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and the Confederate Army faced east.
toward Washington. On the night of
the goth Gen. Pope and his forces be-
gan the retrograde movement toward
highlands around Centerville.
September l, according to Pope's ac-
count, he directed Gen. Summer, with
two brigades, to push. forward from
Centerville on a reconnaissance toward
the Little River turnpike He found
a Confederate column moving east
along that road for the evident pur
pose of opposing his retreat toward
Washington.
Pope sent Gen. Hooker to Fairfax
Court House and sent Mcdowell along
the Warrenton pike east to Difficult
creek, and Reno at that point was to
push north to Chantilly or the
Chantilly neighborhood. HeintZleman's
corps was to support him.
1t was just about sunset, September ],
that the Confederate force along the
Little River pike attacked, the at.
tack being met by Hooker, Mcdowell
and Reno and by Kearny's division of
Heintzleman's corps. A very severe ac-
ton took place in the country traversed
by the old dirt road which runs from
the Little River pike at Pender south
ward to the Warrenton pike. That old
dirt road, through woods and open
country, leads along by the Thrift
(now the Bullard) farm. There kear-
ny, in advance of his division, was
to the effect that because of the gath
ering darkness and the storm kearny
was really inside the Confederate line,
and recognizing this too late. started
to gallop to his own lines, when he was
fired on and killed. The body, SO the
story runs, was found by the Confed-
crates, recognized by some Of Kear-
ny's comrades in the old army and
was sent through the lines that night
to the Union camp.
Gen. Stevens was killed close to the
spot in the same field where Phil kearny
was shot from his saddle. Darkness
ended the fighting. The Army of the
Potomac took up position along Diff
cult creek from Flint Hill to the Alex
andria pike, and the next day. unop-
posed, resumed its movement back to the
entertainments on the Virginia hills
overlooking Washington.
Maj. Gen. John Pope, writing of the
campaign of the second Bull Run. in
which he naturally included Chantilly.
after telling of the killing of Phil
kearny, wrote:
There have been few such officers as
kearny in our own any other army.
In war he was an enthusiast, and never
so cheerful and confident as in battle.
Tall and 1.-THE in figure with a most eX-
preSsive and mobile countenance. and a
manner which inspired confidence and
zeal in all under his command. no one
could fail to admire his chivalric bear
ing and his supreme courage. He
seemed to think that it was his mission
to make up the shortcomings of others,
and in proportion as these shortcom-
ngs were made plain his exertions and
exposure were multiplied. He was a
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The Paper Mulberry Tree.

EVERYBODY who takes an interest in
such things has noticed and COM
mented on the tree which is nearly al
ways spoken of as the paper mulberry
No old house or old garden in Washing
ton or the country around Washington
seems to be able to get along without this
tree, and it is usually a dusty, ragged
and untidy-seeming tree. 1t. has always
been a curious thing to boys that no two
leaves of this tree are alike
A friend of the Rambler who was talk
ing to him about this tree said: Il do not
know any other tree around Washington
which exhibits such wide leaf variation,
except, perhaps, the sassafras and red
mulberry
The paper mulberry is a native of
China. Japan. Siam and the East Indies.
1t was introduced into the United States
for ornamental purposes in the eighteenth
century, and it has escaped extensively
in some localities. 1t grows wild in
abundance in the vicinity of Cabin John.
The scientific name of this tree. brous-
sonetia paperifera, commentaries the
French physician naturalist, August
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being the first democrat to ever hold this
Office.
Nor is that all. for upon his election to
the Senate by the Kansas legislature, he
received the largest vote ever given a
candidate in that state, being practically
unanimously elected by republicans, so
cialists and democrats alike. And right
on the heels of this comes the climax.
For Mrs William Howard Thompson Is
likewise a democrat. She admits the soft
impeachment. and adds, too. that she is
as strong a democrat as the senator him
self-which is going some.
1t takes but casual glance around
Mrs. Thompson's attractive drawing
room to realize that her home, and the
comfort 1t spells for its inmates, Is very
dear to her. In one corner baby grand
piano, open and with music on the rack,
bespeaks love for music that is not
merely superficial.
