The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-20
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

Washington, June 20.@Ile sculptor is real artist, but the decorator, who chisels in stone objects of an artistic and esthetic character, is only skill ed artisan. according to the decision of the ID. s. Customs court of Ap- peals. The court says that ordinarily the ornamentalist in stone initiates that which he. actuallp sees and his work goes no farther than to please the eye. The sculptor, on the other hand, reproduces that which is pictur- ed by his imagination and his pro- duction not only appeals to the eye, but to the emottOnes as we'll In fine, one copies and the other in sense creates and originates.
 The court had to decide whether inn ported mantels, which the importers desired to enter duty free on the ground that they were works of art, were really sculpture as provided for under the law.
 The mantels were decorated with Huted columns, friezes and curved cu- pids They were executed by an ar tisan who studied ornamental sculp- ture and obtained a diploma from an art school, but the court refused to consider him a real sculptor in an ar- tistic sense.
 The most remarkable gun in the world is just now receiving it's try- outs at the army aviation camp, at College Park, Md Probably Uncle Sam will accept it as an official arm, it.
 The gun is the invention of Lieut.. Col. I. N. Lewis, of the army. It is a rapid-fire arm. manufactured espec- ially for aeroplanes. It is small enough and light enough-weight 25 1eY r, us@1 passenger in a biplane. Moreover, it is the only air-cooled rapid fire gun ever invented. It looks almost like a toy, but tests by officers unfamiliar with it's mechanism and not used to firing at targets from the air, have proven it's deadliness.
 |; The new gun is fired by passenger on a biplane. It can pour out per- feet hail of steel-jacketed bullets. There is practically no recoil and the mechanism is of the simplest. Ar my and navy officers who have wit messed the tests unite in declaring it is the most powerful arm for the spe- that has ever been protected. That it will have place in modern war fare was the general opinion.
 Representative William c. Redfeld, of New York, who is constantly dig
 
 terested tariff data went to small banquet the other evening and start led the host and other guests by re- marking:
 'T am highly honored to be invited to such a lavish feast. Why you serve more of it. than if they were straw berries, or some other home grown product unaffected by tariff duties" /
 Thereupon he dug into one of his many pockets and withdrew, table of figures Interpreted, they proved to be potato tariff dope" The, congress- bled tbanqueters that big. chunk of potato cost is caused by the tariff du- ty.
 eff we raised enough potatoes in the United States to supply the demand" :" Redfeld explained, they might be within more easy reach of the most tatoes brought to our shores during the first three months of this year was more than $18,70 a day. Tell this to the first man you meet and he will of fer to bet you that there is no impor- tation of potatoes into the United States"
 The Department of Agriculture, through the Pure Food board, has just put the ban on remarkable remedy or at least a remedy which claimed to be remarkable. The product was healing balsam,' manufactured in New York. Here was what it's man ufacturers claimed for it:
 will cure coughs and colds, heals the lungs, inflammation of the lungs. phthistic. lame back, gravel and kid- ney complaints pains in the side. stomach ache. ague, nervous com plaints. palpitation of. the heart, dys- pepsia, loss of appetite. liver com plaints, flesh wounds. burns, chill plains and bruises on man or beast, sore mouths, whooping cough. croup, neuralgia, and will cure heaves, coughs and colds in horses.''
 Chemists at the bureau discovered that this astounding discovery, which would cure almost every disease in medical books, was composed of a plain balsam mixture, with rosin ad- ded apparently to cheapen the so1u- tion.
 The manufacturers did not contest one suit against them, and the ''cure" was poured down sewer.