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New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
THE WEDDING GOWN.

For me, il would be all too rare.
This web of glimmering white
Toe royal fair for me TO wear
Round simple hearts delight.
But this is for one only Bride
The very moon should pale beside,
To veil her for thy sight.
Oh not for me i work apart
And singing here, above
This whiteness in my hands and heart
This brightness of the dove.
But what thing woven of the sun
Were too much glory for that One
Beloved of my Love?
Josephine Preston Peabody in 'Scribner's" !"
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01

horred the use Of swear words" answered de
murely: Yes. General it IS quite cold this
morning" Sherman may have noticed a slight
touch of reproOf in this answer. At any rate,
1 observed a wink he gave General Davis with
his left eye. while sarcastic smile fitted across
his features. 1t became at once clear what it
meant, for Davis instantly. while talking about
some Indifferent subject began to intersperse
his speech with such profusion of "damns
and the like. when there not the slightest
occasion for ii. that might have supposed
him to he labOring under the intensest excite
ment. while really he in perfectly cold blood.
In fact, l afterward learned General Davis
was noted for having mastered the vocabulary
of the Army in Flanders more completely
than any man of his rank.
Howard made several feeble attempts to give
a different turn to the conversation, but in vain
Encouraged by repeated winks and also a few
sympathetic remarks from Sherman. Davis in
eXorably continued the lurid flow Of his infer
nalisms. until finally Howard. with distress
painted all over his face. got up and left, where
upon Sherman and Davis broke out in peal OF
laughter. And when ventured upon n remark
about Howard's sufferings. Sherman said. We'll,
that Christian soldier business is all right in its
place. But he needn't put on airs when we are
among ourselves."-Cari Schurz, In McClure's.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
AN ACCOMPLISHED SwEARER.

General Sherman kindly invited me to sit with
them and did so. few minutes later General
Howard entered I have already mentioned that
General Howard enjoyed the reputation of great
piety and went by the name of the Christian
soldier" General Sherman greeted him in his
brusque way exclaiming: Glad to see you
Howard Sit down by the fire! Damned cod
his morning,' Howard who especially abb
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
MODERN SMUGGLING.
Brute Force Has Been Succeeded
by Canning.

A century ago there were something like if
teen hundred different articles subject to Brit
ism import duties; to-day there are only two
or three dozen, and most people imagine that
the art and craft Of smuggling is a thing OF
the past 1t is true that cargoes of French
brandy, CT tobacco and lace are longer
wall. and that armed bodies of coastguards
no longer wage pitched battles with bands OF
dour East countrymen along the muddy creeks
OF Essex and Suffolk. But If the old-fashioned
fighting type of smuggler has passed away it
does not follow that smuggling is dead. Brute
force has been succeeded by cunning. and the
game still goes merrily on.
In fact the annual reports OF the Commits
sioners Of Customs show a marked increase
during recent years. In 1899 the amount Of
smuggled tobacco seized was 6, 115 pounds; in
1905 the last year for which statistics are
available, this had risen 10 1882 pounds, or
more than double; and 2,323 persons were
fined for the offence Of smuggling. The largest
seizure during 1905 was effected by the ap-
propriately named H. NJ. S. Argus when she
captured fleet of seven Dutch coopers inside
the three-miIe limit off the Humber. Coopers
are floating grog and tobacco shops which sell
their cargo to fishermen and from these seven
vessels were taken no less than two and
quarter tons Of tobacco and cigars. Blythe
the 'king's tobacco pipe: the best Of it is
sent to the criminal lunatic asyiums. and or
such acas not flt for human consumption some
goes tFE,e botanical gardens at Kew and
Edinburle for fumigating purposes and the
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
q PASSING THOUGHT.

polite little girl dining one day with her
grandmother. Everything at the table was usually
dainty and unexceptionable, but this particular
occasion the little girl found a hair in her fish.
''Cirandmamma," she said, sweetly, what KIND
OF fish is this?"
'.TIalibut, my dear"
was mermaid youths Companion.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
TIE September Magazines.
Ga ah Bernhardt War NurseA Governors Ball Team
Bathing n Great Salt Lake.

vealed several strata extending over the period
from 2I,10 B. c.. more than thousand years,
and stiH eleven metres of earlier ruins lay be-
meath us. We dug lower; unknown types or
bricks appeared, and two and a half metres
from the surface came upon large platform
constructed OF the peculiar plano-convex bricks
which were the building material of 4JO0 b. c.
Dr.. Edgar j. Banks, in Putnam's.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
TOBACCO IN FORM OF PLASTER.

