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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

IL take it you were surprised to receive
my wedding cards, Alston?'
@Would have been if I'd got any,
said "But guess Michel forgot to for
ward them"
@Ah, so!' he said. aThen you must
have been astonished this evening"
"Yes and no." said. aOf course, I'm
tickled to death everything turned out
so WE'LL
@Oh-as to that'-he said, and was
silent.
ave have been married month now"
he added casually.
as the Countess going to keep on
singing?' | asked, for want of anything
else to say.
Certainly not, he said sharply.
II guess she'll miss it, l said. "The
life, mean"
"She can sing for me-, he answered.
"As for the life, she is Countess Won
K0nigstein.
1t was the first time he had handed me
any of the "I-am-a-great-noblen attitude,
and | was peeved clear through.
"The pleasure will be hers" I says.
@Good night"
But he stopped me.
II beg your pardon, Alston," he said
Don't go up yet, will you? l want to
speak to you
sat down again, and he began, slowly:
"You see, Aston, if had not talked
to you of certain things at my house last
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"Oh hang it, Won K6nigsten!" remon-
strated gently. al don't blame you for
having a morbid outlook, when all's told
But why let it influence you against be-
lieving this-this other lady? This de-
cidedly other lady, as it WERE"
He sprang to his feet.
Because it is only her vanity that de-
mands of me to believe in her, he snarled.
3She is vain of her soul, as these others are
of their bodies, or else she would say to
me, I understand why you can not be-
lieve. Take me; will make the best of
you 1t is enough to be loved.'"
For a minute we heard nothing but the
roll of the taxis outside. thought of
Juggernaut, and of these two with their
Fate grinding over them.
"That is" he added quietly, "sl.e could
say that, perhaps, to another man. Not
to me. would not believe it if she did,
and she knows it,"
l took up my hat, and we shook hands,
"Von K0nigstein," said, "I'm mighty
sorry about all this, and you know it.
But no woman born has anything on you
for unreasonableness, and my sympa-
thies are with the lady. Good night"
You wouldn't think he'd like that, but
he seemed to. He followed me to the
room door and shook hands again. All
he said was:
"Good night. Do me the honor to recall
me to your wife when you write to her. /"
Well, of course you know, after that,
being fool, l went to see Eliane Won
Andrassy next day.
forgot to say that I'd known her my
self pretty we'll for two years, through
our banks being trustee for some chart
ties she was interested in-homes for
girls and so on. | got side of her that
way that nobody else seemed to,-not
even Won K6nigstein,- | had lot
of respect for the girl.
THAT afternoon she was alone in her
drawingAroom, perfectly beautiful in
some kind of a thin green frock that made
her look like sea-sprite. She had that
oval face the high-bred Hungarian women
have-did l tell you she was Hunga-
rian?-and the golden hair with brown
eyes they'd all like to have.
I'd never had much trouble with her
in leading up to the subject of Won Konig-
stein, and hadn't now. Long ago had
guessed what she felt, and she knew had
Hes pretty miserable, said by and
by. "Im sorry for him. Can't you do
anything about it?"
al don't know" she said very YEARLY.
al have tried to convince him, but it is
all useless. He has so much to offer, on
the one hand, to woman who has only
her work between her and poverty"
Her eyes were dreamy.
"And he could offer such love as would
make any ones life rapture, and he will
not" she said. "He only offers the kind
of love | refuse every day. He thinks
that because of his infirmity one could
not give him real love, and he thinks
that IL
She clenched her hands.
al, Eliane Won Andrassy would give
myself without it to dwarf as he calls
himself, because that dwarf had wealth
and great power. To insult me like that
and then say that he loves mel"
Il think he believes that you love him,
in way" said. "Out of pity, little"
@And does he not yet know what a
woman will do for love and pity?" she
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proximity and relationship lead to fire.
quent confusion of the names, for the
name of the chapel is st. Barnabas. The
Rambler has not traced the origin of
the name "Barnaby.
The road which leads from Barnaby
to st. Barnabas passes for most of it's
length through woods. There are Indl-
cations that il is a road of great age.
though never subject to much traffic.
1t is in prolougation of the Wheeler
road. which leads south from Congress
Heights to the Silver Hill-Oxon Hill
Piscataway road. knowing that the
Wheeler road dates from about the civil
war, the Rambler makes the guess that
it connected on the lands of Barnaby
with a much older road leading from
Barnaby House to the Silver Hnl-ONon
Hin road. which is one of the very old
roads in the Washington neighbor-
hood.
