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ciAnLOxx:: daily or - , W . , i . j -j i i 7. m- ji"S "t " (, Vr 3 .. Mi V-r ww'wvssr (Crvpyritht, 1'lOfU'by the .New Tork Herald Company. .All Rights Re- served-) Collector of the antique snd the curious know Mr. Xcvy and hie quer Mtlo shop, In flwr little alley, that eailormen of all hues and tongues and garbs and characters take as a bltort cut to and from the dock All day and much, of the night tlvry pans in two turn lines, a Tijni une (own ' ward and a Slisasr toward their ships. A good many look in to e Mr. Levy On their nrst joxu journey asnore, . ror Jse cornea before the rmbltc houi or the CDlum den. --' A-few look in to see him on their final Journey aboard, for-when he buys from them iie trie to persuade them to take their nayment thvjr- He i partial to th caltormen aria they are partial to him, 3 think he went to sea in Ills young days, tor he is tattooed on the arm It is not th best ot place for . celling Jils wares, hit. Levy owns, but It's tin good place tor- buying There's" nobody picks tip thinks like a sailor,'" has often toia me. They're knocked about all over the , iwarld and know wihat's out of th ronvmon, and when they s a thing they fancy they generally manage to V Bet t a-But they wont carry it past the first shop wtoere they're treated (fair; and as for collectors, . they'll com anywhere after once they itnd sou're good stuff and tell ths truth about It." : -.-... ... V - I have dealt with Mr. Levy for . - veveral yearSr-aad 1 m- bound to say that I consider Mm a trathful man, -In spit vf the -following story. . . Jt . ratne out when 1 was selling' the last fboxful of things that my brother sent norrve from Bunmah, and this was the way of ft: . - x -Forty pounds for the lot.? he pro- rouocod, 'and you can keep the Jons." it was a queer little idol wkh two : silt heads. "I'd reckoned on fifty," 1 said. He Smiled. "Well, nearly. -Make it rorty roineas and take the Joss, urn - you eall t." He tapped bis te&Lh with tils pen " ClL . "III make it forty guineas." he ; agreed, "but I wont hay the Joss, I v never deal in thorn; and If I were I'd advls your brother to leave them alone, the next time you writ. Most of them aren't pukka. Josses, on- ly ahams; but you may happen to get (ended with a reai one." "CJome, come, Mr. Levy!" J protest ed, -you don't mean to tell ml that you believ In themT" r He spread out 'his left hand and field 4t up to tne. I saw that the littl finger -was tntselni. . r ., 'It's the little finger of a. Joss now," The stated grtmly; "a god they call - - -WeTl,'1 1 said, -"I'll tek forty giul feasnd th story." . ' H considered thoughtfully. .' , j don't suppose- it matters mw." lie decided. "It wasa good many wears ago; but. If you tell any one, keep names out of It" -And this is the story that Mr. Levy as I have called him told in In th dark little parlor behind his shop: An American sailor brought It here In a cab. It was life size, and to x , act to life that, upon my woftd, I at ' most thought he was pulling a body out of the sack first; and then I , stood and stared at K and didn't say a word. ' ' - . It was a man leastways a god carved out of a fleshy brown wood that passed for the natural color of . th face and hands without touching tip. - The hair was real hair, black . and Jong and harsh wltn age. . Th teeth were real teeth, too, I Judged, though how they were put In ' th mouth,' which was nly slightly open. J could never make out. The head - smed to b cut out of solid block, and I couldn't see any Joints or feel them under the half." Th yes were : some kind of glass, and I couldn't aee how they were put tn, either; and another curious thing was that ths clothing was made f a different fctnd of wood, and where It opened " you could see the fleah brown body, but you couldn't find how Jt' was got over tn oony or, tne ooav unaerneam Jt- The cloak was hard black wood carved with flowers well not exactly flowers, but figures shaped something ' Ilk llowf.rs, as you see in some wall papers. The hem of if was ornament , d with metal b?atun in to form a - smaller flowery pattern. The sailor - railed It gold, but It wasn't. It was " m composition nf flrass, but I've- nev er seen the exact kind before of since. v. Titer were buckles of it on th san dals. The sandals were Just an -ordinary ehape cut out of yellowish wood, but th lNt were covered with stock 'inge which Is unusual stocking carv ed out of .ebony, and yet as tain as silk and inoking like open iace, show ing the brown lege through. ', The fig- ,. vr was squatting crone legged and It (had a dw'r In its right hand. 