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what was in his mind. His business was
in his mind, of course The average
Americans business always is in his
mind. He can't shake it.. abandon it,
forget it. for a fraction of an instant
The average American will take his BUSH
Mahal: he will tippytoe in his stocking
feet into Buddhistic temple. with the
deep intonations of age-old golden gongs
vibrating solemnly, and he will have his
business right at the top of his mind
amid such surroundings
And what dye suppose the business
was of this particular summer resort
bore?
Why neighbors, he was an undertaken.
An undertaken in las it appeared) a
right nifty way OF business in Muscatine
of Scituate or Pentwater or Painted Post
or some such place.
He brought rocking chair over along
side mine, and, without the symptom of
an intmation on my part that l was de-
sirous of accommodating such information.
he started in to tell me all about the
undertaking business.
In his narration he specialized with ref
erence to the embalming part of the
undertaking business He told me things
In connection with the preservation of
deceased persons which l had carefully
been avoiding finding out during all the
days of my life. If there is any one thing
above another in which l have through
out my whole life manifested no interest
whatsoever, against gaining any tn1Or-
nation as TO which. in fact. ] Nave al
ways striven manfully and in way sue
cessfully, it is the matter Of embalming.
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terry and exchange Office. gave dozen
years to the corporation as alderman and
one term as MAYOR. and for some years
was president OF the Bank OF the Me
tropolis. A. W. kirkwood conducted the
Kirkwood House. on the site Of the Ra-
leigh. Lewis Johnson founded the bank
ing house of l.. Johnson d Co. W. II.
Winter. better known as Harry Winter
was of ROovest. Winter & Co.. con-
tractors for the marble work for the ex-
tension Of the Capitol r. ii. France wa
the captain of the Washington Light In
fantry.
In the matter of billiard playing other
than i'm the hotels facilities were pro-
vided before 1920 by J. s. McCubbin at
the southeast corner of 9th and { streets.
and he afterward kept the house on {
street east of 9th, afterward known as
Sweeting's Virginia House and Pumph-
reys.
In 1910 there had been several saloons
established. On the Avenue between 18th
and 18th were those Of John 4. Morse
and Walter Stewart; between Ar and 9th
streets. Provost and Wallingfords.
The manly art of boxing and pistol
target practice were enjoyed at Hudsons
pistol gallery and sparring on the Ave-
nue. below the National Hotel.
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conversation and things. So, taking a
seat on the sand alongside the writer
hereof she began to tell me all about her
daughter
Her daughter is this adipose 1adys
one. single, solitary and invincible topic
waiting her voice?
Surely you do.
Well, this stout lady's daughter is one
of that kind.
The daughter is carroty-haired. skim
Ply. of proportion, freckled, oily Of COM
plexion and wholly lacking in anything
even experimenting singing voice.
Often. in New York, heard the
daughter try to sing. and had gone
from such occasions with something
worse than arson seething' in my sys-
TEN.
But the stout lady. snugly and Wheel
lily ensconced on the sand. talked about
suppose. for three or four minutes: not
for anything so endurable as, say. a
quarter Of an hour. But for one long
racking. mournful. dismal hour
Talked of her daughters delicate,
svelte beauty: of her daughters rip
ping wit: of her daughters amazing
disregard for the hordes of wealthy and
distinguished suitors who buzzed about
her: of her daughters astonishing
knowledge of the ways of the world,
combined with a most extraordinarily
girlish guilelessness, really; of her
daughters dazzling. miraculous voice,
and Of the likelihood that when her
at the conservatory she would make
Melba and Games and all the rest Of
them look or sound like mere squeaky
automatic dolls.
And. through it all. the undersigned
lied with .suavity, address and eclat.
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LIED as to every point offered and sug.
gested
~
He agreed. with a callous disregard
even for the fundamentals o. veracit,.
that the daughter CT the fat lady seated
at his side was beautiful beyond the
beauty Of hamadryads fitting through
Attic forests: that her wit was Kind ia
make memories of Mime. de StaeI fadc
into an indistinguishable shade of neu
trality; that her disregard of the hover
ing males Of distinction was equal to
that Of Mona Lisa: that her voice sure
would make the organ of Tetrazzini
sound like the mere fussy piping OF
Potomac catbird by comparison
= 1t is not well thus fer cOnparatvei.-
we'll meaning male person to be COMPEL
ed to lie himself purplIsh in the face OH
a summers day.
