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I lection. This is a picture of the paint
er's summer home. and of his two
| daughters. Every detail is beautifully
rendered-as beautifully rendered as
| though it were for this the picture was
painted. but the detail does not OBJ
| trude. 1t is the girls, one reading. the
other at the desk writing. which make
the picture They, too. might be still
1 life but for the vital way in which
they are painted with the insight of
| the portrait painter rather than the
mere craft Of the picture maker.
| Lately Mr.. Tarbell has given much
time to portrait painting, and the full
length portrait of Mrs. Lathrop which
hangs in the children's room at Cont
mental Memorial Hall is an excellent
example of his work at it's best. 1t is
canvas not lacking in sumptuousness,
vet very reticent, dignif1ed and per-
sonal.
| 1t has been said in jest that Mr.. Tar
bell has received SO many awards that
his children played checkers with his
medals. and it is true that few artlsts
have been fortunate in this respect
The list of honors that have been &C
corded him is extremely long. Better,
however, than prizes has been the ap-
!preciation shown by purchasing com
mittees of public museums and by pri-
waite collectors. The Cincinnati Art
Museum owns his Woman in Pink and
lGray" and Girl Reading: in the gal
)lery of the Rhode Island School of De-
sign at prOtIdelce are a pOTlfalt Ds nun
and a GIRLS Head: the Boston Mu-
scum has his portraits of Gen. Charles
lG Loring and Edward Robinson, Girl
Reading" and MY Children: the Penn
lsylvania Academy of Fine Arts has
purchased his Golden Screen; in the
Wilstach collection, Philadelphia, is
l"Afternoon Tea"
Since 1889 Mr.. Tarbell has been an in
structo1- in the school of the Boston
museum OF Fine Arts.
He exhibition of miniatures by
Laura Coombs Hills of Boston con-
itinues through the present week. and
possibly longer, in the Moore CALLER
les. The arrangement is excellent and
the works are shown to good advan-
tage 1t is indeed surprising that
paintings of so small and intimate a
character could create st Impressive
and decorat tive an effect, but the paint
ing is vigorous and the coiors SO Wei
used are strong. 1t is an interesting
showing, and one which no one who
! cares for art should miss. 1t is a
privilege for more than the moment
! to see such work. for it. is not easily
forgotten and goes far toward estab-
fishing a standard.
K
,NaISS MARION HOWARD of Boston,
Evil student of the School of the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, who has
won some distinction for herself and d
! place in the contemporary exhibitions
by her portraits and other paintings,
, has lately taken studio here at lol'
, H street.
| i x
wHE Washington Society of the Fine
u Arts has included in its members
(. course this year not merely lectures OIL
painting. sculpture and the decorative
arts hut on poetry and the drama. The
lecturer next Wednesday evening, the
time of the regular January meeting,
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wiling the bridegroom TO come on when
he had exhausted the pleasures of TAX
ing blue ribbons at the fair. That was
the beginning. AS a beginning it is
not SO bad But as a continuation clear
up to the last chapter of this sprightl!-
narrative il leaves the reader a little
oVerfed on the activities of Peggy. He
feels. for instance. as if he would have
liked TO be Pcggy's other half for no
more than five minutes. in order to con-
vince that very er gaginS young woman
that there was man in the houSe.
The story. well calculated to give one Il
diverting half hour. belongs to the pro-
life gctting-even-With -the-men series.
a series that is at the moment SO much
in evidence.
THE BACHELORS: 4 Novel. BY Will
liam Dana circuit. author of The
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of the comments made on the proposed
barge transport is this:
This promised restoration of traffic
on the Mississippi river on large
scale comes after years of agitation. in
which business men of New Orleans,
St, Louis and other cities have sought
the realization of some such plan. For
long time the efforts for this achieve
ment were directed toward the deepen
ing of the river by federal appropria-
ton. so that vessels OF deep draught
might go up far as st. Louis. but
Congress declined on several occasions
to make the necessary appropria ton.
The necessity for deepening the chan
mel of4he river. il is said, has now been
avoided by the plan of using barges
that will draw only few feet of water
and will therefore be able to navigate
without danger or difficulty"
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only will the freight rates be lower.
but the company promises to guaran-
tee a speed in transportation unusual
in inland equipment with four eighty
horsepower engines working separate
propellers There will be an express
and slower service. The express
baraes are built to make eighteen miles
an hour upstream and twenty -four
miles an hour downstream. The slower
barges will go eight miles an hour up
stream and twelve miles an hour down
stream.
