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well known and well worn. From the top
Of this stairway one looks down on the
AQueduct bridge and is flush with some
of the high lands on the Virginia side of
the Potomac.
The grade of SD below NJ is not
especially steep, and cars Of the Wis
consin avenue line negotiate 1t. The
feature of this street Is the Canal monu-
ment, a shaft Of marble that was white
when quarried and set up, which stands;
at the northwest corner of the canal
bridge. 1t is about twelve feet high.
and on the north face of the pedestal
is this inscription:
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Commenced at Georgetown July 4th. 1928.
Chief Engineer.
Benjamin Wright.
On the east face Of the pedestal is this:
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 1850.
neId, ni William Cost johnson. John PicIel. George
Clerk. Walter s. Rnggold.
Treasurer Lawrence ]. Brenglc.
washington is generally a level city.
Capitol Hill is really not very serious
hill The old Washington and George
town cars used to climb the street
hill by hitching on a hill horse. The
hill on the north B street side is smooth
and is avoided by teams where possible.
but it is not much of a hill as hills
20 in Kansas City, San Francisco and
numerous other American cities.
\
The hills leading up from the boundary
to the crest of the ridge on the north
of the original Washington are in some
cases pretty stiff, and especially is this
the case with the 18th street hill. How
ever. it is in Georgetown that the hills
impractical for traffic are found.
THERE are in Washington cheap COM
! bination pawnshops and secondhand
stores the windows OF which show a
tumble of antiquities, rusty and corroded.
instruments of peace and Of war. honest
toll and red crime. 1t is a question
whether some of the articles contained in
these windows should be allowed by law
to be exposed for sale. 1t may be that
they catch the eye and stimulate the
Imagination and designs Of men of violent
nature and criminal intent.
One will see collection Of pistols, most
of them antique. but some of them clean.
modern and ready for prompt action. The
horse pistol. relic of long-gone days, is
there. The Derringer. small weapo on of
large caliber, which in it's time was a
famous trouble maker, may be found in
the window. Then there is the pepper
box" pistol-one with a multi-chambered
revolving barrel. The revolver Of the old
bulldog pattern is also there. Boxes Of
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traffic currents OF the capital. are expert
ments fraught with great interest to the
nation and to the world. The experiments
are scientific, which means that they are
systematic and that a great sum of data Is
recorded and studied.
Besides the crossing of numerous types
of plants to yield seed that will produce
tobacco of the desired types, there is a
plant hospital where plants supposedly
immune and those not are infected with
various plant diseases, the degree Of con-
tamination or sickness observed and
treatment resorted to. This plant breeding
industry is one Of the big things of the
world, but, seeing these pots of tobacco
plants may suggest to some casual OBJ
servers nothing more than the desire to
light a fresh cigar.
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high courage South Africa, seventy-five
years ago. in the early turmoils of British
and Boer and Zulu at bulldog odds. places
this adventure, and gives it, besides. a
good color of historic substance. More
over, it creates spontaneously. as it were,
situations that in number and strain fit
to a hair Quartermain's greed for peril
and deeds Of derring-do. Woven into the
sterner stuff Of this warlike adventure is
pattern of tragic love involving the fate
of the heros wife. q story told in great
beauty and pitifulness by Quartermain
himself.
A fair promise that Allan Quartermain
is out of retirement. that he will now and
then hereafter come forward for the
pleasuring Of his thousands of friends. is
a promise whose strict performance these
thousands will rigorouly exact.
FAITH BRANDON: a Novel. BY Hen
rietta Dana Skinner. author Of
Heart and Soul" etc. New York:
D. Appleton & Co.
This title stirs recollections Of the in
nocuous New England tales that. more
than now. used to be written for girls
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OF the ways when any one of the funda-
mental antipathies Of sex asserts its un-
conquerable dominion.
AZALEA, the Story Of u Girl In the
Blue Ridge Mountains. BY Ella w.
Peattie. Chicago: The Reilly and
Britton Company.
