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Cold Hearts.

woUNG LORD UFFINGTON. the heir
of the Craven earlIom and the
Bradley Martin millions, has eloped
with a town clerks daughter"
The speaker was Z. Berry Wall, tho
New York clubman. He went on:
Young men continually make these
romantic marriages, but young women
seldom do so. Dukes sons marry be-
meath them regularly. but dukes
daughters-never
Women. / fear. have colder and
more mercenary hearts than men.
There's a story on that line.
AN octogenarian banker took the
hand of his beautiful girl wife in his.
and. shedding a senile tear. he quav-
cred:
ALAS. darling. we are ruined. An
unfortunate slump in war stocks has
wiped me out completely. Not cent
is left
Nathalie, the ex-movie queen, gave
a bitter laugh.
"'Then,' she said. I did marry for
love. after all, didn't I?'"
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Afghamistam and Warik@ Tribes of N0rtENwest India

had been sentenced and executed for
some unknown ofense.
There are more than 5000 900 inhabi-
tants of Afghanistan. They take their
characteristics from the country in
which they live, and the country
happens to be mostly mountains.
their characteristics fighting
tribesmen can be readily appreciated
White the amir Is the absolute sover-
efgn, his authority rests on the will of
these tribesmen.
The mass of the population Is said to
be fanatical in its adherence to Islam,
to the British overlordship. But the
stringency with which the British In
dian authorities cooperate with the
amir's government in keeping out for
eigners. and the care taken not to Of
fend the Mohammedans. thus far has
worked very we'll While the Christian
missionary in some sections OF the
world has been encouraged as IN ad-
vance agent of English authority. 1t
would be extremely difficult for any
London mission society to get a mis-
sionary into Afghanistan.
According to the latest reports. there
were ten or twelve foreigners in Al
ghanistan. two of whom were Ameri-
cans. One of these was Mr.. Jewett.
who was the representative of a Bonn
bay firm which had a contract with the
amir to install hydro-electric plant
Several years ago l met him in Kash-
mir, where he was making electric
installation for the General Electric
Company.
The fact that the amir is establishing
hydro-electric plants indicates that he
does not expect to keep his country
closed to useful western inventions any
more than he has kept it closed to
those which provided his own enter
tainment. such as the phonograph and
the motor cars. Yet the Industrial de-
velopment of Afghanistan is not apt to
be rapid. The tribesmen of the border
who are now in revolt against British
Indian authority interpose one OBJ
stacle to enterprise of this kind along
the frontier.
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Rambler Writes of Giesb0r0, ON Eastern Branch

Guard (washinrtcn Light Guard. Capt. Nc.
cathran; made a tarse, excursion to Poplar
some excellent shots were made. The first
" shcmo; second. silver badge s.rsi 6. 1.
Lawrence: third. leather medal. Private W. C.
sen,sd by M f. J. W. "' crSs. o The n FSp conpsny r
was handsomely entertained by Capt. Young.
in tho ab.ence Of e1 Mayor wsiiach. presented
the prizes
In 1878 Giesboro Point was con-
Quoted an excursion resort under tho
name OF Giesborough Park by John
Goss, and during the summer OF that
year there was weekly concert by
the Orpheus Octet Club. assisted by
amateur musicians from Alexandria
and Washington. The 4th of July
excursion of st Dominic's Church was
given to Giesboro in 1873. In The
Star of September 80, 1873. is this ad-
vertisem-nt:
Picnic at Giesnorcush Point: Tomorrow tho
Piimentary picnic to his friend. we FOR their psi
:onaEe during the % season He h.. also engaged
will sttemrt IN. periiou. feat Of waking from
the masthead Of . vessel TO the top of the pa
srsmd Of Prof Hsny VIII sesc s
walk at p.m Dancing Will commence 81
last boat leaves Washington at O'Clock.
The government wharf at Gies-
houses which were relics of camp
Stoneman caught on fire from sparks
thrown by" passing tug and were de-
stroyed late in the afternoon Of
was much decayed and no use had
been made of the wharf since the
close of the war.
