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The Buried Chapel Of Capitol Hill.

NTlY HERE the Elliott Woods expert
w mental wireless station stands
across from the Capitol grounds on B
street between South Capitol street and
Delaware avenue stood the first church
building erected in Washington by the
First Presbyterian congregation. At
the southwest corner of South Capitol
and streets is a low, pebble dash
structure, which is the main building
of the wireless plant, and deep down
under the foundation of that building
is buried the foundation wall OF
little building of great historic interest
which was a landmark of Presbyterian,
ism in the District of Columbia, ana
from 1912 until 1873 landmark OF
Washington.
The modern pebble-dash building has
grouped around it various frame struc-
tures. all heavily shaded at this sea
son by tall poplars, and out of the
picture of foliage and eot little buildings
an interesting institution in itself, but
even as the Rambler looked on this
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stances given yields of six tons of hay
per acre on dry LANDS, and under lrrl-
cation in the west it is the only grass
known that will yield an equal or
greater tonnage than alfalfa. For the
Irrigation farmer Sudan grass is. how
ever, merely another crop, while for
the dry-land farmer of Texas 1t is the
greatest boon that has ever happened.
SO tremendous a demand for seed OF
Sudan grass has arisen that in 1913 1t
sold as high as $2.25 pound, and at
present 81 pound is being asked. rms
is in the face OF the fact that no other
hay grass gives such tremendous yields
of seed AS much as $500 pounds OF
seed have been harvested from one acre
in single cutting. The price, tnere,
fore is due to the great demand and
not to the cost of production. In fact,
the men most interested in the wider
use of this grass expect to see the seed
sold for a veery moderate price a1ter
this season. merely because the supply
aill he ample.
No lucky accident produced Sudan
ass II came to the American dry
rewdsst sor, of deductive detective
cork. for your Agricultural Depart
ment scientists are. when one gets
down To hard facts. just plant-life de-
isctiVes. They get their clues in the
acts OF plants. and they run them down
st as detectors of criminals run down
their quarry
Sudan grass was developed through
theory patiently following up various
botanical clues. Strangely enough, u
proved TO be entirely new both to bot
anists and TO agronOmists.
Prof. Piper holds to the belief that
grass exists somewhere to meet every
need of man. Hence he has given his
life to hunting them out. in this and
other countries. He thinks grass,
dreams grass. lives with grass. The
only grass in which he can find no
good Is that which makes the rough
ON the golf links of the Washington
Countr! Club and winds itself fondly
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With Only Theory and Without Clue to Start WITH Prof.
Charles Piper of the Department of Agriculture Uses His Pow
ers of Deducve Reasoning and Discovers Sudan Grass the Ag
cultural Sensation of Recent Years-Ha Revoonized Farm VAL
ues in Arid and Sem-Ad RegonsGrass the Great Economic
Necessity of the World.
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In the course of long experimentation
at one time it was hoped that the de-
sired grass had been found in smooth
bronze grass. but this has never sue
ceeded south of Kansas, nor in the
drier lands that are farmed to wheat.
But to tell the story of the hunt for
the new grass, of the manner in which
the clues were obtained, and of the
manner in which they were worked
out.
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A Regular Bathing Suit.

