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Evening journal., 1915-06-05
news GOSSIP ALONG
THE UPPER State LINE
Special to THE EVENING 1orrpNAr

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
BOOTH CORNER. Pa. June 5-Tbe
regular business meeting of the
Ladies' Aid. of Sloan Church. was
held Tuesday afternoon at the par
sonage.
Next Monday afternoon the regular
BUSINESS meeting Of the Ladies Aid.
ol ,Oncster-Bethel Methodist Church.
Will be held at the parsonage.
inc annual election Of officers of
the lecal w. &. 7. L. will be held
Evening journal., 1915-06-05
GRANT LErrERs oN EsrArEs

Register of Wills Isaac r. Brown has
granted letters testamentarv ON tbe es.
tate of Louisa Love Cook TO Fdward
t., Florence f., Ida w. Cook and Jos.
eph L. Sagebeer; letters of administra.
ton, c. t. a. ON the estate of Abigail p.
WEIGH to Mary r. Welch.
Evening journal., 1915-06-05
LAWYER IN NEW QUARTERS

Francis dc II. Janvier has removed his
"a" offices 20 rooms 3lO-ll-l2 Ford
Building.
Evening journal., 1915-06-05
CRITICAL COMMENT ON WILMNGTONS PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
AND PROPERTIES, BASED UPON COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY
BY MA AR6ARET Hi
HILLEs SHEAR MAN

These articles to do Justice to the rt con
VSuOnS addressed the Editor will
the correct names and addresses of inquiers given
Evening star., 1915-07-11
WAR CAUSES LEECH FAMINE

sists in the presence of one or two
sucking discs. The rings or segments
Of the body are very numerous and
closely set. Usually leeches breathe
body or by little saclike pouches
known as the respiratory seculi They
chiefly inhabit fresh water ponds,
though some live among moist grass.
and some are marine. The familiar
horse leeches of fresh water ponds and
bitches are included in this group. The
land leeches of Ceylon are terrestrial
in habits, living among damp foliage
and in like situations. They fasten on
man and beast and are serious pest
to travellers"
1t has been written that these Ceylon
terrestrial leeches draw a mans blood
SO painlessly that he would not know
it except from a feeling of weakness or
by observing the blood dripping. The
mouth Of the leech is situated In the
middle of the anterior sucker and is
provided with three small white teeth
cerrated along the edges and capable
of infiicting q peculiar wound which is
difficult to close and which permits a
large and continuous flow of blood.
The average amount of blood that can
be taken out of a man by a single leech
is from four drachms to one ounce,
When the leech has his "fll'. he wifi
detach himself and old medical practi.
TONERS had several ways Of treating
him afterward. One way was to dis
pose of him by holding him over a
bucket or other receptacle and clip
ping him In two with pair of scis-
sors. or he could be made to disgorge
the blood by being dropped into weak
salt water or by having a little salt
sprinkled on him. Disgorged, he was
ready to gorge again.
All leeches are extensile-that is.
they can make themselves long and
wormlike. or they can contract them
selves into a plump. pear-shaped mass.
In moving. a leech crawls like a looper
caterpillar. by using first his front
sucker and then his hind sucker. The
leech is a relative of the common earth
worm which boys dig for fish bait and
which the robins in the parks tug at so
industriously to pull from their hiding
place.
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laid off when it rains.'' he explains
There are probably half dozen of these
guards on duty at the local pools. and
there are always plenty of students for
the job.
ANY extras to be nader
Gosh, no." he answers. "They won't
let you teach swimming. If they did
they could hire me for nothing. There
teach them to swim, but I have to tell
them it's against the rules. They have
to pick it up the best way they can."
This brought to mind the fact that
the municipal pools have a new policy
this year. which permits women who
are escorted. to bathe with their
escorts.
How does the new plan work out?"
the guard was questioned.
VERY well. barring complaints from
people who are inclined to be fussy.'
What dye mean, fussy?
well. it's this way he said, quiet
ing two boys whose enthusiasm was
venting itself in. yells: "the pool is a
small place and some one is always
complaining-some lady, ] mean-that
some gentleman has collided with her
and that it was entirely unnecessary,
and some other lady will complain that
the spectators are displaying too much
interest in her costume, and maybe
thlrd one Will swear d idH . AiI eiiiS
with her.
I'VE discount lot of the complaints.
though. All these women are escorted,
and when their escorts don't see fit to
make a howl we don't pay much at
tention to them. The pools pretty
crowded for mixed bathing and the
people who can't stand little crowd
ing always have the privilege of stay
ing home or coming only when the
women have their session.
When one gets close to a crowd of
several hundred more or less nude.
half-grown boys. who haven't
thought in the world but for the sport
they're enjoying. you find yourself un-
consciously grouping the boys Into
types, and a boy with his clothes off Is
a remarkably faithful index of the
man-to-be.
Boys in the aggregate are scrawny.
scraggy, awkward, apparently half
starved human creatures, and in their
bathing suits they seem mostly mouths,
eyes and hair. But here and there in
the crowd you'll see the flash of half
developed youngster who's modelled
on the lines of an Adonis. It's a great
study in anthropology. trip to the
bathing pools.
At a quarter of some one appears
and taps bell. It means that in if
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Yankee Doodle in India.

