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in Russia She is on bad terms with the
CZarina Alexandra, who detests the whole
Orloff tribe and would like to see Prince
Vladimir driven from power This antaS-
onism is supposed to be somehow con-
nected with the affair of Orloff's brother.
who died mysteriously OF consumption
in Cairo some years ago. Rumor declared
that this OrlOff was pasSiona-ely in love
with the empress and that he died be
cause of her Nladimir Orloff and his
brother made this the subject Of a deadly
quarrel. and the empress took the younger
Orloff's part. Since then she has attempt
ed, but in vain. to break the dorlinion
which Vladimir Orloff holds oYer.NiCholas
II.
The story of Young Orlof dying for love
for the empress was made, much of by
those who accept the proVerb history re
peats itself" The founder of the Or
lofts family fortunes was loVer of Cath
crime H. and those who look for omens re-
membered that Nicholas II resembles in
character and tastes GATHERINGS mSer-
able husband. Peter Ill. The so-called
'Orloff romance" valSr therefore. regarded
as a black omen for the future.
Recently Vladimir has been under
cloud at court. but has re-establiShed
himself by his latest project to construct
great automobile road to Moscow
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Washington and that summer before last
two We're also hauled away. They de-
scribe with a good deal of animation the
difficulty which the long teams OF strong
horses had in hauling these old thunder
ers over the soft roads and hills of the
region. ;. hat disposition was made oil
them the people do not know. and as the
fate of these guns is not essential TO the
interest of this narrative The Star man
did not ask the War Department for
information. 1t may be that the old
war guns went to foundry and are now
converted into peaceful objects. or II
may be that they are mounting guard IN
some distant public square or park as
reminders of the bloOd-red period or our
national history.
If you travel by the river in motor boats
or sailboats or canoes. many people of
Washington and Alexandria do, you can,
of course, go ashore here and climb the
nearly perpendicular rustic stairway that
points the way to the top of the bluff. or
you can follow road, steep and pictur
esque, that utilizing partial cleft in the
bluff winds to the top, south of the
little gray wharf. This way will cost
you only six miles of water travel. Over
land by the usual roads the way is twice
as long. You will probably pass through
.Anacostia and Congress Heights and
follow the newer Livingston road. which
sses Rose Croft and the old village
of 'Oxon Hill. You will probably do this
in preference to follow the older
road--the River road, which from Bald
Eagle hill drops down into the valley of
OXon run and gets lost in the fields
around Blue Plains, but which finds itself
further along climbing rocky and rut-
ted hill long called Mount Welby, and
which enters into a well Travelled main
road opposite the ruins Of the original
Oxon Hail. which was the home of the
Addison family, early colonial grantees
to a large tract of land.
Whether you go by the longer and
easier road that carries you by the vii
lage of Oxon Hill or by the shorter and
more difficult way, you will come TO the
site of Oxon Hal Thence south about d
mile and half your road leads to the
wayside settlement of New Glatz. and
at Wares store, which stands at the
north end of this settlement. road leads
westward toward the river through fields
that in summer are green with cabbage,
crimson with strawberries and scarlet
with tomatoes. This road, when it
reaches the edge of the ridge looking out
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From Oak Hill Cemetery.

81 r..,, -
ONE OF ne rare views al iii' '"N -
~ ana undeveioped Rock 're'k valley
49, -ttt ,,,,,. l l,d from, = nofn;
~, ~, ,oin, I'm,
IN Gan I'm -
the tip 81 the high spur near inc proht
shaft above the grave o. Mai Gen jose
p.,., ,,,bo wa Eui4d ,t tho hattla
-, ou :, n
OF S9u'a
clos arfat ~ 'oihos "ih'li7 '''Ih y
the grave OF ihc twin sons. of Baron
"'ii'i'"' N,.,i.,,
mon a'nents ""' '''' 49,,
tcmbs The oaks rise h'e' an"Ve
and it is easy 10 believe that Their bar
bra,,,.f,as Vhippcl and swayed hN the
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making arrowheads here, near where 50
many of us live and at place so Ia
miiiar to many citizens of the District, Is
a shock, but III most cases an agreeable
one.
ON the descriptive card ii is said that
This group is intended 10 illustrate the
work carried on in the great quarries OF
Piney branch ard in the associated work
shops not long before the arrival OF the
English. something about aG1 years ago.
