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Evening star., 1915-09-12
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CONTINUED from Thlrd PABeD
ciary committee. he contented himself
in 1900 by being a candidate for presi-
Dental elector at large and going as a
delegate to the democratic national
convention at ST. Louis in 1904.
Then he sat out" of the game of poll
tics and devoted himself entirely to his
profession until the peculiar conditions
existing in 1910 led him to run for
Congress He was elected by sub
stantial majority and reelected in 19l2,
resigning in 1918 to accept his present
Office.
In the House Mr.. Davis was distin-
guished for Industrious work IN the
committee on judiciary and for keep
ing his mouth shut on the hoor. his
speeches were remarkably few. but
that he carried big part of the burden
of committee work is well known.
Within the committee and on the moor
Mr., Davis led the fight for those re-
forms in judicial practice intended to
prevent the misuse of the writ OF in
junction and the misuse OF the power
to punish for contempt. The amend
mittee adopted were not adopted at the
time, but later became part Of other
legislation enacted by Congress at a
more recent session.
These amendments both were neither
revolutionary to the degree advocated
by some nor mere phrases. In nota-
BILE speech Mr.. Davis made in the House
May IA. 1912. he gave an indication of
the character of the proposed amend
ments and Of his own views when he
said:
IF judicial processes may be abused,
we should guard them against abuse.
Criticism of the courts is rife: let US
disarm it." Which is very nearly the the
view taken, in numerous speeches and
papers. by his eminent predecessor in
office, William H. Taft.
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II believe in the home" he insists.
Il would be glad to see any of these
widows marry good men,
If a mother prefers to live in Sand
Springs or Tulsa and pay her own rent
she is free to do SO. To give charity is
them to help themselves. He provides
work in plenty for all of them and
makes his benevolences support them
selves on a business basis. He has
made ample provision for the mainte-
nance Of this philanthropic project in
his will, and in case of his death the
widows would be amply provided for.
His wife is in hearty sympathy with
him in this work, and every Sunday
evening is spent by the Pages at the
Widows Row and at the simple Sum-
day evening devotions held in the sit
ting room at the Orphans Home. where
all the children congregate to sing and
to listen to a Bible reading.
The population of Sand Springs, which
is only two or three years old, reached
1000 the first year and has more than
doubled since. A fourth of this figure
is made up of widows earning a good
living and educating their children.
Mr.. Page takes an active interest in
the town schools and sees that they
are kept at a creditable standard.
The boys and girls at the home are
given their choice of a profession. apd a
chance for training when they fnsh
the grade schools. There Will be doc
tors. dentists. nurses, stenographers and
teachers trained from there. When the
girls marry they are given the same
Quitting that any girl would receive
and pretty wedding at the home.
The man who has made all these
things possible is unassuming in his
own manner. He is big and CHEEKY and
not much of a respecter of persons. He
treats everybody alike. There Is no
red tape hedging him about in his office,
not even an Office boy to ask your name
and business. He does that for him
self.
His Office is a plain little affair. with
white plastering showing through
cracks in the green painted walls that
sadly need another coat. The furniture
is of we'll worn oak. and there are no
expensive rugs or lounging chairs. He
will turn from a business proposition
that may involve 100000 barrels Of Oil
to inquire into the needs of a shabbily
gowned visitor. If she be worthy, he
shoulders her troubles and ushers her
kindly out of the Office. If she be an
imposter, he sizes the situation UP in
a moment and deals with it according
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A few miles out of Tulsa he had al
ready established an orphans home
He had taken 1t over bodily from a
bankrupt institution in the town, from
which the children were about to be
turned out. Mr.. Page heard OF 1t and
went down and legally adopted all the
children. He has none Of his own. but
every homeless child is entitled. to his
love and protection.
His method of taking care Of them is
in Tulsa, an officer in the Salvation
Army. Capt. Breeding.
Il want you to take these little kids
out on my farm and make a home for
them." he said to Capt. Breeding. You
need the outdoor life yourself. Put 'em
in some big tents until we can run up
some buildings. I cannot stand by and
see them turned out In the cold"
The captain protested on the ground
that he had mission he dared not
neglect.
God has called you to a greater mis-
sion." said Mr.. Page. Here are lot
of children to be trained into useful
citizens. There can be no greater work
In the world"
Capt. Breeding took off the uniform
of the army and put on the blue over
all uniform of the farmer and went out
on the farm. 1t was new sort OF
orphans home. There were no uni
forms, no set rules. They were just
Daddy Pages children" to be brought
up as large family. in a sensible way.
