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Evening star., 1914-06-07
Fish Worms!
FISHING is a pastime and an incldel

FISHING is a pastime and an incidental
! income. or rather. outgo with
large number of the people Of Washing
ton Every traveller along the sides OF
the rocky reaches of the river above
Washington has probably noted the signs
bait for Sale" Boats for Hire" and
other signs put up for the benefit per
a little industry. though. at Georgetown
to which the Rambler means to call at
tention Az the city cars outbound reach
the intersection of Beth and Prospect
streets, or 36th street and Prospect ave-
nue., or, at any rate. the point where
soft drink signs are posted all over the
old Southworth cottage. many small boys
tempt passengers with masses OF wrig-
Cling worms. These boys in piping tones
are saying, Fish worms" or "Feesh
werms" They have their merchandise
in a battered tin can and they hold IL
SO that the mass Of sQuirming worms
wriggles partly in the can and partly in
one Of the hands of the boy. He is dis
playing his wares. and he wants to prove
to you that the worms have plenty OF
wriggle in them. He has tangled knot
of them in one hand and he pleads with
you to buy them. For 5 or 10 cents ne
will let you have enough OF them to feed
all the fish that daily with your hooks.
It may be that the fish esteem these
worms; that they look on them as deli
cate MOI sells, and that their appetite is
piuued and tempted by them; but there 70
no accounting for tastes.
Many fishermen pause at this transfer
point to buy bait from the boys. an
quite a thriving trade has been built up.
shady. moist places along the banks OF
the canal and along the river shore. and
with a good catch Of worms the boys reap
a harvest of nickels and dimes.
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five states is practically identical with
the others. The naturalization of a Cos
ia Rican in Guatemala or of Honduran
in Salvador is simple in the extreme.
He has but to make an official declaration
before municipal magistrate of the shift
In his allegiance and 1t is done.
In the several national constitutions
there is no provision prohibiting an alien
from holding even the highest Office A
native of Nicaragua and a native of Hon
duras are among the men who have been
elected president of Costa Rica, while
Costa Rica has furnished presidents to
several of the other states.
But, while the idea of confederation is
not seriously opposed by the thinking
peoples of those countries. it is but nat.
ural that an aloofness still exists. With
human nature as it is, ambition and ma
tional jealousy-though these difficulties
are growing less each ,year-prevent the
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The Warblers.

IN the accounts of the excursions around
the environs of the Capital by the
Audubon Society, the Alpine Club, the
Wanderlusters or the Hikers and other
nature study associations readers Of The
Star have seen many references to the
large and interesting bird family of
warblers. In the Audubon slip, which
is printed list of the resident and win
ter resident birds of this locality and of
the spring migrants opposite the names of
which the observer makes mark to in
dicate whether the bird was seen or
heard. the following warblers are listed:
The myrtle warbler. pine warbler. yellow
palm warbler, yellow-throated warbler,
the black-and-w warbler. yellow
warbler the Maryland yellow throat,
the prairie warbler, the parula warbler.
the black throated green warbler, hooded
warbler. black-throated blue warbler:
worm-eating warbler, chestnut-sided
warbler, golden winged warbler. Ken
lucky warbler, Blackburnian warbler,
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RIGGS, MILL ON NORTHWEST BRANCH.

of water and over the dam pours the
water with sound which may be heard
far away on a still day and a mile away
on still night.
Across the Riggs Mill road from the
mill is a large house built of the same
stone as the main structure of the mill.
You will know at once that it was the
miller's house. colored family lives in
it now. but it has not lived there long
enough to be able to tell anything of the
history of the mill
AS the road over which you travelled
dropped down steep hill into the valley
of Northwest branch, SO the road, after
passing the mill. climbs out of the mar
row valley by another steep hill and at
the top of this hill on the right hand,
set far back in garden shaded by large
fruit trees and glowing with roses, is a
brick house with all the appearance of
great age. BY the roadside a hundred
yards beyond is blacksmith shop, and
the old brick house with its fruit trees
and its roses is the home Of the smith.
There is a rural delivery letter box by
man painted on it. That is the name OF
the smith. The smithy stands at the
point where the Cool Spring road
branches off from the Riggs mill and
College and to College Park.