Near the point where 18th street would
cross that stream the broken powders
ard fiakage left on the shop Sites are
in places ten feet or more in depth.
The information is given thai the In
dams of the new world had not ad
vanced beyond the stone age of culture,
and the quarry:ng and shaping of stone
implements was to them an industry of
vital Importance Suitable stone was
gathered from the surface of the ground
or was obtained at the expense of great
labor from deposits in place. The quarry
ing of flint and other bedded minerals
was carried on in many sections of The
country, and the pittingS may still he
seen among the hills In like manner
water-worn stones and pebbles were quar-
ried from the river bluffs or ancient
beaches. ''and extensive workings of this
class are found III the suburbs Of Wash
ington city.
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nor the last man to wish Esher into the
obscurity of Windsor Castle. His lord
ship was King Edwards chief political
adviser. and holds the same position at
the court of King George. He is fire.
quently consulted by the leaders Of both
parties. The best proof of his power is
10 be found in the circumstance that,
being appointed head Of the ail-powerfW
council of imperial defense Ivy BaliouF,
he has beer continued in Office by As
quith and The liberals This council is
absolutely independent of parliament and
the cabinet, yet il determines the most
vital questions of foreign policy ANA prac-
tcaliy rules the army and navy of Great
Britain. Indeed. ii was Lord Esher who
through Lord Haldane, lately minister OF
war in the Asquith cabinet. and now lord
chancellor, brought the present teriitoria!
army into existence.
1t is hard to imagine Wilhelm IF Ger
many Yielding to the influence % anA
man. however powerful. Yet there is one
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well known to his enemies. who made use
of 1t in 1908 to damage his position and,
in fact, nearly brought him to n fall
The Krasno SelO annual maneuvers and
army inspection are always run on lines
of domesticity which amaze the foreign
military attaches. The imperial table is
served in precisely the same eXtravagant
style as when Nicholas is at home, the
tents resemble palaces and ballet girls
or French actresses from the Michael
Theater are brought down to keep Mich
olas in good humor In 1908 everything
went wrong. Wrong wines were sent
down, one of the cars tents collapsed in
a slight wind, and the Michael Theater
artists had to sleep in peasant huts. The
anti-Orloff faction so exploited this dis
aster that Orloff himself accused them
of engineering all the plumbers. BY bluff.
threats and even violence he re-estab-
lished his position.
Orioff's wife is Princess Olga CONSTANT
novna Bieloselsky-B ielozersky a sister of
the Prince Serge Bieloselsky, who is mar
ried to Gen. Whittier's daughter. Prin-
cess Olga Orloff is the best dressed wom-
an i'm st. Petersburg, and she has been
painted by every famous portrait painter
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seem once to have been park roads WIND.
You know that YOU are on the govern
ment reservation of Fort Foote. 70 the
right is wooden building the planAiug
of which was put on vertically and then
stripped with narrow pieces OF lumber
1T is WindoWless. and seems To gape at
YOU with a sorrowful and friendiess eX-
preston. 1t was the stable oil the post.
off to the left is a long. low building. also
with the weather boarding running up
and down. and stripped. 1t, too. is
windowless and ruinous. II YOU have a
guide he will no doubt tell YOU that years
ago ii was the quartermaster storehouse
of the post. Further on Is another nearly
ruined building, and you viii be told that
this was the hospital.
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The road YOU ale passing over seems
once to have been driveway, and
among the scrub pines that are growing
all around you are q few frs and NAPLES,
showing that once ornamental effect was
Stliven for by the people who lived there.
On the left you are passing great heaps
of earth upgrown with small timber and
tangled over with honeysuckle vines re-
tanning their Verdure despite the season.
Around those heaps of earth are deep
bitches. with muddy sides and bottom. In
places there is water and thin ice in the
bottom of the bitches.
Climbing and breaking a way through
the stubborn growth, YOU Will come upon
sink in which are four gun platforms
If granite and coarse concrete The PIN
tie blocks and those on which the travers-
ing circle of iron is laid are as firm "a
they ever We're.
