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The Washington times., 1902-10-08
APPAN WAY THE ROUTE OF PAGEANTRY D.

| was in force in the District. He was a
| painter by trade and a collector or
books In 1867 Congress bought for
800 900 the collection OF rare
books pamphlets. newspaper files, maps.
engravings. and curios, which he had
collected in thirty years of antiquarian
research. The Force collection is now
valuable part of the Congressional
| Library.
On the corner of Eleventh Street ID
the handsome new Evening Star build
ing. and on the next corner is the grand
new Hotel Raleigh. the preferred resort
for Western and Southern people.
Further west on the same side of the
street are the New National Theater. on
the site of several National Theaters
that succumhed TO fires, and the Law
renee Hotel building. which used 10 be
known as the Imperial. Here for many
years was the Office of the Union.
which began life as an Administration
organ in the latter part of JacksonS
regime. This block is. too, part Of
Newspaper Row. The Washington
Post" building is entirely rented to
newspaper correspondents. as are most
of the upper floors of the other build
ings in the block. The new press club.
the froquois. which numbers among its
members all tut do
well as press men. is in this block.
The magnificent New Willard stands
on the corner of Fourteenth Street. The
old Willard was famous landmark.
Brides spoke tenderly OF the old house,
for it had probably sheltered more new
~ married couples than any other host
iery in Washington. Washington any
way. is great rendezvous for those on
honeymoon.
The pictures OF the Grand Review of
1865 show shanties standing where the
big barn-like Corcoran building now
marks the turn the Avenue makes at
Fifteenth Street until it passes the east
side OF the Treasury Building. On the
corner where the Avenue resumes its
course, stands the ancient building in
which the United States BanA was
housed. This institution will be rere-n-
bcred BY the admirers of Andrew Jack
son as the one which lost its deposits
by the summary action CT "Old Hick-
ory.'' Just beyond the new white stone
building just completed. the Riggs Ma
tional Bank, is the site of the old De-
partment OF Justice. on which ii is pro-
posed to erect a modern structure.
We have passed the north front OF the
Treasury and reached sfuyette Square
and we stand Opposite the White House.
our walk at an end.
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make distance of about twenty miles.

make distance of about twenty miles.
However. if one wishes to travel the
route taken by the army in 1861, he will
leave Washington by team, drive over
the Long Bridge, and by Arlington, Mum
sons Hill. Falls Church, Fairfax Court
House. and Centerville. From Center
Vile the Warrenton Pike is followed.
On the Road to Bull Run.
Mention of the Long Bridge will at
once recall "reminiscences of the war 70
| the veteran of the Army of the Potomac.
and well will he remember the days he
crossed and recrossed or stood picket
| duty at the entrance of what was the
principal thoroughfare of the army
leaving Washington to face the enemy
| in Virginia on the march to Richmond.
This old emblem. which has so often
been expected to float away with the
spring floods, still remains to once again
re-echo the tread of the boys in blue
as they pass along its wooden frame TO
reach 1.-The green fields of Old Virginia.
Leaving Long Bridge, Arlington is
reached, now a most beautiful resting
place for many who fell in battle, or
have since passed over the river" and
the first battle of Bull Run. Then we
come to the Alexandria and Leesburg
Pike, at MunsoD's Hill, along which are
to be seen the remains of many earth
works. Along this road the pickets of
both armies often faced each other and
exchanged shots from behind some tree.
building, or stone wall; or. as a more
friendly feeling possessed them, ex-
changed papers or coffee and tobacco.
At the town of Falls Church, the old
its name. still stands. though it barely
escaped being demolished. AT the first
of the war ii served as a hospital, and
later the furniture. flooring and doors
supplied the camp there with fuel. After
the floors had been removed it was used
as stable Then the walls were being
knocked in and the bricks used to make
ovens by the troops camped in the vi
entity. This was stopped by the inter-
cession of loyal citizen, who petit
toned headquarters that the historical
old structure should not be destroyed.
The brick in this church we're said to
have been brought over from England.
and it is stated that Washington him
self attended divine service there on
many occasions.
At Fairfax Court House.
Leaving Falls Church there is drive
of about seven miles to Fairfax Court
House. Here again is very old struc
ture of historical interest. the court |
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!: SOME HUMOROUS STORIES OF TRAGIC TINES>

