davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1923-10-07

The golf bag is tied to the gopher's
tail which slows him up to such an
extent the players is able to keep up
with him by walking at a ordinary
rate OF speed even though the gopher
is trying his best to overtake what
he imagines to be q ail-day sucker.
AS In the case of the giraffes. the
gopher. at the end OF the match, Is
presented with a real ali-day sucker,
which seems to recompense him for
IL holes Of disappointments.
Great success in learning elephants
to caddy has been obtained In states
like Connecticut and Oklahoma. The
advantage of a elephant Is that one
OF them can caddy for a whole four
some as they can carry two golf bags
on each tusk. The golf balls must be
tinted green in imitation of cooking
apples or else lightish tan to look
like Jumbo peanuts. otherwise the
pachyderm will ignore them. Low
scoring has become a habit in the
states mentioned owing to the fact
that by the time a elephant has
hunted In the rough for your ball q
few minutes. the grass is so trampled
down that you can get out with
putter.
On the 1909 islands golf course
where practically every hole is a
water hole, the most of the cadding
during school days Is being tended to
by cranes and porpoises.
When the ball has sank under wa
ter the crane dives for II and tries
TO swallow It but the bali sticks in
the cranes throat Mean while you
row up to the spot in a hired boat
and dislodge the ball from the cranes
throat by slapping him on the back.
The ball Is then teed up on the por-
poise for the next shot and his crane
replaces all divots.
Those Is few OF the localities
where beasts OF burden and birds OF
prey are doing the work Of boys and
doing 1t we'll and all as can say in
conclusion IS that the human caddfes
would better take matters into there
own hands and defy the truant officer
or the next thing they know all the
cadding the yr. around will be in
the hands OF zebras. monkeys and the
like and our boys win grow into
manhood with out u the education
that can be gained by hanging
around golf course and keeping
there ears open.
RING w. LARDNER.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1923-10-07

read the morning papers. 0therwiseIy
Lord Renfrew can go fishing and re-
main as unknown as Jess willard"
That are good way to know. by
gollyr' hoop delightly. And how did
this Prince of Wales get into Canada
with such few people reckonIzing
hfm?'
"A great many Japanese gets into
Canada without being reekonized."
negotiate Hondo.
II said they dot" This from me
slangly. But there are several Jap
anese and only one (D Prince of
wales"
well" Hondo sally 4th, "if you are
sufficiently prominent it are easy to
hide from sight. Incognito accom-
plish that. Did you not read in news
print how Lord Renfrew arrive to
Montreal In boat? He was pratickaliy
unknown. Nobody at dock to meet
him axent Mayor of Montreal, Elks
silver Jubilee Band, squads OF air
planee. the Gov. Gen. of Canada and
less than zoe Dominion Prize Beat
ties throwing rosebuds."
'Tt are nearly umpolite for Lord
hen1Fe" 70 De SO neglected., pefuse
"Indeed1y so. - So lonesome It was
that wren Lord Renfrew walked of
from ship he smoked cigars to keep
tears back I'm his eyes. How differ
ent from Canada which he visit on
last trip when people acted very dem
ocratick ana sail him Prince. Now
everything are almost silent, axept
for eireen whistles, f1re-erackers and
noise Of several Mayors all making
speeches to- different tunes
Nd yet Lord Renfrew like it
"A quiet. do he not?" are next
question for me.
THE Prince Excuse Ne are charm
ing simple yg. man." say Hondo.
"The Prince whichesr' / burst in
side.
Prince Excuse Me-" deliver Hondo.
"Tfat are the way he are now getting
entitled in Canada. People start call
ing him Prince, then start to say Elk.
cuse Me while thinking OF his other
Evening star., 1923-10-07
Patriotic Expert In Making Of Glass
Nearly Gives Life In Nation S Service
Through Efforts Of Worker
Produce
Record onandSk s

varieties, however, have certain quail.
.ities in common. They pass through
a yiscous stage in cooling from 4
state of fiuidity; they develop effects
OF color when the glass mixtures are
fused VITA certain metallic oxides:
they are, when cold. BAD conductors.
both OF electricity and heat they are
easily fractured by blow or shock
and show a conchoidal fracture; they
are but slightly affected by ordinary
solvents. but are readily attacked by
hydrofiuorie acid.
The structure OF glass has been
the subject OF repeated investiga-
tions. A theory most widely accepted
Is that glass IL a quickly solldifled
solution, III which silica, sllicates,
berates. phesphates and aluminates
may either be solvents or solutes.
and metallic oxides, and metals may
be held either In solution pr In sus-
pension. Long experience has fixed
the mixtures. so far as ordinary
furnace temperatures are concerned
which produce the varieties OF glass
lii common use.
in former days the artisans VINO
j worked in glass were constantly
striving to get something that was
Evening star., 1923-10-07

