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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
Little Stories for Bedtime.
PETER RABBIT SPREADS THE NEWS.
BY Thornton w. Burgess.

1t was great news. Peter Rabbit
could hardly sit still in spite of his sore
foot He looked up at the little stars
and winked back at them and wondered
if they knew, too. And he wished and
wished that jolly round red Mr.. Sun
would hurry up and get out of bed.
Peter was so impatient that it
seemed to him that Mr.. Sun was lazy
and dreadfully slow in getting up that
morning. though really he wasn't at all
1t was just Peters Impotence that
made II seem so.
Why was Peter Rabbit so impatient?
Why. you see Boomer the Nighthawk
had dropped out of the sky late that
evening and had stopped to gossip with
Peter Rabbit, who. instead OF being
nicely tucked away in bed like Johnny
Chuck and Happy Jack Squirrel, was
sitting on the edge of the old briar
patch nursing a sore foot and wonder
ing if it was safe for him to go over
TO the sweet clover patch for something
TO eat. Boomer had told Peter some
news that made Peter forget that ne
was hungry. and l tell you what' IL
takes a great deal to make Peter Rab-
hit forget his stomach. The news was
about old Granny Fox and Reddy Fox.
and as he listened Peter could hardly
sit still.
What was the news? Haven't you
guessed? Why Boomer the NiGhthawk
had lust come from far away Oiu
Pasture on the edge of the mountain
and there he had seen old Granny FOX
and Reddy Fox sneaking along In the
blacklist shadows so that no one would
see them. They We're going very. very
slowly. because Reddy was so sore ana
lame. where he had been shot by
FARMER Browns boy, that it was all he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
Flesh and Bones of Engineering

From the Boston Transcript.
The startling suggestion has been
offered by Prof. Archibald Barr emil
nent among British engineering
talent, that engineering works
need not necessarily be ugly to look
on. This is contrary to received opin-
ion. We have all accustomed ourselves
to keep house with the idea that a
railroad bridge. necessary for getting
across the river. is unavoidably a scar
on the landscape which must be borne
with a patient shrug. IdealiZe it i'm
aginatively, if you like, as a steel cob
web or skeleton of PROSTATE Titan. and
pass 1T by. An engineer admitting that
his profession owes something to public
beauty bears welcome tidings.
This is more than matter of indi-
vidual opinion or personal taste. 1t can
be sound1y reasoned from the funda-
mental principles of art and architec
ture. Prof. Barr argues that efficiency
in engineering (about the only cri-
terion hitherto acknowledged is sell
dom if ever incompa tible with beauty.
The>most fastidiOus critics of architec-
ture declare that the true elements of
beauty spring from the perfect adap
tation of the structural means to the
structural end. The Parthenon exhibits
this in it's utmost simplicity. with or
n::mentation severely SubOrdinated to
the structural scheme. The finest types
of cathedral architecture are those in
which each buttress, mullion, arch or
clustered column represents some
structural function. When this is for
gotten, and the design runs riot among
overlooking ornamentatiOn, the quality
of the art deteriOrates. This has al
ways been one Of the quarrels with the
architecture of the Renaissance; it ap-
piled the structural members of the
classic style to tasks for which they
were never intended: often purely or
namental: pleasant. specifically, to the
eve perhaps, but superfluous to the
construction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
Wives on a Salary Basis.
From Current Litcra turc.

