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TOBACCO WAREHOUSE' When Washington City Was in ii. we Business. OLD-TIME INSPECTOR Fmt Venturesome Merchants of the lTorlv ct I IJ WV WATER FRONT ALL BLAGDEN'S Growth of Section About Navy Yard and Gradual Increase of Real Estate Values. South of street between I'd and 4th afreets ire a few building a-ltmns, wo of which are on the Anacostla river. or istern branch, and at one time wr center of commercial activity.

In the infancy of the city this section St Thomas' bay on the east side, but when the navy yard was extended to 4th the last vestige of the bay disappeared On the west was a small stream wlnrh had Its rise near the south line of (. arfleld Park With the surface water It briMdened. and it reached the jKirtions of the building lota fronting: on Canal, or 2d street, were under water. the canal, authorized by the the Marylnnd legislature In 171 to. was proleotetL this stream came within the lines.

and was by It absorbed. canal lias had its day, and on its site grass plots and the pumping plant of the District. A complete metamorphosis lias worked. The mouth of this f' iin became tbe capacious basin of the i miidI. and with the water front affording wharfage, owned by Carroll originally, er.d haw.

Barrj and other early promoters becoming interested, this section was one of the leading neighborhoods a hundred ago Old-Time Excursions. 'II 1 a I i rv i nj ixii Mini 'iMimhf's, In the old days the landings sailing vessels, were much used afterward by and there are numbers who rertll how the Kast Washington people took steamer there for excursions down the river before the days of river resorts, and for the camp meetings at Humpy Oak. near or Scagg's of Pyle's woods, up branch. In the presidential campaign of 1M0 the icksoni.in democracy, several hundred In rum her. took a here for a Blad nsburg.

and without mishap return, at night. i Though there was some marsh about tbls tion inu? of the ground was several 1' the present Some of the 1 terra flrma, especially that of the Htreets, wis long since converted into bricks ttnd used elsewhere. It may be said that from avenue northward there was a ascent to the street, when the 1 sloped and some marsh was enmnterfd. This may be designated as the southeast corner of the t'arroll tract, and it became, in the plan of Washington, B'l jares 771. sol and Nii2.

with south of Georgia avenue. No. designated a wafer lot. Division of the Lots. In the (ftvision the proprietors, Mr.

Carroll and the I'nited States, the whole of square 77o went to the latter In number 771. of seven lots. In was apportioned to James Harry; lot 1. the south part of the square, to the I'nited States; lots 2. 3 and the northwest part, to Mr.

lots 5. and 7, the northeast portion. and number Sol, of twenty lots, went to Mr Carroll, and of the nine lots In square hoj Mr Carroll had numbers 1. '2, 3, 8. 9, the east and the I'nlted States the Test.

Square between the canal and 2d and ami streets, was in the liands of Morris. and I.aw before when Mr Carroll owntsj the lots fronting street, Xos. 1 and '2. In 17H8 Ti iSriirlev lots urul on street, covenanting with to buld a hri? house the year 1N). Improvement is noted here In the tirst the century.

Two Early Leases. In IhU had a lease in lot 4. facing i'anal street, and in he asm of house and lot to H. In this wtnt to Alex. Cochran.

Janus Middleton had a in lot 1. 18 iiont. at $ls per year, which he redeemed. Iti the corporation valued the ground at 4 nts per foot, and the improve- 1 ire assessed as follows: lot 11. J.

K'-uglar. handed to A. Cochran, $100; 4. Wilson Hryan. reduced to $1M0; 7.

Kpt1r9.n1 Mills, $4iOO; lot Win. Howard. All these were on the canal. 1. north a est corner of 3d and 1VI streets.

James Middltton, $K70. In lso? Nathaniel Brady leased in lot 14, and following year Thomas Alien was In 11 and lii. on street, and Joseph boug rit In lot 1, corner 3d and streets In HW Mr. Tletgen bought In lot corner of 3d and streets, and T. Howard bought In the southeast corner of the square.

J. W. Lowe had a lease in lot In 1HMH. and In 1MI I). Kealy and Albln 11-we had leases nearby on 3d street, and Cooke had a in lot 4 on the canal.

an mi in part or tot and YY. It Maddux, the following year, rame on lota 11 and 12. In Ariminta was on lot 15. and In 1821 S. N.

owned at the southeast corner square. Land Four Cents a Foot. 1HJ0 the conxiratlon valued the ground at 4 cents per foot, and Improvements wt-re chared to Thos. Howard, 8. N.

Small wood, Varden's 1. It s. 1) Cook, Joseph Johnson, an II74) li. Tietgen, $1.00" and E. H)t h.

$loU. In t- trs there was a slight Increase of the value of the ground, six cents being th? minimum opposite, between 3d. 4th, and thirty-two lots, was slow In growth, and for jyars was unproductive. that the taxes on ground valued at and cents foot went Into the of the The first In the square tliat of Mr. Carroll to the corporation of Washington, vr; Aimi hum ann n.

tnmtlng on street. on condition that a warehouse erected upon tt. The councils, act of fttovember 10, 1806. authorized the mayor to ivwlvr this, and appropriated for the construction of a warehouse with a of hogsheads of tobacco, and In May following? provided for the appointment of an Inspector. Tobacco Warehouse.

