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it did not disturb Zeke in the least. In
spite Of what the drummer had said he
could not bring himself to believe the
simple continuance was of any value.
Then, at the end of three weeks came
this letter:
Mr.. Zeke Wright. Hooper's Farm.
Dear sir: The patent papers are go
ing through all right, but in the mean
offer for a one-half interest. AS you
left the matter wholly in my hands,
refused to sell more than half, but this
sale, I think, would be for our interest.
The house has facilities for placing a
patented article upon the market which
you and 1 lack, and fully believe that
in their hands a half interest will be
more remunerative to us than the
whole. as we could handle it. The sale
can reasonably hope for nearly as much
more each year for a long time to come.
OF course. If you do not wish to make
this sale. it need not stand. You will
only have to return the inclosed check
with your refusal But my advice is
to accept"
Not wish to make the sale, Zeke
laughed aloud at the thought. Why, the
money? Then he gasped at the sudden,
new. tremendous idea. The Jones' sale
would come off in few days and he
believed the place would be Knocked
down for less than $500. Or, il not
ne could easily borrow the little differ
ence there might be, or let it go on
mortgage until another check came on
the gate patent. Peggy need not leave
the pretty fruit farm after all-only
move from the kitchen into the parlor
(THE END.)
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The Little Bob Whites at
School.
Everybody gees to school;
That's the universal rule.
Mother Naturt long ago
Said ii always should be 81

OF course, there are all kinds OF
schools, but to one kind or another
every body has to go to. a lot of peo-
pie don't know they are going to school
but they are. just the same. If you
should ask them what school they go to
they would tell you they don't go to any.
But they do, just the same. They go
to the hardest school of all, the school
of experience. That is the school in
which we all learn how to live and
take care of ourselves. 1t is just the
same with the little meadow and for
est people. You remember that the
four babies of Johnny and Polly Chuck
went to school in the Old Orchard just
as soon as they were big enough to run
around, and that it was the same with
the children of Peter Rabbit in the
dear Old Brier Patch. an dthe Young
sters of Danny and Nanny Meadow
Mouse on the Green Meadows and inc
Billy Possum's lively family in the
Green Forest. and Little Joe Otter
two hopefuls in the Laughing Brook.
So. of course, all the Little Bob Whites
started in to go to scfopi aihos5 as
The very first thing they learned was
to mind their parents, which Is the
very first lesson all little folks must
learn You see. my dears. explained
Mrs. Bob. as, they nestled under her
wings. "the Great World is full of dan
gers. especially for little Bob Whites.
and SO il you want to live to grow up
to be as handsome and smart as your
father you must mind instantly when
We speak to you.
So, as every one OF the nlteen NIUE
Bob Whites wanted to live to grow up
to be as handsome and smart as their
father, each one took the greatest care
to mind the very second Bob or little
Mrs. Bob spoke. While they were IN
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+. THE EVENING STORY.
ZEKE'S IDEA AND PEGGY.
Copyright. 1915. by W. Werner,

