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IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY.
! WASHINGTON. APRIL 22. 1915.
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tralaslsn Royal Mail Line. 440 Seymour at , Vazw
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What Is a Telemeter1?
From Pearson's Weekly.
War has been brought to a fine art
nowadays!. Years hko gunners had to
guess the distance of the object they
were firing at, but now the range Is
found to within a yard or two by an
Ingenious Instrument called a teleme
ter. or range-flnder.
At each end of the horizontal tube Is
a mirror which reflects the obje'%
which Is being observed to the center
of the tube.
Of course, the soldier getting the
range sees two pictures of th?? things
he Is looking at. One of the mirrors
Is movable, however, and by turning a
?crew the two pictures are made to
coincide and look like one.
The turning of the screw moves
little pointer along a graduated scale.
When the two pictures seen through
Ihe telemeter coincide. Its pointe
Ihowi the exact distance of the object
In yards, or In kilometer*
ULTRY
Doas and Pet Stock.
EGGS ? Rarrc-d Plymouth Rorks; Thompson s |
Kinglets; finest on earth; $1 setting; $5 hun- [
dred; broody hens; laving hens, $1. Louis
Slmpklns, 2811 Central are., Woodridge. L>. C. J
l'hon? North 3980-W. 10*
FIVE WHITE LEiiHOUN PI'LLETS?Fine lay- I
ers. $.".00. 6410 Georgia ave. 10* 1
SIX BANTAM hens and cocks. ,r*> cents each, j
Phone Bethesda 15-F. 10*
BUFF ORI'INUTON EGGS for hatching; Cook
strain; broody hens, laying hens and baby
chicks; reasonable. S. I^ewi*. 28^9 Central
ave.. Woodridge, T>. G. 10*
BABY OUKKS from select stock with high egg
record. O. E. Entwlsle, 15lO W st. F.e. (Ana
costia?. L. SOI from 8 a.m. t<> 5 p.m., L.
3213 after 6 p.m.
PERSIAN KITTENS - Snow white; three months
old; male and female; pedigreed; very tine.
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_ NAT.CAP WHITE RUNNER DUCK FARM.WASH OX V
gENGLE-OOMB WHITE LEGHORNS; I). W.
Young and Irving F. Rice strain; 15 eggs,
$1.00; $6.<?0 per hundred. Tlios. C. Pollock,
1614 W fit. s.e. Phone Line. Irt70.
PKI>IGREKI> AIRKI>A1.E terrier pups, renson
able. Robert Curran, Ro<-k Creek Farms.
Phone Kensington .">0. __**?
J. A. FALCONER SUED
FOR $10,000 DAMAGES
T. J. Hurst, Street Car Conductor,
Alleges Congressman Assaulted
Him?Other Suits.
Thomas J. Hurst, a conductor In the
employ of the Capital Traction Com
pany, has filed suit to recover $10,000
damage? for alleged assault against J.
Alexander Falconer, representative
from Washington. Through Attorney
M. E. O'Brien, the conductor says 1.1 r.
Falcoror attacked him May 9, 1914,
and inflicted severe injuries to his
face and head. The altercation, ac
cording to Attorney O'Brien, occurred
on a oar, when the conductor declined
to accept a transfer tendered by Mr.
Falconer, which the conductor claimed
had expired.
Frederick D. Riley hap brought suit
against William A. Simpson to re
cover $15,000 damages for alleged per
sonal injury. The plaintiff declares
that July 6 last, while he was riding a
motor cycle on the Gaithersburg and
Darnesville road in Maryland, a motor
truck of the defendant collided with
him. He sustained serious internal
and external injuries, he asserts. At
torneys J. Dawson Williams and Julian
W. Whiting appear for the plaintiff.
Gloria Boaz has filed suit to recover
$300 from George I). Horning. The
amount is said to be the value of a dia
mond ring which the plaintiff declares
she lost, and which she asserts has
since come into the possession of the
defendant. The plaintiff Is represented
by Attorneys Fred B. Rhodes and Chap
man W. Maupin.
Aldrich Estate Goes to Family.
WARWICK, R. I., May 8.?The entire
estate of the late Nelson W. Aldrich,
for thirty years Fnited States senator
from Rhode Island, is left to the family
by his will, which has been filed for
probate. The value of the property is
not given. The will requests that his
Warwick Neck estate be retained by
the family always.
Prodigal Sons of Rome.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
As money-burners the scions of cer
tain families of ancient Rome appear
to have been able to teach a few tricks
to the jeunesse doree of our own age.
Prof. Cobern, lately a co- worker with j
Dr. Petrle in Egypt, informs a Phila- i
delphia audience that one plutocrat of
the Augustan age or the consularship
of Plancus ran through $90,000,000 a
year, and another spent $12,000,000
decorating his mansion. And Nero, for
ever held up to obloquy in the pages of
Suetonius, had one redeeming trait?he
was not, in today's common parlance,
a "tightwad." He once invested $175,
000 in roses brought from Egypt to
adorn his banquet table. His death, at
the age of thirty, deprived the world of
a superspendthrift.
Cato complained in the senate that a
jar of preserved fish, imported from the
Black sea, cost more than a yoke of
oxen. A jar of Falernian wine cost $20.
No wonder the feasts of Lucullus were
expensive. There might well be mut
terings in the army when the Roman
soldiers brought back costly loot of
foreign lands, enriched his masters
with silver plate and golden images
and got 10 cents a day for his pains.
