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the Kimball in Atlanta the Pf4nkfnston
in Milwaukee. the Continental and Gil
rard in Philadelphia and goodness knows
how many others. The hotels all mad
sensible names and not fancy. foreign
sounding ones The proper name was
often followed by house instead of no
tel and If the word hotel was used II
came after the proper name instead OF
before 1t.
'"rraveling men used to talk on their
travels OF these old houses and the ia
bles that they set. They put up fine food
with American names. They had head
cook instead Of chef. they printed theil
catalogue of food on bill of fare in
stead of a menu. and YOU could read ii
if you knew your mother tongue. II they
had roast beef to serve they called II
roast beef They didn't send their food
to the table under an alias.
Some of these up-to-the- minute hotels
are too elaborate to be comfortable te
old-timers. They are such businesslikt
institutions that the olden spirit of jovial.
ity and hospitality has been crowded out
The proprietor does not know YOU. The
room clerk hasn't the time or the mem
DRY to call you by name until he has
read il on the register and then he gets
it wrong. The head waiter is an impos.
ing foreigner. and your own waiter is
such swell fellow and puts on SO mucf
side and grand manners that you fee
like apologiZine to him when he pulls Out
and pushes under you your chair at the
ia BILE. and you haven't the nerve to ash
for corned beef and cabbage even if yot
are hungry for it.
Walk up to that magnificent cigar
stand and ask for a five-cent cigar anG
the clerk will freeze YOU. Go into the
shoe shine parlor and give the boot blacl
a nickel and he'll make you feel like 9
cheap skate Give the porter or the bell
boy. now called bell-hop. anything les:
than a quarter and you will probabl,
have to go down to the ONCE yourself fol
a pitcher of ice water and lug YOU
satchel out to the car with your owl
hands.
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modern improvements and conveniences.
grounds we'll laid out with choice fruits.
flowers and eNergreenS and having ID
smokehouse. icehouse. carriage house.
stabling. etc. making ii in every respect
first-class residence.
There is a large merchant mill In good
order. and with the best and most i'm
proved machinery and capacity or lao
barrels of -four per day, with the whole
water power of Rock creek. There is
also valuable stone quarry. when mas
been and can again be worked TO al
vantage. This entire property Is Wen
worthy the attention of spectators.
Terms, $4,000. with interest at 10 per
cent per annum from July -. 49,. ana
expenses of sale I'm cash, balance In SIN,
twelve and eighteen months, with interest
al 10 per cent per annum, being secured
by deed of trust on the property.
The mansion mentioned in the advertise
ment is now frame shell. inhabited Dy
a colored family. 1t stands in the valley,
though on higher ground than the mill.
and to the northeast of the mill rum one
can trace i'm the old garden around the
house some of the beauties mentioned in
the advertisement
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Ideas of Distance.

TT YOU are travelling along country
! road and become inauisitive about the
distance you have Travelled or must trav-
el TO the next important point or resting
place. do not ask by the waysde. but
just keep on going. For il YOU ask YOU
will probably be discouraged or deluded.
You may meet somebody on the road who
can made reasonable guess as to how
far 1t is to Fairfax Court House, or TO
Piscataway. or to Brandywine. TO
Rockville or to Potomac. hut the chances
are that YOU will not Ii seems a curl
Gus thing 10 a city man that the country
youth or maid or man reared by Ne
roadside will not know within 10 or
10 per cent the distance TO the
next crossroad hamlet. living within
five miles OF the county seat will assure
you that 1t is eight or two miles farther
on. How a youth or maid or man can
grow up without ever having seen a map
OF the county or counted the PAGES or the
turn OF a wagon wheel or i'm some other
way learned the distance to the place
where they buy their groceries is very
strange.
Maps ARE easy to obtain and il is best
to have one with You when YOU 60 on a
tramp. The distances have no doubt been
measured with an alidade and stadia rod
and il is convenient 10 know where you
are, how far you have already come and
how far you will have to go.
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Arlington Spring.

ON the low, closely wooded and vine
- matted part Of the Arlington
lands-those lands now occupied by
experiment gardens of the Department
OF Agriculture-is g. famous spring. 1t
is spring around which thousands of
Washington people picnicked and
frolicked and relaxed long before the
civil war. and when George Washing
ton Parke Custis owned Arlington.
