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have loved and loathed and / yield
to the inclination because you have
had the same friends and foes. One
woman I liked very much was Con
stance BonancieuX, a seamStress at
the Louvre, where Anne of Austria
and Louis XIII were living on no bet
ter terms than become man and wife.
When Constance was poisoned by
Madame de Winter, well known in
London and Paris as Milady, the
Rambler Wept, and when the eXecu-
toner of Lille (who had branded her
some years beforel cut off her head
and wrapped torso and caput in his
red cloak and sank them in the Lys
near Armentiers. the Rambler clap
ped his hands. / have never had as
ISOLATION with a woman SO handy in
the use of. poison. | knew Phryne.
who was a model for praxiteles and
who was so shapely that the judges
at Athens found her innocent when
there was no doubt of her guilt.
] knew Agrippina, the awful mother
Of Nero. and attended the follies at
the Lucrine Lake. Fulvia was
friend of mine. You remember that
the lady had some vices. She was
the widow of Clodius and vengefully
pierced the tongue of dead Cicero
with her hairpin.
But, coming back to Constance, |
had a boarding place in the rue des
FossoYeurs when "A young man came
to Paris from TarbeS on RearneSe
galloway as taWney as an orange. 1t
was as funny horse as Rosina nte,
| owned by Don Quixote, or DIR. Syn
taX's old horse Grlzzle. These horses
were not as fleet and high stepping
as the Hindoos mechanical horse on
which Prince Froze flew from Cash
mere to Sheeraz with the Bengal
princess.
was a witness when this young
| fellow, the best swordsman / had
| seen since Chicot, the gentleman
| jester of Henry III, carved M. de JUS
sac of the Cardinals Guard and
| Berua ioux, another Cardinalist of that
| time. 1925. When that chap got into
! NJ. des EsSart S company of the KING $
| Guard though he wanted TO enlist
! In TreVille's company of the Kings
| Musketeers, he did many extraordi-
nary things. The Rambler was on
goodly footing with Athos, Aramis
and Porthos and their usual lackeys,
| Planchet, Mousqueton. Grimaud and
Balm When they set out for Calais
, by way of Chantilly. BeauVais. Creve-
| couer and Amiens to get the diamond
studs from George Nillers, Duke of
| Buckingham. In London. | went
breathlessly along and even at this
| time of life ! go over the old ground
until | fall asleep in my chair. The
/ jeweler who cut the two studs To re-
place those stolen by Milady was a
friend Of mine. His name was
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pane, $1.25, Howard: II blankets, $36,
Easily.
A MONG the books sold was Tom
Jones. vols. The influence is
that the Commodore drank punch and
read Fielding. He was not prudish.
Some of the Commodore's books were:
French dictionary, 8 vols, bought by
Capt. Broam; Naval Chronicles, IS
vols, $12. bought by Dulany; Placidus
de Titus, 15c, VIM: Human Under
standing Dockel, 45c, Broam; Dry
dens Virgil. 12c, Carroll: Dryden's
works, 3 vols, SEC: British Classics,
80 vols, $21.45, Broam: Pope's Homer.
? vols. sl.10, Broam; Swift's Works
(the Commodore was not molly
coddlel. 12c. Broam: Dobson's EncY-
clopedia, % vols, $500, Grayson; GIL
Bias (the Commodore read lie Sage,
bless his old heart). vols. S2.S5.
These titles call to mind two bright
girls | met in book store last week.
