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Connecticut western news., 1914-12-24
Vindictive,

Clara (haughtily)-I went to the thea ter every night last week and had a different escort each time.
 Fair Rival tvindictively)-You should be more cautious. my dear.
 "Cautious?"
 "Yes. my dear. III natured people all over the town are saying you can't get the same man to go with you twice. London Mail. ...
Connecticut western news., 1914-12-24
ECHO TOWER IN FESTIVE COURT, PANAMA-PACIFIC IN- TERNATIONAL EXPOSITION. SAN FRANCISCO. 1915

night N of flowers and its lofty will dooded 7
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Connecticut western news., 1914-12-24
Appropriate.

'I saw a dog faced man the other day" "Was his nose d pugT'-Balti more American.
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stone that once covered the ancient
crystalline rocks remains in the form
of the rounded conical hill of Sugar
loaf.
But I do not want to mislead you
into thinking that there has been no
great earth movement there. The
limestones of the Frederick valley
overlie the sandstone of Catoctin and
Sugarloaf mountains and a great break
called fault has displaced them. SO
that at their eastern edge they lie at
the level of the pre-Cambrian crystal
line rocks which represents an earth
movement of several thousands of feet
vertically. This occurred before the
formation of the land surface from
which Sugarloaf was carved. however.
and no great upheavals have taken
place since in this region"
There are many ways Of visiting this
interesting place. You can take the
train to Dickerson and walk about four
and a half miles. With. an automobile
many roads are open to you as far as
the base of the mountain. The Ram
bier walked from Dickerson. At this
time the road was ankle deep in the
yellow dust of that decomposed rock
of which the geologist spoke. 1t is a
narrow road, and when the Rambler
and his friends passed over it was
much used by automobiles, and these
in their rapid passage raised choking
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Prayer Before Action.

nURING one of the numerous wars
- waged by France two centuries
ago a strange scene took place near
Saluzzo. a disputed outpost. which well
illustrates the religious spirit which
often prevailed among the soldiers of
earlier times.
The French approached the besiegers'
lines, and both armies were arranged
for a conflict. The sun shone from a
cloudless sky; every detail on each
array in the field was visible to the
other. and both were beheld at once
from the citadel.
There were three French marshals
present. and. 1t was Schomberg's turn
to command. He drew up his 10000
men in four lines, with skirmishers
in front, and the regular cavalry were
placed at stated intervals. ready to
charge.
In this impressive order. and in abso-
Lutte silence, the French advanced until
nearly within cannon shot, when, at
a signal, the mass halted and stimuli
taneously knelt down to pray. Then
followed the order to attack, which
was silently and cheerfully obeyed.
The battle was not to be, however for
Mazami, amid a volley of musketry,
suddenly appeared. rode at a gallop be-
tween the armies, and stayed the in
cipient fight by bringing acceptable
terms OF peace.
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Of the Ridge road and look eastward,
where thousands of acres in one con-
tinuous tract are uniformly and densely
covered with small oaks OF almost uni
form height. which are brown during
the month of November.
Most trees in the Potomac valley hold
their foliage green until November. to
the surprise of all visitors here from
the north.
"On the ground almost the only color
that is conspicuous is yellow, produced
by the goldenrods, wild sunfiowers, tick
seed sunflowers and burr margolds. Next
to this great yellow display are the
white. blue and purple of several species
Of .aster. The famous New England
aster is rare here. but there are two
or three other species that look like It
and are about as beautiful. The tall
Joe Pye weed. one of the thoroughworts,
has large purplish panicle. while the
iron weed is topped with royal purple.
But 1t Is surprising how few goldenrods.
asters and other composites there are
this year. The poison ivy and Virginia
creeper furnish few red leaves. Former
ly the dazzling red cardinal flower, one
Of the lobelias. was common on the low
grounds. but thoughtless people and van
dal botanists have destroyed nearly all
OF them"
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this mountain is no place for riding. 1t
must be walked and climbed. Yet there
Is what appears to be the relic Of a
very old road which escaladed Big
Knob. 1t seems to have been cut
through the rock and loose powders,
and this old way has been washing and
filling with rock debris until now along
part Of its course 1t resembles ditch.
good road could be built to the sum-
init. but it has yet to be built
Roads skirt the base Of the mountain.
