'GOOD ROADS SENSE.
FJome of the
Embassy
Sir Michael Hcrbort tad Made Many Extensive Alterations
a'nd Repairs Previous to His Death.
IE death of Sir Honry MI
chaol Herbert, British am
bassador to tho United
States, after only a year of
servlco In that capacity at
Washington, ha3 prevent
ed his enjoyment of tho cx
tonslvo alterations nnd ro
decoratlng of tho British
embassy at Washington,
which woro mado last yenr
following tho death of Lord
Pauncefoto and Sir Herbert's ap
pointment to tho important post.
This building has been remodel
ed several times slnco it was built sev
eral years ago, and in accordance with
tho citHtom of tho British government,
architects wero sent from Kngland to
plan and superintend tho alterations,
nnd in most Instances tho bulk of tho
constructive material necessary, oven
to door-knobs and. hnrdwaro sundries,
have been brought from tho mother
country, but tho most extonslvo trans
formation took placo during tho last
year, In order to prepare tho embassy
for occupation of Sir Herbert and his
family. Tho interior of tho famous
Btructuro was subjected to but slight
alteration, but tho Interior was so
changed as to bear slight semblanco tq
Its arrangement nnd aspect during
Lord Paunccfoto's resldonco thoro.
Sir Herbert was chargo d'affaires at
Washington In 1888 and sorved as sec
retary of tho legation from 1892 to 189C,
co that ho was thoroughly familiar
with tho British embassy and had dcfl
nlto ideas In regard to Its rcarrangb-
THE BRITISH EMBASSY
jnent and decoration when his appoint
ment to tho post at Washington waB
mado last year. During tho incum
bency of Lord Pauncefoto tho great
drawback .of tho embassy was tho lack
of brightness in many of tho rooms,
duo in part to tho shado trees which
surround tho building. Under tho di
rection of Sir Hqrbort every ono of tho
B0 odd rooms Into which tho ambassa
dorial residence is divided, was reno
vated or remodeled, and tho general,
ntmosphero of tho mansion by recourse
to light wall coverings and hangings,
while tho ceilings woro all painted a
croam color, that Is in perfect harmony
ylth tho general docoratlvo scheme
A most Important change In tho ar
rangement of tho houso an.d pno which
was specially appreciated by Sir Her
bert was a complbto separation of tho
official and residential functions of tho
embassy. Tho chancellory, which oc
cupies a wing of tho main struqturo,
nnd tho construction of which was bo
gun during tho regimo of Lord Paunco-,
fote, facilitates this. Prior to tho erec
tion of thiB addition visitors to tho em
bassy woro compollcd to go along tho
side of tho house to a wing of tho
building located not far from tho kitch
en, whoro thoy transacted their busi
ness with ono of tho secretaries. Tho
chancellory la now near tho building
line of tho embassy, and In conso
quenco tho distinguished visitor who
enters through this portion of tho
structure fools no impairment of his
dignity. Tho chancellory contains a
reception room and three offices, tho
walls of tho latter being well-nigh cov
ered, with tho volumes of a valuable
reforence library.
Tho British embassy- Is -perhaps tho
meat interesting ;dplojnaflc -establishment
at Washington, an it is, from a
monetary standpoint, unquestionably
tho most valuable of tho residential
properties owned by foreign govern
ments at tho capital of tho Unitod
States. It is most odvantageouBly sit
uated at a central point in Connecticut
avonue, tho great boulovard which bi
sects the fashionable quarter of Wash
ington and constitutes at onco tho prin
cipal thoroughfare and favorite prom
nade. Measured by tho standards of
the financial world it is a trifle difficult
to estimate the exact value of the
yy
British
at Washmgtoi)
splondld property, comprising nbout
30,000 square feet, ovor which waves
tho British flag. Tho tax assessors
have estimated tho holding which Is,
of course, oxempt from taxation to bo
worth not less than $183,000, but In
reality Its valuo Is double that sum.
Tho British embassy homo Is an Im
mense, commodious brick structure,
which, with Its substantial stable, out
buildings and garden, occupies nearly
a square Shade trees Hank tho build
ing on all sidos and tho English Ivy
forms a green mantlo which in summer
partially covers tho walls. Tho house
Btands sufficiently far back from tho
street to glvo an air of seclusion to tho
placo, tho effect bolng heightened by
tho masslvo fenco, which encloses tho
groundB. Tho front door Is approached
by an nsphalt drivoway and walks,
another leading to tho chancellory wing.
