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Evening star., 1920-03-07

there came to that part of Virginia
another Scotch family named Hunter.
They bought MooIefield from de-
scendant of Jeremiah Moore and
changed the name of the plantation
to Boutwell, They knew nothing Of
the Hunters Of Contemplation. nor
OF the Hunters Of Ayr Hill. They had
sent one Of their sons from Scotland
to pick out a farm in the United
States. In his reconnaissance he came
TO Virginia. and after K extensive travel
in the Old Dominion he came to Pair
fax county, and the land which
pleased his fancy most was that
which had been taken up more than
n century before by other Scotch
Hunters. Not until a considera bl e
time had passed after the purchase
of the land did the later-c coming
Hunters learn anything about the
namesakes who had preceded them.
The farm of Ayr Hill lay on an old
road connecting the Alexandria and
Leesburg pike and the Little River
turnpike. Very likely black smith
shop, store and tavern and the homes
OF the smith and storekeeper came to
stand al that place and the hamlet
took the name Of Ayr Hill Then the
railroad came. 1t was that line which
for a long time we called the Blue
mont division of the Southern rail-
way. Before that it had been a part
OF the Piedmont Air Line system
Before that it was the Washington
Ohio and Western railroad. and be-
fore that it was the Loudoun and
Hampshire railroad. 1t is now part
of the Washington and Old Dominion
railroad. In 1s47 the Virginia legis-
lature incorporated a railroad com
pany to build a line from Alexandria
to Harpers Ferry a part of the rail-
charter. hut the RanI,ler does not
know. In 1853 the charter OF the AL
cXandria and Harpers Ferry railroad
was amended and the company was
authorized to build a line from Alex
andria to Hampshire county, Va, now
one of the counties of West Virginia
Ut was called the Alexandria, Lou
doun and Hampshire railroad The
hamlet of Ayr Hill became a station
on the line. Before the civil war a
number Of northern families settled
on the fine lands about AYR Hill aud
the name OF the ststion WAS changed
to Vienna, the name being taken not
from Vienna. Austria. but from Wen
ma. n. Y.
Let us now pass to the story Of the
second Hunter family OF Moore field
The head Of that family in Virginia
was james Hunter Of ThornhiIl, Dunn
frieshire. Scotland. son OF James
Hunter OF he same place, who died
when his Son James WAS six years
old james Hunter. the father, WIS
the second son of the laird of Hunt
ersholme. in Dumhart onshire. His
family can be traced back in posses-
sion OF that property to the year 14B8.
Before that it WAS connected with the
Hunters Of poimuid. who are men
toned in the border ballads from time
TO time One couplet runs:
Sir Narman Hunter Of FolmuiI
Gem to the fnw with his srci,ers suid.
Barbour. in his 'Rh.ming Chroni-
cles." SAYS that William the Lion
granted these Hunters 81 charter, az
follows:
grant to thee, M, Hunter gud
The land, "f stsu,opc aud Pol,unia
The crest Of these Hunters. and
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was once proud and perhaps arrogant.
So far as the Rambler can deterni ne
from the records, there was no par
ucular reason why the Hunters of
Contemplation and the Hunters of Ayr
Hill. Mnorefield and Moidon should
have denied relationship with each
other on the score of merit or lack of
merit. They must have been Very nice
people. indeed. They seem to have
been sufficiently prosperous and re-
spected to answer any demands that
modern people should make upon their
ancestors. They were very good Nfr-
ginia people, by which the Rambler
means to say that there We're no bet =
ter people in any colony from New
Hampshire to Georgia. The Rambler
is very happy to give his testimony
to this effect, beca use he believes that
no other set of people have been so
grossly s1epresentcd as ancestors
The prodncst, highest stepping people
in Washington had ancestors who fol-
lowed exceedingly humble callings.
And on the other hand some of the
proudest ancestors in the District of
Columbia are represented by descend
ants who haven't brains enough to
follow any kind OF a calling--humble
or otherwise.
The son Of the immigrants William
and Margaret Hunter married into
the Chapman family and his son mar
ried into the Dade family. DR.. John
Hunter, son of the immigrants, was
an educated man and he became n
comfortably large landholder, per-
haps by his marriage with Miss Chap
man. John Chapman Hunter was IA
revolutionary soldier and an officer of
Virginia militia in the war of 1872. He
was man of we'll balanced mind,
good heart, kindly disposition and
courteous manner.
The immigrant John Hunter. who
gave the name Ayr Hill to his Nir-
ginia farm, was a good citizen and
his wife Jane Broadwater, was an
arstocrat in that her father was a
large land and slave holder and lived
in fine house set in splendid gar
dens. That old house is still standing
about mile and half from the
debris which marks the site Of the
house Of Ayr Hill. Jane Broadwater
is said to have been beautiful
woman. and. though this delightful
characteristic lis freely ascribed to
most Of the ladies Of the colonial
epoch, the Eambler, having met many
ladies in Fairfax county desconded
from Jane Broadwater finfs il easy
to believe that she really Was beauti-
full
There was a ssvr of John Hunter
and Jane Braadwater Of Ayr Hill
His name WAS George Washington
Hunter, and he married Angelina
Moore, daughter Of the Rev. jeremiah
Moore. whose home seat was named
Moorefield They Inherited Moorefield
and it remained in possessio Of their
descendants for several generations
Near the house in which George
Washington Hunter lived is knoll
in the Il.adle of u fit Ia which is titled
or Erazed every yeAr. Growing on
this knoll are a Wild cherry and A
persimmon tree, Al few oaks. pines
and cedats and dog " God. Under
the beushs OF the pines is ~ marble
monument stained by the rains and
frosts Of years. it bears this inscf'ip-
ton: "G w. Hunter. l776-ls56; An
gelina Hunter, died 1850: Margaret
Hunter"
About the beginning Of the third
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picturesque little Eraveyard TN the place Il
a;eorse washington Huut~r. u sOn vt john
Hnnier af AcrtM. who from AbhUtts.