From Current Literature
This question is suggested from time
to time in the daily press. Earl Barnes,
in an article on the Economic indie
pendence of Women analyZes the prob
lem and reaches the startling conclu-
sion that a womans wages should be
one-half of what her husband earns.
There was "A time, he explains, when
women themselves were regarded as
property. In those days woman had no
property rights. Only gradually did
women gain the power to hold property
for themselves. Mainly because fathers
wished to preserve property in their
families, the right of women to inherit
became slowly established AS civiiiza-
ton advanced. Today. in civilized
lands. a womans rights to property in
herited or definitely given her or pur-
chased by her. are everywhere recog-
nized, if she does not marry. Woman's
body too, is increa Singly recognized as
her personal property, although iE vary
ing degrees according to the laws and
customs of different countries. In re-
gard to her labor. however. she has not
yet achieved economic freedom. One
must remember the writer goes On to
say. that not only is there no fixed
standard of values in human service is
yet but that many indispensable forms
of service. usually performed by women.
have not been recognized as valuable.
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and the atmosphere in his happy home
was too thick to go through an ordinary
screen. Yet that old man fattened on ii
and never had anything the matter with
him. and neighbors who slept on their
roofs or lawns in order to have plenty of
fresh air contracted diseases of various
kinds and died. in spite of all that the
doctors could do.
health publications, and always did the
thing they denounced as fatal. l remem-
Der when there was an epidemic of some
thing, and people were dying hand over
first. The doctors investigated and made
the announcement that the epidemic was
due to using city water That water was
ful1 of big sorrel germs with b!aZed faces 8
and those germs were deadly. The only
way to avoid the disease was by drinking
distilled water. So every man. woman
and child In town. except old Clinkberry.
began drinking distilled water
AS soon as he learned that the city
water was dangerous, that perverse old
man fairly wallowed i'm it. He drank
tub with it. and soaked himself there by
the hour. Well, sir. he was the only man
in town who didn't have the disease. Ii
was mighty annoying to see that old
reprobate chasing around hale and hearty.
while the rest Of us We're in the hands of
the doctors.
"One day that contrary old cuss was
in the corner grocery, and the grocer was
Dragging that he didn't have thing in
his shop containing benzoate of soda
Clinkberry asked what benzoate was. and
the grocer explained that the board of
health denounced it as deadly poison.
From that day forward the old man
wouldn't buy anything in the canned or
bottled line that didn't contain benzoate
Of soda, and he insisted upon using alum
baking powders and everything that was
repudiated by the health authorities and
it was simply disgusting the way he
thrived on such things.
When he was 1O7 years old he was as
spry and clipper as a grasshopper and
looked good for another hundred years
but he was foolish enough to marry Mrs
Grump. a frivolous thing of eighty years
and she began coddling him and taking
great care of him. and he couldn't stand
that sort of treatment. He wj1ted and
died. Had he been let alone he'd be with
us today, professor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
Asters and Goldenrod.
From the Baltimore sun.

From the Baltimore sun
The poets are responsible for great
deal of mawkish sentimentality. as well
as some beautiful sentiment regarding the
moods Of nature. Ruskin, in one OF his
earlier works, had sentence something
like this:
The hills to the left sank away in a
long, low, sad-colored line.
In new edition. twenty or thirty years
later he added foot note saying that
this was all bosh: the line was such as
would always be made on cloudy day,
with mist in the air. and had nothing
either sad or glad in 1t.
Which was not exactly true. yet we
appreciate his maturer feeling when VIC
think of the nature-faker bard who spoke
of the autumn days as melancholy and
1.-The saddest of the year.
What liz there melancholy in the days
of autumn. in crisp, cool mornings that
add to the energy of every human being
that turn the woods into. Hastings and
Trainings of riotous color. red and russell
wineShnd crimson, gold and garnet ano
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
JEFF DAVIS FIRST MARRIAGE.
Opposition of Gen. Taylor, Brides
Father-Place of Wedding.
From the st. Louis Times.

