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CHAPTER V.-Continued.
Copyright. 1912. by Rex Beach.)

AS for Blake. he rode as silently as
Ferara. being lost I'm contemplation OF a
happiness in which he had no part. Not
until this moment had he realized how
entirely unnecessary he was to the ex-
istence of Martel and Margherita. He
longed to remain part Of them, but
saw that his desire was vain. They were
complete without him. their lives would
be full He let his thoughts run on In
this rather bitter strain, sitting his horse
lstiessly, for he was tired mentally and
physically, watching the gray road idly
as IL slipped past beneath the mufiied
hoofs and lulled by Savigno's musical
humming
1t was while he was still in this half
somnolent. semi-detached frame of mind
that he rode into a sudden white-hot
whirl of events.
Norvin Blake was never clear In his
mind regarding the precise sequence OF
the action that followed, for he was
snatched too quickly from his mental re-
Taxation TO retain any well defined i'm
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holes in the whey covering Only a
patch OF the red brick wall shows near
the northwest corner.
But, go round on the E street or the
south side, where oaks and naples grow
and poor people live. The granite and
marble part of the building extends for
about twenty feet on E street. and the
remainder Of that side is of gray brick
with three courses OF granite. with gran
lite window sills. and the lintels over the
seven windows are Of five pieces OF gran
ite. Continue to the rear and looking
at the west end of the building from Z
street one is confronted by the bare.
red, factory-like wall on which vines
have not yet spread.
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this class. A spirited invention fitted to
everybody's entertainment

/ sHis CidSS n spirited invention ntteQ &c
| everybodys entertainment
POLLY OF THE HOSPITAL STAFF.
/ BY Emma G.. Dowd. illustrated.
| Boston: Houghton Miff1in Company.
Sugar and spice and everything nice.
That's what little girls are made Of.
! And Polly OF the II. 8. is the very es-
sence of these separate and combined
nicenesses. The genial, child-loving his
torian OF Polly in the hospital-frst as
patient and finally as duly constituted as
siStant-appears to have fashioned this
small heroine out Of the bright particular
perfections of at least q dozen little girls.
Then, turning her loose In a hospital
ward full of sick children and leaving
her pretty much to her own inventions,
the author seems to stand around along
with the rest of us. delightedly watching
Polly take the part of an embodied sun
beam. to beguile sick children out OF their
manifold miseries. One Is not saying that
there is no such girl as Polly, nor that
this is merely pure fiction cut to the pat
tern Of a child's reading capacity. But
Polly is rare-rarer doubtless than she
would be If there were more story-teIl-
ing grown folks like the one who here
so fully seizes the real goodness the real
kindness of little children. 1t Is easy to
imagine girls of the right age absorbing
Polly's happy adventures in an ardent
wishfulness to pattern after them. And
if this effect is. as critics tell US, the
test of every order of literature, why.
then. this bright little story has a place
of good literary report.
THE COBWEB CLOAK. BY Helen
Mackay, author of Houses Of Glass" :"
etc. New York: Duffield & Co.
Upon an unhappy. even a sordid.
foundation of fact Mrs Mackay builds
this snguarly delicate and sensitive
story. This fact is a broken family,
whose little daugher migrates back and
forth with birdlike regularity from her
fathers house in the city to the mothers
saIe retreat In some remote corner of the
country. A sossamer web OF circum-
stance attends the up-coming of this
little girl from childhood to woman's
estate and marriage, and produces a
character OF such fragile beauty as to
make 1t almost unbelievable in a world of
substantial fact. The story is a poem of
tenderness and grace.
HOW TO MAKE AND HOW TO SAVE
MONEY; Knowledge and It's RE-
suits. By George Washington
Drew. author of THE Trinity Of the
U. ST." etc. Washington: Published
by the author.
No guide book to speculation this, no
ready reference specification Of safe in
vestments, no compendium of business
principles. no shortcut direction for the
acquisition of wealth by the ordinarily
prescribed modes Of acquisition, Mr..
Drew has dealt in no such explicit advice
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parent non-appearance and drove her tc
an extreme course of action that wrecked
. her social aspirations. Taken altogether
Mr.. Elliott has written here story OF
development that it will prove JOY to
all who read to be entertained and
amused.
FROM THE CAR BEHIND. BY Eleanor
M. Ingram, author of "The Flying
Mercury" etc. With illustrations
in color by James Montgomery
Flagg: Philadelphia: j. B. Lippin-
colt Company.
