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SENATOR HENRx F. As1vRsr

didate for the territorial legislature His
friends urged him to wait, but Ashurst
hadn't time. So rapid was his campaign
and such a power did his whirlwind ora
tory prove that he was elected. Thus at
the age of twenty-One. two years from
the jfngling spurs of a cowboy and but
six months from lumberjack's job. did
the orphan boy of the range become
lawmaker. Two years later he was cho-
sen speaker Of the legislature. Twice was
he elected district attorney in his home
state senate. He found time to take
year off to study law at the University
of Michigan.
When Arizona became a state under a
constitution which provided for care
fully guarded primary election young
Ashurst announced himself as a candidate
for the United States Senate. His candi-
dacy was not at first taken seriously. He
was regarded as a man who stood with
the Ultra-progressives and represented all
that is known as advanced in govern
mental policies. There was practically no
money back of him and his chances rested
solely upon his personal ability to make a
fight that would win the votes.
~
OratOry carried the day. The young
lawyer travelled from town to town and
delivered his speeches. The young orator
swept everything before him. On four
occasions in the campaign he pitted his
six feet OF Drawn and muscle in a merry
fsticuf against some antagonist who had
dared contradict him in some of his as
sertions. and in all of these primal tests
or the first love of the Anglo-Saxon he
came on with all the honors on his side
Ashurst polled more votes than did any
other senatorial candidate on the ticket.
The representative at large from Ari-
iona is full-blooded young man whose
career Is In many respects similar to thar
OF the juioir senator from the same state.
Carl Hayden is two years younger than
senator Ashurst. He was born in Arizo-
ma, and there are few men who can boast
or having been born in that state as early
as 1877. There Is little town called Tempe.
winch stands on the bank of the Salt
river in the midst of the irrigated valley
OF the same name. which disputes the
world from the standpoint Of productivity.
On the banks Of this stream at Tempe is
an ancient flour mill. which wasSbuiit nv
one or the pioneers of Arizona and which
Is almost the first example Of any indus
try other than stock raising and mining
mat ever appeared in this far west. The
founder of this mill was the father of
representative Hayden, and the young
ster was born in it's very shadow
some twenty years later Stanford Uni
versity boosted q hulking center for its
loot ball team that all the opposition was
unable to stop. This center suffered the
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misfortune of keeping his nose broken
most Of the time and of being in various
ways torn and manned. These incidents,
however. never interfered with his play
ing the game, and Carl Hayden carried
the Stanford colors to many a success.
incidentally he was q member of the
intercollegiate debating team Of that in
stitution which competed for honors with
all corners. and SO laid the foundation for
forensic career which is to find its
elimination in the Congress OF the United
states. incidentally Hayden was the
leader Of the plebes at Stanford. refused
to join any of the classy Greek letter So
cietfes. and thereby first aligned himself
with the great populace that makes the
voters of the nation.
Returning to Arizona, Hayden got him.
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AF CHARLES ElROY TOWNSEND JUNIOR SENATOR FROM VI

CHE Is Well Known
- Through Her Ten Years
Residence in Washington
When Her Husband Was in
the Lower House-Senator
and Mrs. Townsend Are
Among the Younger Mem
beers of Their Particular Co.
terie-Both Natives of the
Pretty Little Town of Con-
cord. Near Jackson, Their
Present Home, They At
tended the Same School From
Their Seventh Year.
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desire to see how my own treasures have
survived the winter. Mr. Townsend will
come at Intervals whenever he can We
both hope that will be very soon. In the
meantime, | shall have the joy OF watch
ing my garden get into gay plumage, and
l shall be just in time to welcome my
danodfls and tulips and hyacinths all OF
which lovely flowers are come and for
gotten here, and the garden lovers are
making ready for a fine rose season.
Mrs. Townsend is handsome, with sill
very hair, which Is altogether out OF
place with her soft. girlieh countenanca.
rosy and unmarked with any of the
creases which Father Time usually sends
with gray locks. She has a consuming in.
terest In everything which she considers
worth while. Mrs. Townsend is one Of the
charter members Of the Congressional
Club. She 10 chairman Of the COMMITTEES
on membership. and taxes a great pride
in bringing the excellent features Of the,
organization before newly married women
in the congressional set.
