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TAKING A FAMILY BACK TO THE SOIL Being the Experiences of a Gov ernment Clerk Who Sets Oat to Lower the High Cost of l|l Living. j When the alarm clock broke loose with its soul-harrowing racket at 6 o'clock this morning. I must have groaned, for Jane inquired if I was ill. It's been years since I had to pet up as early as fl o'clock, except several mornings a few summers ago when I went fishing with pome friends on the upper Potomac and slept at the house of a lockkeeper on the canal. J didn t mind it at all then, but every male per son knows that such circumstances make a lot of difference. Six o'clock seemed an unearthly hour, but I soon found that I wasn't the only early riser. As I dressed I could see through the window that smoke was already pouring from the windows of the Brown house, and when I opened the kitchen door I found about a hundred birds having breakfast in the yard. Jim and Ned established a bird restaurant j'esterday by clearing off snow and scat tering bread crumbs. This morning there were snowbirds and cardinals and blue jays and. of course, the irrepressible Knglish sparrows. I^ast evening a flock of quail flew into the yard, looking for food. When Jim went out to feed them they whirred away, but we're hoping they will learn that our place is "posted" and that they can come without fear of harm. But to get back to this early-rising question, it wasn't so bad after I got steam up; and I think when the weather gets warmer I'll really enjoy it. I want to say a word right here in behalf of wood stoves. I had everything ready and lit a fire in our bedroom as soon as I got up. The room was comfortabl> warm by the time I was dressed, as comfor table for Jane and the children to dress as ever our flat was. I remember that at our home on R street before 1 was married if the furnace flre went out it took half the forenoon to get the house warmed up. Soon Had House Comfortable. The sitting room stove and kitchen range worked equally as well. I had plenty of dry kindling, from knocking up packing boxes, and there was no trouble at all getting things comfort able for the family. I am not claiming, mind you. that I actually enjoyed craw ling out at that hour to build fires but I haven't expected to find country life all a bed of roses, and it wasn't as bad as my forebodings had pictured it. Of course, it wasn't really cold this morn ing. but by next winter I will be better equipped and will have had more ex perience. I'll confess I got cold feet when I con templated the two-mile walk to the sta tion?and my feet got cold literally while I was taking It. There are four or flve inches of snow on the ground in the It n??i't as bad an my foreboding* had pictured It. country, and in the roads this has been churned into slush and mixed with mud. This makes the meanest sort of walk ing. but I worn my rubber boots and kept to the fields part of the way. I was pretty well winded when I got to the station, but I was in time to catch my car. Yesterday's work got the house into fairly habitable condition, but the snow made It almost Impossible to do any thing out of doors. Jane was so anxious to get some hena Uiat I decided not to wait to repair the old chicken house. I cleaned it out and put fresh straw In the nest boxes, and last evening the boys and I went over to Mr. Brown's and brought back the two dozen biddies T had engaged from him. 1 liked the looks of the little brown leghorns, but ; we want as many of them to sit as pos sible. and the leghorns are a non-sitting breed. So we got a few Rhode Island reds and barred rocks, and the rest are just hens. But so they lay eggs and hatch chickens for us it doesn't matter. I am going to telephone today from the office to a poultry plant over in Alexan dria county and engage eggs for hatch ing. thoroughbred white rocks and white leghorns. Also I have got to buy an .'Ticubator and have it sent out. We've decided to get one with a capacity of egics to begin with. No Feed for Chickens. Our hens would have gone breakfast l?>se this morning had it not been for broken bread and table scraps. I had not expected to get them until next week, so had neglected to buy any feed. I placed an order for feed at Lovitt's store this morning, and he promised to send it up by noon. The choice of a ration was a problem to which we pravf- considerable ilought. We finally decided on equal parts of wheat, oats and cracked corn, to be fed In a deep litter of straw, and :i ?!ry mash to consist of two parts wheat b^an and one part each of middlings. ? cornmeal. ground oats and meat meal. 1 am going to make a hopper from which ! to feed this and it will be kept in fron' j r>f the hens all the time I decided not ? r i add either alfalfa meal or cut clover, because as soon as the snow is of!T the ground thert'll be plenty of grass and ; other green food for them. Jane and the j boys have undertaken to feed and care for the chickens, so my only part will be I an advisory one. It's going to be a big job to clean out j that hog pen and yard and get them I leady for the two pig^' I have engaged from Mr. Brown. It doesn't look as if it ever had been cleaned, but several tons ??f manure for my garden will pay for the work. I'll get a wheelbarrow and shovel and go at it, and as Mr. Brown says it will l?e a month before the pig are old enough to take from their moth er I ought to have no trouble getting the place