~ABY DESLYS attended Russian
VI ballet last winter in New York.
A ballerina came out and did an orien-
tai dance. and a young lady said:
That dancer has her name on all
her dresses. ! understand"
Gaby Deslys laughed gayly.
''1t must be a very short name, ehe
.
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partment's, bureau OF plant indu~try,
which means that he is the grass .san"
Of the department
Now. many years ago the depart
ment realized that one Of the pressing
needs of the farmer was grass that
would give profitable hay yields on
dry western prairies. For twenty years
the search continued. Then Prof. Piper.
grass man" and plant detective,
solved it.
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means limited to the drier portions of
the United States, because il has given
excellent results nearly everywhere
that corn is grown.
To make two blades of grass grow
where but one grew before is no small
accomplishment; and the introduction
of Sudan grass has certainly done this
for a wide area in the United States.
ASHMUN BROWN.
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about ones mashie Prof. Piper, sound
golfer as he is. has been known to ad-
dress extremely pertinent remarks to
this particular grass on occasions. But
that is by the way.
A native of the north Pacific coast,
where grass and everything else grows
thick, Charles Vancouver Piper has
been an ardent student of plant life
since boyhood. He began to study
botany at ten; at twelve he agitated
the family by bringing home specimens
of skunk cabbage and other odorifer-
Gus plants indigenous to the region.
Young Naturalists, society Of youths
that studied the fora and fauna of
Western Washington, the studies some
times extending to the neighbors apple
orchards, At eighteen he received the the
University of Washington. That was
in 1885. Seven years later that insti-
tuition conferred the degree OF master
of science on him. and later work at
Harvard brought him the same degree
from that institution.
Most Of his real studying. however.
has been done in the field. In boy
hood and early manhood he wandered
over the mountains and the valleys OF
Many plants new to science were found
by him. Part of his labors are en-
bodied in a ponderous volume on the
flora of Washington state. published
by the Smithsonian Institution. Since
then he has written much, his list of
works including some text books. His
newest book, Forage Plants, Is recog-
nized standard of information on the
subject.
X
From 1892 to 1908 he was professor
of botany and zoology at the Wash
ington Agricultural College. where his
work attracted the attention of the
Department of Agriculture. This led.
in 1903. to his being called to Wash
ington as agrostologist in charge of
forage crop Investigations in the de-
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conviction that it did not exist, and
that the rootstock character was one
which sharply separated Johnson grass
from the sorghums. Furthermore, the
tween the two are very rare and diff
cult to secure.
The next step taken was to send to
all parts of the world for seed of John
ropogon halepensis. With the seeds
thus gathered were grown nine differ-
ent varieties-four of them having
rootstocks like Johnson grass. and the
other flve with merely f1brous roots
like the sorghums. All of the latter
are from Africa, the original home of
the sorghums. while those with root
stocks are from southern Asia. Not
only this but the African forms all
cross spontaneously with the sorghums
when they are grown close together,
while those with rootstocks do not.
The conclusion seems fairly clear then
that the plants without rootstocks are
the true wild forms of the sorghums.
1t is also quite likely at least two OF
the wild forms were cultivated by the
negroes and thus gave rise to the eX-
listing sorghums. 1t must be remem-
bered that the negroes grew these
plants primarily for the grain. and un-
doubtedly began with wild sorts al
ready valuable for this purpose. In the
course of their further cultivation in
creased grain yield was the principal
end sought, with the result that all
the varieties are coarse, corn-like
plants, each stem producing a large
head of seeds.
Some of the five wild sorts secured
are slender stemmed. leafy plants ex-
cellent for hay production-and the
best of those is the Sudan grass that
has been the agricultural sensation OF
the day Furthermore. this variety is
one that was quite unknown to bot
anists and it is therefore necessary to
give it a botanical baptism.
The cultivation of Sudan grass for
three seasons convinced Prof. Piper of
its remarkable value as dry land
forage crop and it was therefore dis
tributed by the department In 1912. 1t
thus happens that a search based on
a botanical theory has given to. the
west a new forage crop OF bounHless
possibilities.
1.-The extraordinary rapid development
of Sudan grass as a crop for Texas is
due largely to the able director of the
Texas experiment station, Prof. B.
Youngblood," said Prof. Piper recently.
HE quickly realized the wonderful pos
sibilities of the grass for dry land
farming and has devoted his energies
to bringing it To the attention of every
farmer in Texas and elsewhere in the
United States.
"The value of the grass is by no
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Gate Posts and Hoop Skirts.

1T is within the memory OF many
u Washingtonians that cows and
swine browsed and roamed in parts
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tops of the piles. and at low water
would be an interesting story to trace
the history and fate of many of the
older Potomac river landing places.
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Prof. Piper argued that If Johnson
grass were the wild original of the
sorghums, there should exist forms
without the rootstocks, which are never
found in the sorghums. Three years
search for such strain resulted in the
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- RASS, il you will take the word
of Prof. c. V. Piper for 1t, is
q the great economic necessity
= of the world. All flesh is grass.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
PROMINENT KENTUCKY
THURMAN Is INJURED.

