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round him. Sixty ladies-of-honor, in
puffed panier skirts "a feet in cir
cumference. could descend the marble
steps, side by side, without touching!
Like courtiers, the ambassadors Of
other powers walked backward. bow
ing and scraping.
In this palace (and to build 1t, at
such fabulous expense) the French
East India empire which Colbert had
actually founded in the "old' French
Company of the Oriental Indies was
equally dfsdained by king who spent
153 millions of his time to raise the
roof which Rockefeller is repairing.
According to Taine. this figure
would have been equivalent to 150.
10000 francs in 1850. 1t would have
meant about 900.000.000 francs in 1914,
and 3,600,000,000 francs in French
labor and materials today.
The figures are from a bound manu-
script, bearing the arms of Mansard.
the famous architect, who disbursed
them. The king is said to have burned
the accounts. himself aghast at the
totals. Yet the wood was from state
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such historical magnificence must
not be allowed to molder!
In each case. the French common
people are (and were the gamers.
1. To remake the joiners' work and
doors and windows of the palace, the
two trianons, and the orangery.
2. To put into proper state parks
and gardens.
So begins the agreement between
the head architect of the palace and
the Rockefeller committee for the
application of the funds to Versailles.
1t continues:
3. To remake trellis work.
4. To remove statues from the
Cour d'Honneur to the side alleys of
the Place d'Armes.
5. To make repairs to facade on the
side Of the Cour Royale, and the re-
construction Of four balconies with
marble columns.
6. To restore Marie Antoinette's
Theater at the Little Trianon. And
Z. To mend the palace roof.
Some of these headings would be
quite misleading to any one not warn
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The Rambler dlso has a copy of the
will of Joseph Trimble, one of the
two legatees of these Eastern Branch
lands. Joseph Trimble died in 1885.
We are too far. along In this story to
give the contents of the Wills today,
and in the ramble last Sunday the
promise was made to tell something
Of the man who bought large tracts
of the Wright-Trimble lands. His
name Is Robert F. Bradbury. He was
born April %. 1859. son of John Wes-
ley Bradbury of Baltimore and
Martha E.. daughter of Andrew
French of Southeast Washington. Oc-
tober IS. 1886. he was married to
Annie Laurie Smart. daughter of
Henry Smart. who came from Ver-
mont to Washington during the Civil
War. Annie Laurie Smart's mothers
maiden name was Anne Maria McFar-
land. and she was a daughter of the
celebrated Billy Mcfarland of the
Marine Band. He served as a fifer in
the band and became master. or
whatever the title is. Of the school
for fifers and drummers. 1t is said
that he served in the Continental
Army. When Billy Mcfarland died
the Marine Barracks We. locked up,
because every man. commlndant to
recruit. went to Billy's funeral. at
Congressional Cemetery.
Robert F. Bradbury served in the
Navy from 1878 to 1884. serving for
years as paymaster's yeoman. He
built the first house in Twining City,
in 1890, when the new" Pennsyl-
vania Avenue Bridge was built. In
1908 he bought 107 acres of the Trim
BILE tract, and in 1909 subdivided that
part which lies south of Bowen road,
or Alabama avenue. The town Of
Bradbury Heights Is on that tract.
In 1912 be bought 81 acres north of
the Bowen road and subdivided it. In
1924 he bought 10 acres south Of the
Trimble lands and which was the
home Of Squire S. E. Cox. On all
these tracts are subdivisions and
bradbury" forms part Of the name
of each. Bob Bradbury's brother.
George j., in 1904, bought seven acres
of Wright-Trimble land on the top of
Boones hill, which the District line
crosses. He lives there. He also
owns the site of Fort Meigs. on Ala
bama avenue. bought from Mr.. Pairo
and Eugene Evans of Washington.
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forests. the stone from state quarries,
and the unskilled labor was mostly
military, and therefore, III those
times, practically gratis!
X \ X
NOV. we see why the present
French government has not been
able, even, to keep up Versailles. in
proper repair. Palace and park so
vast and magnificent carry with them
homely upkeep like roof" "trellis
work." replacing rotten woor~ork
at windows" and SO on in proportions
that would swamp an ordinary his
toric monument appropriation, even
before the war!
Once, a great man from the middle
class came in and saved Versailles. a
hundred years ago. 1t was Napoleon
who set up his own court at Fon-
tainebleau, but spent some 1S.000,000
francs to merely conserve" the vast
er palace, run down by long neglect.
Now, it is Rockefeller. with a SINH
lar sum, for similar purpose. OF
course, it is the Americans own
money. which makes a difference. But
the same thought governed both
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square 8S2, being part of a lot here
tofore sold and conveyed by Banjamin
Stoddert to Andrew Armstrong"
Square $50 is bounded by Sixth and
Seventh. l. and M streets southeast
and is the square west of that COW
cred by the old Washington and
Georgetown car stables at the navy
yard gate, foot of Eighth street. Lot
26 is on the west side of Seventh
street.
The second deed to Wright is one
from Peter Provott, dated May 49,
1908. Provott is described as "of the
County of Washington" and sells for
81 part of lot No. 81 in square 9O4.
That square is bounded by Seventh.
Eighth q and / streets southeast and
the east side of the square faces the
Marine Barracks.
The Provott-Wright lot is about
one-third the length of the block
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Ruin of Versailles Palace Averted
Bv Gift From J. D. Rockefeller. Jr.
Park Architect Of Palace Is Consulted