There are always individuals who VIII fisk
the chances OF detection and subsequent pen
alties for the sake of getting few pounds OF
tobacco past the customs. Only the other day
a passenger who had thrice asserted that he
had nothing to declare was searched at Har-
wich He was found to have large quantity
of tobacco wrapped round his body next the
skin. in the form of plaster. and he was
wearing two pairs Of trousers. the Inner being
stuffed with choice cigarette tobacco. His Of
fence cost him a month in prison.
The duty which was placed on sugar four
years ago has entailed enormous amount
of extra work upon the customs OF this coun-
try. OF course, one short or Iunatlc
would attempt to smugge sugar; II Is sugar s
substitute saccharin. which has opened a new
field to the ingenious evader OF duties. With
one exception, a rare kind Of ether. saccharin,
which is about three hundred times as sweet
as sugar, carries the heaviest duty OF any
object of import. namely, one and threepence
an ounce. When it is remembered that
charm is imported either in crystals or powder.
and that enough may be carried in hat or
tobacco-pouch to cheat the revenue Of several
shillings, the difficulty which confronts the
officials viii be appreciated.
saccharin can also be mixed with other sub
stances such as chalk. soda. painters
colors, and readily separated after reaching its
destination. The first heavy seizure that was
made was at Folkestone. Casks containing in
all ton and half OF aniline dyes were found
to be composed of 30 per cent OF saccharin
mixed with sulphate Of aniline. sulphate OF
soda. etc Had it not occurred to a smart
his hand and taste it. the revenue would have
fba hxyo
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
TOKIOS SLrAIS.

Toxic has slums whose poverty reaches the
last depth Of human degradation. Below the
cellars Of Paris, the alleys Of London. and the
crowded sluTas of the New York East Side the
japanese capital reveals a lower gulf 1t is a
region that ray lights. Your mouldy man of
Paris and your 'hooligan'' OF London do have
al times fierce joys and moments Of acid pleas
ure but the microscopic intensity Of the distress
IN the Shitaya quarter OF Toxic bars out all
nope. Toxic has far too many poor people. and
their disposition is pressing problem. Thou
sands are shipped to Corea and Formosa, but
tae pressure steadily increases, owing TO the
constant migration of ambitious Japanese from
The provinces to the capital city
Japan carefully avoids all public reference to
these great sores on its body polite Their ex-
istence IS hidden from the foreign visitor Rare
~ does A tourist see the slun1s, and specialists
studying the city for precise information are
seculousIy kept out of the poorest quarters
Japan is so skilfully press-agented that the
isfence of these miserable purlieus is not even
II is journalistic rule in Japan not TO say any,
oiihg that betrays weakness in the life of the
people, and il is a rule generally observed. But
mere are writers in japan who think that in
aooptng the civilization Of the Occident the
publican form OF government should also have
0een imported, ard these give the ministry
srouble at times by telling plain. unpalatable
truths The 'koEuniin'' newspaper detailed a
representative 10 live the life of the lowest and
poorest in Toxic, and his articles dealing with
tie in the Shitaya district created an immense
fe!.sation- When translated into English in
pamphlet form the government promptly bought
up the entire edition and destroyed the plates
waiter J. Kingsley, in The Worlds Work
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
TO THE WIND.

/.
Wind. breathe thine art
Upon my heart;
Blow the wild sweet in!
Let my song begin.
Bring measures grave;
The hill pines wave:
Blow with thee along
All the valley song.
Hymn Of the night,
Hymn of the light,
Rhythm of land and sea,
Breathe TO the heart of me.
Swift wind of God,
Quicking the clod,
Give of the heavens strong
My heart a song!
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
THE OLDEST CITY IN THE WORLD.

