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Expensive Machinery Required.

One can scarcely believe that the
manufacture of these simple-looking
little hand stamps would require ma
chinery sufficient to construct a locono-
tive, but it does, and the building here
is crowded with machinery OF the finest
and most expensive make, much of 1t
the inventions of Mr.. Chambers father
and a great deal of it his own.
The owner now believes that he has
his invention perfect, and that here he
is entirely secure from those who would
attempt to ascertain facts which would
cripple him in his business There are
now about 10000 postofiees in the
United States, and this number is being
added to every year at q rapid rate
The offices in our new possessions have
helped TO swell the list, and consequent
ly increase the work of supplying post
marking stamps, for every office down
to the smallest hamlet must use the
stamps
This naturally increases the value Of
the Invention which has caused the
Government to pay into the Chambers
family mo-e1than a million and quar-
ter of dollars.
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as we own this neck O. woods guess
we won't have any more. This place
is for the making of postmarking
STAMPS and nothing else
Mr. Chambers is now past sixty. but
looks like man not more than forty
five. He is energetic and all business,
but finds time to take an interest in pol
itics and look after the management Of
large farm. While the general man
agemsnt of the factory is under his
personal supervision he leaves much Of
the routine to his two sons who are
thoroughly familiar with the work end
its details.
Mr. Chambers is great lover Of his
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Miss Warreh's maze follows closely
the general plan of that at Hampton
Court, except that its rear corners are
rounded instead of being sharp asles, as
they are in the great English labyrsnth.
In both the base line is about 225 feet.
In the center are two artificial ponds,
one above the other. A Japanese stork
stands proudly on the lower one. mon
arch of all he surveys.
just outside of the center, but en-
t:rely cut off from it. are two sheltered
hooks, where Miss Warren has placed
what she calls consolation benches, "
where those who are tired of trying to
reach the ponds. which are really
scarcely ten feet off. may sit and pom
der over the mystery of the maze, 1t
has been noticed that when there are
two to ponder these seats are very
popular.
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LII the world loves a lover.
n America is certainly no excep-
"A tlon to Gat rule And yet of

~ America is certainly no excep-
~ ton tc l.at rule. And yet of
all the vast American estates
that have been laid out in the last
quarter century only two-one in the
East and one IN the West-have fea-
tured the maze, which has figured SO
prominently on the famous Old World
estates which these New World estates
are copying.
How many of the heroes and heroines
OF fiction have come 10 an understand
ing when lost in the green walks of q
maze in this or that historic garden?
How many more, in fact. have found
La appiness in the friendly shelter Of
these tall, kindly hedges, which tell us
tales of the Quarrels and reconcilia-
tscns they have witnessed and the vows
and render promises they have heard
During the last twenty-five years our
wealthy men have been setting them
selves up as great landed proprietors,
and have been laying out for themselves
vast estates modelled more and more on
the lines OF the historic estates OF the
Cid World. They have their formal
gardens and plaisances. their ivy-grown
sun dials, their fantastic clipped hedges,
their terraces and their sunken gar
dens. their avenues of elms or oaks,
beeches, or ashes, or whatever partfcu-
lar tree the proprietor may have se-
fccted to- honor But comparatively
fo& OF them have copied the maze
which has been for centuries 9. proni-
nent feature OF the fine old estates OF
Europe.
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path and down another in the futile
effort TO find the ponds. The officer in
charge could and ne woodland some
times he will-teli many funny yarns of
lovers who have lost themselves in the
fragrant shelter Of the walks. There
is one yarn he tells-which may or may
not be true-of what must have been
an eloping couple that plunged reck-
lessly in, 20 be followed in half an hour
or so by an irate father, who, int find
ing that young people answering the
description Of those he sought haG en-
tered, went in after them. But he
didn't find them. In time they came out.
apparently satisfied. and long after the
keeper had to rescue the angry. splut-
tering old gentleman who complained
that no matter what turning he took he
always brought up at the same place
1t is not at all unusual for visitors to
have that experience. and, after an hour
or two of vain endeavor. TO shout Justify
for help. And unless the rescue party
is thoroughly familiar with the laby-
rinth another Is likely to have to be
organized to rescue it.
There are i,15s feet of green hedsed
paths IN this Cedar IIill maze the
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gun and spends considerable time in the
field. The employees regard him as the
mayor, judge, justice of the peace, and
general ruler and adviser, seeking his
counsel and advice on all matters.
Every married employee of Mr. Cham
bers owns his own home-aH neat and
comfortable houses-and some OF the
men have saved money sufficient TO
send their children off to school.
The physician of Lodge. DR.. Enoch
Weymouth. was for two years employed
in the factory He saved every dollar
paid him and one day told Mr. Cham
bers that if he was willing he wanted
to go to Richmond and enter a medical
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April % and November Is 6,32S people are
recorded as having visited. And the
record was only kept on Sundays be
tween / and o'clock in the afternoon,
that heins the only time that an officer
is en- duty. Hundreds came during the
weak and on Sunday mornings. but of
them no record has been Kept. This
year. as a new electric line has been
opened. making the place much more ac-
cessible. it is expected that the number
of visitors Will vastly increase
Just why Americans have neglected
this feature of the old estates they are
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- n a four-rlile point Of land,
iutting out into the Potomac
a few miles below Wash
ington, is the little town of
Lodge. Va. 1t isn't much of q town,
but it contains a manufacturing plant
whose product is absolutely essential to
the business of the country and Of the
world, and whose sudden destruction
might tie UP Uncle Sans mails as
neither strike nor storm, riot nor war
nor flood could possibly tie them up.
1t is at Lodge that the firm of Cham
bers & Son has its plant And Cham
bers & Son make. and have made for
more than half a century, except for
a brief interlude while "Son" was st
the front during the civil war, the
steel post-marking stamps that are
used In every postoffice over which the
Stars and Stripes are flying.
How they are made is a secret-one
of Uncle Sans secrets, to which even
Uncle Sam himself does know the
answer secret guarded as carefully
as the combination of the Treasury
vaults, for instance; or the crown jew
els of any one of the nations of the
Old World.
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Lovers Must Be Shielded.

