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1.-The projected Prince Georges cen
trail turnpike runs through the place.
There are also upon this estate a bear
ing orchard of 600 select apple trees,
also a large variety of peaches, pears.
cherries and other fruits of the best
kinds. Mr.. Zachariah Berry of Wash
ington, who resides upon the land, Will
show it to those wishing to purchase.
The trustees named We're &. c. Magru-
der of Upper Marlboro and p w. Grain
of Baltimore.
Some of these old advertisements, and
especially the advertisements of sale
memberment and change of ownership
of many old Maryland and Virginia es-
tates. Under the eyes of the Rambler
at this moment is an advertisement of
a marshals sale which appeared in the
National Intelligencer of Saturday, Oc-
tober 23 1919, affecting an old estate
in the country through which the Ram
bier has been recently walking. 1t is
the estate of Warburton Manor. on
which Fort Washington stands. The
advertisement follows:
Marslal's Sale-By virtue of writ of fiery
United States OF America for the District of
Maryland, and TO me directed. will b. exposed
for public sale the premises by Richard j..
Morsell, deputy marshal in Prince Georges
county. Saturday, the 31st day Of this instant
October for cash. the whole of the right title.
claim and interest of all the real and personal
estate of Thomas Atwood Digges. Warburton
Manor, containing thousand acres OF land,
more or less: Ben Wheelers, containing three
hundred acres. more less. with all the I'M
provements thereon. including four fisheries,
forty head of negroes, less: horses. ca t.
tie and sheep, household and kitchen furniture.
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nue. is called by the old inhabitants
Fort Scaggs though the military map
of the period does not give the name
of the fort. but shows the name of the
owner of the land as S. b. Scaggs. The
Scaggs dwelling at the base of the
hill and fronting on Minnesota avenue
was standing the last time the Ram
bier passed that way.
It is about half mile southeast Of
the center of Beltsville that the cleo
trio railway and the Washington-B Bal
timore boulevard intersect. Though
most of the houses along this part of
the way are new and many Of them
handsome, there are few things which
suggest that the road is old. On the
right hand, the easterly side. is a ven
erable rail fence and line of cedarS.
The farm is that of Edward G. Emack.
Off across the fields in an elevated and
otherwise picturesque situation is the
Emack house. 1t was the home of Ell
bert G. T.. Emack. who died in 1886 at
the age of eighty-two years and who
sleeps in the churchyard near by. 1t is
the understanding of the Rambler that
this Emack home was built by and
dwelt in by Truman Belt. the founder
of BeltSville.
Beltsville is a big place geographic
ally. stranger will say that the hub
of the village is at the steam railroad
station where the pike and the steam
railroad converge, but persons who
live two miles away from the railroad
station live, according to their descrip-
tion of their place of residence. at
Reltsville- But If you continue toward
the main part of Beltsville. you will
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THE DUCAL PALACE AT NANCY.

the way of Industrial resources when
Aisace-Lorraine was taken from them.
But French economists and statesmen
have thought of it. and so have Ger
man economists and statesmen.
Bismarck may have believed that he
made a mistake in annexing Alsace
Lorraine, as some of his b!ographers
have declared, yet it is more likely
that the iron chancellor thought he
made mistake in not taking more. 1t
was his intention to take the whole of
the iron ore territory. but he yielded
to other considerations and left France
something.
French diplomacy, in keeping Bis
marck in good humor. is said to have
had something to do with his yielding,
but while he felt that Germany must
have source Of ore supply. and there
fore annexed part of Lorraine he did
not know at the time the full value of
the ore beds that were included in the
territory which Germany took, any
more than the value of those which he
permitted France to keep. Nor did
other German leaders.
Gradually the knowledge came of
how useful these ore beds were in de-
veloping German industries. With this
knowledge Germans who regarded Al
ce-Lorraine as political liability
rather than as an asset. and who felt
that the provinces never could be Ger
manized in sentiment, nevertheless
knew the difficulty of restoring them to
France.
In the first flush of the war. when
German expectations of an early and
easy victory went to smash, and when
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Taken as the property of said Diggcs to sat
isfy Judgment due Thomas Holmes. Sale to
commence 10 O'Clock Paul Bentalou,
Marshal for the District of Maryland.