But what was one 10 do? Tae one
topic swirling in the inner Orbit 6f TINS
stout lady's mind was her daughter. The
stout lady was on the sand, beside me.
and she was raving at the even rate OF
cnce to that daughter: and so was there
anything else to do but lie systematically.
disregardfully, brazenly. wcndrously and
completely?
And then, being the only male person
on the beach to offer such gallantries, 1
was obliged to take the adipose mother
of the daughter into the wine-dark sea
and sustain her against the heavy I'M
pingement of the combers.
Helas! and things. And the dresry part
of it all is that the summer resort bore
never by the remotest chance knows
that he or she is one OF them or those.
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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Over fifty years ago the alluring in
sigma of the lottery business was to be
seen in various places on Pennsylvania
avenue, the overf1owing cornucopia or the
long columns OF prizes offered. 1t was
not a new business by any means. for
lotteries came at the same time that the
land was taken for the seat of govern
ment. The act of Congress Of 1890 for
this purpose also incorporated company
to construct a canal through the city
from the Eastern branch to the mouth of
the Tiber 18th and B streets, the funds
for which were to be raised by lottery.
Failure to construct 1t in five years called
for a reversion to the government and
the dissolution of the company. but that
portion in I'd street east and south of
Virginia avenue, connecting with st.
James Creek, in Delaware avenue, mad
been constructed. The legislature Of
Maryland in November. 1873, authorized
Motley Young, Daniel Carroll of budding
ton Thomas Law and others to raise
So, 800 by lottery to complete the same.
They failed to complete it within rea-
sonable time and In 1879 Congress gave
force to the Maryland act and vested the
right of those named in the Washington
Canal Company. This company succeeded.
and built the canal. which in 1916 united
the Potomac with the Eastern branch.
In 1912 the corporation of Washington
was empowered to raise money by lot
terry for the endowment of two public
schools and penitentiary or workhouSe.
BY subsequent acts over 100000 We're
authorized to be raised. The lotteries
were held. the commissioners being John
Dawson, T. II. ellis, Andrew Way, jr..
Moses Young. William Brent. Daniel Ra-
pine and S. n Smalwood. In May. 1915
a lottery for the city hall was author
lied BY 1920 these all had been provided
for.
500 a wear with the penalty OF $50 a
week for violation of the law. In that
decade tickets for various state lotteries
We're sold here, and it is said by some
old families that some OF the agencies
did a lively business, the Truly Forum
ate and Lucky Offices especially: and
that for building the cathedral in Balti-
more drew many orders on Cohen's office
there.
Riskina little for chance TO win
much did not affect the characters of
those who took a venture: and. indeed
when two of Washington early mayors
were managers of lotteries no other busl-
ness was more respectable.
Among the offices were those or 3. y.
Tyler, east of the Metropolitan Hotel or
Indian Queen Hotel, as it was known in
that day; s. & nj. Allen & Co. west OF
same and Daniel Gillepsie. opposite; l..
Damn was on the north side OF the Ave
nue. between 9th and 10th streets. and
George Davis and g.. Thomas were in
Georgetown.
That the business was increasing IN
this and subsequent years may be seen In
the number thus engaged twenty years
after. At that time A. W. kirkwood was
near the Metropolitan. K. III. France &
Co. west of the same and James Ray
mond was at the corner of 9th street and
Pennsylvania avenue. On the square east
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OLD WASHINGTON
By James Croggon.

was Thomas E France, j. w Maury a.
Co. and A. Lee. On Pennsylvania ave-
nue. between 18th and 18th streets were
John France and William McCauley.
Above 18th street were John Hand and
D. Rowland. At the corner of I'd street
and Pennsylvania avenue was l.. Fair
child.
Policy was not unknown. but it was not
openly played. With less than fifty
policemen, and the facility of buying
numbers through IA colored person. whose
oath required confederation, the game
was carried on without fear Of arrest.
In the early days Of the century there
were a few tobacco or snuff stores, for
tobacco in the form Of snuff was most
used, and it may seem strange that many
ladies, even in society. We're addicted to
the snuff habit. AS for the men. they al
ways had a box Of macaboy or rappee
snuff at hand. In public places. in Con-
gress, where appropriations to replenish
the snuff box were made until recent
date: in the chambers of the city coun-
ellis, in the cOurtrOoms and the bars OF
the hotels and taverns could be found
the boxes. At the northwest corner of
Pennsylvania avenue and 18th street was
the leading snuff store, kept by p. L. Du-
port & Co, which was after 1870 conduct
ed by Lewis Johnson; Mr.. Duport retir-
ing to teach French and dancing In the
hall above. On the Avenue between 9th
and 10th streets Joseph Sessford WIS the
tobacconist, on the north side, and F..
