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improvement on the pattern which has
been squirted and dabbled upon it in
every direction. does not admit Of being
honorable gentleman leaning back in his
tilted chair with his legs on his desk be-
fore him, shaping convenient plug with
his penknife. and when he is quite ready
to use it, shoot the old one from his
mouth az from A popgurl and clap the
new one in its place. / was surprised to
learn that steady old -chewers of great
experience are not always good marks
men"
President Madison was twice inaugu-
rated in this chamber and President Mon
roe was also inaugurated there. On the
death of President Taylor the oath of
the presidential Office was administered
there to Millard Fillmore.
1t was in this chamber that the House
of Representatives elected John Quincy
Adams President when neither candidate
had a majority in the electoral college.
1t was in this chamber that John Ran
dolph called Henry Clay a "blackleg."
the charge that led to the bloodless duel
between Clay and Randolph near Cabin
John Bridge. 1t was In this chamber
that the maniac Lawrence made an at
tempt to assassinate President Jackson
January 81, 1885 The assault took place
during the funeral service over the re-
mains of Il member of the House. Law
renee drew and pointed two heavy pis-
tolls at Jackson. The cap on each weapon
exploded. but the pistols missed fire.
Jackson started toward the madman
with uplifted cane, but Lawrence was
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ESllIIllTp

enough to arrest monentary attention.
If you should have an idle hour or half
an hour, or a fraction of that time, IT
might repay you to sit on stump.
log or bowlder and make visit To this
humble form of plant life. You Will see
many shades and hues, greens touched
with olive, pearl gray, silver and bronze,
and you will see many things in the little
mats or rosettes that you never saw be-
fore
The lichen is a prospector or pioneer
of plant life. 1t is the advance guard
of vegetation. II goes to prepare way
for the MOSES. 1t settles itself where
there is no soil and proceeds to make
soil. Gripping e hard, bare rock, II
weaves minute threads into the stone
loosening little particles. While prose-
cutting this work the lichen is nourish-
ing itself on air and getting moisture
out of the dryest atmosphere Besides
supporting itself. the lichen transmutes
this moisture into an acid which aids
It in disintegrating the rock. Gaining 4
foothold it adds its own small BODY 10
the debris, and spores or the MOSES
find a lodgment there. Moss adds more
soil catching and holoins wlnd-horh-
dust and with moisture and its own de-
caying parts makes moe soil where
ferns and shrubs and trees may come
When you look at the little Sray-Greeu
scale of mat and ponder how II ErindS
rocks into powder you probably VIII not
be sorry that you paused for moment
to contemplate this. one of the wonders
of the woods.
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nown or for their civil or military ser
vices. The hall is now circled with
crowd of statues. These statues are
those of Webster and Stark, placed there
by New ampshire-Webster's statue be-
ing marked Daniel Webster. New Hamp-
shire: stephen A. Austin and Sam Hous-
Massachusetts. Charles Carroll and John
Hanson. Maryland; George Washington
and Robert f, Lee, Virginia; Thomas II.
Benton and blair. Missouri; Robert r.
Livingston and Richard Stockton, New
York. Roger Sherman and IrumbulI
Connecticut: Muhlenberg and Robert
Fulton, Pennsylvania, Ethan Allen and
Collamer. Vermont; Lewis Cass and
Iachariah chandler, Michigan: Garfield
and Allen. Ohio: Lew Wallace and Mar
tin, Indiana; ten. Green and Roger VIII
lams. Rhode Island Stockton and kear-
ny, New Jersey Kenna and Pterpont,
West Nirgfnia: Kirkwood and Harland,
Iowa; Francis Willard. Illinois; In
gals, Kansas. Marquette, WISCONSIN;
William King. Maine: Gen. Shields and
J. l.. NJ. Curry. Alabama. Snoup, Idaho,
and Calhoun, South Carolina.
What is now Statuary Hall was occu-
pied by the House Of Representatives
from 1907 to 1914. when the Capitol was
in ruins. After the restoration of the
building, two or three wears later the
House convened again in this hall and
continued its sessions there until the
autumn of 1887, when the present cham
her in the south wing was taken posses
sion of by the House Of Representatives.
The drapery and furniture-chairs, desks
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- S. SHEPHERD and Arthur Day.
r. experts sent out more than year
A< ago by the Carnegie geophysical
laboratory to study volcanic actlon III
craters, have returned with an interest
ing collection of data and big crate OF
tubes containing gases obtained direct
from volcanoes.