One member of the Scaggs family of
the Branchville- Beltsville neighbor-
hood was a prominent landholder in
the lower valley of the Eastern branch
during the civil war. and the tax
assessment records of the District show
that from about 1850 until the close
of the civil war he was a man of con-
siderable property. He would seem to
have been a gentleman of some tenn
per, because at various times during
the civil war period he inserted ad-
vertisements in The Evening Star
warning certain neighbors of his, and
naming them in the advertisement. not
to trespass on his land. His name was
S. B. SCaggs, and two of the civil war
forts of Washington were built on his
land Directly above Minnesota ave
nue. and south of the Benning road.
topping the first high land after cross
ing the Benning bridge. are earthworks IS
upgrown with stunted pines. but with
their red clay face revealed here and
there either because vegetation has
refused to grow there, or because the
children of the neighborhood and the
wear of many feet have worn the old
entertainments bare.
Southwest of this ruin a few hum
dred yards, and On still higher land,
are the remains of two forts, one of
which was Fort Chaplin. The first
fort Immediately above Minnesota ave
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at which Lafayette and his suite
stopped overnight on their way from
Baltimore to Washington in 1924. and
then for many years conducted the
White House tavern on the pike about
a mile southwest of Peltsville. Brown
also bought an ancient mill and mill
seat, then known as Van Horns mill,
but which for nearly century has
been called Browns mill. The walls of
this mill are standing and it is one
of the landmarks of Beltsville.
Before the building of the Episcopal
Church at Beltsville in 1887 the MEM
bers of that faith worShlped at Paint
Branch Chapel, little frame structure
with which the names of several DIS
tfnguiShed clergymen, notably Bishop
Pinckney, were associated. That chapel
stood about two miles northwest of
around that little place of worship are
those par5s Paint Chapel woods. Paint
Chapel stood until about 1875. when it
was torn down and rebuilt at Fairland,
in Montgomery county. on the Column
bia pike. an old road which strikes
northeast from the Co'esvflle pike Il
mile and half from Burnt Mills. and
quarter of mile beyond Whiteoak,
and leads by way of BurtonsViile TO
the Patuxent river and beyond
The Rambler has been told that old
Paint Chapel survives as a part of st.
Marks Episcopal Church at Fairland,
and that there is nothing, not even
graVestone, to mark its century-old site
in the Chapel woods.
Church hill at Be1tsville furnished
position for the artillery of Gen. Brad
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ley T. Johnson's Confederate column.
which burned the bridge over the Gun
powder river. cut the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad between Baltimore and
Washington and co-operated in way
with Gen. Early's attack on Washing
ton in July, 1864. and skirmished with
Union cavalry near the White House
tavern.
Around St Johns Church grow ce-
dars and spruce. At the rear of the
church is a cemetery. 1t is shadowy
with dark cedars. There the fore
fathers of the hamlet and their wives
and children sleep. The Rambler jot-
ted down several epitaphs. Among
the tombs is one inscribed Philip 7.
Belt. born February 20, 1909. died June
26. 1S73," and ''Everline f. Belt. born
July 3. 1915, died December IS. 1870
Close by is the Emack monument, in
scribed: Gilbert G.. Emack, 1S04-1SS6:
Emack. 1SO6-1SS7: Charles c. Emack,
1915" There is an Old monument with
these inscriptions: DIR Charles Evers-
field. Fleet Surgeon. United States
Navy. born December %, 1921, died Oc-
tober 4. 1873: Mamie Perrie Evers-
field. born February 5, 1888, died Janu-
ary %, 1883; John Diversified, born Au-
gust 13, 1890, died December is, 1857:
Ann Perrie. relict of John Diversified.
born May 5, 1896. died January 81.
1875: Perrie Wales Diversified, born
September 10, 1880, died May .. 1868;
Julius Eversfield. born October 23. 1885,
died September "a, 1913: DR.. William
Octavus Diversified. November 4. 1899
January 20, 1905"
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A motor cycle dashes past in the mud.
