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spring, and is giving all of his energy
to whatever work the government may
have in hand for him.
Tn view of the fact that Hewlett was
not in sympathy with the Boer war. and
has been so outspoken an advocate of
peace. it seemed likely to be of interest
to ask him why he has thrown himself
so Fundamentally into this unpre-
cedented blood pool. So he was sought
ont in his book walled library in North
w,ch Terrace, and was found SO full of
the subject that he was willing to talk
about it, although ordinarily he abom-
mates interviews.
1--WE are face to face with the real
thing" said Hewlett. "and at first 1t
w.s like the shock of cold water. It
took the breath away. 1t Is dreadfully
real TO some of US; to me, indeed, 1t Is
perhaps as dreadful as 1t can be to few
others. My only son Is in the flying
corns of the navy, and goes to Join the
Srand feet as soon as his machine Is
readv His service Is more certainly
dan1erous than most; but I can assure
You that not ! only. but any man in
die in such a service as this with a
proud heart"
ness?"
"vou will see England as you and /
have never seen her yet. You would
have to cast back a hundred years to
see anything like the tide of passion
which is sWelng wei Mavs over We enis ars country
slow to provoke. but 1t is gathered now
At the heart Of the people, and will
be a food tide. flowing to the very
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medicine. In another place Is the
Arabian coffee plant. in still another
the Indian breadfruit, which looks
something like grape fruit Nearby.
is a travellers tree" from Madagascar,
which the natives tap and from which
they obtain water in the desert. There
are incense trees from India, Japanese
plums. gorgeous. scarlet hybfscus. al
bananas. the fruit of the latter grow
ing in Washington. II you please.
The conservatory is rich In the fig
family. many specimens being gathered
here. some of which produce rubber
and some fruit The fg of commerce
belongs to the rubber family. Then
there is the inga (not Inca, of course)
of Peru: the most beautiful oak holly
from southern Europe. wild date palms
which fruit in winter. rattan palms.
malacca palms, sago and tapioca.
Nearby also are to be found the
nephelium longanum. familiarly known
to our childhood as the lychee or lechee
nut-the Chinese Christmas nut. One
which has a fruit like the lima beam
There are also betels. nuts which
the East Indian troops now IN France
fighting for England are reported to
government that they may chew them.
too large a dose of which is said to
produce a stupor. There is hemp.
from which rope is made. and there is
the Cnv1a, beautiful lily from the
Cape Of Good Hope. named for Lord
Give, famous as one of the earlier
viceroys of India.
One of the most interesting plants is
the Diffenbachia Picta, discovered by
a German botanist in Central America
A laughable story is told Of how a
mischievous gardener recently induced
one of the colored 1aborers at the gar
den to taste this plant. There are all
sorts of tasty rare plants at the gar
den, such as those from which cloves
cinnamon, etc. come. So the laborer
ate of the Diffenbachia Picta, finding
too late that it was a forbidden fruit.
1t Is fact that IL piece of it is
put in the mouth or touched to the
tongue the tongue will be paralyzed for
nine days. History does not record
what happened to the mischievous gar
dener, but the laborer was without the
full use of his tongue for the specified
nine days Afterward he was all right
he said.
Outside of the conservatory ther,
are hundreds of interesting plants ant
trees. One of these is an acacia plant.
ed by Gen. Grant. Another is ths
Hottentot poison tree. It has a for
midable name-no less than toxico
phlaca spectabilis, or acocanthera. Thi,
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vened a number of times and crowded
1t out Of the way.

vened a number of times and crowded
1t out OF the way.
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If senators would walk through the
Botanic Garden on their way home
they would see why the bill should be
passed at once. The giant palms in the
conservatories are crowding the panes
of glass out of the roofs of the build
ings in which they are housed Rare
trees and plants encroach upon one an
other, pushing and struggling in their
fights for life and beauty. ExotlcS tnat
have been coaxed to fruit and flower
in their perfection in past years are
being persuaded to do so now, oliuI,
present conditions of congestion, Only
by the hardest kind OF lapor OH 'he
part of the gardeners.
