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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


The best expander is big heart.
Short-sighted people are naturally
close observers.
Courage is plant that cannot be de-
stroyed by plucking one up.
LiberaIty consists less in giving
much than in giving wisely.
The prettiest thing in feminine head
gear is od-humored face.
To be a great orator one must know
lust when and where not to talk.
Race-track patrons should never try
to pick winners before they are ripe.
A mans idea of phenomenon is
another man who never loses a collar
button.
A man wants everything he can get
and woman wants everything she
can't get.
Some men take to drink naturally and
some others are quite willing to be
taken
Spending a dollar before it is earned
Is like eating an egg that is to be laid
tomorrow.
It's all right for man to wake up
In the morning fresh as daisy, but
ii isn't right to let his freshness get
too fresh.
There are two different kinds of men.
Give one n piece of rope and he will
hang himself: give a similar piece to
the other and he'll form a cordage
trust.
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STEAMER GOES TO JUNK PILE.
The Capital City Being Stripped for
Iron in Her Hull.

Workmen are employed in strippina
the deck and guards from the iron hull
of the former Potomac river steamer
Capital City as she lies at the wharf
foot of K street southwest. 1t was gen
orally supposed that the hull of the
old steamer would be converted into a
freight barge. but it is now stated to
be the intention of G. w. Forsberg, its
owner, to cut it up for the metal in the
hull
The Capital City, under the names
John w. Thompson and later Harry
Randall, gave good service on river
routes and was one of the most popular
boats ever in the river traffic. About
two years ago the infirmities of old
age overcame her, making her unfit for
further service and she was sold for
junk. The Capital City was built at
Camden, N. j., in 1875 and her iron hull
is said to be in good condition consid-
ering the fact that 1t was built forty
years ago.
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100000 Tests of Pupils Eyes.

DIR. RoSenbergs report and recon-
mendations are Endorsed by a special
committee of the New York Academy
of Medicine. The committee refers to
an analysis of over 100000 published
examinations of students eyes, in
which it was shown that ''myopia, ex-
tremeIy rare or entirely absent before
the beginning of the educational proc
ess, was found to advance steadily in
percentage with the pupils progress
in school"
In 1897 Petrograd pupils showed 1876
per cent of myopia in the first grade,
and 42.S in the eighth; Philadelphia fig
ures are APT per cent of myopia at
eight years of age, and 1888 at seven
teen; village schools in Germany show
ed IA per cent in village schools, 26.2 in
gymnasia (high schools) and sos in
universities. The academy committee
adds:
From their own investigation this
committee finds that DR.. Rosen berg S
statement to the conditions in many
schools is borne out. The present meth
cd of seating children, the desks and
seats provided for them and the illu-
mination of their classrooms all are
tending to produce spinal curvature
and eyestrain in a very large number
of school children.
so long as desks and seats are made
as difficult to adjust as possible, so long
as the adjusting can only be made for
height without regard to the distance
of seat from desk, the children will be
subjected to conditions sure to result
in spinal curvature and ocular de-
fects
.'The matter is of sufficient import
ance to demand a careful and thought
ful study
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HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
By Earl Goodwin.

In the cottage of Robert Burns you
will find the original manuscript of
the verses written by Ingersoll in
tribute to the Scotch master of poesy,
and every one who goes to the cottage
reads the verse. Representative Cooper
OF Wisconsin went to the cottage once,
saw the verse and read it aloud to a
| fairly large number of tourists. who
had gathered there.
| Its a fine bit of writing" he said.
1T Is worthy of Burns himself" came
| a deep voice from the edge of the
group, and the Wisconsin man. turn
| ing, saw William Robertson Smith,
who. as every one knows. was the su-
perintendent of the Botanic Gardens
| here for SO many years.
And. of course. Smiths wonderful COL
lection of Burnsiana and his worship
for the highland poet are matter of
common knowledge. Every one has. or
ought to have, heard of his mastery
rebuke of senator who dared speak
of the poet as Tommy" Burns. On
that OCCASION But that Is another
yarn. and III spin it for you some
other time.
Smith lived and breathed in terms of
Burns. He could recite nearly every
thing that Burns wrote; he knew ev
cry step he took. and had acquainted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-06
Little Storle,
~ Bedtime
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1915, by J. G. Lloyd)
The Little People Seek Their
Homes.