The New Orleans Association of Com
merce has carried on a campaign in its
city. it is said. which has resulted in
the improvement of the terminal fa
ciities there, SO that all freight deliv-
cred by the barges can be cared for.
Other cities on the river have lih ewse
enlarged their terminal facilities One
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An Anti-CIinax.

JUDGE MOSES WRIGHT, the. good
" roads champion of Georgia, said In
Rome:
After the roads of the old world, the
new worlds roads are a terrible anti
climax. In our elevators and type
writers and telephones we are far in
advance of the old world, but to pass
from their roads to ours is to be let
down like the new boarder.
Flows the grub here?' new board
er asked senialiy. rubbing his hands,
at the dinner table of Rome board
ing house.
well, friend. we have chicken every
morning. AN old boarder Srunted
"'Chicken every morningn The new
boarder positively beamed. Chicken
every morning. And how's ii served"
I'm the she'll" grunted the old
boarder."
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plica lions s the novel requires to meet
the demands of readers. and furnishes.
as well. the means of producing a good
deal of clever to and fro of talk, good
deal of fresh incident. and fine charac-
ter portrayal. An engaging and read
able novel that most admirably fulfiils
its obvious intent of standing as fresh
entertainment.
JAMES NORRIS. BY Albert Pyrmont
New York: c. Regenhardt.
The author OF this novel gives out a
predatory note to those "who may only
look at the title and the contents of
this volume and notice the two pic
lures" The note is to the effect that
the pictures have nothing at all to do
with this story. One of them is meant
ito embellish a tale not belonging to
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Will be Alfred Noyes. the British poet.
who will speak on "Optifism in tGe
Poetry of the Future and Will also
read from some of his own poems. The
desire of the society is to emphasize
the interrelation of the arts and to
show the breadth of the field in which
they are included.
IT HE popular course Of lectures given
under the auspices of the Wash
ington Society of the Fine Arts is on
Practical Problems of Art in House
Furnishing and Decoration and is
again being given by Frank Alvah
Parsons of New York. This course is
open to non-members for n nominal
registration fee. The first lecture was
given January :. The subject was
Color" The second will be on The
Principles of Form and Their Applica-
ton to the Modern House." and will be
given January 81. Owing to the limited
seating capacity of the hall in which
these lectures are given it has been an
nounced that registration is closed and
no more tickets will be issued.
<
rs HE art talk at the Corcoran School
u last Monday was given by +. C.
Messer. principal of the school. who
took as his subject principles and
Fashions in Art" The first half of his
theme Mr.. Messer dealt with in q writ
ten paper, the second half he treated
quite informally. The gist of both
was the stability of tradition and in
stability of those phas which often
so completely occupy contemporary
thought and attention. That all great
art has been based upon the same en-
ftt rn,-ifl in1a
showed, but he also made 1t clear that
fashions were inevitable and must be
tolerated just 50 far as they were
recognized as such. For those who
lin.es the talk was fun of helpful sug-
geston.
I'd EG INNING on January ! and con-
~ tinuing for 100 days, an education
exposition is being held in the Canal
Zone under government auspices. In-
cluded in this is the art exhibit made
by the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn
which won a gold medal at the San
Francisco fair. This is of interest be-
cause it indicates q desire to link art
with other educa tional instruction in
the schools in the Canal Zone. And
the art taught in the Pratt institute
set forth in this exhibit is of kind
very closely related to life-art which
is both fine and useful.
j.
srHE Association of Women Painters
u and Sculptors is holding an exhi-
bition of post card designs in the mu-
nicipal art gallery. the Washington lrv-
ing High School, New York. There are
800 exhibits by about 100 of the fore
most artists-sketches of New York
especially designed for post cards
Prizes have been given by the associa-
ton to Roland knaedier and Charles
Duveen. At the opening reception ad-
dresses were made by Joseph Pennell.
Arthur Dow and others. The first prize
Warner, formerly of this city.
LEILA MECHLIN.
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develop some sequence of statement,
some Importance of fact. some sig
nificance of events. 1t might be, you
know, some very vital communication
wrapped in this voluminous blanket of
words If it is not that, then what
is it"
SARAH BERNHARDT: An Aprecia-
ton. BY Forest lizard. author of
.Heroines of the Modern Stage.
Illustrated. New York: SturSis &
Walton Company.
This is a little book of only fifty
pages yet it is a very satisfying one
for the reason that. in SO far as the
author is al this time able to do So he
gives a perspective to the career of
Sarah Bernhard. Enough of the facts
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS RE-
GENTLY ADDED.


