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Evening star., 1914-10-24
TRAVELETTE
BIZ HIkSAH.
The Rhine.

Every American who goes to Europe
does one of two things. or maybe both:
ne visits Paris and he makes a Rhine
trip. These two objectives never fail
Or course. Americans do a whole lot
else besides the Rhine and Paris They
climb the Wetterhorn, break their
necks on the Finsterhorn and the Mat
terhorn. insist upon buying chewing
gum in Vienna. play rouge ct noir at
Monte Carlo and Ostend, and 10 ON
through a long list of useful and nm
hfting European experiences But Paris
and the Rhine are twin American stand
bys
The Rhine. probably. is Europe's uost
beautiful river. 1t is more evenly de-
nghtIui than either the Danube or the
70. ana It's banks teen with legend and.
history Moreover. some Of Germany's.
most beautiful cities are situated unonG
ITS banks. and the Industrial trafics
,nni,s mnien its course accommodates Is enor4'
NOUS. Books. stories. Of one and n
series. and many chance notebook
leaves have been devoted to the den,-
onstration that the Rhine is the Hud.
river is the Rhine OF America accorJ-
ing as to whether the writer was an
american or a German. Therefore, thiS
part or the rivers description may ba.
safely taken for granted now =
1t Is in legend, however, that the rfv
er course proves most attractive. Al.
most every wonderful crag-perched
castle has its delicious lore sometimes
partly founded on long-forrotten fnct.
and. again. pure imagination. Here ~
.ne castle OF "women's faith" where g.
conQueror once sent word to the he.,.
sieged that he would allow the women,
TO leave with their most precious posG.
sessions to the amount which they could
carry, but that the men must be put to
death The women left the vanouished
stronghold bearing their husbands upon
their backs. and the conQueror kept hfe
word and let them CO. -
There are any number of ghost tales
woven around the battIements and
traced through the chambers Of the
river castles. any number of old ro..
mances of stories of unusual darinr. Of
Legends OF unusual fortune, and Of them,
all. the legend of the Lorelef is the best
known. for it has given to the Germans,
their very saddest song, which thev.
never fail to sing when they are very
happy. 80
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Bowser the Hound Cries for
Help.

Farmer Browns Boy was very much
excited. Yes, sir, he was. You see. he
never before had set a trap for a wclf
and somehow it seemed to him that it
would be a great thing to catch Old
Man Coyote. So he was up very early
that morning to visit the traps he had
set.
'T almost know I have got him." said
gun over his shoulder IT know he was
In his house when I set those traps. and
with trap hidden at each entrance he
couldn't possibly get out without stepping
in one. 1 think I'll have his skin made
into a mat for my room. Hellow. Bowser
old fellow! Shall we go get him now?
AS he spoke he stopped and unclaimed
Bowser the Hound. Bowser shook HIM
SELF licked his masters hand. and then
started to trot ahead on the way to the
Green Meadows, for he knew perfectly
well where they were going. 1t was just
at that very minute that there was a
frightened squawking and cackling Of
the ducks and chickens in the henhouse
"Hellor exclaimed Farmer Browns
Bow Something is.bothering them. We'n
have to see II Mr.. Skunk or Reddy Fox
Is around
With that he led the way in the direc-
ton OF the henhouse. OF course, Bowser
raced ahead and disappeared around the
corner Of the house. A second later his
great voice rolled out so excitedly that
Farmer Browns Boy knew that he had
discovered something
Sounds as if Bowser had found a
fresh fox track" muttered Farmer
Browns Boy, and began to run. When
he reached the henhouse and turned the
corner Bowser was already well on his
way to the Green Meadows and from the
noise he was making 1t was very clear
that he was following a fresh trail.
Bow, WOW, wow! Bow, wow, wow!"
roared Bowser. and his ma ster knew that
that meant Come on! Come on! I've
found a track"
Bowser soon left Farmer Browns Boy
far behind. and his voice grew fainter
and fainter In the direction Of the far
corner of the Green Meadows. Farmer
Browns Boy tramped along in the same
direction, for, you know, it was there
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Books and Whst'S On Them,
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright, 1914. by Frank Crane.)

