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EVERYBODY'S DOING 1T,

El hh1 BODf DUNG 1T!
Even my great-grandmothe
eiEhty-five years old, reads and
enjoys II and S with the rest Of
the family. T.. BlCkERTON.
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He--What on earth do you keep on
clapping for? That singer was awful.
She--I know, but | liked the gown
she wore, and l want to look at it
again. ID. NJ. \.
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took my small son to church
recently. and when the collection
plate passed noticed that he
smiled. After a while he said:
Daddy how much did you get7 l
got a nickel" TONY.
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where are the police when the
members Of the Lost Pants Club
hold public meetings? KESS.
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sAEETN ALL WAYS.

Doctor. what can do to prevent
that run down feelingT
Don't attempt to cross the street
when The Co sign Is against you"
It's never too late to spend
As We sew. 80 shall We rip.
There's many a slip betwixt tho
toe and the heel.
where there's a will there's y law
suit. SIR ORACLE.
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l, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Evening star., 1921-05-12
HORSE SHOW |SPUT
OFF TO TOMORROW
Rain Causes Postponement
of the Events Scheduled
for Today.

The opening of the National Capt.
tai horse show and amateur racing
meet, scheduled for today, has been
postponed until o'clock tomorrow
afternoon because of the rain.
Melvin c. Hazen. general manager,
announced at noon that the entire pro-
gram would be moved forward a day.
The show will now continue until
Wednesday afternoon, Sunday eX-
cluded.
Persons holding reserved seats for
today may use them next Wednesday.
or may have them exchanged for
seats on any other day of the meet.
Despite the downpour of rain. the
cavalrymen from Fort Myer were on
the show grounds at Arlington Park.
Va, this morning and went through
a rehearsal of the thrilling fire drill
which they will stage Saturday and
Tuesday afternoons
This drill will be by far the most
spectacular event ever seen at a horse
show in this part of the country. A
trough filled with oil will be placed
beneath the jumps and cans of oil
will be suspended from an arch above
the jumps.
When the trough and cans are
lighted the jumps will be surrounded
by a curtain of fire. The cavalry
men will ride their horses through
the flaming arch. while infantrymen
on the sidelines fire blank cartridges
at them.
Other troops of cavalry from Fort
Myer, during the show, will stage
various drills which are feature
of thier military training. -
These drills will take place be-
tween the races. which Will begin
daily at 5 o'clock. From to
5 o'clock each day will be devoted to
the various show classes of horses.
Evening star., 1921-05-12
WOMEN'S LEGION GIVES
SPLENDID SOLDIER AID
Reports at Convention in Session
Here Show Unusual
Activities.

Full reports on the varied activi-
ties Of the different units composing
the American Womens Legion. large
ly on behalf of wounded and other
service men, will be submitted by the
delegates representing those bodies
at the second annual convention of
the legion, which began at 2 o'clock
this afternoon at the knickerbocker
Theater, 18th street and Columbia
road northwest.
Amendments to the constitution
win also be proposed and acted upon
during the sessions of the conven-
tion, which will extend through to-
morrow. Mrs. James w. Wadsworth,
national president. is presiding, and
Mrs. G. V. II. Mosely, national secre-
tary, is serving as secretary of the
convention. Other officers are: Vice
presidents. Mrs. Franklin d. Roose-
welt, Mrs. NJ. E. f. Witcomb and Mrs.
Marlborough Churchill. and Mrs. Wal
ter S. Turpin. treasurer.
Especially noteworthy has been the
work of some Of the units during the
past year: The George Baldwin Nc
Coy Unit, president, Mrs. Walter l.
at Mount Alto and other hospitals has
been unceasing; the Argonne Unit
president, Miss Abbie McCammon
whose special work has been that of
attending the funerals OF the overseas
dead at Arlington. and assisting and
consoling the relatives of the heroes
in every way possible; the Charles
Riticor Unit. president. Mrs. william
Corcoran Eustis. whose efforts have
resulted In raising several thousand
dollars toward memorial hospital
for soldiers; the Harry White Will
mer Unit, president, Miss Margaret
Howard. whose work in Strengthening
out tangles in the soldiers war risk
Insurance has benefited hundreds OF
wounded soldiers and also has made
happy many service inmates of St
Eliza beth's; the Wilmarth Brown Unit,
president, Mrs. ]. p. Halliday, whose
weekly patching and darning for the
soldiers at st. Elizabeth's has been
highly appreciated; the Roy Mckinley
Bassford Unit, president, Miss Irene
Bassford. which recently gave a ball
at the Raleigh, making a good sum
to be used to further the interests of
blinded soldiers of the war: the South
ern Unit. president. Mrs. Benjamin
Soule Gantz. which gave a Valentine
ball at the Marine Barracks, clearing
goodly sum for disabled veterans.
and the Chaumont Unit, Mrs. William
C. Rivers. president. which has spe-
cialized in educational work.
Evening star., 1921-05-12
GRAFT IN BUILDING
INDUSTRY SCORED
F. L. Crawford DepIores New
York Outrage, at Con-
tractors BANQUET.

