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The New Coast Guard.

The union Of the revenue cutter serv-
ice and the life saving service in the
new United States coast guard is in
creasing the efficiency of the work the
two organizations have been doing. in
addition to providing aOthorough sys-
tenn of coast patrol in case of war. The
coast guard constitutes a naval re-
serve of highly trained officers and
men. thoroughly familiar with the
coast, which the President may at any
time transfer to the Navy Depa rtment.
The new organization includes more
than 1000 officers and men, twenty-siX
ships of sea-going type. twenty harbor
tugs and nearly 800 coast guard sta
vented many ambitious young men from
entering the revenue cutter and life
saving service have been overcome by
making the same provisions for the
coast guard as for the army and navy,
including pensioned retirement after
thirty years of service, increased pay
for re-enlistment and provision for de-
pendents of men who lose their lives in
service.
The first records Of the combined serv-
ice for a year show that for each dol
of $500 worth of property from dan
ger at sea- In addition. 5.23S lives
have been saved and thirty-one dere-
licts obstructing navigation removed
The work of the coast guard is to be
chiefly confined to the coasts of the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans and great
lakes, but will be called into service
inland whenever lives and property are
endangered by great river, floods.
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BUT WHEN Mr.. BAILEY OFFERED
HIS CHAIR.

she isn't s overy noticeable. But as AL
bert Bailey never sees her when she
isn't talking she's dangerous. More
than that, she's bent on making trou-
BILE.
Harriet will sit dumb as doornal
and watch Albert being walked off
without ever saying one word. But
her heart will break all the same: If I
could only get rid of Daisy! But I
can't" she concluded. shaking her
Harriet without keeping her, too. And
in three weeks school will end and it
will be all over as far as Harriet is
concerned She's going to to another aoti her place C.,
course. There you are! Everything
seems to be for Daisy and against
Harriet except me: l wish could do
Mrs. Dimick laid aside her, book. 1t
was too dark to read now and. anyway,
no printed romance could equal IN IN
tensity the artful little drama which
below with the even songs of the birds
as orchestra, moonbeams for footlights
and all the scents Of the early flowers
She nt hon on head onf of the coy wio
dow and listened a moment. Daisy
was telling some exciting experience
she had. and from Mr.. Bailey's excla
nation it was easy to see that he was
a word. Mrs. Dimick grew warm with
indignation. No knowing what would
happen in the moonlight. especially
as Daisy had on her new embroidered
II must go down and put a stop to it
somehow" said Mrs Dipick to herself,
ass upon the veT nsl
ruption Mr.. Bailey was disturbed.
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National League Games.
Cubs Trounce Phillies.

