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Evening star., 1914-04-14
BOY SCOUTS VOLUNTEER
TO FIGHT SUBURB FIRES
Troop 81 at Takoma Park, Md, to
Work Under Direction Of
Fred L. Harries.
All Arrangements Made for Clean
Up Week April 2o-25 by Health
Officer Rogers.

The suburb of Takoma Park, Md, is
to have volunteer fire department. COM
posed of members of Takoma Troop, NO
81, Boy Scouts Of America, and to be
under the direction of Fred L. HarTies,
who was last night officially elected chief
of the department by the mayor and
town council of Takoma Park, Md.
This action followed a request from
Mr. Harries for permission to use the
town apparatus for fire practice and drill
work Ten members of the troop have
already passed the examination held by
Fire Chief Wagner Of the District of
Columbia fire department, and more are
expected to follow at an early date. The
boys will be posted and drilled in fire
fighting and resuscitating people. Many
of the boys have been receiving instruc-
ton at engine company No. % at Bright
wood, and have become quite proficient
in the work.
Mr. Harries was authorized last night
to assume charge of the three pieces of
apparatus and enlist members In the
organization. The apparatus Is to be IN
spected at once and put IN hrs.-ciass lass
shape and reports to be made from time
to time of the progress OF the depart.
ment During the day time the scout
nearest a conf1agration is to sound an
alarm and notify those in the schools IN
that section, arrangements to be made
for emergencies of this kind with the
school authorities. DR.. ]. d. Egg -eston
of the Boy Scouts also was present with
Mr.. Harres at the meeting.
Cleanup Plans Completed.
Health officer II. E. Rogers announced
to the council that all arrangements had
been completed for cleanup week in
Takoma Park, Nd. The dates as an
nounced were April 2O-25. During that
period the town will receive thorough
cleaning, with the assistance OF the resi-
dents of the town.
The council last night voted S225 Tor
sweeping, oiling and improving Carroll
avenue from the District line to the
Washington Sanatorium; S1OO for the
purchase of crushed stone, $40 Tor
scraping and rounding up the streets ana
avenues in the park and arranging for
the painting of the reinforced concrete
bridge over the Sligo stream. The town
authorities themselves are thus display
ing an active interest in Cleaning up
the town In a more substantial manner.
Following the approval of these appro-
priations. Mayor s. w. Williams submit
| ted several recommendations to the
| council for future consideration. The
| most important one was the macadamiz-
| ing of Chestnut, Holly and Oak avenues
to the terminus of the avenues at an es-
timated cost of IS, 900, to be expended
during the next fiscal year, and the ex-
penditure each year thereafter of SINH
lar amount for the permanent improve
ment of the highways of the park.
Evening star., 1914-04-14
Sees Unjust Taxation.

Does the House want to fix a tax rate
in advance of full knowledge of what
this District needs? Under the present
law the Prouty amendment will raise a
huge revenue. to be matched dollar for
dollar by the United States Treasury. =
He called attention to the claim that the
poor home owners" here are ALREADY
taxed too high and the rich too low. -
but that an equalization would be effected
under the George bill as originally
written. wherein lies no ambuscade tc
catch the half-and-half principle.
1t leaves that question to be settled in
dependently.' he said. Bring up the
George bill and pass that. Do one thing
al time. The George bill as originally
written does not involve the half -and-half
plan. This is a real estate problem Set
tie it. Then bring up the half -and-half
plan and discuss it and pass on it. If
YOU adopt this majority report now with
the Prouty amendment you are passing
on the half-and-half plan now without
discussing IT,"
is there any single tax idea in the orig
inal George bill?" asked Representative
German of Illinois
Absolutely not"
Evening star., 1914-04-14
Hits Poor Boys and Girls.

Under the provision of the Johnson
and Prouty amendment the poor working
girl and the poor working boy who have
deposits in the savings bank. where they
get ~ or per cent. will pay II per cent
to the District government. in other
words, if they are getting So on every
hundred, they will be forced to pay 81. so
to the District government. The poor
widow and dependent orphan who receive
annuities from some estate will be forced
to pay IL per cent of whatever income
they may receive"
Representative Coady argued that the
modern method of taxing personal and
intangible property is to clarity it, not to
tax 1t at a full city rate. He gave long
lists of states with the rate of personal
property tax. mentioning Pennsylvania.
where the rate is 20 cents on the 500
Minnesota, 80 cents; Maryland, 40 cents.
He mentioned Iowa, the state from which
Representative Prouty comes. saying that
the rate there is only 30 cents on the 500,
land yet he wants to impose on the peo-
pie of this District a tax rate on intang1-
Bile property three times as great as that
IMPOSED in his own state of Iowa.
Evening star., 1914-04-14
Might Drive Out Deposits.