m ONTINUAL exposure to danger
" breeds coolness. The soldier who
neryously lodges the first bullet that
whistles past his head becomes indif-
ferent to the fiftieth. Men under steady
fire for hours with comrades dead and
diving about them, are callous and self
collected.
At the taking Of the Shah Nujeef, in
Lucknow, by the British the comman-
dant found 1t necessary to signal to the
English force at the residency to make
known his position. For this purpose
an adjutant, a sergeant and Drummer
Ross. a boy only about twelve years
old and small for his years, climbed to
the top of the dome of the Shah Nujeef
by means of a rope ladder.
There, with the regimental color and
a feather bonnet on the tip of the staff,
they signaled to the residency, and the
little drummer sounded the regimental
call on a bugle which he had learned
to play.
The signal was seen, and was an
swered from the residency by the low
ering of flag three times. But the
enemy also saw the signaling and the
turned their guns on them, sending
several round shots quite close to
them.
Their object being gained. the English
ladder again like monkey. and hold
ing to the spire of the dome with his
left hand waved his feather bonnet de-
family about his head.
Then he sounded the regimental call
a second time and followed that by the
call known as The Cock of the North"
which he sounded as blast of def
ance to the enemy. When he was per-
emptorily ordered to come down from
his dangerous position he did so. but
not until he had sung, waving his bon
net all the time:
"There's not a man beneath the moon.
Nor lives in any land he,
That hasn't heard the pleasant tune
OF Yankee Doodle Dandy
tIn cooling drinks and clipper shiFA
The Yankee has the way shown,
On land and sea tits he that whips
Old Bull and all creation"
When little Ross reached the parapet
at the foot of the dome. he turned to
the lieutenant, saluted, and said:
"Ye ken, sir. l was born when the
regiment was in Canada. and my moth
er was on a visit to an aunt in the
States, and ] could not come down till
l had sung Yankee Doodle to make my
American cousins envious when they
hear Of the deeds of the 93d.''
Evening star., 1915-07-11

