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The Washington times., 1917-04-23
A Free Prescription You Can
Have Filled and Use at Home

Philadelphia, Pa. Victims OF eye
strain and other eye weaknesses, and
those who wear glasses, will be glad
to know that according to DR.. Lewis
there is real hope and help for them
Many whose eyes were failing say
they have had their eyes restored by
this remarkable prescription and
many who once wore glasses say they
have thrown them away. One man
saws, after using It: 81 was almost
blind. Could not see to read at all.
Now / can read everything without
my glasses ana my eyes do not hurt
any more. At night they would pain
dreadfully. Now they feel fine all the
time. 1t was like q miracle to me-.
lady who used IL says: THE at
mosphere seemed hazy with or with
out glasses, but after using this pre-
scription for Is days everything seems
clear. ] can read even fine print with
out glasses" Another who used IL says:
81 was bothered with eye strain caused
by oVerwork, tired eyes which induced
fierce headaches. ] have worn glasses
for several years both for distance and
work, and without them ! could not
read my own name on an envelope or
the. typewritlng on the machine before
me. I can do both now and have dis
carded my long distance glasses alto
gether. ! can count the nuttering
leaves on the trees across the street
now. which for several years have
looked like a dim green blur to me.
] cannot express my JOY at what 1t has
done for me-"
II is believed that thousands who wear
glasses can now discard them In Q
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
Doctors Stand Amazed at Power
of Bon Optic to Make Weak Eyes
Strong---According to DR.. LeuUis
Guaranteed to Strengthen Eyesght 500
In One Weeks Time in Many Instances

reasonable s,i time and multitudes more
VIII De able to strengthen their eyes SO
ds 70 pc spared the trouble and expense
VI ever getting glasses. Eye troubles of
many description may be wonderfully
Dehetlted by the use OF this prescription.
20 70 any active drug store and get
pPottie or Bon Optic tablets. Drop one
boh-opto tablet in a fourth OF a glass
OF OF wafer and let II dissolve. With this
liquid bathe the eyes two TO four times
oalIy. You should notice your eyes
clear up perceptibly right from the start
anu Inflammation and redness will
quickly disappear. II your eyes bother
you even little II II your duty to take
steps 10 save them now before II is too
late. Many hopelessly blind might have
5sGa t5s,T srsI sheir sight II they bad cared for
note: Another prominent Physician to
wnom wnom the above article was submitted. said:
Yes, the BonOpto prescription iH truly a
Wondertul eye remedy. Its constituent in
greolents are we'll known TO eminent eye
specialists and widely prescribed by them.
nave USED II very succesHfully in my own
practice on patients whose eyes were strained
through overwOFk or miEht glasses I can
highly recommend u IN case OF weak watery
aching, SmartinR. itching. burning eyes red
lIs, blurred vision or for eyes infiamed from
exposure 10 smoke. sun. dust or wind. II is
one OF the very few preparations / feel
should be kept on hand for regular uRe IN
almost every family" Bon-Opto referred 10
above, II not a patent medicine or a secret
remedy. IL ISTan ethical preparation the for
mula being printed on the package. The man
ufacturers guarantee II TO strengthen eye
sight 80 per cent In one weeks time in many
instances or refund the money. II can be OBJ
tained from any good druggist and Is sold In
Riker-Heseman. Peoples Drug stores, and
othaF drugKista-Adv,
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
OFFICERS AT CAMP
BOOMING FOR EXAM
Sentry Patrols From ordway
Get Ready Obedience From 1
Civilians.

"Ofhcers Row. out at Camp Ord
way. resembles a sublimated school
room in TENTS today. Officers are por-
ing over charts and bulky Govern
ment books representing the army
equivalent of the "three RS"
The study is in preparation fsr-e -ex-
aminations for .promotIens, scheduled
to be held Saturday. The examina-
tions are for all commissioned off.
GERS under the grade OF captain
Even though the officers pass the
promotions probably will be slow in
coming. for the reason that there are
few vacancies.
The Officers were probably the
busiest men m camp today. The usual
routine drill was held by the various
companies this morning, but It was
more brief than usual.
This afternoon q few details were
called out to finish the work on the
mess shacks, most OF which needed
walIing up. Tha work was speeded,
and this evening the men viii eat
dinner in shacks that have been COM
pleted.
The vigilance Of the patrols has
had its effect When they were hrst
established there were a few civil
lians who used their own discretion
about obeying sentry commands
That II not the case any more. and
not even an unpleasant Incident has
been reported from the numerous
sentry posts for four days.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
HOME DEFENSE BODY
PUSHING ITS WORK
William Phelps Emo Heads in
Amount of Contribution
With $500.