Zeke jabbed his spade into the ground
and gazed across the valley to a little
cottage on the opposite slope. 1t was
almost hidden by apple trees. but not
10 as to wholly conceal the back yard
clothesline. A slender figure could be
seen fastening some clothes to the line.
That was Peggy. Peggy worked for
Farmer Jones. and every Sunday after
noon, between watering the horses and
milking time, Zeke went over there In
his best suit and sat with her under
the apple trees He had been doing 1t
for year.
There was a look of care on Zeke's
face now. Farmer Jones had been lev
led on for debt, and in four weeks more
the little fruit farm would be sold by
order of the sheriff, Then Peggy would
have to go elsewhere.
What Zeke would like could not be-
now. He had nothing in the world but
his Sunday suit and debt OF $40 owed
the undertaken. He had provided FOR
his mother until she died few weeks
before. and her Illness and funeral ex-
penses had taken more than all he had.
He could not marry In debt.
Nor was there any chance Of his saw
ing much on the pittance paid him by
misery Job Hooper. The only reason
he had ever WORKED Tor SuCn HAL
was the vicinity Of Peggy.
So his spade went into the ground
viciously.
Near the Hooper barn was a sag
cling huge gate that had to be opened
every time the cattle were let out or In,
and, indeed. every time any one went
to the barn. At least three or four
minutes were lost every time any enc
passed through. Within a week after
he hired out to Hooper Zeke began to
cast disconnected looks at the gate,
until one moonlight night he deter
mined upon action. He had nothing to
work with except hammer and some
bits Of plank and a few rusty nails.
But out of the planks he fashioned q
sort of trough, which he secured firmly
to the hinge end of the gate, allowing
1t to project from the top. Into this
trough he placed as large stones as he
could lift. adding to them until the
sagging end of the gate was raised clear
Of the ground. Finally he had it SO
nicely balanced that the mere touch OF
his finger would swing it open or shut.
Then he shifted the hinges so that the
gate would swing to of itself after any
one had passed through.
The next morning Job Hooper looked
the gate over sharply. but as there
seemed to be nothing with which he
could find fault he remained silent. A
few days later the drummer Of an agrt-
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Their is a sort Of feeling in the press
galleries of Congress that II Louis
Ludlow does not get a piece Of news
then 1t really did not happen. Ludlow
can be in more places at the same time
than any other man and it is one of
the mysteries of the profession how
he does it. Once he. was foiled. 1t
happened during the, recent encamp-
ment of the Grand Army Of the Repub
lie, when the business sessions were
being conducted behind closed doors.
On the first day. Mr.. Ludlow walked
into the Office of the director general
at Camp Emery and meeting Jim Pres
ton asked where the sessions were be-
ing held. Preston directed him to the
right door, but failed to mention that
1t was a secret gathering and a pass
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Little Storle
20 Bedtime
A Double Scare.
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1918. by J. G. IloydJ

Fast asleep in circle. crowded to-
gether. but each one facing out. Mrs
Bob White and the fifteen little Bob
Whites. who really were almost as big
as she by this time. Just outside the
circle was Bob White himself as a
sort of guard. He slept more lightly
than the others, and the least sound
would bring his head from under his
wing. But Bob Is wise in the dangers
of the Great World and in the ways OF
life. He knows just how bad 1t is to
give a false alarm. It makes folks
nervous to be frightened, and a false
alarm frightens just as much as a real
alarm. 1t is very bad thing to be
nervous. In fact. 1t is those who are
most nervous who usually come to
grief. When Hooty the Owl gives his
fierce hunting call it Is the little bird
who is nervous, and SO fidgets a little
who furnishes Hooty with a supper.
Bob knows all this. No one knows
1t better. He had made up his mind
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portion of the speech which mentioned
Handmade gasoline" and had care
fully changed hundred copies or more
so that they all caused the Secretary
to refer to "handmaid gasoline"
y X X
Speaking of reciprocity. Bill Hassett
says that in return for the munitions of
war which are being furnished to
the belligerents abroad, those countries
are doing their best to supply the Unit
ed States with certain highly necessary
articles:
IT was examining the uniform of a
United States naval officer the other
day." said Deacon" Hassett, land it
panied me deeply to notice that on the
underneath of the finely spun gold
epaulets was the name of a well known
London manufacturer. 1t takes US to
make the shot and shell, but dear old
Lunnon' has to supply the gold lace"
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The Searchli8ht
Yankee Bathtubs Are Popular,

A traveller notes the progress OF
South American cities by the number
of American porcelain bathtubs in.
stalled. Five years ago the largest
hotel in Tucaman. Argentina. had one
old-fashioned bathtub. Now its prin-
cfpal hosiery has bathroom attach
ed to every room. and other hotels and
private residences have made liberal
installations. The city has doubled its
population and taken on progressive
methods in every commercial enter
prise.
In Rosario and Buenos Aires the peo-
pie are as well equipped with bathing
facilities as in any city of its size
In the United States. English and Ger
man firms offer inferior tubs for at
least 80 per cent less than the first
class American product, but they are
used in comparatively few buildings.
1t Is the solid white bathtub from the
U. s. A. which is carrying the proper
ideal OF sanitation and progress to our
brothers In the SOUTH
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Newspapers for Negroes.

