Evening star., 1916-08-20

appear in the neighborhood of the War
College. They are quite militant.
There should be a grand opportunity
for some pacifist 10 prove his conten-
ton that there is danger of a militant
spirit being engendered in this country
by preparations for war. The only bad
flies on the river appear Just on the
War College They must get their
quarrelsome spirit from browsing over
war maps or fighting the dogs of war
down there. Fortunately, they don
seem to care to leave that neighbor-
hood, and after one passes through
them the trip really is delightful. Their
attacks are not fatal Armed with a
good steak hammer, one is fairly safe
in their midst
The down trip. owing to the daylight
and lack of romantic atmosphere, is
likely to prove less interesting than
the up trip in the moonlight. There
always is hope. though. that you viii
meet the old salt that the Cup met,
experiences.
1t was easy for even a landlubber to
see that he was a man who had traV-
eled the seas much. He wore a cap
and smoked pipe and paced the deck
and looked weary when he gaZed at
men on deck bedecked in hats. I.ly
ne sat down, and the Cub Jois ed him-
He admitted that he had travelei much.
Il have to keep on the water he
said Il used to make the journey
across the pond regularly prior to the
war My home, though. is IN Washing
ton. and I'm just hanging around there
waiting for the war to cease so travel
will be a little more comfortable ana
III stand a better chance of meeting
the kaiser. or King George, on my
way over or back
The Cub thought such bold seafaring
man should know something about sharks.
and he suggested them. The stranger
puffed huge clouds from his pipe and ad-
mitted that he knew all there was to know
about the tigers of the sea.
Seen 'em lots of times, yes, sir" he
said Right here in the Potomac. Seen
EN- right up around Ninth street. They've
disappeared. though, years and years
ago"
Whats the reason the Cub urged
Perfectly simple" The stranger replied
'They tried to feed shad and stabbed
themselves to death on the bones. Rea-
sonable enough, l should say"
The Cub doubted the mans sincerity
and started to move off, but the stranger
had more to say.
Il forgot to say he added. that while
they've disappeared from local waters
they still are to be found nearby-on
land"
II was just getting dark when the boat
ready to turn around. The young folks
who had come for the moonlight remained
on deck, while the older ones who had
brought their lunch along and were de
termined to eat it the ground With
their relatives and everybodys ants got
off.
The rush for the upper deck when
the crowd unloaded was something
startling. Young folks, hand in hand,
broke for empty camp chairs. By the
time the boat was ready to start back
ali of the chairs We're taken by loving
couples, few married persons and
several hundred or thousand more were
trying to gain the upper deck.
Regulations, however, are that no
more than 800 persons shall be on the
upper deck of the particular boat on
which the Cub Travelled, and the cap
tain, or the pilot, or the owner, or who
ever it was that took his place at the
head of the stairs, must have counted
fast 1t seemed that there were about
$50 persons, up there when he called
halt Maybe. though, he counted on
the 'two's company. three's crowd"
basis and soon arrived at the 300. How
ever, he was on the safe side, and
that's something.
The efforts of the disappointed ones
to gain the upper deck are humorous
but pitiful at times. 1t does not seem
right that little thing like the law