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The Rambler Writes Of Cedar Lane and Bells Mi

In this bowl in the hills is little set
Element. The mill faces directly on the
road, which climbs n steep hill of yell
low clay. and leads east to Became on
the old Georgetown road. Across the
stream from the mill Is the road that ,
leads on to Rockville. The millwhcel.
which is still in place. does not turn
now. not because ii is incapable of
working or unwilling, but because the
present owner of the mill gave up
grinding corn three or four years ago
as an Improbable business. The main
floor OF the mill is today stable. As
far back as the Rambler has been able
to trace the history of this mill, It was
called Orndorns mill. 1t was Orndorfs
mill as early 1880 and was Orn-
dorff's mill during and for some time
after the civil war
The old miller has passed away, but
the Rambler was told by man who is
familiar with that part of Montgomery
county that descendants of the miller
are living in Washington. Orndorff
bought the property from John A. Car
ter. and no doubt Carter came into pos
session through the Magruders or tho
Bowies. who were the early great land
holding families in the neighhorhood
through which the Rambler is walk
ing. Perhaps the mill was
long before Orndorff bought the prop
erty. Orndorff sold the large tract OF
land which he had bought from Carter
to Ohio Burrows. who lives near Ten
leytown. and Burrows sold to Edmund
Lyddane, now living in Georgetown.
The mill was sold by OrndorH 10
George Bell. who came to Montgomery
from Frederick county. The name IL
once assumed Bell sold the mill to
Henry Bradley. who sleeps in Rock
Creek cemetery. Rockville, or. as II IS
now called, Union cemetery, and his
widow lives in Rockville. The mill
was next sold to man named VIII
liams. who is the present owner. J. W.
Day, who farms about $50 acres of land
near the mill. told the Rambler that the
miller's name was "Swedie' Williams.
Mr. williams keeps store across the
road from the mill. but was at church
when the Rambler and his camera
strayed that way.
Miss viers When the Rambler was
tracing the ground that Early covered
in 1854 he wrote of the Vfers family.
They owned and still own large acre
age along the old GEORGETOWN road.
Church. near Beane, which was estah-
iished as post Office in the SOS with
Bernard Rabbit as postmaster. there
rest Samuel Clark Eiers. born ls22.
died 1895: his wife, Hester w. Niers,
born 1923. died 1905; Sarah H. Viers.
born 1864. died 1914; Samuel c. and
Hester w. viers, who died in 1867. and
Robert Lee Viers. born in 1864 and died
in 1902. Mrs. Henry Bradley, who was
born Miss Viers, was at the time of her
marriage to Mr.. Bradley the widow OF
Cluskey Cromwell. who worked on va
rious of the Washington papers and at
the time of his death had been on The
Star for several years The Rambler
and Cluskey Cromwell worked close to-
gether in the same room.
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cultivated form of viola tricolor. a
cornheld weed.
Passing on from the fields of quartz
and violets; the Rambler followed
Cedar lane to where it crosses the
deep and shady valley of Thomas
branch. stream of some size. which
rises half a mile north of Cedar lane
close to the road leading from Beane
to Bells mill, and which joins Cabin
John creek near Emery Corners on the
River road about two miles to the
south. If you continue to follow the
call of Cedar lane you will come out
into the Seven Locks road. one of the
old roads of the country around Wash
ington. running north from Seven
Locks on the canal, perhaps a mile
above Cabin John bridge. by way of
Gibson Grove Church, Emery Corners,
Iceland, Bells mill. Scotland School
and Evergreen Church. to Rockville. a
distance of about nine miles as the
road takes it's course. When you come
into the Seven Locks road a walk of a
quarter of a mile will bring you into
a basin set among high hills. and here
Cabin John creek. which rises at Rock
Vile, has been so harnessed that for
generations 1t turned the wheels of a
gray old mill. which still stands there
on it's heavy stone foundation.
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and vines, indicating that an embryo
street has been cut through. There
of departure of Cedar lane from the
Georgetown road, and it may be that
these impressed their name upon the
whole length of the lane. One passes
then comes to broad open farming
land, the first farm on the north being
that of ]. T. Austen. The house and
barns are on hilltop about 400 yards
off the road. On the south side of the
lane, about opposite the Austen place,
is romantic log bungalow on stone
foundation.
