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grounds. On the left hand is the
iron fence of the Soldiers Home
cemetery, where rest the bones OF
thousands of brave men who died in
the Washington hospitals during the
early years of the civil war. and in
which soldiers dying at the home are
committed back to the dust at the rate
of-according to a grave digger there :.
seventy-five a year. though many OF
the soldiers at the home find their sep
ulture at Arlington.
Close within the fence and along the
turf between it and the fine yellow
gravel drive of the cemetery are me-
mortal stones which are of different
pattern from those set in long, straight
lines over acres Of these sad grounds.
A hundred PAGES along the Hardwood
road brought the Rambler to the main
entrance to the cemetery, where, Sur
rounded by neatly clipped box hedges
and beds of bright flowers. stands the
lodge, a brown stone and slate cot
tage, the first story of stone and the
second story, a mansard story, OF slate
The Rambler entered here and loitered
along the gravel way paralleling the
road over which he had come, and he
read the names and dates on the
gravestones that in the shadow of
spruce and cedar and oak, and some
times grown around with ivy, stood
along the mournful way and seemed
pensively to invite an uncovered man
to read their legends. There were the
graves of Maj. Gen. David S. Stanley,
who died in 1902, his wife, Anna NJ
Stanley. Christian. Wife. Mother who
died April %. 1905; Anna Stanley Hol-
brook. who died in 1907: +. b. Herman
and Francis Herman, and Birg. Cen
John C. kelton. who died in 1898, and
on whose tombstone is inscribed, THE
Soldiers Friend. Erected by the Vet
Grams of the Soldiers Home" Ivy
grows at the base of this monument
Then you pass on by the graves of
Herman Schreiner and his wife, Mary,
Capt. Francis NJ. Schreiner. Brew. Maj:
Gen. Henry J. Hunt, who died in 1889;
his wife, Mary Bethune Craig Hunt.
1911; Henry J. Hunt, U. S. N, 1886;
Presley Craig Hunt, NJ. D., 1910; Brev.
Maj. Gen. b. w. Brice, 1892: Paul
Moritz julius Won Kurowsky. and Mary
Theodosia Grant. beloved wife of Gen.
S. B. Holabird. quartermaster general,
U. S. A, born Dover Plains, n. Y, Jan
uary 2s, 1880. died Washington, D. c.,
July 9, 1854" Another face of this
stone tells that Gen. Holabird also
sleeps there. The next grave is that
of Capt. Robert Catlin. retired, who
was born in 1910, and died in 1903.
By this time you have arrived opposite
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A Much Wounded Soldier.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES said
that the lamp of mans life has
three Wicks-brain, blood and breath
and that to turn down any one of them
makes the other two go out. The
disregard. so long as his head, heart
and lungs are unhurt. have long been
one of the wonders of war history.
Lord Napier had an utter indiffer
ence to wounds, and the wonderful ce-
lerity of his recovery makes an inter-
esting story. Two of his wounds he
had not cared to notice at all in his
record of services furnished to Harts
army list.
He was severely wounded at F'eroze-
shah in December, 1Si5, but had re-
covered in time TO take part in the bat
tie of Sobraon, seven weeks later. Be
fore Mooltan, in the middle of Septem-
ber 1913, q cannon shot all but took off
his leg. but he was marching and fight
ing again by the second week in No
vember.
January 12 following he was severe
ly wounded in the trenches, but he was
able to march several hundred miles
across the country and tight at GuJrat
one month later to a day.
He was shot in the leg at the first re-
lief of Lucknow, but nevertheless rode
out next day and brought in the rear
guard, after which, throughout the
blockade, he did continuous and ardu-
Gus service. At the second relief he
was severely wounded. but this did not
hinder him from taking up the active
duty of chief engineer at the Alum
baugh few days later.
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thorities are imposing local quaran-
tines, which prevent the passage OF
animals from farms or localities known
to be infected to other localities in the
same state in which the disease has
not appeared. Each infected herd. as
rapidly as the disease is discovered. is
killed and the dead animals buried in
a covering of lime. The skins of the
animals are slashed so as to permit
the rapid action Of the lime.
THE owner of the slaughtered ami
mails is reimbursed on basis of the ap-
praised value of the herd. the appraiser
being appointed by the state. The ex-
pense of the whole process of condem-
nation and disinfection is divided
equally between the federal and state
governments.