Practical teachers were brought there,
and the children looked upon them
selves as especially lucky to be the
proteHes of Mr.. Page.
Near the farm he built his town Tor
the widows He calls it Sand Springs
1t is in a picturesque spot. with low.
tree-crowned hills rising all about It,
He built a street car line to carry the
widows and orphans to and from Tulsa.
and not a one of them pays fare. The
conductors know them all. and any
child who swings aboard the car and
says, I'm one of Daddy Pages boys"
Is not questioned.
Just outside the city he built the ia
nous widows Row" There are dozens
of small two and three roomed cottages
for the widows who choose to live
there. under the trees, In the fresh
country air. Gas. fuel and rent were
furnished free. A downtown" district
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Champions of Champions gap rest. The
property. lately much improved, Is now
owned by Rudolph Brown. l.,
The Rambler saw but two inhabited
houses in the gap. One is the homo
of the tollgatekeeper. and the other 10
a handsome cottage, with well kept
grounds. and is the sumner home of
Baltimore family named Spencer. In
wide and shaded grounds on the south
side of the road, and which extend up
to the summit above the pass, are three
big houses. with wide, deep porches. all
heavily sheltered by trees. Each house
is built of stone. brick and timber. One
has a little steeple on it like a coun-
try schoolhouse. and bell hangs in IT,
In one part of the grounds Is a log
cabin, which. no doubt. was there be-
fore the more pretentfous buildings
were set up. There Is a Dutch" oven
in the grounds and numerous outbuild-
ings. From the iron gate with stone
gateposts on the gap road a carriage
way and brick footwalk lead through
the grounds. but these are now grown
the houses are closed and decay is set
ting in. This was the home Of George
Alfred Townsend The outlook from
the upper porches and windows OF
these houses must be finer even than
the view from the gap.
X
Pleasant valley to the gap he en-
countered an old colored man who
looked a good subject for a picture.
His name is Steve West, eighty -four
years old, and a resident of the Mid
dletown valley for the same number
of years He was set free by the war.
remembered the armies and the shoot
Ing, but his recollections. though en-
tertaining. are not SO accurate and in
formative as the matter set forth on
the tablets in the angle of the two
roads near the base of the memorial to
the war correspondents.
No man should gather the impression
from reading the memorial inscriptions
at Champions gap that the whole bat
tie of South mountain was fought
there. There was fighting at other
gaps. The road from Frederick to
gap of this mountain, and there, Sep
tember A, Gen. D. H. Hill. with a force
of about 5000 men, stood of the corps
Of Hooker and Burnside. In the aft
ernoon Hill was reinforced by Long
street with six brigades. The fighting
at Turner's gap lasted from 8 o'clock in
the morning until dark. During the
night the Confederates withdrew. The
federal loss was 32S killed and 1853
wounded and missing. At Champions
gap the Federals lost lis killed and 41S
wounded and missing. The Confederate
loss at South mountain has not been
accurately set down. but It was about
1000 in killed, wounded and prisoners
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Cotton Burned i'm Rifle
and CANNON Ammunition

has 100000 in the trenches-has with
it constantly reserve ammunition con-
tanning half a bale of cotton, while
every company of 300 soldiers carries
the shape of cartridges. About 10000
shots from a rifle or machine gun ac-
count for one bale of cotton"
David Lloyd George, British minister
of munitions. has given out the state
ment that 25O.00O shots a day on the
average are fired by the Germans and
Austrians on all fronts, and, taking
big and little cannon together, the
British ordnance authorities estimate
that $50 shots consume a bale Of cot
ton. on which basis Germany fires 1860
bales Of cotton day from her artil-
lery alone, or more than 400 tons.
Using these figures as a basis. the re-
suit is arrived at that Germany has
now sufficient cotton for the manufac-
ture of 100000 tons of gunpowder,
which, at the present rate of ammuni-
sion expenditure. will last until the be-
ginning of 1916 This allows for the
use of cotton in no other than the DOW
der-making industry. yet cotton is re-
quired by the army for clothes, tent
age. automobile tires and other neces-
saries. The manufacture of cotton for
other than military purposes must
cease, and many thousands of mill op-
eratives still in employment will be
thrown out of work
A cotton famine means paralysis. mil
itary and industrial. ALREADY cotton is
looked on in the same light by Ger
many as copper, wheat, rubber and
those things without which armie 8
cannot operate. Germany's purchases
Of the 1914 American cotton crop were
made through Holland. Norway. Swe-
den and Denmark, and the British au-
thorities, in tracing these purchases,
have given out the information that
the imports of American cotton to Hol-
land from August 81 to April 80, 1913
"a, were $3.50 bales. In 1914-15 (the
1914 CROP the imports amounted to
4l3,s2o bales. In the same months
Sweden imported 24.93O bales the year
before the war and 1850 bales in
1sl4-l5. To Denmark. of the 1913 crop.
no bales at all were sent. but that
country took of last years crop $3.50
bales. Norway took go bales before
the war, and her imports rose in a year
to 101 400 bales.