This spring was not far off the old
road which skirted the river shore
from the old Long bridge and then
struck across field to the road leading
from Mason's ferry and later the Aaue
duct bridge to Alexandria. the old road
which now passes along the eastern
gates Of Arlington. The new road. un-
der construction from the south end
OF the Highway bridge to Arlington
cemetery. follows the general course
Of the older road. Many OF the old
time buses rumbled along that road
carrying the merrymakers to the
groves that shaded this fine spring.
The Fourth of July was for many years
a great day there.
To find the spring now. enter the
main gate of the experiment garden
on the Arlington Alexandria road and
go to the upper or north end of the
grounds. You will pass through
patches of remarkable rye. oats and
grasses. and thrifty young orchards Of
apple and peach-splendid object les
sons OF what skillful cultivation can
bring forth from a stiff, cold. clay soil.
You will find brook bordered by will
lows and tangled with honeysuckle.
and in the shady recesses OF this
thicket you will come upon masses OF bril-
liant coral or trumpet honeysuckle. Follow
this stream up and you cannot miss the
old spring. It is the source OF the brook
In the field q short distance away from
this thicket you get a fine view OF Wash
inKton, and IL the Marine Band Is playing
in Potomac Park the music comes to you
across the water.
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Uninscribed Monument.

an the east side of the river road lead
~ ing along the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal from the foot of Foxhall hill above
the Aqueduct bridge to the Chain bridge
(Which is not a chain bridge, but which
once was) stands q rough monument
without inscription. 1t is within 200 yards
of the cluster of small frame houses that
nestle by the roadside at the north end
of the bridge.
The pedestal of the monument Is form
ed Of two square stones, one smaller
than the other, the smaller superimposed
upon the larger. Then. there is the shaft
stone. On top Of this is a thick, fat,
square block larger than the top Of the
shaft, and above this Is the capstone,
ogfval shaped. The base of the monu-
ment is, perhaps, three by three feet, and
the height of the whole structure is
about ten feet. The several blocks of
stone seem neither to have been mortised
nor cemented and they have gone or
have been set askew. the sides of the
upper of the pedestal stones not being
square to the lower stone. 1t seems to
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turf of the E,llipse will also come to
your ears.
To the north and directly across B
street Won will see scores of men in white
fannes and without undue impedimenta
of clothing playing tennis on the courts
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton.
Down in the polo field between the line
of hurdles and the band stand. polo
teams sometimes military and sometimes
civilian. are hard at play. and the rumble
of the ponies hoofs on the TURF and the
crack of mallet and ball. the shouts of
PLAYERS and the acclaim of spectators
will come to you.
X
Over the four jumps. ditch. dirt hur-
die. brush barrier and bars. men and
women are carrying their mounts.
other riders are going around and
around the saddle path that girdles the
whole great park. Autos in streams
are whirring around the driveways.
If it is concert afternoon the Ma
rine Band in it's stand down near the
bridge over the outlet and the inlet OF
the tidal basin is playing and nun
dreds of people are occupying the
benches on the lawn about the stand.
The driveway on three sides Of the
stand is banked with autos and other
vehicles, the occupants listening to the
music or watching the ponies and their
riders in the polo field close by.
Then there is the tidal basin, a lake
so broad that winds sometimes make 1t
rough and frothy. though commonly 1t
is silvery and calm. Little boats noat
and skim over it. One sees many bare
armed oarsmen and girls in white or
bright colored spring frocks. Red and
green and blue parasols seem to glide
across the water. Out on the river
along the Washington channel and the
west channel boats. big and little,
pleasure and business. come and go.
1t is an animated picture drawn on q
big scale.
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Memories of Old Hotels.

MAN was smoking fragrant cigar
"A lounging in big chair upholstered
in fine leather that rested on an orien-
tai rug and against a massive onyx pill
lar in the Office of a hotel.