He made the claim that taxes of the
size favored by Representative Prouty and
Representative Johnson would drive bank
deposits out of Washington, and that Bal
timore would welcome them.
In reply to a question from Representa-
tive Fess. he said that he believed a rate
of 10 cents or 80 cents a hundred would
be correct on Intangible personal prop
ertv.
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Makes Liars. He Says.

he will make long speech on the sub
ject at a later date.
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Lawmakers Get Tangled.

He deplored the fact that the House
and Senate seemed to become tangled in
a discussion on the half-and-half princi-
pie every time District legislation is
taken up for discussion.
He also charged the District committee
with having plunged into the proposition
TO tax personal property at an arbitrary
rate without having given the mat
Ter the slightest consideration al
though he had urged and suggested many
times that if personal property is to be
taxed the modern method, and the proper
one TO pursue. would be to examine the
personal property situation in order to
ma out something on the subject on
which it is proposed to legislate.
That the District has been "a paradise
for speculators for 10 these many years"
was perfectly evident to him, he said. and
what is needed is good constructive leg
lslation to cover real estate and taxation
He said the issue is confused, and asked
II the House wanted to pile confusion
worse confounded' on top of the already
badly muddled situation by adopting the
Prouty amendment
Evening star., 1914-04-14
Tugs and Tows.

Schooner Mary p Riehl arrived from
Baltimore towing oil-laden barge and
sailed on return with the light barge;
tug Walter F. Meade arrived at George
town with lighters from sand beds op-
posite Alexandria; tug Winship left
Georgetown with coal-laden boats for
Alexandria and elsewhere; tug ]. T. Sc
lectman arrived at Georgetown towing
lighters to load stone; tug Rosalie, from
Georgetown with lighters for digging ma
chine working opposite Alexandria.
Evening star., 1914-04-14
Departures.

Schooner Mildred, light, from Alexan-
dria for the lower Potomac tc load back
to this city; sloop Flora Elsie, light. for
Mattox creek to load lumber for the
dealers here; schooner Josephine Smith.
light for Aqua creek to load lumber to
return; schooner Cherubim. light. for
Chesapeake bay point to load lumber for
Baltimore; schooner Majestic, light. for
a Potomac point to load cord wood back
Evening star., 1914-04-14
License Obtained at Rockville.

Yesterday the license was taken out at
Rockville by a man who gave his name
as Thomas E L. Kinna- When seen to-
day Mr.. Allen declared that Miss Pitcher
knew all about it. If she hadn't known
all about 1t. how would have known her
age?' asked the prospective groom in
dignantly More than that he would not
say.
Mr. Aliens first wife died about three
years ago, and since that time many of
his friends and neighbors have jested
with him about marrying again.
Evening star., 1914-04-14
NO WEDDING BELLS
FOR SEPTUAGENAR|AN.
Miss Elizabeth E. Pitcher, 26. De-
nies She Is to Marry Henry
A. Allen.

Wedding bells are not to ring for Henry
Alfred Allen. seventy years old, and Miss
Elizabeth E. Pitcher, twenty-six years of
age. despite the fact that license was
taken out in Rockville, Md, for their
marriage yesterday. The authority for
this is Miss Pitcher herself.
Mr.. Allen. who is watchman in the
Treasury and lives at 5O7 9th street
southwest, has been showing attentions
to Miss Pitcher. who lives at 523 sth
street southwest for many days. accord
ing to her. A few days ago he asked
her. she said today. 'if she wouldn't like
to get married and have a nice little red
brick house. all her own" We'll" Miss
Pitcher says she replied. I'D like to have
the house well enough, but 1 wouldn't t
marry any man That, she says. was all
that had ever been said about marriage.
Evening star., 1914-04-14
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Arrivals.

