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Timely Beautv.

George, dear" said the young wife,
you are growing handsomer every
day" Eyes, darling" replied the
knowing George. It's a way I have
Just before your birthday."-Plck-Me-
Up.
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r-esen.-Dav DANGER.

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excelling in nothing.
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D. B. Hill, of Maryville, was in the
Evening star., 1916-01-01
Peace Treaty Commission Named.

The entire personnel of the commits
sion to administer the so-called inves-
tigation peace treaty with France is
as follows: Richard Olney, former
Secretary of State, commissioner for
the United States, and Romulo Naon.
ambassador from Argentina, non-na-
tional commissioner; Louis Renault. a
distinguished French jurist, commits
sioner for France, and Carton de Wharf,
Belgian minister of justice, non-na- =
tional commissioner. Jonkheer Jo-
hann Loudon, minister of foreign af-
fairs for the Netherlands, will be the
umpire.
Evening star., 1916-01-01
NEWYEAR EVE IN MEXICO
MARKED BY PEACE SIGNS
Surrender of Additional Villaistas
Believed to Have Ended Opposi-
tion to Reconstruction.

Ell PASo, Tex. January 1.-Signs OF
peace and reconstruction in revolution
torn Mexico were everywhere ap-
parent across the border New Year eve.
Railroad traffic has been restored. tele-
graphic communication with Mexico
City has been established, and a
number of large industries are pre-
pairing to resume operations. The sur
render of additional Villa troops. the
appointment of government officials
and the arrival at the border of
Americans once held prisoners have
added 10 the hopeful prospects.
New Governors Installed.
]gnacio Enrique yesterday was in
stalled as Governor of Chihuahua, and
Gen. Gabriel Gariera of Vera Cruz.
newly appointed military chief Of
Juarez, took charge. Mayor Manuel
Prieto of Juarez issued proclamation
asking citizens to present evidence of
ownership TO property confiscated.
Gariera declared he would convert the
worst city of the continent into a
model of physical and moral order.
From a military point of view the
surrender of Gen. Medinavietia and his
command of 500 to Gen. Trevino at
Chihuahua is considered to have
broken practically all Villa opposition.
Ranch Workers Reach Border.
Thirty employees of the MADEIRA Lum-
Der Company, for several weeks held
prisoner by Villa before the arrival of
Carranza troops, have arrived at the
border. They reported four American
ranchers killed by Villa between Ma
dera and Minaca. and that another
was missing. Previous dispatches an
nounced the safe arrival in MADEIRA of
three foreigners employed on the
Hearst ranch near MADEIRA; a fourth.
p. Keane, was missing.
Mexico needs workmen, not SOL
diers," Gen. Trevino replied to ex-
Villa soldiers in Chihuahua City, seek
ing re-enlistment.
Gen. Obregon yesterday made his
entry into Juarez, accompanied by
Mexican Consul Garcia. After a con-
ference there with officers they re-
turned to Ell Paso.
Gen Victoriano Huerta, awaiting
trial on charges brought by the Amer
lean government, will be unable, ac-
cording to his physician, to travel to
San Antonio to appear January 10 be-
fore federal grand jury.
Evening star., 1916-01-01
FEDERAL INHERITANCE
TAX, Mr.. OWENS PLAN
Oklahoma Senator Urges Measure to
Raise Part of the Increased
Revenue Needed.

Senator Owen of Oklahoma is out in
means of increasing the revenues Of
"a tax is growing among members of
Congress, and it is likely to become
part of the bill for increased revenue
which Congress will be asked to pass.
In support, of the inheritance tax.
Senator owen said:
"It is never tax upon industry" he
said. 1T takes from no one anything
he has ever had and it works no hard
ship on any individual.
"It takes man of the first magni-
tude to administer an estate of $10.0OO.-
900. No human being can properly
consume the income of 100000 year,
of 500 walking hour. from such an
estate. Then think of the result when
a single persons fortune is estimated
at $1,000, 900, 900 and is gathering in
$50. .00O.0 900 a year of the products of
labor while millions of the laborers
helping create this value cannot lay
aside $5C a year.
Il think the largest liberty should
be given ambitious men to benefit by
their achievements during life. But
the transfer to his heirs should not be
without some regard for the general
welfare. We should encourage indus
try. thrift, initiative and enterprise and
discourage avarice, extravaganza or
ambitions dangerous to the welfare of
other men. For this reason the inherit
ance tax is superior to the income tax.
1t should be graduated according to the
size of the estate and the nearness OF
kinship of the heirs. The greater the
bequest and the more distant the re-
lationship, the greater should be the
rate"
Evening star., 1916-01-01
Difficulty in Getting Pictures.