Il love my music Mrs. Thompson ad-
mitted, land try to keep it up. But. 1t
is not always easy. Sometimes days will
go by, and l won't touch the piano. And
then comes day when l feel that unless
I do l will be miserable. At one time
sang. too but children and singing were
too big a problem. So the singing went.
Even greater, however, than Mrs.
Thompson's love for music, Is her love
for painting. The Kansas residence of
the Thompsons is in Garden City, where
they have their home always feaoy 70 20
n.
Thompson's paintings reman there, al
though she has brought on several Tor
their Washington home. ana SO one is
able TO realize not only Mrs. Thompson
love of painting, but her ability as well.
X X
"Practically everything I have done,
she said has been in oils. as 1 get IN
f1nitely more joy from working in those
than in water colors With water colors
the first working out of the picture must
be the last. But in oils more than half
the pleasure is gradually working out
the picture to fulfill your desires
Flowers and animals are the favorite
subjects which Mrs. Thompson paints.
A long spray Of the California poinsettia,
which Mrs. Thompson painted during a
year she spent In that state. hangs upon
one wall, a bright bit of color On the
opposite wall hangs group of cream
pieces particularly have been favorably
commented upon by those Of recognized
ability.
In one corner of the parlor hangs a
frame, smaller than the rest. It is the
picture of small cat which. Mrs
Thompson explains. Is supposed to have
just caught a bird. The bird. however,
escaped. and left but few tail feathers
And. 30 true to life is the tabby's ex-
humanity to the winds and retrieve the
lost morsal to satisfy the pleading looks
in pussy's eyes.
Facing this is the picture of an elk,
head erect, antlers spread, which Is the
antithesis Of the cat picture. Between
these two the picture of a women
leaning over a small girl on the brink OF
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Broussonet. and the common name all
ludes to the extensive use of the hast
by eastern Asiatcs for paper. II is also
employed by the South Sea islanders in
the manufacture Of cloth. The tree be-
longs to the mulberry family. and many
of its closest relatives such as the true
mulherries morus speciesl, the Usage
orange and the cultivated fig. may be
found growing hardly in portions OF
the District of Columbia
No two leaves of the tree arc quite
alike. although the great majority belong
to one or other of the four following types:
The unlohed type. the nitten-shaped
type. the trident type. with two side
lobes and the iive-lobed type.
A good deal of literature may he found
devoted to this old tree. Franklin X.
Hough special agent of the Department
of Agriculture in 1871, then the bureau
of agriculture. made report in Which
he treated of this tree and its various
uses in the orient. Another forestry
author by the name of Hough In TINS
case Romeyn B. Hough. has written
general account of the physical charae-
teristics. range and economic uses OF the
paper mulberry.
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THE VILLAGE OF cHANrILL4 :.

was bought by Robert Weaver of
Georgetown. who built the modern villa
like house on the site of the old Cham
lilly.
Just the other side of a stream called
Broad Lick, which flows into Club run,
the latter flowing into Bull run.
You have come past the place where
three miles back over the road you have
come. near Pender. between the War
renton pike and the Little River pike. on
the farm of Capt. John Ballard. No.
was some talk of putting up one al
though nothing ever came of it,"
The Rambler went on to Chantilly
village, though it is like all the other
in that part of the land-a general
store, a blacksmith shop with strange
assortment or tumble of dilapidated
buggies and wagons. and two or three
From Chantilly the Rambler retraced
his steps to Fender and then turned
southerly along road leading over to
the Warrenton. pike. Half mile along
John N. Ballard" on it, and turned
into long lane to house deeply
yelled by the foliage of large trees.
Capt ballard and his wife were on
Rambler could say Phil Kearny or Gen.