After leaving this point the land
wheat, mostly thin and otherwise dis
appointing, and from fresh -plowed land,
where every one hopes bountiful crops
of corn will grow.
X
After some turnings in the road one
comes to a big silver poplar tree which
stands at a lane leading to the home of
H. B. Bohrer. knoll and clustered
around by trees. All the nearby fields
are green with wheat, but in these
fields are large patches of bright yell
low, painted there by the gay flowers
of the cress. Further along there Is
a rise of ground, and a big oak marks
where one would turn into the grounds
of James L. Morrison. All around the
big house and the big red barns and
stables are green wheat fields, and far
Off are large hillside pastures in which
horses were peacefully grazing. From
this point on to the west Cedar lane
dips down a stony hill into wilder
region. A small stream flows southerly
name of this little water course is
Bulls run. Cedar lane crosses it on a
cement bridgelet. On the far side of
the stream one sees the first outcrop-
ping of gneiss, and the mica in it
flashes in the sunlight. The outcrops
are green gray, with lichen, or covered
with velvet-like patches of moss.
After this comes a long steady climb
by a rough road to the top of a ridge,
which gives a sublime prospect to the
west And on this ridge one comes to
the first outcropping of that fine white
quartz sometimes mottled with black
and sometimes with red, which has
often been called gold-bearing quartz.
because fine specimens have been
found. On this ridge, with it's masses Of
white quartz grow acres or Vioiets and
acres of that companionable little
cream white flower, which most per-
sons call everlasting" but which the
highbrows call "gnaphalium polycephe
lum." which rendered into English
means many woolly heads fair de-
scription of the flower.
But among these fields of quartz by
the side of Cedar lane there was such
a display of violets that the Rambler
must pause for a few paragraphs be-
fore proceeding onward to his goal. an
ancient mill on Cabin John creek.
which has gone under various names.
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patches for food supplies. Farther
south the corn is well up through the
ground, and here at New Orleans the
sugar cane is high. and we are on the
edge of the summer. Everywhere the
south is alive. Most OF the cotton mills
are now running both day and night,
and the lighted windows shine out of
the darkness. Both manufacturers and
farmers have been spurred on by the
demands of the war, and more business
is being done than ever before. The
same conditions prevail in all parts of
the country, and plans are making
which will eventually turn the south
into an industrial workshop similar to
that of New York and New England.
But let me give you bird's-eye view
of what Uncle Sam has in the south. 1t
makes one feel confident as to our
sets and learn what they are. 1 had
no appreciation of the extent of this
part of our country until ] Manned out
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Paul Deschanel. president of the
lament elected by universal suffrage
said:
The sentence of the President of the
United States is the very verdict of
justice. The ashes of Washington and
Lincoln have stirred and their great
sod rouses America. The eternal
truths proclaimed in the Declaration
of Independence. the holy cause de-
Tended by. Lafayette and Rochambeau,
the ideal of pure consciences whence
the. great republic was born--honor.
morality. iiberty-these are the SOW
ereign good which shines amid the
folds of the Star Spangled Banner.
Descendants of New England Puri-
tans. bred on the gospels precepts, set
ting forth. in Gods sight, to chastise
the hellish inventions of the genius of
evil, lying and perjury, murders and
eacriieges. rape and slavery, martyrdom
and catastrophe of every sort: Catho-
lies. struck to the heart by the curses
on their religion. by outrages to
.athedrais and saints, ending in the
obstruction Of Iouvain and Rheims:
-..-Tcrsfty professors. safe guardia IS
OF the idea or law. manufacturers of
the east and center farmers of the
west, workmen threaten In their
labor by ships torpedoed and business
stopped-revolted by insults to their
nattons nag, all rise up In turn against
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What France Saws to the United States Regarding War


led by the enemy himself to take part
in it. Henceforward, more than ever. !,
must appear to every impartial nina
that German imperialism, which willed.
prepared and declared the war, had
conceived the senseless dream OF es-
tablishing its hegemony over the
world. 1t has succeeded only IN re-
voting humanity.
