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Evening star., 1914-12-26
How Christmas Came to the
Green Forest.

1t was Christmas morning. Happy
Jack Squirrel sat in his doorway look
ing out at white wrold, for the
Green Forest and the Green Meadows
were green no longer. You see, the
snow lay deep over them, and even
the great pine trees, which keep their
green leaves all through the winter
were white. 1t was all very beautiful,
very beautiful, indeed. Everything
sparkled and .glistened in the rays of
jolly, round. bright Mr.. Sun. -
Merry Christmass' -roared rough
Brother North Wind. as he swept past.
Happy Jack shivered and buried his
hands in the fur of his waistcoat to
keep them warm. The fact is. Happy
Jack didn't feel merry a bit. 1t IS
hard work to feel merry when one is
hungry and there is nothing to eat.
And Happy Jack was very hungry
that Christmas morning. You see, he
hadn't had "a: good meal for several
days The snow. which made every
thing So beautiful, had covered deep
the nuts he had hidden IN the fall, and
Evening star., 1914-12-26
GERMAN SHELLS AT RHEIMS.
How the Great Cathedral Looked
After the Bombardment.
Harding Davis. in Scribner's.

Richard Harding Davis. in Scribners.
The cathedral had been one of the
most magnificent examples of early
Gothic architecture. FERGUSON called
it perhaps the most beautiful struc-
ture produced in the middle ages 1t
was a structure noble in its propor-
tions, beautiful i'll its exquisite detail.
We found the structure still standing,
still noble. but the beauty was destroy
ed. 1t was like the carved statue of 4
saint from which some one in a drunk
en- frenzy, with a mallet and chiSel,
had chopped away the features. The
west facade had held $50 statues: they
We're figures of the virgin. saints, con-
fessors. martyrs, apostles, angels. They
were all mutilated. Clipped, battered,
dismembered.. Where, the day before,
pieces of the precious glass We're miss
!! ing, now whole windows, glass, lead,
sash and frame of carved stone, had
been torn out and in the wall was a
ragged hole. We picked our way among
the broken arms. hands, wings, halos
of statues that for hundreds of years,
to the glory of God, had faced the ele-
ments; our feet trod upon bits of glass
more beautiful than jewels. What the
shells had failed to batter down, the
heat of the fire. started by the shells,
had destroyed. With your hands you
could. crumble q statue into powder;
when We walked on the upper galleries
above the flying buttresSes. and piece
of masonry seemed unsafe, Il kick
would send it crashing into the street
below.
The origin of the fire is now well
konwn.' Lit by shell, it started
among the scaffolding that surrounded
the left tower. From the scaffolding it
spread to the arched roof of oak and
lead that surmounted the lower curv-
ed roof of stone. The sparks and the
molten lead fell on the straw in the
nave where lay the wounded.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
BLOODSHED AND PAINTING
War Has Always Been a Popula,
Subject for Artists.
Fairchild Zosbaum. in Scribner's

Rufus Fsirchid zosbaum. in Scribner's.
From the earliest days of history
war has given inspiration to the artist.
and the work of his hands comes down
TO US on the walls of ancient Egypt,
worn with the passing of thousands OF
years; from the ruined temples of an
tique Greece built centuries before the
Christian era. The picture writing of
primitive and savage peoples describes
exploits OF war; many archaic war pic
lures, brought to view after ages OF
burial under desert sands, bear much
similarity to Indian drawings of our
own near time and land. Once, years
ago. away up on the Poplar river in
Montana, l bought-bartered for, sup
pose / should say, as the purchase was
made mainly by the medium of tea,
tobacco and sugar-a painted" robe
right off the back of the war chief. Of
band of Yanktonais Sioux our troops
had rounded up and brought into the
agency. The skin was a fine ''black
bull" tanned on the under side to the
softness of the finest clIamois leather
and decorated with naive pictorial rep
resentations of the deeds of war of old
translated the name given the chief.
from some episode in his murderous
career-which in color, in grace and
firmness of line were curiously like
pictures from the pencil of some artist
of the Egypt of old.
The glory of war is the theme; the
eXaltation of the sovereign. the con-
queror, forms the chief motive of the
war picture of antiquity. The monarch
was the hero before whose terrible
sword all foes gave way. to whom vic
tory came through his personal might
and prowess, The warriors of the
Greeks are shown as models of virile
strength and grace; their attitudes in
the fury of combat lost nothing of ar
tistic beauty in the realism of the rem
derine. The influence of the Greek
masters of their art is evident in bat
tie pictures of a time twoscore and
more centuries later.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
BODY OF CAPT. DES MARETS
CONVEYED TO QUEENS, /. |.
Prominent Resident of New York
Dies in This City as Result
of Accident.