In last Sundays narrative the Ram
bier told that Henry Addison Calls of
Barnaby, grandson of the Rev. Henry
Addison of Barnaby, gave the land in
1890 for the chapel called St. Barnabas,
which was and is a mission of the
Broad Creek Church. or st. Johns. the
mother church of all the Episcopal
churches that have been erected in the
District of Columbia and in Maryland
east. north and west Of Washington
city.
1t is a neat. primly kept brick church
painted gray. and the slebe. bound on
all sides except the road side by deep
and silent woods. was not long ago
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ory of nr. John H. Bayne. who depart
ed this life August IS, 1870. in the 67th
years of his age. In memory of Har-
riet Bayne. beloved consort of John II.
Bayne. died January. 1878. in the 18th
year of her life" Next to this is the
tomb of a man whom many hundreds Of
The inscription is: Here lies the body
Of John w. Eayne. physician, son Of
John H and Harriet Addison Bayne.
Born February 8, 1Si6; entered into rest
May II. 1906"
Close by is a stone on which is
chiscled: Here lies buried in the hope
of a joyful resurrection the body of
Lucy Ashby. wife of Elisha 8. Theall.
daughter of John W. and Mae Ashby
Bayne, born September 13, 1874; fell
asleep October 3, 1905
The old home of DIR. John H Bayne.
who was the father of Dr. John w.
Bayne. who practiced in Washington
for many years and long had his home
at the northeast corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and I'd street southeast, is still
half miles southwest of St Barnabas
on the old road to Broad Creek Church
that road which passes the ruins Of
OXon Hall. on the ridge opposite Alex
andria, and leads on by New GlatZ and
Broad Creek Church to Piscataway
The Bayne family is one of the oldest
in the OXon Hill neighborhood. and the
Rev Mr.. kerfoot, the historian of Broad
Creek Church and long the minister of
that church and its mission of St.
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Barnabas, writing about the period Of
1S31-40. said: The church at Broad
creek was again repaired and its God 5
acre was neatly incloSed. A comfortable
rectory was secured. This was mainly
through the bencficence of Or. John H
Rayne. sr. 1t was a cornmodious brick
dwelling, with fine grounds. making a
parsonage of which any parish had
been proud 1t was situated midway
between the two churches at that time
st Johns and the Chapel of St. Barna-
baS.'
One of the tombs in the cemetery of
st. Earna bas is that 'In memory of
Rev. Matthias Harris of the Episcopal
diocese of Maryland and Chaplain
United States Army. Died July Ii.
1871. aged seventy-four years." and
Catherine Harris. his beloved wife,
who died January 26, 1856, aged sew
enty-fve years. One little tomb is in
scrihed Infant daughter of Rev. J.
owen Dorsey and Virginia Dorsey, died
May s, 1877" Mr.. Dorsey was the min
lister here from 1874 to 1878. and Dr.
terfoot says of him: s"By his efforts
the chapel at Surrattsville was erected
His health would not admit of the itin-
erancy of this Broad creek parish in
all weathers and over it's many rugged
hills. Hence long before his people
here could spare him well he resigned
for clerkship in the Indian bureau
for which his western mission work
: had fitted him."
There is another tomb which will
turn backward the thoughts of many
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story through the pages of the journal,
then called. Charities now the Survey.
but 1t will bear repeating. 1t was the
back yard of one of the most sqGalid
of the homes: you may picture it's
grade when | tell YOU that the garbage
was simply thrown under the kitchen
table. Out of the yard of that home
we took five cart loads of tins, bricks.
stones and much other rubbish. Then
the little daughter of the house and /
dug up more bricks and rocks ana
cleared a plot two feet square.
You can scarcely imagine the child :
delight in that soggy piece of ground
IN which we planted n few seeds. She
was one of eleven children, the mother
slattern, the father a drunkard. 1t
happened that ! was there when the
latter arrived on the scene of outdoor
operations for the first time. The little
girl dragged him out to see her gar
den. He stood in a drunken stUpor,
the two natures. man sand beast, strGg-
Cling within him. The better prevailed.
for that man went to work, and by the
end OF the summer that whole back
ward had become thing of beauty,
and the influence of order and harmony
entered the home and the woman took
heart and made it decent and tidy. so
much for the moral influence of one
backyard garden.