In this beautiful garden, starred 1y
George Washington, one meets peopis
from all over the United States;
mecca for school children. teacne.n, s
bridal couples and other tourists as
well as men and women OF purely SCI
entific turn of mind. each season tnat
passes gives it some I1".,ans new aasr ae''o"'
each year adds to its COLLECTIONS.
This year the garden has been Pdr
ticulariy enriched by the successiui
growth and fruiting OF the CaIica pa
paya. under the loving loving care az 2ess Gt une This
papaya is something like the papaw
of the middle west, and is also known
as the melon papaw. 1t is. however;
a tropical fruit. known In tropicat
comes from Mexico and Central Amer
lea, and the two young trees OF the
species now to be seen in the Botanic
Garden bear witness to the TACT that
the present occasion is the first time
the fruit has been produced in Wash
ineton, or, in fact, in this climate.
Supt. Hess explained to a writer for
The Star the other day how he hap
pened to be able to produce the fruit
here.
These zapote trees" he said, were
mated by me. They have been in the
Botanic Garden, I suppose, about four
teen or fifteen years, in separate places,
but / found out that they were male
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is the so-called ordeal" tree of MAZDA.
gascar OF which suspected as well az
guilty persons IN times gone by have
to test whether suspicion was Justly
founded. always SO proved. according
to the belief OF the Hottentots. for tho
suspected person who was obliged to
eat OF 1t always died At the Botanic
sonous OF the plants. II is stated that
q seed no larger than an almond suf-
noes to kill twenty persons.
outside of the conservatory, too. is
to be found at this time the citrus trf-
foiliata. an orange tree which is hardy
as far north as New York state Mr..
Hess is Of the opinion that in the gar
den 1t is too ear the fecen. His
life is made a burden by the small
clivfties OF Young America" to in
vestigate homegrown oranges They
find them bitter. but they make exoel-
lent marmalade.
Near the conservatory is also found
Grass of the Nile." from which the
ancients made papyrus. This, a water
plant. is in a fountain. The garden
has another great rarity. under glass.
however. namely the fransiscea. OF Rio
de Janeiro. This has two flowers grow
ing on the same plant of different COL
ors. One is purple and one Is white.
They grow side by side. This Is said to
be the only plant with two differently
colored flowers which has not been hy-
bridized or grated
There Is a range of orchid houses at
the garden which are we'll worth at
tention. The Holy Ghost orchid. other
wise known as sanctum spiritus, locks
like a dove lowering. Another range
of houses is devoted to the propagating
and growing of ferns and so-caIled
stove-house plants. On this part of
the reservation, also, are many trees
with historical associations. some of
them having been planted by Presi-
dents of the United States, others by
noted statesmen and others by distin-
guished foreigners.
Across from the Botanic Garden
reservation. on the other side Of Mary
land avenue. are located the Offices
from which all the work of the gar
den is directed. There. too. are propa-
eating gardens, where practically all
of the trees, ferns and plants displayed
and many thousands that are distribut-
ed to government reservations or to
other countries in exchange are grown.
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MAURICE HEWLETT.

don't mean the hothead few who make
a noise; we call them jingoes-the real
English will never fight If they can
help it. Love Of country and pride of
race are deep in them, and not effer-
vescent We value life; we neither take
it nor give it lightly. Our race jeal-
ousy is not quick. our feeling for what
is called honor is not SO near the sur
face as it is with the French. We
don't mind a few scratches on 1t, we
laugh and say that it hurts the
scratcher more than the scratched.
Wrong-headed and offensive very often
as our insular pride is, do not think
1t helps us there. We aren't easily
hurt
DO you fear invasion then?'
He shook his head. mo, not at all.
We aren't making war because we feel
that we are in immediate or immt-
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The Target.

seWAR." said Mayor Mitchell Of New
w York. lis all right at distance.
but when it comes home to us we per-
ceive that it is a savage, horrible, vile
thing.
IT was talking the other day to .
French reservist whose age had just
released him from further work. He
had been a good fighter. and said:
missed in this war.
He shrugged his shoulders.
"rwen,' said he. when you've got .
wife and 6ve children to bring mp It's
better to be missod than hit"
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moval of this famous attraction of the
National Capital from its present site.
on Pennsylvania avenue at the foot of
the Capitol, to a 40O-acre tract in Rock
Creek Park.
