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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22
The MiIIionaire's Escape.

"VoU can't expect much Of a mil
lionaire. A millionaire, on one
pretext or another. will escape you"
The speaker was Guy Oyster. Sam
uel Gompers' secretary. He went on:
"A shabby man called on a million
aire one day and the two men shook
hands warmly. for they were boyhood
chums.
"'Bill.' said the shabby man. I hear
you're worth millions
yes said Bill, I've got on pretty
fine. How has the world treated your
"'Terrible. Bill the shabby man
answered. Let me tell you about 1t.
You see. my father died in 1912 and
then my mother. and on top Of that
wife and l lost our daughter. Then
wife's father died and then her
mother. Bill. it certainly was tough.
1T certainly was said the mil
lionaire, and he took out a white silk
handkerchief and wiped his eyes.
But, Bill said the shabby man.
the worst is yet to come. Early in
the spring our oldest boy died and his
death so upset wife that she died too.
OF course the doctors bills all fell on
me. and the natural consequence was
that I went bankrupt Bankrupt and
all alone. Bill, I'm bankrupt and all
alone
THE millionaire was sobbing bit
terly by now. He touched button on
his desk and a burly ported entered.
Pete. said the millionaire to the
porter. throw this man out. He's
breaking my heart"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22
LETTERS OF POLLY.
Continued from Fifth Page.l

tell you now, and since II Is going to
be an unvarying program. it will not
require much exercise Of your imagi-
nation to accompany me in the spirit
every noontide. At 1880 sharp 1
pushed my chair back and made q
run for the door. As soon as l got
outside I turned the corner and made
q bee line for the canteen wagon. 1t
belongs to the War Camp Community
Service, dad. and 1t gives the girls
such a nice feeling Of their own inn
portance when it rolls up every day
and woman in an ambulance drivers
uniform and puttees gets out and
superintends the selling Of the sand
witches which most Of the girls are
too busy to make for themselves.
Then. dad. about the time you OF
to your salad. 1 was wandering
around with some other girls to the
front of the building. carrying two
sandwiches wrapped in an oiled paper
in one hand and a piece Of pie In the
other, a la Benjamin Franklin We
hunted up a shady bench on the drive
way where we could MUNICH in COM
J.
is starting . precedent, 1 suppose. but
Washington is too conservative to be
a pleasant place to establish prece-
dents. The benches are highly divert
ing places to sit. Between bites Of
sandwich and pie we get flashes Of
big khaki-colored autos dashing past;
sometimes they have in them soldiers
wearing red-trimmed caps. and we
speculate on the advisabilit.' of say
ing that we saw Gen. Haig's adjutant.
Or, perhaps, they're Italians.
To go back to my first impression,
Ig was right. wasn't /? l don't know
when l have lived so much in thirty
short hours. If you could get a piece
of my brain and look at it, 1t would
probably resemble q moving picture
film more than anything else. And
here I sit, too, Keeling all of it off to
you. 1 believe that have told you
everything, even to my innermost
thoughts. except-Oh!-that distin-
guished looking aviator that l passed
on my way home from work.
Dear old dad. sitting at home on
the porch now smoking your pipe and
thinking about your little grille on
the other side of the continent! Don't
you believe for a minute that she is
going to get so filled up with patriot
ism that she will forget all about
you. Do you remember how, when l
was little, I would get my mirror and
slip around outside in the sunshine
and throw little bits Of light into all
the dark places of your study? Now
/ am trying to send, with my pen,
some of the brightness Of my busy
life up here into your loneliness.
Here's a good night kiss being pulled
out across the stars from your little
patriotic POLLY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22
The Banana FritterS.

COME folks wonder II anybody ever
~ reads the request Of the railroad
administration. posted in all trains.
that you send kicks and commenda-
tions on the service to the director
general. One man has read 1t, any
how. Half dozen or more Washing
ton folks who travelled to New York
with President Wilson. just before he
went abroad, saw him read one all
the way through. Furthermore. he
said he would have to write the d.
rector general letter about some
thing. and the tough part about 1t
for this Item Ia that none of the per-
sons who overheard the remark now
can remember what the President
said he was going to kick about.
Maybe 1t was the banana fritters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22
Like H0rse.Weeds.

y REPRESENTATIVE FAIRFIELD Of
~ Indiana not only IL the tallest
and thinnest man In the House. but he
smokes stogies that appear to be life
sixed horse weeds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22
Around the City.

