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Evening star., 1916-07-17
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What BIacky Did With the
Stolen Egg.
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1915. By T. W. Bursess.)

Blacky the Crow was puzzled He
didn't know what to make of that egg
he had stolen from Farmer Browns
henhouse. 1t wasn't like any egg he ever
had seen or even heard Of 1t was a
neautiful looking egg and he had been
sure that II would taste as good, quite
as good, as it looked Even now he
wasn't sure but that If he could onlv
taste it 1t would be all that he had
hoped But how could he taste it when
he couldn't break that shell? He never
had beard of such shell. He doubted
If anybody else ever had, either. He
had hammered at 1t with his stout bill
until he was afraid that he would
break that instead of the egg. The
more he tried to break into it and
couldn't the hungrier he grew and the
more certain nothing else in all the
world could possibly taste so good.
But the Old Orchard was not the
place for him to work on that egg.
Farmer Browns house This made
Blacky uneasy. You see, he had some
thing of guilty conscience. Not that
he felt at all sense of having done
" toHe. y MS way OF thinking, II he
was smart enough to get that egg
he had just as much right to it as
any one else, particularly Farmer
Browns boy. Yet he wasn't at all sure
that Farmer Browns boy would look at
the matter quite that way. In fact, he
had feeling that Farmer Browns boy
would call him thief If he should
be discovered with that egg And then,
too, there were too many sharp eyes
In the Old Orchard. He wanted to get
away where he could be sure of being
alone. Then If he couldn't break that
shell no one would be the wiser So
he picked up the egg and few straight
over to the Green Forest, and this time
he managed to get there without drop
ping it.
Now you would never suspect Blacky
the Crow, he of the sharp wits and
crafty ways. of being amused by bright
things, would you? But he~is. In fact,
Blacky is in this matter quite like a
little child. Anything that is bright
and shiny interests Blacky right away.
If he finds anything of this kind he
will take it away to a certain secret
place. and there he will admire it and
play with 1t and finally hide it. If I
didn't know that it isn't SO, because it
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CHANGES AMONG CLERKS
Appointments, Promotions, Trans
fers and designations at Interior
Department.