Frederick l. Crawford, contractor,
OF New York, denounced graft" as
unearthed in the building Industry in
New York city recently. and criticised
builders who were willing to acoede
to demands for graft money, in q
speech Tuesday night before members
OF the executive committee of the AS
soclated General Contractors Of Amer
ica and their guests at the Metro
politan Club.
Mr.. Crawford was one of a num-
per OF speakers at the banquet, which
closed the spring meeting Of the board
d. A. Gerber was toastmaster.
Such practices should not be coun-
tenanced by the construction industry.
OF Brndelis objectives to 'lie down"
by paying the labor leader his de-
m andS for money as a safeguard from
strikes caused a reign Of high buil,l-
ing costs in the metropolis, he ex-
planned.
power in this country was empha-
sized by Arthur S. Bent of Los An
geles. who made the assertion that
every tWenty-four hours approxi-
mately fifty-two million horsepower
in hydro-electric energy slips away
into the sea-" Embarrassed
w. o. Rogers of Chicago told of
the proposed development of ma
tional highway system as part Of the
country's transportation problem.
w. o. Winston Of MINNEAPOLIS.
Mimi. president of the Associated
Contractors, declared that the con-
Germ of the general contractor was
the defense of his reputation for skill,
integrity and responsibility"
Among guests of the executive
committee were Representatives Mar
tin Il. Madden, Illinois: Clarence Mac
Gregor, New York; S. Wallace Demp-
sey. New York; James w. Good, Iowa +:
r. Walton Moore, Virginia.; c. Bas-
com Slemp. Virginia, and Elliott w.
Sproul. Illinois; Senator Charles S.
Townsend and John Hays Hammond.
Evening star., 1921-05-12
"The Salvation Army Lass"
To the Editor Of The Star;


My home is ST. Louis. I am Just
passing through your city (the ma
tion's city, and noticed your editorial
bearing the above title, in The Even
ing Star of Tuesday. God bless the
Salvation Army lass. 1 say. from the
bottom of my heart. She is brave, she
is true. she was at the front. midst
shot and shell, afraid of no one and
nothing but God. whom she had no
cause to fear. because, inspired by
that true charity and love for man
kind which caused Him to send His
Son to us. to become man and die
that man might be free, she was
ready to die for man, too. as her
Master had died. I say this with deep
feeling, because my son was there
at the front-and from his lips have
it what the Salvation Army did for
"our boys" at the front in Flanders
and in France.
I am a Roman Catholic and, there
fore. I know and respect those who.
according to their lights, with ali
their might, try to serve the Master.
My hat is off. always, to the Saliva :
ton Army lass, as it physically was
about. April 8. to the Salvation Army
as it happened to walk up PennsyI-
vania avenue that day, when I hap
pened to be here, too.
PAUL BAKEWFII,
Evening star., 1921-05-12
Negro That Sheriff
Just Forgot to Hang
is NOu Up for Life

SHREVEPORT Ln., May L.
The last chapter in what fs de-
cIared to be one of the most
remarkable cases on record was
written here today when Lon
ME Eaton. Ouachita Parish ne
gro, vas taken from the CaddO
Parish Jail and delivered to the
warden OF the state penitentiary
at Baton Rouge, to begin his
life sentence.
Sheriff Grant Of Ouachita
Parish forgot to hang Eaton ON
the date set, and his death
sentence later was cOmmuted by
Gov. Parker to Il life term. He
waS convicted in the district
court mt MunrOe, and was
sentenced to he hanged for the
murder of a white man more
than year ago.
Safely lodged in the pcniten-
tiary, Eaton said: ~ am thank
full to the Lord for His mercy.
knOwed all the time the Lord
would not let me hang. 1t was
the Lord that made Sheriff.
Grant forget to hang me. You
can tell the world that I am
happy, and that 1 am going to
make good prisoner. will
be satisfied the rest of my life
IL / never get out"
Evening star., 1921-05-12
G. U. DEBATERS TO MEET.
CASTOR and White Teams to Dis
cuss Canal Tolls Issue,