Il see' he said. that the old Astor
House in New York is to be torn down
soon. The fine old Fifth Avenue Hotel
went some time ago. Times change and
so do hotels | do not travel in and out
of New York as much as l did in the
once upon time. but ] have read that
the good and substantial hotels OF my
time are gone-I am thinking Of the Bre-
WORT. the st. Denis. the old Metropoli-
tan, the Windsor. the Morton House.
the Stuyvesant the St James. the old
Albemarle, the Coleman and scores of
others. / believe ] read some time ago
that the Gisey closed down l see every
day the names of expensive hotels in New
York that | never heard of before. It's
the same way with theaters There We're
the old Bowery, Booths Theater, the
Madison Square of Steele Mackaye and
Hazel Kirk memories. Niblo's Garden
where / saw the first Black Crook; Har-
rigan and Harris. Tony Pastors and the
old Fifth Avenue
Among the travelling men of other
days there used to be a great deal Of talk
about hotels. and there were some famous
houses-hotels that were famous for thei,
proprletOrS. their cooking. their hospital
ity, etc. There was the Barnum in Balti-
more and the old Rennert, when Bob
Rennert ran it: the ancient Planters
House in st. Louis, the Burnet in Gin
cinnati which was in the heyday OF its
prosperity when James G. Blaine was
dubbed the .Plumed Knight in the con-
vention in Pixies Opera House: the Mo-
nongahela House In Pittsburgh. the Re-
we're House in Boston. the Russ House
Lick and Occidental in San Francisco.
the st. Charles in New Orleans. when
Bob Rievers ran it; the Battle House In
Mobile. the Gayso House in Memphis.
the old Exchange in Montgomery, Ala,
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dogs from the shepherds and. on making
inquiries. learned that he was an agent
of the German government, which now.
by the way, has ceased to rely on this
country for its supply of dogs, but uses
animals born under the double eagle.
which are brought by training to a high
state of perfection.
Up to this time added Richardson,
while intensely interested in dogs. l had
bred few only for show purposes. but
i now began a systematic study Of the
training of dogs for use with our sol
diers and police At the present time
dogs trained by me are with most OF
the large British regiments. such as the
Scottish Rifles, the Gordon Highland
ers, the Seafords and the Gurkhas, as
we'll as at certain points on the coast
and now, as you have heard, the admi-
rally is about to make use of them at
Gibraltar.
Il am not at liberty to tell you how
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Pleasure in the Parks.

IF you stand in the middle of Potomac
Park in the late afternoon of a warm
spring day. preferably Saturday, you
cannot fail to realize the good and health
full uses to which Washingtonians put
their pleasure grounds.
To the northeast. in the north part of
the Monument grounds abutting on B
street and between that broad. shady
way and the circular drive that winds
around the knoll from which the Monu-
ment towers. you will see acres of boys
and youths. white and colored, playing
base ball. You will hear the gleeful
noise that comes from the many mines"
at play and from the crowds of spec
tators that stand or squat or lounge
around. You will note from the bare
and hardworn earth how much these
grounds are used for play. Perhaps also
the sound of the roofing and the cheering
at the ball games that are played on the
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dogs have been used by all the allied
troops. and during the transportation OF
Greek troops into Turkish territory
canine sentinels We're used, for want OF
men. to guard the railway lines The
results were excellent. At Larissa, espe-
cially. the entire railroad line was guard
ed by dogs"
'Then 1t seems" said the writer, that
Shakespeare was unconsciously prophesy-
ing q bit when he wrote In Julius
Caesar Cry havoc and let slip the dogs
OF war;"
"As a matter of fact answered the
major. Shakespeare was not prophesying
at all, either consciously or unconscious
ly, for Caesar actually used dogs to guard
his camps. and so did Frederick the Great
and other famous generals Of the past.
Napoleon himself wrote to Marmont. IN
June, 1899. They ought to have with
them in Alexandria large number OF
dogs. which should be fastened short
distance from the walls In your own
civil war, too. dogs seem to have been
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OF November z the Abors attempted to
surprise our men, but Jumbo, who was
with the advance guard, gave the alarm
in time to put the men on the alert. and
the savages met with grueling fire
which killed of lot of them.
Later In the march, too. when word
had been received that stockade might
be met with, and the Gurkha scouts. who
had my dogs with them, were ordered
to keep a sharp lookout, the dogs again
proved of use, as they gave warning to
the outposts of the presence of the en-
emys scouts before they were seen by
the Maya coolies. Here. too Is a private
letter written me by Maj. Wilson. under
whose supervision the dogs were. and
who says:
My dogs never once failed to give no.
tice of an enemy on the path, with the
result that the advance guard and main
body were never ambuscaded.'