A large newspaper plant In Phila.
delphia has recently been taken over
by company Of colored men. who are
preparing to issue weekly paper for
circulation in a number of different
cities. Arrangements have been made
for its distribution in Boston. New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington. and thirty other cities
within a twelve-hour radius of Phila-
delphia are expected to be included in
its circulation.
This is the first large newspaper en-
terprise ever undertaken entirely by
colored men, and the purpose of the
paper is the general uplift of the color
ed race. The undertaking Is we'll
financed. and will embody the highest
ideals of race journalism. The paper
is to be controlled. edited and printed
entirely by colored men. The printing
plan included every labor-saving and
cost-cutting device known in the news
paper world. II will have a capacity
| of $4,000 newspapers per hour.
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the idea, and that's zeke's. Well. good

the idea, and that's Zeke's. Well, good
BY"
Job Hooper glared after him as ne
walked away, then turned to Zeke.
''whatd We gitw he demanded. Come.
hand it over. Ye work for me. an all
We do is mine. Don't tell any yarns
Didn't I hear the man say you an him
fixed 1t up. Now. how much money do
he give We for my gate?
None. He's to pay for getting out a
patent an own half"
Job Hooper looked at him sharply,
but there was no deceit in that quiet,
half-smiling face. Even he realized the
fact. Then, ye're an IDIOT" he snarled
THE man was set on the idee. Any
body could see that. Ye could have got
$50 from him, mebbe more"
Three weeks went by and nothing
more was heard from the drummer. Job
Hooper was openly scoffing now. But
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Advance in Price of Meat Animals.

Prices paid to producers for meat ami
mails during the month from August Is
to September Is advanced one-half of
one per cent, compared with an aver
age advance during the same period
for five years Of 1 per cent. Figures
made public today by the Department
of Agriculture showed also that prices
paid producers for the principal crops
declined about 3.2 per cent during Sep
TENDER, compared with an average de-
cline during the same period for seven
Years of about 80 per cent
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towns as Goose Feather Corners. Bean
Center and Dingville. and there Is
general understanding around here
that a railroad train has never been
run through Brown county.
Louis bought this farm, and found
he had several neighbors who would
leave work any time to get a real job.
Consequently when he had to patch on
a few shingles he had all his neigh
bors working for him.
While thus engaged on the slant OF
the barn roof, one of the neighbors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-09
Navy to Make Most of Its Powder

Secretary Daniels has announced that
within year the navy will have facil-
tiles for manufacturing all powder
needed for average use and reserve.
The big plant at Indian Head. Nd. is
being developed SO as to meet all the
navy's demands. II necessary. although
the policy of purchasing part of the
annual supply from private concerns
probably will be continued.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