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country for the farmer and his family.
They own all the latest in touring cars.
and making the trip easily from distant
points in about six-hours round trip rs
to climate, We are utterly spoiled for
anything like the conditions along the
Atlantic coast. delight in Washington.
and really think it the most fascinating
city in the world, but when the mercury
climbs, / have homesick longfngs for the
keen, cool air OF our home. for its waving
fields OF grain and its lakes and rivers
from which blow refreshing bree1es when
the breath of the Potomac is sitting.
This Is my excuse for departing from
Washington early In May, I am an en-
thusiastic lover Of nature. and the awak-
ening OF spring is q miracle which appeals
to me with renewed force each year. We
are some six weeks behind Washington,
so that have the joy Of welcoming spring
twice each season. I always stay here
the early blossoms. especially the hull
bous flowers. Then l am overcome by q
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first men seated from the new states oil
Arizona and New Mexico are true to
the section from which they come. are
old veterans of the many vicissitudes OF
the border or are young men who have
forged to the front despite its many
handicaps. Live, virile, ablest sons OF
a region that is made up of the selected
fittest of all the states, these men bring
a breeze of the plains to Congress and
promise it a SAVIOR it has heretofore
lacked
The appearance of the new senators at
the Capitol was the signal for a large
event which smacked of the early west
for thereupon was put on lottery for
long and short terms. in which the draw
ing OF a lucky or unlucky number meant
as much as difference of $4,000 and
four years in the Senate. Probably no
one OF these westerners had ever played
for such large stakes in his native haunts
as he played for iIfthis lottery of terms
on his first day infwashinston-
Marcus \. Smith and Henry F. Ash
urst OF Arizona drew for the fve-y ear
term from that state, and Ashurst, the
young son of the range, won the prize.
Thomas Benton Catron and Albert Bacon
Mexico and Catron. the sage of the
southwest. Won. Then Smith Of Arizona
and Fall of New Mexico drew to deter
mine by chance which should have the
remaining three-year and one year terms
and Smith won, thus leaving Fall the
least favored of fortune of the new dele
CATION.
Not a better Implication of the spirit
of the west could be found in public life
today than is Henry F. Ashurst, the
young senator from Arizona who won
the long term in the lottery. Senator
Ashurst is but thirtY-six years DID, yet
overcome such a series Of obstacles as
are rarely hurdled by any man. For Ash
urst has nothing between the obscurity
OF a cowboy on the western range and
a United States senatorship except the
wholesomeability 10 fight that was bound
up within. him.
This new senator was born in the high
mountains of Nevada in 1878. He was
but u year old when his parents migrated
TO Arizona and took up their residence
along tine mighty rim of the Grand Can
yon. Into this great chasm, which had
at that time never been explored, went
the elder AshurSt in search of gold. 1t
was in this search that he shortly after
ward lost his life
The widows son became a COWBOY as
soon as he was able to sit on a horse
At the age Wn6n most boys are carefully
watched over by parents, maintained in
comfortable homes and sent regularly to
school young Ashurst was rounding up
the cattle Of the mountains. unrolling his
blankets beneath the open sky and learn
ing to ride and shoot and hold his own
on the very borderland Of civilization At
the age Of nineteen he gave up cow
punching and became lumberjack in the
mills OF Flagstaff that he might be near
his books when working hours were over
Then began the reading of law. In two
years he had announced himself as a can
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A Lesson.

DROF BARRETT WENDELL. Harvard
professor of English literature, was
encouraging the other day q Respondent
sophomore.
What II you have done badly OF latcrs
he said. patting the youths shoulder.