The body of Capt. Ernest A. Des
Marets, who was injured by a street
car at 14th and FaEmont streets north
west December s and who died at
Providence. Hospital subsequently, was
taken to his late home in Queens,
Long Island. He was one of the fore
most residents of Queens and for many
years was an expert on Improvement of
waterways in New York.
Capt Des Marets was born lin New
Orleans in 1S41, of French parentage,
and the family moved to New. York
when he was child, and he went to
school in the old Ravenswood section
of Long Island City. At the breaking
out OF the civil war he enlisted in the
37th New York Volunteers and rose
to the rank of captain. He devoted
himself to- civic affairs, and five years
ago started the movement which re-
suited in designating June Il as Flag
day. He was past master of st. Mich
olas Lodge, +. and A. NJ, and a mem
ber of George Washington Post, G. A.
R., and was member of the Suffolk
County Agricultural Association and
the American Flag Association.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
RANKS AS AMERICAS
MOST NOTED SCULPTOR
Daniel Chester French Has Many
Famous Achievements to
His Credit.
His Work Wins Commission to
Create Lincoln Statue for Me-
mortal in Washington.

Daniel Chester French. to whom the
commission for the statue of Lincoln
TO be placed in the Lincoln Memoria.
now under construction in this city
has just been awarded. is regarded as
the most distinguished OF living Amer
lean sculptors. His Milmore memorial
Death Staying the Hand of the Young
Sculptor; his Gailaudet group, here
at Kendall Green; his statue of Wash
ington in Paris. and his Alma Mater,
which is placed before the library of
Columbia University. New York. are
among the most notable works in
sculpture which have been produced
in this country.
Mr. French was born in Exeter. NH,
April 20, 1850. His parents were of
substantial New England families. con-
nected with those of Daniel Webster
and John G. Whittier. One of his
grandfathers was chief justice. the
other attorney general. of New Hamp--
shire. and his father, q lawyer, was at
one time assistant secretary OF the
United states Treasury. 1t so happen
ed that Mr.. French In early manhood
spent several years in Washington and
still in recollection regards this city
aS home
Evening star., 1914-12-26
NURSES CARE OF PRINCE
AIDS MAUBEUCE FOLK
Kaisers Nephew, Fatally Wounded,
Received All Honors Through Her
Interest in His Case.
OF the Associated Press

Correspondence OF the Associated Press
BOULOGNE, France, via London, De-
cember 15.-Because a young French
Red Cross nurse took a particular in
-terest in an eighteen -year-old, German
lieutenant who was brought uncon-
scious into the hospital at Manbeuge
and died three days later, the little
manufacturing city of Maubeuge has
been highly favored by its German
conquerors and is enjoying a greater
degree of freedom than any of the
other French border towns in German
territory.
The wounded German proved to 'be
the Prince OF SaXe-Meiningen. nephew
of the emperor. He had suffered a
fractured skull in an encounter with il
French chasseur and died without re-
gaining consciousness.
At the suggestion of the little nurse
the local authorities rendered the
prince the funeral honors due his rank.
photographed the body and coffin and
sent the photographs, together with
the personal belongings of the prince
and a detailed account of his illness,
to his family at Meiningen. This oc-
Cured while the town was still under
French control.
Shows His Gratitude.
The young mans father, the Duke
of Sake Meiningen, acknowledged the
courtesies in letter expressing deep
est appreciation, and later, when the
Germans entered Maubeuge, he proved
his gratitude by directing the troops
occupying the fortress town to treat
the inhabitants with the utmost con-
sideration The nurse was given a
safe-conduct through the German lines
and has just arrived at BouIogne.
The chasseur who was responsible
for the death of the prince was known
beuge garrison, but in the battle
against the princes crack cavalry
regiment he acquitted himself with
distinction Besides placing the prince
rs-de-combat, he wounded and cap
Evening star., 1914-12-26
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now used III more homes than any
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ness, ease and certainty in con-
quering distressing coughs, chest
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able. You can actually feel it take
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Splendid. too, for bronchitis,
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To avoid disappointment be sure
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anything else.
4 guarantee OF absolute salts
faction, or money promptly re-
funded, goes with this preparation.
The Pinex Co., Fl. Wayne. Ind.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
NOT TO RECOGNIZE CONSULS.
Germany Notifies Neutral Countries
With Regard to Belgium.