'Ths . dogger w steet. very real steel, and "as sharp as a razor and engraved with tdeep cut lines.- AU th engravings represented portions of the human body; v hands and feet and ears and rosea and flngcre and toes and two , hmd one on eat h side. The figure mayn't sound anything extraordinary : from my' account, but If you'd seen Itt The workmansaip was wonder ul. wondprful! "It's a beauty. Ixn't It?" the sailor said, when I had looked at it for a whole minute. . . '"yea." 1 arreed. "It' good." -"What will you give for It?" he eked. , V'Umph!" I ssld., I was a little ; pusslPd myself to know what it was worth. "How did you come by It?" i ' "That's my business," he answer th. "'Bat I'll tell you this. The law , can't touch me, or you not over ;, Jiere." ' I looked at the man I'm a pretty fair Judge of men and I hellved Jilm. And besides. If it h,l been stolen irt this country I should have heard - of It. - He'd robbed some Jo house) : over se. I made no doubt, and they'd never trouble me. -, '"fhst prt did he come from?- I Inquired. "And who Is he supposed to be?" , . "f fu' ji'iave, to goess that too," he . told ma. : I ehruerd my shoulders. ' "Then I'l have to guess what It worth," I said. and I'm not going to . gass against tnyseif. jt may b worth a great deal I'm frank with . yon or it may not. I'm not going t frire a fancy pric on spec.; but I'll ell it on commission if yon like." . "Commission be . . hanged I". he growled, "I want my money i,' now; - and when I say now I don't mean to morrow., or this evening, do you n- ; drefsndr ' " r -';".':.- --Wrll,, I said, -what d yon wantf" 'He sat on th edge of th Ubl we were In this room and he sat Just ther and folded his arms, f "Th thing s unlikely." toe said lie ' mesnt unique and l'vs run a risk for Jt that I wouldn't run, again for a and I wglked to th door over there an called Into ths shop. ' "Isaac." I said, "corns her fer a minute." I don't open my safe 'alone wlttl a strsnger of that kind. , Isaac Vint in and I got. out the money and paid the American sailor man... Then. I sent Isaac back to the Shop. i- : j-. . ''.." - a ;S . - ,, "'ow, I said, i'l've bought it. Tell me what you can." j , . ; "If I wouldn't tell you when I was selling,' be said, "it isn't likely I'll tell, yon when I'v sold; but -I warn you of one thing. ' Tou go for small profits and quick returns, and get rid of It as eooo as you can, and if you hav any brown men com after it men with broad noses Ilk that" he pointed to the Joss "and no eye brows like that hn't, , and a left littl ' finger gone. Ilk that' has If you have them com after It,, you tabs whatever they'll give and iclos sharp. That's alL Good inornlng!" " , And h went.' ' . - "Ah!"'' I 'said "to : myself "H dl4 steal it from a Joss house. If they're following "'by - any -chance well, I'm not afraid of any dagoes,- but I don't want a fuss. 'I'll put It away for a month or so, J I. they've given up looking round here )j So I stowed 1t in this big, cupboard Just behind tn and didn't mention It to a soul for a fortnight ' and . told Isaac to hold his tongue.. He can d that, or he wouldn't b here, Then I bad a call from a strange gentle man, a tall, thin, very dark man of about forty-ave "dressed all In fclack. the ort who's spent his Uf among antiquities till he's grows to look a bit like them. Professor Be tt el-Lee, F. R. 8 . he called himself. H cam in to inquire about some, ancient Japanese brontes that were road in England: at least that' what n made out he cam In for, A lot. of tnem beat about the bush first. . "Do you guarantee these?" ' he askd. . . VNo." I said.; "I don't." : And lis mlied. . ' ; "Made by Hammerton's,'' h told You'd How A chance-- word let sllpl No. better know nothing abont it did you come by it?" : ' I told him. and he listened- with hi eyes on it, nodding continually., - "Ton were wise not to show It," he said, "and if you take my . advice you'll dispose of it quickly for what yon can get from an amateur! He won't ive yon -.what it's worth' be came he won't knew what it la. Those who do know went buy It, unless Is It whole? Quit whole?" 