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school which has f1ourished for 700 years;
and she has schools at Petrograd, Mos
COW. Odessa, Kieff. Charkoff; at Tomsk
and 1rkutsk in Siberia, and al Tifis In
the Caucasus
In the non-German parts OF Austria
and Hungary are 500 German schools.
In South America there are over
thousand. Including German schools
in the United States, there are alto
gether $500 German schools in parts of
the world where German is not the ma
tive language. The larger of these
schools has primarily commercial
and practical character. Hence every
year thousands of young men are turn
ed out into business to whom German
is practically native language and to
most of whom English and French are
unknown. sDeutsche Sprach-und Han
del observation-disclosures language and
trade missionaries-is Hentigs phrase
for these scholars
Germans are waking up to the value
of mission schools as means of
spreading the German language Some
time ago the center reichstag member,
Prince Lowenstein Wertheim Rosen-
berg, started a movement for pushing
Germanism in China by means of
Catholic mission schools The prince
pointed to the remarkable way in
which the Catholic French missions
have enforced French on the Levant.
Two generations ago Italian was tho
oriental lingua franca; it dominated
Constantinople: now it is extinct and
nearly every educated Turkish subject
of whatsoever race speaks French.
Prince Lowenstein w Wertheim got For
eign Secretary Won Jagow to promise
official support. Germans hope to cut
out English in China. The German
East Asia Union has a scheme for
Systematically imposing German. 1t
quotes Chancellor Caprivi's phrase:
Trade follows the tongue" and also
says: The center Of gravity of all ef-
forts to conquer the Chinese market
is the spreading of ones own
language"
The union has published a scheme for
establishing system of linked educa-
tional institutions. beginning with ele
mentary schools which will lead, as in
Germany. first to secondary schools, the
secondary schools to prepare for tech
nical high schools and to qualify Chinese
iads for studying at German universities.
Each Of the ten most important Chinese
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Volunteer Fire Company Officers.

IT. HERE was a good deal of organi.
zation and a good many officers.
all of them elective, In the old-time
volunteer fire company. This will ap.
pear from the following notice. print.
ed in Washington newspapers more
than half a century ago and which re-
Gently fell under the Rambler's eye:
"Anacostia fire company-The follow
ing members have been elected officers
for the ensuing year: Charles Ander.
son, president; William B. Dobbins.
vice president: Thomas w. Cook, sec
retary: William E. Hutchinson, treas
urer; AlexaDder Eaton. steward; James
E. Cook. captain of engine: Samuel
Eaton. captain of hose. Thomas w
Cook, Alexander Eaton and Samuel
Carlisle. delegates to the united fire
department.
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ed because of an insufficiency Of shells
to clear the way for it, recently de-
clared that a definite statement as to
the position was 'inadvisable' at the
moment, which left one to draw ones
own conclusions.
One result of all the discussion of the
subject, however, is to reveal the in
teresting fact that the man in charge
of Britain's department of high eN-
plosives is not military man, but
an ex-judge tof al people. one would
say) in the person of Lord Moulton.
better known under his former style of
Sir John Fletcher Moulton, one of the
ablest lawyers of the past century. So
intimately is Lord Moulton associated
with the law, in fact. that most folk
have forgotten. if indeed they ever
knew. that he is also a great chemist
and mathematician as well-one of the
greatest senior wranE1ers that Cam
bridge ever produced. He was urgently
called to his present post by Lord
Kitchener, il seems, while he was
busily engaged in completing a scheme
for organizing an aniline dye industry
in this country
Lord Moulton was granted life
peerage on retiring from the bench in
1912, At that time he was Judge of
the court of appeal and also a member
OF the judicial committee of the privy
council, the quaint little body Of legal
bigwigs that is the whole empires
great court of appeal AS such, II set-
ties SquaDDleS between millionaire ma
tive potentates, dusky chiefs of Afri-
can tribes and. ever and anon. between
gods whose interests have come into
conflict. For some years before he be-
came judge, he was one of the most
sought-after patent lawyers and was
reputed to be making 100000 year.