These" said Richardson. ARE, Of
course. merely the doings of my own
dogs of war; and simply items in the
long list of uses to which CANNES have
been put in recent campaigns. The Jap
anese, when fighting the Russians. often
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Not Enough Room for
New Congressman

LOW would you feel If. after working
Your life away to be elected to Con-
gress, YOU should come TO Washington
a member Of the House OF Repre-
sentatives. only 10 be given an Office in
old brick building with view con-
sdsting of three shattered windows a
rusty fire escape and possibly one thou
sand red Virginia bricks, whose beauty
was accumulated by grimy white mortar
in many places fallen loose? Further,
how would it feel to then walk through
the House Office building and see Your
fellow members lounging in luxurious
offices, with windows opening on a grassy
green. In the center OF which was a
pretty fountain?
This is what has happened To forty-five
new representatives elected to the Sixty
Offices in the Maltby building. at the cor
ner of New Jersey avenue and c street.
There is no room for them in the House
Office building, but they nave hopes.
however As sure as the desk arrange
ment OF the floor of the House gave way
to benches to make room for the addi-
tional number of members. the House
ONCE building will be made large enough
to give tnem an ONCE III lI.
Naturally. a new representative looks
forward to his first week in Washington
with a good deal of pleasurable anticipa-
ton. Every one Of the forty-five did
that very thing They presented their
credentials were sworn into office and
inspected the House ONCE building with
the comforting assurance that most OF
them were there for at least two years.
The apologize notification that ii was
already overcrowded and that they
would have to maintain their offices in
the Maltby building struck the new mem
hers like cold shower bath after .
foot race.
One OF them said
1T is a good thing my constituents
have not been to see me. In my ONCE
there is moth-eaten sofa. two rickety
chairs and typewriter of the vintage
of 1889
Others take a hopeful and philosophical
view of the office location Those who
have rooms facing the street with big
bay windows. shaded by great trees. sit
back in their armchairs. gaze thought
fully at their secretaries from back
home and remark:
We'll. we're nearer the Capitol than
those fellows over there. OF course they
have the tunnel on rainy days but then
IL is stihing and has peculiar odor
What's more. We can feed the squirrels
while hurrying To the House floor"
One man was particularly iubilant be-
cause his Office was in the Maltby build
ing. He said:
II have been here just seven days.
There have been just seventy of my con-
stituents to Washington to see me. Every
one of them demands bite OF the demo-
cratic patronage pie. and what DO you
think-not one of them has been able 10
find me-"
The new members will probably keep
their offices in the Maltby building until
the opening of the next session OF Con-
gress December I. when II is expected
that new offices in the House office build
ing will be ready for them.
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have had some shock that almost knock
ed it over.
stone, very common in that locality. Some
little effort was made at dressing it. but
not much. There are relatively smooth
faces on the sides at the lower part of the
shaft, as though 1t was intended to put
inscription there but no legend has
been chiseled.
People who live in the neighbOr hood
told the Rambler that railroad men built
this monument when the branch line Of
the Baltimore and Ohio. which leaves the
main west line near Rockville, reached
the Potomac at Chain bridge, while ii
was under construction to Georgetown.
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in the recent punitive expedition sent
by the Indian government against the
warlike Abors, a tribe Of savages who
had murdered couple of English Off
GERS, and the details OF these perform
ances seemed likely to prove so interest
ing that the writer recently sought out
the major at his home at Harrow on-the-
Hill. close to the famous school, which he
calls "Grove End" and, after scrupu-
lousy obeying several notice boards
which bid one to Beware of the blood
hounds" asked him if it We're true that
the admiralty had ordered dogs from him
for use at Glib
Richa rdson, who is a tall, gaunt man.
aged fifty. with a tiny mustache. careful
~ waxed at the ends. and who when
seen by the writer. was attired in riding
costume, has been, 1t proves. training dogs
for use in war for close on twenty years.
