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Evening star., 1912-09-01

r WAS never strong advocate of the
idea that women ought to propose.
= said the red-headed man. Still, |
know one woman who took matters neg
locted by bashful suitor into her own
hands and wound UP the business SO
neatly and in SO novel a manner that she
won plaudits from everybody who ever
heard the story.
This woman was known the county
over as Aunt Patsy Mitchell. Aunt Patsy
lived alone in a big red brick house that
was set down in the middle of an immense
yard. The yard at one time was we'll
shaded, but the trees had been felled one
by one until nothing remained standing
but few cedar trees and one monstrous
oak. This oak stood in a corner not far
from the front fence. 1t was the most
perfect specimen of fine. symmetrical
forest tree to be found in that part OF
the country, and Aunt Patsy had always
been very proud OF 1t. It's a grand type
Of endurance she had often been heard
TO say. Why, perfect as that tree is,
it ought to be standing 500 years from
now
X
knowing those to be her sentiments.
the surprise of the neighbors was un-
bounded when 1t was learned that Aunt
Patsy had sent for two wood-cutters and
had ordered them TO chop down the oak
tree three feet from the ground
"A few days after the tree had been
felled and dragged away / was walking
past Aunt Patsy's house with Walter
Craig. Craig was a man who had man
aged my fathers farm for several years
From the top of his head to the sole OF
his foot Craig presented very peculiar
appearance, but his most striking single
feature was his mouth. That organ was
kept wide open day and night. sleeping
or waking. Craig really had very good
sound sense, especially in all matters per-
tanning to the management OF farm, but
his gaping mouth gave him an appear
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sport shooting these little birds without
boat has been questioned. At May
hew's. near Lincoln Beach. just beyond
Benning bridge. there is a long tongue
like strip of land between two marshes.
Here the huntsman may stand and shoot
the birds as they cross from one marsh
to the other. That is he may do so ii
Mr.. Mayhem does not object. and he
never has. This is the only place nearby
where the boat gunner can shoot reed
birds with any degree of satisfaction
The hunters who go out tomorrow and
for few days thereafter will carry No.
IL or L. shells. After the first week they
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all, the managers. of the other two par
ties couldn't very we'll afford to lag
behind.
After the campaign is over and it Is
no longer necessary to struggle madly
for votes, the sudden and suspicious
interest taken by the willy campaign
suddenly subside. and che suffragists
may fall back to the condition they
were in before the feverish interest be-
gan On the other hand. the suffragists
nected with the political organizations
are suffragists-say that no matter
which party wins, the impetus given
this year to their movement by the
recognition of their ability to think and
work along the same lines as men will
do more to popularfze the sunragist
cause than anything that has happened
in the history of the movement. The
that interest in their cause will sub
side. predict that there will be suf-
frage plank in the platform of every
party four years hence.
To many people the proposition OF
vbtes for women sounds like the last
word in progressivism, but how far be-
hind the times they must feel when
they realize that already the suffragist
cause has advanced far enough to ad-
init of split in their own ranks into
progressives and conservatives There
is a large body of suffragists who
frown upon the idea of their sisters
allying themselves with any political
party whatever. on the ground that
non-partisan attitude will accomplish
much more for the cause. These are
the conservatives. The radicals or pro-
gressives are the women who have
gone right into the republican. demo-
cratic or bull moose organizations ahd
are fighting hard to elect their respec-
tive candidates to the presidency. be-
lieving that each candidate. in his own
way. will bring to a realization the good
they are fighting for
AS matter of fact. very little is be-
ing said about votes for women by any
of the women connected with the three
parties. Laws to better the lot OF wofn-
en- and children are what is being
urged. and each organization is doing
everything possible 10 prove that this
result will be brought about more rap
idly by the election of Gov. Wilson MIR.
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covey. of birds and aims and if he has a
double barrel gun and is not slow he has
second shot. BY that time the f1ock is
out Of range.
The birds are very plentiful this year,
and probably by the time the guns are
loaded another flock is passing. Half as
many birds as shots is fairly good aver
age. while the birds are dying. says an
old reedbird hunter. But about IL o'clock
the birds have all settled down in the
marshes to feed on the wild rice that
grows there. The gunners push up their
boats and get out and wade in order to
come up to the birds. While they are on
the ground feeding it is quite possible
Evening star., 1912-09-01
Straps and Seats.