ready. The fruit trees are another thing that 1 know ought to have attention, but I haven't the slightest idea In the world how to go about It. It doesn't look as if they ever had been pruned, and they need spraying, of course. There isn't enough of the fruit to justify me in go ing to any considerable expense, but the improved quality undoubtedly would pay for my work, if I only knew what work to do. It's apparent here is a place 1 need expert advice, so I think I'll pay a visit to the fruit men of the Department of Agriculture. Jim and Ned are going to start to school Monday morning. Mr. Brown, I find, is one of the school trustees, and "Bud" Brown has offered to act as their chaperon. There are four room* In the school building, with two classes in each room. This makes the course about to correspond with the first eight grades of the Washington schools. Jim is in the fifth grade, so it probably will be three years before It will be necessary to send him to the city to high school. Confronted by Boy Problem. Our first day in the country jumped me, square Into a boy problem such as I had never been asked to solve in town. "Bud" Brown came over yesterday afternoon and asked if Jim and Ned could go hunt ing with him this morning. I gave a ready consent, but In the talk that fol lowed it developed that "Bud would hunt with a single-barrel shotgun. X hadn't thought of anything more formid able than air rifles, with which Jim and Ned would have to arm themselves. Jane entered a protest at once. ? ' see anything but that her sons wouidta brought home mangled and bleeding. I 11 confess that I didn't like the idea much myself, knowing how reckless bojs can be. once they get ofT On the other hand. I didn t *-ant to put mv sons in the mollycoddle class Bud is only if year older than Jim, and if his father?for whom I have acquired very large respect-is willing to trust him out alone with a shotgun. 1 didn t like to take the stand that my boys couldn t be trust ed to go along. "Bud" was so certain that he knew how to handle a gun, and Jim and Ned were so earnest in their promises that they would stay well to the rear with their "thousand shooters, that finally I consented. . What else could I do? W e re going to live out here, and the boys must keep up with their fellows or be despised Bud seems to be the friendliest sort of a little chap but I think I know something of bov nature. If I had refused to let Jim and Ned go with him he would be.bound to tell other boys that they were fraid cats" and "mamma's boys. Jhcn pit kind of a time would they have of when thev start to school? Jane and I had a long and at times ani mated discussion last night on the suo~ ]?,-[ of a horse and buggy. that to have one would be hlKhl> desii - able, but the question of mone> obtrudes Itself. The cost of an outfit would niake a serious Inroad on our working and would cripple our program, but it certainlv would have compensating ad vantages. Laying aside the Q"??t!on ot the convenience It would he to me to be driven to and from the station. I think Jane and Margery ought to get all possi ble out of country life. They can t do that if thev are limited to talking areas. I can stand the two-mile walk to the station, but 1 can't see how Jane would ever get there and back In order to come to town except tn dry weather. Besides, she always has been a churchgoer, and the churches are at the station. Even t we are not to consider our own comfort we expect to Invite friends from the citv to come out and visit us. What 'would we do should a party arrive dujing a rainstorm or when the roads were mud ri'v" it looks to me as If a horse and buggy were going <o be about as ^neces sary as a cook stove. ?Copyright, 1914. by W. Werner.) Monica Talbot sat looking out of the car window as it wove its way up town. The car was crowded, for the 6 o'clock rush was on. Fine, pelting snow was dimming the lights every where. At a certain cross street came the inevitable tangle of traffic. The car stopped and Monica saw that there were other cars ahead of it. A limou sine drew up alongside her window and halted. Within sat an elderly woman, a man and a girl of Monica's own age. The elderly woman was looking straight ahead. She was visibly mnoyed. The man was looking at the <irl, but the girl was looking at Monica. 3he was a dark, vivid, carmine tinted girl n furs, orchids and Jewels. At a word from her the man turned and saw Monica ind Monica saw him. They '.ooked into 2ach other's eyes. For one fascinated in stant they seemed to draw near together; then the car and the limousine moved on ind they were separated. Other cars flashed by, but Monica did not see them. She saw nothing more. The man's face apparently was before her still?clean cut. grave, keen eyed. She still seemed to see that arrested expres sion of his as he recognized her. it was a strange thing that had hap pened. He was there in the magnificent limousine and she on a street car. fehe thought of the girl with the orchids and if herself and realized the great dlfrer ?nce between them. Perhaps the girl was lis fiancee. And that stern faced elderly woman was certainly the girl's mother. They were wealthy, of course. How odd t all seemed! But then fate is kinder to nan than it is to a woman. A man like Roger Lennon could be anything he wished. But for her?there could be no swift ascension of the heights, ^et they lad been born in the same country vtl age' they had gone to school