Franklin, KY. Feb. 19.-J. L.
Nicoll. one of the most prominent
turfmen in Kentucky. hsd the mis-
fortune TO be kicked on the thigh by
one of his horses Tuesday morning.
His femur was broken and he sus-
tanned other ir juries. His condition
is regarded as Sc 'ious. and his child
rem have been summoned to his bed
side. The scciden. occurred a, Mr..
Ncoll's home. rear Wcodburn. and
Drs j. N. Hail and j. M. Blackburn.
of B )wling Green. were summoned
to his bedside. Mr.. Nicoll is about
sc ears of age. but his activity made
him appear much oupger.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
Ancient Surgical instruments.

learning and superstition-as quaint
to the eye of modern science, with its
germ theory of disease, aseptic sur
gerry and X-ray, as is flint arrowhead
to the crew of a 42-centimeter how
itzer.
The exhibits came from the libra
ries of the medical schools of St.
Louis and Washington universities;
from the library of the surgeon gem
eral of the United States army in
Washington, and from the private col
lections of physicians in st. Louis and
other cities.
DR.. George Dock, dean of the medl-
cal faculty of Washington university
supplied a facsimile of the diploma
comforting a doctors degree upon VIII
liam Harvey, who discovered the cir
culation of the blood. DR.. James
Moores Ball of st. Louis, among
scores of other old volumes. loaned
Surgical Works" of Ambrose Pare,
the Frenchman who haunted the wars
of his time 0509-1590) and became
the father of military surgery.
A copy of the first work on path
.ology," published at Venice in 17Gl by
Johannes Baptista Morgagni and Ell
titled Concerning the Seats and
Causes of Disease" was loaned by
DR.. Robert T.. Schlueter of st. Louis.
Among the hundreds of other quaint
and curious volumes of forgotten lore
which were on display were a "Regi-
men Sanitatis," published in Venice in
1895, three years after the discovery
os America, and loaned by DR.. Il. G.
+Streeter of Boston, the Labyrinth OF
Medical Errors" published in 1853 by
the renowned Theophrastus PARCEL
sus; the complete "Thesaurus Botan-
leo Medico-Anatomicus" of Marcellus
Maepighius, published in 1887, and
Thomas Guidott's ION we Battle" a
treatise concerning the medical quail
ties of the waters at that resort, which
was issued in 1876.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
PURELY PERSONAL

Miss Marguerite Hinckley, who
has been the CUES: of Mrs. r. M.
Fajr!eigh, has returned TO her home
ia Stevens Point, Wis.
Ed K. Coffman. a prominent in
surance man of S aughtersville. KY. .
is in the city visiting friends for a
few days. Mr.. COffman is one f
"Ferrel's Boys" of tie CO ass of 1899.
Mr.. S. J. Hysmith. of the Ken
tuckian composing department, has
gone to Paducah to visit his daugh-
ter and recover from an attack of
grip.
DR.. T. w Blakey is spending a
few days at Dawson.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
"OLD NEWSBOYS' DAY"
Observed In Chicago By Bust
ness and Professional Men
Of Prominence.

Chicago. Feb. ia hundred and
fifty Chicagoans. who have risen to
social professional and financial dis
tinction turned the clock back from
twenty to fifty years today and sold
newspapers again as they used to
when boys.
1t was cold Newsboys' Day."
Funds received through the sale of
papers will be devoted to the relief
of the unemployed through the
agency of the municipal industrial
commission. Scores of the old time
"newsies" offered unique attractions
at their street corner sales to in
crease sales. Some of them dressed
as they did years ago, others employ
ed bands and singers and one had
traine d bear as an attraction.
Receipts promised to be large as
it was agreed no change would be
to customers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
SteinWay Pianos.

Steinway Pianos have attained
their great reputation from their
wonderful quality of tone, perfeeN
workmanship and material No
other make even approaches the
Steinway in musical worth and that
is why you should own one. Stein
way & Sons. Louisville, KY. are also
sole agents for other makes of pianos
and player pianos from $4,000 up.
These instruments can be secured
on convenient terms. Send for cat
alogue. Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
The Wars Historian.