With Ss23 in contributions to Its
credit. the Home Defense League to-
day entered upon the third week OF
its organization.
The largest subscription. $500. was
from william Phelps Emo. From the
start. of the movement Mr.. Emo has
taken the greatest interest in the
work of organizing the league. Al
though money subscriptions are not
requirement for membership. more
than 125 persons have sent in amounts
ranging from 81 to $25.
All expenditures made by the
league will be with the approval OF
the executive committee, Of which
Major Pullman Is chairman, and all
accounts will be audited by Auditor
Tweedale. auditor of the District, also
a member of the organization. The
work of organizing the various police
precincts and the special units will
proceed rapidly this week.
The first to be organized will be
the automobile unit, the duties of
which will be similar to those per-
formed by 12O motor-car owners who
assisted in the public order work
during the inaugural period.
The work Of organizing the rifle
mems unit is progressing rapidly
under the direction of Col. NJ. A. Win.
ter. The work OF organizing the
mounted, medical and motorboat
units, Major Pullman said today, will
be pushed, with the hope. that they
can be completed within the next
two weeks.
Following are among the contribu-
tors to the league:
William Phelps Emo, E. H. Snyder,
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except on the first night OF the trail
summons, when the size OF the trail
throng was overestimated.
Sermon on .Backslidinx.,
Members of the evangelistic COM
mittee said that so far as they knew
the response to the revivalIst's ap-
peal was greater here yesterday than
on any similar occasion in the history
of the country-greater by far than
the responses in the famous Moody
and Sankey days.
Billy preached last night on Back
sliding" ornamenting his discourse
with a dozen vivid anecdotes, stories
OF Robert Z. Lee. Cyrus the Great
George Washington; stories OF his
days as a fireman on the railroad
and of his experience as a big league
baseball player. He acted the tales
as he recited them. When Billy talks
about Cyrus the Great he is Cyrus
for the moment. When the action
of his narrative makes IL incumbent for
him to fall upon the floor he throws
himself prone upon the planks. When
he speaks of whipping the devil he
beats the air with an imaginary lash
The kernel of his. talk last night
was condemnation OF the double
standard of morality.
II 10000 heard him, 1t may be said
that at least $4,000 craved the salts
faction, for certainly 10000 were
turned away at. the two meetings
Billy is already beginning to regret
that he didn't order a Tabernacle
capable of accommodating 10000 at
a time.
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r. p. Andrews, w. L. Hull, J. p.
Stephenson, c. A. Howe, c. F. Fade
ley, R W. Lee. J. J. Hermann. John
f. May. Guy Z. Mitchell. Francis NJ.
Phelps, L. B. B. oliver, Henry W.
Tippett, Z. II. Grove, Harry F. All.
mond, J. c. Arneth. @. II. Fisher. r.
]. White, NJ. L. Clifford. Z. L. Dear
dorfr, Max Vollberg, w. P. Colman, b.
8. Branson. John NJ. Blddle, william
W. Dodge, J. Lester Brooke, +. A. Sc
bring, George Howard. C. T. Bride, @.
z. Pollen, Henry H. Bacon, Charles J.
Waters, Lewis Flenner. J. Z. Talbert,
John Dolph, Challan B. Ellis. E. H.
Mealy, W. F. Sullivan, w. T. Watson,
Al Shields. H. NJ. Brown. ]. s. Arnold.
J. ]. Sullivan, L. II. Riggles, T. B.
Wilson, A. B. Lyon. c. A. Aspinwall.
F. B. Hyde, F. r. Jellenf, F. C. Nebb,
C. J. o'Neill, John Poole, Harry E.
Gladmon, Odell S. Smith, Henry Bre-
wood, Eugene Gaf, Luther II. Lin
kins. Corbin Birch. c. F. Nesbitt, F.
d. Potter, Cornelius Barber. A. c.
Parker, w. F. Franklin, /. J. Beers, II.
E. Longley. 8. II. Darragh. George
w. "dllaCe, JOnn L. weaver, -. d
May, E. J. Leesnitzer, e. p. carlin.
z. A. Campbell, s. Nicholson, s. c. Cis-
sci, w. c. Eustis, Thomas Sidwell. J.
w. Rawlings, T. d. Morris, w. L.
Robins, Samuel Hart. A. II. Tyson.
William C. Woodward, J. c. Arneth,
o. G. Staples, ]. n. Cherry, Max Wal
ton, A. McSween, William H. Waters,
]. W. Brawner, Charles Parke,
l. e. Albert. c. z. Tachton. Rudolph
Jose, E. E. Norwood, A. II. Proctor, A.
B. Williams, r. L. Middleton, G. NJ.
Whitwell, r. +. Downing, J. N. Stod-
dard. Lawrence Washington, q. NJ.
Waters, J. B. Gilpin. ]. william Down
ing, F. w. Mckenzie, e. J. Febrey, r.
@. Fletcher, ]. Doyle Carmody. Lee n.
Harris, H. N. Link, w. r. Wilson, +.
L. Marsden, c. J. Bell. B. H. Whiting.
H. A.. Colman, J. N. Pickens, J. ".
'Heany. d. L. Selke, /. S. Brewer, C. Fl.
Schaitmann, L. J. Battle, A s. Seldom.
G. E. s. williams. C. K. Jones, p. E.
johnson. ]. T. Meany, F. NJ. Barnes,
Morris Hacker. Major r. w. Pullman.
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Gillett Hill, to visit Mrs. Charles Z.
Proctor, returned to Washington last
week, accompanied by Mrs. Proctor,
who will spend a week at the Will
lard. Miss Gillett Hill will not return
until next week.
=
Judge and Mrs. Ebert H. Gary,
who have been making a short visit
to Mr.. and Mrs. William Mcclellan
Ritter, expect to return to New York
tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Marye gave
a luncheon at the Chevy Chase Club
yesterday in compliment to Judge and
Mrs. Gary, and on Saturday Mrs.
Gary and Mrs. Charles Mather Mac
Neill, of New York, who is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Campbell Graef
shared honors at a luncheon follow
ed by a bridge party given by Mrs.
Graef. The other guests were Mrs
Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs. T. De
Witt Talmage, Mrs. Armstead Davis
Mrs. McKenna Pultz, Mrs. Robert
Roosevelt, Mrs. George Barnett, Mrs
Hugh L. Scott, Mrs. ]. Hamilton
Lewis, Mrs. George T. Marye, Mrs.
John F. Rodgers, Mrs. Ritter, Mrs,
william Corcoran Hill, Miss JOS
ephine Patten, and Mrs. James Nc.
Donald.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
POLICE SEEK JoYRIpERs.

