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rectangular structure OF big blocks Of Po-
tomac bluestone faded gray from age
and weather. In the middle OF the north
wall Is a low door and this IL thanked by
two windows glazed with old-time panes
small and nearly square. One OF thesa
windows is barred with iron az though
some treasure might be contained within.
In the upper story. or rather half story.
are two windows the tops of which pro-
ject above the slant OF the shingled hip
roof. One might call them semi-dormer
windows. At the east and west ends or
the roof are two heavy red brick Chin
neys which seem years younger than the
gray walls of the little house.
The quaint structure is few feet be-
low the grade Of the streets that pass IL
on the north and east, showing that the
land around IL has been filled In. Vines
are creeping over the old walls. the north
wall especially being favored by vine
growth.
on a wall of one of the low-ceiled
rooms in this house is the date 1887
This place like the Bullfnch gatehouse
OF the Capitol. which stands diagonallN
across the way at the northeast corner
Of 18th and b streets. Is used as tool
house by the workmen OF the office OF
public buildings and grounds.
Far back in the years this stone houss
was the LIGHTHOUSE or the dwelling OF
the lock-keeper of the 18th street lock
of the Washington canal. The bed Of
rhododendrons in the middle of Il street
west of 18th grow over where Was the
center of the lock The canal ran from
Easbys point at the foot of 10Th street
through Washington 10 the Eastern
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about the history OF this art and can
enumerate all the notable examples to be
seen in the public gardens of Paris, in
the gardens Of the English great and in
the nurseries in Holland where these
plants are mainly trained
The most notable examples of topiary
which the Rambler has found in Wash
tngton. though there may be others as in
teresting, are at the south approach to
the Connecticut Avenue bridge. In the
plaza Is small green park several times
longer than its width with straight sides
and rounded ends.
At the northerly end of this garden is
cluster of five box bushes with
rounded tops and so trimmed and
planted that their bottom foliage rests
upon the turf They are about two and
and half feet high and around each is
q Gordon Of tall iron wickets set so
close together that they overlap A few
1eet south OF this group OF symmetri-
carly trimmed box bushes is a small tree
somewhat broken and disfigured by the
late great storm. South Of this tree are
two box bushes of curious shape, or
strange design. One has a large knot
OF box foliage flush with the turf, giving
the erect OF stand or support for the
superstructure or supergrowth or super
sculpture. Then rises the stem or trunk
OF the box bush. its bark bare and clean.
Letting the eye travel up it you come
to another knot or knob OF green foliage
which is apt to make one think OF the
knobs that are cut in the wool of French
poodles. Out OF this knob rises more
clean stem and on top is the form of a
rooster. clipped or carved or sheared out
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wall of the little sanctuary inscribed
on a large copper plate you may read
this account of the altar:
This altar. hewn from the rocks out
side the walls Of Jerusalem, from which
the stones OF the temple were quarried
not far from the place which is called
Calvary, without the gate nigh unto the
city where Christ was crucified and
buried, for in the place where He was
crucifled there was a garden and In the
garden a new sepulchre and the
sepulchre was nigh at hand from which
also He arose again from the dead, has
been given to the Cathedral Of SITS. Peter
and Paul in Washington by the following
dioceses. missionary jurisdictions and
congregations: Alaska, Albany, Arizona,
Arkansas, Asheville, Boise, California,
central Pennsylvania, Chicago, Colorado,
Connecticut, Dallas, Delaware, Duluth,
Easton, East Carolina, Florida, Fond du
Lac, Georgia, Indiana. Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Lexington, Long Island. Los
Angeles, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland.
Massachusetts,. Michigan. Michigan City,
Minnesota, Missouri, Newark. Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey. New Next
CO, New York, North Dakota, North
Carolina, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory, Oregon. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh.
Quincy. Rhode Island Sacramento, South
Carolina, South Dakota, southern Flori-
da, southern Ohio. Springfield. Tennessee.
Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Washing
ton. western New York. western Massa-
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a granite bowlder. the inscription on
which tells it's story, and which follows:
This memorial was erected In 1907 by
the Society Of Colonial Wars In the Dis
trict of Columbia to mark the road over
which. April IA, lbs, a division Of the
British Army under Gen. Braddock
marched on its way to Fort Duquesne."
Under the oaks Of ST. Adams are the
Cathedral School for Girls. which was a
gift from Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. and the
Cathedral Choir School, built with. be-
quest Of Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston.
niece Of President James Buchanan, and
in memoriam of her sons, James Blu
chanan Johnston and Henry Elliot John
ston.
In the matter of st. Adams the Ram
bier has read that the cathedral project
is an old one, but that It did not crystal
lie until few years ago, when forty
acres surrounding the Church OF ST. Al
bans were bought. The land Is 400 feet
above the level of Pennsylvania avenue,
and so far as known Is the loftiest cathe-
dral site in the world.