There Is still time for you 70 retrieye
your errors. Consider the green apple-ae
never does it, best work til it'o down"
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and skilled labor perform the old-time
drudgery. Every farm home has the
phone, every sort of luxury in the way
of reading, while many libraries in De-
troit send out books weekly and maya
zines in electric autos to distant parts of
the country. No more isolation for the
farmer and his wife. On the contrary,
he and his good wife may possibly get
more of their friends visiting them than
they wish. for these fine farmhouses look
very tempting from the high road.
'In jackson. we have an opera house
and as many attractions every winter as
Washington and the seaboard' cities, ex-
cepting New York and Philadelphia, can
boast. Many Of the smaller towns of
Michigan have their theaters and opera
houses and get good features on the aver
age. This has changed the face of the
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view 0hcAlCO HAS always Oeen repuDlcan.
In the recent election Harvey b. Fergus
SON and another democrat were nomi-
mated for Congress, as against former
Gov. George Curry and a companion re-
publican. Ferguson and Curry had been
boon friends and companions for many
years. Even politically they had been
associates previous to the Spanish-Amerl-
can war, when Curry fought with Roose-
welt In Cuba and was politically con-
verted by that colonel Of Rough Riders
When the votes were counted after this
election it was found that the two old
friends of opposite parties had been
elected, and both are today in Congress
as the first representatives of the state Of
New Mexico.
Representative Ferguson is q lawyer
OF Albuquerque who has particularly en-
deared himself to the people Of the new
state, which fact is proven by his cleo
ton on the democratic ticket. He was
born in Alabama in 1S4S, was educated in
Washington and Lee University ana
taught school in the Shenandoah valley
Afterward he studied law and moved to
New Mexico just thirty years ago.. He
that territory in the Fifty-fifth Congress-
and for ten years was a member Of the
democratic national committee.
Mr.. F'ergusson's ardent hope while in
Congress is to obtain a new homestead
law, which will provide more adaptable
method OF disposing Of the lands in the
west. He argues that the present law
was made for Iowa. and does not apply
to community like New Mexico. where
part of. the land is irrigable and worth
lutely arid and will never be worth 10 per
cent of that amount. He favors placing
the various kinds of lands into various
classifications, and disposing Of them in
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Copyright, 1912, the Paine Studio.)
flower gardens. Many have barnyards
we'll supplied with chickens, SO that the
price of cold-storage eggs is a matter of
supreme indifference. Yet there are few
towns anywhere where more clubs are
and successfully operated.
Il should become wearisome to at
tempt to detail all the clubs which have
sprung into existence In jackson and
which continue . career Of honor and
usefulness. Civic clubs have taken over
the problems which women In the noW
era cousider their own x clean streets,
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HE baby states Of
the southwest, the
American frontier.
have been admitted
into the Union and
h a We contributed
their quota of four
senator's to the up
per branch of Con-
gress and three
members to the
House Of Repre-
sentatives. Those
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sewerage, sanitation in public places.
mostly schools, location Of schoolhouses,
the Temperance question and the remhne-
ration of teachers. There are literary
clubs which furnish an outlook for many
who desire wider range of vision. Orig
lnal papers. strict attendance Of the men,
bers and q carefully selected course of
study give these literary clubs q distinct
value and place them above the frivolous
or inattentive. Each member must con-
tribute a certain quota to the researches
or be dropped from the list. Historical
societies Of the middle west have won the
praise of the serious scientific historian.
and in Michigan We are in the foreguard
of this valuable class of local chron-
iclers. To begin with, few states not in
the original thirteen have as absorbing a
true about the area OF Detroit. the records
Of which go back very far into the French
and Indian war, and then again deal with
the intrepid explorers Of the early nine.
teenth century.
Detroit claims a wonderfully interest
ing history: one episode is that it was the
last possession held by the British, and
they stubbornly refused to yield their
rights until 1896. After that Michigan
figured only as the northwest territory,
of Indiana, and again in 1906. the lower
peninsula was made into the territory of
Michigan. with Gen. Hull as governor.
