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systems are common and are USED Ior
furnishing a domestic water supply as
we'll as for supplying water TO irrigate
orchards and fields; but here In the east
they are found far more infrequently. A
sort of perpetual motion machine is the
modern hydraulic ram: water moving
over very small dam supplies the power
that pumps that same water up and over
very considerable hills.
y
Farther I'D the little stream the water
tumbles down through a narrow gorge.
over lichened and moss-covered rocks and
across tiny sandbars that CLEAN golden
In the early spring sunshine. II the sap
lings and second growth trees along the
sides of the gorge were quaking ash or
lodgepole pine one might easily imagine
ones self somewhere in the Black HIS or
the Big Horn. All along the stream there
are little pools filled with soaked. de-
caying leaves. and under and among these
leaves one will find, If one desires 10
search, snails and slugs for the aquarium.
There are nevis, too-little. Hzard-like
things that dart about In the water ana
among the leaves and moss and elude all
but the most alert of would be captors.
These nevis are natural comedians and
acrobats. and in an acquarim --.ey are
veritable clowns full Of unexpected antics
and always amusing. One needs net to
capture them. however. Later. the pools
will be full of tadpoles. and 1t is most
interesting to capture few or these ana
watch the transformation of tadople into
frog.
Up the hill on the opposite side of the
ravine. forcing ones way through a tan
gle of bushes. saplings and vines. until
at the top one finds unmistakable traces
of the real estate man and the new SUBJ
division. Through the brushy growth a
broad lane has been cut, the line of some
prospective street. and one hurries on
away from the indications Of advance
ing city limits and newly plotted suburbs.
But right at the edge of the cleared
space there is a whirr and whistle of wild
wings. and a big. golden-brown bird soes
Zigzagging away through the bushes. \
woodcock, at the very top of the hill.
and SO close to the haunts Of men? Surely
it can't be. but 1t certainly looked very
much like the long-legged, long-billed
bird that one finds. in spring and fall.
boring for worms and grubs along the
marshy borders of streams and ponds.
Beat about in the bushes a bit and see
if there is another: woodcock generally
lie in couples. Yes. another whirr and
swish of wings. and a magnificent cock
goes rocketing off, topping the low growth
and g1vinga full. fair view Of his beau
tifully plumaged body as he sails away.
pitching down in a low spot-dropping
SO suddenly as to make it seem that he
simply shut up his flying apparatus and
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this time. for. lie is no longer the power
full man he was in the days when as
Capt. Schley he thrilled the country with
his achievement. Another must commar
tie party. but Admiral Schley is lending
p6werful aid to the project to send IN
expedition north to rescue DIR. Frederick
A. Cook OF Brooklyn. an intrepid explorer.
who has disappeared from view com
pletely as if he were a. the bottom OF
one of the great ice foes.
Admiral Schley. as head of the Ameri-
can Society for Polar Research, is taxi
ing "A deep interest in the efforts 10 To-
cate the unfortunate young explorer and
has not only contributed to a fund to nj
out an expedition. but is making an APP
peal for assistance from all quarters.
Admiral SchIey has had actual expert
ence OF what IL means TO he lost in the
frackiess ice wastes OF the north. When
he relieved Greedy, that explorer had
about reached the end of his resources.
and himself and his men coud not have
held out much longer.
II will be recalled that the Greedy ex-
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Spreading Out Into Broad, SweetPool.

petition sailed northward i'm 1881 1t con-
tanned only twenty-five members. a small
party for such hazardous trip hut even
this tiny quota was so decimated by the
sufferings that followed that only seven
came back to tell the story 10 civiliza-
ton.
Two relief expeditions failed TO find the
Greedy party. and it was not until in 1881
that Capt. Schley set out that the suffer-
ers Were finally located and brought back
To civilization. The plight of DR. Cook
may by this time be just as serious as
that OF Greedy. The equipment of the
Cook expedition is not OF a kind TO en-
courage any great hopes as to the amount
OF resistance he could give to the ele-
mentS.
