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Old Fort De Russy May Be Partially Restored W A8HINUTON.—Restoration of Fort De Ru*«y In Rock Creek park •nfflcient to preeerre the outline* of the parapet, ditch, bastion* and other features aa it stood durine the Clrtl war may be an outcome of the O. A. Rencampment here. Lieut. Georje Carr Round of Uanaasas. Va.. who wa* designated to arrange for the icopen Ing of the war time signal stations during the encampment, wrote to the board of control of Rock Creek park

G RAND RAPIDS.—Sereral years ago. when the outcome of a f '* tlr i t *** to him was entirely a matter of conjecture. Leo F. Troy, better snows

Hard Luck“ Troy, because of the frs quency with which ho returned from angling excursion* without result*.

reflnesting permission to open Mon at Fort De Russy. Certain Improvements were necessary before this alte could be uUlMed and Lieu tenant Round proposed that they be made with a view to permanently presenring the fort. In addition b

thing*. Lieutenant Round proposed that the present roadway up the fort hill be extended to encircle the entire fort outside the ditch and that suffldent brush be cleared away to show the landscape to passing rUitor* In ^carriages and automobiles. He suggested thmt an old time "crow's n signal slaUon be built In one of the tallest trees near the fort and be pro•Meed as a feature of the Jubilee encampment of the G. A. R Lieutenant Round had signal stations In operation during the encampment at Soldier* - Home. Fort Steven*. Georgetown Heights. Fort Richardson ■mi Fairfax Seminary south of the Potomac. Concerning the appropriateness of permanenUy preserving Ftart De Russy. he stated: “1 respectfully submit that Fort De Russy It one of the Interesting object* In the park and could easily be made a particularly picturesque feature. It must be about the highest point in the park. It was the most prominent fort In the line of fortifications which confronted General Early's Confederate army which attacked Washington In 1864. much stronger in natural position and range than Fort Reno on its left and Fort Stevens Its right. But for Fort De Russy. Early's veteran* in gray would no dot hare entered Washington by the Rock Creek valley."

In SrpuoiA nationai. park.

Uncle Sam Promotes the Out-of-Door Movement B REALIZATION that the members of his big family should be encouraged o live morb In the open air seems to have come suddenly to Uncle Sam.

for he has done more, perhaps, in the past twelve months to stimulate and M gome dEy wm ^ discovered.

T HE Sequoia National park Is

twenty-four year* old. yet, east of the Rockies. It Is scarcely known Yellowstone and Yosemlte are the only

two names which the enormous majority of easterners think of when national parks are mentioned. Nevertheless. Sequoia it. perhaps. In point of average beauty, the superior of all. It was dear to the heart of John Uuir. father of National parka, and Chief Geographer R- B. Marshall, who knows them all as no other man knows them, having surveyed or traversed them In person, has declared In print that It possesses beauty as

great aa all other* combined. It Is par excellence the camping-out

the lower osea of which swept the ground. Like the young tree* of today, the ancient sequoia and the dump of trees of similar age which grew done to ft must have been e charming adornment of the landscape. By the time of Marathon the trees had lost the hard, sharp lines of youth, and were thoroughly mature. The lower branch's had disappeared, up to a height of a hundred feet or more; the giant trunks “

The Installation sra* made In the fall of the year. In the tank he placed several large and small mouth bass of medium site and members of other fish families common in the north temperate tone. All winter long during the day and at night he cultivated the acquaintanceship of the fish. Once firmly estahllsled In their good graces. Troy took steps to solve a problem which had perplexed him for year* and which Is the cause of disappointment for the average unsuccessful angler. He wanted to know the most expedition* way to bait a book with a In order to catch bass. With this idea In mind be dropped several chab nows In the tank. In a moment they bad disappeared. Several more were Troy was surprised a moment later to see one of the number, minus It* tall ■mi badly cut. belly up toward the surface. A second later It disappeared In the maw of one of the her*. ■tinned, and Troy eventually learned that the has* would never take the minnow tall first. So on hi* next excursion. ln*tead of thrusting hi* barb through the head or nose of the .minnow, be caught It about the middle and Just undor the back fin. thus giving a bass a < hanc* •t the head. ' The difference In hooking eoon showed results, and when Troy finished the trip he had succeeded in catching more and better baa* any other trip of hi* career.

and rocked all day, to the cerem. nloas bath and airing In the perambulator, she felt it her privilege to aaeocial* with people of her own age. after baby had eetUed himself to sleep all night; preferably Gerald but—end this was what the trouble was all about—he bad st dru* store, and no oc* could be trusted with the precious prescription factor? from tarn, until 11 p. m. daily but himself. Pii»cllla was left to amuse nenelf aa beat she could. Suddenly someone threw up a window in the building next door and

encourage the out-of-doors movement than In any other equal period of time. First came the bid for a greater recreational use of the national foresU. and now the general land office has completed a sale, without precedent, of Bites especially for villas on the bank* of the beautiful Flathead lake

In Montana.