ITO the universe. in language that
shall not be forgotten, you have maze
yourself the eloquent Interpreter OIL
right that was outraged and civiliza-
ton that was threatened. Honor 10
you, Mr.. President, and to your noble
nation,'' =,
The French government, in council
assembled. ordered that these re-
sponses of it's heads should be posted
on the walls of Paris beside the mes
sage of President Wilson. Like the
message, they are ordered to be read
to the students of all the schools OF
France. And all towns and cities must
see that the flags of the two repubhcs
float side by side
STERLING HELLO.
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the folly of pride which would subju-
gate land and sea and sky and souls.
AT this hour, when, as in the he
roic days of the war of independence,
Americans are to combat at our sides,
let US repeat once again: We wish to
hinder no man from living and working
and trading freely. butsthe tyranny of
Prussia has become danger for the
as for Russia. for Italy as for Aus
tria, and for Germany herself. To save
the world, by the common effort of
democratic peoples, from that military
and feudal caste. and to found peace
on right, is a work for human enfran-
chisement and the worlds salvation.
BY accomplishing under presi-
dency henceforth immortal the great
est deed in her annals since the aboli-
ton of slavery the glorious nation
whose whole history has been one de-
velopment of the idea of liberty, re-
mains faithful to its high beginning
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tells me that our salvationi lies in this
region, and that with diversified farm
ing it may be made so to increase the
size of our bread and meat baskets
as to greatly relieve the present high
prices and supply what we need for
our armies and allies.
AS it is. the south itself has thirty
five million storachs to fill. 1t has
one-third of the population of the
United States to feed. and today it is
buying great part of it's supplies from
the north. The country can easily
raise all its own food. and have vast
quantities to export all over the world.
Not long ago it was producing nothing
but cotton, and it is only lately that 1t
has begun to put much in corn. wheat.
oats and hay. Nevertheless, its total
grain crop of last year was worth more
than 81. 200, 100000 This included only
corn. wheat and oats. and it raised in
addition rice worth more than 10000
900. In 1915 the south harvested more
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Great War Resources of the Rapidly Developing South

France. 1t has more than ten billion
tons of iron yet to be mined. and it is
now annually producing about forty
million tons of pig iron, or more than
one-half of all the pig iron made by
the world. 1t is mining about onehalf
of all the coal ef/Ihe world. and its
coal resources hava barely been touch
ed 1t has enough coal and iron to fur
nish armor plate for all the navies on
earth, and. 1 venture, leave enough
over to make a steel girdle around the
equator.
Among the absolute necessities of the
present time are gasoline and fuel oil.
The oil is used to run the fleets of our
navy and the merchant marine. and the
gasoline must be had for the automo-
biles, motor trucks and aeroplanes. The
richest oil fields of the world are now
in the south. Those of Oklahoma. Tex
as and Louisiana are already producing
>one-third of the oil of the world, and as
l write this new fields are being opened
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
espondencH Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS May 3, 1911.
q HAVE chosen words, which ought
III to be remembered, from official
utterances Of France. Each school
Il child of Paris is to receive a copy
OF President Wilson's message to the
American people. daintfly reproduced
at the city school of fine printing, en-
craving and binding.
Adrien Mithouard, president of the
municipal council of Paris. which voted
unanimously this remembrance of
Americas words, said:
TO our friends of America who,
from the beginning of the war, have
won so many rights to our gratitude,
tightening our evils, comforting our
sorrows, healing our wounds, and who
are now preparing to give US back a
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houses of parliament with all the au-
thority of his high position and his ex-
perience of seventy years:
"Al1 of us have the feeling that some
thing great, quite beyond the proper
tions of political event, has now hap
pened.
TT is an historical fact of unequaled
Importance, this entrance into the war,
with us and our allies, of the most
peaceful democracy in the world.