CHICAGO, August 3.-Chicago made
it two straight from Philadelphia yes
terday. defeating the visitors. to l.
All runs scored were earned. but those
made by Chicago were the outcome of
hitting which was punched and of the
eXtra-base variety. One run was pro-
duced by a homer in the fourth by
Schultz. who also made a double in the
fifth which drove in a run.
Cheney gave the visitors two hits,
one each in the first and second in
nings. but became wild in the sixth
and walked two men.
Manager Bresnahan started him
again in the seventh. but he lost con-
troll. and after walking one man was
replaced by Lavender. The pass to
Becker in the seventh saved the visit
ors from shUt-out. as two hits were
punched off Lavender and the lone run
scored.
Both clubs felded we'll. Schultz. Zim-
norman. Good and Williams cutting
off hits by visitors, while Becker. stock
and Bancroft kept the locals score
down. Score:
r rhi,a ssi ;;;..-.----.- ! :" d
Home run-Schulte Earned runs-ChicaGo. 4;
Philadelphia l. Sacrifice hits-Cheney. Fisher.
Schultz. Zimmerman. Left on hases-Chicago.
4 Philadelphia, &. Bases on balls-on Mayer,
innings; of lineup, / in inning of Cheney.
in g innings. ont in seventh OF Laver-
der, in ; Innings. Hit by pitcher-Ry Mayer. l
Zimmerman. Struck out-By Cheney. ?; by
Messrs. KLEIN and Cockill. Time of game-l
hour and SO minutes.
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out Of order and were hard to repla CO.
But that other girl. that young Daisy
Marritt person, had no consideration
who had banged the screen door. and
lit was her hard, shrill little voice which
now assembled from the veranda below
"Oh, Mr.. Bailey. l didn't know you
Mrs Dimick carefully noted her page
and closed the book. keeping her thumb
between the pages 1t was utterly
useless to try to read when Daisy Mer-
rift was talking.
cried the shrill. hard little voice, and
there came the sound of some body ap-
propriating position which somebody
else had politely relinquished.
Yes, it's nice evening"" Mrs. Dim
ick remarked. mentally. why in the
world couldn't she let them enjoy it in
peace?"
Mrs. Dimick felt irritated. She knew
upon her own veranda. 1t was a spa
cious veranda. charmingly conducive to
courtship, and she had from the be-
ginning hoped that Albert Bailey's at
tention to Harriet Ketcham would
progress actually to the point of a pro-
posal. Harriet was in love with him
and wuold accept him, but there had
arisen complication in the shape Of
this young Daisy Merritt person. She
had a fondness for Mr.. Bailey and she
it, but reciprocate it.
Il ought never to have taken her to
board, regretted Mrs. Dimick. But l
thought she'd be company for Harriet,
seeing they are both teachers Har-
riets quiet and this Daisy person is
lively. That's not the only difference
between them. either. Harriet is just
like her mother, and her mother was
as fine a woman as ever lived. She had
a hard time of it one way and another,
because she never dared speak up for
herself. Bill Ketcham pestered the life
out of her. And Harriet hasn't seen
any happiness to speak Of About all
she's known SO far is study and work.
she isn't SO very noticeable. But as AL
began to come here to see her that
maybe things were Frightening up for
her. But along comes this young Daisy
person. That was my fault. I had no
business to take her.
Mrs. Dimick meditated deeply. Down
stairs there was much merriment.
Daisy Merritt had told a funny story
and Mr.. Bailey was laughing over it..
Harriet, too. was laughing, but feebly.
"She's trying to make the best of it,"
sighed Mrs Dimick. But laughing at
somebody else's wit isn't going to do
her any good. Harriet can think deep
enough for anybody. but she can't say
two words. She looks well enough. but
she isn't entertaining. Daisy can talk
for three. She can keep you amused,
I'll admit, and she's kind of pretty
when her tongues running. Otherwise
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CUT PLAYERS HIGH SALARIES.
Milwaukee Club Owner Says That Is
the WAY to Make Game Paw.

Owners of clubs in the American
Association say that lower salaries are
necessary to save the game. according
to the Milwaukee Leader. Speaking of
the plans of the association to make
their properties pay. A. F. Timme,
president of the Milwaukee club. said:
ut is not the intention of our club
or of any. club in the association to
give the players, starvation salaries.
With us it is question of cutting
down expenses or going bankrupt with
high salaries. When you consider that
we have more than 100000 invested
in this association. and that during five
years the owners have not realized 2
per cent on their Investment, you
know we must reduce expenses. Some
of the owners have been satisfied to
make a living salary and take a chance
on getting fair rate on their invest
ment.
'There is only one way to overcome
the salary question, and that is to dis
charge the high-priced player and hire
younger talent at lower salaries 1
would prefer to see the players SAL
aries more evenly balanced. An aver
age of 5000 to $3.50 month would be a
reasonable salary
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QUESTION TABER'S RECORD.
Directors Say Race Was Not True
in Real Sense of the Word.

NEW YORK, August 3.-Considera BILE
controversy developed in track and
field circles as to the propriety of ac-
cepting the new world record of 4.12$
for the mile run, made by Norman
Taber in the Harvard stadium July II.
The contention of the directors to &C
cepting the figures is that the time
was made in a special trial and not in
a race in the true sense of the word.
Few followers of athletics realize the
difficulty of finding a field and condi-
tons that will give runner of Taber' S
type the opportunity to break such a
record, even though he has the ability.
w. G. George of England set the
time for the mile at APIS in 1882. and
this time was not lowered by an anna
teur until 1895, when Tommy Connect
ran the distance in 415as. There it
stood until 1911. when John Paul Jones
reduced it one-fifth of second. and
two years later cut a whole second off
that time. In this race Jones had as
opponents Taber. Brown; Harmon.
Dartmouth, and Madeira of Pennsylva-
MIA, all of whom finished in the order
named. This was an extraordinary
field and forced Jones to run at his
best speed to win in time less than two
seconds slower than Georges record of
1 12S4, made when a professional in
1886
In the race in which George estab-
lished the world record that Taber
broke the English professional had as
his opponent in the match contest at
Lilliebridge, London, Billy Cummings.
runner of almost equal ability. 1t
can be seen, therefore, that it is sell
dom that a group of runners of suffi-
cient speed can be gathered under per-
feet racing conditions to warrant ex-
pectations of reducing records which
have reached the point where the mile
figures are today. Taber could have
in all probability lowered the record
just as much. or perhaps more, had be
been able to race the full mile against
field of several runners capable of
staying with him for the entire dis
lance at speed inside of 4.15. Just
where to find such a field the DIRECTORS
to the record fail to state.
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THE EVENING STORY.
Peaceful Intervention.
Copyright, 1915. BY W. werner.)

