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goods. He has three buildings In Brus-
sells devoted to his stores, workshops
and supplies and he trades not only with
Belgium, but with Germany, France, Spain
and Italy.
A Novel Invasion.
Among other things Mr.. de Clerq sells
American harness, carriages and wagons,
and it was in talking of this branch Of the
business that he told me how he invaded
Europe with an American trotter. Said he:
IT first came here as an agent for one of
the biggest carriage factories of the United
States My employers thought they could
sell their goods here, and, as I speak and
write German and French as well as
English they chose me to introduce them.
I laid out the campaign and they gave me
the money to carry it out. In the first
place bought buggy with rubber tires
and ball bearings, and in the second fast
American trotter to carry me over the
country. I brought these with me to Eu-
rope and travelled in my carriage through
Holland and Belgium, going from Antwerp
to Berlin. visiting the greater part of Ger
many. No one had ever seen buggy like
mine, and the carriage dealers everywhere
gave me small or0ers. l could drive about
forty miles a day, stopping at big town
almost every night 1 had a folding bicycle,
and l would now and then rest my horse
and get orders for it.
The trip as whole PANIED out well, but
when 1 went over the same ground six
months later found that the men who had
ordered my carriages were not trying to sell
them. as they did not want American COM
petition. The result was that established
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the honor Of making the deposits In tha4
stone. BIS name ID IN the stone on silver
The Grand Lodge OF the District Of Colum.
biA laid the corner stone Of the new House
OF Representatives. and Major Clarke, as
grand treasurer, helped placs the stone In
position
In connection with the civil war Major
Clarke served creditably for four years an1
three months. He was severely wounded
at the battle of Cedar Mountain, August To-
1867, and while at home recovering from
injuries was presented by Washington
Naval Lodge No. A. Of which he Is still
member, with sword. sash, belt and re-
volver. The presentation address was made
by Mr. William e. Hutchinson. the present
superintendent Of the city hall building.
Major Clarke has Just recovered from q
severe attack of pneumonia Of five weeks
duration. which was the longest and most
severe illness Of his life
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A Storiette for Women.
THE SECRET OF HER BEAUTIFUL
COMPLEXION.

Ida and Marian sat talking in the
dressing room.
III tell you what it is Marian land she
drew her chair closer, your complexion
has undergone a great change. You
look so different, quite different from
what you did three months ago."
lido look so changed 7" asked Mar
Ian innocently.
uOf course you do, and you know you
do. That is the aggravating part of it,
deary. Come, tell me. Have you been
making upa"
Marian answered with laugh.
vWhat beast you are. What sort OF
rouge do you use to get that color3"
lust then brother Tom came in, having
returned from the medical college on
his holiday vacation.
rWhat was Ida calling you names for,
Sis1n asked brother Tom.
Ut want to know where she gets that
stuff she puts on her face to give her that
color and she won't tell me-"
marian did not get that color from
any shop, If that's what You mean, y said
Tom seriously
rMarian can fool You as well as she
fools everybody else,n said Ida.
Brother Tom shook his head.
wThe leopard cannot change his spots.
and girl cannot change her COM
plexion," persisted Ida.
q Anything can be done If you only
know how. ssid Tom. Urn tell you
how to do it. In the FIRST place, you
girls do not look after your physical con-
ditions seriously enough. A young and
growing girl and mature people "a well)
should occasionally use gentle laxative
pill. I think DR.. r. v. Pierce, who
bounded the Invalids' Hotel. 1t Buffalo,
N.Y.. has the best, and they can readily BE-
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Absence Of Smoke in Berlin.
From the Engineer.

According to consular reports, Berlin. al
though q busy manufacturing city, is one
Of the cleanest and best kept in Europe.