'There' a little finger gone." X ad mitted. .. ; - - ' - ,'- - - .- -. "Ah-h-h!- h t said. "Ah-hat I might have known." . Hs looked at It and. muttered to himself. -' "It looks Ilk an accidental breakage," he said, "and if so it may hav been lost -. If I wer sur of that '- -". ' ? --. " - 'What differene does lt'mkt,, I asked. - - ; . , 7 He sat down and looked at me. -' If they have the finger," he said, "It will bring them to it.. Tou may smile, but well, it makes this differ ence, anyhow. - If I believed that the finger was lost I'd buy th flgur for a thousand pounds!" , . "Seeing that you - can't 1 know," I said, "it's a cheap offer. Anyhow, if you'll tell me what it Is Vti advertise It and tak .my risk." ; . . ; ;H shook his head.! v "Tou'd be a dead man in a, week If yon did I That's why I wouldn't tell you. i Th name they call tt. means well. It means several thingsThe God Who - Repays.' Th Ood Who Strike.1 It does, rthey-do. m It is hard to know bow much Is th priests doing and how much th god's. Von Btruymer holds that the prieet are hypnotists and the .god I only but It's no use talking about It. - I'll make you an offer, . If you'll put It in your shop window for a month and if you hav no trouble over it I'll assume that the littl finger Is lost and that They" he lowered his voice "hav lost trac of th god, and I'll run th risk and buy it for a thousand pounds Otherwise well. If they com for it I recommend you to give it to' them put him In the window, and we shall se what happens, but we'r playing wun edged tools, Mr. Levy." ' And 1 put Jt la th window, as I hav said, veiled and squatting on a prayer carpet, one of a doiea ,that wouldn't sell, , . The boys and girls that bang about th alley cam and rubbed their noses on the window and nicknamed him Lobengula. Itwa th time "when he was In the papers, and that's a aosea years or more back, a you know. No body else took any notlc for a cou ple ef days, except an old sea captain who was, drunk and wantsd him for ten pounds. On ths third dayIsaact drew my attention ttt a dark chap a Lascar he called him. but he wasn't with a wide no and black eyes sod hair, who might hav been th Joss brother. He was standing in front of the window bowing, with his hands crossed over th back of bis neck. I noticed that a finger was missing, the little finger of his left hand. - "I don't Ilk th look of that chap, Isaac", 1 said. "It strike me he's al tar our Joss. We'll put ths old gen tleman In my bedroom when w shut up to-night - 5 . - I always kept i anything ' specially valuable there, and I 'had an alarm bell to the door and bars to ths win dow and -a revolver handy beside my bed. 8a I slept soundly all that night, and when Isaac cam in th morning he did not sleep her then w car ried the old Joss down again. " . The' next day . there, were two. forr sign men, as like as peas, and they had both lost th littl. finger of the left hand. When they salaamed to the Joas thsy chanted in a lingo that I did not understand, 'though-1 know a bit of meet. Then they, went off, .When Isaac was going to take him out f th window " that night he stumbled forward and bis head want On his knee and th old Joss lifted his arm, ths one with the. dagger, like a" flash. I caught Isaaa- by th collar and Jerked him back Just In time. He must hav touched a spring, but w cojild net And iC W wrapped , J u my arm and stopped m from run nine after them. "It's no use.'K. hs declared, "you'll hsve to let It so." . "Not for all th woodfarrd dagoes in th world."