jects. includes some OF the latest addi-
lions to the Public Library.
The lists which appear in this col
umn each Sunday are reprinted, at the
end of the month. i'm the library's
monthly bulletin. Copies of this may
be obtained free at the library or will
be sent by mail for Is cents year.
BOOKS ON FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Italian.
Annnnzio. .abriele d. la risanelia yasI-
An1S6p.
.yancini. Avancino. rol,ere ornhrs. iaca
nac,,rlli. Alfredo La Via Della Luce. 1919.
Barhic-i Esnncllo. comp. rocti Itaiani del
St.oio Mn. 1919; Y33raBsis
Rnrrili. A. q. la islia del Re. 1917" lS'F.
Iarrili. A. C. Terra ycrslne 1909. y3or-
Toaazzsro Antonio. utimc 1913. YssF
Gucrrazzi F. ID. Beatrice Conci. iaoG. YS5F-
,;g:;:ib
Mancgazzs. Paolo. In Gioruo MADEIRA. 1911.
Milanesi, Guido. Nomadi. 1872, ya5F.Msssn
Monsiarlini ;Icinladi , Comma Italia :.
S"rao. Matdr. Ella non Eisprsc. Y35F -Sc6s2e
Serao. Matilde. La Manc Tasliata. 1912. Ys5F
Tass.n Alcssandro. La seccha Rapits. 1875
Y35P-T1S1s-
French.
aniholosie des Ecrivains Francois. ~. in 1.
Borner. Henri, vicomte dc Ia Lizardiers.
Rourgcr. Paul L. Demon du Midi ". Y3af.
B6tsie
Eunum. D. l.. Contes Francois. y3aF-oRse4.
Gonconrf. Z: l.. A. II; de and ]. A. II. de-
Renee Mag,rrn. 1872. r39F G3sir
ito lia do
Jerusalem Y39F'- Ha49p
Lafon, Andre. La Aiaison sur Ia Rive. Y3aF-
Ll3tm.
Iichttnbcrser Andre. lie Sang Neurcau. ysaF-
Philippe II. Y3?D-v5S4c.
vcrhaeren. Emile La Multiple splendeur 1918.
vernaeren, Emile. rormes Nouveiie scrie'.
, ys.,as.sn Emile. roemes q scric'. 1912.
yerhse:en. Emile, Les Rythmes sou,cralns.
verhaeen. Emile. Les villes Tcnta culaircs:
LES Canpagncs Hallucinees. 1918 Y39I-vJs4v.
Ncrhaeren. Emile. Les NisaGes d" Ia Vie. 1918
willy. Colette. la yasabondc. 1910. YsaF-
WGS3v.
Spanish.
Aleman. Mateo Grzmsn de Alfarache. ~
1912 IS Yt0F-Al a+g.
C!arines v Manana de sol. Y4op, Al SD.
CASTELAR,, Emilio. Tragedies de Ia Historic
I.siacio lalles. Armaudo. E caario FODDER.
1902. Y40F-P11Sc.
laacio vndes. Armsndo. Marta Maria.
1906. EfOF -P11Smar
I'alario Ealdes. Armando. FL Senorto Octavio
1910. Y+0F PITS.
PaTdo Razan. Emilia. In NfaJe dc Novioa
lS>S. lf0F- P213r.
SHINES de Marco. Maria del Pillar. In Nido de-
Ia Tomas. IsS9 NfOE -Si6s.n
Sinues de Marco. Maria del Pillar. Paovida, y,
In Drama de Familia. 1ss3. Y4UF-Si6s3p.
German and Scandinavian.
fuda. Ludwig. Die Hueckkehr Natur
Y41D- F95:.rI.
iaup,mann. Gerhart. Der Boren des oJrsseus
Yi.D H294ho.
IIamsun. Knut. Krat-ko-. 1893. Y5lF-H1ssk.
Hessc. Hermann. Hnszhaide. Y;1F-H46sr
Lie. ]. l.. l. Samedc Naerkcr. 1ov. 1918
Y5lF-L6o.
SchaFlin-. X. H. Ncd Nytaarstid NoeddeAo
Practesaard 1872. Y.J0F Sch14.
schmidt: q. f. Sankt Yoricks Gloekenspisl.
Y4I- Schools.
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R0HE potash problem of the United
States is one which occupies
q much time and space in the dis
cussion of questions of the day. In
addition to the very great number of
uses to which potash is applied 1t is
probably true that its most extensive
use is in agriculture as one of the FER
tilizers and as an important ingredient
in a large number, if not most, or the
commercial fertilizers OF good 'repute.
