Evening star., 1902-08-30

of lake and mountain scenery to make 1t
lovely. For about three-quarters of a mile
the Point is composed of rocks and woods,
with Just enough soil to nourish the trees.
Being quite useless for agriculture the
town conceived the idea of laying it out
in half-acre lots for campers. who can rem
plot for $40 year, with a lease for fifteen
years.
There are thirty-two camps and cottages
scattered among the trees now. bat there
is so much wilderness that they barely
serve to do more than to aCcentuate the
primitive ma ture of the land
Secretary Shaw has become an enthusiast,
and if the President should attempt to talk
high finance with him the chances are that
the conversation will insist turning to
the place that Mr.. Shaw has selected for
his home. At present he and his family
occupy the Roberts cottage. 1t is owned
by a Connecticut minister.
The boss of the couutrys miuts lives as
simply as any farmer on his visits there.
He gets up every morning at o'clock and
rambles around the place as If there We're
no such thing as dollar in the world. AL
most every morning he takes a long walk
through the woods. Sometimes he goes
fishing. Mr.. Shaw is religious man, how
ever. and it is quite impossible to lure him
into committing himself as to the weights
of those that he catches or the bigger ones
that get away.
BEST Woman in the World"
Wherever he goes, except when he goes
woman in the world" The best woman in
the world recently sat on the rustic porch
of the little cottage and, full of pride in
her husband and love for him, she told how
Once-long before Iowa elected him to the
chair of goVernor-he sent her letter
while he was away from home He did
not address it to her by name. The address
on the envelope was simply:
THE Best Woman in the World.
"DeS MoneS, Iowa"
And. said the happy woman, with laugh
ter in which delight and sentiment We're
to her without question The post office
folk knew Mr.. Shaw's handwriting, and
even the official mind knew that to him
there was only one woman like that.
MIR. Shaw has installed an Oficial-lo
ing desk in the small room called a library,
more for convenience in referring to it
than for any attributes that deserve the
name. The desk is the only piece of fur
niture in the place that suggests business.
The antique tidy holds the fort there. and
from carpet to print curtains everything
is redolent of way back in Vermont"
The dining room is even simpler than the
library. The table is covered with a rcd
and white check cloth, and the decorations
of the land 1t looks like room in a
nice country boarding house.
Justice Brewer lives in his own house
at least as much Of it as his grandchii-
dren will let him own. Mostly they climb
over the porch and the trees and the JUS
tice with generous impartiaity He likes
it. Injunctions do not issue there, and If
they did. they wouldn't go"
The justice is a satisfying sight when he
sallies forth to the tavern. He does not
go there for the purposes that one might
suspect from this bald statement. He goes
there for his mail, the tavern being the
hotel. general store. Sunday meeting place
and post office combined
The postmistress is the wife of Martin
Williams, the tavernkeeper. She thinks
that there is nobody like the justice. He
wears fine aged cap with flap. Under It
his white hair sticks out in true Green
mountain style, hallowed since the days of
the Green Mountain Boys of '76. He sticks
to the frock coat, but wears it as frocll
coats are worn in the country stores and
not as they are worn in Washington.
In common with the rest of the popula ce
the justice INDUCES twice day in the ex-