-I said,, "1 11 adver tise the thing with a sketch of it and if you won't glv m a thousand for it . torn . on els , wllL" ' r "Very likely" he . shrugged his shoulder "if that's th pric you put open your life,, , I turned a bit cold, for I knew that he - understood a lot . about those things. . ' ' - "Look here," 1 offered, "seven hundred, and fifty down and you can tak it now." r "Not as a gift, h said, "unless what did they say?" ' ' ! : "How do I know." It'm all Jabber, Jabber, Jabber, their talk, Do you know It?' . "Ye." h said, "oh, yet Then stop and talk to them. If they come back.'i "No." be refused. .'I don't wrant them to connect me with It, but I'll stay In your room and listen to them If you like." , - : ' They cam back Just after tea and went through the same ' pantomime as beforehand when thsy had gone I, went In Ad asked him what they said "They called to you to do obeisance to the god so that he could lift his little finger and go noma, ana when you did not do it they called to you The Neck to the God Who 8mltea. Tou'd better give It up and let m make the best terns for 'you that" I can." . .-"' '. .Terms be !" r cried In A rage. TfvVery well,Lh said, tI'vs warned you." . Then ho went, r ' ' ' . -I took the joss up to my ' room again at night 'I didn't get to sleep fat first snd presently I heard a poise belQvfind opened my window. The woodenaced men wer trying my lower windows They ran away aa fast as they could go. and I Hot back In bed and fell ssleep, ; ,; i ' I had the same dream as before, only I didn't wak Ull I had fallen ft ; . Ix- " v " " ,t' 1 - S&Z? 3-:-HD'vrav -ZsYs3 WERE. 1JLK2 't it-wlth their palms together. Ti iney powra 10 me wttn their f-aliin apart, as if "You gee!" was vt.at llr.ey meant., men they went "Isaac," I Id, "I've had enough of thls. Get out the axe and the coal hammer and we'll smash the thing up." But the professor came out rrom behind th curtained, door. "No, no!" he begged excitedly. "No, no! It would be a sin. 6ucl won derful work! Tou may have . your mousana . pouna - yet.., fjome-i and listen to me," . . ... . W went into Ihe shop parlor and sat down, and what be said was this; "Tou daren't keep it while they're after it he said, ."and I daren't take it but suppos w can get them to glv it up 2 What then?" . ' -- , - J . would, .murder, one of v. ', . 'No, no. -"When I bad it J'd soon nnq tne spring ana . mak It sate Anynow iu risk the idol, if I can get tree from its followers." . "Tou'Il never persuad them to to, I declared. ; - y "No," , he said. v "but th'" god The god? I stared at him. ' They' might mistake my vole for hi he laughed ' a . dry laugh if tney broke in, as they thought ' of doing last night, in th dark." 1 - "I seel" I cried, '.'I seel" I almost danced with delight; I wks younrsr men ana a oc so stout. rou il ta'k to them In their Ungo as If you were th Joss and tell them to go off and never come-back, -eh?" .1 "Z shall tell them that I t that is. th Joss, as yon call It) will not corns to my finger, They must bring ths finger to me. : They haven't It, o they would hav been her befor you put him in the window. I f Do you seriously mean to say that a wooden finger would have brought them to It? Bhown them th way?" "I mean rt very seriously," he said. 'And if they did find bis little finger at any time well, th risk will be mln. if they go to-nignt, and I buy It If they don't" , ..If .they don't T said, ."so much th wore for them. I'm not afraid of a couple of wooden faced brown men, , .: r f : r - . ; ' w assumed that they would make an. attempt for it that nignt. bo we did. not carry it upstairs, but set It tn th mlddl of the shop, on low carved - chair. . inlaid wlh ivory, , that looked Ilk a throne as I rather think it was; but1 the .black . who brought It didn't Speak English well. and I eould only mak out that It was something to do with a 'great Ju-ju,' called K-ko. Ws put. a screen be hind it and the professor sat behind the screen. I hid- behind an Indian cabinet that stood ' near th door from this room. : It was, dark except for a faint glimmer from the -fan. light over the shop door, ffh shat ters were up on t,hs door and the window," Th darkness got on-my nerves, and whenever the professor stirred. I Jumped, thinking that it was th Joss moving.