Detroit and Frenchtown went back into
remained SO until after the battle of Lake
Erie in 1874. After that began the long
and brilliant story Of Lewis Cass So
it will be seen that when we Michigan
people want to study history we can find
some absorbing chapters without getting
out Of sight Of Detroit. not to mention
the explorations of the Canadians and the
Jesuit fathers under Marquette. We
have a ffourishing historical club in Jack
son, and we have mothers club and a
sunshine club and every other sort which
tends to make life varied and pleasant
after our real work at home is COM
pleted.'
: Mrs. Townsend was before her marriage
Miss Katherine Paddock. daughter Of Mr..
snd Mrs. jerome Paddock of Concord.
Mr.. Paddock came TO Michigan from GEN.
trail New York state in his eafly man.
hood, and became one Of the factors in
the development OF his new home. Since
her marriage she has become interested
in the development of Michigan, and she
has all the resources of the state at her
fingers ends.
Jackson county is In the heart of the
agricultural district she said, land
though know farm life only by envious
glances as I have passed by on the out
side. I have always been interested In
the details OF Michigan's agricultural
wealth. In the upper peninsula. which
Is really like Q different country, the
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HARLES ELROY
TOWNSEND and
his attractive wife
have been among
the popular con-
gressional folk for
the past ten years.
They furnish the
type Of people to
whom the adjective
young will cling
even when they are
in the declining
.oay~ ~ life
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A RIZONA and New Mexi-
"A co Have Sent Four Sena-
ators and Three Representa-
tives to Washington-Tyrical
Men of the Virile Southwest
Drawing Long and Short
Terms of Service for the
Baby States'-Men Who
Lived in the Southwest When
That Territory Was Young
in Civilization-Their Rise in
Political Matters.
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We have long ago grown used to be-
Ing described as young people," said
Mrs. Townsend. "and for a time IL SEEM
ed as though our entire fame was to be
expressed in juvenility. We were sworn
chums when very young. We married
young even for the middle west. when a
man takes on himself the burden OF a
home when he barely sees a hving ahead,
and all the consolation and rewards seem
TO have come while We are still enthu-
aiasfic over life and able to enjoy every
thing. / was quite a small child when I
began to go with Charlie Townsend. We
went to the same school. used to be con-
fdants and allies. and many a problem
OF the three RS he helped me to solve.
My husbands parents and mine came
from the Atlantic seaboard. Mine came
from New York state and settled In Con-
cord. Mich. when the fame Of the west
lured many from comfortable homes to
break the ground and fell the trees Of
the wilderness. We grew up knowing saoA
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other and trusting each other and know
ing exactly what our fate was to be
wnen charlie had wrung concessions from
the nckie goddess of fortune. For like all
Of his era. he had his way to make in the
world Parents then expected their sons
10 grasp the problem of living as they
themselves had solved it. Always friends,
we went through the graded or grammar
schOoi together. and entered the higher
courses given by the high school of Con-
cord remained to finish the course NY
nusoand, however. went to Jackson, a
larger and more prosperous town than
CONCORD. where an academy offered better
opportunity
when my husband had completed this
course he began his career as a wage
Garner. He got small district school in
had become engaged then, and were look
ing Forward to his promotion for our mar
rage. Meantime l had graduated. and I
began to teach to help fate along a little
ana 10 get ready for our nest building
My husband got a better school, and We
we're married. Meantime he tried for
higher things. began to study law at
nome. and then he ran for Office and got
q post in the county attorneys office.
This brought him again to Jackson. and
and thought to law books, some of which
he bought after saving the price for
months: and others were voluntarily of
fered him by friends. Looking back now,
s'~S oScAOo sOA6 0to AsCu Will OO~
stacles, but We were never SO happy as
during this period Of probation One
year Mr. Townsend spent in the Uni
Versity OF Michigan, in the literary de-
partment, and this was indeed a red let
ter time. Finally. in 1895. he went up for
the bar examination. q self-taught man.
and passed with splendid record He
has practiced law ever since, and all the
honors which have come I believe have
been because OF his solid legal knowledge
and conscientious performance OF public
duty"
A franker and more attractive woman
than Mrs. Townsend the senatorial body
OF hostesses does not possess. nor one
with . deeper insight into things which
add so Infinitely to the charm OF q
woman. A native Of that state which In
some ways stands pre-eminent among her
sister commonwealth. she values life by
the correct standards and not by the ar
tihcisl ones. Well read. gentle and Gull
tured, she knows the masculine side OF
things as well as the feminine.
