Show HOME OF PRESIDENT 14 MADISON ADISON typical southern mansion rich in historic of americas America 8 great statesman and patriot I 1 have always been an ardent ad mh er of the public life and private character of james madison said cornelius J reilly of detroit mich to a correspondent of the washington star and when I 1 to fo ind I 1 was to pass through orange court house yester day decided to lay oner for the day and visit the home of mr air madison the distance ficia the town to mont pelier is only four miles over a good dirt road and at this season of the year when the foliage Is so richly hued with autumnal tints the drive Is tte tle most charming imaginable A rall railroad road parallels the drive and evi dently bisects the plantation the entrance to the lan lawn is a quarter of a mile from the mans or and the latter Is seated upon gentle eminence with a magi chit t L I 1 r i d of a abely for et trees it 1 la 0 lv i hon you reach ohp boich of to te io 10 flee t iee that once sheltered the iq i q of or monteel er that you bog bag i to appreciate recite tre tle beauty of the lings the lawn Is a well ie t field of doity ancee and gently slopes to the broad highway the foreground in the distance is the blue pidge mountains of which your vision gets a range of forty miles the house has been restored as much as possible to the state in which it wa was when mr madison was a dweller therein the architecture of the man slon sion ib quite similar to that of the white house with this exception it lachs lacks the massive greek portico of 0 the latler latter structure tire I 1 was told the elder madison erected the dwelling in 1793 the interior is roomy and I 1 was shown the library wherein mr madison wrote many 0 pf the paper papers which are now historic I 1 was also shown the room on the floor in which mr madison liea thed his last nearly a hall half mile to the north west of the mansion are the graves ot of dalio i 1 0 do I 1 the re mans ma as 0 airs mrs td on s 0 ly son re coq 11 tl e im oa e ily fly lot k plain moru ant lea ica n a vcr err 9 nio md e in scrip ini inn tell i re rest t r a t I 1 time one ol 01 ameil i t grei est statesmen and pati ota ot |