name. which they usually forget. yet
that Incognito get plenty OF respect.
you bet my bootware! Citisens Of
Canada are going to hospital by 10oos
with sore necks from trying to lock
somewhere else when Lord Renfrew
go by in street car Sometime 1t are
great strain. on heart & mussels.
Maybe some younsly child, too un-
educated to know lots, will observe
this hansom yg. man purchasing sox
in dept. store. o Momma. look-seer
hoIia youngiy child, II that amt the
Prince Of waies. slap-siap. This
by Momma with crissscross ex-
preston. Shut your teeth. notify
cfild' snarrel Momma, That are not
Prince OF Wales Then what is itT
howell child with sadly weeping. Tt
are Lord somebody+-say Momfna, oh,
forget-let US so ask q Police who
are Supposed to know everything
And so onwards."
Great Scottish" I narrate pas.
sionly, what are harder than for q
Famus Man to get unknownT'
For a Unknown Man to get Tamus
are slightly harder" he develop.
Yes what is the I. D.?' I ask with
cut voice. "If human person change
name & wear same face what do he
get off from it7 Sipposing Hon. Shy
lock Holmes. famus tracker. should
go into strange detecting job with
out new whiskers? Maybe he would
tell everybody his name was Samuel
Gempers. but what then? Every
body would make sinnickle eye-wink
& report. You are Shylock Holmes.
the detective. We know because you
look just like Hon. VIM. Gillette
What of that, ask to know
Until your head become more
homeless 1 cannot tell you anything" }"
rampage Hondo. Did not say that
! Incosnito must be treated reyeren-
tially?"
would I be just as Intoxicating
| with a changed label?" / require.
"Pussibly," say Hondo. IA rose
with any other caption on 1t would
smell just as sweet. II Hon. Prince
Evening star., 1923-10-07

of an artistic nature ana the greatest
AID they had was the development
In optical glass. Glasses possessing
special qualities have been required,
and have been supplied by the in
PRODUCTION of new combinations OF
materials.
The fuIdity of glass at a high
temperature renders possible the pro-
cess OF laalins. pouring, casting and
stirring. Contrary to the general
belief mass or glass in viscous
state can be rolled with an iron
roller in the same manner as the
housewife rolls dough- Glass may be
rendered hollow by the pressure OF
the human breath or by compressed
air. A plunger may be used to make
it take the shape ana impression Of q
mold. It may be made into a solid
rod OF hollow tube.
So tensile Is viscous glass that 1t
can be drawn out into a filameht
sufficiently fine and elastic to be
woven into a fabric. Some Of the
actresses OF Europe. number OF
years ago. appeared on the stage In
costumes that we're made OF glass.
and when the press agents told that
their stars were going to appear In
gowns made Of glass many at ence
declared that II the actresses sat
down their dresses would shatter.
TO those whose memories take them
back thirty years or more will come
the recollection OF how, at fairs ana
ether forms OF entertainments, the
exhibit of the glass blowers was one
OF the features. They will also res
member how these men, with their
long tubes, used to blow out vessel,
sails and all. or turned out two
hearts with the name OF the young
mans adofed one entwined with his,
ana then again they would mold, be-
fore your very eyes, the features OF
the President OF this country or the
ruler OF some foreign land. They
would. at request, mold landscapes,
and BY putting In different colored
bits give you a little cottage with
green shutters and behind IL would
be the bright hues Of a setting SUM-,
Nearly every one has admired some
bit OF glass that was used 40 An orr
fiament In some home and pondeeed
Evening star., 1923-10-07