This engaging story is clean and tonic.
much like the mountain airs in which 1t
is set. In fullest intent it stands as
a true picture of the homely people that
make up a scattering community in the
lower reaches Of the Blue Ridge noun
tains To bring out the best human flavor
OF these kindly folks, a little girl,
"Azalea," is rescued out of a ramshackle
travelling show into the gentle hands OF
Pa and Ma McBirney. A subsequent kid
naping of Azalea and her second rescue
furnish the adventure with action of an
exciting sort and still further accent the
lovabiity of these mountain men ana
women. This writer has succeeded
in making an unpretentiouS but very
pleasing story out of the simplest OF 1T
erary material
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not much chance for the opponents to be
able to make any declaration worth while,
SO the dealers partner had to be depend
ed on to give the dealer chance to
amend his original bid.
But in royals. under the new count, all
this Is changed, and the opponents have
all four suits to pick from, in any OF
which they have chance to go game.
and upon some one Of which they will
probably bid: therefore the dealer no
longer makes these tentative spade calls
on strong hands, and his partner should
never take him out unless he is pretty
sure of his ground. Any player who con-
tinually bids just to show what he has
runs grave risks.
AS an example Of such rashness take
the following case:
z dealt and bid spade. which A passed.
as he should have done, as he cannot go
game in clubs unless his partner has a no.
trumper. even when clubs are worth six
a trick. 7 declared q heart and B
doubled. chiefly to show his partner that
he could stop the heart suit If A had any
thing good. but A passed again and Y
could not do anything to get out Of it.
On the play, Y made only four tricks,
losing 800 points. If the student Of tao
tics WIN lay out the cards and play the
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Washington for substantial. authentic,
inclusive and we'll classified Information
on the subject
ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH LAW. BY
W. NJ. Geldart. M. A. b. C. L.. pro-
fessor of English law at oxford.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
From this compact. clean-cut study
even the plain reader is able to gather an
Intelligent notion of the English system of
law-by inheritance the foundation Of our
own system as well. Under a govern
ment where every man is. in theory at
least. his own master. and where GER
tainly he is legally accountable for his
own acts, whether he be ignorant or in
formed concerning the laws of that coun-
try. a working understanding of its legal
attitude Is Imperative. In a very broad
and objective way this author, obviously
with no more than the merely intelligent
reader In mind, makes an orderly exposi-
ton of the basic principles of the law
Stripping away the stupendous body Of in
terwoven subtleties that mark the pres
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The New Count atAuction
PASSING PARTNERS SPADE BIDS.

hand he will see how, B starting with the
ace and another diamond to get rid of the
lead.
Y should have passed his partner S
original spade call. and let the adversaries
do the bidding, because under the new
count no good player, as dealer. will call
a spade with as good a hand as two sure
tricks. Count up Y's hand and add to it
only one trick in the hand that will be his
dummy, and the weakness of his heart
call will be at once apparent Under the
old count such a bid was all right, but not
under the new
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THE MEXICAN SITUATION.
THE MINING INDUSTRY.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

where they could earn. as native miners.
% cents OF our money day, bur the
vast majority of them being rated only
as common laborers and drawing %
cents day. our money, for their labor.
When one remembers that frequently
they have to carry ore material out of
the mines by climbing up a rawhide-
runged ladder. with perhaps a thousand
rungs. each rung two feet away from it's
neighbor. and that the load ranges from
80 to $50 pounds, carried in a ra.yhide
bag, II will be seen how burdensome
has been the life Of the mineworker
4
And even then his quarter a day is
more apparent than real The peon must
buy his supplies
Must Buy From from the mine
Mine Commissary. tbm'"ssaas' ,ba assos. anu -,
supplies In these institutions correspond
very well with those of the fashionable
shops and stores Of a big American city.