The smokeless condition Of the Berlin at
mosphere Is ascribed to three facts: The
preponderant use Of coke and briquettes,
which are practically smokeless; the skill.
full scientific construction Of boiler furnaces
and chimneys: and finally the high stand
ard Of skill that is taught and enforced
among firemen who stoke furnaces with
coal for steam and manufacturing pur-
poses. Before a man can assume such
a charge he must be taught the theory
and practice of economical, scientific firing,
by which the coal Is distributed in such
a manner and quantity over the crate sur
face as to secure the most perfect COM
bustion OF It's VOLATILE elements. The ST.
lesian coal used in Berlin In most largo
steam plants and factories Is rich In btu.
men and would rank below many Of the BIZ
luminous Goals Of the United States, and
yet the long, dense, trailing clouds Of
smoke from mill and factory chimneys
which are SO familiar a sight in many
American cities are rarely seen in that
section Of Germany, where the indiscrimi.
nate shoveling Of raw bituminous coal into
the steam and other furnaces is considered
an ignorant and wasteful proceeding.
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YANKEES IN BELGIUM
Brussels as a Headquarters
for Our Trade.
WHAT PEOPLE WANT
MACHINERY AND FURNITURE IN
GREAT DEMAND.
An Interview With the First Cont
mental Invader-European
Business Methods.
Copyright, 1902, by Frank G. Carpenter)

Copyright, 1902, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
BRUSSELS.
The streets Of Brussels are torn up by
the American invasion. In front of the
stock exchange a crowd of blue-gowned,
black capped, clog-shod workmen are dig
ging out the old horse railroad and put
ting in an American underground trolley.
The road is roped of and the brokers have
to walk a half square out of their way to
enter the bourse. At night lighted Ian
terms mark the confines Of the work, and
all day the sound Of the pick and the
hammer is heard. The work is under the
charge Of the Americans. although they
are not directly on the ground. The ma
chinery is being put IN by the General
Electric Company of New York, which has
invaded many parts of Europe and is
doing a big business here. The Westing
house company is competing with it. It
has an Office in Brussels and its electrical
supplies are found in all parts of the coun-
try.
There is a good opening here for cleo
trical machinery. Many of the cities have
no tramways and good-siZed towns have
no electric lights. Belgium Is cut up by
canals. now operated by horse power, and
at this writing horses are used to haul
many of the cars of Brussels itself. They
drag the cars not only along the tracks,
but on the cobbles, pulling cars weighing
two tons and, in addition, thirty passen-
gers over the rough stones. Our horses
could not do 1t. but these big Brabant
steeds are very elephants in harness and
they haul with ease loads that would stall
the American Percheron.
Brussels is fast adopting rapid transit
The electric work is being we'll done, and
when completed the roads will be man
aged on military principles.
The street car conductor here Is as gor-
10 hos
uniform with brass buttons, his cap is COW
cred with gold embroidery, and he keeps
himself as bright as though he came out
of a bandboX.
Every conductor has a whistle or a horn
a bag for his money and receipt slips for
fares. He carries a little metal tube with
a sponge in II upon which he vets his
fingers in tearing off the slips.
The car fares are low, ranging from 2
cents upward, according to class and dis
lance. On some cars the first-class seats
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Practical Paying Poetry.
From the Boston Transcript.

from the Boston Transcript.
What's the matter with poetry? is fire.
quently enough asked these days. A recent
number Of the Dial has a long plant, writ
ten from the publishers point of view. by
one of the younger literary men of this
city. 1t rehearses all the well-known truths
about the depression in the poetic industry;
that poets never wrote so we'll and the pub
lie never read SO Ill as today; that some
publishing houses print daily volumes Of
verse because the poet is willing to pay to
pipe, others because they regard it as a
decorative and highly humanitarian thing
to do, but none because they make any
money out of it; that poetry, an art which
once made for the ennoblement of all life,
has become the mock of many the fad Of
very few.
To qualify, if not to disprove such state
ment of the case of Poetry VS.. the People,
we have the eager acceptance Of every
panic Whit from Mr.. Kipling's pipe The
publication of his Powers" was cabled
across the Atlantic as an important news
item. The text of the poem stands in every
morning paper. 1t will be made the SUBJ
ject of editorial homilies for the next ten
days. College lads will be declaiming it all
winter We shall hear of "the Goth and
the shameless Hun" who, while good An
glo-Saxons stood forth, stood fast, praying
wish that we might forget. that we might
forget Nor will it matter that good deal
of nonsense inheres in THE Powers" the
public will press eagerly to catch the sense,
and the sound will do the rest.