He was led to begin doing so, he con-
fesses quite candidly, by accidentally dis
covering that Germany-which now Is in
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ed $1,000 ITO enable the President of the
United States to cause to be made tn.
necessary surveys. projects and estimates
for determining the best means of afford
ing to the citizens of Washington and
Georgetown an unfailing and abundan,
supply OF good and wholesome water
liz was in the winter of lS5o-53 that the
surveys were made. The work had been
later generaD of the Corps of Engineers
United States Army. Lieut.. Meigs in his
report which was presented February L.
1858. to G. NJ. Conrad. Secretary of War
discussed the several projects that the
water supply of Washington should be
drawn from Rock creek, that it should
he pumped from the Potomac at Little
Falls and that il should be brought by
gravity from Great Falls. In the matter
of the flow and volume of Rock creek he
said:
MIR. Lyons who has been a miller
on the creek for thirty nine years.
thought he was using about one-half
the flow. and he had seen three or four
seasons when he had not half as much as
he needed for his mill" AS the report
was written in 1853 and as Lyons had
thirty-nine years. presumably at the
L
the mill dates from 1914 That is CON
lecture. because Lyons mill may have
belonged to somebody else before that
or the present mill may stand upon
the ruins of an older.
There was printed in The Star. De-
cember 3. 1873. an advertisement which
gives some information about this
property. 1t was notice of trustees
sale .of valuable suburban property at
al rQ
by virtue of deed of trust dated
July 81, A. D.. 1872, and duly recorded
in lber No. S94. folio 6. one of the land
records of the District of Columbia.
and by direction of the parties secured
thereby. we will sell at public auction
on the premises Monday. December g..
1873, at o'clock pm, all that tract of
land situated in the former limits of
the county of Washington. to wit: I.y-
Ing near Boundary street of the city
of Washington and north of George
town. and being portions of four tracts
formerly called Pretty Prospect Rock
of Dunbarton' 'Bealls Lot and Widow s
Mite. the same comprising sixty-five
acres and twenty-nine perches, and de-
lineated upon the plat thereof and now
known as Lyons Mill Seat.
This property is Immediately upon
Rock creek. adjoining kalorama on
overlooking Oak Hill cemetery, Wash
ington city and the Potomac river. 1t
can be laid off advantageously in build
ing lots or for cemetery or national
park. and possesses some of the finest
views in the District. The passage of
the p street cars renders ii accessible
and brings 1T in close contiguity to p
street circle. at present the most i'm
proved part of Washington.
This property has on it large man.
sion, containing eighteen rooms, with all
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used by the northern and southern troops
both as sentries and for tracking work
and also in the Russo Turkish war oil
1878.
1T is only in. recent years, however
owing greatly to the changing conditions
OF warfare" Richardson went on, that
the subject OF training dogs systematical-
~ for use in the field has had scientific
attention. Germany. profiting by the les
sons of the American civil war, used them
to some extent in her war with France In
1870, and since that time. with her usual
thoroughness. has made the canine arm OF
her service . big and nightly efficien,
one.
She has watchdogs In Ill her fort
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used dogs as scouts on long leads. and
in the same war the entire Transsiberian
railroad was guarded by dogs, and to
this may be greatly ascribed the reason
that it was never cut. The dogs of my
own which were used by the Russians
in this campaign. by the way, were spe-
cially trained for ambulance work, and
it was in recognition of the good work
they did in finding the wounded that |
received the watch you see there from
the car and the Order of Merit from
the Empress Marie These four-footed
Manchurian veterans, by the by. are
now kept. and made much OF, at riding
school in Petersburg.
In the present war in the balkans
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VI A. I
TO

many dogs have been ordered for this
purpose. but / may say that they are a
crossbreed and probably would tear to
pieces any person attempting TO pass
them. They are to be stationed at night
with sentries at the more Vulnerable
points AT Glib and as they can hear at
least 400 yards further than men they
will add considerably to- the safety Of
our famous old rock. 1t is the case. too.
of course, that while the senses of men
become dull at night. the senses OF dogs
grow more alert.
These are only two respects in which
dogs are valuable auxiliaries to men for
night sentry duty the major went on.
Unlike men. there is no danger of their
going to sleep, no matter how exhaustn9
the previous day has beeen. nor do they
suffer from timidity. a quality which. in