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FOR sALE-BARGAIN NORTHEAST: LITTLE
| bath; hot-water heat; excellent cellar: yard;
| porches; south front; honestly built. 1884
ne. See OWNER.
FOR SALE-lS ADAMS ST: NV; SPLENDID
Groom 3-story brick dwelling: better than new;
all improvements 2Ox14O; worth $500; price,
81. 300; 50 500 trust. Owner on premises. IL
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WANTED-HOUSES.

WANTED-TO BUY FOR CASH. A s Or s
room house between 9Th and 18th. North Caro-
lima ave. and Maryland ave., northeast or
southeast. No agency. Address Box $50. Star
ofirc. State price. locat ton. etc.
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FOR SALE-HOUSES.
eCOntinue0.)

ONLY TWO LEFT.
FINE CORNER HOUSES-ONE DETACHD.
sol Upshur ct. NV. and 4201 N. H. ave.
GRAY brick fronts; wide porches; bright. Wei
ventilated homes: four bedrooms: attic; electric
lights: Quincy hot-water heater; handsome fix.
lures and decora tons.
car marked Soldiers Home" and get OF at
New Hampshire
Open day and evening. PRICE. $500.
For sale by ALEX MIILAR, Owner & Builder,
Phone Col 1884. 800 n. Hampshire ave.
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FOR SALE-LOTS.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-NEAR 14th AND
Columbia road-1o by 145. side and rear alley;
80 by l35. fronting on two streets: SO BY 135,
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BEAUTIFUL NEW HOME.
PRICE. So, 500. TWO STORIES, s ROOMS
AND ATTIC.
This is certainly handsome home The
rooms are large bright and airy, finished
throughout In hardwood: hardwood floors cleo
trio light, hotwater heat laundry serva ,nas
attractive feature. being equipped with IRE
less cooker. kitchen cabinet, refrigerator, large
gas range, porcelain sink ana drainooard.
Porches, southern exposure. Wen iocateu nor In
west, half square from cars
GARDINER & DENT 1nc.).
S12 14th st. NV.
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A Pretty View.

MERIDIAN HILL will be the park
AVA from which the finest view of
Washington can be had. but the pros
pect from Mcmillan Park is not to be
despised for breadth of sweep and beauty.
You can enter the parkland from Michi-
gan avenue, the rustic street that leads
along the south front of. the Soldiers
Home grounds, and walk south parallel
ing 1st street northwest till you reach
the higher ground near the southeast cor
ner of the filtration plant. Near the end
of this walk is d picture spot. broad
stone. walk. north and sodth. ascends
gently to it, but on list street. oppo-
site Charming street, three flights of
broad granite steps fianked by tall young
cedar trees. lead up to it. and in this
way you can scae the high, steep grass
terrace which rises above LIST street.
When YOU gain the top you find your
self on IA knoll. In the middle is a hand
fountain is granite paved. and four pol
ished granite settees invite one to rest
there. All around are tall. straight. slim
young cedars, giving the effect of an Ital-
ian garden. To the east one sees the
white tombs, green cedars and bare.
Prospect Hill cemeteries. Northeast,
across the grassy banks Of 1st street,
and between which many autos whirl,
you see the yellow stacks of the filtra-
ton plant and the red-topped gray build
ing of one of the affiliated colleges of the
Catholic University. To the north are
the dark woods of the Soldiers Home. TO
the west is the CLASSY water of the reser-
voir and beyond are the groves and build
ingS of Howard University. To the south.
the southeast and the southwest are all
the familiar landmarks of Washington
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Another Sunken Garden.

