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MARKS position upon unsuitable ground
or on stream, the stone has been placed
AT the nearest possible position. and the
odd distance recorded.
About twenty years ago the coast and
seodetlc survey measured the District and
determined the exact positions of the
monuments. with the result that four
sides of the square wer. found to av-
erage l6o feet in excess of the ten miles.
and the entire area tipped westward on
the southeast corner, as on pivot, SO that
the north corner is l16 feet west of it's
proper position. The monuments in that
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Fashion itself is coming round to

air. Fashion itself is coming round to
them.
Has fashion. then. the slightest ten
dancy toward corses reform?" I asked.
Her answer astonished me. Remember
these are girls o. fashion. and fashion has
always laughed AT corset reform. Corset
reform is also in the air OF Europe, but
when | wrote you a few months ago that
the Roumanian minister of public instruc-
ton had prohibited the corset in even the
highest normal and professional schools
a. "a permanent obstacle to the develop
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many, Larry. It's astonishing how these
little things will accumulate around Il
house"
Five said the House Detective. proud
". "an' all boys but wan, an she's a
gurl."
Well. it's too bad isn't it," said the
Hotel Clerk.
1T is not" said the House Detective
warmly. Its a fine, grand thing an l
wouldn't take million for any wan of
Thin"
You'd have great difficulty disposing OF
them even at that conservative figure,
laid the Hotel Clerk Children are more
or less OF a drug on the market at this
time. The rich won't have 'em at an!
price, and the poor don't have much of
anything else. Somebody elses kid, Larry.
is like a boil on the neck. You meet a
fellow you know that's carrying his head
on one side like he'd been recently hanged
with a rag around his throat instead of :.
c, llar. What's ailing you? you say to
him, and he says to you It's boil on his
neck. and you say to him. Never mind.
~oure in luck: every boil is worth s. to
YOU, and the large or carbunky kind is
worth SO apiece easy. But If he tried to
make YOU a present of his. you'd hand
Inn wallop in the eye.
ITO everybody else, Larry. a newborn
baby is merely small noisy object, slight
u fuzzy al one end, with no features 70
speak of. and either light pink or dark red
in color. depending on whether it's going
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five III arrive AT the true estimate and go
off somewhere and jump off cliff. Take
it from me, Larry. the average party, is
worth more 1t his birth than he is at any
future time in his career. and even his
value is largely confined to his immediate
home circle.
wv ich is the point I've been Wantin 10
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I'VE of these girls
are Americans.
The Paris garden
where they exercise
belongs 10 one of
our older American
fortunes. made by
an honest western :
or years a go. while
uplifting the taste
Of his fellow -citi-
zens. The grand
daughter of tire
man who owned
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man is affected
But the nineteenth century is past. and
one courageous American girl has shown
how the world Graves return to grace.
Isadora Duncans success is not of the
stage alone. Paris society goes to her
for private lessons.
These American girls had Isadora ia
start them: but they now so on without
her.
'lt is not to develop bust and biceps
by ten minutes rational exercise each
morning.. explained one 1T is NOT
breathing exercises. Physical training
makes the instrument. We are learning
To play on it"
The instrument IS The perfected body
To acquire grace is TO give it a chance
TO express itself: and / had a pathetic
example or lis Importance in that garden
/ noticed that one of the girls went
through her exercises with somber and
feroctous enthusiaSm: a beautiful girl
but never smiling. never speaking: and
the priestess took tender interest in
her.
"Ricn and beautiful that girl is going
through great unhappness. j was told
later. The man she cares for has called
her a stick. She was stick. Being
rich and beautiful. it never occurred 10
over her partner. In ordinary movements
she Is awkward and negligent and her
rival is, exactly. skinny heroine with
a plain face. whose one redeemng quail
ity IS grace. 1t is sufficient The poor
relation of a third-class European am
bassador. she has diplomatic society of
Paris at her feet
Charm Of manner?" ] said
She is not even intelligent was the
answer. 1T is simply physical beauty
of movement. charm of pose and gesture
And she is beating that rich and beau
tiful American girl to it, / unused. 1t
explained the American girls somber
ardor. She is desperately trying to make
up for lost time.
| understood the ritual of the old Paris
garden There is nothing far-fetched
about costumes or exercises. The girls
seek earnestly to enter into the spirit of
the ancient Greeks and the renaissance
of the time of Boticelli
Their priestess is an American of wide
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Marty is gettin' to be quite chunk of a
lad an I WIZ goin to ask your advice
about pickin' out business, or trade,
OF something for him..