The Cathedral Of IS. Peter and Paul as
designed will be one Of the most beautiful
and impressive religious structures OF the
world. It's length will be 4SO feet, not so
long as the cathedrals of York, Ely, LIN
coin, Canterbury, Winchester or West
minister Abbey, but longer than the cathe-
drals Of Durham, Gloucester. Exeter,
Iichfield, Wells, Salisbury, Norwich. MI
Ian, Florence. Amiens, Rheims. Cologne
or Notre Dame.
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fowl, and at tho city end Of the reserva-
ton another group of Ave round
clipped box bushes AZ balance to- the
group you first noted at the bridge end
of the plaza.
man who has travelled much was
standing by while the Rambler was
looking at the cocks and hens In box.
The stranger talked of topiary and of
Aalsmeer, Holland. where OF all 9th err
places. he said, this art is carried to it's
highest point Of success.
Aalsmeer is . Dutch water village
reached by the road from Leiden,
which traverses the Haarlemer Nicer.
once an inland sea. but now a wonder
fully fertile tract OF country laid out in
square farm plots. Aalsmeer is one
long. street which the traveller told
the Rambler els no more than a narrow
towing path. with water on either side
Of It: small swing bridges connecting
the houses with this towing path. and
many Of them entirely encircled by
water each one remote. picturesque and
prosperous. in its trim garden with a
surrounding moat In these gardens
are the clipped box trees. famous the
world over where there is demand for
such things"
Thus Aalsmeer is headquarters for the
production of this fantastic box. There
grow gardens OF box trees that have
been fashioned or are being fashioned
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attended the uprising and conservation
of the peace cross in September, 1893,
concentrating the peace with Spain.
President Mckinley delivered an address
and there was large representation OF
the clergy then in Washington In at
tendance upon the trienniai convention
Of the Episcopal Church, which was the
last convention of the nineteenth CEN
fury. The next great service on the
close, and which all Washington will re-
call. was that of the laying ofs the foun-
dalton stone Of the Cathedral Church in
September. 1907. Addresses were delivered
by President Roosevelt and the Bishop
Of London. Sixty bishops two hundred
members of the general convention and
about $4,000 laymen were present. The
foundation stone was brought from q
field near Bethlehem.
X X
In the close near the peace cross Is a
landmark given by Mrs. Julia James to
commemorate the freedom OF the cathe-
dral close from debt and the subsequent
hallowing Of the close. 1t was conse-
Grated on Ascension day. 1908. The land
mark is q beautiful bronze sundial top
ping an open altar. The sundial marks
not only the hours of the day, but the
different seasons Of the Christian year.
Among the oaks of the close and near
the Rockville road or Wisconsin avenue
the Society Of Colonial Wars has erected
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So It was that when the other day
some one asked Secretary Garrison, pure
ly for drawing-out purposes, DO You
think we really ought to have an army!
he got an Immediate aid an emphatic an
sWer.
That question" said the Secretary,
las we say In the practice Of law. IS
not before the court. do not think
that any one will assert seriously that
we do not need an army. 1t would DO
like debating whether or not New YORK
city could get along without a police
force to discuss such a question at TINS
time. When New York becomes SO
righteous as to leave in doubt the neces.
sity for q police force such debate
would be timely. When the nations are
similarly convinced of their own risnn ~
eousness then we may begin 10 vain
about doing away with our army.
Those gentlemen who profess 10 ses
a menace In the army we mainta'u, aU
in the auxiliaries and reserves whose e =.
tablishment we advocate. ana VINO LAln
OF militarism' are In effect ana unKnow
ingly arguing for the creation OF pei.
manent professional soldier class IN TINS
country That is precisely what We W az
not want to create, II we De true ~
the principles upon which TINS Iepuoo
il established ,.+
cit must be patent to all that we nlus'
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Green Sculpture"

TvOPIARY IL q very old garden prac-
tice. It Is the art Of training or
twisting and trimming growing plants
into fantastic shapes or at least into
shapes that plants themselves do not by
nature take on. and the making use OF
these shapes In gardening. It was prac-
ticed in old Rome. and q topiarian was
a Roman gardener who was skilled In
fanciful landscape gardening. In look
ing at plants thus trained one cannot
refrain from thinking Of the art OF
dwarfing and of making into monsters
children, a practice on which Victor
Hugo based his story Of by Order OF
the King" He tells the story Of the
Comprachicos or Comprapequenos. "A
hideous and nondescript association or
wanderers. famous in the seventeenth
century, forgotten in the eighteenth. un-
heard Of in the nineteenth. The Com.
prachicos are, like the succession powder,
an ancient social characteristic detail
They are part Of old human ugliness.
ITO the great eye OF history: which
chicos belong to the colossal fact of
slavery. Joseph sold by his brethren
Is a chapter in their story. The Compra,
chicos have left their traces in the penal
laws of Spain and England.