Ir. Novnmljer of that year the went Into the tolmeco bustle-as. arui fur rn.iny Samuel Ijjwb the Inspector, l.is compensation $: I --ach hofcsheml Inspected unJ $100 for care of tlie In 1 11 ('iwmlw bought lots 4 to 1 on nearij half the south front, no lmprovemrrt uppers except (tr man a naunarea uoiiars. in Mr made a subdivision of these lots Into A. and in ma a ami to w.

r. Maddux. who was taxed on it year. and on later; while was valued at to 8 cents. In 0632 tl mom Howard had 3d riv-t Mr lots adjoining.

IS to on street, and 42S to 30 on 4th street. fcSn ltirt Smith had 15 and 17 on and streets, and Mr Maddox. 1 to 4 1 eight on street. 24 to 2T, K1 and -tj 4th street, and in 9. vrihwiiti, 10 on xtrret.

Square 771 Redirlded. No 771. bounded by and Pi. the branch or and Georgia s. was, ft1 th? original plan, plotted urti-en lots: but In 17HT It was re1 In lots.

these lot 1, the front of the square, was vested In Barry; the weet portion, Iota 2. 8 and the United States, and the cam and In Mr Carroll, Mr. Barry aXtuc Utl? to Um wiwle suuare. For lot 7 on 3d street lie paid 762 Spanish milled dollars In 1T9.S Peter Miller bought lot 3, fronting the stream or canal, of Thomas Law. for pounds, or about 15 cents per foot.

In 1803 Miller conveyed this lot to Berg Waters of Montgomery counts', Md In 170s Boss Simpson, merchants Philadelphia, had title to the south portion of this square, lots 1 to 3, and 7. and in 1WI2 John Craig, James C'rawfrtfil and C5. Plunstel of Philadelphia, trading as Crawford acquired lots 1, 2 and 7, the consideration beir.fr $13,000. In Miller had lot 6 on 3d street, and In Ixofl lot the corner of 3d and streets. Lots 1.

2 and 7 about this time went to Mr Harry. In 1810 Mr. Barry also acquired lot 5. the southwest corner of 3fl and streets, which, in 1817. went in part to Kli Cross.

In the 20'a Griffith fiximbe was on lot 1. the northwest part of the square, and Klias B. Caldwell bought lots 3 and fronting respectively 2d and 3d streets. VnliiOQ Tlie Initial valuation of the ground was 6 cents, four year reduced to 5 cents. The Improvements were valued as follows Crawford et lots 1 and 'J.

and Berg Waters. lot 3. in In 1S07 P. Miller was assessed on lot 'I, and Craig et $4,000 on lot 7. In the 2o's and 30's the ground was valued at 10 cents and under, and the Improvements were charged as follows: Itarry and Coomiie.

reduced to ItlMt (n IW'r, 1 UUI TT" Ti Caldwell, $2.51 reduced to ff.KOO; George Sanford. reduced to $200; Eli roan. $150; Flank of Washington, and Koyles. ifl(X). In square faring- Georgia avenue, between 3d and 4th streets, below street, nine lots were platted H.nd allotted, 4 to 7 to the United States- the balance to the government In 1705.

In 1 James It. Dermott bought lot on street, and the next year found Thomas Law In possession of lots 4 to the southwest part of the square. Mr. arroll had lot 7. and lot ft went to Moffatt and Kbenezer Nesmith.

The latter were house joiners and builders, and Improved many lots for Mr. kaw and others, and lot went to them on account of work. When the partnership was dlssolved title In this lot was vested In Mr. Nesmith. This lot was Improved, and In became the property of Thomas Wheat and appears listed at In 1K06, the ground helnpr rated at 5 and 6 cents.

At this time the southwest corner of the square, lots 4 to was leased l.y James Harry and Griffith Coombe, who bought full title years later. Blagden's Water Rights. Thomas Blagden In bought lota 1. 2 and with water rights to the channel extending about 1Th? feet. In 1K(m; Joseph Varden bought in lot x.

In 1X13 Col. Wharton of the Marine Corps bought lot 0 at the corner of 3d street and Georgia avenue, with wharfage rights. S. Stephens had a lease in lot 7 on 3d street and Edward Mattingly had a deed in the same lot In 1X13. Mr.

Coomhe acquired title to lot 6, which included Wharton's wharf. S. N. Smallwood in 1821 acquired subdivisions of lots 4 and 5. east of Mr.

Coombe's corner, and tiis wharf and lumber yard were soon well known. The next year Mr. Mattingiy bought lots 7, 8 and included the corner of 8d and streets, and in 1 S.W) Mary Van Reswick bought 8 and 9. at tlie corner. In tiie "thirties Thomas Blagdfn bought the water right of lots 4.

5 and 6. thus having the whole water front. N. Brady had subdivisions of 4 and 5 fronting on Georgia avenue and George B. Smith had 0.4 Iii the twenties and thirties the ground had a value of 8 to lft cents, and the Improvements were listed as follows: George Rlagden.

later Jj.OOO; S. N. Smallwood. wharf. Il.xou; Mr.

Coombe, H.OOO. afterward J2.300: Rachel Wheat, Wharton's heirs, G. Mattingly. Van Reswlck, $1,000. Croat expectations prevailed as to the future of this section, for, with fine wharfage sites on the south and the basin oi trie canal on trie west, a proniaDie traue was counted on.

Bridges anil Ferry. Communication with the Navy Yard. Greenleafs point and Capitol Hill was early enjoyed, for wagon roads furnished thoroughfare. and the streams were crossed at and streets by bridges, and a ferry was established with- the south shore. Capt.