fence protecting the central group of
statuary in the colonnade But not
one tourist in so notices the invisible
| trellis work which supports flower
ing vines at the colonnade's circular
top.
Again, Versailles has an army Of
marble statues. Long lines of. them.
like guards of honor, stand at inter
walls down the broad avenues or the
park. And you come upon them, like
sentries, in round, open places of the
forest.
Rain, wind, dust, accidentals and
vandals have done their work upon the
outdoor statues. This one lacks a fin
ger an dtwo toes. Here is one whose
entire foot is gone. 1t makes deplor-
able impression All are to be re-
stored, a great york.
Giant statues, again, stand tenn
porarily along the two facades of the
Cour Royale-whose balconies and
marble columns are to be recon
structed from the Rock efeller funds.
When such balconies and columns are
in place the giant statues will not be
missed.
The giant statues have stood there
Temporarily for hundred years
past; but their true place. as de-
signed by Mansard, is outside, in the
grandiose Place dArmes, to form a
posing avenue of approach" for visi-
tors to Versailles Palace,
The grand monarch himself never
realized that avenue of giant statues.
There was always so much to do in
park and apalaces Now, it at last
perfects Versailles approach.
Thanks TO plain American.
X +
lnOES your roof leak? So does that
of tta
Also. in any photograph of Versailles
count the windows that are visible
However numerous, they will be only
a fraction of the windows and doors
whose joiners' work is in need of re-
| making!
No one photograph can show Yer
| sailles. nor a half nor a quarter even
| two smaller palaces at the far end
of the park, whose roofs, doors and
windows equally need remaking.
The two Trianons We're always
scenes of ultra a-exclusive royal life
Even its magnificent builder found
| the palace too magnificently grand
for comfort.
To get a rest from endless halls OF
parade he built the Trianon- Al
though a palace, it seemed a cot
tage in comparison. But, in course
Of time, the Trianon itself was
| found too great for cozy comfort, So
they built the Little Trianon, favored
by Marie Antoinette, whose bijou
theater in it is to be reconstructed.
The Little Trianon, mere pavilion "r
villa, has been the last of Versailles
palaces of residence. Queen Vic
toria, on her first visit, under Louis
Philippe, inhabited the little apart
ments" of Marie Antoinette, built
tiny, cozy and low -ceilinged. inside
great rooms of the palace
But the vast palace was oppres
sive to Victoria as it had been to
Marie Antoinette So, on her second
visit, under Napoleon Ill, she was
lodged in the coquettish Little Trianon.
The Rockefeller money. it is said,
is to put the Little Trianon in modern
condition, in the intention of the
French government. to receive Nisl
tors again.
What visitors?
Can it be an American citizen? Is
he to see his wife, like Queen Vic
torA. in the boudoir of Marie An
toinette?
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l. eat breakfast before reading
your ramble, the Rambler
IL hastens to meet your yearn-
ing and takes up the story Of
lands beyond the Eastern Branch. 1t is
a long walk from the car line and it
is August. The pine stump on which
he rested last Sunday beckons and
there are few things harder to resist
than temptation.
Sitting on the stump, thinking how
to get facts for this story. he thought
of old times and the difference be-
tween those times and new times.
Customs and manners change. That
fact was known some time ago.
A few years ago-I think about
seventy or seventy -five-I had occa-
sion to bring to the notice of the
President the claims to high office of
a friend. l was living on the Island,
but 1 had acquaintance in Foggy Bot
tom, Swampoodle, the Sixth Ward,
around Glass House Square and on
