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along this road the Rambler saw a wood
trace. slowing being obliterated by forest
growth, and followed it to the brow of
wooded hill from which he could look
down into Rock Creek and see the autos
passing along Beach drive. 1t is one of
the finest prospects in the park. A small
space had been cleared there. but it Is
rapidly being filled up by second growth
OF chestnut. hickory and oak. A small
pile of rotting timber lays there under the
new forest growth and you may conclude
that one of the early residents of these
park lands lived there. However. it was
only shack erected for workfnen who
were engaged in building the Ross road
and perhaps employed also in other park
work. But 1t is a rare spot to rest on a
hot day and watch the auto-riding world
rush by far below. man may feel like
an eagle or a buzzard according to his
bent.
Perhaps you will stray back through
the woods and again into the Ross road
If you keep going forward high bridge
with vine-covered rails will carry you
across ravine along which. far below
you. horse trails and man trails lead
Further on you come to one of the fine
springs of this part of the country-a
country in which fine springs abound. 1t
has been walled up and you will no
doubt find a tin dipper there. The water
Is cold and clear and whenever analyzed
has been found pure In the dell around
this spring are some rustic benches. and
some waste paper scattered around will
tell you that strolling party found this
spring and ate lunch there. If you keep
on your course you will round the nose of
a hill that looks down on the Military
road and on your left are the remains of
parapets enbrastres and gun platforms
This was a prepared position for field
battery. covering a ravine to the east
ward Of Fort De Russy, which could not
be seen by the guns of that fort. A little
walk down grade will bring you into
the Military road.
If you follow this road you will have a
beautiful walk and need not smell gaso-
line for nearly two miles.
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with high wooded hills and on the other
by the rushing waters of the Potomac
furnishes garden for most of the plants
that grow around Washington. and be-
cause this district Is not often disturbed
by men and women il is a popular place
with birds. Within a small space are
heavy woods. hills. rock and boulder
strewn places. river shore, low dense
thickets and bits of swamp.
Around Eads' mill you NAV find the
same general character of country which
lies between the canal and the river at
Chain bridge or the Little Falls bridge
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reclaimed and converted into parkway
connecting Potomac and Rock Creek
parks, YOU have often looked down upon
a strange and old frame house. 1t is
gray and weather-beaten. and. within
few years, tenantiess. II has fallen into
a state of dilapidation The house is
severe and upright in its lines. 1t Is
rectangular and its height is greater
than its frontage or its depth, There are
not many architectural embellishments.
and probably never were 1t seems to
have been designed and built as plain
and simpleshouse. and the design was ad-
hered to- hut the house suggests better
days
Extending for some distance north
westerly from the house is a line of
dusty evergreen trees. quite old, but dis
couraged. They seem to have bordered
a road private road. of course. which
led from F street to the house AS YOU
have often seen this house. YOU also
probably wondered VINO lived there when
it was a home surrounded by gardens in
stead of being nearly ihcloSed with the
ashdump banks of Rock creek. The
Rambler climbed down the path at the
Georgetown end of street to ask a few
questions.
Before coming to the old house you
pass a short row of workingmens cot
1ageS built on line as though a street
was there. There is not But those
houses faced on the road which led from
P street to the old house which is the
subject of this sketch. You pass these
houses and following weedy path.
clearly an old carriage way. along by the
evergreen trees. which at distance you
assume TO be cedars. but which are aroor
vitae, You stand before the house.
\ peninsula or nose of land ex-
tends out across this fat land and
terminates near the creek. the house
stands the east end of this tongue
of land 1t is ct quite an elevation
above the creek and surrounding
lands. but from P street this is not
apparent that street being SO mucn
higher than the land on which the old
house stands
The creek flowing south at this point
makes sharp bend to the west and
then again turns to the south. The
high banks were dumps, and mostly
for ashes until that practice was pro-
hibited a few years ago, and these
ash banks are now green with weeds.
TIE house faces east. 1t is door and
one window wide and on the north
and south sides two windows wide.
1t is three stories high. Doors and win
dow frames are gone or rapidly GO
ing and the bare and broken steps and
fallen plaster. 1t is a desolate place.
In the weeds that grow tall around
the house are a few suggestions of
garden shrubbery. but they are faint
peaked roof. out of the middle of
which rises a brick chimney.
