Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1925, Page 73

Rambler Gets More Information On Chief Justice Fuller’s House Some Previously Obscure Motters Relating to the Sprigg Family Are Brought to and Furnish Interesting Family History. Light LE story of Tobias Lear and his Virginia home. Wellington, | led the Rambler to the cor- ner of FEizhteenth and streets, where a large house stand It is No. 1 street. Tobfas Lear bousht the cor ner lot and those lots west and north, Junc Jacob Waszner of G Rambler wrote last brick house on the corner home for a lonz time of M ton Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States. After looking 2t the tax ree the Rambler believes th. s built on the corner ind I hetween 1840 the owner of the pr 1y then 1in ke S. Sprigs. rastories of those yenrs dc tie name. Who 8. Spri the Rambler to ftind Fuller's hovse v Bprizz house enliiged and wills in onr court b of Dak Hill Cer» ery an Ster, the | helieves Sprigg” of the t Bprigz. governor of M 22; that this property by his daughter. Sallie Sp married Willinm Thomus Cartol many years Lk of the Supreme Court; that 1 Thomas ( il had his hom nen he died in 1863; that his widoy heve until her death in 184 it one of | the children of was Maj Gen. S in_ 1893 There is some deduction used in the | construction of this story and take may have heen mude low who never mukes a m one who never does anything o tries to. When last Sunday's ramble was with The ar's proofreaders, Ike Field, a super-proofreader. me to the Rambler's room with a message imuel Sprizz ¢ who died WEST ON F STREET | Charles carron.” bm St. John's Church. of Monday, FROM 18TH, WITH THE INTERIOR I)EP-\RvTME\T AT THE LEFT. =2 Addison; Pamelia Elizabeth Belt (died 1863) married Jacob Mountz of George- town. Any possible clue will be SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MAY 24, 1925 PART The Little Flower, Friend of Poilus, Raised to Sainthood by the Church France’s Second Joan of Arc Honored With Canonization Only 28 Years After Her BY MARGARET MARY LUKES. | OT since the canonization of | Saint Joan of Arc has Rome been the scene of such beuu-| tiful and inspiring splendor | as it is this month. Blessed Therese, the patroness the poily the child Carmelite, | known to devout Catholics all over the world as the “Little Flower,” W aised to sainthood on May 17. Never in the history of the Catho- lic Church has one of her children re ceived the matchless honor of canon ization after so short a lapse of time. She wus born as recently as 1873, in | Alencon, France, this little Marie | Francoise Therese Martin, of well-to do, highly cultured, and deeply re-| |ligious ‘pirents. At the age of 15 she | entered the Carmelite Convent | Lisieux by special permission of Pope | Leo' XIII. Only vears in all have | elapsed since the day of her death,| | October 1, 1897, until her elevation | to the sacred altars. | When it is remembered that the canonization of Joan of Arc did not| take pluce until nearly five centuries after her tragic death we can realize | the extraordinary swiftness with| which the “Little Flower” has been made a member of the shining com- | pany of the saints sut behind this movement, which litts little Therese to equality with | the famed Maid of Domremy, are the | prayers of hunderds of thousands of French soldiers who went through| battle with pictures of the beloved lit tle nun pasted in their army identifi cation books or carried in their hands. ienerals and privates alike led on| the holy child of Lisieux. They will| tell you that they owe their lives to {the intercession of the little sister | who died with the promise on her lips that ske “would spend her time in| | heaven doing good on earth.” It was her sweet simplicity and her “nearness” to them that endeared her | to the poilus. Theirs were not or-| dered prayers, so the story goes. | Death—Unprecedented Recognition Given. the letters are dated. The soldiers called Therese a modern Joan of Arc leading them to battle. They semed to her very face on the fields of war. here ix a story told of a colonel who, ifter an engagement, went to Lisieux in sore perplexity and told the rever end mother that she had better keep ! “that youngz nun” off