1t would not be far wide of the facts 10
make a statement that the prosperity
of the United States is dependent on
potash, for agriculture is dependent on
this alkaline salt. Germany has been
the principal source of the United
States potash supply. The German
embargo on this essential article ana
the interruptions, difficulties and dan
gers of navigation have threatened TO
place the United ates in sore
straits The dominant note in the
discussion of the potash problem, so
far as the people of the United States
are concerned with it, is that this coun-
try should render itself independent IN
this respect of another country.
The various branches of the govern
ment of the United States which might
properly give themselves over TO the
consideration and study of TINS ques-
ton have done so, and public and pri-
vat.a study and governmental aud pri-
vate initiative and industry may yet
solve the problem and find way Tor
the production in this country OF the
needed supply. A search for CONNER
cial deposits of potash has long been
carried on, and every now and then mas
come a report that the quest has been
successful. Great interest is awakened
by every such report. but subsequent
events arouse a suspicion that there
was too much laundering in the index:
1t must be true, though, that commercial
deposits in the United States are being
worked and that their product IN some
measure is going out to meet the Amer
lean demand.
Americans are living, almost in a pot
ash world. lnexhaustible stores of pot
ash are locked up in the granite rocks
of the country. Pota sh is one or the
conponents of all granite, yet to get at
it on a commercially profitable basis IS
a riddle which the chemists have not
yet solved. Feldspar is particularly
high in it's potash content, some potash
is being produced in this way, and the
possibilities which are indicated IN
that direction seem vast, if not bound
less.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-16

The river steamboat as . freight car
rier was pat out of business wherever
II was brought into competition with the
railroad. both Tor short and long hauls.
The railroads have strais htcned. short
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crlcd and strengthened their roads. in
creased the power Of their locomotives,
enlarged the capacity Of their cars,
lengthcn~i their trains and made steam
carriage safer. quicker and more certain
than it was.
AZ a competitor. OF possible com
petitor. the river stea nIboat fell farther
in the rear. The tonnage of freight u
could bear was not in proportion TO the
size of the carrier. 4 river steamboat
bad q great waste Of storage space. It
was not economical in construction. and
in the matter Of engine boiler and fuel
il fell out of step with the times. 1t
needed greater depth Of water for
ton Of freight than was necessary. The
operative cost per tom per mile was
greater than necessary.
For u long time the advoca tc% of a
revival of river transportation harpoG
on deeper channels, whereas deeper
channels were only one phase Of the
question. River ira iTic men finally got
the bar rye idea into their heads They
saw the canal boat, or the canal barge,
idea adopted and evolved for the cheap
cr transportation of freight on the
great akcs and even on the salt seas.
TheN saw The barge on the canals and
rivers of Europe. Nov the river barge
with irnmeus" carrying capacity. the
most approved motive power and eco
nomical operating charges. has come
into being, aud il is no doubt this type
of river steamboat which will be the
competitor of the locomotive and its
string of freight cars. For bulky and
heavy freight on long hauls il should
prove cheap carrier from water
points to water points. It should he
borne in mind however, that the last
word has not yet been spoken in rail-
road economies and that a considerable
lowering of freight rates by rail is
possibility of the future.
a few years ago Il tumClt of hos
Utility to railroads broke out. especially
in the west aud the south. a host of
people came to look on railroad COM
pany as a maie!actor instead OF a
benefaCtOr. Numerous question: Bile
practices that had become a part of
raill Dad administration were used as
the excuse for thus anti-railroad tu-
multi. but the worst of these practices
relating to Relating. preferential rates
to favored localities and shippers, in
tcrloCk!nG directoratcS and gentle
mems agreements" have been corrected.
AS one of the symptoms of a revival
in river traffic the news announcement
has Lately been made that Navigation
on AN extensive scale VIII be restored
that Il navigation company. which is
backed by English and New York capt.
tai. is building thirty-siN power barges
varying in capacity from 800 to 5000
tons. which viii travel Oh regular
schedules between Minneapolis and
New Orleans, with stops at all impor
tant points between these two cities
on tn" Mississippi river and its tribu-
taUics.
1t Is given out in the news that not
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The Department of Agriculture has
made extensive tests and found that
this silicate of potash is soluble in the
soil, and as easily and quickly available
for plant life as the German potash
salts. The tests are all scientifically
described in Bulletin 1o4, bureau of
plant industry, entitled The Use of
FeldSpat THO Rocks as Fertilizer Prof.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-16

wHE Washington Society of the Fine
u Arts has included in its members
course this year not merely lectures OH
painting, sculpture and the decorative
arts. but on poetry and the drama. The
lecturer next Wednesday evening, the
time of the regular January meeting
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Law etc. illustrated by Clarence
r. Underwood. New York: Fred
erick a. stokes Company.
