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projects. In the Klamath project, 136,-
000 acres, or more than half of the
area ot the total project, is rich tule
land covered by eight or ten feet of
water, and is to be drained and con
verted into over a thousand farms.
The topographic branch ot the Geo
logical Survey, of which the Reclama
tion Service is also a branch has al
ready run its lines over many ot the
great swamp areas of the eastern
states and as soon as the Steenerson
bill becomes a law the Geological Sur
vey engineers will be ready to launch
out into immediate activity in drain
age projects.
Would Start with a Million Dollars.
The fund provided by the bill would
be small as compared with the irri
gation fund—it would approximate
half a million dollars a year and would
start off with about 11,000,000, the re
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year 1905 being Included—but on the
other hand the cost of drainage would
not be so great as that of irrigation.
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death of
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reslirrect old Yonks, who
Hon. Yonks Van n Dolsen
—------ — reached “
Wighamton it fell like a wet pall over died in 1679, long enough to go into
FAMOUS TREE OF THE CAPITOL the place. Richard Van Dolsen was in mourning for him, so that poor Hetty
SUBJECT OF A GREAT SEX-
the wild Missouri Mountains looking Arsdale couid do her the favor ot re
up timber tracks that had been offered lieving her of her unmournful clothes,
ATORIAL 0RAT10X.
at tempting prices, and Mrs. Van Dol of which she had laid in a large stock,
“Don” Cameron’s Eloquence Over sen had to bear her sorrow alone. She both for outside and inside wear.”
Van Dolsen paused and his friend
came Demands of Architects and shut herself in her house and would
big Elm Blocks the South Entrance see no one but Miss Arsdale. When said, “Van, I agree with you, your
she appeared again she was in deep wife is a wonder.”— Waihingtun Star.
to Nation's Capitol.
One ot the famous trees of Washing mourning and fled East with her sor
Both Lueky uud Odd.
ton is the Cameron elm, and a roman row.
There was no one in Wighamton
Midway between sentiment and su
tic little story attaches to it The tale
of such distinguished perstition lies a feminine trait which
is interesting in itself, but is peculiar who could as boast
the Van Dolsens, except cherishes odd little trinkets that seem
ly so in view of the country’s long ruth ancestry
Arsdale, and she, poor girl, was to bring luck. That any jeweled bauble
less and wanton disregard of trees and Hetty
the apparent present awakening ot a the last of her line. Poor in purse, can possibly change the capricious
rich in pride, Miss Arsdale was whims of Dame Fortune remains as al
recognition of the economic worth of, but source
of considerable worry to her ways, a shadowy possibility. That a
aud sentimental devotion to them. It a many
friends in Wighamton. Being pleasant
should be borne in mind that Wash an Arsdale,
memory attached to some
she could not stoop to small ornament
ington City is an arboretum of his work, nor could
can be constantly re
she
accept
indiscrimi
toric trees. Most of these are known nate charity. She was, however, grate called by the treasured trinket is with
as “memorial trees” because they ful for opportunities to relieve her out a doubt. So with divided affection
were planted by distinguished soldiers, good friends of the regrettable neces women still cling to the savage luck
statesmen and artists now dead. The sity of destroying such things, as they chaim as closely in 190ti as did their
Capitol grounds, the National Botanic no longer could conveniently keep. In barbaric sisters whose calendar was the
Garden, the White House grounds and doing this she thought she was doing setting sun.
the park of the Department of Agri- a favor and her friends respected her
It is with the most up-to-date busi
pride, but found it extremely difficult ness women that one finds the most
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novel trinkets. Actresses particularly
to keep her alive and clothed.
Everyone said that it was really too wear unusual luck ornaments, and not
it
bad that the death of Yonks Van Dol the least fetching of these is a gold
sen should occur at just the time it chain which never leaves the neck of
did, three weeks before Miss Hetty’s a very pretty leading woman in a pop
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wedding. Miss Hetty had long been ular theatrical company. Caught be
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looked upon as a confirmed spinster, tween the delicate links at intervals of
but, after having passed the forty two inches are all sorts of semi pre
mark some distance, had met one Hec cious stones as well as genuine gems.
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was soon settled upon. Yonks Van gift of some good friend who has been
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Dolsen nearly upset everything, and associated with her in her stage ca
WhcA Reclaimed
Mrs. Van Dolsen went into black, shut reer, and the chain already holds
Under the New
twenty jewels as well as a souvenir
up her house and then went away.