the batlefield. Wi 1% his amazement when his eye upon the picture of Little Therese, who had been in heaven ars. It was her face, he sai had seen SO Rome listened to the thousands of fervent appeals, and in the | midst of magnificent ceremonies the “Little Flower” was made a saint Therese's life was as humble and simple as her name implied. From a happy, afiluent home in Lisieux, where family lived, she entered the clois the Carmelite Convent, after father, who so dearly loved k took her all the way to Rome to ge | permission. The convent had refused her on account of her youth. | There was nothing extraordinary about her life there. But so great | was her simple love of God, so bound | less was trust in Him that all who | came near her felt her sanctity. Ata request of the sis she wrote her autobiograph rich was call “The | Story of Sou It has been de- | scribed by a great churchman as “the el | enthralling narrative of the growth in ;‘ H | s ty of a living human soul.” Its #l | appeal was amazing. \Written in a i il | tiny nook of France, it was soon being d1ifi | | transiated in every jancuage and read i Wy in every corner of the world | It was not the story of a life of | perfection which the “Little Flower | told, but one of strivings and everyday | failings of such simplicity that her | gainsseemed within the reach o all When she died she promised s | 1 let fall = shower of roses, and | that she would not rest from helping They would cry in the stress of bat. | tle, while the screaming shells rained | | H thers until the end of the world. Im about them, “Ah little one, I must| 1 J i | mediately after her death her words P ot S 5 ; o | Set out of this!" or “Oh, little sister, t § ‘H 1 to come true. A lay sister deed of S. Sprigg to this property, but | he was born in Washington in 1532, | ing articles concerning old Virginia | flo "0 ov Shere are you now?” | : i 4 aving was instantly cured of cere . Justice Fuller's house was probably | Yarious tans hive axioms com- | and that his father was clerk of the | homes and families T have greatly en- | ‘0 JEITC g % il B bral ¢ i 4 ‘v odor of violets the S. Sprigz house enlarsed” 50 that | Teandators ot mtience. tad s _\-',,,'nf",‘,,'. hilsstather mante 4 _\,.\.:;',; goyea. (I doinsticnowdr you aveqe| THEY. amed beifenics | end | wegl] : 1 b e e o e it would read “Chief Justice er’s | pler remembers having read some- | until his retirement in 1852, He was | Professional genealogist and hesitate | ETS after her. "here 15 on her tomb | ; ; votion to the little dead sister spread house was the Cuarroll house en-|yhere an admonition that if at first | graduated at West Point In 1856 and | to intrude with any inquiries, but | oSG S E & 00 pa £ o o | Soon stories of her kindly and gra- larged.” 1 called Mike on the phone |you don’t succeed. try, try again. at the bezinning of the Civil War was | finally decided to ask if you have data | (I PV (S CORMANTER OF & SEID | " = clous intercessions came from many and asked him to send me any facts | That exhortation may be good in | commissioned colonel of th> §th Ohio | in connection with the Willis family of | [ CHARKSEIVIRE for @ miraciious es ; : B s . | parts of the world. No praver seemed he had about the house, and this note | oy limits, but you should let the | Volunteers. He served in the West | Virginia, intermarried with the Wash- | CADE 8t Sea. TRErC 15 @80 & Moee’ | 2 , . . too trivial, no human need too humble came back: “Dear Hi My enrli | Jiniits be very narrow. There are | Virginia campalgn and commanded | Ingtons and Tayloes and Byrds, also | COPREF B0 50 S rpiane & e ’ R | for_her reza est recollection of the house, north- | nany things which, ii man fail in, | troops in the battles and campaizns | Dabneys. Along these lines I thought | ©F t1e & T e | |2 , 2 - 2 s - The church beatifies and canonizes west corner Eighteenth and I, is that | pe ought not to try again. If a man |of Cedar Mountain, Fredericksburg, |©of no one who could probably know |only those whose lives have been it was occupied by Gen. Carroll, who | a1 gnce in some things, he ouzht to | Chancellorsville, Geitysburg and the | an¥thing more definite than yourself.” | rpgg; adoration of the little