Persuasive Peggy is a mere or less
amusing account of the ingenuity and
persistence practiced by newly wed
young woman in order to have her own
way upon all occasions. in an open dis
regard of the popular notion that a
policy OF siVe-aud take is the only ore
that has. SC far. succeeded in making
the state of ulatrimony AN even toler-
able state. Taking time by the fore
lock. Peggy began to exercise her own
particulaJ brand OF persua siveness OF
she subject of the wedding journey.
Her bid was for Niagara Falls. that OF
hef husband for the state fair. Moth
ing could be easier than TO satisfy both.
So. leaving a note in explanation OF her
whereabouts. Peggy betook herself 10
rne place of her choice, Hospitality in .
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BOOK REVIEWS.
Luther BURBANK: His Life and

Work. BY Henry Smith Williams
VI. D.. LII. D.. author of Adding
Years TO Your Life etc. Illus
trated. New York: Hearsts Inter
national Library Company.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-25

| BILE which gives promise OF complete
ly destroying this citys hopes of moy
ing the seat of government from Bis
marck to New Rockford.
In fact, there are scores of l0ca
people who have thrown up the
sponge-they see nothing in sight fol
the future, and are quite ready and
willing to abandon the removal
scheme.
A bitter factional fight has broken
out in the city, and it's flames are he.
ing fed with such variety of fuel
that there seems little hope of II com
promise whereby New Rockford can
present, once more, united front in
it's fight on Bismarck.
Newspaper Starts Feud.
1t all came about through the estab.
lishment of daily newspaper through
which to promote the city's capital
removal ambitions. The, action OF
the Olson Brothers, however, in fore.
stalling the action of the new com.
pany, by jumping into the field two
or three days earlier; appropriating
the name that had been announced
for the corporation paper, has spill.
ed the BEANS" asa it were, and the
fight is on.
A full-page editorial in the Thurs.
day issue of ',rhe Daily Capital is
the vent through which "A. c. Olson
and Len Olson have permitted their
feelings to escape-and they do SO il,
no uncertain manner.
Citing a bit of New Rockford polit.
ical history; claiming credit to them.
selves for originating the capital re-
moval plan, the Olson Brothers get
down to facts with respect to the
proposed purchase by the New Rock
ford Daily Publishing company, OF
The Transcript, the weekly news
paper published here by the Olson
brothers for many years.
Purchase Price Changed.
An agreement had been signed up
whereby the plant was to be: sold for
$1,000, with a $4,000 down payment
Subsequently, with no money forth.
coming, the Olson Brothers maintain,
they were confronted with a new
proposition, proposing the purchase
of their plant for $4,000, and laying
down terms of payment, which the
owners of "The Transcript" declare
were absolutely out of the question
The owners of The Transcript were
expected to give up possession OF
their plant for a down payment OF
$500; a $3.50 cash payment August l.
this year; $3.50 payment in October;
the balance to be handled by the New
Rockford Publishing company assum
ing payment of certain notes and
mortgages and by issuing $500 stock
in the new company to the owners Of
The Transcript.
"That or Nothing"
"Take that or nothing" is the edict
the New Rockford Publishing com
pany is supposed to have given the
Olson Brothers. They took nothing
When "The Daily Capital" which
is the name the New Rockford Pub
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fishing company has adopted, was
launched, it came out as the paper If
the Olson Brothers-and there was
trouble Immediately.
How About Funds.
In their article, the Olson Brothers
charge that funds of the Commercial
club and of the Capital Removal asso-
citation have been employed in inject
ing life into the new publishing com
pany, privately-owned institution.
It is charged that funds given to
the Capital Removal association has
been, at least, unwisely expended, and
the editorial arrangement of the Re
moyal association is closed in the fol-
lowing:
"And those who subscribed and
paid dues to the Commercial club, and
those who stinted themselves of even
the necessities of life to contribute TO
the removal fund. can rest assured
that the publishers Of The Daily Cap
ital and The Transcript will very soon
ask for public examiner to 60
through the transactions of these cor
|porations, to ascertain whether there
has been the wholesale misappropria.
ion of funds commonly reported. If
so, that civil and criminal actions will
follow until the guilty ones are
brought to bar, will be as sure as
frost in mid-winter."