"When the history Of this war comes
TO be written" is a constantly recur-
ring journalistic phrase, as If the story
Of this great conflict could ever be
written. You may be fairly certain
that no one under the rank of an arch
angel, in close touch with omniscience,
will ever write the full history OF the
world war. Down below there isn't
the knowledge, and there isn't the
time. There will be some sectional ac'
counts. But II in the fullness of time
a world syndicate succeeds in getting
some million tons of print within COW
ers. the public will Zone hopes) be
thinking of something else.-Londor
Chronicle.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
TM-YEAR-OLD GIRL GRAD
UATE OF HIGH SCHOOLS.

Whitesburg. Ky, Feb. 16.-This
city boasts of the youngest High
School graduate in Kentucky. in the
person of Miss Grace Newman. the
een-Year. old daughter of Attorney
and a rs. J. H. Newman. The little
girl is unusually bright and has been
so since early childhood. She took
the recent High School examination,
obtaining her diploma and winning
up among tie highest grade. The
Newman girl is unusually small for
one Of her age.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
c. r. CLARK
FOR CLERK
Republican Warhorse Will Seek
To Take The Trench He
Lost in 1909.

Glazed K. Clark, the well-known
grocer and orator, whose picture is
here given, has announced his candi
dacg for the Republican nomination
for his former position of Circuit
Court Clerk. from which he retired
1--WE gears ago. Mr.. Clark has for
years been the leader of his par y in
ehis county, but his friends are not
confined to the Republican party.
He is widely popular with people of
all parties and had never been beat
en- until the Democratic Landslide of
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
Escorts for Hire in Kansas City

The young man of engaging man.
ners who is willing to hire himself out
as an escort TO women is said to have
a field for his activities these days.
Even in Kansas City the new profess
sion has made its appearance, but ii is
said to have originated in New York.
Parents who wish TO send their daugh-
tiers TO a concert have only to tele-
phone the beaux's bureau, indicate the
mental complexion they expect of the
young man and say whether or not
they want him to wear evening dress.
The bureau fills the order the girl
hears the concert and the young man
is well paid for his trouble.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
POPULAR MECHANICS
MAGAZINE FOR MARCH

WAR Under the Sea-" as fought
by the most up-to-date types of sub.
marines and submersibles, is de-
scribed in detail and depicted in a
handsome cover design and numerous
illustrations in the March number Of
Popular Mechanics Magazine. 1t
has been prophesied thst when sub
marines have been fully developed
they will entirely displsce the great
dreadnau9hts that form the princi-
pal fighting strength of the navies
of the present time. and. as the
article states, the leading nations,
belligerents aud eutrsls alike, are
building bigger submersibles all the
time
The March number a's1 contain a
Is psges of views from the war zone,
showing everv phase of action and
camp life. Besides these, there are
articles on the de ady steal arrow
used by French airmer; Canadians
drilling with field mines; the use of
the intrer ching tool asa sll, II IN
battle, and searching cotton bal s
for internal devices
TIE March Popular Mechanics
Magazine contains, in all. 267 articles
and 364 illustrations.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
Enormous Lemons.

Thirteen giant lemons. each weigh.
ing over two pounds, have been
grown by Gus M unier, of McCrack-
en- county. on a small tree which he
raised from shoot. The tree is six
years old and is bearing for the first
time. Ole lemon is enough for five
pies, according to Meunier. He
keeps the tree In the kitchen in win.
ter and in the } ard in summer,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
TENNESSEE HOG RAISER
SETS ENVIABLE RECORD

GAINESVILLE. Tenn.-That L. Scott
ressley. of near Cheap Hill. is some
hog rails IT, is demonstrate by these
facts: On February Is, 1914, his
Dur oc Jersey sow gave birth to q
litter of ten pigs, on July 81. 1sl4,
fifteen pigs. and again on February
4, 1915. eleven more. making total
of thirty six pigs in less than year.
Ga December IA. 1914, Mr.. Teasley
killed seven Of the February 10 lit
r. the average ret weight Of which
was 206 pounds. This is a record
that airy h g raiser should fet proud
of.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20

1909 hit hin. His success as a bust.
ness man has been remarkable and
mis-. record in the Office he again seeks
was altogether praise-worthy. He
rs courteous. affable and attentive
and was popular with all who had
dealings with his office during the
six years he held it. He is one of
the finest campa gners in the county,
a fpent and convincing speaker and
a hustler for votes as well as for
business when ne starts out. He
caaao, zoe beaten for the nomination
and the Democrat who tackles him
IN sn oft year will undertake a big
100 if he hopes to.defeat him.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
CAUSE A Smile NOW
Exhibition Of Crude Old Surgical
instruments.
Iocern Scientists Amused at Fossils
Of Ancient Learning and supersti-
tion--Some Rare Medical Vol
umes Also Shown.