| stitch in time may save hole in
| the hosiery.
The small boys stomach is usually in
apple-pie order.
The man who is afraid of work de-
serves to be scared to death.
Women remind US of angels because
they are always flying around.
Why is it that little girls always
smile and little boys always grin?
Marriage is the process by which .
woman tries to get a job as boss.
Don't waste time in explaining why
you failed. Get busy and make good.
The woman who marries 4 man with
a dimple in his chin had fair warning.
So many young people fall in love
! because they are just as foolish as
| older people.
One kind of pessimist is a man who
wonders whether another mans wife
knows her husband half as well as he
does.
Some men are go constructed that
thew simply have to swindle some
body. and rather than be idle they will
bunco their friends
Be satisfied with the best you can
get.
And lots of people are too slow to
make fast friends.
Opinions and visits should not be
forced upon people. -.-'.'.
woman's idea of a hideous gown Ii
one that isn't in style.
After a man is married he seldom
BUYS a hammock built for two.
Some men can't even blame cigarettes
for their failure to make good.
It's awfully hard to give away some
of the things you want to get rid Of.
True love is always able to dis
pense with the valuable advice Of out
siders.
People who are always saying Lis
ten.' never have anything Of impor.
lance to say.
marry a woman who isn't afraid Of q
mouse.
But instead of marrying a man to re-
form him, the average woman marries
him to inform him.
We often feel sorry for the rich.
There is Rockefeller. for instance: he
once had as much hair as anybody.
Truth and trouble play no favorites.
It's easy for a woman to paint a pref
ty FACET she has it.
Only a woman of tact can smile when
she hears a rival praised.
And many a good husband has the
courage of his wifes convictions.
Sometimes a mans past takes a short
cut and heads of his future.
A woman isn't necessarily level
headed because her hat is on straight.
But a man usually drops his prosper.
A homely girl can seldom understand
why people think some men are MASH
ers.
The street faker reaps a golden har-
vest when he faces a crowd that wants
something for nothing.
What has become of the old-fashioned
boy who would rather stay ut home
and work than go to school?
After acquiring all the knowledge he
can from books many q man takes
postgraduate course by marrying .
widow.
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word was necessary. That error was
Ludlow's undoing. He went to the door
with rush. flung it open and started
In with all the eagerness of the man
who is about to find the pot of hidden
gold. He actually got so far as to
open the door and put one foot across
the threshold. when doughty little
warrior in full uniform and with fixed
bayonet sprang out and commanded
him to halt. Fatima's countenance.
when she opened the closet door and
viewed the remains of Blue Boards
wives. was comedy as compared with
the face of Mr.. Ludlow at that moment.
such warlike spirit so far from the
European trenches. 1t was a real
demonstration of preparedness and a
most ticklish situation for him. for
looking down he discovered the point
of the bayonet within an inch of his
nose and one step forward would GER
tainly have brought that deadly in
strument home to the mark. Visions
and the havoc wrought by those bayo-
nets must have flashed across his mind.
for he beat a hasty retreat, his forces
badly demoralized. Returning to the
out Preston and with trembling limbs
related his sad story. He also charged
that Preston was a party to the con-
spiracy in not warning him OF the
solemnity of the occasion. There was
no mistaking that Ludlow was badly
scared man and he will probably re-
late to his children, how on the
fftieth anniversary of the grand re-
view. he, single handed. was charged
by whole regiment of infantry and
esca ped without single scratch.
X X \
Another Ludlow story concerns
Louis and one of his neighbors on a
Brown county, Indiana, farm, purchased
by this prominent news greyhound
Brown county, SO Mort Milford says. is
the place where Abe Martin comes
from. 1t abounds in such delicious
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Jesse Hennaman. well known as a rail-
road auditor, died yesterday at a hos
initial in Baltimore of Bright's disease
Ind arterio-sclerosis, from WHIT, he had
been a sufferer for. some weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-09

The Wanderlust Society of Baltimore
Sunday afternoon will celebrate the sec.
ond anniversary Of the organization with
hike over the original route.
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The Panama Canal at Work,
W.-Ships and Cargoes.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

