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Fountains of Washington.

sweeping lawns and in the company Of
broad-boughed trees and fair open spaces,
stands the beautiful fountain which, when
the winds watt the water over, swathea
the air in its delicate volume OF mist.
One can hear some distance away the
rush of the waters upward. ana As ono
draws near he experiences at the sight
something of the ever-abounding sense
of immortality.
AT the eastern entrance to the White
House. opposite the Treasury. is perhaps
the most exquisite of all the fountains.
Here. held together closely at the center,
the tall jets rise on high. falling gradu-
ally apart and dropping down in the
form of bouquet of flowers
Now. up the dusty highway Of Penn.
sylvania avenue to the west the pilgrim
visits one of the two little fountains. each
set in its triangular park Visitors 60
oftenest to the nearer one by 10Th street,
calling il the little park with the foun-
tain It is all open to the noise OF
children playing. to the coming and 60.
ing Of men and women at their work, to
the dust and roar of traffic. all bearing
through and across 1t.
This park leans toward intimacy and
lures our confidence, and any hour of the
day finds 1t sympathetic. In the early
morning the writer has noticed young
man coming eagerly and hurriedly with
face alight Choosing a certain bench
near the fountain, he takes a letter from
his pocket shyly. as strong man is shy
with tender things. and. with a quick
look around to see IL he were really
alone. with the written words before
him he is soon lost In his reading.
Presently. having fingered over his LETT
ter. he folds 1t slowly back into his
breast pocket; then, leaping hurriedly up,
the spell broken. he runs or. hsiting >
car. Perhaps he. many another, had
the cool vision, during the noisy break
fast hour at his lodgings. of the little
park with the fountain" where he could
keep tryst with his own heart for the few
early moments before the day should be-
GIN.
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wv HATEvEK direction a tourist
w might take in Washington, foun-
tains line his way. Whether he
starts from the bronze stork fountain
not far from Union station. and travels
across to the bright fountains that play
along the sunset way of Pennsylvania ave-
nue or from the slender fountain on Con-
necticut avenue down to the new little
ones playing in the Potomac Park gar
dens, all are lovely, each differing from
the other in glory, each worthy of sepa-
rate praise.
At 10Th street and Connecticut avenue
there is a dainty little fountain set in
the open triangle of green. its low-fall-
ing spray sprinkling the flowery shrubs
and creating a cool disturbance in the
air that sets the SNOWFALL branches
swinging Alongside the car track this
delicate shrine dares to waste itself for
the sake of the chance wayfarer.
Another has its habitation west of Du-
pont Circle and street upon a pleasant
green plot all its own. low spray
springs from the center and the sur
rounding jets gracefully pour toward it,
while the whole lies couched in half
moon of shrubbery, like a rose en-
powered in its own green leaves
For many years the big bronze vase in
front of the Treasury has faithfully per-
formed its mission. where. on particularly
hot and glazing days. the sight and
sound of the cool fall of water over the
dark bronze brim is peculiarly refresh
ing to both sense and spirit of the pill
grim.
Through the tall iron ratings that
fence the northern front of the White
House, one glimpses. as it continually
springs in a full white rush. the most
"a refully tended of the fountains, rtnged
round with daffodils and narcissus shrubs
In the great southern garden OF the
White House. gracing the center Of
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Mexican saddle. 1t seemed to be leather.
hut was merely one of the wooden sad
dies of the country with a leather veneer
ing. The ..lred mule was not a particular
ly good mountain traveller. After hour
in the saddle the American began to
wish that he had continued on the steam
er to Acajutla. and there taken the rail-
way train for the capital. Also. he began
to ger hungry, and therefore to inquire
how far it was to the place where he
had been told he could get breakfast.
The pleasing response from the natives
in matched hut. "a little farther on, -
cheered him
Half an hour later he made the same
inquiry at another native hut. "A little
farther on raised his hopes. In a quar-
ter of an hour he again queried. Just
a little farther on came from the
group to whom he addressed his in
quiry. In another quarter of an hour
he had reached a wayside smithy.