saint is | ; ; marked by the practice of heroic V! either named Sprigg or had a son | haye sense enough to quit. The Ram- | \Wilderness. He was commissioned ;.i The Rambler broadcasts these let: written down in thousands of | tue, and only after this has been es i from Mike Maker, another of | other bequests, she refers to “my |30, 1893, was a story of the death of | valued.” Star's proofreader Ike said dear son Spri Gen. S. Carroll at his home, Belle | A letter from Mrs. Bernard Franklin Mike would like to know if the Ram It was not a short hunt to find the | View, Takoma Park. It was told thar | of Ballston, Va.: “Your very interest bler would change the line “Chief | by that name. A daughter married | pler feels like bragging about find- | brigadier general during o ters with the idea that perhaps one of | Tt o I o] e it e et ifto the Esterhazy family. e Chic aeen: Devrs the Tob nipon | LoEeiler (Cenetal dUhE HSTWIer |5 vaf Ralrmillon Fesdere yosys befabled| I CLLSTR RSN (0] the Mother) Superios L “LITTL ! chelville W. Fuller was appointed |nim to do a littie work, and having | tcnant colonel in the Regular Army | to locate the missing ancestor come from obscure and lilliterate Justice Waite in April, 188§, by 1 dent Cleveland. Fiis first Washington addr was Jelmont, Fourteenth street extended.” His addre 1891 1895, was 1800 Massachusetts avenue. = rodeaind = class” miracles must be proved to the FLOWER” WAS BORN. JANUARY 2. 187 Satistaction of the high dignitaries of suffered that strange experience, he | in 1867 and was retired in 1869 on e privates and from generals who were 7 ¢ 2 the church. The term “first-class st o “\‘{1“.' you. You Know jsccount of wounds received In action Paving World's Streets. | noblemen in civilian life. Later Arnold sent his military medal, | hurried to my rescue. What was their miras le e ngtone v:‘:u e e how it s, hen vour wife forces ong e ces i Star 5 % y = is 2 pical one: anc 919 he came to Ca ver- | astonishment at seeing m up | diate and coutld not have happenec Vou to mow the Eiass in the front | Tanmny” o1 1000, was thier: ipe | [HE lake of asphalt in Trinidad has| Leve s 8 RS one Shss mhdeilpnn il iy T 4| by any natural means. Tests of medi yard, you choose for that feat of ex- val of Maj. Gen. S. B e . ne 3 Lk = % b cried| 1 science are applied to the evi ertion the time when all your nelgh- | 1o g &, reties. vl take place from | COvery by early explorers, despite the | My Reverend Mather: I beg to for-| of Honor | “Miracle! Miracle?” And I immediately | Jance. Physicians as well as prelates In 1896 his address was 1801 F Street. | hors are coming Rome from awe or | 5. Sy retired, Will take Diace from | fact that approximately 4,000,000 tons [ ward to you my military cross and to| "y 0o nother lette replied, with my heart full of gratitude, | SS\e on the board of inquiry Assuming that his deed might De |at least feom ofice aftes b sl et Lo Broh eernehass 1| of road-making material have been|ask you to be so good as to place it| [0 ! ‘ It is to my little Therese that I owe it found in that year, the Rambler went | the : T b 1. at 11 o'clock am. The zeneral| o oved, savs Popular Mechanics. It [ex-voto in the Carmel near the picture| “The last day we ght at the |1 have carried with me her relic since = ox % % |of Sister Therese. Marne, in September, we were face to beginning of the w mmediately | 5 grass you go about the neighbor- be buried with military honors . to the recorder’s office. On April 22, [ poo F7ES XOU B0 B0k e s | & : lod “with 4 is estimated that 10,000,000 tons of the | of e e ey 1896 Sohn saranall Brown arsPortdl| qu Lot s, S e S0 NS ICRrRkY SentHoR s nd e mixture have been churned into as-| At present I am adjutant in a fiy. | face with the enemy with only eight |drawing @ piece of white chalk feom | (TS DEccemses Dislriony o) e ecutor of the estate of LT o T et & s will | P! v gases during the ages in|ing squadron. F 3 e years io gthy L L Ple e oo Well, "1 trimmied Uy lawn B e Swert, TS Demmess e | Piteh Lake. which is Known as Devil's |T have fought for France, and the dear - cost thousands of (i!;u:;;_ The first Jar0f Ghileaco 1bte 1o 5 ant. 15 woate | Lo e be Gen. Thomas M, Vincent, Comdr: | Caldron among the natives. To trans. |little saint has never failed me. Her | j step is. the formal inquiry institated 142 (northwest corner Eighteenth and Ramsey, U. S. N-ipgden. Harry BINg| port the material, rails mounted on | protection was most notable in No-| v the bishop of the diocese in which F), with its improvements. for $50,000. | (JN April 18. 