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Ramsi B6fi " CHAPTER XIV.?Continued. ( ?17? > '; B paused, then chattered briskly t '& I "Well, there's one good old boy s with our class for a while, back i vBt?shniau year; I !:et we won't see t ? in any good old army ! Old rough- 1 }^^Lln*kl that you put the knob on ( !y;Bose for. Tomuile Hopper says he > ^Bhlm last summer In Chicago soapyellln' his head off cussin' every I i ^B-nment under the sun, but mostly t Ht Band the allies', you bet, and going V Bn the eartb b-v revolution and rep- i %^kntives of unskilled lubor lnunl- 1 ' > -1 y that can read or write t > vote, except LlnskL Tom- f plj&fBPper says he knows all about t he never did a day's work In e ?too busy trying to get the i Ingmen stirred up against the peoat exploit 'eui! Tommle says he | big crowd to hear him, though, i |k>k up quite a'little money for s se' or something. Well, let him b ! I guess we can attend to him u we get baek from over yonder. ? orge, old Itam, I'm gettln' kind t >py in the gills !'* He udminis- c a resounding slap to his cow- c shoulder. "It certainly looks us u big days were walking toward s a ? * t pas right. The porieutous days r )ii apace, and each one brought s and greuter portent. The fuces s u lost a driven look besetting n the days of badgered waiting, 1 stead of that heavy apprehen- 11 le, saw the look men's faces must u yorn in 1770 and 1861, und the * of the old days grew clearer i' new. The President went to ^ igress. and the true indictment > Je there reached scoffing J*ots- v Ith an unspoken propheyysome- ? shilling even to Potsdam, one c i?und theu through un April | e vent almost quletty the steady u we were at wajVwith Germany. | I (bugles souiKjfctf across the eonti- 1 Wruiiis an/Q fifes played up uud H Ihe city/streets and in towu and I squiyfes and through the coun- j kr^alntly in ull ears there was jl Ufitudinous noise like distant, 11 r cheering . . . and a sound s at was whyt Dora Yocum Jieurd, k |ght, as she sat lonely in her The bugles and fifes and drums k?n heard about the streets of lllege town, that day, and she v |t she must die of them, they R ?r so, and now to be haunted by 1 aginary cheering? (started. Was it Imaginary? went downstairs and stood upon ( ps of the dormitory in the open [o; the cheering was reul and [It came from the direction of Iwav station, and the night air land beat with it. iv her stood the aged Janitor of lldiug, listening. "What's the [g for?" she asked, remember- 0 illy that tlie janitor was one of i s qualntances who had not yet ! ? 1 "speaking" to her. "What's j, iter?" I j n good matter," the old man f ed. "I guess there must be n j wd of 'em down there. One of ? tudents enlisted today, and I j givlif him a send-off. Listen *>p Hid!> #i,? />hoi>r Hp's the ? ??fHwent back to hor room, shiver- j spent the next day in bed i PcH1 ac'^'n? head. She rose In the s Good Matter," the Old Man Anhowever?a handbill had be^n Sweatier her door at five o'clock, call- ( ByB'Mass Meeting" of the unlver|||&,B eight, and she felt it her duty Br/ Bhut when she pot to the great found n sent in the dimmest Bf.vl furthest from the rostrum. president of the university ad- ' p Bi the tumultuous many hundreds ? iilin, for tumultuous they were j flfi Be quieted them. He talked to i ?ft;\Boberly of patriotism, and called B Biom for "deliberation and a lit- ; ?l&Bence" There was dancer of a B^Bfie. lie snid. and he and tlie rest faculty were in a measure re1 Vile to ttieir fathers and mothers ?Wi,n' B. B' "Uist keep your heads." he' 5??V'B"God knows. I do not seek to B^Byour duty In this gravest mo- ! your lives, nor assume to tell B^~,Btat you must or must not do. Fl|?irryi?g into service now, withBM BmI thought or consideration, 21|?|gte- impair the extent of your I VrvM: Befulness to the very cause Plfjp.' , ^Kpxious to serve. Hundreds . SBfe' //'A i: 11 >! i n 1111111111111111111111111111111111 m 11111 3y Milh BOOTH TARKING lllllllflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!! )f you are taking technical course vhlch should be completed?at lens :o the end of the term In June, ir .tructors from the United States arm, ire already on the way here, and mill ary training will be begun at one 'or all who are physically eligible urn )t acceptable age. A special cours vill be given In preparation for flylnjj ind those who wish to become aviator nay enroll themselves for the cours it once. "I speak to you In a crisis of th mlversity's life, as well as tliat of ttv lation, and the warning I utter ha >een made necessary by what tool dace yesterday and today. Yesterda; norning, a student In the junior clas 'nllsted as a private In the