Evening star., 1924-07-20
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

ditions throughout the federal serv-
ice from all angles as no other Presi-
dent has ever known them, from
practical experience.
Here is an illustration of what his
own observation has shown: when
a man goes abroad as a representa-
tive of the United States, which the
people on the other side Of the water
believe to be an Ell Dorado, 1 can
assure you he pays the highest mar
ket rate, and perhaps a little mora,
for everything he gets. and he can
not, of course, as a representative of
a dignified and great country. get
down to higgling with his butcher or
grocer about his bills. He is simply
compelled to pay what he is charged
and he is charged on the theory that
he represents the richest country on
earth. You cannot get away from
that situation" former Ambassador
Davis told Congress. There it is,
and nothing that can be done on this
side of the water can change it."
Gen. Charles G. Dawes introduced
to Washington the underslung pipe.
When he was first chief of the Bu-
reau of the Budget he brought back
one day from trip to Chicago one
of these new styles in pipes. was SO
pleased with it that he showed it to
most of his friends and even sent
and got several, which he gave to
those he thought would most appre-
ciate such a token.
The feature of this pipe is that the
stem Is fastened at the top instead
of at the bottom. The tobacco is
placed in an inner bowl which screws
in. The smoke comes out of the
bottom of this inner bowl and circu-
lates through a spiral passage of 20
inches before it reaches the mouth OF
the smoker.
Since Gen. Dawes nomination for
Calvin Coolidge the underslung pipe
has had a wider vogue here.
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Two notorious desperadoes with
records as "killers" have been caught
by humble government workers after
years Of crafty and toilsome pursuit.
Secretary Wallace of the Department
of Agriculture has requested that
these men, engaged in cooperative
work between the Federal Govern
ment and the States of Montana and
Missouri, be given credit for their
exploits.
]. ]. williams. who is doing CO.
operative work between the Biolog-
icaI Survey and the Montana State
Fish and Game Commission and the
Live Stock Commission, after trail
ing through 10 feet of snow the big
female wolf Two Toes, killed her
over a territory 800 miles square and
was known to have killed many
thousands of dollars worth of cattle
in the last two years. She made her
biggest known kill in 1880 calves
on two ranches in one week Her
den was dug out and 10 wolf cubs
were taken alive and destroyed.
This achievement of Mr.. Williams
is of special interest because the
death of Two Toes" marks the end
wood Mountains.
The Old Black Devil" a destruc-
tive wolf which for many years has
terrorized the farmers in Taney
County. Mo, and Boone County: Ark,
keeps" by w. S. Beesley. who has
been on his trail as a nemesis for
the last five years. Mr.. Beesley is
engaged in cooperative work be-
tween the Biological Survey and the
THE Old Black Devil" weighed rs
pounds. He was caught last year in
Boone County, Ark, but escaped.
leaving a toe in the trap. He was
caught later near Omaha, Ark, and
was again successful in getting away.
During the past winter he was
caught twice by Mr.. Beesley, but on
the third catch Mr.. Beesley made
certain that he would never again
prey on society.
Secretary Wallace emphasizes that
this is but one recent outcropping of
the adventurous lives that many he
roes on the rolls of the Federal de-
partmsnt engage in, that there may
duction of the food supply of this
nation, with some to spare for the
worlds hungry.
The antiquarian also gets thrill
out of the government service in
almost every phase of Federal ac-
tivity. You would scarcely look for
much in the Forest Service that
would send the students nosing into
the records of the ages before there
were musty tones or even a written
language, or before men were born.
Yet Col. w. B. Greeley, chief for
ester, glibly tells us that the tree
commonly known as "Bigtree;" or
toniana-" now found in isolated and
sheltered spots in the Sierra Noun
tains of California, dates back before
Adam, into the very beginnings of
history to a period when this tree
probably covered the slopes of West
ern coast mountains twice the height
nf the nraSent ranges.
Col. Greeley points out that the
present limited range of the blgtree
is a strange geological transforma-
tion that some hundreds OF centuries
fornia. So you see there is force in
the See America First" slogan for
those who go digging into the Tomb
of Pharaoh or the buried past OF
The Biblical prophecy that the
valleys shall be exalted and the
mountains made low was very lit
orally fulfilled in California some
aeons before it was uttered by Isaiah
In the mountain ranges Of those
more in height, came volcanic DIS,
turbance SO that molten lava poured
down the valleys and stream chan
nels, filling them up. When the lava
than the granite of the original
mountains that it resisted erosion as
the granite could not. AS a result
the granite peaks wore away and
the lava beds remained, until finally
lava-covered ridges lowered above
deep canyons worn in the native
stone. Streaps now flow many thou
sands of feet below the level of the
streams once shaded by the big trees
grandsires.
Not long ago miners in the Tahoe
National Forest, working gold
mine some 5000 feet below the lava
cap of one of the Sierra peaks, in
one of the former stream beds, came
were the tangled logs of a group OF
the Sequioas, buried for unknown
thousands of years, but in excellent
preservation, with the annual rings
in a cross-section standing out as
plainly as though the tree had been
F.nad nnlsr four daVs hefnre.