How far to breakfast" he said in his
best Salvadorean Spanish. only a
little ways" came the response.
The traveller reached the breakfast
station in about four hours. because
by breakfast was meant the midday
meal He followed the usual practice
of the country. and took two-hour
siesta. Then he was helped into the
saddle. He knew that by steady jog
cling he could barely make the capital
by sunset. but through force of habit
he inquired at one of the matched
huts in the course of half an hour how
far it was to the capital.
Just a little farther on. was the
ready response.
The remainder of the journey was
taciturn one. for the American firmly
resolved to ask no more questions The
people who gave him kindly greetings
all along the way seemed surprised that
he did not make the usual inquiry. At
was SO surprised that he volunteered
the information: "It is just a little
farther on to the capital.
There are excellent roads in Salvador
fifty miles day. That is far better
for purposes of observation than
railway train or an automobile. 1t
gives one time to pause occasionally
and observe the scenery.
II seems little queer when taking
a trail through the forest to have one
of the characteristic forest, products
ba rec out wh 9s
trunk, is a beautiful one. The balsam
is said to be especially beneficial in
certain skin diseases. and also to have
antiseptic properties
One of the native industries which is
not agricultural, is that of brick maxi
ing. The adobe. or mud clay bricks.
are the material from which most Of
the houses are built. The industry is
usually a local one, since the clay de-
posts are found nearly everywhere, and
serve the neighborhood purposes. The
difference in size between an ordinary
brick and an adobe brick is noticeable.
Politics is industry in Salvador just
as in the United States. Some men make
regular living by it. as with us. There
does not seem to be any marked lines
of political division as between parties,
though something is heard of the cleri-
cal, or church, party from time to time.
Yet, as in other Latin-American coun-
tries. the parties seem to consist of
groups who form themselves around in
dividual leaders.
For many years Salvador had stormy
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them to secure an education for theil
children"
* *
Miss Slemp- finds time for many and
varied interests She believes. for in
stance, that to live comfortably one has
to keep house." The best of servants,
Miss Slemp declares, cannot remove from
the mistress Of the home the RESPONSE
bility Of many details which, if over
looked. make that difference. between a
house and home And Miss
Slemp's is home. It is. In fact, one OF
the most attractive apartments one could
probably find in Washington.
OF course. there are many pieces OF
real, old-fashioned mahogany-old Vir-
ginia mahogany. one might almost say.
And an air Of hospitality hovers over II
all, which bears out the traditions OF
those vast old pillared mansions.
Landscape gardening and the plant es
are subjects in which Miss Slemp has a
ready enthusiasm. a deep interest.
IT am taking course now" said
Miss Slemp, 'in landscape gardening
to put into practice what I am learning
I am employing this method for two
reasons. First. the study itself Is alb
sorbing. and, secondarily, 1 want to
Commune lHc SG4SAlI1iC features u
landscape garden with the beauties OF
a natural one. If hired a professional
landscape gardener he would produce
too formal an effect. Welding together
the science of the profession ard the
natural features of the garden, 1 will
get an effect more beautiful, / think
even though it may. professionally, be
less worthy.
Trees, too. particularly interest ME-
So many Of the old trees on the old
family place, are indigenous to the
soil and deserve to be, preserved. On
part of the old home had an orchard
set out Ny brother laughed and
asked me how I was ever going to
market my product. That, commercial
ly, was a sound question, as we are a
long distance from any market But
it did not dampen my enthusiasm.
told him that If couldn't market it.
at least everybody In the neighborhood
could have all the fruit they wanted.
And, after all, think that would be
just as good a result as the marketing
Of the fruit provided, of course it ever
amounted to a real orchard.
IT have been impressed by one fact
in this work-the impossibility of iso-
lating any given line of work. No mat
ter what you may take up it ALWAYS
leads to something else, usually equally
absorbing as the work in hand. II
was SO with both my orchard and now
with my gardening. They led directly
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ex-dictators have died in exile but few
of them have ended their existence SO
miserably as Ezeta.