-.- - 1 , .- Twelv struck, on, two; ' then , I heard a faint noise at th window of th shop parlor the room we're In now.7; They wer evidently trying to fore the catch.' . - '.:s -,:'! 1 ThpyU com closo by me," 1 whis pered, "hadn't I better mover , 'l "No, no!" he whispered back. Tou mlftht knock something - over, and they'd hear. They can't se you. They'll be between you and th light what' there is. Keep quiet. - . . "I kept quiet shivering with excite ment; or if It was anything slse ; it wasn't from fear of them. - Til- own that I dMn't feej quit easy about th Joss,'- .'-'c;. ''. At last the fastening went back with a sharp ''ciack. ' Tnen tn winaow was opened slowly. - Then I heard them In th. room; and then they crept Into th shop and stood just in side it, close to my idow. m glim mer from the fanlight showed them. They salaamed to th flgur and. spoke In soft deprecating tones, and ; sud denly a vole cam from It well, I suppose It was the professor, but H sounded unearthly and angry. . . It seemed to 'be giving orders. - When it stopped they turned half round, as if thev wer going, and. suddenly the man next to m pounced upon xp in hei dark and . almost threw me over hie shoulder Into th arm of,'" bis rnmntnlon. Then both seised ' me from behind and pushed m tward fhe loss. " Th :vell ,was off - 1U face th mi ' were Ilk two. - blttlsh lamps., On of th men put Ws , leg In front of me and- tripped me, 1 went down on my knees before the thing. I saw' th dagger going up. My head was pressed .upon bis legs, and "my left arm wa seised by the btiit u' forced forward. I felt.; a of patriotic verge "printed, and . any bookseller can eupply 'It. . .' - B. K. To whom can I writs In England to find out if there1 Is-an estate. there for me? (I). What is the horoscope of one born' January lSt? ;. - ; - . . -.. V .j... . A. If you have no recourse but to epply to;the English courts, you wilt 1-uv to employ ao attorney. who in turn will engage an English member of the bar to look into the matter. If there really an estate waiting for you to claim it there must be soma ' way to learn something about it with out going to court and court pro ceedlnga are useless without evidence. (I) froud. . independent talkative, and versatile,..., :,: X-st H. B. TUw-Ar there any famous general "who claimed never to toav .k z been defeated in battle? ' - v A Alexander the Great JutluS Caesar and the Tuk nt .Waiiitvtnit k hay that distinction. -:. i SSMSMajg, ..'--'. , f .' J : 1 O. A. B. Doe th Jtnhlnv." thm EsTPtlan monument, preserve iu . good condition in stlta of the Una ' of time. A. On the contrary iti i ratvidlv crumbling away. . The great lrriga-- tion works have radically changed the exceedingly dry , climate - of Jigypt, .V which made the great longevity -of ' : monuments possible, -f , - ' - -x , ' - :M. P, B.--Can yod deeciibe the for- -- maldehyd test for milk? , wijik i ouutea witn an . squat volume ef water; aulDhurlo acid ' containing a (trace of ferric chlorld is aoaea so tnat it forms a layer be- v. ' neath.th milk. Under thes condl-. , tlons milk in th absence of formal-'V dehyd, dyes a slight greenish tinge , at the Juncture of th two licruids. - while a violet ring is formed when . ?, formaldehyde Is present ' Sometimes ' th violet ring forms In half a mln- --, ut after mixing, sometlmer not s ,- quickly. It is well, therefore, to let J " th test tube stand a few minutes. Make th test with ample Usrht lest the brown ring which - sometime r ' form as a result of th caramellsa- j, Uon of th sugar In ths mitt: bd mis- taken for th violet rlnrof tformal. ' aenyq.- 1, William lnce . replying to -your ' query a week ago I have read that moon blindness in a horse is caused . by wolf -teeth two small surplus ; teeth lust In front of th first upper- ' ' premolars, one on each side of th ..' Under Jaw. , Arfother authority denies !" this. -..;...; ,.,v;., , , f) A "','.t! VA. E. "B.When a theatre parjy is "V" Invjted by one of th gentlemen to ' partake of a supper afterwards, wh ' ; : should order the supper and how far v. "': should th ladle b consulted in th ,. Selection ?. ' , '. .