Stevens. Capt. Ballard and Mrs. Ballard
made him sit down. asked him to have
some supper, asked him to spend the
night. urged him at least to have a
glass of milk, and then brought out
dish of ice cream, made with cream,
very smooth and not too sweet
Yes. Gen. Kearny and Gen. Stevens
were killed on this place Some of
Kearny's men were down here and so
was Gen. Stevens son, Hazard Stevens
who was captain of a company in the
army. and they showed me the places
where those brave men fell. and
marked the spots with as big pieces of
white quartz as could find on the
place. l offered to give them land on
which to put up monuments. and some
thing of this kind may be done yet"
Capt. Ballard pointed out into his
field to the two white markers, nearly
hidden under daisies and goldenrod
Most of the fighting of the battle of
Chantilly was on this farm, about five
miles east of the village of Chantilly
and four miles east of Chantilly House
The Confederates called the fight the
battle of Ok Hill. that being the old
name of the rising ground of the Bal
lard farm and where the settlement of
Fender stands
X i
At the time of the battle the Ballard
farm was called the Thrift farm Mrs
Ballard was Miss Thrift. The property
was in charge of an overseer when the
battle took place and he sought shelter
in the cellar of the house, which was
not destroyed and which still stands
with modern addition. Miss Thrift,
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Drums, trumpets and melody seem to
be as essential to an army as guns, pow
der, lead and steel. Soldiers demand mu-
sic. A few years ago the French minis
try Of war sought to abolish army bands
in order to put more rifles on the firing
line, but the protest of the soldiers and
the representations of officers were such
that the military bands were restored to
their places at the head of the regiments
with the proviso that in battle they would
take their places in the ranks and use
the same arm as that with which their
command was equipped.
In all the armies of Europe attempts
have been made from time to time to turn
the musicians into rif1emen or cannoneers,
but the soldiers have always so resented
1t that governments found it expedient to
retain the bands. The soldier insists on
his music as on having his ration. His
morale Is better for it, his temper in
garrison is better for 1t and his resistance
to fatigue on the march and in the field
is greater.
Napoleon complained, after he was de-
feated in Russia, that it was the deplor-
able result of Russian winter and Russian
army music.
..The weird and barbaric tunes of these
Cossack regiments simply Infatuated the
half-starved Muscovites to the maddest
rage and they wiped out the very cream
of the army" wrote the great conqueror
in his notebook.
The Russian military authorities, or
those not Immediately concerned with the
command of troops, have attempted to
turn the large number of musicians in
the Russian military service into fighting
men, but the effort has resulted in fail
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after all, that is the happiest way for
a brother and sister to be.
BILLY is just three, and is, of course.
the baby"
Mrs. Thompson added that, being out
playing, he was probably very dirty
Billy. She went to look for him, and
encountered on the way numerous draw
ings in colors grotesquely strewn along
the walk to the street and the cement
curbing of the yard. 1t was only. too
evident that small hands had conceived
these rude pictures
That" said Mrs. Thompson rs what
it means to have a family!" But. some
how. one got the impression that, after
ALL she regarded it is thing eninently
worth while pictures dirt and all.
When the culprit materialized. he
proved to be a sunny faced kiddie with
light hair and big blue eyes. who
vouchsafed only the information that he
was tired and hungry.
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their parents their companions from
choice
Il believe in a mother being a COM
panion to her children" she said. That
is what 1 have tried to be to all my
children. More than that, l have tried
to make the two oldest companionable
with EACH other. The fact that 1 have
succeeded in both instances is one of
the greatest joys of my life. Thelma
who is eighteen, and Wilbert, who is six
teen. are both members of next year S
graduating class at high school. Thel-
ma is really younger than her years,
and on account of sickness lost year
at school, On the other hand, Wilbert
is older than his age. and after study
ing overtime, he was able to catch up
with sister SO that they are now
shoulder to shoulder.
But there is none of that jealousy
about it which SO often exists. Where
one is, there I know the other is, too.
Her friends are his. and vice versa. And
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ure as it has in all other armies. When
the reduction of military musicians was
under advisement in Russia. Gen. Line
witch. then commander-in-chief of the
Russian army, reported as follows:
Music is one of the most vital ammu-
nitions of the Russian army. Without
music a Russian soldier would be dull,
cowardly. brutal and inefficient From
music he absorbs magic power of en-
durance and forgets the sufferings and
mortality. 1t is divine dynamite.