The police are searching for two young
me nssid to have taken the motorcycle
of Arthur H. Wagner. Of 1206 Staples
street northwest. from in front Of S3s B
street northeast. about 7:3O o'clock last
night.
The joyriders collided with the auto
mobile Of Thomas e. Edmonston, Of 644
Fifth street northeast, at Third and B
streets. where they deserted the motor
cycle.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
EvanEeIIst's Record Day.

1t was his record day. In the
afternoon 1874 persons walked the
trail, from whatever motive. accept
ing Billy's appeal to come to him.
give him their hands and hearts. and
promise to, lead a better life. At
night 1872 needed the call. And these
figures have never been approached
in any other city during BiIly's more
than twenty years OF ''hustling for
Jesus Christ"
Naturally. Billy Is hugely uplifted.
He thinks New York is about the
grandest town on the footstool, and
in his characteristic way he spoke
that opinion in prayer yesterday ar
ternoon after the 1,SO0 had gripped
his hands.
BLESS old New York, God! Put
Your arms around her! Love her!
Hug her so tight that she will never
want to get away! Is New York
coming to God? YesI Is It going to
heaven? Yes! VIII 1t remain virtu-
GUS? Yes! Will it remain true?
Yes!"
He dropped his glance. whirled sud
denly and shook a Thenacing finger
at Satan (who was probably lurking
oehind the pulpit table,, and deliver
ed a kissing defiance:
Hear that. old devil, Get that in
your old noodler'
The figures OF trail hitting for last
night and yesterday afternoon are
absolutely accurate. A comptometer
manipulated by an experienced hand
clicked every time a man, woman or
child stepped up to Billy. Heretofore
the estimates have been approxima-
tions. necessarily. but It Is evident
now that they were fairly true counts
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
MISS WASHINGTON
ABRIDE WEDNESDAY
To Be Married to Owen Batch
elder Lewis at ST. Marks
Church.