THE last actually seen of DIR. Cook since
The Started on his dash for the pole was
March ., 1905. now more than year
ago. when he left his base of supplies at
Annatok. on the northwestern coast of
Greenland. and disappeared in north
westerly direction over Ellsmereland into
the little known regions toward the \Arc-
tie ocean.
He lef9 his only American companion.
young Geyman-American named Rudolph
Francke, 1T Annatok, twenty miles north
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a breath of II. one sits and smokes. hask-
ing I'm the sun that warns one through
and through: breathing the breath OF the
pines and the cedars. and just soaking
ones soul I'm the air and the spirit 90
early springtime. Then on toward the
streets and the houses
At the edge of the little pine wood q
tangle OF pine lockwood. holly and the
huge. wind-blown trunk or fallen yei-
low pine attract the eye. In a moment it
is seen that here has been. some time. a
small Enclosure. and the box. with the
ruins Of the giant pine-and Its still sur
viving mate--Inake plain the purpose OF
the tiny plot. \ dozen rough headstones
are within the lines of the old stone wall
that has now fallen into mere heaps OF
boulders oyergrown with grasses and
honeysuckle and wild blackberry vines.
The stones are nothing but slabs OF gran
lite. unsmoothed and not even square
hewn. Over the most of the stones the
great pine, in falling, has crushed mass
of twisted and broken limbs. vines and
creepers: the low footstones show tho
size of the graves, and the sunken. irreg-
ular patches. where the earth has caved
in above the sleepers. are plainly discern
ible. Who are they who lie here, far
away from road or path. I'm this little.
long forgotten spot on the hillsidey A
passing negro thinks the graves are those
Oh a lew soldiers WHO Iell dl one OF lilo
fights that occurred at the forts further
up the valley: his companion believes
that here were buried the slaves of the
family that once lived in the big house
a quarter of a mile distant at the top OF
the hill. Only one Of the visible head
stones is marked: 1t bears the initials
II. p" and the date is 1873. No soldier
this. and so. perhaps. the others are not
soldiers graves. either.
The rough, unchiseled slabs that mark
the graves were simply split from the
lodges OF Potomac granite nearby, so IL
would seem that they are not the burial
places of those who occupied any but the
humblest positions in life. Who was Il.
P.?' For eighty years he-or she-haS
lain there on the sun-kissed slope. where
no sound but the signing Of the wind in
the pines and the whistle and chatter OF
the birds breaks the silence. And who
were those who companion Il. p whose
gravestones bear neither initial nor date?
Does any one know?
Across the little valley and over the last
hill. and then to the cars and back into
town to the asphalt and the automobiles
and dinner. But one feels after such a
tramp that 1t isn't really necessary to so
to the mountains or the far-of wilder
nesses for out-of-door beauty. 1t Is all
around the city. in almost every direction;
and a single car fare will bring one to
the very edges Of it.
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\ S III | y g TO y is
blessed in posses
sing at its very
doors a wealth of
scenic beauty spots.
For the man who
likes to get out of
doors for d days
tramp Washing
tons environS Of
fer much in the
way of wild APP
parently untouched
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bits of natural scenic beauty. Up along
the Potomac. on either side. the out-of-
door man who likes to travel off the main
roads and who seeks out for himself the
unfrequented bypaths and the short
cuts through woods and over hills and
hollows. will, in days tramping. find
a hundred bits over which 10 enthuse.
II he carries a camera-as every out-of-
door man or woman. boy or girl should
he will get as many shots as he has
films or plates. and every one of them
will he worth while.
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years
from the time that
he rescued the
Greedy expedition
from the clasp of
the ice IN the polar
regions. Admiral
Winfield S. Schiey
is a leading figure
in a new relief
movement.
He will not make
the trip himself
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fighter. and gifted with a resourcefulness
that never flags. his friends cannot be-
lieve that he has lost his life, and the
fund for the relief expedition has made
such a gratifying start that its success
mral Schley should by his activity in
raising money for the fund, assist in
bringing back another explorer to safety.
a quarter of century after his famous
rescue of Greedy
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THE Great Falls Are

THE Great Falls Are
1 Very Picturesque
Through the Fields in
t h e Neighborhood Of
Pierce's Mill - Ravines
and Hills, Rocks and
Streams-Nature in Its
Early Spring Raiment-
Beautiful Rock Creek
Park.