Mr. Kipling has two great advantages
over the clever versifers whose books do
not sell 200 copies; he has real power; ex-
ceeding the mere craftsmans command
over his medium: and he has news sense
which prompts him to write of things that
people are intensely interested in Who
wants to read about Phyllis canary bird
or meianchdiofg moonlight on the harbor Of
Valparaiso when the coal bin is empty and
the midnight lamp with oil at 10 cents the
gallon, is eating off it's wick?l Such Is the
Kipling question that pauses for salts
factory reply Go to, We versi1ers. Read
your newspapers more carefully and your
public will read you.
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obtained at almost every drug store. They
are called DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. I
have examined them and know them
to be entirely vegetable in their ingre-
dents. They act mildly and gently.
Such laxative should be taken occa-
sionally by every individual when the
liver is sluggish, the stomach sour, or
the tongue coated. In the second place,
the real reason for her beautiful COM
p1exien is the use of DR.. Pierce's Favor
tie Prescription. advised Marian to
take this three times day. She has
done so for the past three weeks, and
You see the result. 1t is medicine
which is entirely vegetable and does not
contain either alcohol or narcotics. It
therefore cannot harm, and / am sure
it would do you great deal of good.
Not only does it strengthen. but like the
governor on an engine, certainly regu-
lates the entire feminine system"
YVES" said Marian. tit not only has
undoubtedly improved my looks. but I
no longer have those nervous feelings,
feelings of WEAKNESS, backache and ter
rible blue spells. Then too. Ida, it has
taken away those black circles or rings
which you used to see under my eyes.
Is it not truein
rThis is what lady wrote me concern
ing the good the Favorite Prescription
might do me if took it. I found her
name and address in one Of those little
memorandum books of DR.. Pierce that
are distributed from house. to house.
Here it is:
II wish to inform you how much Dr.;
| Pierce's Favorite Prescription has benefited
| me- wrote Mrs Ray Traver, of Medusa,
N. Y. aI cali myself cured. My COM
plants were the usual womauly troubles.
which gave me also palpitation OF the
heart, frequent headaches. and numerous
other things had almost giyea up hope
of ever being any better but this medicine
has worked wonders In my case. Two
doctors failed to do me any good and ]
wrote to Dr.. Pierce with but little couf.ge
but he wrote sucl, good, encouraging
letter, my husband got eve bottles at
| once, and before had taken I'll q tha
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cost cents and the second-class cents,
the seats being exactly the same except
that the second are behind the first. The
thrifty Belgians patronize the cheaper
seats, so that there Is usually plenty Of
room In the Scent quarter.
American Goods in Brussels.
Brussels Is the capital Of Belgium, COM
mercialiy and politically. The merchants
from all parts Of the country come here to
buy. and by a look at the stores 1t is easy
to see that the trade Is enormous. All sorts
OF notions are sold. Our patent medicines
are displayed In the drug stores, and our
porous plasters are advertised on the walls.
Kodaks and American typewriters are we'll
represented. as are all sorts Of American
farm tools.
Brussels IL more than q thousand years
old. and In the middle ages II was already
doing an enormous business One Of the
Oldest parts OF the town u the Market
Place. containing the city hall, one OF the
finest buildings Of medieval Europe. Right
next this old building are stores Of Ameri-
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wa. the FIRST to introduce into Europe. Said

'srhe Belgians live in RATS which ara. sol.
dom heated. They were glad to get the
radiators, and at the start sold thousands
of them at So apiece. This gave me Dig
profit, but the Germans and Belgians are
now making cheap limitations, and the
drive the American radiator out Of the mar
ket and will have to make my money out
of something else.
This has been the case with neary every
one of my American importations, anu
have come to expect it. take up an Amer
lean novelty and work it for five years,
knowing that at the end OF that time the,
natives win copy 1t and andersen me-
Then drop it and take up something else:
"Just now" Mr.. de Clerq went on Il
have knife sharpener. little wheel aHair
which can sell by the thousands. Here is
one now. I have ordered the makers TO
cable me terms and prices so that l. can
order from 10000 to $4,000. as want them.