Michigan, from my standpoint, offers
varied study to those who wish to in
quire." said Mrs. Townsend. 1--WE live
within two and q half hours Of Detroit.
and are therefore In the middle of q
radius OF important considerations. Our
city. jackson. boasts something more
than $4,000 inhabitants, and in q way
We may b taksn - . type Of the I'm,
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By MARGARET b. DOWNING.
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Senator Fall believes that the United
States is making q very serious mistake
in supporting the Madero government and
that that government can never bring
Orozco should and will triumph. and that
in this way business stability may be
restored in Mexico. Senator Fall Is the
only member of the federal Congress who
fairs in the sister republic Because OF
this Information he promises to be Of Pc
culiar immediate value in the Senate.
*
Senator Fall is a republican, despite the
fact that he was born in Kentucky, in
1851. Twenty years later he moved to
Texas, and in 1885 to- Los Cruces. New
Mexico. There he practiced law. served
one session in the lower house OF the
territorial legislature and three, in the
upper. In 1897 and again in 1907 he was
appointed attorney general OF New Mex
leo. In 1893 he was appointed to the
supreme bench Of that territory by Gro
yer Cleveland. At the outbreak Of the
Spanish-American war he enlisted a COM
pany from New Mexico and went to the
front at its head.
New Mexico finds herself in a peculiar
position with reference to her representa-
ton in the lower house of Congress. Ac-
cording to the apportionment upon which
representatives were granted previous to
the new law which followed the compile
ton of the census OF 1910. New Mexico
would have been entitled to two men in
the House. The enabling act which ad-
mitted New Mexico provided for two rep
resentatives. But about this time there
came along the new apportionment act,
which required greater population for
each representative than had previously
been necessary. New Mexico lacked about
hundred OF the necessary population
to retain it's two representatives. This
law will not apply during the present
session. Therefore New Mexico has a six
month respite with two representatives.
Then it viii be forced to confetti itself
with one
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methods which could be used in the case
OF man..
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-27

they were Taught one of the most i'm
portant things in horse-breaking,
namely, to stand tied when hitched.
This one quality is about half OF
the education of horse, and without
it no horse Is properly broken.
When old enough to eat solid food,
they were fed each day, and later on
turned out to pasture, but still were
given some extra feed and their
mothers milk until ready to wean,
when they were put out in a good
grazing field.
The dams were well fed and regu-
larry worked at least eleven months
out of the twelve, if the weather per-
mitted. They kept in good working
order, did good work all the year
round, and four out Of five raised a
thrifty colt.
Never let colt grow to any age
and size without halter breaking him.
Hundreds of valuable young horses
are much injured in disposition by
letting them run until they are from
two to three years of age, and then
for the first time cornered in a stall
by several farm hands, which may be
a frolic to the latter. but quite the
contrary to the former.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-27
HAD FORTUNE TOLD.
BY a Gypsy, Then Missed a
Five Dollar Bill.

Now leave that handkerchief in
your vest or your fortune will not
come out as told YOU" said the gypsy
woman. Joe Wilson did, and shortly af-
terward repented, for the handkerchief
in which he had placed S. was empty
when he opened it later
Wilson said he was from Ohio. He
was accosted by two gypsy women
who were telling fortunes on the
STREETS He consented TO have his for
tune told and produced five dollar
bill. The woman deity palmed the bill
and rolling up the empty handkerchief
put it under Wilson's vest telling him
to leave il there or lose his fortune.
The women were arrested by Sergt.
McNally and after examination by the
police chief were dismissed on their
promise to leave the city. They denied
to the chief that they had stolen Will
sons money.
The two women belong to tribe OF
about twenty gypsies who are now
east of the city.