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Evening star., 1920-01-12
NORFOLK GOES SHORT
ON DRINKING WATER

NORFOLK, Va, January 12.-City
sprinklers. railway tank cars and pri-
vate artesian wells are being pressed
into service today to supply Norfolk
with drinking water Until the exist
ing critical situation begins to inn
prove water will be rationed. five gal
Ions daily being the allotment for
each family.
made ready for hauling water into
the city. Pressure is being reduced on
all mains to the minimum and rigor-
Gus precautions are being taken
against fire.
Water Famine Impending.
Unless there is heavy rain in the
next few days water famine will
result. All of the government activities
here, including the naval and Army
bases, depend on Norfolk for water
and are aiding the city in boarding
the present meager supply.
Portsmouth this morning came to
the aid of Norfolk by permitting
teams from this city to use fire hy-
drants and haul water to Norfolk.
Harbor boats were also sent over to
Newport News to fill their tanks, and
nearby towns are being called on for
aid.
The water famine here is attributed
to dependence on rain for an adequate
supply and the abnormal lack of pre-
cipitation during the past three
months. The water question has beer
before the city council for years. ano
with the aid of the government. was
temporarily solved during the war.
Source of Supply.
Norfolk's present slim supply Of
water is being drawn from grouI
of small lakes located near Nortf
Landing, in Norfolk county. Water
out of only one lake is. however, fl
for human consumption. and tha
from a smaller nearby lake, which j:
brackish, is being pumped into it tc
maintain a pumping level
To relieve temporarily. the situation
the railroads are sharing water from
their sources with the city, bringing
it here and storing it in stand pipes
Surveys have recently been com
pleted for a new source of supply il
Norfolk county, experts estimating
that this addition to the present sys
TENS will cost s3,000,000. but will no
be available for many months.
In the meantime. the city is abso
lutely dependent on rainfall, of which
there is no immediate prospect.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
DEMOCRATS ASSERT
ACCORD WITH PRESIDENT

Democratic senators who attended a
conference last night at the home of
Senator Owen, democrat, Oklahoma
at which compromise suggestions
were considered, said a number of
points still were unsettled and that
the conference would be continued
They said the conference was in har-
mony with the Presidents view of
accepting reservations, which were
interpretative but not destructive
Senator Lodge, the republican lead
er, expects this week to confer with
many senators, including leaders of
the mild reservation" republican
group and democratic leaders. So far,
however, according to the republican
leaders, the negotiations for COM
promise have not reached stage
promising an early agreement.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
COMMITTEE APPROVES
RENT COMMISSIONERS

The nominations of James F. Oyster.
A. Leftwich Sinclair and Guy Mason to
constitute the membership of the Dis
trict of Columbia rent commission were
ordered favorably reported to the Senate
today by the Senate District commit
tee. The vote of the committee was
unanimous. The committee had given
notice of hearing on the rent COM
mission today, but no witnesses ap-
peared against the appointees.
r 1t is expected that the Senate will
be asked to confirm the rent commits
sioners without further delay. Mem
bers of the Senate have been most anx-
ious that this commission should be ap-
pointed and confirmed. so that the op-
Grafton of the Ball act creating the
commission could begin at once.
Sixty days after the confirmation of
the rent commission by the Senate the
salisbury act to prevent eviction of
tenants in the District of Columbia for
any reason, except for non-payment of
rent, goes out of operation. The rent
commission, thereafter, will deal with
all cases of disputes between land
lords and tenants, as it will in the mean
time.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
"DESERTERS' LEAGUE"
NOT WANTED BY SWISS

GENEVA. Friday, January o
Twenty-Five deserters who reached
s S"llzerland nc. during the war have
iorneo a ieague, the object of which
IS stated by it's founders to he de
tense of our interests" The members
are chiefly from the central mowers
none being American or British.
me SWISS authorities say they would
be glad to get rid of the deserters
some of whom served as spies
The Swiss newspapers remark that
"ithough English and American troops
were on leave near the Swiss frontier
not one deserted. On American blum,
Hered INTO switzerland in 1916. having
lost his way. He complained that EI1,
rope was so small that its frontiers
could be crossed in days walk.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
NEWS TRIAL RESUMED.
Arguments Continue and Case May
Reach Jury Wednesday,.