Mrs. Dimick sat quietly reading at
her bedroom window. The window was
open and the thin pink-fowered cur
tains stirred in the gentlest of May
breezes. 1t was a warm evening. and
Mrs. Dimick was comfortably clad in a
loose white dressing sack which was as
near to dishabille as she ever affected.
The light was still clear on the printed
page and Mrs. Dimick, who at seventy
one still loved the romantic, was just
at the crisis of the latest and most
ting best seller when the i'm
pertinent slamming of the screen door
downstairs interrupted her pleasantly
Initiated emotions.
She had long outgrown such foolish
ness as nerves. but there was only one
person she knew who ever allowed the
screen door to bang in that manner. No
one within hearing distance would even
have suspected there was screen door
by the way Harriet Ketcham closed it
She appreciated the fact that screen
doors have springs which easily got
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EXPECT 500, 900 HOUSE.
observation-disclosures Bout Promoters
Hone TO Sell SO. 900 Tickets.

CHICAGO, Ill, August 3.-The ten
round bout between Packey Mcfarland
and Mike Gibbons became a certainty
last night. when the two principals &C
copied the terms offered by the Ocean
Athletic Club of Brighton Beach, New
York city.
After an all-day session in the Plant
ers' Hotel, Gibbons agreed to take
$4,000 for his end. without the privi-
lege of a percentage. Mcfarland pre-
viously had accepted an offer of s17,5oo.
Details of the battle were agreed upon,
and all that remains is the formal sign
ing of articles. which will take place
today.
All records for financing a limited
round battle were broken by the pro-
moters AS the matter stands now, the
Ocean A. c. stands pledged to pay out
$4,000 cash to the principals, and in
order to stage the battle additional ex-
penses of $4,000 to $4,000 will be
necessary.
The bout will take place at the
Brighton Beach motordrome the night
of September II. Arrangements for
seating $4,000 persons will be provided.
The prices will range from 81 to IS,
and the tickets will be placed on sale
Immediately to forestall any activity
| by scalpers.
W. c. Marshall of the Ocean A. c.
never has promoted boxing before. He
| is railroad contractor in New York,
and, with his cousin. Chauncey, also
conducts the Brighton baths. He was a
little limp after all the business had
| been settled.
I'VE offered Gibbons $4,000 cash and
privilege of 25 per cent on all re-
ceipts over $4,000" said Mr.. Marshall.
I'VE expected him to snap at this Of
fer, but he held out fiat for $4,000.
II have had no previous experience
with fighters and considered this de-
ma nd exorbitant. However, everything
has been settled now and we are all
feeling fine. l believe we will put
$1,000 in the house, provided weather
and other conditions are good"
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HAS THE ONE STROKE HABIT.
Loos of Pocono Manor Holes Shot
From Eighth Tee This Time.

PoCoNo MANOR, Pa, August ED
ward W. Loos, the local professional,
made the eighth hole of the Pocono
Manor links in one stroke while play
ing a match against A. G. Elphick, the
Shawnee Country Clubs professional.
The hole which Loos played in one is
30 yards long. He beat Elphick by
, up and l to play. making the round
in II to Elphick's IS.
Making holes in one seems to be a
habit with young Loos. Three years
ago a single stroke sufficed him on the
thirteenth hole at the Van Cort1andt
Park public links. and while practicing
for the national open championship
this year he holed out from the tee of
the third hole at Baltusrol.
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Pfeffer Blanks the Reds.