It has taken time, Of course, for the
trees to grow tall enough and thick
enough to form the fmpeuetrable hedge
which must divide the paths OF maze
from one another. It must be close
lLon six feet high, this hedge, and the
trees must be SO close together that 1t
ia Impossible to see through. and clipped
SO smoothly that. as an enthusiast puts
II. Zone might ride a bicycle on their
tops" All this has been accomplished
at Cedar Hill, but 1t has taken close
Eror decade 10 do IL.
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well a. the hour at which q ietteesiA
received or forwarded

wen as Lne nour aL WHICH y Ae1teSA
received or forwarded.
The steel used IN the manufacture, %
the type IS made under special contract
by a Pittsburg company, and is OF Eha
finest quality. Each stamp Is guaranteed
for two years The stamps last ever
longer than this, but sometimes u
country postmaster viii utilize . pfecN
of tombstone for an mixing and stamps
ing table, and then the steel type 81
soon battered F1rst<class Offices. whera
there are the right kind Of pads and
tables wear out a less number Of stamps
than the crossroads offices.
Last year Congress appropriated $ss5od
for postmarking stamps. and this year
the sum is 800. but all is not paid
for the steel type stamps. the ofaca
using a. large number OF rubber stamps
and some type metal. In which Mr.
Chambers has ro hand. his bills runs
ming to something like Sc. .o0o annually.
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=
fore he would divulge It.. / could not!
trust the class of men was forced to
employ IN Washington. for they were
too often tanked up with liquor, and
temptations to talk to those who were
interested were too great for most men.
sI knew that the most despera te
efforts were constantly being made to
discover the process and 1 determined
to get where my business and my men
would not De tampered with. That is
why / located the shops here and en-
ployed these native people to do nay
work. ] know these people and know
that my secret and business is safe in
their hands No money could tempt
one of them to do me or my business an
injury.
Il treat them right and they treat
me right; I pay them liberal wages;
assist them in trouble; live here with
them and am one of them
Lodge is a little community of our
own, and we want no outside interfer-
enee. On this little point of land we
have no differences which cannot be
| settled among ourselves, and i don t
have TO go around to one OF the police
stations and put up lot of money. in
order to get my men out so they can
| go to their work. That was not an
infrequent thing for me to do in Wash
! ington. / moved here in 1880 and it
was the best days work I ever did for
myself. 1 have men working for me
now who were with me the first day /
reached here with my machinery.
take them and train them up to the
| business, letting them learn it In every
| branch. 1t is seldom that one quits to
engage in other business or so back to
the farm or fishing, or grabbing.
guess We are just about as contented
a manufacturing community as yot
viii find anywhere. We are on a small
scale, but there is not room here fol-
enlarging, and we don't want it, anc
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copying would be hard to say. 1t may
be that they are little in accord with
the hustling American spirit. which has
little patience with distractions In the
path of either its business or its pleas
ure. But as the leisure class develops
and takes time TO live and enjoy the
maze may become a more popular feat
ure in the grounds of some of the great
American country seats.
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Steel Made Under Special Contract.