Like a museum of geology of the
medical profession was the exhibit OF
tarc 0!d tones and crude surgical in
itrUm1nts which was held by the Mis-
sour, Historical society, assisted by
Inc ST. Louis Medical society. Dig
gn- down into forgotten strata of
medical evolution, the exhibitors ex-
humod a throng of fossils of ancient
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
SIENKIEWICZ DESCRIBES
MISERY In POLAND

Henri Sienkiewicz, the famous
Polish novelist and the author of
Quo Vadis" is. like tens of thou
sands of his compatriots, refugee,
driven from home by the war. He
is now at Vevey, Switzerland. with
the members of the committee for
the relief of victims of the war in
Poland, of which he ispresident, and
Ignace Paderewski is vice-president.
!, The latter will visit New York in
connection with the Polish work.
| No more appalling picture of death.
destruction and devastation has ever
been drawn than that outlined by
lSienkiewicz, who. declares it is
unique in history. He says:
Poland has nothing to do with
the war She has been conquered
and partitioned. She is not one of
the belligerent nations, yet million
and half of her sons are fighting
fratricidal battles in armies of three
different warning states. Our coun-
try is made the cockpit Of the battles
of Europe and is devasted from end
to end, three. quarters of a million
men bearing arms for Germany or
Austria.
Think what this means! When
the order for a charge is given
hordes of soldiers rush on each other.
When they get within striking dis
lance and commence cutting one
another down they find the language
in which they are uttering their inn
tprecations is their common, natal
tongue! 1t frequently happens that
when the Red Cross nurses go to col
lect the wounded they lift from a
heap one man in German uniform,
another in an Austrian, and a third
| in Russian-but all three of them
Poles.
THE misery is really very great
in the kingdom. In Poland alone
there are $1,000 villages burned and
thousands of chapels and churches
damaged or destroyed. Nine out of
Poland's 10 provinces have been oc-
cupied by Germans, who seized ev-
erything they found. even the peas
ants chickens. The homeless viii
logers sought shelter in the forests,
where women and children are now
dying of cold and hunger by the
thousands daily.
I'm the whole 100000 square kilo-
meters of territory in the possession
of German and Austrian troops, but
one grain of corn, not a scrap of
meat nor a drop of milk remained
for the civil population. Phe ma
terial losses are estimated at one bill
lion rubles. Agriculture has been
ruined and every industry destroyed
-Four hundred thousand workers
have lost their means of livelihood.
The state of affairs in Galicia is
just as dreadful. too, for from the
civil population there the Russians
Communicated 100000 horses and
2.U00, 600 horned cattle, and seized
all the corn, leaving that once rich
country as barren as desert. More
than 1000. 900 inhabitants sought
refuge in other parts of Austria
Hungary in sheer restitution" -
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
Naming Baby.

She ransacked every novel,
And the dictionary, too,
But nothing ever printed.
For her baby's name would do;
She hunted appellations
From the present and the past,
And this is what she named him
When they christened him at last.
Julian Harold Egbert
Ulysses Victor Paul
Algeron Marcus Cecil
Sylvester George McFall.
But after all the trouble
She'd taken for his sake,
His father called him Fatty
And his schoolmates called him
Jake. Messenger.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
A DISGUISE.

What are YOU going to wear at the
fancy dress bail. Mabel?"
I'm going TO wear two skirts snd
: gs'.'coat and 10 as an oidfassioass
,2atron.'
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
Eggs For Sale.

Pure Bred White Plymouth Rock
eggs. Good winter layers. so cents
per setting.
MRS. HUGH HENRY.
Phone 26l.5.
Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20

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