From a safe distance on the bank of
the Smiling Pool the little people of
the Green Meadows and the Green For
est had watched the Red Terror in the
Old Pasture, and a great fear had filed
every heart and had drawn all together.
Reddy Fox had no desire to harm
Danny Meadow Mouse and Danny
knew it and sat right at Reddy's feet.
Old Man Coyote had no thought of
touching Peter Rabbit and Peter knew
it and hoped about excitedly right in
front of Old Man Coyote. 1t was just
the same way with all the little people.
Fear of one another was wholly for
gotten in the greater and common fear
of the Red Terror.
So they watched Farmer Brown and
Farmer Browns Boy and other men
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himself with more Interesting details
of Burns life than one would think a
man CAPABLE of doing in one lifetime.
So Hal Cooper was not surprised
when he heard Smiths remark.
Later Mr.. Cooper toured through
Scotland. and one day found himself at
Abbottsford. the home of Sir Walter
Scott. There are many strange and in
teresting things to be found there,
among them being a great glass case
and women who fill the pages of Eng
lands history. There are crucifxes of
beheaded queens. and rings of kings
and swords of warriors, and on one
longed to Robert Burns. 1t is a large
affair. in which any two-fsted drinker
would take great delight. and as Mr..
Cooper gazed at 1t he turned to Mrs.
Cooper and remarked:
Burns must have had MANY a drink
ing bout with that"
And then the stern, scornful and re-
proachful voice of the avenging angel
beloved through the halls Of Abbotts-
ford:
Reports of Burns tntemperance
have been greatly exaggerated"
And on turning around Mr.. and Mrs
Cooper discovered William Robertson
Smith. He had left the Burns cottage
days before, toured all through Scot
land and had arrived in front of the
Burns goblet at exactly the right mo-
ment to defend the poets memory
against the common accusat ton of hav-
ing dared to take drink.
\ X
There is man who stands guard
near the entrance to the grounds at
Mount Vernon, and while his name NAV
not be Jones, still again it may be
Jones for all 1 know. so Jones it must
be until further information.
He was attending strictly to his own
business one day last week, when an
Englishman of most pronounced type
entered the gate. Mr. Jones is used to
having people thrilled as they set foot
upon that sacred soil. but this English
thrill. He looked at Jones and asked:
What is there to be seen here, my
MANI"
Now, Mr. Jones is exceedingly dis
pleased when spoken to in that fash
ion, and probably showed it in his re-
ply, which was that some of the hedges
OF lockwood were very ancient.
The burly Briton moved on and look
ed things over in the garden. 1t wasn't
long before he returned to Mr.. Jones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-06
TRAVELETTE
BY NIKSAH.
Boise.