pany with lot Of strange creatures
you never laid eyes on and couldn't
be persuaded to believe in except that
you know that museum Is the Illus
trated Bible OF science and that
Bible cannot db.
*3A**
"'TAKING bees 10 not a monoto-
nous habit hereabouts. which
must have accounted for the crowd
that swarmed outside q line Of pal
ingx to watch man take a hive that
had swarmed on tree in his yard.
One woman. with old fashioned ideas
as to clover and buttercups, put up
general inquiry as to how bees
could possibly make honey in the
information:
why. nam. bees can fly out in the
country and back in no time. That's
why they call them busy bees"
Bees don't have to fly around like
they used to"-another man talking
prepared food and paraffin combs are
making them lazy. Over in England
they are even making honey by ma
chinery-good honey. too"
The crowd continued to shuttlecock
it's knowledge while the owner took
his bees as IL there wasn't a soul
around.
That's all there was to it-only-
If bees no longer improve each shin
ing hour, outside of the ancient SPELL
ing book. and have come to letting
machines make honey for them-very
like we take" an apartment and de-
pend on cafes-it looks as II the time
was nigh at hand to fold up and pack
away that supposedly reliable old
doctrine Of our childhood:
God made man and man made money;
God made bees and bees made honey.
4 4
EARLY last Sunday morning the
Capitors greenery was a place
of dewy silence except for the birds
and for one woman-excuse her. but
she was whistling as she scugried
through in the direction Of church
bell
AS she whitfield the fragrance of
the blossomy bushes and watched the
sun fash its iridescence on wet grass
and crystal-tipped bloom 1t seemed
to the woman that sorrow and SUI
fering and loneliness must be SO many
weird dreams, and that If men and
women could only wake up and rub
their eyes they would see for them
selves that earth is really heaven.
And then she caught the shine of
q vial that some one had thrown on
the grass. 1t was round, sQuatty
little bottle Of the dark blue that
associates itself with narcotics. And
its wrapper, torn enough to bare the
stopper and it's round, blue shoulders,
showed but half its label-"Bromide."
1t was the serpent in the garden
And wherever the serpent is there
must be sorrow and suffering and
loneliness.
The fragrance and dewy silence no
longer appealed to the woman. With
the eyes Of her soul she was visioning
the pain distorted creature who had
thrown the vial on the grass.
There is heaven-oh, yes-but you
have to leave this world to find it.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
The MiIIionaire's Escape.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22
Pennies to Go Round.


IF Ray Baker. director Of the United
States mint. ever lays hands on
the person who created the slogan,
Take care Of the pennies and the
dollars will take care of themselves"
somebody will have to call out the
reserves. For. do you know, work.
ing the minis at their topmost speed
and turning out 90.000,000 pennies
monthly. Ray just naturally cannot
keep up with the demand for cop
pers in this country.
OF course. Ray believes in thrift.
He has been one Of the governments
strongest advocates of it ever since
the war started, but he feels that
people have taken the admonition to
save pennies too literally. AS near
ly as he can figure out, folks have
been gorging their hearthstones Isle
banks, Old copper teakettles and other
favorite hiding places for coins with
pennies, and that Is why he cannot
find enough to go around.
or course, the demand for pennies
has grown greatly with the Shaping
of penny taxes on lollypops and such.
but even this additional drain upon
the penny supply should not, under
ordinary circumstances. swallow up
all Of the pennies the government has
made. Since it first began to coin
money. about the time Of the revolu-
tionary war. one-tenth of all the
coins made have been cents. The
total to date is more than $3,000.00o.-
900. And yet. at last reports. the
government had in all of its de-
positories only about $177,O00 in cop
pers. Last year the minis turned
out 3s0.000.0o0 pennies, and then Ray
just sat back and smiled, thinking
he would not be called upon to make
any more pennies for a long. long
time. Came then the new and in
sistent demand for more coppers. with
the result that Ray took his COM
plete force of all other work and
started in grinding out 10000. 900 PEN
MES a month.
1t is literally true that Ray has
turned gray-headed trying to find
at that there is little consolation
in the situation. Pennies cost only
IL cents hundred to manufacture,
SO there Is a neat profit in the busi-
ness.
Speaking Of Ray brings to mind
that he used to be warden Of the
Nevada state prison and he knows
most Of the bad men" OF the far
west. Every now and then one Of the
old boys" comes in to see the d.
rector and tell his story of reform.
Just the other day one who now
holds q position of trust in an eastern
state came'in with his wife and chill
dren and greeted Ray as an old friend.
And Ray never batted an eye to in
dictate that the man used to be his
prisoner. Nor did the visitor, for that
matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22