FROM the 81. lOu1S Times.
The handsome old country home OF
Maj. and Mrs. William Christy, in which
Jefferson Davis was married to Miss Sarah
Knox Taylor, daughter of Maj. Gen.
Zachary Taylor, L. s. A, Mexican war
hero and later President of the United
States. still is standing at I'd and Mon
roe streets, but soon will be wrecked to
make room for progress.
The old home is one Of the landmarks
Of st. Louis. The Missouri Historical So
ciety members recently visited the place
and are preparing to erect a tablet to
mark the spot where Maj. and Mrs:
Christy entertained with a lavish hand
for SO many years.
The house was built in 1918, while Maj.
Christy was public auditor. He had been
cOmmander-in-chief of the Missouri terri
tory, judge of the common pleas court
and register of the land office Of the
territory.
When the house was built it was two
miles from the town, surrounded by sew
eral thousand acres Of farming land be-
longing to the major. The ground in front
of the house to the river was parked. and
negro ca bins crowned the rising ground III
the vicinity of Broadway.
The house Is tWo-Story fOur-room
affair. built of limestone and OF unusually
pleasing proportions. There is a basement
d
fashioned fireplace. Every room in the
building was heated by CRATES of generous
size. The stairs leading to the upper floor
were protected by handsome balustrade
of black walnut, which is still in good
condition, except the Stats have been
kicked out by vandals.
Jefferson Davis and Miss Taylor were
married in the house in 1885. shortly after
Davis had resigned his commission in the
United States Army. Mrs. Christy was an
aunt Of Miss Taylor.
Gen. Taylor. "Old Rough and Ready"
opposed the match. and after trying for
two years to reconcile her father to her
fance. the young woman took affairs into
her own hands and came to ST. Louis
from Louisville. Ky, where she was visit
ing relatives. Lieut.. Davis met her here
and they were married.
The young couple went to Brerfield,
a plantation owned by the bridegroom
in Mississippi. and began cotton raising
on large scale. Mrs. Davis died Scptem-
Der Is. the same year of her marriage.
Davis second wife was Varina Howell,
daughter of W. B. Howell. owner of the
Briers, an extensive plantation near
Natchez, Miss. The second marriage took
place February rs, 1915. and it was not
until then that Gen. Taylor became recon-
ciled to his former son-in-law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW.
ON LONGEVITY.
BY WALT MASON.

THE miracles of the past were as MOTH
ing when contrasted with the probable
miracles of the future remarked the
professor. Il have just been reading an
article by an eminent scientist. who points
out that men will live $50 to 200 years
when they follow certain rules which he
outlines
your eminent scientist has a loose
pully in his thought works." said the low
browed man. THE time may come when
the ordinary man will live a couple OF
centuries, but that will be when some
body invents patent medicine that will
make 1t impossible for a man to die
unless somebody shoots him. This thing
Of following rules sends people to un-
timely graves instead Of making them
indestructible. Whenever YOU hear of a
man hundred years old or more you
may take it for granted that he has no
use for rules of any kind. Whenever he
finds that there's something the matter
with him he goes to the drug store and
buys a bottle of medicine and cures him
self before the disease gets serious. That's
the only way to live forever.
II don't suppose you remember old
Clinkberry, who died several years ago
at the age of 1O7. He violated all the
rules in the books ever since he was a
kid. He ate five or six meals day and
swallowed his food whole. He was al
ways too hungry to waste time chewing
things. The way that old man gorged
himself was a caution to boa constructors.
1t should have killed him off in his youth,
for all the doctors and health sharps say
that we should eat slowly and chew
everything for several hours before swal-
lowing it. Clinkberry just threw in his
victuals with hay fork and thrived on
them. When he was 100 years old he
could eat whole mince pie and then go
to bed and enjoy the smoothest kind of
dreams
"He was always opposed to fresh air.
He kept the windows of his house closed
and even plugged the keyhole so no fresh
air could get in. He was smoking to-
bacco all the time when he wasn't eating,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
THE FIRST BUFFALO ROBES.
Tanned and Sold by Indians OF
Western Kansas.