Germany has notified some of the neu-
trail countries having consuls in Belgian
territory, now under German military au-
,hority, that the exequators creditirg the
consuls to Belgium will not be recognized
further, though provisional recognition
will be granted to those whose countries
so desire.
nubli,.s have informed Secretary Bryan
of the receipt of such notice from Ger
many. The attitude to be assumed by
the American republics toward the action
is expected to be considered by the pan
American commission, composed of Sec
retary Bryan and eight other members of
the governing board of the pan-American
Union, recently named to study questions
relating to maintenance of neutrality in
this hemisphere. Diplomats say the sub
ject is one OF exceeding delicacy and one
in regard TO which the American coun-
tries probably would desire TO act in unity.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Offense Has Begun.

Since the foregoing was written cable.
dispatches have told of greatly in
creased activity on the part OF the
aiAes at almost all points of the line
IRON Inc North sea TO the Swiss border.
rms new activity has been interpreted
as signalizing the long expected geh
efal advance. On December 81 the Ger
man war office gave out what was said
to be an order for u general attack BY
the allies. signed by Gen. Joffre. and
dated December Il.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Senator NeWIands WithhoIds
Bill for River Regulation
and Improvement.
DEFERS TO THE VIEWS
OF PRESIDENT WILSON
Admits There Is Not Time to Con-
slider Question Properly at
Present Session.

declaring that at the next session
of Congress he intended to press vigor-
ousIy for favorable action on his river
regulation bill, Senator Newlands OF
Nevada today explained his reasons for
not bringing his new system for river
Improvement up in the Senate at pres
ent. He said:
The democratic platforms oil lsoe
and 1912 call in the most emphatic
terms for full and comprehensive
treatment of all the rivers of the coun-
try from source to mouth, including
their tributaries, with a view to so
regulating the run-off of the waters
that fall from the heavens as to pro-
mote the beneficial uses of water and
prevent destruction by floods.
The main benefits to be derived from
the full control of the waters are the
irrigation of arid and semi -arid lands.
intensive cultivation in the humid
regions. development of water power,
reclamation of swamp lands and the
promotion of transportation.
The bill which l have been urging
for years. commonly known as the
river regulation bill. provides for
all this, and establishes a fund in the
Treasury of $60,000,000 annually for a
period of ten years, or S600.000,000 in
all, to be apportioned among the nat
ural watersheds of the country so that
work can be cuiemporaneouSly performed
in every section.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Two Small Fires.

Fire in the furniture store of W. E.
Miller, 7th and streets southwest, last
night, due to an overheated furnace,
caused damage amounting to $500.
Rats gnawing matches are thought to
have started a fire in the kitchen of the
house of William Thomas, 1343 B street
northeast, about l o'clock this morning.
The damage amounted to $2o.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Well Worth Reading.

Another installment Of Walter S.
Balls. "Filmville Portraits depict
ing, in his novel, fable style the
Chauffeur and the Sheriff's Daugh-
ter. appears in the next Sunday
Magazine of The Sunday Star. Like
the others. they are illustrated with
silhouettes
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Method in It.