mile rAOlu8 Oh Washington you Will
meet again:
The ferociOus black beetle that used
to drone into your candle lighted
room down on the farm and bump
with blind foolishness against the
wall until he fell to the floor on his
back and couldn't help himself
Your friend, the snake waiter. and
every other dragon fly that you
chased across fields and along
streams are present. with the same
butstretched wings Of bluey-green
gauze and gray chiffon. June bugs are
there that might be the Identical
chaps whose legs you tied with q
string ITO make EN- sing" and you
recognize the bulge-eyed locust that
chay-chayed in the twilight to let you
know IL was hot The row of stuck-up
grasshoppers includes the rusty old
fellow that used to spit tobacco Juice
at you as he jumped from somewhere
to everywhere. and the garrulous
katydid that was forever giving away
the doings of that other katy might
be the same one you couldn't get at
because she was hiding in foliage as
green as her gown. Warehouses, dad
dy longlegs and the DEVILS darning
needle. n everything.
zAsy are all there, keeping COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22

A WOMAN went fishing off the
~ pier at Chesapeake Beach.
n And all she had to show for II
was sun blister on her nose.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20
An Inside Bath
Makes You Look
and Feel Fresh
Says glass Of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
keeps Illness away.
This excellent, cornsou-senss
health measure being
adopted by millions,

10 500 tbs tinge Of healthy bloom
in your face. 10 sec your skin zet
clearer aud clearer. 20 wake up vvitr.
@7i headacho, hackacbe coated tongue
ar 4 na.ty breath IN fact to feel your
best day in and dag Ont. just try inside
h4tlf every morning for one week.
Before breakfast each day drink n
etass IF limestone phosphate In ii az ii
haruIes@ means or washing from the
S 9nseh. liver. kidneys and bowels tn
nv aus clay s. indieestible waste sour
hiIe and toxins; thus cleansing sweet
enin- ard purifying the entire sli1nen-
fart canal before putting more food in
~ the stomach. The action Of hot Va
atcr and limestone phosphate On an
empty stomach Is wonderfully inviEcr-
8tins- II cleans out ali the sour fer
metations, sases and acidItv ard give
one 2 splendid appetite fer breakfast
A quarter pound Of limestone Pho
hafe VIII cost very little at the dr,lE
store tut is sufficient TO demonstra3e
that just rs soap and hot wafer
cleanses. sweetens and freshens the
skin, So hot water and limestone pho~-
phate act on the blood and internal or
capS. Those who are subject to cor
stipation. bilious attacks. acid stomach.
rheumatic twingcs also those whose
skin is sallow and complexion pallid.
arc assured that one week of inside
bathing Win have them both looking
and feeling better Ia every way.-Adv.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20
OLD AGE STARTS
WITH YOUR KIDNEYS

action and enables the organs TO throw
Of the pets2nS which Cause premature
Old age. New life and strength increase
a. vou continue the treatment When
completely restored continue taking a
CAPSULE ar two esch day GOLD NED
Al Harlem Oil Capsules will keep ron
~ health and vigor and prevent 4 return
Of the disease
DO not wait until oh age 81 disease
haze settled down for good. A. the first
iga that your kidAeys are no. working
properly. 20 - ve-r druggist and get
box Of GOLD MEDAL HARLEM OH
Capsules. Money refunded if they %
rot heiP you Three sizes Bat Re
member to ask for the original imported
GOLD MEDAL. brand. In sealed pack
ages
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20

nc Hearts Of the World stars VII
"r seen ~ Griffith'~ newest success.
The "rcntcst Thing IN life" ~ the
star next WEDNESDAYS and Iburstn.
Don't miss H.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20

Whiting has lots Of good local f,Icpt
- you viii sec at the STAR ncst Tue~-
dry night.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20

What's tho greatest thing In Ifc.
Love- Arc sou sure. Nntch for IL ~
the stHr next Wednesday mud Thurs
DAY.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20
eoMrNc PRINCESS TRfDNa.
The Lightning Roo~eN cIts.

Ter Sale oeiz dining room Table
s'N chairs leather seats Phone tTeM
e-f9 Ell
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20

COMING PRINCESS FRIDAY.
"The Fighting Roosc,cIts. 24
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20

soMtNG PRINCESS IRIDNA.
'srhe Fighting Roo~c,rits.'. ee-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20

GOWN. PRINCESS FRInAa.
he Lightning Hoosrs elf..a
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20
tWACHT Am RHINE"
GETTING TIRESOME

CONTINUED from psge ons.,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-20