So he could easily afford to crafty
his great hobby, which is yachting.
Many "long vacations has he spent
cruising about in his own craft, with
his secretary captain. his butler as
steward. his two cha auffeurs as engi-
neers and his London chef as cook
1t was, by the way, at the house of
Sir John, as he then was, that the
phonograph. then newly invented, was
almost for the first time exhibited in
England A select gathering Of scien-
lists and scholars assembled to hear
the machine talk. and they asked the
late Prof. Max Muller to speak a mes
sage into 1t. He did, and when the
phonograph reproduced it, the rest of
the assembly thought the passage had
been murdered" The great orientalist.
however, enlightened them by explain
ing that the words he had spoken
into it were those of the oldest hymn
in the world, the first in the Vedas. or
Hindu Bible. This ancient hymn came
down to US in a Photographic way.
being learned by generation after gen.
Grafton until the very language in
which it was expressed died out and
in Lord Justice Mou1ton's drawing
room it was spoken as it had been
spoken thousands of years before.
when Britain was land of savage0
and wild beasts.
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C7OHIi s!,.-srss-:r = s-ii = destroying
the spreaGiiu;. ciIestuut tree and
the automobile has put out of
& business a countless number of
village snlithies as well as
country roadside smithies.
Before the gasoline car took posses
sion of the roads around Washington
the blacksmith shop was familiar
feature of the landscape. The Horse
shoer and Wheelwright" sign was
common one along the roads. There
are. of course. some smithies left, and
all the blacksmiths are not putting on
tires and adjusting spark plugs be-
cause the horse is not yet extinct and
stoutly balks against being extin-
guished. But the smithies are now
so few and far between-which is
phrase that has done long and faithful
service to all writers and speakers
that travellers with an open eye cannot
but remark the difference between
things and smithies as they are and
things and smithies as they were.
Those that .are in operation do not
seem as prosperous as they used to be.
Most of the wagons that stand around
have a hopeless look and seem to creak
out the complaint that their race is
nearly run, but that temporary or tin
kering repairs may help them to turn
their wheels a few times more. The
horse that stands there waiting for his
shoes seems detected and down. hearted
as we'll as down-headed. All his old
pride and ginger have departed With
his Topping ears, half-closed eyes and
hang-down head he seems to say. "Oh,
Pshaw, What's the use! No matter
what kind of shoes the keeper of this
shoe store sells me, the hard automobile
roads will hurt my feet. l have never
had a moments comfort with my feet
since this idea of hard and slippy roads
got into mems heads. This blacksmith
could put set of race plates or avia-
tion shoes my feet, and even then
the evil-smelling autos would run by
me or run over me.
"All the nice clay roads are being
made so hard and smooth that believe
the next time ! go into a horse shoe
me out with a set of roller skates. AL
ready there are more gasoline tanks
along the roadside than there are wa
rering troughs. If II were not that
hope springs eternal even in a horses
breast ] believe that 1 would walk out
into a lonely field on dark and
stormy night. get drunk on horse
mint. lie down in a patch of horse
nettle and eat some loco-weed.''
You can walk along the roads around
Washington and see abandoned black
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peror of Piscataway in these words:
II am sure my brother. Porttobacco,
now Emperor of Paskattaway, will as
sist me in it as much as he can, for he
is much your friend and servant and
hath expressed himselfe to me to be
so and giveth yu many thanks after his
Indian fashion for your guift sent him
by Mr.. Lewger. He hath within this
two years slept into the empire of the
Indians by killing his eldest brother,
the old emperor and enjoyeth 1T yet
with peace through the good corre-
spondence he keepeth with me which
aweth his Indians from offering any
harm unto him..