Barry, before 1798. erected the storehouse now represented by "Castle Thunder," on 2d street and Georgia avenue, and this, with other property. was sold to Ross Simpson of Philadelphia. and later to Crawford Co. Peter Miller, whose bakery turned out largo quantities of ship's biscuits, was on 2d street for a few years, afterward moving to 3d street, selling the 2d street property to Berg Waters.

Griffith Ooombe appeared on the scene about 1806. when, with James D. Barry, nephew of the captain and afterward Mr. Coombe's son-in-law, he leased a uweniiig uniigia riimr, frtm vi an street. Mr.

Coombe took up his residence In tin house known by his name G. Blagden had. 1802, bought the east part of the square between 3d and 4th streets. Thus the wharves were owned by Barry between 2d and 3d streets for years, and Barry Coombe and Mr. Blagden owned between 3d and streets.

The Barry Coombe wharf was. from 1X13 to 1816, the property of Col. Wharton. then going to Mr. Coombe.

In 1821 S. N. Small wood bought In the lots east, and a wharf was known by his name, but in the thirties Mr. Blagden owned the imiic wain jiuiii inr nq unrr. The lumber yards of Coombe, Blagden find Small wood were here, as well as Dyer's saw and planing mill.

Early Groceries. In the twenties Henry Tletjen, who came here In 17U5 and was connected with the Ijslw sugar refinery, was keeping a grocery at the southeast corner of 3d and streets. In the house still sPanding. His descendants ari now known as the Teachems. On the southeast corner of 3d and streets was Joseph Fugltt's grocery, and below were the store and tavern of E.

Mattlngly and the stores of William Radcliffe. Among others on 3d street there were William tsarnes. it'orgn jiean. a. ana tiootn, Thomas Howard and W.

Maddox. who was at the northeast corner of 3d streets. He was the father of Dr. John Maddox and Capt. W.

S. Maddox of Alie Marine Corps, and wag a pioneer In the brlckn'aklng both here and north of the Navy Yard. On 4th street Mrs. Charles. Mrs.

Sarah F. Boyce, F. Hurley and King Foyle's slaughterhouse. Facing the canal wax Joseph Johnson's wheelwright shop. On Georgia avenue resided George San- ford and John Ferguson, the former a wood and coal measurer and the latter clerk at Smallwood's wharf.

Twenty years later. In he forties, Williams Jolly had a wood yard near the corner of CJeorgia avenue anil 3d street, and the store was conducted by them. Oapt. Jnlley lived north, as did James Coombe. In the C'oombe mansion.

George Smltji. brlckmaker, and M. Wllford VaTT Riswick. long a carpenter and builder; Amon Woodward, who in early life was the contractor for s4nktng wells, H. Wise, plasterer; John Wheat, a printer, descendant of an old settler; H.

Teachem. carpenter. from old stock; George Bean, a grocer, and K. Mat tin sly. who kept a tavern and grocery, were also on 3d street.

On u-aa RlacHan'o InmKar t'arti and George Moore. A. Emerson and W. Berry. On street were William Bayllss and George Collard.

the latter a native of 'arrollsburg. engaged for very many years In the lumber business. On the canal was Thomas Fugitt and on Georgia avenue Nathaniel Brady and John Ferguson. then a wood cornier. long a clerk on Small wood's wharf, also the saw and planing mill of Alexander Dyer.

In the twenties there were the taverns and grocery of Edward Mattingly and the grocery of Joseph Fugitt. JAMBS CROGGOX. I and I 3s I1 Comfortable no matter how hot the day, on FOOD, I 4'There's a Reason." AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA CANDIDATES FOB ELECTION TO THE STATE SENATE. capture or Juogs xaat noameu me Streets in Violation of Law. Other Matters.

Special rorrespruiUeiwe of The Star. ALEXANDRIA. 10, 1907. State Senator Lewis H. Machen of this city, who represents the fourteenth district In the state senate, will have opposition In the democratic primary, which will be held September 10, for the purpose of nominating a candidate.

Mr. Charles Bendhelm. chairman of tha city democratic committee, announced today that Louis H. "Machen. the Incumbent, of this city; Alexander J.

Wedderburn of Fairfax county and R. Ewell Thornton of Fairfax county have filed with hlmjiotlce of their candidacy. This is the last Jay allowed for those who desire to enter the contest, and at a late hour this afternoon Mr. Bendhelm had nnt namoj In fr? thAflA I mentioned. It ia believed that the tight will resolve itself into a three-cornered one.

predict that one of the aspirants may drop out of the contest. This district embraces the counties of Alexandria, Fairfax and I'rlnce William. Detention of Dogs. Nineteen dog's are detained In the yard of the city jail. Their fate will be determined early next Monday morning If their owners fall to claim them.

The canines wero gathered In yesterday by the dog wagon. It announced today that the city officials have not decided what procedure will be followed in dispatching the dogs, although it was intimated that they will be chloroformed. None of the ownera of the canines has claimed a. dog. The wagon did not appear on the streets this morning, although it was announced that it will resume operations early Monday morning.

The wagon will then be kept on the streets until all of the dogs without the required muzzle and license tag are captured A city official stated today that the ap pearance or me aog wagon on ine streets was received with satisfaction by citizens generally. It was pointed out that as none of the owners ot the canines captured haa yet claimed a dog. it proves conclusively that they are not regarded as worth much. In the Courts. When the cases of llobert Wade.