II his pay when spent in these places
does more than keep soul and body to-
gether for the laborer and his family no
one is aware of that fact. In point of
fact, the Mexican mine owner has long
since found out that paying a peon too
him enough If the peon gets more than
ne can spend leSitlmately he goes to
drinking and gambling, and these things
ruin an otherwise good worker
1t is kind Of business philosophy that
one hears expressed by the army engi-
neers at Panama, when they say that il
the West Indian laborers were paid twice
as much the majority Of them would
work only half as long-another way of
saying that anything beyond living
wage promotes idleness and evil indul-
gences. Naturally. the laboring men do
not agree with such sentiments issuing
from the well fed men seated in comfort-
able club chairs with their drinking
glasses alongside.
The revolution has made a heavy de.
mand upon the mining industry Of the
northern part of
UemAQQS mace the repub l / c..
hu p.volr<;o Th ous n d o (
mines to enter the army of freedom. -
They have seen the mine owners amass-
ing great fortunes out Of the sweat of
their faces. and giving them only the
most meager living. OF course. a shortage
Of labor Is a most serious evil in itself.
But when a heavy price for mine-operat-
ing privileges Is demanded. and when all
the supplies OF q mine, including its COM
missary supplies and its powder and other
munitions that the revoluuonists need so
much, are taken away. 1t serves to shut
down many mines. ana 70 innict great
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ent aspects of the law. he exposes its
framework. pointing only the large divi-
sions and articulations The funda-
mental rights Of the person in his law
full relations to others are discussed
clearly and concretely in the light of
statute and common law. as one or the
other bears upon the rights OF property.
upon the nature and rights Of contract.
upon torts and crimes. A thread of run
ming history gives place and point to the
notifications Of the system In response
to expanding conditions. A simple and
useful study of a commonly abstruse and
highly specialized subject.
MARIE; an Episode In the Life OF the
Late Allan Quartermain. BY HI.
Rider Haggard, author of ALLAN
Quartermain.' etc. New York:
Longmans, Green & Co.
One can hardly imagine reader who
will not heartily welcome this recrudes-
cence of Allan Quartermain. What, too
is quite as important as his temperance
u.s. that time has not stalled his spirit, nor
has seclusion duled the fine edge of his
Evening star., 1912-08-31
German Fiction.

Lothar. Rudolf Der Herr Won Berlin. Y4TP-
schwestcrn Froelich. f47F- -Is7sr.
Kinder dr.' Ys7F Msisf 'Au '''pH'e 'Au '"'e
May. Karl. Old Surchand. Y47F M4s5o.
Melchers. q. A. Aus dem Jenseits. 1909.
Mueller. Hans. Traeume und schaeume. Y41F-
Mueller Guttenbrunn. Adam. Arme Komoedisn-
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Neumann. J. w. Gott und Goetter. Y47F-
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Nieritz K. G. Mach Sibirien verbsnut. Y47F-
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| Paquet. A. II. kamerad Fleming. f4IF-Pi9Ik.
passs. esssOer' Rudolf Won ihF nnd linn. f4'f
Provost. Marcel. Franzoesinnen. Y47F-PacIf.
Reiche- -Frei, Frau L. Das Leuchtende Reich.
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Roemer. Alvin. Die Amati der Nestelhors.
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Schmidt william. Landolf. Y47F-sch5el.
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Treasury Poker.

NTREASURY poker is becoming one
of the popular pastimes of the
capital-that is. among the distinguished
gentlemen and other sports who slake
their thirst at this pumphouse." said the
man who wears a white duck jacket and
compounds mysterious things decorated
with mint, sliced orange, lemon peel,
chunks of watermelon, crimson cherries,
green olives, sections of banana, ice and
other ingredients.