In the palmy days of Rome the graft
er flourished unrebuked. The pluto
crats were not compelled to account for
their gains. It was the timorous leth
argy and the unorganization of public
opinion that made the enormities of
Nero. Caligula and Domitian possible,
and that have since their time fastened
the evils of ring rule on cities and na
tions.
Quilting Time.
From the Eransrille find.) Courier.
Probably we don't have much of it in
the cities any more, perhaps there
never waa much of it done in the cities,
but out In the country and iri the
hamlets and villages and towns quilt
ing time used to be an occasion of mer
riment combined with utility; it was
in the early home what the log-rolling
was outside; it had its place and pres
tige along with the sugar-making, with
the husking bees and the apple cut
tings, the comfort knittings and a lot
of other happy functions of an earlier
day.
Today we buy our comforts and our
quilts and our sugar and practically
everything we use; we have our corn
husked In the fields either by hired
hands or machinery; we live in a hur
rying, labor-saving age, and maybe we
have sacrificed much of quality for
quantity, value for something esteemed
more pleasing to our esthetic senses.
But the old-fashioned quilt, which
would withstand the kicking of lusty
young savages in the attic bedroom
for at least a year, was some quilt.
Mother and aunts, sisters and nieces,
neighbors and friends came in to help
make it; the home became a social cen
ter, where quilts were made and per
haps where some little gossip at the
expense of absent ladies was indulged
in.
Usually, at such times, there was
something good to eat, rather better
than the ordinary bill of fare, prepared
--and that's where the kids came In
for a good time, though often they had
to wait, like T.azarus, at the gate, or
floor, until their superiors had feasted,
when they fell to and left not even
crumbs.
Quilting time was always a fine time;
perhaps the snowflakes were flying, but
usually the work was done along about
the time the bees were buzzing and the
flowers were in bloom, with the sun
beams flashing from the flying needles.
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Tung Oil.
j From the Engineering Mazarine.
! Among the oils which may be added
I to. or used as substitutes for linseed, in
paints, perhaps tung or China wood oil
j is the most important. When properly
j boiled and treated It yields a film
i which Is hard and elastic, with heavy
? body and high gloss. One great ad
} vantage of this oil is that it forms
paints which will dry In damp atmos
pheres. It has long been used by the i
Chinese and Japanese, and Is finding
wide use for marine arid waterproof
paints, and there is no apparent rea
son why it should not be used more
extensively for protective paints for
iron and steel.
A German paper manufacturing
plant to utilize rice straw is being
erected In China by Japanese.
| TAKING A FAMILY J
BACK TO THE SOIL |
I Being the Experiences of a Gov- i
ernment Clerk Who Sets Out j
to Lower the High Cost of i
Living. j
Sunny Knoll Is to consist of eighteen
acres, instead of eight. We have closed
a deal for the purchase of the ten acres
adjoining, doubt- as to the wisdom of
buying which has caused us so many
anxious days and sleepless nights.
We are not, 1 think, any better con
vinced than we were in the beginning
of the wisdom of tlie transaction, but
we decided to take the plunge and let
time determine whether we were wise
or foolish. The one point upon which
we satisfied ourselves was that we had
to buy now or lose the opportunity.
The owner of the land was about to
begin clearing and improving it, with a
view to adding tt lo his own farm. Once
he had done that, it would not have
been for sale. When the owner of the
land first advanced (his proposition we
thought he was bluffing, and were not
inclined to take him seriously, but
talks with neighbors disabused our
minds of this notion. He is not. they
told us, the kind of ;? man who says one
thing and means another, and when he
put two men at work cutting off the
timber and getting out posts to fence
in the tract we decided it was time to
act.
Makes Price Concession.
Bven at that, we found he was not as
adamant as he had been represented to
be. He had offered to sell for $75 an
acre, declared he would not take less,
and expressed entire indifference wheth
er any one was found willing to pay the
price. He had come into the property
Aw it In cleared 1*11 have gran* need
mowb.
by Inheritance, didn't need it particu
larly, he said, b,ut could make it earn)
interest on $750 by adding it to his al
ready rather extensive farm.
When I offered him $50 an acre he I
laughed at me, but finally said he '
would take the offer under considera
tion. His consideration and mine?j
mine and Jane's?finally resulted in a
splitting of the difference. We are to
pay $62.50 an acre, or $625 for the ten
acre piece.
We know, without any one taking
the trouble to tell us, that we are get
ting "stung" on the price. Rut we
know that we want the land, and we
believe that as the years go by we will
be satisfied that we have acted wisely.
As an agricultural business proposi
tion, now or in the immediate future,
there is no basis upon which payment
of $62.50 an acre for this land could be
justified. But, as an addition to the
home where we expect to spend the
rest of our lives, there are a lot of
things which enter into the reckoning
besides the amount of interest we can
earn this year or next year on the in
vestment.
Looking to the Future.
The one consideration above all oth
ers that impelled us to take the step
was that we are looking forward to a
day when I can give up office work
and make a living from the soil. There
are no doubt schemes of intensive agri
culture which would make that possi
ble on eight acres of land, but it will
be much more easily possible, and
much more safely possible, on eighteen
acres. More than that, T am satisfied
that within my lifetime the land for
which we are paying $62.50 an acre
will be worth $L'00 or $300 an acre and
that there will be an eager demand for
it at the higher price.