''The old soul busted herself over the
frying pans and skillets, while the Off
GERS discussed army matters, of course
addressing each other by proper titles.
Finally the old lady began to throw
bread out to her dogs, calling them
Captain. Major Colonel General,
etc.
Sick of such business, one of the Of
ficers turned to her and asked to know
why she bestowed such military titles
on her dogs
Milertery titles. Any NANCY old
cur can have SIGH titlements these days
THE officers said no more. but ate
their grub and departed
This good story is told on certain
captain of the old Fourteenth Massa
chusetts when they were stationed here
in Washington;
The aforesaid captain was somewhat
noted for his love for the good things
gastronomic, and one day dispatched
one of his live Yankees" off to Alex
andria to get some fresh oysters, giving
him instructions not to return without
the bivaives. The man went off and no
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| Market. one of the fines. in the United
States. There are four spacious puili-
ings in the group between Seventh and
Ninth Streets. and the- cost $500 600.
| Hucksters' stands ale ali around the
place. Between 10 AID y o'clock in the
morning the north AMI south sides pre-
! sent strange contrast. On the one So
cietys best liveries are arrayed in num-
bers, the fine lrdies o. the city doing
! their own marketing. an unusual Gus
tom that prevails at The Capitol: while
on the other is all aggregation of farm
ers and their ugly wagons, their skinny
nags. their children huddle about bon
| fires. and lazy negroes warming up
too, while they wait arouui .or scraps to
! eat.
Washington Is the Mecca of the ne
gro. They flock here from the ne:ghbor-
ing Southern Safes. thinking once In
Abe Lincoln's Capital they will have to
work no mo- But they find the situa
tion very different. Idle hungry ,larkies
are more numerous on the streets Of
Washington than probably AIRY other
place in America.
Formerly the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal ran through this tract, The mar
ket louise. whcr originally stood there
WIS called the Marsh Market " -.yson
OF Its swampy location. All the low
places nave teen filed. and there IS
rothing left 10 inform tn inquiriny
stranger that the present market rests
Oh made ground
he old Iron Tall is still 10 lie found
oil the north side of the Averu' between
Ninth and Tenth Streets In LAYS long
ago it was a music hall Patti. Parepa
Rosa, Nilsson. ana other famous sing
eTs Cnce delighted music lovers there.
Mark Twain lectGred for the first lime
in Iron Hall. HIS subject was Frozen
Truth" and the story goes that before
the lecri., was finished the weather
turned so cold that his audience nearly
froze getting back home.
Where the magnificent new .'os.oilicc
Building now stands, at the corner of
Eleventh Street. the mansion of Dr..
Stone was situated in the first rary o.
the century The doctor was an ea-
graver for the Government. and a prom
inent character. In those days there
We're few engravers. and far fewer in the
Government employa 1t was considered
a fine art His house was transformed
into Il newspaper Office before it was
torn down.
The Washington Times building COW
ers the ground where Peter Force hal
his mansion. Peter Force was mayor
OF Washington when the old government
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| ton has gone the way of all flesh and the
books and periodicals have given place
to cigars and tobacco. What stories
those old walls have heard.
On the square between Four-and- a
| half and Sixth Streets Bells photograph
gallery, where all the members of Con-
gress on arrival at Washington drop in
| for complimentary photographs of them
selves. occupies the building once the
Athenaeum Theater. place dear to the
hearts of all old Washingtonians. Joseph
Jefferson's father acted in this famous
playhouse, and Joe, himself when young.
appeared there. The interior of the
building has been remodeled. but the
exterior has undergone no changes since
those davs.
Further west in the same block stood
in former years a building which con-
tanned the notorious gambling resort Of
Edward Pendleton There is a legend
in Washington that often when Ii was
found impossible TO muster a quorum in
either the House or Senate enough miss
ing statesmen to have made one up could
be found there. Draw poker was the
chief game at Pendleton's. Edward
Pendleton fell from the aristocratic old
Virginia family of that name. After his
death and the Improvement in the NOR
ais Of Congressman the place was given
over to more prosaic uses.
Near Four and a-half Street is the old
building where that fascinating publica-
ton. the Congressional Globe was
published until 1t was superseded by
the Congressional Record Across the
Avenue at the corner of Four and half
Street, the sign COLONIZATION Building"
on a brownstone structure, which shows
signs of age, calls TO mind the Colon
ization Society, which years ago erected
it and strove to induce prosecuted
negroes to try their fortunes in Liberia
Now one comes to historic neighbor-
hood-the block between Four and-a-
half and Sixth Streets Here for
many years-ninety at least-has
stood the National Hotel Once
1t was known as Gadsbys 1t is a
mammoth structure. with little or no
architectural pretentions. What : pro-
cession of good. bad. and Indifferent
people has passed through its portals
since 1s10i II used TO be tradition
with the house that all the public men
since the days of Jefferson had enjoyed
its hospitality. Henry Clay lived sew
eral years beneath its roof. and finally
died, on January 49, 1852, in what is
known as room 49, Alexander H. Ste
phens had a suite of rooms there for
years, leaving them to become the gov
ernor of Georgia. Buchanan went to his
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Continued from fifth rage.)