Dorman on the south side. Opposite the
marine barracks, on the Navy Yard,
James Lawrence kept a tobacco store
The familiar sign, painted effigy OF
an Indian, represented that business, but
it is now nearly obsolete. conspicuous
We're some of the stores as neighborhood
gathering places, but as the business was
regarded by many merchants as sice
line to drugs, groceries. etc, there was
no great increase OF tobacco stores.
hes fOItlPS
was that of w. II. Winter on the
north side of the Avenue between AZ
and 9th streets, near which was that OF
j. l.. Lawrence. On the square east
were the stores of p. l.. Leman and j.
G.. Kneller. II. G.. Ritters place, few
doors west of the present Star office.
was popular. Mrs. w. Elmer. on the
north side of the Avenue near 10Th street.
enjoyed the patronage or many depart
ment people, as did John Robinson OIL
18th and 18th streets. +. A. Dunn was
near the Baltimore and Ohio depot, then
at I'd street and the Avenue j. II.
France and ]. II. Smith Kept popular
stores on eth street between and
streets On the Navy Yard Philip
Moss. VINO had kept a tavern on l.
street, was then keeping a popular To-
bacco store Oh Sth street between n
and L. streets.
Some of these named above as lottery
managers served in other capacities. MI
Rapine was the second mayor OF TINS
city after service in the city councils ana
long a bookseller on Capitol Hill. MI.
Smallwood was a carpenter, lumber mef-
chant. alderman and mayor, 1Sl9-H. Will
liam Brent was the clerk or the circuit
and long proprietor of the glass works.
Moses Young, after consular service
served as State Department clerk.
John w. Maury. besides keeping lot
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CHAPTER Xxx.
Roscoe.

Roscoe had never been able to clear up
his doubt as TO Jeanne's identity, nor to
solve the mystery of Cayley's appearance
in the air. The doubt and the mystery
tornented him worse than any final con-
viction could have done. When he
thought. as he sometimes did. that the
cause OF all his terror. the thing which
kept him penned up here in the cave and
denied him access to more than the fur
tive edges OF the beach. might he just
rather defenselesS human couple, man
and a woman. and the woman beautiful.
young. alluring-when he thought of all
that he would go off into transports Of
rage which left even his gigantic body
limp and exhausted II that were the
situation he might have killed the man
weeks ago and taken possession of the
woman.
What prevented this suspicion from be-
coming a certainty was the sight he saw.
day after day, of the huge golden winged
thing keeping its ajestic guard In state
Iy circles over that bit of beach he dared
not venture upon.
The only question ne had about that
was whether 1t Were really an avenging
spirit or an Authorization of his own
brain That these were not the only al
tegratives never occurred to him. 80.
during those weeks he lived in a soI. of
he'll Rage and lust nd despair ar. an
ineradica BILE superstitious dread look
their turns tearing at him.
The thing that kept him sane was, in
itself. a species of insanity, the passion
for gold which had led him TO murder
Capt Fielding. Every day he tramped
up tine glacier 10 the gold ledge and there.
while the light lasted, he worked. cutting
the precious metal out of the rock, and
with Infinite la Dor beating il pure.
As the weeks and months dragged
along this iinvaried routine more than
compens stated for the solitude and the ter
rors his superstition thrust upon him.
and gradually restored him to his old
normal. formidable. brutal self On the
day when he made the discovery that
was 10 terminate the long series of
golden davs which Jeanne and Philip had
been enjoying. he was again the very
man who during those long years OF
exile had dominated crew and captain
of the Walrus and bent them TO his will
He was returning from the ledge along
the crown of the glacier when. on the
DAY Of his discovery. he found that his
accustomed path was interrupted by a
new assure in the ice 1t had occurred
since he had come that way in tile morn
ing and was too broad TO leap across. So
ne was forced to descend by the rougher
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history. as the reader says. some aache-
mist out OF the common holds its juices
free and flowing. for history. as q rule,
is mummy. Rather than either novel or
history does this seem to be chapter OF
universal human experience. wherein ele-
mental forces do Observation-Disclosures against
unselhshness, individualism against al
truism, republicaniSm against monarch
ism, democracy against aristocracy. These
are the abstract forces, here given person
atty and q field of action in the struggle
for human progress The Franco-Prus-
sian war objectifies this drama. World
characters here stand close IN revealing
glow. Bismarck, Moltkc. Napoleon III,
Eugene. Bazaine. the French people.
