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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01

Old Granny Fox kept thinking about
Danny Meadow Mouse. She knew that
he was fat 1t made her mouth water
every time she thought of him. She
made up her mind that she must and
would have him. She knew that Danny
had been very. very much frightened
when she and Reddy Fox had tried so
hard to catch him by plunging down
through the snow into his little tun-
nels after him, and she felt pretty sure
that he wouldn't go far away from the
old fence post in the hollow of which
he was snug and safe.
But old Granny Fox is very smart
Danny Meadow Mouse won't put his
nose out of that old fence post for a
day or two. Then he'll get tired of
staying inside all the time and he'll
peep out Of one Of his little round door
ways to see if the way is clear II
he doesn't see any danger he'll come
out and run around on top Of the snow
to get some of the seeds in the tops OF
the tall grasses that stick out through
the snow. IT nothing frightens him he'll
farther from that old fence post. 1
must see to 1T that Danny Meadow
Mouse isn't frightened for few days"
So said old Granny Fox to herself as
she lay unUer Il nemIOCk tree studying
how she could best get the next meal.
Then she called Reddy Fox to her
and forbade him to go down on the
meadows until she should tell him he
might. Reddy grumbled and mumbled
and didn't see why he shouldn't go
where he pleased, but he didn't dare
disobey. You see he had sore foot.
He had hurt it on a wire barb when
he was plunging through the snow
after Danny Meadow Mouse. and now
he had to run on three legs. That
meant that he must depend upon
Granny Fox to help him get enough to
eat. So Reddy didn't dare to disobey.
1t all came out just as Granny Fox
had thought it would. Danny Meadow
Mouse did get tired Of staying in the
old fence post. He did peep out first
and then he did run little way on the
snow and then a little farther and a
little farther. But all the time he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
ALL CREEDS ARE INVITED,
Mass Meeting Tomorrow to Augment
Sunday School Attendance.

Arrangements have been made for a
large mass meeting to be held tomor-
row afternoon at , o'clock in the Mount
Vernon Place NJ. +. Church South, for
the purpose Of attempting to augment
Sunday school attendance.
Representatives of all denominations
have been invited to attend the meeting
Rev. Z. B. Chappell, Rev. Charles D.
Bulia and Rev. II. NJ. Hamill will speak.
This campaign was decided on at a con-
ference held last night of various Sun
day school boards held at the church
Rev. Paul II. Linn delivered an address,
In which he said that parents allow chill
dren to remain away from Sunday school
because the children do not like to at
tend, and that If men allowed their chill
dren to stay away from day school be-
cause they did not like it there would
soon grow up a generation of igno-
ramuseS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
DEFENDS THE MIDDLEMAN.
G. Grosvenor Dave Says Retailer
Renders Real Service to Public.

G. Grosvenor Dave, editor Of the Cham
Der Of Commerce of the United States. in
an address on 1.-The Place of the Middle
man in the Nations Business" delivered
last night before the educational depart
ment of the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, defended the retailer
1.-THE middleman has been talked about
almost as II he were criminal" said Mr.
Dave, but he renders a real service to
the community by buying in large guam
titles from the producer and distribut;ns
to the consumer in the small quantities
that the latter desires. Now, any man
who renders a service is entitled to re-
ward for 1t. the middleman as much as
any one else"
Mr.. Dave was introduced by Isaac
Cans, representing the Association of Re-
tail Merchants of Washington. Mr.. Cans
called the business man the most essen
tial and potent factor of the community
and declared that more modern wars
have been decided by the business man,
who supplies the funds. than by the
armies on the battlefield.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
FAMOUS WOMEN OF HISTORY.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE,
1811-1896.
1811-1896.
Copyright. 1912. by Willis ]. Abbot)