From the Boston Transcript.
what are you going to name the
baby, Nupop?"
Woodrow Goethals Roosevelt Rocke-
feller Bryan Lipton--
"Suffering Moses, what do you want
to load poor infant with all those
names for
so that when he gets old enough to
Judge for himself, in the light of later
history, he can lop off those he doesn't
like" .
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Reasons Supporting Position.

i wish. however. to impress the
friends OF river regulation and water
Development with these facts:
First, that public opinion is against
the present system Of river ana harbor
improvements.
Second, that tAe committees of the
Senate and House are favorable 10 the
present system and will abandon it
with great reluctance.
Third, that IL is necessary for that
reason to maintain the pressure of a
sound public opinion in order to force
the consideration OF the measure"
Evening star., 1914-12-26

tured the princes orderly, two troop
ers and a nom commissioned officer,
thereby earning special mention in the
official report of the engagement. A
few days later he was taken prisoner
by the German reinforcements which
occupied Maubeuge.
Evening star., 1914-12-26

then the surface Of the slioW. had
frozen so hard that he couldn't dig
through it. The nuts he had hidden
in a hollow tree had been found and
stolen by some one. And so Christmas
morning found Happy jack anything
but merry.
.He knew that there were others no
better off than himself. He had heard
Chatterer the Red Squirrel scoldipg
and complaining. for all he could find
cones which still clung to the. trees
He knew that Peter Rabbit was living
on bark and having hard work to get
that because the young tree trunks
were coated with ice. Mrs. Grouse
was forced to go up to the Old Or
chard for apple buds because there
was nothing else to eat. Tommy Tit
and Drummer the Woodpecker were
almost starving because ice coated the
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Playing Safe.

I From the Boston Transcript.
who is the author of that novel you
are reading?"
There is no name given"
Due to modesty. ! suppose"
NO, fear, / should call it,
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Heard on a Piazza

from the Boston Transcript.
She (throwing down magazine)-
Goodness! the end of that story posi-
lively startled me.
He-You shouldn't jump at conclu-
sions. '-'
Evening star., 1914-12-26

Unless transportation facilities to the
United States improve, Chinese eggs
will not be SO important a factor on
the Pacific coast markets of the United
States as they were last winter.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Naval Orders.

Lieut. f. q. Oberlin. from Eestal TO
Washington.
Lieut. G. L. Lake, resignation accept
er effective December 81, 1914.
Past Assistant Surgeon T.. A. Wick
ery, from 5th Regiment of Marines to
Asiatic station.
Paynaas ster'S Clerk l.. Pittman, reSig-
nation accepted TO take effect January
TO- 1915.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
His First Notable Work.

The first important work of this
sculptor was the Minute Man in
Concord which was unveiled in 1875
with interesting ceremony. in which
Emerson, Lowell and George William
Curtis all took part. During the next
few years Mr.. French was in Italy.
Between the years 1877 and 1885 he
modelled some monumental figures and
groups for three public buildings-the
st. Louis custom house. the Philadel-
phia court house and the Boston post
office. Within the same time he eX-
ecuted several important portraits--the
famous one of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
one of Alcott, and a third, an ideal
portrait OF John Harvard for Cam
bridge.
The statue of Gen. CaSs of Michl-
gan. which stands today in statuary
hall at the Capitol, was modelled by Mr..
French in Paris in 1888, and after this
came the Gallaudet Group, one of the
most engaging portrait statues of all
time.
For the Columbian exposition at Chi
cago he executed some very dlstln-
guished figures and groups, most nota-
BILE OF which perhaps was his figure of
the Republic" and the Columbus
"Quadringa,' which surmounted the
''Peristyle,' the latter done in collab-
GRAFTON with E. c. Potter, the well
known sculptor of animals.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Bill Receives Endorsement.

The interdepartmental committee ap-
pointed by the President, consisting of
the Secretaries of War, Interior. Agri-
culture and Commerce, has reported
favorably TO the President upon the
general plan of the bill, without COM
uniting itself to the size of the fund or
other details. The President is so far
in sympathy with the general princi-
piles of the bill that he recommended ct
the last session the appointment of the
commission called for by the bill. This
provision, i'll the form of proposed
amendment to the rivers and harbors
bill, was reported favorably by the
Senate committee on commerce at the
last session, but it failed with the
rivers and harbors bill
The question came up at this session
the short Sessi ion-aS to whether this
amendment should be urged as an
amendment to the rivers and harbors
bill. now pending. The President was
willing to recommend it, provided the
friends of the bill thought it advisable.
The question for discussion at the re-
cent conference at the White House.
in which the four cabinet chiefs re
ferred to and myself took part. was
whether it would be advisable to accept
this amendment as a step forward to-
ward the ultimate passage of the bill.
or whether the whole matter should go
over to the next Congress, with d view
of then passing a complete bill. provid-
ing not simply for Investigations and
reports, but for actual work.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
BRITISH HOW|TzERS AID
ALLIES IN OFFENSIVE
New Big Guns Being Used in Elan.
ders in the Renewed Bat
tling There.
Correspondent Of the Associsted Press.