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aef,nite plans, and that he made good
time over Ellsmereland, and had reached
Cape Hubbard, sixty miles below cape
Columbia. Pearys point of departure
from land on his Journey to the pole in
1906
Cook. in this letter. shows that he haa
allowed three full months Tor his oash
over the Polar sea and return. Wmch Is
the time usually taken for excursions ny
sledges Following the general dlrec-
ton taken by Peary, who reached the
highest latitude of 81 degrees minutes,
I'm 1908, he would most likely land on ms
return either the northeast coast VI
Greenland. or be picked up by ocotch vi
Danish whalers and be taken 10 FRANZ
Josef Land or Spitzenbergen.
Many of the facts regarding Dr LOOK
and his expedition have been told TO
Admiral Schley by John r. Bradley Oh
New York, who fitted out COOK eHpe-
dition and left him at Rensselaer mar,
moderate basis of expenditure the trip
was planned out.
.Dr. Cook" says Bradley. had when
he started $50 dogs and sledges. which
would have naturally lightened as he got
near the pole. Then the idea was for him.
after he had discovered the pole, to make
his way back to land as fast as he could,
killing the weaker dogs to feed the strong
err ones. If he reached Greenland, he
would be almost certain to fall in with
Danish whalers.
THE Cook trip to the pole grew origi-
nally out Of a shooting expedition that
had planned 1t did not contemplate any
thing so ambitious as arctic exploration,
hut DR. Cook who is a great enthusiast.
showed me that it would only cost an
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Up about Great Falls the country is
wild enough to meet the requirements of
the most exacting nature lover. and the
falls themselves have been snapped often
er than any other object in or about
Washington, with the exception of the
Monument. the Capitol and the Whit"
House. The rough country about the
falls either side Of the river offers
exceptional attractions to the tramper
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who likes bit of climbing thrown in
with his prowlines.
But it is when one starts northward
out of the city and tramps up through
the Geological Park and on through Rock
Creek Park that the scenic beauty spots
are found in greatest abundance. Within
Rock Creek Park itself they are plentiful
enough for many. but let the nature lover
get away from the main-traveled roads;
let him. or her. strike off on some ILL
defined path, just to see where it leads.
and the beauties of that part of the Dis
trict increase until they seem to start out
at the wayfarer from behind every tree
or big rock along the way.
Plerce's mill makes a good starting
point. Only a small portion of the old
mill building is actually in use row The
mill and a few smaller stone buildings
nearby are rather ancient, for Washington:
the dates carved in slabs of stone and set
into the walls by the builder SHOW that
they We're erected in the early very early.
part OF the last century, some of the
buildings being over one hundred years
old. A spring house that stands beside
the road a short distance west of the mill
covers a spring that still flows and fur
niSheS water for nearby house.
The old mill pond is become nothing
but the home of flock of wing-clipped
wild geese now few swans some
times visit the pond. but between them
and the geese there is feud and the
geese always come out ahead. A few
weeks ago the geese pitched upon a big
black swan which ventured to visit the
pond and soon killed him with blows from
their heavy, spurred wings.
). Z
One cannot help wondering why the
water power at the old Pierce mill fell
INFO disuse. Probably II was because
farmers in this region quit raising wheat
and corn. or preferred to buy their -four
and meal rather than to carry the grain
to the mill and have il ground. Stand
ing beside the dam the other day an en-
gineer commenting on the fine water
power there and at half a dozen other
points along Rock creek. remarked that
without sacrificing a whit of the natural
beauty of the spot. damaging in the
slightest the exterior of the old mill,
hydraulic machinery or turbine engines
generators and dynamos could be in
stalled there to develop power enough to
light the whole of Rock Greek Park and
the Zoo. and the further statement was
made that such a plant would. within ten
years or less. more than pay for itself
besides Illuminating the whole of the two
parks much more completely than they
are lighted at the present time. Perhaps
the engineer was oversanguine. or too
materialistic. being only a high-salaried
expert in one of the government depart
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ments. but TO the casual observer it al
most seems that. if such a scheme really
is feasible. and If utility can be developed
without sacrifice of beauty and attract
lveness, ii is rather shame not to do it,
And If such a thing is possible at the
point mentioned, there are dozen or
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The Wicked Student.

