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Evening star., 1917-03-18
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BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1917. by T. W. BurEess.l
Black Pussy Loses Her Bed.

Bobby Coon had decided that he liked
Farmer Browns kitchen. 1t was very
warm and comfortable place. and it was
filled with pleasant smells that ttckled
his nose every time he drew a breath.
What some Of those pleasant smells
came from he had just found out from
tho good things Mrs. Brown had given
him to eat. His box in the barn where
he had stayed while his broken leg was
getting well was very comfortable, very
comfortable indeed, but out there there
were no such delicious smells.
II think I'll stay right here" thought
Bobby as on three legs he explored that
kitchen and examined everything in IT.
Now that his stomach was so run that
it was really uncomfortable, he began TO
feel sleepy. Besides, he was growing
tired. You know he had not used his
legs for some time. and then, 100. ne
wasn't used to walking on three less,
and he couldn't Yet use that leg Whit II
had been broken. There was no feeling
or strength in it.
Presently back OF the kitchen stove
he found box. and in that box bed
bed Bobby's nose told him that some
one else was in the habit of sleeping In
it, but that troubled him not at all.
This looks good to me-" said Bobby
to himself. 81 don't know VINO IL DC
longs to, and don't much care. If they
are big enough to turn me out of it.,
which [ very much doubt, all right, I'm
til they do this bed is going to be
mine"
lie deliberately crawled into Black
Fussys box and began to rearranse
Black Pussys bed TO suit himself. He
is little fussy, is Bobby Coon. and he
wants things just so. When he had fixed
the bed to suit him he curled himself
IN, blinked sleepily at Farmer Brown 5
BOY as much as to say, This suits me,
thank YOU and in two minutes was
asleep
Former Browns Boy. who had been
watching him. laughed. We'll. what do
you think of that" said he 20 his
mother. THE rascal is making himself
at home here as If ne intended to stay.
| suppose I ought to take him back to
the barn, but he looks SO comfortable
| hate TO disturb him.
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HIGH PRICES BLAMED
ON POOR DISTRIBUTION
Woman Here Tells How She Saved
SIG by Buying Big Order
in Chicago.

That poor distribution, coupled with
lack of planning and system both in
the house and the store. principally is
responsible for the food shortage and
high prices. IS the claim of Wash
ington householder in letter sent to
the District food investigating COM
mittee. In support of the theory she
calls the committees attention to the
fact that in October, last, she sent an
order for groceries to Chicago, the pur-
chases averaging from 10 to 50 per cent
cheaper than she could have bought
the same or inferior goods here.
Sugar there cost me ) cents a
pound" states the letter. at was s
here; forty-nine pounds Of -four there
was s1.s2: fifty pounds of -four here was
s2.35; mackerel there. IA cents a pound:
here. 20 cents a pound; shortening
there. IA cents pound; here. the same
quality, % cents a pound; shredded
wheat put up by the same people cost
me IL cents there. and two packages
here at the grocery cost 25 cents. My
order was almost $34, and the goods
here would have cost more than $50.
And in all cases the quality would not
have been nearly SO good. My freight
was less than 81, SO my order there
actually saved more than SIG, besides
the satisfaction and convenience of a
we'll stocked pantry with every article
done up in a sanitary wrapping and
sealed.
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fingers worked back and forth along
that little leg.
Bobby" said he. "Old Mother Nature
has done her part and that leg is going
to be Just as good as ever after you've
used 1t while. You'll soon be able to
run about and climb Just as If moth
ing had happened. Then l suppose
you'll be off for the Green Forest and
forget all about me. Now Well cele--
brate by going up to the house and
letting you exercise a little"
He gathered Bobby up In his arms
and took him to the house. where he
put him down on the kitchen floor.
Here. mother" said he to Mrs. Brown.
"is our little patient. We're going to
celebrate by letting him stay here
a while and get acquainted with US.
Isn't he Handsome =,
Bobby gravely looked Mrs. Brown all
over and made up his mind that there
was nothing to fear from her. No one
with such assweet, gentle face could
possibly do him any harm Then nav
ing a very lively curiosity, he started
to explore this queer place where human
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Farmer Browns Boy and Bob
by Celebrate.