out the recollection Of her early priva-
tons. In England she was lionized as
foreign royalty never had been. At Glas-
gov she drank tea with 1900 people by
her own account. At Edinburgh she was
presented with national penny Offer
ing. consisting of thousand gold sover-
eigns on a magnificent silver salver.'
Every English city had for her new
ovation.
Returning home she settled down to
creditable and profitable literary work.
Though none Of her subsequent books
could equal the triumph of her first, yet
bred" THE Pearl Of Orrs Island and
"The Minister'S Wooing" formed a vital
part Of the literature of the day. When
the thunderblast of civil war had passed
by she bought an orange grove on the St.
Johns river and settled down there to a
life Of scholarly leisure. The coming on
Of old age and death, which for her came
in 1885, she viewed with calmness.
Il feel" she wrote. like poor woman
/ once read about:
90 Who always was tired
Cause she lived in house
Where help wasn't hired
'and Of whom 1t is related that in her
dying moments
' She folded her hands
With her latest endeavor.
Saving nothing dear nothing.
Sweet nothing forever
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
ASSAULTED AND ROBBED.
William r. Sands, Marine, Victim
of Midnight Attack.

Assaulted by an unidentified man,
Knocked down and robbed OF S75 was the
complaint which William r. Sands. a
marine detailed for clerical duty In the
quartermasters department, made TO the
Anacostia police this morning. He was
near 18th and w streets, Anacostia, he
stated. when the robbery occurred.
Sands and his wife reside with the lat
ter's mother at 1914 Galen street. and
he was on his way home shortly after
midnight when he was attacked. He told
the police he had a similar experience
some time ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
Lectures on Panama Canal.

Work on the Panama canal was de-
scribed and it's history related by E. z.
Cowell Of the Franklin Institute of Phila-
delphia, in a lecture at the Garden The
alter yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Cowell told
of the numerous difficulties encountered
in making the canal, and now the prof.
ect has been abandoned by other coun
tries which had previously attempted TO
make a waterway through the isthmus.
He also spoke of the work done by the
United States government in quelling the
yellow fever plague there. His lecture was
given in conjunction with motion pictures
depicting President Taft's recent trip to
the canal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
Little Stories for Bedtime.
OLD GRANNY FOX TRIES A NEW PLAN
By Thornton w. Burgess.
Copyright, 1918. by J. G. Lloyd.>

took great care not to get more than a
jump or two from one of his little
round doorways leading down to his
tunnels under the snow.
Hidden on the edge of the Green
Forest Granny Fox watched him. She
looked up at the sky and she knew that
it was going to snow again. That S
good" said she. Tomorrow morning
I'll have fat Meadow Mouse for break
fast" and she smiled a hungry smile.
The next morning before jolly, round
red Mr.. Sun was out of bed old Granny
Fox trotted down on to the meadows
and straight over to where down under
the snow lay the old fence post. 1t
had showed again and all of the little
doOrwayS Of Danny Meadow Mouse
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
OFF FOR STRIKE DISTRICT.
Federation Official Goes to Rankin to
Organize Employees.

Following conferences between officials
OF the American Federation of Labor and
strikers from the Rankin Pa.) plant OF
the United States Steel Company. Frank
Morrison. secretary of the federation. left
Washington last night for the strike dis
trict, to personally take charge of the
interest of the workers there.
Samuel Gompers. president of the fed
Grafton announced that Mr.. Morrison
would devote most of his attention to or
ganizTng the employees at Rankin, Pa,
and Bradford, Pa.
1t was also announced that the fedora
ton will Immediately begin an attempt
TO organize the workers in the textile.
rubber and packing house industries, as
well as the steel industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
CLARENCE F. LEE DEAD.
Funeral to Be Held Monday After
noon From Residence Of Brother.

Clarence F. Lee, a brother of Sergt.
James II. Lee of the first police precinct,
died Thursday at Asheville n. c.. where
he had gone in search of health. The
body was brought. to this city yesterday
and funeral services will be held at 2
o'clock Monday afternoon at the resi-
dence of his brother. Robert E. Lee, at
215 4th street southeast.
Clarence Lee graduated from Business
High School year ago. He was eighteen
years old. He was about to begin the
study Of law when Ill health compelled
him to seek another climate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
DANGER OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
Miss Bronson Says Many Women
Who Want to Vote Are Socialists.