Grant and Sheridan by observation and
opinion, and. above all. the great Ma
poleon. the true democrat and real Amer
lean come close to understanding and
sympathy. Out of this vivid, dramatic.
titanic conflict the reader energies with a
deeper insight Of causes. forces. individu-
alities and effects than can be gathered
from many volumes of remote analysis
and conventional historic summation.
FROM KITCHEN TO GARRETT. BY
Virginia Terhune Van de Water,
author Of "The Social Problems OF
the Commuter and His Wife" etc.
Illustrated. New York: Sturgis d
Walton Company.
This little book, the size of which is. as
the author nOteS, IN Keeping with the
present day demand for mpactness and
brevity. proposes to tell its readers '.how
they can make work easier, health more
secure and the home more enjoyable and
tenacious of the whole family She is
inspired by the fact that one of the great
est Of American evils today is the tend
ency of the young people to leave the
farm and the village. and she attributes
this tendency in a measure to the fact
that homes are not kept as attractive as
they should be. She gives some simple
and specific suggestions of how to correct
defects due to the lack of knowledge and
initiation. 1t is a cOmmOn-sense volume
which will simplify and tighten the house
hold duties Of wife and daughter The
volume is an item in the Young Farm
er's Practical Library edited by Ernest
Ingersoll.
THE DEPOT MASTER. BY Joseph c.
Lincoln, author of ICY Whitaker
Place." etc. illustrated. New York:
d. Appleton & Co.
The "B'-Gosh!' and "B'-Gum.' philos-
ophy used by class Of writers in check
ing off the rural down-easter is coming to
be as an instrument for Mr.. Lincoln. like
the good widows Oil jug-inexhaustible.
For here, from his hand, is still another
David Harumish volume. Soon. now,
surely. the trolley, the teleshone, the mo-
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was regarding me with gaze of concen-
tration. and that he gradually was nudg-
ing his rocker in my direction. He was
gaunt. leathery-faced a person of store
erny in every exterior suggestion. had
a bunch that he was going to break in
upon my twilight humor. and the bunch
was correct.
He forsook his rocking chair about two
minutes after I'd experienced the bunch.
numbered loose-jointedly over to where 1
sat- sauatted precariously on the porch
rail- and grinned a half-levant grin at
me. 1t matters not how he opened it.
Twas something about the state of the
water for bathing that day, or what not.
replied in tie briefest of monosylia bles.
Then. as was inevitable. he asked me
how business was in my line.
There was the placid Atlantic ocean
before us, the combers breaking lazily,
OILY upon the bleached beach. the gulls
swaying sleepily to and fro near the
verge. the long. slanting rays of the de-
ton as to the beauties of quietude. of an
unbroken tranquility; and here was a
gaunt. leathery-faced. ganglng person
leering at me and asking me how much
business was Sin my line"
Tol'able. / told him: jes toll able. And
/ smoked on. and pretended to gaze fix
edly right through him.
What is your line. stranger? he ask
ed me then. of course.
told him l was exhibiting troupe
of trained tree toaGS on the Boardwalk.
or something OF that sort; l don't eX-
actly remember what.
Then he dug right into the meat Of
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A Truce Declared.

THE enmity between cat and rat is a.
old as time. but a cat that resides
in New York avenue alley. near 18TH
street northwest, is seeking to usher in
her end of the millennium by fraternizing
with all the rats in the neighborhood.
Needless to say. the rats are perfectly
willing to declare a truce with her. invio-
late and perpetual. Every morning the
miikmen who visit that district in their
rounds see the tabby gamboling over
the alley flags with a dozen fat sewer
rats, all as affectionate a political
love feast after a caucus row. Other cats
Of the neighborhood. not yet educated TO
this high standard OF peace and good
will. sit apart on the adjacent fences
and owlishly blink their wonder at the
strange sight. They have completely
ostracised the rat-loving pussy
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But here l was, Gagged at last and
forced to listen to all of the grlSly ana
corroding little details with reference to
plain and fancy kinds of embalmlng:
the recent kinks therein, the Subtler no
lions newly introduced as to embalmlng;
inexpensive enlbalming and embalming
that costs up to two hundred and fifty ::
embalming simple. embalming ornate:
enlbalming undertaken too late: embalm-
ing begun too soon.