The marriage of Miss Frances JAG
Queline Washington, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence Washington, to
Owen Batchelder Lewis, Of Phila-
delpbia, will take place Wednesday
evening at o'clock in st. Marks
Church. Miss Washington is a direct
descendant of George Washington's
brother.
The ceremony will be performed by
the Rt. Rev. Beverly Tucker, bishop
of Virginia, assisted by the Rev. Dr.
c. r. Stetson, rector of st. Mark s,
and the Rev. DR.. Bergman Green,
dean OF the Theological Seminary.
The bride will be given in marriage
by her father and attended by her
maid Of honor.
There will be eight bridesmaids, in
cluding Miss Louisa +. Washington,
another sister of the bride: Miss lrma
Lewis, sister of the bridegroom; Miss
Patty Braxton. of Knoxville, Tenn;
Miss Eloise Beckwith and Miss Dor
othy Thomson, of Charlestown, w.
Va; Miss Martha RAIDER, of Lewis
burg, w. Va: Miss Mary Watkins ana
Miss Sade Styron, both of Washlng-
ton.
Percy Brown, of Philadelphia, will
be best man for Mr.. Lewis, and the
ushers will be the brides brother,
Selden Washington, Beaman Neale,
Junius Powell, and Stuart Moore, OF
washington; Herbert Tucker, OF
Boydton, Va; John Randolph Tucker,
of LynchburE, Va; Jack Cooper, OF
Philadelphia, and George Faison.
Mr.. Lewis and his bride will make
their home in Baltimore
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
S,6O6 TRAIL HITTERS
RECORD FOR SUNDAY
Believed Response Is Greater
Than on Any Similar
Occasion.

NEW YORK. April 23.-Great revivals
have their little tragedies. There Is
small child in New York, a mite Of a
girl, rather like a flower when her moth
er dresses her in blue silk and ties
ribbon of the same shade in her yellow
hair, whose heart was fairly wrenched
last night while Billy Sunday in the
Tabernacle was calling to the sawdust
trail.
More hopefully then grown-ups can
always comprehend. she had memorized
and rehearsed a serious and dignlned
greeting to Mr.. Sunday-had pracuced
the delivering Of 1t. no doubt for days
and days. When her father carried her
to the little stairway where Billy taxes
his stand to greet the trail marchers
and held her up 80 she could put a hand
in Billy's she was all ready TO make her
prim. well rounded speech. She got Just
so far-"Mr. Sunday, this is the proudest
moment OF my life"-and then Biliy'
perforce, turned away to grasp at an
other hand, and the inexorable usher
machine swept her on past the evan
gelist and into the outward bound aisle.
Tears rolled down her cheeks. 1t was
speech was quite wasted. Her dignity
impressive as a deacon's had gone for
naught She will never be able TO tell
her children and her children's children
that she had the honor Of speaking that
carefully learned piece before the ceie-
brated man.
Trail HItters Wear Smiles.
1t may be that her chagrin and disap-
pointment stood out all the more be-
cause Of the happiness that mellowed
the trail walking throng. Seldom does
one see so many smiling faces as were
lifted to Billy last night.
They take their religion joyfully IN
the tabernacle; Billy will have 1t no
other way. He wants no prostrations
in the sawdust. no strangulated cries,
no shrieking confessions of discovered
sin, no bursts of tears, no vociferous
defiances to the Old One. He breaches
a happy Christianity and turns his
back on the long-faced crew. And
this Is the big feature OF every taoer-
nacle meeting, of every surge to the
trail. It explains, probably, why the
Sunday revivals,. with their nightly
climaxes of conversions professed, are
so different from the old style camp
meeting revivals, where vocal agony
was deemed the proper expression Of
true repentance.
In his two meetings yesterday,
meetings attended by more than 10000
persons, meetings producing 3,6O6
trail goers afternoon and night, the
happy side OF religion was all to the
fore. Billy himself, dropping the fer
vor and tensity OF his exhortations,
was laughing and smiling like a man
suddenly given the opportunity Of
greeting old friends and neighbors
after a long absence in foreign parts.
AS he worked both hands in the most
acrobatinE Handwriting that anybody
ever has seen, probably so busy, in
deed, that his left hand scarcely knew
what his right was doing, he simply
bubbled with joy. None of the long
faced business about Billy. And the
trail hitters crowded to him as men
and women hasten to hear a pleasing
bit of news.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Miss Kitty Beale. who went to
Great Neck, L. l., with Miss Lemirs
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ. Ritter
are planning to pass the summer at
their estate in Manchester, VT. They
have not decided when they will
leave Washington.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Paymaster William Gilmore Nei!I.
L. S. N. has left for sea duty, and
Mrs. Neill is with her mother, Mrs.
Frank H. Clark. at the Brighton. Pay
master and Mrs. NeiIl, the latter for
meTly Miss Lydia Clark, were mar
ried in March.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Assistant Secretary OF Agriculture
Carl Vrooman and Mrs. Vrooman en-
tertained informally at luncheon yes.
terday. In the party was Edwin
Markham, the poet, who is spending
several days in Washington.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
To Give Calendar Social