The mansion of Giesboro was burn
ber 3. 1878. while Giesboro was be-
ing operated as a summer resort under
the name Of City View. In searching
for facts relating to Gieshoro the
fire in The Star of Tuesday. September
4. 1888. and because the account throws
some light on the history of this in
teresting old estate the Rambler re-
produces it:
The old brick mansion at Gieshoro Point op-
posite the Washington Arsenal. took fire about
o'clock last evening and was totally do
psc. has recenT bssn p used rn.or, ror
excurfionists and was known as City View.
Late IN the afternoon Yesterday an eseursion
they were enjoying Themselves in the dancing
pavilion when the hre broke ont. causing
went to the assistance of the proprietors Messrs.
Jackson and Donaldson: and helped remove tho
quickly did the DANES spread to the second
story. occupied by Mr.. Jackson. that nothing
most Of the family lost their clothing. Harbor-
master Sutton and oicers Dendall and Dean
and the engineer and pilot Of the harbor police
boat. with half q dozen volunteers. over
to City View and assisted in saving the portable
property.
The house, q large brick residence modelled
after Mount Vernon and Arlington mansions.
was erected about 1900 and bought with
several hundred acres OF land in 1882 by The
late Washington Young. Mr. Young occupied
II until the government took possession in 1861
And established cavalry depot. which was
maintained till the close of the civil war.
Mr. Young in antebelIum days entertained
royalty there. and the marriage Of Miss Young
q q
Hance. The property bought In 1878 by
Messrs. b. L. Jackson and George J. Seuf-
ferle.
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Much of the story of the transfer Of
Giesboro from the Shaaff to the
Young family is told in the release of
mortgage from Mary S. Shaaff and
others to George w. Young. recorded
October 3, 1897, four years after Young
had taken possession of the estate. Wit
nesses to the instrument were James
Gettys and Joel Brown.
At the time of the outbreak of the
civil war George Washington Young
was the richest inhabitant, according
to the tax books Of the District. in that
part of the District of Columbia beyond
the Eastern branch. Though there were
a number of rich land-holding and
slave-ownng families in that section.
the Young family led the list in acres
and servants.
In the same year Fenwick Young,
whom the Rambler assumes to have
been a son of Ignatius Fenwick Young,
and a nephew of George Washing ton
Young, and who lived on the Gies-
boro lands. was assessed on twelve
horses, two oxen, four cows, three
wagons, two carts and two slaves.
The coming on of the civil war made
great changes in that part of the Dis
trict. Lands were taken possession of
by Union troops, fortiications were
built along the hill tops and the ridges,
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ing in the line of tract called Foxhall.
the said oak tree being the southwest
boundary of that part of Prevention
heretofore sold by the said Thomas G..
Addison to the said John Thomas
Shaaff." The witnesses were John B.
Kirby, Nicholas Young and Daniel
Clarke. DIR. Shaaff must have added
several other farms to the Giesboro
tract. evidently wishing to restore 1t
to it's original acreage. for when his
heirs transferred Giesboro to George
Washington Young its area was 624
acres.
DR.. Shaaff figured in quite a number
of real estate transactions between the
time of his purchase Of the first parcel
of Giesboro and his death. in 1919.
In 1917 DIR. Shaaff bought from Walter
Smith and Clement Smith Of George
town four lots for $1,000 In Beatty
and Hawkins addition to Georgetown.
the lots being on the north side of 1st
street between High and Potomac
streets. DIR. Shaaff. in January. 1919.
the year of his death, sold as trustee Of
one William Sidebotham. a certain
tract of land to Henry Talbot. The
name of the tract appears in the faded
record to be Peerless" and it lay be-
tween two tracts. one called Discovery
and the other Nonesuch. The George
town land which DR.. Shaaff bought in
1917 was sold in 1882 to Brooke MackalI
by DR.. SHAFTS heirs. Margaret. Arthur,
Ann. Mary and Charles.
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Not Up on Golf.

mRESIDENT ALAN r. HAWLEY OF
u the Aero Club OF America was de-
Tending, at a dinner in New York. an
American aeroplane that had been at
tackled.
'-The men who attack this aeroplane."
he said, ARE as ignorant Of flying n
the farmer was ignorant OF golf.
"A farmer. crossing golf neld, got
hit by a ball in the eye. He ran back
and roared at the golfer:
'This'll cost ye jest IS cash In
the hand down. .
