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2-Gait of a horse
ee..ke hsh 4-Chum
5-Informal headgear
slime past 7-Retained
Written composition
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1S-Mixture Of meat and vegetables
cooked
14-SmaB burrowing animal
15-AFticle expressing an opinion In
a newspaper
'17-Brightly colored insect. having
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wings
fs-Butter substitute
ls-HarVest
21-Great mass of moving ice
22-C DANGEROUSLY
25-Marber Of religious order
26--Adores
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30--Numoers (abbr)
34-Prefx meaning equal
S5-At future time
37--Respond to a. stimulus
39-Waye loosely in the wind
40-Jargpn
45-Not at any time
47-Island in Mediterranean
49-Head (Frenchl
50-Bivalve mollusk
52-Gazelle OF TiDetan plateau
53-Terminatiop
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11-Piece Of candy 30 a stick (pl)
13-Kind of fish
16-Small drum
20-West Indian bird
21-Alcoholic beverage
2S-Christmastide
24-Boys name
25--Deluge 27-Beverage
2s--Moist 29-Speech
31--Uppermost part
32--Derived from OIL Chem. term)
33-Cooking apparatus
34-Equal -Creameries
38-Royal Flying corps (abbr.)
41-Blackbird Of cuckoo family
42-Sections into which movies are
divided
43-Resort state (abbr.)
44-Kind of horse 46-Beam
a. Family group 48-Ria
5O---Vault under main floor of
church
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56--En glish school for boys
57--College secret society tshort)
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Evening star., 1925-03-29

as Vice President or for the presi-
dency as Jackson's successor were
thus blasted and must have caused
Van Buren, many a silent chuckle
when he thought of the jibe the Caro-
linian had flung at him when the
presidential vote of the 1886 election
Vice President, was presiding at the
counting of the vote, and Calhoun.
then a Senator. was one of the tellers.
and the first State returns were heavily
against Van Buren,.
The weather is very bad today, is
il not?" asked Calhoun of Van Buren,,
with an expression which revealed his
double meaning. Van Buren, smiled
brightly and responded cheerfully:
Never fear; it will be a bright day
on March A.
John Adams. the elder. and Thomas
jefferson were both Vice President
before being elected President, but at
that time each presidential elector
voted for two men. The man receiv-
ing the highest vote became Presi-
dent, and the man receiving the next
highest became Vice President. This
made possible the election of a Presi :
dent and Vice President of opposing
parties, which was just what hap
pened in 1896. when John Adams was
elected President and jefferson Vice
President.
Four years later II also produced
freak result, when Jefferson and
Burr were tied The intent of the
Democratic electors was to elect JEFF
Evening star., 1925-03-29

also been a distinguished Revolu-
tionary soldier. He was also a New
Yorker. looked upon as brilliant, ac-
complished and destined for great
success in public life. He had made
a phenomenal record as Secretary of
the Treasury and was the head of the
Federalist party. Between him and
Burr there developed bitter rivalry
and intense jealousy. which culmi-
mated in personal enmity, following
Burrs defeat for Governor of New
York, which he correctly attributed
to Hamilton's opposition.
A letter written by Charles D. Coo
per fell into Burr's hands. 1t quoted
Hamilton as declaring Burr "despic-
able and unfit to be Governor. Burr
wrote to Hamilton. demanding either
an admission or a denial of the state
ments attributed to him. A corre-
spondence covering three weeks en-
sued, during which William P. Van
Ness acted as courier for Burr and
Nathaniel Pendeton acted for Hamil-
ton. Burr continued to demand a
definite answer, and Hamilton, who
did not believe in duelling, sought to
evade the issue and write in such
terms as to avoid challenge.
Burr wou0 be satisfied with moth
ing less than Yes" or NO" and as
Hamilton would not reply in such
terms Burr issued a challenge Ham
ilton reluctantly accepted it, ate din
ner with his beautiful wife and seven
children, made his will and in the
evening wrote a. long, farewell letter
to Mrs. Hamilton, expressing prac-
Evening star., 1925-03-29

could see that one of the white men
was far gone out OF his mind. Ha
no longer could be trusted.
whom I thought ] could trust. anu
said to him: It's up to US to stretch
this out as long as possible"
He took the canteen to do his turn,
and, shaking my hand, said: You
have my word for it."