1835, John M. Thomas |ham, Gen Do M- B. ¥oung, a class | ijes have been extended over the sur- | vember of 1316, at the time of the ter- | | the candidate for the church's highest her husband, Melville W. Fuller, both | p.o (o botk A oG Io the death! ‘Jfi e et A | Bers. ‘who never move the scene of|sion that I was attached to in Serbis if his investigation prr;.‘\ 5 satiatactory, of Chicago, executed to Frederic D, |PiS Wife, both of Ann Arundel Coun-|In S Tohipe ot Lo as | oherations, as each morning finds the | had to make over the snow-clad moun- sends his report to the Congregatior McKenny and Frederick E. Chapin of | t¥. Md., deeded to Samuel Sprigg of ";‘e‘m""“]““'l"‘lh“;"" »‘x"“(";”-“fr""‘llfg holes left by the previous day’s activ- |tains of Albania, and in the month of Rites at Rome. 'T;herdeu;‘-rfnh-- Washington a deed of trust to secure | Prince Georges County, lots 1, 2 and :1 w:‘ ‘:'r‘; “nnr;‘;:;'\[" 0‘{' me“ Distriet | ity filled up. ~About every three days |of May, 1917, when I fen from a he_u. t 1 { “promotor fidei” is .,rr;]pf‘_rils \Iz ]“j $30,000 in promissory notes, to mature | 15, square 142, for $6,000, The price | ot oo mandery of the ustrict|the pitch covers the rallway which | of 5,000 feet. My m.'u-hmh was com- } g {body. He is the official !wova{azi\‘ in five vears, given to John Marshall | shows that a house was on that m" £ Companion Maj. Gen. Samuel slowly sinks into the soft material and | pletely shattered, but I got off with i | known,as the “devil's advocate. e Brown by M E. anad Melville W' | ground, and indicates that it was a|s “| o (‘_‘_“‘f";‘“ o ttemdanee ot torer | must be raised and relaid. By means |out the slightest hurt. I was twice ¢ 3 |endeavors in every way to disprove Fuller. brick house. It might have been | pumions waz ndance of com-| ;5" truck 100,000 tons of asphalt | mentioned in the dispatches and s s for achity that avermadle. 4 & 8 panions was requested and ‘‘the | ithdra fro he lak *h | twice commended by the divisional | hat proof may be undisputably es- Frrarte e htae Tonons e d ¢ |are withdrawn from the lake each |twice so that proo s 3 OING to the register of wills'| pona to secure that Fatnert | e e S e B cander and|2rea of about 110 acres, but its depth | « “MAURICE ARNOLD, i atification comes as a step before offic 2 Rambler i to | B i | 3 as never been measured. 2 office, the Rambler turned to the | Before coming on that deed the (iy. 1. Huxford, recorder. has fallen only 15 feet since its dis- | “From the Field, June 19, 1918.|sonally with his cross of the Legion |with no injury at all. They “Pilot Squadron 4 i canonization. The difference between will of Sallte 5. Carroll, witnessed May | Rambler found a deed of troet. My B e the two is that the first carries merely 22, 1894, and probated June 26, 1895, | 1o 1535, * from Thomas . Carbery, (o iniiar, August 14, 1014, printed " o the right of the beatified one to be She set ‘aside $1,000 “to keep in per- | Charies I. Queen, hix wiie, Maria A. | widow of Lieut. Comdr. T. Dix Bolles, eded i 3 e e fect order and repair my vault in Cak | Queen, and Samuel Sprigg, to guar- |U. S. N., died at Portland, Me., O 11e O 1€S e R e eraat Hill Cemetery from proceeds of the | antea the president and directors of | August 19, ) ’ \ 4 church which commands universa sale of my property, corner of F and | the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. o % * veneration. Eighteenth.” She bequeathed $10,000 | that the title to certain land sold to | o . | : o ! I ) ‘N’ h / No more beautiful or stirring cere- 10 be Invested to provide $600 & Year | that company by Charlee I. and | JHE Rambler has become so dis- O S| |pp1 y asnir lg' onians i / A < Bt S to her son, Charles H. Carroll, at|j\faria A, ( ueen, Henry C. Neale and tinguished as an expert on | with which Rome raises her favorite whose death $3,000 should go to her 2 % e {children to sainthood. The great grandson, Carroll Mercer, and $7.000 | giq not conta v ion as to - : | basilica of St. Peter's is illuminated to her grandson, John Francis Mer- | {1 "weciiation of Samuel Sntise op | o7 help: It is rumored—only rumored offvear el (eIt Wiy [pouny fo (heclty am @ mhicle. - | with thousands of lights. They run cer. She directed that $15,000 be in- | (o€ 00RO Of BRIUEL IPUES OF | _that several rich, but needy uni- through a stack of pies| Sweet potatoes are another favorite : e o b e n vested to give her daughter, Carolin | .ot prince Georges County, Md.” versities will confer on him the de spme thires and four tenths| Wash mstop 2.an, Skl / g |burst into dazzling brilliance from Ann Bolles, $900 a_vear, and “at her | “popiie® Georses fountyy MAT | ULeOr doctor of genealogy or even miles high. nough chick-|ating 36.04 pounds a vear, or a total . e s et death to be divided, $2.500 to my | g, i Gheie o ety e | master of family history. The|en, sweet potatoes and watermelons, | for the city of some 18,020,000 pound: e e L o W granddaughter, Sally Carroll Payson, | (il lnones for the upkeep of her | Rambler's secretary finds it hard to|of which Washington people are fond, | Practically the entire population eats 4 8 = |light. Myriads of candles flicker on 2,500 to ™ anddaughter, Mary | oo 5 S0 Cemetery. . The list | keep down the stack of mail. When |are eaten to form a halo around the white potatoes and sweet potatoes. |the priceless altars handed down for Bruster Brown; §2.300 to my son..Car- | 5" oty 'in that vauit foliows: | She ets to the office it is about time [moon, or some such thing. B Ll et : : 3 | centuries in the church. The pillars roll Brown, and $7,500 to my grand. | OF Interments in that vault follows: | 0% 540 5o ChY And ‘after Tunch there| You have the word of Uncle Sam’s | of the people here, the total consump. CEnL i (Ll s daughter, Violettz Lansdale Firu\\n,i"::;‘ May, 1857, Willlam Carroli ‘J; are so many telephone discussions | statistical experts on this. These men- | tion being estimated at 2,920, Sk and their helrs.” She left $10.000 “t0 | 53"y oars! May, 1861, William Calea | Charles Kiby was good. These papers fancestors that he gets many calls ASHINGTON in the course | reaches the grand total of 47,705,000 & | = 5 sArikiing of: & ds a year. 2 4 | 3 about the program for the evening|tal gymnasts, in the twinkling of an|DPOuRds @ vear. i el | In the tribunal of royalties sit Kings be invested to pay my daughter, Sally | 2 vears Jav. UOL WA LEe | oy yusements that she just has time to |eve, can reduce to figures every move | The average consumption b und queens. The Ambassadors of Virginia_Esterhazy, $600 a vear, and | ;eterl, IRCANT JUlE 10 (008 CrAt | go to the barber shop for a hair cut |that you make, asleep or awake: vour | € In this territory is placed at 584 z 3 p - ! S et endlof GHile anatother Cathiolia my granddaughter, Catharine Dubois e anty i scems able to hold her head up in|and the vagaries of each. .02 o e . BE e ecili Crowideiofithe mighest Y Lt e | . SDYIEE, T Samuel Sprigg, | § fed > Stat 1 4.56 ds in the South ;. 3 stately regalia. Crowds o ghest Beal, and my grandson, Samuel Sprigg At S Chane ‘Chr#g; | society without talking about her| The figures on eatables cover every- | Saen “Braten T Watormelon is am \ T e Carroll, share and share alike. Jecembier, e Eles ! | maid, no man can hope to have any |4pg Stntes. LG il iy 5 rifin_and Charles Griffin, infants : thing from soup to nuts. It is shown| gther item that bulks large, nearly 67 - church. She appointed her son-in John | Griffin_and Charles Griffin. infants:|standing with his fellows unless he | p. 4 SRhinie e 5 : A dPove ranant.m 7 y 1872, Violetta L. Mercer, 42 that of canned soups alone, Washing- | por‘cent of the populatiow eating some And high up above, radiant from in Marshall Brown, and her grandson, [ 1Y 2% 1t G » 42| has a _secretary, talks about his car, < 275.000 pounds b4 | S L A . abie 5 ifac N Chanis - i - v 22, 1884, Helen H. Carroll, 19; A plays golf. T will'pass over ito | LoD Ppours some 276/ pounds a 490,000 watermelons a year. numerable surrounding lights, hang John Wheeler Beal, executors. Wit- 2 7 L Snrlee Car | eI 1t s into its digestive apparatus, and puts| (f the various meats that are s . < ] 2 a painting of the child of the church nesses were Kate T. Frick, Jeannie amusliSprize you the following letter from the | [t0 M5 C e s ats are | ¥ 5 . ) s i . 