a, IN a sand swept belt of Central Babylonia,
LA country of ancient ruins, in region dan
ee-oas and deserted because far from water.
sno on the border of the territory of several
nosule Arab tribes. lies the low ruin OF Bismya.
Few explorers have visited it, and those
rev oic so al the peril OF their lives Dr. Peters,
u Ne@ York, while excavat;ng at Nippur, dis
covered at Bismya clay tablet os ancient
1etS German explorers reported 10 have
saao mat the ruins originated with the ciViliZa
.ch OF the Arabs. However. not only the age
- the TEins but the and history Of the
ancient city OF which they composed, con-
AiLued mystery until recently
,'ehristfnas Day, 1905, began eScavating at
ioisnfa and the result was the discovery OF
-. ..e Oldest temple IN the world The walls OF
i aiie tower soon appeared; the summit
sss~afec and the first inscription discovered upon
sse surface was a brick stamped with the
=. DCngi OF 2f50 u. G. Just beneath il
s.hef bricks bearing the name of UrGur of $500
:. -: little lower appeared, crumpled piece
M sold with the name of NaTam Sin of 1850
- - ~. ano Just below that level the large
ssaare bricks peculiar 10 Sargon OF $500 b. C.,
tt..yoapig the first Of the Semitic kings OF Baby
'.if: Although we had dug only a metre and
la1 below the bricks Of Dungi. we had re-
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
TRIUMPH OF MEXICAN ENGINEER

IN duties at this reduced rate than they did
when the duty was at the higher figure
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01

Wind in the late September bough,
Rocking the empty nest,
Never before so sweet as now
Your melody of rest.
Is 1t because so close they be.
The loss, the bitter smart
The signing in the naked tree,
The crying in the heart?
John Vance Cheney, in The Atlantl
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little damage to the latter, but injurng the
yacht so much that the repairs cost lOO,COO

little damage to the latter, but injuring the
yacht much that the repairs cost 10000
rubles.
His brother-in-law the Duke of SaXe-Co-
burg-Gotha, while Duke of Edinburgh
holding rank in the British navy, was SO
unfortunate .as to lose his flagship, the
Sultan. on rock near Malta.
Admiral the Prince of Leiningen also had
the misfortune to run down a vessel In the
Solent while in command of the royal
yacht, Queen Victoria herself being on
board Several lives were lost in this col
lision.
The sailor brother of the German En-
perez has hitherto escaped maritime d s.
ast1r; but his misfortunes on land have
been uncommonly numerous, especially
when he has been out shooting. Not only
did he severely injure a Greek gentleman
by the accidental discharge of his gun at
Corfu some few years ago, but there is
also gamekeeper of his uncle, the Grand
Duke of Baden, who is in receipt of a
handsome pension from the prince for a
serious wound resulting from his careless
ness in handling a gun.
Archduke John of Austria, who passed
the eXamin .tion necessary to secure his
papers as a licensed skipper disappeared
from sight few years ago while rounding
Cape Horn in his ship.
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10, II and u on Oliver street has already
been begun.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Fisher company
have stated that the interest aroused by
the opening of the new subdivision has also
had an effect in stimulating real estate
activity in Chevy Chase, Md, and flfteen
or twenty sales have been consummated In
that section. The property of Charles Nor
gan on Melrose street was sold only yester-
day to DR. ]. II. Hurst of Connecticut. who
will reside in Chevy Chase. The handsome
new residence of DR.. w. X. Butler, 'front.'
ing 135 feet on Quincy street, is nearing
completion.
Matter Of Habit.
To say nice things of Cleveland Park has
become to Washingtonians a matter of
habit yet to even these the manifold
charms of the Park are ever revealing new
beauties of which they never tire. During
the past few years various magazines have
printed pictures taken in Cleveland Park,
and not a few works from the brushes of
noted artists have gone forth to immortahze
some of its glades or glens or hooks
Cleveland Park today, thanks to the i'm
provements that have come in the way of
transportation facilities, the development
of the Intervening section of the city, the
laying out and i'm ,1I ovement of streets and
! last of all, the new Connecticut Avenue
bridge. is nearer the downtown section than
Washington Heights was barely five years
ago In fact, Cleveland Park is the closest
in point of time and distance of any OF
Washington's suburbs, while being at the
same time one of its choicest. The cars
today take one from the Park to the
Treasury building in about eighteen min
utes, traversing the most desirable portion
! of the city.
Every city feature, such gas. city
| sewerage, city water and electric light, are
! installed in the Park. Deliveries are made
| there with the same frequency and prompt
| tude as in the older sections. Under wise
restrictions houses in a row, apartment
buildings and business places are barred
| from the Park. and the other hand
! everything tending to make it more beauti-
| full and more desirable a semi-suburban
residence section is encouraged. Cleveland
Park is the only suburb that has the
benefit of two street car systems. one ear
! line being at either end. 1t has special
police and fire protection.
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Tree Planting by Squirrels.
From the Columbus Dispatch.