:" But yelled 'Fore!" at the top OF
my lungs said the golfer.
"'Ch, did yer said the farmer. In .
mclliAsd tone. We'll I didn't hear -.
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SAMPLE OF c1EsBoRos PRINCIPAL PRODUCT TODAY.

slaves We're really liberated before be-
ing legally emancipated and hosts of
runaway slaves from the southern
counties of Maryland settled on the
lands for the protection and the food
afforded them by the Union camps. In
the neighborhood of Giesboro. Fort
Snyder was built on the land of Thom-
as jenkins of Thomas. Fort Stanton
and Battery Ricketts, were thrown up
on the land of George Washington Tai
burtt, Fort Carroll was built on the
land of Fenwick Young. Fort Greble on
the land of William Berry and Gies-
boro. the farm of George Washing
ton Young, was converted into a cav
airy depot under the name of Camp
Stoneman. In that neighborhood was
Camp Has..in. but the Rambler does
not know the site occupied by it.
Among the many advertisements for
laborers to work on the defenses of
Washington appearing in the local
newspapers durin. the civil war was
this. which was published in The Star
in July, 1854:
Wanted Immediately. 200 laborers, so chop
pers, carpenters. etc, work Eastern
Branch line of fortifcations.
Apply to John Collins, superintendent, at Camp
Haskn. near insane asylum, at headquar-
ters chief engineer defences Of Washington,
Pennsylvania avenue and 10Th street.
WILLIAM GUNNELL.
Engineer Defences North Potomac.
AS late as the summer of 1854 the
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government was advertising for war
horses and the Rambler came upon the
following advertisement which was in
serted in twelve issues of The Star
during July and August, 1864:
One hundred and seventy FIVE dollars tSl7s)
will be paid for all cavalry horses that pass In
spection at Giesborough depot until otherwise
ordered. Hours of inspection from Am. to
pm.
JAMES A. EKIN. Lieut.. Col,
Cavalry Bureau.
The railroad which leaves the main
line of the Baltimore and Ohio near
Hyattsville and passes on to Shepherds,
opposite Alexandria. runs through the
lands of Giesboro. 1t was built In
1873 as a section of the proposed
Washington City and Point Lookout
railroad. In the archives of the city
hall are deeds. recorded in October.
1873, by which ]. n. Young. Fenwick
Young, Mary c. Young and Washing
ton A. Young transfer lands for the
right of way for this railroad.
Giesboro seems to have begun its
career as an excursion resort in the
early seventies. and the Rambler came
across this news item in The Star Of
Thursday, May 9, 1872:
On Tuesday afternoon Company A. National
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One of the Greatest Statstcams i'm the World Gives
Figures Regarding Our Wheat Crop and Cost of Bread

the price the farmer receives for his
grain. He gets SO much in Kansas. so
much in Minnesota, so much in Ohio
and so much in Pennsylvania. Mathe-
matics-addition, subtraction. division
and so on-gives us the farm prices
prevailing in the country as whole.
''rhe farm price for wheat on De-
cember /. 1881. was $1.1s bushel. On
the same day during every year that
followed. down to 1915. the farm price
was less than dollar a bushel On
October /. 1916. the farm price was
s1.36. We have to go back to Decem-
Der l. 1867. to find price that was
higher or even equal On the day last
mentioned the farm price was $1.45
bushel. 1t was exceeded. however. on
November !. 1915, when the price,
breaking many records. went to $1.5S."
How much wheat has been exported
to Europe during the war period?" Mr..
Andrews was asked.
For the twenty-seven months end
ed October I, this year, 663,000.000
bushels. which is at the rate of almost
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to me his belief that the great ex-
penditures made that northwest
frontier for military purposes We're
waste of good money. Rawalpindi was
the second line of defense 1t was not
possible even to visit the khyber pass
without a great lot of red tape. and
passage through it was absolutely pro-
hihited.
Afghanistan was then, 1t is today,
A closed country. Few foreigners ever
got into it, and of those who did pass
into the forbidden kingdom it was i'm
possible usually to get news. The
policy of exclusion was not changed
after it became recognized by Russia
and England buffer state and kus-
sia conceded that ii was within Eng
lands sphere OF influence and that
paramount British influence was neces-
sary in order to protect India.