In one of the old houses in the short
row between the dreary ghostlike
house and car line lives a family which
gave to the Rambler some information
;-cout this little visited section. The
wenan of the family is Mrs. Annie
King and her maiden name was Annie
Gilhoofey, daughter of John Gilhooley,
= ho- before the civil war and for
considerable period afterward titled a
truck garden there. 1t was lowland
then. but was not a hole in the ground
es it is street then crossed
the creek on a bridge just a few feet
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had a fine vineyard on the place, and l
remember what fine wine be used to
make He had some sons and daughters.
but l am not sure what has become OF
them all. AS 1 remember. he had three
sons and three daughters. Miss Pauline
married man named Ridgely. and
Dave, / have heard, is a draughtsman in
the navy yard.
TT was a pretty nice place a good many
years ago. 1t was a good substantial
house, and the gardens had fruit and
shade. besides the large number of grape
vines that grew around the place. Over
there where the car barn stands Coroner
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Around Eads' Mill.

lads mill. which was one of the points
- visited by the Washington wander
lusters recently. and of which the Ram
bier has previously written to some ex-
tent. is one of the familiar places towhich
Washington naturalists resort for the
study of plant forms and for observation
of bird life. The rocky. thicket-grown
margin of the river bound on one side
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like the United States, are fast realizing
that the interests Of the American re-
publics are identical We are all striving
to the same end. Our political aspirations
are the same.
But 1t must be taken into considera-
ton that the republics othe south are
naturally and inherently years behind the
United States in the matter of establish
learning how to walk alone. We stumble
and fall-not all of the republics. but
some of them, for many of them are ad-
vancing more rapidly than the others.
We must go into history to find the
cause. North America was colonized by
a people seeking religious and political
liberty and equality. The Mayfiower
brought her complement to these shores
not for conquest. but for an opportunity
to govern themselves. The New England
town meetings were the kindergarten of
democracy. And finally the bonds which
connected the colonies with the mother
country were thrown off and a free and
independent and self-governing nation
was erected.
But in Central and South America con-
ditions were quite different Pizzaro and
Cortez came to conquer. to exploit. TO
despoil. The North American colonists
came seeking liberty: the South and Cen
gold.
For 200 years, while North America
was learning the lessons of democracy.
South and Central America We're becom-
ing confirmed in despotism The con-
querors enslaved the natives. plundered
them, sought to break their spirit and
make them cringing. servile serfs.
Then when the story of the American
revolution. of the French revolution.
swept over the world and the ideals of
republfcanism spread, the Spanish colo
nies one by one threw off the yoke of
monarchy and became. after years Of
fighting. Independent nations. republics in
name. But, with all those generations of
training in despotism. it was impossible
that the people at once could realize what
it meant to be self-governings. to be inde-
pendent.
Your North American fathers knew
the common law; our South and Central
American progenitors knew no law save
that which was imposed upon them py
the strong hand of self-constituted au-
thority. 1t has been hard for US OF Span
ish ancestry to divest ourselves OF the
habit of governing by edict rather than
governing by mutual consent The man
In high place has been prone to play the
dictator. Thus the men OF military
genius often have been to the front: se,az
ing the state as a means of acquiring
power over others. Hence the evil OF
revolution of this and earlier periods:
But. happily, with the spread OF en-
lightenment the growth of education.
the easier and more rapid methods OF
transportation and communication. our
people are being led into the paths OF
true democracy. Self-control. self-goV-
ernment and adherence of brute force
as a political weapon have In recent
years made tremendous strides
=.
THE Pan American idea so called
has been OF material beneft In this re-
gard The American republics are
realizing more and more their COM
munity of interest. their peculiar posi-
ton in the world as the guardians OF
the republican system of government
and their own individual RESPONSE
bilities as nations. The spirit OF
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Strange Tree.

A STRANGE and mysterious tree stands
\ at the corner of 10th and Lamont
streets, and if any one knows the history
or the story of it. that person should
speak out and relieve the minds of many
people who have been confused and puz-
zled by this particular tree. 1t appears
to be half catalpa and half American lin
den and the appearance is so strong that
one is almost justified in saying that it
is half catalpa and half American linden.