The study of the gases emitted by vol
canoes has always been of great 1mpor-
tance, but those obtained hitherto were
always mixed with atmospheric air, on
account of being obtained some distance
from the vent. To get close enough TO
gather the gases, just as they issued into
the air and before being mixed. is rather
a difficult task. But 1t was successfully
accomplished by these two scientists.
They spent eight months In Hawaii
watching the crater of Kilauea for a ia
vorable opportunity. Kilauea is a big
depression at 1000 feet on the side OF
the famous mountain of Mauna Loa.
which is 1900 feet in height The crater
is depressed about 500 feet and Is at
least three miles in extent In the mid
die Of this lake or crater Is another de-
preston 1,500 feet lower and three acres
in extent. Then in the center OF this
occurs the active crater, which Is huge
pot of smoking, steaming, boiling lava
These experts watched for a favorable
occasion, and when they found vent
which was approachable they took out
on the hot lava a crate of glass tubes
from which ran longer tube This last
they pushed into the vent from which
the gases were issuing. The lava was
so hot that it was impossible to stand
long in one place and handkerchiefs We're
tied about the faces. But even then the
fumes of the sulphur were very oonoX-
ious Tie gases were successfully seal
ed within the tubes and the scientists
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THE FEMALE STRANGERS TOMB.

was increased. and others will be added.
Perhaps in crossing the Connecticut
avenue bridge or the Calvert street
bridge you have seen far below in the
valley of Rock creek two tennis courts
and active groups of white-f1anneied
players. Perhaps you have thought
that some exclusive tennis club has
built these courts in that romantic situ-
alton, a place difficult Of access until
you know the way. The courts are on
the west side of the creek. close under the
steep hillside. Pine trees grow along
the east side of the courts, while along
the west edge a muddy road winds,
little used, but now and then Travelled
by riders or walkers in search of Sc
questered and picturesque places.
The courts are between the bridges.
From that location the height of those
familiar structures is impressive and one
cannot help remarking the massiveness
of the piers and arches of the Connecti-
cut avenue bridge and the slender, web
like iron work of the Calvert street
bridge There is a gentle song from the
flowing creek and if there is any wind it
sings in those pine trees.
In going west and after crossing the
Connecticut avenue bridge you will see,
beyond some new houses on the left. a
road that gives promise of leading you
down into the valley. If you follow,
il will keep its promise. 1t Is the old
road which gave access to the country
now served by the extension of Connect
cut avenue. 1t leads down to the abut-
ments of the bridge which the great con-
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than those above That tree does not
want its leaves cropped by animals that
happen to be in that neighborhood 1ooS-
ing for something to eat, and so it arms
those leaves most likely to be molested.
Another reason for hairs and prickies
and hooks and plumes is that the plants
want to reproduce themselves. The hooks
of the burdocks and the sanicles and the
beggar lice and all the others hold on
to you because they want free transpor-
taton- The plant wants its species dis
seminated. Take the downy parachutes
of the goldenrods and the thistles. Don't
you see that their form makes 1t easy
for them to catch hold of your clothing
and the fur of every animal that brushes
against them. and also for them to go 1t
alone by flying with the wind to some
place perhaps far distant from the home
OF the parent plant? These little things
go off to seek their fortune.
why brambles should have hooks !
do not know, but can guess. The BRAN
BILE is related to the wild rose, or the wild
rose is related to the brambie. Neither
can stand alone. Each must crawl or
climb or cling upon some other plant: or
perhaps upon a fence or lattice. And It
needs the hooks to hold on with.
That man with all those plant seeds
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lected in this manner contains the fol-
lowing names: John ]. Ingalls,. former
senator: Preston b. Plumb, former sem
ator: George T. Anthony. former gov
ernor: John Brown. soldier; David ].
Brewer, former justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, and James
II. Lane. former senator. James ii.
Lane was tied in last place with Charles
Robinson. the first Governor of Kansas.