If the Commodore is near he may
like the story. An order was issued
in our home that all books that had
been picked up in second nd shops
and had disheveled binding, would be
taken TO the garnet. ] patted the old
friends goodby and whispered TO
them "0ld loves. no books dressed in
scarlet and gold will push you from
my heart. ] will visit you in the gar
ret" But, | went into big book
store. A pretty girl was mussing
among new books, most of Which
were not worth an onion peel.
said-sort of hopeless" Have you got
Gil Bias and Turcaret?" She said
Yes. but lie Sage is not much called
| for" She started for the back of the
shop and l said: May be you have
Garguantua and PontagrueI?" She
sparkled and said. Why Rabelais is
my pet. And she brought forth a
| beautiful edition, saying, This is the
! unexpurgated." While we were chat
| ting about the books another little
, fay came up and the girls fell to talk
ing of Rabelais and Fielding They
| switched to Moliere and they had
Tartuffe the impostor. Harpagon the
miser, Alceste, the misanthrope
/ Sgnarelle. the doctor, and the affected
ladies Madelon and Cathos at their
| tongues end 1t was a merry party
| funnier than any of those public ban
! quets where one gets poor food and
cold-storage wit. It was a little Jolt
ing to hear two blossoms of the cur
rent generation show delighted ac
quaintance with this literature IL
the suburb in which | grew up there
were good but old fashioned folk
who held such reading to be fatal.
And this incident gives me a mind
10 write about d few persons ]
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loading freight have been cut to frac-
tons of their former extent. Potential
creases to be ironed from our dis
tribution calendar include co-ordina-
ton of railroad and water facilities
and the solution of the economic rela
ton between motor-truck and less
than-carload railway distribution
The completion of the Mississippi
system of waterways. the construc-
ton of a ship channel for ocean
freighters from the seaboard to the
Great Lakes, the development of the
water-power resources of the mighty
Colorado River and our increased use
of electrification for power and illumi.
nation are pet specialties which Secre'
tary Hoover and his scientific and
practical assistants are fostering
Our $4,000 900. 000-a-year building
business is benefiting from Gov
ernmental aid. Uncle Sam is test
ing and standardizing building mate
rials. is simplifying dimensions anc Is
originating improved specification
codes. Home owners problems, as
well as those of the constructors, are
being studied and solved The De
partment of Commerce has aided pro-
ductive industry to develop mass pro-
duction by concentrating on the out
nut of fewer varieties. More than
81 ,000. 900 900 worth of paving brick,
sheet metal warehouse forms, hard
ware, invoices and lumber have been
vitality affected by simplified speciflca-
tons.
X X X
THE mounting curve of human,
material and financial losses due
to street and highway accidents, par
ticularly those caused by motor Vehl
cles, represent one of the greatest
wastes In modern American Efe. In
addition to an economic loss in ex-
cess of $500 900, 900 a year, due to the
destruction of life and property, a
much greater financial loss due to
the inadequacy of present traffic facil-
tiles adds up to more than $4,000
100000 annually, or nearly $40 per
capita of population.
To check this tide of human and
economic loss is another of the di-
verse duties which the Department
of Commerce has accepted.
Our Millionaire foreign trade is
growing like an African ostrich. Dur
ing a recent decade our trade with
Asia increased 244 per cent, While
barter with O:eania jumped 230 per
cent. and commerce with South
America increased 1876 per cent Con
siderable expansion is due to the UNI
ending activities of the foreign-trade
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Warrington and Harry came back to
Virginia, took part in the uprising
against King George and married
Fannie Mountain. Whenever / am
down In Surrey l stop al Oakhurst to
see the Lamherts and / generally go
down to Miss Barbara Pinkerton's
school. the Mall, Chiswick. Miss
Barbara likes to have me drop in and
we talk over the school days of Becky
Sharp and Amelia Sedley BY the
way Joe Sedley is living in his new
house In London and still buying
fancy waistcoats and eating curry.
Let me make the hearts of old
beaux go pitapat by recalling some
sweethearts they love. They are
sweethearts of all men who know
them-Esther Summerson, ward of
John Jarndyce; Florence Dombrey.
sweetheart of Walter Gay: Lucie
Manette, daughter of DIR. Manette;
Little Dorrit, child of the Marshalsea;
Bella Wilfer. daughter of dear old r.
Wilfer, clerk to Chicksey. Veneering
and Stobbles; Ruth Pinch, sister of
another old friend. Tom Pinch. for
some time defender of the worst arch
itect, Pecksniff: Agnes Wicktield. in
whose name we have slain Uriah Heap
a thousand times: and Lizzie HeXam.
daughter of CATER Hexam. We love
Little Nell. but her years were too
few to be a sweetheart. and of Jennie
Wren, the dolls dressmaker. we
think with loving fun.