2 13, 1895, Sally |3 A 1 5 ®laway a volume of nuts totaling some | egten, beefsteaks and roasts and | d | who is to be honored. Turnbull and Nannie T. Frick 3 . . Sally | Rambler's old friend, Dr. J. N. Barney, | 5o A o clsa aakh sl oXes £ E | ) : Shite G 5 . ot ! 2 2 Soriae Cariall. §5 yanis anQid onthin | o 4 : et 5,000 pounds. Delicacies such S h roxiinte the anoat Dopulars It > S ¢ ; Silver trumpets announce the ar In a codicil, June 6, 1894, Mrs. Car- | SPrigg Carroll v ont health officer of Fredericksburg, who | pi0 POIRCE ElrqaEs Sna ool o ey r 5 i ] e s roll wrote: “As my will was made | Ausust 17, 1914, Carolin Ann Carroll | seeks news of a lost ancestor: gelatin X Al go|is stated that the average person L8 5 | Pope. E ? ; pr ¢ . eorner of | Eolles, 72 vears and 11 months, SR v Bd sted in |Year; peanut butter, 235.000 pounds,|consumes 75.56 pounds of meats of | 3 . enter in their brilliant uniforms. The before my property on the corner of 4 have been much interested in|? S ® 000 i et R s fo e ¥ and Bighteenth was sold, and fee In The Star of February 12, 1895, | vour notes concerning the Addison |2Nd sauerkraut, 285,000 pounds all kinds in the course of a year. ¢ 3 chamberlains bearing swords form th ihe sueithat fhere will be something | a5 this | family in The Sunday Star. An an-| These figures are obtained by as-|The average consumption of beef- guard of honor. The voices of the over the demands of my will,” she| “Mrs. Sally Sprizz 1. the | cestor of my wife, Benjamin Belt (III) certaining the average consumption :-Ieuks‘ is placed at 5 3 noulr;dn{ rrhnn,\\n[:!-e .-rq,\l J\;lu‘ns Chapel o directed that $500 be given her niece, | Widow of William Thomas Carroll, | married a Miss Addison, but her name |per person in a representative group |roast beef, pounds; stew beef, ~ SUS™ P o > 7 BER S = e |tone. Irom 9 in the morning unti e i Amderson Vamd tho 1ot | who was for 43 vears clerk of the Su. | ia not preserved in the records we|of people, and then multiplying the |5. : CHILD JESUS: PAINTED IN 1913 BY HER SISTER. CELINE, WHO. |25 the afternoon the ceremon lasts ance partitioned among heirs named | preme Court, died at her residence, | have. Your papers on the Addison|average by the total population. The ERESE. WAS A CARMELITE Nl AT LISIEUX. Then the momentous pronouncement e will. "She aluo wrote: “To my | No. 1501 I street, yesterday. She |family are not available in our Pub-|per person consumption for this ter-|sausage, 4.27 pounds, and very little 4 is made. The church has sent another faithtul servants, James Jackson and a daughter of ex-Gov. Sprigg of | lic Library in Fredericksburg, and |ritory was worked out by the Depart-| muiton and veul cannons, while the Germans had 2 pocket. T wrote in large lette soul to join that golden choir made Delia Noonan, I give $300 each, to be | Maryland and for 60 years has been | possibly you may, off-hand. point out{ment of Agriculture based upon in-| Practically all the fresh vegetables | At that critical moment we were in|my gun, ‘Battery of Sister Therese of [ETeat by the presence of St. Francis ziven to them as soon after I die as| well known in this ci and loved | to me some source of information con- vestigations made by the Bureau of |are popular here, the total quantity ' need of \,f Assisi, St. Anthony, St. Cecilia, St. f¢ 1 possible.” | by all who knew her. Her pure and | cerning the Belt-Addison alliance. Ben- | Labor Statistics. | of cabbage consumed being 5,805,000 | 4 o (o0 oo SRR e : § ; homas and those other noble men A long list of household articles is | Christian character was manifested | jamin Belt (I), son of John Belt, Who | " The consumption of pie in Wash- |pounds a vear; tomatoes, 10,910,000 ('€ ceased. in our hurry to brins up | -Since then, whenever it rains and|and women of other ages whom the given, and to her dauzhter, Alida|by every act of her life. She leaves|was the son of Humphrey Belt, immi-|jngton is reported at forty-three one.