A train of motor trucks goes over the
hill. Halt. show your papers, Now, We
see ain-washed signpost of old tour
ing days: "Noyon. II miles"
Why. the Germans are at Noyon!
There is IA continuous thunder-roll of
great guns. We take n muddy lane,
where soldiers loaf We cross a canal,
packed with empty boats, where still
more soldiers loaf, and turn into that
relic of the German visit--the wrecked
town of Choisy. The Germans scien-
tifcally gutted 1t with dynamite, by
mere caprice. In their retreat from the
Marne in 1914. Compiegne they spared.
Senlis they wrecked. And so on.
The town of ruin Is inhab bited by SOL
diers resting from the trenches 1t is
by mere chance one meets Americans.
The mass of the Americans are with
the Canadians, farther north.
II can't invite you." he says, with hos
pitable worry. Il sleep in a stable
with plenty of hay. The nights are
cold. but the hay is warm. We do prac-
tically no drilling. and deserve the rest
we are getting-we lodged shells by
the thousands last week in the first
limo trenches"
"Are there many Americans here?" we
Evening star., 1916-12-10
The Broken Broker.

TrHE late Judge Pennypacker of Phil
adelphia was an advocate of the
enfranchisement of woman, but he also
advocated justice. in the relationship
between the sexes, for man.
Woman" he said whimsically one
day at the Pennsylvania Historical So
ciety. mustn't play it both ways. She
mustn't get the vote and the equal
wage through mans sense of equity
and then get all kinds of unfair priv
ileges through his sense of gallantry
There's a lot of truth in the story
Of the young broker who, after his
failure, was thrown over by a pretty
girl.
why was the engagement broken
off? banker asked the ruined broker
well he answered, after I'd given
her a string of pearls, an opera box
and a birthday gift of a twe1ve-cylin
DER limousine, I went to smash, and
her people accused me of amusing my
self at her expense.
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tories. Their possession would mean
even more when peace negotiations
were entered upon.
The geographic relation Of the
Meurthe- -Moselle ore fields to those of
Lorraine and Luxembourg at one time
caused serious discussion as to
whether the German iron and steel in
dustry would not ultimately find it's
main seat of production in this local
ity. IT was the usual question Of raw
Observation-Disclosures in the economic
sense it was cheaper to bring the iron
ore to the coal or the coal 10 the iron
ore.
The actual seat Of the German iron
and steel industry is in what is. known
as the Ruhr basin. with Dortmund and
Essen as the principal centers. The
Ruhr coal basin is the most extensive
ore in Germany. There were economic
and commercial considerations on both
sides. but the balance swung in favor
of the Ruhr basin. and the Lorraine and
Luxembourg ores, as well as those i'm
ported from, France. continue to be
transported there. Yet, had peace con-
tinued indefinitely, 1t was. the opinion
Of German industrial leaders that there
would be a certain &ravitation of some
of the iron and steel industries to the
. French border. Many of them had ac-
Quired interests in the Meurthe- -Moselle
ore beds.
This is the economic and Industrial
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situation back of the war raging on the
Eerdun sector. 1t also is background
which shows how complicated are the
circumstances on which peace negotia- :
tions finally must be entered.
Had Germany crushed France during
the first three months of the war an
inevitable result would have been the
annexation of more French territory,
and especially the territory adjoining
Lorraine and Luxembourg, notwith-
standing the view of many Germans
that the fatherland's vital mistake aft
er Sedan was in annexing Alsace- Lor-
raine and thus keeping alive the spirit
of resentment among the French peo-
pie. Doubtless the millions of French
men with whom the recovery OF the
lost provinces is a supreme sentiment
have not thought of what was lost in
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There is also a monument inscribed,
"Our Dear Son. Donald Eversnelds
tombstones to the members OF the Ar
niger family. These memorials are to
James A Armiger. son of William c. and
Mary A. Armiger, born 1868, died 1899:
Ella f. Armiger, daughter of William
and Mary A. Armiger. born 1s62. died
1903: William L., beloved husband OF
Mary A. Armiger. born August IL.
1880. and departed this life December
IS. 1906: Mary A.. beloved wife of Will
liam L. Armiger, born March s, 1870.
died January 90. 1911, and Edward L.