The Rambler's attention was directed to
the riddle. but after looking at the tree
a few days ago he gave it up and called
for help
At the intersection OF 10Th and Lamont
streets there are four vacant corner lots.
There have been efforts toward the beau
tif1cation of these lots. and the efforts
have been more or less successful. with
perhaps little emphasis on the less. At
the southeast corner there is the usual
ornamental 18th street lamp post and
letter box. and at the corner of the lot
fallen umbrella tree. a bunch of heavy
broad-leaf dock and various grasses and
weeds. A few steps further on stands
or grows a small tree. 1t is on the south
side of the cement walk. The foliage is
heavy. The north side of the tree bears
big leaves like those of the catalpa. and
the Rambler believes. without making
close comparison, that they are catalpa
leaves.
On the south side of the tree are the
leaves of the American linden, the fra
grant blossoms having fallen and the
berry clusters having formed. Where
the catalpa part of the tree ends and
the linden part of it begins the Ram
bier does not know. but you see the two
varieties of leaf are there. The boil of
the tree Is about seven feet tall and the
crown short and thick.
Between the footwalk and the street
curb is a narrow parking. bare of grass,
and in this are planted young gingkos,
the leaf of which looks something like
enlarged maiden hair fern. 1t is the
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oMEWHAT in the
position of THE
Man From Mars"
is Senior Don Ig-
nacio Calderon. for
the past ten years
minister to the
United States from
Bolivia. A happy
minded philosopher.
diplomatist; a keen
observer, an ear
nest student of all
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street from Mount Pleasant street to
10Th street is planted with young elms.
but that section Of the street has not
been built up and made as beautiful as
that part of Lamont which leads west
from Mount Pleasant street nearly to
the grounds of the Zoo.
If you are interested in such things it
perhaps would repay you to take look
at the tree which seems half catalpa
and half linden.
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N the valley Of
Rock creek. to the
left of the car
tracks as you cross
the 2 Street bridge
going in the di-
rection of George
town. many feet
below the grade of
adjacent streets,
and in that part of
Rock creek which
will ultimately be
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our system of government. and, fed by the
better and higher thoughts of the intel
lectual leaders of the country. grown into
a broad humanity that has eliminated ma
tional selfishness
As he sees the United States it is a
nation that seeks nothing material that
rightfuliy belongs to another nation: a
nation that in its International relations.
is animated solely by the Golden Rule.
States that he holds.
Tax him with an excess of Spanish
courtesy in giving expression to such
opinions, and he laughs tolerantly; then
proceeds to marshal his facts in proof.
1t must not be assumed that he holds
that all Americans are little tin gods
that the millennium is here, or just around
the corner; that the United States is
ready and willing to kiss the hand that
smites it. whether that hand be yellow or
white. 1t rs the tendency of national
thought and national desire of which he
talks, and it is national thousht-other-
wise public opinion-he holds, that gov
erns this country.
He has a fine contempt for jingoes.
journalistic and otherwise. whether they
be American or Latin American, but he
and less influential in this nation, and
that they are hardly worth reckoning
with.
1t is true said he. sitting recently
In his legation with its outlook on the
Avenue of the Presidents and the noble
pile of the Scottish Rite Masons' new
temple, that there are in the United
States those who are clamoring for ter
rtorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. who preach the
gospel of Imperialism who are trying 70
set up the cry, All aboard for Panama
and who would wipe out all national
boundary lines between the Rio Grande
and the isthmus. But their voice is not
In tune with the dominant voice OF the
country. The national demand TO-DAY is
better voiced by President Wilson. TINS
The spirit of the American people
today is not for ACKNOWLEDGMENT. All
evidences point in this direction. The
true spirit of democracy exists in tnef
flower here than in any other nation or
earth. and that spirit will not tolerate
holding up of an alien people as subjects.
or attempt to exploit war-won foreign
countries such as worked the destruction
of Rome and every professedly demo-
cratic nation In history that has made the
attempt.
II admit that this has not always
been the case in the United states
Prior to the civil war there did exist
in this country desire for territorial
expansion. The slave states wanted
more territory in which to extend
slavery; the free states wanted more
territory wherein slavery could be pre-
vented. Those desires were a MOVING 6
cause for territorial extension. On
them was based the taking from Mex.
leo of an area very nearly one-tniro
of the total area of continental United
states today. But with the settlement
of the slavery dispute the national de.
sire for more land has gradually faoed
away.