During recent years Salvador has been
relatively free from chronic revolutions
and has made very notable progress to-
ward stable government Less than two
years ago President Araujo was assas-
sfnated, but this did not cause any vio-
lent upheaval. He was succeeded by
Carlos MelendeZ. the primer designado,
or first vice president, in accordance with
the provisions of the constitution. Pres
ident Araujo had been a very aggressive
executive and had sought a dominating
influence, not only In his own country,
but in other Central American countries.
He had adopted hat might be called a
vigorous foreign policy, if the neighbor-
ing countries could be considered foreign
countries. Representatives OF other gov
ernments including the United States,
did not find 1t easy to get along with
him. He also made many enemies at
home and his administration was under
fire.
temperament. 1t is the common testi-
mony that he has given an excellent ad-
mlntstratfon. Representatives of foreign
governments speak well Of him and evil
IDENTIFY think that he is the man for
Salvador.
An election for the full presidential
term will be held in a few months. and
President Melendez is a candidate to
succeed himself. In accordance with the
provisions of the constitution. he has
given up the presidential office for the
time being. since a president in Office
must retire six months before the cleo
ton in order to become a candidate
Little is heard Of the campaign issues
outside Of the country itself. but it would
be a safe guess that there is no pro-
American candidate. Nor is there likely
to be any candidate who favors Secre-
tary Bryan's Nicaragua treaty.
The fact about Salvador is that it is
anti-American. Any policy that the
United States favors in Central America
is likely to be opposed just because the
United States does favor it.
There is no particular reason for this
anti-American sentiment except perhaps
that Salvador is very small country
and the United States is very big one.
Small as Salvador is. it cherishes strong
ideas of its own Importance. This is
not bad thing. for it encourages a
spirit Of national self-respect-
But when it comes to relations with
the United States it is always easy to
excite a rabid feeling. Politicians find
it easier to play on this feeling than to
seek to allay it.
In the past there has been some fric-
ton between the United States and Sal
vador over claims. just as with other
Latin American countries. After one of
these claims had been adjudicated. the
State Department seven or eight years
ago. brought pressure of a diplomatic
character to have the claim settled. This.
of course. was resented as brow-beating
a little country by the big country.
Nevertheless the claim was settled In
accordance with the adjudication.
Several years ago an American consular
officer who was not credit to the United
States caused a good deal of irritation in
Salvador. but he was removed and that
source of friction died out.
In its relations with the United States
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CARLOS MELENDEZ. PRESIDENT OF SALVADOR.

revolutionary politics. with numerous
changes in the personnel of the govern
ment and with the customary number
of distinguished citizens who found it de-
srable to reside abroad in the neighbor-
ing Central American countries, or some
times 1t California or Mexico.
One OF the Presidents. who filed the
ewes OF all Central America and of the
United States and parts of Europe a
quarter of IL century ago. was Ezeta. He
tiourished in a stormy period of acute
difficulties with Guatemala and other
neighboring countries. 1t was during
this period that the United States laid
down certain definite principles regarding
the rights of political refugees. Com
manding officers of naval vessels and OF
merchant vessels bearing the United
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States flag until then always We're in
doubt of what their course of action
should be.
The case in question was that of Gen.
Barrundia. one of the storm petrels of
Central American politics. Gen. Barrun-
dia was on an American merchant ship,
the Acapulco. from Salvadorean ports.
He was wanted in Guatemala
X
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Commander Reiter of the Thetis. which
was then in Central American waters,
failed to warn the Acapulco against en-
tering the three-mile limit of Guatemala
with the refugee on board.
Gen. Barrundia was proceeding to San
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Francisco. The Guatemalan authorities
boarded the Acapulco. and when Bar
rundia resisted they killed him.
Benjamin F. Tracy was at that time
Secretary of the Navy, and one Of the
most vigorous letters he ever wrote was
the official censure of Commander Reiter
for not insuring the safety of Barrundia-
Many naval officers who had been placed
in similar situations with uncertainty as
to the Interpretation which Washington
placed upon the rights of refugees in
Latin American revolutions sympathized
with Commander Reiter and believe that
he had been uniustly censured. They all
rejoiced. however, that a specific prin-
ciple at last had been adopted for their
guidance in similar circumstances.