I must have the goods here IN order 10 90
business. These people won't wait, ana
they won't buy from catalogues Tney
must see the goods themselves. IT l tell q
customer it will take six weeks to supply
him he goes somewhere else
How Our Furniture Goes to Europe.
1 am especially interested in the way
American furniture is handled on the con-
tinent. Mr.. de Clerq imports more of our
office desks, unit book cases, files and chairs
than any other man in northern Europe.
We went together over his warehouses. He
has two great buildings packed with our
furniture, and he sells something like 1000
desks every year. Much of his furniture Is
from Cincinnati, and other stuff comes
from Grand Rapids.
Mr. de Clerq says the Europeans cannot
compete with us as to office furniture. La
Dor is low, but is not so cheap as American
ma chinery AS 1t is now, the desks and
chairs come here in rectangular boxes IN
pieces knocked down. They are not smoothed
nor vanished. The finishing is all done by
Belgian cabinet makers good as our
best men in the states, who will work Tor
from eighty cents to 81 a day. The chairs
are sent in such way that dozen dining
chairs come in a box foot thick and four
feet square, while a roll-top desk takes but
little more space. In this way the freight is
low The tariff on rough goods is also less
than that on the finished articles.
An American Warehouse.
Mr.. de Clerq says that we ought to have
an American warehouse in Brussels where
our exporters could keep supplies OF Amer
| lean goods on hand and sell on call. Said
he:
eff a half dozen of our big firms would
put in, say, $4,000 year each and display
their goods in such warehouse near the
Bourse, they could build up an enormous
trade The Bourse, or stock exchange, Is
the business center of Belgium. Every
Wednesday the merchants and manufac-
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From Pearson's Magazine

VI
The racing camel Is very carefully bred,
and valuable prizes are offered By a racing
society at Biskza for the fieetest racer. I
have seen sthesstart of a race. and 1t re-
minded me, IN a -far-off sort Of way. Of a
horse race. The camels were all arranged
In line. and they shifted at the air in their
anxiety to be of. A flag was waved and
they set on at q terrible pace. as II they
were only racing for q short distance. They
kept together until tlncy were almost out OF
sight Then they seemed to settle down
to their habitpal pace and the race proceed
ed with long Intervals between the competi-
tors. I.have also seen the finish OF camel
race and It reminded me of the first motor
car promenade between London and Brigh-
ton. The canals were certainly not 80
broken down, and bedragEled. but they.
great patience was necessary to watch them.
arrive.
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their sorrows and faults alike observed hv
tne word, q world that never hears OF the
O Uhs happier iegiops who live in an .tmos-
There is grief and there s Is dis.s,s- o,,.-
sioe OF the fashionable set. Of course There
are wretched marriages and lives which
t nna lneir only honorable course the one
there Is one unhappy couple there are five
wives S'Au
We know so much more about our neigh
oors these days that we think the propor-
ZION OF unhappiness greater than 1t slsed to
De. There are many mismated people. but
NOT SO many as we have been led to believe
NOV non ana then we hear folks deplore the
Wickedness OF the times. But, bless us! the
times are not bad. We hear every cry of
Woe and hiss of crime and the sounds
GROWN out the music of the world. as blue
Tilt Of the lark.
Plenty Of Good People.
The institution of the home is not going
to wreck even If some ventures have failed
and some hopes have gone down.
The tree in the orchard is not condemned
because few gnarled apples fall from its
branches, when the great proportion Of its
fruit Is sound at the core. There are matri-
monial experiments that are decided fail
ures, but they are not marriages at all, and
should not be dignified by a name SO beau
tiIul ana molly. While God holds the heart
or the world in His hand of love- all that is
raise and unworthy must fall away from 1t
In the end.
There are hundreds and thousands Of real
homes In the land where the man and wo-
man who took hold of hands in youth are
well content to walk together to the end
They may not be sentimental or altogether
harmonious. An occasional tiff or nor east
er is a good thing in the domestic air, for
an eternal calm is worse than a tempest
for brewing disaster. A sharp difference
IN opinion may darken things a Bit but
the sun will shine brighter when 1t Is ali
over.