William Webster and John Harrington, the two last named of Washington, were called for trial in the police court today, the charge being drunken and disorderly conduct and lighting, the Washingtonians failed to appear and forfeited $3 collateral each. The case of Wade was disposed of, and he was fined $10. The police were instructed to rearrest the Washingtonians, as the amount cl collateral they left was deemed Inadequate. According to the testimony oi Lieut. Smith, the men engaged In a light in the saloon of Lash, In the northeastern section of the city, about o'clock last night, and it is said that James Self, who was a bystander, was attacked by one of the men and cut about the head.

Mr. Lash stated that he conveyed Self to a physician's office. Tn the TiiHrro vw. UVVil I Barley presiding, decrees confirming the report of Commissioners J. R.

Caton, and H. Brurnback, and appointing Samuel P. Fisher commissioner of sale, were entered In the following cases: City council agt. J. Yeaton; city council agt.

Andrew lUlicott; city council agt. John G. Cooke and others; city council agt. John O. Cooke and others.

The attachment case of Zedekia.i Mu4d agt. Mary Foster was dismissed. Organization of Horsemen. A number of horsemen held a meeting la tin's city last evening, when plans were considered for orirajiizine a drlviner a-ssot-la. tlon.

After the matter had been thoroughly discussed it was decided to hold another meeting next Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, when plans will be perfected. It was stated that at the meeting a name for the association will he adopted and officers will be elected. The next meeting will tie at the old St. Asaph race track in Alexandria county. At a meeting of the Relief Hook and Company last evening, Richard Latham, vice president, and Messrs.

John Webster and Joseph De Silva were chosen delegates to the firemen's state convention at Newport News, August Ji. Messrs. Raymond Rodgers and Charles Clarkson were named as alternates. The funeral of Mrs. Olive Willett.

who died last Wednesday, occurred at o'clock yesterday afternoon from her late home, 727 Jefferson street. Rev. Van Arsdale, pastor of Trinity Methodist Kpiscopal Church, officiated, and the burial was In Bethel cemetery. Mr. R.

L. Carne, has purchased from Mr. Edward P. Matter a brick dwelling house on the west side of Patrick "street between King and Cameron streets. Brief Mention.

Mr. D. R. Stansbury and family departed today for Atlantic City. Dr.

and Mrs. J. B. Brumback of J-uray, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Walter T.

Oliver of Fairfax county. Mr. ReglnaJd Cox is spending his vacation at Atlantic City. No services will 'be held at Bethany MethI odlst Church tomorrow, owing to the ab! U1 uir pooiiii, ixii. a utaai.

Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Gorman, have returned from their wedding trip.

Mr. Charles Bendheim has returned from a trip to Atlantic City. TROLLEY WAGON. New Method of Electric Transportation Soon to Be Seen. Americans seem rather slow in recognizing the many advantages of the trolley systems of cities and towns.

In the majority of the foreign countries, both city and suburban, trolley roads have been utilized for many years for transporting freight, etc. A Pennsylvania man, seeing the possibilities of trolley transportation, has designed a vehicle which is splendidly adapted for the As shown In the Illustration, the preferable form Is along the lines of the ordinary wagon used by the express companies. Electrical meana are attached to the wagon, bo that power can be obtained from the overhead trolley wires and transmitted to the driving wheels KspeelalJy in the larger cities, where the main streets are strung with overhead wires, this vehicle could be u.oed to advantage. It need not Interfere with the running of the cars, as the vehicle could be readily run onto the aide of the street to permit the passing of the car. The right to use the power could be leased by the company.

In fact, overhead wires could be strung on streets not used by the trolley companies. In this way the driver of the vehicle could reach a point close to his destination, the goods being transported the email distance remaining by han4j STRENGTH OF BUILDINGS. Engineers' Calculations Based on Data That Kay Mislead. From the Literary The engineer's calculations of the strength of a building, a bridge or other structure are based on certain data representing the properties of the materials used. These are derived from experiment, and as It is well recognlxed that they are not exact, a very large safety factor ts allowed; that Is.

the structure Is made theoretically many times stronger than necessary- But we are told Prof. Barr of Glasgow University, In an address delivered before the Aberdeen Association of Civil Engineers, I nitti ufiwmi ine ircnvru data and the truth are often greater than is commonly supposed. He as quoted In Technical Literature: "The materials used In a structure may do to our assumption as to strength and properties of those materials. In many cases the materials, as actually used, are not so strong as we are led to believe by the application of the tests descrtbed in certain text books. There is no definite value that can be stated as the strength of a particular kind of material without many reservations, and many aiiuna lilian can oo hi the ordinary books of reference.

To take a particular specimen of steel or Iron, and to say that Its strength Is 28.93 tons per square Inch, has really no meaning. To say that its strength is about twenty-nine tons peT square inch may be true; but to state the strength down to the hundredth of a ton is nonsense. Two pieces cut from the same material may have different strengths. The strength of any material may be altected by exceptional treatment which text books may not have taken Into account. Those strengths that are quoted in text books as the strengths of materials are strengths that were got by the use of testing machines when the specimen was pulled gradually and quietly.

But if we apply a load to a piece of material and remove the load, and again apply the load and remove it, and so on, we will And that far less than twenty-two tons per square inch will break a piece of Yorkshire iron. The ordinary formulas that are used to find the intensity of the stress In pieces of material are usually very far wrong. Englnaers should avoid discontinuity of form as far as possible. If they apparently strengthen a piece of material they often weaken It. Engineers should be careful to make things not only strong enough, but not too strong.