Ivan Narodny in an article published
in Musical America some time ago said:
During the last Russo-Japanese war
I had occasion to hear the soldiers de-
manding the bands to play when, for
strategic reasons, music was temporarily
forbidden l remember distinctly how,
one evening before the great battle at
Mukden, a group of soldiers urged the
band of their regiment to play such
pieces as Tschaikowsky Siav March,
Schumann's .Traumerei,' etc. 1t was
rather pathetic to hear one of the SOL
dierS saying:
whether l am to be shot or I have
the luck to remain alive, 1 know not-but
l must hear my favorite march this fatal
night It's stimulation to action. a
solace to the SOUL
II was told the soldier was killed, and
he whistled. dying, the march he had
heard the evening before. There were
occasions when the battle was raging.
yet the musical company was still play
ing. l was told that in one regiment
thirty mine musicians had fallen, but
the last-a futist-continuel playing to
the beats of the bandmaster until they
were taken prisoners
The same writer says that it is
tradition of the Russian army that when
regiment leaves the barracks fSr the
war the musical company performs the
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Wflbert and William Howard, jr., Mrs
Thompson touches one of her two deep
est interests, the other being her hus-
band.
Mrs. Thompson has pronounced ideas
regarding the rearing Of children. For
instance, she believes that a child's in
dependence should be developed to the
highest possible dgree. and for this rea-
son does not advocate nurses. She adj
mits that many times she wonders how
they escape from being killed in their
play. but maintains, nevertheless, that
they need self-reliance. But Mrs.
Thompson far from believes in letting
them run wild" in consequence. She
believes that the home should be made
a happy place for them, that they will
remain there from preference, and make
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1T love painting and music she said,
land have been interested in politics
since my earliest recollections. But
above all else. J love my home and its
immediate interests"
1t is not always that one can find
nowadays a woman of many interests, all
Of which dovetale as perfectly as do
those of Mrs. Thompson. First of all
comes the home. and the baby grand
piano in the parlor, and the large oil
paintings on the wall which Mrs. Thomp-
son executed herself, all merely go to
make that home more attractive.
And as for her political interest. 1t is
the kind which is of real worth to the
senator-the kind which makes a woman
stay up until late at night during cam
paign times to help and encourage.
Mrs THOMPSON possesses the charac-
teristic of that Irish type so we'll known,
the dark. wavy hair, and deep blue eyes.
together with clear complexion. And in
addition to all this she has expressive
features which light up with interest
whenever she is talking. And she is
ready to show interest in anything worth
while that may be mentioned. from NOV
Ing pictures and their development to
woman's place in the world, domestic
and political.
II am particularly interested In the
coming elections next November in Kan
sas," Mrs. Thompson said. 1T was at
the last election that Kansas women re-
ceived the state franchise. so the forth
coming election will be the first oppor-
tunity to judge Just what the women s
vote in my state will be.
kansas is In position. / believe, to
show just what womens suffrage can
mean-as a medium for good. For. you
know. ever since | can remember women
have had the vote in municipal affairs
Consequently, they re familiar with the
responsibility to a certain extent
'.In the present campaign We have one
Koman candidate. Tor the house of rep
hSsntatives. There was also a woman
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RTIST, pianist, po-
litical enthusiast,
home maker-and
mother. Such Is
the necessary pref
ace to any account
of Mrs. William
Howard Thompson.
wife of the junior
senator from Kan
sas, for all these
things she Is, and
more
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candidate for the senate, but she recently
withdrew.
Suffrage, to me. is serious question
aside from its main issue. To the wom-
an who has home and family to take
up her time, the vote can only mean an
added responsibility. for the woman who
would WELD 1t intelligently must do more
than merely put a cross against certain
names on the ballot.