Following the pro-suffrage demonstra-
ton yesterday morning before special
subcommittee OF the House committee on
presidential elections. the National Asso-
citation Opposed to Woman's Suffrage had
an inning last night. Miss Minnie Bron-
son Of New York, secretary of the asso-
citation. attacked the idea as being dan
gerous She declared that two-thirds of
the women who want to vote are social
lists and that ii would endanger the coun-
try to let them have a chance to WELD
power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
DR., STRATTON LECTURES.
illustrates Talk on Units of Weights
and Measures.

Work of the bureau of standards was
described by DIR. Stratton. head of the
bureau. yesterday at the Friends School.
DIR. Stratton illustrated with slides the
operations by which the tests and meas
urements Of standard units Of weights
and meaures are made at the bureau Of
standards. He made it clear that the
demands OF modern industry are con-
stantly requiring greater and greater &C
curacy and that the government is aiding
this necessity in every way possible.
DR.. Stratton gave an account of inde-
structible units of measurement. like the
units secured from light waves, which
measure only one fifty-thousandth of an
inch.
Pictures We're shown of the standards
brought in early times to this country
from England and an interesting account
was given of the careful way in which
they are preserved from injury or theft.
DR.. Stratton deplored the continued
use in this country of the old system Of
weights and measures and our Siowness
to adopt the metric system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
Box Car Destroyed by Fire.

\ box car of the Washington Terminal
company. standing near 1st and Myrtle
streets northeast, caught fire early this
morning and was destroyed. No. en-
CINE company extingLished the flames
Before the firemen arrived, however, the
FIRE had spread TO a blacksmith's shop
nearby, but prompt action saved the
shop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01

were covered up with soft feecy snow.
Behind Granny Fox limped Reddy Fox.
grumbling to himself.
When they reached the place where
the old fence post lay buried under the
snow old Granny Fox stretched out as
fiat as she could. Then she told Reddy
to cover her up with the new soft snow.
Reddy did as he was told, but all the
time he grumbled. Now, you go Off
to the Green Forest and< keep out OF
sight" said Granny Fox. "By and by
I'll bring you some Meadow Mouse for
your breakfast" and Granny Fox
chuckled to think how smart she was
and how she was going to catch Danny
Meadow Mouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
the Blind. 1873 IL street northwest. was

the Blind, 1873 IL street northwest, was
announced today. Monday evening. at y
o'clock. Miss Sibyl Hayes of California
will read several dramatic selections. At
go O'Clock Thursday afternoon a song
and piano recital will be given by Miss
Landonia Brock, Miss Dorothy Gait and
Arthur Bryant, under the direction OF
Mrs Susanna Oldberg. Miss Lois Rec
side will be at the piano. At the same
time Saturday afternoon Edward Fow-
Ter Dickinson of Massachusetts will speak
on Notes on the Lexington-Concord
Country Of New England"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01

The post Office at Alta Vista, Va, was
broken into Thursday night by yeggmen.
who secured about $3.50 In cash and 800
In stamps, and escaped On . morning
train,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01

The life story of the author OF Uncle
Toms Cabin" is one of those that carry
a measure of consolation and of hope to
the literary aspirant who has reached
middle age devoid of either fame or for
tune. For Mrs. Stowe was past forty
when her trumpet blast against slavery
set her in the front ranks OF the world
army of progress and lifted her from
state Of financial distress which at times
narrowly approached absolute penury.
OF her eanly life there is little to say.
Its story is as short and simple as the
annals of the rest of Gods poor. But
she had in it the advantages OF an edu-
cation and continual association with peo-
pie of cultivation and of intellectual &C
tiyity. Her father was famous preacher
and theologian, quality which In that
New England day was quite compatible
with poyerty. 1t was a time when the
chief intellectual interest was theologlcal'
and the nature of the little girls educa-
ton is somewhat indicated by letter IN
which her sister noted that Hal rlet, theii
i'm her fifth year. had committed to MEM
orv twenty-seven hymns and two long
chapters from the Bible" We do not
find this exploit mentioned in Harr1ets
own memoirs, but she does chronicle with
some glee the discovery OF a copy or the
Arabian Nights" at the bottom or par
rel Of sermons and the perpetual JOY with
which she pored over 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01