Schooners Silver Star and Grape Shot,
cord wood from a river point, at 10th
street wharf, for L. A. Clarke & Son;
schooner Josephine Keas. at 9th street
wharf from Aqua creek with pine lum-
ber for Johnson & Wimsatt; schooner
Mary Francis. at 18th street wharf with
cord wood for j. H. Carter & Co: tank
barge Calvin Davidson, at Georgetown,
with oil In bulk from Baltimore. for the
Washington Gas Light Co.; schooner Le-
roy Woodburn, light. from the lower
Potomac to load household goods for
Lower Cedar point; schooner Halle IS.
and sloop Volunteer. at 11th street wharf
with oysters from Potomac beds for the
market; power boat Louise Virginia. her
ring from river nets. at 11th street wharf
for dealers: steamer Northland, from
Norfolk and Old Point, to Norfolk and
Washington Steamboat Company; steam
er Trenton, from Upper Machodoc creek
and river landings. to the Potomac and
Chesapeake Steamboat Company.
Evening star., 1914-04-14
Opposition to Bill.

Opposition to the bill came from Rep
Tesentative Coady of Baltimore, a demo-
cratic member of the District committee,
and from Representative Crosser. who
charged Representative Prouty with be-
ing BIT theatrical in displaying his scars
and talking for publication in his home
town. Representative Coady told the
House that the Prouty idea for intangible
property taxation is just about three
times too high am mentioned that in
Iowa Representative Prouty's own state,
II is but one-third of what Representative
Prouty wants to impose in this District
Representative George went to the bot
tom of the plan to upset his bill by the
Prouty amendment when he said that the
sole purpose of the amendment was to
undermine the half-and-half principle of
appropriation. and charged the majority
of the District committee with being
afraid to bring out the Crisp bill for the
abolition of the half-and-half plan.
II never had any such purpose in the
original George BILL he said. land re-
pudiate il now. l do not want this pur-
pose in the George bill. and ! am on the
floor to beat it. and to substitute the
original idea and have it go through the
House and Senate embodying the ideas
involved in the George report
Evening star., 1914-04-14

to this city; schooner Leroy woodburn,
household furniture for Lower Cedar
point; power boat Kirk, light, for the
mouth of the Potomac after shad and
herring for the market here; steamer
Southland. for Old Point and Norfolk;
steamer Three Rivers, for the lower river
landings and Baltimore: steamers Wake
field and Trenton, for Potomac river
points.
Evening star., 1914-04-14
PROUTY MEASURE
ASSA|LED IN HOUSE
Bill to Undermine Organic Act
Target for Districts
Friends.
DEBATE UPON SCHEME
KEEPS LAWMAKERS BUSY
Representative George Pleads That
His Original Measure Be
Accepted.

Opposition to the Prouty amendment.
which is designed confessedly to under
mine the organic act OF the District OF
Columbia and impose a fourteen-mil-
lion-dollar tax burden on the residents
of the capital. showed itself on all sides
of the House of Representatives yester-
day afternoon in the longest District day
debate the chamber has seen for many
months.
Practically every minute Of the working
time OF the House was taken up in at
tack and defense Of the amended George
bill. the leadership OF the opposition to
the Prouty idea being assumed by Repre-
sentative George Of New York. who
pleaded with the House to repudiate the
Prouty amendment, and to pass the origi-
nal George measure. He gave as his
reason that the Prouty idea would add
confusion to the general legislative stu
alton confronting Congress with respect
10 the District of Columbia, and unfolded
TO the House the manner in which the
Prouty amendment had been 'shoveled
into the George bill without the slightest
investigation into the personal property
situation which it hoped to cover. The
bill was not disposed of. but will be taken
IN the next District day
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Junior @penino Star
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. 1914

