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Caterpillar Fever.

From the London Mail
Zeal for nature study and tempered by
experience explains why SO many country
doctors have been called in to diagnose
en- epidemic of rash which has affected
whole classes in some rural and urban
sohooJs The symptoms of the ailment,
well known to doctors as caterpillar
ash" are intense irritation on the palms:
and sometimes on the face. accompanied
nv number of blister-like swellings.
which. when they occur round the eyes.
sometimes have the effect Of obstructinS
vision.
leave hairy caterpiilars alone. As tho
.nalmer worm" the hairy caterpillar OF
the eoid-tail moth, one of the commonest
and most beautiful objects OF the country
at midsummer, passes from hand to hand
st leaves on every palm few of its loose
IL attached hairs, and those hairs are pos
sessed. for the protection Of the cater
piIjar against birds and browsing AMI
mals of what scientists call "urtfcating
Properties" "Urtica'' Is the Latin for
.nettle.
Many other hair caterpiiiars are almost
as bad as the palmer w'orm. and, as
general rule the less you handle any
hairy caterpillar the better
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
Garcia's Singing Lesson.

From the Buffalo Commercial
Stories of Manuel Garcia, the famous CEN
tenarlan musician, who died few days
ago In London. are in order. An indomi-
table will power gave him great ascendancy
over each pupil; his science and clever
ness enabled him to know at once II he had
to deal with pupil CT promise or not. and
unlikely aspirants were not allowed to
waste his time and theirs. An acquaint-
ance describes a typical incident: Il re-
member notable case in point A very rich
woman offered the master any price II he
would only teach her daughter. He refused.
knowing well he could never obtain Sc.
rious work from her; but as the mother
persisted he hit upon a compromise. He
asked the women to be present duri & a
lesson, and he undertook. II the girl still
wished to learn singing after hearing 1t
taught to teach her. The lesson began.
The pupil. who seemed to the listeners an
already finished singer had to repeat pass
age after passage of the most difficult ex-
ercises before the master was satisfied; he
insisted upon the minutest attention to
every detail Of execution. Mother and
daughter exchanged Mortified glances. and
looked on pityingly. The lesson finished,
the master bowed the women out. and. in
passing the pupil, the young girl whispered
to her, 1T would kill mel Senior Garcia,
returning from the door. said contentedly:
They will not come again, thank you; mon
enfant. you sang we'll
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Britain's First Steamship.

From the London Chronicle.
When the Lusitania took it's first plunge
into the waters of the Clyde 1t could have
carried unseen on a corner of its deck the
first steamship built in Britain. The Clyde
claims both as its offspring. The Comet.
constructed by Mr.. Henry Bell, flashed It's
four shovel-shaped paddle on each Of It's
four wheels in the year 1872 and carried
on :ts deck of forty feet by ten many
passengers as its three horsepower could
negotiate. The Comet was so conspicuously
successful that two or three more boats o.
a larger capacity were Immediately built
and the citizens of Glasgow became the
envy of mankind. Mr.. Lawrence of Bristol
determined that England should not be iefl
behind in the race. tried one on the Severn,
and was so delighted with the result thai
he steamed with 1t up the Thames, intend
ing to reap a harvest from city men on their
way to and from business. He overlooked
the company of Watermen, who made such
a fuss about this inhuman competition thar
Mr.. Lawrence and his steamship fell back
to the Severn. From 1913 to 1923 no vessel
was built in Britain of a greater tonnage
tkan 500 the average being only about
sixty The Lusitania of those days was
the Atlas described by the contemporary
press as the Largest vessel ever built. She
was impelled, says an enthusiastic reporter,
by three mighty engines of 100 horse
power each" This gigantic vessel (Which
could be slowed away quite comfortably In
the hold of the Lusitania), was bui at Rot
terdam and launched in the summer OF
1928
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
a Dose of Natures Remedy.

From the Fou--Track News
Whittier? AT this season OF the year as
we stand on the threshold of the star
spangled banner month we find 1t. difficult
to decide which of the many Invitations
that are extended to us make the most en-
ticing appeal The voice n the sea echoes
Its welcome to us from Nova Scotia TO
Cuba. The mountains bid us come and en-
JOY their countless charms. and he is in
deed Indifferent who can resist their call
The lakes and rivers. the forest Businesses
offer Inducements to work-wearied man
that bear the promise OF health and rest
and enjoyment Tastes differ, but nature
has lavishly provided an infinite variety of
resorts where brain and body can find re-
Taxation and where every breath IS preg
nant with the health and Joy which we are
seeking. II does not matter SO much where
You go as that you go somewhere, II
doesn't pay to stay at home all the time
and work the treadmill: II is better in
vestment to get out into natures play
ground somewhere and take dose OF ma
lures great remedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
Mems Clothes Not Gayer.