Unitei States regular army. Far be It fron ne to deplore his course in so doing ie spoke to me aboilt it, and In such i vay that I felt 1 had no right to dls uade him. I told him that It wouh >e preferable for college men to wal intll they could go as officers, und iside from the fact of a greater pres igev I urged that men of educatioi ould perhaps be more useful in tha a pa city. He replied that If he wen iseful enough as a private a commis ion might in time come his way, and s 1 say, I did not feel at liberty to at empt dissuasion. He left to, tofri i eglment to which he bad- been as Igned, and many of ye>u were at tin tation .to bid him^farewell. "But enthusiasm may be too con agious; eveij.'a great and insplrlni nouve maty work for harm, and tin fivers^,}- must not become n desert n t?ie twenty-four hours since tlia I'tftig man went to Join the uriny las light, one hundred and eleven of ou oung men students have left ou rails; eighty-four of them went off to :ether at three o'clock to catch ai ast-bound train at the junction un< nlist for the navy at Newport. \V< re. I say, In dnnger of a stampede." He spoke on, but Dora was not lis eniug; she hnd become obsessed b; n idea which seemed to be carryin; icr to the border of tragedy. Whei lie crowd poured forth from the build ng sh6 went with It mechanically nd paused in the dark outside. Shi poke to a girl whom she did no now. "I beg your pardon?" "Yes?" "I wanted to ask: Do you knov rho was the student Doctor Crovi; poke of? I mean the one that wai lie first to enlist, and that they weri heering last night when lie went awa] o be u private in the United Statei rmy. Did you happen to hear hi: a me?" "Yes, he was a junior." "Who was It?" "iium.sey Miiholland." CHAPTER XV. Fred Mitchell, crossing the campu: ne morning, ten days later, saw Don tanding near the entrance of her dor iiitory, where he wouid pass her un ess he altered his course; and as hi Irew nearer her and the details of lie ace grew Into distinctness, he was In lignant with himself for feeling les: nd less indignation toward her in pro tortion to the closeness of Ids ap ironcli. The n'tv that came over liiti vas mingled wivh an unruly adtuira Inn, causing him to wonder what un mtrlotlc stuff she could be made ol >he was marked, but not whipped; slv till held herself straight under all th< lammering and cutting which, to hi ;nowledge, she had been getting. She stopped him, "for only a mo nent," she said, uddlug with a wai iroudness: "That Is, if you're not on >f tliose who feel that I shouldn't b spoken to'?" "No," said Fred, stiffly. "I ma sliare their point of view, perhaps, bu [ don't feel called upon to obtrude I >n you in that manner." "I see," she said, nodding. "I'v ,van ted to speak with you about Ran sey." "All right." She bit her lip, then asked, abrupi y: "W'hut made him do It?" "Enlist as a private with the regi lars?" "No. What made him enlist at all? "Only because he's that sort," Fre returned briskly. "He may be inej [dicable to people who believe that hi going out to tight for fiis country I the same thing us going out to con mit a niur?" She lifted her hand. "Couldn you?" "I beg your pardon," Fred said f once. "I'm sorry, but I don't know ju: how to explain him to you." "Why?" He laugneu, apoiogeucauy. -\vei you see. as I understand It. you don think It's possible for u person to hav something within him that makes hii care so much about his country tht he?" "Wait!" she cried. "Don't you thin I'm willing to suffer a little rath< than to see my country in the wronj Don't you think I'm doing It?" ALWAYS "SKEL1 Egyptian Merrymakers Had Custo Which Mu6t Have Been Something of a Check on Revelry. Accounts which have come dov of Egyptian banquets indicate thi among the wealthy people and tho Egyptians who were "in society" tin were very elaborate affairs with great variety of rich and high-spic< and high-priced food and many win ?wines rare and strong. Iiut no matter how jovial and ha py and hilarious the feast, a inumn was there as a reminder of deal At the conclusion of the most su stantiul part of the banquet and win XXXJCJ iimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimmiiimiiiimiiiiimii idland rTON Copyright by Dmibtodey, Page 6 Company iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmimmiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiii s "Well, I don't want to be rude; bu1 t of course, It seems to me that you'r i- suffering because you think you kno> y more about what's right and wron I- than anybody else does." e "Oh, no. But I?" d "We wouldn't get anywhere, prot e ably, by arguing it," Fred said. "Yoi asked me." s "I asked you to tell me why he er e