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The Washington times., 1928-02-29

However, judging from the out
come Of the action taken by Prince
Peter r. Volkonsly, the exiled
princes may say Al definite goodbye
to their former riches.
Under the czarist laws, 10 years
absence from the country automati.
cally voided title to property un-
less the owner made application to
the contrary.
Following the advice Of counsel,
Prince VoIkonsly. once one of the
wealthiest Of the landed nobility,
gave notice that his temporary
residence in Paris must not be re-
garded as remuneration OF his
claims to 3-O00-acre estate Of rich
farm land near Riazan, in Central
Russia.
But the peasants who seized his
land during the revolution and di-
vided 1t up among themselves told
the prince that they did not get
his argument. The prince wrote to
the village president as follows:
I'm protection of my rights by
inheritance, ! hereby procIaim that
l do not relinquish my rights to
my property, nor do / acknowledge
its seizure and occupation. I de-
land by the illegal occupants. As
soon as a Christian government is
restored to my beloved country.
which has suffered so much, I. or
my sons and heirs, Gregory Petro.
vich and Alexander Petrovich, In
tend to return"
The peasants read the letter at q
town meeting and replied thus:
We peasants have not forgotten
your ,princely whips and clubs
which so generously rained upon
our bent shoulders: We shall never
allow those people who were swept
away by the October revolution to
reclaim their land and use us as
slaves again. We burned up all
the Cars laws under which you
claim title. What belonged to the
princes now belongs to the peasants.
Furthermore. we consider it our
duty to remind you that we made
a big mistake in letting you get
out of the country alive. All curses
on theey'
The Washington times., 1928-02-29
Russian Estates Lost
To Prince O1Uners

MOSCOW Russia Feb 29.-Russian princes living in exile
while hoping overthrow the Sovets and
rumpha their native land taking legal steps
to retain title to their estates.
The Washington times., 1928-02-29
Trinidad Citizens Fight
Market on Park Site

Protesting against the use of the
Patterson tract in northeast Wash
ington for any purpose other than
as q park. the Trinidad Citizens As.
sociation meeting last night in the
Wheatley School, voted to sustain
its president, g. M. Koockogey, in
his stand to prevent the use of the
tract for. market site.
The association adopted a resoln-
ton asking for the extension of Nir.
ginia Avenue northward to New
York Avenue, and the acquisition OF
the triangle between West Virginia
and Florida Avenues and Ninth
Street Northeast. 1T also nominated
y. T.. Gammell. president of the
Lincoln Park body fortthe Citizens
Advisory Council.
George N. Yeatman and Kenneth
Armstrong, were guests of the body
end made addresses.
The Washington times., 1928-02-29
Who Is Your Skinny
Friend, Ethel?

Tell him to take McCoy's Tablets
for a few weeks and get enough
good healthy flesh on his bones to
look like a real man.
Tell him that the whole country
recognizes McCoy's as the one great
flesh builder.
Tell him that thousands of men
and women once just as thin as he
are now proud Of their well-knit,
attractive figure.
One thin woman put on Is
pounds in six weeks.
Mccoy takes all the risk-Read
this ironclad guarantee. II after
taking sixty cent boxes of Nc
Coy's Tablets or One Dollar boxes.
any thin, underweight man or
woman doesn't gain at least
pounds and feel completely salts
fled with the marked Improvement
in health-your druggist is author
lied to return the purchase price.
The name McCoy's Cod Liver Oil
Tablets has been shortened-iust
ask for McCoy's Tablets at Peoples
Drug Stores or any drug store in
America.
The Washington times., 1928-02-29
BLOCK ESCAPE
OF SANDING
.By 1nternatlonal News servIcs