All students of the subject agree that
agriculture in America is on the thresh- j
old of a development the like of which !
the world never before has known.
Never before in this or any other coun
try was such a combination of science >
and money and devoted enthusiasts en-|
When I ottered him JK.V> an acre he
laughed at me.
gaged In a study of the soil and its
possibilities. Never before did the
American farmer have ho certain arid
so profitable a market as the tremen
dous increase in population is assur
ing him. Not only does each passing
year see millions added to the popula
tion, but each year a larger and larger
percentage of the population is to be
found in cities?consumers, but not
producers of farm products. This in
creasing population has got to be fed,
and there is no more virgin land worth'
mentioning to which it may look for
food.
Yields Must Be Increased.
The increased supply has got to come
through increasing the yield of the i
land already under cultivation, and it
is to this end that science and money,
and devoted enthusiasts are bending
every energy. Not only is it true that
the farmer never before had so much,
done for him, but It is true that never!
before in the history of the world did
government and far-seeing capital ever
combine in swh a gigantic effort to
put money In the pockets of any class
of workers. The farmer who doesn't
better iiis condition year by year is too
ignorant or too lazy or too contrary
to profit by all that Is being done for
him.
A lot of people judge the work of the
Department of Agriculture by the an
nual farce of free seed distribution.
These people are uninformed and un
fortunate. The Department of Agrleul
ture each year Is putting: scores of mil
lions of dollars into the pockets of
American farmers, and at the same
time is benefiting every man who works
in office or store or factory by insur
ing him a more abundant, more varied
and cheaper food supply. People who
see the price of foodstuffs constantly
going higher may be inclined to dis
pute this statement, but students of
economics agree that it is true. W ork
of the agricultural experts has brought
about an actual reduction in the price
of a good many commodities, and in
others their efforts have prevented
prices from being a good deal higher
than they are.
Benefit a General One.
It stands to reason that if the av
erage yield per acre of potatoes and of
wheat and of corn are increased; that
if feeding experiments result in a re
duction of a cent a pound in the cost
of producing beef or pork; that if
eradication of the fever tick makes it
possible to raise beef and dairy cattle
in half a dozen additional states; that
if control of the boll weevil pest saves
scores of millions of acres of cotton
from destruction, the ultimate consum
er is going to share in the benefit.
The farmer Is benefited first, of
course, and after him come the farmer s ?
banker and the manufacturers of and ;
dealers in the goods he buys, but
eventually the benefit spreads out un
til it reaches every man and woman
and child In every city and town and
hamlet. A law as Immutable as those
of the Medes and Persians attends to
this distribution. Food trusts and
combinations of storagemen and mid
dlemen are often accused of gobbling
up the cake and pie and the fried chick
en of national prosperity, but as a mat
ter of fact they aren't able to do much
more than pick up crumbs that fall
from the "groaning" table.
The efforts of the Agricultural De
partment, with Its highly trained and
low-salaried scientists here In Wash
ington; its experiment stations through
out the country. Its explorers search
ing the world over for grains and
fruits and plants useful to the Amer
ican farmers and the American people,
are ably seconded by state experiment
stations, by agricultural colleges, and
by all sorts of associations of persons
and capital, especially by the great
railroad systems which traverse the
agricultural states south and west, the
"grangers," as they are known In Wall
street parlance.
What Railroads Are Doing.
The work the railroads are doing to
promote agricultural prosperity, and,
therefore, national prosperity, is one of
the most striking tendencies of the
age, about which the public has never
been as fully informed as it ought to
be. There is neither charity nor phil
anthropy, of course, in what the rail
roads are doing. It is a matter of hard
business with them, an effort to in
crease earnings by increasing traffic,
but that doesn't alter the fact that the
public is benefited. There is almost
no limit to the things the railroads
have done to increase the prosperity of
farmers along their lines and of their
own prosperity. They have Imported
breeding stock to improve the quality
of beef and pork and mutton, have im
ported and distributed seeds specially
adapted to the sections they serve, con
ducted experiment farms to test ferti
lizers and cultural methods, and have
run demonstration trains with expert
lecturers aboard through every state
of the Union, coaxing and begging the
farmer to put money in his purse by
following newer and better methods.
All this may seem pretty far-fetched
as a reason why we should spend $625
for ten acres of land, covered with
second-growth timber and scrub brush,
which cannot be brought under culti
vation for several years, and which
probably never will pay interest on the
investment so long as T spend six days
a week at my desk In Washington.
Bearing' on Sunny Knoll.
But, In fact, It has very intimate re
lation to our affairs. Tt has convinced
me that agriculture, in any of its nu
merous phases, offers to the man of
limited means the safest and surest in
vestment he can make, and the most
satisfactory and Independent life work
he can undertake. With the country
increasing in population as no other
country ever did, with all the unset
tled areas of this and other countries
about taken up, land upon which food
can be grown is not going to decrease
much in value; it can't burn up or fly
away or be stolen. And with all that
is being done to make the path of the
farmer easy and lucrative, the man of
sound body and average brains who
can't make a good living from the soli
isn't, entitled to make a living any
where.
