Evening star., 1921-10-30

with it's thick log sides and It's
dormer windows looking out
like great google eyes from its
slanting shingled roof. the Rambler
took up the pleasant, happy burden
Of his camera and went his way
west along the Little River turnpike
In the direction Of ChantilIy. A few
hundred yards beyond the Robey
house and on the opposite. or the
south sidS Of the road Is q. big frame
house in clump of hard maple
trees. Though a narrow lane leads
from the main road to this house.
two rows Of NAPLES mark out broad
avenue. At the rear OF, the house
is a cluster of farm buildings. giving
a truly rustic touch to the scene.
1t is an old home. but 1t has been
SO well cared for that, as we often
say Of persons and very seldom
mean 1t. at doesn't look its age" 1t
is the home of George w. Beach and
his wife, who waa a Miss Worster.
and the house stands on the old
Nvorster farm, which is still an eX-
tensive tract. but which before the
civil war was one of the large
plantations in that part of northern
Virginia which we may include as
the Washington neishborhood.
Here long section of good road
: which convicts have built from.
Fairfax Court House westerly. ends.
and u section of road. which is worse
than the Little River pike at its
worst before its improve n1ent set in.
begins. The convicts are at work re
building the road a mile Or SO beyond
this point. and over this part of the
road heavy trucks lass every few
minutes in their work CT haullns 3
broken rock to the place where build
! ing operations are in progress rms
heavy traffic on a dirt ROAD has had
the effect which you can understand
without q description OF il being set
down here.
THE road at the point along It's
= course which the Rambler has
reached now begins long descent TO
a famous stream that flows through a
/ broad. deep waller. The sides OF the
valley are hiIlv and the land for a
, long way in all directions is cleared
and under cultivation. SO that from!
i the rim OF the valley impressive pros
poets lay before and below you. W mere
the road begins TO dip Is q very old
and gray house. which stands near the
south side Of the pike. and in tront OF
! 1t the rural letter box is inscribed
"R. S. Jones'" The road continues its
| down grade and the bank on each
| side rises higher. On the top OF each
bank Is a. strip of trees and bushes,
, all vine-tangled, and an old worm
! rail fence. Beyond the strip of wild
! shrubbery and fenc!e are open fields
! About fifty Yards off the left of the
road and two hundred from the old
/; gray house with TIE Jones letter box
before 1t clumD of cedars are grow
! ing In field from which the hay has
recently been cut. In this clump Of
cedars are four venerable trees Set
in a row and equally spaced. and two
| younger trees which are growing out
Of alignment. knowing vel the sig
ntficance Of that cedar cluE1p in an
topen field, the Rambler climbed tie
bank at the roadside and the rail fence
and walked across tfe field. Several
Of the graves-seven or eight Of thei.l
i-are sunken and marked It the head
; ard foot b. rough pieces of country
rock. 1t may be that conventional
monuments stood there once. but OPP
rcsing armies time and time again
swept over this farm and civil war
showed little more. IL any. conSidera-
tion for tombs of the dead than homes
of the living. There are among the
, cedars three. inscribed tombstones
and one OF them was set there before
the civil war. These monuments are
inscribed:
Sacred to the memory OF Tabley
Worster. who departed this life June
ll0, 1858, aged siXty-five years. Blessed
are the dead which die in the Lord
| ITO our sister. Eliza Worster, died
January il. 1874 aged thirtyt tt rec
years Trusting in the Lord
i Under one OF the cedars stands 4
marble tombstone whittier than the
otheFs, end the epitaph IL "FrAEci: