Evening star., 1901-11-16

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Old associations are being disturbed IN
not a few cases in the rearrangement of
committee rooms in the House end of the
Capitol. Some of these rooms where legis-
latiOn of the most important character has
been framed in years gone by are to be
deprived of their accumulated glory and
left for the occupancy of less important
committees. Other rooms, through long use
by certain regular employees of the House,
have become isolated from the well-beaten
path of legislation, and are looked upon by
their occupants as almost separate es-
tatsS' One of the rooms which comes un-
der the latter classification, and which Is
being mourned by its former occupant, Is
basement apartment occupied Tor many
years as repository for documents by
Foreman Mckay of the House folding room
Foreman Mckay has had to move to allow
Chairman Heatwole's committee on PRINT
ing to expand and as he cleaned out the
last of his documents the foreman sat down
and penned these lines, which he mournful-
ly tackled on the wall:
Goodbye. old room. we part at last.
With thanks for favors in years now past
This parting do not blame on me,
Twas brought about by the powers that be-
Expansion is the law of land,
Ills great and noble: glorious and grand;
And you. / knew. will agree with me
When in fresco and oil decked out you ii be-
Your successor is but a lonely vault;
Brit. mind you. with it find no fault
AT least. not yet. as do not know
How it will act during rain and snow
but you, old friend. you were always dry
This Is the thrust that makes me sigh
To see how well you've kept the books
As good as new, as far as looks.
.sYcur taxing of I do repent
But wish you joy with your n ne,xn9 new OCCUPANT
Remember your friend of yesterday
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Disciples of the rod and reel have had
great sport this fall with game fish at the
very gates of the city. Heretofore the an
giers who wanted more exciting sport than
the catching of perch and the sluggish cat
fish have gone up river, from score to a
hundred miles. after that prince among
game fish the small-mouthed black bass.
His kinsman and blood relative, the big
mouthed black bass, has been propagated
in great numbers in the lower Potomac.
and this fall has swarmed the waters of
WaShington's river front.
OFF the Long bridge. around the shores
of the tidal basin and in Little river, op-
pOsite Georgetown. some notable catcnes
have been made, both as TO number and
size of fish. Four-pOunderS in prOfuSion
have been caught. and four-pound black
bass, even plymouth. is something of a
fish. The plymouth are not as fine Favored
as the small-mouth. and are more slothful
in movement. They do not put Up as
vicious a fight and are not as VoraciouS
after bait, If a man has not the time to
go after the real thing. however. the big
mouth black is good substitute, ard he
is certainly handy enough
The Oid-time and the faStidiouS fishermen
wifi continue TO go far afield after the
gamier variety For what more fasciaat-
ing than pound-and-a-half bass On an
eight-Ounce fly rod. making for a ledge of
rock in swift water? Or, to have him take
the bait in deep pool. run Seventy-five
yards down the river. while the reel sings.
and then jump three feet in the air to
shake the hook out of his mouth?
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81 have one criticism TO make. said a
stranger who had been praising Washing
ton You do not treat the models of great,
ingenious or otherwise interesting patents
with consideration. Many of these are
crowded in cases in ill-lighted room on
the top floor of the patent Office and visitors
are admitted only between the hours of 0
and =. Many other models are stored in the
old city post office building on G street.
These ought TO be brought together
grouped properly displayed, labeled and
catalogued- The government should create
an inventors museum great deal more
space in Washington is given to collections
VI CIlppeu tOHlaNdWkS and
broken arrow heads than to models of de-
vices with which man has pulled himself
up to the present level of civilization"
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Food adulteration and food frauds in the
United States, said one of the chemists at
the Department of Agriculture, "are a ma
tiOnal scandal. Some of the states have
done what they can TO correct the abuses
of which everybody has right to complain
but the strong hand OF the national govern
ment must be laid on the offenders. 1t is
difficult to get butter that is butter, lard
that is lard, coffee that is coffee vinegar
that IS vinegar. etc. A man stands slim
chance Of getting maple syrup or honey
when he buys goods labeled with those al
Turing names If man buys bottle of
horSeradSh he does not get It, and when he
wants TO buy pot of mustard all that he
gets IS an acid paste compounded of -four
or fuller's earth 1 might run over the list
of fcOdstuffs. l would not be sure that the
market is not stocked with fake steaks and
spurious chops"
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The amount Of trouble l usually expe-
rience with those of my younger patients
who have just reached the school age is
really surprising" remarked a well-known
x street oculist TO a Star reporter "The
precociousness of juvenile America Is dis
played In my office more completely, per-
haps, than in the school room or at home
Very often, continued the eye specialist
1 am called upon to prescribe for an adult
and child of the same family at one sit.
ting, SO TO speak. After having devoted the
necessary attention to the parent my prac-
tice is to test the eyes of the youngster
This examination includes reading line O,
type. comprising letters of the alphabet, or
q card suspended from the wall at the side
Of the room opposite the patient As rule