The following changes, approved by
Secretary Lane. among employees in
the Department Of the Interior have
been announced:
Probationary appointments: Patent
oface-Dean D. Gundrum, Michigan.
copyist. s72o: Herschel L. Main. In
diana. copyist, s72o: William T. Pinck-
ney. South Carolina, copyist. s720. and
Leonard H. Thawley, Maryland, mes
senger boy. s420. Indian office-Ben-
net ]. Mcclure. Pennsylvania. clerk.
5000. Geological survey-Joseph T.
Harrison. Washington. junior engineer.
81 per day while actually employed.
Temporary appointments authorized
by civil service commission: Bureau of
mines-Hermann Schlundt. Missouri.
chemist in radio-activity, $4,000, and
Abner B. Lacy. Pennsylvania. stenog-
rapher and typewriter, So per day
while actually employed.
Extensions of temporary appoint
ments authorized by civil service COM
mission: General land office-Lionel l..
James. Michigan. ecoloeist. $1,000. Bu-
reau of mines-Oliver I. Gaines, Penn
sylvania. Junior electrical engineer.
$500
Promotions: General land of1ice-C;
Baltimore. Calvert, Md, clerk, 81 400
to $1,000; ]. Harry Byrne, Massachu
setts. clerk. s1,4oo. to law examiner.
$1,000; Albert Ruppel. MARYLAND, clerk,
$1,000 to s1.40o; James Y: Hamilton.
Colorado. clerk. $1,000 to s1,4oo; Will
liam r. Pherson. Ohio. clerk, $1,000 to
$1,000; Francis H. Jenkins. Virginia
clerk. $1,000 to $1,000; Thomas B-
Tuchy, Pennsylvania. copyist. 5000. to
clerk. $1,000; James L. Backstrom, Mis-
sissippi. copyist. 5000, to clerk, $1,000;
Louis E Hoffman. New York. copyist.
5000, to clerk, 900; Miss josephine $.
Simmons. California. copyist. ST2o to
5000; John NJ Simpson, Wisconsin,
copyist. s72o to 5000 Indian office
John r. T. Reeves, District of Column
bia. clerk, $500 to $4,000; Clyde F.
Clark, Arkansas. clerk, $1,000 to 81 500;
Isaac C. Foster, Virginia, clerk. 81 500
to s1,s0o Benjamin D. Shreve. Vir-
ginta. clerk, $1,000 to s1.soo; P'Gad eao b B;
81 500; Thomas H Pyle. Delaware.
clerk, s1,4oo to $1,000; Harry larry H: Ka- I0a.
lupy, Louisiana, clerk, $1,000 to 81 400;
Joseph F. Gross. Tennessee, clerk,
81 200 to 81 400; William R. Rosenkrans,
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broidery and fringe of thin silver
threads and white silk tulle. The deep
hem of the skirt is also of the embroid-
cred tulle, with a scalloped edge of sill
yer ribbon. The rest of the material
used in the frock is of white satin, and
the bodice is a short tunic, belted with
silver and caught at one hip with pink
roses
Some of these shawls are much long
er than the one shown in the sketch.
They are wide enough to cover the en-
tire arm and fall to the hem of the
skirt.
Chiffon is seldom used, for tulle gives
a more cloudlike effect. In the way
that it is massively embroidered in sill
yer and gold and sometimes with large
flowers done in colored beads, it is def
nitely oriental in it's suggestions.
The exploitation of this garment does
not signify the return of the shawl it
self. There has never been any way to
make this accessory graceful ap-
pendage to a costume. Now and then
the dressmakers offer one rare bargain
in embroidered crepe or lace, and the
latter is persuasively put before one as
good for a bridal veil, but every one
knows that if a bride wants to look her
best she will use tulle. and not lace.
Evening star., 1916-07-17
Fruits We Seldom Eat.

When our grandparents were chill
dren they counted 1t great treat to
find an orange in the toe of their stock
ing on Christmas morning. And any
child would have given any number of
sugar cookies for just half or a quar-
ter of a ripe, juicy orange. Two decades
ago grapefruits were regarded as tre-
mendous dainties. and the hostess who
served them at luncheon was regarded
with envy by her neighbors.
And now, whether we live north or
south, east or west, we have oranges
all the year round. at price that is
even more favorable to our purses than
is that of the apple and peach. The
miles that separate us from the orange
groves are as nothing, and W. eat of
this delectable fruit as freely although
ii were grown at the nearest fruit
farm.
What will another decade, OF another
generation. bring about in the way of
new fruits and vegetables? No doubt
the avocado. which is even now usually
mango, with its indescribably piquant
flavor. will be everyday occurrences
even at the boards of those of moderate
incomes.
OF all these little-used fruits there is
none that will probably meet with
greater popularity than the avocado.
sometimes called alligator pear" In
whatever to become fond of this fruit,
and 1t finds a ready welcome wherever
used as a salad. It's delicate nutlike
flavor as we'll as its attractive appear
much in demand when once it is
brought within the reach of those of
limited income.
Sometimes confused with the alN-
gator pear is tho prickly pear, a fruit
Of the cactus plant Except when used
| in Jams and preserves this fruit is sell
dom liked on first acquaintance.
| Guava Jelly and guava paste are be-
| coming daily more and more popular
with US, although the characteristic
| taste is not always relished bv every
sidered decided delicacy BECAUSE OF
! their high price. but who knows how
| long it will be before we can buy
| guava jelly as cheaply as we now buy
orange marmalade for breakfast?
| 1t has long been a puzzle to know
1 why the medlar has never become al
| generally used in this country as 1t IL
pearance it Is much like the apple. and
| II might as easily be cultivated here
as elsewhere. Perhaps enterprfsina
fruit growers OF the future will bring
this interesting product to our atten.
tion and thus provide US with thai
variety which Is SO much desired ir
| matters of the table.
Then there are loquats. familiar Il
folk In the southern states, much lfkl
plums In appearance and possessing 9
characteristics and delightful flavor, and
sapodillas. said to taste ike brown
sugar though favoring the apple In ap
4 pearance. What an added Joy to LII
| would Il give II we were made familia,
with all these now fruit davors, Q.
Characteristic and indescrfbable sacl
ono ~ 10 the taste OF the peach or thu
orangst N---S----.-----------s..----
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MISSIONARY AND WIFE
MURDERED IN JAPAN
Slain in Summer Cottage at Karut-
zawa With Short Sword-Amer1-
can Colony Excited.