IA RoST persons do not know thai
m|I there is leech famine or a
o"S leech shortage in the United
States as one of the results of the war.
In fact, the knowledge that most per
sons have concerning leeches Is or the
slenderest kind, even if they have any
information at all on this subject.
There was a time when information re-
garding leeches and their uses was
much more general than it Is now, but
times. manners and customs change
and the leech is not now called into
use in all households and in all fami-
lies as it once was.
1t is only old persons who remember
when the leech was given active en-
ployment for many of the ills that flesh
is heir to, and even they cannot re-
member when the leech was in his
prime. It may be that many of the
present generation, even those who
have not read much Of the history Of
medicine, have heard that "cupping."
"leeching' or blood letting" in various
ways was freely and fiercely practiced
by the doctor of physic. The old fam
lily physician, or at least the family
physician of old, prescribed leeches
with the facility and fiuency that the
modern practitioner prescribes change
of air, change of scene and rest. The
apothecary shop of old could no more
do business without supply of leeches
than the up-to-date drug store could do
business without a soda fountain, toilet
articles, cigars and cigarettes and
other things unrelated to the ameliora-
tion of disease.
Though the 1eech has declined in
popularity he is still used and he prac-
tices his trade as skillfully as did his
ancestral leeches generations and CEN
turies ago. His habits and his appe-
tite have not changed.
x x
While various members OF the leech
family abound in most parts Of the world
foreign leech that does the leeching in the
United States. The green leech, or Hun
garian leech, is the variety OF the .hirudo"
most favored in the south of Europe. and
this is the leech that is brought to the
United States. Bred in Hungary and in
parts of Austria, he is shut out Of the
United States by the war. The brown
speckled, or English leech. was once
famous in the north of Europe. and his
American colonies and the young United
States, but it is said that that leech is
now rare in England because of the drain
age of bogs and ponds and because OF the
slackened demand for his services owing
to new ideas in the treatment Of disease.
An old account of leeches says: ''The
distinctive feature of the leech con-
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tie while longer until they've gradual
ed over here into the six-foot water.
and they're learning to use the spring
board
The guards talk is suddenly inter-
rupted. Two youngsters come plowing
across from the other side of the pool,
making laborious progress and putting
like steam hoists. There's notice
and one of the two is swallowing
water by mouthfuls. AS they reach
the edge the guard bends over with an
admonition. points toward the shall
low water. and obedient to his COM
mand they climb out and pick new
spot.
They're not good enough for this
end" explains the guard. ITS six feet
deep up here, and we don't want to do
any more than We have to. One OF
those boys barely got to the rail with
out help"
You notice that the boy in question
sits down to "blow," thoroughly wind
ed by the struggle. Naturally the talk
turns to life-saving and the guard
smiles.
\
'Life-saving's something of joke in
a pool barely thirty feet wide," he
says. though we have to keep our
eyes open. It's six feet deep-plenty
deep enough to drown any boy here.
Still. it wouldn't be hard matter to
go over and get one. With a kid. you
can grab 'em anywhere and tow 'em
ashore. It's harder dealing with a
grown person"
How do you grab kid when he's in
trouble?" was asked.
The guard reaches out and grasps the
arm Of a passing boy, with much the
same detached air one would pick a
peach from Il tree to sample the crop.
He puts the boys arms behind his
back and runs his own arm under
them, grasping the boys elbow.
You might do it that way, or
catching the boys chin in the crook
of his arm-"bring him ashore this way.
It's all in not letting him get you
around the neck. Still, with a kid. you
can grab his bathing suit if nothing
else comes handy"
"Wouldn't the ordinary can buoy be
good thing to have around here?"
he is asked.
YES" he replies. Director Junkin
has been considering that. We were
talking of rigging long pole to push
out to any one in trouble"
AS the guard talks it develops he
is medical student, working as a life
guard during the summer vacation.
The pay is Is cents a day-and you're
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|WASHlNGTON'S SUMMER BIRDS

by those fortunate enough to have
heard it.
Another interesting group are the
vireos, dainty little birds whose color
ing harmOnizes so well with the leaves
around which they live that they are
often passed by unnoticed. They have
sweet voices and build little basket
nests suspended from forked twigs.-
They eat large numbers of insects. and
I'M this way preserve the trees from
caterpllars and other harmful pests.
The best known is the red-eyed vireo,
which frequents woods and orchards.
It's feathers are grayish green and the
breast white. and there is conspicu-
Gus white line over the red eye. The
bird chirps all day. The white-eyed
vireo is similar, but he is mostly found
In tangled thickets. He has beauti-
full song. but is not SO friendly as the
red-eyed vireo. There is still another
member of this family that is quite
common. the yellow-throated vireo. In
manners and habits he is not unlike
the others.
Swallows are distinguished by their
long. powerful wings. They are dull
in color, and can be seen flying high
in the air in pursuit of flies. mosquitoes
and other winged creatures. The COM
often seen perched with many of his
companions on telegraph wires. He
makes a nest in a barn or old vacant
dwelling and lines the inside with soft
nay ana 1eatnerS.
Barn swallows destroy great quanti-
ties of Injurious insects. and are ia
nous for their wonderful flights in mi
grafton, when they often fly at the rate
OF mile minute. The rough winged
swallow freQuents the canal region
from Aqueduct bridge to Glen Echo.
and often makes his nest in the crew
ices of the canal walls. The bank swal-
low Is found near the water, usually
at a point below the city.
The Smithsonian grounds are a ia
vorite place for the orioles, both the
Baltimore and orchard. The former is
known by his bright coat of orange
and black, and when he darts in and
out among the green leaves he makes
a gay and pleasing sight. The orchard
orioles coat is a duller one Of brown
and black, but his song is Just as
cheerful as that of his brightly colored
pocket nests that are wonderfully, WOW
en- and SO skillfully placed as to be out
Of reach of squirrels, crows or other
enemies.
The last of the summer families, the
tanagers, are the most brilliant of all
the colony. The scarlet tanager, as its
name implies. is a seven-inch bird with
bright flaming body and jet black
wings. He mostly keeps well outside
is a sure mark for his enemies. The
summer tanager. which is rosy red all
over, Is found in the hottest days of
the season at Mount Vernon Takoma
Park or Brookland. The songs of these
birds resemble those of the robins. The
summer tanager is thought to have the
better voice OF the two.
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Apropos of Italy.
FORMER goyernme