HENRY L. DIXEY was discussing his
new book-the collection of love let
tiers written him by unknown ladies dur
Ing his brilliant stage career.
They won't compromise you. eh?" said
a tragedan.
mo, no. said Mr.. Dixey They'll
compromise nobody. They won't be like
the talk on Brittany that / had with
young artist yesterday.
THE young chap enthused about the
Pont Aven girls. He said that these girls
were as beautiful as flowers. He praised
their dress-their yelvet-trimmed skirts
ard bodices. their coquettish and dainty
coats of white linen and their enormous
white linen sailor collars that completely
cover their shoulders.
You'd think that these lovely girls
never had any sweethearts,' said the
student. Sweethearts imply. you know.
tumbled curls and ruffled collars. But
the collars of the Pont Aven girls are al
ways immaculate
Maybe they don't have any sweet
hearts, said /. The Bretons are strange
race
Rubbish said the student. with a
smile. The girls have a way of slipping
their hands under their collars and turn
ing them up like a white wall about
their ears. The custom has been handed
down for centuries from mother to
daughter. The shyest maid of sixteen
can flip up her collar with the dexterty
Of married woman.
How do you know this" said 7.
oh. stammered the student, IL was
was told
tCopyright 1909 by EsteIIe klauderl
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Bird Destruction in Jersey.

From the Newark Star.
The organized effort that is being made
in all the states TO prevent the extermina-
ton of bird life is opposed in every legis-
lature by selfish interests. The Audubon
Society has accomplished great work
in getting laws passed prohibiting whole
sale slaughter and in providing the means
for nearly extinct species 20 increase and
multiply once more. The inlets and bays
Of New Jersey are the resort of wild fowl.
and there is by law long open season.
Until last year the season was from Sep
TENDER I TO April 81. 1t now extends to
March l. for ducks and March - for
geese and brant. This long season OF
shooting means determination. The sea-
son should end at the close of the year.
and that is what the Audubon Society an
all lovers of bird life want The legisa-
ture. therefore. has got to choose between
the selfishness of the pot hunter and the
wishes of the intelligent public, including
all true sportsmen.
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a breath of 1t. one sits and smokes hask-
ing i'm the sun that warns one through
and through: breathing the breath OF the
pines and the cedars. and just soaking
ones soul In the air and the spirit ot
early springtime. Then on toward the
streets and the houses.
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The New Illinois Senator.

Fluctuations to the Hon. WILLIAM
LoRIMER Of Cicero, Lyons. Proviso,
Riverside, Stickney, the Thirteenth,
Twentieth and Thirty-fourth wards OF
Chicago and the Thirty-ffth ward south
of the Chicago and Northwestern right
Of way. Seven times elected a Represen-
tative in Congress, now a Senator in
Congress. and only As years old, BILLY
LoRIMER is the god Of the machine, the
quiet wirepuller, the typical Amer
i%can,-from England. His education
has been varied and practical. in the
true American university OF all trades.
Sign painters apprentice, packing house
laborer, street car conductor, brick and
building manufacturer, real estate man,
contractor. oficeholder, he has taken
many degrees. He wa talked of as the
machine candidate for Senator twelve
years ago. Modesty pays.
If Mr.. LoRIMER doesn't remind us oil
LYMAN TRUMBuLi, neither doesthe Hon
ALBERT j. HOPKINS OF hurora-> Nc
doubt Mr. LoRIMER will be a competent
and an industrious Senator, with clear
views as to Illinois candidates for
Federal jobs. When we remember
that BILLY (the Hon. WILLIAM ERNEsT)
MASON was q Senator from Illinois we
have reason to be grateful that intel
lect Ia never without honor in the state
of LINCOLN and DOUGLAS. .
