Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28

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session for both states. and on figuring
up find that on the date above mentioned
the number of pensions granted to Missouri
applicants was fourteen, and just the same
number to applicants in Kansas. Some peo-
did not take a vssy e a Five part on the
Union side in the lateS civil war. but if you
will turn to the rol5s yet will discover, no
doubt very much TO your amazement, that
missouri Kept up pretty even step with
quite as frequently as The represent a tfves
of some of the otter states in the Union.
While Missouri has always been demo-
cratic on state and national issues, and
was from her earliest history slave ter
ritory and state, che has largely been a
believer in the union ofc states, and when
the time arrives fer national defense Mis-
souri, men can beireliedt upon to do their
share at posts of danger i-...
II imagine that this strong sentiment in
favor OF the perpetuation Of our present
form or government is largely due to the
early founders of the state, of whom none
were more prominent than; the late Thomas
Benton. Later on Francis p Blair exercised
tment OF the state, and there is no ques-
ton but what he did as much II not more
than any other man OF his day to keep
Missouri in line in 1891
II am sorry to say said Mr. Tom Mar
a guest of the Metropolitan, 'that this sea-
son we have not shared in the prosperity
that seems to have obtained in other Sec
lions of the United States. While other To-
calities in Virginia have had copious falls
of rain, 1t was only within the past three
weeks that upper Fauquier has been bless
ed with any dampness that would affect
the grass. The section in which / reside
is a cattle-fattening and cattle-growing
section. We buy our cattle in the tall,
carry them through the winter, and in
the early spring we put them on our blue
the early spring we put them on our blue
grass lands and get them ready for mar
ket without good, healthy growth of
grass the cattle-feeding business with us
langu1shes and as our chief industry now
adays is the fattening of beef cattle, when
our grass fails we are, to use the vernacu-
lar, up against 1t.
Our wheat crop this year was not quite
up to the standard, but it now looks as if
our corn crop would make up the deficiency.
There was a time. few years after the
war, when number of Fauquier county
farmers engaged largely in the sheep in
dustry. The mistake that most Of them
made was that they introduced from the
north several thousand head of fine wool
sheep at high prices instead of purchasing
coarse wool mutton sheep. Had they gone
into the coarse wool industry and raised
early lambs for the Washington and Balti-
Aioie Nidi Nets lHey WOulu nave Deen HucH
better off fnanciallu. A few planters in my
vicinity have started in the coarse wool
industry and are doing very well. The dairy
business with us is still quite limited, al
though few farmers are engaged in It.
Yes, / am member of the Marshall
family of Fauquier county and a direct
descendant of Colonel Tom Marshall of rev.
olutionary fame and father of Chief Justice
John Marshall Ny father was nephew
of the chief justice and his mother was a
If Rnhnrt Of i1a1. 1,,l1i
the financier of the revolution. My wife is
granddaughter of the chief Justice and in
an old field not over eighty rods from where
now reside Is an old log hut in wficn tire
dition says Colonel Tom Marshall resided
with his numerous brood of children when
he first moved toIoupper Fauquier. 1t is
strange, in view of all these circumstances,
that some enterprisingG photographer has
not visited Markham and taken snap shot
of this ancient relic of the revolutionary
period. Four miles southeast of Markham
is Oak Hill, where Colonel Tom Marshall
erected his family roof tree after his
arrival in the vicihity1Lof Markham, and
under which he resided when called TO take
up arms in behalf. of the people of this
country in 1776. The property subsequently
became the pa trinTony of the chief justice
and remained in the family until the close
of the civil war, when 1t was purchased by
MIR. Green. the present proprietor of the
Warren Green Hotel, at Warrenton, Va.
The chief justice owned large tract of
land in upper Fauddier, Which he purchased
in partnership with Dr. Raleigh CoIston, his
ter, and Light LHsfse Aarrya Lee, father
of the late General Robert E, Lee. at the
close of the revolutionary war from the
heirs Of Lord Fairfax. Some Of the land is
Et:n owned by the descendants of the chief
justice and those of his brother James, -
You would hardly believe it, said Colo
mel James Thornton of Manassas, guest
Of the Raleigh, that five miles from that
town on the top of Bull Rim mountain,
there exist people who have never visited
the town in which l live. The residents of
Bull Run mountain are separate and dis
tnct type by reason of their long residence
in that vicinity from the people who dwell
on the plains below, as if they originally
belonged to a separate tribe or race The
isolation that existed many years be fore
the war. and which has continued since its
has grown a distinct type, and
this social and physical condition of things
is duplicated in all of the mountainous dis
tricts of Virginia. These people, although
isolated, are a religious and God-fearing
people, and while they have not always had
the advantages Of common schools, and
some of them at times given to drinking too
much liquor, they make fairly good citizens,
without giving the county authorities very
much trouble. One popularity about them
Is that they are Jealous of strangers, and
do not take to them as readily as do the
people of the plains.
"A short distance west of Bull Run is a
tract of land inhabited by a people quite as
peculiar They are known as Texans and
he district In which they reside is known
as Free State Just why these people are
called Texans and why the section of
they inhabit is called Free State
do not know. The Texans are largely a
aw unto themselves. They marry and are
given in marriage, but it Is a very rare
hing that they engage in matrimony with
my persons outside of their own bounda-
les One would not look for heroes in this
class of people, but l recollect that at the
oattle of Malvern Hill Texan in my
was stricken down and MORALLY
by shell. The battery to which
belonged had been very roughly handled
oy federal artillery, and we were soon with
)ut horses and very much depleted in the
natter of men to man the guns. The poor
fellow was lying on his back gasping for
breath while the blood was pouring in tor
.ents from his side, and as the captain of
he company passed along the line he said,
captain, I am sorry that 1 cannot be of
any use to you today, but perhaps 1 can
lold horse and as it was quite necessary
hat the able men should be detailed else
where he gave him the reins of two artillery
horses to hold, and then went about his
business.
when the battle was ended the captain
If the company returned to the wounded