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are the following inscriptions:
"Out of Zebulun They That Handle
the Pen of the Wr,ter.-Judges."
ascertained. because those who were
present in the several affairs did not
give the same account of the same
things-Thucydides. 425 B. c."
oath that he should not have enough
for his expenses in travelling home un-
less he sold his horse and what he had
about him.-Ana basis. 399 B. c.
"On quitting school I boldly under
took to write and relate the wars
F,roissart, 1851.
They sent US back the news which
greatly rejoiced the whole army
Philip de Commines. 1882"
81 and my son stafd with General
Braddock several days at Frederick
town, dined with him daily and had
full opportunities.-Fran 1856"
Know Mr.. Trumbull, as a man and
an artist.-Washington to Lafayette,
1891
THE enemy's fire emptied several
saddles, among others, Theodore Will
sons, the correspondent.-Gen. Sher1-
dan, 1865
"Dr Livingstone, I presume Henry
;Vui ktoe" "Americanetz."- z."-MacGa-
han at Khiva, 1873"
~
The road by which the Rambler en-
tered the gap leads from the west to
the east. In the gap two roads strike
off eastwardly. one taking northerly
inclination and the other a southerly.
The road inclining to the northeast
leads on to Middletown, and that in
clining to the southeast leads to Bur-
kettsville. 1t is in the angle of these
roads that the correspondents memorial
stands. and at the base of the memorial
is a simple marker Of granite and bronze
inscribed:
First New Jersey Brigade. lst. Cd. Sd and 4th
IA. 1882 Late in the afternoon the brigade ad-
vanced from the fields north and east of Bur
and ooWed Up tbe .ne epemp a the wes o
Of the mountain. Loss in the brigade. 40 killed,
134 wounded"
Also close to the base of the corre-
spondents' memorial are four iron tab
let's inscribed with a rough sketch of
the history of the spot and its relation
to nearby fields of action. The first
tablet tells:
Between September 4 and Z, 1852,
the Army of Northern Virginia, Gen.
Robert E. Lee commanding, crossed the
Potomac river near Leesburg and oc-
cupied Frederick, Md. On the 10th
movement was made to surround and
capture the Union forces at Harpers
Ferry. Early that morning Gen. ]. T.
Jackson with Jackson's (StonewalD di-
vision and the divisions Of r. S. Ewell
and A. P. Hill, left Frederick, marched
over South mountain at Turner's pass,
six miles. north of this, crossed the Po-
tomac near Williamsport on the 11th.
seized Martinsburg on the 18th and,
marching by way of Charles Town. in
vested Harpers Ferry from the Virginia
side of the Potomac. Gen. Lee with the
divisions of D. r. Jones and J. r Hood
and the brigade of N. G. Evans. march
ed to Hagerstown. D. H. Hills divis
ion halted at Boonsboro to prevent the
escape of the garrison at Harpers
Ferry through Pleasant Valley and to
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n II ERE is one man who has put in
HI practice a plan of helping the
90 widow with a family to rare.
He is Charles Page of Tulsa. Okla.
Mr.. Page started with an intimate
knowledge of the troubles and burdens
of the widow. for one OF his earliest
recollections was that Of seeing his
widowed mother bending wearily over
a washtub in the effort to rub out of
the board a sparse living for herself
and her seven children. He tried to
help her shoulder her burdens. and
worked hard to help her take care of
the children. But hard as he could
work, the struggle was heavy one
and it deeply impressed into his be-
wildered child mind a resentment
against the conditions that could i'm
pose this burden upon his mother. The
first resolve he ever made was that
of all the widows.
His mother worked herself into her
grave and left him with the family
cares. He did what he could hnd to
do. and later, when the family was
OLD enough " Sdi ioi iIoSiAs hC SCI
out to seek a fortune. Three times he
made one and three times it slipped
through his grasp. Then fate one day
led him to the oil fields in Oklahoma
and pointed out the way.