-' - L ' ' --,k- ' ' " X . A. Th ' host should order,- but h ' ' would be scarcely generous If he did -not consult the taste of others of th.. -party. . He might mak out a menu ' and refer it to his friends befor or. - V derlng. . Then, if a dish wer not ; ' wanted, a substitute could be supplied. ' They've me, "some dm laet yesr, improved the bronm since." That's It " j said, "and that's bow they're priced. If you look. ' ' "80 J saw or ! shouldn't hav come In, I don't want faked stuff. Now these" he. took up some littl fig ures and examined them very care fully, using - . microscope , and tast ing, them with his tongue nd hold ing them VP o the light and then In the shade "thev are modern Jspsnese forgery of earlier work." he pronounced: "but they've used genu ine old metal melted ' down . again. Clever, very cleverly They'd take In many people who call themselves ex pert." -.- y "Ah!" I said, 'They ' aren't right, then? I wasn't surs, How did you tell?" ;,,V.-.'..,-. I-.:-.. . r H-explained tt to me. and finding that he knew a lot about thes things I thought I'd ask him about the Jos. . - ' . . " - : "I've got a flgur In th back room. I said. "a. sort of. Idol, that I can't place at alt 1 wish you'd have a look t it" - ' ' - j i 80 be stepped In. Befor I'd got the Joss half way out of th cup boardit wa heavy and took a lot of fortune.. ..I'll JteU ,yPVi'..mr pr!'?ltJindl Lmo!n-i9h'4 .nalM down th blind . . m . . I . . . M - I , . , . . . . . . 1 rive yon five minute to decide. If tike it er lav ltmwd, and n hag a-ling.-- Look -at me!";! - . i - v,- ... ; ."Man 'I looked 'at him and Judgd that 1. was a jnAn . who knew Jits , own 'rr'd. - -; -. - ' ',".-. -- ry well." I agreed. JIow much? "Two hundred pound.- h said. --i'fc laid his watch, on. ths table. ef th window and door for fear any on should seo, ana lit, the gaa. 1 ' alive! he cried. "Man alive". ' . - ' ' . . iW stared at Jt and ; his mouth seemed to waters -"" "Do you know what it Is?" I asked. f "Yes." be told me. "I know! - Its -my friend, you'd better not know. neseeablv. ' ' "Who may they ; b? I asked The priests? ' ' ' Th priests, he said, "sid many mora. All -w ho owe toll to the God Who RfDavs. All who hav no. I can't tell you. If I buy It 1 don't want you to be able to tell About It and I trust you not to mention It to any one until our business Is settled." . "Vary well." I promised, , ; J put it in th window - the next morning. . Acting on his advice, I covered- th - f ac with a thick . Tell. It was not supposed to be seen by vulgar eves, h exDlalned. and Ther Would deal better with me Jt I had treated It with respect. Jt was a rod thst took sacrifice he assured me, and h showed me that th right arm was Jointed. Ther was a .way' to mak It strike, he believed, but ws could not find ft Th dagger cam down Just In front ot ths crossed legs, where a man's neck might be If he knelt at it feet. "If h wa favored by th ptieets. th professor explslned. "h would b told to kneel a little to on aid, or perhaps to cross his hand over his neck so. Then ths dagger would on ly tak off an ear. or a finger. Th god had to hav blood one he was of fended, and but jh lessyouknow about It th better." "It has lost a finger Itself. I said. "Is there any meaning In that" He looked at It thoughtfully.' "There Is a proverb thst A god has only to raise his little' finger. snd so, I suppose, some one thought that he wotjld mk him saYa your friend, ths Americas sailor, perhaps. WcU . th degree In sacking before we car ried him upstairs. v - It seemed to hav got on my nerves and I-dreamed A good . bit about It that bight I thought It Was- in a sort of tempi wrlth open sides, sur rounded by sand and palms, and 'a lot of. brown men wer punblng-me toward . iC and Its vU went up and Its eyes seemed to draw me, and when I got within reach they tripped m with a rope, and Just a I was falling I aweke. It was beginning to get light, and, ther the thing squatted on th table where I had put it and th toII had fallen off Its face and Its eyes were staring at me. I covered It up with the counterpane before I flnlehed my sleep.