None of the nineteen lists of great names
sent in contained the name of Click. OF
the nineteen lists the name of ingalls,
appeared in eighteen, Phmb's name ap-
peared in ten, John Brown and George
T. Anthony i'll nine, Brewer. Lane and
Robinson in seven. In four lists were
the names Of George r. Peck and John A
Martin. In three lists We're the names of
Eugene Ware, ID. W. Wilder, Dudley e
Haskell. John =. st John and ex-Chan-
cellor Snow. Richard Cordey was men
toned in two lists
The past comes vividly before on this
old semi-circular chamber in the sand
stone part of the Capitol. Nearly every
body calls it Statuary Hall. for by
resolution introduced by Justin d. Morrill,
of Vermont and passed July .. 1864, the
President was authorized TO invite each
the old hall of the House two statues of
deceased citizens of the state worthy of
commemoration for their historic re-
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replied in answer to a query. BE
cause the men out there are SO much
more gallant than the easterners! ;,
suggested Mr. Ashurst. Women In the
west were not given the suffrage only
because they wanted it. They have work
ed shoulder to shoulder with the men from
the early pioneer days They know .ne
country and have helped to build it. Our
western women are as much a part OF
the country as the men of 1t. Equal
suffrage is right for them
They got the vote, interposed MIS-.
and winning the men, one by one. They
didn't march or parade OF throw bombs.
They got it by straightforward argu-
ment." z,.,,
ation?' asked Mrs. Ashurst AS long
as Mexico exists there will be hghnns-
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he worked constantly for their better
ment. He knows the men in the dltch
and in the mine-knows how well In
formed they actually are on questions of
public interest.
why" she exclaimed, t'our Arizona
miners could come to Washington and
debate intelligently with any senator In
Congress! They work only eight hours
day and they spend the rest Of their time
studying law, economics or agriculture.
Our women, too are as well educated as
the men.
But to continue with the election. My
husband knew all about these people and
their capabilities, and when the great
mining companies, who were unaware Of
the standing of their workers, declared
that they were going to control the men
who were sent from Arizona to Congress,
he began right away to work for the
people and demonstrate that the initia-
tive, referendum and all Of the other in
novations In the government that were
planned in the favor OF the workingman
were understood and were going to be ad-
hered to. His opponents tried in very
way to thwart him with their money,
for they knew that he was no match for
them on that score.
L got all kinds of letters from
friends telling me that certain stories
were being circulated about him in
this place or that. / answered all Of
these letters, denying the untrue state
ments and reminding the people of
what my husband had stood for in the
past. He went all over the state-it
is as large as all of New England
sometimes on horseback. then again
on stage, making speeches right on
the street, for the corporations owned
the halls and they asked him $500
rental for single evening. He slept
anywhere and ate anywhere. while his
private cars making speeches from the
observation platforms.
But he won, in the face of five or
six other democratic candidates and
all of the republicans. Now that he
Is here the people of Arizona think
that he can do anything for them.
They write, Henry, get US an appro-
priation for bridge or get this and
that, and they think all he has to do
is walk to the Treasury and get the
money"
Mrs. Ashurst had been talking quick
ly. Her cheeks were flaming now and
the Irish blue eyes were dancing, but
there was a wonderful look of pride
in them as she stated the case Of the
first senator.
I'VE have woman suffrage in the
state, too, you know" she continued.
81 have never voted there. because L
haven't been home but sixteen years
ago / voted in Wyoming. so l know
all about 1t.
so quick to grant equal suffrage" she
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JBE,AJRDlNG THE VOLCANO

have returned with them to Washington.
out at the Carnegie geophysical lapoid
tory these gases are now being studled
with a view Of throwing some light upon
the nature of volcanoes.
Mauna Loa is regarded as sacred
mountain by the old Hawaiians- elr'
Shepherd says IT is ditficut TO uhaei
seems that 1t is the home OF the goo
dess Pele, who is also a spiritual dirin-
ity Of the third class. The nne lava
spun out by the winds blowing across y
when It is sprayed out molten Is ,gd Lt5'
hy the natives PeIe's hair, and the Garth
ouakes and eruptions are imagined 10
be manifestations of her dispieasure.
Though the island is supposed 70 oe
Christian today, many of the oid people
still steal In secret to leave thelr s"tthe ,t
offerings of herbs and feathers IN the
cracks about the mouth of the crater.
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Wife of Arizona SENATOR Tells How Women Attained Suffrage

They can't help It Owe in Arizona are
right on the border and We see a great
many Mexicans lettering about the towns.