largely denied the worker and the poorer
masses. A chance would be given to all
in the race for livelihood and life, and
the FULLEST measure of liberty would be
provided. This is what want to see.
When urge a socialistic system 1 urge
system which will create for the citi-
zens direct interest in the country that
Is theirs. 1 want to see them partici-
pate in the results of its productiveness.
Certainly there will never be Il better
time than now or the Immediate future to
give socialism a fair trial in China. for
better or for worse. Industrial develop
ment being in its infancy there. it can be
applied as commerce grows and manu-
tOilers are situated differently from their
brothers of the western world where
combinations of capital and unearned in
crement have builded high and heavy an
industrial structure of which the laborers
themselves are the corner stones The
western system is heaving and may fall,
with damage at first to all, workers and
capitalists alike. China, it seems. would
profit by this spectacle and build in Il
different way.
1t might be worth while to operate
practical socialism at the very outset OF
Chinas indus,
terrible Strikes trial advance, il
Might Be Avoided. som SO, no t ps,,' ' the
avoidance OF the terrible strikes which
now rend the countries of the occident
Blood has been shed. families disrupted
business held up. and there have beer
displays of great violence which have
done good to no one All this is due to
the fight of the working classes for a big
ger share of the profits on the things they
can produce. Witness the strikes of the
coaf miners. wooden workers, taxicat
drivers, hotel employees. street and steam
railway employees in the United States
the miners in Germany, the coal miners
and dock wallpapers in Britain. the miners
In France and Australia. China has haG
plenty of trouble, but very little of this
kind. and it does not wish for any.
BY the operation of his system DR.. Sur
looks for three main sources of revenue
for the support of the gOvernment-land
tax, mining royalties and railway reve-
nues First. the land would be valued
the owner himself estimating its value
would have the privilege of buying the
land at any time at the figure given BY
the owner himself. Railway returns are
expected to be large, in due time. anC
there is considerable mining from which
royalties could be drawn Immediately
The total revenues would more than sup
port the government, DR.. Sun estimates
and the surplus would go for education
and sensible charity. such as old age PEN
siOns and homes for crppleS, the blind
and the otherwise infirm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
Foolish Buyers

Are you careful buyer? Most people not and
from this lack of arises much complaint. Sometimes
what first glance seemed be wool be hoddy
sapey garment loses fit after the first laundering
Bad cheap Do your shopping with thought
and care
Read the advertisements of the reputable merchants
vertisng THE STAR today; read them closely persist
emily day shop with these merchants will have
for complaint
oopyrght J p.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01

Entertainment for the Blind.
The program of entertainment for the
coming week at the National Library for
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Lionized While Abroad.

Eulogized at home and abroad-for
twice in the next Eve years she visited
Europe-Nfrs. Stowe now came TO know
fame ana prosperity that might wen blot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
Married Theological Professor.

In 1882 Dr. Beecher went to Cincinnati
then the far west'-to become presldeh'
of a theological school. His daughter &C
companied him and for a time taught II
a school for girls, but soon fell In love
with the Rev. Calvin f. Stowe, PROBES
sor in the theological school. Prof. Stowe
was all that a husband should be save
what the fippant call good prOvlder.
His salary was $l,2Oo, paid most lrregu-
larry; at one time his wife notes: SIN
hundred is the very most we can hope &c
co ,lect from our salary, once 81 300" But
he encouraged her literary efforts as raj
as he could without giving her leisure FOL
them, for children came fast ana MIS-
Stowe was a devoted mother and house.
wife. Under such conditions she coulc
write but little, yet what she did write
was salable and helped to prepare her fol
the moment when inspiration shoulc
break over her in SUCH storm as tt
carry away all other thoughts and duties
1t was the acute period OF the anti
slavery agitation. Cincinnati lay On the
border line between the north and the
slave-holding south. Through the city
through the Stoves house in fact-rar
the underground railroad by which sc
many saves were spirited away to can.
ada and freedom. Mrs. Stowe talked
with many of the fugitives; she saw a.
first hand the scenes of slavery; she Wis
tied a Kentucky estate, afterward de-
scribed In Uncle Toms Cabin" as "COl
Shelby's plantation" she witnessed anti
slavery riots in Cincinnati. and saw hel
brother, Henry Ward Beecher, then
Young abolitionist editor. go heavily
armed for fear Of pro-slavery violence
Her friends and family were all abolition.
list agitators, and when her sister said
Now, Hattie if l could use the pen as
YOU can | would write something thai
would make this whole nation feel wha'
an accursed thing slavery isl she regis
tered a VOW that that service she would
perform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
Planned Book in Church.