|pounds; onions, 5,795,000 pounds; {Other loads, I unfortunately fell in|the name gets washed off I quickly |world reveres. atherine Brown, she bequeaths “my | thiee daughters, the Countess Ester-|grant, married a Miss Taylor; Ben- | pundredths of a pound per person per | turnips, 2,510,000 pounds, and so on |SUch a way that my zun passed u\m““”" it on again, SRR All this brought to blaze on the sllver sugar dish and cream pot to v, Mrs. T. Dix Bolles and Mrs. |jamin Belt (I) married Ruth Middle- | voar Any one who eats pie will label | through the whole list of spinach, | ™Y two legs, which should have been » 'PAUL DUC .\‘f'l,_ head of one creature”—and in this match, as also the sugar tongs be- | John Marshall Brown, and one son, | ton; Benjamin Belt (ITI) married Miss | that as a pernicious lie, but it appears | Deas, beans, corn, lettuce, celery, and j SOmpletely crushed, since our 7 -<‘ unner, bist Actillery case it is the “Little Flower, > = that only 8 people out of every 100 |the like. weighed 4,000 pounds. My comrades! From the hospitals and the trenches |the poilus loved. ammunition, and when our|the Child Jesus whom eat ple, which gives the pie eaters about 5% pounds each, or a total for the city of some 215,000 pounds a veiy Merely by way of demonstrating their statistical versatility the Gov- ernment experts then figure out that at the rate of a pound per pie having a thickness of one inch, 215,000 pounds will stack 215,000 inches, or 18.000 feet, or 3 4-10 miles. Eat it by the inch or by the mile. The cake and cookie eaters in Wash- ington seem to be more numerous than the pie eaters, nearly half the people here eating these dainties. The average consumption of cakes and cookies per person is placed at 2.24 pounds a year, which would make a total for the city of some 1,120,000 pounds. | " On the other hand, only one-third of | the population eat jellies, preserves and marmalades, the total volume running up to 530,000 pounds a vear. But when it comes to molasses, sirup and honey, over 81 per cent of the people eat these to the tune of 4,410, 000 pounds annually. Washington's sweet tooth is further exemplified by the fact that 84 per cent of the population eats candy to the extent of some 1,145,000 pounds annually and collectively. Ice cream is eaten by 70 per cent of the inhab- itants, the average per person con- sumption being 1.24 quarts or a_total for the city as a whole of 620,000 quarts. All these are the merest prandial trills. When it comes to eating the foods that form the real backbone and fiber of Washington's population the figures run well into the millions of pounds. The per person consump- tion of white potatoes, for example, ts placed at 95.41 pounds, which Apples are the most popular fresh | frult, the consumption of this com- modity running to 1,530,000 pecks a year: berries, 1,325,000 quarts: grapes, 1,195,000 pounds, and large quantities of peaches, bananas, oranges and cantaloupes. The consumption of | canned tomatoes runs up to 2,280,000 | pounds a vear, and canned corn, 825,- | 000 pounds. Consumption of fish is high in Wash- ington, nearly 80 per cent of the peo- ple eating fresh fish. The consumption of fish and oysters is placed at 11.69 pounds per person, which is somewhat higher than for the country as a whole, but not so high as in New Eng- land, where the average is 11.62 pounds per person. A rough estimate of the total quan- tities of food eaten here shows that | each person in Washington, as every- | where else for that matter, eats four or five times his own weight in food in the course of a year. Of cereal products alone, including breakfast foods, bread, roils, buns, crackers and the like. the average Washingtonian will eat nearly 202 pounds a_year; his milk drinking will average 30 quarts, and he will consume nearly 13 pounds of butter. Metal Cork. HERE has been used in the con- struction of airships a so-called “metal cork.” This is said to be of greater lightness than aluminum. Its surface is that of a brillilant grayish whiteness and emits rays similar to those of unpolished aluminum. The composition of this metal cork, according to reports from Paris, is as follows: 99.30 parts of magnesium, with the addition of aluminum, sine and iron.