TOXIC, July 17.-Rev. W. A. F. Camp
bell and his wife. Canadian mission
aries, were stabbed to death by bur
glar early yesterday morning in their
summer cottage at karuizawa- The
weapon used was a Japanese short
sword Karuizawa, which is an Ameri'
can missionary summer center. has
been greatly excited by the murder
The clergyman and his wife were
sent out to the far east by the Metho'
dist Church in Canada. They had beer
engaged in evangelstic work in Japan
since September. 1913.
Karuizawa is a small town at an
elevation of $3.50 feet in Shinano prov.
ince, eighty-seven miles northwest OF
Toxic. 1t is favorite summering place
for Protestant missionaries who as
semble there between July and Sep
tember to discuss church and mission
questions.
Mr. Campbell and his wife were both
from Toronto. He was graduated from
Victoria College and she from the
Methodist Deaconess Training School
Evening star., 1916-07-17
At the Bottom Of Silence.
Copyright. 1861
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.

Little Willy could not sleep. The
doctors said his brain was too active for
the rest of his body. And certainly
when you looked at his big eyes and
pinched face you seemed to be gazing
at a soul too scantily bodied. Those
eyes had the air of looking past you, at
invisible things behind you.
One morning as I sat by his bed he
fell to talking.
DO you know" he said, ut seems as
If at night I am slipping down into the
deep funnel of silence. All the fore part
of the night l go down and toward
morning l come up. Early in the even
ing the street under my window is full
Of noises; men and women and children
pass and talk, horses hoofs clatter on
the asphalt, automobiles chug by and
toot horns, wagons rumble, newsboys
and peddlers cry; it gradually thins
out; it gets stiller and stiller. and along
about . o'clock 1 reach the bottom of
the silence.
Then 1 hear things I never hear of
days-steamboats' hoarse voices over
the river locomotives going 'hoooo-
hoooo-hoo hoooo, belated rat-tat-tat
of heels on the sidewalk, sometimes a
bing, x dog barking, sometimes away
off the dim roar of train.
And then all out beyond these
sounds there are others that hear with
boom, boom of the cannon over in Eu-
rope, like far-of drums rolling. l hear
the screams of men bayoneted. 1 hear
women weeping, millions Of them. and
it sounds like the wind in the chimney
in winter
Il hear the pattering of feet in China,
where it is day. and the myriad voices
of the yellow people, like brook CUR
Cling over stones.
Il hear the waves tapping on the
shores of India, maSts creaking on the
ships that labor in the seven seas. and
Arabs in the desert grooming and the
harsh voices of camels.
Il hear the worlds music-negroeS
singing in Louisiana, guitars tinkling
in Andalusia, Sicilian love songs. kaffir
wailings and tom-tom pulsings, congre-
cations hymning in churches, roisterers
carousing in brothels, all going up in a
confused wave of human sound to God s
ears. And wonder what He thinks Of
it.
II hear mothers chanting to their ba-
bies. and lovers kissing and signing
and battle men cursing. And I hear the
sound OF the never-ending worship in
world. which Zangwill likens to the
roar of Niagara.
Il hear unnumbered prayers ascend
ing, and heart beatings like duttering
birds, and humanity breathing like the
wind in the palmetto leaves.
Sometimes it all seems SO sordid and
petty and mean, and l wonder what God
made it for. And then 1t seems at other
times wonderful and majestic and beau
tiful.
And sometimes. when It's the very
stillest and I get way down to the very
bottom tip of the funnel of silence, /
can hear God thinking. And what He
thinks at night happens during the
day."
Evening star., 1916-07-17