You may get glimpses of the Mary
land Indians in the annual letters OF
the provincials of the Society of Jesus
which were the reports which they
were required to make to the general
of the society at Rome of the principal
events in the province for the preceding
year. Among these reports well worth
reading are those for the years 1884,
1888, 1889. 1910, 1912. 1854, 1856 and
1881. The 1899 report is interesting in
the fact that 1t gives the names and
locat ton of the priests in Maryland,
who seem to have been four
The annual letter recites that There
are in this mission four priests and one
coadjutor. All are in places far dis
tant, doubtless because they expect
thus to obtain an earlier acquaintance
with the barbarian language and propa-
gate more widely the sacred faith of
the gospel. Father John Brock, the
superior. with coadjutor brother, re-
mains in the plantation of Metapan-
nayen, which was given us by Macqua-
CONAN, the King of Patuxent. and is
sort of storehouse of this mission
whence most of our bodily supplies are
obtained. Father Philip Fisher lives in
the principal town of the colony to
which the name of st. Marys is given
Father Jorn Gravener lives in Kent
Island sixty miles distant. Father An
drew White is distant still farther 120
miles, to wit: at Kittamaquund. the
metropolis of Pascatoa (Piscataway),
having lived in the palace of the en-
peror himself of the place, whom they
call the tayac.'
The interesting facts are set forth in
this letter that when rulers and kings
are spoken of let no one in his mind
form an august idea of men, such as
of the different princes of Europe. For
these Indian kings. though they have
absolute power of life and death over
their people and in certain prerogatives
of wealth and honor excel others. never
theless, in personal appearances are
scarcely anything removed from the
multitude. The only peculiarity by
which you can distinguish chief from
the common people is some badge.
either a collar made of a rude jewel,
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London Hears of Plan to Supplant English Langu

through Jewish. export. import and
banking agencies. These Jewish in
termediaries have made German the
international language of the greater
part of two continents.
couple of years ago the German
compiled tables TO show that German
is more used for international inter
communication by non-German races
than English is used by on-English
races The one great nation, outside
the United States and the British En-
pire which uses English to communi
cate with foreigners is Japan, since
only fraction Of China's population
has any foreign relations.
To South Americans, argues Dietrich.
German is at least as useful as English.
and English he adds, has no future
against the splendid network OF Ger
man South American schools. Leav-
ing South America out of account as
debatabe, he estimates that English
is the international language of So
600, 900 people of non-Anglo Saxon ori-
gin, and that German is the interna-
tional medium of non-German peoples
numbering 240.000.000.
Germany is confirming and extending
her language domination by conscious
and Systematic measures. In it's thir-
ty-three years existence the Union
for Germanism Abroad has been TAX
ing effective measures to foster a ma
tional spirit among the 33.0Oo,O0o Ger
mans resident outside the empire in
Europe and America and to impress the
advantages Of the German language on
non-German races.
The backbone of this society is the
retired states minister of Coburg and
Gotha Otto Won Hentig. AT first the
union merely organized schools. but
later 1t took to fighting for German
ism in all domains. 1t brought from
Russia so, 900 German farmers who were
threatened with classification and set
tied them in eastern Prussia as an
antidote to the pan Polish props ga nda.
Germany's greatest weapon for push
ing her language is her splendid sys-
tenn of schools. Except in Turkey. her
propagandist school system beats all
rivals. In Turkey she has only twenty
three schools against $50 French. 273
American and 1876 English, but her hig h
school at Pera has 500 scholars, and
with the most influential Turkish fam
lilies II is cutting out the inferior
French schools.
Elsewhere in Europe. north Asia and
South America. German schools are
supreme. There are good German
schools at Rome. Madrid. Barcelona
Milan. Genoa. Antwerp and Brussels
Diplomas issued by these schools are
recognized by the imperial government
Belgium has network of German
schools. Bucharest has German school
with a thousand pupils. and three Ger
man secondary schools will shortly be
started in other Balkan States. In
Russia, Germany has the famous hiGh
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Indians of Southern Maryland.

IN the Rambler's notes last Sunday he
u treated at some length of Zachaia
swamp. in Charles county. Md, and Of
the Piscataway Indians, as well as other
Maryland Indians. who found a place of
refuge in that swamp against the Sem
ecas and the Susauehannas when those
powerful and warltke tribes took to the
warpath against the more peaceable In
dams Of that part of the country which
we now call southern Maryland.
The Piscataways appear to have been
the more numerous and dominating
tribe of Indians south of Washington
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side of the Atlantic under his breath.