Breaking through the brush and mount
ing to the top of the rampant before
these gun emplacements tile river rolls
below you and the View extends down
stream till the Potomac bends 10 the
westward below Fort WASHINGTON With
out a plan of the old fort you will prob
ably be puzzled. Some of the traverses
are broken down and there are piles of
shattered concrete suggesting that the
magazines and bombproofs were of this
material, but the plan shows that the
bombproofs, magazines, films rooms ana
SubtravcrSe galleries were tiHJeFed You
will stumble over more granite and iron
and concrete platforms for guns. for this
fort was armed with eight 19n-pUunder
Parrot rifles and two fiftcen-incl guns
besides six thirty FOUNDER PARROTS and
six field pieces. In one SequeStcreI pace
among the ruins YOU will come upon two
of the big PARROTS lying in the mud with
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An Agreeable Shock.

IN great show case in the National
Museum five stalwart American In
dams are represented as illustrating the
art or the industry OF making arrow
heads Their workshop is the wide.
stony margin of brook. 1t is an in
teresting exhibit and the process of max
ing arrow heads, so puzzling to many per-
sons, is here so clearly depicted that any
man can follow it. At one side of the
case is the descriptive card. but the de-
scriptive matter being of considerable
length few persons pause to read it. in
teresting and instructive though it is. 1t
gives one a pleasuraDle shock in reading
this explanatory matter to learn that this
group represents Potomac Indians making
arrowheads on Piney branch at that
point where 18th street. in Washington
city, would cross the creek. TO find
these savages among groups Of Indians
and other peoples from faraway regions
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CZAR of Russia Again
. Becomes the Tool of
Strong, Fearless Prince Or
loft, Who Drives His Auto
mobile and Who Frequently
Takes Him for Long Rides
Far From the Influence of
Rival Courtiers-Has Sue
cessfully Fought White. Sto-
lypin and the Present Pre-
mier, Kokovtseff, for the
"Autocrat's" Favor-Organ-
ICES the Orgies That Mark
the Participation of Nicholas
in Army Maneuvers-Once
Fought His Own Brother,
Who Was Said to Have Died
From Love of the Czarina-
England Has a "Bunty" in
Lord Esher-Immensely Rich
German Prince Who Exerts
a Preponderating Influence
Over the Kaiser.
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Unsafe for Auto Driver i'm NliddIesex County

sjuIidrrif. .oase-Acsh under his hurn-
inG Interpretation Of The words of the
prophet
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Nahum he said MAS referring. not
alone to the iunketing tour made by Sar-
danapalus ana his crowd Of roisterins
Babyioniau blades in bi9tss-bound char
NiueVah. all careless of how many Wiz
lage fol-. they ran over. His was u fur
ther sight said Ezra; he saw win
his prophetic cNe the automobile of Wash
in-son todas that dabolical combination
al iron and brass ami gasoline with the
ssH-manB1l If IIc arch mend himself
l,l.op rla hood. careening through Ia,
streets OF that modern Sodom. seeking
whom il might. run down; headlights
specially on the lookout for good men
from Middlesex county
This said Ezra was the real kernel OF
Nahums prophecy--a warning against
the machines; a warning that had been
ripening for centuries between the Gov
ers of the Old Testament. And. in the
finale, Sartauapalus and all his gay ana
sporty crowd were consumed on "A funefal
pVre lighted IN his own hand. so ihe
sons Of BeIial vino honl1ed their motor
cars 10 the terror Of God-fearine men.
would in the end-So pruphesicd Ezra
and Nahum-go up ia a blaze OF destruc-
ton ana perdition lighted from their own
gasoline.
with the motor car 10 tool ii through he
pine regions of MiddleseX county, Old
Virginia.
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their long. massive iron carriages about
them. 1t is an impressive reminder of
the days that are gone.
To the north of the. ruin and across the
road that winds up winds down to the
river rlanGing is the abandoned park
mere buildings for the accommodate ton Of
officers and men We're constructed and
where several OF them still stand. and
where two three others stood until re-
Gently. You Will see two heaps of gray
splinters and broken brick with ragged
brick chimneys. inclined to topple, rising
out of them. These were barracks that
seem recently to have been torn down.
Away at the other end of the park where
a few towering shrubs are struggling for
life. is the old wooden building that can
he seen by passengers on passing river
boats Its shin3le roof is green with
moss. The porch at the river front is out
of PLUMB and the pillars tottering. The
window blinds are broken and some of
the glass in the windows has long been
shattered.
