Evening star., 1919-03-02

like those of Nineveh and Troy may
come upon the corroded Goddess OF
Liberty or Statue of Freedom buried
under hundred centuries of debris.
People then, digging deep down to
pour the foundation for an ether
static plant for communication bev
tween the people of the earth and the
citizens Of Sirius, Arcturus. Aldeba-
ran and more distant suns, may come
upon fragment of the beautiful
marble cornice or balustrade of The
Star building, The street level of
Washington will then be very much
above the present level.
The people win have spread out
over the highland between Cabin
Johns run and Rock run. Only
sayant-antiquary. with big spectacless
and pile of mildewed and ragged
books which people may call Archaea-
Potomacana, will be able to tell that
there ever were such creeks as Cabin
John and Rock runs. They win have
been sewers for thousands of years,
and then abandoned for other thou
sands of years because people will
have found means to reduce sewage
to clean and fragrant tonic for rose
gardens and lily beds. But out that
way this great new church will stand.
1t may not have steeple, chimes, bel
fry, dome, tower, flying buttress or
facade. Perhaps not only VIII church
architecture have become something
of which we cannot conceive, but even
religion may have changed. Perhaps
there may be preached in that great
temple or auditorium a creed with
which all the people will be in agree
ment. Somewhere near the spot where
the Rambler is now sitting by his
Wayside fire. with the plain little
chapel close at hand and with only
the wind singing pines and cedars
for his neighborhood, there may stand
10000 years from now a tablet of
some metal that now shines in depths
of the earth which man has not yet
reached.
That tablet Will relate that a little
chapel of an early Christian sect stood
in this vicinity. The old cedars and
pines that now sing In the winter
wind above the Rambler may have
turned into coal. and their very spe-
cies have become extinct. Men may
find the fossil imprint of their
branches. cones and needles in the
rocks. and perhaps win say; What
strange fora grew around the habi-
tations Of ancient man" The Ram
bier has no means of knowing by
whom this tablet will be set up, but
1T may be that the work will be done
under the auspices of the Daughters
of the Emigrants from Mars" or by
tHG 1<5dsuc Vi NHe ItopiSo VI thC
World, Neptune. Uranus and Inter
steas senns Boara o rrade e se To the peo
pie who unveil that tablet the French
and Indian wars, the American revo-
luton, the war of 1872. the Mexican
war, the civil war and the world war
of the twentieth century will seem
farther back in the dimness of the
ages than the wars between the
Amorites, Hittites, Canaanites and
,rts =, ,..t, a h
ians and the Hyperboreans and Is
sedones seem to us.
The fire which the Rambler built by
the roadside to take the chill out of his
bones has died down to embers, some
of which are black and others red. 1t
is time to move on. but first, as BELTS
a good woodsman. the fire must be
utterly extinguished and dirt from the
roadway scraped over the hot char
coal. There is another thing the Ram
bier feels II his duty before leaving the
neighborhood of this plain and hum
Bile chapel. 1t Is to jot down such
names of the tenants of the graveyard
as he can record. Last Sunday he said:
Comparatively few of the graves in
this little cemetery are marked by
monuments. 1t ts SO In nearly all rural
burying grounds. Not all the dead can
have tombstones, but it is consoling
to believe that even man without
marble tombstone may have man
sion in the skies" Among the inscrip-
tlons on the gravestones are these:
Maggie L., wife Of II. A: Magruder.
John T. Penni6ll. born November "a. 1888
died November %, 1892
Howard r., of John r, and s. r. Penni-
fll, born November IT, 1866; died October 23.
1850.
Harvey r. Pennlhll, born August II, 1860;
died October 2, 1902.
Joseph Bsbinger, born In France, 1881; died
lucy b. daughter of Lloyd and A. H. Ma
gruder, died January "a 1881
Mary c. Fl. Carter, born July 1s. 1908 ire
mainder Of inscription below the sod.
Rebecca J. Davidson. born January 4, 1892
died June 20. 1898
William II. Harding, born October 25, 1868;
died September T. 1892.
William T. Redden, born August IS, 1si5;
died July 2s. 1904.
Adam sauer, aged ffty-one years.
Near the chapel the main road
turns to the left and after few huns
dred yards makes an abrupt turn to
the right Then the old way resumes
its course toward the northwest. At
this last turn you should note that
row Of mature and handsome cedars
line, the left-hand side of the road
and that wide fields on the left are
framed by cedar rows. About a quar-
ter or Il third OF a mile beyond the
turn you como to a lane that leads
straight over fields to a cluster of big
barns and stables, and you know
that in u fold of the land beyond the
barns and stables is house 1t
Is the contour of the land and not the