Il speak," said the college professor,
'as one who loves books.
IF there is one mastsr-passion of
my life it is books. To me they are
real people, not dead things.
And 1 haven't a de luxe book on my
shelves.
Il am not poor. 1 make a fair living
and have a satisfactory house to
shelter me, a good bed and plenty to
eat. even have laid up some money.
$50 1 could have rare editions If I
wanted them. 1 do not.
Il don't think any the more Of a
woman because she is spattered with
diamonds and wears a five-hundred-
dollar imported gown. I don't think
any the more Of a house with gold door
knobs, Of a bedstead with solid silver
posts, nor of book that is bound in
gilt and morocco.
Everywhere the tendency of great
riches is to vulgarity. The most vulgar
ers, clerks, domestic servants and all
the horde Of people with limited educa-
tion. On the contrary, 1t IS among
these we often flnd the rarest loyalty.
nobility of heart. thoughtfulness and
the other virtues that belong to the
genuine spiritual aristocracy.
Real vulgarity consists in ostenta-
ton, in petty forms of display, in need
less luxury, in putting upon things
values that arise not from their USE
fulncss or beauty, but from their cost
hence the exclusiveness implied by
their possession.
'.It is as hard for a rich man not to
be vulgar as for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle.
"a woman with her fingers stiff with
flashy rings is vulgar. To own troops
of dogs and horses, merely to be known
as owning them. Is vulgar: To give
dinners at $50 a plate is vulgar. The
whole troop of night-life people
squandering money in the lobster
palaces are vulgar. To use ones wealth
in owning and keeping up million
dollar house, with troops OF servants
and a half dozen automobiles. instead
of devoting ones maoney in some
of devoting ones money IN some
women and men healthier, wiser and
happier is vulgar. 1t Is all as cheal
and common as Sioux braves pleas
ure in a red blanket.
81 can't expect to keep the soiling
hands of patronage Off other Things
but l wish to heaven 1 could keep
them off books.
"Books are the prophets. the spiritual
helners OF life. They constitute the
eternal democracy. So l say, let them
he dressed in modest and honest covers
let them be robed in simple dignity. as
Haegai or John the Baptist.
II have little sympathy Tor the PEG
ple who are swindled into paying $4,000
for a set of books worth $50 Ihey are
the victims of their own love OIL vulgar
display. ., g..
what is inside them that are buncoed
by the de luxe game
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80 per cent of the hazard Of the poultry
business will have been removed.
At the very beginning OF our adven-
ture into the country. you may remem-
Der, 1 ventured the prediction that some
where in the poultry business there was
a "nigger" in the woodpile. 1 promised
If ever I found him 1 would proclaim
the fact to the world, instead of joining
the conspiracy of silence as to his
whereabouts.
Well, I think I've found him. He is
the problem of getting eggs in the sea-
son when eggs are hardest to get.
Yes. I've found him, but 1 don't know
how to poke him out.
Here's where I make a new promise:
If l And a way to make the woodpile
uninha bitable for that particular mig
ger I'll tell you all about it.
f. 8. NJ.
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,kle car fare from

in the establishment where he works.
The conductor approached.
The firm allows you your expenses.
doesn't it?" asked the young salesman.
The girl admitted that his suspicion
was correct.
THAT being the case said the young
salesman as he abstracted a single
carfare from his waistcoat pocket,
you can pay your own fare"
In the country one does about as he
likes. But in the city. as certain
character in fiction has said. that's s
another matter again. Mawruss."
A certain family that had sojourned
in Maryland suburbs for the summer
returned to an apartment house In
northwest Washington last week, and
they were accompanied. at the urgent
insistence of the youngest boy, by
red-eyed and Misunderstanding tur-
tie.
During the first days Of their so5ourn
the turtle, a creature Of peripatetic
nature, disappeared, and the little boy
mourned it as lost. But it wasn't. No.
sir!
Three or four nights ago a gentle
man arrived in the apartment. after he
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that he had set his traps for Old Man
Coyote. He smiled as he listened to
Bowser's deep voice. for when he Is fol-
lowing a trail Bowser's voice Is very
musical and good to heaI. 1t was full Of
element Of the hunt. You know, no one
loves to hunt more than does Bowser.
And because he loves the chase so there
is always a note of joy in his voice.
Farmer Browns Boy listened and he
smiled. Suddenly he stopped and a queer
expression came over his face as he
listened harder than ever. Bowser's
voice was faint because he was SO far
away. but it was loud enough for Farmer
Browns Boy to notice that there was a
great difference in it. All the joy was
gone out Of 1t. Indeed. it expressed sur
prise and pain and fright all together. In
minute it became howl which was
all pain and fright.
Help! Help. Help! oh-o-o. oh-o-o!"
Farmer Browns boy began to run.
What could have happened to make
Bowser howl like that? Something rad
happened, that was sure Could he have
tried to fight that wolf and Old Man
Coyote be having the best of it?
Poor old Bowser! He Is in real trouble
Of some sort and Is calling or me-" pant
ed Farmer Browns Boy. He was quite
right. Bowser was in trouble.
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Cold Storage Hearing December 10,