-. About half in hour after- we ha4 set it In' the wlndowth-next morn ing the two foreign men came id Snd learned to' me. I might hav been looking at the Image except for one difference. ' Their . fsce - wer flesh that looked like wood and the Joss fac was wood that looked Ilk flesh. ' "What do you want?" I asked, and they pointed to the Image and Jab bered In their queer lingo and made a lot nf slrns and .played a sort of pinyOne was the Joss, it seemed, sad the othrstood for me, and If I didn't go and kneel to him and then give him to them he would kilt me.! r they would, I wa not sur which. Anyhow I took up a dog whip a1 Swede brousht It from Iceland and then they went,. . - j Jut a they were going the pro fessor cams in. He eaugbt hold of with - my head on the knees of the Joss, and felt a fearful blow on the back of my heck.' and when I did wak I found myself out of bed and kneeling in front ot him.. And I had been struck there, and nothing but th sacking had saved m. The knife had cut through several thick n esses of tt I found when I got a tight. I didn't sleep any mere, that night. --. . - . !.'..-. v . J. had a hap after Isaac came and we had carried the Jos down stslrs, and I had Just. finished a late break fast when the professor turned up. He had been worrying over th busi ness,' h sald. and he had com , to urge m to give -It up. "For- nothing!" I crled ' "Not I: but I'll take five hundred pounds, you can tell them." . v -. ... t They will not pay." be said. , "Fot en thing they would consider tt an Insult to the god to buy bis freedom. It would be doubting hi power to free himself.. Tor another thing, they consider that you hav to pay for th Insult that you hav don to him. But Jf. you'll let tti go I'll make th best terms thst I can with .them. - Jnst then the' wooden faced - men came In and I went out . In a fury snd. took op a big knob kertf ? the man who sold It to me said it came from th Pretoria Kaffir police. But they did ' not run. only motioned to me to look at the Joes. Then they pointed m out to him and chanted slowly. There was no one near it to touch a spring, but- th srm with the flsggpr , went slowly up and quickly down. The two men bowed' sharp pain In th hand, and ' thn 1 1 think I fainted. , ' : -.'"'" ..N'-- When I cam to X was.rying on ths floor, . bound - and gagged., I, ' could move thumb and three fingers . of the left-hand) There was only a pain and a bandag in place of the little finger so-1 Judged - by the reel. The professor and th two wooden faced dagoes wer lifting th Joss into a great basket with handle. They had lighted a lamp' (Somewhere ' and' It shone upon th flgur aa they lifted It. Its left eld was lowara me, ana I hanDened to notice the left hand The little finger was complete. v "Of course." Mr. Levy, remarsea when he had finished the story, ''lots of th losee you com across aren't the real thing." They're Just parlor or naments, o to apeak. But you never can tell, and no more Josses for. me." Did you ever bear any more of them?" I asked. , - '. ..- -. ; "No," he said, "and I hop I never shall; but there's nom ne as I'd bet did; and that's the American sail' or. Well,, that's th story.. ' Wl'l yoii taks th money In notes or gold?".' 1 O. A. L. What is th cllmat of tv Washington, and specially ot Seattle ? ' , .A. Seattle baa a mild climate, and -'' -so has much of th Stat. During th : winter months rain fall tn large r quantities, but snow is seldom seen. . The gulf .stream which sweep, down '.. th Pacific coast gives Washington , ' , and Oregon as fins- a climate, as can t . bs found In America. . Th dampness of winter Is, however, objectionable to sufferers from rheumatism .and asth f hi a. : ; 4 .' ', .'-.?'. ' -1 ,'-..'