Those who have argued that instinct that
will lead a squirrel to bury a nut for win
ter use will lead him to find it when the
winter comes may find some facts in the
state house yard that will cause his faith in
this statement to shake a little.
Let him examine the lawn on each side of
the walk leading from the gate at the
northwest corner of the grounds. where
most of the visitors feed the squirrels
and he will that the grass is thickly
studded with the shoots of many kinds of
nut trees and bushes, each one springins
from buried nut that the squirrel which
buried ii did not dig up. One who sees
this must credit the squirrel with having
much to do with the planting of our for
eStS
AS promoter of forestry the squirrel 10
entitled to first place among the animal
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way this objection extends itself in the
minds of some people to the idea of the
military training of youth. Suitably grad
uated military training during the school
years entails no hardship nor Inconvenience.
1t withdraws no labor from industry. II is
q recreation and a means of useful physical
exercise. 1t is a call to the latent patriot
ism of the future citizen.
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establish in this location suburb which
would be- credit to the nations capital,
and how we'll they have succeeded in their
plans can best be understood by visiting
this attractive addition to the city of Wash
ington. and observing the many fine fea-
splrndOr with which ii has been enbellis h ID
Not only are there restrictions against the
erection of houses of modest cost, but also
the most rigid iron-bOund limitations
against the building of apartments and the
utilization Of space Tor mercantile pur-
poses. II is the purpose to make a large
park of this naturally autiful s section by
retaining as far practicable its aborigi-
nal characteristics. and by arranging that
individual lots shall lee of ample size to
obViate the Observation-Disclosures of city con-
gestiOn.
No Monotony in Style.
With a view TO avoiding monotony in the
style of architecture, Mr.. A. II. Beers has
been exerting his ablest efforts for several
months to designing additional buildings to
be erected in Sauls Addition, which shall
be not only comfortable and convenient in
their arrangement but which shall present
original ideas in both exterior and interior
decoration.
Plans are now in preparation for four
teen new houses. and Mr. Willige, presi-
dent of the Willige, Gibbs & Daniel Real
Estate Corporation. states that it is mat
I, of regret that these cannot be com
company has, he says, experienced most
| remarkable demand for these properties.
especially since the opening of the heated
season Four of these large residences
were sold by the Willige, Gibbs & Daniel
/ company in the past three days anC the
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APARTMENT HOUSE SOLD.
Mrs. T. A. Lambert Becomes Owner
of the Geneva

Moore & Hill. Incorporated, sold the
Geneva apartment house last week to Mrs.
T. A Lambert for John L. Warren. 1t is
located on the southeast corner of 18th and
U streets northwest: The building was fin
ished last fall and contains eight apart
ments. and is built after the latest style Of
apartment buildings.
ThsFtotal transaction aggregated $70,00o.
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The Good Old Times.

From Inc Lady TIcIOrIaI.
AS wits, theolOgists, politicians and writ
ers, the women of a hundred and fifty or
sixty years ago were certainly in advance
of those of today, yet apparently they had
no wish to push man from his proper place.
They waged no war; they held no anti
matrimonial views; they made good moth
crS: they were excellent housewives, they
were socially charming; they managed to
be personally attractive. In many drec-
tons they had the advantage of Us
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UNLUCKY ROYAL SAILORS.
Misfortunes of Princes Who Have Fol
lowed the Sea as a Profession.

From London Tit-Bits.
In view of the fact that Prince Edward
of Wales has entered Osborne Naval Col
lege it Is interesting to note that the only
royal sailor princes who have escaped mishap
are his father, the Prince of Wales. and
the Duke of Genoa. Somehow royal and
imperial princes who have adopted seafar-
ing life as a profession seem to be pur-
sued by i'll luck.
The Grand Duke Alexis. lord high ad-
miral of the Russian fleet, managed to run
his yacht into a Russian steamship, with
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REALTY IN SUBURBS

Confined from seventh Pase)
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To Avert Collisions.