It is dangerous te trust any formula without thinking out carefully what is implied in the formula, and considering In what way the practical conditions with which we are dealing differ from the practical nonHltlAnu la lr? Wn fApmnla VVHUlttuild ttttU ViVTTlt III titC IVlUlUtAi SLAVES IN MASSACHUSETTS. The Old House in Which They Were Sold in Town of Hanover. From the Boston Herald. A relic of slavery days In New England In the middle of the eighteenth century, the old Tllden house on Winter street. West Hanover, the only house In that town where salves were kept for market.

Is now being demolished. The house Is one of the best known landmarks In Plymouth county, and has stood for nearly 200 years. It was used as a tavern In Its early days and later for a residence. Of recent years It has been abandoned to the elements and has rapidly fallen Into decay. No one knows the exact date of the building of the house, but historians agree that It was long before the Incorporation of the town of Hanover In 1727.

Mr. Jededlah Dwelley of North Hanover, who has spent much time In gathering fucts nonnpmincr thft hlstnrv nf thp town, says: "While there was more or less buying and selling of slaves (as In the middle of the eighteenth century nearly all the wealthy families owned ona or more) this probably was the only place where the traffic was carried on for revenue. I have seen two bills of slaves sold from this house. One was from Job Tilden to a Mr. Bailey of Scltuate, a negro child named Morrow, nine years of age, of good bodily health and a kind disposition." One of Mr.

Tllden's slaves named Cuftee served as a soldier In the revolutionary war, and according to an old pay roll he was stationed at Hull, March 1, 1777. Ha was with Col. Bailey and died Valley Forge. He was known as Cuffee Til uen, aiiu was rw inscnued un me piinieu rolls. The books of the First Congregational Church of Hanover record the marriage by the Rev.

Benjamin Bass on February 8, 1751. of Jack and Blllah, servants owned by Job Tilden, and also the death of a negro boy owned by Job Tilden, February 12, 1760. There are many other brief records of slaves kept In different families In Hanover. How to Speak Correctly. Julin Harry lu Harper's Itazar.

Many people, for example, fairly welleducrttcd people, too, don't know how to pronounce the letter that follows g. And as for spelling the name of altch, some of these people would be astonished to hear that the letter had a name. The letter that follows is frequently pronounced as if it were double-yer, instead of double-u. A fault, often noticed among singers and actors, is the giving of a tlctitlous value to the letter 1, which makes It sound very like the Italian liquid Say the alphabet aloud, and when you have finished, ask yourself If every letter would be perfectly distinct and Intelligible to any one who might be listening. Hera lies the fundamental principle of all speaking; every element of every spoken word should be distinct and Intelligible.

In repeating the alphabet each letter ought to make a perfect escape from the lips of the speaker. Does it make such an escape when you say it? Do you send It out vigorously? Watch yourself as you unfile t'aeh letter and see what hannens to It. If It gives you the sense of hanging about your lips, or if It does not seem absolutely to separate Itself from you, or if it drops into your throat, say it again and will It to go boldly out. Try to think of It as being outside yourself, as a thing apart. When you succeed In thinking of It in this way.

if you don't care, for words, or if you have never thought about them, you will have taken the first step toward the mastery of good speech. To speak well, you must love words and their elements. You most love individual letters. A Curious Frog. From the Nfw York Tribune.

South America has a frog of peculiar habits. Dwelling In tha virgin forest, at the tops of the highest trees, It chooses as the site of its nursery some hollow stump and then proceeds to line it with rosin procured from trees In the neighborhood. This lining serves to catch and hold the rainwater, with which it quickly becomes filled. As soon as this takes place the eggs are laid therein, and here they undergo development into tadpoles. How the rosin is collected is a mystery, nor Is it yet known how the separate pieces become welded fmrm the water-tight basin necessary to insure the safety of the treasures deposited therein.

Queen Alexandra's Diplomacy. From P. T. O. Very recently while at Buckingham Palace It came to the queen's knowledge that one of the upper housemaids, who had been in the royal service for years, was very unhappy over a love affair.

The queen sent for the girl and after advising and consoling her sent her to Sandringliam for a change. Then the queen summoned the lover and after a goodnatured homily with humorous tact sent him to Sandringhain, too. The couple have since returned, and there will be a wedding at Buckingham Palace soon. Alcohol From Cactus Plants. From the Milwaukee Sentinel.

"Texas ranchers are much pleased with the new denatured alcohol law. for It is exacted that they will be able to make a goodly sum of money from the cactus plant, wlilch grows so proliflcally there," said A. R. La Sage of Cincinnati. "Large areas of land in Texas are coverCH with cactus, which has been almost useless up to this time.

It Is claimed that the leaves contain a largre amount of raw material which, when distilled, makes an excellent alcohol. Portable stills have already been set up on many of the ranches for the double purpose of making alcohol and fodder from the 1 IS QUANTRELL ALIVE? SAID TO BE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA HALE AND HEABTY. VICTORIA. B. August Quantrell, leader of Quantrell's guerrillas In the civil war.

who. according to history, died of wounds at a Kentucky hospital, after his raiders were cut up. Is alive and lives at Quatslncy on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, under the name of John Sharp, according to a number of people who have conversed with him. J. E.

Duffy, a prominent timber man, who recently became Interested in timber land Ouatsinn rortAffn ivvuBUiacu HUIIU ouai Is over seventy, wiry and gray. as (Juantrell. Duffy having been a member of the Michigan troop of cavalry which cut up Quantrell's force. He stated to Dufty that he was correct in his recognition. Sharp said he had been left as dead, and instead of dying of his wounds at Louisville, as history recorded, had taken a horse, ridden many miles and disappeared.