Armiger. son of William l.. and Mary
A Armiger. born August 20. 1875. died
December 3. 1909.
There is a big red marble monument
on which is carved John Simms. April
10. 1SO4-October /. 1857: Sarah. his
wife. January IL. 1Sl2-January FL.
1867: Hugh Sims. 1so2-1sS7: Robert
Sims. 1S3i1903: James Sims. 1sas-
1898; Emma. daughter of John and
Sarah Sims. January 2s. 1s53-Jan-
uary 16. 1868. and Sarah Sims. 1874
1908. Sheltered by rose vine 10 .
marble monument inscribed. Father
Rev. II. =. ii. King. born August Fl.
1920. died January IL. 1899. Member of
the West Virginia conference of the
NJ L. Church. Mother-Elizabeth N.
King. born September I. 1917. died jan
uary 90. 1899" Among the tombs is a
big gray stone inscribed Thomas h.
Beall, born November TO- 1915. died Au-
gust 90. 1879: Jane b. wife of Thomas
b. Beall born February e3. 1918. died
February l. 1894.
FThere iS nnripnS iiffip M n rb1e m
ment representing an open book on
one page of which is inscribed M.
Esteile, wife of Wallace l.. Martin,
born June 3. 1897. died October 3. 1893"
There is a tomb in a little thicket of
box bushes sacred to tn. memory of
William Il. Burford. who departed this
life July l3, 1857. aged forty three
years" Close by are the tombs OF
Amelia Louisa. who died November u.
1850, aged fourteen, and Mary, who
died December 3, 1850. "only daughters
of George {. and Sophia c. Sichel'
1t was cold and windswept among
the dark cedars and the white and
gray stones, but the Rambler. before
yielding to the wind. wrote down the
following:
Amos Reed. lsa4Iss7; Royal Buck. 1890 1so0s
Ida NJ. Kicks beloved wife Of John Ricks,
r, Iee seiimnn. Imam 1s7Eisss M1 Hih William ~ cois.ss
Parker. 1857 1903: John Colgate Parker: is2s-
gate Parker. issi .isas: Emma. daughter Of
Joseph and Elizabeth Jones' ls26-1SaI; Theresa.
wife OF Dr. Jonathan Waters and daughter OF
Joseph 1. and Elizabeth Jones. died March IA.
1887: Joseph 1. Jones. born February, 177S, died
March 81. 1854 Luther i. Jones. born July IL,
1910. departed this life June %, 1885, Ellen NJ,
wife of l.. ID. Jones. died September IL. 1875,
and Pembroke Jones. grandson Of Joseph /.
Jones. died May 26. 1877.
On the road from Beltsville station to
Browns mill is a large frame building.
now blacksmith shop and dwelling
house. 1t is somewhat churchlike In
architecture. 1t was built Pres
byterian Church by a minister named
Boswell. That was many years ago.
The church building was hauled on
rollers several hundred yards to its
present site and concerted to the uses
which it now serves.
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try had been developed with such Won
derful results, looked to the Meurthe-
Moselle fields, with their higher-grade
ores, as the natural feeders for the
German Industries and as the proper
supplement to the Luxemburg and Lor-
raine fields. The possession of these
French mineral regions would have
rendered them less dependent on Swed
ish and Spanish, and other foreign ores.
During the peace period Germany
was able to import the French ores. and
the growing tendency to import them
may have been one reason why the
German general staff, prompted by the
industrial interests, was so quick to
see the Importance of gaining posses
sion of these French ore fields. They
meant much during the war as a means
of supplying the German munitions fac
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he says. 81 saw a lot of men from the
lst and I'd Foreign, all wounded, and some
in pitiful physical condition, and could
never return TO the trenches"
Above all. there was a great American
exodus from the Foreign Legion in 1915.
Some of the more ambitious went into
aviation. Thaw of Pittsburgh. the two
Rockwell brothers OF Atlanta (kitiin kill
ed as aviator, and Paul. invalided from
the legion), Bert Hall of Bowling Green.