LOS ANG ELES. Calf, January II.
The condition of the juror whose
illness caused a recess over Saturday
of the trial of Harry S. New for the
alleged murder of Miss Freda Lesser,
his f1ancee, today was such that the
attorneys could continue their closing
arguments. 1t was thought that the
case would go to the jury Wednes-
day.
The courts instructions to the jury
will be long, attorneys for both sides
believe They say there are many
points on which they desire that the
Jurors be fully informed as to the
law. especially that applying in
sases in which INSANITY is the defense.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
PRESIDENT MAY CALL
LEAGUE COUNCIL TODAY

The State Department has been
officially advised from Paris that the
first meeting of the council of the
league Of nations will be held at the
Quay d'Orsay, Paris. Friday. Janu-
ary 16. at 1890 am.
The formal call for the meeting will
be issued by President Wilson, prob
ably today, 1t was announced at the
state Department..
Evening star., 1920-01-12
Mr.. GLASS SUMMONED
TO THE WHITE HOUSE

President Wilson today summoned
Secretary Glass to the White House
Tor conference, at which, it was un-
derstood, successor to Mr. Glass
was to be discussed An appointment
is expected soon, so Mr. Glass can
take his seat in the Senate, to which
he was appointed to succeed the late
Senator Martin of Virginia
Mr.. Glass is known to favor the
selection of Assistant Secretary Lef-
fingwell to succeed him, and other
administration officials have urged
Mr.. Leffingwell's appointment.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
E'NOTHlNG TO IT." SAYS
WOOD OF "RESIGNATION''

There's nothing to it. Tommy
rot. Never heard of it before"
That is what Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood. commanding the central de-
partment at Chicago, said to a Star
reporter at the War Department
at 10 o'clock this morning, as he
was hurrying along the corridor to
attend the general military con-
ference to be opened at that hour.
His brief statement was made in
response to an inquiry as to the
truth Of a statement published this
morning that he ''soor will resign
his commission in the Army to
enter more completely into his
campaign for the presidency"
Evening star., 1920-01-12
PRESIDENT ASKS PENSION
COMMISSIONER TO STAY

President Wilson has requested Gay
lord M. Saltzgaber. commissioner of
pensions in the Interior Department.
to reconsider his resignation. In a
letter to Secretary Lane the President
said Mr. Saltzgaber was most eff
cient official and that his services
could not well be dispensed with at
this time.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
OREGON LEGISLATURE
RATIFIES SUFFRAGE

SALEM. Oregon.i January 12.-The
Oregon legislature in special session
here today ratified the amendment to
the federal Constitution granting
suffrage to women.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
Bulgar Socialists Demonstrative.

SALONIkI. Sunday, January Ii
Bulgarian socialists are organizing
successive demonstrations. according
t. dispatches. in order to bring about
a change in the government.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
WEATHER.

Fair tonight; tomorrow partly
cloudy. with rising temperature.
Temperature for tweIty-four hours
ended pm. today: Highest Al, at
$50 pm yesterday; lowest, 80, at 8
am. today.
Full report on page Is.
Evening star., 1920-01-12

Saturdays Net Circulation, 93,93o
Sundays Net Circulation, S6,3S9
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All rights of publication of special
dispatches herein also reserved.
Evening star., 1920-01-12
Auditors Recnpitulation.

$1,134.9SS5 "a
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Truth Never Dull.

You say: Truth is so dull" beg
your pardon. Truth is the only ehing
that is never dull, and the only means
by which we can escape from dullness.
Why? Just consider. In all art, in all
science, in all literature, it is the OBJ
servation of delicate nuances that
gives interest, that delivers from con-
ventionality. that insures progress.
The conventional person says the sky
is blue, and probably paints it so. The
truthful person sees that the sky is
gray. pink, yellow. inky-black, pale
green, and, no doubt blue at certain
times, but not always even then of
the same unbroken shade of blue. He
paints or describes it as he sees it
he is an artist. -. +. Just so it is in
our observation of character. How
careless. how inartistic, how unscien-
tific we are in our study Of in the
judgments we pass upon. in the Ian
guage which we employ in regard to.
one another. and how great would be
our intellectual as well as moral gain,
how far more attractive our converse
ton. if we tried to cure ourselves
Elizabeth Wordsworth.
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1--WE Weren't Wanted.v