COMING PRINCESS FRIDAY.
The Fighting Roo~e,cIt-." ee-
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
COLORED Y. NJ. c. 4.
4OVER TOP" THRICE

a hve-day campaign for 500 by
the colored Twelfth Street Young
Mems Christian Association has net
ted $50 new members, John w. Davis
executive secretary, announced to
day. This triples the number set out
for. The drive ended last night.
The campaign was conducted with
the aid Of women friends Of the as
sociatiOn. Mrs. r. o. Robinson led
the team which brought in the highest
number Of members, 276.
During the last few days of the
campaign a house to house canvass
was conducted. With this large in
crease in membership officers OF the
association today are planning their
summer activities on a larger scale
than ever before.
With the closing of the campaign
last night at the 'Y'' the following
made addresses: DR.. jackson, of
Wilberforce University; Prof. John
r. Hawkins, financial secretary A.
N. E. Church; DR.. J. L. Moorland,
John W. Lewis, president Industrial
Savings Bank: Clifford Johnson, az
sociate general secretary Of the
Central Y. NJ. c. A.; John W. Davis,
executive secretary, and w. o. Hilta-
bidle.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
MAI. MERCER RITES
SETFOR TOMORROW

Funeral services for Major NJ. Bar
tow Mercer, u. S. A., who died while
on duty in New Mexico, will be held
at ? o'clock tomorrow afternoon from
Calvary Baptist Church, Eighth and
H streets northwest
Major Mercer died April IL at the
Government. Hospital, Fort Bayard,
~ NJ.
He had been living in this city Tor
twenty years, most of the time on
duty with the War Department. he
was one Of the first officers to be
commissioned from the adiutant gen.
erals office. After serving for time
at Governors Island. N. Y, he was
assigned to duty at Camp Cody, N M,
and was later assigned to duty at
Fort Bayard.
He was born in Clayton county
Georgia, thirty-nine years ago and
lived at Atlanta until the outbreak
of the Spanish war, when he was as
signed to duty at the War Depart
ment.
Major Mercer was past grand re-
gent OF the Royal Arcanum, a mem
Der of Mt. Pleaeant Lodge, and had
for many,year been a member Of the
Calvary Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Mabel Vaughn Mercer, daughter OF
the founder of the Vaughn class OF
Calvary Baptist Sunday school here;
four children; his father, James l.
Mercer, and a brother, Whitfield l..
Mercer, both Of this city.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
LOREN FLETCHER.

Loren Fletcher. former Congress
man from Minnesota. is dead at At
lanta. Ga, according to information
received here. l..
Mr.. Fletcher was a member of six
Congresses. He was born at Mt.
Vernon, 4e.. April 10. 1888. In 1853
he went to Bangor, where he was EN-.
Dloyed for three years as q clerk for
a large mercantile and lumber COM
pany. He then went to Minneapolis,
where he had since been engaged in
mercantile and manufacturing pur-
suits, chiefly the manufacture Of
flour and lumber. 80
He was elected a member Of the
Minnesota House OF Representatives
eight times, and was speaker for
three years He was elected to- the
United States Congress in 1892, and
served with the Fifty-third to Fifty
seventh Congresses and later with the
Ftfty-ninth Congress. He retired
from public life in 1907.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

william Schley Jenkins, 10. OF New Wind
sor, Nd, and MurieI Marie Franklin. Is,
of woodbine, Nd. The Rev. J. n. Henry.
Elmo L. PearmAn. 26. and George Adell
Newton, Is, both Of Richmond. Va The
Rev. John II. Jehries.
Victor z. wsthen, IS. and Lola b.
wathen. -, both Of Washington. D. e.
The Rev. Charles N. Bart.
Henry c. GresnIg. 70. Of Aldan. Pa. and
Edith N. Scott, Is, OF Horsham, Pa
The Rev. John e. Briggs.
Marie b. L. Harris, p. Of Richmond,
Va The Rev. John Z. Briggs.
Charles Albert Miller. - %tn,,t3DI,h Of omaha'
10. OF Riverdale, Nd. The Rev. How
ard +. Downs.
Va. and susie Perry. s2. of Mineral. Va.
The Rev. P. A Cave.
Henry B. Dabney, AZ. and Baber stan
D. c. The Rev T. z. Davis
Kelly LoWery Ezell. 10, Of Bessemer, Ala.
and Josephine Florence Nickerson. -
I. shelton. 81. and DolIIe Roots, IS. The
Rev. william J. Howard.
StaniBiao Mastrangelo, 36, of Old Point
Comfort, Va. and Bertha Noe Lapetina,
g, Of Norfolk. Va The Rev. 7. E
Arthur Samuel Huebner. ss. and Ruth
KanS The Rev. F. Paul Laaghorne-
King, 20. both Of Richmond. Va The
Rev. T. z. Davis.
BeninEman oIdfiold, 81, Of Baltimore. Nd
and Lenora WestfaIl, 81, Of this city.
The Rev. Charles T. Warner.
Raleigh e. Klein. %, and Christine John
son, -, both Of Baltimore, Nd. The
Rev. John H. Jehries.
Samuel b. Jeter, jr., "a, Of Woodford, Va,
and Nora O. Bruce, 26, of Bowling
Green, Va The Rev. John E. Briggs
John Joseph Lynas 80, Of Brooklyn. n.
Y, and Lillian n. Eyre, 81, of North
ampton, Mass. The Rev. James A
Smyth-
J. L Swami, 81, and Eleanor Bryant. 81.
The Rev AlOnzo J. Olds.
z. Woodbridge. %, and Ethel Barbour, 19.
The Rev. T J. Moppins
J r. White, "a, and Eva johnson, 10.
The Rev. J. + Willis
J. Henson, "a, and Maud Matthews, "a.
The Rev. Peter Hayes.
W. Gaines. 21, and Martha Brown, Is.
The Rev. D. = WiBeman
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
FLORAL DESIGNS