After doing everything to assert its at
tachment to peace, the great American
nation declares solemnly that it cannot
remain neutral in this immense conflict
between right and violence, between
civilization and barbarism. 1t deems
that honor obliges to take up the chal-
lenge given to all rules of interna-
tional law which the common effort OF
civilized nations had built up SO la
boriously.
IF the world could still have the
slightest doubt as to the deep meaning
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Of this war. the message of the Presi-
dent of the United States would dispel
every obscurity. 1t makes clear to all
that the struggle is truly struggle he
tween the spirit of liberty of modern
societies and the spirit of domination
OF societies still enslaved to military
despotism. 1t is this which makes the
message sound in the depths of every
heart as message of deliverance to
the world
The Star Spangled Banner IS to wave
by the tricolor flag, hands shall join
ana hearts beat as one. For us, after
so many suferngs borne heroically:
so much mourning and ruin, it is re-
ViVal OF the feelings which have ami
mated and upheld US all through the
long trial.
We see throughout the world the
conscience of peoples a.Waking and lift
atrocities of which we are the victims
and we feel more keenly that we are
combating not for ourselves alone
and for our allies. but for. something
that is immortal. that we are working
10 found the new order. So our sacri-
fees shall not have been IN vain So
the generous blood shed by the sons
OF France shall have been the fruitful
seed of ideas of justice and Iberty-
the necessary foundation of concord
among nations"
To these stirring words the telegram
OF Raymond Poincare. President of the
French republic, to Woodrow Wilson.
President of the United States of
America gives the fitting conclusion:
II am sure that express the thought
of France. whole and entire. waen l
say to you and to the American ma
ton the Joy and pride we experience
now that we feel our hearts beating.
once again, in unison with yours This
war would not have had its fun mean
ing IL the United States had not been
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~EDAR LANE is a name which
III may suggest little to most
IL washingtonians. If it brings
- up any mental picture. it is of
a.4quiet private way leading from a
muddy. or .dustry public road to farm
house set hack across the fields or in
grove of trees. And the Cedar lane. to
be true to its name, must be bordered
by cedar trees. There are many Cedar
lanes around Washington. and the
Rambler has often done himself the
honor of making notes concerning
them.
However. there is near Washington
public road which for time out of
mind has borne the name of Cedar
lane 1t extends for a distance that
crow might cover in flight of three
miles, but this old road does not travel
as straight a crow is said to fly. 1t
dips down into wales. leads up and
down steep hills, crosses commanding
ridges, bridges a number OF little
streams and here and there winds
along the course of crooked, noisy
and charming brook.
X X
Because Of these facts it requires
walk of considerably more than three
miles to pass from one end to the other
Of this road. One of the things worth
mentioning about this Cedar lane is
that if there ever was any particular
reason for naming it Cedar lane, and
no doubt there was. that reason seems
not, now to exist. It's display of cedars
is not at all impressive. and probably
there are lanes called Maple lane."
Beech lane," Peach Tree lane or
"Persimmon lane" that have more
cedars and gloomier. statelier cedars
along the course than Cedar lane.
Cedar lane leads from the old George
charlottesville road west to the Seven
ocks-Rockville road. The old George
town-Rockville road means that stretch
of somewhat more than five miles OF
Georgetown-Rockvill pike and re-
unites with it. The south point of sep
aration is just beyond Bethesda.
Grouped about this parting of the ways
ments of Edgemoor. Highland Park
and woodmont. The old road. improved
as an automobile road for about two
thirds of its length. passes the new set
Elements of Huntington Terrace, Sono-
ma. Alta Vista and the old post office
called Beane. The course of the road
follows the broad crest of the highland
= which is the watershed dividing the
streams flowing to Rock creek on the
east and to Cabin John creek on the
west. This road at it's northerly end
does not quite rejoin the Georgetown
Rockville pike. but enters road which
runs east ard west from Rock creek to
Cabin John creek and walk of two or
three hundred yards along this east
and west road will bring one back into
the much travelled Rockville pike. The
present Rockville pike from a point
near Montrose School to Bethesda was
built as a shorter way, cutting out the
wide loop which the old road makes to
the west in following the crest Of the
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Rock creek-Cabin John creek water
shed. This short way road was prob
ably built in the 20s-in that period
when most men believed that the road
toll road
Last fall the Rambler spent two Sun
days in walking along the two roads
mentioned here in an effort to relocate
several places of interest in connection
with the Confederate attack on Wash
ington, in July. 1864. 1t was in an extra
issue of The Star at noon on July II
1864. that the people of Washington
were informed that
Last evening a force of from 1900 to 2,OOs
rebels entered Rockville and passed through to
a point a few miles this side Of that village.
