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Russia of Today THE TWO THUMB-PRINTS ALIKE By B E R R Y P H IL L IP S (Copyright, by \V. G. Chapman.) HE case against Richard iial- stein wus damning, und it hung on one fact. That fact was the thumb-print. Here it Is: Lewis llaistein had adopted his nephew Richard in infuncy. He was a queer old character; he had brought i the boy up in idleness, alleging that work was beneath the dignity of a ! gentleman. That alone shows that Lewis Halstein was decidedly eccen tric. At twenty-four, when Ids nephew left college, lie came home to find his uncle, a millionaire and more eccen tric than ever. Remember, Richard had never been trained to work. He was about us capuhle of earning a living ns a Polynesian set down in the streets o f New York. Less so, for th“ Polynesian could go on exhibition as the Wild Mon o f Borneo and earn ids two dollars a »lay. Richard Halstein could not. He looked the ordinary type o f better-class American, and there was nothing about him that would make nny man look ut him twice in the street. Richard Halstein came home to fail in love with Mildred James, the daugh ter of his uncle’s neighbor. When he heard of the engagement lie was furi Girls of Today. ous. He turned his nephew out of his home penniless. and the fur Inside; clerks In glossy Richard seems to have had a rather leather jackets; olficials with beaver hard time. However, it wus the unde collars, brief cases under their arms; who took the initiative. He asked women In felt boots; girls in slippers, him hack, ami the butler testified that with bundles, babies, and carts, were he heard the two quarreling all the tramping through the slush. evening in the old man’s library. He Beggars and Robber Gangs. listened, ns a servant will do, and Begging is a lucrative profession In heard Lewis Halstein order his nephew Moscow except for the few days of out o f the house for good. Following sporadic police round-ups. Beggars this, Richard Halstein stamped out in are o f all types and both sexes, from a rage. At nine the next morning Infants who toddle underfoot while an Lewis Halateln was found lying dead older head directs them from the side in his library, upon the floor. He had lines, to husky rascals faithful to a evidently fiAlen from his chair when n shot fired from behind entered his vow o f “ I won't work.” brain. Upon the table were pen and Differing from the whining beggars ink and paper, and it was surmised are the 200,000 to 300,000 homeless that he had intended to alter his will, children, pariahs o f the social order, which was found to be in his nephew’s ragged, sooty-faced from sleeping In fuvor. the embers o f street repair gangs’ fur Upon the polished mahogany back naces, dirty, diseased, dope-poisoned, of the chair on which he had been and desperate. They run in pucks. seated was found a thumb-print. It A gang straggles through the gate, was Richard's. Thut was the one fact hugging tlie curb, eyes alert, the world against him. a potential enemy, its plan o f action The thumb-print could not have been decided. The leader grabs a woman's made earlier in the evening, because hundbag, a man's fur cap, ipid over the butler testified that after Rich turns an unwary peddler's basket o f ard's departure he had heard the old apples. The basket is picked clean, mnn drag the chair from the living and with wild screams the gang is room ; it was a high chair, such as he gone, scattering through the streets, used when writing ut a table instead policemen und pedestrians In vain pur o f at his desk. suit. Richard was arrested and placed on In several cities homes are main trial. There was no other evidence tained by the government for these against him, hut n thumb-print is al young vagabonds— heritage of war and ways a thumb-print. Duly Miss James revolution, hut augmented every believed in Ids innocence— unless Ids month by wanderlust— with baths, lawyer, Tom Fellowes, did. clean cots, clothes, food, and a care Fellowes was a queer card. He had taker to give them Instruction and ad studied medicine before law, and had vice. Personal liberty goes umiss with been expelled from the medical school tills social group, too young to ap for some prank. He had not .he best preciate civic responsibility even if reputation as a lawyer. He was f id they had been taught it. Police and of tuckling dubious cases; hut he won social workers periodically round up them. Perhaps he was the best law the wild, untamed children and put yer Richard could have had. At any them In the