::
on the slope of ravine TO the rear of
this house is the post cemetery. Peter
Kraub. private. 4th Artillery, was buried
there in July. 1870. Robert Smith.
civilian employee at the post. was buried
there also in that year. Matthew Hamil-
Ton. also a civilian employe. was buried
Henry-of Robert Rodgers of Battery b.
I'd Artillery We're buried there in 49,,
and 1879. L.ottie Rowley, daughter of
Ordnance Sergt. Rowley, was buried there
in 1874 George Moore. civilian en-
ploye found his grave there in 1919. 1t
was very likely about that time that Fort
F,oote was abandoned as a sarrisoned
post though throughout all the years "a
cor tul has.
a time the caretaker was woman-the
wife of Ordnance ,Sergt. G.. III. Tucker.
In Gen. Barnards report on the de-
lenses of Washington. which was pub
lished as a government document in 1871.
il is related that this fort was built for
the purpose of defending. in connection
with Battery Rodgers below Alexandria,
the water approach of Washington. 1t
commanded the channel as far as Fort
-.V Washington. three miles below. The
river front of the fort was 5l5 feet lonS
with a return ut an angle of 120 degrees
of SeVenty-tVe feet. The rear of the
fort. which was parallel to the water
front, Fashioned and armed with
field and siege guns for land defense.
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Senate Of the United States l would say that
the separation of the wagon road from the
railroad on the north side VI the main channel
Of the Potomac would be desirable as Il part of
n project that looks to the raising of the grade
of the railroad tracks across the flats hlgh
enough TO give passagewny for vehicles under
them and TO the reconstruction OF the bridge
over the main channel of the river on wider
spans. that will less obstruction to the
flow of the water.
The green cmbankment at which YOU
have been looking is the result of a great
contest which kept Potomac Park from
being bisected by railroad tracks at
grade
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recent royal ukase that banished Grand
Duke Michael Alexandrovitch from his
country. at the same time relieving hlni
of certain rights as regent in the event
of the young czarevitch succeeding to the
throne during his infancy.
1t is Orloff's way of dealing with the
plotting of the cars brother and the
DCwager Empress Marie to GUST the
Young czarevitch from the succession to
the throne To casual observers this
strong action on the part of Nicholas was
a surprise, but To those VINO know the
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WO great and grim iron cannon
which once stood guard over
the river approach to Wash
ington lie dismantled and neg
lected i'm a muddy ditch. tree
and shrub entangled among the ruins OF
Fort Foote With these guns lie their
rusty iron carriages. their various parts
separated The effect it all makes on
stranger is that of martial junk heap.
A host of Washingtonians travelling up
and down the Potomac pass close to TINS
interesting place because the channel OF
the river sweeps southeast from Jones
point. the point on which the lighthouse
stands mile below the wharves OF
AleXandria-and crossing TO the Mary
land shore passes under the mornlns
shadow of the high. wooded blum on the
crest of which these ruins are Thefe
is little gray timber wharf at the base
of this bluff. but neither the regular
packets nor the excursion steamboats,
stop there The ruins are a hundred
feet above the shore and the blue or
yellow water. Travellers along the river
catch glimpses through the thick foliage
in summer and the bare branches OF the
trees in winter of a rough wooden build
ing that stands somewhat back from the
edge of the bluff.
Long ago this was the dwelling of the
commandment of the garrison OF Fort
Foote 1t is cheerless structure now.
not altogether dilapidated. but consider
ably out of repair. but YOU Will get a
closer view of it when YOU enter the
grounds with The Star man. This place
is a government reservation still and III
summer il is used by the battalion of en-
gineers from Washington barracks as a
place for instruction in field exercises.
There these troops throw bridges across
deep gullies and ravines and tear them
down and build them up again and again.
They construct barbed wire entangle-
ments build field forts or sections OF
them. and map the whole country round
about over and over again.
The relic cannon among the ruins are
not so numerous as they were two or
three years ago. Only two are left
Dwellers in the Deighborhood told The
Star man that last summer two OF the
venerable weapons were hauled away to
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telegram. Just gazing his elbow. Ez.a
broke the lone-iump record he Il never
seen anything like that down In Mid
dlesex,
Half an hour later as he looked apon
the White House from Il coign of van
tage beside the car tracks in front 81
Lafayette Square, second motor car
whsked by at a rate that sent the fright
ened elder tumblins topsy-turvy to tue
curb. uncertain which side was upper
most. He picked up his hat gazed dis
gustedly after the car. disa ppearing IN
a clutter of smoke and dust, and gin
gerry made his way back To the Whdl'NeS.
barely escaping. ON the way. a motor
engine Fastening to a lire. He waited
not for the oyster boat, but returned by
the first river craft 10 MiddleseX and
buried himself in the pines.