The McKellar bill to provide for the
regulation Of cold storage Of food
products will be given a hearing be-
fore the House interstate commerce
committee December 10. according ID
Representative Cullop of Indiana,
chairman of the subcommittee in,
charge of the measure. Mr.. Cullop
said there was great demand for the
proposed legislation. that the commit.
tee purposed to hear all witnesses who
wish to testify. and expressed the be.,
lief that the bill would be enacted into
law by the end of the next session OF
Congress =,
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Raises Irrigation Workers PAY.

On recommendation of Labor Depart
ment investigators Secretary Lane of
the Interior Department has ordered
increases of pay for workmen on the
huge Grand valley irrigation project
at Palisades, Col.
Minimum rates will be $3.50 and SO
a day for outside and underground
work.
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boat. Two weeks ago he experienced

boat. Two weeks ago he experienced
splendid luck.
This is the season of the year when
the crappie should appear in large
numbers. They take the fly, 1t Is stated.
and anglers who fish for them say it
is fine sport to catch with fiy and
light tackle.
Many pike have been caught in the
Eastern branch during the past three
weeks. They are found in large num-
bers in the upper part of the branch,
it is reported. and they take live bait
or the spoon. A number of the fish
have been caught near Bladensburg.
Milton E. Allies and George vass have
arranged to spend a weekend fishing
trip near Point of Rocks. Many good
catches of bass have been made there
this season.
Dealers had large supplies of blood
worms on hand today for the anglers
who are going to fish at places on salt
water tomorrow. Trips to Benedict,
Chapel point, Rock point and Chesa-
peake bay will be made by scores Of
anglers tonight and tomorrow morn
ing.
Charlie Fletcher has tried his luck
at bass fishing above the feeder sew
eral times during the past two weeks.
He caught a number of fish, the largest
Of them weighing about four pounds.
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Senate Orders Raw Sugar Inquiry

Reports that large quantities Of raw
sugar are being held in storage in New
York and Philadelphia "in the expecta-
ton that Great Britain and France will
be strong competitors for Cuban sugar in
the near future" are to be investigated
by the Department of Commerce on d
Senate resolution submitted by Senator
Thomas of Colorado. The resolution
states 1.-THE price of raw sugar will rea h
such a figure that the refined product In
January and February may go to Is cents
a pound"
Evening star., 1914-10-24

They tell story after story Of the
CAUTIOUS economy Of Harry Lauder and
Russell Sage-stories that have made
those two personages classical. Wash
ington has a young and budding sales
man who can give either Harry or
Russell a hundred-yard start and beat
him all hollow in mile race.
The other day this young man got on
n street car with a decidedly present.
able young woman. who Is employed
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

A clear conscience makes a soft pill
low.
Possibly one joke in ten thousand
makes people laugh.
You can't give away your temper,
but it may give you away
The opinion of candid person is sell
dom sought a second time.
| 1t takes a lot of confidence to enable
a man to enjoy hash.
A. mar can never Judge by appear
ances if there's another woman back
of 1t.
Truth is mighty. but it doesn't al
ways prevail in the revised war news.
Some men feel their Importance
otherwise they would never know they
had any.
The girl who steals mans heart is
liable to get life sentence at haro
labor.
| Wise is the man who appoints himself
chairman of the advisory board OF his
own business.
It's not an easy task to convince a
married woman that man is the noblest
work of the Creator.
IT ia far better for a woman to laugh
than cry-un1ess she has occasion to
work her husband for new hat.
A woman can never understand why
her husband has to work so hard In
order to make both ends meet when he
is so much smarter than other men.
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q friend.