Another example was that of COM
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erlment departments A personal rep
res -utagtjye Of the President is expected
tp be part OF 1t. and there viii be rep
- StHJHtlF-s OF business interests IRON
al sections Of the country. The first eX-
oursiOn is expected 70 leave Seattle about
June 20. 1t Will be the shorter OF the
Two. and its tour Will practically he con-
fined to SCut hcastern ALASKA. The second
viii leave later. and its travels Will en-
brace the greater part OF the territory.
The first Of the Alaskan celebrations
VIII be at EetchIkan. This port VIII be
reached in two or three days from Sc
attle, the whole journey being made
through the inside passage. The ships
will cross Puget Sound, sail for several
hundred miles along the shores OF van
aorIger Island. and pass Prince Rupert,
the terminus Of .he Grand Trunk Pacific
railway on their way north. After cross
ing tho Portland canal they viii be IN
AI,sis, and. Il tgw hours later il IA" BAY
OF EgtrhiNan. The show here Will he an
territory. The catching. canning and
curing Of salmon will be shown by a
visit TO the great canreries ana coia
storage plants The visitors may POSSIBLY
see tine salmon jumping the falls on their
way up the streams I" spawn lhr Won
drrs Of halibut fishing will be exhibited,
and there Will probably be competitive
throwing Of lines by the fishermen 'Ihe
h.tltut lines are several miles in length
and there are hundreds of hooks on Il sin
gle line The lines must be cast so that
the hooks lie on the bed Of the sea, ana
th,v must be drawn in without tangiing
kstchikan is the chief station Of the
lighthouse bureau and wire drag service,
and there will probably he a government
exhibit of the latter showing the vessels
in action.
l.ravi-g Ketchlkan, the next show
Will ne ~ the town Of Wraneell, where
the uar}i- Industry VIII he featured.
and fo!lociug that will be a quartz
c""uivaf here at Juneau The latter viii
Nr worth coming 20 Alaska to see.
Juneau is in about the center of Il gold
belt. which runs for 200 miles up and
down the coast The country consists
Of precipitouS mountains rising almost
straight from the sea, and in these
mountains are found vast quantities of
low-grade gold The mineral resources
compare somewhat in character with
those near johannesburg, in South
Africa, and for a century to come they
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Alaska to Celebrate Anniversary With Expositions


promise to pour a continuous stream
of gold into the lap of the world.
At Juneau the visitors will see the
capital of the territory; they will have
q speech from the governor and recep-
tions Of various kinds will be held.
One feature of the visit will be a trip
to the Mendenhall glacier. which IS
only sixteen miles from the city and
which may be reached by automobile
The next stop viii be at Sitsa, the
historic town of Alaska. 1t was the
site of the Russian capital, when the
territory was formally turned over to
us, just fifty years ago. Many of the
old Russian buildings still stand. and
these include the Russian Cathedral. a
log blockhouse and some of the old log
warehouses which once held vast guam
titles of furs. There are many Indians
about Sitka, and the Indian mission
schools under the charge of the PreSby-
teriau Church will probably give exhi
bitlous. Sitka is one of the most beau
tiful spots in Uncle Sans dominion, and
il has mountains in view that equal
Fujiyama in their symmetrical grand
eur.
Leaving Sitka, the eXcursionists Will
90 to Skagway, the port TO the klon-
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eran "Sourdoughs" The towns are pre-
pairing TO hold celebrations of from one
to three days duration. on dates that
VIII not conflict and viii allow of par
tiCipat-ou by the eNcursiouists. These
celebrations VIII be in q circuit SO that
instead OF one show there Will be a
long chain Of wonders. each featuring
its own locality ana furnishing the
visitors an opportunity of viewing the
nammonth industries in actual opera
tion.
The excursions will probably be two in
number. and one will be twice as long as
the other. The first will take thirty days
and the second about sixty days, the lat
ter including a tour Of the Yukon. 4 trip
across Bering sea and a visit to the
Aleutian Islands. 1t will be somewhat
similar to the excursion OF 1918, which
covered distance Of S,52i miles. or more
than the diameter Of the earth at the
equator That party included many
prominent business men, a congre SIS man
or so. 4 dozen newspaper correspondents
and a personal representative OF Presi-
dent Wilson. The party OF this year will
be many times as large. 1t is expected
that it will have a delegation from Con-
gress and representatives of all the gov
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A Valuable Discovery.

r0 IsHOP SANFORD OLMsTED of Dem
ID yer is noted fer the brevity of his
sermons.