If when Bobby Coon was living in
the Green Forest anybody had told
him that there would come day
when he and Farmer Browns Boy
would have Il celebration together
Bobby would have said that 1t was
the craziest idea ever thought OF. In
those days he hated Farmer Browns
Boy because he feared him. Did you
ever notice how fear most always
kes hate? Almost everybody, big
and little. is inclined to hate whatever
or whoever is feared. So Bobby Coon.
being afraid of Farmer Browns Boy.
simply because he was human being,
the same kind of q creature as the
hunter who had so often tried to kill
Bobby. had hated him. And now here
they were III Farmer Browns barn
actually going to have u celebration
together.
What were they going to celebrate?
Can't you guess? They were going to
celebrate the taking off of that band
age from the leg which had been
broken. Yes, sir. that is just what they
We're going to celebrate. You see 1t
was a great event, and it is usual to
celebrate great events. AT least that Is
"nat farmer Brown ) BOY toiu boopt,
although Bobby didn't understand a
word he said So Farmer Browns Boy
had brought along an extra supply of
good things to eat. for what KIND or Il
celebration can any one have without q
feast?
First he fed Bobby some OF the good
things out of his hand Then he took
out his knife and very carefully be-
gan to cut the strings that held the
bandage in place. When those were off
he unwound the strips Of cloth that
had held in place the two little thin
fiat sticks which had held that broken
leg so firmly that the broken ends had
had no chance TO slip apart.
Now, We'll see how good doctor
am" said Farmer Browns Boy as the
last strip of cloth was unwound and
the two little sticks dropped TO the
floor. Very gently he felt of the poor
little leg where the break had been.
Bobby looked on wonderlngiy. lie
didn't feel those gentle fingers at all
because his leg had been bound up SO
long that there was no feeling IN 1t.
A look of pleasure and happiness came
into Farmer Browns Boys eyes as his
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Leave him right where he IS" said
Mrs Brown quite as if that settled the
matter. I guess Black Pussy can get
along without her bed for while"
Il wonder what she'll say when she
finds out vino is in IT. chuclled Farmer
Browns Boy. Il hope I'm around when
she does. / believe I'll call her.
He went to the door and called and
called. but Black Pussy did not appear
The truth is she vas Watching for Dan
that this time sine would catch him. All
the time Danny was watching her and
laughing to himself. Black Pussy would
have to have more patience than she
ever had had in order to catch him.
But Black Pussy didn't know this, and
though she heard Farmer Browns Boy
calling her she paid no attention.
( 1t was y long, long time after this
that She gave up her watch for Danny,
disappointed but very sure that she
would catch him the next day On her
way through the barn she passed the
box where Bobby Coon had been while
his leg was healing. OF course. she had
discovered Bobby there long before. and
she had taken great pains to keep away
from that box. She didn't approve Cl
Bobby at all, and she had q great deal
of respect for his size and his teeth and
claws.
Now as she started to go around the
box she noticed that it had been moved
a little and something whispered to her
that il was empty. Black Pussy paused
and stared very hard at the box. Then.
very softly, she krept up on another box
! from which she could look into Bobby's
box. 1t was empty.
He's gone, and I'm glad of it, nut
/ tered Black Pussy, twitching the end of
her tail. These people from the Green
| Forest should stay where they belong.
| Ever since that miserable coon came
here Farmer Browns Boy has hardly
noticed me. Now perhaps I'll get lit
| tie attention.
| With this Black Pussy jumped down
and went to the house The door was
| opened Just then, and she walked into
the kitchen. 1t struck her right away
| that there something queer there
| She didn't know Just what it was, but
| she had that feeling.
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beings lived. 1t Was the first time
Bobby had had n chance to move about
since his leg was broken, and because
he hadn't used them for SO long his
good legs felt rather funny. As for the
leg that had been broken, 1t felt as if
there wasn't any leg there at all, and
he held it up stiffiy as he went about
on three legs examining with eyes and
nose everything he could reach.
All this time Farmer Browns Boy
and his mother watched Bobby and
wished they could know just what was
going on inside OF Bobby's head, and
what be thought of all the strange
things he was seeing for the first time.
In the pleasure of watching him they
quite forgot that they had anything
else to do Presently Bobby sat down
by the pantry door and sn.ffed ard
shifted and then rolled his eyes up ST
Mrs Brown in the FUNNIEST way
BLESS his heart. he's hungry" she
exclaimed.
"I don't see how he can be-" chuc-
illed Farmer Browns Boy, but 1 am
IN no time at all Mrs. Brown Was
out of the pantry with plate of scraps
OF meat and other tidbits for Bobby
and a big piece of pie for FaVmer
Browns Boy. So altogether they had
quite celebration.
Evening star., 1917-03-18