So, we at Sunny Knoll decided that
next winter and the winter after that
and for several winters beyopd we can
manage to keep warm without a heat
ing plant. We decided, also, that we
can forego taking out partitions and
building open fireplaces with ornate
mantels and several other things we
had planned to do. Taking on this ad
ditional ten acres of land will set us
back financially more than the $625
the land will cost. If it ever is going
to be of any use to us we have got to
havf money for Its improvement. Title
is to pass Monday or Tuesday, and I'll
have .Lee Custis and another man at
work there before the end of the week.
Slow Improvement Is Planned.
Three acres, we have decided, are to
be left in woods, to furnish fuel and
fence posts for all time to come. The
seven other acres are to be cleared as
rapidly as we can afford to clear them.
On two acres there are no trees of any
consequence and the brush is so small
that it will be easily grubbed out.
These two acres may be ready to plow
this fall, certainly by next spring. The
remaining five acres are to be treated
to a very slow process of development.
The first thing will be to cut off all
timber fit for fence posts or cord wood.
I'll keep enough of the posts to fence
in the tract and sell the rest and all
the cord wood except enough for our
own use for next winter. There will
be enough posts and wood to sell, I
figure, to pay for the posts and wood I
k?*ep and for clearing the two acres
which need only grubbing. This will
save us from digging into our sadly
depleted working capital except for
wire and labor for fencing the ten
acres, which I want done soon as pos
sible. For the present I'll put up only
two strands of barbed wire, adding
two more strands when I can better af
ford it.
The five acres from which the tim
ber is to be cut I'll have cleared of
brush gradually and as it is cleared
I'll have grass seed sown. In fact,
there is enough grass now In places
where the trees and brush are thin to
afford considerable pasture. 1*11 have
[ to build an insirte fence to cut off the
two acres which are to be cleared for
plowing, but the rest of the ten acres,
woods and all, will be used for pasture,
until such time as the stumps have rot
ted or I can see a profit in having them
pulled.
('apt. Russell says a few goats and
a drove of hogs turned into the woods
and on that brush land would be profit
able and that the goats would clear out
a lot of the brush. It sounds like a
good scheme, but in order to do it I
would have to put a width of hog fence
under the barbed wire, and the cost
of this would be considerable.
Figuring on Dairy Farm.
We don't need the additional ten
acres for the purposes of our chicken
venture. It is not adapted now, and
could not be adapted without a great
deal of expense, to the purposes of
general farming or truck gardening. A
part of it might well be utilized for the
growing of fruit., especially grapes and
such fruits as grow on trees. This
would. In time, make Jane's canning
! and preserving business independent of
j outside sources of supply, and it is a
proposition very worthy of careful con
I sideration.
Hut the thing that makes the strong
est appeal to me is that the additional
land will make practical dairying op
erations on a small commercial scale.
I know that the path of the dairyman
is beset with many obstacles and pit
falls, but It is the branch of husbandry
that appeals most to me, and I would
like to trive it a trial.
This may sound queer, coming from a
man who was bitterly opposed to hav
ing even a family row. But our vtowa
change and our visions widen with ex
perience. When 1 see the way our one
cow turns raw materials Into finished
products and Into money. It opens my
eyes to the possibilities of the bovine
family. Besides. I like rows. Chickens
and pigs are nil right as business prop
ositions, but they don't make the
slightest appeal to my affections. Cows
(io. The happiest hours I have are
when I am milking and caring for
"Lady." Why, I make a regular busi
ness. morning and evening, of apolo
gizing to "Lady" for having opposed
her advent at Sunny Knoll.
Worthy a Society Belle.
Did you ever smell a cow's breath
when she has Just come In off a clover
patch? A society belle might well envy
it. They don't have anything in per
fume bottles at the drug stores to com
pare with it.
And there is no other member of the
animal family which responds so read
ily and so generously to proper treat
ment. Take a cow of even average
quality, give her clean and comforta
ble quarters, an abundance of clean
water and plenty of clean and whole
some food and she will accomplish
what those foolish old alchemists spent
their lives vainly striving for?she will
transmute baser things Into gold. More
than that, she will do it at the ratio
of a dollar in gold for about 2ft cents'
value in the baser things. If you know
of any way to beat that in the scheme
of getting some one else to work for
you I'd be glad to be advised.
So the combination of cows and
chickens, with bees and preserved fruits
as a side line, is the one to which we
are looking forward. We're not going
to be in any hurry about it. What we
aim to do is to get. a foundation?the
best foundation our means will permit
?upon whioh to build. That applies
both to chickens and to cows. We are
| by no means satisfied with the chick
ens we have, and we may decide to
throw them out altogether. In any
event, our objective for the next few
years will be to Improve our flock in
stead of to take ail immediate profit.
Land Brings Contentment.
Whatever else acquisition of this ad
ditional ten acres may or may not do,
it has brought us into a stat^ of con
tentment. When we first moved to the
country our one ambition was to make
a showing of net profits?the quicker
the better. We felt that we had to show
an actual profit the first year In or
d*sr to justify the experiment. All that
is changed now. Instead of working on
a month-to-month basis or a year-to-l
year proposition we are now working
on the proposition of a lifetime. If it
takes ten years or fifteen years to com
plete our program we will not think
the time too long. Don't get the idea,
however, that we have lost sight of
the desirability or the need of making
it pay. We simply are not in as big a
hurry as we were a year ago.