A well constructed and continuously in
teresting story of auto racing. 1t begins.
as should every we'll devised story that
deals with the inevitable conjugation of
handsome man and beautiful girl, with
an incipient romance Then comes trag-
edy. caused by a woman's Jealousy and
pettishness, and finally. after sorrow and
suffering. adjustment occurs. Meanwhile.
the author has displayed a remarkabl
knowledge Of automobile racing condi-
tions. describing contests with vivid real
ism. The mystery Of the story is not
solved until the conclusion, and ~ that
time the reader is thoroughly absorbed
in a narrative that exerts strong appeal
on the sympathies.
HIS WORLDLY GOODS. BY Margaretta
Tuttle. With frontispiece in color
by Paul Meylan. Indianapolis
Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Her husband in sanitarium. hopeless
ly insane. Mrs. Colin Carson pursues a
social career Of such unconventionality
that she soon becomes all object of great
interest to a number Of men and women.
Her great wealth, however-or rather
that of her husband. of which she has
the keeping-enables her to defy criti-
cism, but eventually she learns that
there is something more to be desired
than mere freedom of action. Enlighten-
ment comes to her through the kindly.
tactful ministrations Of the rector Of a
fashionable metropolitan parish, and
love comes complication. Ultimately all
is Strengthened out for the best, but the
mechanism employed to effect an adjust
ment that will leave Mrs. Carson free to
lead her own life Is rather cumbersome
and complex. The story is a convincing
illustration OF the absurdity of some
phases of the marriage laws.
THE ANTAGONISTS. BY E. Temple
Thurston. author of THE City Of
Beautiful Nonsense etc. New
York: D. Appleton & Co.
In his predatory dedication to Arthur
Waugh Mr.. Thurston says that some peo-
pie said he ought to write another Sally
Bishop, and others that he should re-
peat The City Of Beautiful Nonsense" :"
The result Of these desires is a book that
is like unto neither Of them. and although
in parts it Is story Of strength and re-
markable quality, it cannot be said to
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Carter in the person OF a stray young
gentleman temporarily embarrassed by
lack OF means occasioned by the failure
OF the theatrical company of which he
had been the angel. Thus starts this roll
licking story of harmless intrigue and
genuinely funny satire upon hypochon-
dria. Minnie the ruddy-haired. who has
been called Hebe SO often that she pays
no attention to the supposed compliment.
is the medium Of communication. telling
the story in her own delightfully."- pungent
language. There Is a large company OF
invalids and semi-invalids and we'll peo-
pie who play the part Of chorus in this
comedy and finally what seems to be
an inextricable tangle is resolved into a
fairly straight course OF events. with a
loud Jingle Of wedding bells in the frosty
air. Altogether one of Mrs. Rinehart's
best stories.
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unpaved, but is crudely surfaced with
cinders. This condition extends only so
Iar as 10Th street and then, along the
south boundary Of the Washington prop
erty, r street has not been cut through,
but footpath where the street may
some time be zigzags down weedy hill
10 18th street. Twenty-sixth street is a
grantte-paved way. busy with river
front tramc. and on this side of the
Washington square a number of cheap
dwellings have been built.
A man on the Washington land may see
the bronze statue Of Benjamin Rush.
which stands on the lawn at the north
according to a tablet on it's walls. was
established May q. 1902 The statue
of this revolutionary patriot is within
easy pistol shot of the land George Wash
ington owned
The north face of the circular pedestal
supporting the Rush statue is inscribed:
Benjamin Rush.
Physician and Philanthropist.
MCMIv
The west side of the pedestal bears
this: "Signer Of the Declaration Of In
dependence"
On the south face is: "The first Ameri-
Alienist."
On the east face: "Studium sine Calamo
Somnium."
At the base of flag mast between the
Rush statue and the main entrance to
the Naval Medical School is brightly
polished ships bell inscribed Venezuela.
1885," on which ships time is struck and
the sound Of the marking of every half
hour rings out over the Washington land.
Two United States flags float SO near
the Washington land that late In the aft
ernoon their shadows almost touch it.
One of these flags flies before the Naval
Medical School and the other before the
hygienic laboratory.
The Washington square commands a
view across the river. over the trees of
Analostan Island and to the heights of
Arlington. 1t also commands a view up
the valley of the Potomac beyond the
Aaueduct bridge.