Bill Will be Con
Some days after Mrs. Van Dolsen pendant gold and enamel brownie with
verted Into Num*
The different stones
had left for the East, Richard Van diamond eyes.
crous Small
Farms.
Dolsen arrived in Wighamton, and include a rare yellow diamond and
while on his way home met his friend, topaz, several oddly shaped water
Tom Garrick, and the two men ex pearls, and clasping the chain at the
changed a hearty greeting, after which back a large square garnet of richest
Mr, Van Dolsen asked about village hue.
Then there is a very popular teacher
news and learned for the first of Miss
in one of the big cities who has been
Aredale's approaching marriage.
Garrick walking by the side of his at the head of a shorthand school for a
old friend suddenly said, “Dick, I sup number of years. Her luck souvenir is
pose you know Mrs. Van Dolsen has a coin waist belt made entirely of ten-
gone East?” “Well, no,” said Van cent pieces. It was started by her first
Dolsen easily, but she rather expected class of girls, every one of whom was
to leave before I got back.” He looked devoted to her. When their term was
at Garrick curiously. "Why do you over, however, their very meagre pock
look at me that way, Tom, there’s etbooks would allow the majority of
nothing wrong with Elizabeth, is them to give only ten cents apiece. So
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one of their members conceived the
there?”
happy idea of having the dimes joined
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No,
not
with
Mrs.
Van,
Dick,
but
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Yonks Van Dolsen is dead.” “ ‘ t Well,
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Reclaimed
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' ’ ' girl’s initial was scratched on Lib
should say he was, Tom; its certainly
Swamp Land
When Tickled by time he was.” “But what is the joke?” erty’s cap.
As class followed class, the idea took
"I guess you don’t understand me,
the Farmer,
Produces Abund Dick, I said Yonks Van Dolsen was root and the ten-link bracelet has
dead. Your wife felt his death deeply grown to a good sized waist belt with
ant Crops.
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and when she left for the East was four rows of coins. Some are thick
and some are thin, and many bear hard
in heavy mourning for him.”
Dolsen dropped the heavy valise ly a resemblance to the newly minted
Hon, 1s scarcely second in importance 1 culture aro literally shaded with his he Van
was carrying and laughed until he dime, but they all carry the initials of
to the irrigation work. It mean, that toric trees.
was completely out of breath and some young pupil to whom the cheery
tens of millions of acres of the most
The Cameron elm stands so close the tears were streaming down his teacher was an inspiration, and the
fertile land imaginable, which has 1 to the south entrance of the Capitol face.
coins stand for everything in the world
lain idle for ages, may be converted that it nearly blocks the way, and
“Elizabeth in mourning for that old to their owner, In fact so much a part
from dismal and pestilential swamps really has nullified the importance of rhlnocerous-hlded
reprobate," he cried, of her has the belt become that she
and useless bogs unto highly prosper that passage as a means of ingress "Tom, you will kill
me with your never thinks of going anywhere with-
ous homes, to become the garden spotB 1 and egress to and from the Capitol. talk.”
out it. and she sleeps with it under
of the nation.
But It is not likely that an ax will ever
They had reached hi%office, and Van her pillow at night.
The Dutch have reclaimed vast be laid to this tree as long as it re Dolsen
In contrast to this luck charm of
found the letter which he felt
area« in Holland from the encroach tains vigor enough to put on green in
ments of the ocean. Thousands of spring.
families live and farm below sea level,
When the architects and builders
gaining their security by magnificent wore constructing the marble terrace
feats of engineering and persistence to the Capitol this elm was found to
They now contemplate tho drainage of be in tho way of the plans and the
ths Zuyder Zee, reclaiming some 1,- work. Tho ax was whetted to chop it
1x0,000 additional acres of meadow down.
But this proceeding was
toafi. American drainage in most stayed by Senator Don Cameron of
ca.wet would be far more simple and Pennsylvania, who in the Senate
s.w expensive; it is simply a ques- Chamber made an impassioned appeal
ti<«m ns to whether the nation will see for the life of the tree.
thhe wisdom of setting its hand to this
Senator Cameron made one of
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the best speeches of his career, eulo
gized trees in general and the Cap
Another Inland Empire.
l«n Florida the everglades alone—al- itol elm in particular, affectionately re
wriost solid muck beds—would afford calling the length of years which this
■m empire of some 7 million acres: in old elm had stood at the south end of
■V'ew Jersey and Virginia are vast the Capitol and the men famous in
tewampe, among them the famous Dis- American annals who had passed and
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anal Swamp. In Illinois which is gen- chatted beneath its branches.