He made his way to South America, living a number of years In Chile, whence hu went to Texas. Here he engaged In the cattle business, making considerable money, which he exhausted. Then ha wont to Oregon, be punched cows and drove cattle over the mountains. From Oregon he came to British Columbia nearly two decades ago and engaged In logging at different camps of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island until ten years ago. when he became a trapper of the northern coast.

Six or seven years ago he went to Quatslno, where he was made car carer at West Vancouver mines. When J. E. Duffy landed at Quatslno from the steamer Tees he met John Sharp on the beach at Coal Harbor. Duffy wie uia man over ana saia: "is that you.

Quantrell, you old rascal?" "Come Into the house," said Sharp, and for some hours the two men talked. Sharp stating he was In reality Quantrell, and he talked at length of the raids in Kansas and elsewhere and eagerly listened to DufTy's tales from the point of view of the cavalrymen In the Union army. He was most keenly Interested In the story of the cutting up of his band, and when his narrator told of how forty men had bee.i killed tears are said to have rolled down the old man's cheeks. R. Montgomery, who Is engaged In business at Quatslno, and who knew Sharp, or Quantrell, at Fort Worth.

and H. S. Berg, postmaster nt Olintslnn Bra tn-n nthara to whom Sharp has stated his Identity as Quantrell. "I might as well admit It," Sharp told both. "It seems that I need not hide the fact." The story the old man told the Informant of the Associated rt-ess was that when his band had been cut up he bad been bayoneted In the chest and had a bullet wound through the shoulder.

The surgeon who looked him over said he could not live more than a couple of hours, and he had been left an thnt nth ers with more chance of recovery could be attended to by the overworked surgeons. While they tended the others ho got up, despite his wounds, and disappeared. That night, he says, he fode seventy miles. He then took flight to South America. COL.

ABMIN MULLER. wnen me ramous Algeclras conference was In session to determine the political status of Morocco, it was decided that no one nation should have the privilege of acting as stepmother to the disorderly, but that the responsibility should be divided. To this end an international police was to be organized and little Switzerland, bei'ng fWMS ti mm. Ixr'lv iSSSBBSSSSk MAJ. ARMIN MTTLLEB, Commanding Morocco Tollce.

without colonial ambitions, received the honor at the chiefs hip. The choice of Switzerland for the position was Col. Armln Muller. instructor of artillery at Berne. We have a little Interest In Col.

Muller because his first wife was an American women born Otis. He divorced her and married the wealthy widow of his former wife's brother-in-law. Kansas City Out. KANSAS CTTY, August entire force of the Western Union here, excepting chief operators, numbering about 150 em ployea, went out shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday. The Western Union men at the board of trade also went out.

A Seminole Legend. From the Kansas City Journal. The Seminole Indians believed that when the Great Spirit created this world He made three men. all fair "of skin. He led them to a lake and bade them jump In.

The first obeyed ana came out whiter than wtien he entered the waters; the second hesitated, going Into the lake when the water was a trifle muddy, hence came out copper colored; the third leaped In last and came out black. According to the legend the Great Spirit then led them to three bundles, ffeklng each to choose one. The black man chose the heaviest, which was found to contain a spade, hoes and other implements used in the performance of manual labor; the second found In ills sack a flailing rod. a gun and warlike weapons; the white man chose the sack which contained pen, Ink and paper, and this, so tlve story goes, laid the foundation for his superiority over other races. Targets for Anglers.

From Forest and Stream. Not long ago several wood discs, one foot in diameter, painted white, and each provided with a line and a lead weight, were placed in the pool In Central Park, this city, by the Anglers' Club, for targets for fly and bait-casting. As a granitoid walk adioins the pastern enrt nf the, anA the targets furthest from the casting platform are near this walk, thousands of park visitors worry the lives 'Out of the policemen and park employes with questions relative to the purpose of the white discs. They have been asked if the strango things are early lilypads and everything under the sun an idle lounger can imagine. One of the patrolmen told me the other day that his naturally sweet temper had been ruined since the appearance of "them things." But the most curious question of ill was fired at me one day as I watched the anglers practicing.

"Are those tin cans used In fish breeding?" the visitor. "What cans?" I queried, not grasping his meaning. "Why, those tin cans in the lake?" "Oh! No, those are targets." It you want work read the want columns Of Ttw SUur. THE ITALIAN CABABINFERI. The Admirable Police Force That Order In Italy.

Interview With Marlon Crawford. In N. Y- "The mainstay of thn Italian government in Its flsrht with nrennlM.t Is the admirable police force that Is maintained In Italy. The Italian police, the carablnlerl, as ttiey are called. are physically and morally a body of picked men.

For three generations tack a man has to show a spotless record hefoj-e lie can hope to become a member of the force. These carabineers form a regular army corps and patrol the entire rnuntrr Thov dressed tn a peculiar uniform, which has been In vogue with them for over a century, and the mere sight of the queer cocked hat of one of these men. with all that It suggests of astuteness and Irresistible energy to the credulous peasant, is often sufficient to stop a riot. Indeed. It la difficult to convey an Idea of the urtbounded respect which an Italian of the lower class has for the uniform of the carablnlerl.