Mount Ephraim, a crossroad named
after Ephraim Harris. an old settler
who made a fortune there in the gem
eral merchandise business. is near the
base. One road comes northeast from
Dickerson on the Metropolitan branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. and
one comes northwest from Barnesville.
The -Dickerson road passes along the
east base Of Sugarloaf and leads to
Urbana, and enters roads leading to
Hyattstown and many other places In
Montgomery and Frederick countfes
The Gainesville road passes around the
west side of the mountain, and also
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leads to Urbana, with branches to Park
Mills and numerous hamlets. No road
crosses the mountain. not even over its
lower. parts. between the knobs.
A number of streams wind around the
base of Sugarloaf, notably Bennett
branch and Little Bennett branch, at the
northerly end. Small streams origi-
nate in the mountain and flow into
Bennett branch, and some others with
out names flow westwardly into the
Monocacy river. roughly about three
miles west of the middle of Sugarloaf.
Furnace branch flows southerly from
the west side and the Little Monocacy
southerly some distance from the east
side. The Monocacy empties into the
Potomac four or five miles south by
west from the top Of Big Knob. Sugar
loaf is in Frederick county about q
mile northwest of the Montgomery
county line.
The Rambler was given very enter
tanning little talk on the geology of the
mountain and it's region by George w.
Stoee of the United States geological
survey. Mr.. Stose said:
LAS we leave Washington on the Bal
timore and Ohio going westward it is
at once noticeable from the effort Of
the engine that we are climbing out of
the valley of the Potomac to an up
land plain. You know this upland
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rocks are also deeply decomposed on
the upland plain. but in the stream
gorges where the rock is freshly ex-
posed lava speckled with bright min
erals that fill its old pores may be
seen. OF course it is hard rock now,
much of 1t like slate. but it tells the
story that in the ages long ago great
quantities of molten rock poured out
of the surface of the earth, covering
a belt Of land scores Of miles long and
extending in width from Germantown
to Dickerson. The slate is quarried at
Mount Ephraim, near where you passed
on your ramble.
"As you approach Dickerson you will
see the cone-shaped Sugarloaf noun
tain on the right, rising like an isolat-
ed volcanic peak out of the upland
plain on which you have been travel
ing. 1t is not a volcanic peak, however.
but was SO shaped by erosion. 1t is
composed of hard sandstone Of the
Cambrian age. like that composing Ca
toctin mountain. ten miles to the west.
This sandstone was deposited in the
waters of an inland sea which occupied.
this area ages ago. during Cambrian
time. The sandstone was the first
sediment laid down in this sea and rep
resents the sands and pebbles derived
from the erosion of the older crystal
line rocks forming the shores of the
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ground. The sugar maple, abundant in
the northern states, yields the most
brilliant golden color of all, but there
are no native trees of that species
around Washington. The red maple.
abundant here, and the river or silver
leaf maple undergo their autumnal
change into pale yellow. The box elder,
a member of the same family, turns
yellowish. Elm becomes in great part
a faded yellow through September.
THE red foliage of autumn Is ex-
hibited mostly by the dogwood family,
comprising first the black or sour gum.
then the Towering dogwood. and more
family the silken cornell or kinnikin-
nick, while our shrubbery landscapes
are daintily ornamented with the red
and purple of the smooth sumac. Some
leaves of the sassafras turn yellow,
some red and the rest remain green,
while all are beautifully fecked with
round black dots.
Brown is furnished by the oaks, main-
ly during the latter part of October and
the most Of November. The most mag
nificent landscape of a uniform coffee
brown color in the vicinity Of Washington
is presented one to three miles east Of
the city, about the headwaters of Piney
and Oxon runs. To obtain the best view
of that scene go to the highest portion
Evening star., 1914-10-25
BRIG. GEN. HENRY p. MCCAIN,
Adtutant general of the army.
Copyright By Cinedinstl

tunate enough to possess the educa-
tional requirements for admission.