Paris Is monkeying with straps and
hinged seats in the street cars. or.
rather i'm the auto buses, as Paris
scarcely has such thing a street car.
Strap hanging, as an occupation was until
now unknown to the benighted Parisians.
But the decline of the famous omnibus
with their imperials. from which one
could see Paris and sop up the rain by
turns. and the entrance of the auto buses
of one story have upset the traditions Of
the capital
Parisians call the strap hangers "sec~
ond-ciass passengers" by courtesy, or.
perhaps by contumely. The third-class
passengers'' are those who grab hinged
seats i'm out -of-the-way corners and prac-
tice eauiiibra ton thereon. The end of eN-
perirnentation is not yet. collapsibie and
movable tripods are suggested for short
armed passengers. Nho are otherwise
seatless Hooks on the wall for hanging
babies and window seats are possibilities.
In any case Paris has come down from
her second story imperial
So far from having solved the problern
of civic transportation. the French peo-
pie have only begun fumbling whore We
want to leave OF.
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Patsy has been carving your face. IT'S
YOU she's going to marry.
Craig dropped the lines and his mouth
flew wider open than ever. I laughed
like little fend.
shes left your mouth open just like
that I screamed. She says that's where
the bees are to go in at
Craig said never word even then.
He left the horses standing in the fur
row and ran out to the pike and started
toward Aunt Patsy's on the lope II was
past noon when he returned.
It's all up with me- he said, solemn
ly. 1T does look like me- II really was
me she had fixed her mind on. If Id
only Known
"'What would you have done, Craig, ie
you had known? I asked
II guess mebbe I'd asked her first
said Craig"
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get a few sf1ots at The reedbirds before
they have learned to fear the huntsman
guns and TO fy 50 high as to be difficult
marks. Still others. eager for good shoot
Ing will go up in launches TO Joe Baiieys $
hoathouse or to Pat Shanleys or Joe
NIiller's and spend the night aboard IN
Evening star., 1912-09-01

"A shion plates. The new pannier skirt
has biszened forth. but the real innova-
tion seems To be the close-ftting sleeves
made of quite different matcrial from
the rest of the dress. This is a very
new idea, and at the same time very
old one.
In the earliest inventories of the ward
robes of the women of the American
colonies there are found listed so many
pair Of extra sleeves. The old paint
Sings OF those and still earlier days show
dresses with sleeves contrasting not
only in material, but in color Like most
Of the boasted newest things. IT is really
but furnishing mp of some old fashion
that our grandmothers had discarded
as out of date.
In matters Of fashion one generally
looks forward to what is to be. and
seldom glsnces at the fashions that
have passed. Woman despises nothing
more than last years styles. Our an
cestresses. too. had the same feeling.
They waited anxiously for the latest
things from Paris. Even in those good
old days before the camera had made
possible the modern fashion plate. and
when the periodicals now dedicated to
her use were as yet undreamed of.
-hJHc. StSit, III the person OF the lead
ing modistes and milliners. sent out reg
ularly to waiting world modcls-in
reality nothing more than large jointcd
dolls. They Were dressed in the latest
fashion, their costume complete even to
the minutest detail. Their hair done i'm
the latest way. hair ornaments. rings and
bracelets were added and their complex
ions were such as are worn by the ladies
Of the best fashion in Paris
An unwiftinRly humorous account CT
the anxiety with which the women OF the
Evening star., 1912-09-01
ON THE MARSHES NEAR BENNING