that 25 cents be the limit. The col
onel" had always been used to betting
that number of dollars without even
thinking about 1t.
During the evening. the colonel play
ed masterful poker. He worked his
mathematical combinations perfectly.
When the game broke up he had the
available supply of checks in front of
him. The seeds walked home.
Later in the evening the colonel met
a friend.
"Where've you been?" asked the
friend.
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had dined and supped with fair sue
cess. He rea ched the floor occupied by
the family from the country. A look
of terror came over his face. Then he
yelled.
The father of the family heard the
despairing whoop, and hurrying to the
door In his pajamas. beheld a frantic
figure in a dress suit struggling mad
ly with the janitors
"I know" sobbed the man in the
dress suit. you say you see it. But
you're just trying to please me until
you can get the wagon here"
Along the floor was crawling the tur-
tie.
X X
Speaking of earnest, consecrated
poker playing, there resides in the city
of Washington a gentleman who en-
joys considerable renown. Indeed, he is
the man who was told by former
President Taft that he had the greatest
poker face Mr.. Taft had ever seen.
Recently 4 little session was held
among that unfortunate class known
as the seeds" The seeds" insisted
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will open and the ground will be COW
cred with chestnuts. AS with walnuts,
the boys are going to save enough Tor
home use. and sell the rest.
This notion of gathering nuts and
turning them into money seems 70
make particular hit with the boys. !
rather believe I'd like that sort Of
farming myself. Nothing to do but
gather the harvest No planting. no
|cultivating. no summer-iong battle with
weeds. Why If man had nut farm
he could spend the hot months In a
hammock and the winter in Florida.
and work only d. ing the pleasant
weather of autumn
Pecans and Engli..i Wainuts. they say.
will do well in this climate. When BUY
farm-whether 1t is Sunny Knoll or
some other place. am going to put out
some nut trees 1t will be a good many
years before they come In bearing. but
their harvest will be for my Old age.
Eggs a Present Problem.
| But that is something for the future.
In the meantime we have present prob
lens to meet. One OF them-and the
chief one-is chickens. The best grade
of eggs are now retailing in the wash
ington markets at IS cents dozen. ana
we have no eggs to sell. ! thought we
brought our matches off early enough
| iase sprung 50 thdt Inc p.A
laying by the middle OF OCTOBER, put
eggs seem to be the last things they
have on their minds. They eat enough
and they go about singing as noisily
as if they were laying two or three
eggs day each, but they don't lay them.
Right here. 1t seems to me. Is the
secret of poultry culture we have yet
to learn On big commercial egg farms
they have pullets ready to lay by the
time the old hens begin to molt and sus-
pend operations How do they do 1t?
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HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
Bv Earl Goodwin.

Playing poker" replied the colonel.
grouchily.
"WinT' asked the friend
II should say no. replied the colonel.
Nine dollars and fifty cents doesn't
even pay expenses"
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DIR. Charles Alton Ellis. formerly Of
the University OF Michigan and recent
ly engaged az a practicing engineer.
has been appointed assistant pro-
fessor OF civil engineering in the
University OF Illinois =
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| In the rainy season the wet, fiat lands
Of Ecuador produce a vine yielding a
fruit which, when dried. forms a vegeta-
BILE sponge, said by some persons to be
superior to animal sponges.
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Strawberries Doing Well.

Out of about 800 raspberry plants
put out this last spr.ng not more than
fifty are alive. The drought took the
rest. But my quarter Of an acre Of
strawberries is in fine shape. The
plants have put out so many runners
that it is a hard fight to keep an Open
space between the rows. I have cul-
tivated until there isn't a weed in sight
and fertilized until the ground Is as
rich as I dare make it. In fact I have
put so much chicken manure and wood
ashes and lime on the ground that a
strawberry expert whose advice l have
been accepting has warned me not to
follow the usual practice Of covering
the plants this winter with stable
manure. He says If 1 make the ground
any richer I'll get surplus growth Of
vines and berries that will be lacking
in flavor. So, instead Of using manure
/ am going to cover the bed with clean
straw when freezing weather comes
We have discovered at Sunny Knoll
an unappreciated source Of wealth.
When l took the place / made note Of
the point that there were a dozen or
more chestnut trees in the wood lot,
but I entirely overlooked the fact that
scattered over the place were a dozen
or more black walnut trees. They are
loaded down with nuts. and there
ought to be from ten to twenty bushels
more than we can possibly use at home.
Jim and Ned are planning to harvest
, the crop when there has been sufft-
cient frost to make it ready, and will
sell whatever surplus there is, to their
own profit. They are coming to town
soon to see about market, and II the
demand is sufficiently large they will
not confine their activities to our own
trees. On nearby farms there are
scores of trees from which the nuts go
want for the trouble of gathering and
hulljuP them
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Boys Gathering Chestnuts.