The east half Of this square. lots , and
., were bought by Washington in 1895
from Thomas Peter. a relative. and the
west half. lots l and 4. he acquired from
the commissioners of the new federal ter
ritory. paying two hundred pounds Mary
land currency, the equivalent of $532. or
at the rate Of one and eight-tenths cents
a square foot.
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p extension or the line OF B street
west pass close to a square OF
land which in the long ago was owned by
George Washington, and bequeathed by
him to his adopted son, George Washing
ton Parke Custis, the owner of Arlington
and the builder of Arlington mansion.
George Washington presumably intended
TO utilize this naturally handsome site for
the building Of a fine residence. The
situation was then thought to be the most
desirable in the federal city. This land
was sold for taxes about 1880. and was
bought by DR.. William Gunton. >Iho was
one of washingtons prominent men ana
whose name is perpetuated by more than
one building in the capital
Going west as one nears the riverside
drive Of Potomac Park there appears on
the right a green hill crowned with the
buildings of the Naval Medical School,
the new Naval Hospital and the Hygfenic
Museum North OF these and on the
square east of them is the Washington
land From there one may see the auto
mobiles and an occasional carriage rolling
along the boulevards of the great park
reclaimed from the bed and marshes Of
the Potomac river.
L
Washington owned all of square NO.
81 bounded by 18th and 18th, + and r
streets northwest. 1t is a poor neigh
borhood today, though the Improvement
Of the old Naval Observatory grounds
makes a beauty spot in this region or
rank weeds. ramshackle dwellings and
muddy or dusty lanes. where the survey
man of the District shows streets.
Tventv-fifth street has been cut through.
though II has not been otherwise i'm
proved. the street bed being of cinders.
probably from the sashouses nearby,
and this rude roadbed has been en-
croa ched upon by weeds and the slipping
of the banks on both sides of the way
till the street" along part OF its length
| is only a footpath.
Traction cars pass along r street, turn
ing into IL from 18th. F street in that
part Of the city is paved with granite
blocks and is cut through hill, leaving
steep and high banks on either hand.
There is no sidewalk or footwalk. Pedes-
trians going that way, and they are very
few must walk in the street. The right
hand embankment Is the north boundary
OF Washington's property. At r ana
18th streets two dilapidated houses stand
and they seem to have been there good
many years. On the 25th street side OF
the square these are the only houses.
They are perched on the high bank and
shaded with scraggy trees. f street be-
tween cath and 25th, passing along the
north front of the government buildings
on the old Naval Observatory grounds, is
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A.. Phi. D., professor Of German
language and literature in the Ini-
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land: The University Press. New
York: G. p. Putnam's Sons
THE CAMBRIDGE MANUALS OF SCI
ENCE AND LITERATURE-LlFE
IN THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY.
BY Robert S. RAFT, NJ A.. fellow and
tutor of New College, oxford. Cam
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Press. New York: G. r. Putnam $
Sons.
THE CAMBRIDGE MANUALS OE SCI
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TROUBADOURS. BY Rev. II. J. ebay
tor. NJ. A., author of THE Trouba
dours of Dante" etc. Cambridge.
England: The University Press. New
York: G. r. Putnam's Sons.
THE CAMBRIDGE MANUALS OF SCI
ENCE AND LITERATURE-A HIS
TORY OF CIVILIZATION IN PAL
ESTINE. BY r. A. S. Macalister. NJ.
A.. F. S. A, professor of Celtic
Dublin, etc Cambridge. England
The University Press. New York:
G. p. Putnam's Sons.
THE CAMBRIDGE MANUALS OF SCI
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principal of the Westminster Train
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The University Press. New York:
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CIENT ASSYRIA. BY c. II. w.
Johns, Lit. D.. master OF st. Cath
arine's College. Cambridge. Eng
land: The University Press. New
York: G. z. Putnam's Sons.
A STUDY OF OSCAR WILDE. BY
Walter Winston kenilworth, author
of 1.-The Life of the Soul" etc. New
York: r. F. Fenno & Co. Washing
ton: Woodward e. LOthrop.
WHAT MAKES LIFE WORTH LIv-
ING; or, the Moral Development Of
of Human Life" New York: r. +.
Fenno & Co. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
THE BRIDES HERO. BY NJ. p. Revere.
illustrated by A. G. Learned. New
York: Frederick A. Stokes & Co.
THE WOMAN, Novel. BY Albert
Payson Terhune. Founded on Will
liam C. De Miles play of the same
name Illustrations by w. B. King.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Com
pany.