So, with barely enough money to
make the journey, and that money ac-
quired by the hardest kind of physical
toll, young Mccain went up to West
Point and to his great ordeal
When he was graduated in 1885 he
was sent as second lieutenant to the
Sd Infantry in the west. Seven years
later, when he was promoted to a first
lieutenancy, he was transferred to the
14th Infantry. Practically all of his
service in those regiments was in the
west.
The west in those days was a differ
ent west from the west of today. Tur-
bulent tribes of Indians in the Dakotas.
Montana and other states We're fur
nishing work for the army. Transpor-
tation was slight. and the infantry did
most of its moving about on foot,
Long, bitter hikes" in midwiner were
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sea and hardened by compression and
other earth forces.
X
Among the larger pebbles in the
sandstone may be found fragments of
all the various kinds of older crystal
line rocks from granite to lava The
sandstone was deposited over all the
surrounding region and was then con-
tinuous from Sugarloaf to the Catoc-
tin mountain. But how came it to
form this isolated mountain peak? Was
it. thrown up by great upheava1 of
the earth? No, it is merely remnant
Of a once higher land surface that ex-
listed in this region. Can you imagine
as you look from the top of Sugarloaf
to Catoctin mountain that many years
ago the intervening Frederick valley
was filled to the same level. which was
then the surface of the land; that since
then the atmosphere has slowly de-
composed the softer rocks and the
rains and streams have gradually re-
moved the material to the ocean and
lowered the country to its present po-
sition? Even the hardest rocks have
been affected by the prolonged process
of erosion, so that only a small rem
nant of the great mass of hard sand
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plain was the land surface near sea
level in late Tertiary time and the
streams flowed across it to the sea.
AS the land was elevated and the sur
face was tilted toward the sea. the
streams cut their channels into the
plain. and that Is the way the Potomac
and its tributaries got into their deep
gorges.
Great Falls shows the last stage of
this cutting of gorge in progress, for
the falls have receded from Washing
ton to their present site during the
cutting of this inner gorge. So. we
rise rapidly from near sea level in
lower Washington to $50 feet at Wood
side. and then travel on the upland
plain, rising gradually to $50 feet ele-
walton at Washington Grove. Few rocks
are seen in this part of the journey. as
they have been so long subjected to the
processes of weathering on the surface
of the old plain that they are decom-
posed to great depths. and form soil
stained bright yellow by iron. The
rocks are ancient granite. gneiss and
schist, the same as may be seen in the
higher parts Of Washington, and are
the Oldest rocks known in this part of
the continent.
"At Germantown we pass on to an
other type of rock-ancient lavas. These
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with deep forest mold. where the asters,
the dogwood, the nightshade and the
laurel grow with great thrift. This
character of soil and vegetation con-
tinues to the top of the knob. but at
the southwest face is a mass Of bare
gray rock.
And here you take your view. It is
a vast outlook. The world is below
you. The roads look like threads, the
farms are squares that remind you of
a checkerboard. and villages are mere
patches of white.
OF the Monocacy river you get a
glimpse above where it enters the Po-
tomac and the Potomac shines below
you almost as far down as Mason
Island, which Is the island above Har-
rison Island associated with Balls
bluff and its battle. The railroad
bridge over the Monocacy is in sight,
and it looks like a little bridge in
landscape that is shut up in the show
window of a shop.
West and southwest and northwest
the Catoctin Mountain, or the Catoctin
range, looms. and far away over its
crest you see the deeper. mister blue
of the Blue Ridge. West and north
west you can count the villages, of
Greenfield Mills on the Monocacy.
Pleasant View, Doubs and Churchill
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of professors, forbidding-looking men
in uniform. along with lot of other
candidates, whose dress and easy man
ner showed them to be more uced to
life than 1, and who seemed entirely
self-possessed," he went on
II was told to go to the blackboard.
There / faced the most complicated
problem in mathematics that l had
ever seen. The figures swan about like
lot of ducks 1 remembered having
seen on a bayou in Mississippi. The
room became blur. For a moment
I did not know where l was
Then, by a tremendous effort, gath
cred myself together. I knew that In
this fight 1 simply had to win, for fail
ure meant that 1 probably would follow
a plow and lop-eared mule through
cotton field for the remainder of my
life.
