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Canadensis. Early saxafrage is saxa-
fraga Virginiensis. Wild strawberry is
fragraria Virginiana. Common clinque-
foil Is potentilla Canadensis.
Goats rue or catgut which bears
panicle Of yellowish white flowers mark
ed with purple, is tephrosia Virginiana.
Wild yellow flax. a small blue Hover
found from Maine to Minnesota and
southwark. is linum Virginiacum. Frost
weed or rock rose is helianthemum Cana
dense. One of our commonest leafy-
stemmed blue violets is viola Canadensis
Meadow beauty with magenta petals and
golden yellow anthers, is rexia Virg1nica
Rhodora Of our damp hillsides is rhodo-
dendron Canadense. Wild confrey. a pale
blue flower. is cynoglossum Virginianum.
Blue toadhax is linaria Canadensis.
Smooth false foxglove is gerudia Vir-
ginica.
Wood betony, or lousewort, is pedicu-
laris Canadensis. Beech drops or cancer
root is epifogus Virginiana. Bush honey
suckle is lonicera Canadensis. One Of
our commonest goldenrods is sOlidago
Canadensis. Dwarf dandelion is krigia
Virginica. Wild lettuce is lactuca Cana
densis. and hawkweed, found anywhere,
is hieracium Canadense."
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Origin of Blue Plains.

y LUF PLAINS is an old name in
l. Maryland annals. and, OF course. Is
much older than the District of Colum-
bia, within the borders of which this
tract lies. Blue Plains is g name which
never, or at any rate very rarely, got
into the newspapers until the District
Home for the Aged and Inflrm and the
Industrial Home for Colored Children
were established on these lands. If the
occasion arose to identify this neigh
borhood it was called Shepherd s.
the name given to the terminus Of a
branch line of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad which was built from a point
near Bladensburg, along the east shore
of the Eastern branch and of the Po-
tomac to a point opposite Alexandra
in or about 1871.
The Addison grant, which was made
in the early part of the latter half Of
the seventeenth century. included the
lands from PiScataway creek, on which
Fort Washington stands to the Eastern
branch. 1t is thought that John Ad-
Olson took possession of this grant in
1860, and he then called II Oxon Manor
In memory of his OXonian associations
in England. He built the great house
on the crest of the ridge opposite Alex
andria, and south of stream which
this great house OXon Hall. 1t was
conspicuous landmark until its destruc-
ton by fire in the early nineties and
the ruins may still be seen IL one will
enter the thicket of paper mulberry
and the tangle of vines that have
grown over it. Three miles south of
the ruin is Broad Creek Church, the
records of which date back to 1893. the
year after the creation of the parish.
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Standing at his left. taking. as you know
By tho attitude OF the figures and the 10
cation Of tho monument lessons in the
Sign language
Ths Rambler has observed that very
few persons passing that way take the
ttme or trouble TO cross the small bit or
turf separating the monument from the
main drive 10 read the inscription on the
pedestal On the west face 1t Is inscribed
that: --T'hs deaf people OF the United
States IN grateful remembrance of Thorn
a. Hopkins Gallaudet mark the centen-
NAL of his birth with this memorial.
1887" The Inscription on the south face
;tss Erected by contributions from every
sexna, territory and district Of the United
States Edwin A Hodgson. president OF
tho association: Theodore A Froehlich.
chairman of the executive committee:
Amos c. Draper. treasurer OF the fund"
Tho east side OF the pedestal bears this
inscription: Born at Philadelphia. De-
cenber TO- 17s7 Founded at Hartford
the first school for the deaf IN America.
1s17. Died at Hartford September 10.