It seems strange, when we think of it
now, that for thirteen years of our
married life?and for all the years of
my life before I was married?we
simply drifted. My government posi
tion was secure, apparently, and the j
salary no doubt was liberal for the j
value I returned, but there wasn't any
thing in the future for which it. seem
ed worth while to strive. And year by
year we saw my salary diminish, so !
far as its purchasing power was con
cerned, and all the time the need of
larger purchasing power increased. Is
i it. any wonder that we got discouraged
and in a rut?or that any government
clerk gets discouraged?
Put Blame on Congress.
| About the only thing we did was to
j sit around and complain that Congress,
while increasing the pay of its own
members, failed to do anything for us.
We still are of the opinion that Con
gress has been unfair to the govern
| ment clerks, but we can't help but be
lieve that the average clerk could do a
great deal more than he does to im
prove his own condition.
When I get ten acres of our land un
I der a high state of cultivation, 500 to
1,000 chickens, and as many good Jer
sey cows as five acres of pasture and
ten acres of cultivated land will sup
port, I'm not going to care whether
there are any more government jobs or
not. I am assuming, of course, that
when that time comes we will have
Sunny Knoll all paid for and free of
debt, with the house remodeled and
such barns and other outbuildings as
are required all constructed.
So that is our program for the fu
ture. Pending its fruition, the cur
rent program is to hold fast to my gov
ernment Job. 1 am not going to let go
of it until I have a completed plant
! with which to work and assurance,
from actual demonstration, that i can
earn 51,200 a year on the farm over
and above interest on our investment.
If that time never comes, there is orfly
one course left for me. I'll grow old
and gray in the government service,
holding on to my Job and hoping
against hope that some day Congress
will wake up to the needs of the situa
tion and provide for the pensioning
and retirement of superannuated
clerks. K s- M
I r
WAR AND ART.
By Frederic J. Haskin.
In a recent lecture now being pub
lished and sold for the benefit of a war
relief fund. Prof. Selwln Image of the
department of tine arts of Oxford V nl
versity sa>s that the future develop
ment of art in the world will be ad
vanced by the present hostilities which
have Involved such tremendous sacri
fice of ait treasures. "War and art are
not enemies," declared l'rof. Image.
"On the contrary, peace may be the
greatest enemy of art by giving it an
oportunity for stagnation. The gieat
est art works of Creece and ancient
Italy were produced in times of war."
C. It. W. Nevinson, England's greatest
futurist painter, who was one of the
first English artists to go to the front,
has lately been invalided home after
several months of service. Although
serving as a soldier, Nevinson has made
many sketches which are likely to de
velop into future masterpieces. lie
said upon his return: "All artists
should go to the front to strengthen j
their art by a worship of physical and
moral courage which is developed upon
the battlefield. Uniter such influence
they will quickly free themselves from
the canker of professional archelogl
cal antiquarian and beauty worship
ers' Modern art needs not beauty or
restraint, but vitality."
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Many persons may disagree with so
radical a statement, and dread the por
trayal of grue
Sees Unification of battlefields
_ i j which must be
Art Standards. ,jie art ^|ie
near future. Yet the artists who are
now being brought into daily contact
with war can hardly fail to gain a
strength and courage from the experi
ence which a peaceful studio life would
never give. An American art critic pre
dicts a unification of art standards as one
result of the war. He prophesies that
painting will outgrow the confines of
different schools, and will combine the
best elements of all, from the old mas
ters to the cubists.
American millionaires. who have
be/n buyers of European art. have
been accused of vandalism in remav
ing masterpieces from historic settings.
They will soon be regarded as bene
factors to the art world, in that they
have saved these treasures from de
struction. Even a European critic ad
mits rather patronizingly: "A beau
tiful statue or painting is beautiful
wherever placed. It is better for the
world to have it owned by a wealthy
rhilistlne who seeks only the doubtful
glory of personal ownership than to
remain in its original setting at the
mercy of war and plunder."
It is claimed that more than 90 per
cent of the artists of France are now
in the service of their country. A
late dispatch states that 1,800 out of
the 2,000 students of the Beaux in
Paris are now at the front. Gustave
Boisson, the guardian of the Boisson
School anil an artlut of unuxual abil
w:*s an.onc the flrst to be an
bounced as killed. Profs. Brandon.
-VlHRMon. r.eroux and Mareck are in the
nrmj. and moat of the other teachers
or Importance have either entered the
army or turned their studios into tem
porary hospitals for the care of the
Winded. rhis hospital work falls
l r ,K , the battlefield as a means
of bringing the artist face to face with
I',',1",'.?," ?'",K,'lsh The value of such an
. ? ter h.ts been recognized since
, ;J.""K',nn'nK of iirt- A? pnrlv Cireek
i ?r !Rto hav? stahhed a man
.111(1 watched his dying aKony. He
LiJh"i . <,,",ense of his act, that he
L-ro^r.1'- i?. , kno* 'low to "paint a
t * '. *s said that a later painter
strapped his model to a cross and then
stabbed and lacerated his body in order
, ( ? .. m,Kbt the more naturally de
pict the suffering of the crucifixion.
A story is told of a Turkish sultan
who once held Giovanni Bellini a pris
oner and ordered him to paint the be
heading of John the.Baptist. When
the picture was completed the poten
tate pronounced it tame. To empna
? ize his criticism he drew his scimitar
and cut off the head of one of hi3
slaves, saying to the artist. "When vou
paint blood It must look like this.'
*
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I he English painters are not much
behind the French in their patriot 1
it i iam- rhe la41t
Nearly 1,500 British authentic list
Painters in Service. f'T nPa",y
1.500 who
have enlisted in active service. These
include both painters and sculptors.