Windmill Point, Crow Hill. Camp
Hill and other residence sections of
Washington.
On the way uptown I called on my
old efriends Fritz Reuter-. George
Driver, George Harvey. Andy Han
cock, Shoemaker and Gerstenberg,
and it was past the usual bedtime of
w
House.
knocked on the front door. A Sec
ond-story window went up, and the
President, putting his head, half-hid
in a nightcap, through the window.
called, who's there?" l told him, and
he answered.. "All right, John, I'll be
down as soon as l get my boots on.
But he came down in his carpet slip
pers and, as it was warm night, we
sat on the front steps.
] told the President of the ambition
and pecuniary need of my friend for
a high office The President was
thoughtful and then said: "He ought
to make capable official. He seems
to have all the qualifications. With
his talent he might be elected to
better job than l can give him, but
will send his nomination to the Sen
ate tomorrow"
The business closed. the President
led the way to the kitchen and what
We took there is nobody's business.
but when | left the White House the
Vandewerkin omnibuses were run
ming on the Avenue. That was only
seventy seventy-f1ve years ago.
and you see how times and customs
have changed in Washington.
1t is but a short walk from the,
pine stump to the lands of Matthew
Wright, which were of the tracts
named Marshalrs Adventure and
parts of Bayley's Purchase and For
tune Enlarged. On part of the farm
which Wright left by will to his
4 nephews, William Trimble and Joseph
Trimble. at his death, in ls41. is the
settlement of Bradbury Heights. The
house in which William Trimble lived
was taken down about eight years
ago and village street passes across
its site. About the house was a grove
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palaces and more than royal
~ park, has. In one month. got
as much into the public eye as
when the grand monarch
made them out of nothing.
Something near to 1S,OO0,000 francs
D. Rockefeller, jr., fund, to mend, re-
pair and restore what most needs .r
palace, trianons and park
Right after this thrilling news
(you cannot call it anything else)
came the arrest II the forxlYn pro-
paganda film directors and artists
caught at the frontier after they had
succeeded i1 Shooting" in the palace
park of Versailles, in decent orgies
which they, the foreigners, had staged
and acted-to show, in foreign
people are.
The French people are, indeed. COM
plete masters of Versailles and it's
former royal glories. 1t Is a few
miles out of Paris, by rail, trolley
and motor car; and the people of
Paris-a are all over the place. Sundays
and week days-when the enforced
weekly day of rest by rotation"
where Sunday is not given to all.
makes a holiday crowd every day in
the week from clerks, employees and
working people.
All kinds crowd to Versailles
peasants and provincial visitors.
judges. generals and priests. along
with plain middle-class folks and
their families.
How there could be orgies in any
part, with decent people and police
all around. is beyond belief
The foreign filmers. in fact, sue
ceeded in shooting their hurry-up
reels only by stealing in on a Mon
day. when the palace. which is a
museum. is closed for cleaning. This
being we'll known. there are fewer
visitors to Versailles on the day fol-
lowing Sunday.
So. if such a movie show should
appear anywhere for two sets Of
films. in metal tubes, were smuggled
to the frontier, and only one recov-
ered) 1t is we'll to remember the facts
Astonishing as it may seem, pro-
paganda entered largely into them.
X X 4 X
0F course. there is no such magnif-
" icent stage setting in the world.
A list of the parts on which the
Rockefeller money will be used to
preserve it. is interesting. The state
architect of the palace. NJ. Chausse-
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Left Him..