Correspondence of the Associsted Press.
PARIS. December 1.-THE allies iE
the western field are about to take the
general offensive against the Germans
All British and French soldiers on
leave have been recalled. Word has
been sent to the hospitals of Paris and
the vicinity to prepare to receive grea.
numbers of wounded
British reinforcements are arriving in
the north and ii is understood that
they will be in position by next Fri
day. With the fresh troops are many
Of the new flfteeh-inch British howit-
zers. which will go into action for the
frst time against the Germans They
are believed to he much more powerful
than the German mortars and TO out
range them
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Germans Hold On.

Gen Joffre and Field Marshal French
have been waiting for two months for
the moment to arrive to make a gem
eral and sustained attack. The Ger
mans are no longer throwing them
selves against the positions of the al
lies and appear disposed to hold their
positions In the west and concentrate
their efforts in the east
Immense reserves of shells and am
munition have been accumulated by the
allies I'm preparation for n general for
ward movement. The allied troops ap-
pear to be considerably more numerous
than At any time since the opening of
hCStilities. Their Curipment thei.
transport and morale are judged by
neutral military observers. who have
recently gone to the front, to be be-
yond anything they have previously at
tanned
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Work in Collaboration.


French has produced equestrian statues
of Gen. Grant tFairmont Park, Phila-
delphia), Gen. Joseph Hooker tBoston),
Washington Paris, having been pre-
sented to France by the Daughters of
the American Revolution) and Gen.
Devens (Worcester, Mass.).
The Alma Mater" for Columbia Uni
versity. was executed in 1902 and 1908,
since which time he has executed four
important groups, representing the
Continents for the United States Gus
tom house. in New York; groups,
Jurisprudence" and Commerce" for
the Federal building, Cleveland; !;
"Quadringa.'' for the state capitol,
st. Paul: the Parkman memorial. Bos-
coin, Neb. The architectural setting
for many of Mr.. French's more recent
works has been designed by Henry
Bacon. the architect of the Lincoln me
mortal.
Among other significant works by Mr..
French not previously mentioned are
the John Boyle O'Reilly and Richard NJ.
Hunt memorials and the bronze doors
of the Boston Public Library.
Mr.. French is honorary president of
the National Sculpture Society, CORE
spending member of the American In
stitute of Architects. member Of the
Academy San Luca of Rome, the Ma
tional Institute and National Academy
of Arts and Letters. In the Paris Salons
of 1892 and 1900 he received medals.
His winter studio is in New York. his
summer studio at Glendale, near
Stockbridge, Mass, the heart of the
Berkshire country. Between these two
he divides the year.
Evening star., 1914-12-26
Confronted by Difficulties.

The difficulty of the present situation
is that the rivers and harbors commit
tee of the House and the commerce
committee of the Senate are favorable
TO the old system of a rivers and har-
bors BILL which far as rivers are
concerned looks only to channel devel-
Cpment and levee protection.
My individual view is that We have
had enough of Investigations and re-
ports L am of the opinion, therefore.
that the appointment of another inves-
tigating commission will simply delay
ultimate accomplishment and that the
entire public pressure SHOULD be
directed toward securing the early en-
'actment of a broad, liberal and COM
prehensive measure, such as l have in
troduced.
The President. without committing
himself to this or any measure, is in
clined to favor the general principles
of the bill. but he does not think that
there is time enough for its considera-
tion at the short session.
While | am reluctant to let up on
the pressure at all, l cannot take ex-
ception to the position of the Presi-
dent. burdened as he is with the advo-
c;tcy OF other measures of great i'm
portance. 1 have. therefore. concluded
not 70 press the matter in any form at
;his session, unless a decided change in
conditions takes place.