Congratulated at a tea on his happy
quality of being brief, Bishop Olmsted
smiled and said:
"One of my first pulpit discoveries was
that you can't make a sermon immortal
by making it everlasting"
Evening star., 1917-04-01
Xantippe's Work.

N GORGE ADE said at II Chicago we'd
W ding breakfast:
The great and good Socrates Nas mar
ried to scold. otherwisa. perhaps, he
would have spent more time at home and
less time in the market place finding
fault with the Athenian government.
This thought occurred to me at a
school treat where l asked bright little
girl:
How did Socrates die?'
He died. the little girl rerlied, from
a dose of wedlock.
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77 - ITH the Department of Agri-
Nm\U culture and the daily press
WV urging the people to take up
the cultivation of their back
yards and vacant lots this season-as
one means of facing the high cost of
living, as well as a measure of prepar-
edness against any national exigency
which may befall requiring the con-
servation of individual resources it is
interesting to come across 4 woman
who for the past fifteen years has been
preaching and giving practical instruc
tions in home gardening as measure
of conservation, moral, mental, physical
and financial, for the American city
child
This. woman is Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter
of Washington, who for the past TWEEN
ty years has devoted the greater part
of her time to practical philanthropic
effort in behalf of the children of her
home city Mrs. Rafter is president of
the Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teacher Association of the District of
Columbia. and has recently been made
chairman of the child-welfare exhibit,
which will be given under the auspices
the twenty-first child-welfare confer
ence of the National Congress of Moth
ers and Parent Teacher Associa ton. to
be held in Washington during the last
" eek in April.
Associated with Mrs. Rafter in the
preparation of this exhibit are Miss
Julia Lathrop. chief of the children'S
bureau. and Mrs. Philander p. Claxton,
wife Of the United States commissioner
Of education. Mrs. Rafter three years
ago formed the first troop of Girl
Scouts in Washington and is captain
OF this troop as well as president of
the Girl Scout Captains Association of
the District of Columbia.
In the course of Il recent Interview
Mrs. Rafter said that her eyes were
first opened to the useless waste of
chlldhoodS time, and the evil results
to which it led, when she sat in her
carriage and saw CoXeys army of no
boes walk down Pennsylvania avenue
some twenty years go.
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heavily timbered with oaks. but in recent
years the timber has been thinned out.
so that in summer, while there are
sunshine warns the earth. The big oaks
are closer together in the graveyard
than elsewhere in the glebe of the
church. If YOU We're acquainted in that
neighborhood stroll among the graves
would bring to you the recollection of
many friends who have passed on.
There are three old marble tomhStoneS $
directly back of the chancel wall one
Is inscribed MARY Elizabeth. wife of
Rev. j. Martin, died September 20, 1863,
aged i6 years" The next is inscribed
Mary daughter of Rev. !. Martin, died
October is, 1861 aged 6 years" The
third reads: ELLEN Douglass, wife Of
Henry A. Williams of Virginia, daugh-
ter of Rev. ]. Martin. died october H..
1865, aged % years" The Rev. John
Martin was one of the old ministers of
Broad Creek Church and st. Barnabas.
The Rev. William J. kerfoot. another
old minister of these churches, wrote
of him: From 1874 his faithful minis
trations lasted through four and twenty
years 4 sturdy churchman. an earnest
Christian a man of great gentleness
and quiet dignity, he was beloved by
every one.
There is one fine marble tomb which
is slowly being consumed by ivy. and
which is inscribed: Sacred to the mem
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dixie. and viii then make their way
along the south coast to Cordoya and
Seward. whence they viii come back to
Seattle
As far as Skagway, the second ex-
cursion VIII he practically the same
as that already described. After reach
ing that port. which is a thousand
miles north Of Seattle, the visitors viii
go into the interior on the White Pass
and uhOn railroad. They will cross
the coast range of mountains. passing
through scenery equal to any in the
Rociies, and land at White Horse, at
the head ot navigation Of the Yukon
river. There they viii be awaited by
a heet of steamers which will take
them down the great river and remain
with them until they are landed on the
island of st. Michael in Bering sea.
The visitors will live on the steamers
aud VIII stop as long as is needed at
the principal ports.
The first celebration will be at Daw
son. wAer" the Canadians will do what
they can 10 snow the wonders Of the
kloEdike gold mines, present and past.
ne party VIII be taken out through the
valley, which has been turned over by
the great dreGgcs. and they will see the
hydraulic giants at work washing down
the g"ld-hearing debris of the White
river channel. They will be received by
the governor of the Yukon territory. and
VIII nave 4 chance to q. little of how
canada runs its territorial possessions
IN the far north.