A MOTHER sunken garden has heen
= added to those OF the Treasury, and
the STATE. War and Navy building by that
which has been laid out. or created. AZ
the east front OF the building of the In
During last spring and summer the east
approach to this fine marble building re-
manned unfinished
The segment formed by 18th street and
the semi-circular drive leading to th,.
main entrance was a patch of clay ana
cinders, but shaded by four tail and
spreading yellow poplar trees. There has
been a remarkable change there. The
level of the clay patch was reduced below
street grade about three feet, tn, diffei :
ence in level being marked by SlopnE
bank or a turf terrace. The poplar trees
being removed from around their trunks
and roots These mounds at the base OF
the trees Were sodded and viii he green
when spring returns. The whole interior
of the sunken garden waS Sodded eN-
cepting those parts devoted To gravel
walks
The plaza before the main doorway is
hemmed on the outer side 10y a white
marble balustrade. and from this to 18th
street Is broad. manufactured footwall1
which bisects the sunken garden. ON the
inner side the garden is surrounded by
small symmetrical box trees. and under
the east halustrade and the high and
wide white marble coping on 18th street
a box hedge has been planted. The form
and feeling of the east garden harmoniZes
with. 1.-The garden on the other three sides
of the bu lding and which is flush with
the grade of the adjacent streets. which
arc<B, and 18th.
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A Ford Theater Relic.

IN a window of one of the numerous
shops in Washington devoted to the
display and sale of curios, antiques and
the like is exposed a vivid memento of
Ford's 10th street theater. 1t is litho-
graphed "Plan of the Dress Circle of
Ford's New Theater, 10th street. Wash
ington, d. c., Erected A. D. 1868 by John
L. Ford" The lettering is of that fancy,
fiourishing kind SO highly regarded in the
DAYS that are gone At one side of the
diagram is a small picture of the front
of the theater and nearby are three
masks one no doubt representing comedy
and one tragedy. The numbers of the
seats run from l to 90. but there are not
as many seats as the higher number
would indicate. In small letters at the
top of the diagram is this: "Note.Ihese
Seats are by the Re that bi the
first row runs along from one to the Sin
ties, the second row starts at loo and
continues on to about 1to, the second row
starts at 300. the third at 300. the fourth
at 400 and SO on. The rows will average
fifth and sixth, which are much shorter
than the others. Four boxes are shown.
those on the right side being marked
''Prvate Box No. o. and Private BOX
No. g. Numbers Z and are on the lett
of the stage looking front.
Pasted around the diagram of the seats
are several of the theater tickets in
vogue then. First is a red ticket about
Printed across its face is ''Ford's Thea
ter, 10th street, Erected a. d. 1863
In the middle of the ticket are represen-
tations of three twenty-five cent pieces.
That was seventy-five cent ticket A
faded purple cardboard ticket has in the
middle of it the representation of d
twenty-five cent piece-evidently a twenty
five-cent ticket. A salmon colored ticket
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02

The Librarians Chance.

LIRE COMMISSIONER JOHNSON, who,
obtaining S127,60o worth of insurance
on 1896 worth of property. thus clinched
his claim that insurance laXity is respon-
sible for New Yorks incendiary fires,
which average one in every four Com
missioner johnson was discussing his
very important Investigations with a re-
porter
IF We can abolish arson. which is the
cause of p per cent of our fires he
said, Insurance rates VIII naturally fall
% per cent, and that will be a good thing
for every policy holder.
Some insurance men deny in toto the
charge of laXity. Well. to my mind such
men fit the insurance business as well as
Bignon fitted his Guardianship.
The ignorant Bignon, you know, was
appointed through influence to the post of
royal librarian of Louis Ky.
when Bignon's uncle heard of this APP
pointmentS he said:
Splendid, Magnificent. And now, my
dear nephew. you will at last have an eX-
cellent opportunity TO learn to read" "
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New Providence.

DASSING along the ancient way long
locally known in the Eastern branch
country as the river road. or the lower
road to Piscataway, and after descending
Broad Creek hill. traversing three miles
of low land and climbing Rich hill, you
come to a crossroads hamlet the most
conspicuous feature of which is the
standing but nearly ruined chimney of
a house fire-swept years ago. In this
hamlet mostly colored people live. If it
has a name it is not easy to discover it.
At length you may find a native who says
he believes the hamlet was called Lin
colnville.
When you come to this place turn off
to the left. The road is of sand and
clay and is bordered by thick woods and
somber pines. A-quarter of mile from
the hamlet you will see a half acre Oh
cleared land, fenced in. In this clearing
cedar trees were planted at regular In
tervals and a number of them are still
green and flouriShing. Under these cedars
are long narrow mounds marked in some
cases by gray weatherbeaten boards or
stakes and in some cases the mounds are
not marked at all. A wooden cross Les
rotting on the ground and here ana
there are the remains Of fence that
once inclosed a family plot. This place
was the burial ground Of Providence NJ.
E. Church, in one corner of the clear
ing are relics of the brick foundation on
which the venerable frame church
stood.
outside this old cemetery with jungle
of pines around, but with a little road
lead ng out to the public way lives a
colored man, Walter Bolding, and his
family. The house he lives in is old, but
lately whitewashed. The great hewn stills
it rests on are of white oak. This build
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Preservation of Trees.