couldn't possibly be SO, I should think
tain small boys I know. Always their
pockets are filled with all sorts of
useless odds and ends which they have
picked up here and there. Blacky has
no pockets, so he keeps his treasures
of this kind in a secret hiding place,
a sort of treasure storehouse- He visits
this secretly every day, uncovers his
treasures and gloats over them and
plays with them and then carefully
covers them up again.
First Blacky took this egg over near
his home, and there he once more tried
and tried and tried to break the shell.
But the shell wouldn't break, not even
when Blacky quite lost his temper and
hammered it for all he was worth.
Then he gave the thing up as bad
matter and few up to his favorite
roost in the top of tall pine tree,
leaving the egg on the ground But
from where he sat on his favorite
roost in tho tall pine tree he could
see that provoking egg. a little spot
Little Sunbeam found It and rested
that B1acky couldn't keep his eyes
off It.
Little by little he forgot that # was
an egg. At least he forgot that he had
wanted to cat It. He began to nnd
pleasure in just looking At It. It might
not satisfy his stomach. but It certainly
was very satisfying to his eyes. He
forgot to think Of Il ~ . thing to
eat, but began TO think Of Il wholly ~
thing to look atf and to admire. He
WAS glad he hadn'k bssn sbls to break
Evening star., 1916-07-17
FOR THE TRAVELLER.

In spite of the fact that most of us
do not take transatlantic voyages now
adays. we do very often carry steamer
rugs with US when we travel. For such
of US there are black shiny leather
holders just the shape of a rolled
steamer rug in which to carry them.
They cost SIS and are a good looking
as well as useful bit of baggage.
1t is important that our baggage be
good looking. Nobody can fail to sym
pathze with the woman travelling
alone through Europe several years
ago who spent money that might have
brought a new frock in buying smart
little travelling bag.
You've no idea she said, "the diff
ferent treatment that handbag brought
me. I'd travelled before with a shabby
one, so 1 know. Hotel clerks. innkeep-
ers. porters and chambermaids-all the
people with whom a tourist comes most
in contact in Europe-were impressed
better service, better rooms and alto
gether had a better time than 1 could
possibly have had with the shabby
little bag 1 carried the year before"
So if you are travelling, even in this
country, remember that the effect of
neat, well made bags and trunks is not
lost.
For the woman who must sometime IS
carry her own suit case. nothing could
be more convenient than the straw suit
cases. Those that are made now, even
in the cheap grades, are neatly trim
med and bound with heavy leather. and
have much more smartness of appear
ance than they used to have.
If you have cat or dog of course
you will need something in which to
take it with you on your journey for
summer pleasures. There are fascinat-
ing bags, with screened ends, over
which leather flaps can be drawn down
tent are tied down in a windstorm.
These come in many finishes, but per-
haps the best looking are those in
black. However, that is a matter for
personal choice.
Evening star., 1916-07-17
Screen Your Doors.
Fourth floor. G street.

We handle only highest grade
eady-made Screen Doors, of
natural pine lumber with two
coats of double varnish and r.,
mesh black wire cloth screening.
They have an excellent appear
ance and will give good service,
Those who wish to order should
measure their doors and secure
the size nearest, so as to mako
the alterations as slight as posi-.
bic.
Screen Door No. 454.. .S1.sO
Screen Door No. 555.. .S2.25
Screen Door No. 555G.$2.75
The sizes for the above are
2.6xo.6 it., 2.8xo.S it., 2.1ox6. 10 it.,
2.8x7 #. and SKI #.
Fourth floor. G street.
Evening star., 1916-07-17