Among the voices and faces at my
desk are those of Miss Elite, still I'm
chancery: Mrs. Camp. intimate with
Mrs. Harris and a friend of Mr..
Mould: Susan Nipper. faithful to Flor
ence Dombey; Caddy Jelliby, daughter
of Mrs. Jeliby. still working for the
native of Borrioola Cha: Peggotty. of
whom Barkis thinks a lot; the Mar
chionesS. who comes to my desk with
Dick Swiveler Miss Peecher, who was
sidetracked by Bradley Headstone:
Mrs Susan Bagnet, with gray cloak
and umbrella, ready to follow her hus-
band to Malta or Gibraltar, Mrs. Mae
Singer, who was Capt. Cuttle's land
lady in Brig place; Miss T.ucretia Tox.
who keeps her eye on Mai BagStock,
and Mrs. farley. bless her heart
X X x
MY. my, but still they come into my
little room! Mr.. Noddy Boffin and
his wife. Henrietty. from Boffin's
Bower near Harmony Jail; Mr.. Snod-
grass. of poetic turn; Horace Skimpole.
Sol ellis. young Toots from Blimber's
School, whose tailor is fashionable but
very dear; Cooling and Short. Mr.. and
Mrs. Snagby of Cooks Court, Cursitor
street Old Turveydrop. whose deport-
ment the- Prince Regent approved;
10, the cknSsing sweeper; the Small
weeds, Cbety Slyme, Alfred Jingle,
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and nitrate from Chile could tell fire.
side stories which would make You
alert with amazemeut. We're they not
inanimate and mute.
Far Eastern natives. inventors of
weird musical Instruments and melo-
dies. now delight in American phOnO-
graphs and their jazzy records. In
dia. home of some of the rarest jew
els, now imports American jewelry.
Last wear the United States ex-
ported 5000 900 arm bands and gar
ters 10 China. Shanghai sing song
girls wear these as ornaments around
their ankles. China bought several
million pounds Of American chewing
gum last year. az well az 1900 000
sets OF false teeth.
TO illustrate the remarkable haT-
vest of foreign statistics which Is an
nuaily garnered and stored in depart
ment archives, slip back in memory
to the chaotic DAYS of Japan's last
earthquake Property and lives We're
stamped out as quickly as Won
u uld swat fly" The stricken
Island Empire turned to America for
aid The Japanese Amba ssador at
Washington sought the assistance of
Secretary Hoover first of all. Agents
of the Bureau of Foreign and Domes-
tic Commerce made IL speedy survey
OF conditions in the devastated Japa
nese cities.
The United States Government
studied American building assets
steel, cement, lumber and tools
which could he exported 10 Japan.
Within one month after the disaster
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce issued the most accurat IT,
statement of conditions existing in
Japan which was published. This re
port of .Iapau's economic position,
proba BILE requirements and ability to
recover from the calamity exerted a
wonderful stabilizinE influence upon
the general situation Japan's rapid
recovery and rehabilitation are most
complimentary to the efficiency OF
Americas foreign-trade service.
A telephone call from the export
manager of a firm which specialiZes
| in food products was recorded re
| Gently at the Boston Office of the De
| partment of Commerce.
I'VE made food shipment to Ice
| land six weeks ago" the manager
| said. To-day we have been asked by
| cable TO make an allowance of 20 PEI
cent owing to the drop in the Iceland
| exchange rate. Is this fair claim
Twenty-Five minutes later. the Gov
| ernment's commercial agent. having
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Worlds Biggest Intelligence Service Aids American
BY GEORGE II. DACY.