You fnd here and there in the dark
confusion Of English law the impress OF
this horrible truth. like the footprint of
a savage in a forest Comprachicos is a
compound Spanish word signifying child
buyers The Comprachicos traded in chill
dren. They bought and sold them.
They did not steal them. The kid
naping Of children is another
branch Of industry. And what did
they make Of these children? Monsters.
Why monsters? To laugh at. The popu-
lace must needs laugh. and kings, too.
The mountebank Is wanted In the street;
the jester at the Louvre. The one is
called q clown. the other q fool
Gardening in England during Tudor
times took turn toward topiary. and the
practice is continued In some English
gardens. Numerous examples OF this
green sculpture may be seen In the gar
dens Of Haddon Hall. Mr.. George Bur-
nap, landscape architect in the Office OF
public buildin-- and grounds. can tell all
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instability.

lxTF. all these tales about the movin
! picture trust are true the trust is a
Unsuitable as Dr. Thirdly's congregation
The speaker was Mayor Oakley Curti
OF Portland. He resumed:
Witnesses declare that If they got film
from outside firms they could have non
from the trust. Such instability re
calls DIR. Thirdly's words to his congrs
CATION on a sultry August evening.
~ see a great many OF you sleeping
said the good doctor, mildly. I do no
wonder at this, for your work is har'
and many Of you have come q long way
Therefore / am not surprised to sc
many of you sleeping soundly. But wha
does surprise me a little is to see s.
many sleeping who had such a comforts
BILE sleep at both our morning and on
afternoon service.
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THE LITTLE SANCTUARY.

THE LTTTTD SANCTUARY.
as a witness Of the Continuity Of the
Anglican Church and presented on AS
censfon Day, 1901. These stones from the
Ancient British Abbey Of So. Peter and
Paul are given by the Churchmen OF
Glastonbury to the Churchmen OF
America for the Cathedral Of So Peter
and Paul, Washington, D. c."
The Rambler was told that one stone
set in the face Of the transept wall Is
called the Iona stone and is from the
ancient Celtic cathedral on the Island Of
Iona that was founded by COLUMBIA in
A. d. 565. The monastery which Column
ba founded on Iona was the fountain
whence northern Scotland got its first
knowledge Of Christianity.
Nearby Is the Hilda stone. named after
the Northumbrian princess, st. Hilda. 1t
came from Whitby Abbey. England. 1t
was Hilda, grandniece Of King Ed
win, who founded Whitby Abbey. the
ruins Of which are still heaped upon
the Yorkshire cliffs.
Thus is the little sanctuary rich In
sacred memorials and relics OF the Mother
Church in England, the Church in the
Wilderness and the Church on Mount
Zion at Jerusalem.
Mount Adams is full Of things to make
men think-so full that It were unjust to
try to tell them all in one brief ramble,
the idle hour of busy working man.
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We All Are.

A r the dental congress at Asbur
"A Park, DIR. J. p. Carmichael OF Mi
waukee. apropos Of a disappointment Il
dental legislation, said philosophicaiiy
We'll. let us not despair. Let US re
member the old maid.
AN old maid, you know, went into
decline.
What's the matter with your he
doctor asked.
".Oh. DOCTOR, she sobbed, I've bee
disappointed in love! ;,
Naturally said the doctor. i
never does come up to expectations.
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On the eastward slant of the hill is the
Bethlehem Chapel of the Cathedral In
which services are held when they are
not held under the oaks. There Is the
bishops residence. being built to endure
for centuries. There is the old brown
painted board Church of st. Adams, in q
told, rest the bones of the Ri. Rev.
Thomas John Claggett, the first bishop
Of the Episcopal Church consecrated on
American soil. There also is the new st.
Adams parish house of native bluestone.
And there is the peace cross.
The first service on the Cathedral Close
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chusetts western Michigan, western
Texas. Kyota. Philippine Island, Shang-
hal, Toxic, ST. Pauls, Rome; Mexico
and Ohio
The Glastonbury cathedra is also in
the little sanctuary This cathedra, or
bishops chair. is made from the stone Of
Glastonbury Abbey, which was founded,
so church historians write 1t. by Joseph
of Arimathea in the year A D.. 43. The
stones were presented to the Cathedral
OF st. Peter and st. Paul by the church
men of Glastonbury. The cathedra Is in
Scribed:
This Glastonbury Cathedral is raised
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Paul at Mount st. Aiban. Inc MIL, OF
that part of it occupied as the close OF
the cathedral, is a place rich and holy
with religious association and pious feel
ing II is shaded by broad, deep, dark
grove of old oaks and cedars and rev
rough and venerable locusts. There are
spots beneath the boughs OF these trees
where a man may look far to the east
ward above all the domes, spires and
towers of Washington
AS you near the little sanctuary you
may read before it's door a legend.
black board sign staked in the ground
and surmounted by a small gilt cross
spells in gilt letters the following:
Little Sanctuary and Jerusalem Altar.