Ertont" '.Ei, vie mel mein Triangel."
"Rongs list der Wald. AIS die alte
Mutter" and "Darf des Falken
Schwinge."
At the Church of the Covenant this
afternoon the music will be given by
the triple quartet. and in the evening
by the chorus choir with double quar-
tet, both services being under direc-
ton of sydney Lloyd Wrightson. with
Harvey Murray at the organ. The fol-
lowing are the numbers: Afternoon,
anthem. Consider the Lilies" by Top
liff, Incidental tenor solo, Richard =.
Backing; bass solo, God SO Clothed
the Grass" by BischoT, J. Walter
Humphrey: anthems, 20. Loving Fa-
ther,' by Del Riego. incidental soprano
solo, Miss Meta Craig. Divine Praise -
by Bortniansky. Evening, organ pre-
lude. "Adagio." from Second Sonata
by Mendelssohn: anthem. blessed Is
He That Cometh," by Gounod: soprano
and alto duet, Jesus, Lover of My
Soul" by kimball. Mrs. Jewell Downs
and Miss Mary Jacobs; anthems, "The
Souls of the Righteous" by Foster. in
cidental solo. Miss Craig Abide With
0te," by Reed. incidental solo. Mr.. viii
son; organ postlude. Grand Choeur
ALA Haendel." by Faulkes.
Thursday evening. April s. the sacred
cantata, The Seven Last Words" by
Dubois. will be sung at Trinity Metho-
sisting of the regular soloists of the
church. Mrs. u. d. Shreve, soprano:
Mrs. Ada Arundel Pillow. contralto and
director: George Calvert Bowie, tenor
and j. e. S. kinsella, bass and Mrs
Mary Sherier Bowie, soprano; Miss Ma
rion Mccoy. contralto; J. f. NJ Bowie
tenor and john Waters. baritone, " ith
Airs. Frank Frost at the organ.
The midwinter recital of the Virgil
Piano School took place Saturday even
ing in the classroom of the school The
program, which was of unusual In
terest, was made up of three parts: the
first comprised technical demonstra-
tions. the second pieces formally stud
led, and the third part was devoted TO
new pieces. Compositions from Gurlitt
Ducelle, Friml. Lack. Heller, Chami
made. Sinding. Poldini. MacDoweI, Bach
Schubert and Moszkowski were played by
Pauline Graf. Ruth Simpson, Edith
Austermunl, Kathryn Beck, EIvera
Katyman. Catharine Morrison and
Catharine DeInaresJ.
The Ohio Society entertained Aiouday y
evening at Rauschers. when a musical
program was given under direction OF
Mrs. William Hamilton Bayly. consist
ing of duet, "Barcaroie,' by Rossini
sung by Mrs. Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler
soprano. and Mrs. William T. Reed, con-
tralto; violin solo, 'Vicnnese Popular
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Farmers Hold for Private Sales.