The annual verbal clash between
the CASTOR and White debating So
cieties Of Georgetown University will
be held Sunday night at Sis o'clock
in the university auditorium on the
question. That the United States
ships engaged in coastwise trade
should be exempt from Panama canal
tolls"
The Affirmative will be upheld BY
the White team. composed Of j. Burke
Walsh. William ]. MCGUIRE and John
F. Daley, tr- with J. Gibbons Burke
as alternate. The CASTOR team will
be made up Of Robert c. Mccain, Syl-
van ]. Pauly and Charles b. Lowndes.
with Francis J. OConnor as alter
nate.
The judges will be William J..
Hughes. professor OF practice and
procedure at the Georgetown Law
School; Henry NJ. Gowes and William
J. Toomey. B. Meredith Reid will pre-
side.
Evening star., 1921-05-12
HEADS WOMAN LAWYERS.
Miss e. N. Gillett New President
Of Bar Association.

Miss Emma NJ. Gillett was elected
president Of the Women's Bar Asso-
citation of the District of Columbia at
the annual election of officers Tuesday
night at 1915 K street northwest
Miss Gillett is dean Of the Washing
ton College of Law.
Other officers were elected as fol-
lows: Miss Elizabeth c. Harris. vice
president; Miss Cora Larimore Keel
ey, secretary, and Miss Clara Fried
man, treasurer. Miss Ida May Moy-
ers, retiring president, was elected a
member of the executive committee
Five new members were admitted
to the organization-Miss Harriet H.
Barbour, Miss NJ. Lena Dee, Miss
Bertha f. Pabst, Miss Mary Jane
RAYMOND and Miss Grace NJ. Eddy.
Following reports of the old officers
and chairmen of committees, an in
formal reception was held.
Evening star., 1921-05-12
SEEK MEMORIAL SITE.

Representative Gould has intro
duced in the House a joint resolution
authorizing the memorial commission n
of the Department Of Agriculture to
locate in the Mall the memorial to
tho former employees Of that depart
ment who lost their lives in the world
war. The plans shall be approved by
the commission Of fine arts a1A the
United States put to no expexse by
the erection Of the memorial
Evening star., 1921-05-12
PLAN CROATIAN REPUBLIC.

VIENNA. May PA peasants con-
gress, called for the purpose of pro-
claiming Croatian republic, will
meet in Agram next Monday, says
4 Belgrade dispatch received here
The Jugoslav government. upon
learning of the proposed meeting, or
dered that measures be taken to pre-
vent 1t.
Evening star., 1921-05-12
woMAN's LEGAL CLUB ELECTS

Miss Sarah Tilghman has been elect
ed president OF the Women's Legal
Club at George Washington Univer-
sity. it was announced yesterday. Other
officers selected are Helen Carloss,
f1rst vice president; Elizabeth Arm
strong. second vice president; Lois
German. secretary. and Neil Clark.
tirinK president, has presented the
club with an engraved gavel.
Evening star., 1921-05-12
ARMY TO FIGHT TESTS.

Secretary Weeks has directed the
judge advocate general of the Army
to take appeals in the test cases of
Coils. John w. French and William +.
Creary, recently before the Supreme
Court Of the District Of Columbia.
land to fight out those cases to the
last court"
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RADIO TIME-TELLING
AT SEA NOT NEW IDEA
Wireless Signaling of the Hour to Shackleton's
Vessel Merely am Adaptation of System That
HAS Been i'm Operation for Quite while, Aiding
Ships to Adjust Their ChronOmeterS.

portant element in the determine
ton of a ships position, can be
easily calculated for any zone when
the longitude Of the sending sta
ton is known.
All ships carry. in addition to
the ordinary clocks, chronometers
showing Greenwich time for navi.
CATION purposes. and 1t is now pos
sible by means of the wireless sig
nails to ascertain at any moment the
error, IL any, of the chronometers.
Until quite recently, however, a
ships clocks were set at intervals
to show apparent local time at the
ship, and his time rarely conceded
with the zone time Of the particu-
lar longitude, as the clocks were
set by the passage of the sun over
the meridian where the ship hap
pened to be.
Last year an international con-
ference adopted a different system,
and in future all the clocks on a
ship, except the chronometers. will
be set to the time of the 15-degree
zone It enters, and will therefore
show certain number Of even
hours fast or slow Of Greenwich
time, an indicator by the side OF
each clock showing tho actual dit.
ference
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industrial Botany
PLACED I'm Course
To Train Soldiers