Well it's delicate matter" said the
Hotel Clerk. IF we'd leave it to Marty
suppose he'd prefer to be trapeze per-
former in circus a bold fire laddie and
Evening star., 1909-08-28
BY IRWIN s. COBB.

r. McBE;AN.'' said
the House Detective
of the ST. Reck-
less, ''wot would
YOU do il you wuz
the father of five?,"
N eep the best
looking one and
drown the others, l
suppose said the
Hotel Clerk, alb
Sently. Il didn't
know YOU had 50
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as Young Hopeful trips over figure in
the carpet and does face fall that would
make the fortune of any German knock
about comedian in the world. And you are
tempted to say that it's SO rare as to he
practically extinct, which is the rarest
anything can be, but you restrain yourself.
In the first place you wouldn't want to
make an enemy for life. and, besides, no
body could hear you unless you yelled, th !,
prodigy having the floor and being EN-
gagged for the moment in calling attention
to his injuries in a tone of voice like tie
siren whistle on a tireboat
Yet all this time there's no amount of
money his parents would take for him.
and, to tell you the truth, there's no
amount of money they could get for him
1 remember very we'll when l. myself frs.
began to have a value to anybody except
my own immediate family 1t was one
day when | was about twelve years Old
and the owner of the peach trees i'm the
next yard climbed up on our side fence
and told me in voice choked with emo
tion that he'd give SO to have my life
But something in his manner and tone
seemed to prevent me from carrying the
negotiations any farther with him. !
went hurriedly indoors, and afterward my
early commercial instincts were vindcated
because it wasn't more than three months
until one Of our Other neighbors offered
twenty-five in cash for the privilege of de-
stroying my bright young being
From that time on until I was grown
up 1 kept constantly growing in intrinsic
value to myself and shrinking as an avail
able asset elsewhere, the same as any
other boy. When | came out Of the his:h
school | felt that l was probably the most
precious and attractive young piece of
property in the world, but from what ]
have since learned | must have stood pra.-
tIcaily alone in that belief Since then
We been learning to take a more con-
serVative invoice of myself and every
year now | find that the goods have de-
teriorated and grown more and more shop
worn. | suppose when I'm about sixty
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THEY Consider Grace
! More Important Than
Beauty Do Esthetic Rit-
uals in an Old-World Garden
NO Search Too Laborious
for Grace and Cultured Ease
Getting Into the Spirit of
the Ancient Greeks - Has
Corset Reform a Chance
With the Rich and FASH
ionable?
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rituals become habit: give them in our
careless daily life touch of gravity and
dignity that surprises and delights young
men. So they would have their girls.
The classical draperes impose grace
full habits on our bodies, said my girl
informant. These ideals also are in the
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TNDER the shadow of the Wash
ington Monument. as the sun
rises, Is small stone nearly
~ buried in the earth, which is
likely to be overlooked and
w.ose very existence is probably unknown
TO nearly all visitors and resident Wash
tasIonians. Yet this unobtrusive little
menSrial marks the precise center of the
original District OF Columbia, and the in
tersection OF two cross-Enes notched on
its apre- surface determines with the
utmost possible exsetness, the very point
il; question. Just enough earth has been
removed from the tace of the stone
which stands near the bottom of the
Monument hill. 10 allow .he following
inscription TO be seen:
Jefferson Pier.
Erected 1904 Recovered 1889
District of Columbia"
What IS noI visible of this monument
Is of granite. An examination of the
archives cf the city discloses the fact
that the original Jefferson pier. or stone
stood on what was the bank OF the old
Iiber creek. Ii had blue rock founda-
ton. which was six feet high on the creek
side. and was covered by large sand
stone cap. about five feet square and
eight inches thick. This capstone and
part OF the foundation were removed in
1877, by order of Gen Babcock. commits
Sioner of public buildings and grounds
through mistake as 10 It's identity il
is said. and what remained was covered
up by earth several feet deep when the
roadway and grounds were made. AS re-
. lated by the inscription. the monument
was recovered in 1889, when the present
granite cap was probably erected.