. ; H. TV Is a negro eligible for elec tion to th presidency? - -v ; , - ' . A. Any negro born In th Unltad :'. State who has reached -the age of ' IS years, if he has lived in this count r,r try -fourteen years,-msy be elected President. It is simply a question of ' getting the necessary rotes, s ; . r, . ) j r ''-'-V- '' , ' r: 1 ' ' . ' . A S. D. What is th; Burllngame - treaty, ahd when was.lt. negotiated?' , : . A. Th .treaty was slgnsd -.. July " '.. 21th, " 1817. . Mr, Burllngame was , appointed special envoy to th United . fate and th European powers hav- : ing trestle with China. .The treaty wa notable , because ,of important . privilege conferred upon those : na--tlons and because for th first time , -China, recognised r the principle , of ..j. international law. ; ' . v. .-;' . - ,3. E. B. What is the scientific x-- , planation of thunder claps? ; .' A. As ' commonly explained tb electric discharge visible a lightning heats the air thrtfjxh which, it passe . to a very high temperature, and this cSuses an intensely violent expansion of th Jr and its vapors from end to - end or the nasti. This is immediate- Jy met by a contraction of equal vlo- ) lence ana rapiaity, ana tnus is pro--. - duced a wave of expansion and con- ' traction,' the causative factor of noise.' Th t waves of thunder transmission , tends to rise away from the grdund and, thurpfore. awav from uiflKllitv because of, refraction .lft the atmos phere and because or- the 'irregular - conductivity in storm air. . - This faet .: -explains why thunder is never bearfr-t : beyond fifteen -or twenty miles, while - th discharge of artillery' has been heard a hundred miles. - . - ' , - - - . - ' - - - B. K Who operates the Panama fallroad? : ' ' r -, ' ' . '- ' A. It I controlled by the United States government but la operated In dependently under its own charter. K. J. SllferVet Colon, Is th general manager.' ' . .. . -What religious dehomfha- . President Lincoln allied A. W. C. Pleae state what the gor ernment's loss i annuallr on rejrta- tered matt uch aa letters from which the money has been taken out and h letter, delivered ;. ... J : :. -;- A Th government - sustains ' no loss, sinoe It does not assume any re liability for it beyond ths precaution of faking a receipt from each employe handling the matter. With this de vice It is a rare thing for money to bo lost and. if an employ j a thief b is soon caught 7 . F." R. What is th amount of a widow's dower in Tennessee, th hus band dying intestate and there being no children? - ... .. A. JThe dower rights, of the widow sre one-third of th real property. Tli remainder goes to brothers and sisters: if none, to parents; if none, to heirs; if none, to widow, - Subscriber Wh ere can I rt copy of the song 'The American l lag," be ginning., "H'hn frvdotn from her mountain hlhta"? A. It srpeers 1a every collection 11 George.- tlons rwaa with? A. This question Is often asked.' It ' (s not definitely known that he be- : -longed to any denomination," or that he adhered to any form of religious belief. . It Is known that be was at heart religious man.. " s , Mrs. " C- B. H. Can you' tell m - bow to desn white linen blinds? . - A. To clean whit Holland ahades rip from the rollers and sticks and wash lathe usual way, using, plenty of starch. Ironing whll damp and 1 taking great pains to - iron . thm straight. While still damp and warm from the iron, tack firmly to the rolleem, and roll up tightly, keeping th linens S erf ectly smooth and straight and ' tut befor you fasten to the lower . aticK. , .Leave them . roiled ' up all night r , .... 8. B. is'. How long has th money order system been in use by th Post- file Department? ' A. It was adopted by our govern ment and -went Into operation in No-, vember, 1814. The system -was adopt ed by the English government five years earlier. , '. ' PIF The Republican - nstlonal convention will be held in Chicago. June llth,"and 191 delemtes wlH yar ticlpate It there are no vacanclo. The Democratic convention - win be held In Denver. Jutv 7th. end th dr!a etrenirth is 1.0'OJ. The difference is due to th Kiuet that representation ef the territories Is not quite tae A'
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 17, 1908, edition 2
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