ONE of the questions involved in the
- possible removal of the National b.
tanic Garden from its familiar and con-
spicuous site to one in Potomac Park or
in Rock Creek Park is that of the pres
ervation of the gardens memorial trees.
Under the long superintendent of the
late William Il. Smith a historic grove
was planted and fostered in the garden.
Independent of the risk to the trees by
transportation, there is the matter of
cost and there might be many members
of the national legislature whose DISPOSE
ton toward economy would be stronger
than their sentiment for trees. One re-
suit of the location of the Grant memo
rial-still incompetent the east end of
the Botanic Garden was the transpianting
of three trees.
The John j. Crittenden mossy-cup oak.
the Alexander r. Shepherd American elm
and the Beck elm, planted by Senator
Beck of Kentucky, were those trees. OF
these planted trees two survive-the Crit
tenden oak and the Shepherd elm. The
Beck elm. despite the care exercised In
its removal and the attention bestowed
upon it later died. The shock Of transfer
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UNDERGONE.

GUSTAV ZORN. proprietor of d new
~ hotel in Bad Nauheim. who has
come here to study American hotels. dis
cussed our cooking i'm New York
American cooking" he said, ''pleases
me very much. Your southern dishes /
particularly like. The French chef, whom
We find in the large hotels all over the
world, would do We'll to adopt some of
your dishes. He would do well. for en-
ample, to substitute chicken, Maryland
style, for such a dish as poached ortola
brains.'
Herr Zorn smiled.
'Poached ortolan broain-no exagera-
tion,' he said, ''of the sort of dishes
certain type of French chef loves To
serve. Such a chef-the gourmet's chef
cooks fish that are not cleaned, and birds
SO rare they seem not to be cooked a.
all. Indeed, these fellows have AK
ION that the way TO cook "A snipe is:
Let it fly once through a hot kit
chen.
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was too great for 1t. The loss of one
in three fairly represents the mortality
of mature trees involved by tranSplantinS.
The Crittenden oak long suffered from
the shock and it was thought it would
never recover, but it bore acorns last sea-
son, which Is sign of vigOr in an oak.
This tree stands alone on the north walk
of the garden d few yards from the
PENNSYLVANIA avenue side east of the I'd
street entrance. and may be identified by
two big nests built by squirrels in forks
of the limbs high above the ground. The
Shepherd elm also stands near the Penn
sylvania avenue walk of the garden ana
is thrifty. The cost of the removal of
these treest from the part of the garden
now occupied by the long-unfnished Grant
memorial was s230o-nearly $500 per tree.
The memorial trees of the Botanic Gar
den are unmarked and the full list is
known only to C. Leslie Reynolds. the
superintendent, though many of them are
also known to John Clark, the assistant
superintendent Mr.. Reynolds is strong
ly in favor of providing suitable labels
for these trees and is on the eve OF
having a diagram made which will show
the location and give the history, so far
as it is known, of each of the memorial
trees.
The Crittenden oak was a favOrite with
the late superintendent. He used to tell
that Robert Mallory of Kentucky who
was "A strong friend of Mr.. Crittenden.
brought several acorns from Kentucky
to Washington Mr.. Smith produced two
small oaks from these acorns and in 1S0s
Mr.. Crittenden planted one of them ana
Mr. Mallory planted another.
There are two acacia trees in the gar
den One is the Garfield tree and the
other is a memorial to Albert Pike. Alter
the Garfield funeral ceremonies small
branch of acacia which had been placed
on the coffin by a Mason was brought
to Washington and under the direction
of Mr. Smith planted in the garden on
the south side of the greenhouse. On the
opposite side of the walk was an acacia
that had been planted In memory OF
Albert Pike, for years a central figure
in Masonry In the south side of the
garden are two handsome specimens OF
the cedar of Lebanon, planted by Sen
ators Hoar and EvartS. Then there Is q
Crimean fir planted by Representative
Holman, the Indiana economist. Nat far
away are two winged elm trees planted
by Senators Lot NJ Morrill, and Justin
S. Morrill,
There are two George Washington me-
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to the Secretary. Mr.. Smith told him TO
cut Davis name off the bridge. and the
first thing Mcintyre did on getting back
to work on the bridge was to have a
mason cut out the name.
Cabin John has long been a Washing
ton playground In the stream bottom
and i'm the shade of the tall sycamores.
100 feet below the roadway of the bridge.
generations of Washington people have
held picnics and eaten lunches. I'm
der the great wo-hundred-and-twent
foot span many lovers, now grandparents.
have held hands and sighed. Through
the nine-foot conduit over that arch has
flowed the uncOunted billions of gallons
of water which has put out the fires oil
Washington. partly slaked the thirst of
millions of people and washed the inhab-
ftants of the Capital for half a century.
At that arch of leo cubic feet of blue
stone ~ cubic yards of concrete and
Jl6 cubic yards of brick millions of
eyes have looked up. Over that 45O-foot
bridge about everybody in Washington
has ridden in either a buggy or an auto
or on a bike.
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Turning Down a Lord.