Such nanus as Robert A. Bell, Philip
< enrad, 'leorgp Clausen, Alexander
Jamison and William Nicholson are
enrolled on the lint. while the best
known sculptors Include. Derwent
Wood. Frederic Poole Walker and
Adrian Jones. Germany has published
no list of her artist-soldiers, but it
is known that few men able to bear
arms are left at home. The same con
dition prevails in Austria, while in
Hungary there? js much indignation
over the defection of Philip Alexis
Laszlo. regarded as the greatest figure
and portrait artist of modern Hungary
At the beginning of the war he be
came a British citizen and is said to
be engaged on some important war
pictures in his London studio. Fie is
regarded as a traitor in his own coun
try. and his three large pictures have
been removed fom the walls of th?
museum at Budapest
The exceptional art collation now
assembled at the San Fran-i-sco expo
sition may he regarded as a positive
demonstration of the art standing of
this nation. Never have such valuable
pictures and other treasures been
loaned for exhibition purposes. Prom
inent among them Js the German col
lection of modern artists which is so
valuable that the exposition has in
sured it for the sum of $50,000. The
i^lVa-i l States government
j detailed the steamer Jason, belonging
to 'he navy, to collect and transport
I the paintings facilitated their cond
ition. I he Jason went over to Europe
l laden with Christmas presents for the
children of the war zone, and it was
permitted to remain until the art
treasures of the different countries
could be assembled.
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The popularity of the military paint
inc. which had been decidedly out of
favor for the last quarter of a century,
is again becoming established. Few
modern war pie
btrong Demand tures are as yet
for War Pictures. "p"n \he mar"
ket. but a
strong demand is in evidence for re
productions of old ones. A painting
by a German artist. Ferdinand Pau
MTels, entitled "Faithful Unto Death,"
represents Christ crowned with thorns
appearing as a vision to a soldier dy
ing upon the battlefield. It is having
a heavy sale in England, despite the
ban upon German art.
A picture entitled "Cease Firing." by
\\ ilfrid Beausquesne, depicts an inci
dent of the Franco-Prussian war. A
young nun walking across the battle
field to minister to the wounded sol
diers is^ herself struck down by a bul
let. "For J,ove of Fatheriand," by G.
Graf, painted in 1843, portrays an in
cident now being frequently repeated
in the European war zone. A beautiful
young woman with a shorn head looks
wistfully at the pile of beautiful hair
which had just been cut. Jtr is claimed
that this picture has created much sen
timent in the minds of women in favor
of sacrificing their tresses in the pres
ent struggle.
I One of the masterpieces of Detaille,
I the most celebrated of the French mili
tary painters of the last generation, is
owned by John Wanamaker of Phila
delphia and has been publicly exhibited
for years. Its reproduction is now under
consideration. it portrays a battle
ground strewn with dead and dying
men and the figures of the great con
! querors of the world from Alexander
| the Great to Napoleon in the fore
j ground, indicating that they had risen
| to power only by the sacrifice of count
| less human lives.
BIG TEXAS CATTLE MAN.
i
The Amazing Figures of His Posses
sions.
From th?* Kansas City Star.
J. M. Shelton, a native Texan, sixty
two years old, and owner of the largest
herd of Angus cattle in the world, says
that Texas is in better shape than
it ever was before. "Our state," he
says, "has plenty of moisture, good
grass, a good calf crop, wheat, corn
and oats in excellent condition, and
w ?> know that under almost any con
ditions we can produce large crops of
kaftir and maize."
Mr. Shelton knows Texas and he
knows how to tell of that state's
greatness. lie was born in Fort Worth
sixty-two years ago, and for the last
thirty-nine years has been in the cat
tle business. Last week he sold 2.O0O
yearling heifers for $8ti,000. and has
between 25,000 and 30,000 cattle on his
various ranches amounting to about
800,000 acres.
A few years ago Mr. Shelton bought
the XIT ranch of 400,000 acres in Hal
lam and Hartman ??counties, Tex. I'p to
that time Angus, shorthorn and Here
ford cattle were bred, but he turned
it into Angus blood. He now has a herd 1
of 9,000 breeding cows and ll.ooo1
steers and heifers, all Angus, on the!
XIT property. The brand has been 1
changed to X on the right hip with I
the birth brand, the number indicating
the year of the birth, on the right \
shoulder. His herd of .Angus cattle is
the largest in the world. They are so
uniform in color and markings, he I
says, that the cows he uses for milk-j
ing purposes are branded with a bat
on the back to distinguish them from
the herd cows.
AT THE OPERA IN PARIS.
An Incident That Aroused the Audi
ence.
I*rem Paris Letter to the \?-w York Sim.
The cheerfulness of the wounded and
maimed is one of the remarkable fea
tures of the war. No matter if the men
have empty sleeves or disfigured faces
with an eye missing or are minus a leg,
they can be seen going about with the
most cheerful view of the future.
A remarkable scene during a per
formance of "La Vivandiere" a few
nights ago is the t? 1 k of the city. Th* !
opera is particularly appropriate for
the present time and the great "Hymn
to Liberty," the climax of an act, al
ways receives an ovation. All the au
dience arose and applauded at this song
the other night except two men in the
uniform of officers.