Expressions of hope are heard on all
sides that the Senate will also pass the
bill before taking the recess now un-
der discussion. 1t would take but
few minutes of time to do so. as its
passage would be more or less a mat
ter of formality. There is understood
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Hope Widely Ex-
pressed That Senate
Will Quickly Pass the
Bill Already Enacted
by the House Pro-,
viding for Removal
of the Institution to
Rock Creek Park.
New Superintendent,
George w. Hess, Pro-
duces Fruit of Melon
Zapote for First Time
in This Climate.
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also to produce these. Mr. Hess, in
fact, has begun collection of all the
rare trees and shrubs of the world. by
methods of exchange with foreign gov
ernments, and now has ON hand
greater stock of such specimens than
the garden has ever had before. In
this work. however, as in all else, he il
greatly limited by lack of space.
The Botanic Garden is rich in rare
foreign plants. Thousands of natur-
allied foreigners, as well as school
teachers, their pupils and scientists IN
terested in arboriculture, botany and
the other branches Of plant and tree
life, constantly visit the garden to see
these specimens. .Curiously enough the
Chinese colony of Washington, located
so near the garden, on pennsylvania
avenue, sends a number of visitors
there each year, and many of the chill
dren from the foreign Legations and
embassies in Washington also show
their interest in the transplanted tree
and plant life of their own countries to
be seen there - --f.,'
The myrtus communis of southern
Europe has recently been the cause of
many trips to the garden by Jewish
used by them in the -synagogues during
the Succoth, which was just observed
in their church. If a plant can be
found with three leaves, something like
the three-leaf clover. they cheerfully
pay as much at IS for it,. 1t is said at
the garden that a grower in the west
has found a way to produce the three
leaf variety and that he Is advertis-
ing it for sale and doing good busi-
ness. 49,.
i
A walk through the ,conservatories
shows this and many other foreign
plants. One sees the greater palms
pushing their way through the glass
window roofs, at times. and the low
height of these roofs is the cause of
great trouble to the caretakers and
attendants.
Here is a Washingtonia flifera, a
gigantic California palm. the largest
in the conservatory. Here is a wampee
tree. from China, which attracts the
Chinese of the Pennsylvania avenue
colony. and which produces an edible
fruit, also used for preserving and for
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Figmg Maintain What American Colonies Fought For

name. Because. finally, its aim is not
peace but a sword
Let me ask you this. Have you seen
a German with a sword? Do you re-
member Zabern? There was a German
there, with a sword. That Zabern af-
fair. very probably, was the first thing
which stirred our instinct for liberty"
That showed the set of the wind.
you think?"
"Yes, to the people at large, not to
the government, not to Sir Edward
Grey. The people at large know moth
ing Of what he knows about Germany.
Why. they don't know as much as I
know. I have stayed in German houses.
and heard the officers talk In German
clubs. 1 have seen German omcers
cuff and beat their men with the nat
of the sword. I have seen how tney
behave to women. Without SWORDS
they are pleasant, affable, ordinary
people. With swords they are brutal
But the people don't know all that.
..S:r Edward Grey knows that the
Pan-German doctrine was nursing by
Bismarck long before the war OF lsto.
He knows that it was Bismarck Wno
provoked that war for which Germany
was ready and France was not.
Hewlett threw up his hands. Who
shall say how the instinct for freedom
Is awakened? That instinct. tell you.
is in our very nerve centers. We can
feel, we can read, the lightest airs
that blow upon it. The Austrian's bull
lying of Servia, the Germans bullying
of Belgium: who could misread these
things? Yet 1 am almost a peace-at-
any-price man. I am like a Quaker on
that subject. I think war is a disgrace
to manhood. In the days of the Boer
war, I tell you frankly, I was ashamed
of my own country. And l was not
alone. Don't think that Nearly half
England was with me. There again
as in the case of your own uprising
we felt that the freedom Of people
was being invaded-and invaded by
our country. That was hard to bear.
But here, now, 1 am heart and soul
for it. Ny son goes-I would send
rive il 1 had them would go myself
(and go l shall. il they want such men
clear conscience. This war is a holy
war. I don't believe there is man
against it."