Speaking of the difficulties of pho
Biography in the Peruvian highlands,
where his party made one of the most
complete Photographic records ever
prepared by scientific expedition,
Prof. Bingham said today to a reporter
for The Star:
Taking photographs in the Andes is
often accompanied by unexpected i'm
pediments. of course one expects to
find what may be called Typographical
difficulties. For instance, in order to
get to O. point from which the best
view of a valley or "a ruin may be
taken any photographer knows that
it Is frequently necessary TO scramble
up the face of a precipice or balance
ones self on top of slippery boulder
or on the edge of dangerous rapids. As
"a matter Of fact, the professionals who
risk their lives in getting exciting
moving picture films have led US to
look upon this sort of danger as a part
OF the days work for any one who is
striving to make hrst-class picture
records of explorations.
Human obstacles are those which
are most difficult to overcome. how
ever. and perhaps least expected. For
instance. you ride into plaza and
see picturesque group of market
women selling vegetables, bread and
other local products, and realize that
there is good chance to get a pic
ture of one of the local customs. II you
ride up to the group. and, while your
companions are engaged in making
purchases. get a snap shot, the chances
are against securing the kind Of a
photograph which is worth while, and
which viii reproduce in such form as
to be of educational value. One learns
that, as general rule, the only photo
graphs that reproduce we'll are those
taken on the tripod, with a small dia-
phragm, but you also learn in Peru
that by the time you have gotten of
your mule, and set up your tripod,
Evening star., 1916-01-01
RED CROSS SHIPMENTS.
Former President Taft and British
Ambassador Reach Agreement.

Former President Taft. as head of
the executive council of the American
Red Cross. has had conference with
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British am
bassador, respecting the admission to
Germany and Austria of America n
hospital supplies intended for Red
Cross organizations.
satisfactory understanding was
reached on the general lines govern
ing such shipments, and it is expected
the Red Cross viii soon issue a state
ment defining precisely the class of
hospital supplies that may go forward
to the be.ligerents.
Evening star., 1916-01-01
MERCHANDISE EXPORTS
SHOW LARGE INCREASE
Total Gain, $3.50, ,s36 1888 in 1915, as
Compared With 1014-Customs
Receipts Decreased.

NEW YORK. January IA total gain
OF s950.s36.233 in merchandise ex-
ports, with decrease of s24,s32,74s in
customs receipts for the year 1915. as
compared with 1914, is shown in the re-
port of the collector of the port of
New York. There was an increase of
$933,660.052 in domestic merchandise
exports alone. The increase in i'm
ports of gold and silver during 1915
Evening star., 1916-01-01

thirty-hve years. Among the bosls Wrs
many from the estate Of the late Col.
Robert Hoe. Acquisition Of the Haisey
collection gives Mr. Huntington one OF the
largest and most complete private libraries
In the world.
Groups Of Books.
One Of the features Of the collection
is set Of the first four folio. OF the
works OF Shakespeare. which cost
$4,000. similar group. purchased In
London not long ago. cost $5e,000. Tho
library includes drst editions OF the
works of Fielding, Dryden. Dickens.
Pope. Thackeray. Poe, Hawthorne,
Lowell, Emerson, Whittier. Longfellow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Tcnnyson and
Bret Harte. First editions OF all the
works of the Elizabethan authors.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Marlowe,
Peele. Ford. Ben johnson and Dekker.
Peele. Ford. Ben Johnson and Dekker.
are included.
Evening star., 1916-01-01

amounted to $145.7se,s47. Merchandise
imports showed an increase of $5,246,-
|022
Figures for the Two Years.
Figures for the two years follow:
Gold and silver-Imports. 1914. $685.
172.150; 1915. $170,s62.ss7; domestic
exports. 1914. $15S,s51.2Ss: 1915. s54.-
045,211: foreign exports, 1914. $5,439,-
401; 1915. $10.72o,o63.
rchandise-Imports. 1914, $97s.sss.-
ports. 1914. $sos,154,156: 1915. s1,742,-
S14.20S: foreign exports, 1914, S2S,3S1,-
921; 1915, $40.55S.102.
Duties collected-1914, $165.992.475.71;
1915, $142.967, ,309.15.
Total receipts for the year 1914,
s169.572.669.3s; 1915. s144.73s,s21.S2.
Evening star., 1916-01-01
Joe Murphy, Former Actor. Dies.