From the London News.
Conquered by Color" Man as Rain
bow" Brightest of Hues-" Let 1t be said
at once that the foregoing startling GEN.
fences do not refer to any scientific discov-
cry. They are merely samples of head
lines given by contemporaries to reports
that there is to be great revolution In the
color of mems dress.
They opened up so great vista or pos
Eible change that the Tailor and Gutter
dispatched a man to the principal west END
shops, and there the simple truth was
learned that there are no masculine ram
bows" BLACKS and grays. browns ana
subdued greens were the leading coiois
Even in attire for holiday purposes the
tendency has been to somber hues The
extravagantly striped blazer OF a decaoc
ago." says the expert indicated above. mas
gone and in its place plain hannei
Jacket is worn" The conclus on Is that
'men's garments are more ornate than they
have been for some years, but they are not
vu.garly So"
Not yulgarly So is good.
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Ether as q Fertilizer.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

rom the brUokiyn Eagle
A rage for experimentation that seems
hardly scientific. since there is often no
theory which the experimenter seeks to
prove. is producing results all the moye
remarkable because unexpected. Who
would have thought of etherizing plants d
few years ago? Yet the plant Is started
into new life on waking from anesthesia,
and what Luther Burbank accomplishes by
slow process of selection is accomplished
by ether in a few days. Flowers are made
to bud and open before others In unether-
lied pots have their appearance; rhubarb Is
more than doubled in size and weight and
Is ready for pie several days before the
updosed plant; lilacs are In bloom ten days
earlier for their dose of ether. and various
plants intended for Christmas and Easter
decoration can be brought to their best by
this process of doping" Indeed. there
seems to be no ret son why the owners OF
extensive greenhouses or hot frames should
not be able to keep the market supplied
with whatever the public needs at all sea-
sons of the year. Etherized Strawberries.
melons. corn and turnips would seem to be
possible In midwinter. All, II we could only
etherize some of. our railroad plants and
gas plants, as we shall etherize our potato
plants. what gladness!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
The Picnic.
from the Philadelphia Ledger


About this time one is likely to encounter
picnic in almost any available shady spot
The enterprise is something more impor-
tant than saunter In the woods and less
imposing than an excursion in which every
body participates. Numerical, a picnic
must be composed of move than two per-
sons. Otherwise 1t might be mistaken for
a mere tete-a-tete, or more probably for a
courtship out Of doors. A picnic is pre-
pared for with malice aforethought. Tech
nically 1t Is a .nibbling of bits, a snatch
or snack" At the orthodox picnic every
picnicker provides his share of the bits to
be nibbled. thus establishing a pleasing
astronomical variety. and, as It were. "a
community Of interest" in the most i'm
portan. part Of the entertainment
1t Is departure from original methods
of p4cknicl1ers to go to the scene of festivi-
ties In comfortable vehicle. An over
crowded omnibus answers for the city pic
ntcker. farmers hay wagon Is the prop
er thing for the countrywide Going to
picnic In railway train or an automobile
Is the luxurious pastime Of an efrete age.
walking to the locus in quo alone is sign
OF unsoc4al exc1uaiyeneaa. altOGother foreign
to the democratic tnAtttuffon.
Probably nokhing short Of ne excitement
- s,nszasfyzar - . M In the f1r2r cf0nfnm
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Lost and Found
From the Philsdeiphia Bail,tin.

N'S"' tue fniiSdeiphis Bniistfn.
If you lost watch worth 800 what re-
ward would you give the finder for its re-
turn?''
On, ten or twelve dollars"
Ten per cent. Ell? Well that is about
right" said LecoQ. the detecti5e 1T is
more, though. than the average ,erson
Wonid give Here In America in lost and
FOUND cases there IL no recognized percent
age or reward. but In England there is
such percentage, namely. half a crown
10 pound; that is TO say about 10 per
cent Zen per cent is what the finder must
De paid in England provided he takes his
mo 10 a police station of to Scotland Yard.
He always does so. otherwise the owner
Is apt to give him less than the legal 10
per cent. lost In London cab a kitbag
worth s2o. The kitbag was returned by the
capby to Scotland Yard and | left there for
MIN gladly "A reward OF 81 II the bag had
oeen worth s2,s0 I'd have been churier of
handing out $500. but that is what I G have
TO 90 before the Scotland Yard folks would
nave gwen me my property When you Jose
anything be prepared to give at least 10
per cent to the finder. Ten per cent is the
recognized reward in lost and found cases
abroad. and IL should be the recognized re-
ward here. To my mind II is little enough
and they who give less are TO. my mind dis
honest"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