ward from the Capitol one sees a union
of the old and the new in the Botanic
Gardens which skirt the southern edge
of the Avenue for two full blocks. They
were comprehended in l'Enfant's plan of
Washington and had attained fame fifty
years ago. In the last twenty years
they have been greatly developed. Ten
acres are enclosed by their iron ratings.
There is great conservatory filled with
the choicest foreign plants and many
smaller ones almost as attractive.
Around the gardens are extensive col
lections of trees and shrubs which are
cultivated in the most scientific manner.
Most of tbs plants which are set out
each spring in the parks and circles Of
Washington are grown here. No reser-
walton of equal size in the country is
more attractive than this one Here,
only few steps from the teemins
Avenue. is a wonderful land of flowers
where care may be cast aside and the
most beautiful in nature worshiped.
Between First ard Second Streets on
the north side of the Avenue is the-site
of the first Washington passenger sta
tion, that of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad where during the war thous-
ands of Union troops landed on their
way 10 the battlefelds of the South.
Long ago the station was removed to its
present site in the northeast section of
the city, but the buildings erected in its
place are more offensive, right at the
Capitol steps. than the depot was.
On the northeast corner of the Ave-
nue. and Third Street the Hotel Belve-
dere. formerly the ST. Charles, stands.
Fifty or sixty years ago the st. Charles
was well known TO Washington visitors.
Directly opposite is the Hotel Ven
dome, which used to be known as the
Belvedere. 1t was the Washington
House when Senator Ben Wade, of Ohio.
occupied big place in the public eye.
Senator Wade lived there and SO did
Henry Wilson, Vice President under
Grant 1t was his Washington home at
the time of his death.
Many memories cluster about the
cigar shop at the corner of Four and-a-
half Street. Years ago Joseph Shilling
ton had a book store and news stand
there. 1t is said he was the first man
in Washington to keep on sale out-of-
town papers. In their day 1t was the
rendezvous OF Henry Clay. Daniel Web
ster, John c. Calhoun. Chief Justice
Marshall, and other men whose names
every school boy knows today. Shilling
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house. which was erected in the days of
Lord Fairfax and stands the same. today
as when first built, except the interior
which served about the same purposes
as did old Falls Church few years
ago the descendants presented the coun-
ty with portrait of Lord Fairfax, and
it, together With that of Washington and
other notable Virginians. adorns the
walls of the courtroom. AT the clerks
Office the will of Washington can be
seen. This is kept in a glass covered
case to prevent it from being worn out
by being handled. This will. together
with many county papers. was preserved
during the war by the faithfulness of
a county officer. who hid them safely
away.
here, among them the capture OF Gen.
erai Stoughton and some of his aides by
Colonel Mosby and his followers. This
occurred one dark, rainy night, when
Mosby and his men evaded the pickets
and entered the room at headquarters
where General Stoughton was asleep.
Upon being awakened the general de-
manded who was disturbing his slum-
bers. 1t is said that Mosby replied:
IF you don't hustle out quietly I will
spank YOU and then explained that
the general was his prisoner. Several
other officers in the house were cap
tured, but one of them managed to es-
cape by going down into the basement
and standing quietly in a dark corner.
Search was made for him, but he was
supposed to have escaped in the dark
Eess. The house where this raid was
made is still in perfect preservation, and
has been purchased by the Episcopal
congregation, which converted it into a
rectory.
The little village of Centerville pos
sesses quite as much interest as the
battles which occurred west, north, and
south of it, 1t is much referred to in
histories, particularly in connection with
the first and second battles of Bull Run,
it having been the headquarters of the
Union troops previous to the first battle
and on the line of retreat after both
battles.
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Old "Level Green"