Treasury poker is played with money
for money. There is no buying of chips
and owing for them. You must have the
cash or you cannot play. You see, 1t Is
like this: Take. for example. this fifty
dollar bill. You see printed In black
over long, yellow letters that spell gold.
these fine words: This certifies that there
have been deposited in the Treasury of
the United States Fifty Dollars and then
on the creamy face Of me note and ex-
tending into the red seal, in Gold Coin
repayable to the bearer on demand In
the left-hand lower corner under the
portrait Of Silas Wright you see in deep
blue numerals 'H16649SS.' The same num-
ber occurs in the right-hand upper corner
over the big so
Suppose you should pull another
fifty-dollar bill out of your own pocket;
then we would play. But, as you have
not that denomination, you may use a
one-dollar bill just to illustrate the
game. Let's see: the number on your
piker bill is 1771555. Gee whiz, you win
dollar. A man always wins on the
first bet. That's how he gets the
habit. The figure 1 counts as an ace
So. you see, you have a pair of aces.
three fives and pair Of sevens against
my pair Of skies and pair of eights.
There are a good many different
rules to the game and a good many
controversies. A man may con-
tend that a pair shall be counted only
when the same numbers occur in Sc
quence and not when they are scat
tered along through the whole. serial
number OF the bill. Some hold to the
contrary. especially when their hands
run that way.
Some men get a special bill with a
fine poker hand in the numbers and
lay for a favrable opportunity to pro-
duce 1t and take the plunder A gen
tleman who quaffs here got hold of
dollar bill No. 1111111. He claimed the
win on the strength of holding seven
aces. The other gentleman present
knocked him down, on the ground that
there was no such hand in a gentle
mans game of poker"
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THE SIN OF ANGELS. BY Martha GIL
bert Dickinson Bianchi, author of
"A Cossack Lover" etc. New York:
Duffield & Co.

DumelQ q co.
In ''The Sin of Angels Nine. Bianchi
makes brilliant and dramatic illustration
Of the old and profound theory that. in
life. woman's business is man. while
mans business is business. An American
husband. gifted, insatiably ambitious. end
lessly energetic-a not uncommon type of
obsession-gives momentum and direction
to this narrative through the swiftly sue
ceeding stages of his own public achieve
ments and personal preferments. The
wife. the woman, not to be denied her
instructive female vocation of god-making
by this equally instructive self-absorption
Of the male. fares afield for other clay
to fashion and set up after the manner of
her kind. The average writer deals with
the surface of this coil, developing the
Indifferent husband, the neglected wife,
the broken home. Nine Bianchi, with
truer insight and more consummate pow
er. portrays it as the inevitable parting
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VURN of from the shade of the
red oaks on 18th street and
enter the glass house lane on
the north side Of the Agri-

~ the north side of the Agri-
cultural Department grounds.
There hidden behind the greenhouses
that line the narrow way and a bar
rier of arbor vitae and other ever
greens are hundreds of tobacco plants
In florists pots. These plants are not
under glass. AT this time Of year they
are just about ready to burst into pale
this display Of potted tobacco plants
and who carefully tends them will tell
you what it all means, but it probably
will not be easy to understand him. He
is apt to be technical. He will tell
you about incubation and steriliza-
tion and hybridization and all that, but
if you are interested in tobacco other
than smoking or chewing it or coll
lecting coupons a visit there will repay
the time and length Of walk required.
This growing tobacco constitutes a
little plant breeding patch-a stock
farm for plants. Plants are being bred
very much as horses. cows and chick
ems are. Old forms are being modified
and improved. The physiologist in
charge of the tobacco Investigations,
A. d. Shamel, has said that 1.-The in
vestigations and observations of
charles Darwin established the princi-
Piles Of the variability Of plants under
cultivation and the influence of con-
tinued selection in the origin OF spe-
cies. Although Darwin did not him
self produce any new species or va
rieties Of plants, much Of the recent
practical work Of the breeder in the
Improvement OF cultivated plants has
been based upon the principle he an
nounced.'
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bought for from a responsible jeweler.
Bargains in diamonds are very rare.
The remainder of the show window is
given over to a display Of sporting odds
and ends, laborers' and artisans tools
representing many trades. and some
shoes. hats and other apparel.
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Nothing contributes more toward bad
conditions in Mexico today than the Pc
culiar mining situation that obtains there.