Boise. the capital city of Idaho. is
reached after a long journey over bar
rem plains that are studded with VOL
canic rock and sagebrush.
The traveller is, therefore. likely TO
exult when ne arrives at the valley of
the Boise river where irrigation bitches
have converted the waste into a tapes
try of meadows. orchards and groves of
mighty shade trees
Boise is pitched at the edge of the
desert with its torrential river In the
foreground, and mighty mountains rails
ing to the back of il. Forty miles up the
river. the federal government has Just
completed the great Arrowrock pro-
tect. the highest irrigating dam in the
world From Boise, Uncle Sam has
built a railroad to this dam. il being
the first goyernment-owned line under
our flag
1t is steep climb from the back door
of the town into the mountains that are
ihe vanguard of the great Saw Tooth
range. Half an hour in an auto will
lose one In pine forests high up on the
nils where the influence of man is
little felt.
Boise is an Old town from the stand
point Of the west. II was but a decade
after the discovery of gold in California
that this was the center OF one of the
greatest activities in placer mining that
the nation has ever known. The sands
Of the Boise basin were rich in the yell
low metal and prospectors sat elbow
TO elbow while washing il out. 1t was
then that the town was established as a
supply station for the miners.
But after the prospector came the
sheepman and cattleman and lumber
man and farmer. In the habit of west
ern towns Boise has adorned itself with
all the trimmings of nodernity. The
trees that the first settlers planted
along its irrigation bitches have grown
venerable with age. The hot springs
that gush from its mountain sides have
been harnessed, and its citizens may
scorn the care of a furnace. They heat
their homes and Office buildings by
merely turning a spigot of the city
water works.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The joint select committee Of Con-
gress continued hearings on the rela-
lions between the District of Column
bia and the federal government; the
two civilian District Commissioners
advocated the abandonment of the half
and half plan, the federal government
to pay all expenses of the District gov
eminent and the residents in the Ma
tional Capital to pay fair and rea-
sonable tax; the District Delegate As
ISOLATION urged the committee to
recommend the grant of the franchise
Arthur p. Davis suggested that tax
assessments be based on selling prices
of land; A. S. Trundle urged self-gov-
eminent, and control of expenditures
by the people: B. NJ. Seibold contended
that Congress lacks power to tax resi-
dents; H. ]. Browne charged that the
assessor ordered reduction in the as
sessment against the property of c. G.
Glover. A new license year for saloons
and liquor dealers began with con-
Culbertson was named special counsel
of the federal trades commission.
Franc E. Sherry was elected president
of the Typothetate of Washington. The
food show opened in Convention Hall.
In an Interpretation OF the eight hour
law, the appellate court held dress
maker with fxed place of business is
amenable to the prohibitions of the
law. Police sta,ted the census. FIRE
damaged the District building to the
extent of $500. Among those who died
during the week were DR.. George NJ.
Sternberg, former surgeon general of
the army; Dr. J. B. G. Custis, promi-
nent homeopathic physician; Writ de
Vivier Tassin, chemist and mineral
ogist; Patrick V. Dolan, coast guard
service; John r. Gisburne. veteran of
the civil war and government employe
Turner A. Wickersham, manager of the
estate of the late T. A. Walsh and a
well known realty operator.
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ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Arrivals.

Schooner May and Anna Beswick,
laths and lumber from Chesapeak Ike
bay point at 9Th street wharf for the
dealers; schooner Edith VERBAL, at
with cord wood for ]. Maury Dove &
Co: schooners John T. White, Willie
Clarence and Lottie Thomas and hattie
Eva B., oysters from river and bay
beds. at 18th street wharf for the mar
ket; schooner J. Z. Robinson at Alex
andria with pulp wood for shipment to
West Virginia paper-making mills;
steamer Southland, from Norfolk and
Old Point; steamer Frederick de Barry,
from Mattox creek, Colonial Beach and
river landings; barge No. So, from Bal
timore with oil in bulk; schooner Rich :
ard Tall. at Alexandria with pulp wood
from Upper Machodoc creek.
Departures.
Schooner yacht Latonia. on q cruise
to the mouth of the river; Standard
Oil Company tank barge No. So, light,
for Baltimore to load oil in bulk;
schooner Eleanor Russell, light, for
Alexandria to load for Chicomuxen
creek; schooner Carrie Revell, light
for Chicomuxen creek to load cord
wood to return; steamer Northland, for
Old Point and Norfolk by the Norfolk
and Washington Steamboat Company;
fattie. no name. from Alexandria for q
Maryland point to load oysters; United
! Wetherill, with passengers and army
stores for Fort Washington and Fort
Hunt.
Tugs and Tows.
Standard Oil Company tug No. u ar
rived with oil-laden barge from Balti-
more and left with light barge to re-
turn; tug James Q. Garter left with
light barge for a river point and tie
laden barge for Point Lookout to re-
turn with coal-laden barge for George
boats at Georgetown for canal points
tug Herbert arrived with sand and
gravel laden lighters and left with
empty lighters for sand-digging ma
chimes to load; tug Captain Toby left
for Dccoquan towing j. and w. lighter
No. / to load lumber for this city; tug
T. T Selectman arrived at Georgetown
with lighters.
Memoranda.
Barge Diascond. with coal for this
city, was yesterday in ST. Marys river
waiting tug to bring her here
schooner Earl Biscoe Is due here from
Il lower river landing with cord wood
for the dealers; schooner Edith Marcy
| is expected to arrive today with oysters
from the Potomac beds for the mar
ket: schooner Charles L. Rhode is due
at Norfolk from Elizabeth City, N. c..
with lumber from this port; schooner
} Oakland is due to sail from Maryland
| point with cord wood for the dealers
here; schooner Mildred is at a lower
river landing loading railroad ties for
| this city or Baltimore; schooner Oscar
| is due to sail from Nomini creek with
pulp wood to be shipped from Alex
! andria to West Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-06
Senator Gore for a Tariff Board.