To attract larger numbers of vacationists to the vast f rests owned by the government, the forest service *e- ' cured legtslaUon that permits the leasIng oi sites for summer homes for as many as 50 years for merely nominal rental*. Thl* arrangement, which went Into effect la*t spring, makes worth — the erection of substantial Improvement*, and baa already greatly increased the number of person* aojourn'ng in the fore«U In the summer season. In many of the forests applicaUons to lease five-acre fraeta are pourtng in. and dwellings from simple log cabins to.pretentious homes are ■pringlng up In mountain glens snd by rfver banks and lake shore. In order to determine Just what the forests present to the way of attractive slits for summer homes and facilities for boating, bathing, fishing, mountain .limbing and other outing actlrtUes. the forest service U now making a recreational survey of the domains over which It has control and will list and publish the data as rapidly as possible. Now. it is roallred. most of the applicants for rotUge sites are persons who nappen to bo familiar with the fon-ats When the data now being collected are available, however, city-bound souls who long for the woods but have neither the means nor the time to make long searches for satisfactory sites will be able to choose Just about what they wish without stirring from their doors.

Feast on Ham Cooked in Ink to Settle Dispute F OR four years two prominent Washington men have quarreled over the question whether a ham cocked to Ink Is better than one rooked to champagne. The champion of the Ink-cooked ham Is Frank Conger, former postmaster here. The champagne side of the gastronomic argument was taken by 'Tony" Richardson, a local

real estate man.

The other day an experiment took place at "Shoemakers.' retreat of statesmen, artists, publicists, and literary lights. Prof. "Ous' - Noack, analyUcal chemist, aws called to aa ex pert. Eight quarts of each liquid were used. Mr. Noack arranged the gas atov^ and made sure that the Ink man had D3l substituted grape Juice "Of course.” said Mr. Conger. "I do not maintain that the Ink adda to the delectable Havoc of the ham. Rut neither does the champagne. 1 would not advise epicures to drink the Ink to which the ham Is cooked. But I will eal the bam cooked to the Ink to prove that no part of the Ink substance la absorbed by the ham to cooking, and that the man who hat been Jollying himself with the Idea that be obtains a champagne flavor from ham cooked to champagne 1* merely working hi* Imagination overtime and ought to be a war correspondent and not a chef or bou vivanL' At five o'clock the hams were cut and about seventy-five persons present partook of the meat, nobody knowing which he at« The advocate ot the rhampaatie-rooked ham was asked to pass Judgment. He Insisted he could taste a bare Davor ot champagne, but admitted that he had not tasted Ink. go ho decided for himself, and Professor Noack handed Mr. Conger a bill lor eight quarts of champagne under the terms of the wager. Newton, in Spotless Attire, Runs Steam Shovel

T HE modem war meat building * Newton, assistant t

t "breaking ground" for the construction of a govern „ shown at Eighteenth and F street* when Byron R •retary of the treasury, officiated at the beginning r e new home of

the Interior department The aaslitant secretary didn't pick up a shovel and turn a bit of earth to the old fashioned way. Instead Mr. Newton who waa clad to a Palm Reach

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aboard the i,gh platform ef a liege and gross' steam shovel aud pulled • wire which dropped several hundred pounds ot dirt into a waiting wagon He wa* photographed In the midst of thi* incardou* task and when be clambered down be bad moved about the greasy Interior of the big steam shovel without get •tog so much as a speck on bta suit or shoes. The build mg when complete. wUl coat approximately W.OOO.WIO. whirl, (s mere than a half million under the limit eet bj congress. U will house all branches of the iniencw department and will be a magnificent eight swey