COLON, September 2S.-The striking
fact about Panama canal shipping
during its first year is that traffic be-
tween American ports has been the
biggest part of it, The great water
way is primarily new route for the
domestic commerce of the United
States. But it is something far big
ger and more important than that. It
Is stimulus to American commerce
in American vessels, which is doing
more to solve the vexed question of
our diminishing merchant marine than
anything that has happened in a CEN
fury.
story. During the first eight months of
the operation Of the canal the COM
merce carried from the Atlantic coast
ports Of the United States to those of
the Pacific amounted in round num-
bers to 100000 tons. That carried
back from the west coast to the east
was 100000 tons. The total foreign
commerce passing through the canal.
both east and westbound. was only
about 100000 tons.
Significant is the fact that this COM
merce between the two coasts Of the
the commodities carried by the trans
continental railroads. Steel is the
leading article of westbound commerce,
with textiles. leather. wood. copper and
paper coming next. In return for these
things the Pacific coast ports have sent
back canned fruit and fish, lumber,
wine. pineapples, sugar and ores
These figures. however. give no idea
OF the actual variety of the commerce
transacted between the two great
halves Of our country by way of the
Panama canal. Here are some of the
! things listed in the cargo of a vessel
passing through the canal on its way
from New York to Los Angeles and
San Francisco: Battery cells. caustic
| soda. olives. chemicals. earthenware,
glassware. lard. liquors. structural
steel. machinery. refined petroleum;
vegetable oils. paint, paper and paper
ware. pianos, rubber goods. salt, soap,
stamped ware. textiles. tobacco, wood
en- ware. marble. starch and thread.
The declaration was finished with bal
| ance. 1.1S9 tons, in small lots of various
articles
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X
The Panama-Pacific Steamship Com
Ipany is operating two giant freight and
Companies Are Operating st amers.
Regular Lines of Ships. land and
Finland. through the canal. The United
Fruit Company has a splendid fleet OF
white steamers, carrying both freight
and passengers, and the Panama Rail-
road Steamship Company is making
regular sailings between New York and
Colon. N4E
This commerce must always be car
ried in American bottoms, because OF
the time-honored law that the coast.
wise traffic Of the United States shall
be carried in no other. It's steady
ships to participate in it promise the
development of an American merchant
marine. which will provide us with
splendid fleet of naval auxiliaries to be
called upon in time of war.
On the other great trade routes which
pass through the Panama canal 1t is
literally true that not an American yes
sci may be found. The traffic to South
America, Australasia and the orient Is
being carried by Japanese, Italians and
Frenchmen. Why is it that the Ameri-
can shippers, who have been SO quick
to seize the opportunity to carry the
commerce between our own coasts, have
allowed foreign nations to monopolize
all the other traffic through our great
waterway?
There are several very adequate rea-
sons. When. the Panama canal was
nearing completion all of the great
maritime nations of the world made
plans to substitute their regular steam
ship lines SO as to cover the cost of
tolls. just as they did at Suez. Some
Of these plans have been held up be-
cause of the war. but the government
of japan has already subsidized line
of Japanese steamers, operating be-
tween Japanese ports and New York
and Boston, via the canal.
Also, under the recently enacted sea-
mans bill. American shipping COM
panies are compelled to pay from $35
to $55 month to their seamen. The
men who do the same work on the
japanese ships get IS a month. Ameri-
can shippers cannot be expected to
compete against this double advantage
of heavy subsidy and low wages.
When the war iS ovar tbaro 10 MT +La
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Increase in Traffic
Certain After War.

S1dy a s.
There will be an immense increase of
traffic through the canal. Not a single
Austrian or German ship has used it
since the war began. These nations,
eager to recover their heavy losses,
will undoubtedly enter the business
with a rush as soon as peace is made
The shipping of Great Britain, Italy
and France will also be greatly in
creased. All of this will be money in
Uncle Sans pocket, but in this great
foreign commerce he will see not a
single ship flying the Stars and Stripes
The coast-to-coast traffic, however, is
building American ships and training
American seamen. Every patriotic
American hopes to see the day when
this fleet OF American vessels will again
san all the trade routes of the world
The Panama canal has carried very
little of the traffic that the experts had
prophesied would fall to its lot. and
great deal which they did not believe
authorities on ocean traffic had calcu-
lated that the American coast-to-coast
trade would be only one-tenth of the
whole. AS matter of fact, it is about
half On the other hand. the citrus
fruit shipments. the lumber from the
Pacific. and coal from the Atlantic, the
rubber from the East Indian planta-
tons. and iron and copper from South
america. which were to furnish the
canal with most of it's business, accord
ing to the forecasters, have not passed
that way in any great quantities.
Undoubtedly. however, all these in
dustries offer great possibilities to
canal traffic, and some Of them are al
ready showing signs Of development
The Bethlehem Steel Company. for ex-
emple, has acquired some splendid iron
mines in Chile. The mines were par
TALLY developed by a French company
nn yuit
eminent, but this project failed, and
the great American steel company ac-
quired the right to work them upon
favorable terms. Rich ores from these
mines are now regularly being carried
through the Panama canal to the Penn
sylvania smelters.
AS time goes on it will be interesting
to observe the shifting of the great
trade routes as a result of this mighty
waterway that divides the land and
unites the oceans.