They are never thought of very mShiS-
Indians seldom come to town. Ihey
stay at their reservations and work. Ihey
have developed a wonderful blanket m
dustry 1t is the source of an enormous
income to them and the porteres theE
make are sent as far as South Africa
but they never come to town TO have
a pow-wow; neither do the cowboys
shoot up the towns as they are repre-
sented TO do in the moving pictures. Even
the stage coaches are passing away alto
gether They are still in use, however,
to take travellers over short trips on
mountain roads. - -,
with the grant of statehood. and shs
is still in her babyhood. Wait unti she
really grows up.
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with snow and ice the ground to a
warm part, where the women are wear
ing summer clothes on the street.
When We go on picnics in the sum
mer," she said, I'VE generally take our
party in large canvas-covered wagons
up the mountain side. 1t is very dan
gerous travelling these mountain roads,
for if the horses make misstep over
the precipice goes the wagon thousands
of feet below and every one is dashed
to death.
when we do finally arrive at de-
srable place we spread our tablecloths
over the soft pine needles and send the
boys up the mountain trail on the north
ern side to get gunny sacks full OF snow
and ice Then we freeze our ice cream
right then and there. And all the while,
remember, are in a warm, sunny
opening in the woods freezing cream with
ice naturally supplied not half a mile
away!
I'VE are rich in Arizona" declared
Mrs Ashurst. 'One hardly sees any
money smaller than a dime. If you buy
something that amounts to. say, y cents,
the storekeeper will give you your change
in stamps instead Of pennies. 1t Is gen.
orally true that in a new country shop
keepers are anxious lest high prices Will
fall of and things become generally
cheap, so they try to keep the small
money out Of the state. We have not
even a penny press. Our newspapers
cost cents and over.
THE women of Arizona are fne house
keepers. We are all able to do our own
housework, for servants are hard to get.
Only white girls are employed. and they
are paid from $40 to $50 a month at the
lowest. We have very few negroes in
the state: once In a while one sees an
Indian girl servant, but very seldom.
Mrs. Ashurst confesses to no hobby.
Her fine big boy. John. she says. is by
no means a hobby. He Is her only
child but he Is not overindulged.
If she has no specific hobby she has
one quality that makes her woman
Of personality and distinction. I'm
bounded enthusiasm for all that the
names Arizona and Ashurst imply Is
hers; that is, Of all the latter name i'm
plies, excepting herself. She is even
SO modest about her own accomplish
ments that when she mentioned that
she had been her husbands campaign
manager she called him into the room
SO that he could tell what she had done.
Mr.. Ashurst is q typical southwest
erner; tall and calm, an excellent foil
for his wife's vivacious and mis-
chievous playfulness.
Every SENATOR" he said, always says
that his wife elected him. We will take
that as a matter Of course; but my
wife did really assume complete charge
of my campaign when I was out making
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woman. With drafts on England he
bought a lot in ST. Faurs Episcopal
cemetery and caused a handsome mar
BILE tomb to be reared there. One may
stand beside this tomb today and read
thereon the following inscription
ITO the Memory of Female Stran-
ger Whose Mortal Sufferfngs Terminal
ed on the 11th Day of october. 1916;
Aged Twenty three Years and Eight
Months This stone Is Placed Here by
Her Disconsolate Husband. in Whose
Arms She Sighed Out Her Latest
Breath. and Who. Under God. Did His
Utmost Even to Sooth the Cold Duh
Ear of Death.
How Iov'd. how. valued once avails thee NOT
To whom related or by whom beeot.
\ heap OF dust alone remains OF thee;
I'll. all thou art and all the proud shah be
ITO Him Gave All the Prophets Wit
ness that Through His Name Whose
ever Believeth in Him Shall Receive
Remission of Sins-Acts, 10 chap, AZ
verse"
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and sofas-were removed from the old hall
and the wooden floor was relaid with
marble. The floor of the old chamber
used to be four feet lower than it is at
present and was lower than the floor of
the old Senate now occupied by the
United States Supreme Court. One au-
thor has said that from this fact origi-
mated the habit of calling the House of
Representatives the flower house" Every
body knows that the two branches of
Congress are coordinate and that neither
is higher or lower than the other, but
the phrases upper house and lower
house" persist.
The House met in this chamber when
Charles Dickens made his first visit to
the United States. and part of his un-
popularity was due to his description of
the place and the habits OF the members.