Mr.. Freeman told the Rambler that
he was born there in 1867 and had lived
there all the years since. His father,
William H. Freeman, lived there all his
life, and his grandfather, Theodore
scheckles, lived there before him. He
said that he understood that the mill
was built about $50 years ago. The date
of the erection of the mill had been
rudely cut in the stone of the founda-
ton. but long while ago it had been
so mutilated by some boys from the Agri-
cultural College that it could not now be
deciphered.
He had learned from his father, who
got 1t from his father and mother, that
an English family named Scofield moved
into that part of the country a good
many years before the American revolu-
ton and built the brick house on the
hill, the stone house opposite the mill
and then the mill. 1t was operated as
Scofield's mill. Then another English
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A Humanitarian Idea.

THIS is the story of great expert
ment that failed. 1t also puts
George w. Honesty down for the count,
though it proves that the usual male
moving picture fiend-but that's where
the story begins.
In the movie district around 9th
street there is a certain theater whose
manager is a humanitarian idealist. He
smokes himself, and It is like iron in
his soul to see scores of his male
patrons regretfully toss their half
smoked cigars into the street before
going inside his theater. Recently he
went to the trouble of arranging a wire
basket in front Of his place, and above
1t was this genial sign:
LEAVE YOUR CIGARS HERE"
On the first afternoon FIVE men planked
down their nickels and went inside when
the theater opened. Five cigars, all
strangers to each other. lay side by side
Pittsburgh stogie. well chewed; one was
a half-dnished 5-center and the next two
were Of the 10-cent type. Last of all
there was a magnificent, plethoric pro-
its stomach. 1t was cigar that fairly
exuded aristocracy.
The show was not yet over when a
square, bony man came out and viewed
the array speculatively. Then he picked
I'D the aristocrat, smelled II and walked
of. The next man drifted out and helped
himself to a 10-cent specimen. Two
more men came out The Pittsburgh
stogie remained alone.
Then there emerged from the theater
a magni1cently clad person who lightly
waved a gold-headed cane. Instinct
showed that he was the owner OF the
good cigar. He walked to the wire
basket and an expression Of hurt sur
prise showed on his face. He poked at
the pitiful stog1e resentfully.
WELL" he said aloud. Il gotta have
something"
And when tho guard wasn't looking he
picked up the wire basket and disap-
peared. The humanitarian experiment
ended right there.
No wire basket has been seen since
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family by the name of Logan acquired the
property and the place was long known
as Logan's mill. The property was next
taken over by the Riggs family and some
time before the civil war it came to be
known as Riggs mill. The milling busi-
ness in that part of the country began
to languish with the development of the
great milling industry in the west, but the
mill continued to struggle on for exist
ence until a few years ago.
Mr.. Freeman said that thtrty-fve or
forty years ago there died on a farm
close to the mill property Mrs. Tabitha
Chew. who at the time of her death was
nfnety-four years old When she was a
girl, he had heard her say. she remem-
bered that workmen were putting new
shingle roof on the brick house in which
he lives Shingle roofs last a long time.
and putting new shingle roof on house
a century and quarter ago would indi-
cate that the house had some age.
The mill stands on Northwest branch
about five miles above where that branch
flows into the Eastern branch near Blad-
ensburg road, and Mr. Freeman remem-
bers having often heard the venerable
Mrs. Tabitha Chew tell that she had
heard that ships used to come up as far
as the mill and that they often brought
brick in ballast. taking back return
cargo of flour, and that the house on the
hill with the fruit trees and the roses
was built of English brick. Mr.. Free
man pointed to another old house across
the hills and fields. which he said had
also been built of imported brick.
The Rambler often runs into this per-
sistent story of houses built with brick
that came in ballast from England. but
he does not ofte find two Of these houses
so close together in a single day
Mr. Freeman directed the Rambler to
an interesting old tomb about a pistol
shot from the mill, and overlooking it.
Just after YOU cross the bridge over
Northwest branch on your way back
to the city you will see path that
leads off to the right, and up a steep
hill. Follow it and you can't miss see
ing what tell you about" he said.
did see that path. 1t led up by the
side of the grown-up and abandoned
road which the Rambler has previously
mentioned This was the earlier road
that led down in the valley to the mill
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unreadiness for the full benefits of self
government, in the opinion of historians
and such thoughtful men as Senior Calvo,
lay at the bottom of the disintegration.