Tho tnagnlflcont hall, which is onter
qd from a massive doorway, Is from an
architectural standpoint, ono of tho
gems of tho embassy. At tho end of
tho spacious apartment Is a wldo stair
case, down which looks a splendid por
trait of tho lato Queen "Victoria, valued
at ?50,000. Tho hall Is without exten
sive ornamentation. Tho wainscoting
is of marble, and tho paper is of a rich
red tint The staircase Is of walnut,
which has boon enameled white.
Sir Horbort gavo much thought to
tho decoration and arrangement of his
Bhidy, which is to tho right of tho en
trance hall, and directly opposite
two largo drawing rooms. Tho study
tho ambassador had papered in red,
AT WASHINGTON.
with figures of Greok design in crim
eon, tho effect being rich and dignified.
At tho rear of tho stalrcaso previously
mentioned is the dining room, contain
ing fully 800 squaro foot of floor space
and capable of accommodating a dinner
party of exceptional size. A particu
larly notable room Is tho ballroom on
tho first floor near tho dining room.
This apartment is 40 feot in length by
20 foot in width, and tho wholo orna
montatlon Is In gold, the wall, papor be
ing embellished In Greek design.
Tho silver service which the British
government has furnished for tho tise
of Its .representative at Washington on
tho occasion of formal banquets is
valued at $50,000. . To this Mrs, Herbert
had addcu her magnlflcont collection of
silver and cut glass ware, and now all
will havo to bo repacked and sent back
to England. The generous expenditure
which tho British government incurred
at tho suggestion of Sir Herbert, also
ombracod considerable outlays for
modernizing tho , diplomatic resldonco
in every possible way. An .electric
illuminating plant and steam heating
plants woro Installed, tho latter being
in duplicate, so that in caso one equip
ment becamd Inoperative tho other miy
bo Immediately commissioned. And all
theso changes and improvements will
fall to tho successor of Sir Herbert to
enjoy. It seems especially sad that ono
who was at homo at Washington, so
woll acquainted with President Roose
velt, having madb his Intimate friend
ship during his former service at tho
British embassy, and ono whoso wifo
was an American, tho daughter of
Richard T. Wilson, of Now York,
should , not havo boon, permitted .to
serve his country for several yearsas
ambassador at Washington. Tho im
provements which Sir Horbort caused
to bo mado in tho embassy, however,
will be a romlndor for many years to
como of his short term of service aa
British ambassador at Washington.
UhuhI War.
Ernie Dear mo, I wish Jack and I
could havo a llttlo quarrel.
Edith (in surpriBo) What for?
Ernie Why, if wo don't have a lovers'
quarrel now and then peoplo won't be
llovo wo are really in love. Chicago
Dally Nows. . . .
Col. J. JR. KllIcbrcTT Telia Why Fnrm
era Should Favor Government
Co-OperMtlon.
The rapidity with which tho snti
ment In favor of national aid to tho
common roads of tho country has
spread and tho eagerness with which
tho proposition 1b welcomed slnco tho
introduction of tho Brownlow bill in
congress, havo not only been highly
gratifying to tho friends of tho meas
ure, but surprising and astonishing to
Its opponents. Tho truth Is the great
body of tho farmers of tho land arc slow
lu demanding what they are Justly en
titled to. Had tho samo necessity as
tho want of good roads among farmers
existed In relation to tho manufactur
ing, mining or commercial' interests of
tho country, such a necessity would havo
long since boon recognized and met by
adequate appropriations from congress.
Tho tillers of tho soli do not work in
concert for their own advancement. By
tho census of 1900 the wholo number of
people abov i tho ago of ten years en
gaged in gainful occupations in the
United States waa 29,07-1,117. Of this
number 10,381,705 were engaged In agri
cultural pursuits. No other specified oc
cupation employs so many. The manu
facturing and mechanical pursuits em
ploy 7,085,992 persons; trade and trans
portation, 4.7C0.9C1, and professional
servlco, 1,258,739. And yet tho farmer?
of tho country, that contribute more to
its permanent prosperity than all other
classes combined, have tho smallest
amount of consideration in tho matter
of congressional appropriations. In all
tho history of tho past legislation of the
country but fqw efforts have been made
to equalize the benefits of congressional
appropriations. Until tho rural mall
routes wero established ft citizen living
in tho country rarely received direct
boneflts from tho money expended by
tho general, government, except that
for tho agricultural department.