What the United States has done In
Cuba has shown to the world the new
American ideal. Twice you have been
in Cuba to assist her in settling hei
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Things american.
AS some students study bugs and bacilli,
he always is turning his mental micro
scope on men and nations-chiehy Ameri-
cen men and the American nation.
Educator banker. diplomatist and trav-
eler. he knows the world pretty thor
oughly.
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Woodward used to live. and they had a
fine garden which reached all the way
down to the creek
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tree. spreads its boughs affectionatelv
over them until they are old enough and
strong enough to seek their fortune and
go 1t alone. There is no race suicide. no
declining birth-rate among silver poplars
il they can help 1t.
The state herald., 1914-01-09
GAIN IN COAL OUTPUT
YEARS INCREASE OVER 1912 is
100000 TONS.
The Colorado Strike Results in Jump
in Production Of Eastern and
Southwestern Mines.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
ashington.-Despite labor distur,
Dances in Colorado, the interference
OF the Ohio floods last spring and n
general complaint on the part Of coal
operators that they were unable TO
work their mines at full capacity be-
cause OF shortages OF labor, there was
an increased production of coal in the
United States in 1918, of between 3O,,
100000 and i0.0O0,0OO tons as com
pared with that Of 1912.
According TO estimates. made pub
lie by Edward W Parker. coal sta
tistician OF the geological survey, there
will be n total production OF between
565. .00O, 900 and 575 100000 tons at tho
end Of the present year. The in
creased output is said to be nominal
ian index OF the general Industrial
activity OF the country"
The decrease IN the production OF
fuel oil in the mid-continent oil field
and the strike in Colorado. Parker
says. has resulted In an increased out
put OF coal in the Southwest and East
ern states,
The state herald., 1914-01-09
U. s. cAvALRYMEN GRAB AND
DISARM PANIC-STRIckEN
MEXICAN SOLDIERS.
MANY BADLY WOUNDED
DESPERATE BATTLE KEPT UP
ALL DAY WITH LIST OF DEAD
RUNNING INTO HUNDREDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Preside. Tex, Jan. 2.-The north
ern division OF the Mexican federal
army at Ojinaga, Mexico, with its
eleven generals, other officers and
about 1000 soldiers, after n merciless
three days attack by General ortega's
5000 rebels, began fleeing in disorder
across the river into the United
States.
Several hundred aimed stragglers
crossed, and about 1.50O are now clus'
tered on the Mexican bank of the Rio
Grande.
The ending of the Ojinaga battle, at
tended by the most horrifying see,
of dead and wounded soldiers wit
messed on the border in the present rev.
oluton, was declared to have in store
only one possible result. the momen'
tarily-expected flight of the whole fed
eral army to American soil.
With line of struggling wounded
at the border to indicate the extent of
the carnage, and deserters already APP
pearing in numbers, Major NJ. n. Nc
Nance, commanding the border pa
troll, made every plan in anticipation
of the flight
Less than 500 cavalrymen, mostly
of the Fifteenth cavalry, form the pa
troll here, but they are deemed by Off.
cials sufficient to handle the situation.
Il expect at any time during the
fight that the greater part of the fed
eral army. possibly 1000 or 5000, may
be forced across the river. have made
dispositions to disarm and hold them,
IL this takes place." was the message
which Majo. McNamee sent out.
Scores of uninjured federal desert
ers came TO the river and, in defiance
of the American patrol, crossed, with
their arms. Ali these were disarmed
and forced back to the Mexican side.
More than 200 rifles. other arms and
ammunition thus were taken from the
fugitives.
1t was impossible to learn accur.
ately the number of dead. Many were
believed TO have died through lack of
medical attention. as neither federals
nor rebels are equipped with any field
hospital service and the Red Cross of
ficials on this side we're not permitted
to ford the river-eyen under a Red
Cross flag.
The state herald., 1914-01-09
ToNoPAH GUYS COLORADO MINE.
About 5000 Acres Near Breckenridge
Brings ST. ,Ooo, 900.

