
sands Of hyenas bowling about
me. They weren't laughing n.y.
enas, either. Or at least they
they didn't make me laugh.
1t was one of those awful
dreams when you are so happy
when you wake up and find that
you are safe in bed. But this
time 1 didn't feel SO happy when
woke up.
/ was relieved when Bobby
shook me and l found was In
bed, but when 1 heard the awful
noises outside of our window
wondered whether it was worth
waking UP this time or not.
What under the sun Is it?"
asked sitting up in bed and Try
ing to collect my thoughts.
II don't know, Foxy Grandpa"
gasped Bunny. please close the
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
By ElenOre Meherin.
The Biggest and Best Story Of
Her Career.

YoRA gave herself up to
M motherhood with consum-
- mate passion. She read
books on infant hygiene, infant
diet, child psychology. She thought
of nothing else.
But she was unaware or this.
She even forgot to be concerned
about her slim, beautiful figure.
When the child no longer needed
her strength, she could reduce.
Once Dane said to her: "He's
the most important, Nora Lee?"
"Of course! You see he's yours"
She didn't notice the rather
pfriched, hungry look in her hus-
bands face. When he had extra
work to do he brought 1t home
now so she wouldn't be lonely.
And he liked to talk when he
was working out a plan.
Come over here, Norry, and
tell me if you think this is a
good arrangement"
She was absorbed in a book by
Holt-reading it avariciously,. as
though it were glamorous
novel. She got up lazily and with
difficulty fixed her attention. But
she became interested and was
making clever suggestions when
the baby cried.
The papers dropped from her
hands and she sped down the hall
way. It was an hour before she
returned. Long after the baby had
been fed and hushed she remained
In the dim room with his fingers
twined about her thumb.
my son has mother, but his
father has lost a wife," Dane said
with a laughing accusation.
your son needs a mother more
than his father needs wife"
@No he Doesn't
She sat at his side and idled
with q pencil. you don't be-
Rrudge me to him, do YOU"
Ellen could have done that just
now"
"No-she couldn't. And you
couldn't and nobody could but T.
'But she could take a great deal
Of the care. You're forgetting
yourself entirely"
$ tits a good thing: for me. per.
haps."
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
~

years.
We may well be appreciative
tut not boastful.
In New Zealand the expecta-
ton of every child at birth is
sixty years-the most advanced
achievement in the world so far
as longevity is concerned.
Australia comes next, then Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark, and Hol-
land, In the order mentioned, all
Of which are ahead Of the United
States.
It devolves upon us to do our
full part in developing the United
States to first place In life ex-
pectancy.
This is a general statement. but
it has direct application to you,,
and you, and you, to every person
individually; for a national result
can only be the average Of indi-
vtdual results.
How are you to do your part?
First, by developing health
habits In your own person, In
your Unconscious, 50 that you
will go on doing health things
unconsciously.
Next, establish a health atmos-
phere in your home so that all Of
you will do health things auto
1naticaIly, without thinking about
them.
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
Second Installment of Modern Novel,
Conferred On Heart and Mind
of the 'Flapper."

let II was ASTOUNDING No" Az
tie anything counted to her but
this tiny infant of four months.
Never in her life, even when love
was at it's sweetest; even when
love was at it's bitterest, had she
been so completely absorbed.
She had let herself down into
a vast pit of solitude. The world
went laundering by-a blare OF
music; a flash of color. Nebulous
echoes rrailed in to her. They
awakened no desire. She was shut
away from everything-bHt she
was glad. These four months had
been the deepest, the most peace
!, full and fulfilling she had ever
known.
One evening when the baby was
seven months old Dane came into
the living room and rather show
fly unwrapped a corsage- of gar
denias and lilies Of the valley.
Nora Lee gave a soft laugh, but
touched her finger in warning to
her lips. Her son was sleeping
in her arms.
Dane went up and took the
child from her. She was rather
fascinated by his mastery air
and by the glow in his eyes, the
happy pride on his mouth as he
looked down at the pink checked
infant.
He went down the hallway
and laid the baby in his crib. Then
he returned and put the flowers
in Nora Lees hands.
She regarded them absently:
why did you take him from me?
He's not really asleep, yet"
My Som
He's my son and I can take
him il wish. 1 don't propose
to have him ruined by a blind,
indulgent mother"
"You chose the mother"
'She's all right. But she's
going out tonight and she'd better
get ready"
He had tickets for the theater,
Nora Lee protested. She couldn't
leave him that long. He had to be
fed at a quarter Of eleven. They
couldn't be back that soon.
Dane said imperturbably: He
never, wakes up till 1880"
He may tonight. It might
just be the time when he would"
Then he can wait"
She glanced at him hotly, as
though he had suggested the muir.
der Of the child.
He laughed at her: You're
going! If 1 have to drag you
there by the hair"
None Of my clothes fit me-"
"You ought to have others.
You have money enough. Wear
that blue dress"
"AdI' 1HdI pIcdIcU LnInB!
can just fancy it,"
Get yourself into a sack then
but step you will"
She tried on several dresses.
She surveyed herself critically in
the long mirror set in the door.
She got unpleasant angles at her.
self and was aghast, not realiz-
ing the unbecoming plumpness
until this moment.
Her Awakening
She tore off the gown with a
flash of the hot, resentful, young
temper. She was in tears when
he poked his head in the door
way to say mockingly: How
goes it?''
Keep out" She stamped her
foot and talked to herself bitterly.
No sense in looking like this.
Big bumps on her hips-she that
had been so 1.-the and slender!
It didn't help the baby any to
get slovenly like this!
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
In the Home