will use No 10. For the little reedbrds
will have learned to fear the gunners and
to fly much higher up.
But tomorrow morning. when the birds
begin their morning flight all unsuspect-
ingly, then will be the real treat. Then
dozens of Washington hunters with boats
and guns and hundreds of shells, will
start out through the marsh. From day
break until 10 or IL o'clock in the morn
ing the birds are flying about, Offering
beautiful marks for a good shot, As each
flock passes by every gunner picks out his
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oNlOkRoN II '
open sea son for
reedbirds begins.
and late tonight
the III street and
the Colu m b / A
Heights cars Will
carry ont 10 the
lighthouses enthusI-
astic hunters who
want TO be on hand
when the morning
fight begins and
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tieth birthday next month and is still
we'll and robust and still great hunter.
He says he will not go up to Benn!ns
bridge tomorrow because he has to go
out to make arrangements about place
he is fixing up for duck shooting this
winter. And any way, he says. Rennins
will be dangerous tomorrow There VIII
be too many people there and in the tall
grass one is apt to get shot. not seriously
of course. for the little No. IL and L.
shot, rule. can do a man no serious
damage But bird shot are extremely
uncomfortable on the wrong side OF the
skin. Uncle Billy has been hit by
bird shot several times and has no mind
to try it again. He says he, prefers the
Patuxent. Not that there are any more
BIRDS but because there are fewer peo-
pie The season on the Patuxent does
not begin until September l3 and he is
planning to be on hand with his pusher
bright and early to help open up the
season
In this region there are several clubs.
and the club license. of course. suffices
for the members. These. however, have
no exclusive rights. as tideWater land Is
public property. One reason that hunt
ers on the Patuxent river are fewer than
at Benning bridge is probably that it is
a little less accessible. To get there one
takes the Chesapeake Beach train and
gets off at Mount Carmel IT is about
eighteen miles. Another and bigger
reason is the license. This costs s1l. Com
paratively few District men get the
license to shoot reedbirds The season
is too short and the game too limited to
Justify the expense. And on the PatuXent
it is illegal to push one S own boat and
the additional expense of a pusher must
be counted on.
These pushers are amusingly jealous or
one another, and the rivalry between them
is very keen, each one desiring to have
what they call the high boat"-that is,
the one from which the greatest number
of birds has been killed during the season
II pusher happens to get poor marks
man or one who knows little about reed
bird shooting then he becomes tired very
early in the day. But. on the other hand.
if he gets good and experienced marks
man there Is no trouble he Will not take
Evening star., 1912-09-01
WITH Opening of Season

WITH Opening of Season
w Tomorrow Hundreds of
Washington Hunters Will
Seek Sport in the Marshes
Where and How to Hunt the
Reedbird - Hunting From
Boats-A "Pusher" an Ex-
pensive But Necessary Lux
ufy - Where the Reedbird
Comes From and Where He
Goes.
Evening star., 1912-09-01

And the women of American cities
looked forward no less eagerly than their
English sisters to the coming of the pup
pets. The American woman of those early
days who lived in the small town or on a
plantation had to wait even longer for
her fashions and to trust to what was
probably a more unreliable source than
the doll-baby mademoiselles of the cities.
The itinerant peddler with his pack and
his ready tongue was almost her only
source of knowledge OF fashions DEGREES.
Even the Puritan women In the Massa-
chusetts colony shared the universal
feminine passion TO follow in Dame
Fashions train. And the laws the Pill
grim fathers passed to limit them in
matters of dress sound strange to modern
ears. NO garments shall be made with
short sleeves. one of them reads, land
such as have garments made with short
sleeves shall not wear the same unless
they cover the arm to the wrist. and here
Evening star., 1912-09-01