homes. rate, he struck a stroke In court which The crowds elhow through the (1 was one of the Jurymen) dum- white-painted brick gates, in and out founded us and everybody. He pro o f tlie lted Square, between a gaunt duced One-Lamp Ike. let o f venders. Baskets and clumsy One-Lamp Ike was a local character, little wagons nre on the curb; also half-witted, against whom the worst flabby, brown, frozen apples for a cent known was robbery, petty thieving and fat ones, carefully sheltered under which hud landed him repeatedly In blunkets, for 40 cents; stunds o f cig Jail, and had more often still secured arettes, each with one and a quarter him a thrashing and nothing more. Inches o f tobacco and three inches o f The counsel for the state had pro paper mouthpiece; oranges for 70 duced evidence to show that the finger cents; cheeses, cut and weighed while print remains through life. Fellowes you w a it; candies collecting dust; w h s cross-examining his last witness. dried sunflower seeds, two cents a "You say that only two cases in a glassful. hundred million are to he found of Phase« of the Social Movement similar thumb markings on different The goal which Soviet Itussia has men,” he said. "Are there a hundred set Is to Industrialize the country un million finger-prints in the world?” ” 1 don't know,” responded the wit til it can supply Its domestic needs. It will then he Independent o f the out ness testily. " I haven’t counted them. side world. The United States Is taken There are a good many.” “ Name the two cases in which the as a model, not the countries o f Eu rope, which have developed Industry thumb or finger-prints were found to by colonies and foreign trade. Until be the same.” "I don’t know of any two. I believe that goal is reached, or abandoned, no wars o f Russia's making need be an there are none.” “ Then what Is your ground for the ticipated. statement that two cases occur in u The social movement In Russia may be divided into three phases: First, hundred million?“ “ I suppose that merely means that to arouse the workers to a revolution; second, to Instill the Idea In their it only occurs In an Im;>osaibly large minds that tljey were the rulers of the number,” retorted the witness uneas country; third, to impress them that uy. “ You admit, then, that you were they must produce. speaking looaely?” The third stage has now been Famous Minor Poet “ I say that there are no two men In reached. More and more emphasis is lesa than a hundred million with sim One of the best-known short poems j laid on the fact that the worker must ilar finger or thumb-prints.” In tlie English Innguai»- Is “ Old Arm- ! produce results and devote less time “ I will call the man known as One- chair,” written by Eliza Cook, who Is to theorizing and talking. Stalin re Lsmp Ike,” said Mr. Fellowes. called the poet o f domestic afTectlons. cently In one o f his rare speeches de The court was a g o g now. Fellowes' She was born In Southwark, l-ondon, clared too much time was given to purp°** became evident, and there was England. In 1818. She early achieved celebrations, meetihgs, and anniversa a breathless silence as he produced sucoewi In '.ie comparatively humble ries. As practical Illustration he cited a sheet o f paper, a ¡«*>< coated with literary path she laid down for her that the marketing o f the grain was lamp-black, or some similar sub self, and her articles snd poems main costing 13 kopeck« • pood when It stance, and a magnifying glass. tained her In comfort. She died in should coat & “ One-Lamp Ik«,’’ aald Mr. Fellowes, 1889. T Russian School (P re p a r e d by tha Nation al Geog raphic Society. Washington. D. C.) IT T L E has been noticed o f the real test which is going on in side Soviet Russia in recent years because the clamor of theory and proclamations lias filled the ears o f the world. Theories have been meeting individualism which is so universal In humanity, unwritten rules o f life and trade which have developed through the ages, and world laws which centuries have formulated for nations. Itussia is the world's largest coun try, stretching across two continents, and when theory and prnctlce reach a balance, the test o f a new system of government will liute world wide e f fect. Politically, it Is divided Into six con stituent republics; they in turn com prise 33 autonomous units, each dif fering ethnnlogicully and culturally. Most o f them have their own lan guage, their own customs and cps- tumes, and the babel o f tongues be comes even greater from the tribes who are as yet too