1916 part lots 163 and 1874 square 1855,
and part of Whitehaven; $40
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS-Leo Simmons ct
%; SO.
KENILWORTH-Rob F. Bradb, ry ct
ux. to Elizabeth Wilson, lot 16, block 3;
$40
NO. -s11 T STREET NORTHWESTERN
nora A Goddard ct vir, William r.. to
Simon Flegman, lot 81 square 1893: $40.
DEANWO0D HEIGHTS-John w. Gregory
ct Tx. to George w. Robinson lots %,
80, 81 square 10, and lot IS, square 1S;
RANDLE HIGHLANDS = United States
Realty Company to Daniel w. Schofield
lot 4, block 8; SO
FIFTH STREET NORTHEAST betwe K
and l. streets-Maj. B. Wright to Robert
Lee OBrien, part original lot l. square
SOC; $40.
L STREET NORTHWEST between 18th
and 18th streets-May Wright to Rob-
ert Lee OBrien, lot 1S2, square ISL; $40
TENTH STREET NORTHEAST between
d and E streets-Charles H Wright ct
Tx. to Fred D. and BERTHE Gerry, lot a.
square 937; $40.
GREENVAL S. McCalmont ct
al. trustees to Henry A. Vieth and
Glenn E Heusted. part; S26,46O
WHlTTINGHAM-Prec Chapman and
others to Milton D. Campbell, lot 80; 81.
NO. $40 18th STREET NORTHEAST
Thomas McCabe to James Arthur Kiln
ger and Mabella E. Klinger. lot 112
square 1929: $40.
1 STREET NORTHWEST between 18th
and 10Th streets-Mamie Caruso to Rich
ard E. Pairo. part lot I. square 4o4; $40
WISCONSIN AVENUE NORTHWEST be-
tween o and P streets-Raphael A. Cas-
Hear ct TX. to G. Donald Miller, part lot
8. square 1913: $40.
L STREET SOUTHEAST between 13th and
14th streets-Harry NJ, Martin to Morris
r. George, lots so and 81, square 104S;
so:
cTnr,r-,r e,cJ-rrrr, , c,,p I....oa-. ,o.L -
14th streets-Harry NJ. Martin to Austin
NJ. Rogers. lots 81 and 81, square 104S;
SO
FIRST STREET SOUTHWEST between
and X streetS-James F. Brennan to
Robert l.. Bunting, lot 65 square 645;
$40.
SOUTH GROUNDS COLUMBIAN UNI
VERSITY-George T. Murphy to Ray
mond ]. Cooley. north half lot SO; $40.
NO. 200 f STREET SOUTHWEST-Henr
E. Tripp. trustee. to James o. Holmes,
original lots and 20, square 53: $40.
NO. 1896 10TH STREET NORTHWEST
Al, square 179; $40.
NO. I45 COLUMBIA ROAD-John c. Nor
wood, trustee, to Anna Kriksteine. part
lot 6. block 8. Mount Pleasant: $3.50.
NJ STREET NORTHEAST between 9Th and
9th streets-Robert A. Pearson ct TX. to
May Cole Baker, lot o. square S2S $40.
7 STREET NORTHWEST between 18th
and 18th streets-Minnie P. Davis ct
square 151; $40.
NOS. Il TO 40 G STREET SOUTHWEST
Adrian E. Cox to Elmer T. Hunt. orig
inal lot s, square east of 6i2; $40.
HOIIMEAD MANOR-Philip w Wiley,
trustee. to Charles Baum, part lot 50,
block AZ; $40.
RANDLE HIGHLANDS-Natio Safe De-
post. Savings and Trust Company to
United States Realty Company, lot 4.
block 8; lot II. block IA. and lots 6 and
!, block 10; $40.
BLOOMINGDALE-Ma C. Moebs ct
vr., Joseph j.. to James H. and Mary
j.. Furbershaw. lot H. block IL; $40.
NO. 326 STREET NORTHEAST-Mary
Il. Augusterfer ct vir., Frank j., to J.
William Weber, lot 4. square 776; $40.
NOS. 4o1 TO 405 POD STREET NORTH
WEST-Anna j. Martin to Emma v.
Brandenburg. lots %, %. "a, square SO:
80.
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NORTH
WEST between 9th and 7th streets
Robert Cohen ct ux. to Robert s. Sin
clair, part original lot 5. square 461:
E10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
Diseases Due to Worry.
From Worlds Work.