and grown jp together. Then Roger had gone to the ?itv to practice law. After her father s iudden death Monica had also gone to the ?ity to earn her own living, but never n all the two years had she seen Roger until tonight. The car stopped at a familiar corner ind Monica got off. So great was the storm she was quite breathless when she unlocked the door and entered the frosty cheerless hail, whither the wind made one last mad attempt to follow her. Up two flights of stair* she climbed to her room and went In and shut tlie door. It was the kind of room that may be had for a few dollars a week in a re spectable locality in a large city. Monica had made It express her own In dividuality and something more?she had made it look like home. She took off her hat and coat and gloves and put them away carefully. She had a string of hooks on the back of the headboard of her bed. and that was her closet Then she sat down on her luxu rious couch?a trunk concealed under a padded cover of rose strewn chintz. She was tired and needed to rest a moment before getting her own supper. H--r glance surveyed the room s owly, which she never entered without a feeling of thankfulness. She called it Castle Makebeli ve. In one corner behind a screen was her kitchen r.utflt-a tiny gas stove and a packing box cupboard. In another corner near a window was her dining room. Here she had a small ta ble with n paper table cloth and serviette and a tinv fern grovying in a glass dtsh. The fern."dish and all. had cost a dime. In the opposite corner, between the win dow thai looked out on the street and the window that looked out on a blank wall, four feet awav. was her library. i Here she had her coziest chair and her , bamboo bookcase and the reading lamp i siie had brought from home. In the Si IK SEEMED TO BE Pl-AYING AGAIN FOR HER FATHER AND ROGER. fourth corner was her bedroom, screened off like the kitchen. In the center of the room was her parlor, her playground and her music room, for her violin case lay upon the marble-topped table. Be side the violin case stood a little framed picture of Roger L?ennon. Thus she had placed together her two dearest treasures?the violin by which she had once hoped to win fame ana fortune, and the picture of the inan for whose sake she had longed to win fame and fortune. u 4 . ? Fame and fortune are somewhat farther than arm's length away, and when her father died leaving. debts and only just enough property to meet them, Monica had bravely put all thoughts of a musi cal future away and gone into the busi ness world to fight her battle of life. Roger had gone out of her path and with her dream of Roger's love passed also her dreams of a real home. In the very trunk she was sitting upon were some of the things she had made and saved toward the furnishing of that home. It came to her that, home for her hence forth would never be any more than this same Castle Makebelieve or some other Castle Makebelieve not too far from her work. For a moment tears came. Then blinking bravely, she got up and went to the glass and looked into it. In her imagination the girl of the orchids was reflected beside her and Roger was ap praising them both. "Even if I had ever had any chance," she said aloud, "it would amount to noth ing now that he has seen her." After that Monica proceeded to cook her own supper. She got her can of milk and her chops from her refrigerator ?the window ledge?and opened a can of peas and made a small pot of strong coffee and cooked the chops and peas. Then she laid her little table and sat down to dine. Having eaten. Monica cleared her table, washed her dishes and hung up her apron. Then she took up her violin. Softly, very softly, she began to play Elgar's "Salut d'Amour." She had raised the window a very little to let in the ? fresh air. and if her music went any where it must have gone out into the street. Over and over she played the lovely melody, and as she played it she seemed to be back again in the parlor of her old home playing for her father and Roger. The vision and the music com forted her as it had perhaps not com forted her before in all the times she had turned to it in her loneliness and sorrow. The memory was there sweet and strong, and something else?a voice which whis pered and whispered soothingly. A knock sounded at the door and she let her bow fall. When she opened the door and saw her landlady she thought that perhaps the woman had come with some objection to her playing. Hut in stead she had come merely to say that there was some one downstairs to see Miss Talbot. Monica laid her violin gently in its case, placed the bow beside it, turned the key of the door and went out. Her heart did not quicken at the. thought of a visitor, for the infrequent callers she had were not of the kind to quicken one's heart with anticipation. Some middle aged church-worker, doing her duty by her religion in calling upon a girl she scarcely knew by sight, the rector of the church which Monica attended, an occa sional agent or her working companions at the office who wished to get her to ! subscribe to something?these were the people who had sought her out during her two years in the city. But when she entered the parlor she found Roger Lennon. At first they tried to be very conventional. They shook hands and said one or two of the custo mary things. Monica sat down on the davenport and Roger sat down beside her. "When I saw you tonight," he said. "I knew that I