At the First Presbyterian Church
a calendar social will be given under
the auspices of the Beneficent Society
tomorrow evening at S o'clock. There
will be a good musical program and a
sale of homemade candy, cake, ice
cream. and fancy articles.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Mrs. Arnold Hague has gone to New
port and is stopping at the Muen-
chinger King.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Stephen Hedry de Hedri, who was
second secretary of the Austro-Hun-
garian embassy in Washington, and
his bride, formerly Miss Florence
Coleman, OF New York, are at Grey
House, Lenox, on their honeymoon.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

The japanese Ambassador will be
the honor guest at the dinner which
the Chinese Ambassador and Mrs.
wellington Koo will give this even
ing. There will be covers for twen-
ty-four.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
Lease Newport villa.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte
have leased the Reed villa in Belle
vue avenue, Newport for the coming
summer.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Mrs. Frank Denny. widow of Lieu
tenant Colonel Denny, u. S. NJ. C., has
purchased a permanent residence in
o street, and will take possession
in the early autumn. At present Mrs.
Denny is visiting in New York. while
her daughter, Miss Esther Denny. is
the guest OF Capt. Julian Wilcox. u.
S. NJ. c., and Mrs. Wilcox at their
home at Annapolis. Mrs. Denny and
Miss Denny spent the winter at War
renton, Va
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

THE Story of The Sun" shows
VI Ben Day expanding from the
boy printer and he was little
more than a boy when he founded
The Sun-to the keen journalist with
whetted native wit and broadened
vision. 1t tells of the struggles and
final triumphs in journalism of three
contemporaries of Ben Day who
were destined to leave their footprints
big On the sands of time. They were
James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the
founder of the New York Herald; A.
S. Abel, the founder of the Baltimore
Sun, and Horace Greeley, the founder
of the New York Tribune.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Miss Annie Poage, a Southern news
woman. who has been in washington
as a delegate to the ID. a. X. con-
gress, will remain TO attend the con
9ress of the Daughters of 1872. Miss
PoaEe is regent of Poage Chapter,
d. A. r., Of Ashland KY.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Miss Marguerite f. Weller, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin p. Wei
Ter, who is to be married tomorrow to
Richard W. Hynson. has been much
feted during the past week.
Mrs. Frederick r. Franzoni. whose
daughter is to be flower girl. and Mrs.
Reginald Wycllliffe Geare, matron OF
honor for Miss Weller. entertained
fifty guests at a box party in her
honor at Keith's on Friday afternoon.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

The Italian ambassador and the
members OF the embassy STAFF Will re-
main in Washington throughout the
summer, owing to stress of their Of
icial duties. Early in June Countess
dI CelIere, with her two children, Will
60 to the Blue Ridge mountains OF
Pennsylvania for the summer.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Mr.
Charles
everywhere the homes of culture intellectually
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Capt. Templin Potts, U. S. N, and
Mrs. Potts have closed their house
in Newport. Captain Potts has been
ordered to new duties, and Mrs. Potts
will go to the Corson Cottage for the
spring.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

0W ON SALE AT ALL NEWS-STANDS) BEGINS THE PUBLICATO
OF AN EXTRAORDINARILY INTERESTING CONTRIBUTION.
ENTITLED THE STORY OF THE SUN"
The New York SUM
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
Mrs. Anderson Here

MIS-. Chandler Anderson. of New
York, has arrived in Washington 20
visit her brother-inlaw and sister. the
Spanish Ambassador and Mime. Riano.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

except on the first night OF the trail
summons, when the size OF the trail
throng was overestimated.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
Miss Curd to Leave City.

Miss Matte Marshall Curd, who
has been spending the winter in
Washington with Mrs. James Pryor
Tarvin, will leave town next week
for Kentucky. Mrs. Tarvin will ac-
company her.
Mrs. Tarvin's son, John w. Belt, of
the State Department, expects to
leave Washington this week for Hon.
duras.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Milton f. Allies has gone to White
Sulphur Springs, where he will pass
several days.
Major William NJ. Smart. q. S. A.,
also has gone from Washington to
White Sulphur Springs.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23

Congressman Jouett Shouse, with
a party OF friends, plans to leave
Washington at the end of the week
to attend the races in Lexington, KY.
Thence the party will go to Louisville
for the Derby on Monday. Mrs.
Shouse expects to go from Kansas
to join the party in Louisville.
The Washington times., 1917-04-23
Ten For RrIde-To-Be.

Nine. de Pena, wife of the minister
of Uruguay, DR.. Carlos Maria de
PenA, and the Misses de Pena will be
hostesses at a tea this afternoon 10
meet Miss Ethel Hundley. Of Baiti-
more, whose engagement to Hugo V.
de Pena, first secretary of the lega-
tion and son OF the minister, was an
nounced last week.