| From the Kansas City Journal
Out in western Kansas one still fire.
quently sees an old plainsman drive into
town covered with buffalo Overcoat or
buffalo laprobe in the winter time.
However. buffalo robes are becoming very
scarce and in a few years they will en-
tirely disappear.
There was a time when Kansas fur
nished buffalo robes for the world. No
we'll regulated family on an eastern farm
was without one. They were not only
very warm. but reasonable in price.
1t was the kaw Indians who first mar
keted buffalo robes Later. manufacture
ers, seeing the vast profit in them, made
them by the thousands and supplied the
world. But the manufactured Or patent
tanned robes did not last as long as the
robes tanned by the Indians. In fact. it
is said that the robes now in service We're
those tanned by these Indians many
years before the white man began to tan
them.
The Indian women did the tanning.
They fastened the green hides to a set of
frames just like grandmother used to
fasten her quilts to. when she made them.
The SQuaWS would then take blunt IN
strument. resembling a hoe, and work off
all the flesh and membrane from the hide.
They called it ''fieshing." Then they
would rub the skin for several days with
heavy. smooth-surfaced club. until all
the grease had been driven out of the
hide. They used no chemicals at all in
tanning. Only hides from bufaloes killed
late in the winter We're used in making
robes as the fur was then heaviest.
Before the kaws threw the robes on the
market they used them in making moe
casns and winter clothing, also for cover
ing for their tepees. But when a market
was established for them and the Indians
would get real money. or real food, or
real whisky for them, buffalo tepees soon
disappeared from the reservation.
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could do to walk at all When Peter
RABBIT heard that he knew that Granny
Fox and Reddy Fox had moved away
from the Green Meadows and Green
Forest. and that when Farmer Browns
boy found that out he would no longer
hunt on the Green Meadows and in
the Green Forest with his dreadful gun,
frightening all the little meadow and
forest people so that they did not dare
put their heads outside of their own
doors. Now, Peter was impatient to
tell the news. and it did seem as if Mr..
Sun never. never would get up.
But he did. Just as he does every
morning he pulled his nightcap off.
kicked off his rosy blankets, and began
his daily climb up in the blue. blue
sky. He hadn't more than started be-
fore Peter Rabbit was on his way to
Johnny Chuck's house. Usually when
Peter Rabbit is in a hurry he goes very
fast. indeed. lipperty lipperty- lipperty-
lip. just like that. But this morning
Peter had to run on three legs. but it
seemed to him as he ran down the
perty-lip-lip, just like that, that he
never would reach, Johnny Chuck S
house.
Johnny Chuck was just starting out
to look for his breakfast. but he for
got all about it when Peter told him
the news.
"Hurrah!' shouted Johnny Chuck and
tried to turn sOmersaUlt. Then he
and Peter hurried over to tell Jimmy
Skunk. and the three fastened to tell
Striped Chipmunk and Danny Meadow
Mouse. and then hurried down to the
Smiling Pool to tell Billy Mink and
Little Joe otter and Jerry Muskrat and
Grandfather Frog. AS fast as they
could they spread the news over the
Green Meadows and through the Green
Forest. and just like Johnny Chuck
everybody who heard it shouted "Hur-
rah!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
A Famous "Bone Cave"
rom the Wide World Magazine.

From the Wide World Magazine.
An extraordinary "bone cave may be
seen in the island of Teneriffe. 1t is sit
uated near the summit Of lofty sea
cliff near Orotava, close to the small
plain Of lie Paz, where peace was finally
made between the conquering Spaniards
and the Guanches. the original inhabit-
ants Of the island. Here the Guanches
made their last stand, and this cave
formed a shelter for the small remnant
left of the tribesmen after the Spanish
had finished with them In former times
the place had evidently been a burial
ground of the Guanches. and when first
discovered a number of mummies We're
found in it: now however, only a huge
pile of bones remains. Access is obtained
by descending rope through hole dug
in the roof. but the original occupants
must have had difficult and dangerous
scramble down the face of the almost
PERPENDICULAR cliff to the natural en-
trance.
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Byron Feared Being Fat.
From the London Chronicle.

Byron was a striking exception to Sir
Francis Cations theory that notabilities
are great eaters. For Byron dixie many
less clever people, had a morbid dread
of growing fat, and was wont to mortify
the flesh accordingly While at Athens
he drank large quantities of vinegar and
water, and seldom ate more than a little
rice, and at another time he restricted
himself to six biscuits day. Again in
1876 he lived on a thin slice of bread
for breakfast and a vegetable dinner
keeping down hunger in between by
chewing tobacco. And he achieved his
end. for the last time he was weighed
he went 10 stone pounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
Japan's Congested Spot.
from the Strand.

One Of the most densely peopled spots
in the world is O-dori street. Toxic. The
long thoroughfare known as Gina. which
runs from near the Shimbashi railway
station TO Spectacie> bridge, is made up
of several streets with different names.
some wide and modern. some old-fash-
Toned and narroW, and - the earth We're
suddenly to- gaze open wide i'll that por-
tion known O-dori street. at any hour
az the day. there il no other thorough
fare in the Japanese city where the re-
suits To human life would he more fatal.
For here the tide of human life runs the
highest. But O-dori street is extremely
narrow, So that the density of the crowd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
Famous Wet Goods.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
II was a bright idea Of the citizens Of
Maiden to present the President with
samples of every local manufacture. but
if the example is followed advise the
President to avoid Milwaukee, Louisville
and Newark.-NeW York Sun.
But why omit Peoriaa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12

brown; that edge the fields with the rare
combinations of asters and goldenrOd?
Spring with it's freshness, summer with
its fruits. winter with its sparkle and
cheer-there is one glory of the one and
another glory of the other, but the glory
of none is equal to that of the fine au-
tumnS of MARYLAND.
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does not make the daily figures much
above the 10000 mark Unlike most of
the other important cities OF the world,
this thickly populated commercial dis
trict OF Toxic Is situated outside the city
walls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12