The result of his planning Is one of
the most unique institutions in the
country 1t is a town for widows. 1t
almost built itself over night. 1t sprang
from the conviction of Mr.. Page that
a widow wanted only a chance to work
for her children and to keep them to-
eether. 1t Is in no sense charity,
every mother must work out her own
salvation-but Mr.. Page stands by her
while she is working.
He is multi millionaire now; but
never too busy to hear the plea of a
widow At first he found work for
them in Tulsa. He found jobs for
dozens of them. Any widow who ap-
pealed for work at the Page Offices
and who indicated a disposition to rear
her family in the fear of God and with
out shirking her responsibilities found
a friend in Mr. Page. The time came
when the town was full of Widows
Guess Til have to build a town for
them," said Mr.. Page.
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~ RAMPToNs GAP was mentioned
N by the Rambler in his account
IL of a trip over the battlefield of
~ the Monocacy, the battle which
was the prelude to the Confederate at
tack on the northern line of the de-
lenses of Washington July IL and II.
set aside and the road for Champions
gan brought back such flood of
memories to the Rambler that business
engagements and other engagements
not strictly of a business nature were
1864 Writing the name of Champions
gap was taken up.
This was thoroughfare gap through
the Blue Ridge range in Maryland dur
ing the civil war. Long columns of
troops marching east and west passed
that way. There was fighting at the
base. on the slopes and on the Summit
of the range through which this gap
gives a fairly easy passage, and up
and down the road running through the
gap. Interesting monuments. markers
and tablets stand in the sap.
X X
Going northwest from Washington
over any of the roads you come in
summit marks the ancient floor of the
land long ago washed and secured out,
and which we know now as the Fred
erick valley. or the valley of the Mon
ocacy 1t is a long and wooded noun
tain with various high knobs and low
konbs, wales and foothills. but because
it's southern knob bears a fanciful re-
toned loaf of sugar and is the knob
seen from n greater distance than the
others, it came many generations ago
10 be called Sugar Loaf mountain. 1t
is in Frederick county, but its south
east base Is only half mile over the
Montgomery county line. Its high
point is 1900 feet above sea level and
over a thousand feet above the Mon
ocacy river.
West of this mountain flows the Mon
ocacy river. generally about a tenth of
a mile wide If you travel by rail you
pass over the Monocacy on a tall bridge
soon after you leave DickerSon, going
west few hundred yards south of
the railroad bridge the Chesa peake and
Ohio canal crosses the Monocacy on a
fine and picturesque viaduct close to
the point where the Monocacy enters
the Potomac.
West of the Monocacy a range of
mountains runs north and south These
are the Catoctins. There are several
passes or gaps through this ridge where
wagon roads cross at an elevation of
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A misunderstanding.
1nENRY FORD said at a picnic II

N1ENRY FORD said at a picnic II
III Dearborn:
"In politics I'd be as ridiculous ana
absurd, 1 guess. as the young feilo"
who had proposed to the schoolmarm.
1.-THE schoolmarm. after his proposal.
looked at him steadily through her big
spectacles Then she said:
George. before L decide. you must
answer one question. Do you drink
anythingT
He crushed her to his breast.
"'Anything.' he murmured. smotner.
ing her with kisses Anything.
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Brownsville on the night of the 11th.
"On the 18th McLaws marched to
MARYLAND heights and down Pleasant
valley and invested Harpers Ferry from
the Maryland side of the Potomac,
leaving Semmes brigade to hold
Brownsville pass, and Mahone's at
Brownsville and Munford's cavalry in
front of Champions pass to guard his
rear and observe the movements of the
Union army
Alongside of the tablet containing
the above Is tablet marked with large
silver letters &C. S. A" containing the
following:
Mai. Gen. Lafayette McLaws' COM
mand, September 18th and 18th, 1862:
"McLaws' command consisted of ker-
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shaw's, Barksdale's, Semmes' and
Cobb's brigades of his own division and
r. H. Andersons division of six bril-
gades-Wilcox's, Mahone's. Feather,
Pryors. On the morning of the 18th
kershaw and Barksdale crossed
Pleasant valley, ascended Maryland
heights at Solomons gap and moving
and drove the Union forces from the
southern end of them and into Har-
pers Ferry. On the 18th Cobb moved
along the eastern base of the heights
in support of kershaw and Barksdale;
Wright moved along the South noun
tain and took position on its bold ex-
tremity, overlooking Weverton. Pryor.