Denver.-Word comes from Phila.
delphia that the Tonopah Mining Com.
pany Of Nevada has acquired more
thun 5000 acres OF placer ground at
breckenridge, equipped with three
dredges, machine shop. power plant
and ready for operation in early
spring.
Ben Stanley Reyett, noted placer ex-
pert, will have charge OF operations.
Tho Tonopah Placer Company has
been organized TO own and operate
these properties at capitalization OF
sl,O00,0O0, upon which not less than
10 per cent In dividends viii be paid
each year.
Tho Revott dredge boat is equipped
for winter work. the coal used In
keeping the stack and apparatus from
freezing costing but small amount
to the cubic yard OF gravel handl
The state herald., 1914-01-09

Urge New Road as Boon to Indians.
Washirgton.-Con of new
road into the Grow Heart country of
the Shoshone Indian reservation In
Wyoming would be the first and great
est step towards enabling the red men
to make themselves at home, and util-
izo their lands, according to a report
to Congress by Secretary Lane. The
new road is necessary, the secretary
points out, to enable the Indians to
locate on their allotments, build
houses and cultivate their lands.
This road" said Secretary Lane,
will also form part OF the Yellow
stone Park highway, which, when
completed. will be Of great advantage
to the Indians and largely increase
their income. The few allotments In
this district, which have been culti-
waited by white men and Indians of
white blood, are very productive. The
full bloods. however, from lack OF
funds. have been unable to establish
themselves upon their allotmenis. The
present roads into the timbered area
are worn out mountain trails over
which It is practically impossible to
bring ont timber"
The state herald., 1914-01-09
-FOUR QUIT OAK CREEK
Seven Other Strike Organizers and
Agitators to Leave on Order Of
Taxpayers, is Report.

Steamboat Springs. Colo. Jan. e.
As n result OF n demand OF the Routt
county taxpayers made directly TO the
striking miners OF Oak Creek that all
Rgitators and organizers for the Unit.
ed Mine Workers OF America leave
that camp within "a hours, two organ.
iZers and two agitators left Oak Greek
for Denver. II is understood here that
seven more men, whose names were
included In the list OF 'undesirables. 4"
will leave oak Creek before the arrival
OF the militia from Trinidad today.
Many OF the strikers signified their
Intent on OF returning to work as soon
as the state troops dctrain. Sheriff
Chiyiagton was in consultation all day
with his deputies. There was no dis.
turbaGce Monday.
The state herald., 1914-01-09
81 men DROWN,
8 FLOAT SAFELY
OIL STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO
DURING STORM AND ONLY
PORTION GOES DOWN.
EXPLOSION SUSPECTED
SURVIVORS RESCUED AFTER "a
HOURS IN GALE UNABLE TO
TELL CAUSE OF WRECK.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York, Jan. 6.-The 100000 oil
tank steamer Oklahoma broke in two
amidships without warning Sunday
morning south of Sandy Hook and a
large number Of her crew of more
than forty men perished.
The stern section, in which was stu
ated all the heavy machinery of the
vessel and on which were thirty-two
members of the crew, sank immedl-
ately.
Eight members of the crew were res
cued by the Hamburg.American line
steamer Bavaria, whose captain says
some OF the Oklahoma's men told him
they saw an open boat put away from
the wreck with eight or ten men in it.
They reported that the revenue cutter
Seneca had picked up one of the
Oklahcma's lifeboats, which contained
the bodies OF four men. They are sup
posed to have died from exposure.
Among those who sailed on the
Oklahoma and are believed to be lost
10 'dbNulH lollHS -. Ndlts VI lpustou'
formerly commander of the steamship
Ligonier Captain Gates was aboard
as a passenger on his way to take
command Of another vessel
The story of the disaster was con-
tanned in wireless dispatch received
by the Hamburg American line here
from Captain Graales OF the steamer
Bavaria, which is proceeding to Bos.
ton with the eight survivors OF the
tanker on board.
From the fact that all the surviv-
ors were assembled forward" said Cap
tain Porter, 81 presume that an explo-
sion took place in the after part OF the
ship where all the working force in
the engineers department were quar-
tered Here also were the ships en-
gines and other machinery. The ac.
cident must have been OF a sudden ma.
ture, for otherwise the men aft would
have mad ample time to have saved
their lives by rushing to the fore part
OF the steamer"