ters to all the white nations in the
world. His plan met with approval,
but so secretive were the powers that
not word reached the Mongolians
Suddenly, without warning, hosts
OF Mongolians invaded western Eu-
rope. They took the world by sur
prise again, and swarmed over the
country. ptis was too much for Barr.
He put his plan into execution at
once and suddenly the whole CONT
nent of Europe was swarming with
flies. No one knew where they had
come from There was thousands Of
the little insects and they swarmed
over the whole country. 1t was Barr,
the great professor and scientist, who
had done the thing. He had gone to
Russia and made great huge labora-
tories near swamps in which labora-
tories he bred flies by the billion. II
seems funny, but even before the
thoughts of war had appeared Barr
was on deck with his ideas of what
Japan was going to do. But Barr be-
lieved he could conquer the Japs any
day, alone and unaided, and so his
movements were purposely slow ana
deliberate for this reason. At length,
after returning to Russia from Amer
lea the second time, he had put the
flies out of their marshy home by a
clever method of burning powders.
The flies spread to Asia, but as yet
no harm has been done, and the yell
low race went on spreading westward.
Then the thing happens. Yellow
men began dropping dead by the
thousands all over the continents.
There was no sickness. Just a sud
den and painless death. the Wnite
race remained unframed, and here
was the secret OF Barrs powers. He
had carefully, with years of scien-
tific study. invented a serum, which
il fed to flies would make them en-
gines of destruction against the yell
low race, but harmless to the white
OF course, the secret lay in the fact
that the Chinese and other yellow
races had sort of whttish yellow
layer of membrane and blood next to
their skin, which was entirely missing
in the Caucasian. This proved the
thing that the germs circulated by
the flies affected and every one of
mixed parentage died, however. The
yellow races sneered at first, but then
they began to worry THOUSANDS feii
on all sides and still the flies went on
with their deadly business. The yell
low races begged for mercy, but it
was too late. The great slaughter
was on. Within "a year all the yellow
nations were as helpless as babes in
the hands of powers What few yell
low men remained were too weak to
strike. SO the greatest war in his
tory ended without the final battle.
There was no more bloodshed In the
end than in game of pinochle.
lTo be coptipuedl
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name!" she declared stoutly We
won't claim cent"
A year later a man called at the
Van 1'ynes.
A maid. this time. took his card to
Gretchen, who was alone.
"Sir Otis Grenardel" she read IN
surprise.
Win she came into the room she
could not believe that this we'll
dressed man with every mark of sue
cess could be her tramp.
After the correct thing to say had
been said, sir Otis haDf % Gretchen
a check for her mother. II am Eng
lands agent, am happy to say. in
making some recompense for the loss
Of the picture. The check is for FIVE
hundred pounds. But | had a mis-
sion of my own, Miss Gretchen. May
| tell you what it is?"
Gretchen tried to look politely in
terrogative. but her eyes fell under
his intent gaze and she blushed
furiously.
"I-I--why | guess So she SIAM
mered.
II came to America to see the girl
| have been dreaming OF. You don't
mind If J say SO, do your
Il don believe 4 do,' said Gretchen
shyly
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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 80, 1914.
Astrology reads in the stars today
mingled good and bad influences.
Venus is in place exceedingly
threatening in aspect. and Mars is
strongly adverse. In the afternoon
and evening Mercury exercises a
benefc sway.
1t is a most suspicious time for the
signing of writings and for entering
into new partnerships. There is an
omen of great gain for certain enter
prlses begun under this conilgura-
ton.
Merchants should prosper from this
date, as the planets are held to indi-
cate intense trade revival.
Writers have the demonstration
of q period of exceedingly profitable
demand for their work, but It will not
begin before the new year, because
publishers and editors have been
subject to forces causing uncertainty
and anxiety.
Venus, near the parallel of the
sun, Is read as good omen for Bel
GUM. The forecast for the Kaiser
indicates havoc and disaster in Ger
many.
There is a representation of good
luck for certain suffrage States,
where important reforms will be in
stituted,
The position of the Sun, which
leaves the evil direction of Mars, Is
believed to Indicate better conditions
in France
In October, Saturn, passing out OF
Gemini, is likely to bring remarkable
trade conditions to England and the
United States.
Saturn, in the ruling sign of Capri
cornus. in square to the luminarles, Is
threatening for the President OF the
republic. y
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The Gold Plates, or a Glance
Into the Future
BY Charles II. johnson.
Author of Under America Roy
Dart" "On the Moon" etc
(continued from yesterday.)
VOL. l.. NO. 22S.