J. H. SMALL & SONS, Florists,
Corner 18th and II SITS, WASHINGTON. {.
Waldorf Astoria, and SOC Madison ave.
New York. Flowers for funerals a spe-
cialty. Prices moderate.
FLOWERS Tor all OcCnsinns. Call FrnnkI,s,
4g55. residence. Frau.IT 1906 GEO. j..
COOKE, llV1 Conn. avv u.wls-la3t
FUNERAL DESIGNS
OF every description Moderate prices
GUIDE,
1914 So y W.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
Births, marrlageS, Deaths
Notices May PhOnsd U"ta Main $3.50, Bro"oh

the Spanish war and for many years
an employe of the adutant generals
office Of the War Department, will
be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow after
noon from his home, 127 North Caro-
lima avenue southeast. Interment
will be in Arlington, Cemetery. where
services will be conducted by war
veterans. Captain Norton died yes
terday morning.
In the adjutant generals office. he
served for nineteen years. He was
at one time chief clerk in General
Sheridan's office.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Jeanette Lewis Morton, and two
daughters, Miss May Morton. who is
now in France with the Red Cross,
and Miss Cornelia Morton.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
LOUIS KLEIN.

Funeral services for Louis Klein, 8
weIl-known Washington merchant
were held from his home, 17s9 Ianier
place northwest, today. Interment
was at Friendship Cemetery, Balti-
more. Mr.. Klein died suddenly We'd
nesday night OF heart disease.
He had been secretary and treas
urer OF Klein's Company (Inc.), 443-
445 Seventh street northwest, for
many years. He was q member of
the Elks, the Royal Arcanum, and
the Modern Woodsmen.
He is survived by his wife. Mrs
Matte Goldenberg Klein. and three
children, Donald. Stanley, and Flea
nor.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
gTUDY sCIENTTFIC FARMING.

Officials OF the Department OF Agri-
culture opened a conference yester-
day with Representatives Of agricul-
tuF1l colleges and farmers to project
plans for q scientific study OF farm
organization. including production
and marketing Of crops. The confcr-
Gnce will continue through tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
TO BUY U. S. COTTON

That American cotton may pc how-
ing into Bohemia, Finland, and Po-
land in the near future was indicated
today in a cable received by Charles
y. Brand, chief of the Bureau OF
Markets, from Bernard Baruch at
Paris.
arrangements are being made the
result of which / think will be the
getting Of cotton into Bohemia" the
cable reads. "Am aiding in Finland
and Poland and wherever possible.
No amounts of any size as yet The
opening up OF trade is considered Of
the most Importance"
The Washington times., 1919-04-18

If you usually experience diff
hculty in getting a suit to fit,
make a special effort to see
this lot Of 81 to 48 size
"stouts." They are shown in
the same fashionable models
and weaves as the regular lines,
and are sure to please the
''heavyweights."
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
SET SHELL-FIRING RECORD.

During the battle of the Somme in
1916 the British army used 1900, 900
rounds Of artillery ammunition, ac-
cording to a statistical announcement
published by the War Department.
This is the largest number Of shells
used in any single engagement, so
far as records show. Second in
amount of artillery ammunition used
was the battle of Messines Ridge, in
1917, when 2,763, 900 rounds were used
by the British
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
CAPT. JOS. B. MORTON.

Funeral services for Capt. Joseph
Bruce Morton, veteran OF the civil
war, several Indian campaigns, and