HARRY LAUDER tells a story of an
English nobleman.
His lordship was introduced to me al
the Tivoli one night So the story be-
gins He asked me TO dine with him. |
accepted and then he hestated and said
I don't mean dine at my home, you
know My wife doesn't approve of-er-
music hall people. you know. / mean
dine at my club
AT your club? said I, with horri-
fed look. oh, no. No, thank you, my
lord; I'm sorry to have to decline, but
the fact is, you know. by wife doesn't
er-approve of clubmen.
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The New Conjugation.

CHIEF CLERK LEGNER of Chicago 5
~ marriage license bureau has an
nounced that last year. being leap year,
had more marriages to its credit by 18Th
than any other year on record.
did female proposals cause this in
crease?" said Mr.. Legner to reporter.
"Ah, who can answer such a question as
that? But whether female proposals
caused the increase or not, let us hope
that all these leap year marriages will
turn out better than the average.
so deplorable, indeed, is the average
marriage here in America that they now
propose to conjugate the verb L love in
a new way in the schools.
"A new Way?' said the reporter.
"Yes," Mr.. Legner answered. They
propose to make the future of I love L
divorced
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Turned Down.

w SOMERSET VAUGHAN. the Eng
W. lish playwright, was praising the
American girl.
The Independent American girl he
said, will stand no nonsense-especially
from elderly married men.
Coming over on the boat there was a
beautiful American girl. and one after
noon an elderly married mans wife was
heard to say to him:
George, l don't like the way you've
been looking at Miss Blanc.
Poor George frowned and muttered:
Well, she don't, either!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Always With us.

REPRESENTATIVE PUJO. condemning
IN reckless finance at dinner in WASH
ington, said:
The fool-and especially the financial
fool-the fool who wrecks banks and
creates panics-we have always with us.
Its like the case of the stump speaker
who shouted one freezing winter night:
Where is now the fool who rocked
the boat all summer.
He's down on the pond, answered q
voice; down on the pond trying 10 see.
how near he can skate to the danger
siEn.'"
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Greedy Sanders MaCHOot.

MAYOR FITZGERALD Of Boston, on
A'A account of the 100 per cent increase
in the price of gasoline, plans To supply
Automobiles Of Boston with motor oil at
wholesale rates
Greed. said Mayor Fitzgerald the
other day. greed is the sole reason for
the rise in gasoline. That is admitted
frankly. Well, such incredible greed as
that reminds me of Sanders MacIIoot OF
PEBBLES.
Sanders, have another drink "A man
said. entering a bar where MacHoot was
just tossing off a glass of whisky.
Ma, Ma, answered Sanders MacHoot
L Wilma haze anither: but We can pay for
this if We like -
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Not Yet.