said and what games they played and
how they danced and how everyone
fooled everyone else.
.Well, just as her mother was say
Ing good night to her and was kiss
ing her and wishing her pleasant
dreams and all that foolishness, j
heard her say:
"'Now, dearie, you can sleep late.
for tomorrow is Saturday. Don't wake
up for breakfast You can have some
fruit and milk any time you get up
or you needn't get up until lunch time
if you don't want to. You can have
a great. long rest
".Oh, I'm so glad said the little
girl to herself, for / Just feel as
though could sleep and Sleep
"That was enough for me.p said the
first fly.
"And for me-" said the second fly.
'"rhis sounds wonderful" said the
visitor fly. do go on"
swell, she was just so tired and
sleepy that it was fun to be so mean"
said the first fly. IF she hadn't been
so tired and so sleepy it wouldn't have
been half such fun"
"You can understand" said the sec
ond fly.
Easily" said the visitor fly.
"And," said the first fly, "earIy this
morning / began my work, just when
she was sleeping so hard because she
was so tired got on her face and
there / stuck until she had to half
wake up and brush me off.
''Then," said the second fly, II did
the same and got on the other side of
her face"
"She tried to lie on one side and
then on the other" said the first fly.
"Then she tried to cover up her
head, and of course she was most I'M
comfortable doing that. for she
couldn't breathe that way" said the
second fly.
$50 between us we wouldn't let
her sleep. and she was so tired. oh,
so terribly tired, and so terribly
sleepy that it was great fun
"Wonderful, wonderful" said the
visitor fly.
"And when she went downstairs so
early, for she couldn't sleep, and her
mother asked why. she said:
1.-The flies simply wouldn't let me
sleep
wasn't that great?" said the first
fly.
YES. wasn't it?" added the second
fly.
"Great!" buzzed the visitor fly.
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DADDYJ EVENING
3EA!RY TALL
A 81 ffdry GohanN
Bonner @J&S0 ss
THE MEAN FLIES.

81 was so mean this morning" said
the fly. '.Yes, was just as mean as
l could be-
Sand so was l." said the second
fly.
"Tell me about it." said the visitor
fly. Il love to hear of mean acts.
They make me buzz with happiness
Indeed, l enjoy hearing of mean acts
second only to doing them myself.
81 like to go on sweets and eat
other creatures food-just nibble at
it, You know. l don't care whether
am brushed awcy or not l come right
back again.
THE other dag some people were
and sisters We're fearfully annoying.
We knew it. We knew we weren't
wanted. But that didn't matter to
us. We stayed about and bothered
the people dreadfully
"They brushed US off and said:
"Oh, dear, those horrible flies, why
can't we get rid of them?"
WED go back again and bother
them. We were just as mean as mean
could be-"
Il can see" said the first fly, that
you will enjoy our story"
Yes" said the second fly, Il can
see that, too. You will appreciate
It."
DO tell it to me-" said the visitor
fly.
WELL" said the first fly. this
morning there was little girl asleep"
'Yes. yes" buzzed the visitor fly,
this sounds mean and nice"
1T is" said the second fly.
pray continue" said the visitor
fly.
WELL" said the first fly, this little
girl had been to fancy dress party
the night before. She had had q
beautiful time / was on the ceiling
when | heard her telling her mother
about it.
1T was very late when she got
home and she had had such very ex-
citing time that she was all tired
out.
''She told her mother all about the
costumes and what every one did and
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proof OF her sympathy IF / were in
your place, I'd want to feel the same
way about it,"
He thanked her in his heart. He
had saved both Angela and himself,
and held his pristine advantage.
But there was no disputing the fact
that he had made an active enemy of
Waring, and an alert rival out of
Armstrong. He smiled grimly as he
looked at the man ahead.
''Mr. Armstrong seems to be very
nervous" he said ''Not that I can
blame him for wanting to be in my
place. On the contrary, I'm sorry for
him."
THAT shows very good DISPOSE
tipn," she said demurely.
Perhaps it does, and perhaps it
Loesn't. / believe every man owes it
to himself to get what he wants. If
he does, he's a success; if he doesn't
it's his own fault"
AS he said this, they came abreast
of the others, and Armstrong, who
Ildu u0dIu Tie HLdl ScHl0ACO, WAlhiCU
toward billiard
Regardless of methodist" he de-
rAanded.
"Why-to some extent" laughed
billiard. why not?"
Armstrong delayed, so that the two
men were few PAGES behind the rest
of the group. rs that your regular
creed, Mr.. Hllliard?'
MY creed isn't composed of words,
Mr.. Armstrong. but of actions.
They had spoken so quietly that no
one perceiving them would have re-
motely suspected that challenge had
been offered and accepted.
ACTIONS do speak louder, of course. :"
! Mine" said Hilliard, twill give you
no offense. Butt generally get what
/ want"
$50 do l Shall we shake hands on
it?' Armstrong was very affable, but
tremendously in earnest.
with pleasure. I can count on
your generosity, see"
"And on your courtesy"
'Thank you" He went complacent-
" forward; but inwardly he was
stepped in perturbation. The man
was so deadly sure of himself. Could
it be that he was tacitly engaged to
Carol, in spite of what Angela had
surmised, or so nearly on the road to
an understanding with her that Hill
lard was only making a fool of him.
self?
Armstrong laughed gently. It was
like a dagger thrust in billiards
heart.
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unsuspecting; and his will swayed
perilously. Had he prepared SO long
and savagely for his requital, only to
lose his impetus at almost the first
glance Of those brown eyes? He re-
flected that there was nothing to pre-
vent him from being good salesman,
and from renewing his prediction for
Carol at the same time. The idea Of
counting her again, in his false char
acter, was highly dramatic.
II know you won't misunderstood
me-" he said, his heart shaking, sand
hope that you won't consider it as
too presumptuous-but- other day
you spoke of Dieky Morgan as a very
dear friend of yours. Miss Durant, /
want to do everything in the world 1
can for you, and he was my dear
friend as well as yours. I'm not dis
loyal to him, or to you, or to myself
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Zone chance in a thou
Sand!"
(To BE CONTINUED
MIXTURE OF MANY NATIONS
On Street Of New York Almost Every
Type of the Human Race May
Be Met. a