I tried every imaginable method TO
switch him. I essayed to flag him TO the
tariff track to guide him to the subject
of aviation even to courier him through
the mazes OF the probable crops.
Nothing doing It was the subject OF
embalminr for him, or nothing. He was
the embaiming kid. Embalming filled and
overlooked every Granny and crevlce OF
his mind. and he had me Gagged, cornered,
corralDd.
Despite my palpable fiounderings, my
forehead moppings, my fiuttery conduct
the while I sought to switch him, he
told me excruciating little details as to
the difficulty experienced at times in
embalming excessively adipose deceased
persons.
My appetite began to leave me by leaps
and bounds. ] could almost see it dis
appearing jack-ra bbitwise, around
bend in the Boardwalk. ! had had my
steak which I knew would be ready for
me at home when I returned from my
call upon my sick friend; now the very
thought Of the steak furnished me with
qualms which I could not Danish.
And still my gaunt. leathery-faced man
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ering the power of choice and placing the
springs of progress, both in line with con-
ciusions about heredity. The social view.
the will of the community. ORIGINATING
canoe and purpose of life. round up these
stimulating thoughts into an outlook OF
ma tional upIift and an out-reach toward
national idealism.
An AMERICAN CITIZEN: The Life Of
William Henry Baldwin. Jr. By
John Graham Brooks. author OF
The Social Unrest" etc. Boston:
HoughtOn Miffiin Company.
Idealist and materiaIist. the former
controlled by a social vision. the latter
stamped by business accomplishment
of first rank. combine in William Henry
Baldwin. whose life story, therefore, makes
fer immediate illustration and example.
The working out of these two elements.
commonly counted hostile to each other,
into the harmony of single effective
citizenship is, in measure. the answer to
one OF the most pressing of current prob
lens. AS one studies this career, the gift
of ina ginaton to its subject. presses to
the fore as the tombstone of its power.
Through this. so materialiStic and self
seeking thing as the railroad, in whose
service the life of this man was chiefly
spent. becomes the apotheOsis of social
izing influences. develops a philosophy all
it's own and one of epic scope. taking,
thereby, its place as a great natiOnaliZing,
democratic power. The multiform inter
ests CT this man, a concession to human
endurance. tribute to individual inge
nuity in the interest Of the mass, makes
gospel of humanity. If we We're the
Y. NJ. c. A.-or any other altruistic A.
we should place this record on our shelves
within easy reach Today it is worth
more than whole library about long
gone heroes and martyred saints.
A GUIDE TO GREAT CITIES FOR
YOUNG TRAVELLERS AND OTHERS:
Northwestern Europe. BY Esther
Singleton. author OF Rome etc.
New York: The Baker and Taylor
Company.
A good guide. prosaic but useful. che of
the Baedeker sort under whose leadership
young people are invited to gather GER
tain famous European cities into their
experiences. Each city is examined under
the lens of geography and history for eX-
PLANTATION Of it's present appearance and
meaning. This is the perfectly conven-
tional method. and. so far as fact is con-
cerned very good way. London, Edin-
burgh, Dublin. Stockholm, Christiania,
Copenhagen. Antwerp, The Hague. Ans
terdam and Hamburg are here Joined in
climatic. and to n certain extent in an
historic bond. The treatment throughout
is the usual one. There is no originality
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notel in the Chelsea district to call
upon a sick friend. On. B.-Why is it
that sick friend" always looks so I'M
convincing in type? Answer-Because
the comical jokists have killed the
merit of the phrase-"sitting up with a
sick friend etc. However, this person
j called upon was sick.)
The doctor was with my friend. |
found after having sent up my card.
and so i stepped out to the sea -front-
ing porch to wait until the medical
man should go away.
The porch was deserted. save for one
critter. 1t was = in the afternoon,
the dolling-up time for the women folk.
and they were not about l took a
rocking chair. set a cigar afire and
gazed seward. trying TO make myself
believe that l was in a mellow, poetical
frame of mind
Presently I saw. out of the corner OF
my eye. that the one critter on the porch