dull red to resemble lurgA eggs OF
which giraffes Is very fond.
When the giraffes arrived on the
seen the golf bags was hung on
each Of there necks and the golfers
proceeded to drive or. The gi.
raffes, thinking the balls was lurga
eggs, went after them hot #. and
tried to pick them up but maybe I
forgot to mention that Barger had
took the precAution to muxsie both
beasts 90 AZ all the siraffss could do
was just nose the golf balls but could
not pick them UP.
when the players came up to the
balls they forced the giraffes by. q
subterfuge to step back, then picked
out the clubs they wanted to use
next and made there second shots.
which was promptly pursued by the
girAffes and so on all around the
course.
VILE Mr.. Barser ana his oppt. was
enjoying q snifter at the 18th hole,
they unmuzsled there carries and
gave them couple OF real lurEA
eggs. which seemed to satisfy them.
AS q result OF Mr. Barger's scheme.
giraffes is now being used as cadtiies
all over Africa and In some coun-
tries II even employed as direction
f,aEs.
Hyenas, another animal which is
fond Of lurga eggs, has also tried
out as caddies but are too much like
human caddies as they keep laughing
at you.
II Il X
TN Minnesota suitable substitute
i for human caddies has been found
in the person OF gophers. To get
them to work properly it is necessary
to paint the golf balls black SO as to
look like all-day suckers which
gophers Is notssisssiy Wild about.
Evening star., 1923-10-07

great speed--that IL. great speed as
far - it could, considering the small
facilities at hand.
0F course, IN the early stages
~ larse.seale production Of opti-
cal glass met with . serious ob.
stacle. That was the failure OF the
pots used. but this problem. too. was
solved by the miracle men at the bu-
rsau. ana In the solution OF this DIM
Guilty the local savants introduced new
features that had never been dreamed
Of by the European experts.
The statement made the other day
that the largest lenses made In the
United States were made At the ou-
rsau OF standards n correct. There
have, however. been xlasses OF simi.
lar size made by private concern
but they were rehectors and not re.
tractors.
where the bureau formerly obtained
10 or IL per cent Il 10 now certain
Of Is. 80 ana 40 per cent yields ana
the experts are BIT more certain every
time they melt. DR.. c. A. Skinner, In
charge OF the division. and Arthur -.
Williams, are both proud OF the ac-
complishments OF tho bureau. ana
they were also pleased when, . short
time ago, a representative Of q large
German concern visited the glass de-
partment, and after making .
thorough inspection. said that the
local product was the equal - any
that was made II his factory.
Evening star., 1923-10-07
Light of the Sea.

A DUTCH Investigator Beyerink.
= has made a special study Of the
little organisms called photo bacteria,
to which in a large degree the phos-
phorescence Of the ocean is due. He
has heen unable to discover that the
luminosity Of these singular creatures
plays any important part in their
vitality. 1t appears to depend chiefly
upon the food they are able to obtain.
When they have plenty Of carbon
they shine brilliantly and the ocean
surface glows with their mysterious
light. When fed with sugar or
glyceFin their phosphorescence Is In
creased.
Evening star., 1923-10-07

Copper gives peacock blue. which
becomes green If the proportion OF
copper oxide Is Increased. If oxide OF
copper is added to glass. mixture
containing a strong reducing agent. a
glass Is produced which, when first
taken from the crucible, is celorless.
but on being reheated develops a deep
ruby color. A similar glass, TX Its
cooling Is greatly retarded. produces
throughout Its substance minute par
ticle of metallic copper. and closely
resembles avanturine. There is also
an intermediate stage in which the
glass has a rusty red color by reflect
ed light, and a purple blue color by
transmitted light. Glass containing
gold behaves In almost precisely the
same way. but the ruby glass Is less
crimson than copper ruby glass.
IMPURITIES contained In the ma
il terials from which glasses are
made often cause accidental eelefa-
tion or diseoieratien. For this same
reason chemical agents are added to
glass mixtures to remove or neutral
ize accidental color. Ferrous oxide is
the usual cause Of discoloration. BY
converting ferrous into ferric oxide,
the green tint Is changed to yellow.
which H. less noticeable.
As regards bnth mode OF production
ana essential properties. optical glass
differs widely from all other varieties.
These differences arise primarily from
the fact that glass for optical uses IL
required In comparatively large ana
thick pieces, while for most other
purposes 1t Is used In the form OF
cofslpafatively thin sheets. When,
therefore. as a consequence OF Doll
iond's invention OF achromatic tele-
scope ebjeetfves In 17s7. q demand
first arose for optical glass. the In
dustry was unable to furnish suitable
m ateriai. Flint glass particularly,
which appeared quite satisfactory
when viewed In small pieces, was
found to be so far from homogeneous
as to be useless for lens construction.
Toward the end Of the eighteenth
century Galnand made an important
step forward when he introduced the
method OF stirring the molten glass
In q cylinder made OF Are clay.
Shortly after this . achievement.
Quinand went to Bavaria, q country
that has since turned out some won
aerful specimens Of fhe glass, both
plain ana colofed, ana here he worked
with utsschneider and then with
rraunhofer. who finally succeeded in
making lenses ii inches In diameter.
The work Of improving the quality
was carried on BY the sons OF Guinand
And other artisans. and In 1924 the
RoyAi Astronomical Society OF Lon
doa took up the matter and after .
strict invSstisAtion appointed FafA-
aAy to carry ON the work.
Germany now entered the held and
Ernse Abhs and Q. 5ohott or Jeena
started their work Of investigated.
1hs government gave them grants
which enabled them to make many
experiments. and these grants were
thS primary cause OF GsrmAAy's TAX
ing the lead IN the matter OF glass
manufacture The work OF Able and
E3chott led to such important devei-
opments that similar experiments
were undertaken In France. and 4
year or 70 lAter in England. by
Chance. who = Few years before had
been carrying on numerous sxperi-
rnepts, but haA not received any en-
csuragsment from his government.
~ the use Of suitable apparetus.
Irregular deviatioAs OF light rays
Evening star., 1923-10-07