Victor Chapman of New York (killed as
AVIATOR. Elliot Cowden and other old
hands of the American squadrilla "a hum
dred new men are training at Paul, had
their first war experience in the legion.
The exodus to French line regiments
was almost complete. The first boys who
remembered Lafayette fllocked to the For
eign Legion; then. by an unprecedented
act of friendship. the French government
adopted them. transferred as many as
desired it to French regiments. otherwise
composed only of the native-born.
II you ask Thaw or Bert Hall they
will tell you that it was the cooking-too
Algerian in the legion. Also. however. the
Foreign Legion surely has the name of
being mixed" hard. impractical and un-
ambitious. They say that there is for
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A Knock.

VIZ b. TRITES. the American novel
w Q ist, now living at Nice on the
French Riviera. said in a recent letter
to an editor:
young sailors complain that since the
TOO proud to fight speech they have
been treated rather cavalierly abroad.
"A sailor told me that he read in the
Boeuf la Mode restaurant in Nice an
account of the English capture of Po-
zieres The account impressed him.
and. turning to an Englishman, he
said:
Some fight
Yes the Englishman replied, calm
ly. and some DON'T"
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Only Four American Stalyarts Remain i'm the Foreign
Legion, Which Was Organized in First Year of War

asked. What became of those who join
ed the legion with you when the war
broke out?"
He made a vague gesture. The war is
big.
''Of the original Americans who Joined
the Foreign Legion with me in August.
1914, there remain only four of us-Lieut.
Sweeney, Casey. Trinkard and myself.
One of my good friends, Dennis Dowd,
was killed at Buc as aviator. Alan See
ger the poet, met his death while in
the 18th Company Russell Kelly of New
y York and Harman Edwin Hall of Chiea go
were killed at Givenchy in 1915. and Ken
meth Weeks and Henry Farnsworth. both
of Boston, fell almost at the same time
and place"
Wounds and sickness got others.
When | was convaleScent at Lyon,
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of range, and his iron constitution be-
gan to fill up with lead
AS a fact. he has no metal in his body.
His worst wound. a shell splinter in
the abdomen, healed. and when last
seen he was eating fried eggs in the
wrecked village of Choisy-auB Bac.
To get to Choisy (without enlisting)
you put in two weeks calling at the
foreign office, Paris. for news of your
permission to visit Compiegne. Outside
of Compiegne, the rickety old cab rocks
over bleak roads III the drIzzie- An
automobile permission is difficult. when
foreigners are alone-without a French
officer. The landscape is neglected
looking. the roads empty of local
travel. The signposts are all changed
to white placards: This Way, Re-
victualling," 1t is the real war zone.
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Youth the Loser.

II p. MORGAN, the fnancier. was
~e talking at a dinner In New York
about a young banker who had failed
1T was his youth that made him
fail" he said. Youth Is always fail
ing-failing in business. falling in
love.
"Remy de Gourmont tells US truly
that in the game of life youth has all
the trumps-all of them. but plays
recklessly, and invariably loses"
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pass the old rail fence and the line Of
cedar trees and come upon an interest
ing church. This church stands on a
hill which is appropriately called
Church hill.
Not long ago the WashinGton-B -Balti-
more pike climbed and passed over the
southeast slope of the hill, but raw
earth banks show where the grade of
the boulevard has been leveled for
the convenience of traffic. 1t is a road
that Is busy with modern traffic, and
few men would care for the task of
counting the automobiles that pass that
way, especially on Sunday. A steep
roadway leads from the boulevard up
to the church, passes its gray stoop and,
making a semi circular bend. leads
down othe pike a few yards farther
on. The church is of brick with a deep
slanting shingled roof, and growing
over the belfry tower at the southeast
corner is a mat of English ivy. The ivy
has been trained SO that it does not
inscribed: "St. Johns p. f. Church
Rebuilt lS6s-Destroyed by Storm 1874
Rebuilt 1871
In previous narrative the Rambler
told that the land for this church was
given in 1856 or 1857 by John w.
Brown, who in the early part of the
the Washington-Ba Baltimore turnpike
stage line operated by Stockton &,
Stokes, conducted the Rossburg Hotel.