An hour later this white maj
poured down his throat the last half
canteen OF water which remained tu
usi
Staggering on that night, with \
final expenditure of all that was lett
In US, We came to land at 2 o'cloc
in the morning. We found ourselvt .
at once in a rich tropical jungle wit
an abundance of water close by. Jt
was with the utmost difficulty tha.
the whites could restrain the Indian
from dangerously overdrinking.
For Is days we camped to recover
from our exhaustion. When SUI
ficient energy had returned to US, W.
hunted to obtain meat for smoking
and skins for new water bottles.
With an adequate supply of both
We set out upon the same route and
safely recrossed the lake.
The whole expedition, main party
as well as the smaller exploring units,
lost % men from sickness, exhaustion
drowning and other causes, in addi-
tion to the rs who fell victims to the
head hunters.
Copyright. 1927
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ferson President and Burr Vice Presi-
dent, so in each Democratic State
the electors voted for both, without
realizing that when all States were
counted a tie would result The
House determined the issue by max
ing Jefferson President and Burr Vice
President Immediately thereafter
the Constitution was amended to pre-
vent such results in future.
OF all Gen. Dawes predecessors
Aaron Burr was the most striking
character. with the possible excep-
ton of Theodore Roosevelt Hand
some, brilliant. dashing in spirit and
personality, eloquent and scholarly,
he first distinguished himself as a
young officer in the Revolutionary
War and afterward as the first at
torney general of New York State
and as United States Senator The
highest official position in the new
republic was counted none too great
for him to administer with distinction.
As he rapidly rose in his public ca
reer tthen profession practically
limited to the aristocratic classes) it
was freely predicted he would be-
come President. He seemed to be
headed straight for the White House
When elected Vice President in 1900
following the tie with Jefferson) he
showed no disappointment, but, on
son, which increased his popularity
y
LIE and Alexander Hamilton. how
IL ever. had been quarreling vio-
lenty for 10 years. Hamilton had
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had climbed through the window and
others had rushed out onto the lawn,
| but 1t was dark and Il had begun to
| rain. Between his screams the VIC
tim ragged and raved against the
ayenger.
| he cried. "Oh, the she devil, She
shall pay for it! She shall pay! Oh,
| God in Heaven, this pain Is more than
I can bear!"
I bathed his face in oil. put cotton
wadding on the raw surfaces, and
administered a hypodermic of morphia.
All suspicion of me had passed from
| his mind in the presence of this
shock, and he clung to my hands as
| If I might have the power even yet to
clear those dead-fish eyes which gazed
up at me.
could have wept over the ruin
had / not remembered very clearly
the vile life which had led up to SO
hideous a change. 1t was loathsome
to feel the paving of his burnin 6
hands, and was relieved when his
family surgeon, closely followed by
| a specialist, came TO relieve me of
my charge. An inspector OF police
had also arrived, and to him / hand
ed my real card. 1t would have been
useless as. we'll as foolish to do other
wise, for / was nearly as well known
by sight at the yard as Holmes him
self. Then l left that house of gloom
and terror. Within an hour L was
at Baker street.
Holmes was seated in his familiar
chair, looking very pale and exhaust
ed Apart from his injuries, even his
iron nerves had been shocked by the
| events of the evening, and he listened
with horror to my account Of the
baron's Transformation.
Tho wages of sin. Watson-the
wages of SIM" said he. Sooner or
later 1t will always come. God
knews there was sin enough" he add
ed. taking up a brown volume from
the table. Here is the book the
woman talked of. II this will not
could. But it will, Watson. 1t must.
No self-respecting woman could stand
'It Is his love diary?"
"Or his lust diary. Call It what
you will. The moment the woman
told US Of it I realized what tre-
mendous weapon was there, il we
could but lay our hands on it. I
said nothing at the time to indicate
my thoughts, for this woman might
have given it away. But ! brooded
gave me the chance Of letting the
baron think that no precautions need
be taken against mo. That was all
to the good / would have waited a
| little longer, but his visit to America
forced my hand. He would never
| have left so compromising a docu-
ment behind him. Therefore, we had
to act at once.
Burglary at night is impossible.