He knows that the latter are liable at a mo- ment's notice, on the 'highways or In the streets of the cities, to search him for con- vcaicu ana me taiuiary rear or being: found out and summarily dealt with keeps him for the moat part unarmed. "WTieti the Italian leaves hla country, however. feels that lie Is out of the reach of the dread, ubiquitous carablnlerl, and he arms himself accordingly. 80 prevalent has this custom become that on some steamship lines the Italians are Invariably searched for concealed weapons; I have seen a goodly heap of knives collected In this way from a shipload of Immigrants. But once In New York, the or third largest Italian city In the world, by the way, there Is not a carabineer In sight, and so the Immigrant, not knowing the ways or the possible prowess of the New York policeman, feels that he Is emancipated from furrher restraint am! Invests In whatever knives or pistols his fancy, or his padrone, may suggest.

"Imagine a fquad of Irish policemen maintaining law and order In Rome! And yet New York is next to Rome In size as an Italian city. The Italian in this country is quite as much in need of proper surveillance as he is in his native land, and until he Is taken out of the clutches of the New York padrones, with their probable Camorra affiliations, and until we have a sufficient number of uniformed Italian i policemen, chosen and equipped i-s they are In Italy, It Is quite probable tt.at the city will continue to suffer from outbreaks of so-callled Black Hand crimes. "The true Italian peasant In his native environment I have always found to be a most amiable character, very hard-working and honest according to his lights. His regular workday, beginning usually at o'clock In the morning. Is longer than that of any laborer In the world.

One gels a bad Impression of these people, of course, from what one sees of them here. In Italy they show a sunny disposition, themselves tidily, and their neat little houses, overrun by clean, healthy-looking children? they ar? tho most proline people in the a truthful impression of the happy family life that reigns within. I have known peasant households where a husiband and wife have raised a family of as many as twenty children, and even among the upper classes I know of families of fourteen or fifteen children. Thus, no matter how many thousands of immigrants come to the two Americas, one need not fear that the resident population ui Uaij will ever do anything but increase. "While the population, as a whole, is i thus steadily growing, there is a in.

number throughout the agricultural sections of southern Italy. The government is doing ail it can to remedy this by offering bonuses for the improvement of land and the building of houses. It is also trying to improve sanitary conditions. An Immense amount of work In this direction has been going on for the past twenty-five years, the good results from which are now very much in evidence. Certain districts near Rome, which were formerly uninhabitable for nearly six months of the year, have been drained, and foreigners who Uka tnll tnn tkot i It a A 1'ai'fl 11 kllCJO leu IUO uini iito virauij i of the old days have become practically unknown.

"As for the ridiculous tradition that the 1 Italians of the lower and middle classics are bad' and In spite of all i the tales of the Camorra and the Mafia, I can elmply say that I have not found them so. The three causes that make bad Italians padrone system, with Its i possible connection with the Camorra; the laok of Italian police, and the poor char- acter of the Immigrants and tmelr failure r.o 09come assimnaiea 10 American cun- make a bad population of any nationality, but they do not exist in Italy. Sicily la generally held up a-s the bugbear of Italy. I have been all through Sicily, and as a result of my experience I believe that even in Its proverbially worst sections it is absolutely safe for foreigners Indeed, than the outklrts of many of our great American cities." NEW YORK GETS THE MISFITS. I From All Over the Country Tailors Send Their Mistakes There.

From the New York San. For a time a sublimated old clo' man used to have everything his own way In the mlsflt line. He was far down town and kept In addition to his stock of cheap readymade clothes mlsflt garments made by other tailors. He -began business by dealing only in the garments sent here by London tailors and sold by their customers because they could not be made to fit. Later he extended his trade to 'the extent of taking the same sort of mistakes turned out by smart Oth avenue tailors.

To this day he thrives In the same store In which first began a business unknown before that time In New York. As there Is a limit to London misfits and those created on 5th avenue, and the demand for clothes of this kind has continued large, other fields had to be explored for" the supply. These have been found, and smart tailors In other cities In the United States are now proudly advertised as the source of garments which are not at all In the same class as the ready-made and are distinctly above anything like a secondhand suit. The new garments that supply the New York demand for misfits come from Brown of Boston, Smith of Chicago and Jones of Washington. Then follow along Kansas City.

Detroit. Providence and various cities that were never before regarded as centers of the tailor's art. The history of these garments Derore they reach New York is simple. The old clo' business Is now so thoroughly organized that buyers are In every large city. The market for these misfit suits Is here.

Men who deal In second-hand cfothes In other cities know that the New York dealers want all the misfit garments they can buy and promptly send on to this city any clothing of that kind they are able to get hold of. This has resulted In the purchase of all misfit suits for the metropolitan ket. In any other city such garments sell simply as second-hand clothes, as the glamour of the "misfit" has not trawled so far fhAv thajl the cheapest ready-made clothes. An Ail-Around College Girl. Prom the Dulutb Herald.

Miss Gurld I.aate, a Norwegian girl wiio Is working her way through the University of Minnesota, Is probably the only college g-irl In the country who can make her own 1 clothes, from the spinning of the thread and weaving of the cloth to tne forming of the fabric into fashionable design. Spinning and weaving she learned in her native country; the art of tthe tr.od's'.e was acquired since her arrival in me nnea States. i Don't Speak to Your Horse. From the Outing Magazine. Caress must promptly reward performance.

and the voice must never be used? the horse does not understand your words, and If you are angry your tones will only further disconcert him. while if you are eternally talking to him you simply render him careless and Inattentive. Caress the spot you have Just addressed, nor think that he understand a pat on the neck as reward for something; he has just done with his hind quarters Go direct to the spot, and where two parts have been addressed caress them both, aa In backing, the hind quarters and the sides where the legs came, and the same thing in bitting. Do not pat the neck if you asked him to yield his Jaw. "Don't reward your daughter for your son's successful geography leaaon." That is the idea la a nutshell.