New York. clerk. $1,000 to s1.4oo; Frank
H. Ellis. Michigan. clerk. $1,000 to
81 200; Mrs. Edith E. L Lawrence.
Kansas. clerk. 1000 to $1,000; Frank
L. Daley. Washington. clerk. 81 900 to
200: Miss Hinda L. Burke. Indiana.
clerk. 5000 to $1,000; Miss Dora b Nc
Cauley. Minnesota. clerk. 5000 to $1,000;
Miss Lucille Parker. Oklahoma. clerk,
5000 to $1,000; Thomas A. Honey. Wis
consin. assistant messenger. s1co. to
clerk. 5000. Geological survey-Rob
ert B. Smith. District of Columbia. ap-
prentice. 81 per day while actually
employed, to $42o.
Transfer to another department.: Geo
logical survey-William A. Winston.
Oklahoma, underclerk, 5000, to War
Department.
designations: General land Office
Roy G. Mead. California, mineral ex-
aminer. $3.50. Pension office-John l.
| Rea, District of Columbia, clerk, S1.i00
Patent of!ice-Winfred NJ. Adams, North
Carolina. examiner, $500: Mrs. Mary
E. Barker, New York. copyist. sI20: Lee
F. Montgomery. District of Columbia
messenger boy. s42O. Geological survey
Charles S. Wells, West Virginia. as
sistant topographer, 500 per month
Edward f. Craig. Massachusetts. under
clerk, s1.0S0. Bureau of mines-Wil-
| liam NJ. Welch. New York. gas engineer
| $3.50: Harry H. Tinch, Oklahoma. jun
| ior electrical engineer, $500.
Evening star., 1916-07-17
JOURNES M70
| LAND

Sartorial history repeats itself con
stantIy. Satins and brocades. which
have their recurrent periods Of popu-
larity. are once more a la mode. For
the coming season beautiful brocades
in self tone and in metal effects are
to be extremely popular, the entire
leaning in the selection Of silks be-
ing for those of high luster. the satin
surface weaves taking precedence over
corded silks. The fabrics showing
some body" will generally be pre-
ferred to the softer ones for fall and
winter wear. especially when selected
for daytime or actual service garments.
Serge. gabardine. broadcloth and tri-
cot are fabrics that will be greatly
favored in the development Of the pop
uiar coat dresses, and quite the smart
est frock will employ one of the wool
Evening star., 1916-07-17

that she'll Once more he spread his
black wings and flew down to the egg.
He cooked his head to one side and
looked at it. He cooked his head to
walked all around 1t, chuckling and
saying to himself: Pretty. pretty.
pretty, pretty and all mine, mine. mine.
mine! Pretty, pretty and all mine!
Then he craftily looked all about
to make sure that no one was watch
ing him Having made quite sure. he
rolled the egg over and turned it
around and admired it to his heart 8
content. At last he picked 1t up and
carried it to his treasure house and
covered 1t over very carefully. And
there that china nest egg, which
Blacky the Crow stole to eat and
couldn't, is still his chief treasure to
this day. and Blacky still sometimes
wonders what kind of hen laid such
hard-shelled egg.
(THE END)
Evening star., 1916-07-17

Blue and white striped taffeta shir-
red on as binding finishes a white
panama hat for sports wear. The trim
ming is a bow of blue silk.
| Yellow corduroy facings and pockets
| trim a black satin bathing suit.
Blue and black striped taffeta cut on
the bias forms a charming bathing
| suit There is a wide ruche at the
/ hem of blue silk to match the blue
stripe.
A charming street frock is made of
! white crepe de chine, but with a sort
of Russian bodice. heavily trimmed
with white soutache braid.
Foulard is in good style. and as 1t
is one of the most servicea BILE fabrics
ina gina BILE, many women have taken
it up for hard-worked summer frocks.
Sometimes foulard, in stripes. Is COM
bined smartly with linen. Fou1ard be
it remembered, can be easily cleaned,
and can even be washed and ironed.
Stripes are as much worn by chill
dren as by their mammas and big sis
ters Usually striped skirt is made
with plain white or colored blouse
to give the best results.
" mite Dedu Is tHe icdl Ol Z
of a sports suit of white pongee.
The white beaded nets are in high
favor for evening wear.
The outstanding frll around the neck
that is cut away bit at the shoul-
ders is still featured in some of the
imported frocks of silk and satin.
Flesh-colored organdie takes the
place in some of the summer frocks
that flesh colored chiffon took in win
ter frocks.
Yellow is enjoying vogue 1t has
silk sweaters seemed to blaze the way
for the vogue, and now there are yell
low and white striped sports clothes,
and many attractive frocks of yellow
combined with white or some other
color.
Brocaded silk for girdles and other
triming is in demand. 1t gives the
same sort of touch of color that en-
broidery does, if skillfully used, and,
of course, it is far less work to tuck
in a bit of brocade than it is to en-
broider even simple pattern by hand.
Wells attached to the hat are arrang-
ed in many ways. Sometimes there is
short veil arranged almost like frlll
a the back of the hat. The same ar
rangement is sometimes made across
the front of the hat. Long bells at
tached to the top of the hat crown float
over the shoulders and many wells
hang, like last years trains. at one
side only.
Evening star., 1916-07-17
Lace Straw Hats,