He takes precautions. But there was
| a chance in the evening, IL I could
only be sure that his attention was
engaged. That was where you and
your blue saucer came in. But I had
to be sure of the position Of the book,
and I knew I had only a few minutes
In which to act. for my time was
limited by your knowledge of Chi
nese pottery. Therefore. / gathered
the girl up at the last moment. How
could l guess what the little packet
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/ tical certainty OF death. He arose
early the next morning, July II, 1904,
and crossed the river in a rowboat to
Weehawken, where the duel was to
be fought
Burr. a widower, spent the evening
at home alone, and wrote far into the
night to his absent daughter Theo-
dosia- Evidently his thoughts were
not as morbid as Hamilton's, for his
epistle was cheerful. He removed
his coat and boots and slept soundIy
the remainder Of the night on
couch in his library. and was rowed
across the river at half-past in the
morning.
The duel was fought on a ledge
about 20 feet long and a dozen feet
wide, cut into the steep cliff about
80 feet above the river. Burr and
Van Ness arrived half an hour ahead
of Hamilton and spent the time while
waiting in pulling up weeds and un-
derbrush to provide a clear space for
the duel. Hamilton arrived with
Pendleton, and the principals bowed
formally to one another.
The seconds had previously agreed
on the conditions of the duel. which
were that the duelists were TO stand
10 PAGES apart and fire at the word
Present" A coin was tossed 70 de-
termine the choice of position. Pen
dleton won and selected a spot look
ing partially toward the river. An
other coin was tossed to determine
which second should give the signal.
Continued on Sixth Page)
Evening star., 1925-03-29
From Plague and Experiences in the Region CITY,

hell Of the eighth day. But two can
teens of water we've left. Mindful Of
the attack which the Indian porter
had made on me the day before. ] de-
termfned TO give ruy gun in turn to
each white man as, 1t came his hour
to guard and distribute the water In
due course came Jones' turn.
AS the gun and water passed into
his hands, I felt that surely had
made a great mistake and that this
man, already proved SO despicable.
would not hesitatst TO abuse the
power which the gun now gave him.
He would steal from us the remain
ing water.
In this heavy anxiety lay as close
as possibly could TO Zones Without
awakening his suspkcions, and by
shifting now and then, I endeavored
to get within reach of tho revolver
by his side. He sat there, between
the gun and canteens, alternately
looking from one to the other, while
now and then he lifted his head and
gazed intently at us ahl. This atti-
tude Of Jones increased my suspicious
I cursed myself for thus stupidly
having impertled the entire party.
Intently L continued to- watch Jones
from under the cover Of my hat I
saw him lift the canteenss and assure
himself that the shoppers were firmly
fixed saw him lift the revolver and
wipe 1t with his dirty Handkerchief
saw him take his noHe book from
his shirt pocket and scsibble some
words in II.
And 1 saw him lift up the gun and
blow his brains out.
In the notebook we read this mes
sage:
Beloved Chief:
Don't blame me. I'm no quitter
L do this SO that there may be one
mouth less to feed
Tho Pig"
That night, when we again took
up the march. We left him there,
stark upon the black asphalt.
TIE ninth day again we rested and
suffered and wished for death. But
one canteen remained to US and at
that the men glared with eyes which
were like those Of fends I ordered
that the water now be given even
more sparingly than 1t had been be-
fore because I knew that, once we
were through with what we had, our
finish would follow shortly, and
wanted, II possible, to carry through
the next nights march, which l also
knew would be the last effort we
would be able TO make to save our
selves.
The men were desperate; ready to
go to any extremes in order to get
possession of our one canteen l
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The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
Continued from Second P.x. !,

Continued from Second Page.)
compressed, inexorable and terrible. He
was ill-advised to train his mustache
away from IL, for il was natures danger
signal, set as q warning to his victims.
His voice was engaging and his man.
ners perfect. In age I should have put
him at little over 80. though his record
afterward showed that he was AZ.
"VERY fne-very fine, indeed" he
said at last. And YOU say YOU
have a set of six to correspond. What
puzzles me is that l should not have
heard OF such magnificent specimens. ]
only know of one in England to match
this. and it Is certainly not likely to be
in the market. Would it be indiscreet
IL l were to ask you. DIR. Hill Barton,
how you obtained this?"