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used to the great out-or-doors; for gen.
erations past their forebears have lived
a life of freedom. They cannot be
made to live under the CONSTRUCTED con-
ditions of city 1t would kill them;
if not actually to all intents and pur
poses.
Lack of opportunity is the keynote of
their entire existence. not lack of
knowledge of the alphabet or af arith-
metic alone. But their absolute isola-
tion has produced lack of knowledge
regarding ways i'll which they could
help themselves which is pathetic.
They must be made to see opportuni-
ties. to learn agriculture. domestic sci
ence, practical housekeeping and all
those things which go to make COM
munity fundamentally progressive
"Of course. they must be taught to
read. and write. and figure. That goes
without saying. Yet it is, after all,
but fractional part of the real knowl-
edge which they need for their true
Improvement.
Several mission schools exist in Vir-
GINA. all of which are doing wonder
full amount of good in spreading edu-
cation and inspiration. OF all of those
with which 1 am familiar. there is only
one, not mission school. that is de-
nominational. That one Is at APP
palachia, Wise county, and is conducted
by two ladies who are accomplishing
almost miracles.
las in all large works. the first task
is to know where and how to start. In
Virginias five mountain counties. out
of a. total population of approximately
1.173. 500, those classified "f1l1terate
number more than $4,000. And in the
same region, of the 100000 white males
of over twenty-one years. more than
~ per cent are illiterate. And yet Vir-
ginia, as a whole, has a smaller per-
centage of illiteracy than any other
state in which similar conditions exist.
I'm the face of such conditions 1t is
hard to know where to begin. But we
I mean the small society organized for
the betterment of Virginia's mountain
eers-decided to choose two children. a
boy and girl. and send them to we'll
equipped industrial school. where they
will receive a course from three to five
years and become fitted to take care of
themselves and to help others.
That in turn brought up the question
OF which two. a problem yet unsoived.
I have found both a boy and a girl, each
worthy. whose names am going to sub
nit. The boy. now sixteen. has worked
in the mines since he was six. and in all
that time has been starved In his desire
for larnin'. He has greedily grabbed
every opportunity to learn, and in all
those ten weary years it has amounted
to just nine months of actual schooling.
The girl. fourteen. is cooking in a family
at present. trying to get enough money
to go to school next winter. And. as
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TREE OF SALVADOR,
The Barrundia case is an incident of
Ezeta's rule as provisional president of
Salvador, since Barrundia was proceed
ing from there when the Guatemalan au-
thorities killed him. But Ezeta himself
made history. At one time he was
thought to be the coming man in Cen
trail America. He dominated Salvador.
and the other countries feared him.
When he was forced into exile he took a
large sum with him, and it was declared
that he lost 100000 at a single sitting
while gambling He probably lost that
amount in gambling. for he was per-
sistent gambler. but it is not likely that
all of 1t went at a single sitting.
Ezeta died an exile in abject poverty.
Many Central American ex-presidents or
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neither know nor look for anything
beyond them.
tarded progress. Once the benefits to
be obtained from knowledge are shown
them they will change And this is
the work which is being done for
them. To many it is regarded as a
charity movement. But to us who
know there is nothing more foreign to
the real aims in view. 1t is simply a
question of bringing modern progress
to them. of taking the city to the noun
tain. And the way 1t is to be accom-
plished is through industrial education
And this Is all the more necessary
in view of the fact that the Virginia
need this sturdy. isolated people. who
were among the first to come to Amer
ica's defense; they are the kind of
people any country should be proud of.
of course, more or less well known
through the various movements on foot
to better their conditions. But the Vir-
ginia muntaineerS, in my mind are less
known than those Of Kentucky. Tennes-
see, North Carolina. West Virginia, or
any other state, largely because they are
fewer in number. comparatively speak
ing.
added to this situation is another
which faces Virginia. Her coal mines are
extensive and have comparatively re-
Gently brought to the state new class
-Swedes. Hungarians, Italians and all
the other natiOnalit1eS which are being
welded into the American of tomorrow
are found among the mine workers of
Virginia
and it is from these two classes the
descendants of Americas purest strain
and the present-day immigrants, that
Virginia must produce many of her ac-
tive, intelligent citizens of tomorrow.