The boys already are head over heels
in chestnut gathering. They are SO
busy. in fact. that it is with the great
est difficulty that they are persuaded
to do their chores. They have more
than two bushels of nuts gathered now.
and SO far only the early" trees have
given down their fruit AS soon as
there comes a heavy frost the burrs
Evening star., 1914-10-24

A gift of 100000 has been promisesf
to the London Hospital by Mrs. z. b.
Paterson for cardiac research work.
Evening star., 1914-10-24

Several years ago the municipality Of
Edmonton adopted the single tax, or, as
1t is called in the United States. the
Henry George system of taxation. The
theory of this system Is that taxes for
all purposes should be levied on land
alone and no revenue should be derived
from taxation of personal property or
even from a poll tax.
Evening star., 1914-10-24

Elijah Swift. A. B. (Harvard). Phi. D.
(Gottingen), of Princeton University,
has been appointed williams pro-
fessor of mathematics at the UnfS
versity of Vermont. =
Evening star., 1914-10-24

Encke's comet has been rediscovered,
by Prof. f. E. Barnard, at the Yerkeos
observatory. The iediscovery was made
by celestial photography. which is now,
reported as the most wonderful.
achievement Of modern astronomy a
Evening star., 1914-10-24

An institute of oceanography hsi
been esta blished in Spain under tine
direction Of Prof Odon de Bevu. i
Evening star., 1914-10-24

Halsey J.. Bagg, b. S. columbia,
1910. has been appointed instructor I'M
zoology in New York University
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Red Ears Are Scarce.

I'm just a little afraid, though, that
this red ear business may not prove as
exciting as 1t sounds. Red-eared corn
is not extensively grown in our part
OF the country. and seed corn is now
so carefully selected there is hardly a
chance for any of it to have slipped
into planting. Still, it will not do to
hold too lightly the resources of our
young men. Red ears of corn are to
be had. If the desire to get them is
backed by sufficient incentive and de-
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Get Busy!

When men sit around and
twiddlc their thumbs and tell
each other business is go
ing to be had," their pre-
dictions are apt to come
true-for them.
Times are as good as we
make them and no better.
The live wires" are not
complaining. They are
hustling.
They are not waiting for
opportunities. They are
making them.
Turn Is the advertising
columns of the live daily
newspapers and you see the
, men who are going after
business now.
They are getting it, too.
Evening star., 1914-10-24

It's not an easy task to convince a
married woman that man is the noblest
work of the Creator.
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Women in a Combine.

To me there was world of significance
in that I'VE" 1t meant that instead of
going it alone. as the men had been do
ing, the women had formed combina-
tion and were helping one another pre-
pare for the test. Instead of seeking
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TAKING A FAMILY
BACK TO THE SOIL
Being the Experiences Of q Gov
@ ernmeut Clerk Who Sets Out
to Lower the High Cost Of
Living.

There'll be big doings'' at the school
house next Wednesday night. The
Friendly Neighbors' Club is going to
give an old-fashioned spelling bee. The
men are to spell against the women
and the losers are to provide a supper
for the Wednesday night following
It's not to be at all an exclusive af-
fair. All comers are welcome, whether
they are members of the club or not.
In fact. We hope to get a lot of out
siders there. with a view to boosting
the club. The spelling bee is only one
Of several entertainments which Presi-
dent Jane and the members of her ex-
ecutive committee have planned for the
fall and winter months. all with a view
to arousing interest in the club and in
creasing its membership.
One number on their program, sched-
uled for some time next month, is a
husking bee and barn dance. The only
thing modern about this proposed func-
tion is that the young folks probably
Will turkey-trot and f1sh-walk and do
even more up-to-date dancing stunts
The husking bee part will be conduct
ed Just as such affairs were in the time
of our grandparents. The swain who
finds red ear will be entitled to a kiss
from the maid of his election, and when
1T is a girl that finds the red ear the
man first to detect it in her possession
may claim the forfeit