Does it really natter" asked, with
as careless an air as I could muster
You can sec that the piece is genuine,
and as to the value I am content to
take an experts valuation"
very mysterious" said he with a
quick, suspicious flash of his dark eyes.
In dealing with objects of such value
one naturally wishes to know all about
the transaction. That the piece is genu-
Inc Is certain. L have TO doubts at all
about that But suppose am bound
to take every possibility into account
that 1t should prove afterward that you
had no right to sell?''
Il would guarantee you against anv
claim Of the sort"
That, Of course. would open I'D the
question as to what your guarantee was
worth" ""''
My bankers would answer that"
quite SO. And yet the whole trans
action strikes me as rather unusual. -
fou can do business or not" said
L with indifference. II have given YOU
the first offer, as 1 understood that
you were a connoisseur, but 1 shall
have no difficulty in other quarters"
Who told you I was a connois-
seur?"
Il was aware that you had written
book upon the subject"
Have you read the book"
No"
Dear me, this becomes more and
more difficult for me to understand.
You are a connoisseur and collector
with very valuable piece in your
collection and yet you have never
troubled to consult the one book
which would have told you of the
real meaning and value Of what you
held. How do you explain thatr'
Il am a very busy man. 1 am a
doctor in practice"
That Is no answer. If a man has a
hobby, he follows 1t up, whatever his
other pursuits may be. You said In
your note that you were a connois-
seur."
$50 I am"
Might I ask you a few questions to
test you? / am obliged to tell you
doctor-if you are indeed a doctor
that the incident becomes more and
more suspicious. 1 would ask you
what do you know of the Emperor
Shomu and how do you associate him
with the Shoso-in near Nara? Dear
me. does that puzzle you? Tell me a
little about the Northern Wei dynasty
and its place in the history OF ce-
ramics."
I sprang from my chair in simulat-
ed anger.
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was that she carried so carefully
under her cloak? l thought she had
come altogether on my business, but.
it seems she had some OF her own
He guessed 1 came from you"
II feared he would. But you held
him in play just long enough for
me to get the book, though not long
enough for an unobserved escape
"Ah, Sir James, am very glad you
have come"
OUR courtly friend had appeared in
~ answer to a previous summons
He listened with the deepest atten-
tion to Holmes account of what had
occurred.
You have done wonders-wonders,"
Se cried, when he had heard the mar
rative. But If these injuries are as
terrible as DR.. Watson describes, then
surely our purpose OF thwarting the
marriage Is sufficiently gained with
out the use Of this horrible book"
Holmes shook his head.
Women OF the De Merville type do
not act like that. She would love him
the more as a disfgured martyr. No.
no. It is his moral side, not his phys
ical. which we have to destroy That
book will bring her back TO earth
and i know nothing else that could.
1t is in his own writing. She cannot
get past it,"
Sir James carried away both II and
the precious saucer. As 1 was myself
overdue, ! went down with him into
the street. A brougham was waiting
for him. He sprang in, gave a hur-
ried order to the cockaded coach
man and drove swiftly away. He
flung his overcoat half out OF the
window to cover the armorial bear
ings upon the panel, but 1 had seen
them in the glare of our fanlight
none the less. / gasped with sur
prise. Then I turned back and as
cended the stair to Holmes room.
81 have found out who our client Is"
cried, bursting with my great news.
why, Holmes, 1t is"
'It is q loyal friend and a chival-
rous gentleman" said Holmes, hold
ing up a restraining hand. Let that
now and forever be enough for
1 do not know how the incriminat-
ing book was used. Sir James may
have managed It. Or it is more prob
able that so delicate a task was in
trusted to the young lady's father.
The effect, at any rate, was all that
could be desired. Three days later
appeared q paragraph in the Morn
ing Post to say that the marriage be-
tween Baron Adelbert Gruner and
Miss Violet de Mervills would not
take place.
The same paper had the first police
court hearing of the proceedings
against Miss Kitty Winter on the
grave charge of vitriol throwing
Such extenuating circumstances came
out in the trial :hat the sentence,
as will be remembered, was the low
est that was possible for such an of
fense.