listed." "The trouble Is, I don't think I cai e tell that to anybody who needs nn he e swer. He just went, of course. Ther s isn't any question about It. I alway k thought he'd be the tirst to go." y "Oh, no!" she said, s "Yes, I always thought so." ii "I think you were mistaken." sn a said, decidedly. "It was a special rea ; son?to make him act so cruelly." i " 'Cruelly'!" Fred cried. - "It was!" 1 "Cruel to whom?" t "Oh. to his mother?to his fnmllj i. To have him go off that way, wltlu* - a word?" 1 "Oh. no; he'd been home," Fred cot 1 rected her. "He went home the Satur s day before he eulisted, and settled 1 ;[m JlSl 5 She Lifted a Wet Face. "No, No! H u Went in Bitterness Because I Tol Him To, in My Own Bitterness!" * with them. They're aU broken up, o 5 course; but when they saw he'd mad up his mind, they quit opposing him and I think they're proud of him abou it, maybe, in spite of feeling auxiou; You see, his father was an artillery man In the war with Spain, and hi grandfather was a colonel at the em of the Civil war. though he went Int s it as a private. like Ramsey. He die* I when Ramsey was about twelve; bu Ramsey remembers him; he was talk ing of him the night before he enlisted. Dora made a gesture of despairinj r protest. "You d??n't understand!" "What is it I don't understand?" 5 "Ramsey 1 I know why he wentand it's Just killing me!" Fred looked at her gravely. "I don' II .1 . - I- 1 I. tl I, 11UI1K yvu HVVU WWII} um'ui II, II sai-1. "There's nothing about his gc ,* lug that you are responsible for." ' She repeated her despairing gesture "You don't understand. But it's n use. It doesn't help any to try to taJ: of it, though I thought maybe it woult somehow." She went a little neare the dormitory ^ entrance, leaving hit where he was, then turned. "I sup pose you won't see him?" "I don't know. Most probably no v till we meet?if we should?in Franct 't I do ft know where he's stationed ; an t I'm going with the aviation?if It' ever ready! And he's with the regi e lars; he'll probably be among the fir? to go over." "I see." She turned sharply awa; railing back over her shoulder In I. choked voice. "Thank you. Good-by! But Fred's henrt tad melted; gazin i- after her, he saw that her proud youn head had lowered now, and that lie '" shoulders were moving convulsively d he ran after her and caught her as sh c- began slowly to ascend the dorndtor Is steps. Is "See here," he cried. "Don't?" 1 - -r oV.. I T1 ). Slie llllCM a wei uice. .><>, no: n went in bitterness because I told hii 't to, in my own bitterness! I've kLlle tiim! Long ajro, when he wasn't tnuc it more tlian a child, I heard he'd sai ?t that some day he'd 'show' me, and no' he's done it!" Fred whistled low and long when sb 1, had disappeared. "Girls!" he mu 't mured to himself. "Some girls, an; e how?they will be girls! You can m tell 'em what's what, and you can it change 'em, either!" Then, as more urgent matters r.gai k occupied his attention, he went on i 'f an ardent and lively gait to attend h class in map-making. (TO BE CONTINUED.) ETON" AT FEAS1 * m the wine began to flow most free! i an attendant, perhaps one of the wal ers. would carry around a cofiin co tabling the Image of a dead bof ,n carved in wood, and as the Greek hi at torian. Herodotus tells us, "made i se like as possible in color and worktna ?y ; ship, and in size generally about 01 a or two cubits in length." The bus ed ness of the waiter was to show th es to each member of the gay and Jo ous company and say, "Look upon thl p. then drink and enjoy yourself, f iy when dead you will be like this." h. Herodotus wrote about 2,500 yea b- ago that "this practice they ham ; all their drinking parties." uuuAn TT vxiaviixvjuu, vnui f PROGRESSOFRADIo' 1 THROUGH THE YEARS ? Wireless Research Began Lonj Ago, But Development Has * Been Swift Lately. e Wireless research started man; v years ago, as far back even as 1827 g Even the radio telephone Is not a re cent perfection; rather it Is that Intro duction to the layman of the hurnui h voice and music hus suddenly populur a Ized something that wireless men ha< thought a pastime or amusement. Hen i. is the chronological record of wire less: n 1827?It was found that the mag i. netic discharge rrom a le.vaen ju: ? would magnetize a steel needle. 3 1831 ? Electro-magnetic lnductioi was discovered between two entlrel; separate circuits by Michael Faraday 1837?Cooke and Wheatstone o e London, England, and Morse of th< ? United States take out first patent fo: electric telegraph. 1838?K. A. Stelnhell of Munlcl suggested that a system of wlreles: telegraphy could be established afte: ills discovery of the use of the eartl t return. 