DO you know what ii is to go be-
fore an audience?"
mo; / spoke before an audience
once. but most Of it went before
did" ~. -.+-.
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BY STERLING HEILIG.

HI S1ERLING HEILIG.
Versailles, August Z.
Y 7 ERSAILLES. with it's royal
palaces and more than royal
~ park, has. In one month. got
as much into the public eye as
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Wills and Other Old Documents Aid
Rambler's Study of Local History
Assists Following Record Of Career of Matthew
in FvtDeca Of the Nineteen Cenuru.

~ ELlEV1NG that you would not
eat breakfast before reading
your ramble, the Rambler
haStens to meet your yearn-
ing and takes In the story of
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
WHAT A WOMAN
SHOULD Do WHEN SHE
IS WEAK AND NERVOUS
THOUSANDS Oh WOMEN HAVE
,rRFRisINGLN INCRE AsE -
THEIR STRENGTH. ENERGY AND
rypUnANCE ~ TWO WEEKS
rtvE ny TuIs SMILE ENrEIIi-
MENT

q, account 81 the terrible weakness.
nervousness and alarming symp-
,sms which are often produced by
s-es starvation OF the blood. fire.
ss,ntIy the sufferer never suspects
%, real cause o. her trouble but
,Aluks she has some other ailment.
A, a result OF iron starvation you
nav suffer from headaches diEHi-
ssa shortuess OF breath or heart
ralpi,ation. pains across the back.
Ia. OF memory. weak wili-poWrr.
Melancholy or the blues" disturb
"a digestion. loss % appetite. sleep
lsss nights night sweats and 80 on,
n such eases do not wait until you
= al 20 pieces and collapse in a
state % nervous proHtrhtior but eat
rere spinach and green vegetables
an9 take organic iron like NuxRtsd
frrr With them for a while and sec
Wat : difference 10 makes but be
sure The iron you take " organic
lroa and not metallic iron which
people usually take. Metallic iron
Is iron Jus, as II comes from the &C
ton a strong acids on small pieces
q iron. while organic iron like NuN-
a.sd Iron IL like the iron In your
blood and like the iron in spinach.
isriiis and apples beware or sub
sttutss. Look for the name MIX
sisd- on every package and the let
tsfs y. J. on every tablet Your
money will Be refunded BY the
nanufacturers u you do not obtain
PERFECTLY satisfactory results. For
,.le b. all druggists.--Advertiss-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
HITSCONCESTION
Paul Tells Meeting System
Must Be Changed

The time has como when ihc PRO
pie should place upon the bench mon
who have those qualities Of leader.
ship which will assure the people ~
sane progressive reform % legal
procedure" raid Charles n Paul
candidate Tor judge OF superior court.
Position No. 8. against Otis " Brink.
CT. 40 n meeting Of the Whittier
Heights Improvement club. last even,
ing.
The prcscn, conKested condition Of
the court calendar Re sufficient indi,
cation that We must make rome
change IN the system hy which cases
are brought on for trial
Exactly what the remedy Is can
not be completely stated az this time
but u u certainly true that no solution
OF tho problem viii ever BE- reached
unless there arc placed upon the
bench men who have, first tho IN.
tersst In making these changes and
second. the capacity for leadership
which will secure the changes
The importance TO the people Of
placing upon the bench those mon
who meet these qualifications can not
nc this time be over estimated. There
fore every voter should know before
he casts his ballot whether The man
he votes for measures w 30 hts star.
lard sSQi0
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
y,-P, CANDIDATE
IN SEATTLE
usynOlds, Socialist Labor.
win Speak Sunday