Z y
MANAGUA, Nicaragua. Feb. a.
The Honduras authorities have been
asked by the United States to keep
sharp watch for Gen. Augustine
SANDING, the rebel leader, and mem
bers of his staff il they flee across
the border before the advancing de-
tacnments of United States Marines
and native constabulary. it was
learned here today.
Sequira, member of SANDING 5
staff. has been arrested in Hon
duras, where he Is reported to have
tried to obtain munitions for the
rebels.
A detachment Of SO marines were
fired upon by bandits five miles
northwest OF Jinotega. 1t Is not yet
officially known lie there were any
casualties. The marines were en-
route from Yali to Condega. convoy
ing an empty pack train which was
returning for supplies.
The Washington times., 1928-02-29
MINE VENDE I 4
CLAIMS Z
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WILKES. BARRE. Pa, Feb. a.
Silent pnen walked the streets Of
the silent city Of Pittston to-day
marked men, awaiting the next
death move In 4 mine vendetta
which today had added two more
names to its rapidly growing list
Of victims.
Alex Campbell, SIS, former inter-
national board member Of the
United Mine Workers, and Peter
Saldaragas, IS, local union secre-
tary. were shot down near Camp
belts home while returning from q
conference regarding the shooting
Of Frank Agati. an earlier victim
of the mine union feud.
Pittston waited silently for the.
rext move ii the vendetta waited
knowing that other lives will be
taken in the bitter factional war.
State troopers were reported to
have made four arrests, but the
troopers are moving secretly.
The Washington times., 1928-02-29
American Woman Gets
Paris Divorce Decree

PARIS, Feb. 29.-Mrs. Edwin
Thomas Murphy. the former Ursula
Tarkan. was granted decree of di-
vorce from her husband here today.
Mrs. Murphy charged desertion. The
couple were married at Rockaway
Park. n. Y. on October 4, 1911.
Charging her husband with de-
sertion, Mrs. Eugene Schereschew-
skv filed a suit for divorce. The
couple were married in New York
nm June u. 1898 Mrs. Schereschew-
sky Is the former Flora Mandei.
stein.
Mrs. Joel Calm, the former Con-
stance Stern. also filed suit for
divorce, alleging that her husband
refused to live with her. The cou-
ole were married in New York on
November 90. 1910.
The Washington times., 1928-02-29
II. Z. Warner, School
Head. Talks In Boston

BOSTON, Feb. IN .-- Need Tor
research in secondary schools, was
characterized as inherent today By
Harold Ellsworth Warner, principal
Of the IIine Junior High School II
washington, u. c.. in an address
before the National Association Of
secondary school principals, at the
StatIer Hotel.
eOnly in so far as teaching Is put
on basis OF continuous research
does 1T become professional, War
ner said. The good teacher, like
the good physician, must be con-
tinuously making case study Of
each pupil and each pupil group
Under her direction She will carry
them home in her thoughts at
night. saying. 4 tried this method
today. but tomorrow / have plan
that win, hope. produce better
results" and so forth.
Have you had your clocks repaired
recently? see the repair shop
mentioned IN today'a who's who
columns Of the Times and Herald.
The Washington times., 1928-02-29
Beats Mate to Death
And Kills Herself

BALTIMORE. Md, Feb. 90. A
verdict of homicide and suicide was
given today by Coroner George G.
Blades, in the case of Mrs. Helen
Page, So, who was found dead be-
side the body OF her husband.
Charles h. Page. 81.
She had beaten him to death at
least three days ago and yesterday
turned on the gas. dying while being
AIKEN to a. hospital.
The Washington times., 1928-02-29
Woman 96 Years Old
Has Had But e
Birthdays
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80. ~ -.

CHICAGO. Feb. 2s-Her twelve
grandchildren today helped Mrs.
Caroline .zigahn to celebrate her
twenty-third birthday. She is in
reality s6 years old, but having
been born on this odd day that
comes once every four years, she
has had but % birthdays.
Since 1900 was not a leap year,
Mrs. Zigahn and others sharing
her birthday had to 60 eight
wears without q nativity celebra.
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
Fashion Approves a New Gait
BY MARY MARSHALL.

There are some women who still pro-
greSs In this fashion, but the most
fashionable method apparently is to
step forward courageously as If no pos
sible obstacle could intervene and to
take strides as free and as long as ones
costume will permit.
If you haven't actually noticed this
stride, just look at the photographs of
any of the smarter young women as
they appeared last Winter in Palm
Beach, last Summer at Newport, or at
present in the big cities. I am sure
you will see examples of this new stride
that seems to start at the shoulder and
extend to the toes.
There still are coats and wraps that
have to be held in place with the hand
and all skirts are not cut with pleats
or flares, but most of them are and
the better dressed women are choosing
for street wear the walking suits or en-
sembles that give ample freedom for
long, free steps. The hip-length fur
Jacket, I feel sure, will meet with ap-
proval for cold weather wear, If for no
other reason than that it leaves greater
freedom for long steps than the fur
coat that extends to the hem OF the
frock.
This weeks help for the home dress
maker shows how to perform minor
operations on fur. With the help Of
the sketches and suggestions you will
have no trouble using trimming bands
of fur on a new frock or wrap or max
ing over an old fur piece into trim
ming for some frock you have in mind.
So please send me a stamped, sell
dressed envelope and I will send 1t to
you at once.
(Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
True to Life