TIE fate of jefferson pier. beset with
yicissitudes its history Is, has been
more fortunate than that OF most of the
early landmarks of the District. Among
these monuments which have disappeared
is that once known to Washingtonians
as the Meridian Stone. This memorial
stood on Peters (afterward called
Meridian) Hill, about eighty yards south
OF the old standpipe. Ia this vicinity
was located the residence of Admiral
David Porter, the entrance door of which
directly faced that of the Executive Man
sion These premises of Admiral Porter
were long known Meridian Hi,
Farm On the edge of the south lawn
i'm close proximity to the mansion. was
placed the Meridian Stone" This stone
was about two feet across and two feet
high.
The norsh edge OF 1t was circular. and
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panied by slow rhythmic dances. The
responses To the prestess are chanted
amid studied figures. Draperies weave
IN and out. arms rise and fall, 1.-THE
bodies pose and change and pose again, in
attitudes learned carefully beforehand.
They copy attitudes from Grecian urns
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ment of the body and the normal func-
tions of the organs. / felt nevert heless
that | might be misleading the reader.
What does Roumania count? What does
it matter that the Bulgaan tsar banshes
the corset from '.al schools where girls
remain up To the age of seventeen
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John D. Rockefeller is the only person
that I ever heard of that didn't cherish
some such ambition when but a lad. He
says himself in those exciting memoirs "f
his that he didn't: even as mere child
he felt that he would rather grow up and
sing the Moody and Sankey line of hymns
in a white lawn tie than to be lion
tanner with medals all over his chest and
the mustache turned up prominently at
the ends. But he was the exception, and
still is, for that matter,
q remember how 1t was with me per
sonally I couldn't see the use of burden
ing my mind with the Greatest Common
Devisor when l knew my life work was
going to be walking across Niagara Falls
on a high wire with pink tights on in the
summer and shooting Indians in the win
ter. If 1t wasn't for the sternness Of our
parents and the change Of view we got
after we began to observe. for the first
time that a very desirable portion of the
population was made up of girls, there d
be no grown persons to open the mines
ana float their bonds after they were
opened: nobody to till the soil and rob the
till: nobody to run the banks and break
them. Everybody would be either the
drum major of a military brass band, or
kind-hearted and generous pirate scour-
ing the Spanish Main, or the funny old
clown in the center ring. Yes, sir, its
hard job picking out a proper vocation in
life for young lad growing up"
1T is that" said the House Detective.
II been tryin' to lick a little ambition into
Marty, but it looks to me like he don't
wanter do nothin' but eat an sleep
man." said the Hotel Clerk. or govern
ment national bank examiner. But you
never can tell how those early traits VIII
develop and you have to be very careful
about this thing of picking a vocation. IL
YOU stay poor all your life you're called
sociological problem, which is hard thing
to have to take, and college professors
write magazine articles about you: and #
YOU acquire great riches the gentlemanly
muckraters and the federal grand jurles
ahout 100 feet northeast Of the junction
with Carroll street.
,rho material of these historic boundary
marks is very friable, and their deslru
ton by time and vandals is said TO De
only a matter of a comparatively snort
time if steps for their protection be no.
soon taken by the authorities.
Resides the jefferson pier. marking 'he
center of the old District. there are Two
other notable stone landmarks In the
vicinity of the Monument. One of these
is known as the Capitol stone. IL staliuS
a little TO the south of the huge shaft ana
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off in the imports of the crude opium
in the fact that there SO many other
drugs and nostrumS to take its place.
but there is nothing which can take
the place of opium In liquid form and
prepared for smoking: there is suo-
stitute which will give unfortunate opium
fiends the same satisfaction and relief.
nothing which will touch the right spot
and do its work so well and effectively.