■■rally regarded as a well settled agri- quoted much poetry that had been in
■ tfltural state, there are 4 million acres spired by reverence for trees, and
BT swamp land; in Michigan there are closed with a splendid recitation of
■marly 6 million acres. Fertile Iowa the familiar poem, “Woodman Spare
Bias about 2 million acres of swamp That Tree.”
land, in Minnesota there are almost
Cameron Won the Day.
E million acres of rich surveyed swamp
The matter took up considerable
lands and huge swamp areas not yet space in thq Congressional record, the
»surveyed. Arkansas hns tremendous Committee on the Library, having the
swamp areas which could be drained Capitol improvements under its con
and made habitable, and in all there trol, canvassed the question, and the
is a .swamp area in the eastern half of | tree was allowed to stand, despite the
the United States which is equal tn ex fact that it would block for all the
tent to the great agricultural states days of its life one of the great marble
of Indiana. Illinois, and Iowa, with approaches to the Capitol.
three or four smaller eastern states
A large mound of earth Is heaped
thrown in.
around the roots of the big elm, and
If the Steenerson bill demonstrates this is kept carefully sodded that the
that the government can transform tree’s health may be conserved. Not
long ago it became necessary to saw
off a large limb, and at tho point of
? amputation, paint, cement and tin have
been applied that the tree may not suf
fer from the surgery.
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man in the counsels of the nation and
of the Republican party. Though gen
erally known simply as “Don" Cam
eron, bis name was James Donald Cam
eron. He was the son of Simon Cam
THE CAMtRON tlM SUBJECT OF AIM ORATION IN THt U. S. SENATE,
eron, Lincoln’s secretary of War sure his wife had left for him. After friendship is the luck trinket of a very
when the war of 1S61 broke out, and reading and rereading the letter he attractive young matron of national re
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who was a Senator from Pennsylvania turued to his friend and said. “Yes, nown. Five years ago in reply to her
for four terms. He resigned in 1877 Tom. Yonks Van Dolsen is d ad and wedding invitation came a tiny white
and was succeeded by his son, “Don," I am going in mourning for him; he kid box from a well-known jeweler. It
who was born at Middletown. Pa., was a fine old man: my wife has writ contained two beautiful faacy gold
May 14, 1833, and had never served in ten me all about it There are some stock pins, each a perfect Imitation
any legislative body up to the time matters, Tom, I cannot explain— in of a peacock feather.
The card en
DRAINING SWAMP LANDS.
of his election to the Senate, but he the family, you know. Tom.”
closed bore the name of a girl with
had had enough experience in worldly
As soon as possible Richard Van I whom she had the very slightest ac
swamps into fertile farm land and affairs, having been prominent in Dolsen
had a crape band sewed on quaintance. but whom she knew to
that the settler or owner will i>ay banking and railroad circles.
his hat. but it seemed hard for him hrve a liking for her future husband
I ack to the government the relatively
"Don” Cameron was for a short to overcome his natural cheerfulness,
1 ndaunted, the bride-to-be immedi
small coat of the improvement, there time Secretary of War in Grant's Cab still he tried to enter into the crepe
seems to be no reason why this work inet: that changing Cabinet In which band spirit and often said to his ately pinned one of these unlucky
of creation of value out of worthless so tnhny famous men were called to friends, "Yee, poor old Yonks is dead; feathers on her dress, and from tha>
waste, should not go on lndefinately serve, in that Cabinet were Elija B. he was a fine old man; I can scarcely day to this she has never been with
and provide homes for millions more Washburn. Hamilton Fish. George S. realize that I am in mourning for out one of the other of them fastener
somewhere about her costume.
Not
of rural population.