Sitting in church-and paying, it is
feared, lax attention to the sermon-the
plan of her Book flashed upon her. On
her return to her home she sat down at
once and wrote out the chapter on Uncle
Toms death, thus beginning her work
curiously enough with what was practi-
cally it's close When she read it aloud
to her boys, ten and twelve years Old
they burst into tears and one cried out:
..Oh. mamma, slavery is the most cruel
thing In the world.
Forged at white heat, "Uncle Tom first
saw the light in the New Era or WASH
ington. For this publication the author
received $500. Many other papers copied
II and 1t had soon attained such a meas
ure of national fame that a Boston pub
Usher put it into book form and sold $780,
coo copies the first year. His first pay
ment on account OF four months royalties
was $4,000, the equivalent of the joint
earnings Of Prof. and Mrs. Stowe for
about ten years. In England, where no
copyright protected the publishers, it was
issued by eighteen houses in editions
ranging in cost from 3D. az cents) to les.
(SD a copy, and in twelve months more
than a million and half copies were
sold.
1t was translated into nineteen Ian
guages, dramatized. and people are still
viewing 1t on the stage. It Is impossible
to estimate the number Of people who
have laughed at Marks, the lawyer. and
Topsy: shuddered at Legree and wept
with Uncle Tom and Little Eva.
The author herself was dazed at it's
success. II the author Of Uncle Toms
Cabin'?' she exclaimed. mo, indeed.
The Lord himself wrote it and I was the
humblest of instruments in His hand. To
Him alone should be given all the
praise"
Lionized While Abroad.
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Sharing of Profits
Is DR.. Suns Scheme,

are what DIR. Sun is after. He believes
the government should own and proceed
to buy up as rapidly as possible railways
tramways, electric light power, gas
works. water works and canals, besides
keeping control of the forests. In this
connection reforestation of the country
would prove very beneficial, for woodless
SUNS tremendous railway plans, con-
templating the building of 10000 miles of
track by the aid of foreign capital, pro-
vide for government ownership fort
years after completion, and he hopes to
arrange for all of this great construction
work within ten Years. In a recent issue
of the China Press. Shanghai, DR.. Sun set
forth his cooperative idea as follows:
Il favor the Introduction of a system
whereby the suppliers of physical neces-
sites VIII be able to derive mutual bene-
ft upon common ground Of justice and
fraternity. That. after all. Is the defini-
ton OF socialism. j want to see the la
borer OBTAIN the full value of lhis hire
operative plan SO that in the new time
coming we will be able to build up a ma
ton politically and industrially demo-
cratic, each unit dependent upon the
other, all living In a sense of mutual con-
fidence and good will. The ideal ia dir
hcult TO obtain. but one should strive
for the ideal and SO secure some improye-
ment of conditions which are far from
the wished-for stage OF perfection
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
Production Would
Be Greatly Enhanced

HII 'IIeII "UuII IdNb tIIcII PIUPOf tIVII u
the products of the wealth now await
ing development at their hands: they
would reap the full fruit of their toll
secure favorable conditions of labor and
obtain opportunity in leisure to think OF
other things than the daily grind In the
mill or the mine. They would be able
to cultivate the mind. have adequate rec.
reation and procure the blessings which
should be in all meme lives, but WAjch
on the showing Of other nations, are
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Unfortunately the plan failed. 1t was
tried over large areas. but did not live
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by this system production would be
enhanced and advanced to the maximum
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Cooperative sharing of profits with the
wage earners, who are the real pro-