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qclred a slightly drooping aspect; and the aplny foliage, far removed from the ground, had assumed a graceful, rounded appearance. Then for centuries, through the days of Rome, the Dark Agee and all the period of ths growth of European civilisation, the ancient giant* preserved the name appearance. strong and solid, but with a •trangely attractive, approachable quality.'' The Sequoia* are found scattered II over the park, which ha* an area of 161,697 acres, but the greater tree* are gathered to 13 groups of many ich. where they grow dote together. The foliowtog is a list of a few of the principal tree*, with their name* height, and diameter: Giant Forest Grove. General Sherman, height. 279.9 feet; diameter, 36.6 fed. Abraham Lincoln, height. 270 feet; diameter, 31 fed. William McKinley, height. 291 fed; diameter. 28 feet. Muir Grove. Dalton, height, 292 feet; diameter. 27 feet Garfield Grove. California, height. 260 feet; diameter. 80 feet. General Grant Grove. General Grant, height. 264 feet; diameter, 36 feeL George Washington, height, 268 feet; dlametrr. 29 feet. The General Bhermun tree covered by Jama* Wolverton. a hunter and trapper, on August 7, 1879, at which time he named the tree honor of General Sherman, under whom, be had served during the war. The dimensions of this tree are as follows:

Feet.

Height *79.9 Base circumference 102.8 Base diameter **•* Greatest diameter at base 36.5 Circumference 6 ft. above ground 86 Diameter 6 ft. above ground 27.4 Diameter 100 fL above ground.. 17.7 Home of tho Golden Trout. The general country •• one of the moat beautiful to America, abounding to splendid streams, noble valleys, striking ridge*, and towering mountains. Some of the best trout fishing to the world Is found here The I'ark Is the home of the celebrated golden trout, which Is found nowhere else to

such perfection of color.

These mountains and vallcya form literally one of tho most available pleasure spots on the continent. It Is easily traveled and abounds to fine camping grounds. The water Is drinkable to all the atreama. Aside from the sequoias the largest, oldest, tallest. and most valuable forest tree* are found here There are forests of pine, fir. cedar, and many deciduous trees that are fairly royal. There are many shrulw, wild flowers, ferns and mosses of wonderful luxuriance and beauty.

It la a park of birds.

In laying out the boundaries of Sequoia National park aotne of the most superb of American accnlc count—

was unaccountably omitted. Just

the north lie* the wonderful valley

,vc counted | the King* river with its *i>ectarular

anyon and pirturoaqoe mountain*,

years of age. of three that were over I while d I really on the east, over the 8.000. ana of one that waa 3.160. | Great Western divide. Ilea Ibe valley the days ot the Trojan war and : of the Owens river widely celebrated

for its beauty. Mount Whlltn - - — east bank. U tbs loftiest mountain In

the United States Three

tricta are easily reached trom the ns t ion si park, ot which they are in ef tact, though not to adtnint; tration and

natural pan

Perhaps the most potent reason tor 1U lack ot celebrity Is that this Is the Big Tree perk, and the general public asaodates the Big Trees of California with Yosemlte. The Mariposa grove, within easy reach of the Yosemlte valley, contains several enormous sequoia trees. In fart the Yosemlte National park contains three groves of these glanta, the two others being the Merced and Tuolumne groves, which lie within easy reach to the northTbe Sequoia National park, howover, which lies many miles south of Totemlte. wa* created to preserve, for the use and pleasure of the people of the United Bute*, by far the great eat groves of the oldest, the biggest, and the most remarkable treat living to thl* world. They number 1.1 •3,000 Of these, 12.000 exceed 10 feet to diameter. The General Sherman tree. celebrated of all. Is 279.9 feet high with a diameter of 36.6 feet. The Abraham Lincoln tree U 270 fret high with a diameter of 31 feet- The William McKinley tree la 291 feet high

with a diameter of 21 feat. Of Mighty Dimensions.

The General Grant National park It usually mentioned with Sequoia because. though separated by all mllea of mountain and forest, the two are practically tho same national park. It contains only 2.63* acres and was created only for the protection of the General Grant tree, a monater quota 264 feel high and 36 feet diameter. But General Grant shares his domain with distinguished neighbors. notably the George Washington tree, which la only nine feet leas In height and six feet less to diameter The sequoias are the oldest living things tc thl* world. 'They ere the connecting link." write* Ellsworth Huntington, "between the ancient

East and the modern West.