S a service station Of home and
n international trade. the Blu
IA reau of Foreign and Domestic
4 \ Commerce last year consum-
mated more than 1000, 600
important individual jobs for Ameri-
can business men. Living up to its
unofficial slogan, Make taxes pay
dividends" this branch of the Com
merce Department paid back more
than half a billion dollars to Ameri-
can tradesmen, manufacturers deal
erS and exporters in the direct assist
ance il rendered
che aid was in the form of guiding
American products to new foreign
markets During n recent three years,
the number of exporters and business
houses which use the Government
help increased fourfold
Visualize. if YOU will. what a highly
organized army of about $4,000 eX-
perts could accomplish where It
worked without friction and with
maximum efficiency. under masterful
direction Translate its accomplish
ments into practical results. which
in one way or another affect every
manufacturing wheel that turns and
every commodity that travels our
channels of commerce. and You have
al hand score card Of what has
been done
New deeds executed in novel ways
are daily added to the list.
To many Neutrality-suspicious.. the De
partment of Commerce is repre-
scented by the lofty building at Nine
teenth and Pennsylvania avenue.
where Secretary Herbert Hoover has
his Office. and where commercial cam.
paigns whose future exploits carry
to the four corners of the compass
are planned. Many forget TO trace
out all the local ramifications of the
greatest commercial organization in
existence. They neglect to include
such tributaries as the Bureau of
Census, Bureau of Standards. Bureau
of Fisheries. Bureau of Lighthouses.
Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey,
Bureau of Navigation. Steamboat In
spection Service. United States
Patent Office, Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce and Bureau of
Mines.
The department. labors concern
every inhabitant of this spacious
country, through the census as well
as the wonders of radio, electricity,
textiles. rubber, stone, pottery, con-
crete, metals. sound. aviation and
industry in every form, through the
Bureau of Standards fishes and fish
ing, our coastal beacons, the ship
guiding lighthouses, navigation, pat
ents, mines and the activities of the
commercial branch of the Sam family.
x
THE elimination of industrial waste
by cooperative action in our va
YiouS communities is one of the
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O'Reilly. You @cannot have forgot the
young fellow / tell of, D'Artagnan.
Every time I go to Paris | visit the
old dueling grounds behind the Con-
vent des Carmes DechauX and the
goat pasture behind the Louvre.
In the course of these stories on
old Washington the Rambler has not
told YOU that he was in Paris when
Pierre Gringoire. poet and Juggler,
put on his morality in the hall of the
Palace of Justice. 1t was soon after
that time, 1882, that La Esmeralda
was gibbeted in the Place de Greve
and Claude Frollo, helped by Quasi
modo, dropped from a tower of Notre
Dame. | often see the little goat
Dali and think of Chopin Trouillfou,
king of my friends in the Cour des
Miracles, and of poor Sister Gudule
Of the Trou aux Rats. | still think
with horror of the cruelty of Claude
Frollo, Louis XT, Jaques Charmolue,
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TIME personal property of Com
modore Thomas Tingey was
sold by P Mauro & Sons, auc-
tioneers, March %, 1929. The
articles, their price and sur
name of each purchaser are. with the
papers of the case. fled with the
Probate Court by Tunis Craven. ad-
ministrator de bonis non admins
tratis'-for the goods not admins
tered. Benjamin F. Lear. named to
administer the estate. had died. The
sale report lists tins, pots. kettles
washtubs, fiatirons and demijohns. /
take from the report the following:
Thirteen chairs. S3.25. Dulany: seven
chairs, $3S5, Dulany; bedstead. 81,
Dulany; saddle and bride, $3.50,
Carroll; empty bottles. S4.lo, Phillips;
clock, $40. Ingle; 80 yards carpet, SIS,
Capt. Stevens; two card tables. $40,
Dulany, fender shovel and tongs. S14,
Carroll mantle glass. So. Dulany:
print Of Washington, $ll50, Burch;
print of jefferson and Adams, 81,
Townsend. three theatrical prints, IS
cents, Mrs. Tingey; landscape, $3.50,
Allen: crumb cloth, S2.25. Capt.