Finally, he said:
ITO your people, sir, who have not
scrupled to fight against their own
blood for freedom, to your people who
have won the freedom they deserved. /
shan't speak in vain. You are free.
and we respect you the better for the
nightly became you. We all know it
now. Well. and today 1t is our free
dom which is in the fire. and not only
ours. Freedom itself is in the hre.
What is to rule mankind at this age Of
the world, reason or the sword!
Let Louvain and Malines have a
word to say In your answer to that
question"
Copyright. 1919. By Curtis BsowaJ
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ever, does not daunt him, he says, and.
with Mrs. Hess, gentle invaltd,t with
an expert knowledge of fruits and
flowers. trees and plants. to advise he
is already making plans to extend the
scope and usefulness of the institution.
Every senator and every representa-
tive in Congress-" Mr. Hess said to The
Star writer the other day. "is entitled
to box annually of about eighty va
rfeties of shrubs, trees and plants from
the Botanic Garden. Here are two" he
pointed to them, about to be shipped
now. There is nothing about this place
that gives me more delight than the
shipping of these boxes. Why? Well,
I'll tell you. -; -
Every time a man or woman gets
a consignment of some trees or plants
or shrubs from some senator or rep
resentative and plants them in his or
her front yard or garden, just that
often are his or her neighbors reused
to the necessity. the desire for beau
they send to seed dealers. or the
dealers in plants or shrubs, to get
something Of their own to plant. so
that their neighbors may not have
more attractive yards or gardens:
That's the sort of thing the Ameri-
can Civic Association Is after. That's
what hundreds of the best minds in
the country are striving to bring about
the Identification of the homes of
the United States"
Ak
Every year that goes by adds to the
number of new and strange plants and
trees which the Botanic Garden Off
cials find can be successfully cultivated
and grown in the United States, SO that
the boxes that are shipped to senators
and representatives no longer contain
only the common varieties.
For instance. this year. because of
the war in Europe. especial attention is
being paid to hydrangeas. azaleas and
lilies of the valley. Azaleas come
from stricken Belgium. lilies Of the
valley from Germany. hydrangeas from
England. It is hoped that the United
states may some day be able to pro-
duce these-perhaps they may be pro-
duced at the Botanic Garden. Tulips.
as every one knows. come from Hol-
land. So American. growers are trying
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mantle interest-to say nothing OF the
bits of history entwined about many OF
with rare specimens that the average
visitor cannot see them because of the
way one is hidden by the other. Among
the most beautiful creations OF ma
reach out toward the skies for their
place in the sum-" their share OF the
air that they may thrive ana Sliehtiy
teach the lesson of the beautiful.
growing, a cedar of Lebanon. such as
is spoken of in the Bible. growing and
thriving only on one side because 1t Is
crowded too much on the other. Here
dens. the crown of thorns." also men
toned in the Bible. From the saw
dust" of the former is made the incense
used in Greek and Roman Catholic
churches, highly pleasing to tie olfac-
tory nerves. From the latter comes a
milky sap said to be poisonous. 1t OBJ
tains its name from its principal char
acteristics, which are thofns and
growth in circles.
Presiding over the destinies of the
Botanic Garden now is one of the
greatest experts in such work in the
United States, George w. Hess, who
was appointed to the position OF su-
perintendent because a civil service
him rating of 100 per cent as spe-
cialist in the growing of foreign plants
and SO per cent in general gardening.
Mr. Hess was born in Washington for
ty-nine years ago and now lives in the
house which was occupied by William
R. Smith. for many years the world
famous superintendent of the garden,
who began his lifework there in 1853
At that time the garden was practical
1y a swamp, and it required the filling
in of 100000 yards of material to re-
claim it. To Mr.. Smith is due a great
part Of the credit for the present beau
ty of the garden. It was his lifes
work, and the garden itself stands as
a memorial to what he did, Mr.. Hess
says
But. the little old house at the foot
of the Capitol grounds has been chang
ed in observation-disclosures and
succeed on the outside, so that 1t rep
resentsZa cottage in a suburban COM
munity, and here Mr.. Hess has taken ur
the work so long done by Mr.. Smith
and faces the great task of moving
the collection out to Rock Creek Park
as soon as the Senate gives the word.
The magnitude of such labor. how
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limits Of the landau, and further than
that. Wherever the English blood
beats. wherever the English tradition is
planted, this tide will lap and flow.