Until the entire premises have been
thoroughly disinfected and all danger
Of spreading the disease removed the
farm is Quarantined by the local au-
thorities in the same way in which 1t
would be for a contagious human dis
ease. This local quarantine prevents
the visit Of individuals or the transfer
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a granite chapel near the lodge gate
Over the stern, iron-grated doors is
the letter "L'' and in round, stained
glass window which turns sunlight into
rose tones is the name Logan" In
the interior of the chapel-vault are three
massive metal-bound caskets. In the
largest rests Gen. John A. Logan. The
inside walls OF the vault are hung with
of them faded. but impressive. Little
flags hang within the vault. The cas-
kets, when the Rambler peered into the
dim place, were covered with fresh
flowers.
Outside the Logan vault is little
green-slatted bench and the Rambler
rested there. The yellow sun coming
through the thin and thinning autumn
foliage sprinkled the graveyard turf and
tombs with tiny patches of light and
shadow, and squirrels and chipmunk
rustled the dead dry leaves that lay on
the walks and the fading sward
Across Hardwood road and in the Sol
diers' Home grounds were many men In
blue uniforms and with dark slouch hats.
Some of these men, perhaps most of
them, walked with a limp, or a hating
gait, and some of them carried cane or
crutch They were gathering In groups
around the northeast entrance to the
bugle and these men began trooping
into the big building. Scores of them
are coming from all parts of the grounds.
They trooped into the messhall in way
that seemed to the Rambler more solemn
than joyous. Old men do not go to
meals with the gee and hearty expecta-
ton of young and lusty chaps. The edge
is off their appetite.
The Rambler passed out of the ceme-
tcry gate and took his way eastwardly
along the H3rewood road. The way con-
tinued to lead along with the grounds Of
the Soldiers Home on the right and on
the left there stretched far off the long
lines of little white headstones in mem
ory of soldiers. The white ranks. be-
cause of the gentle undulatons of the
ground, seemed to weave over the land
and with their flag and our flag alter
nately floating and dropping over them
the scene gave to the Rambler strcng
impression of pallid lines of silent men.
\ few rods further along the Hare
wood road the scene changes. On the
left are unfenced woods crisscrossed by
many hard-beaten paths, the wooded
land falling down into the broad fields
north and westerly of University sta
tion and over which lead the tracks of
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sition German specialists declare that
the men who worked near the infected
cows during the plague of 1892 ire.
quently contracted the disease and did
not find it necessary to visit physicians.
One official in the Department OF Ag-
riculture. while examining the mouth
of COW. had a little of the saliva
from the animals mouth strike MS
face. Within short time he developed
an attack of sore throat and Small
eruption broke out between the fingers
of both hands. But the disease passed
off within a few weeks and without
harmful results.
A slight idea of the magnitude of the
calamity which would. confront the
United States should the present
plague spread through all of the herds
of this country is gained by an exam
nation of statistics in the possession
of the Department of Agriculture.
During the last year the following fig
ures were tabulated to show the extent
of the animal raising in this country:
Sheep ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 6S 600 O00
This may be compared with the fig
ures for the year 1912 in Germany,
which show:
Cattle 1900 0CO
swine Observation-Disclosures 81, 100000
Sheep and goats Observation-Disclosures. 100000
In the German plague it is estimated
that 900 infected cattle were killed.
The cost to the government was ap-
plague cost her about s5.00O.0OO.
Should this country find the present
plague equally serious. .he loss would
be sta taggering-beyond the imagination.
Whenever a farm Is visited. the ex-
perts, if they find cattle, sheep or
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THE VINEYARD.

perience has taught the inspectors
that sooner or later the dread disease
will claim the other animals.
When the foot and mouth disease
first makes its appearance the ailing
animal suffers from sore throat and
general debility, which, among hu-
mans. would be described as d run
down" condition. Soon thereafter sa-
Iva appears at the mouth, an excess
of Shiny fluid caused by the throat.
Clceratlons set in and within a short
time the animal is unable to eat.
At the same time sore places appear
between the cleft hoofs. These gradu-
ally grow worse until. in serious cases,
the hoofs finally drop off. The horns
of cows and sheep also may be affect
ed by the disease. They, like the
hoofs. have been known to fall off.