All the alcohol. whisky. drugs and drops
ever manufactured can never take the
place of opium with the confirmed user II
is criminal for any druggist to refuse the
drug to suffering for the lack or
it. for the user must have II or 90 mad;
his very existence is a raging hell un-
til the craving is satisfied and death
will result If he or she is not supplied.
| have given without cost many ounces
to the poor devils who come in here
and beg for it, but in all cases | have
knowledge that they have passed the
dead line and cannot do without il. II
is 10 the new beginner that i refuse
either to sell or give. and | positively
refused to fill any prescriptions from
reputable physicians who have prescribed
the drug. ] do not mean 10 censure
the physicians, but opium is prescribed I'm
too many cases where something else
would answer the purpose as we'll or
better. and would not run the risk OF
making opium fiends of innocent and un-
suspecting patients am convinced that
seyen-tenthS of the users OF opium were
started the road by taking prescrip-
tions given by physicians who did not
to put il charitably-stop TO think what
a crime they were committing in giving
the accursed stuff a. medicine. The
physician that says nothing will answer
the same purpose as opium simply does
not know what he is talking about and
needs TO read up a little more on his
profession. | had rather give up my
business than TO give a dose of opium
and take chances on its making an
habitual opium user of the person | gave
II to. The use of opium and other mar
cotcs in practice is dangerous. very, and
/ have lost the trade of one two
high-toned physicians by being bold
enough TO assert my belief and asking
them to let up in their ruin-producinS
prescriptions. ! had rather sacrifice my
business than to have the trade of men
who careless of human life and
happiness. The hypodermic syringe and
morphine pills are doing their wori2
faster than the drink evil. and i regret
to say practcng physicians are largely
responsible. for they are prescribed for
almost any and every ill.,
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ONT crave for good YOU have
never earned; don't pray to luck
tong to give to ysa "ss soa' 'Gss sspts not ,ns, b"
every rich and famous man has
got his goods by some turn of the wheel
of fortune. 1t is this philosophy that
makes sons people feel that the success
full have special right to their prop
erty their honors, and so they deter
mine to get either from them if they
can.
These are the men who make our gam
blers and loafers of high and low de-
gree. They may be people who origi-
nally meant no harm, but they came to
believe in luck. and instead of looking Oh
this world a beehive of industry
where men are rewarded not only accord
ing to their talents. but according to
their efforts. they regard it as grand
lottery in which shirkers have as fair a
show as the workers.
Belief in luck retards progress, dulls
the intellect, deadens the wits debases
the bodies and keeps its votaries ever
behind in the race OF life The man who
believes that his luck is against him
good luck-has cast over himself all in
sidious spell, and soon he will feel that
it is useless TO knock at the treasure
ear will be turned 10 him because he
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Never despair. Don't whimper! Be
UP and doing! And luck. in the right
sense of that much-perverted word, will
some day be yours.
''happy hit" may sometimes be made
by bold venture. but, in the long run.
the safest road to travel is the highway
of steady industry.
Don't envy your more prosperous
neishbor and again murmur. Hes
lucky" Envy is the miserable expedi-
ent that lazy people resort to TO drown
the reproaches of conscience. Don't per-
suade yourself that you have been unfor-
tunate when you have been just foolish
The only bad luck is bad pluck. good
luck is good pluck. No man ever lost
his luck until he first lost his pluck.
God gives YOU enough when He gives
you opportunity. wise man will make
more oppor. unities than he finds. Great
opportunities are the wise improvements
of small ones. If Your opportunities are
not good enough. improve them.
Possess your soul in patience. Your
time will come if you deserve it. Mean
while make hay while the sun shines
Gather roses while they bloom.
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of a curious nineteenth century shame to
be found affected or putting on airs"
yet the same considerations ought to for
the fashions. or men cultivating formal
politeness. To the country jay, the city
man is affected
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will delve into Your past life and show
you up until you're summed by society
like man that's been eating spring
onions. If you don't get money You
might well be living in damp cave.
associating with the Stalag brothers-Mita
and Tite-and if you do get II to any no
ticeable extent it's been such a hard job
that you're too tired to enjoy it properly.
Anyway, there's a conspiracy In this
country against permitting any man to ac-
auirc wealth. II started with the general
introduction of the cash register into bust
ness life. thereby striking blow against
the ultimate prosperity of barkeepers
from which the profession has never en-
tireIy recovered. Then they perfected the
checking-up system. and now they're talS-
ing about an income tax. / shudder 20
think of the additional strain that's going
to be put on the recording angel whea
people start to swearing of their incomes.