The farmer also is averse to selling
at maximum prices. He will hold his
products for an opportunity to make a
private sale. He can afford to do this.
because if ultimately part of his food
stuffs be requisitioned by the govern
ment he will get the maximum price
anyway. In certain districts in 30
hemia and the Salzburg country food
conditions are nearly normal, though
in adjacent mountainous parts, which
must import some of their food, the
situation resembles those in the cities
and larger towns.
Austria'S food problems have been
aggravated by the attitude of the Hun
garian government. Austria is largely
industrial. while Hungary is essentially
an agricultural state. In the past the
two have exchanged manufactured for
soil products. Anxious. however, that
its own stomach might not suffer, Hun
gary has enforced Il number OF export
inhibitions which have not bettered
the situation in Austria While the
Hungarian government has given as
it's excuse that the recent crops have
not been good. it is understood that
pure selfishness is the actual reason
for this somewhat unbrotherly con-
duct. Hungary at any rate has more
food than her population needs. though
Budapest is suffering from the same
hardships as is Vienna. The food mer-
chants of both capitals have made up
their mind to make all the money they
can, and SO far neither government
has been able to frighten them into a
more reasonable attitude.
Meanwhile the situation in Vienna
cannot become much worse than it Is
without the government being obliged
to adopt the drastic measure of con-
fiscation Sanction for this already eX-
lists and. unless dealers in foodstuffs
decide to be reasonable, paragraph
may find application here. With Ger
tain classes the war and its appeal to
patriotism haEe lost all novelty.
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by treaty 20 pay the Danish govern
ment $4,000. 900 for all Of the holdings
Of tho latter country in the West
Indies.
On the map the West Indies are
seen as a string OF islands. beginning
with the large ones Of Cuba and Santo
Domingo, thinning out in mIdocean to
a few almost invisible dots, and then
emerging to the south again in the
larger French and English islands.
What we have bought from Denmark
are about fifty of these little PIN
head islands. Only three of them
are large enough to have names on
the map. and the largest contains but
eighty-four square miles. insignificant
as they appear geographically, how
ever, these islands are most interesting g,
and may become important.
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, L. ". l.,
March THE American flag is short
" to be raised over this group of is
lands, the United States having agreed
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in tho sense that Port au Prince n TIE
West Indian creole, and Of q dlstino-
tive type. He has Just enough negro
blood to make his skin dark and his hair
slightly lkinky. He is indolent and pleas :
relieving, but intelligent and pretty
well educated. Many OF the leading NOR
chants of st. Thomas are creoles. inclu6-
ing the only millionaire in tho islands.
These well-to-do Creoles have their chill
dren educated in Europe, and mingie with
the Danish officials as social equals
Many of the young Danes have taken
Creole brides back to Denmark.
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Miss Katherine Vernon assisted at n
piano recital given by Mrs. Lille
Waters Peterson Friday evening, when
she was heard in The Fairy Pipers.'
by Brewer. and for encore, The VAL
ley of Laughter" by Sanderson.
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rich island 1t contains eighty-four
square miles of territory. large part
Of which is planted in sugar cane One
side Of the island is Fat. while a minia-
ture mountain range borders the other.
rising steeply out OF the bright. tender
green of the sugar fields, which reach
clear down to the palm groves along
the white beaches This island has fine
roads bordered with rows of royal
palms, and 1t boasts no less than TWEEN
ty automobiles. Long ago it was a Ia
vorite winter resort for Americans,
and the islanders believe that 1t Is
going to become popular with tourists
again. Land has already been bought
for the erection OF u large modern
hotel
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IN WASHINGTON.

Song" by Kreisler. Miss Helen Dodge.
and the vocal solos. The Break of
Day" by Sanderson. Mrs Reed, and a
Spring Morning" by Alexander Mat
thews, Mrs. Gawler.
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Two Are Embraced
in the Virgin Group.

in the Virgin Group. Cro,x ST
Thomas was settled by the Dutch. who
left 1t for New York. Then the Danes
took It, and the English took IT away
from tho Danes several times. put al
ways gave it back because they olu
not want it, The Dutch and the ENG
fish also squabbled in small way
over ST. Croix; then the Spaniards got
boId OF IL. only to be driven out pg
the French, who gave 1t to the hhls NJ >
of Malta They, being unable 70 iia
a. living there, burned up theiF a to.
ings and departed. Denmarh sa,ns rea-
son that she got st. Thomas. nancy, e,t
because nobody else wanted IL. o1e
has been losing money on the nsia,ue a,,;i
almost ever since: that twenty,nve M
lions Will be the first profit that DEN
mark. as a. nation, has made out OF
her west Indian colonies In long
time. .,, =.
The history OF our own relation 20
the islands has been much repeated
Of late. In 1853 Secretary of State
| Seward offered seven and 8 hair mlliionS
| for them, g. vote was taken mere atiu @
the people We're almost unanlnious S..s ~ =,
tho transfer. The bill then aieo II
I the Senate committee on foreign re-
| lations In 1902 we wasted an oppor
! tunity to buy the islands for hVe NH
lions In 1915 we jumped at the chanct
| to buy them for twenty-five millions
and now it remains only to. pay o@yel @
tho money and raise the flag. The
price comes to nearly $500 an acre
as against 2 cents an aero whicr
we paid for Alaska, 81 cents fol
the Philippines and about $s5 fol
| the Canal Zone. Thus 1t is seen thai
colonies, like everything else, arc go
| ing up in price.
!: u
This crude summary OF the history
of the Danish West Indies gives no idea
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Capital City Is
Rated Beautiful,