During the Harrison administration
James G. Blaine, with his eyes ever turn
ed toward the south. urged reconfedera-
ton. With the power and influence OF
the United States behind the movement
it might have been concluded in the
course of few years. but changing ad-
ministrations, the pressing Of other large
international questions for adjustment,
set Central American affairs temporarily
into the background and the United states
ceased its efforts to bring the five states
together.
According to the best Informed on Lat
in American affairs there Is no definite
opposition in Central America to the prin-
ciple of confederation. By race and by
ties of consanguinity the people of all five
states are practically identical. Senor
Calvo himself married native of Qua
temala, and his case is but typical Of
many. The constitution Of each Of the
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Nashville warbler. blue-winged warbler.
black-poll warbler. magnolia warbler.
Cape May warbler. Canadian warbler.
Wilson warbler, bay breasted warbler and
the mourning warbler.
In addition to these warblers a man
who knows something OF birds may see
the Bachnan warbler. the :BrewstsSr'
warbler, the Cairns warbler, the cerulean
warbler, the Connecticut warbler. the
golden checked warbler, Kirkland warbler,
Lawrence warbler, prothonotary warbler.
Sennett warbler, Swanson warbler. syca-
more warbler and the Tennessee warbler.
The Rambler undertook to have one
of the bird men tell the distinguishing
markings of some of the more numerous
Of these beautiful birds, and what fol-
lows is the result of that conversation.
One of the most common of these birds
in swamps and shrubbery along roadsides
is the Maryland yelow-throat. His call
of "witchity-w witchity-witch-e-ree' may be
heard all day in the sparsely built parts
of the District. The male, besides his
yellow throat, has a long black mask.
often likened to a burglars mask. which
stretches across the top of his bill and
far back behind his eyes. You cannot
mistake this bird, because of his peculiar
song and that black mask-like marking
around the ears.
In close association with this bird you
may find the Kentucky warbler. a near
relative of the yellow throat He wears
no black mask, but his crown and ear
coverts are black, he has a yellow line
over the eye. and his underparts are yell
low, and he has no white in his plumage.
One of the Ramblers ornithological
friends told him that these birds are
found in localities frequented by the oven
bird, but with a preference for low and
damp woods, and as rule they keep
within the depths of tangled thickets.
They like the yellow-throats. are very
inquisitive as to strangers, and will come
quite close to you as if to ask your busi-
ness. and perhaps to scold you for in
truding.
The black ear coverts of this bird have
been a million times compared to black
side whiskers taperins down the sides OF
his yellow throat into what we boys used
to call bonnet strings
There is the blue-winged warbler. a
very small bird and quite a common one
in the southeastern states and north as
far as Connecticut. He makes noise
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1t is exceedingly steep. The grade is
at least one in four. 1t does not seem
now that loaded team could negoti-
ate such a grade.
large tract of cleared land, in which
an old apple orchard grows. There was
a graveyard-like thicket of honeysuckle
and other vines. A tall tree had been
strangIed it, and it had long been dead.
Out Of this mass of vines an extra
ordinarily large and heavy granite
tombstone stands upright as the day
it was set there 1t has been somewhat
Clipped by vandals or thoughtless
people. The inscription on it. as clearly
as the Rambler could make it out, reads:
Beneath this stone inferred the remains
OF Ann Barber, who was born In London in
1905, and died near this place In 1925. after
residence in this country of three years. Her
sorrowing friends on their own departure for
their own inscribe this stone to her memory"
Perhaps the inscription should have
read: Her sorrowing friends on their
departure for their own country in
scribe this stone to her memory and
it may be that the stonecutter omitted
the word country" But that is con-
lecture on the part of the Rambler. Far
down on the headstone and among the
vines and weeds is the name of the
stonecutter, and the Rambler made this
out to read James Birth t'eoil, Wash
ington, D. c."
Who this lady was the Rambler has
no information, though he should like
to know. So many of the old families
have been broken up and have moved
away from that section of the country
that it seemed too much of task to
search for the story of Ann Barber.
