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especial compulsory taxes. They can, if they so desire, 
become naturalized citizens after two years residence, or 
even sooner if they have rendered especial service to the 
state, or have married an Argentine wife. Strangers, in- 
deed, have a privileged position in Argentine, as regards 
their civil rights, for the constitution provides that the 
July 28, 1916. 
foreigner shall have the right to have their cases tried 
by the Federal Courts; that is to say, by judges appointed 
in the capital and in every province by the national gov- 
ernment. Accordingly, such cases are taken out of the 
jurisdiction of the local court. 
Magnolia, July 22, 1916. 
The Appleton Farms at Ipswich 
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Monument at the Round Point in the Rides at 
Appleton Farms, Ipswich 
PPLETON FARMS” always suggests Ipswich, and 
Ipswich always suggests that beautiful section where 
the Appleton families have gathered for so many years. 
“Appleton Farms” means acres and acres of farmland 
and cultivated woodland through which there are many 
miles of grass roads. These grass roads, or the rides 
in Pee Farms,” ts they are usually called, were 
begun by the late Mr. Daniel Fuller Appleton, who cut 
away the brush and trees so that he might drive in and 
about the woods and pasture lands. His son, Francis R. 
Appleton of “New House,” “Appleton Farms,” has wid- 
ened and perfected the roads. Some beautiful pines are 
here and there along these lonely drives,—standing like 
sentinels over the aged forest, and perhaps surprised that 
their quiet has been disturbed. At one little spot in the 
rides there is a clump of “life everlasting,’ known many 
years by the Appleton children, who have gathered its 
blessoms and carried them home to tell its sweet story. 
Could there have been a more fitting place than in these 
rides for a monument, representing the past, to be placed? 
In one of the intersections of the rides stands a gray 
granite pinnacle, one of the twenty-six on Gore Hall, 
which was formerly the library at Harvard College. Gore 
Hall, built in 1838, was demolished in 1913 for the new 
general library, known as the Harry Elkins Widener 
Memorial Library, and given by his mother, Srinlas George 
). Widener, now Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice. Harry Elkins 
Widener, Harvard ’o07, lost his life in the Titanic. 
The pitnacle was placed in “Appleton Farms,” August 
5, 1914. Engraved upon a brass plate upon it is the 
following poem written by Helen Hay, daughter of the 
late John Hay, and who is now Mrs, Payne Whitney 
of New York: 
“So grave it stands this stone apart” 
You would not think how kind 
It sheltered once beneath its heart 
Young life and pulsing mind. 
Glad ardent questing minds of youth 
This pinnacle has known, 
Who came from far to seek for truth 
Within its walls of stone. 
Now like life’s twilight it seems shorn 
Of all its powers, and yet 
The spirit children it has borne 
They will not soon forget. 
Still brave it meets the sun’s first rays, 
Girdled by laughing trees, 
Unvexed by time it rests and dreams 
Its deathless memories. 
—H Hee 
Another poem about the pinnacle has been written by 
Ruth Appleton Tuckerman. 
Crown oF LIFE 
Lie here the pinnacle brought low from place 
Of honor where the wise dream dreams and plan 
Great deeds. Here now it looks into the face 
Of children near and hears the voice of man. 
So humbled it has joy not known before, 
In this its lowliness has touch and sight 
Of tender human things and sees the door 
Of souls stand wide and knows the might 
Of sympathy. It has come down to strife 
Of earth. It has found here its Crown of Life. 
—k. T. 