The most serious phase of the disease
however, is the startling manner in
which the diseased animals lose
weight One official of the department
in describing animals which had come
to him for eXamina ton. declared that
one could almost see the flesh disap-
pearing and the bones protruding.
The fat comes off of a COW or sheep,
he added, like snow melting under the
sun. Nothing can be done to prevent
this
After they have once become afflicted
with foot and mouth disease the cattle
are no longer of enough value to their
owners to warrant their isolation until
such time as they shall have recovered
Forty per cent of their original weight
is frequently lost. In addition they
may be subject to a recurrent attack
at any time.
The chief danger of human inocula-
tion is through the drinking of milk
from infected cows. To the healthy
adult an attack of the ailment would
mean little more than slight indispo-
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into the interior of the brown brick
house. which by the way was built in
1858. Many things in there have
wonderful charm: There are portraits
of Robinson and Leigh ancestors paint
ed by Sully. Part of Mr.. Robinson's
library is in place. and here the Ram
bier would have fingered as long as he
would under the big pine trees. There
are shelves of fine books in mellow
bindings that have just the right feel
to man who likes books.
There is nothing new and tawrdy and
harsh about those bindings. In min
shelf of the books and there were fine
editions of "Pepys' Memoirs Mem
oirs of Bolingbroke." Life of Romil-
ly." "Walpole's Letters" SCOTS Life
Life and Correspondence OF Locke.
Nichols Progress of James T. 'Le-
lands Philip of Macedon" and the his
torical works of Hume. Green, Mac
caulay and Prescott.
With a very pleasant guide the Ram
bier started from The Vineyard to
visit the grave of John Agg. 1t lies
near the west wall of ST. Paurs or
Rock Creek Church. Inclosing it is an
iron fence with n gate and at three
corners of this fence grow three Eng
fourth. but perhaps yew trees some
times die even in graveyard. Above
the grave is a monument from which
the Rambler copied the following:
John Agg, of Evesham, England.
Died 18th April. 1855. Age 10 years.
John Agg, "A communicant, long the
senior member of the Nestry, a faith
full and generous friend of the church.
Erected by the Parish AS Grateful
Tribute to his Memory"
On one face of the monument was
this: elizabeth Agg, Died 9th July.
1854. Aged 81 Years
On another face of the monument was
this: Edward Blackford. Died March
10, 1S47, aged 10 years. Hannah NJ
Blackford, Died October -, 1875.
AS the Rambler remembered the ex-
planation Hannah Blackford WAS the
daughter of John and Elizabeth Agc.
and there are grandchildren of these
Blackfords, who come back TO Wash
ington at long intervals to visit at
Rock Creek Church and at The Vine
yard. The Rambler's guide at this
grave tenderly plucked twig of the
yew tree to send by mail to one OF
the Blackfords.
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KITCHEN AT REAR OF MANSION.

the Metropolitan branch of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad. On the right
hand, just where the picket-ttopped
brick wall of the Soldiers Home ends.
a post and rail fence begins. The fence
is four rails high, each rail morticed
into the posts. At this poin ton the
road the change from city to country
is abrupt
Inside this fence line is a field of un
even surface, in which grow a few oaks
and elms. and in other parts under
growth is springing up. The part of
the field that is clear of trees is gray
with the dead flowers of the golden
rod and with sedge that has taken on
to the south and at no great distance
from the road the southerly view is
blocked by tall and heavy woodland.
You follow the old fence a dozen pam
els or so and come to venerable gate,
whose hinges have not creaked for
years, and this opens into a road long
unused and though it called out to be
followed, the Rambler did not have
time to harken to it's invitation. About
fifty yards further along this fence a
gravel road swings off to the right and
passes through a gate that is hospit-
ably open and into a chestnut grove.
while the Hardwood road from which
you have now branched off leads
straight ahead and down a rather steep
grade. On one of the gate posts as you
pass into the chestnut grove you read a
rustic sign. well weathered and simply
lettered. Robinson Estate
x x
Soon after passing this gate and look
ing ahead at the gravel road gracefully
bending first to the left and then to
the right. you become sensible of the
presence of an old garden and feel that
a house stands close by or that one did
stand here. Great box bushes, clearly
the survivors of hedge, grow there.
thicket of lilac bushes covers a rood of
ground. Spirea is there. Above the
turf rise patches of jonquils, a sure
sign of the presence Of an o!d-time gar
den. The trunk of a dead tree is thickly
matted over with hoary ivy. Pine trees
in stately majesty stand around The
air is pungent with the odor of pine ane'
box. The city seems a long way off.