There were murmurs until it was seen
that the right sleeve of one and the left
sleeve of the other were empty. At
last one man held out his right hand
and the other brought his left hand
upon it to applaud. That ended the in
terest of the audience in the opera. A
great cheer arose. The orchestra quick
ly turned to the "Marseillaise" and the
two men received a reception.
"Had we known our action would
have caused so much commotion we
would have remained quiet," said one
of the men afterward, "hut we did want
to show our appreciation for the great
music.
Outside the Shop Window.
'Copyright, 1915. by W. Werner >
Milbrv \\ ilson had stayed downtown
the whole afternoon. She had gone to
look at some moving pictures and had
, bought a few things at the ten-cent
store. Takfn all in all she had spent
I very little, but she had only a little to
spend. So far she had kept within the
limits of the poorer shopping district,
but now she had come out into the
street, where all the best shops were.
It was the shortest way home..
i The lights were on, for the day was
closing early, and the long street daz
| zled and bewildered with its effulgence.
Overhead signs quivered and crawled
and squirmed. Windows. wer*? pools of
| golden enchantment set to drown th*
I senses of the young and beauty-loving.
; Mllbry was youtik'. For a while she
walked, no more than glancing at the
marvels on either hand Then she
paused.
The window was on- of the I.,: -litest
and kh vest l.oftily stniliiic wax la.lies
In shimmering row us of sat hi and laee
and crystal stood on parade \ ,-hair or
c'" character to the scene, and a
fni i '.n!'.SK of "?hr.vsantlietnumH on a,,
Inlaid table, against a drapery of tap
\'t Vi* ' ' '' ofr deeorativelv. To
* 1 ,r-%' uJ'11 eatne front four" rooms
n. "';f.,?r dark- the slKht was of
incomparable magnificence. .More than
nJl ,T ,?pen^d to her imagination a
5 ?i , ? u'hi?b made her own mis
erably dreary, shabby and undesirable.
twrt ne drew UI> to the <"rb and
two women stepped out. As they en
tered the store they passed so close to
Alilhry that she could smell their per
fume and see the color of the jewels
at the younger woman's throat. It came
j to nor that she must forever be on the.
wrong side of rhe window. It wasn't
iair. She thought that she would have
been twice as pretty in the same fur
aud sapphires as that other girl. And
?she had just as much right to be prettv
in them. What had that other girl ever
LhL'ei t?. '!vs,erv.e lI,em? No more than
e heiself had done. Only somewhere
somebody who was interested in the
girl had made a lot of money. She had
never had anybody to make a lot of
money for her. Larry couldn't. He was
only a trainman now, though to be sure
he expected to he a conductor some
day. They had to be very, very eco
nomical on his wages, especially when
rent and food were so high.
It came to her that perhaps she
I might have done better than marrv
j J-arry. There were other men she
might have had?men who worked in
| the store with her. They had called
her the prettiest saleswoman in the
shop and all the other girls had been
jealous of her. She had earned good
wages and had a good time. She used
to dream that some time a millionaire
or foreign nobleman would wander
casually into the little shop, see her,
fall in love with her and straightway
wed her. But no millionaire or prince
had come?only Larry Wilson, with
J coal grime about his clear. Idue eyes.
He had fallen in love with hf-r and she
j had let him take her away because she
felt that she had loved Inn.
| ^ et had she loved hitn so much after
a!'7 Was he worth all the gay possi
bilities of life which she had given
up for him? She wondered as she stood
; there staring at the brunette wax lady
in coral pink whom she had once
thought she might resemble if the
prince came courting. If she had waited
IT CAME TO HER THAT SHE Ml*ST
ALWAYS BE OX THE WKO.Vtj SIDE
I would not the prince have come? Alas,
i He would never find her now if he did
come.
: A warning shiver told her that she
| had been standing too long in the cold
j and she hurried away. At least she
j w^ould find warmth in the little flat, and
I she needed it. She walked all tiie rest
of the way very fast and she was in
a glow by the time she unlocked the
I door.
I An open window had aired the fiat
! during her absence and it smelled fresh
[ and clean. She closed the window and
I lighted the gas and the heater. Larry's
alarm clock was ticking busily. Glanc
j ing at it, she saw that she had just
j time to get supper before Larry should
| be in after his day's run.
I She tied on an apron. There was a
I patch on the apron. Looking down at
1 it, she thought of the coral pink dress
and her eyes filled with tears. She felt
miserable, defeated. What was there
so very much worth while in her life?
What was the use of living, anyway?
"1 hate life!" she cried out. "It's all!
?wrong. It's cruel. It's unjust. It's|
AX HOUR LATER SHE SAT OX HIS
KXEE.
not my fault that I am what I am. 1
had to take what was handed out to
me. But. as for being satisfied with it,
I shan't be unless I choose."
After all, she cooked her potatoes and
her steak, and set the table preciselv.
Then she took up a book and sat down
to forget herself in reading until Larry
should appear. The book was engag
ing. In it was a girl who reminded
Milbry of herself. The girl's problem
was so like her own that she was car
ried away completely. A sudden sound
startled her, and she glanced at the
clock. It was near 8 o'clock. Larry
should have been home more than an
hour before.
A moment later she was calling the
dispatcher over the telephone; "What
is the matter with Xo. 8?"
A single word came in reply:
"Wrecked."