verne l. Reynolds vice prcsidcns
e,rhdste ~ tho socialist labor
-, will speak boz Seattle SUNDAY
s,-,ns AZ 7yo in the I, %. g r
IN nos Virginia 81. Re Is making
.mpsisn tour 81 thc country
r,vnoids MAS bgrn ON March T.
IA Al Parsous Kan. Re COMES ~
,,ser stock. descending from a
..-,.f, that came 90 the United
s.,,s nom northern Ireland gcncr.
.,,,.s aEo. With each successive
-, a migration the family moved
- morr Westward TO grow up
- the country. until Reynolds
s.-,.slf got married in California and
s,tled on d ranch.
Farming conditions helms POOR FOR
nsn with small capital he was
.,niuslly forccd into industrial pur
,,rs ana finally came 20 Baltimore.
u4 where he now lives working a.
srlpsntier
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
Political Forecast
for Congress Made

J W. Bryan. candidate Tor con-
grrss from tho Second district. said
Thursday he saw victory next Tues
day lie said. Farm and labor
vote prtdominatea In tho district
These elements arr united
Labor is united for me The
railway men and the Central Labor
councils IN the district arc too.
There IL not group Endorsement
accorded 20 any other candidate BY
any % thes. elements These In.
dorsementz are In the hands Of the
voters
There viii be about 10000 votes
cast In the primary in the district.
out OF this number there Is clear
10000 majority % progrcssyes over
reactiouarieA Hadiey will LOSE 10
per cent OF the reactionary vote 10
other candidates than myself. leav-
ing 1900 Tor him IN the final
count. The progressive $4,000 votes
will be cut into probably rs per
cent
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04

EoRTY THOUSAND club and lodge
Il women OF M, state are actively
behind Adam BcclrT. republican can.
didHte for lieutenant governor. for his
foury,ar nght lu behalf ~ the re-,
establishment Of the wpmeu's indus.
trial home and clinic at Medical Lake.
according 60 Mrs A. a. salmon, prrs
.dcnt ot the Spokane Women's club
and member Of the State Frdcu,
ton legislative committee. following
a visit last Tuesday with six other
spokane club women TO the site OF
the abandoned Institution.
During the visit with Becler. plans
were made FOR the fight in the 1895
Legislature Tor rcopcnlnE the home.
In tho group Of women who have
been actively engaged In behalf OF the
clinic ever since il was closed In 1914
were.
Mrs. Jay W, Fancy. former priest,
dent OF the Womcn's Industrial
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
Everett Laborites
Listen to Roscoe

Speaking before the Everett Cen
trail Labor council. "wednesday
evening. c. r Roscoe. snoh0mph
county prosecutor. told members
that IN his tours ut the Second con.
Eressioual district he had found "a.
Dor and the farmers almost sulidiy
behind his candidacy for the uomi
nation.
Roscoe Il winding up his cam.
paiEn In the district this week.
Forecasts BY Everett, and Briiing
ham newspapers give him the edge
over his opponents.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
NEW DAYS RECORD
SET IN CITY FOR
BUILDING PERMITS

A NEW record in building per
II mits issued In one day vas
established Tuesday, when CT
were issued Building superin.
tencsnt Robert Proctor an.
nounced Thursday.
This daily average on permits
during the past year has been
81 Proctor said A big majority
OF the permits lssucd 20 home
builders, indicating that the con
ftructlon work which has placed
seattle AZ the front Of Pacific
coast elites during the past year
viii continue thru the fal and
winicr months
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
Greenwood Claims
Vets Endorsement