1840?Joseph Henrv (U. S. A.) pro .. dueed the first high-frequency elec .. trie oscillations, and stated that thi t condenser discharge is oscillatory. 1843 ? Wireless experiments weri k made by S. F. B. Morse by electrb i, conduction through water acrosi Washington canal and across wld< rivers. 1843?A wireless system for trans atlantic communication was suggested 1845?Water was used as a conduct Ing medium In wireless experiment across a wide river. 1849?Intelligible signals were act ually sent across a river 4,500 fee wide in India, but the cost was foun< prohibitive for commercial use. 18G7?The electric waves that ar< now utilized in wireless telegraph; and telephony were predicted in ai iB jmh , - * v |Hk ! J d Elizabeth A. Bergner, Radio Instructor j/ and H t address before the Royal Society lr London, England. e 1880?The sending of an electric cur rent through earth was systematical ly studied by John Trowbridge o Harvard. It was found that signal Ing might be carried on over lurg< 1 distances between places not conneetet = Dy wires. h 1SS5?It was found that telephone speech could be conveyed by lnductlor ' over a space of quarter mile. Tlili 0 experiment took place in England. k 1889?Electric waves were sug ' gested as being particularly suitabh r for the sending of signals througl 11 fogs. lS92-r-An instrument for the detec tion of electro-magnetic waves wai * discovered which was given the naim - of a "coherer." ^ 1894?A scientist of Berlin signale< s through three miles of wuter. ]' 1895?High frequency waves exciti ,f curiosity of Senutore Marconi. 1890?First patent for practice ^ wireless transmitting system is tukei ? out in London by Marconi. Afterward successful signaling was carried ou K over distances us great as one an< S , one-quarter miles. Sir William I'reeci >r of the British postoflice system in tercsted his cohorts in Marconi's wire e less experiments. v 1897?Marconi establishes communl cation between points four miles dis tant. Balloons were used to suspem e antennae. 'J ! Marconi demonstrates his wireles: ,J system before tbe King or nuiy, com 1 municating with two Italian warship nine miles distunt. The first Marconi station is erectei on the Isle of Wight and experiment ie conducted over a distance of 14 miles r" Near the end of the year the firs I' floating wireless station was success } fully operated. 1 1808?The first paid marconigran was sent from the Isle of Wigh n station. 1800?Reports made on lighthousi is accident by radio. First French gun boat is fitted with radio apparatus. Ii Vienna communication between tw< ~ balloons is established. New Yorl r Herald receives radio report of inter national yacht races. The British wa office introduces Marconi anparatu ~ 'nto the South African buttlefields. y 1000?German vessel communicates i itn ? iy jj Jg" HIS WIFE Is S?m? tonlc' ft I Mi M distance or uO miles t>> nv.r.r scnn.s 1001?Uadlo communication started with five Islands In the Hawaiian group. The first British ship is fitted with the wireless telegraph. | 1002?Radiograph signals received aboard vessels at sea at 1 ,f?00 statute miles. Signals received from a dis t&nce of 2,000 miles. ' 1003?King Edward receives a ra* dlo message from President Roosevelt. High-power stations were ordered by the Italian government. First trans3 atlnntic radio message sent. Telegraphic news service for ships at sea is started. Marconi knighted in Russia. 1SXH?The first press message was 7 sent across the sea. 300fi?Patent suit started in New - York between the Marconi and De For> est company. * Patent for horizontal directional w aerial is taken out. This was a great 3 step forward In long-distance work. e 1U00?International conference Is - held in Berlin, at which most of the countries of the world are represented. 1907?The use of stee'l disks for r producing notes were succesaiunjr tested. i Radio stations in Ireland and Nova 7 Scotia were opened for limited public service. f 190S?Radio stations opened for uns limited public sendee between Great r Britain and Canada. 1909?Steamship in collision with ani other, off the coast of Florida sucs ceed^ln calling assistance by radio, r 191C?Mnreoni receives messages 1 6,700 miles while on board ship going to South America. Spanish radio company formed, v 1911?Cunadlan government leased e radio stations for 20 years. 1912?Radio distress signals from 2 the Titanic bring assistance and save 2 lives of 700 passengers. 