The tombstone says she died near this
place" Somewhere, perhaps, in that old
apple orchard stood the house where
Ann Barber died. The Rambler did not
see there any indication of the ruin
or the site of a dwelling, but he did not
reconnoiter closely. for the shadows of
evening were gathering, and he remem-
bered that it was a long walk back
to the city so he reluctantly bade
adieu to the lonely tomb of Ann Barber.
There is one fact worth recalling in
connection with this old mill, which for
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told by one of the dwellers IN the neisH-
borhood that it was eight miles, but
many statements of distance picked up at
random along the country roads are mis-
leading But if you are sufficiently in
terested in the location of and the dis
lance to this mill you can easily measure
il on the map. for the distance which
YOU travel depends on the way you take
20 reach this spot.
The direct way TO reach Riggs Mill
from Washington is to follow Rock Greek
Church road along the westerly and the
rorthwesterly sides of the Soldiers Home
grounds and along the easterly side OF
Rock Creek cemetery. Near the wood
burn schoolhouse the main road forks
That inclining to the left is the Blair
road and that inclining to the right Is
the Riggs road. The information will be
given you by one of the square road
posts, painted white and lettered in black,
which are familiar at the intersection or
roads throughout the District OF Co
Iumbia. Take the Riggs road.
Il
\ little way along this road you will
rass under the tracks of the east-to-west
line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
generally north by east, winds through
a hilly country, well titled. with many
pretty villas and goodly area of wood
land. From most of the high points along
the road you will catch glimpses of well
known places You will often see the
white tower of the main building of the
Soldiers Home. The yellow walls OF the
monastery near Brookland will shine in
the sun. Away over to the east you Will
fNY,f11 inu nf
Training School. And the water towers
at HvattsvilIe TO the east and at Takoma
to the west will always enable you TO
orient yourself.
the best in the District for automobiles or
wagons 1t is smooth and hard and not
very comfortable for travelling on foot
that is. on your own feet The nrst
stream Of any significance yol cross is
Sligo creek. which joins Northwest
branch TO the east and south OF the
point of crossing by the Riggs road. TWO
or three miles further on the macadam
road5ed ends and You are then on
comfortable country road. SOFT ana snaoy,
and sometimes with high clay banks on
both sides. 1t leads through woods rich
with summer fragrance and leadS down
long and rather steep hill. On the
left hand you will catch sight OF an Old
er road. now well grown up with plant
life and in places nearly obliterated. and
You will understand that the road you
are travelling is of easier grades than
the Older 1t was that older road that
many qf the teams hauling grain to the
mill and -four from it Travelled.
Nearing the bottom of the hill, the
sound of water swiftly running over
rocks comes to your ears, and few
PAGES further on you come within view
of the venerable mill. Crossing North
,~est branch on "a modern bridge. you
stand before the mill, and If it Is late
in the afternoon the shadow of the mill
will faif across Z the Riggs road. .1s:~a 81
=, & 49, z.
Il is a big structure as structures the
period TO which this mill belongs, go. 1t
j. larger than many of the other mills
in the vicinity of Washington of which
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Winding the Doctor.

<<TT isn't strange that Bob Hilliard
i should have won the heart and hand
Of a girl with three millions"
The speaker, a dramatic critic of Chi
cago, smiled and continued:
The last time Bob acted here, I met
him one morning promenading. And he
was superb-top hat. stick, black morning
coat, spats fitting without a wrinkle, and
one of those cigarette tubes that had
Just come out. a tube of gold and amber
q foot long. or possibly eighteen inches.
"As we chatted, and as he smoked his
Evening star., 1914-06-07

HEN, some weeks
ago, the ambassa-
dor from Brazil
and the ministers
from Argentine and
Chile were project
ed into the Mexi-
can situation as
mediators t h e r e
was great rejoic-
ing in the embas-
sizes and legations
of the American
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He Tells of the
Latin, American View
and Describes the
Dream of ALL Ameri-
can Solidarity, Which,
by Reason of Recent
Events, Is Nearer Re-
alization.
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IGGS MILL. or, as
il is laid down on
some of the maps.
Riggs Mills. is an
interesting place to
visit. 1t Is a shady
place by the side
of a wild and
rocky branch and
is about eight miles
from the sounds Of
the city-that is,
the Rambler was
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the Rambler has written. At a rough
guess. the mill is fifty feet front. by
sixty feet in depth. 1t is one story
under ground and the walls. strongly
built of ironstone and bluestone. rise
two stories above the level of the
ground. Above the walls is super
structure of wood. covered by hip
roof containing one full story and an
attic beneath the sloping shingle roof
and the ridge pole The structure is
well preserved.