Suddenly the figures began to take
shape as / looked them over and disen-
tangled them. The blur faded. the room
and its occupants ceased to occupy my
attention. 1 forgot where / was. for
got my own awkwardness and embar-
rassment. l forgot everything but the
problem and my determination to mas
ter IT. AS / concentrated all my mind
upon them, the intracactes of the prob
lem began to unfold and i dashed hg-
ures on the blackboard as fast as
could write them.
4 Il
"After I had worked for some time
an officer stepped up and said kindly
You have got the right idea. You have
made a few mistakes in multiplying
but they are not essential You know
how to do it. That is all right?'
Never before had I heard words that
sounded SO sweet. Music never soothe6
a tortured soul so efectually as they
did. And the considerate tone anc
manner of this awe-inspiring figure II
uniform calmed and delighted me. MY
heart rose, my fears fed, my commence
grew, and the remainder OF the exam.
ination, though by no means easy
brought no great difficulties, for all my
energies were aroused.
Some way l got through. and en-.
tered upon four years OF the hardes,
work of my life. had never Learned
to study, to concentrate and to make
centration and application. intense ant
steady, are essential at the military
academy. Four hard, grueling year,
they were. and I emerged with the COW
eted prize, commission as second lieu
tenant in the army.
1t Is the very human story OF tht
average cadet at West Point that Gen
Mccain has told here. In the mannel
he elects to train as leaders OF MI
armed forces. Harsh, severe. trying Il
may be. but it is essential Leaders o.
men are wanted. What man Is com
pass through the ordeal?
Moreover, it illustrates the democ
racy of the American army. In som'
quarters it is the fashion to talk O.
army officers as "tessellated satraps'
and members of the gold lace aristoc
racy." Perfervid orators would hav'
their auditors believe that these Wes
} Pointers. leaders of the army. in som'
i manner are apart from and alien to thu
so-called common people"
, And yet when one traces out the rec
ord one finds that the greater number
, Of thsse army officers are just sucl
men as Gen. Mccain. Few there are o
family wealth or pampered infancy
Up from the soil they have come. Many
like Gen. Mccain. left the plow handl'
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in closer to the mountain base and per-
haps climbs the side trif1e. This pleas
ant walking continues for nearly a
mile, and another left-hand turn near
an old log house leads into the broad
mouth of a ravine in the mountain side.
The road soon crosses the site of saw
mill, where a hiIlock of sawdust shows
that a large amount of timber-very
likely nearly all the accessible mer-
chantable timber of the mountain-was
sawed here The condition of the saw
dust, slabs and splinters indicates that
the sawmill was in operation only
few years ago.
The road, after passing the sawmill
site, fades into a stony trail, down
which. no doubt, some of the logs were
hauled. This trail. over large stones.
many of them loose, becomes sleeper at
every step. But about one-third of the
way up. and before the breath-t taking
and muscle testing climbing begins,
there is a large space of rocks with a
glorious, spring, where you, may rest
and drink. From the spring your road
is over rocks, and the faint trace of
trail is often obstructed by long fallen
trees or logs left behind by the lum-
bermen. You pass the steepest part of
the ascent over rocks, and then come to
a section of the mountain side overlaid
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The Ready Answer.

DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
discussing the happy voyage OF
the Principe de Udine, which brought
some 500 stranded Americans back
from Genoa. though at a loss to DR.
Butler and certain millionaires of
$4,000. said to a New York reporter: /
THE good work of this ship is AMI
other example of what money. gener-
ously spent, can do. 1t is all very well
to tell our millionaires that money
can't buy happiness. Their ready
answer is:
but what a lot of unhappiness 1t
can buy off,"
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friend, Theodore Roosevelt, then Presi-
dent of the United States.
1t is betraying that which no longer
Is secret to say here that Gen. Woods
Intention, though not then confided to
Mccain, was to get President Roose-
welt to make the young colonel of sta II
brigadier general of the line. Gen.
Wood thought that Mccain possessed
the right sort of qualities for that
position, and several brigadier stars
were about to be conferred.
But Gen. Wood had failed to take ac-
count of McCain's modesty. Mccain
felt that it would be an imposition on
the Presidents good nature to take
up his time in presenting a mere letter
of Introduction. Roosevelt never saw
the letter Had he, the chances are that
Mccain would have been a brigadier
general years ago.