A short distance on the road to Ma
nassas stands house in the yard of
which are tombstones which date back
to about 1906. The house was supposed
to have been built before that time.
Just previous to the war this house was
bought by Mr.. Summers. and it is now
known as Summers place." though 1t
is still sometimes called Level Green"
1t was here that the officers of the Fed
eral army made their headquarters.
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~ NE of the members of Kilpat-
rick's Cavalry tells this good
" one:
While we were at Raleigh,
which city we entered on April 10, 1865. !
noticed reb running TO beat the band.
/ asked him what In thunder he was
running for. He threw his eyes around
toward me and answered:
'Runnin, be CAD, sir, cause can't
fly
There was no occasion for the fellow
to be frightened, for there had been no
sound of muskets there since Johnston's
command left. Fitzpatrick was shot at
by an outlaw at Raleigh. but the bullet
missed him and wounded one Of The
staff 1t took just half an hour TO get
the fellow and string him to tree"
This comes from one of the Twenty
fourth Corps:
lone night crowd of officers stop
ped at the humble home of an old lady
down in Georgia and asked that they be
supplied with something to eat. at the
same time stating that she would be
paid for her trouble.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-09
Women and Jewels.


Jewels, candy. flowers, man-that is
the order of woman's preferences.
Jewels form magnet of mighty pow
er to the average woman. Even that
greatest of all jewels. health, is often
ruined in the strenuous efforts to make
or save the money to purchase them.
1t woman Will risk her health to get
a coveted gem, then let her fortify her
self against the insiduous consequences
of coughs, colds and bronchial affect
tions by the regular use of DR.. Bos
ehee's German Syrup. It will promptly
arrest consumption in its early stages
and heal The affected lungs and broR-
chial tubes and drive the dread disease
from the system. 1t is not a cure all,
but it is a certain cure for coughs,
colds and all bronchial troubles. You
can get DIR. G. q. Green's reliable rem
edies at Gem Drug Co.'S store. Get
Green's Special Almanac.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-09

AN example Of the cusseduess of the
auti-fusion law is found in the case of
Il. L. Kelley, the Miami county man
who has been found to be over $500
short in his accounts, and who is the
republican nominee for state treasurer.
The machine hope through this law TO
disfranchise enough of the democratic
and Populist votes to enable Mr.. Kelley
to slip in. John j. Ingalls, was not
wrong when he said the purifica-
ton Of politics is an irredescent dream,
if he had limited his statement to his
party in Kansas. But even Ingalls, did
not advocate disfraDchisement in order
to make votes smell good for fellows
like Kelley. It remained for fellows
like J. Rats Burton, Kelley s. Co. to
consummate the deal and for Cy Leland
and his machine to attempt to carry it
out.-Kingman Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-09
A PEOPLES PARTY TICKET.