And so the problem of their education,
betterment and upltft becomes more
acute as time passes.
4
For some years an association has
existed primarily for the purpose of
aiding the southern mountaineers. the
Southern Industrial Association. And
that body has not only done much good
through its own work. but has also
served as an Inspiration in several in
stances. l am a member Of small as
ISOLATION. organized for the purpose OF
aiding the Virginia mountaineers, the
membership of which is composed OF
yfrginians. This little club was the
direct result of the general work being
done by the Southern Industrial Asso-
citation and is, 1 believe, but one of
several offshoots, so to speak, of that
one broad general line of york
The aim of both the big Organization
and of the small one is to give to the
mountain children Of today an indus
trial education That has ben deter
mined upon as the very best for them
To me the idea Of bringing any of those
people to the city Is terrible. They are
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to the birds. Now I have a small boy
on the place making and putting up
tiny bird boxes in all the trees. And
he is as interested in 1t as I am"
In a quiet way Miss Slemp has the
reputation in the congressional set of
being one of its most charming host
esses She makes no attempt to
.splurge," but those who can count
themselves among her and her broth
er's friends consider themselves lucky
A dinner at the Slemp apartment is
sure to be a delightful affair. Miss
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Slemp's ready enthusiasm has taken
her into many bypaths of study and
reading with the result that she is .
ready and at the same time interesting
conversationalist.
Congressional life to her has become
a routine Representative Slemp'0
father. Campbell Slemp. was repre-
sentative also. Upon his death in 1907
the son was unanimously elected by the
largest majority ever recorded in his
district to take his place. He has been
reelected three times since then.
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SIS JAMIE SLESIP,

ISIS j ANIE SLEMP,
sister Of Repre-
sentative c. Bas-
com Slemp of
Virginia, who acts
as his hostess
during the con-
gressional season
in the National
Capital, CO m e 9
from Big Stone
Gap, Wise county,
Va Their old
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Miss jamie S@nnp Sister of Representative From Virginia. Camp

Tells of Her Work
Among the Mountain
GERS of Virginia--Lack
of Opportunity Is the
KEYNOTE of Their Con-
dition-Miss Slemp Is
Interested in Things
Rural as Wei, as IN
Politics.
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family home is but four miles distant,
in Lee county. All of which means
that she and her brother know noun
tain conditions. because they live in
practically the heart of the Virginia
Appalachians.
1T Is difficult said Miss Slemp for
one unfamiliar with conditions in the
south to understand the true noun
taineer and the conditions under which
he lives These people represent the
purest Anglo-Saxon blood in this
country today. for they are descendants
of the old Scotch-Irish Professionals who
came to this country from Ulster. Ire
land. and Germany 1t was these same
people who were the first to declare
their Independence from England in
the days of the revolution. Kind. loyal.
fearless and proud, they are really a
people apart.
Their forbears settled in the noun
tains years and years ago. and so their
descendants live there today. They
have intermarried and become almost
an isolated people. 1t is for this reason
that they differ from us SO largely.
Capable in their own way. they yet lack
the knowledge which has como with mod
ern science and progress The mountains
are everything to them, and they
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ALNADOR is q
small cou n try
which seeks to ex-
ercise a big in
huence in Central
American affairs.
Usually it is sue
cessful. Whetherits
influence against
Secretary Bryan's
Nicaraguan treaty
will h a We any
weights is yet 10
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Charles NJ. Pepper
Tells How Salvador
ans Protested Secretary
Bryan S Nicaragua
Treaty-Country Only
as Large as Rhode
Island Is an Agricul-
tural Beehive-Popu-
lation Basically In
dian.