had wanted to see you for a long time. Of course. I knew where you were. They wrote me from home that you were here and where. But I never seemed to have any time to look you up. "I MADE UP MY MIND IT HAD BEEN YOU ALL THE TIME." There were other things " He looked away from her, then back again honestly. "Those women you saw me with to night were my partner's mother and sis ter." "Such a beautiful girl,"' Monica mur mured. "Miss Danforth is "beautiful and I have fancied?I intended " he paused. "I'm very ambitious. Monica, but when I saw your little white face at that window to night and looked into your eyes and re membered how we used to skate together and slide downhill and later how you used to play for me and your father well, everything else went. I made up my mind it had been you all the time." After a while he said: "I heard you playing as I canpe down the street that sweet air of Elgar's. and I could see just how you looked with the brown wood under your chin and the bow in your fingers. I want to make a home for you, Monica, and I want you to play for me? me only?the rest of your life." So it was that Castle Makebelieve lost its tenant and Monica was happy after all. (THE END.)* ?WOED BLINDNESS.-' Discovery of a Sixth Sense and of Its Occasional Failure. From tbe London Chronicle. Among the Ills to which we are heirs it is not generally known that ?we may suffer from "word blindness" and "word deafness." Dr. Hulbert had some inter esting things to say about these human weaknesses In a recent lecture at the University of London on "The Science and Practice of Eurythmics and the Art of Self-Expression." Dr. Hulbert declared that we have a sixtn sense, or movement-feeling sense. Besides the special centers in the brain which gave meaning to the impressions received by the sense organs from the outside world, other very special centers had been discovered existing on one side of the brain only, which had to do with understanding and expressing words. It j might be possible to see a word quite well with one's double-sight center, but ! not to be able to understand it if any- ; thing were wrong with the one sided 1 visual word-understanding center, and in that case one would be classed 'with the mentally deficient as suffering from "word blindness." If one were able to hear a word distinctly with the double hearing center, but unable to understand it with the one-sided auditory word understanding center, one was said to be suffering from "word deafness." There was also a special one-sided center for writing words, and the well known one sided center for speaking words. To take the understanding of the fa miliar word "home" as an illustration, some would argue that they got the fullest appreciation of its meaning when they saw it in print, others when they heard it feelingly spoken, but few real ized the added appreciation that came from speaking it correctly. No sooner was the word musically pronounced than a much fuller appreciation of the old ballad. "Home. Sweet Home," became possible. The conveyance of Its mean ing was much more dependent upon the movement-feeling sense than many were apt to think. Sir Herbert Tree who presided, said he particularly appreciated the remarks of the lecturer about pronunciation, as one who had suffered much for many years from the slings and arrows of out rageous gentility, which was usually known as "refanement." The imitation of "our betters," which seemed to be taught In our elementary schools today, was very much to be deprecated, as nothing waa so terrible as this "refane ment." Sir Herbert, however, could not agree with the lecturer's views about the ar tistic temperament, which was the one thing necessary on the stage. One found, for instance, an actress treating an arti ficial-rose which was handed her on the stage as an artificial rope, rather than as a real roe?. which It was meant to be. For his own part, he would be ready to judge everybody by the way in which be or she treated & rose on the stage. HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND ! THERE. | i;i By Earl Godwin. Sometimes a fellow comes along who says that newspaper men are lazy, but whoever this slanderer might be, he would have changed his tune had he been In the House press gallery a few days ago when there was a rumor of the murder of a congressman. It was ten minutes of 4 o'clock In the afternoon, just about the hour when the afternoon work Is done and the morning paper work is about to be collated into one blazing sheaf to be held aloft like a beacon of truth to the myriads of the cities of our fair land, and just at the breathing spell moment when the men in the gallery take to seats and couches In the middle compartment of the gallery's. suite to talk over the day's events. E. j Richmond Sartwell, tired from a good day's work for the Associated Press, lay | down on a couch for two seconds; Fred Emory, also tired from a similar day s work for the same organization, dropped into an armchair. Two or three others wandered in to discuss the latest develop- j i ments on the Mexican situation and the J | Panama canal tolls matter, and Bill Don- j J aldson, superintendent of the gallery, j rushed In with this: "A telephone operator just told me some | one had been assassinated in the House office building." It was like an exploding bomb. I Sartwell Jumped for a telephone. Emory did the same thing. Yours Truly rushed It was like an exploding bomb. to The