Walk through Grand street from
Third avenue to Clinton street, which
is not long distance, and you have
the types of the whole world before
you. They are not in concentrated
form; they are diluted. But if you
analyze, even hurriedly, you will soon
be able TO know the components of
each one of them, according to dust
of New York" by Konrad Bercovici.
A remote Tartar ancestor of one of
the pushcart peddlers is plainly seen
in the small sunken black eyes. In
another the straight line of the back
of the head tells you that his mother
or his grandmother had lived once in
Hungary. In another one the Slav
type, the fiat, fleshy nose is mixed with
the Wallachian strong chin. Teuton
blood calls out through the heavy cast
of an otherwise typical Austrian Jew.
Spanish grandee, as If come out OF
a page Of Cervantes, is selling shoe
laces and cult buttons. And Moroc-
can prince. i'll at ease in his European
garb, is offering to the passer-by some
new Burbankian g-plum-orange COM
bination.
The vendors call out their wares In
what seems at first tongue all their
own. But a trained ear soon discov-
ers that If is English, or, rather, that
English is the essential component OF
the chemistry of their language; the
rest being words of their own creation.
or scraps from dozen other languages
which stuck to the people of woe In
their 1000 years peregrination from
land to land.
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CHAPTER VII.

Since Friday night, Hilliard had
lived only for Sunday; his whole exis-
tence had been turned to Sunday, and
when at last the morning dawned. his
greatest fear was that he might not
live until dinner-time.
On reaching Carols side, he was
both awkward and incoherent; and he
the realization which gradually stole
over him, that the Durants had asked
a number of other guests to dinner.
Armstrong. was waiting patiently in
the aisle. and keeping closer to Carol
than billiard liked, and there was also
a bright-faced boy of nineteen or TWEEN
ty who had promptly attached himself
to Angela-his name was Warning, and
ne was the grandson of the patriarch
al clergyman, with the head of Moses
and the spirit of youth, who presently
came down to join the little group, and
complete it. So that altogether there
were nine people who finally sat down
to table; and Hilliard's dream of quiet
progress and han ed conversation
was shattered in a twinkling.
1t was all very homelike, and all
very friendly, but to- Willard sitting
there between Carol and her mother,
the occasion was peculiarly acute. He
had long since discarded any residue
of his active fears; he was con-
fident in his disguise to the
point of recklessness, for he had
covered the windings of the trail by an
infinite variety of methods; and yet
without having any tangible facts to
grasp, he was Subt1y warned to re-
main on sentry duty over his poise.
He was gratified that the conversa-
tion, after one natural enough eddy,
was whirled away from the vicissitudes
of Dicky Morgan, for he had talked
his fill on that particular subject. For
q time, he amused himself by watch
Ing Angela and Waring playing their
world-old game across the table; after
that, he paid q little polite attention
to Mrs. Dursnt, and to the clergyman;
and then snatching an opportunity I'M
looked for, he gave his kindest smile
TO Carol, and for an instant took the
monopoly from Armstrong. And he
had hardly looked down once into her
October-brown eyes before the mystery
OF his restlessness was as clear as
crystal, and Hilliard was thoroughly