Boutwell, Wm. A. Richard nil. Benja him ”
long since when this very happ;
min H. Bristow. Lot M. Morrill. John
Ten days after Miss Aredale’s wed matron received the wedding invita
A Rawlins, Wm. W. Belknap, Al- ding, Van Dolsen sent for his old tion of her husband’s one-time friend
The Single Woman.
phonzo Taft, Adolph E Borie. George friend. Tom Garrick, and after care- i he suggested that his wife send a
"There Is In man's nature a secret in M. Robeson. John A. J. Creswell, James
fully closing the door to his private I handsomely mounted rabbit's food a
cllnatlon and motion toward love of W. Marshall. Marshall Jewell, James office,
said:
a present. Sne decided, however, that
others, which, if It be not spent upon N. Tyner. E Rockwood Hoar. Amos T.
"Tom, I've been thinking things fate had been in the way of this jocu
some one or a few, does, naturally Akerman, George H. Williams. Ed
over,
and
I
guess
it
will
be
annoying
lar revenge.
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spread Itself toward many.” said Lord ward Plerrpont, Jacob D. Cox, Colum
to Mrs. Van to do all the explaining,
Bacon, three centuries ago. The re bus Delano and Zachariah Chandler.
so I am going to do it for her. Eliza
mark might be applied with good rea "Don” Cameron was a striking be
Boxer Trouble*.
th Is the best woman on earth and
son to the unmarried women, who with figure in the National Republican con thinks of kind things that no one else
Blessed are the peacemakers, hot
in the last half century has become a ventions which nominated Hayes and would think of."
“You know how sometimes the blessing comes In
moving power in the world, as such Wheeler and Garfield and Arthur, and proud Hetty Aredale is.” Van Dolsen form of a stiff jar on the lower the
Jaw
names as Florence Nightengale. Susan he was thrice elected to the Senate
continued. “Funny girl, too: she’d for Interfering.
B. Anthony, Francis Willard. Clara Bar
take things no one had any use for.
ton. Harriet Martineau. Francis Power
The new capítol at Harrisburg. Pa., bat nothing she thought anyone could
King George of Greece Is an athlete
Cobbe. Mary Lyon and Jane Adams, to , Is nearly eompleted and has coot It.- use.” “Elisabeth was sorry for her
and is said to be the best muscled
quote but a few, will show.
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because she knew she had no proper monarch in Europe.
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At a recent dinner at the White
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by one ot the guests on Secretary
Taft, who was present, and who, by
the way, tips the scales at beyond the
three-hundred-pound mark:
The Secretary was returning to
Washington from Chicago aboard the
“Fast Flyer” that only stops at large
cities. He had urgent business with
an old acquaintance of his who lived
at a small station about two hundred
miles from Washington, the popula
tion of which is about five hundred.
He asked the conductor if he could
stop the train for him at that place,
but he replied that it would be impos
sible for him to do so—that he certain
ly would lose bis job if he did. Well,
after much worrying over his disap
pointment, Mr. Taft thought of a
scheme by which he could gain his
end, and when the train next stopped
he sent a message to the superinten
dent of the road, saying:
“Will you stop your “Fast Flyer” at
Denizien for a large party on way to
Washington? If so, instruct conduc
tor to stop today.”
About an hour passed, when the con
ductor, passing through the train,
stopped at the Secretary’s seat and
told him that he would be able to get
off at Denizen as he had been ordered
to stop his train there for a large
party going to Washington. The Sec
retary smiled, with that childlike ex
pression of innocence for which he is
famed, thanked him and settled down
again behind his paper. Two hours
later the porter of the train called
“Denizen. Denizen.” much to the sur
prise of the passengers. Mr. Taft
gathered up his handgrip and started
for the platform of the car, where he
was standing when the train came to
a dead stop. As he stepped off the
train there was no one in sight but
the surprised-looklng station agent
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ly unsophisticated, strangely naive,”
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you by your first name. Ours were
always saying to my husband, “Yes,
John, or All right, John,” and to me
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said to John, when we got a new cook:
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Then, perhaps, not knowing my name,
he'll have to say Mrs. to me.”
“So John was very caieful always
to address me as ’Dearie’ or ’Sweet
heart,’ but the new cook—a watchful
chap—at first gave me no title at all.
Very soon after, we had some Eng
lish officers to dinner. I told them
how I had overcome, in the new cook’s
case, the native servant’s horrid abuse
of his employer’s Christian names, and
I said ‘By this servant, at least, you
won’t hear me called Ann.’
“Just then the new servant entered
the room. He bowed to me respect
fully and said:
“ ‘Sweetheart, dinner is served.’
‘‘‘What?’ I stammered.
“‘Dinner is served, Dearie,’ answer
ed the new cook.”
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