"O the Editor: To the average
man OF affairs that has made
thsrnself believe that they
= half to go to there ONCE every
am. except Sunday and. stay there
practically ell day, why this season
Of the folnnt yr. Amt no different
than any other season.
But TO women In general and men
who don't make no pretence OF work
ing such as actors, writers and car
teonists and can play golf all day
every week day, why the last Il OF
Sept. ana the entire months OF Oct.
and Nov. presents d problem which
has been pusElins eolfsfs In . great
many countries and states ana has
only been solved in comparatively Few
places, namely the problem of what
to use for caddiee when all the boys
betw cen the age Of and Is yrs. or
age is tending school.
Perseniy this problem has both
cred me q whole lot as they's only
one thing I hate worst than work
and that il carrying my own clubs
around 4 golf course. A yr. ago
tried to have q law past In N. T. state
providing that boy who had showed
b talent a. = caddy would not half
to 30 to school at all or at lease
would be obliged to go to school only
at night when his services was not
required az q caddy. ~
This proposed law was killed In
committee owing to personal animals
Though I proved that not one school
in the entire state had a course In
bali marking or bag carrying or any
thing else that would tend to In
crease the efiicleney Of caddy in his
chosen profession.
All they attempt to learn these boys
Evening star., 1923-10-07

tween different melts, even to recon.
struct grinding and polishing tools.
T>HE exacting requirements, the
j small market fer the product, ana
the prejudice in favor Of imported
glass have been the causes of the
small production OF optical glass IN
the uaited States. A great deal Of
research was necessary before pre-
duetion coala be assured. Manufae.
turers were reluctant to spend money
on research without any assured
pYofit. ana in this case there was no
promise or large returns.
In spite Of these uffavorabie fac.
tors, several glass manufacturers are
reported to have attempted quantity
production OF optical glass in Amer
lea. About thirty years ago an at
tempt was made at Lemon. Mass. but
IL was abandoned. About the time
of the Spanish American war some
very good glass was made In the
Macbeth factories at Elwoed. ina. In
1919 a we'll known optical company
built an experimental plant at
Rochester, N. Y.
with the beginning OF the war In
1914 came b sreat demand FOR instfu-
ments, glass stocks were quickly de-.
pleted, ana America realized the folly
of depending on Europe for Its optical
glass. Since practically all naval
ana military operations depend on &C.
curate optical instruments, 1t was I'M
psrative to take such steps as would
secure an ample supply to meet the
great and rapidly Increasing demand.
The men who do the big things saw
that we might become involved. and
In the same year the bureau OF stand
ards began active experimental work
on the production OF optical glass.
when the United States entered the
war a number or manufacturers be.
gan the production OF optical glass.
some of them on large scale. Nat.
uraliy many errors and failures en-
sued during the experimental stages
OF development. The ground work
was based on the chemical analysis
Of European glass ana 4 measer
knowledge ef European technique.
One Of the first problems IL was
necessary to solve was that Of sacur-
ing pure raw materials. The very
nature Of the product demands q de.
gree OF purity unknown In other lines
of glass manufacture.
The propagandtst had been busy for
months. working cleverly and under
cover, attempting to convince Amefi-
On that optical glass was q product
altogether too difiicult to BE- attempt
ed here. It II well known to the
Army and Navy that there sxists In
the United States today = welt or.
rAniaed and very well financed set
Of propA Asandists who are sadeavor.
Ing to throw discredft on certain
line of endeavor which this country
has been developing for several
years. They are carrying on In pre-
oissiy the same manner ~ tbs glass
propagAndists did before we entered
the war. It II but rapitition Of the
way they tried to get W to abandon
the making Of glass.
After much searching. suitable sanda
were found, sands that were SUN.
ciently pure and had the requisite
uniformity OF grain. These were read
lily ayAiiabie and oAtAinable at q fair
price. The bureau OF stAndrds had
stolen q march on those who sought to
dissourgs the making of glass Asrk
ana the work went forward with
Evening star., 1923-10-07