Broam; two dozen plain wine glasses,
$3.50. Dulany; hqueur stand S26;
Broam; liqueur stand, $l5 Graham;
eight plates, two creams, two sugars,
S2b. stevens, Tour cut dishes, 81. Sci
den; cut bowl. 49, Ramsey; four water
decanters, SIPS, Townsend: four water
decanters, $2.75, Stevens: two small
prints, so cents. Elliot: tea table, SIS,
Smallwood: one pair card tables. S3.75,
Mrs. Carroll; fender and tongs. $3.50,
Clarke; bookcase and secretary, $50,
Capt. Jones, three plaster figures. 81,
Winn; two rugs, So, Wadsworth; one
carriage, pair horses and harness,
$500. Wenser; one harruche and har
ness. $50, Stevens. one straw cutter
(aleigh?l. SIS. Henderson; engraving, Is
cents; Easily; bedstead and curtains,
Sf4 Smattine 90: mattress. SIG, Du-
lany: bedstead. pillows, etc, $40, Du-
lany; pair candlesticks and branches
Is cents, Mrs. Bury; pair bronze can
dlesticks. S275, Townsend: pair plated
candlesticks. So, SmalIwood:' urn. $l2
Townsend; astral lamp and cover
--; .pair footstools, $l.75, Duck
worth; lot Liverpool china. s6.12
Linch ~; lot casters, S5.25, Grayson
set table mats, -, Capt. Jones
dozen knives and forks, 1852, Queen
one lot forks, S1.nE Bayne; set Liver
noel ware, $22, Graham; set Indis
china, S54. Sims: set dessert chiaa, $50
r. Smith, supper set. WedeewooG. SIG
stevens: finger bowls. SI75, Ramsey
S,.o dozen cups and saucers, $3.50
Grayson II claret glasses, $3.50
Broam: IS jelly glasses, 81. Tyler; cut
decanter, 81, Broam: TWO cut decanters
ST, Dulany; Is champagne glasses, 81
Townsend; II punch glasses, $l.37
Graham: three goblcts, $4.75. Graham
1T cut tumblers, $3.50, Tyler; rs gu
wine glasses. ST. Capt Jones; counter
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best bandit since the days of Mastrilla,
who had headquarters in the cata-
combs of San Sebastian just outside
the walls of Rome. Then, there were
JacOpo Bertuccio and Ali and the
villains. Villefort and Caderousse.
Whenever / go to Rome / stop with
Maitre Pastrini of the Hotel Londres.
Rue d'Espagne. where Monte Cristo
had apartments. Whenever / am in
Marseille / go up in the tower of
Notre Dame de la Garde. walk in the
Rue de Noailles. visit the street Allees
de Meillan, where Old Dantes lived,
and go down to the tavern La Reserve,
where the nuptials of Edmond and
Mercedes were interrupted by soldiers.
| live over old times with these friends
and enemies until Mrs. Rambler
gently opens my door and says, IF
you don't go to bed, you Will not be
fit for work in the morning"
don't want you TO think that
spend all my time with foreigners.
Though / do not know any women
l think of more tenderly than Famine
and Cosette and no man | sympa
thize with more than Jean Vatican.
yet no woman will | take to lunch in
the office cafeteria with more devo-
ton than Rebecca, daughter of Isaac
the Jew; ROwena, Jennie Deans,
Diana Vernon, Lucy Ashton. Amy
Robsart and Alice, daughter of Sir
Henry Lee, who are living in Ivanhoe,
Midlothian. Rob Roy. Bucklow, Kenil-
worth and Woodstock.
y x X
RUT it is mostly to English women
that your heart and mine so out.