Part of what he wrote was this:
1T is a beautiful and spacious hall of
semi-circular shape supported by hand
some pillars. Ore part of the gallery is
appropriated to ladies, where they sit in
front rows, and come in and go out as
at a play or. concert. 1t Is an elegant
chamber to look at. but singularly bad
one for all purposes of hearing. The
House is Handsomely carpeted, hut the
state to which these carpets are reduced
by the universal disregard of the spit
toons, with which every honorable MEM
Der is provided. and the extraordinary
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blue eyes and clear rosy complexion,
characteristic features of the daughters
of the Emerald isle. But she has trans
ferred her allegiance from her native
land and boasts of the glories of Ari
zona as though she were real daugh-
ter instead of an adopted one.
We are up-to date" she maintained.
Our stores are fine and large and one
can buy anything in them from a hair
pin TO an automobile. our women are
as well dressed as any l see on the
streets of New York or Washington.
The towns are built with all of the
latest devices and there are central
heating plants that carry heat under
ground to houses and buildings nearby:
and electric lights-for one never hears
of gas in Arizona.
"The town of Prescott where we live
now, is very picturesque little place. 1t
has central square on the Spanish style,
with buildings, churches and houses sur
rounding. The capital of the state,
Phoenix, is also a beautiful city. When
any one goes to Arizona to live every
thing seems SO different at first that he
gets homesick before month elapses
But short visit back east suffices to
make him homesick the other way
around.
x
'Arizonas s climate is so dry and
healthy. 1t gets cold. to be sure, but it
is never damp as II Is IN washington
and one can keep warm with fewer
wraps than here, for there is no damp
ness to penetrate.
I'VE would like a little more dampness
in Arizona than we have she said, with
q twinkle in her eyes. You know. rain
and snow are about the only things We
are not able to boast of In abundance
But the wonderful Roosevelt dam is sup
plying the whole state with water, so that
even the desert is blossoming as the rose
This Is truth. We grow roses in our
front yards and raise six crops a year
on our farms. Just think of thatl
Arizona soil is the richest in the coun-
try; even the desert Is fertile, now that
irrigation methods can be used The dam
finally cost S12.OOO,0Oo. though they origi-
nally estimated that $3.0O0,O0O would
cover the expense We get our electric
light power from 1t also.
TT seems impossible for the average
easterner to believe that we have the
largest forest IN the west In our state.
You see, we have every phase of climate
and almost every physical phase Of coun-
try.
I'VE have one mountain 1900 feet
high that one can see four states from,
when you stand near the top of it,, The
trail goes all the way to the top. but 1t
is too cold in the winter to attempt to
climb it. The sunsets seen from 1t are
gorgeous-bright red and glowing. One
sees nothing like it anywhere else.
Il have travelled in seven hours from q
cold part of the state In the mountains
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MRS. H r. ASHURsT.
Wife Of the senator from Arixona.

that before he presents his credentials.
That's an old story!"
''But you really did have a hard fight.
There is no exaggeration to the story
you could tell.' insisted Mrs. Ashurst,
with the color coming and going in her
checks as her spirits rose to give due
credit to the conquest of the first sena-
tor from Arizona, who was her senator
az well. She was forgetting about her
modesty concerning her own part in his
election In her ardor to recount the odds
over which he tr1umphed.
'Mr. Ashurst has always been q cham
pion Of the people. AS a young lawyer
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crete structure superseded Then = trail
will take YOU under the new bridge on
to the tennis courts. which are on gov
ernment land.
In following tho old road off Connect
cut avenue you Will as you enter the
park area see on the right few growi III :
of shruhhcry and wooden post showing
that in the not long sro there were j.
garden and a fence there. There must
also have been a house there. but the
Rambler could find nobody In that ncU
neighborhood who could remember who
II was that lived there when Woodirv
road crossed tho valley and the creek,
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The Unmanicured Hand.

WV CAMERON FORBES, Ex-Governor
w of the Philippines. said 'apropos
of some Filipino story:
That story is an exagseration and
possibly a falsehood. 1t is like the
stories we used to hear about the
poverty and slovenliness of the itiner-
ant actor.
'Betterton Booth, an itinerant Ham
let-so one of these stories runs-was
invited. in the house OF a prosperous
friend, to have drink. He accepted
the invitation, naturally.
Say when, said his host, pouring
the whisky slowly forth.
And Betterton, as he measured a GER
tain height on his glass with his thumb.
said:
mot much. my dear boy. Not very
much: Just to the black Of the thumb
nall"