The height of the ridge you are on and
it's steep slopes make you feel that the
enjoyment of great vstas must be near.
To the southeast and above the treetops
the blue and misty crest of a distant
ridge stretches across the sky.
Then, among the trees before you
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stands big, brown brick house. quiet
sequestered and in some degree solemn
1t has basement story. two full brick
stories and third story within am
pie mansard roof There are wide
porches which speak of delightful
hours on summer days and nights. AT
the rear of the house is a little build
ing suggestive of English village ar
chitecture. 1t is the kitchenI
Gravel drivewayS wind around the
house and a horse-hitching rod sup
ported by two strong oak posts is near
by. You may wonder where all the
horses that have been hitched there.
how many Stalwart hands have patted
graceful necks there and how many of
the horses and their masters are no
more. Many venerable long-leaf pines
are growing around the house. and
there are holly trees trimmed with
scarlet berries. Box and fig bushes
grow there, too. Nothing seems brand
new or freshly vanished. Everything
has been mellowed by time. The very
atmosphere whispers to you that ease
and comfort have been long enjoyed
there.
You find that this place, the name Of
which is The Vineyard. is on the point
of ridge and that the view below and
around is one of the most extensive to
be gained from the heights north of
the city. You look to the north until
the hills of Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties melt into the color of
the sky. You look to the eastward and
follow the hills far beyond the Eastern
branch. You follow the crest of the
AnacoStia ridge and successive ridges
until Fort Washington comes into view
with the shining river between that
and the opposite headland Still turn
ing to the right, your eyes follow the
Virginia hills from far down river un-
til the white pillars of Arlington man
sion come into the picture.
An intervening ridge shelters much
of Washington from your view, but in
the grounds Is a rustic summer house.
on which time has put his picturesque
touch, to which moss clings and which
vines embrace. You walk over to that
pleasant place and through a gap in
the intervening ridge a wide sector of
Washington shows. and most of the
landmarks with which you and the
Rambler have been long acquainted
show boldly against the sky. 1t is a
great panorama, and should you visit
that little rustic summer house or look
out in the garden of the pine trees and
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which have been made during the last
sixty days out of any of the infected
or suspected districts. The herds of
animals SO shipped are located and i'm
mediately examined by veterinarians.
In this way the presence of foot and
mouth disease has been discovered in
various places in the present wide area
now under federal quarantine. which
includes Massachusetts. New York,
Ohio. Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois.
Maryland, Michigan. Wisconsin and
Iowa. Similarly, the numbers of all
cars in which animals have been trans
ported from these districts have been
obtained. and these are being located
and thoroughly cleaned and disin-
fected.
"Following the imposition of gen
eral federal quarantine and the killing
of actually infected herds. comes a
farm to- farm inspection Of the entire
quarantined area. Later. when it be-
comes clear that the disease has been
localized, 1t will be possible for the
federal and state authorities to free
from quarantine all but the actually
infected counties or districts. and al
low the uninfected territories to re-
sumo interstate shipments of stock"
The department officials hope. by
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LOOKOUT AT THE VINEYARD.

of any produce or animals from the
farm to other farms. In some cases.
because human beings can carry the
disease to other herds, the state au-
thorities have prevented children on
infected farms from attending school.
In other cases, as in Illinois and Ohio,
the state authorities have closed the
stockyards until they can be cleaned
and disinfected.
The first effort of the department is
to discover and segregate all animals
sick with the disease or that have been
exposed. To this end the federal and
state inspectors are now tracing up,
through bills of lading and railroad
records, all shipments of live cattle
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the United States are agreed that the
only method of combating the disease
is to stop all movement of stock and
material which have been subjected to
any danger of infection, and to kill off
without delay all herds in which the
disease has gained any foothold. This
enables the authorities to eradicate af-
fected herds and to isolate and hold
under observation all suspected herds.