"Three thousand fence posts, sufficient to aupport a wire fence around 8.000 or 9.000 acre*, have been made trom one of these giants, and that was only the first atep toward ualng lu huge carcasa. Six hundred and fifty thousand shingle*, enough to cover the roof* of 70 or 80 houaea, formed the second Item of It* produce Finally there allll remained hundreds of cords of firewood which no one could use because of the prohibitive expense of hauling the wood out of the mountains. The upper third of the trunk and all the branches He on the ground whore they fell, not visibly rutting, for the wood Is wonderfully endurtug. but simply waiting Mil some foolish camper shall light

de< a*taltog fire.

"Huge as the sequoias are. their site Is scarcely bo wonderful as their age. A tree that ha* lived 690 years Is still to Us early youth: one that ha* rounded out 1.000 summers and winters u only in full maturity, and old age, the three score years and ot the sequoia*, does not come foi

or is centuries.

Growing Before Exodus. •'How old the oldest tree#

Wonder of Golden West Is Found in Los Angeles L OS ANGELES.—One wonder of the Golden West was discovered to Um Angeles one morning recently by Arthur J. Reed, a tripper from Denver, aa ha sra* enjoying hi* first night's sleep to California. Reed went to a movie ahow on Sunday night. He saw a Jangle film. Giraffes, tigers, lions and elephant* frisked across the screen, charged. Blew and gobbled their prey. HU back hair bristled a* he later palled the coven up to his nose and sank hack Into hU pillow. Horrible dreams outdid the movie's flickering films. Reed wa* being pursued by countless "d of the Impenetrable Jangle fastnesses ' The cUmax came at last. A huge African elephant cornered Reed. On one aide was a cliff a mile high, on the other a bottomless cave. The G. O. B trade-mark came steaming up to Reed. He felt IU hot breath aa Its pre-ben site proboscis probed his person. The elephant stepped In to deliver the couple-grace. Raising Its trunk unUI It touched Reed's hards It forced down bU guard and. leaning over Bit him on the left shoulder! ! ! ! ! In frightful agony Reed woke, threw on his clothes and charged out onto Mato street. There wa* a policeman, so he felt sure of protection. "Where's the nearest hospital?'' begged Reed. “I've Just been bitten on the shoulder by an elephant." At the receiving hospital Dr. Louis M. Kane beard Reed's story to al! Its awing detalU. On Reed's left shoulder was a red spot the sue of a Jitney

bus fare.

'"Are you a atranger here?" asked the surgeon "Yesalr." moaned Reed "That expUtos IL" concluded the doctor. "You were bitten not by an elephant, but "By a ferocious fles!"

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of the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt this oldest tree was a sturdy sapling, with stiff, prickly foliage llkp

tnal oi a cedar, but far pressed. It was aoubtle* tut. snarply conical tree. :<

| I gh wBh dense, hortsonu! brai

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Kansas City Goat Proves to Be Good Farm Hand K ANSAS CITY.—The business ability ol Oliver Hopps was in qoesttun Oliver, eight years old. traded hi* bicycle, which was anosn to have a cash value of |12, for a goat harness and wagon of unknown worth Crosby Hoppe, who bad just motored home to the summer place ot the Hoppe tamll/. at Seventy fifth street and Kant* Fe avenue, looked aakame al kU son s

bargain

Hut a trade la a trade, and there was the goat, and a nine new tan harness. Also there was the lawn mower and a good start of grass waiting his immediate attention Hr do • lared now that It waa an Inspiration which prompted him to put them to gether. The trial wr* more than successful. William, though just a plain scrub goat. Is of stock design, and it was fun for him to drhg the lawn mower along, and a large area of their Cvo acre tract that Is In grass ceased to be a <-au»„ 'ot dread. The garden cultivator? Why not? Here again William loomed more Important as an investment. A hand cultivator is hard for a person to push, but for the goat it was easy to pull, and one and one-fourth acre* of garden are kept to splendid shape, through the efforts of Mr. Hopps and the goat after business hours It Is fun for Oliver to drive the goat, hut Mr Hopps can manage him alone If Oliver Is not available, and the goat walks along about as fast as Is essential to careful cultivation, ana he never balks nor stalls unless a solid obstruction is encountered by tbe cultivator. -'William is becoming too fat; be does not h ve enough to do.' observed Mr. Hopps. letUng his eye rove over the little farm. "Next year i will have to plan a little more garden for hia benefit.'