Star's special phone. Bond Qeddes grabbed another instrument. Everybody put in wild calls for Ave minutes, talking to the police stations in the Capitol build ing and the House office building. Then they began pestering the Senate side but the reports were ignorant wails of "nothing like that over here." Just at that moment Fred Steckman came into the gallery and his editor at the same time called him: "Understand that some one has been killed. Afternoon paper has an extra out. What's the trouble?'' Fred didn't know, but started to rustle. The rest of the gallery was rushing about like so many wild things. Telephone calls went flashing to police headquarters and to the various police precincts. No one had heard of any assassination. Then Donaldson called up the telephone operator who had spread the rumor and came back to the inner circle a few sec onds later with this explanation: "She says some one has been killed in the Senate." Well?that made it about nine thousand times worse, and that galleryful of news paper men just about collapsed. But it all straightened itself out in minute. The telephone operator shamedly called up and said she was mistaken. Something had been killed, and she saw it in the paper, but it wasn't exactly an assassination. You see, she had read that the Senate committee on the District of Columbia had killed one of the items in the District bill as It had passed the House. It was an item of importance and the newspaper she had glanced at used the words "Senate" and "House" and ??kill" in display form. So the assassination rumor was assassi nated on the spot. * * * * Upon the issuance a short time ago of the pronunciamento of the death of the republican party, by Representative Hine baugh, chairman of the progressive con gressional committee, the secretary of one of his republican colleagues from Illinois broke forth in the following rhapsody: When the lion e.its grass like an ox And The fish worm Bvrallows the whale; When terrapins knit wooMen socks And the hare is outrun by the snail; When serpents walk upright like men And the doodle-bugs travel like frogs; When grasshoppers feed on the hen And feathers are found on the hog;. When Thomas cats swim in the air And elephants roost upon trees; When insects In summer are rare And snuff never makes people sneeze; When fish creep over dry land And mule# on bicycles ride; When foxes lay eggs in the sand And women in dress take no pride; When Dutchmen no longer drink beer And girls get to preaching on time; When billy goats butt from the rear And treason Is no longer a crime; When humming birds bray like an ass Anil limberger smells like cologne; When plowshares are made of glass And the hearts of the people are stone; When ideas grow in dummies' heads And wool on the hydraulic ram Then the republican party will be dend And the country won't be worth a d?m. (At least, that's what came in with the mall last Saturday. There will be a lot of people to agree with the sentiments, /but I trust no one will ask me to Indorse the meter of the next to the last line.) * * * * Probably If a census were taken of those wha have heard George O'Connor sing "Cousin Caruso" or "The Christen ing" it would include every man, woman and child In the ^District of Columbia, starting with the year 1R7?, when George wore curls. Every bodv knows what a wonder he is and' everybody laughs-Just like President Taft laughed?when George pings that christening song. Well. George went to a certain place one afternoon to give a lot of very unfortunate persons what I When George slugs that cWstenlng would consider a rare treat. If 11 could hear George sing those songs of his for one hour, I would count that hour a be jeweled diadem in the day. He work ed especially hard, too, in order to give | them a chance. When he sat down, tired out, hot and dripping, one of them doddered up to George and said condescendingly: "Mr. O'Connor, I don't object to those songs of yours." fr- * * * Introducing Mr. Kirby. He Is the sul phide of the press gallery, the enemy of convention, the Beau Brummel of his craft. His first name is John, and be neath an exterior of crusted cynicism he wears a heart as tender as that of a cooing dove or a darling little lamb. Possessing the ability to counter and cross-counter and touch and go at repar tee, Mr. Kirby makes life sparkle wherever he appears. For instance, in one of the big committee rooms or tne House of Representatives an important hearing was in progress and Mr. Kirby I was commissioned b-/ the great metro- ? politan daily for wh^ch he is a sturdy ! oak lance to see that the real inside stuff | was brought to light in his dispatch. Kirby began to emoKe an English pipe. Offended^ a very woll known militant WODfilB. members of that rbmmittee generally smoke, but evidently it offended a very well known militant woman who hap pened to 'be in the room. She glared at John Kirby endeavor ing to pierce that shell of hardened cynicism with her steely eye. John knew full well what was the trouble: "Is smoking permitted here?" she de manded in the tones of an executioner. "Oh, yes." responded John, cooing, "you can if you want to." And the militant anti-nicotine'suffragist nearly curled up and died. * $ * Commissioner Siddcjis carefully incased himself in evening cloches and went down town. He was to he <j guest at The Star Club dinner at the Raleigh. He reached the hotel safely, rodri ten floors upward in an elevator and