II believe, too, that women as a whole
are going to live up to this responsible
ity. In Kansas, where for several years
women have held difficult municipal Of
fees, they have carried out their work
in a serious. far sighted. broadminded
way. And now that they will shortly
use their right in the state elections for
the first time, I do not doubt but that
they will strive toward the best good of
the state, and will vote for those men
who are best able to fulfill the work"
Nor is her interest in Kansas politics
generally in any way vague. When she
expresses herself as interested In the
campaign. it means that she knows per-
sonally the candidates in the field for
practically every Office. together with
their respective platforms Nor is that
all, for she has her own ideas as to what
the result will be and upholds them
stoutly.
A short time ago she got into a politi-
cal argument with some one, the topic
being the fall elections in Kansas, and
in order to see which would be right
eventually, Mrs. Thompson wrote down
the stand Of each. Next November she
will produce this document and know
which was right. And neither partic!-
pant in that discussion will be able to
go back on their original argument
something which has been known in po-
litical discussions.
Mrs. Thompson's interest in politics is
not far to seek. Her father, Andrew j
Felt. was formerly lieutenant governor
of Kansas, and an active politician prac-
tioally all his life. Politics was q sub
ject. Mrs. Thompson said. which she
heard constantly, as 1t was always a
principal topic at the table.
And in direct connection with politics,
Is an interesting little comment about
Mrs. Thompson. Her father was, ac-
cording to her own estimation, a ''red
hot republican.
Why she exclaimed. when was a
child / thought democrats were abso-
lutely beyond the pale"
And right here. let 1t be said, that fate
must have overheard that remark and
put 1t down in a ledger. For, when Mrs.
Thompson grew to womanhood, and the
question of love entered her life. politics
became absolutely unimportant to the is
sue. For Senator Thompson is Z demo-
crat. Furthermore, at the age Of thirty
i. IL
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now Mrs. Ballard. is a granddaughter
the war of 1872 and who was then the
owner of this historic farm. Her
father. Col. James Thrift, of the Con-
federate service, was killed at Seven
The last week of August, 1852, was a
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busy and bloody one for the Army of
the Potomac and the Army of Northern
Virginia. On the eth and 2Sth there
was fighting, and on the 10th and Goth
the fighting was terrific north and
south of the Warrenton pike. around
Sudley, Groveton. Chinn Hill and Henry
farm. The Union Army faced west
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much water in the creek, but its banks,
the width of the bed and the height of
the bridge showed that in times of
storm flood roars and whirls there.
Asking the name of the water course,
the Rambler was told that 1t was Diff
cult creek. Its water was not running,
but the Rambler judged that it flowed
north. which would be in the direction
of the Potomac, and the thought came
that this must be the upper part of
Difficult run, the stream which breaks
through the palisades of the Potomac
and enters the river below Great Falls.
Passing this creek the next thing of
interest along the way is a cross-road
village named Pender. The Rambler
asked a native by the wayside if the
place did not take its name from the
distinguished Confederate officer, Pen
der. and was told that it did. 1t was
leading question and the answer might
have followed suit to the suggestion.
The countryman said that Cen Pender
was killed there, which was not good
history. Pender's brigade probably oc-
cupied that position at one time. prob
ably at the battle of Chantilly.. but we
move on.
Meeting an intelligent countryrnan about
three miles further on the Rambler asked
first how far ahead Chantilly was and
was told that Chantilly House was just
beyond on the right, but that Chantilly
village and post Office was about two miles
further on Asked where Phil Kearny
was killed about there he did not know.
He did not know that in any part of the
country around there was monument to
a brave officer killed in battle. for the
Rambler, a stranger in those parts. sup
posed that the comrades of kerny had
surely put up some marker on the spot
where he died The Rambler's friend said
that few houses further along Con-
federate veteran lived and he could prob
ably tell all the Rambler wanted to know.
That veteran the Rambler learned was
r1rrr
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FEW days ago
the Rambler. tell
ing of a trip to
the war-worn Nir-
ginia hamlet of
Centerville, told of
a gray. warped
and weather beat
en- ST e II b o a r d
which, in faded
letters. gives to
ira velers Informal
ton that Chantilly
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Some distance out of Fairfax. as the
Rambler recalls it was about two
miles, you cross big branch and pic
turesque stone bridge. There was not