Suppose that a man has an uneasy SEN
sation In the locality of his heart which
is due. let us say. to overeating or to gas
in the stomach. But he begins to think
that he has heart disease. He reads the
advertisements in the newspapers to
learn about the symptoms. and he learns
about them.
"A sense of construction about the
chest" Yes. that is his difficulty exactly!
Slight pain on deep breathing, palpita-
tien of the heart after vigorous exercise"
1t is evidently a very serious case! He
begins to worry about 1t. Worry inter-
feres with his sleep. 1t interferes also
with his digestion; he does not get we'll
nourished.
Bad sleep and bad digestion make him
worse and worse. Each one aggravates
the other. And all the time he keeps
thinking about his heart. In the end his
thinking actually affects its condition
until he succeeds In fastening on himself
o functional difficulty which may be
really serious and permanent trouble
and the whole of 1t can be traced back to
hls crooked thinking about that little
pain in his chest.
THIS g IA parable 1t Il the record az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
RACING STEWARDS
SUSPEND JOCKEY BELL


NEW YORK. July 21-The stewards of
the Brighton Beach Racing Association are
to be congratulated for suspend1ng the
license OF Jockey Bell, for, as the official
announcement said, an unsatisfactory ride
on Bobbie Kean In the mile and one-six-
teenth handicap at Brighton yesterday.
From the stand 1t certainly appeared that
Bell pulled Bobbie Kean.
Bobbie Kean showed wonderful over
night loss of form at Brighton yesterday.
or rather his rider. Bell, did 1t for him. On
Thursday Bobbie Kean ia pounds beat
Logistilla head. running the mile and one
sixteenth in Las 4-5 This time Bobbie
Kean was beaten six lengths by Aeronaut
horse which Logistilla had recently
beaten on the bit.
Bells riding was the queer part of the
reversal. for Bobbie Kean seemed ready
and willing to do his part. Coming to the
far turn Aeronaut was leading by two
lengths. with Maxnar and Bobbie Kean
next. heads apart. All of sudden Bell ap-
peared to ease up Bobbfe Kean. and 1t
looked from the grandstand as il he con-
tinued to do 30 until Bobbie Kean was hope
lessly out of the running
There has not been horse backed all
season with the confidence that Aeronaut
was, and he ran just to the watch of his
Logistilla race, but through the same line
Bobbie kean ought to have been a sharp
contender II not the winner. Bell, who so
mtshandled Bobbie Kean, Is the same rider
who created SO much scandal at Benning
last fall by queer rides on The Cure. Cary
and Hocus Pocus. each one of which was
subsequently put through for heavy killings
by the Asbury Stable.
Bell has not enjoyed the confidence OF
close observers for long time, and the
only wonder is that he has lasted this long
In the sixth race yesterday he was guilty
of as deliberate uncalled-for foul as has
hAh T,,rt h., ln
showed into the rail suddenly with Little
Scout and threw Leila on the fence, turning
the mare sideways and tearing the boot
from Firms left leg.
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When You Travel.

1t is expected that when you travel you
will meet very distinguished people. Rich
bankers, authors. noted artists. etc.. but
you don't. An Atchison woman who
works downtown has just returned from
O trip. She says that on the Pullmans
and In the Notels she would get to talk
Ing to women, and while she had not
meant to tell she was a working woman.
some way 1t slipped out and she always
found out that instead OF talking to q
bankers daughter she Was talking to a
stenographer, or q bookkeeper. She met
bride and groom. The bride had handsome
clothes and the groom was Wen dressed.
She thought: Here are people who have
lived in the lap of LUXURY" but upon be-
coming acquainted II was the same old
story. The bride was = photographer IN.
the oflce where the groom Was = book
keeuers 6nA TIER haA onzH - yF6ak IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

such fiutter In the household as the prep
aration of the prospective picnickers for
the momentous day. When a sunday school
picnic Is on the tapis the whole parish Is
IN state of violent seismic upheaval and
the abilities of far-sfghted commander
are necessary to convert the mob like con-
suslon and disorder of the. youngsters and
tneir parents into something like an orderly
advance and assault upon the picnic
grounds and good things secreted there.
An nrcyerent wit has said with unassaii-
aole truthfuiness that the thunderstorm
and the Sunday school picnic usually ar
riNe al the woods 9f IlIt same time.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

WHITEHAVEN, ST. PHILIP AND
JACOB-Wm. c. Benge to Samuel w.
Cockrell, lot II, block 4; $400.
NO. 1903 n STREET NORTHWEST-Ed-
mund K. Fox ct ux. to Leo Simmons.
lot B. square $50; 800.
ROBERTS CHOICE-Edmund K. Fox ct
Tx. to Leo Simmons part: 800
THIRTY FOURTH STREET NORTH
WEST between o and P streets-Claude
d. Thomas to Henry Koons and Eliza
beth Rooms. part lot 60. 81, 81, square
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hundreds Of actual cases. Every physt-.
ciai. comes into contact with them.
A man who keeps worrying about the
state OF his liver will almost be sure 10
have trouble with 1t eventually. Ind.-
Eestion can be brought on In the same
way. and a long list Of other ailments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
Victory for Adriatics.