CINCINNATI August 3.-Cincinnati
was unable to score off Pfeffer yester-
day, and Brooklyn won. 4 to o.
The visitors scored their first run in
the fifth inning, when Herzog threw
wild to first, Stengel taking second
and scoring on Getz's single.
Schneider weakened in the ninth,
when he passed two men. Stengel fol-
lowed this with triple. bringing in
two runs, and Getz again singled OPP
portunely. scoring Stengel. Score:
Brooklyn. .......... !
Cincinnati .......... o o o o.
Three base hit-StengeI. Stolen base-Cutshaw
Earned runs-Brooklyn 3. Double playsIGrif
fifth to Moliwitz. Cutshaw TO Daubert. Getz ia
Cutshsw. Left on bases-Brooklyn. 4: Cincin
natl. First base error-Brooklyn.
Bases on balls-On Pfeffer l; of Schneider. =
Struck out-By Schneider. s. Passed ball-Mc
Carly. Cmpires-Messrs. Rigler and Hart. Time
Of game hour and 40 minutes.
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neighbors. The people who can dc
things best never boast. There is
Jimmy Skunk. Jimmy isn't afraid of
anybody, but he never boasts that he
isn't afraid. He can make great big
Buster Bear step out of his path.
something that none of the other lit
tie people of the Green Forest can
do, but Jimmy never brags about it.
And there is Filter the Bat, who is
the only animal who can fly, but he
never boasts of that.
It Is quite right to feel an honest
pride in what you can do, but 1t is
best to keep that pride to yourself
Old Mr.. Toad can sing beautifully, but
1t was a long. long time before his
neighbors found it out You see he
neighbors did find it out they thought
great deal more of him than they
would have If he had gone about
Dragging of what he could do. But
portant lesson. l don't know that he
has yet You know Peter is a very
good jumper. His long hind legs were
given him for jumping. One day he
was praeticing jumping just to see
happened along and stopped to watch
him. Peter made the longest jump he
had yet made. and Jimmy cried. Good
jump, Peter"
Yes" said Peter. that was a very
fair jump. Let's see you beat it,
Me beat you jumping? Stop your
Joking. Peter" laughed Jimmy. Jump
ing doesn't run in my family the way
Rabb oes family yours are good az
THE best in the world" replied
Peter. proudly.
Jimmp chuckled. Peter. you're brag-
ging, and you ought to know better.
Yes; sir; you ought to know better" he
Who is there can jump any better
than my cousin, Jumper the Hare?''
demanded Peter, hotly. TT Is because
he can jump SO we'll that he got his
Jimmy. chuckled again. 1t was a
good-natured chuckle, but 1t provoked
Peter. He felt that he was being
laughed at. and no one likes to be
He's a good Jumper" admitted Jim
my. but I wouldn't call him the best
Jumper in the world If I were you.
Peter, because you are likely to be
laughed at
Who can jump any better?" de-
handed Peter again.
Think a minute. Peter. Think q
minute" replied Jimmy.
There isn't anybody" declared Peter,
who was too excited to think. MY
cousin Jumper is the greatest jumper
in all the Green Forest or on the Green
Meadows. 1 know it,"
J II tell you what" said Jimmy; you
have Jumper the Hare over by the tall
pine tree on the edge Of the Green
Forest at shutdown tonight, and we'll
have a jumping match there. You can
be the Judge, and then you cannot
complain Of unfairness"
Who are you going to invite to
Jump" asked Peter, suspiciously.
Never mind. Peter; never mind. I'll
have some jumpers there retorted
Jimmy. OF course, it doesn't make any
difference to you as long as you are so
sure that Jumper the Hare is the best
jumper in the world"
OF course. Peter couldn't say a word
after that, and SO he agreed to get his
cousin, Jumper the Hare, and be on
hand at the tall pine as soon as jolly.
round Mr. Sun should go to bed behind
the Purple Hills.
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Ancient Trades.
m the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle
Bygone trades have a way OF proving
on investigation to be only modern
industries under another name, and so
it is with some of those mentioned
recently in the Office window. A
mylner, for instance. was only a miller
after all, and a parmenter was nothing
more strange than tailor. though not
even the experts are certain why he
was SO called. A raffman. however. is
more interesting. Ran Gan ally of the
present word rafter) was foreign tim
Der, and . rafman was one who dealt
in it
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More American Inventions.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
An American built the first work.
able submarine boat. Another Amer
lean has just discovered a way to keep
the crew Of a submarine supplied in
definitely with fresh air.
According to precedent the United
States government should neglect this
discovery until some foreign nation
has put 1t to effective use-perhaps II
q war against ourselves.
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Clarendon to PLAY.

The Clarendon base ball team goes to
Purcellville tomorrow to meet the nine
representing that town for the cham
pionship Of that section of Virginia. Both
clubs are strong, and one of the best
contests of the year is looked for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-03
Hilderbrand Pitches Well.