British influence was esta bliShed
after the celebrated military march of
the troops under Gen. Roberts to Kan
dahr. but there was a pretty distinct
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class movie theater at kabul under
the royal patronage. with scenarios
from Paris.
Three or four years ago the Depart
ment of Commerce commissioned Henry
D. Baker of the State Department to
make an inquiry into trade possibil-
tiles in Afghanistan. MIR. Baker was
not allowed to enter the closed coun-
try, but he managed to get a good
deal of valuable information at
Quetta, on the Baluchistan frontier OF
Afghanistan. and at other points.
The market for American products
as thus disclosed did not seem to be
very promising one yet there were
some commodities for which openings
were offered. Substantially all the
business Is done through India. 1t ap
peared that the amir has an Official
purchasing agent. and that everybody
expecting to supply the ruler and his
government should not forget the per-
sonal commission to the official pur-
chasing agent. 1t is simply the ori-
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The Food Blockade.
ee1r HE food blockade is now

Ssrr HE food blockade is now being
felt severely in Germany" said
Dr. Emil Borsch. peace propagandist.
in a Milwaukee address.
MY wife writes me from Munich that
she dined with a millionaire's family
the other Sunday.
The rations were very, very short.
They were so short. in fact, that the
host said to my wife:
will you have boiled horsemeat
Or
HE looked round the table. desper-
ately but vainly. for some other dish.
then he ended:
".Or notY"
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the proprietary to two other tracts which
are now within the District. One of
these was called ST. Elizabeth and the
other Giesboro. St. Elizabeth, Gies-
boro2 and Blue Plains are still familiar
names to WashingtonianS
The Rambler has been under the i'm
preston that these Eastern branch
tracts. such as Giesboro. Belleview.
Blue Plains. st. Elizabeth, Chichester and
several others. were carved out Of the
immense grant made to John Addison,
the immigrant. in 1860. At any rate. as
far back in the records as the Rambler
has gone he finds these properties in
possession of descendants of that John
Addison. who obtained a grant to lands
on the east side of the Potomac river
and between two streams since called
Piscataway creek and the Eastern
branch.
Giesboro was the property Of one
John Addison in 1909. In that year he
sold Gesboro to DR.. John Thomas
Shaaff of Annapolis. and it remained the
and home of DR.. Shaaff or his
heirs until 1898, when the property was
sold to George Washington Young, sub
ject to a mortgage deed, which was re-
leased in 1897. 1t was the home of
George Washington Young until his
death in 1867. and. being subdivided
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~ HsBoRo and its early owners
III have from time to time been
~ 81 mentioned by the Rambler in
connection with the large estates
and the old families of the Eastern branch
country Most of the older generation OF
Washinstonians knew the people who
lived at Giesboro. and many of them visit
ed there.
Giesboro point is that blunt or
rounded headland south of and opposite
Greenleaf point or "the Arsenal point"
and 1t marks the south side of the con-
f1uence of the Eastern branch with
the Potomac. The tract of Giesboro
extended along the Eastern branch and
along the Potomac and to the crest of
the ridge a mile east of those streams.
North of Giesboro was the tract of
St Elizabeth. and on the south of Gies-
boro was the tract of Belleview.
large area of the Giesboro tract
has been taken over by the Washing
ton Steel and Ordnance Company, and
it's plant is situated there. ON these
lands during the civil war was Camp
Stoneman, which was corral. or
depot. for army horses. In the seventh
and eighth decades of the nineteenth
century Giesboro was an excursion
resort of varying fortune. 1t was
during this part of It's career that the
Giesboro mansion was DESTROYED by
fire A new house, less pretentiouS
than it's predecessor. occupies the site.
Around the house grows "A dense grove
of trees. and this grove. close beside the
river. with a wide expanse of water be-
fore ii and great stretches of cleared land
behind it. is one of the conspicuous land
scape features of that section Of the Dis
trict-.