Beatrix Esmond was q beauty when
Col. Henry Esmond came to Virginia,
but / did not have the honor of meet
ing her till Harry ESmond Warning
ton went from Castlewood Virginia.
to Castlewood in Hampshire. The
English branch of the family was not
to my taste. Lord Castlewood and
William were impossible. Cousin
Maria was the best of the lot and
compromised on marrying Hagan. the
actor who came to Virginia To prac-
tice theology. Lockwood, the old
servant. was the only gentleman in
the family When l am at Tun-
bridge Wells l stop at the White
Horse to chat with Lord of March,
Cattarina. Capt Bats and Chaplain
Sampson and I look in at Mrs. Bligh's
Lodgings, where Harry Warrington
stopped Mr.. Thackeray introduced
me to many crooked swells at
Mime. Bernstein's card parties. I
don't want to hurt the feelings of the
Esmonds. bat there We're as many
common persons in that family as In
any Other aristocratic family / have
met.
know you think Col. MartinJ
Lamberts daughters Theo and Hettis
charming. Theo Is the wife OF George
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travel with our curious cargoes
which steam to Europe. Tales of
hazard and adventure are tied to the
imports from foreign cousins The
department Is a clearing house ia
mIliar with all these wonderful tales
Feathers plucked from South African
ostriches, the skins of Siberian beasts
such as we never saw, ambergris from
whales found along the Arctic Coast,
rubber from the Dutch East Indies
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the Kings proctor, and Pierrat Tor
terue, the torturer.
! was back in Paris time later
the early part of the nineteenth CEN
fury. You remember Edmond Dante,
of Morrel's ship, the Pharaoh? He
was the man who loved Mercedes, the
Catalane, and who was denounced by
Danglars and Fernand as a Bona
partist. You remember that Dantes
lived underground in the Chateau diff
for Ia years, was educated by the
learned italian or mad abbot Faria,
cheated the cemetery of Chateau diff
in an amazing way and became the
Count of Monte Cristo. Well, / was
in Paris when he rented the fine
house, No 80 Champs Elysees, and
the dreadful house at Autuile in the
Bots de Boulogne, Rue de la Fontaine
No. %. He came to look up Baron
Danglars and the Count de Morcer,
formerly Fernand l knew Dante's
friend, Luigi Vampe, the bandit, the
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investigated the conditions. made
this reply. 1.-THE Danish crown.
the currency of Iceland. has de-
clined 10 per cent in purchasing
power. Food products. being neces-
sites. are not affected ss, quickly
as other materials by shifting ex-
change rates Because the goods had
been delivered in Iceland. the shipper
would probably have to- cut. his
charges "a little. but 20 per Centswas
excessive. A 10 per cent reduction
would be fair"
An Ohio tire manufacturer be.
sought Government assistance in To-
eating foreign markets. lie now has
agents in 90 foreign countries as
result of the service rendered by the
Department OF Commerce. A New
England shoe manufacturer inquired
the average size of a mans foot In
the Latin American countries. BY
return mail our Federal experts in
commerce supplied the data. 1t in.
Guided information about the styles
and types of footwear most in de-
mand in nine South American Coun-
tries An endless variety Of facts and
figures has been assembled at Wash
iugton for the use OF manufacturers,
importers. exporters and business
agents.
Not SO long ago the Department
Of Commerce was deluged with letters
from amateur sportSmen and hunters
who wished to go to India and help
the British government clear one of
it's provinces Of destructive wild ele-
plants. II so happened that the de
partment was asked by Johnny Bull
to advertise the fact that motion pic
ture experts who desired to accom-
pany government elephant hunters
would he accommodated on the expe-
dition. Through error in publishing
the announcement In American news
papers the statement was circulated
that Uncle Sam would furnish infor-
nation as TO the authorities in India
who desired the services OF elephant
hunters.
NINETY per cent Of our manufac-
tured products arc sold and con
summed in the United states. Only
one-tenth Of the total sails TO foreign
shores. This foreign commerce, how
ever. means the difference between
success and failure. profit and loss for
certain American manufacturers. It
means that factories can operate to
normal capacity throughout the year.
| 1t means that the foreign shipments
| will keep the plants going during pc
| RODS of seasonal domestic depression
| In 1913 the foreign commerce of
| the United States was Approximately
| 10 per cent Of the worlds total trade.
| Ten years later it had increased to II
per cent. The commerce of most
| every other large producing country
| has increased greatly during recent
| years The foreign commerce OF this
| country has recorded about the same
| gains as it's leading competitors.