DO you ask me, what has drawn it
up? 1t Is curious, and to me as a stu
dent of history. deeply Interesting. But
first will tell you what has not drawn
it up to this abnormal height.
1t is not military fever. what you
may call the smell of war, that's GER
tain. We are not a warlike people,
though no people can fight better when
fight they must. The real English-I
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nent danger. Our people don't believe
that they are fighting for their
shearths."
We'll" I said. what is the matter
with you then, Belgium"
Yes, there is a real passion Of SYM
pathy for Belgium; little people. like
ourselves, f1agrantly violated by those
who had guaranteed her immunity.
That was perhaps the spark that set
the kindling alight-but the spark
doesn't make the fire.
France then?'
Another spark" said Hewlett. 10y
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atty to our allies the French, invaded
by the Germans without a declaration
of war. A shameful act. which makes
the blood boil. These two things set
the fire. once kindled, was something
else, altogether"
What is 1t them"
It'll tell you. 1t is our instinct for
freedom. for liberty. which has been
aroused; the one instinct, as hold. for
which the English will fight to the last
man. It is that which makes. this war
a war of passion, a war of the heart.
1t makes holy war of it, do you see ?
The nearest approach to anything of
the kind was William Pitts stand
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NE of the most IN
teresting institu-
tions in Washing
ton-the National
Botanic Garden
is about to be
given a new lease
on life.
The House of
r e Pr e sentatives
has recently pass
ed a bill provfd-
ing for the re-
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Maurice Hewlett, t,
Who Opposed Boer
War, Tells Why He
Has Deserted His
Goddess of Peace and
Is Going Full Tilt in
Favor of Present Con-
Aict - Some. Striking
Historical Parallels.
Vigorous War Views
Aired for American
Consumption.
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AURICE H e W =
LETT, author, is
wishing that he
might find some
way of going to
the front to fight
for his beloved
England. He has
given up work for
the time being on
the novel he had
hoped to have
ready for next
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a medicine. Here is a marimosa alba,
the sensitive plant, SO called. from
South America. One variety closes and
shrivels, if~touched, another closes at
night, as a bird closes it's wings and
settles down, as if to sleep. Elsewhere
is the gamboge. which produces the
best sort of oil for artists, which is
also edible and which also produces a
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to be no objection to the bill in the
Senate This particular measure, or
one similar to it, has been on the
point of passage, in fact, in the Senate
upon several occasions. Something not
connected with the measure has inter-
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and female of the species, and put
them together, and they pollenized,
with the result that they fruited for
the first time"
Here is a garden, an exhibition of
great scientific, educational and ro-
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, October 1. 1914.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-03-27
Now Schedule 10 Tr0ne

Tho Ell Paso and Southwestern
Railroad company has put on its new
schedule to Tyrone whereby it vii
run three trains week to Tyrone
and Whitewater, leaving here at
II. IN. Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fri
days, arriving on these days at Ty'
rome at IL 90 p. m, and leaving there
at g p. M, arriving in Deming n
s 40. The old schedule on the Hat
chiia branch will remain the same n
before as to arriving and leaving, bu
trains will be run only on Mondays
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur
days. The officials announce tina
later n regular daily schedule vii
be made as soon as the bushes,
warrants.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-03-27
improvements by s. p.

The Southern Pacific Railroad
company is making number Of i'm
provements at the Uaion Station
among which is new Office adjoin-
ing the baggage room for the use OF
the bageagcman, and platform is
being built in front of Roadmaste,
Buffers office at the east end Of the
depot. The irrigation ditch has been
changed and the two single bridges
have been put together making NOR,
room for pedestrians to cross.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-03-27
Played Excellent Dance Music

Chief Musician Ludeizc, Principal
Musician Heber, Sergeant Harper,
Sergeant Negrito, Corporal Pastor,
Corporal Klienhaus, and Corporal
Carrella comprising the orchestra
composed of musicians Of the 18th
United States Cavalry band furnish
ed the dance music at the Adelphi
Club last week. The boys also play
ed at the st. Patrick's ball at the
Harvey House and their excellent
rendition of dance music has made
them quite popular with the dancers
Of Deming, who hope they will come
up from Columbus often.