When wearied by the long days strife
I'd sit me down and read book that
isn't true to life-it fills a pressing
need. For life to most of us is gray,
and sad; week after week
we go our way to gain another scad
We leave our homes at o'clock and
then return at 5, and seldom know a
jolt or shock while we are yet alive
We go and dun the same old skates
who've long been in arrears; we meet
the same old delegates we've met each
day for years. We tell the same old
anecdotes to Jones and Smith and
Grimes; we lose the same old billy
goats we've lost a million times. We
buy the same short-order lunch the
waiter always brings and gossip with
the same old bunch about the same old
things. One day is like another day,
they can't be told apart: lifeS so
and gray 1t breaks the hui
man heart. Its true to life," the critics
say when they would boost a book, Lut
would shoe that book away from my
chaste inglenook. I want book that
is untrue to all the life I know, that
leads me off to pastures new from
work day cares and woe. The more
it is the better it will suit,
and will read and cry. Gee whiz, this
story Is a beaut." Give me a tale
where pirates board ship with treas
ure filled: give me a yarn of cloak and
sword, wherein much blood is spilled.
And will read it to my wife with sat-
deep: but If the tale were
true to life I'd yawn and go to sleep.
WALT MASON.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
THE DAILY
HOROSCOPE
Tuesday, October %.

Early tomorrow benefic aspects are
strong, according to astrology which
reads in the stars fair promises to
women.
The morning hours may be depress-
ing to women who work and house.
keepers may feel weary of humdrum
tasks, but as the day advances better
conditions will prevail.
1t should be lucky wedding day,
with years of companionship in work
rather than the prosperity that brings
about divided interests.
The theater should benefit, especially
where civic interests have focused.
This Is an suspicious date for new
plays.
Music continues under promising
direction of the stars, but 1t may be
handicapped by new inventions and
new fads that enthrall the people, 1t is
foretold.
1t is not an suspicious rule under
which to argue, and lawyers may have
an especially bad time.
The radio is the safest medium for
Speechmaking while this planetary gov
eminent prevails.
1t is well to rest from important
endeavors after shutdown, for there is
an aspect that will cause disappoint-
ment, the seers warn.
Under this rule the mind may be
inclined to harbor small enmities and
to exaggerate trivial matters. 1t Is
most unfortunate for family peace.
Again the stars presage increase OF
divorce and haSty renIdrriageS, but
there is sign that seems to indicate
stern new face on the part OF the
public.
Under the planetary changes, which
seem to presage serious national and
international problems, there will be
higher standard of loyalty to family ira
ditions, astrologers predict.
Persons whose birth date 1t is have
the augury of a commonplace year in
which they should combat an inclina-
ton to be restless and bored They
may be rather difficult to live with and
should cultivate the domestic virtues.
Children born on that day probably
will have large ideas and will be keen
on far travels. They should be ex-
ceedingly bright and entertaining, for
unusual gifts belong to the subjects
of Scorpio. They also have a great
regard for their personal appearance
and usually are dignified.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
Everyday Law Cases
Will Promise to Pay for VOlun-
teered Services Be Implied?
BY THE COUNSELLOR.

For three weeks before the election,
John Penn worked hard for the election
of his friend Carter, at his request. He
went stumping and soliciting nelghoors
and friends, hoping thereby to be re-
paid either in money or be given a job
as doorkeeper during the session.
Carter expressed his approval of the
services and his appreciation on several
occasions, but after his election soon
forgot about his energetic friend.
Penn, angered by Carriers disregard,
brought suit against him for $500 for
services rendered during the campaign.
He lost his case, however, for the
court stated:
Work and labor of a friend per-
formed in a political campaign, without
an express promise on the part of the
person for whom 1t was rendered to pay
for 1t, raise no legal liability even
though done at the latter's request;
voluntary labor bestowed as an act of
friendship does not raise legal liability"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
DIET AND HEALTH
BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D.