At the close of the civil war the de-
partment was paying s24 each for the
larger stamp and s5.25 for the smaller.
The former is now furnished for s3.2
and the latter for $40, which is slight
increase over the price of former years,
fact due to the increased price of
steel. and the increased number of char
acters used on the stamps. as the De
partment now gives the minutes as
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Moved to Isolated Place.

1t was the fear that the secret OF
this process might leak out that caused
the firm of Chamber & Son to move its
plant from Washington, where it used
to be located to this isolated little
town down ION the Virginia shore
It was the founder of the firm,, and
the inventor of the steel type used
in these stamps, who secured the origi-
nal contract for making them. When
war broke out in 81, Benjamin Cham
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college. Mr.. Chambers knew there was
good In the young man and assisted
him. He went to Richmond, studied
hard, graduated with honor, and Is now
regarded as one of the best physicians
in Northumberland county. Every em-
ployee is happy and contented ana
Lodge is a model community. even II
it is isolated and out Of the way.
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Watching Lost Lovers.

At the entrance to the maze is a
tower. which overleoks the green walks,
and Miss Warren and her friends get
considerable amusement out of watch
!Ag old and young VINO wander up one
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ponds can be reached by traversing 9is
Of them. But many a wanderer has
walked 1850 feet without getting within
sight of the stork who guards the inner
sanctuary. Few make it by the most
direct route.
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Thousands of Visitors.

Although the hedges have been pretty
we'll grown for two or three years, they
had not approached closely enough TO
Miss Warrens ideal to be thrown open
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Feels Safe With His Secret.

"I feel entirely safe with my secret
here said Mr.. Chambers, as he stood
in front of his factory, surrounded by
a number of his workmen. There is
not man in my employ who would not
willingly give up his good right arm be-
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Net The Real Thing.

To be sure. popular excursion resorts
have their mazes--5 or 10 cents admis-
slcn-in which one passes between high
lizard ienees. PAINTED green In futile
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HASTILY QUALIFIED.

He-Dorsey talks like a woma,.
She-Whats that?
Hem such a continuously entertain
ing misunderstanding Plain Dealer.
The oasis., 1905-01-28