Considerable hog-wash has lately ap-
peared in republican papers to the effect
that the Peoples party did not nomi-
nate ticket and surrendered its organ.
iZatiOn. The Index has several times
published the facts and disproved that
statement, but this week we publish
the resolution in full under which the
POpulist convention operated. It is as
follows:
Resolved. That this convention recommend
candidates for the various places on the state
ticket, including state superintendent of
schools not filed by the Democratic conven-
tion and then forward the names of such can
didates to the democratic convention with the
request that the democratic convention nomi-
nate them and report the fact to this coven-
ton.
That in the event of such nominations be-
ing made by the democratic convention that
our convention then proceed and nominate a
full ticket made up of the same ca ndidates
rs the democratic ticket.
THAT our state committee be instructed to
file with the secretary of state certificate of
the nominations so made and demand then
and there that the Peoples party ticket be plac-
ed on the ballot with the Democratic ticket.
THAT in the event of refusal on the part
of the secretary of state to place both the
Democratic and the Peoples party tickets on
the ballot our state central committee is in
structed to take such legal steps as to it shall
seem best to test the validity of the anti-fu-
sion law and secure the Peoples party it's
rights under the state constitution.
l.;
member of that convention and he
has personal knowledge of the fact that
complete ticket was nominated and
filed as Peoples party ticket.
Under the republican gag law the re-
publican secretary of state and the re-
publican supreme court may deny the
party its place on the ballot. That is
what the intention of the trainers of
the law vas when it was enacted, and
no matter what action the convention
might have taken the result would
have been the same.
The Populists are victims of legisla-
tive outrage, but they have demanded
their rights, and if gang of republics n
officials refuse tohear their appeals there
will be an overturning at the polls The
people of Kansas, regardless OF party
lines, want fair elections, An honest
count, AID, above all. they are emphat-
ically opposed to DISTINGUISHING the vo-
ter When you undertake to deny no,
600 voters the right to have the names
of their candidates printed on the off
cal ballot you are standing on danger
Gus ground.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-09
Saves a WOman's Life.

To have given up would have meant
death for Mrs. Lois Cragg, of Dorches-
ter, Mass. For years she had endured
untold misery from a severe lung trou-
BILE and obstinate cough. "Often,' she
writes, Il could scarcely breathe and
sometimes could not speak. All doc
tors and remedies failed till used DR..
Kings New Discovery for consumption
and was completely cured" Sufferers
trom coughs, colds, throat and lung
trouble need this grand remedy, for it
never disappoints. Cure is guaranteed
by the Young Drug Co. Price SOC and
81. Trial bottles free
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-09

The Populists of Kansas
at one time had it in their
power to legislate themselves
into Office for several years,
but they didn't take advan-
tage of it. But as soon as the
republicans got their seats
warm they enacted the most
partisan legislation that ever
disgraced the state. We con.
fidently believe that the vo-
ters of Kansas will rebuke
such trickery next November.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-09

Senator Burton in his fight
for a high tariff against reel.
procity, took occasion to re-
mind Congressman Long and
others that he fought the
free silver idea, in Kansas, al
most single handed when his
followers all stood for free
coinage, and time vindicated
him so far as the attitude Of
the republican party was con-
cerned. He claims that the
same result will come out of
the reciprocity issue. Burton
says that the republican par
ty is and always was commit
ted to a high protective tar
if and be is right. The par
ty has always stood and is
now standing as the cham.
pion of trusts and all forms of
organized and centralized
wealth as against the people.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-09

Does it not seem queer
STAT republican politicians,
While claiming that their par
tF advocates all the good
&ings for the people, that
AAese same politicians are all
she time getting up a scheme
oR trick to prevent an honest
expression of a majority Of
Me people at the polls?
Kheir ballot law was passed
Or the express purpose of di-
Sding the opposition to the
Bpublican party and their
Mennlal election law and
Meir court decisions were
apnceived for the single pur-
pose of ousting Populist offic-
sals because a republican gov.
axnor had the power to ap.
gcint, and to permit republi.
IAN officials to hold over with
cat an election where Popu-
lSst and Democrat comission.
eEs had the appointing pow.
ex. And in conventions the
szme tactics are pursued. A
few bosses name the ticket
and the people have no voice.
They seem to have a convic-
non that theNpeople can't be
arusted.