The babies, dressed in ducky little
bathing suits, are laid on f1annel-cov-
cred tables and put through their ex-
ercises by trained assistants, one for
each baby. Maj. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
director of the gymnasium, first ex-
perimented with his own children. He
believes that the exercises will cure or
prevent many defects of the spine and
that they are also good for children
who develop slowly as result OF ner-
yous disease or injury at birth.
In Graz, Austria, Prof. Hamburger
has also introduced series of exer-
cises for babies. He compared the
babies who were given the exercises
with other babies-having the same
care in other respects-who received
no exercise, and found that the eXer-
cised babies were better developed all
around-had broader shoulders and
better chests and backs. Their muscles
being so much sturdier, they were more
dextrous and had fewer accidents and
took falls with laughter, indicating
healthy nervous systems. The babies
were not nearly so apt to take cold.
The little fatties reduced their fat and
R1lHGQ kOOu oliA Viz AAuSAN SAAAAA
MES gained fat and good muscles.
DIR. Edward wilkes says 1t Is better
for the baby to have regular systematic
exercise directed toward developing all
the muscles Of the body, rather than to
RELY on the hit-and-miss method OF
general play, and it should be given
S to 10 minutes daily. He noticed the
same results with the babies in his
clinical and private practice that DR..
Hamburger and Maj. Neumann-Neu-
rodd did.
Systematic exercises should be con-
tinued all through childhood. While
the children get a lot of exercise in
play, there will be muscles they won't
exercise and systematic exercise will
bring these into play. One OF the chief
values of the systematic exercise is that
it establishes a habit that will be car
ried throughout life and which will
prevent a lot of troubles.
J.--While liver or liver extract Is not
a specific for any disease except per-
nicious anemia, it is undoubtedly of
benefit in the ordinary or secondary
anemias and rundown conditions
After the cause of the secondary anemia
is removed the blood soon regenerates.
If the right diet and the other hygienic
factors are practtcedA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
The Sidewalks of Washington
By THORNTON FISHER.

There is something almost pathetic
about the sight of those country folk
who sit among their wares near the
site of the former farmers market.
With the demolishing of the sheds
went one Of the city's picturesque set
tings. AS early as o'clock in the
morning things began to stir at the
market.
Singly and in groups, the men and
women of the rural districts drove
through the still streets, bringing their
produce. Many of them were specialists.
Beet raisers, spinach growers and gen.
eral farmers. They catered to hotels,
boarding houses, hucksters and private
individuals, who purchased in quanti-
ties. Nothing but a gaping excavation
marks the spot where once the nearby
farmers stood. There are a few, how
ever, who refuse to give up the ship.
They find places along the curb and
contrive to find trade.
Thursday a poultry man found q
place at the curb. He had cage of
guinea hens Something happened to
the catch, for, in less than minute,
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graphs. Our profit was in the frame
and not the picture. That is WHY.
perhaps, one still sees so many crayon
drawings on easels or walls in the
country today.
Then came the era Of the Bible
salesman, who went about the rural
districts, selling them on the installz
ment plan. Stereoscopes, too, were a
part Of the salesman's equipment. OF
course that was legitimate business, so
to speak. The farmer folk fell for It.
They knew that they were getting
something for their money. They
weren't so sure about the fanciful
stock certificates In a 'blue-sky' COM
pany. Taken by and large, New York
is more guillible than Washington. In
other words, they are more easily sold
on any proposition"
We believe him.
X \
He Is a Pullman porter. Before that
he was a waiter in boarding house.
so you can imagine that he should
Il e.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
A Sermon for Today
BY REV. JOHN R. GUM.
Discovering Men.

Text: And as Jesus passed from
thence, He saw man, named Mat
thew, sitting at the receipt of custom:
and He saith unto him, Follow Me.
And he arose, and followed him."
Matt, ike.
my best discovery was Michael
Faraday," said Sir Humphrey Davy.
And Sir Humphrey Davy made many
important discoveries. In the field of
chemistry he discovered potassium. So
dium, barium, calcium and magnesium.
He did important work in physics, dis
covering among other things the min
er's safety lamp. His basic work in
this direction lay at the bottom of
Edisons discovery of the incandescent
electric light.
But Michael Faraday-what a dis
covery! Just and Faithful knight of
God" Tyndal called him. Eminent
not only as physicist, but as a
preacher and promoter of religion. For
his contributions to religion as well as
science the world is greatly in his
debt. No wonder Sir Humphrey, him.
self man of profound religious faith
as well as great scientist, felt that
he had made his best discovery when
he discovered his great pupil, Michael
Faraday.
Christ Is seen in His greatest glory,
not as a miracle worker, but as dis
coverer of men. 1t was not nearly
so great thing when He discovered
in five loaves and two fishes sufficient
food to feed a multitude, as when
passing by the receipt of custom He
discovered Matthew Feeding and sat-
isfying the physical hunger of the null
titude with those five loaves and two
fishes, was wonderful thing. But
think of the millions upon millions who
have been fed with ''the true bread
from Heaven" unto the satisfaction of
the deeper hunger of the soul through
Matthews ministry.
Discover a man, and you have made
a discovery fraught with greater posi-
bilities of good than any food discovery
tential than any of the discoveries of
science.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
Jimmy Skunk Is Lame.
Fen the independent find
Trouble never far hebind.