For, curiously enough. the thing on
which this man of dusty manuscripts,
rolls of family trees and painstaking
research is "keeneSt' on, as his coun-
trymen say, is the lighter kind of mu-
sic, coon songs. by choice. Few and
far between are the really good plan
tatfon' melodies that have been compos-
ed on this side of the water, but some
of the best OF them not to mention no
end of other catchy little songs that
have enjoyed some popularity. have
been composed by the difinified garter
king g-at-armS
At big state functions he is gorgeous
in old-world raiment, with golden lions
on velvet and splendid chains of office.
and he looks the personification of
stateIiness So, too, at the Herald's
College, in Queen Victoria street,
though one sees him there in muftf.
But at his country home at Welwyn. in
Hertfordshire, he appears to forget all
about pageantrN and records and in
duIges to the full in his love of music.
Gatty is his real name, the additional
one of Scott, and the accompanying.
arms having been assumed by him by
royal license in 1892. The clerical
vein. by the way. is strong in his fam
lily, for, while his father, the Rev. AL
fred Gatty, was subdean of York Ca
thedral. his mother was the daughter
and heiress Of the Rev. Alexander Scott,
who for many years was private secre-
tary to Horatio, Lord Nelson. Heraldry
interested Sir Alfred even in his uni
verSlty days, and, after leaving cam
bridge. he became first rouge e-dragon
pursuant of arms, then York Herald or
n a ~ fhnt, nNfI m
ter of the same, and finally head of the
college Also knight Of justice of the
Order of st. John and senealagist of
that order He got his own knight
title In 1911. and is also commander OF
the Royal Norwegian Order of st. Olaf
year or two ago. while the writer
was calling at the College of Heraids.
the garter king-at-arms talked quite
frankly about his love for music and
his own compositions
Il was stringing notes together even
as a child said he, "and published
some of my youthful compositions in
little periodical carried on by my
mother, and called Aunt Judy's Maga-
zine Ny first musical publication was
called Little Songs for Little Voices
1t was in three volumes, and since
then i have composed literally hundreds
of songs, both sentimental and humor-
Gus, in many instances both words and
music. My plantation songs alone fill
four volumes. and I hope to compose
four volumes more"
rs Britain short of high explosives, or
is she not? The statements of diff
ferent members of the cabinet have
differed strangely on this point. and
the prime minister. goaded thereto by
a definite statement by correspondent
at the front that a British attack fail
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Claimed Be Already Busy With Important and aRhng Plans for
War Predicted Between
Large and Claim Made That
English Medium of International ExchaneSen Hedm
Condemned by Englsh-A Official Who Writes Songs
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RUINS OF A BLACKSMITH SHOP.

smith shops most of them ruinous and
some of them in ruins. The ruins and
the sites where smithies stood are
never many miles apart and each tells
a sad, sad story which might bring
sigh or a tear from good old horse.
The ruin of the smithy which the Ram
bler's camera winked at stands (part-
ly) at Surrattsville. 1t has been there
since before the civil war. and horse
heaven is full of good horses that have
had their shoes fitted there, for it was
a peculiar custom of old ia shioned
blacksmiths to fit horseshoes to horses
feet instead of fitting horses feet to
horseshoes.
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SHADY ROAD NEAR JACKSON RUINS.

is associat ted with the "old navy" of the
United States, and with such ships as
the Constellation, Constitution, Presi
dent and United States.
These colored women are grandmoth
ers. but they are not yet old women.
and they preserve many interesting
memories of the Jackson home on the
Leesburg pike-that place now marked
by vine-grown ruins.
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Balls Hill and the Jackson Ruins.

TT HE Rambler recently wrote of the
breeched and roofless stone ruins
of the Jackson place on the Leesburs
pike. several miles west of the Chain
bridge and on the crest of a ridge be-
tween two wooded, rocky valleys
through which flow Scott's run and
Bull Neck run. The jackson place
was the home of the forefathers of
the James Jackson who killed Col. E.
f Ellsworth who had pulled down A
Confederate flag from the roof of the
Marshall House in Alexandria, and
who was shot dead by one of Ellis
worth's zouaves. Private Brownell. Fri
day morning. May "a. 1851.