A FORMER government official was
6N talking at luncheon about Ger.
many's denunciation of Italy's betrayal.
Won Bethmann- -Hollweg." he said.
declares that the entire italian cab
met has been corrupted with English
and French gold. It's the only possible
explanation, he says, of Italy's base
ness.
IT'S always thus. The worst are
always preaching. A man once asked.
who's the author OF the saying
that home is what we make it?'
1.-The author of that saying another
man replied. was, I'll warrant, q chap
who never mada 1t before 4 ANIL ,
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TT E the s'eS% ssr,nseosra. ns'ssa on the tip Of
Hi Possibly he was ten years
q q old. His skin was the deep
bronze of south Italy. and already his
Juvenile shoulders were broadening
into a massiveness that betokened the
born wrestler.
AS he poised life guard shouted to
him. and his hands, raised above his
Head for the dive, suddenly dropped
in surprise.
Come here" ordered the guard. The
boy came, grinning.
whats your name''
TONY, he grinned.
TONY what
Tony Ardesa.
can you SWIM:
"5eh, he admitted. scornfully. Il
kin swim.
There was the flash of the bronzed
body. a shower of spray, the kissing of
bubbles from the green depths, and
Tony's little ten-year-old body Glove
through the water like an eel He
rose to the surface dozen feet far
ther on The life guard grinned.
There was something about Tony that
made even life guard grin.
If you stroll down across the White
House ellipse some afternoon between
= and o'clock. when the sun is bis
tering Col. Harts' new grass on the
site of the old Monument fish pond. and
make your way to the big yellow
buildings in the Mall which mark the
municipal bathing pools you can see
kr.(n i,, of.yt
800 others like him.
Here YOU will find Boyville in all Its
varied and multifariouS forms of agile,
awkward. clean-limbed. upsainly. tan
ned and snow-white adolescence-prov-
ing six days week, beyond the point
of cavil, that every dollar invested IN
municipal bathing pools will net
community 100 per cent on the invest
ment in better youngsters.
At 3 o'clock the other afternoon they
came streal<ing in scores from the
locker rooms, where they'd been strip
ping OFF scauty street clothing for the
still more scanty garmenture of the
pools. They lined course direct for
the three shower baths that splash and
sprinkle constantly. and. like well
trained soldiers. every youngster sub
r,itted himself to the chill of a shower
before he entered TO get the worst of
the dirt off, as the lifeguard put it.
~*#
All except one went under the show
err There was one recalcitrant. He
was Il bit of lad. nine years old per-
haps. eyes glistening with excitement
and the mark of the nervous tempera-
ment in his words and movements. He
paused for a moment to eye the life
guard, who looked away for a moment.
The youngster was gathering his feet
for a plunge without first undergoing
the singing shower. but just as he
started the life guard came to life.
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"Here, you" called the guard. Get
back under that shower
II did" piped back a shrill voice, in
cased in bathing suit patiently dry.
The guard started toward him and
the youngster scrambled for the show
er without a word. He turned and
twisted under the cold stream for
moment, and then, having complied
with the letter of the law. though hav-
ing obviously defeated its purpose, he
turned and dived in long arching dive
that was really beautiful to see.
The guard grinned again. and went
back to his station. It's interesting to
walk up on the outside of the inclos-
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the plunge is not made with all the
old-time "swimmin' hole zest because
that cussed water amt a degree over
sixty-five. and it's so cold it's green
yes, stree.
There on the edge of the pool.
stands Sir Falstaf himself, divested
for the once of the trappings of civilt-
zation and the lines of an artful tailor
that minimiZed that forty-etght-fnch
waist line. He mounts the springboard
with faraway look in his eyes. He
surveys the eXpanse of tossing green
water from the dizzy height of three
feet and seems doubtful. You can see
him screwing up his courage to make
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that dive, but many a man has been
undone by less than -eight-fnch
waist line.
You can tell he's contemplating the
effect OF a poor dive on that waist
line, and. naturally. the idea is bit
appalling. He gives it up finally and
walks off down the springboard, to
finally climb down the. ladder and
make off gracefully. using breast
stroke that went out of fashion with
the crinoline girl, but which helped
him win the 10O-yard water dash at
the firemen's picnic back in 'SS.
There was one old-timer-he looked
like an old-timer-who'd been feebly
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.rHE FLASH OF A BROWN BODY.n