backward for self- government. Cities and villages string along the railroads and rivers over all that vast territory. As one rides over the Si berian steppes the plains seem un ending. Then a peasant's enrt Is seen in the distance, the Invariable dog trotting behind. Soon appear other carts, all going In the sang* direction. Then a village o f log houses, with perhaps a public building and n de parted aristocrat’s brick house, al ways painted white, and the ever-pres ent church, with Its five Turkish shaped towers, the large one In the center for Christ and the smaller ones on the corners for the four Gospels. The train vanishes again over the un ending plains, varied only hv stretches o f forest or hills, which seem to come and go as suddenly as the villages. L Moscow a Huge Village. Moscow, metropolis and capital o f Itussia, Is the largest village In the world. Moscow has Its trolley cars, electric lights, tall buildings, theaters, stores, motor busses, and other out ward metropolitan manifestations, but at heart It Is a village. Leningrad, Odessa, and even some o f the cities o f the Interior have an appearance and nn atmosphere of western Europe; Moscow Is the heart o f itussia and It changes slowly. Moscow Is sprinkled with what Is new, but everywhere It speaks o f age. from the wcathen-beaten walls o f the Inner City tb battleinented monas- taries on the outskirts. Broad thor oughfares radiate from Its center, hut around each corner the streets are narrow, with sidewalks no wider than footpaths. Fires have wiped It away. Invaders, from Tatars to Napoleon, have de- si royed it, governments have come and gone, but Moscow, stubborn and dull, has persisted. It symbolizes Itussin. it is only a step from Moscow, overcrowded and teeming with Its peoples o f many races, with rules for every movement and police to en force them, into the wild, wide-open spaces. Wolves and bears still roam In the Moscow district, and when the dull winter dusk comes at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and the connfry Is nnder Its white mantle o f snow, hanger drives them to prey on mankind. In daylight hours a constant hnman stream Jostles through the towered Iherian gate In Moscow In the wall between the Red Square and the Place o f the Revolution outside the KItal Go- rod (Fortified C ity). Men In sheep skin coat*, the greasy leather outside “ you have never hud your ituger-priiu- taken before?” “ No, your honor,” answered the im becile, grinning. “ You didn't happen to murder Mr. Ilulstein, 1 suppose?” Fellowes con tinued. One-Lamp scratched his head. “ I 6 B ellan s don't remember o f it, sir," he said. "1 Hot water was drunk at the time.” Sure Relief “ Your memory is not very good, I | think?" "No, your honor.” It was ail tlie typical conjuror's pat ter. Nobody took much notice of it. 254 and 754 Pkgs.Sold Everywhere We were leaning forward in the Jury- box, while Mr. Fellowes, huvlng com pleted his preparations, took One- FOR I.ump's thumb, stuck it to the pad and j pressed It down hard on the paper. “ Now," he suid to the court, “ I i claim to show that the last witness I was mistaken, or else that here we have the two men in a hundred mil lions with similar thumb-prints. I sub mit this evidence to the court.” And i he handed it up, together with the re- ' SUCCESSFUL FOR CO YE A R S production o f Richard’s thumb-print, 3 0 c & 9 0 c A t a ll D r u g g is ts und the magnifying glass. The court looked at it for full five Farmers in Co-Operation minutes, turning the gluss this wuy At the end of 192f> co-ope .-stive and that. Theu he had it submitted to the jurors. We scunued it. There | farm associations reportlug to the was no possibility of mistaking thut \ Department of Agriculture had on their membership rolls 2,700,000 pro the two prints were ideutical. “ I propose, your honor,” said Fel- i ducers. In view o f the fact, however, (owes, “ that the thumb-print of the that some farmers belong to more prisoner be taken again and superim than one association, and allowing for Inactive members, It is estimated that posed photographically upon this.” The court adjourned in the greutest approximately 2,000,000 farmers In excitement. Next day, when It recon this country are now engaged In co vened, the two prints were found to operative marketing. The total busi coincide exuctly. They had been mag ness of these associations for the year nified a dozen times; tlie great web of 1025 amounted to approximately $2,- tracings upon the paper, looking like 400,000,000. a maze, wus perfectly