3 1913?Tests were made between the 2 Eiffel tower In France and the station at Washington. During the trip - into Central Asia an explorer received L his longitude and time signals from a - distant radio station. s 1914?Marconi and radio officials start test of wireless telephone bo tween vessels of the Italian fleet. The t test was continued between vessels on 1 the high seas and voices were heard with clarity at a distance of 44 miles, e One duy radio telephone communica7 tlon was kept up constantly for 12 i hours. Great Britain declared war in Lane Technical High School, Chicago, er Class. 1 upon Germany August 4 and all private radio telegraphy and telephony - suspended. 191"?Itndlo communication betweeii f America and Japan is completed. The - stations were located at San Francisco i and Tokyo with a relay station at llon1 olulu. The American Telephone and Tele: graph company succeeded in radio teL l ephoning from Arlington station at i Washington to Hawaii, a distance of nearly 5,000 miles. Secretary Danie'a of the Unitfd i States navy transmitted telephonic 1 messages from Washington to tie Brooklyn navy yards. 1010?President Wilson and the ml5 kado of Japan exchange messages 2 over the new transpacific radio service, which is formally opened. 1 1917?Senatore Marcojii visits the United States and aids greatly in ree cruiting for radio operators for Pie United Stutes army. 1 1918?Wireless telephony progressed i rapidly, being used to a great extent [, in the equipment of airplanes, t Several new long range stations 1 were erected in the United States, it s being claimed for one built at Annapo lis, Md., that it was capable of com municatlon at 4,000 miles. The United States government also opened a high. power station at Bordeaux. In September of this year radio sigj nals sent from a point 12,000 miles away were received in Sydne", Auss tralln. 1919?With the exception of the s three transatlantic fllghrs?that of the U. S. NC-4, and the British llights of j Alcock and Brown and the dirigible a j It-34, In which radio communication i ! niaved an important part in keeping t fhe slilpg of the air on their courses? i- no very great progress was made In radio telegraphy, nlthough radio telea phony was being pushed along quietly, t Restrictions upon amateur receiving and sgpdlng were lifted by the Amerie can government. i- 19120?This was the year of the radio i telephone, more attention probably be0 in^ paid to this branch of radio than < to Its older brother, telegraphy. Severnl broadcasting stations were opened r 1921?This year was another radio s telephonic year. It wns marked by the opening of numerous broadcastlnf a I stations. One Must Be Amused. "How did you happen to lose your cook?" "I blame the motion-picture industry," said Mr. Gadspur. "How so?" "She didn't like the kind of films shown in our neighborhood movie theater."?Birmingham Age-Herald. O Always. When you buy admiration you are compelled to pay for It regularly If you wish to keep it. : TARIFF TO DELAY CLOSE OF SESSION / CONGRESSMEN NOW REALIZING THAT EARLY ADJOURNMENT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE. SENATE AND HOUSE DISAGREE Administration Is Relying on the Former to Curb the "Dangerous Economy" Legislation Affecting the Country's Military and Sea Forces. By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington.?The seuute of the United States is about to occupy itself with tariff legislation. The bill affecting the customs passed the house a long time ago and hus been in the keeping of the senate committee on finunce. There Is wide disugieement between the senate majority and the bouse majority concerning the form which part of the tariff legislation should take on. No one knows how long the tariff fight will continue in the upper house, for already the leaders are beginning to hedge a little on their prophecy of an early adjournment. It ulways hus been this way. The records of the fifteen yeurs Just passed show that early adjournment prophecies are dangerous to the reputations of the congressional prophets. August 1 Is j now the day set by some of the leaders ! us the earliest possible date for the getting away. It may be that snow | will fly once more before the legislators find they can quit their law makj lng jobs. It is no secret that there Is disagreei ment between the administration and j the majority party in congress, es, pecially in the house, concerning some of the legislative doings of the representatives. In the senate Re: publican leaders are preparing to fight the house legislation which provides for an aWny and navy personnel which the house would have reduced to little ; more than a corporal's guard for eacn service. Disagree as to Army and Navy. "It Is said that the administration is pinning its faith on the senate to undo some of the so-called economic doings of the house. Some men go so far as to say that the administration believes thut