There Is no merit In getting along peace
ably with putty woman or a man Of plas-
tic clay. 1t Is mistaken idea that to be
amiable and agreeable argues dullness. Girls
used to be taught that meekness was the
most priced OF wifely virtues. They know
better than that now. They have profted
by the experience Of their grandmothers,
who discovered that their husbands were
always peculiarly animated when they DIFF
fered with their best loved friends. There
Is no zest In a one-sided argument, no COM
plfment in the 'just as you say, DEAR"
from the one who has no mind of her own.
The love Of contest comes first, Of conquest
later, and in sequence.
Next to the greatest charm q wife can
have Is the power to hold her own brightly
and cleverly in a wordy battle with her
or temper or sarcasm. And having named
the next to the greatest charm" 1t Is in
order to name the greatest. which is, after
all is said, the ability to surrender abso-
1utely and to disdain SO poor a thing as
victory.
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agencies myself. and from that time to this
I have had a good trade.
What class of Belgians buy American
carriagesT I asked.
'Only the rich. They are too expensive
for the POOR" was the reply. but the no
bility are glad to get them. Two of my
earliest customers were the Vicomte de
Buisseret and the Baron de Chambres. well
known over Europe as the owners Of fine
racing horses"
What did you do with your American
trotterT'
II sold him. His knees got sprung by
rough roads and / took 500 for him. The
purchaser entered him for the races in Diff
ferent parts OF Belgium and made 81, 800
out Of him In one year."
Our Gas Stoves and Swedish limitations
walked with Mr.. de Clerq through his
big store On the Boulevard Anspach. not
far from the Bourse. It has every sort Of
American notion-American inks, erasers,
pens, hles. scales. and all sorts Of knick-
knacks. was especially interested In gas
radiator which Mr.. Dc ClerQ tells me he
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A NOVEL APPLICATION,
Veteran Wanted Place and Said So
In Verse.

Probably the most unique and original
application for ONCE Of which there Is rec
ord was one received at the War Depart
ment last week. It was headed IAN old
veterans petition to Secretary Root" and
ran as follows:
Dear Mr. Root. please list awhile.
Ny poem may be OF in style;
To catch your ear Is my intention
And my request to briefly mention.
OF my own necessities must sing,
For belong to no political ring
When they were wearing clouts and britches
I was picketing In Union bitches.
And yet do not draw a pension
A fact think worth while to mention.
To state fects Is only fair;
l neither drink nor chew. sometimes swear.
In your department would like berth;
Would prove myself Of excellent worth.
Upon my own merits ask for the place
And hope you viii soon enter me In the race.
In the war for the Union, We brothers four
Were volunteer soldiers; could We be moref
We obeyed all commando. In success and defeat,
And were always ready to beat q retreat.
Three yet survive: one has answered the call
That sooner or later out fate must befall.
thousand year. let 1t be more or less.
Would keep rs In grub and allow something for
dress.
| won't ask politicians; have no servile knee;
stood erect In the ranks like that is free;
And SO. MI. Root. to you I appeal
For kind considerations tits this way feel,
That one gray haired veteran out Of brothers four
Should get an appointment We ask for no more.
think you will read this a matter Of course,
Then turn It over, and on the back indorse
The name Of some magazine In need Of a verse:
They print much that 10 better and much that IL
worse"
IT am very sorry" said Secretary Root, in
reply. that I cannot secure the services
Of an old soldier who Is such an accom-
plished poet. but all the civilian places in
the War Department were put under the
civil service rules by an act Of Congress.
passed at the last session and all appoint
ments now have to be made from the civil
service lists. AS understand It, veterans
have a preference in such an examination.
but they have to get on to the list before
they can be appointed. do not know
whether the examination includes versifea-
ton, but II 30. you would undoubtedly be
successful"
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can hardware. stacks of lawnmowers from
Philadelphia, hay forks from Columbus,
Ohio, and grindstones from Berea. Nearly
every Brussels business house keeps its ac-
counts with American cash registers made
at Dayton. and the most of the tailors use
American sewing machines.
One of the brightest business Americans
have met on the continent Is Mr.. H. c. de
Clerq, who represents the King Spring
Company of Buffalo and a number of other
American institutions. He Is one of the
largest of the Belgian importers and Is
making a big thing in selling American