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rass a. spesd 70 q nj 70 eadsaeer the propcrty
cf another or ths NE or iinab u any psrson: pro-
vided that q rate Of speed In excess OF thirty miles
an hour shsIl DO presumptive evidence Of reek
less driving"
The proposal was made from q deep
seated conviction that arbitrary speed
limitations did not secure the safety
Of others and were generally d~isregarded
in the open country without serious OBJ
lection, and that the remedy was to
hold drivers responsible for not needing
conditions that required the exercise OF
care, whether the speed Of their cars
was high or low. Commissioner Of
Motor Vehicles SMITH Of New jersey
has maintained this view. and the ten
dency Of legislation il to do away with
speed limitations in favor Of personal
responsibility under all conditions Of
traffic. Governor HUGHES admits that
there is much. force In the argument
advanced, but he seems to regard speed
restrictions a. desirable in the present
state Of automobile education. He sub
mits that it 10 still AZ open question
whether 1T is safe to rely simply upon
a requirement Of care and prudence,
with all the difficulties that attend actual
proof OF want OF care This sounds
like begging the question. Mr.. HUoHEs
would and he wouldn't. His judgment
tells him that speed restrictions accom-
plish nothing but occasional convictions
that often occur In the csss OF drivers
who we're not at all blind to the require
ments OF safe traffic conditions; but he
hesitates to approve Of the experiment
Of personal responsibility.
We are inclined TO think that in spite
Of the objections to the bill which be en-
phasizes it is true that he finds minor
flaws Governor HUGHES would have
signed the bill IL it had not menaced
the control of traffic regulations in New
York. His temper is not obstructive oil
rrejudicial in this matter. Evidently
he wants to see the motor vehicle law
now more than five years old. amended
The Legislature viii, have to try again
and one obstacle it will know enough
to avoid.
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rREE Speech.
me Regulation or Suppression Of II
hy tho Police.

To II EpIros OF The suS-Sis: 10 Il
possible that the old American spirit OF free
speech and fair play is entirely dead IN this
country This question. I think. 10 per-
feotly justified in view OF the general public
indiH regarding the arbitrary. sys-
tematic police suppression OF Emma Gold
man. =,
Does free speech mean anything at all
II IL means but tho freedom Of speech Tor
those whose ideas are popular with the
police? As . Maynower descendant re-
recently said to me: MY Pilgrim fathers
voiced unpopular ideas: they were the
und esirables of their day."
Mankind has always eulogized and canon
ICED the und esirables OF q past epoch. while
cruoifying those Of their own m but
the Intelligent people Of this country cannot
fail to realize from the lessons OF history.
past q well a. recent. the great danger OF
shutting OF the safety valve OF free speech
and assembly. II their protestations OF
love Of their country, Of liberty an ! iree
speech are sincere. they cannot anord 10
lose any time In calling an Imperative bait
to the continued brutal persecution and
ession Of those who demand nothing
moro thar the right OF expression-the
liberty Of p~ropasatns their ideas. standing
ready at oil times 10 bear full responsibility
for their u~tteranoes.
ALEXANDER BRRKhAN.
NEW YORK. May ~.
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A ScOtchman In Paris.

Accustomed TO do good by stealth
and blush TO find it fame, the Thane OF
Skibo was -chagrined' when the secret
escaped that he had taken a million. out
Of his change pocket and founded a
French "hero fund" France, so rich
in 'heroisms and glories, nov has new
reason to he brave and to distinguish
herself. II she commends herself to
her new patron he will be glad TO build
a Carnegie Pantheon and Heroon.
The vice-rector of the SOrbOnne, turn
ing a pretty compliment, praised the
Thane for practising the philosophy
Of the expenditure Of riches for the
general good" II il didn't Seem too
much like prying into the bowels OF
u courtly phrase, the Pittsburg peri
patetic's philosophy might be described
more correctly "a a system to get most
OF the money there ia and then, by
giving away bookless library buildings,
TO make the latest posterity bless the
donor every time it pays a tax bill. But
the sour face Of political economy had
no right TO show itself at the glorifica-
lion of the cboOser Of heroes and the
chastener OF all spelling but his own.
The Paris dispatches which record
the just and purple hon6rs heaped upon
this iilustrious aitruist contain one
assertion that pains the friends Of the
naked and barren truth Mr.. CARNEGIE
replied in English