dumfounded, and confused
It had come upon him, a quarter Of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-05-28
Walk That Tells Character.

A peculiar walk is that of the long
stride with the decided swing of the
shoulders. This walk is generally to
be seen in authors. actors and artists,
and is characteristic of the art world,
the man who has ideas of his own,
and is quite untrammeled by conven-
ton. 1t denotes independence and, if
accompanied by an emphatic planting
down of the left foot, stamp in fact,
resolution and determination.
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CHAPTER vI.-continued.

"a good principle, too, but" Mr..
Cullen glanced at his watch. 'It's din
ner tiale, and more too. We'd better
get along up to the house, or the first
thing you know, wen have servant
troubles in our midst And you didn't
bring up that subject anyway
brought it up" He took Angela's arm
paternally. "Just as matter of fact"
he said clearing his throat. 'As a
matter of fact, Mr. Hilliard where
abouts did you say this property is
locatedY
Shortly after dinner Angela, who
had fled to the telephone in answer
to a peremptory summons came back
cOmplacent.
"Dinner at the Durants on Sunday"
she announced. "All three of us.
Very quiet, Carol said. So I accepted
and that means you've got to stay
with US two days more anyway, Mr..
Hiniard Do you mind very much?"
"Mindl" Hilliard had risen half
out of his chair. His tremendous
yearning to see Carol again, and his
violent reaction at the prospect, had
greatly influenced his voice, which was
strident. explosive. The Cullens were
laughing aloud at his confusion.
Hes blushingr' crowed Angela.
"Iook at him! Look at him!'
Indeed, he was crimson to the tenn
Piles. Sunday-fOrty-eigh hours How
he had spurned her land how he had
suffered from that moment until now
TIC see her again /. merely to see
her! Business was business, and the
farce must go on; no matter what
else happened, he must hew out his
success he had ceased to love her,
and he had come prepared for guerilla
warfare =. but to see her again! To
hear her voice! To watch that smile
of hers, and remember the tears she
had shed for Dicky Morgan!
Sunday-forty-eigh hours!
The Cullens We're still laughing at
him, and in Angela's soprano there
was note Of feminine resentment. but
billiards. ears were suddenly stone
deaf.
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ago. He bent and kissed hat. her
lips were trembling, expressive.
"Now we've got to hurry he said
"Come, dear"
1t was the tone he would naturally
use to a child, but he had IN uneasy
feeling that he had used it to a wom-
an. Children's lips aren't expressive.
And he had another intuition-still
more upsetting to him-which was
that ne had been observed. For on the
threshold of the outer door Carol and
Armstrong and Rufus Waring, as
though turned back to inquire into the
cause of billiards and Angelas delay.
were standing.
He could not tell, of course, whether
they had actually seen him. It was
possible that in the dusk of the hall
way he had escaped certainly there
was nothing in the manner of any one
Of the three, when billiard Joined
them, to convince him one way or the
other. But he knew that he was in a
critical situation; he knew that to any
reasonable person who had seen him
at that spontaneous little outburst of
sentiment, his motives wouldn't appear
to be very Opaque.
No, the manner of those three who
had stood on the threshold was aston
ishingly casual. Perhaps too casual.
I. Hilliard frowned, and tried to