Senator Gore of Oklahoma today an
nounced that he would urge at the
coming session of Congress the estab-
lishment of tariff board or taxation
commission not only to gather infor-
nation relative to costs and other con-
ditions of goods produced abroad. but
to make investigations relative to in
ternal revenue. income taxes and other
means of raising taxes.
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interested in what Herbert J. Browne
was saying. After the session Mrs Of
fetal said to her husband:
what is Mr.. Browne trying to prove ?'
well, he is a single taxer," said Mr.
Official
But he didn't say anything about it."
ooh, yes. he did"
Il didn't hear him.
The official made brief explanation
of the single tax. Whereupon MS wife
said with great surprise:
"Oh, dear me. I always thought the
single tax was tax on single men,
X = *
There were two colored men hand
cuffed one to another in the car The
train was bound for Leavenworth. and
the two men were part of a batch of fed
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U. S. Has No Reserve for
Emergency, Says Surgeon
General BREASTED.
PRICES OF SURGICAL
INSTRUMENTS SOAR
New Hospital Ships Recommended
in Report-Decrease in Dis
eases Is Shown.

Medical supplies and surgical instru-
ments absolutely needed for the navy
have advanced in some instances from
200 to / ,2o0 per cent in price since the
outbreak of the European war, accord
ing to the annual report of Surgeon
General w C. Braisted of the navy.
made public today. The American out
put of surgical instruments meets but
10 per cent of the domestic demand. the
report adds, and urges that immediate
steps be taken toward storing up an
adequate supply of drugs, instruments
and medical appliances to be held IN
reserve against emergencies Addition
al appropriations will be asked Con-
gress each year for several years for
this purpose.
There is no reserve supply of medi-
cal stores, and the importance of such
q supply-always military necessity
has been especially apparent during the
last few days" the report says. The
stock of medicine. surgical instruments
surgical appliances. dressings. dispeh-
sary furniture, etc, is not now ana
never has been in excess of the ordl-
nary service demands. Some OF the
drugs needed. the report adds, are not
now procurable at any price, because OF
the European demand
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fghtins the Red Terror and hoped with
great hope that they would be able to
beat it out before it should reach the
Green Forest. They saw the fire sweep
on and on toward the Green Forest,
and their hearts sank, for if the Red
Terror should destroy the Green For
est as it was destroying the Old Pas
ture many Of them would be homeless,
could they go?
The Red Terror had almost reached
the edge of the Green Forest when they
saw Old Mother West Wind hurry ng
as fast as ever she could. They watch
ed her blow with all her might. and
they saw that she was blowing the Red
Terror back. They heard the ugly
Vainly tried to reach the Green Forest,
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VISITING THE WAR
BRIDES.
X.-The Chemical Indus
try.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

NEW YORK. November SIS Amer
lea going to have a dye industry after
the European war?
This is a question which has been the
subject of a great deal Of speculation.
both verbal and financial. The men
with capital are beginning to see the
results of their enterprise. and the man
of words Is able to get a pretty good
idea as to the probability of an Amer
lean dye industry surviving the Eu-
ropean peace.
In the first place. the American mar
ket for the dyes does not AFFORD a great
opportunity. for our total annual con-
sumption of them Is only worth about
$4,000. 900 and includes an almost in
finite variety of shades and chemical
compositions. An expert estimates that
to develop an American dye industry
capable of supplying all American
needs would cost sso.ooO.ooo. and he
does not believe the United States, de-
spite its present abundance of capital.
has eighty millions to invest in a df-
teen-million- dollar business.
of good many other professional
chemists is that the industry OF max
ing dyes in this country will be
strengthened rather than expanded.
The United States will produce moro of
the dyes used by American manufac-
turers and will produce a somewhat
greater variety. But of the numerous
factories that have sprung up since the
breaking out of the war only a few
can survive the matured and expert
and English factories.
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SCHOOL ARRANGEMENTS
ARE FELT BY PUPILS
Bad Seating and Lighting Causes
Defects Of the Eye and Spinal
Curvature.
Report on the Subject Made by DE-.
E. A. Rosenberg to
the Survey.