Gerald Junior • _ _ took away the bottle, revered I snugly—and then she went to her desk Long ago the bad tucked away an engraved card somewhere to a pigeonhole. She found U under the baby's weight chart. Mr. aad Mrs. Reginald «L Clair STUDIO DAMCntO Claasra Tuesday and Friday 1'rom S until 11. Print* Lrasons as Arranged. Nrstor Bunding. Philadelphia. How she had coaxed Gerald to go! He used to love dancing! How mar rtage changed men! It was different with women. They didn't lose all romance to two abort years. Then she thought of something. Why not go to dancing achoal alone? Many women did! She rolled baby's bed as quietly as she could to the window and palled the shade to the top. If she left a bright light burning to tbe room she could look over *( him after *»urj dance to make aura he was all right In a few mlnutoa she waa dreased to a year-eld white gown and black sllppera and stockings, but t—e felt like Cinderella to saUn and crystal going to her first ball. The preliminaries were a little try Ing to timid Brlsdlla. hut tbe delight of dancing more than made up for the effert. As she had planned, after every dance she went to the window for a peep at the baby, who lay. as she had left him. sound asleep to bis bed cloae to tbe window. Priscilla laughed softly to benelf How splendidly her plan had worked! Two hours of pleasure like this once a week would keep her going hun drods of lonely evening* at home . alone. "What Gerald does not know ^ doea not hurt bite!" she reflected smiling "Bta net doing anyone to the world a bit of harm.' The class work on • new on water took a little longer than usual, and by the time It waa over Priscilla wa* frantic with anxiety. She made straight for tb* window and looked down at Baby Gerald's window. She put her band suddenly to her mouth to stifle a scream She was lust to tine to see two maacultoo arms lift baby trom his bed and dis-

appear.

She had locked the door and no one elae but Gerald bad a key. But Gerald had so pepper-and-salt clothes, and the two arms that held her precious baby were encased to rough tweed! Priscilla ran! Like a Bash she was down the atalra. out on the street, then up tbe stairs of her own build tog. The door of her apartment wa* standing open and—Gerald Junior waa

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“ i Sbe tried to reach the telephone, but Now You Can Pawn Your Pet Animals in New York | down an lestant until things should eat' - watch to au | * w »> r - utchdog to the i 1 b ® or, i morning Gerald senior sat i holding one of Priscilla a hands. Baby Gerald lay cooing In his crib and everything seemed delightfully peaceful and happy to the Mute woman to be-' "11 you don't mind. Gerald, dear, will you please teU me all over again Low you rushed home for baby when you g*t the message your grandnxtker waa passing through town and wanted to aes her only greatgrandson ?“ Bo he told her again. "V-’hoa# coat had you on dear?" "Pam*, my clerk’s 1 had only ten minutes to get to thfc train and in my rush i sot the wrong one.' “And von're sure you don't mind my going to dancing school f “Yes. | do mlr-d! It was a shsnr you had to go slots. After this well get Sally t0 ,; U> . pr^ay night* to look after the bahar and wo'U go f»trotting together.'* 'Copyright, l-ii (j,, MrClura N»w»-P-Pvr pvt-dt'*»•-)

ork city Is an animal pawnshop, ordinary pawnshop to raise money on It. so you may take animal pawnshop. Recently a man did thla. getting 120 on a dog that was easily worth 360 the pawnbroker said. But he was a trick dog which bad been taught to open doors. Bo In due time he opened a door and let himself out while letting the pawnbroker in. H. Potter, who Is tbe trainer for tbe New York Hippodrome, owns the shop. He takes camels, lions, elephants, any animals. There are no rbargrs fur Intcreat on the loan, the only charge being for the keep of the animals, among which at almost any time are deg*, monkeys tears, goats rats room foxes, parrots, canaries At one time be had 40 trick donkeys u, ,«,wn The profits arising from the charges foi feed and rare are enough to msk. the Institution pay Once he had a lion In pawn which broke hit chain to the stable and went roaring around trying to get out. The wnployees w nearly Beared to death, and it was only after heroic effort* that they tared courage to capture him Aa a matter ot fact, the ai.imn was . ne croplt beast that had served bit time In aide shows and wa* anxious to s-i sway from them. The proprietor trains animals of all kinds snd deal them so bis line ot pawnshop for them Is a part of nis otb -r business and ‘ "* 00 ° 1 ® b *ve the only pawnshop of 'be ktud to tbe world.