1851" On the north face are these words:
sFriend. Teacher, Benefactor
In late ISSUE OF the School Arts Maya
zine OF Boston Is editorial by Henry
Turner Bailey. which reviews the results
OF an attempt TO obtain representative
consensus OF opinion in America as to
what works of art in various departments
are TO be regarded as the best in this
country. He writes that:
This attempt was made by committee of the
American Federation OF Arts. designated as the
committee art in pablo schools. and consist
Ing OF four members. Mrs Stevenson Burke pres
fdent OF the board or directors OF the Cleveland
School Of Art: James Hall. until recently director
of the art department OF the Ethical Culture
School of New York city: G. Valentine Kirby
director Of srt instruction in Pittsburgh and
Henry Tuner Bailey, editor OF the School Arts
magazine. THIS committee prepared a circular
letter Ia lot and ii return envelope, and In
May and June. 1912, sent copies 10 selected
1,st OF 1000 people inciud NJ members OF The
American Federation Of Arts. prominent super
-yisors and teachers OF drawing, artists sculptors
architects and others having u reputation for
taste and interest in American education some
of the blanks were returned unified, accompanied
by letters expressing deep interest in the investi-
cation but inability to assist. The total nuinoer
of ballots returned was seventy, surprislngy
small number. but coming these did from
some OF the best informed people in the United
A1Asss. people Of International reputation IN
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young idea. and at the end of that period
had saved enough to pay for a twO-year
course at Muskingum College When his
funds ran out. he next look a position as
general agent for a publishing company.
there being under his direction seventy
five college agencies in Ohio and Penn
sylvania Then his father died. and there
devolved upon him the care of mother.
sister, and two young brothers The
better to earn livelihood for this con-
siderable family, he came to Pittsburgh
to work in a railroad office at $40 a
month. Later he became a bookkeeper.
and a short time afterward broke into
journalism as reporter on the Daily
News at Braddock Not long afterward
he founded a weekly at the same place.
and then bought the News. which he
combined three years later with an even
ing paper, also absorbed. Three years
age he went to the legislature, and soon
afterward got out a book. Machine
Made Legislation" now being studied in
several universities. Before his term in
the legislature had ended he defeated
Dalzell for the congressional nomination.
The Wisconsin lumb ering village Of
Menekaunee. known far and wide in those
days as a very wicked town. because it
boosted Of ne'er a church. yet many
murders and many saloons which kept
going day and night, would seem to have
offered opportunities and influences little
calulated to uplift youth, yet it fostered,
during the first twenty years of his lie,
Francis o. Lindquist, new member from
the eleventh Michigan district.
MY father and mother were Scandi-
navians and were thrifty people, said
he They gave me all the opportuni-
ties which the place afforded for school
ing, but in that almost lawless commune
ty If a boy decided to go to work rather
than school, he generally found himself
a member of a very large majority. The
memory of that little town is not a pleas
ant one. for it was. inha bited by rough
numbering people and was continually the
scene of murders and other crimes. Ny
mother was always a great help to me
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one of the big four of the old Cannon
days. should be succeeded by STRIPPING
of only twenty Eight who now comes to
Congress glorying in the fact that he is
of the House." Melville c. Kelly, republi-
can, OF Braddock, Pa. has this to say of
his early ambitions.
Il believe I can scarcely remember
time when l was not fully determined to
go into public life. and somehow l par
ticularly selected Congress as the scene
OF my future activities Possibly this
was because Of some ones suggestion
that having an NJ. c. in front OF my
name should have the same pair Of let
tiers at the end Throughout all Of my
life / have kept that goal in view and
Its winning has been well worth the
struggle"
Kelly's early boyhood was spent in his
birthplace. the little town of Bloomfield.
Ohio. where between school hours he
helped his father at the latter's store. At
the age of eight however. the youngsters
Independent spirit first began to show
itself. for. by no means content to remain
a mere errand boy. he established his
of the general merchandise emporium,
and business of this new department
prospered until exactly 95 cents had been
accumulated in a tin box inside the
glass case. But the lads dream Of seeing
this small fortune grow into dollar
proved to be vain. for the box and It's
contents mysteriously disappeared before
another penny had been added.
When only twelve this precocious
youngster received upon his slender
shoulders practically the entire RESPONSE
bilty of conducting the store, for his
father had fallen into i'll health Yet the
boy continued with his studies. and at
fifteen took the examination for posi-
ton as district school teacher. He re-
ce1ved the appointment and set out for
his charge but heard before he reached
il that strike had been declared by the
pupils who were resentful at having a
youngster to lord 1t over them. and many
of whom were twenty years OF age.
After his arrival. however, the boy
schoolmaster, by q clever stroke Of diplo-
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Too Much Canada and Virginia.

A GROUP Of naturalists, specialists
"A in BIRDS in butterflies. shippers
and moths in beetles and in frogs. In
Towering plants, in MOSES and In
ferns in rocks and trees. and all that
were taking a midday rest and meal by
a cool and shady spring above the
Chain bridge. They had knapsack
and green bag, and coat pockets bulged
with thumb-worn and thumb soiled
books They had bags and bottles and
bundles of specimens
Canadians and Virginians have been
busy botanists, or botanists have been
particularly busy in Canada and V1r-
ginia," said one OF the naturalists. as
he bit big semi-circle into sand
witch YES that's So" said another Of
the naturalists as he bit the vertex
off an isoceleS triangle of pie.
Look at the number OF plants COM
mon to the Atlantic coast region that
have Virginica, Virginienses, Camden
sis and forth hitched on to their
proper family names! There Is spider
wort or Jobs tears, little flowers Of
three purple petals that remain open
only part of the day and grow nearly
everywhere, yet 1t is tradescantia vtr-
giniana. Wild garlic, with it's few
purplish six-parted flowers on slender
pedicels forming a cluster of bullets
at the top of scape, nearly as COM
mon through this country as chick
weed, yet it is album Canadense. The
field, wild, meadow or yellow lily, very
common in our fields. Is lilum Ca
nadense. False lily of the valley, an
abundant woodland plant growing in
colonies. is maiunthemum Canadense.
Indian cucumber root. common wood
land plant is medeola Virginiana. Wild
ginger with it's solitary bell-shaped
dark red blossom is asarum Canadense.
Fire pink or catchfy is silene Vir
ginica, while wild pink, large numbers Of
which grow in the woods around Wash
ington where Sunday picnickers don't go.
are silene Pennsylvania. Spring beauty,
a member of the purslane family. is Clay
tonia Virginica. Virgins bower a twining
vine with small greenish-white flowers
and found throughout our range. is Glenn
ats Virginiana. Wild colunbine. found
in the deep woods along the Virginia side
of the Potomac. is aquilegia Canadensis
Blood root which grows nearly ever :
where II the country, IS sarsut maria
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TITLE Human Interest

7 TITLE Human Interest
IL Stories of an interest
ing Coterie of Rugged Ameri-
cans Who Began Their Ca
reers Under Handicaps Which
Would Discourage Most
Stout Hearts-How They
Have Risen From the Hum
blest Callings to High Places
in the Nations Councils-Ex-
periences Which Will Prove
Potent as a Spring Tonic to
the Reader Who Thinks He
Hasn't a Fair Chance in Life.
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barber 1t is more than I could make
by getting job in the chorus of some
show company. travelling from town to
town. putting up at cheap hotels, eat
ing all kinds Of food and spending
most Of my money for loud and bolster
Gus clothes.
az live at home have plenty Of COM
forts go to church Sunday morning,
go to picnics. parties and the movies
Whenever have the time, and 1 am
going to keep young and happy as
long as I can find men with finger
nails to polish"
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IINDQUIsT .OfM1cHIGAN

reived, III q little log schoolhouse, what
was practically his first educational train
ing Then he did farm work for $3.50 a
month, labored in a brickyard and went
TO the Trinity river, where he ran cattle
Meanwhile, he went to school whenever
the opportunity offered. between periods
of employment and until his small saw
ings gave out
When I was eighteen and after I. had
thus exhausted my funds by attending
school," he went on to relate. Il was
compelled to tramp from Philisune to
Buffalo, Tex. In the bottoms of Trinity
river night overlook me and, there being
no houses nearby. / stopped by the rail-
road, built me a pen of some cross
ties. crawled I'm and went to sleep.
built this fertilization against wildcats
and cougars, which the inhabitants OF
those parts call 'varmints. But l awoke
in the morning to find that l had been
attacked by another foe, which had come
in thousands. My hands and face were
nothing but welts left by mosquitoes. But
/ continued my tramp without food or
money.
1t was after this adventure that Mr..
Murray became country schoolmaster.
and. having taught in several district
schools, he broke into the newspaper field,
became associate editor of the Farmers
World. a state weekly at Dallas and later
established and edited the daily and
weekly News at Corsicana- Meanwhile
he had been studying law and after his
admission to the bar went to Oklahoma.
where he became chairman of the con-
vention which framed the constitution for
that state.
II have many a time gone hungry"
said this picturesque member. in con-
clusion. land many time / have been
without the real necessities of life. In
facing these and subsequent vicssitudes
my chief solace has been derived from
the lessons / learned in reading Benjamin
Franklin's Autobiography. wherein he SO
wildly points out the need of self-denial.
perseverance, sobriety and integrity.
Every boy should read that book
1t was a shock to the friends of the
astute John Dalzell Of Pennsylvania that
such a veteran legislator. with record
of twenty-six years in the House, and as
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The Right Binding.

EHAYOR HUNT picked Up In Cincin-
lv1 natl bookshop volume bound In
striking hues.
This book" he said, has a very
splendid and conspicuous binding. This
book in fact. is bound to attract atten-
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OW mat all OF tn
ciiques and clans
have gathered and
have at last set
tied down into the
seats OF the mighty
for another period
Of toil-now that
we have had time
to look them all
over and to enjoy
heart TO heart
talks with many
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many cases. rheir verdict is worth having. The
ballot called Tor the best work under hve heads
Ing and handicraft.
Under the classification Of sculpture
"Gallaudet and His First Pupil. Wash
ington, d. c., French" Is twentieth on
ems Lincoln" at Chicago. Saint-Gaud-
ems Shaw memorial at Boston. Saint
Gaudens' Sherman in Central Park.
New York, F,renchs Death Of the
Sculptor" at Boston, Saint-Gaudens'
Grief at Washington. Saint-G audens'
Monnies' Nathan Hale at New York.
AacNeil's Sun Vow owned by w. T.
Evans at Montclair, n. J.; Henry K.
Browns Washington" in Union Square.
Slave" at Washington. MacMonnies'
"bacchante" at New York. Paul w.
Bartlett's Michael Angelo in the
Library of Congress at Washington.
MacMonnies' Sailors and Soldiers
Monument" at Brooklyn. French $
hams Mares of Diomedes" at New
York. ]. q. A. Wards Thomas Statue"
at Washington. Saint-Gaudens' THE
Puritan, at Springfield. and Saint
Gaudens' Peter Cooper" at New York.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that In the class of architecture the
following Washington buildings are
named: The Capitol Is in second place
ttHe BOSTON fuDlc Library DelnB given
first place.. the Library Of Congress is
seventh on the list, the White House
fourteenth, the Union station eighteenth,
the Pan-American building twentieth.
the Treasury building thirty-seventh and
the Corcoran Art Gallery thirty eighth.
In the class of paintings the following
in Washington are named: Sunset in
the Forest George Inness. Corcoran
Gallery of Art: Ave Maria Horatio
Walker. Corcoran Gallery: The Land
and Sea-, Paul DOugherty. Corcoran
Gallery: High Cliff. Coast of Maine.
Winslow Homer. United States National
Gallery. and ''Nocturne- Valparaiso J.
Mcneil Whistler. National Gallery.
\
In the class of mural decoration are
mentioned Evolution OF the Book" by
John w. Alexander. in the Library OF
Congress; Lyric Poetry" by Henry o.
Walker. in the Library OF Congress. and
''MeIpomene" by Edward Simmons, in
the Library of Congress.
To return to the Gallaudet statue the
Inscription The deaf people OF the
United States in grateful remembrance OF
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet mark the
centennial of his birth with this me-
mortal, 1857" caused the Rambler to turn
through the files Of The Star of Deem
Der, 1897, with the hope Of finding there
the account of the dedication of this
monument What he found was in the
issue OF December Il. 1889. and follows:
Gallaudet Centennial.-The studenAs of the
Deaf Mute College Saturday night had B literary
and social meeting In honor Of the hunhredth an
niversary OF the birth Of DR.. Thomas-H. Gallau
Speeches were made by President +. NJ Gallaudet
Prof Parker Prof Hotchkiss and Messrs. Bal
lard and Gross. Miss Elliott. one OF the hall
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kINDEL Or. COLORADO

IlNcu tIlS lie until L was eighteen,
when, with scarcely any money, I
started out to explore the country. At
a little town some distance away I
obtained a position as waiter in a
lunchroom. but after l had worked
there a couple of weeks the place
closed down and l had to hustle again.
| journeyed to St. Paul and, by chance,
on the street there saw a sign, News
boy Wanted. i found that the boy Sc
lected was to sell papers over the
Wisconsin Central railroad and l was
accepted. but my employer demanded
security. 1 didn't have any money, so
had to part with my watch and chain.
My first trip out was rather unfortu-
nate. for the last coach on the train
switched off to another track and
with 1t went a pile Of my magazines.
The boss wouldn't listen to any such
explanation, when | got back from the
run. but he way finally convinced and
for some little time / continued in
that work. l never will forget my
first night in ST. Paul. for the best
accommodations / could afford were
those of a ten-cent lodging house. I
was given a little room in the top Of
the house and just half a door hung
in the opening between me and an
old deserted attic. With only a candle
for. light | had pretty gruesome
night of it,.
and later manager in a big clothing
establishment at Muskegon Mich. But
bad luck still pursued him and the
business failed. At that time he was
supporting his wife and his mother
and prospects looked rather hopeless
itself. however. and thus 1t was that
Just about nine years ago Lindquist was
experimenting the loading and haul
ing OF the bags of grain and feed and
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cept and when not to accept invita-
tions.
"sure. some men are silly. but that's
a mental shortcoming that Is not con-
fined to men. There are silly women
but you cannot tell one of them so
without being attacked with d1sdaln-
full glance or. perhaps hat pin. Tell
q man in the right way that ne IS a.
silly goose and he will love you more"
"By the right way, you mean a nat
tering way
"Of course men have to be fiattered
or you can't do business with them.
Men fiatter women and woman feels
disappointed with q man If he doesn't
flatter her. She can feed on f1attery.
She can keep young on flattery. The
barber flatters a man. the tailor hat-
tiers him, the saloon keeper hatters
him, the photographer fatter s. MN nm
wife fiatters him-that is, If she wants
to keep him home in the evening or
make him bring in his pay envelope
unopened.
their control that you have to hatter
them tactfully or they'll shy and know
that you are trying to put something
over on them You have to reach these
men by talking to them Of their ex-
perience and judgment. There never
was a man who didn't believe that he
had had more experience than another
man and that his judgment was bet
ter Other men--in fact, most men-
are so shamelessly conceited. especially
can lay the f1attery on thick and crude
and you don't have to use any tact.
You can smear 1t on like cold cream.
They'll soak 1t up. all right.
X
you can't have a crouch and make a
living as a mans manicure. A man
must think that he has made a hit with
you or he wouldn't let you polish his
nails again. II he wanted them mani
cured he would look up a more agree
able manicure to do the job woman
has got to make herself pleasing to
get a husband or to get and keep a
manicure customer. woman who
won't firt, that is, just a little bit, will
find 1t hard to get along in any line Of
business with men. These severe bust
ness women who can't make their eyes
talk anything but business, who can't
smile coyly or laugh gayly at a mans
feeble essays at wit. is fright. All
the love is gone out of their life. They
never will have romance. Deliver me
from such
Il work in this shop about nine hours
a day If the trade is good l work ten.
I'll work as long as there is any busi
ness to be done. l get guarantee Of
a dollar a day. and l get a commission
of half of all / take in. l am making
about twelve dollars a week just now
but am building up trade. l try to
make steady customer of men of the
right sort. With a good trade | will
be able to make $40 week. That Is
make in store work, and floor walkers
or department managers, especially IL
they are women. are apt to be harder
for a girl u get along with than boss
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r you walk or drive
I b r o u & h tn Q
grounds of Kendall
Green GU will
probably notice on
the lawn at the
south front OF the
ID ain building a
bronze memorial
representing a be-
nign man seated In
a big q T m C h q j T
with a little girl