From the very earliest times of Spanish
rule in Mexico its silver mines have been
among the richest in the world, and many
have been the castles in Spain as we'll
as in Mexico that have been built by the
silver that has been taken out of the
mines of Mexico. The bonanza kings
OF our own western country made vast
fortunes out of their mining properties,
but these were small in comparison with
some of the great piles of wealth heaped
up in Mexico.
With the advent of the mining and
metallurgical engineer a waning industry
was revivified and made to yield new
streams of wealth. With the cyanide
process came the utilization of the vast
dumps of mine tailings and Of the dirt
that was passed over as Improbable to
work. Many an abandoned mine has
been forced into a yielding operation,
with result that the mines of Mexico
have been one of the principal sources
of the national wealth and income.
There are today more than 1900 gold
and silver mining claims registered with
the Mexican government, their total area
aggregatng 100000 acres. In addition to
this there are upward of 100000 acres OF
claims covering deposits of other min
erals than gold and silver in which the
ores OF the precious metals abound, and
comprising more than 1900 claims The
bulk of these claims are to be found in
that region where the revolution is most
persistent. and consequently 1t has hit
the mining interests of the country very
hard.
revolution was close to $50, 100000 an
nually in our
Annual Output money, and the
e c., total output Of
u viva 6~' gold approximated
S25, ,OOO. 600 annually. Add to this the
S2O,OOOO 600 worth OF copper and other
minerals in proportion. and it will be
seen that Mexico is one OF the mineral
producing regions of the earth.
The Mexican silver mines felt the re-
suit OF the defeat of 16 to 1 i'm the
United States in 1885, but promptly rail-
led from that and had smooth sailing
until the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad
builders in Canada discovered vast silver
deposits in the northwest. and finally
forced the production up to thirty million
ounces Of fine silver or more a year. This
knocked the bottom ut of the industry
for while. but by the opening Of the
revolution prices were profitable again.
The mines of Mexico. at the time the
revolution began, were giving employ
ment to a quarter OF a million natives,
some OF them having reached the point
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Essays, Wit and Humor.

Altenberg Peter. Neues Altes. Y37-Al7Sn.
Betz. Frederick. ed. Deutschcr lIumor aus
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Gnerich. P. and Bach, H.. comps Dcnn sic
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Roda Roda. A. +. t. and Etzel. T., pseud.,
Schmidt. o. Z. vom Gruengoldnen Baum. 1910.
Y47- -Sch543v.
WentzeI, j. A. yom Freudigen schsnen. Y47-
9W4SS
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There are numerous angles to this plant
breeding business. There is continued
seed selection for the production of the
hardest and most vigorous plants. There
is the incubation of seed to produce dis
ease-resisting types Of plants. There is
the modification by breeding to produce
types of plants most suitable for special
purposes and special localities Seed that
will produce one type Of plant In one place
will produce a different type elsewhere.
An illustration of this was the experience
of the growers Of Shmatra tobacco under
shade in the Connecticut valley. The seed
Of this variety Of tobacco secured from
Florida and Sumatra and sown in the
Connecticut valley in 1901 and f90G. was
found to break up into several distinct
types, some of which were desirable, .ut
most of which were Improbable for the
production of cigar wrappers. Since then
the use of proper methods Of seed selec-
ton and breeding have enabled the grow
ers to propagate the different types which
are true to seed. and to eliminate the un-
profitable types Of plants.
Going on in this tobacco patch, a pistol
shot from Pennsylvania avenue and the
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Fencing around the north and west
sides Of the Treasury's sunken gardens
and around three sides Of those at the
front OF the State, War and Navy De-
partment will probably be required, else
careless or Indifferent people might fall
to quite a depth below street level.
There is low ornamental iron fence
backed by a privet hedge around the
propagating gardens Of the office of
public buildings and grounds. The fenc
ing around the four little lawns Of the
patent Office does not matter much. It
almost seems to be part of the building.