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and is winning new right to the graft
tude of humankind"

and is winning new right to the graft
tude Of humankind"
Antonin Dubost the aged president
of the senate, said:
Thus does that first crime of Ger
many unfold one after the other all its
fatal consequences. 1t unchains the
greatest insurrection of free peoples
which has ever been seen. against the
last tyranny-Prussan miiitarism. One
after the other II brings them together,
in sublime democratic solidarity, and
behoid-the sword of Washington. re-
sponsive TO the sword of Lafayette, is
cast. in it's turn. into the balance.
The great republic had already. of
her own free will, taken on herself a
sublime mission to prevent invaded
Belgium and France dying of starva-
ton. AT the solemn moment when she
yields to more imperious call-the
call of outraged honor-the French
senate sends to her fraternal gratitude
and greeting.
Honor to libertys new soldier. who.
knowing ali the power of Germany for
evil. faces her resolutely. Honor to the
new judge, who tomorrow shall sit in
humanity's high court of justice and
with us pronounce the penalties, col
lective and individual, deserved by the
German coalition, its chiefs and it's &C
completes"
The entire senate. on its feet. turned
to the diplomatic tribune, and, in the
person ~ the American ambassador
acclaimed the United States
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and after hating here for a brief while they
retraced their steps to the town. where they
bivouacked for the night.
This morning they are engaged with force
Of cavalry, under command of Col. Lowell,
thrown out to ascertain their strength and char
Rcter. No Information embracing details Of the
progressing engagement have yet been received
here. The point where the fight was in progress
was In the vicinity of Rabbits Greek post office,
between Tenleytown and Rockville.
Where Cedar lane strikes off to the
west nearly at right angle to the old
Georgetown road there is in the south
west angle the home of J. w. Huff
man, and in the northwest angle low
woods. closely tangled with vines, but
with here and there long rectangu-
lar space cleared through the trees
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this trip The distances are magnifi-
cent. l came 1,120 miles in an almost
straight line from Washington to New
Orleans. and Houston, Tex, where
shall make my next long stop. is al
most 500 miles farther. From there to
I'll Paso, near where the western state
of New Mexico begins, is a twenty
four-hour ride by fast express train,
and as far away from Washington as
London Is distant from Constantinople
From Baltimore to FL Paso is almost
as far as from Boston to Denver
The southern states number sixteen.
states of the Union. Bunch them to-
gether and you have an area which
equals one-th!rd of the United States
proper. 1t embraces more than one
Sans flag, including Alaska. Hawaii.
the Philippines and our West Indies
Islands. with those We have just bought
from Denmark thrown in. Take out
Russia and the south is greater than
all the countries which are now war
ring in Europe. Louisiana is twice as
big as Belgium and Holland, and it
has millions of acres of far richer soil.
Texas is. bigger than Germany, France
or Austria Hungary, 1t is four times
as big as New England, with $4,000
miles to spare. Kentucky is five times
as large as Massachusetts, Maryland
nine times as big as Rhode Island, and
you could cut Florida into seven equal
pieces and each would be big enough
to cover New Jersey and Maryland.
Alabama is bigger than Pennsylvania.
and it has tens of billions of tons of
coal and iron lying under it's soil. I
might make similar comparisons as to
Tennessee. Georgia and also as to
oklahoma, which is now our greatest
oil state, well as one of the chief
farming states of the Union.
Among the big problems of today is
how we can keep down the prices of
clothing and food. We are short of
botn bread and meat. and everything
is sky-high. Just before coming south
! talked with Mr.. Bradford Knapp. who
has charge of the demonstration farm
work now going on in the south. He