ed--stood with Keen eyes ever watch
ing the result Of the trials.
Sleep meant nothing 10 this man,
who was determined that the forces
Of his government should not Be ham
psred because Of the hack OF suitable
glass; a patriot IL there ever was
one. for he knew full well that the
strain he was putting on his body
was of such a character that nothing
but ill results could come to him. He
never faltered, and with the first pot
Of glass that was UP to the standard
he had set came only a feeling That
he must go on and on until he- had
been able to supply all that was need-
cd for his country. In the hours that
he should have been taking much
needed rest he set about to teach 9TH
ers how to get the results he had OBJ
tanned, so that the work that was
beng done by the Army and the Navy
would not be halted. for there were
many things that had to be supplied
to both of these branches OF the sew
ice.
Slowly but surely he began to gain
on the demand, and at the close of the
war this government, very, very
largely through the efforts cf this
man, had nearly reached the Heint
where we could not only supply our
own demand, but help out our allies
In a small way. 49,
Today this man still shows the
strain that he underwent during those
sleepless hishts-those days when he
never left the furnace, the melting
not or other articles used In turning
out what we had been compelled to
purchase abroad but g. short time be-
fore.
II X 4 \
TN a week or so Arthur e. Williams
/ will leave the bureau OF stand
ards ana when he leaves he will re.
ceive no medal OF honor: there Will
be no great display OF periap or eere-
mony. He will 90 forth as an humble
worker who has served his country
to the best of his ability. but he Will
take with him the best wishes or
every man II, the bureau OF standards
and the men with whom he worked In
the rittsburgh bfaneh. II there ever
wac 4 man who deserved the thanks
OF his country williams 10 that man.
It 10, Indeed, q pity that the govern
nient does not have some way or re-
warding an empleys who does such
heroie work for his nation. and this
work, AZ . usual thing. Ii done large
" because OF love OF country ana de-
yotion to the work in hand. Few OF
these men ever give = second Thought
to the matter Of the salary they re-
oeive.
GLASS is sefnsthins that we see 20
sftsn that We do not pay particular
attention to It. It ID oornmehplAcs,
and therefore ws pA1s II by and take
it as something that just IL, some-
thing that We do not consider 1t any
trouble to rake, but II you study the
question yS0 viii and that In the
nsAxtas o; saass taere enter many
1euussms that would stump the aver.
agA man IL he were to attempt III
xaafutacture.
The technical description OF saAsi
IS al soliows: A hard substance,
usually transparent or transluosns'
which from 4 huid condition At
High temperature has passed 10 .
soift condition with suiiici4nt fapidity
10 prevent the formation Of visible
crystals.
There are many vafistieA OF flass.
differing widely IN chemical conposi.
ton and ph.sical qualities. Most
Evening star., 1923-10-07
BY AarHuA JAMES.

REvIOUS to the last war we
- were dependent upon Europe
for the bulk OF our optical
glass This condition existed
after we had entered the conflict. 1t
was not changed until many OF our
citizens went to work on the prob
lem OF producing ssfnething that
would serve our purposes as we'll as
the glass that we haa been getting
from Germany and other countries OF
Europe.
1t must not be supposed that this
feat was accomplished in q day or d
month, for 1t was not 1t took months
and months Of man-kiiiing labor to
get the results that we absolutely
needed.
neither must 1t be supposed that at
tho commercial tehters or production
alone were the results obtained. A
great part OF the credit belongs to a
man who shattered his health In
serving the government: a man who
day and night stood patiently at the
door Of the furnace, stood watching
the pot as the molten mass was pour