Unless he cultivate those facial
mud guards, sometimes called side whis,-
ers. and develop large gross tonnage and
heavy total displacement manner, there >
no use raisin' your son for bank presi-
dent: he wouldn't fit the part. Any sue
cessful lawyer will warn you, if you tell
the bar. that half the lawyers are starving
TO death and suggest that you try making
a steam filter out of him. If you say
to an artist that the boy has an aptnes5
with the brush that might develop into
something. he'll beg YOU to apprentice him
to kalsominer and tell you with tears in
his eyes how portrait painting has fallen
off. l never saw a doctor yet that didn't
college, and no well balanced undertaken
welcomes you into his profession unless
you re dead first"
Well said the House Detective, II
wish't ! could find business for Marty
where if man succeeds there's plenty OF
room at the top
I've a happy thought said the Hotel
Clerk. Make north pole explorer OF
him. If he succeeds there he'll find all
the room at the top there is.
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long for better opportunities: they want
TO succeed, but scorn the opportunities
successful men improve. They want to
be given lift, shot up in an elevator or
carried up in an arship. so that they
may avoid the arduous struggles of those
who have been successful
Many man lcses his. opportunity by
sighting his work Don't worry about
your salary: increase your skill Strive
TO earn more than you are paid for.
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about forty-fve yards to the west on the
line Of the meridian. II is rough heNn
freestone. projecting about three feet
above the surrounding earth. one foot in
diameter on the ground line and eight
inches across the top. The distance be-
tween this and the Jefferson pier corre-
spends. it is said with half the length Of
the old part of the Capitol building. An
center of the White Lot eilipse. and is
probably well known to members of the
departmental base ball teams who have
participated in games upon the ellipse.
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PARIS. August 20. 1909.
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NDER the shadow of the WASH
ington Monument. as the sun
rises, is a small stone nearly
buried in the earth, which is
The Wibaux pioneer. [volume] (Wibaux, Mont.) 1907-1919, 1909-09-16
Special Car Here
With Land Mem

Wibaux was the scene of unusual
activity the fore part of Last week,
when Joe Schuster arrived with q
large party Of land seekers from
Illinois. There were not less than
thirty-fve gentlemen in the party,
which came out over the n. I. in
ii special car. This is undoubtedly
the largest party Of land men to
visit this city at one time, from the
same community. Schuster Bros.
secured every available automobile
and livery rig in town to convey
the party over the land. The Wis
itors were all very enthusiastic over
the country around Wibaux and,
Ne understand, q number Of them
invested in land south Of town.
The Wibaux pioneer. [volume] (Wibaux, Mont.) 1907-1919, 1909-09-16
System irA Market
Ing Key TO Success

The development Of the LARGE in
dustrlal corporations, and their
financial success. is due In a large
measure to systematic marketing.
by that is meant the adjusting the
supply of articles to the actual de-
mand, thereby securing fair profit
on the investment of capital and
labor.
That the marketing Of products,
whether from the farm or the man
ufactory, by adjusting the supply
to the demand, is the sure way to
obtain fair price for the products,
admits OF no doubts. On this sub
ject John D Rockefeller is quoted
as saying ''l attribute my success
in tile business world to the fact
that | have always insisted on re-
ceivlng fair price for my services
and a just profit on the capital I
had invested, and | have been able
to do this by attending to my own
business, supplying my customers
direct, as their needs required, and
doing entirely away with middle
men. The farmers Of the country
must learn to manage their own
business they do not need the aid
Of middlemen.'
Senator McCumber, a farmer
himself, has made O life study of
the needs Of the grain grower, and
who is perhaps better able than any
one else in public life to give full
expression to the difficulties that
surryund the producer in his at
tempts to shake off the board of
trade parasites, has said, ''that the
Society Of Equity is better fitted to
protect the wheat grower than any
other organization, that their plan
OF marketing farm products is the
only feasible one that has ever been
presented, as the solution Of the
problem Of securing price that
will enable the grain grower to get
a fair wage for his labor and rea-
sonable interest on the money he
has invested in his farm and imple-
ments.'
The society says to every grain
grower: "Hold your grain for the
prices fixed by the Fargo conven-
tion.'