The Adriatics defeated the Golden Valley
Club by the score of to s. The features
of the game were the pitching of Mawhin-
ny and the catching of Fitzgerald for the
winners. The score by innings
Adriatics. 0 0 2 I-9 II
6. Club. o 0 O-S 8 Z
Batteries Bobbngton and T. Fitzgerald for G. v
O.; Mawhenny and j. Fitzgerald for Adriatics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
The Horses Inferno.

FROM t'Ecsir Of Paris
Paris is the inferno of horses is very
old aphorism. French cabmen and carriers
have in general very little love for the
horse. Many consider this wretched quad
ruped as a simple tool. a motor with four
feet, rather than as precious servant
worthy of regard and consideration. Not
a day passes in the capital without one
witnessing revolving brutality, often coupled
with real stupidity.
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Famous Steeplechaser Killed.

MANCHESTER. Mass. July 21-The IA
nous steeplechaser. Land of Glover, owned
by r. c. Hooper of Boston, was so severely
Injured by an automobile here yesterday
that he had to be killed. A groom was
riding Land of Glover when an automobile,
approaching from behind, struck the horse
a heavy blow. breaking it's leg. The groom
was badly injured. but will recover. Mr..
Hooper Is known in racing circles as Mr..
Cotton"
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Base Ball, Racing
and Other Sports

Continued from Ninth Page.)
broke down Nuns Yelling was at the colts
saddle. Edict tottered. Dumping against
Nuns Yelling. throwing Jockey Swain out
of the saddle twenty feet from the wire.
There was nothing for the judges to do but
to disuualify both horses-Edict for fouling
and Nuns Yelling because the filly did not
carry her weight under the wire. Edic.
hoped along for two furlongs on three legs
before falling down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21


Now. culture" In "self-culture" is Just
what 1t Is In agriculture and horticulture
the process of c.3itivating-only instead of
putting mother earth under the process we
apply culture 70 the human mind. 1t was
Seneca who Said. "A soil. although rich,
cannot be productive without culture. 80
the mind without learning cannot be fruit
full Cicero also. using another simile,
says. Cultivation is to the mind what food
Is to the body
Every one knows that the object of agri-
culture and horticulture is not merely 20
make things grow. That they would do
naturally. 1t Is to make them grow in such
perfection that they will be useful to man
for 5ustenance. profit and pleasure. Is 1t
not with the culture of the mind? Left
to itself for ages. mans mind grew with
out cultivation. until he found by expe-
rience that 1t was az advisable to cultivate
It as 1t was to cultivate the wild grasses
and other plants in order to increase their
utility for his wants. Whence came the
impulse? 1t was nothing more nor less than
a demand of the mind itself, and the more
that demand was complied with the more
insistent 1t became. until, what with de-
mand and obedience to 1t, we arrived at
marvellous states of culture of which that
of ancient Greece is a notable example. AS
Kingdom Clifford has so well pointed out
or, rather. formulated. as in its growth the
mind acquired new knowledge Ii expe-
rienced changes Of structure, changes in
the shapes and arrangements of its parts
changes of function. So the mind of man.
Of the workings of which we today see
such wonderful manifestations, Is the prod
uct of culture. Thus much we arrive at by
following out in the mental world the anal
ogy with which the material world sup
plies us.
We may. however. push the analogy legit-
imately to farther limits. Culture In the
plant world is a process which demands I'M
remitting attention. Possibly the slug
gard" NAV attend to his garden at odd
times when 1t suits his fancy, but he does
not thereby succeed in redeeming II from
repfoach. If we leave plants that have been
ever SO well cultivated to themselves they
degenerate rapidly and soon revert to the
wild form. Indeed, with some CT the tri-
umphs of the horticulturist cessation OF
care would mean extinction. 1t is just so
with the culture of mind. If that Is mere
ly spasmodic we get a sluggards garden,
where the weeds Of the mere animal life
overtop what should be the objects of our
care. Mental culture demands, Imperative
ly demands, unremitting attention, ever
continued ever repeated, in order that the
best results may ensue. The mind how
ever rich naturally, will not produce any
thing for sustenance, profit or pleasure II
allowed to lie fallow