HOLY Communion Morning Prayer. Even
ing PRAYER Come in and rest and pray
The gray stucco walls of the little sane
tuary are closely matted with green
xine-English Ivy and the familiar south
side ivy The vines Irvine even across
the colored glass windows, dimmlng py
their foliage the already dim light that
seems to gently steal within. A rugged
storm "a cked locust stands close by ana,
swaying in the wind. moves Its shadow
10 and fro across the vined walls
on the right of the entrance is an
archway piercing one of the towers,
called All Halows Gate. This arch
frames big. great picture OF WASH
ington. Through it your view sweeps
eastward above the green tops in the
foreground. while below and beyond Is
the city We call home. like a tumble OF
blocks of red and white and yellow set
deep in a green trimmed bowl. The
Capitol, silhouetted against the green
or blue purple gray hills or
Anacostia, looks like one of the little
have SO often been seen in connection
with the plans of various commits
sions for the further development OF
The beauty of Washington. The gold
dome of the building of the Library
Of Congress glows like a small gilt
ball not much larger than those you
see on the tops of fiagpoles.
Entering the little sanctuary you
see six or seven short rows of wooden,
rush-seated straight-back chairs and
pile of prayer books. On the right OF
the entrance and within is the Can
terbury ambon or pulpit, the stones OF
which are from the Canterbury cathe-
dral and were given by the Archbishop
of Canterbury In memory OF his pred
ecessor, Stephen Langdon. The am
bon was sculptured under direction Of
William d. Caroe. the resident archi-
tect of Canterbury cathedral. The
sculptured groups and figures are
worthy of long contemplation. but the
many inscriptions, names and dates are
rather bathing because chiseled in
gothic letters. tall black iron picket
barrier surrounds this pallid sculpture.
One step further. and looking through
another black fence. you see a white
slab covering grave holding what
was mortal of Bishop Satterlee. The
inscription is carved that it may be
read from the pulpit and not from
without the railing unless one reads
letters upside down But hanging
against the barrier which separates the
worshipers from the chancel is a white
cardboard. black framed and black let
tered. with this:
Henry Yates Satterlee, Bishop of
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have one Of two things: A small, per
manent professional army-and that IS
what the pacifists would reduce US to
or a large number Of citizens who have
had military training. l prefer the lat
ter.
mo one that / have met in the de-
partment or in the administration advo-
Gates a larger standing army than we
have The officers of the army, with
many of whom l have talked. to a man
are opposed to what the pacihsts call
militarism Not one of them is favor
ing an expansion Of the army. But all
agree that we need every man-we have.
eft would be absurd to say that our
little force Of $4,000 men Of the mobile
army in the United States-for that is all
we have of a movable force in con-
t,nental United States today, the coast
artillery being a fixed force-would be
adequate to deal with any international
dtff7culty in which we might become en-
gagged. No thinking man can truthfully
saw that in the light Of the last years
events we are wholly secure from the pos
sibility of being plunged into such dif-
6culty But IL war should come we
would have to do what we have done In
previous wars. improvise an army in war
time, ana InAL SHIduS IIlSAtkoA GNU eAA
necessary sacrifice Of lives.
"IInless we plan and prepare In ad-
vance and have q reserve OF trained men
to make an army Of resp ectable size ana
afficiency, we literally send men out to
ACQUIRE their education in armies under
the fire Of an enemy-an enormity which
has only to be stated to cause one TO
shrink from permitting it.
1--WE must look upon our war estab-
ishment as training school for our
citizens in military preparedness. The
army is admirably fitted for that very
purpose.
"Do you know" the secretary went on.
DEPRESSING for moment, that this is a
wonderful machine we have in the war
Department. 1t has been a surprise and
organization it has, the fine, patriotic
work that is being done by so many
officers whose money compensation Ia
wholly Inadequate to the services they
perform. But this great machine has
such a pitiably small output 1t is like
setting a great Corliss engine to pump
ing water for a tiny spigot. It could
do so much more toward giving military
train eng to the people than 1t does, and
at such small additional cost!
Il +
"Our chief problem in the matter of
national land defense is how to fill out
our skeleton of regular establishment in
time Of need. We have our present en-
listed strength of 10000 Back of that.
as second line. stands the National
Guard. Of some 10000. but not entirely
trained. though containing magnificent
material. Then we have hastily drawn
and Inadequate law for the creation of
volunteer army In time OF war. From
this we must work out the problem.
not - H. Iocx hA
listment period in the regular army was
Increased from three years to seven years
in reality only four years, since it is
provided that the man shall actually
serve four years with his regiment and
return to private life for the remaining