Raw Greenwood was unanimously
,,sorsea Tor the republican nomlna.
80 for congress from this district
!, Nellattendcd meeting OF the
Ned War Veterans republican
.,pe meeting az the American l.e-
=, hall Wednesday night.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04

platform provided Tor rcestsblish.
msnt % Tho clinic bat economy rule
prevailed and n has been allowed 90
stand abandoned with weeds covering
the ground and dust settling in tho
buildings. which coat approximately
81 600. 900 TO open
An appropriation Of $685. 400 viii be
asked again IN the 1895 session u tho
legislature TO reopen this homo for
women
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04

Hsmr beard, Mrs Agrctta iiutrhius
son, past Grand matrun ~ tho state
Eastern star lodge. Mrs Alice Nc
Way Mrs r. W Edgiugyou. Mr,
Mabel Mcdonald. Mrs clara Barton
Clark. prominent In welfare and fra
trrual work. and Mrs salmon
The home. established ln 1919. was
closed In 1891 when Governor Hart
vetoed the appropriation bin Bcclcr
took up the fight and carried u 10 the
supreme court. IN 1898 the republican
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
NATIONAL DEFENSE

special OF the legislature in.
troduced and fought for the woway
adjusted compensation bill
committee. finally submitted
10 the people OF Mr. patriotic egisa
15--l920 adjusted compensation
ts-Payment burial
i7-Pay Indian OF
1s-&5oooO veterans memorial Capitol grounds.
10-Rcunltns veterans and wives n orting colony.
Glowing veterans preference in pubic employment
upon discharge
22Appropnon veterans welfare commission
23Permit counties C. r.. hall
24-F1aE salute In schools.
25--Preventing flag
accompanying schools to fly a flag.
aliens who claimed
2sRoqurng school give years study TO
American history.
29Prohblng exhibition OF plotting against
3O-Prohbing employment OF those
for failure TO impress prn.
Ciplcs Of patriotism pupils.
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INTEREST IN LABOR

The legislative showed him keenv alive
70 Lsbor INTEREST," by vote for the 70 lowing
measures:
5S-Fu "a crew bill.
b9-AtSentec
so-Code for
sl-Creatng a bureau
6e-Proccton seasonal labor.
s3-fndus,rial insurance commission.
6+-Prohibi "dnky' railroad cabooses
eS-Proeciion in electrical construction
ss-Legalizng labor unions following Clayton acl
e7Discarng negligence by fellow
in damage
sS-Establhng State Vocational Training School vetoed by
former governorD
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04

French the candidate whom all Republicans
He be elected BECAUSE CLASSES TRUST
Advertising
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
AID TO FARMERS

As Director Agriculture Mr.
complete very successful farmers
aure Throughout his legislative supported
farmers measures. including:
40--Puro seed bill
t1-Horticutural
42-Inspectlon of npares
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Some ot the bills Mr. French primarily affect
women
State school for girls
e-Tcachrrs' retirement fund.
Eight hour women
+-Penson for widowed
b-Ratfy L. s. suffrage amendment
s-Equal suffrage amendment Cstae
Woman aide 10 labor commissioner.
S--Womcns Industrial home and clinic
o-Moro revenue, 10 raise pay
io-Code commission 10 better school laws
1i-Aiding Y. w. c. \. building movement
l2-Protec, teachers from employment agency graft
l3-Industrial welfare commission
Incorporation with federal in vocational
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PUBLIC WELFARE

During Mr., Frenchs IL years in the les
he following bills affecting social conditions
3i-Local option.
32-Lazy husband act
33--Iuvenilc court law.
34-Complete prohibition
35-"Red light" abatement act
36-Ratlfying u. s. prohibition.
37-Slnge standard adultery.
3s--Outlawlng race.track gambling.
3g-Antinarcotic law in criminal code.