appeared in the midst of the ballroom, chained for the evening to a banquet room. Several people greet ed him affably and hi; was extremely af fable in return. The trouble was. however, he had not arrived at The Star fJliib banquet at all. He had ambled in to a Department of Labor dinner and didn't know it for a long time. The Star dinner was on the next night. ?; * * 4 * A recent incident hfcs reminded me, if a personal reminiscence may be allowed, of a quick trip from Sew York to Wash ington to attend a wedding. A friend of mine was being dragged to the altar that day and I had just 'time to make the ceremony by rushing* via taxicab from train to church. Dressing for the affray was accomplished in the smoking room Of the Pullman car. To the taxi pilot I yelled the name ot a church and away' went. He pulled up in front of a church where evidently a -thousand other veBicles were banked and I rushed inside The place was crowded. There wa# that deep.thick^ I ntood blinking upon the stepc. well dressed, heavy Atmosphere so hard to describe anci so common at big church gatherings. I said to myself that this was the biggest, quietest crowd in the world. And then things beg-an to happen which made me feel that it;" was a queer wed ding. Suddenly a great Jight dawned upon me and T pattered quickly from that church. I stood blinking upon the steps, trying to tind my tiixi man. When I found him I called hbo names. He want ed to know what was the matter. "This isn't a wedding," I told him, "It's a funeral." He had stopped there just because he saw the crowd. ? # # The most honestesit man has been found. He is Seaton JV. Trunell, and he owed Charlie Long a penny. So he went out and bought a postal money order for a cent and dispatched it in a stamped envelope to Charlie. 1'runell paid 1 cent plus 8 cents for the njpney order, 2 cents for the stamp and 1 ceyit for the envelope. Six cents to liquidate a one-cent debt, which, proportionate^- taken, is being about as honest as onf can possibly be. The Filipino Aristocracy. From the New York Tlme? If the complete in? pendence of the Philpplnes were graced by the United States within any tirga short enough to be worth considering, "the result would be to turn the mass of th^ 7,000,000 Christian natives over to the uigcovenanted me-rcies of a small class of mestizos whose Malay blood has been enriched and energized by a strain of Chinese, who would rule un less or until they set to fighting among themselves. This is,; in substance, the view presented by Cjtpt. George Henry Shelton, U. S. A., ii* a very temperate and informing article In the current num ber of the North American Review. Capt. Shelton served for tbree years in the islands and made there and since a care ful study of the history and the condi tion of the people. Hip has many friends among the class referred to. He recog nizes that it has produced many able and honorable men wh>> have largelv aid ed the Americans in this' administration of the country. But he -points out that it has practically a monopoly of the force and capacity of the population, that, left in complete control, it ^vould be dominant and domineering, and >3 hat it will require several generations to develop in the body of the natives the qualities absolutely necessary for the nu?ntenance of equi table and orderly self-government. Holding Trade. From Judge. "You look disgruntled. ' said the shoe man. "Yes," snapped the? hatter. "Had a little rush Just now, : and a couple of prospective customer*} - walked out with out being waited on.' "They seldom get away from me." de clared the shoe man. "I take off their shoes as soon as they come in." glfabttional Cfiurcb i^etos Tomorrow is the last day of at the H Street Christian Church the southwest. The property has been sold and tn congregation will move at once to Fa?tn Chapel, on M street, where It will hold regular services temporarily until ? completion of their new building at the corner of 6th and H streets. Pastor Lutz will speak on '?Pauls Message to Titus ' in the morning, and at the evening service he will the question, "Should a Christian Dance_ The women will serve a farewell Dutch supper In the old church March 18. The Northern' Baptist convention has recommended that churches of t nomination observe tomorrow as, de nominational day." nrcach Various Baptist pastors will Preach special sermons at the morning se dealing with denominational belief, his tory and progress. Kev. Dr. J. J. Mulr, pastor of Temple Baptist Church, is one of the local pastors who will observe the da>. Gamma and Delta. Chapters of-the Phi Mu Sigma Church Fraternity vwll ha\e installation .services this evening in Met ropolitan M. E. Church. Dr. Clifton P. Clark, supreme master of the fraternity, which has been formed to bring men of the Sunday schools an churches into closer affiliation, will be in charge of the service. T t? Messrs. B. J. Laws. L. P. Riddle. J. B. Eggleston. former presidents of Alpha Chapter of the fraternity ; President C. E. Keene ?