Wrecked' For an Instant mropmd
after the meaning of the word Ui*
had heard of wrecks. Larry had told
her something about them. And thor*
was Mrs Bree in the same block, whoa*
husband had been killed in the last
awful wreck on this same road. Larry
?suppose Larry was hurt or dead? Shs
must find out from the dispatcher. Sha
put her lips to the transmitter and
tried to speak. Then the receiver Jerked
out of her hand and she feli flat upon
the floor
Presently she thought she began to
hear things She thought she heard
Larry's bis:, hasty step pounding: up the
stairs, accompanied by his whistling,
always off the tune. With that thought
came another, horrible. stinging. Why.
"Larry was hurt- or worse! There had
been a wreck, she not up dizzily and
turned toward the telephone. She must
find out from tin- dispatcher.
The door opened and Larry entered.
!!?? looked at her with a smile. "Hello,
kid"' he said.
She pave :? erv nnd held out her arms
"Oh. Larry, darling"' she sobbed. "You
are alive?alive?alive!"
He held her close. "You bet. We're
all alive. Hut it was a close shave."
An hour later she sat on his knee at
the table while he drank his third cup
of tea. Her arms were around his
neck, her cheek to his.
"oh* Larry, life's beautiful, isn't It?"
she sighed contritely. ? and added
thoughtfully, "even if you always ate
outside the shop window."
Larry laughed boyishly. "I guess t
wouldn't be any more beautiful if ymi
were Inside the shop window." he said,
with just as much wisdom as if ha
understood.
(THE END.)
FROM THE MANIA
| Washingtonian Cables Wife That He
and Her Sister Are
Safe.
MISS DOROTHY CONNER.
Pr. Howard Fisher of the Mendota
apartments. 2220 20th street, and hi*
sister-in-law. Miss Dorothy Conner,
formerly a resident here, whose home
is now In Medford, Ore., are among the
rescued from the Lusitania.
Mrs. Fisher received two cablegrams
from Dr. Fisher early this morning
saying that he and Mrs. Fishers sister
had been rescued and were at Queens
town. "Both safe and well." he said.
Mrs. Fisher had passed a frantic
night after newspaper reports had
brought word of the heavy loss of life
aboard the Lusitania. She is almost
prostrated today as a result of her
fears, and the reaction when assured of
the safety of her husband and sister.
Plans for Dr. Fisher.
Dr. Fisher was en route to England
to assist his brother-in-law. Harold J.
Pickett, a titled Englishman, to organ
ize a British lied <*ross hospital unit
as a gift to the government. The unit
was to have been composed entirely of
Americans, and was intended for serv
ice in Belgium. Miss Conner was to
Ihave served as a. nurse.
j Dr. Fisher is a brother of Walter L.
Fisher, former Secretary of the In
i terior and a son of the former presi
dent of Hanover <*oltege. He has been
a practicing physician in Washington
for fourteen years, and previously saw
[service in India. II.- has a son in school
at Andover. Mass.
F. J. Gauntlett Among Survivors.
The name of Frederick J. Oauntlett of
Washington, foreign representative o'
the Newport News Shipbuilding and
| Drydock Company, appeared on the
first partial list of Lusitania survivors
received by the State Department from
Queenstown. No mention was made of
-V L. Hopkins, president of the same
company, and also a passenger, but
only a small number of the names had
.been received.
Mr. Uauntlett lived here at the Park
wood apartment house. 1746 K street
northwest. Me left home April 24J, and
sailed ?m the Lusitania as representa
tive of the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Drydock Company. Mr. Gaunt
lett's destination was London, where, it
? is said, his business was of a confl
? dential nature. He was joined in New
j York by A. L. Hopkins, president of
j the company.
| His Office in Home Life Building.
I Mr. <iauntlett has law offices here in
the Home Life Insurance building, 15th
and streets northwest. He came into
prominence as the representative of
the <*reek government at the time of
the sale, a year ago, of two battleships
??f the 1'nited States Navy to Greece
That transaction ?*arried with It the
delivery to him of a check for several
millions of dollars, which he handed
over to the Treasury in Washington in
payment for the warships in question
A former Washingtotiiaii aboard the
Lusitania was <' Frank Williamson,
whose father. Harry W Williamson,
lives in Washington at the Landover
apartments. The younger Mr. W illiam
son has been living in Paris, where be
is in business as a dealer in antiques.
He came to America last October with
Alfred W Vanderbilt and took a cruise
with the latter on the Vanderbilt yacht
to South America. Mr. Williamson is
between thirty-eight and forty years
old.
mi. ? ?
TRANSYLVANIA IS CROWDED.
Liner Sails for Liverpool. Many Hav
ing to Be Left Behind.
NEW YORK, May S.?The British
steamer Transylvania of the Anchor
line sailed late yesterday for Liver
pool. a few hours after news of tho
Lusitania's sinking had been received.
The Transylvania's cabins were crowd
ed. her agents said. There were 87?
passengers aboard, and others who
wanted to go, according to the line,
could not be accommodated for lack
of room.
Capt. John Black, who was recently
transferred to the Transylvania from
the British auxiliary cruiser Columbia,
commanded the ship.
"I have been hunting for a submarine
ever since this war began," was his
comment on the Lusitania. "I only
hope 1 see one on this trip, and that^
she comes close enough for me to ram
her."
"Do you expect to fly the American
flag when you reach the war son#?** he
was asked.
"No, sir. I'll take my ship to port
with the flag of England flying, or not
at all." he replied.