POW that the shop windows
show that autumn is approach
N ing. and with IL the time for
new outfit. all Of feminine
WASHINGTON is studving the
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day awaited the arrival of these fashion
dolls from Paris is found in letter from
one lady to another in an issue of the
Spectator of 172S.
u was almost In despair Of ever seeing
model from tho dear country" she
wrote. when last Sunday heard a lady
in the pew next to mine whisper to an
other that at the Seven Stars. in King
street. COvent Garden, there was a made
moiselle, completely dresved just come
from Paris. ! was in the utmost impa-
tience during the remaining part of the
service, and as soon as ii was over. having
learnt the milliner's address, / went
directly to her house in hing street, but
was told that the French lady was at
a person of quality's in Pail Mall. and
would not be back until late that night.
i was therefore obliged to renew my visit
this morning, and then had full view
of the dear puppet from head to foot.
You cannot imagine how ridiculously We
have all been trussed up during the war
and how infinitely the French dress ex-
cells ours
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after no person whatever shall make any
garment for women with sleeves more
than half an ell wide.
The wearing of gold and silver lace
and of silken scarfs was also forbid
den. One interesting fact stands forth.
Any one having less than 200 pounds
sterling was held to strict account in
dress, but the wealthy and those of GER
tain rank, even the stern old Puritans,
let alone.
1t is amusing to note in connection
with the long-lived custom. which is not
yet entirely obsolete, of wearing small
black patches on the face to make the
skin look fairer by contrast. that these
patches once had a political significance.
In the days of long ago ladies with
tory sympathies wore these patches on
the right side. of the face. while those
with more liberal tendencies put them
on the left.
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Patch boxes were in the early part of
the nineteenth century as much in evil
dence as the vanity box of today. They
were filled with these small black
patches cut in every shape. and under
the lid was a small mirror-as in the
vanity box-to aid in the proper adjust
ment Of the patches These boxes were
made Of silver, ivory or tortoise shell.
and were often very costly. Nine. Style
has never been famous for her economy
The fan, too. was in high favor. No
eighteenth century lady felt her costume
complete without one Of the pretty
trinkets. On these were painted various
events of passing interest. There is one
extant representing the separation of
England and America. and various other
political events were chronicled. There
were fortune-telling fans. calendar fans
etc. all exquisite and costly.
The dresses of the earlier colonial days
were beautiful, but must have been very
uncomfortable to the wearcr A woman
SO attired could never have lived in
a Washington apartment for the skirt
was made to stand out by the farthingale
"a large padded affair, worn around the
waist and looking more like q round life
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for good marksman TO get several birds
with one shot. But a great many of the
birds killed in the marshes are lost. Hunt
ers put the percentage lost as two out
of five. When night comes the snakes
come out and eat the dead birds that the
hunters have failed to bag.
Last years record for a single days
shooting seems to he held by Messrs.
Richard L. Connors and Frank Syman-
oskie. They were at it from daybreak
until about 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
when they We're forced to stop because
their ammunition had given out With
300 shells they killed nineteen dozen and
eleven birds. But this record was far
surpassed by that made three years ago
by Uncle Billy" Wagner. the dean of
the District hunters" With a pusher
Uncle Billy went ont and spent the
day on the Patuxent. BY evening he SAYS
he had bagged forty-one dozen. Uncle
Billy was at the time siAtyseven years
old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-25
NEGRO ARRESTED
 AFTER LONG CHASE


 Deputy Sheriff Walter McAdory, Jr, in company with Deputy Constable T. F. Williams Deputy Constable T. B. Par sons and deputy sheriff from Montgom- cry, W. G. Bridges. early yesterday morn ing brought to an end chase of two years, when Calvin Walker, negro, was arrested at 917 Mortimer avenue, in Cray mont.
 Walker is wanted in Montgomery county for the forgery of mortgage notes at the state capital two years ago. Deputy Sherif w. c. Bridges left yesterday morning for Montgomery with the pris- oner where he is wanted on an indictment of the grand jury.
 Walker has led the authorities a hot chase for two Years, and at two different times has escaped from custody in differ ent parts of the state. Last week the sheriff at Montgomery received informa- ton which led him to believe that Walk CT was in Birmingham, and after making arrar.sements with Sheriff McAdory he sent Deputy Sheriff Bridges to this city In a serch which eliminated in the negro's capture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-25
BANKERS EXPLAIN
 FAILURE IN CHINA

New York, September 24s-The Amerf< can bankers represented in the six power groups of bankers which offered to f- nance the Chinese government reorganiza- ton. Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co, Kuhn Loeb & Co, and the First National bank and National City bank of New York, issued tonight a statement regarding their failure to get the loan.
 The conditions upon which the groups were prepafed to make the loan were submitted to the Chinese govefnment,'. says the statement. and were declined by it, not because of the financial terms, but because of the safeguards required.
 After the most careful consideration of conditions in China and the difficulties of the Chinese government. these re- quirements were deemed to be essential. On these terms loan would have been considered by the groups to be sound investment despite the provisional charac- ter of the Chinese government. But we got such safeguards they would not feel justified in offering the bonds to the public. Neither were the governments willing to support nor the groups to un- dertake a loan which would SO largely increase China's debt without insisting upon the inauguration of reforms which would enable her to sustain it.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-25
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