**
Leaving Dawson, the fleet will make
its way down the Yukon. crossing the
International boundary n little above
Eagle. 1t will stop at Eagle, Circle City
ana Rampant, and, at the latter port.
take the cNCursionists across the river
TO visit the government farm where
IhcIe sam is raising rye barley and
Alfalfa on the Arctic circle. not very
lar from the north pole. The farmers
VIII show their wonderful potato crops,
and they may even give the visitors a
taste of the strawberries which they
nave lately succeeded in raising.
The next stage of the journey will be
among the hills that wall the Yukon
from ltampart TO Fort Gibbon, at the
mouth of the Tanana river. a stop will
De made at the fort and the soldiers
Will give the party a reception. Later
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Rambler Writes Of the Chapel Of St. Barnabas

-HE Rambler ended his narrative
80,
Ill iast week IN WIRING OF tie h'Sh
bit of tablelaud on which
q r+ards +ba ,,,o,or borsa Of
BarnabS, u gray ana moSsE mousse
warped and wrinkled bv the years. Its
,.1-.a +ir,h-s r-b.ra ,nose +ir,bars
-.
were not morticcd, were put together
with hand-wrought nails before the In
dions oss.,, frl.,,, .I,. t,,.o,-,a,. ,.,1Ia,-
"iiS P"SS'u io''' ''''
and children romped under It's roof or
haud-riycn shingles and around its ca
,,t1,.,, s....,..e,. ,..e.-. .t,. f..,, o,,5
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was Louisiana and the great north west
That included all the land between the
mississippi and the Rockies. and 4.e
bought il Of France Hl 1909 Tor $lJ-
GHo. .Gup- II Is worth tens rT billions to-
day. The next purchase was Florida a
state which The asse-STue show is
now worth more than S5ru, ,uuO, 600
James Monroe bought it Of Spain for
So,VUb,qvo. That was In 1873, and IL
was twenty-siX years later that Texas
came into the Union and sold Us its
right TO parts OF New Mexico, Colo
rado and Kansas for $10,0Oo,00o.
Y was in 1876 that we acquired the
Oregon country by treaty with Great
Britain and, in 1898, we bought Cali
fornia from Mexico by paying her an
indemnity Of sl5,O0o.0Go. To-day the
assessed valuation of California is
more than three billions, and that S NOT
one-half what the country is worth.
The A!a-EauS are proud of what has
been accomplished, ana they are lu4Hz
To celebrate their fiftlcth 3uriverSa ry
by world 5 fair This fai. Will be diff
Ierent from any ever held by any I.a-
tion or in any country. 1t will BE- COM
rnenorative of AIaska's fftieth birth
day, and win take its place among the
great celebra tions Of that kind. We held
the ir5t at Philadelphia in 1876. wL en-
we ctlepIdtet tLe 4VVtH anniversary OF
the Declaration of Independence. We
held the next at Chicago in 1893. TO
commemorate tile 4Ueth anniversary uf
the landing OF Columbus. and the third
AZ st Louis, in honor of the Louisiana
Purchase. Each of these expositioas
was confined to n few hundred acres.
The show grounds of the Alaska cx-
position Will he one-tlfth as large rs the
whole United States, and = stroll
through IL viii comprise travels COW
crIuG Il distance longer ths y from Los
Angeles 10 Manila. The exposition is to
be known as the "Ail Alaska" and il
viii cover all Of the larger towns and
give a general view of the territory.
The "All Alaska" is to be in the form
Of excursions. arranged by the Alaska
bureau of the Seattle Chamber OF Com
7nerce and personally conducted by vet
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munity garden in the same neighbor-
hood. There stood group Of tene-
ments, without any back yard. near the
gaShouSe- | went to the gas Office pCo-
pie and asked them for the loan of i
piece of their unused ground for 4 gar
den. They laughed at my request bur
granted it. We made twenty small gar
dens. one for each child on that plot, ana
/ never knew of a single case of theft
of so much as a vegetable from an
others plot. The interest of both the
children and the parents was great.
Il have seen row of mothers hang
ing out of their back windows watch
ing the children and their helpers at
work among the radishes, beans and
other green things growing below, Most
of those children raised enough vege
use, and we encouraged the mothers to
pay them for their produce. Some OF
the boys sold parsley and radishes in
the neighborhood all summer long