iH HlrHfet "0fff0r. so have heff0nf0 .c' pnf hfo1s 4na seals ibls ifi dfr f fuif
 fpuy rrnVFK. ts
 KENNETH k. MCkANEH. LF.
 LOUfs s DALEY Ls
 tf N CDUGHbNN Ls
 JOSEPH V Mf frGHhLb b. &, signed sealed ard delivered in the pres. euce 0f Harry w. Meen STATE uF New spsey.
 County of Hudson " Re it rene berea. chat that on this Ist day of Iulv nl, before the undersigned. personally appeared John K. Turner, Ken neIh K. hcLaren, Louis B. Daley if. Q. Coughlan and Joseph Mitchell, who, ] am satishe |. arc the persons named in aud who executed the fore Fotng Certificate and 1 having first made known to them. and to each of them, the contents thereof they do each acknowedVe hat they signed SC tled and delivered the same as their voluntary act and deed.
 - HARRY ". MEN. SEAL Commissioner Of Deeds for - New Jersey. REGISTER IN the office of the Company at Jersey City, in the County of Hudson, this ist day ofI July 1901 THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY.
 ReQistered Agent.
 By KENNETH K. McLAREN,
 Treasurer. EvDoRsrD: Received in the Hudson Co.,, N. ! 'lerk's office July 2nd A. D. 1901, and recorded in the Clerks record No. ... on page...
 MAURICE ]. STACK.
 Clerk. FILED AND REC pRpED July ?. l9oi
 $. D. DICKINSON
 Secretary of State" STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Department of State
 | 2. D. Dtckinsoo, Secretary of State for the State of New Jersey. do hereby certify that the fore EOing Is q true copy of the Ger tifcate of incorporation of
 Geo. \. Beaton X Co., and the endorsements thereon. as the same is taken from and compared with the 0rgi nal ed in my office on the second day of July la0l and now remaining on file and of record therein
 TN s~TIM NY WHsREpF 1 have hereunto set my hand and aHy d my seal at Trenton this thlrtleth day of November, A. D 1904. sEAL 5. secre,ary p; raeStSsGst of stste. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, tss County of Santa Cruz hereby certify that the within instrument was filed and recorded at the request of \. L. Kingan Dec. 23rd, lg08, ut am, l, book ...,.. pages, ,.. et seq. -~~~ Witness my hand and official seal SEAL tue day and year aforesaid. = pHtL HEkOLD
 County Recorder.
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Continued on page Il.
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We the underslgneu, uo respectfuIIy sub- scribe for the shares of capital stock of tue shares as above set forth opposite our re. spective names.
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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-21
1. o. F. TO CELEBRATE
Will Give a Reception to Their
Friends at The Assem-
bly, Rooms.

The Metropolis Lodge No. II, Indie.
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, will
celebrate their anniversary on next
Wednesday, April 26. Although the
Odd Fellows are four-score and six,
they are as young in their ways and as
clipper as a sixteener out for a Holt
day. They intend to give first. class
birthday party and have invited five
hundred of their friends.
The occasion will be a reception at
the Assembly Rooms. Governor War
field has been invited and it Is honed
may able 90 0eeepe. zine GOV
ernor is member of the order of Odd
Fellows. The grand secretary, Mr..
John Nj. Jones, of Baltimore, has also
been invited, and is expected to be
present. The lodge will have a meet
in tonight to consummate arrange
ments for the big reception. Admis-
sion will be by card sonly.
There will be speech making and
after the formalities of the reception
refreshments will be served and the
grand festivities of the occasion will
close with a dance that will continue
until 1 a. IN. Professor Schreyer's or
chestra will furnish the music.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-21
Good Friday

Today is Good Friday, one of the
most sublime days in the church oalen.
dar. 1t is so named from the good and
blessed work performed by jesus in
submitting TO shameful ignominious
and painful death ON the cross for the
salvation of mankind. Next to the
first day of the week and Easter, this
was the earliest day set apart in COM
memoration of the chief events in the
life of Christ, but when celebrated we
have no record. BY the Roman Catho-
lies and by the Greeks as we'll as by
the English Church, it is regarded as
a strict fast. it is also a close holt
day in. the government offices in Eng
land, but in Scotland it is not observed
by Presby terians Hot cross buns are
probably a relic of paganism. In
London they are eaten for fast on
this day and the superstition that a
hot cross. bun preserved from one
Good Friday to another will prevent
an attack of whooping cough, still
has some believers.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-21
KINDNESS TO MRS. REIN
The Navy Lifts Mortgage From
Her House.