some of the legislation I to which the representatives have given their adherence actually threatI ens the safety of the country. Of : course, this feeling has to do with the great cuts in the military and sea i forces which have been voted by the ; house of representatives. It can be taken for granted that General Pershing and General Hafbord, the chief and the assistant chief of staff, in their recent addresses on the subject of army legislation, were buttressed in their belief that for speaking their minds they would i escape criticism and possible attempts : to discipline them, because they feel J that the administration thinks as they I do on the subject of virtually legislat' Ing the army out of existence, i Apparently President Harding does 1 not believe that the country thoroughly understands the nrniy and navy situation. He does know, of course, as | congress knows*, that the people are willing that material reductions shall ; be made, but he feels apparently that | they do not realize that, in the belief 1 of the administration and of other officials of government, the reductions proposed by the house may. endanger i the institutions of the country. Men who watch things political say I that if there were no congressional campaign coming on. such troubles as there are between the administration and the majority in congress would attract less attentfrm. The Republicans In the house naturally enough are working for their re-election, and they nre attempting to meet what they believe to be the desires of the people, even if these desires spring from a misapprehension of the clrcumstnnces attending the subject of national defense. Attitude of the President. The same men say that the President, of course, desires that a Republican congress shall be reelected, but that he also desires that the people should know the real facts in the legislative case, and should be led into ' a willingness to vote for continued Republican control of congress, not through misapprehension, but through a knowledge of what the adminlstra; tion considers to be existing facts, i Report has It that President Harding will make no political speeches I rhirinir the congressional campaign. Friends of the administration say that tills determination has been made because the President does not wish to carry before the country any different which he may have with his party in congress. In case of disaster at the polls he might he accused of having inadvertently helped the Democrats. ' t The Democratic leaders are pleased over the present situation. They say the President does not care to stump fhe country because he believes he would be heckled on the results of the international conference, and on the differences between him and the Republicans in congress on the subjects of the bonus for former soldiers und the great reductions proposed in the personnel of the army and navy. April for D. A. R. and Children. April in Washington is the month of the school children and of the Daughters of the ' American Revolution. Grammar and high school puORIGINAL "RIVALS" A rival was originally any person who used the same stream. As experience shows, there is no such fruitful source of contention ffs a water-right. Neighbors would be often at strife with one another in regard of the period during which they severally had a right to the use of the stream; turning it off into their own fields before the time; leaving open the sluices beyond the time; or in other ways interfering with the rights of each other. \ jpiis come from jfli over the Lnited / States at this season to see congress at work and to look upon the monumental reminders rf events in their country's history. The Daughters of the American Revolution in this month hold their annual convention. They gather In their beautiful Colonial Memorial building which recently was the scene of the open sessions of the great international conference for the limitation of armament and the solution of Far East problems. The building is worthy of the organization which erected it. One needs neither prose nor poetic license to speak of the delegates to tne convention as "f air uuugniere, for they are a body of comely women, and the 'shadows of the forefathers that are supposed to float about the capital city of the land need not fear that a flush will steal Into their cheeks or a frown furrow their brows at the sight of degeneracy In their descendant daughters. When spring comes the guides In the capital whose duty It Is to pilot visitors about earn their daily wage with half the usual effort, for the guided ones In large majority are Daughters of the American Revolution. The guides who are obliged to make