get over their first fear of the water
if they have any: That's where the
.splashers' work out their apprentice
ship. You'll notice they don't do any
splashing in the deep pool. There's
too much fun swimming. The kid that
does the splashing is usually the kid
that can't swim himself and who is
jealous over the success of the others.
Anyway. we put 'em in the three
foot pool at first. They splash around
for a couple of afternoons, and the
first thing you know they've learned
to swim dog fashion, Then they take
the four-foot tank, and it's only a lit
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ure and get one of these orange-jer-
seyed young fellows with the sun
burned shoulders and calves to discuss
boy psychology and it's application to
the bathing pools
IT'S funny" he's saying, "how these
kids quickly graduate from one pool
to another in no time. Some of these
boys in the six-foot tank were over
in the three-foot pool when we first
opened this summer.
Down in the three-foot tank they
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AROUND DOG-FASHION.,

teen minutes every youngster there
must pile out of the big pool and make
way for a swarm of warm, tired, per-
spring adult humans who are to have
their turn.
Were the kids accused of being
scrawny?
Well take it back, now that these
men are in the water. Here we have
the lame, the halt, the fat, the thin,
the mustached, the smooth-shaven
and the ones with large knee-joints.
Under the shower they go, just like the
kids, and into the water they plunge.
albeit they do it with an air of sad
ness-a certain tacit admission that
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Mall Reach Height Of Their Popularity The Case Of Tony
All Its Varied and Muaous FosWo the Iegurd
Sx-Foo-A New Policy the Pools This
n Wide.
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of his Incarceration he showed a wen
developed case of tuberculosis. SO that
he. with others suffering from the same
malady. was confined in an out-of-doors
camp. But in spite of his age and his
illness Daily. with one companion, sue
ceeded in scaling the twenty. foot stone
wall which kept him from liberty, and
The second on. the list is Dominica
Grieco. alias John Furman. alias John
Taylor. an Italian. He was sentenced
in New York to seven years for coun.
clear of the guards in the Atlanta peni-
tentiary and disappeared.
William Finney negro, and the
longest spell Of freedom of any of the
escaped federal prisoners He was con-
victed in Columbus. Ga. Of burgiarizing
the post office at that point. but escaped
May 27. 1907.
Frank Grigware, alias James Gordon,
the fourth of the federal convicts, in
terrupted life sentence when he es-
capped from Leayenworth penitentiary
robbery, he having been convicted of a
mail train hold-up on the Union Pa
cific May %, 1909.
The last on the federal list is August
train near Moline. Ill, April 13 last, en-
route to the Joliet penitentiary, in
charge of deputy marshal.
One of the most dangerous Of the
measurements and descriptions appear
in the escaped criminal album was
not at the time he made his getaway"
an inmate of a federal prison. He Is
George Bromley, convicted Of murder
and adjudged insane, and at the time
of his escape he was a prisoner in the
Government Hospital for the Insane,
outside Of Anacostia.
r. X
Bromley. in 1900.. was a member of
Company H.. 22d United States lnfan-
try, stationed In Luzon. Like many
another young rookie in the days when
the United States was civilizing the
bolo welding little brown brother
with a Krag, Bromley. SO his record
shows. began smoking opium and
drinking the queer native distillates of
the Philippines. And on a hot day.
when he had returned to the barrio of
San Isidro,. he shot his pal, Corp.
Fox, in the back. He was tried and
convicted. being sentenced to ninety
nine-year term of imprisonment. which
he began at Leavenworth. But the
ravages Of tho tropics hady weakened
his mind, and he was removed to the
Government Hospital for the Insane.
There, October 8, 1911, Bromley made
his escape. He had been confined with
the dangerously insane in Howard
Hall, but had been permitted to go into
the grounds with an attendant, Zanie
Robey, who handled him many times.
Suddenly Bromley attacked the at
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First on the list of the five federal
prisoners who are still at large and
who. can accurately be called escaped
convicts is little, old man with thin
gray hair and sunken cheeks john
DAILY of Atlanta, Gas He has been at
large since last Christmas. Daily was
convicted of breaking into post ofape
in Atlanta and was sentenced to nve
years imprisonment in the Atlanta
penitentiary. During the early months