distinct. There was tike one and only pattern. And, DEMAND “BAYER” ASPIRIN examined separately, not the smallest ■ divergence could he found between the T a k e T ablets Without F e a r If You thumb-prints of Richard Halstein and See the Safety “ Bayer Cross.” those o f Oue-Lamp Ike. There was only one thing to do. W arning! Unless you see the name Here were two men, one of whom “ Bayer” on package or on tablets you must have committed the murder. are not getting the genuine Bayer There was no possibility o f collusion. Aspirin proved safe by millions and There wus no further evidence. We prescribed by physicians for 26 years. acquitted tlie prisoner by direction of Say “ Bayer" when you buy Aspirin. tlie court, and lie left the courtroom Imitutloua may prove dangerous.—Adv. a free man. He married Mildred James the next Curse on a Name? day, and they went West, where they Eight men in the prime o f life have are reported to be doing well. Oue- met violent deaths during the lust few Lamp ike came into a lot o f money in weeks at Ulster Aegert, a village in the some mysterious fashion a little while Swiss canton o f Zug. Each man bore later, and was found drowned In a the Christian name Joseph, and super horse-trough, Into which he hud fullen stitious villagers are offering prayers while intoxicated. fo r the removal of the curse which I was frankly puzzled by tlie co they nre convinced has been put on incidence. That some trick had been that name. played seemed more probable to me than that the two men In a hundred Anoint the eyelids with Roman iCye Unl earn at night and nee how refreshed and million had really been found in tlie strengthened your eyes are In the morning. same town. It was about five years Bend now to 372 Pearl Bt„ N. Y. Ad*. after that, being then n resident in a Minus the Brogue southern town, I met Fellowes, who was practicing in some other place. “ I’ve been cheated,” said the Irate We became intimate, and in a burst young housewife. o f confidence lie told me the facts. “ How?” asked the grocer. “ Richard Halstein did kill ids uncle,” “ I ordered Irish potatoes, and my he said ; ‘but It wus only homicide, j husbnnd says the ones you sent me Murder is what you would have found were grown In Michigan.” — The Pro in your verdict. The appearances gressive Grocer. were so much against him that it would not have been sufe for him to have told the truth. A harmless vegetable hutter color “ Lewis Halstein hud sent for him, j in tlie hope of inducing him to give up i i s i m I by millions for 50 years. Drug Mildred James. The uncle had be stores and general stores sell bottles come almost insane over the matter; o f “ Dandelion” for 35 cents.— Adv. his quarrel with Janies had been a hit Objection Removed ter one, and his mind was prohnbly Arthur— Darling, will you marry weakening from old age. He drew a revolver and threatened to kill his me? Olive— Nothing stirring. nephew. Arthur— Oh, that’s all right— you “ Richard grusped It, and the men fought in silence for several seconds. won’t have to do the cooking. Then his uncle, who was a strong old D o n 't II- nuflirnrpil. man, got ills finger upon the trigger, K e e p C o le 's C a r b o lls a lv e In th e house. Richard swung tlie revolver round I t sto p s pain fr o m bu rn o r cu t q u ia k ly Just In the nick o f time. Lewis Hal en d lo-sls w ith o u t scars. A t a ll g o o d d r u g g is ts , 30c and 80c. o r J. W . C o le Co., stein pressed the trigger, but the bul 127 S. E u c lid Ave., O ak P a r k , III.— A d v . let went into his own brain. "Horrified at his action, Richard Save Much Trouble went away hurriedly. He wavered be “ Father, what is politeness?” tween confession and denial. That “ Politeness Is the art o f concealing was a fatal policy, for It brought the j from other people wiiat you think of rope within h i inch o f his neck.” them.” — Stray Stories. “ And the thumb-print?” I asked. He shot a keen look at me. "Quite , Criticism there must be, but not simple," he replied. " I don't mind more than 60 |>er cent. telling you now. One-Lamp Ike wasn’t such a fool as he looked, and he was j quite willing to risk his neck for twen ty thousand dollars. You know, I used to study medicine? Well, all that was necessary was to remove the outer •vary little while. The cuticle from Richard’s thumb, remove’ exclueive menthol blend ■ the same thing from Ike's, and graft «rill soothe the irritation the cuticle from Richard's thumb upon •n d b rin g quick relief. that o f Ike. 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