From Puck.
Railroad President Ito board of directors)
LAS Mr.. Hartman says, the next ten
years will witness tremendous strides in
'railroading. Our road is in line with the
forward movement Hereafter all our stock
tickers will be double-taped."
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Echildhauer. 3434 Ashley terrace; for II.
Rozier Dulauey. trustee. to l.. ID. Burl.ng of
the Smithsonian INSTITUTION lot on New
ark street; To Harriet Siiuey for John Sher-
man. 49, Newark street for William ).
Gregg 20 G. A Fisher of the geological sur
vey. 34l6 saith street.
Extension of 14th Street.
The recent activity in the movement of
suburban property cannot be better eXem-
plit,,d than Icy the changes Of ownership
and the rapid transformation of the land
along the new extension of the 18th street
car line As soon as 1t was definitely de
cided 20 extend the Capital Traction Com
pauy's tracks from Park road northward
10 Piuey Branch road. opposite the Bright
wood Driving Park. il was determined by
the heirs Of the late John Saul. the we'll
known nurSeryman. who had sold to the
traction company a large plot of ground
for the location of its new car barns, to
al once subdiv!dc a most attractive portion
OF tile vast Saul tract. This extensive area.
with proper transportation facilities had
remained practically virgin territory for
the uaSt nifty wears. while everything about
II had been exploited and developed.
II was not difficult TO foresee that the
projection Of the lines Of the traction
company. with its superb service, unsUr-
passed probably by any IN the world, would
have a most effective and henetcent effect
upon tAe character of improvements in this
naturally desirable locality and an exceed
inEly vigorous influence upon land values.
TIN, history OF 18th street has been one of
rapid Improvement nurthward. as papidly
as the car line .haS extended its roadway.
and h, Is well Within the memory OF even
the younger residents of Washington how
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National Trainin g.

From the Sydney Herald.
In Australia, as in England, there is
something more than n mere prejudice
against the practice of CONSUMPTION as it
exists on the continent, and in some vague
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Has Marked Advantag e.

There are many reasons why tins section
should have marked advantage over other
outlying territory in the rapidity of its i'm
provement and the character of its devel-
opmen;. The natural advantages are I'M
usually numerous The beautiful Argyle
tract the homestead of the late Thomas
Blagdea. with its magnificent proportions
and its superb Withstand its famed deer
preserve might also be mentioned-has, on
account of its location and the h!gh-class
character OF its development been regarded
for the past half century as one of Wash
ington's SHOW places" The Argyle tract
extends along the western side of the Piney
Branch road for nearly mile, and forms
an unusually attractive western boundary
for Saul's Addition and the contiguous terri
tory between the car line and the Piney
Branch road
Willige. Gibbs e Daniel state that many
of the persons who have purchased resi-
dences at Saul's Addition have been at
tractcd by its unusual elevation, its free
dom from malaria and other disease-breed-
ing influences. and. above all. the fact that
its development Is controlled by the Saul
estate. This estate, owing to its holdings
of more than a hundred acres, is essen
TALLY interested in maintaining a superior
son than its immediate practical effect on
the value of the large unexpected portion
OF its own property
Indeed. II has from the first been the pur-
pose of the trustees Of the Saul estate to
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buildings sprang up like magic and land
values increased. almost overnight. from
10 cents per foot (which was approximately
the price paid for large individual holdings
of the then Columbian College. now George
Washington University, by private persons
who bought separate lots as a speculation
or to build upon for their own occupancy
to a later price of from 81 to 500 per foot
which is the valuation conservatiVSly
placed upon holdings in the Columbia
Heights section at the present time.
Fourteenth street. with the exception of
the block from Florida avenue to Clifton
street. has been closely built up on both
sides. and there is every reason to suppose
that this same rapid transition from aSrl-
cultural land TO city lots and houses Will
follow the new extension of the car service
from Park road formerly Whitney avenue)
toward Brightwood. and that lots which
are now being rapidly purchased at from
- cents To 40 cents per square foot will
within two or three years advance to the
prices asked for Columbia Heights ground
at this time 4