Sherlock Holmes was threatened
with prosecution for burglary. buS
when an object is good and a client
is sufficiently illustrious, even the
rigid British law becomes human and
elastic. My friend has not yet stood
in the dock.
Copyright, 1923, in United States and Canada
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Released
through the Ssrth American Newspaper .Alli-
A0cs.l
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This is intolerable. sir" said I. Il
came here to do you a favor, and not
to be examined as IL I were a school
boy. My knowledge on these sub
jects may be second only to your
own, but I certainly shall not answer
questions which have been put in so
offensive q way"
LIE looked at me steadily. The
languor had gone from his eyes
They suddenly glared. There was a
gleam OF teeth from between those
cruel lips.
What is the game? You are here
as spy. You are an emissary of
Holmes. This is a trick that you are
playing upon me- The fellow is dying,
l hear, so he sends his tools to keep
watch upon me. You've made your
way in here without leave, and, by
God, you may find IL harder to get
out than to get i'm"
He had sprung to his feet and /
stepped back, bracing myself for an
attack, for the man was beside him
self with rage. He may have suspect
ed me from the first, but certainly
this cross-examination had shown
him the truth. but it was clear that
I could not hope to deceive him. He
dived his hand into a side drawer
and rummaged furiously. Then some
thing struck upon his ear for he
stood listening intently.
"Ah"' he cried. "Ah" and dashed
into the room behind him.
Two steps took me to the open door,
and my mind will ever carry a clear
picture Of the scene within. The win
dow leading out to the garden was
wide open. Beside it. looking like
some terrible ghost, his head girt
with bloody bandages, his face drawn
and white. stood Sherlock Holmes.
The next instant he was through the
gap, and 1 heard the crash Of his body
among the laurel bushes outside.
With a howl Of rage the master Of the
house rushed after him to the open
! window.
And then! 1t was done in an instant,
and yet I clearly saw it. An arm
a woman's arm-shot out from among
the leaves. At the same instant the
baron uttered a horrible cry-a yell
which will always ring in my memory.
He clapped his two hands to his face
and rushed round the room, beating
his head horribly against the walls.
Then he fell upon the carpet, rolling
and writhing, while scream after
scream resounded through the house.
Water! For Gods sake, water!'
was his cry.
I seized a carafe from a side table
and rushed to his aid At the same
moment the butler and several foot
men ran IN from the hall. / remem-
Der that one of them tainted as I
knelt by the injured man and turned
that horrible face to the light of the
lamp. The vitriol was eating into it
everywhere and dripping from the
ears to the chin. One eye was already
white and glazed. The other was red
and infiamed. The features which I
had admired a few minutes before
were now like some beautiful PANT
ing over which the artist has passed
wet foul sponge. 1t was blurred,
discolored, inhuman, terrible.
X \
TN few words explained exactly
what had occurred % far as the
Evening star., 1925-03-29
Indoor Hunting,

INDOOR quail hunting with bird dogs.
in season and out, Is the latest
sport at st. Louis, Mo. State Game
and Fish Commissioner Wielandy
turned two dogs loose in the post
ONCE and express offices Of ST. Louis
and the alacrity with which the dogs
pointed" out the packages contain
ing contraband game has prompted
the commissioner to order the pur-
chase Of four or five more dogs. They
will be trained and eventually Will
make daily searches in the post of
flee and express Offices for out of season
game birds.
Evening star., 1925-03-29

The precise location of the great
asphalt lake described In this ar
rcle, hitherto unknown, Is withheld
by Mr.. Moreno for reasons connected
with his activities as a prospector.
He vouches, however. for It's au-
tflenticity and Importance. This
statement carries weight because
of Mr.. Moreno's signal record as an
explorer in Central and South
America
A native of New York, of
Spanish ancestry. Mr..
Moreno has conducted expeditions
in Nicaragua, Honduras. Costa
Rica. Peru, Ecuador, Brazil,
Colombia, Panama, Jamaica and
Turkey.
Evening star., 1925-03-29
Japan's Telephones.

A TELEPHONE is a lucrative in
n vestment in Japan, owing TO the
governments policy OF issuing only
limited number OF new Instruments
each year. After a certain period Il.
subscriber may sell his telephone
This buying and selling has become a
recognized business in large cities,
the individuals thus employed being
known as telephone brokers