MAYOR GAYNOR, discussing at a
AVA Brooklyn dinner party the efficacy
of prayer, smiled and said:
There are some people who are too
impatient and cynical over the matter of
prayer They are like little Tommy.
Pa said little Tommy, you know
Jim and Horace? Well, pa, Jim and
Horace say their prayers every night
and ask God to make 'em good boys.
How nice said the father. How
very nice
but He amt done it yet, pa the
urchin added"
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Very MistrustfuI.
A GROUP of brokers We're talkins
about the late James r. keene

A GROUP of brokers We're talking
about the late James r. Keene
"Keene,' said one, had a cynical
humor. He was also mistrustful-espe-
cially mistrustful of his associates in
pools.
Keene once pointed out to me an action
on the part of a pool associate that he
deemed suspicious. I said there was
nothing suspicious about it. But Keene
laughed and said:
"'Tll tell you the kind of man I am in
these pool deals. I'm the kind of man
who, when he finds a spoon in the hall
after he has given dinner party, says:
aha, one of my guests had hole in
his pocket. "
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the Monument. Capitol. the pension Of
flee. the post Office and numerous stacks
of trade-black and yellow-all softened
by the winter haze.
This little spot nearby rlose-built
section of the city and which by reason
of its location * mostly out of site "f
street traffic is "A favorite resort for the
children of the neighborhood. They gath
er on the marble settees and the granite
paved plaza around the fountain and play
their games, and, for aught the Rambler
knows, tell stories about fairies.
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carries the picture OF a fifty-cent piece.
and blue ticket has what appears
through the show window to be picture
of gold dollar.
Then there is an ancient coupon ticket
On one end is printed: Give this por-
ton of ticket for entrance TO the door
keeper. John Il. Ford, Business Mama
ger" On the coupon was printed the
section and the number with blank spaces
opposite those words which would indi-
cate that they We're to be filled in with
pen or pencil at the box office.
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on my way here | stopped at San An
tonic and had a talk with the officers in
charge of the post there. They tell me
that the river is especially difficult to
guard. 1t flows through a desert, and
when its waters are low it can be easily
forded. All along it the Mexican rebels
have been trying to smuggle iii arms ana
ammunition. Boxes and crates. labeled
agricultural ma chinery, filled with guns
are dumped off at some way station
along the railway, and the Mexican raid
ers steal over and try to bring them
across. The railways in most cases are
quite a distance north of the boundary
and the troops have to watch the trails
and water holes TO catch the brigands.
In addition to this there are many
the Mexicans will come To steal horses,
cattle and food and a continual outlook
has To be kept for hundreds and thou
sands of miles. This is done with d
small force. One man will patrol "a
line thirty or forty miles long. and there
or one hundred miles
The men live in little tents out in the
desert and one of the great troubles is
TO get supplies To them. Many of the
camps are from fifty tn one hundred
miles from the railroad. and il takes a
wagon or pack train from ten days to
three weeks to make the round trip.
There is practically no food in the coun-
Try, and the men have 10 live on dried
meats. canned stuff and bareback. They
boil and filter the water of the country
and all are inoculated for typhoid fever
before starting. The country is SO arid
that the only trails can be from water
hole to water hole. and much of the work
is watching these water holes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02

LA bCOoI L tA DIS
HIS is the first Of
a series of letters
which / shall
write about our
sister country of
Mexico. | have
come to the boun-
Diary by the way
of St. Louis and
San Antonio, and
am now here at
Laredo. on the
southern edge of
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mortal trees in the garden, three that
were grown from seedlings taken from
the Washington elm at Cambridge. Mass.
There was a tree that was grown from
the Washington elm which stood in the
Capitol grounds and which died by rea-
son of injury to it by the construction
of the Capitol terrace, but this was de-
stroyed by storm. The complete list
of memorial trees in the garden would
be long one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02

ing. now a cottage, was Providence
Church.
When the congregation, after long wor-
Shipping there determined upon removal
about ten years ago 1t built a neat
and comfortable structure two or three
miles farther up the road-that is, in the
direction of Washington, by way of the
upper PisCataway road, and this church
is now called New Providence.