dusty town. swept by the wind from fits
open roadstead, md Is neither picturesque
nor interesting. Christiansted. on the
Fother hand, is beautiful tropical city.
full Of flowers and palms and picturesque
old houses 1t has a pretty little harbor
choled with sand and mud. The bulk O.
the people in St CroiN arc black negroes.
while the dominant class ~re mostly
Irishmen and Danes.
From these facts, it VIII be seen that
we have not bought valuable piece OF
real estate. but The purchase was su.ti
fed. Whatever the value Of the islands
to US, our potential value TO them is
enormous. The people of the Danish
West Ipdes are looking TO us with faith
and hope for many things, and tho whole
Caribbean world will watch our course
there with keen and critical interest
Wherefore Uncle Sans new islands are ~
more important part of his domain than
they appear on tho map.
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HE IS y LITTLE FUssY Is BOBBY
COON AND HE WANTS THINGS
JUST SO.
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Favored by Greedy storekeepers.

Rapacious storekeepers favor this
course, because 1t nets them prices
often 200 per cent above the maximum
price set by the government. Whether
the store be large or small makes no
difference. In the end the retailer is
little more than the agent of the whole
saler in this mulcting of a war-worn
public Not SO long ago shipment
of more than 100000 eggs spoiled in
a Vienna railroad yard because the pre-
vailing price did not suit the owners.
There are a number of excuses to
the larger centers. Always the war Is
blamed 1t is the excuse for every
tactical move to cause artificial short
ages-situations which do not affect
maximum prices, but force up food at
the private sales. While maximum
living of about 40 per cent. living is
about $50 per cent mora expensive than
before the war.
1t is known that the large Vienna
banks are not uninterested in this
practice. Much of the capital needed
to make the cornering and holding Of
food possible is supplied by them, at
a suitable rate, of course. During the
war these banks have become almost
omnipotent for the reason that the gov
ernment needs them. 1t is said Mai.
Gen. Hoefer viii meet in them an an
tagonist worthy of his best efforts.
On the whole. food in Austria is not
scarce. Most of the rural districts do
not know yet what government reg
bread. butter and fat cards have been
introduced everywhere. the country
population pays, on the whole, little
attention to them.
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Island Uttered
| With Old Relics

with pirates and privateers and doub-
looms and creole beauties. The islands
are Uttered with old cannon, ruined
forts and all the other stage props of
swashbucklinS romance.
GeoloeicalIy, these islands are the
tips of badly swamped mountain
range. St. Thomas juts suddenly out
of the water, like a swimmers head.
From It's highest point you can see e
amount of ocean all around. There
is practically no eultivation. because a Sc
the harbor. Fire and hurricane have
swept the island almost clear OF for
est, but there is low. dense growth
of brush, which affords shelter for
wild goats and deer. while few cat
tie Craze on the open, windswept noun
tain tops. The island is beautiful with
a vivid. unexpected beauty-an ideal
place to explore with o pony and a
camera Aud the bulk of 1t is now
serving no other purpose than to de-
light an occasional wanderer with an
eye for the picturesque.
st. Croix, on the other hand, Is
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Sydney Lloyd Wrightson has rendered
his resignation as 4 member OF the
board of managers Of the Washington
Oratorio Society.
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st. John Claims
800 Inhabitants

jungle, the lack of roads and the fact
that there is no town on tho island.
The other forty-seven islands which
are included in our purchase vary from
such bits as Sail rock. which is bare
spire OF granite that looks like a sal
and affords homo for few sea
birds, TO Buck Island, which IS sew
eral square miles in area, covered will
dense growth, and full Of wild pigeons
parrots and wild goats. Most of these
small islands, or keys, are uninhabitet
and many OF them are practically never
visited by men.
Our purchase includes three principa
cities and few smaller villages. The
most important of the cities is Charlotte
Amalie. on this Island of st. Thomas
In the islands the town is called St
Thomas, its Danish name almost never
being heard. 1t has about twelve thou
sand inhabitants, most Of whom have
negro blood, but it is not a negro towr
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MUSICAL MENTION

IN WASHINGTON.

Ertont" "F,i, vie mel men Triangel."
"Rongs list der Wald." AIS die alte
Mutter" and "Darf des Falken
Schwinge."
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st. Thomas and st. John belong to
the virgin group OF islands, which was