If you want work read the want col
umps of The Star.
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Markers for Graves OF
Men in All Wars.

civil war. provision has been extended fol
marking the graves of the soldiers who
fought in other wars.
Since the marking of graves has beer
brought to public notice there are con
tinually being reported graves of soldier;
in old cemeteries in small towns which
have been neglected, bat of which au.
thentic proof can be furnished that the
decea sed at one time fought in the service
of his country.
In this way graves of soldiers of the
revolution, the war of 1872 and the Next
can war which have been found to be
in a neglected condition are being carec
for and marked by the government as a
tribute to the memory of the men who
risked their lives ir their countrys de.
Tense.
The same provision has also been made
for the marking of the graves of all army
nurses who held regular commissions OF
who did volunteer service.
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| Virginia. AndersOnville is especially in
| teresting as it was the location Of one OF
| the famous Confederate prisons during
| the civil war and many of the deceased
| died during their Imprisonment. This
| cemetery contains 13.722 graves and all
| but $50 have been identified. In Green
vile. Tenn, is a national cemetery which
has received especial attention since In
! it Is buried Andrew Johnson, former
President Of the United States. This only
! contains six graves, all Of which are
. known.
At Jefferson barracks. eighteen miles
from st. Louis, the national cemetery has
one of the grandest natural locations IN
the world, being situated 800 feet above
fine view of the bottom lands upon the
| west This cemetery provides resting
places for 1921 soldiers. Of which about
5000 are unknown. 1t is beautifully kept.
although complaint has been made that
few trees are provided. At Fort Glib
son. Okla. and at Santa Fe n. NJ. there
are national cemeteries chiefly occupied
by soldiers who fell during battles with
the Indians in the conquest of the great
west. There are 2.412 graves at Fort Glib
son. most of which are unknown. The
Santa Fe cemetery contains a little more
than LOCO graves, about half Of which
are known. The national cemetery at San
Francisco includes over thirty-seven
acres and contains many fine monuments:
Over 5000 soldiers are buried there, of
which less than 500 are unknown.
Pennsylvania is the most northern
state to contain a large national cemetery
Gettysburg Visited are located
by Hundreds Annually one At Get.
tysburg is most celebrated, as it is Wis
tied each year by hundreds of people
from all parts of the country. 1t is To-
Gated upon the battlefield and no pains
have been spared to render il attractive
in every way. Numerous monuments
have been erected by public and private
funds and its Memorial day exercises are
among the most elaborate in the country.
There are 1862 soldiers buried heye, 1851
of which are unknown. A national ceme-
terry is located at Philadelphia. which
contains over 5000 graves, and there is
also small one at Beverly, n. j.. where
less than 200 are buried
The total number of soldiers and sailors
buried in all of the national cemeteries
is now 300. 1913. and of these there are
1o3.67S unknown. This includes also about
$500 Confederate soldiers, who are buried
CHIEFLY at the location Of prison camps
or hospitals. The government does not
stop with this. however. but has pro-
vided for the marking of graves of SOL
diers in local cemeteries in every part of
the different states. 1t is not necessary
for soldier to have been in actual serv-
Ice TO merit interment i'll a national ceme-
terry. All soldiers, sailors or marines hav-
ing been honorably discharged from the
service or who served either in the regu-
lar army or in volunteer forces may be
buried in any national cemetery free of
cost. The production of the honora BILE
discharge Of a deceased man shall be
sufficient authority for the superintendent
of any cemetery to permit his interment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12

Strange Ito say. one of the first Gene
teries established by the government is
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While the greatest number of the
graves for which the government is pro-