For midsummer very light and airy
straw effects are to be worn. These
are made of hair braids, and compose
entire transparent shapes, or are used
as edges. on hat rims of other straws
When the whole hat is of lace straw, the
crown has a lining piece of matching
chiffon crepe. being cut from a circular
piece of the material shirred into the
head size of the crown.
Another dainty hat is made by plac-
Ing an embroidered covering of chiffon
over leghorn straw. They give the
effect Of tiny colored flowers emb-oid-
cred onto the straw. The chiffon, OF
course, must be the same shade as the
straw.
Evening star., 1916-07-17
Echu Capes.

Satin fichu capes and stoles have a
finishing edge all around of ostrich
feather fringe. The favored f1chu shape
is oblong. edged at both sides with
the fringe, and gathered into tassel-
trimmed points at each end. Others are
in circular form and Of two or three
tiers.
Materials for summer lingerie mock
fichus can be had by tho yard and
draped into becoming styles on tho fig-
ure. They are of ruff1ed nets, hem
stitched organdies. embroidered Sw1sses
and checked dimtties.
Evening star., 1916-07-17

fabrics mentioned, combined with satin,
in their makeup. A touch of bright
silk or bead embroidery is a favorite
trimming touch.
Fall style suggestions are now avail
able, and frock of the type described
made up now may give excellent mid
season service and still serve as the
foundation for the autumn wardrobe.
The sketch shows a smart frock OF
navy serge trimmed in navy or black
satin. bright metal buttons and touch
of embroidery on the collar and vest
points Frightening IL up a bit Tho
skirt is quite wide. measuring approx
imately four yards. and the fullness
may be laid IN fat or box pleats, or
may be gathered at the waist accord
ing to choice. Many smart skirts are
arranged in a succession Of plain and
pleated panels The gown in the sketch
is of the redingote type. the back Soc
tion being IN one from neck to hem.
and curving with the figure at the
waist line.
To make this frock six and q half
yards of serge thirty-six inches wide
and three quarters OF q yard Of satin
the same width will be required. A
center front fastening is effected. The
skirt u snlined. and thin silk lnfns
Evening star., 1916-07-17
CAN TALK THROUGH EARTH
WITHOUT USE OF WIRES
Subterannean Telephone Invented
BY San Francisco Man Who Dis
covers New Theory of Physics.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 17-Dr. H.
Barringer Cox announced here today
that he had perfected subterranean
wireless telephone. and that. incident
tally, he had discovered a new law of
physics-that electrical energy can be
transmitted over single conductor.
For the last FIVE months DR.. Cox has
been working at Los Olives, Cal, with
the United States forest service, in an
effort to perfect a system of wireless
signals for forest fires. 1t was while
so engaged. he said, that he discovered
the possibilities of transmitting the hu-
man voice through the ground. He will
leave in few days for Washington.
The equipment consists of an ordi-
nary telephone transmitter connected
with a battery and a special instruE ent
DIR. Cox's secret-with ground wire.
At the receiving station. five or fifty
miles away, is a similar equipment.