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At the Art Gallery.

|0NE part Of the Corcoran Art Gallery
~ building which few persons see is
the cold, hard, inartistic and prosaic red
brick wall. which is the back or west wall
of the structure It is in strong contrast
to the rare beauty of the front. 1t pre-
sents no reason for criticism, because it
would be a wasteful expenditure of mon
ey to build a back wall of marble. and
then If the gallsry ,G should s ever xendsd pc sn
westward. and what is now the back wall
would be torn out.
AS every observant person knows. the
18th street front is of granite and
marble. both white. 1t is not CHASTITY,
lowed by the stain Of time till its color
is cream and gray. All that is not stone
are the bronze lions and the bronze grill
work which covers the twenty-siX east
windows. Under the graceful and ornate
cornice deeply cut in the marble are
artists-names of men whose influence in
the culture of the world has been great
From south to north these names are
Phidias. Giotto, Durer.. Michelangelo
Raphael. Velasquez, Rembrandt, Rubens,
Reynolds. Allston and 1ngres.
Reynolds, Allston, Ingres.
The New York avenue front. over the
door Of which is cut "Hemicycle." is
also of marble. The west wall throws
its shadow over a fine garden-large
enough to be called grounds-which ex-
tends half way to 18th street. The west
wall, viewed from New York avenue be-
tween 18th and 18th streets. shows green
with dense mating of trumpet vine
and ampelopsis veitchii. Even the win
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Two Interesting Trees.

Two 10LcIeSIlUS 4IccS.
EROM east to west across the lawn and
flower garden Of the Department of
Agriculture at the north front OF the
old building runs wall of red-brown
sandstone surmounted by a balustrade.
the panels of which are marked by stone
posts, each Of which is capped by COW
cred urn. or 1t may be a vase with a
lid on. The wall separates Secretary
Wilson's front yard into two parts. the
upper and the lower, the former being
In the middle Of the stone wall is an
entrance or an exit, the difference in
the level Of the gardens being over
come by five stone steps. At the head of
concrete footway leading to the main
building stand two arbor vitae and about
fifteen feet east and west of these are
two yew treesEspecimens of the Eu-
ropean yew.
These are interesting trees The yew
has played a big role in the history of
the human race. The European yew. or
Taxus baccata, has been remarkable from
time antedating recorded history. for
its strong, hard, firm. close grain, for it's
f1exibility and its elasticity and because
of the ease with which it may be split
The heartwood is orange-red and red
brown. 1t is the wood of which the bows
of the ancients were made. The English
poN " as par lls dCSOuHtdDl0 LOT the Iame
OF the English bowmen and it was always
of yew.
The India yew wood for countless CEN
turtles has been burned as incense and its
branches used in religious professions
and other ceremonies
\
Yew has played its part in medicine
The bark powdered and mixed with
tea has been used as a remedy for
rheumatism as well as red dye The
leaves powdered have been used as
tonic and as an expectorant. The COW
ering of the seed has been eaten for
ages. and is still eaten by the inha BIZ
tants of the Himalayas
Strut. in his Sylvia Britannica. saws:
I'm England yew trees have been
planted for centuries in the neighbor-
hood of churches or have Influenced the
selection OF their sites. and some of
these venerable yews with enormous
stems and broad. picturesque heads of
dark foliage were ancient trees when
Columbus was born. They are known
to live to the great age Of a thousand
years"
In the seventeenth century the yew
tree was cut into fantastic shapes to
decorate gardens in France, Holland
and England. Some specimens of this
tree are found in this country south of
Cape Cod. and are thought to have
been introduced into the new world by
some of the very early colonists.
There are three varieties of yew ma
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tive to the United States. among. them
the Taxus brevifolia, which inhabfts
the banks Of mountain streams and
deep gorges from the Queen Charlotte
Islands and the valley of the Skeena
southwark through the coast ranges OF
British Columbia, western washington,
Oregon and California, as far as the
Bay OF Monterey. This tree was OBJ
served first by David Douglas in 1925
on the lower Columbia river. 1t is this
tree out OF which the Indians of the
northwest coast fashion paddles. spears,
bows and even fish hooks.
Another variety grows in southwest
ern Florida, having been scientifically
noted in 1888 by Hardy B. Groom. A
shrub called the Taxus canadensis
grows in the woods along the north
Atlantic coast.