For these reasons. the Department
Of Agriculture has already quarantined
fourteen states for the foot and mouth
disease. The federal quarantine pre-
vents all interstate movement of stocks
and materials likely to carry the infec-
tion. At the same time. the state au-
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AN EXCESS OF SALIt A FROM COWS
MOUTH Is ONE OF THE SYMPTOMS
OF THE DISEASE.
standing that they are to be slaughter
ed Immediately. Thus Chicago. though
she might not be allowed to send out
her own live stock, could receive live
cattle from other states not under
quarantine, and, If examination showed
them to be healthy, could slaughter
them and tranship them to another
state.
Il
But there is little chance for the
gentleman of easy morals who would
take advantage of this proviso. In the
first place the railways will not handle
his cattle. there. being a heavy fine
for violation of the federal regula :
tions Additionally. the animals are
everywhere subjected to rigid super
vision, and state and city boards of
health eagerly cooperate with the fed
eral authorities in order to protect
themselves.
The history of the present outbreak
is vague. 1t is claimed by one au-
thority that the Importation of infected
hides from Asia was responsible for
the epidemic Although they admit that
they cannot definitely trace the epi-
demic to it's beginning, the authorities
at the department are inclined to scout
this theory. Their explanation is con-
tained in the following statement,
which was recently made public:
'The present outbreak first appeared
in southern Michigan. How it was in
troduced there is not known. Ship
ments Of diseased hogs from this place.
which passed to Chicago. are believed
to be responsible for the infection of
the pens in the union stockyards. Once
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Department of Agri-
culture Has Experts
Working in Many
States Germany's
Serious Pla que in
lSo2-Origin of Dis
ease-Co-operation Be
tween Municipal, State
and Federal Authori-
ties.
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Y STERIOUSL SLY APP
pearing out of
thin air, the now
nationally famous
foot and mouth"
plague among cat
tie has given the
United States au-
thoritieS more to
worry about than
they have bad in
years. Fourteen
states are under
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UNDREDS of liz
tie journeys has
the Rambler n ade
around Washing
ton. but IL o n G
more interesting.
to him than one
he made on a
clear and shinin &
day last week,
and if the reader
cares to follow
him and to see the
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quarantine. Thousands of cattle are
being slaughtered-either shot or
dubbed 70 death-and thousands more
will be sacrificed in the effort to stamp
out the disease.
The most learned scientists in the
Department of Agriculture. men whose
lives have been devoted to the study
OF cattle. admit that there are phases
of the foot and mouth disease which
are not understood by them. The dis
ease is supposed to be germ disease,
but the bacillus that wreaks such havoc
is so small that the finest microscope
has thus far been unable to detect it.
Foot and mouth disease is the dead
lest plague known to hoofed animals.
II is practically 100 per cent contag
iouS among cows, goats, hogs and
sheep Horses may be afflicted, but to
a .milder extent, and human beings
may contract it, though it is rarely
fatal save in the cases of very young
weak children.
Government inspectors to the number
OF 800 are cooperating with state Of
ficials in Il farm -to-farm examination
of the infecsed cattle. swine and sheep
of farmers. How many more states
will be visited by the epidemic the
government authorities make no at
tempt to state. Neither will they at
tempt to estimate the number of cat
tile which viii have to be killed be-
fore the end is reached. 1t is not
improbable that a million animals will
be slaughtered in different parts of
the country.
Since Germany had her last serious
plague in 1892 her scientists have
reached the conclusion that the only
manner in which the foot and mouth
disease may be fought is by complete
eradication-and that means the ex-
termination of cattle.
Hence. if a farmer has one COW suf-
fering from the disease, the fact that
the remainder of the herd are appar-
antly without il will not save them
from death-by rife bullet or club in
the bottom of deep trench. Ex-
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tracing all shipments of livestock sent
out of Chicago since the outbreak of
the plague, to stamp out the disease
before it takes on the proportions OF
a national calamity.
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swine afflicted, inform the owner that
he will be compensated for his personal
loss. His cattle are appraised at a
fair valuation by an official selected
by the state in which the farmer lives.
The expense is borne jointly by the
state and the government.
Although state may be under strict
quarantine, healthy cattle are allowed
to be shipped into it with the under