Along in 1912 some dissension arose
inside the army as a result of which
Maj. Gen. F. C. Ainsworth. then ad-
jutant general. suddenly asked for re-
tirement, and got it, Col. Mccain hap
pened to be serving In the department
at the time. At once he become acting
adjutant general of the army. and for
several months he filled the position
capably.
Then again came his turn for service
in the Philippines. He was serving
arose in the position of adjutant gen.
eral, caused by the retirement for age
of Brig. Gen. George Andrews. Secre-
tary Garrison went carefully over the
records of the colonels in the corps
and then determined that this Col. Nc
Cain, whom he had never seen. was
the man for the job. a cable brought
Col. Mccain to Washington, and few
convinced
Garrison that the judgment based ON
the record. was accurately formed, \
star went on the shoulder of the slim
soldier from Mississippi, ana II is Bfls-
Gen. Mccain now.
When the phrase the right-hand
man" came into being, the inventor had
an adjutant in mind. The adJutant or
any military organization is the COM
mander's right-hand man. He is the
authority which transmits orders ana
sees that orders are carried out, ana
in the modern organization he also IS
the record keeper And do not Tor a
fieeting instant imagine that record
keeping in the army is a slight ]ob IN
this land of big military pensions. an
based on military records, 1t behooVes
Uncle Sam to see that those military
records are kept with peculiar exact.
ness.
Hence all the records and archives OF
the War Department from the time
there was an American army down to
the present, the individual records OF
all officers and men, all the old Confed-
crate records captured by the union
army during the civil war-these and
lot more are under the care OF the ad.
jutant general
No order to troops from the war De-
partment but has to pass through his
hands: no promotion is made save
through him. His is the work OF the
right-hand man. Next TO
the chief of staff, the adjutant general.
is the most powerful ngure In ths
American army organization.
A far cry to this position from foI>
lowing a pillow and a lop-eared mule
a Mississippi cotton field. But
this Is the way of the democratic
American army. ASHMUN BROWN .
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only a trifle more uncomfortable than
the same sort of hikes" over sun
baked desert in midsummer.
And garrison life did not present
many joys. Tiny little army posts. oc-
cupied by single company or bat
talon at most, dotted the western
landscape. Hitching posts, the army
calls them. That was one of the evils
of the old system which the army is
now trying SO hard to do away with
serve with the larger units, and thus
were unframed in the character of
work which real war requires. For
example. Gen. Mccain never saw full
regiment assembled until the war with
Spain.
From hitching post to hitching post
wandered the detachments of the Sd
and 14th with which Gen. Mccain was
connected, herding hostile Indians back
to the reservations and the like, until
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War and Foot Ball.

tWAR is one thing. foot ball is an
other" said Percy Haughton.
the Harvard coach. But before the new
rules were introduced, foot ball and war
were the same thing absolutely"
Mr.. Haughton smiled.
They tell a story of a player under
the old rules. This player just after a
game, was seen hopping about the grid
iron on one leg in the frosty autumn
twilight
'Limbering up your muscles, siry
said a field attendant Limbering up
after the game sir?'
Not at ALL the player answered
I'm looking for my left foot You
haven't seen it anywhere. have your"
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fogs of fine grit that turned white col
lars and white cuffs yellow in a Whit.
1t Is a trifle over two miles to Mount
Ephraim, which is mount only in
name, but the land is higher than that
over which you have Travelled from
Dickerson. An old brick house stands
there with a new frame addition. 1t Is
now the home of S. C. Jones, but long
ago it was the home of Ephraim Har-
ris, part of whose name was given to
the crossroad.
Looking. toward the mountain from
this point. you see a white house which
shines among the trees at the south
base of the mountain. You will be told.
as the Rambler was told, that it Is the
home of Gordon Strong, who owns the
mountain and a large acreage OF land
around the base. In an indirect way
the Rambler heard that this gentleman
intends to erect a great house on Big
Knob, but that story may be the sub
ject of another ramble, for when man
climbs the Sugarloaf once he wants to
go again and again.
The main road to Urbana or to Hy-
attstown runs along the east base Of
the mountain and you follow this for a
mile. On your left road not extern
sively used and full shaded by the
woods through which it goes strikes