THE OLD-FASHIONED BOY. I Hundreds of Positions Await Him in I of the Type. I From tho New York KtoiiIiik Poit. Thore In a prleo on head of the oldfashioned office boy. Somehow ho han disappeared Bus; men diligently seeking him, and If he will And hundreds of iw.ilttmc him.

This Is said on the authority one lio knows. The othex diy a staid old merchant ad vertlaed for an old-fanhloned boy. active. I Intelligent and square. He hopwl that his I advertisement might meet the eyes of I old-fashioned father, who hat! a ehip of the I old at home.

This OMChant knows I there are boys and but. like KugeiM I Field. he believes I Tliere are ne like the old I Rut the good old are The I race Is slmoat extinct, one might venture I to say Where they have gone and how I they went are problems wlil.h muai solve. The fact remains that thelr number is few. wlilch undoubtedly Is a condition to be deplored For the boys who started out to tholr living twenty-five or fifty ago were.

In their humble sphere. useful members of society. You will find many of them today occupying; positions of trust, or A perhaps at the heads of the tlrnis they served Intelligently and well. They began In the old-fashioned way, by reaching office long before the others and sweeping It from end to end. Then they dusted the desks and filled the Ink wells, put fresh nibs In the penholders and arranged the blotting Keeping a hot fire in the office stove was another of duties, and they aaw to It that the ashes did not fly over the floor.

The letters and bills they flled away In mieh an orderly manner that none was lost or mislaid, and all were available at a moment's notice. In taking press copies of letters written In long hand, the old-fashioned were careful not to blur them, and when the envelopes went out they bora the proper amount of postage And the Kir oiaiiipo, iJj inc a.j nv nvn uovu km i urn own correspondence. They remembered that the stamps were the property of their employers. Such youngsters had been trained and educated according to the meth'WIs of their day. Politeness was properly instilled in them.

They knew how to receive an office caller with courtesy. They could say "Yes, sir," instead of "All right" or "Whatcher want?" and they touched their caps to those whom they recognized as their superiors. And their personal appearance! It was a pleasure to look upon them. TIM old- fashioned boy went to bed early, hail a solid uleep, and was ready for work next day, with his wits about him. Hla shoes were blacked, clothes were brushed, tnrt hla face had obviously been under the pump.

Moreover, his finders were not stained with nicotine, and if you turned hla Inside out you rati. not llnd stumps of stale cigarettes. When he ran errands he didn't stop to discuss the details of the latest murder trial or divorce scandal, for these went beyond his realm. Neither was he familiar a-lth tho naat itf "ininiiw nor wJth the merits or or popular actresses. game of craps was not for lilm, ami the day of the comic supplement, that lure to procrastination and idleness, had not arrived.

Story of the Missouri River. From the American Magazine. There are rivers of all lengths and and of all degrees of wetness. There ire rivets with all sorts of peculiarities and rl'ilmi: f-i Unt there is only one river with a personality. habits, a of humor and a woman's caprice, a river lint goes traveling sldewise.

that Interferes in politics, rearranges geograp) ami dabbles in estate; a river tint plays hide and seek with yon today and tomorrow follows you around like a pet dog with a dynamite cracker tied to its tail. That river Is the Missouri. This thing happened in Kansas City not many yeans Hgo: A party of men owned a strip of land along the Missouri river bank. It was not handsome land, but it was valuable for factory purposes. They were of- ierea poruy prices ror uui neiu on.

One day they noticed that the strip was getting emaciated. They held a hurried diagnosis with a surveyor's tape and found that half of It had been washed away. The next year half of the remainder had gone. The men wanted to sell then, but the market seemed remarkably sluggish. The next year the rh'er ate so vigorously that only a tiny strip about as wide as a piece of baby ribbon was left.

The men were much depressed. Suddenly the land began to increase The Missouri had chosen the late manufacturing site for a place to deposit a tine acre farm upon wnicn 11 nan mreciosea up the river. Inside of six months that strip of land contained acres. The men were Jubilant, but still they would not sell. They wanted another 100 acres, they said.

They Btrolled along the bank each day and urged the river, in proprietary tones, to build faster. Then the river changed Its mind once more and not only wiped out tha extra 100 acres, but the original 100 acres, every foot of It. The next year It built up acres In the same spot, but they all belonged to the man who owned the ground behind the original plot. They have stayed there ever Is. up to last reports.

For financing and nronerty juggling the Missouri makes a crooked lawyer look like a child. I hate to think what it would do for a man If It had a personal friendship for him. A Charming Little Apron. 9 are no longer thought of as jlaln, unbecoming articles of protection, ror many of them art' as pretty as dresses, ind often serve to up a frock as oa it is sketched an ipron which Is easily made, and suitable to very dainty trimming. The front ami back are tucked from the top in jutllne, the edge beintf left plain or finished ftith a beadine and narrow lace.

The shoulder may be of the apron material or all-over embroidery. For the medium size yards of material H6 inches wide are needed. 2. 4. It years.

The of this pattern is PATTERN OKDER BLANK. Fashion Dept. The Sta-, I), c. For 10 cents inrlose-i please send pattern to the following address: siie Pattern No. 4233 Name Address City M.t.

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