In his history of the District of Column
bia, W. B. Bryan, quoting from Edward
D. Neilrs Terra Mariae." says that about
the middle of the seventeenth century
one James Pancoast. a matchmaker of
London. was kidnapped. transported to the
American colonies and sold to a Maryland
planter. 1t Is related that, like many
others in the colonies, he gained his tree
dom by industry and that he acquired a
tract of land called Giesboro. He was
drowned, and. being unmarried and with
out known kin, his estate lay unclaimed
and finally reverted to the proprietary of
Maryland. 1t is said that two brothers of
this Pancoast, who had emigrated from
England to New Jersey. brought suit to
recover the property.
The Rambler. in writing Of the st. Eliz-
abeth tract. said: "The tract of st. Eliza
beth has been referred to as royal
grant That may have a very influential
sound. but the fact is that the grant Of
ST. Elizabeth was made by Lord Balti-
more in 1868. II was one of the early
grants Of the proprietary to lands now in
cluded within the boundaries to the Dis
trict of Columbia. One George Thomp-
son. OF whom the Rambler has found few
records. seems TO have been the master
landholder in this region in those remote
times In 1862 he was granted a tract
called Blue Plains, and in the same year
tract consisting Of 1.40o acres on the
north side of the Eastern branch, called
Duddington. which now forms large part
of the site of Washington. In 1863 this
George Thompson obtained a grant from
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entail custom recognized by everybody.
and Is not graft.
1t may be surmised that the wants
of the people are not great. Never
theless. there is fairly profitable traf-
fic in supplying them. There is also
a mail service through a frontier
postal agent
Some very interesting books have
been written about Afghanistan by
foreigners who have had the rare op-
portunity OF living there. 1t hardly
could be called a privilege. These
books gave disclosures of native life
as fascinating as used to be given of
the hermit kingdam OF Chosen. or OF
Siam when 1t was a closed country. The
observers who were with the English
military expedition had little oppor-
tunity to know anything Of the country
except geographically. and they learned
very little of the people.
From the accounts Of those who
actually lived in Afghanistan long
enough to acquire some knowledge 1t
was learned that the amir Is about as
absolute a despot as exists in any part
of the world. His word is law. and
Mohammedan law at that. The echo
of the cannon in the palace grounds at
Kabul usually was the notification that
the amir had been sitting as proseou-
tor. Judge and Jury. and that somebody
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FRANK ANDREWS.
Master of facts and figures,
(Copyright by Edmonston.)

235.000,000 bushels annually. In the
decade 1904-13. the lowest yearly ex-
ports were 100000 bushels and the
highest $4,000. 900 bushels
Wheat and -four from this country
are going to Great Britain. France. the
Netherlands. italy and Belgium, at
present our most important customers.
We exported during the twelve months
ended last June total of 100000
bushels OF wheat-54, 900, 900 to Great
Britain. 31.ooo.ooo to Italy, $4,000. 900
10 France. 100000 to Holland, 3,00o,-
600 to Belgium and 100000 900 to other
parts of Europe. Besides. large guam
titles of wheat were exported In the
form Of -four.
How, you ask. does wheat get from
American farmers to the -four mills Of
England? There are large exporting
firms on the Atlantic seaboard. with
buyers, however. ordinarily purchase
grain directly from the growers.
The wheat thus purchased goes into
elevators and is resold to the importers
and shipped to New York. Boston.
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Portland.
Me. in the east; to Newport News and
New Orleans. in the :outh; to Calves
ton and Port Arthur. Tex, in the
southwest and to Portland. Takoma
and Seattle. on the Pacific coast.
"All the shipments to Germany and
Austria Hungary. as every one under
stands. have been cut off. Wheat Is
sent from our ports in all kinds of
ships-in liners and tramps. A tramp.
with no other cargo, can easily carry
100000 bushels, or the equivalent of
1t3 carloads.
"A White Star liner. in addition to
much other freight. has loaded 10000
bushels. and the Minnehaha has car
riad $4,000 bushels. besides package
freight and ammunition. The wheat
rate now is rs cents a bushel from
New York to Liverpool.
"A steamer transporting 100000 BUSH
els earns $4,000 on its voyage to Liv-
erpooi. Earnings are further increased
for the round trip by Its cargo from
England to the United States. In nor
NAL times the wheat rate. New York
to Liverpool. is about cents q bushel
In January. 1915. It jumped to 80 cents.