Through the interest and efforts on
the part of ladies and gentlemen of
the Naval Academy, the mortgage has
been lifted from the house of Mr..
Herman Rehn, who was made blind as
the result of an acciden at the Naval
Academy.
A few days ago Chaplain Clark. of
the Naval Academy, called on Mrs.
Rehn and presented her with the
papers showing that the home was
free of ssortEsNEe and is now entirely
her own. Some months ago Mr.. REIN,
the husband and father of large
family, met with a serious accident
which has resulted in his total blind
ness. He dropped quantity of acid.
which spattered and got into his eyes.
He was removed to the Presbyterian
Eye Hospital, Baltimore, and every
thing possible was done to save his
sight, but to no avail.
The Naval Academy people have
taken great interest in the case. and
gave theatricals and entertainments
to aid the family of one of their en-
ployes. The other employees have also
helped, and much good has been nc
complished. Superintendent Brown
son was deeply interested in the REIN
fanny 90 NOlO otiici6s VI tht super
intendent's household. Some days
ago daughter of tile Superintendent
Mrs. Tooker, called at the home Of
Mrs. REIN, learned that the home was
entailed by mortgage and secured the
papers.
i The result is the mortgage has been
paid. Mrs. REIN, in another column
of the Capital, thanks the kind navy
people and others who have so ma
terially aided her.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-21
PRICE ONE GENT
BUSINESS MEN MEETING.
Matters OF Great Importance Are
Discussed.

very interesting meeting of the
BUSINESS Mems Association was held
last evening. Matters of public inter
est were discussed. but many of them
are OF a nature which will have to be
heiu back for some time until further
action can be taken.
The attendance at each meeting ia
increasing and great interest is being
taken IN the proceedings. The com
mlttee which was appointed for the
purpose OF investigating a matter of
great public interest reported favor.
ably IN the matter, but stated that
more time Twas needed to complete
matters. This was granted and the
matter was referred back TO the COM
mlttee.
MIR. Thomas Bond was elected a
member of the association and will be
admitted at the next meeting of the
association. IL is expected that sew
eral other applicants will be admitted
at the next meeting, as il is becoming
very desirableTto be member of the
association. Nominations were made
for the officers to serve during the
ensuing year and the present officers
were nominated unanimously. Their
election will be ratified at the next
meeting If the body.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-21
USED FOUL LANGUAGE.
Harry Miller, Marine, Acts In a
. Disgraceful Manner On
The Streets.

Language of most vile and beastial ma
ture was used last evening at the cor
ner of Green aud Main streets by
Harry Miller, private of marines,
who was afterwards arrested by Pa
trolman Owens on the charge of being
drunk and disorderly.
Miller is member of that small
coterie of marines who left the bar
racks ON Wednesday night for the
avowed purpose of doing up the
city police officers No damage was
done at that time.s but Miller and
several companions came into town last
night intent on having a good time.
Several of them became badly intoxi-
Gated and proceeded to make consider
able noise. All of these, with the ex-
ception of Miller, sswere taken care of
by their companions and escorted to
the barracks
Miller, however, did not seem inn
pressed with the warning administered
by the officers at the barracks to for
bear stirring mp any strife. He stood
at the street corner and made use of
language which would not be tolerated
in the lowest grog shop in any city.
So noisy did he become that he was
heard half way up Main street and
many ladies half way up Main street
were forced TO go in a different direc-
tion. Patrolman OMe ems was attracted
to the scene and placed Miller under
arrest. The latter used the vilest OF
language to the officer who, however,
kept his temper and conducted his
prisoner to the city jail. Persons
who witnessed the affair stated that
Miller should have been gagged to
prevent him making use of the Ian
guage he did.
This morning Miller was given a
hearing before Squire Feldmeyer and
endeavored to prove that he had been
conducting himself in a proper man.
ner. The testimony, however, was of
very decided nature against him and
he was fined So and costs and in de-
fault of the amount, which came to
So 70, he was sent to Jail.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-21
Opera Next Week.

The Herald Square Opera Company,
after season of thirty-fiye weeks is
resting in Annapolis during Holy
Week, it being the invariable custom
of this company not to play during
this week. The company is rehears-
ing the bills to be produced at the Co.
lonial during its stay here of two
weeks, during which time it will
present four or five different comic
operas. The company are old favor
ties here, having played several en- !,
snoements at the old Opera House ana
promise to become greater favorites
than ever as they have the strongest
and best company they ever had. In
order to convince the patrons of the
Colonial of the great strength and
merit of this organization the man
agement have decided to issue spe-
cial ladies ticket for Monday night
performance, which will entitle the
holder to one reserved seat free when
accompanied by one regular 30 or 90
cent ticket. Prices during the engage
ment will be 10. 90, 80 and 90 cents.