NEW YORK, January Joe Muir
phy, an oldtime actor, best known
for his impersonation in Kerry Cow"
died yesterday of pneumonia. He was
eighty-three years of age and left an
estate estimated at $3,000,000. Mr..
Murphy went to California in 1850, and
was widely known among the early
California pioneers.
Evening star., 1916-01-01
SALE OF HALSEY LIBRARY
BRINGS ABOUT $75O,OOO
Collection of Rare Volumes, Belong.
ing to Brokers Estate, Purchased
by n. E. Huntington.

NEW YORK. January Henry L
Huntington, financier and railroad man
has purchased the great library OF Fred
erick r. Halsey for about s750.ooo. Mr.
Halsey, broker and bibliophiie. was the
owner of a library consisting of abou,
10000 volumes, comprising many early
English editions and valuable Ameri-
cana, which he had been collecting for
Evening star., 1916-01-01
Germany's Food Sufficient. "

BERLIN, January Count Fried
rich Won Westarp, reporting on the
proceedings of the chief committee of
the reichstag." says the Overseas News
Agency, Announces that the food re-
sources of Germany are sufficient to
feed her population, however long the
war may last"
Evening star., 1916-01-01
Berlin-C Constantinople Trains.

BERLIN, January 1.-Announcemen
is made that through train service be-
tween Berlin and Constantinople will
not be inaugurated January IL, as had
been planned The date of beginning
shortly
Evening star., 1916-01-01
.BRAz|L|ANS DELIGHTED
WITH RECEPTION HERE
DR.. Clinton D. Smith Sees Oppor-
tunity for United States Youths
in South America.

DIR. Clinton d. Smith of Trumansburg,
y. Y, ex-president of the agricultural
college at Piracicaba, Brazil, and dele
gate to the Pan-American Scientific
Congress from the National Agricul-
tural Society of that country. express
ed today to representative of The
Star the qualification of the official
Brazilian delegation at the reception
which has been accorded it's members
in this country and in Washington in
particular.
The delegation he said, has been
overwhelmed with delight at the cor
diality and friendlness with which it
has been greeted and at the relation
ship which has been developing be-
tween its members and scientists from
the other American republics"
Certain of the delegates, he said. have
since their arrival in the city succumb-
ed to the prevalent grip" germ and
are at present confined to their beds.
Youth of U. S. Welcomed.
The need felt in Brazil for the ad-
vent of trained youth from the United
States was dwelt upon by DR.. Smith.
I'VE welcome the youth of the United
states with open arms, ne SAID. Bra
zil is at the present time overrun with
adventures, commercial bandits, who
desire to make fortunes overnight.
They are doing great damage to the
reputation Of the United States, and
Brazil must rid herself of them.
I'VE need good, living, well
trained, sound bodied young men
There is need for their services in en-
gineering. agricultural fields. construc-
ton work. mechanical industries and
many other activities.
You would be surprised TO know
that large proportion of the railroads.
street car lines and electric light plants
in Brazil are managed by former citi-
zens of the United States. And there
remain undrea med-of fields which the
youth Of this country can aid, and aid
with benefit to themselves, in develop
ing"
Evening star., 1916-01-01

your picture is quite likely to have
dispersed.
Had it not been for the co-opera.
tion of the Peruvian government, ane
diers from the Peruvian army to ac,
company the members of the expedi'
tion, many of the pictures would never
have been obtained. Once, when the
two botanists of the 1915 expedition
were innocently photographing ancient
agricultural terraces. they were at
tackled by the drunken owner of the
farm, and narrowly escaped serious
ana tragic encounter. They did moi
have soldier with them and rarely
found the need of one, but it frequent
ly happened that the presence OF q
uniformed soldier served as guaran-
tee OF character and prevented the ie-
norant and suspicious natives from de-
Stroying inStrum ents whose use they
could not comprehend.
Magnificent Scenery.
The mountains and valleys of south
ern Peru contain as magnificent scenery
as is to be found anywhere in the
world, but during large part of the
year this scenery is hidden behind
clouds, mist and fog. 1t was the good
fortune of the expedition in 1915 to
be in the heart of the most magnificent
mountain scenery during the clearest
weather that any one had known for
years. For several days there was
scarcely a cloud in the sky. and even
the tops of the mountains were visi-
bic in the afternoon.
This enabled us to get several mag
nif1cent panoramic views where there
tofore only fieeting glimpses of the
ma agniticent scenery had been obtained
AS general rule, these mountains
are clear during the night, and for a
few moments after sunrise, but gen.
orally long before the sun reaches the
valleys the mountain tops are already
covered with clouds.
Southern Peru Is bound to become
one of the greatest tourist meccas of
the world, for there is no part of the
world that surpasses it in the COM
bination that 1t offers of romantic,
historic interest, gigantic historic
monuments as wonderful as those OF
Egypt. picturesquely costumed Indians
and magnificent scenery. There are no
ruins in America that are more grand
" located than those at the fortresses
and shrines built by the Incas and
their predecessors. Apparently no peo-
pie in the world were ever more fond
of fine views than these prehistoric
races of the central Andes"
Evening star., 1916-01-01
Transforming English Into Spanish