Mathematician efforts are made by the Indian bureau to apprehend the sayers of Robert Lee Bowman. special liquor agent of the Indian bureau, who was shot and killed near Caney, Okla, September 9.
 Nashville, Tenn.-Governor Hooper was overruled today in his effort to increase the Tennessee assessment of the Memphis bridge, owned by the Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge company, from S1,500,000 to 2,5000O0. State Treas urer Taylor and Secretary of State Good Joe of the state board of equaffzers op- posed the governors action.
 Augusta, Ga.-No violence was attempt ed by the striking carmen of the Augusta Aiken Electric company when four street cars manned by strixebreakers and guarded by police, were operated here from noon until dark today
 Havana.-The American charge d 'airaires has presented an urgent note to the Cuban foreign office. requesting that at tention he paid to the $40,000 claim of American contractors on government work.
 Hot Springs, Ark.-District Attorney
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-25
SECOND MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN FAMILY

Denver Colo, September 4.-The sud- den death here last night of James c. Wheeler of Hollis. Long Island. who came to contest the will of his daughter who was drowned here recently under unordinary circumstances is considered by the authorities, mysterious Wheeler and his attorney came here last Friday and each registered at hotel under as- sumed names. The attorney now is very sick. Physicians say Wheeler died of ura emic convulsions.
 Miss Wheeler had $l250o life insurance and about s2500 in cash. In will she bequeathed $100Oo to her fiance, Otto Meyer of Minneapolis Dr. J. H. Meyer, his brother, was to be administrator of the estate for which he was to get S50O0 according to the will.
 The body of the girl was not found un- til ten days after her death and insur- ance companies caused it to be exhumed when claims were made. It had been reported the body buried as that of Miss Wheeler was that of another woman. This was disproved. It also was reported all Miss Wheeers jewelry had been re- moved from her apartments before her death.
 James Wheeler's suit to have the will set aside had been postponed until Oc- tober 3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-25
BLOWS TOP OF HEAD OFF WITH SHOTGUN Believed Family Troubles Caused Perry Farmer
 to Take Life

Marion, September 24.-(Special)-E w. Tucker committed suicide at his home 16 miles north of Marion on Monday by shooting the top of his head off with shotgun. The only cause given for his act is melancholy over family affairs. 2 His son is con- fined in the county jail and will be tried for murder at the present term of court. Mir. Tucker was a member of the largest family in Perry county, and although he made few pretenses as to his means, had comfortable home and was well known in his community.
 - A
 Marions little postoffice Tuilding has become inadequate to the demands of the town. with the increased college attendance. the great activity in com mercial pursuits and the unusual amount of mail gong out as well as coming in the office will soon be in second class and the government will necessarily seek new and more commo- dious quarters.
 The criminal court is in session this week, and Judge Miller will make an effort to clear the docket so as to start out next spring with a clear criminal court record
 The board of county commissioners were in session on Monday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-25
MAINTENANCE OF
 LEVEE SYSTEM IS A
 NATIONAL PROBLEM
,cont,nued From Page one,


 government when such levees shall have been protected by revetments that prevent the banks from caving and the channels from changing.
 "We cannot solve the floor problem either by state action or by levees bullt by local levee boards.
 I've must turn to the federal govern ment for solution of the entire prob lem of river regulation. and when we do that we will get protection, and protec- ton from floods will mean record break ing development in the valleys of the MIS- sssippi. the Ohio and the Missouri
 "The Mississippi river and its tributaries are the great drains of the nation. The government would not permit us to dam or check the flow of these drains since anything of that sort would soon change the farms and the towns of the upper country into bogs.
 why, then, should anybody say the its national drain in order. or will hesitate to safeguard us in the low country from the drainage of the northern, eastern and western states once we shall have made our case clear and our claim heard?
 "In my opinion. this convention can not do better than to indorse the Newlands' river regulation bill. now pending in lile House and Senate at Washington. and then adjourn That bill Is based on the only principle that can ever solve our flood and overflow problem. The details of the bill may need amendment, hut if we talked here until doomsday we could not bring to light better principle