>f Beta Chapter and Historian Al fred England of Alpha Chapter ^ili assist Dr. Clark. The members of Gamma and Delta Chapters are as follows: Gamma Chapter?Kev. Dr. James Shera Montgomery, J. Finney i-.ngle. F. A. Hornaday, Harry L. Bosley, C. Mara Camalier, Milton A. Bosley. Renah V. Camalier, J. L. Cook, jr.; H. B. Cuth bertson, H. Dewhirst, John Edwards, jr.. Claude. C. Hamel. Walter Hold. E. Theo dore Lay ton, A. M. Lewers, P. Roundy. H. Elsworth Warner and Don Wynkoop. De lta Chapter -Paul H. Brattain. Bayne Brown. Robert E. Burg. Raymond Bus sius, Frank B. Crown, jr.: .Benjamin^ F. Elliott, Andrew Gross. Charles A. Kln seila. William C. Da Clair. Melvin E. Lederer, Leslie H. McDaniel. G. Lorin Oliver, Mark Patterson and Leslie F. Seaton. The sustaining members of the fra ternity are "Mr. F. E. Edgington, Mr. Lovick Pierce, Mr. J. E. Baird, Rev. F. J. Prettyman, Mr. S. M. Warren, Rev. E. K. Hardin and Mr. G. A. Clark. * * * * The Washington Foreign Mission Sem inary officials have just sent out three more recruits. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Moon and Miss J. C. Butler have left Wash ington for San Juan. Porto Rico, the head of the Adventist mission work in that island. All three have training as medical evangelists. With these three the seminar1'' has sent out eight missionaries so far this term. Four have gone to south and central Africa and one to Singapore, Malay Pen insula. Seven of the missionaries came from the state of California to take the preparatory training in the seminary here. * * * * Rev. Henry F. Lutz. pastor of the H Street Christian Church, has been se lected as the speaker for the assembly meeting at the Young Men's Christian Association tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. . , . ... A colored chart will be used to illus trate his subject. "The Spectrum of Faith," graphically portraying the com ponent parts of that great attribute of human nature?faith. A special feature of the meeting will be the music by the Lutz family quintet of brass instruments, consisting of tne pastor and his four sons, the youngest being only five years of age. The meeting is open to all men. - * * * * The Men s Club of St. Mark's Church will attend divine service in a body Sunday evening, March 29, at the (*This was decided upon at a meeting of the organization h&ld Thursday eve at the church, when the president, Mr. D. W. Gall, presided. The committee arranging for the service is made up of Rev. C. R. Met son and Messrs George A. Emmons, C. M. Potter, T. F. Doming and E. fe. Ar 11 lladies' night will be observed by the club at the church April IS. the com mittee arranging being made UP?< Messrs. John Camden Gall. G. Good Cresses'. H. A. Stutts, Edwin Tyler and A. B. Whitman. * * * * Rev H. W. Kearns. new spiritual director of the Holy Name Society of St. Dominic's Church, was welcomed to the church last evening, when S00 men attended a meeting th?re-f The priest comes from St. \ incent Ferrer's Church of New York. Addresses were made during the evening hv Rev. Father Cowan. Presi dent Gallagher and Representatives Kagan and Klnkead. * * * * Miss Elizabeth Merle Carhart will lecture on "The Ethical Tendency of Modern Literature" tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the lecture room of All Souls' Church, 14th and I. streets. The publio Is invited. * * * * Rev. Dr. Clarence A. Barbour has been made senior secretary of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A., in ~ucces Rion to Mr. Fred B. Smith, resigned. Dr. Barhour entered the work of the inter national committee about five years ago. rcsllSng a pastorate in Rochester. N. Y., to take up the work. * * * * "The New Age in Education: New Values- New Methods and New Ideals, is to be the subject Rev. Dr. Charles W Harvev of Philadelphia will take at the meeting in the New Church tomorrow evenlng' * * * * The Mexican situation and the desira bilitv of intervention will be dealt with by Rev C. Everest Granger in a sermon in the Gunton-Temple Memorial Presby terian Church tomorrow evening. * He # The special evangelistic meetings that have been In progress ill the ' Street Christian Church for the past three, weeks have resulted in over twen tv-five professing conversion. It has been one of the most successful series of meetings the church has e\er known Rev. Howard Peters, pastor. Is one of the newer Washington pastors having left the Eckolls Memorial Church at Fort Smith. Ark., to come to the ni ^0Stak7ngCuprSerwoernk in Washing ton. the church has seen growth tn interest and numbers. A ur?e mixed chorus, In addition to a sunbeam chorus of children. Is assisting in the meetings. * * ? + "A Social But vey and Its Results ' Is the regular topic for Epworth League devotional meetings tomorrow evening. Mrs C C. Mullady and Mr. Dee Howell will lead the service at Douglas ' hapter0 ?several new members were elected into the league at Houglas at the business meeting held last week. They. wil formally received into membership at the .service The "question box' service last Sunday evening proved enjoyable. The a The^y ountTmeiI "of the Tri-Om icron Sun day school class gave very helpful tains at the League service last Sunday even hie at Hamline Church. '"L interesting membership contest is V?g, terosive trt^through Euro^llaft summer. Mr J P. Ault will speak at the devo tional meeting of Foundry Chapter to " The^District I.eague is now arranging For the publication of a monthly Pai>er for free distribution in all chapters in the nterest of Epworth I.eague work. * * * * "Christian Democracy" is to be the sub let of Representative J. W. Brvan of Washington at the service in V, estmin it?r Presbyterian Church tomorrow even ing at 7:43 o'clock. * * * * The Centennial Baptist congregation has just completed Its twelfth > ear. and ,rs membership is growing rapidly. ?Washington Lovers and the Last^now SUMMER RESORTS. SUMMER RESORTS. KaW HAMPSHIRE. *EW H 1MPKHIRR. TO RENT FOR SEASON SITUATED AT Lake Winnipesaukee, N. H. House. built by owner, contain* ? manler'n chamhrrN nnd 2 ?er%ant?