VANCOUVER, B. c., Oct. s.
A COMPANY has been formed
here to collect and export native
British Columbia pharmaceutical
herbs and barks. Most of its en-.
ployes are to be former soldiers,
who are to be instructed in indus
trial botany and encouraged to take
up pre-emptiohs in the forcsted
areas.
Forty acres Of forest II is said,
can be made as profitable to q
botanical expert as forty acres Of
rich bottom land to an agricultural
expert
From cottonwood trees come Balm
Of Gilead buds, which contain a fra
grant resin bringing a high price per
pound. From jack pine is obtained
4 pharmaceutical gum. Spruce trees
two and three inches in dianlete,
yield spruce gum. Five or six die.
fercnt kinds of medicinal barks grow
in British Columbia, including cas-
cara bark which Is in heavy demand
in the worlds markets at high prices
because Of it's growing scarcity.
\ shipment OF cascaca bark weigh.
ing thirty tons was received "a. New
York from Hamburg recently, 1t Is
said. and all OF Il was grown from
seedlings cert 80 Europe from the
Pacific Coaot Of the United S.ates.
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The Grand Duchess and the En-
peror, when he was free, Joined in
our games. Alexis and his sisters
made long ice slides near the shores
of an artificial lake.
The Emperor on one occasion
helped us build an immense snow
fortress, which took several weeks
to complete. He was especially fond
Of walking around the gardens with
one Of the Grand Duchesses, chat
ting gaily with her, more like a pal
than as father.
Alexis had two pets which played
an important role in his life. One
was Joy" a pretty little spaniel
with dark, chestnut brown fur, who
loved to run after the boy and play
with him in the huge snow drifts.
The other was "Vanka," an old
donkey, once a trick artist in a trav-
cling circus. These two were the
Czarevitch's only companions.
He had no boy friends. The two
sons Of the sailor, Deverenko, were
younger than he, without education
and altogether rough and undesira-
BILE characters. His cousins some.
times came to pass their Sundays
and holidays at the palace. but their
visits were too rare.
At 4 o'clock the lessons were re.
sumed and continued to dinner time,
which for Alexis was z o'clock and
for the rest OF the family $50. The
day ended by a reading from one of
their favorite books.
E Alexis was the center of all their
affections and hopes. When he was
well 1t was as IL a ray of sunlight
had pierced a dull gloomy room.
When he was i'll everything was
impenetrable gloom.
Endowed with a most happy nat
ural disposition. full Of intelligence
and human kindness. he would have
developed into an ideal prince IL his
continual periods Of illness had not
retarded his development. 1t was
exceedingly difficult to supervise his
education.
In the Spring Of 1914 the imperial
family left for the Crimea. We ar.
rived at Livadia April 10.
Alexis was much better than dur.
ing the past few months. He had
grown taller and had really
healthy appearance. His infirmity,
however, caused the Emperor in.
tense suffering and incessant preoc.
cupation.
The Emperor was very gay on a
trip we made to the Jaila Noun
tains. This day of liberty given over
to his son was an unadulterated 10y
for him. He had even succeeded In
battling the constant surveillance Of
the palace police, whom he alb.
horred. On this occasion, at least,
he was permitted to live as q sim.
pie mortal.
The Emperor, In ordinary times,
saw little enough OF his children;
his occupations and court erigeaci-s
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LONDON, Oct. 8.


" HE announcementment that the
clocks on Sir Ernest Shackle-
tons vessel are to be. regu-
lated by wireless signals from. the
Eiffel Tower has been commented
on in some quarters as something
quite novel. and one journal spoke
of the clocks being controlled"
from Paris. There is, of course, no
automatic control; the time signals
will be received by the ship and its
clocks altered accordingly.
AS a matter Of strict accuracy
there has for some time been an
elaborate scheme of wireless dis
tribution of time in operation for
the benefit of ships at sea, and the
station at the Eiffel Tower is only
one of a chain of similar stations
around the globe.
The time thus signaled is what
Is called standard Zone Time"
based on Greenwich mean time as
zero, and differing from that zero
according as the station Is east or
west of the Greenwich meridian, the
difference being one fhour for every
fifteen degrees Of longitude.
The Eiffel Tower sends out actual
Greenwich time twice every day.
and this zero time, which Is an I'm
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continued to grow, profiting by
their anxiety. The days appar-
emily passed peacefully at Tsarkoie.
Selo.
The children saw Rasputin with
their parents, but at this period
his visits to the palace were very
infrequent. There often passed
some weeks, sometimes a month,
that they did not send for him.
They took more and more to the
habit of inviting him to the home
of Nine. Wyroubova, a small house
near the palace. The Emperor and
the czarevitch almost never went
there.
Nine. Wyroubova served as inter
mediary between the Empress and
Rasputio: It vas she who handed
ne staretz any letters destined for
him, and who carried his responses,
usually oral, to the palace.
AN INNOCENT DUPE.
The relations between Her Ma
jesty and Nine. Wyroubova were
passed that she did not visit the
Empress. This friendship was Of
several years standing. Nine.
Wyroubova had been married at
very young age to vicious
drunkard whom she left. Her I'M
happiness brought her to the
notice of the Empress, who having
suffered so much herself, was at
tracted by sadness in others.
BY nature sentimental and mys-
teal, Nine. Wyroubova conceived
for the Empress fervid friend
ship, dangerous because of it's de-
votion.
The Empress in her turn allowed
herself to be more influenced. Ex-
elusive as she was-she admitted to
her circle of friends no one who did
not believe in her implicitly and al
low her to dominate In everything
she never understood that there was
any imprudcnce in encouraging this
fantastic fidelity.
BY pure affection for the imperial
family and with the single desire Of
coming to their aid, Nine. Wy
roubova was in reality the docile,
3 irresponsible instrument of unscru-
pulous intriguers who were plotting
continually for their own advance
ment and profit. Lacking in will
power, she was completely under the
influence of Rasputin and became
his most powerful protectress at
court.
AUTHOR MEETS RASPUTIN.
had not yet seen the staretz
since I had been at the palace, but
one day passed him in the anti.
chamber. He was of more than or.
binary height, with an emaciated
face, gray.blue piercing eyes almost
hidden under big bushy eyebrows,
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skin distended and BECAME hard
under pressure of the extravasated
blood which compressed the nerves
Of the leg and caused intense pain.
The Empress remained near her
son throughout his long siege, lean
ing over him. caressing him. sur
rounding him with love; trying in a
thousand ways to tighten his suffer
ings. The Emperor also came to
the bedside whenever he had a mo-
ment's freedom. He tried to COM
fort and distract the child, but pain
was stronger than maternal caresses
or the stories of the father.
From time to time each Of the
Grand Duchesses would approach
on tip-toe to kiss her little brother,
bringing with her a Whit of fresh
ness and health.
The czarevitch lay stretched out
on the bed moaning piteously, his
head propped on his mothers arm,
his thin face almost unrecogniz-
able with pain.
A MOTHER AT CALVARY.
Occasionally he stopped crying
and murmured one word-Mama-
in which he expressed all his suf-
fering and love. The mother kiss
ed his hair, forehead, eyes, as II
her caresses could tighten his pain
and give him a little of the life
so quickly ebbing.
Oh! the torture of that true
mother who watched, powerless to
help; the martyrdom Of her child
in those long hours of mortal an
guish was terrible. That mother
who knew that it was she who had
transmitted the fearful malady
which baked human science. Now
I understood the secret drama of
her life and that long Calvary
which saddened the whole life of
the Empress.
The convalescence was exceed
ingly slow. Doctors Botkin and
Deverenko, after many sleepless
nights, saw their little patient
gradually recover strength. They
We're fighting against terrible odds,
knowing well the worthlessness of
palliatives. But their hearts were
touched by the mothers sorrow
and the boys dreadful suffering.
Yet theirs was thankless task.
For the Empress attributed Alexis
recovery not to their attentions
but to Rasputin. He was the de-
liverer, she believed-his prayer
had worked a miracle!
In December we returned to
Tsarkoie-Selo. Our daily program
was carefully planned and closely
followed. Lessons commenced at 0
o'clock and continued TO II. Then
for one hour we took a recess, TAX
ing a ride in a carriage, sleigh or
automobile. Then the children
studied an hour before luncheon,
which was at l o'clock. In the
afternoon we always spent two
hours In the open air