In addition to the European yews in
the garden Of the Department OF Agri-
culture, there are two in the south
grounds of the White House, and there
are specimens of the several yews In
the Botanic Garden.
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Medieval and Modern History.

Bury j. b Cambridge Medieval History. '. l..
FO4- B95S.
Myers. r. Van y. Short History Or Medieval
a MI Modern Times. 1905. Fu3- ME.Ss.
Terry. Z. -. Short History of Europe, From
the Fall Of the Roman Empire to the Fall OF The
Eastern Empire. FOIT21,.
Zimmern. A. f. Greek Commonwealth. Poll
ties and Economics In Fifth Century Athens.
F:;2Z61.
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post road and the old Annapolis road
leading over Lowndes hill, lives an old
woman, not black, but certainly dark
I brown. She does not belong to the
present day. She believes they did all
essential things better in those days
before so many young people began
frolicking around in automobiles.
"traipsing the streets at all hours.
faces. "sassing" their 'betters" and
committing other atrocious wrongs.
Her name is Aunt Lucy Ross. She
talks proudly Of the Maryland family
her. Aunt Lucy is remarkable for two
other things. One of these Is her keen
ness for soliciting contributions for
Gods work and her particular church,
and the second is her garden. It is her
garden that is worth a ramble.
Some ornamental green things grow
there-boxwood. shrub bushes and Ilacs-
but these are incidental. The lot is given
up to weeds with decoctions. infusions.
plain teas and poultices. from which
quality" folk also. She never heard
of Ophelia's mad mutterings about
There's rosemary for remembrance"
and There's pansies that's for
tion about her garden pets than the
daughter of Polonius knew.
"Theres burdock,' said Aunt Lucy. in
dicating coarse member of the aster
family. 1.-THE leaves make a fine poul-
tice for swelings. and the roots and
seeds am good for the blood. There is
broad dock. or bitter dock. also good for
purificating the blood.
This is couch grass. or dog grass. The
roots am good for bladder and kidney
troubles. This here is poke weed. or red
weed, or ink berry The root and berries
am good for the stomach and infiamma-
ton. It's pyson.
"Here is foxglove, or fairy bells, or
thimbles. for heart troubles, and this
here MULLEN, or Jacobs staff. or Adams
flannel is for coughs. and you can smoke
the leaves for throat troubles. This is
Indian tobacco. or gagweed, great
bowel medicine. This tansy is for tea
tonic and is pyson.
Here is boneset. or feverwort. for
fever and ague. catnip for the nerves,
hoarhound for cold and dyspepsia, bless
ed thistle. or st. Benedict's thistle, for
the appetite; yarrow, or thousand-leaf,
or nose bleed, to stop bleeding: cowtail,
or horseweed. for dropsy: jimpson weed.
or thorn apple. for asthma: pyson hem
lock. or St. Bennet's herb. or pyson
parsley. for rheumatism. and here is
wormseed which I reckon you used to
take when you was a child.
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Aunt Lucy Ross.

7 \ one of the lanes of Bladensburg-a
- lane that IL in city would be
called an alley-close upon the juno
tion of the ancient north and south
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Displayed in Contemporary Emblems. 1909.
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Bliss W. r History in the Elementary
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Fairbairn. James. comp Book of Crests. FN1-
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Schauffier, r. II. Flag Day. FvF Sch1a.
Sr.S
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they opens, and I gathers my barks
when the sap is gwine up"
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These are few of the names of plants
Aunt Lucy grows in her garden. Many
others are there.
II always digs my roots after they's
done growing and before the frost bites
them and gathers the flowers just after
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Apply travellers along the north
boulevard of Potomac Park
and its parallel Saddle path. an
extension Of the line Of B street
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Window Ledge Gardens.

THE window box is developing in
Washington. One can see hundreds
of these aids to civic beauty where but
one could be counted a few years ago.
Indeed. the window box is comparatively
a new thing in Washington, though its
ornamental uses have long been under
stood and appreciated in the older Euro
pean cities. In Paris the fronts of some
buildings are turned into hanging gar
dens, flower boxes being ranged along
the entire width of the building on the
window lodges of the several stories.
Berlin makes excellent use of the vine
and flower filled box, turning bare win
dow sills and cOrnices into beauty spots.
This means of establishment is being
carried out to considerable extent in
some of the newer cities of the United
States. Especially is Kansas City de-
veloping the window garden in the busi-
ness section of the city with happy re-
suits.