* room*; SS hedn In ench rooms 3 bathroom* and 4 toilet*: open fireplace* In each room. Living room SOxSU, with two open fireplace*. I.nrice kitchen and a matda' dtnlnjr room. Ifouae furnf*hrd aUnolutely com plete. House baa a frontaae of l.'iO feet on lake, nltli a tine white nandy beach: hathlnac. boating, flnhlnic; beautiful pine smf. Ten acre* of lands lar^c vegetable and flower garden. ?.nr:iicc for 3 auto*: ntahle for 3 hornens cow barn, with 2 Jersey row*. Two bosthouwe*; thtrt? foot open launch. Icebouae. with Ji? ton* of lee. !?*.%erj fhtan x?ira with house. Three and a half hour* from lloMton. 7 mile* from Wolf boro, X. H. Houae situated on one of the moat beautiful lake* In the United States. Address ROM* JONES. I*. O. Box :k%3?. Ho*ton. Ma**. Is Pastor E. Hez Swem's story for Sun day night. > :U * * fnion services are to be held by the pastors of six of the leading I rot* churches of the northwest 5ec"f'?"h"' the city beginning Palm Sunto when the services will be held in the -? Place Memorial Church, with Ke\. J.. J. Dimon, rector of St. Andrew s *Vp,is^ ' Church, as the preacher of the ocia Monday evening. April 6. Rev. H^ry Anstitdt, pastor of the Vh? Vermont Church, will preach in the \trmont Avenue Christian Church. The other dates and P?*^'1 prs_ *e place of worship are as follows, 'lav. Rev. H. A. Bower, pastor of minster Presbyterian " hurch. _ Temple Baptist Church: Wednesday. R 1 ' .1. .1. Muir, pastor of. T""1' wMum'fi Church, St. Andrew's Kpiscopal > hun h. Thursdav, Rev. c. K. Granger. pastor of Gunton-Temple Memorial Church. Northmlnster P?esloMitrim Church; Friday. Rev. ha He W ^hrivtian tor of the Vermont Avenue < hrtMMn Church. Gunton-Temple Memorial I ? es byterian Church. The appearance of Rev. Dr. J- J* Muir in the pulpit of St. Andrew s Kpiscopal Church will mark the first time. It is said, that a pastor other 'han an Epis copalian has preached there. lhe Bishop of Washington gave his official sanction for Dr. Muir's appearance in the pulpit, he desiring in every way to lend his aid to the special services in view. Little Stales /or Bedtinve >5^. Br THORNTON W. BURGESS. (Copyright. 1814. by J. G. Lloyd ) Peter Rabbit Watches for Signs. Some people never see things because thev never look for them. Peter Rabbit isn't that kind. My goodness, no! Peter is all the time looking and listening. You see. he Is dreadfully afraid that he will miss something. So every minute'that he is awake he is lookh.g and listening. It was this way more than ever now Sister Soyth Wind had arrived and said that Mistress Spring was not far behind, and that she had come to waken all the sleepers so that they would be ready to greet Mistress Spring when she did ar rive. What puzzled Peter was how gentle Sis ter South Wind, whose voice was hardly more than a whisper, waked all the sleep ers. Rough Brother North Wind had roared and whistled and howled through the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows all the long winter without waking one. In fact, the louder he roared the farther Into dreamland the sleepers seemed to go. But when gentle Sister South Wind wandered through the Green Forest anrl over the Green Meadows call ing in Just the lowest, softest voice: Wake up, wake up. you sleepers! Come open wide your peepers. why. one after another they did wake up. Peter couldn't understand it, and finally he gave up trying to. But it was great fun to go about m atch ing for signs that the sleepers had heard gentle Sister South Wind. Peter would listen with one long ear against a maple tree. He would hear just the scftest lit tle sound under the bark, so soft that you and I couldn't hear it if we tried. Then Peter would kick up his heels for joy. it was the sap running up to all the branches and out to the tiniest twigs of the maple tree that Peter heard, and he knew that the maple tree was awake. Then he would go over to a swampy place where the ice had melted away and hold his nose while he peeped into the brown hood of the skunk cabbage to see if there were any signs of flowers there. It had a dreadful smell, and yet it made . Peter feel good all over, because it meant that the queer little plant was HE WOULD CAREFULLY COVER HER OVER AGAIN WITH THE DEAD BARK. awake. Then he would go up in the Green Forest to a warm, sunny place he knew of and there he would pull away the dead leaves of last summer until he found a tiny, furry cap peeping up above the ground. Then he knew that dainty little Hepatlca was awake. He would carefully cover her up again with the dead leaves that she might not catch cold, after which he would kick up his heels in the fun niest way, Just because it made him feel so good. , Everywhere there were signs, if you had eyes to see and ears to hear them, and Peter had both. The Laughing Brook, which had been silent all winter because Jack Frost had bound it with ice, was laughing a great roar of a laugh, for its banks were i very full, and that was a sign. The brown buds on the willows, which all winter long Jack. Frost had pinched his hardest and failed to open, had split their little brown Jackets at the first touch of the soft Angers of gentle Sister South l-Wind, and out of them had WINTER RESORTS. (ITV. X. J. 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