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He buried himself in the pines-aud,
when, on the Sunday evening following,
he emerged to an eXpectant congrega-
ton, there was "A halo of eXaltation upon
his brow. His finger pointed to Nahum,
chapter >. verses 40
The chariots shall rage in the streets.
they shall jostle one another in the broad
ways: they shall seem like torches. they
shall run like the lshtnings
The people shall stumble in their
walk: they shall make haste to the wall +"
Then Ezra opened up the sizzling valves
of his rustic eloduence and preached a
sermon that gloomed the lamps in the
meetin' house. His words reeked of sui
phur and birthstone flames licked out
from the joints in his sentences, while an
enchanted audience sat, plmply with
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Nicholas the Weak. OF late his inf1u-
cnce has waned, but recent events have
demonstrated to those who have been be-
hind the scene, so TO speak, that he is
once more pulling the strings.
II was Prince Orloff who dictated the
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over the Potomac over Washington and
Alexandria. and across the Virginia hills,
abruptly turns south The country through
which you are travelling now is high
fiat. sandy plateau. iii the main bare OF
trees excepting long. close lines of cedars
that border lanes leading to farmhouses
that mark Old fence lines-fences that
perhaps rotted down long, long before the
civil war. These fields, which In sum
mer produce many tons of the vegetables
sold in Washington are drear and bleak
at this season They are gray and brown
with winter-blighted weeds and myrlads
of tufts of straw-yellow sedge rustic as
they are whipped hither and thither by
the cold wind For if there is any wind
at all it will roar and whistle over these
uplands.
The road is narrow and deep with sand.
The only enlivening feature of the land
scape is the cluster of sumac bushes
fruited with their wine-purple berries
which you pass at irregular intervals.
Gradually you are inclining toward the
river and now the right hand is a
forty-acre piece of woodland and TO the
west and south you are apt to catch
shining glimpses of the river. Off to the
right is an abandoned brick house, two
stories high, with mansard roof which
in the distance appears to be slate.
though, of course. it may be Shngle. This
was the RoZier home, where lived Charles
ROZer during the civil war period. 1t
was THIS 1dnlly Wnlcn gave us name 10
the bluff on which Fort FOote was built.
and among all the river men today that
tree-grown cliff is called Rollers buff.
OF to the left nearly as far the eye
can reach extend the lands of the Edelen
farm. That family owned those broad
acres during and following the civil
The Edeien house stood few hundred
yards off the left of the road you are
travelling now, but il burned down a good
many years ago. and on its site, in
grove of old trees. modern house has
been built, and there lives one of the
prosperous citizens of the neighbOrhood,
Otto Rupert.
The road again turns west toward the
river and plunges into red and yellow
clay region with dark. thick woods on
either hand You stumble down a rough
hill cross a culvert bridging a small
stream. and come to a weatherbeaten.
nearly broken down fence nclosing a
clearing in which few ornamental trees
are growing. and through which what
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' ENTS Of the past
few weeks have re-
minded official cir
cles here of the
continued existence
OF Prince Vladimir
Orloff. one of the
m o $ t picturesque
characters in pres
ent : day Russia.
Bluff, strong, fear
less and unscrupu-
lous, in the past he
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In his report Gen. Barnard SAYS:

In his report Gen. Barnard SAYS:
The fort was essentially completed In
the fall of 1863 and is Vet maintafncI
as an armed and calrisoned post II l.
in excellent condition. and with proper
care likely to remain so for years to
come. The earth slopes caused some
trouble, but are now maintained i'm good
order The wooden structures are in an
excellent state of preservation The mag
aZines are perfectly dry and no COM
plant was ever made of Ammunition
having been damaged either by leakage
or by improped ventilation. The BON
proofs, filling rooms implement rooms
and the counterscarp galleries are equally
dry and in good condition.
1t is not often that a Washingtonidn
StraYS into the ruins of this fort so close
to Washington. but trip there is apt 10
pay a big dividend III reVeries and re-
Elections. if one is interested i'm such out
of-date things.