Armistead and Featherston moved
down Pleasant Valley and occupied
Weverton and Sandy Hook. These
movements shut in Harpers Ferry
from the Maryland side of the Potomac
Semmes' brigade held Brownsvilie pass
and Mahones was in Pleasant Naliey
nrepared to assist Semmes or to rein
force Munford's cavalry brigade IN
front of Crampton's pass.
A third tablet continues the story
thus:
September IA, 1862:
.1Tpon the approach of the 9Th Army
Corps from Jefferson, Col. T. T. Mum
ford. commanding the cavalry brigade,
prepared to dispute its advance
through this pass. Mahone's brigade
Lieut.. Col Parham, commanding, was
put in position at the foot OF the
mountain with the cavalry dismounteo
on either flank. Chew's Virginia bat
tery of horse artillery and two guns OF
Grimes Portsmouth (Va.) battery
were placed half way up the noun
sy, hn 10
were put on the crest near this point
and for nearly three hours, assisted by
five guns in the Brownsville pass, NUN
ford held the Union forces IN cheek;
pressed in front was compelled to re-
tire. AS the line began to yield the
10th Georgia of Semmes' brlgade came
to it's assistance. Cobb's brigade,
the retiring forces a few yards east OF
this but the whole command was
quickly overpowered and. losing many
captured. retreated into Pleasant val
fantry to Brownsville. Semmes aban-
doned Brownsville pass and joined Cooo
and Malone. Wilcox moved back from
near Weverton and kershaW ana
Barksdale Except the 18th M1ssis,
sippD were withdrawn from Maryland
Heights and before midnight the SIX
brigades under command of r. H. An
derson were in line across the valley 70
oppose the 9Th Corps McLaWs with
the four brigades of Pryor. Feather
ston. Armistead and Wright and the
18th Mississippi continued the invest
ment of Harpers Ferry, which surren-
dered the morning of the 18TH
The fourth and last tablet is inscribed
with shining letters, ''U. S. A, 9Th Army
Corps" and tells this story:
Maj Gen. W. B. Franklin command
ing, September IA. 1862:
THE 9Th Army Corps consisted Of two
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support Stuarts cavalry, which re-
manned east of South mountain to OBJ
serve the movements of the Union army
and retard it's advance.
"McLaws, with his own division and
that of r. H. Anderson, moved from
Frederick on the 10th in the rear of D.
H. Hill. left the Frederick and Hagers-
town pike at Middletown, crossed South
mountain at Brownsville pass one mile
south of this and bivouacked near
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between five and seven hundred feet.
If you travel by the usual line of rail-
road going west through this region
you recall that just after leaving Point
of Rocks your train passes through a
tunnel. That tunnel is bored under
the south tip of the Catoctins in Mary
land, though across the Potomac the
Catoctins take up their course toward
the south.
Passing the Catoctins you travel over
hilly land and cross Catoctin creek, a
very crooked stream about third of
the width of the Monocacy. Five miles
west you come to the main range of
the Blue Ridge. Five miles north of
continuation of the Blue Ridge north
from Champions gap is called South
mountain. Sometimes the whole of this
ridge north of the river is called South
mountain. There are numerous ranges,
generally paralleling each other, which
have separate names, and again, these
minor ridges are subdivided into
mountains which also have special
names. Crossing this part of the Blue
Ridge north of the Potomac, a continu-
alton of which is South mountain, are
four passes, the first from the Potomac
being Brownsville gap, the next Cramp-
tons gap. the third Foxs gap and the
fourth Turner's gap, which is sometimes
called Dahlgren gap from Dahlgren
Church. which stands by the roadside.
and that road is one of the most impor-
tant of the old roads in the country
near Washin ngton-the Frederick and
Boonsboro pike.
Maryland Heights, the high land on
the Maryland side opposite Harpers
Ferry, is really mountain, extending
north and south about ten miles. and it's
name is Elk Ridge. Between the Blue
Ridge, South mountain and Elk Ridge
is hilly valley, from one and half
to two miles wide, the name of which
is Pleasant valley. Israel creek runs
through this valley and sd does the
railroad from Weverton to Hagers-
town. 1t was along Pleasant valley
that the Rambler passed In his march
to Champions gap.
If one should leave out Of the an
nails of the civil war Pleasant valley
and the ridges that hem it in there
would be many void chapters In
American history. The campaigns
against the Union forces and United
States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, the
campaign of Antietam. the movement
against Washington in 1864 and the
Gettysburg campaign were all fought
with the help of Champions gap and
its neighbor gaps.
In walking north through Pleasant
valley and keeping the line of Israel