Tho commerce of tho country felt the
exuberance of fresh and lusty life and
vigor from the Improvement of the
rivers and harbors, but this exuberance
would havo been vastly Increased had
half the money appropriated for rivers
and harbors been npplied to aid In the
improvement and maintenance of the
public roads, tho very foundation of
commerce
It must not be Imagined that anyone
proposes that tho government shall en
ter upon tho work of building public
highways without the cooperation of the
state, county or other political subdi
vision. The policy of the government
should be to help those communities
that help themselves; to stimulate ac
tion and enterpriso rather than to re
press it by appropriating money to those
communities that do nothing for them
selves.
TRAVELING MAIL BOX.
Follow IiiNtriictiotiM Here Given nnd
Your I.etterM Will Conic from
Itunil to IIoiinc.
Request is made for a device for run
ning a mall box on wheels. If ground Is
levpl from point of delivery to houso
this diagram will send tho box to and
from tho house. If you want the box
at tho road slip tho wlro up tho post
from B to A on the wlro AB"5 when you
MAIL. BOX ON WHEELS.
wish tholmall to come to tho'h6uso slip
C down to B and it will come. If the
houso is uphill from tho route near tho
houso plant a post, and attach a wheel
with a groove in its outer edge, with
crank attached with a wire stretched
up hill as H, and a cord K at
tached to mail box. When tho box is
wanted turn the crank to tho right and
tho mall box. suspended on tho wire by
a pulley, will come to tho houso as
prompt ns a cow will como to her calf,
It can be loaded and sent back. If tho
distance Is too great for two posts moro
posts mnyi bo added. As to boys med
dling with tho mall box thero should
bo no fears, as boyB get tired of med
dling with Uncle Sam's property.
Rural, New Yorker.
Pumpkin Vie,
Two cups of stowed pumpkin, ono
cup cream, two cups sweet milk, four
eggs, one, tcaspoonful qlnnuinon, two
tenspoonful's of ginger, two tablespoon
fuls of molasses, a llttlo salt, and
sugar to suit tasto. Lino pie plate with
a rich crust, pour In prepared pumpkin
and bake In' a moderate oven for three
quarters of an hour. Pralrio Farmer.'
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The Zionist Colony in
British East Africa
Arnold White, the Distinguished English Writer arjd Trav
eler, Says It Is foredoomed to Failure.
HE! dreamers of tho Ghetto,"
-111!
TI in Mr. isangwiil s purneu,
I have sat patiently at the
I e nklntnnilntn fnr
moro than a thousand years.
They have asked for justice
and a home, but so far
Christendom has turned a
deaf cat to their prayer.
From tlmo to time
wealthy and well-meaning
nhilanthtonists havo de
voted their thoughts and their money
to tho solution of the Jewisn question.
But as the years roll by, the final settle
ment of humanity with tho Ghetto has
been postponed to a moro convenient
season. Tho late Baron de HIrsch dedi
mtflti sno.000.000 to the solution of tho
Jewish question in tho Argentine Re
public and elsewhere. His efforts navo,
unfortunately, turned out to bo a com
plete failure. Tho annual Increase of
tho Hebrew subjects of tho Russian em
peror is at least three times as great as
tho absorbing capacity of tho HIrsch
schemes. Nothing was wanting so far
as money, brains and good intentions
wero concerned: but tho scheme failed
because the chief sufferers the Jews in
Russia and Rouraania resolutely de-
IN THE HEART OF THE NEW ZION.
Showlnz One of the Railway Stations Which Wilt Serve tho Jewish Colcny.
clined to cross the ocean In order to en
gage In agricultural pursuits.
During the past sunhner I was in Rus
sia investigating the circumstances'
connected with the deplorable Kishineff
outbreak, and I there had tho opportunity
of discussing with Russian ministers
and with the Jewish leaders the problem
which is ono of overcrowdingwlthln the
Jewish pale in Russia.
His British majesty's government has
conceived the idea of granting facilities
for a settlement in Uganda. The tract
of territory offered by Lord Lansdowno
occupies an area of 200 square miles.