The convention at Japan opened
the fifteenth of August, and there
were three hundred and fifty million
girls in Japan at that time. who
were Americans and who were under
twenty. Other wise men in America
college professors, draughtsmen,
electricians, naval leaders and
scientists--began to feel the need of
some protection for the girls. Japan
laughed. "The girls are SAFE" they
said. But il America could have seen
what was going on in China at that
time, there would have been good
cause for alarm. Seven million yell
low men massed secretly and slowly
on the plains of Manchuria, and like
a great glacier moved eastward to
the coast. They crossed the waters
between China and Japan, unnoticed,
and before any alarm could DO
spread were swooping down on
Japan. Japan was wise, and in one
night all the honored guests all over
the empire were made captives, and
they could offer no resistance.
america awoke with start. she
demanded the release of all the
American girls Japan laughed, and
cut the cables across the sea. She
told them to go to the devil ana
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they heard no more. Like clam,
ports to white people and all the
Caucasians in any yellow country
We're seized. 1t was, declared some
yellow priest, Mohammed's revenge
on the Christians.
Then Russia burst into the fray.
Like a great hand, she closed on the
yellow countries, south of her. She
held a fierce grudge against the yell
low race, since the Russian Japanese
War, In 1904. Her armies deserted
her Great quantities of yellow Tar
tars left and joined the great yellow
forces in China. AS quick as they
deserted, Russia got more, Slavs and
whites, to serve.
Then came the startling figures in
a current American magazine. The
amount of yellow people exceeded
that of the whites by ninety million.
Japan laughed. She dared America
and the other nations to do some
thing. The great mobilization of the
yellow forces continued in China, and
the citizens of the United States
grew furious. Japan sent out huge
expedition against San Francisco, but
owing to the work of Ainsley futile,
a great old soldier, the fleet was de-
stroyed to a man. This started the
Amer can fire of patriotism going
President Frieze issued a call for
twenty million soldiers and sailors
England, France and Germany did
likewise. Sweden, Denmark, Italy,
Portugal, Spain and other countries
soon followed. All the Japanese
forces crossed to China, taking tho
American girls with them. They left
the seacoast and went into the
country, which was large and re-
sourceful enough to supply the whole
world for years
AS soon as possible America sent a
huge fleet to China. They could do no
land damage and when they landed
they were seized on all sides by hosts
of yellow soldiers and no American
escaped alive. France and Germany
were indignant. They sent huge
fleets. but every one of them suffered
like America. The yellow race was
too powerful. The United States APP
pealed to the planet Mars for help,
but the people there preferred to re-
main neutral.
The most damage was done TO the
yellow race when a band of eight mil
lion brown Indians. from India, head
ed nv English chiefs, arose suddenly
and massacred twenty million yellow
men, but they persisted in the attempt
to the last man.
@,'he number should read 100000
SO events went on--nothing could be
done. Mars sent a message Of good
will to America, but refused to act.
People in California arose and mas
sacred eight thousand Chinese in San
Francisco, but that was all that could
be done.
AT that time Barr returned to
America from Russia. No one laughs
at him now. He had a plan, and he
Immediately wrote secret cipher let
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lTQ be coptipuedl
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Euening Star
Astrologer
Copyright. 1910

"The stars incline, but do not compel
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Write to Junior Star

Dear Children:
The Junior Evening Star will
print bright, interesting letters and
original short stories not exceed
ing $50 words in length. Write In
ink and on one side of the paper
only.
EDITOR JUNIOR STAR.
Evening journal., 1914-08-11
C0NGENIAL WORK
And Strength to Perform It.

A person in good health is likely to
have genial disposition, ambition
and enjoy work.
On the other hand, If the digestive
organs have been upset by wrong
food, work becomes drudgery.
Until recently" writes a Washing
ton girl, Il was a railroad stenogra-
pher, which means full work every
day.
Like many other girls alone in a
large city, lived at boarding house.
For breakfast il was mush, greasy
meat, soggy cakes, black coffee, etc.
After a few months OF this diet I
used to feel sleepy and heavy in the
mornings. My work seemed a ter
rible effort, and ! thought the work
was to blame-too arduous
"At home / had heard my father
speak of a young fellow who went
long distances in the cold on Grape
Nuts and cream and nothing more
Tor breakfast
mornings heavy work, it might help
me, so on my way home one night /
bought a package and next morning
l had Grape-Nuts and milk for break
fast.
Il stuck to Grape-Nuts, and in less
than two weeks ] noticed improve
ment remember / used to walk
the 12 blocks to business and knew
how good il was simply to live.
"As to by work-well, did you ever
feel the delight of having congenial
work and the strength to perform it2
That's how felt. | truly believe
there's life and vigor in every grain
OF Grape-Nuts."
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellyille,' in pkgs, There's a Rea-
sem"
Ever read the above letter! A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest