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road. from Congress Heights 20 Oxon
Hin. A rough trail leads across the
lower end Of the valley from Bald Eagle
hill to an old estate called Mount Welby,
tfon with the Government Hospital for
the Insane. This trail connects the south
enc OF the Giesboro road where It turns
westward toward the river and loses
buildings OF the Home for the Aged and
Innrrn, and the north end of the road
which passes the ruin of the Addison
home-Oxon Hall-and leads on to New
Giatz. Fort Foote. Silica. Friendly. Fort
w ashington, Piscataway and the farms
and VILLAGES of southernmost Maryland
Two old private roads lead across the
valley, both OF them between the Walker
ana Wheeler roads. One of them starts
from the Hamilton road near the Gar
field public school and. climbing to the OBJ
pos.te ridge, goes on to the Silver Hill
neighoorhood. The other leaves the
Hamilton road east of the rife range and
crosses TO the farms of William Roe and
into the Wheeler road
III you will start from the venerable
hamlet Of Good Hope. where Fort
wagner stood during the civil war. you
should turn south along the Walker
road. There is a guide post to direct
YOU Why 1t is called the Walker road
the Rambler did not learn. 1t is the
upper part of the old T. b. road over
Wnlcn JOnn wilkes Booth fed on
Jim Humphreys horse after the assas-
sination of Lincoln. The road leads
past the old Surratt tavern, still
standing. at Surrattsville. now called
Clinton, nine miles in an air line from
the Anacostia bridge, but about ten
miles over the road. From Good Hope
the Walker road runs along the side
of a ravine which from a narrow head
widens out so that cornfields and hay
fields occupy the slopes. About half a
mile along this road you come to the
District line. The land slopes steeply
look over grassy fields to the deeply
wooded ridge beyond. Through the
middle CT the valley flows the run, its
cou -se marked on both sides by lines
of trees and shrubs. Looking over and
down the valley. YOU will see some
widely scattered farmhouses nearly
hidden blythe foliage on the opposite
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pin balls down in swift confusion until
/ have aroused a perspiration that makes
me feel like the only survivor Of the
Dayton flood Immediately after being
rescued.
Il walk to a cab. drive to my home.
There I change linen-linen may only
mean a suit of pajamas-and l am ready
for a sound nights sleep. am cool and
unannoyed by the heat
There are others who consider that the
shooting game" is the only game OF
GOODNESS. They repair regularly to the
shooting galleries and there spend many
hours in trying to hit the elusive duck
as 1t fits between the targets of the well
worked bullet board. To the neophyte it
would not appear to be q, remarkable ex-
ercise. You aim your gun at one Of the
ducks spinning dizzily around in space.
You draw the trigger-you miss Then
comes the Notwithstanding sensation that
you are not a crack shot. You try again.
Again you miss. The perspiration stands
out on your brow and, according to sgd
ney Anderson, representative from Min
nesota, you are all right, but according
to your own self consciousness. augment
ed by a crowd of urchins who are grim
ming at you, your self-respect falls below
par There is another crash of the rife.
Another miss, and YOU stand grinning
foolishly az the urchins comment on your
shot. Retort is impossible. Hundreds and
hundreds Of Washingtonians amuse
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than Pinev branch or Broad branch and
of less flow than Rock creek. The
scenery along its course is pastoral.
In the views and at many points the
vistas are broad. For eight miles il
roughly parallels the southeast bound
AIRY Of the District. Its source is in
woods and fields Oh the westerly side
or the Washington and Marlboro pike,
near the hamlet of Oakland. in Prince
Georges county. a mile or so southeast
of the District line. For three miles 1t
flows within from two hundred to four
or five hundred yards OF the District
boundary. the line generally running
along the northwesterIy ridge which
drops down into OXon valley.
At point "A trifie over quarter of a
mile southeast of the rifle range of the
District of Columbia National Guard the
stream. augmented by numerous spring
branches bends northwestwardly and
crosses into the District. IL makes a wide
bend between commanding ridges. reach
ing three quarters of mile inside the
District. and after travelling two and a
half miles within the District flows back
into Maryland. and. passing through
sandy cultivated fields and low. wei
woods empties. after another mile oil
travel, into a small bay opposite Alexan
dria
No road runs along the valley. though
several cross il. Those roads crossing II
are the Suitland road, the Walker road
which leads 10 Silver Hill. Reds Corner
Srratts aud beyond: the Wheeler road
from Congress Heights TO the Silver
Hill-Oxon 4fill road, and the Livingston
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will not burn me. l feel no uncomfortable

will not burn me. / feel no uncomfortab BILE
heat.
This man is simply schooled to under
stand summer weather, and he cannot
hope for more than any other man can,
except he has taught himself to obey the
laws that summer provides. These laws
are simple. and they are based essentially
on the physiological power which, in its
turn, reacts psychologically upon the be-
ing Of man. Psychology. considered as an
external. has nothing to do with it. Phys
iology. considered as an external, has
nothing to do with it. 1t is a conbina-
ton of both, each in sympathy with the
other, which builds up the power of sug-
gestion. which enables. even the man who
has lived in an environment utterly for
eign to tropical heat, to withstand the
rigors of a southern cline"
Dr. Wileys thought of suggestion might
stand the heat Of criticism. but 1t will
not stand the heat of bowling alley. No
lesser authority than Representative Rob-
erts of Nevada urges all men, irrespec-
tive Of age color or previous condition
of servitude, to join in grand bowling
match and defeat the heat. "Perspira-
ton he says. lis one of the first essen
tails to GOODNESS. The man who would
keep cool must perspire freely. This Is
an established fact. Therefore, when l
find myself succumbing to the heat, I
give way to a maddening impulse to leap
upon a bowling alley and hurl the duck
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Semi-Precious Stones in District.

<EVOU can find precious or semi pre-
cious stones in the District or Co.
lumbia If you know where and how TO
look for them and If you have knowl-
edge enough of such things to recognize
them when you see them" The man who
said this was chipping away with ham
mer at piece of that familiar gray rock
which one sees in SO many localities about
Washington. He had little brown bag
that was well filled with specimens. He
was a young man and a mineralogist
This gray rock is gneiss," he said, and
is of metamorphic origin. The foundation
bed hereabouts was upturned by pressure
and chemical action, and during this up
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ridge. In the valley you will see here
and there those generous-looking. gray,
implanted barns common In the fields
OF the south OF Maryland
+ =
To get more views Of this valley you
should retrace your way along Walker
road to the Hamilton road. This way
leads along the top OF the ridge on the
District side Of the valley, and you will
be rewarded by many fine vistas of Oxon
valley.
A great area OF this Oxon land belonged
many years before the civil war to Philip
Evans. His house and the Evans family
burial ground stood on the rifle range.
Not many months ago Mai Thomas s.
King of the District guard, superintendent
of the rifle range. while making improve
Tents on the range discovered on the
high land on which the tents are pitched.
an old burial ground. Many broken bits
of gravestones We're uncovered. At the
time of the civil war the burial plot was
inclosed and around the marble monu-
ment of Philip Evans tall cedars grew.
Other graves of members OF the Evans
family were covered with fiat stones
When the war closed the monument and
gravestones had been broken into small
bits and the soil finally entombed them.
The Evans property. including the
house. was acquired about 1s45 by Thomas
Jenkins of Thomas, the 'of Thomas
Indicating the father of this Jenkins, and
was added to distinguish him from
another Thomas Jenkins, a kinsman who
also owned land in that neighborhood
Jenkins of Thomas lived there with his
family, and one of his daughters Mrs
Annie Hoyle. is still living on n part OF
the old tract about three-quarters of a
mile west of the rifle range. much of her
land being in OXon valley. The old Jen-
kins house stood under the lee of the
northward ridge and faced east about
where the 6O0-yard firing station of the
rifle range now is. 1t was one of the
fine houses of that arjstocratic section
In 1861 the house was torn down under
the orders of Col. Mccarthy commandine
a New York regiment OF infantry, and its
lumber was used In the construction oil
officers quarters between Fort Snyder
which stood on the crest overlooking
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exposed to the sun and the weather -
that surface Specimens should not Do
used az q definite criterion Of the color
to be expected In those under ground.
The deposits in North Carolina are all
in the Piedmont plateau and are 1850
s sta with the crystalline rocks Of
There is something fascinating IN the
idea that around us are untold thou
sands of crystals susceptible of being
cut and polished into beautiful Jewels.
The average person does not think I'm
-ery large terms Of the gem mineral
industry of the United States. Mr.. Ster-
rett has said on this subject that the
principal gem mined in the United
States during 1912 was Montana sap
phire. of which there was a large out
put for use both as gems and In me-
% the gem sapphire. came from the
mines IL Fergus county. where they
occur in rock matrix. The majority OF
TIES, these e stones h have Ell, the true ne sapphire
for mechanical use came from the
placer deposits In Granite and Deer
Lodge counties and consisted OF vari-
colored stones.
The geological survey has reported that
the development of the opal deposits in
Humboldt county. Nevada, was attended
with success. and a quantity of magnih-
cent gem material has been obtained.
The Humboldt opal is of unusual type,
consisting of dark, translucent mineral,
with variety OF rich colors. Mr.. Ster-
rett has said that the Nevada deposits
promise to supply a gem equal II not SUI
perior in beauty to the opal from Aus
tralia.
Prospecting and mining for emerald In
North Carolina has continued with
more or less success. The tourmaline out
put OF southern California was small
but some magnificent specimen crystals
were obtained. The production of Amer
lean turquoise has declined. Fine germs
have been cut from North Carolina anne
thyst and splendid specimens OF golden
beryl have been obtained from prospects
in Alexander county n {. The produce
ton of agate and associated varieties %
chalcedony continues large in several Of
the western states.
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IL Oveflain by the trinity for1nataOh Oh In0
lower cretaceous. consisting OF insercalat:
"a beds Of marty clay. sand. gravel ana
limestone.
Not long ago a diamond find was re-
ported in Indiana near the junction OF
Gold and Sycamore creeks by a man
who had been panning for gold. ana
diamond finds have often been reported
from Morgan and Brown counties In that
stata These precious stones have also
been found in Wisconsin, Michigan, ONO,
California and Texas, ana the mineral
oeist with whom the Rambler fe!l' In
feels that he will run aga,ns. sone =.
these crystals in the District OF Columbia
or in nearby territory. IL IS NOT aovo-
Gated. though, that anybody should give
I'M a permanent and profitable position in
,rhsre ia plenty of gold in the District of
Columbia and along the upper Potomac
and the rocky streams running into II
and the Ramblers mineralog1st friend
of gold that he had washed out near
Washington but it is not believed that
ANYBODY has made a fortune mining gold
near Washington, while a great deal OF
money has been lost in efforts to re-
AMETHYST is another OF the minerals
which ought to be found near Washing
ton. Of this mineral Douglas b. Ster-
rett of the geological survey, IN re-
port last year on gems and precious
stones. says:
Amethyst is widely distributed
over the Piedmont and mountain re-
gions of the southeastern states. Some
of the deposits have been prospected
or mined and at others no work has
been done Several localities in North
Carolina and Georgia were described i'm
q previous report Many localities in
North Carolina and Virginia were Wis
tied during 1872. few of these seemed
promising. At many of the localities
the prospects We're not seen under ia
yorable circumstances, for little recent
work had been done and the best spec
linens had at most places been already
picked up. Pale purple crystals are all
that have been left around many of the
prospects. The crystals found on the
immediate surface are generally paler
colored than those which have not boen
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HEN the sultry
days of summer
envelop the ma :
I on. and the
justly celebra ted
sun does its level
best TO reduce
humanity to a
parboiled S I a t e,
Wash i n gtonians.
like others, pre-
pare a myriad de-
vices for lodging
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President w / son
Does Not Worry When
Summer Comes-Dress-
es IN Cool Clothes and
Forgets All About the
Weather-Washlngton,
lsnlike Many Other
Cities. Has Dozens of
Cool Parks, Offering
Residents and Tourists
Exceptional Opportuni-
ties Vice President
Says He Keeps Cool
Because He Has Moth
ing to Worry Him.
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turning process assures formed which
wore subsequently filled with quartz mica,
feidspar apd tho iike- You call them
Of these materials prospect on. for 1t
Is IN them. that the minerals that we call
precious or semi-precious stones have
been crystallized."
He showed tho Rambler a number of
stony objects and assured him that when
cut and polished as gems they would be
beautiful. He had with him a few kems
which he said had been cut from raw
materials such as he carried in the bag.
In his collection he has examples of most
Of the minerals that occur In tho Dis
trlct OF Columbia.
He had fine specimens of the beryl, both
OF the emerald and the ultramarine va
rieties, and also an occasional yellow
beryl, all taken from the later seams in
the older rocks around Washington.
While beryl crystals are by no means
uncommon, those sufficiently free from
fractures. or other flaws as to be of gem
quality are rare.
Topaz has been found in the District OF
Columbia commonly associated with mi
croline feldspar. biotite, tourmaline.
smoky quartz and albite. Tour1naline
OF good quality has been found and may
still be found by the patient prospector
in the District The state Of Maine has
been an important producer of tourma-
lire. green, red and blue crystals coming
from a quarry near Poland. Garnet has
been discovered IN some Of the rocks of
the capital region.
Diamonds have not been found In the
rocks around Washington. but this min
eralogist whom the Rambler interrupted
in his prospecting said he saw no reason
why they might not be found. They have
been and are being mined in Arkansas
on areas of peridotite near Murfreesboro.
The geological survey says OF the
diamond bearing areas of Arkansas that
the rocks of that region are chiefly sedi-
mentary and are of the ordOvician, car
bonfferous. cretaceous and quaternary
age The ordovician and carboniferous
rocks consisting of shales. sandstones,
novaculites and cherts, outcrop few
miles north OF the area in which the
peridotite has been found. The pene-
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HE valley or the
vale Of O'xon run.
part Of which 1t
has been proposed
to convert into a
public park, Is I'M
known or little
known to many of
the people of the
District of Column
bia. ONon run is
a stream of great
or volume of flow
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what Is now the rfle range. and B0eta
Wagner and Baker near Good Hope.
On the other side Of tho valley WU3e
two tracts called Pastures and Gleandnss.
carved out of the original Addison grant,
which were owned during the American
revolution by Zadock Talburtt, whose
ron, Levin Talburtt, bought in 1904
tract of land on which much Of Anacos-
tia has been built and erected the old
brick house which still stands, clustered
around by trees, on a little bluff by the
river above the Anacostia bridge.
On OXon run, where the Livingston
road crosses it, stood the Surratt mill.
John Surratt reared his family there and
operated the mill till a few years before
the CIVIL war. They removed to cross
roads which came to be called Surratts-
Vile. and the mill passed into the posses
SION OF a man named Condor. AS Con-
don mill IL was known during the civil
war Traces of it may still be seen.
Perhaps the most picturesque road
crossing of Oxon run is that of the
Wheeler road. AS the road slants down
into the valley one sees on the right
hand acres of hothouses, where millions
OF blossoms have been grown for the
Washington market In the bed Of the
valley you will halt at the rough cement
bridge which spans the stream The hills
on the north side are mostly cleared and
harmed excepting the ravines or draws
that cut the ridge and lead into the val
ICY. 10 d iuItA tneSe are grown with
small timber. The bottom of the valley is
rich land with Indications of overflow
from the broad and shallow stream which
gurgles over bed Of white pebbles. The
ridge. on the south is wooded. but a few
1armhouses peep out from the trees
Inc ROAD cilmblng this ridge turns and
twists. seeking the easiest grades THE
woodland is thick. and deep ravines are
on all sides. The country here is like
that or the Broad Branch and upper Rock
Creek regions.
The lower crossing of the valley Is be-
tween Bald Eagle hill and Mount Welby,
About a year ago the Rambler wrote OF
this crossing: THE Giesboro road run
ming along narrow ridge presents fine
vistas east and west. The road extends
no farther than the tip of the ridge or
Bald Eagle hill. where the land drops
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evening encroaching on his garden lawn.
l work. and 1 have never felt need to
complain of heat. Heat after all, is
merely a matter Of congestion and idle
ness. The man who works does not feel
it,
1t is not a long step from the sugges-
ton of Postmaster General Bureson to
the suggestion of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley.
formerly chief of the chemical bureau Of
the Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Wiley, a man who Is approaching
the age when most men fear heat, smiles
cheerfulIy when the subject Of heat Is
preached to him.
1T is all a matter Of suggestion" said
DIR. Wiley. THE man who walks down
the street. saying constantly to himself,
Il am hot, I am hot. 1 am hot cannot,
of course, expect that he will feel the
summer breezes waited over him. Now,
take the case OF the man who is cool. He
is a man who dresses in light clothes,
wanders lightly through the streets and
hesitates not to face the sun in all its
glow. What is his answer? 1t is simple.
He says to himself, L am comfortably
cool. I am enjoying the real summer
weather. The summer sun will tan, but
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hot weather. Washington IS not any
hottcr than any other city. ON the con-
tFary. the capital of the nation, blessed
as it is with innumerable shady parks,
affords more comfort to the heat-ridden
humanity than most cities.
This is a recital of what people will do
when they come face to face with sum-
mcr. II represents the random expert
ences of Searcher After Information
who began with the President of the
l nitcd States and worked down through
the proietariat and thereby CLEANED a
quantity OF more or less valuable infor-
nation.
The seeker after light started at the
White House. He stood outside the west
ern entrance and waited to see what
might develop when the President OF
forty eight states. not TO mention terri
tories. would seek refuge from the
summer sun.
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Secretary Joseph Patrick Tumulty.
vi hose Irish temperament can resist any
weather from the famous north pole to
the equally notorious equator, drifted out
and informed the correspondents that the
President was going to the Capitol
Somebody said he looked warm.
The secretary To the President grinned
a only the secretary 10 the President
can grin
Il get paid for being on the job when
other people keep COOL said he. Secre-
tstry Tumulty frankly avowed his dis
inclination Ia fight heat: rather rejoiced
in the fact that il was summer.
How do you cool OFF," demanded the
writer.
The secretary TO the President smiled
again.
4 am bald headed. 50 stay indoors a
lot. he said.
~ that moment a figure appeared be-
fore the western entrance of the White
House office buildings. 1t was the Presi-
dent of the United States On his head
he wore high wide-brimmed hat that
was woven beneath the limpid waters
81 Panama. His clothes were of pongee
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planed surface Of tho carbonferous rocks
IL overla1n by the trinity formation OF the
ed beds of marty clay. sand. gravel and
limestone.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-16
PEACE At
MAGNATES'
MEETING
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-There
was little outlook for excitement
of any kind when the members of
the National Baseball commission
meet here today for their annual
meeting. Not enough matters of
Importance to cause a serious row
were scheduled to come up.
The adoption of a uniform go
days contract for use by all clubs
in organized baseball was dis
cussed. A draft of such docu-
ment has been made by August
Hartman. There will also be
hearings on the salary limits set
for clubs in certain leagues re-
Gently. The International league,
for one, will protest against its
limit of $4,000 a month.
Today's meeting was to have
been held in Cincinnati January
6, but was postponed because of
the illness of Ban Johnson, presi-
dent of the American league and
third member of the body.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-16
What Makes a Woman?

One hundred and twenty pounds,
more or less, of bone and muscle
don't make a woman. It's a good
foundation. Put into it health and
strength and she may rule a king
dom. But that's just what Elec-
trio Bitters give her. Thousands
bless them for overcoming faint
ing and dizzy spells and for dis
polling weakness, nervousness,
backache and tired, listless, worn
out feeling. Electric Bitters
have done me a world of good"
writes Eliza Pool, Depew, Okla,
"and I thank you, with all my
heart, for making such good
medicine" Only soc. Guaran-
teen by Ryner Malstrom Drug Co.,
93S Pacific av.
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PLANS

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15.-With
eight new players under contract,
Henry Berry of the Los Angeles
club of the Pacific Coast league
announced today with the adop-
ton of one more left-handed
pitcher his team will be complete
for the 1913 season.
Among the new men are Out
fielder Harl Maggert, Infielder
Fahey and Pitcher Crabb, secured
from the Philadelphia Athletics
in exchange for Outfielder Pete
Daley. Maggert will fill the gap
Daley left in the outfield, and
Fahey probably will be used at
shortstop.