It isn't often that Jimmy Skunk finds
himself in trouble. But trouble comes
to everybody, and once in while
Jimmy gets in trouble through his very
independence. Jimmy was In trouble
now. In his independence he had been
careless and Hooty the Owl had all but
caught him. Now Jimmy had burrowed
into a corn-shock ard he was nursing
a sore leg. His coat had been torn just
above his hip and Hooty's long, sharp
claw had gone way through that coat
into the flesh.
Jimmy was safe for the time being,
however, and that was the main thing.
"Ill stay here the rest of the night,
said Jimmy to himself. "I don't dare
try to go any farther while 1t is dark.
I know Hooty viii be watching until
it is broad daylight. My goodness, he
pretty nearly got me that timel hope
/ am not going to be lame after this. =
So the. long night passed and by and
BY iolIy1 4buAa. fhlsh6 NE. Sun began
his daily climb up in the blue, blue
sky. Jimmy poked his head out from
his hiding place There was nothing
now to fear from Hooty the Owl. There
was nothing to fear from anybody.
Everybody but Hooty has too much re-
spect for Jimmy's little scent-gun to
bother him much.
"Ooch!" exclaimed Jimmy. as he
dragged himself out. "Ooch!"
Whats the matter with you, Jimmy
Skunk?" inquired Sammy Jay, who
happened along just then.
IT met with an accident" replied
Jimmy, who was ashamed of having
been SO careless as to give Hooty the
Owl a chance, and SO didn't want any
one to know it.
Sammy Jay was interested right
away. What kind of an accident?"
he demanded.
"oh, just an accident" said Jimmy.
"Ooch!"
Jimmy now was out in full view and
Sammy jays bright eyes saw the tear
in Jinmy's coat. Those eyes OF
Sammy's opened very wide at that. He
Just stared. He knew that that tear
had been made by claw and this was
news. To think that somebody had
dared to attack Jimmy Skunk! Right
away Sammy's curiosity was aroused.
who did it, Jimmy? Who did it?''
cried Sammy.
Jimmy paid no attention. He started
to move along. Then it was that ne
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
Lessons in English
BIZ W. L. GORDON.

Words often misused: Do not con-
fuse proposal" and proposition" One
makes proposal" to do thing, pre-
sents a proposition" for discussion.
Often mispronounced: Incognito.
both is as in "it," first as in "of,"
last as in mo" and accent after the
g, not first syllable.
Often misspelled: Spaghetti. Note
the hetti.
Synonyms: Quit, surrender, resign,
leave, desert, relinquish, forsake, aban-
don.
Word study: "Use word three times
and 1t is yours" Let us increase our
vocabulary by mastering one word each
day. Today's word: Incredible; not
capable or worthy Of belief. His men,
tai agility was incredible"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-22
BY THORNTON
W. BURGESS
BEDTIME STORIES

found he was very lame. AS a matter
of fact, he walked on three legs. It
hurt too much to use that fourth one.
who did it," persisted Sammy Jay.
who did it?"
TITS no business of yours who did
It," said Jimmy Skunk Grossly. Il told
you met with an accident and that's
enough. 1t WAS an accident"
Sammy Jay laughed. 81 suppose it
was" said he. ut was the same kind
of an accident most of US experience
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a AOLLAA "a SAAC
hens dashed from
the inclosure and
beat it for the
open spaces.
Now e. guinea
hen is fleeter Of
wing and foot than
an ordinary hen,
and the owner saw
his profits diSap-
pearing. So did
four colored men
who gave chase
with the owner.
The hens by this
time were in the
excavation. 1t is
useless for a man
to try to run a hen