In the story of his visit to the ruins
of the Jackson place the Rambler
wrote: The Rambler has not yet
come into possession of the facts re-
lating to the destruction OF the home
of the Jackson family on the pike.
There is a picturesque story in the
neighborhood.
Balls Hill is a conspicuous elevation
in that high country Of Virginia south
of the Leesburg pike and west of the
at the hamlet of Langley to Lewins-
Vile Tyson Cross Roads. Vienna and
Fairfax Court House. 1t is short
distance beyond the village of Mclean.
where the electric railway 10 'itdt
Falls crosses the Langley-Lewinsville
road The view from Balls Hill takes
in a wide territory. 1t was given that
name by Union topographers during
the civil war and may be found on all
the war maps of that part Of Virginia.
1t is on land which has been owned
by the Ball family for a good many
generations but their extensive tract
of land was known as Woodbury..
The present occupant of Balls Hill
and large acreage preserved out of
the original Woodbury." tract is W.
S. Ball On the hill he built for him
self. about ten years ago. new house
close to the site of an older Ball home.
and the new house is modelled on the
lines of the older
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These Indians seem to have been
called the Yocomacos. or Yaocomacoes
There is also reference to the Patux-
ents THESE Indians seem to have been
all of one race large family. and to
have welcomed a treaty with the whites,
for. says Father White. There was an
occa sion that much facilitated their
treaty with these Indians, which was
this: The Sasquehanocks "a warlike
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NLAX has carried them success
Y\V fully through the great war
" " up to date. the Germans are
already busy making important and
far-reaching plans for worldwide ac-
tivities after the conclusion of peace.
whenever IL may come 1t is known
that an immense trade war will be
uaged by the nations now at war for
many years after actual fighting has
ceased and the German merchant is
leaving no stone unturned in his ef
forts 10 see that Germany is as well
prepared for that as she has proved
herself 70 be for the present contest
of arms.
These German merchants realize that
language is a large factor In commerce
and II their plans succeed German
will supplant English as the medium Of
international exchange and become the
unchallenged lingua franca of COM
merce and finance in the worlds two
most popuIous continents. German will
dominate thousand millions of men
as completely French dominated
Europe In the eighteenth century. Eu-
rope. Asia and probably South America
will do their trading, borrowing and
lending In German alone
This IS the view. hope and intent of
the Union for Germanism Abroad, q.
powerful association. off1cialIy backed,
which for thirty years has fought for
the German language cause. The sole
weak points in this ambitious scheme
are Japan and the Chinese littoral,
where English is firmly intrenched: but
Germany's educational and missionary
organizations do not despair even of
these.
Germany's linguistic position IN CEN
trail and east Europe and in north Asia
is already above challenge Even the
Germanophobe Slav races depend for
their trade and for international COM
munication on the German tongue The
area in which German is used in COM
mercial international correspondence
EN- braces the whole of the German EN-
pire. Holland. Belgium. Scandina via
Austria Hungary Bosnia Herzegovina
switzerland, Rumania. Serbia and Bull
xaria. In Turkey French still domi-
mates.
The greatest linguistic conquests of
all are Russia, Siberia and Russian
central Asia. All over the Russian En-
pire German il used exclusively for
business communications with foreign
ers Germany owes this TO the 900, 900
Germans settled in the cars empire,
ana also TO the 100000 Russian Jews
The Russo-Germans play a big role in
trade and manufactures and the Jews
native language the "jargon.' is a
and monetary relations are done
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between the Potomac and PatuXent
rivers but they were not the only
aboriginal s inha bitants of that territory.
Reference may be found in the rela-
ton of Father White to other Mary
land Indians. When it was determined
that the Maryland pilgrims should set
tie on a river which they called ST.
Georges river and which later came to
be called the 81. Marys, they concluded
a treaty with the Indians of Yocomaco.
an Indian village close to the site chos-
on for ST MaryS CITY