That conditions Of combined seating
and lighting in the public schools of
this country are direct causes not only
of defects of the eye, but also of more
severe troubles. such as spinal curva-
ture. is the opinion held and verified
by DR.. E. A. Rosenberg. district dag
nostician of the department of health
of New York city. A discussion of
schoolroom conditions is presented in
an article just issued by the Survey
of New York
To DR.. Rosenberg's office came a boy
of twelve years, small for his age, and
of poor muscular development. says
the Survey. He had a distinct lateral
curvature of the spine and a percep-
tible degree of myopia, or short-sight-
edness.
Three years before the boy had shown
on examination no spinal curvature and
his vision was then normal. Meantime
he had been at school. Was there a
causal relationship between that fact
and his present condition? Dr. Rosen-
berg's conviction is that just such a
causal relationship did exist in this
case. and does in many others.
He visited certain newly built schools
in New York and noted attentively the
conditions of seating and lighting.
These schools he found equipped with
desks and chairs adjustable for height
Oul nome VI the teachers
knew this fact, and no adjustment of
the furniture had been made. such as
to allow the smallest children to have
the lowest desks in the front row.
Some of the Bodies Twisted.
The teachers urged the children to
''sit up straight while a photograph
was being taken: but DR.. Rosenberg
noticed that after a moment in a
strained, stiffy erect position. the chill
dren relapsed into the accustomed
SLOUGH, bending to bring the eyes
nearer to a book, or holding the feet
and knees sideways for room. and SO
twisting the body at the waist.
DIR. Rosenberg followed his report OF
dations that teachers be required to
make practical use of their knowledge
regarding proper posture: that the
board of education issue orders to have
term, and as often thereafter as nee.
essary; that medical inspectors OF
schools extend their supervision to con-
ditions which must create defects. in
stead of only remedying the defects
thus created.
The physiological facts back of such
results DR.. Rosenberg gives as follows
"Congenital myopia does not occur
Newly born children are practically
| always hypermetropic. 1t has
been proven that acquired myopia is
almost exclusively found in individual Is
who are compelled to overexert their
eyes by continual near vision. Other
factors to be reckoned with are:
"A. Predisposition, probably anatomic
peculiarities in the structure of the
eyebaI.
%. Conditions which compel the eyes
to overaccommodate and overcome
verge. That is, where the printed page
of work is continuously held too close
to the eve"
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FOREIGN

Forces of Carranza and villa battled
for possession of Aqua Prieta, oppo-
site Douglas. Ariz., bullets crossing
the border to the peril of American
lives. Villa withdrawing for lack of
food; Carranza gave assurances to the
United States that border outlawry will
be stopped. Arthur Blanchard,
minister to Haiti, was ordered back to
his post to aid in the American policy.
The Chinese government rejected the
proposals of Japan, Great Britain and
Russia for postponement of decision
as to establishment of monarchical
government. Prohibition was voted
upon in Newfoundland. King George
of Great Britain, injured by fall from
his horse, was reported recovering. The
Duke of Manchester has filed a state
ment with the London courts showing
81 100000 liabilities and $1,000 assets.
Among those who died during the week
were Lewis Waller. English actor: Sir
Arthur Rucker, English scientist, edu-
Gator and author.
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HandcuRed me to another In the car.
penitentiary.
Just before the time for starting one
of the two said to his partner:
Jim, does dis yer train go anywhere's
near Occoquan?"
And the other one. with a most scorn-
full glance. repl ed:
Set up, niggah, you's in de big league
now"