When tho plan was placed before tho
Zionist congress tremendous enthusi
asm was excited among thoso of tho
delegates who were not resident in Rus
sia, The Russian delegates, however,
as I havo already pointed out, are reso
lutely determined not to compromise tho
Zionist scheme of a return to Palestine
and the establishment of a Jewish state
thero by giving their sanction to any
plan by which the Argentine failure of
Baron Hirsch shall be repeated under
less favorable conditions. Tho Russian
delegates, accordingly, left tho congress
in a body rather than support by their
presence a Bcheme which violates tho
first principle of Zionism.
Tho Russian HebrewB, however, are
by no means the only section of the He
brew community who are opposed' to
the establishment of a Jewish state iu
Uganda. The wealthy members of tho
communty in the. United States, Eng
land. France and Germany are for the
most part, equally hostile to tho political
ambitions of Zionism, whether in Pal
estine, Uganda, or elsewhere.
Nevertheless, the proposals com
municated by Lord Lansdowno to tho
managers of the Basle congress have ma-
MAP OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA.
terialized sufficiently to warrant exnort
examination of tho prospects of success
in tho event of an autonomous JoNvish
col6ny being estab)ishQd.oathe proposod
slto.-v
Of tho 23,000 squaro miles available
for tho settlement of European colonists
in British East Africa, about 5,000 square
, miles are too remote to bo worth con
sideration. Thero remain, therefore,
t
about 18,000 square miles available. Tho
British taxpayer has found tho money
to build tho Uganda railway, which has
cost up to date, about $12,000,000. As
tho English law stands, thoro is nothing
to prevent Frenchmen, Germans, Rus
sians or Roumanians, irrespective of
creod, If they havo capital, from acquir
ing domicilo and landed property in
British East Africa. Tho foroign office,
however, appears to havo departed frdin
an attitude of neutrality and has un
dertaken to assist in tho creation of a
scmiindopendent Jewish stato or com
munity in British East Africa or
Uganda.
As a student of colonization and of tho
Jewish question, earnestly and sincere--ly
as I could wish to see tho success of
tho Zionist movement, I regret that it is
impossible to avoid the conclusion that
if a Jewish stato were formed in Uganda
it is demonstrable that it, Is foredopmed
to failure. The proposed site is in the re-'
glon of the equator; It Is between 300 and
400 miles from tho sea. Tho drawbacks,
therefore, can bo appreciated most thor
oughly by thoso who, like tho wrltor,
havo had practical exporlenco In tho
organization and government of colon
ist communities. Tho first fact which
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the leaders of the proposed Jewish stato
will have to consider is the question of
access to market. Thero aro few com
modities iri tho present state of Interna
tional competition which will bear the
expense of land transport for 400 miles
on a tropical railway. Wheat, vege
tables and timber are not among theso
commodities. Coffee, rubber, tea, ostrich
feathers, gold and diamonds would pay
for export; but thp cultivation of cof
fee, which is rather a horticultural than
an agricultural pursuit, requires largo
capital, and the hard work is unsuited to
European settlers, especially to a raco
so intellectual and nervous as tho He
brew community of Russia. If the cul
tivation of coffeo by tho proposed He
brew community is impracticable bo
cause labor In the sun Is unsuited to the
sedentary town dwellers, who will form
tho bulk of tho Immigrants, what la
there that remains? Cereals, of course,
might be grown for homo consumption
by the colonists, but there would be rio;
market for them. It is an established
principle of successful colonization" 1
A NATIVE OF THE PROMISED LANE).
that a colony, to succeed, must havo, .
ready access to a market. In Uganda
such does not exist.
It is imposslblo to describe tho Bplen
dld courage and patlenco"of the sufferers
iu inu mxitjuu x-rovincea oi mo., iaio.
They cry: "How long, O Lord, how
long?" and, although tortured and suf- .
fering, thoy profer the continuanco of
their present misery to recourse to.a plan
which, though woll meant, and on tho
surface, containing many attractive fea
tures, thoy well know destined to fail.
Every person will wish success to tho
Zionist colony In Uganda, if it is formod;
but thoso who desire tho well-being of
tho Jewish raco will prefer that Russia,''
England and America should confer for
tho solution of the.JowIsh.problem.on. I
wise, humano and largo International
llQCB ARNOLD WHITE. '