To brighten patent leather
shoes rub them with soft cloth
that has been dipped in tur-
pentine.
When washing crepe de chine
use borax instead of soap. 1t re-
moves dirt and preserves the
gloss.
A glass of hot water taken
first thing in the morning Is good
for indigestion.
Methylated spirit rubbed INTO
the soles of the feet harden them
and prevent blisters.
Green vegetables should be
cooked in as little water as pos
sible, and the liquid used Tor
soups and GRAVES.
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
NORA LEE = By Elenore Meherin
w HEN IN
DOU BIT
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-
Acknowledging Introduction

Acknowledged IntrOductiOns
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ have a question regard
ing the acknowledgment Of in
Productions. If Miss Smith were
introduced to Mrs. Brown, It
would be Mrs. Brown who would
say, How do you do?" would it
not? Then what would be the
proper thing for Miss Smith to
say?
A READER.
DOTH Miss Smith and Mrs.
- Brown say, "How do you
do?'' when acknowledging the
introduction. How do you do?"
is the accepted expression to use
in acknowledging all introduc-
tions, and it Is correct for every
body to use this phrase. or
course. it adds a distinct gracious
ness if you add the name to this
phrase. If you are sure that you
have heard the name correctly:
How do you do. Mrs. Brown"
eating or "DrinkinR" Soup
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ I would appreciate your ad-
vice as to which of the follow
ing is correct: Eat soup" drink
soup" or take SOUP. G.
ITO "eat soup is the accepted
n expression. You drink"
bouillon when it is served in
bouillon cups-that is, you may
If you wish. One often uses
take" in the sense Of Choose"
do you take soup?"
Mrs. Beeckman will be glad to
answer questions on etiquette sub:
mitted by readers.)
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
FOR A LONG LIFE
Develop Health Habits in Own Person
So You Will Go on Doing Health
Things UncOnsciOusly.

In such a health atmosphere
you simply breathe in health with
out talking about 1t all the time.
If you make health and health
problems occupy your Conscious
Mind all the time, you win SIM
ply make a nuisance instead Of
a blessing Of health.
But when proper occasion arises
for considering the question, con.
slider 1t most carefully.
But don't let It stop there.
Translate your thoughts into &C.
ton and your actions into habits.
That is the best way to secure
the benefits of longevity for
yourself and the best way to do
your part in advancing the stand
ard Of longevity in the United
States.
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
RECIPES OF
CONTESTANTS
Orange Pie.

Orange Pie.
Grated rind and juice OF two
oranges, four beaten eggs, four
tablespoons Of sugar, one table
spoon Of butter. one pint Of milk.
Bake with one crust and spread
meringue on top.
Orange filling for cake IL made
Of juice and grated rind Of two
oranges, two tablespoons Of cold
water and two cups Of sugar.
Set in boiling water until It il
scalding hot. then add two yoiks
Of eggs, beaten and just before
taking from fire add the white Of
one egg slightly beaten. When
cold spread between layers Of
cake.-ANN1E e. CARMoDY, 31s
8 street northeast.
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
TO THE
LOVELORN
By Beatrice Fairfax
A Sensible Match

a SeuSG6Ie Match
nEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
- 1 am twenty-eight and at O
loss what to do.
My parents never thought any
one suitable for me to marry,
although some Of my admirers
were making a very good living.
/ have a friend now who has q
good trade and is making fair
salary. He wants to marry me.
He is thirty-three and seems q
plain, honest man.
WONDERING.
IF you have known your friend
L long enough to be sure that
he is congenial and will be a
suitable husband, and II your at
lection for him is deep and gen.
uine, why not marry him? see
no reason why you should not
both be very happy.
The Washington times., 1925-03-03

Of life is fifty
eight years.
In 9th r
words, science,
by revealing
the laws gov
ernIng heath
and disc asc
and the. prop
er observance
Of those laws,
h a s a d d g d
eighteen years
to a genera
ton in the
last seventy
The Washington times., 1925-03-03
Couldn't Speak
English

GEORGE I, Elector Of Hanover,
"a great-grandson of King James
/, who was called to the throne
of England in 1714 to succeed
Queen Anne, was unable to speak
English when he came to Eng
land.