Hilderbrand. pitching for Steel Plant
yesterday, defeated the Hamilton Ath-
letic Club, winners of the first series,
S to 1. It was one of the hardest. con-
tested games seen this season. Waters
pitched a credita BILE game for the Ham,
ilton Athletic Club, but failed to re-
ceive good support
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Little SORES
10 Bedtime
ny THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1915. by J. G. LloydJ
Peter Rabbit Does a Little
Boosting.
Pray never boast; It doesn't pay.
You re bound to come to grief some day

You re bound TO come to grief some day.
Peter Rabbit ought to have known
that Peter has lived long enough
and has seen enough of the Great
World to have learned that boasting
is a most foolish habit. But Peter is
just like a lot of people who never
learn by experience. Boosting Is a
habit. and, like most bad habits. is
very apt to stick The funny thing
is that most boosters have no real rea-
son for boasting. They do something
fairly well. and then they boast about
it. Sooner or later they find that some
one can do that thing much better
and that their boasting has only made
them look foolish in the eyes of their
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figs BY The MILLION.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

The hg Just now Is coming into a most
prominent place in our national life.
This is not the dried fig. which Is per-
haps the only kind you ever saw. but the
live fig. growing abundantly upon trees.
and still more ahundantly in the tmagi-
nations of sundry fig farmers.
For this newly acclimated fruit now
rivals the pecan and the apple in its
claims TO be means of getting rich
quick. Here is the way certain fig en-
thusiasts have figured out their pros
poets:
Plant $50 trees to the acre Each tree
VIII bear an average of six bushels to a
crop. There may he two. or even three.
crops a season. A bushel of figs weighs
seventy pounds, for which 10 cents a
pound is said to be fair price Allow
ing for considerable shrinkage, the
value of the crop from single acre
should be $4,000. Thus the progressive
individual who plants figs may be sure
OF entering the millionaire class within
five years. and retiring upon his money
soon afterward.
With such possibilities before him.
why should the farmer toll hard. SOW
ing, harvesting and planting his wheat
crop, when his fig trees will take care of
themselves after three years. and he has
only to hire cheap labor to gather hts
fruit? He can then sit back and wait:
while his bookkeeper computes the
amount of his income tax.
Joking and effervescent enthusiasm
aside. though. the fig ha horticultural
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Potomac River Landings

Steamers leave 7th st. wharf for Baltimore and
river points Monday. Wednesday and Saturday,
pm, arrive Baltimore second morning out Leave
Baltimore, pier 8. Light St. Monday, Wednesday
and Saturday, 5 pm: arrive Washington second
morning out. River freight prepaid. Passenger
service hrst-class. Freight received until a:46
pm. on 1 selling d ssTEss;pzrxsox ...,.
Maryland. Delaware and Virginia Rwy. Co.,
Telephone Main 745. 7th 1t. wharf.
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NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE,
Asheville, II: Durham, 2.
Charlotte, II: Raleigh, 4.
Winston Salem, S; Greensboro, o.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Dallas, g.; Beaumont, s.
San Antonio, 4: Fort Worth, I.
Shreveport, 6; Houston, s.
Waco, Is; Galveston, s,
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STEAMSHIPS.

WASHINGTON 10 PHILADELPHIA,
ATLANTIC CITY AND NEW YORK.
ERICSSON LINE STEAMERS
ATTRACTIVE WATER ROUTE FROM
RALTiMORE 10 PHILADELPHIA.
Through the Chesapeake and Delaware canal
to PHILADELPHIA" Stopping at great
fishing grounds, Betterton, Chester. Pa. also
Newcastle, Del. connecting with trolley to WI
mington. Del. From Washington by B. = o.
or W.. B. 4 A. e. BY. to Baltimore, thence
Ericsson line to Phila. Steamers sail daily "a
cept Sunday pm Fast day boats daily ard
W., B. & A. q. Ry. ticket onlees; also O.
SPLIEDT. Ticket Agent. 1885 F st. n.w.,. for
New York. Atlantic City, Cape May. Asbufy
points north. Meals, 75c. Write for guido.
CLARENCE SHRIVER. G. P. A..
Light and Pratt sts.. Baltimore. Nd.
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SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
NORTH CAROLINA LEA,

Chattanooga, 4; Mobile, 2.
Little Rock, 8; New Orleans, 2.
Memphis, II; Birmingham. 8.
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"NORTH HILL"
POTOMAC BEACHTTss5,HRss451'syD

The most delightful river resort. $50 day.
IS week and up. Special rates to families and
parties Abundance fresh vegetables from our
own farm Sea food and poultry Salt water
bathing. fishing. Grabbing. Music dancing,
tesian water. Take steamer st. Johns, Colonial
Reach Auto and motor boat meet steamer. Write
Frank D. Blackstone, proprietor, call room
oil, McGill bldg. Phone NJ. 5000 for reservations.
RLUEMONT, VA.