themselves t'red in explaining things to the ordinary tourist, simply walk ahead and point to picture or bust, and the tongues of the Daughters do the rest. Know American History. If there Is anything that these descendants of Revolutionary sires do not know gbout American history, or If there Is any fact or figure in the whole line of colonial ancestry that Is not deeply Impressed upon th75Yt minds, the guides of the capital have yet to discover the weak point In the armor of the Daughters' knowledge. These "Revolutionary children" gather from all the states In the Union. It is not hard to separate Uito localities of birth and upbringing those who attend an afternoon service at St. John's Episcopal church, an historic J ? cnuren wnicn araws many ui mo Daughters to Its services, Irrespective of their Individual religious affiliation. St. John's church is called seralJocosely the Church of State, because so' many Presidents have worshiped within its doors. There is no special service at the church for the Daughters of the American Revolution. They drop in simply to take part in the regular service and to see the historic building from the pew view. Perhaps the spirits of the ancestors of these church-going Daughters still dwell within them. There are some from Massachusetts with the Ironside blood in their veins, and there are some from Tennessee and Kentucky who, in the person of their ancestors, went'over the mountains, and in whom the old Covenanters live' again. Then there are the Virginians, the New Yorkers and the South Carolinians? Daughters so to speak of the old brick sanctuary at Jamestown, of towering Trinity, or of gray St. Michael's. Daughters of Varied Ancestry. At the evening sen-ice at St. John's it may be that some of the descendants of the fighters of Cromwell's army or of the Covenanters of Scotland look upon the marble altar, the cross and the candlestick with something of the ' feeling with which their forebears regarded these churchly belongings. Certain it is that their ancestors struck hard-fisted blows at things savoring of prelacy. It may be that, true to family tradition and to the division line of things spiritual, tne uesceuuurua ui. independent and Presbyterian sit during the chanting of the creed, while their sisters whose ancestors had stood for church and king until they were forced to cut the bond, and to help kick the king out of partnership, make amends for their companions' ritual shortcomings and kneel and pray in the good old high church way. Yes. this is April in Washington and the school children and the Daughters either are here or are coming. The.school children all want to shake hands with the President of the United States. On one day recently there were 400 people, most of them children, awaiting at the doorway of the White House office building the one o'clock opportunity to grasp the hand of the Chief Executive. These school children come from all over the country. The school teachers, It Is said, recognize that a trip to Washington Is wholly Justifiable because of Its educational value. Famous Painting in Boston. In the busiest part of Boylston street, in a little room over some ^ stores, visitors to Boston are some times taken to see a strange combination of a sacred shrine and artistic studio. The room, says the New York Mail, is scarcely large enough for half a dozen people to stand up In and a large part of one wall Is taken up by a picture which is known ns "The Lost Raphael." It Is a "Madonna and | Child''?a very beautuui picture ue| yond question, and religiously believed by Its discoverer and owner, as well ns by u great many other people, to be the authentic work of Raphael. The owner Is named Duffy. Mr. Duffy is a man of artistic cultivation, who literally has devoted his life to this picture since his discovery of It. He sits by it an day long and Is willing to discourse about it at great length. In his little studio he has received many distinguished visitors, all of whom, he snys, believe in the authenticity of the picture. On the book where his visitors register their names nre the signatures of the king of the Belgians and the king of Slam. T?here are a great many people who haw a superstitious veneration for the picture. So it was thut "rivals" came to be applied to any who were in competition with one another. Honey and Wax in Church Ritual. Honey and wax were early believed to have medicinal and magical properties. and were, of course, used for sacrificial purposes. Their ritual value is apparent aiso in me cnnstian can, for honey was formerly given to babies during baptism, and the., tapers in churches today are supposed to be of pure bees' wax.