On the east front, that is. the side
which the Riggs Mill road passes. there
are at the turf level three square win
dowS and a heavy square door, and In
the second story are four OF these
square windows, with wood width OF
stone wall between each of them. In
each of these windows there are, or
there were sixteen of those little square
panes of glass. with which window
frames were glazed In the olden days.
Most of those that were in the windows
of the ancient mill have been broken.
some Of them, perhaps. shattered by
hail but most of them very likely by
bows who will throw stones.
The north side was probably the front
of the mill There is a heavy square
door in the first story and another di-
rectly above it. In the third story. In
the wooden part, is another door, and 1t
is easy to see that grain or flour was
raised and lowered by ropes and pulleys
from the upper doors to the teams below.
At this side Of the mill is a. fiat space
covered with heavy turf. There is now
not a trace of a wheel track here, yet
this is where the teams drew up to the
mill.
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ports go to the United States and 60 per
cent Of our foreign-made purchases come
from the United States
''It is gratifying to me to know that the
interchange of commerce. so helpful a
promoter of mutual understanding and
cooperation. between the United States
and the Latin American countries aside
from Costa Rics also is growing with re-
markable rapidity. Time was when most
of the trading of the South and Central
American republics was with Europe.
Now the trade is shifting rapidly toward
the United States. The opening of the
Panama canal will promote a still greater
Interchange.
Buying and selling among peoples is
great aid to acquaintancnship and friend
ship. One gets to know and to respect
the man from whom he regularly buys
or to whom he regularly sells. 1t is so
with nations. And one is less apt to
quarrel with the man he knows and re-
spects than with total stranger. 1t is
to the interests Of all Americans not to
be strangers one to another"
ASHMUN BROWN.
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The south side Of the mill is on the
creek. and there you may look at the
overshot waterwheel, considerably out of
repair, but one would still hesitate to
call it a ruin. 1t would seem that with
a little work and little water it would
turn again. Westward from the mill
runs the branch. its sides fringed with
a good growth of trees and these mat
ted with ferns Along the side of the
creek is the mill race. dry now and
choked with woodland growths, and two
or three hundred yards away Is the mill
dam 1t still holds back the waters of
the branch. Behind it is quite depth
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republics at Washington
1T matters not what is the outcome of
the mediation" said one diplomatist from
south of latitude % north. 'the fact that
the Representatives of those countries
have been chosen to mediate in this diff
Guilty between the United States and
Mexico marks the beginning of new era
IN Pan American affairs.
1T establishes the right of the A. B.
c. to be heard in matters affecting the
American republics 1t demonstrates
their right to share with the United
States the assumed responsibility for the
well-being of those republic and to stand
with the United States in resisting Euro
pean interference in Pan-American poll
tics. 1t brings us to the point toward
which we have been striving for years
And then, when this idea was discuss
ed on Capitol Hill there were sta tesmen
who professed to take a gloomy view OF
the situation and to assume that A B
C mediation meant the end of the Mon
roe doctrine
OF the forty countries which maintain
embassies or legations at Washington,
twenty are American republics. Senior,
IN point of service, of the heads of all
OF these diplomatic establishments is
Senor Don Joaquin Bernardo Calvo, min
lister from Costa Rica. who also is senior
In service to all other ambassadors and
ministers at this capital.
Were there no ambassadors he would
F be doyen of the diplomatic corps. As
It is, he is doyen of the ministers.
And furthermore, there is no one bet
ter qualified to discuss Pan-American
politics than he.
Senior Calvo sees in the new situation
X produced by the A. b. c. mediation nc
modification of the Monroe doctrine as
It was originally announced. He does
see, however. step forward in Pan
American affairs.
1T is a constructive STEP said he
in discussing the subject "a step IN
the direction of that Pan-Amerfcar
solidarity toward which the far-sighte6
statesmen of the United States and al
the American republics have been anG
are working since the first internationa
american conference at Washington il
1852 .rs. -. 49,. ss
I'm their. larger aspect, the interest.