The translations of English into
Spanish with which the capital has
been flooded this week are, most of
them. as wonderful in their way as the
Spanish which has suddenly issued from
its retreat throughout the country. 1t
is Spanish that nobody but for
eigner to the Castilian tongue could
write. Generally it smells SO strongly
of English that one could scent it
around the corner. OCCASIONALLY it has
a German or French twist; but it is the
evidence OF the desire of the capital to
express itself in Spanish.
A noted Spanish American delegate
to the congress. commenting on the bad
Spanish found in some circulars printed
for use of foreign visitors, ted
that 1t confirmed the impression most
Latin Americans have that Americans
are naturally bad linguists. But this
is an unfair position to take. for Span
ish in the United States is just begin
ming to assert itself. 1t is like a babe
speaking in infant tones. but it is an
infant that is mighty loud and persist
ent In its efforts to make itself heard.
Evening star., 1916-01-01
PROPOSALS.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE
District Of Columbia Washington December 80.
once Room 500. District Building. until two
o'clock. pm, January IA. 1915. for furnishing
and delivering so 900 lbs. more less, pig lead
for use in the Water Department. this city.
Specifications and form of proposal may be OBJ
tained from the Purchasing Officer. d. c.. Room
ao0 District Building. OLIVER P. NEWMAN.
LOUIS BROwNLOw. CHARLES W. KUTZ.
onana is ID
Evening star., 1916-01-01
Determined Effort Made to
Talk Language Of the Latin
American Visitors.
TRANSLATORS ON DUTY
IN STORES OF THE CITY
Losing Sight of Fact That Many
Guests Are Masters of the
English Tongue.

If you arc of the dark type of beauty
and go into Il Washington store now
adays to make a purchase you are as
liable as not to be addressed as Sonora.
Many stores, restaurants and other
places of business in Washington have
succeeded in getting hold of persons
who speak Spanish of sorts, and the
city is harboring hundreds and hum
dreds of translators, who have come
here from New York and colleges and
universities in the east, either for pay
or in the public service, to serve as
Spanish and Portuguese translators
during the progress of the Pan-Amer-
lean Scientific Congress.
In fact, Spanish is in the air every
where in Washington. Every one is
trying, apparently, to speak the lam
guage of Cervantes, and none is hav-
ing more fun in trying to do so than
the Washington High School Cadets who
are attached to the congress as ushers.
These youngsters report that they are
at the New Willard Hotel and other
hotels where their services are re-
quired.
In Divers Tones.
The Spanish filling the air in WASH
ington now is in divers tones, running
from the polished dulcet language of
the modern don to the archaic. In all
departments of the American Con-
gress there are groups struggling with
the intricacies of the language of Cas-
tile, and students of Spanish not only
from Washington schools but from
other cities have been pressed into
service.
The Latin American guest patiently
suffers 1t all. for he is naturally the most
polite person In the world. Even when
he speaks English fiuently. which he gen.
orally does. he never bats an eye when
some one works off on him Spanish that
would make crocodile shed tears And
when he does not understand he makes
pretense OF doing SO, lest he offend the
sensibilities of any one.
On the streets one may meet students
speaking Castilian, wonderful in its way.
Their Spanish is like the French of the
later Norman period in England of which
4 witty critic said: They speak very
excellent French here in England, but
only an Englishman can understand il"
The Pan-American Union's call for
translators brought a hive.of Spanish
translation artists out in a veritable
swarm, and this great quantity of ap-
plicants for work in Spanish depart
ments. or departments where a knowl-
shows the strides Spanish has made of
late in the United States. Everything
points to its taking it's place in the
very near future as the foreign lam
guage of most importance in the
schools
The Spanish of the students is not
all bad or even passably bad: some OF
them are making themselves very use
full and show that they have been care
fully taught by competent teachers.
Evening star., 1916-01-01

Tbe lesdng houses alwavs open Chetsea.
DeBnis Salen Hail. Holmhurst Marlbort Ugh Hi en-
kesia ST. Charles. Seaside. shelburne, Strand
Wiltshire.