ford. County Ayr. Sscetlanl. AMI the our
alIassr " the land which f!,. tawn Uf yi,u-
IA STANDS. hansed h Hfter dis s,,irr in
scotland. A,ccrtling 10 yenr ch,ah ,le lie
inarr td Angelina. daughter Uf the Ecv. Jcrr-
hiah Ae0rc Hf AaGre1ield. vile yves horn IN
1'ii II was E. om Jer,tsisi, .s.r4,. .a,r~sa,sri,!y
II soa or graiidson OF the cierx,ylns that my
brother. ssnnmg from Sco;lsnd IN the laae
'1Os purchased MAEcfeld Tor Our parents
who later jGined their elder sOn u,ere. An
other point of ,S,ntact occnr~ in your meutios
chat fir ioa Auuter Wtu sasmed the slace
hyrhp a nou Of lan,es Hun 'er, proynxs
of Asr IN Scotland. Ny fsti,er often told us
that hs grN00fsflsrr Wa% . ,sUpost Of Asr
end in this rspaoits i,ad ssss,y aaaIin:s VITA
Rof~rt Burns. the poet. who served as an ~x-
else sMi,rr IN ttsat district.
Some time the lasn,l,'er t,0pes to
write II story about the settlement "
Ayr 11ill and Vienna.
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lists between them. This is usually to
be noted when there il a difference in
the fortune and worldly circumstances
Of the branches, the members of the
more fortunate branch believing
themselves to be Of finer metal Or
finer clay then the less fortunate
branch. Fortune does not generally
abide with the same FAMILY longer
than two or three generations and it
seldom happens that in a poor family.
to work and endeavor.
some Of its members do not rise to
distinction and fortune. Then the
claims to relationship arr reversed.
The former humble family becomes
proud and ella inns 10 be Of better blood
or better clay or better dust and de-
nies kinahip with the hunable descend
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3 - of these "rambles may re-
Member that the Rambler
wrote several sketches last
summer on the Hunter family, or the
Hunter families. in the nerth-oentral
section of Fairfax county. He told
rho story of the Hunters of "Ayr
Hili," the Hunters of "Contempla-
tion" the first Hunters of Moore
hcld' and the Hunters of "Moidon."
At later time another Hunter fam
lily. or another branch of the Hunter
family, bought "Moorefeld" and
changed the name Of that old planta-
tion to Boutwell," The Hunters of
Ayr Hill and Moidon and the first
Hunters of Moorefield were clearly
of the same family, the first member
fthat family to settle in Fairfax
county being John Hunter of ABB
bottsford. Ayrshire, Scotland. His
parents were James and Janet Hun
ter. John appeared in Fairfax coun-
ty in 1855 and bought a farm on
the high land, where Wolf Trap run.
Piney branch and Difficult run flow
west and north to the Potomac, and
where many little branches flow south
to join Accotink creek. which enters
the Potomac through Accotink bay
and Gunston cove, three miles below
Mount Vernon.
John Hunter married Jane Broad
water, daughter Of Col. Charles
Broadwater the Broadwaters family
having at that time been long settled
in northern Virginia. John gave to
his farm the name Ayr Hill. in MEM
ory of Ayrshire, and perhaps there
was an Ayr Hill in that shire with
which his family had been associated.
Ayr Hill may have been the home
of his parents in Scotland. The Ram
hler believes that the land in Fair
fax. which John Hunter bought, came
out Of one of the extensive tracts
owned by the Broadwaters. but there
is some speculatio in this. 1t Seems
very probable.
The Hunters Of Contemplation ap-
peared in Virginia much earlier than
the Hunter of@Ayr Hill John Chap
man Hunter of Contemplation was
bora in 1862. His father was DIR. John
Hunter. who died in 1853. leaving to
his son. John Chapman Hunter, farm
near Difficult run, and on which the
son built the fine old house which
stands there now. To this home John
Chapman Hunter gave the name,
Contemplation. Dr. John Hunter was
a son Of William Hunter, who.
with his wife. born Margaret Cooke,
came from Scotland to Virginia. The
son Of the immigrants married Eliza
beth Chapman, daughter of Nathaniel
Chapman, and their son, John Chap
man Hunter, married Sarah Dade.
Under some old trees and among tall
and ragged hedges Of box bushes at
Contemplation are tombstones thus
inscribed: Sacred to the memory of
John Chapman Hunter, who departed
this life the 14th day of February,
1S4S, aged 81 years." and Sacred to
the memory of Sarah Dade Hunter,
wife of John Chapman Hunter, who
departed this life Oct 3. 1s45, aged 20
years"
The Hunters of Contempla ton and
the Hunters of Ayr Hill, though they
were Scotch and though their lands
adtoined Fairfax, claimed to be not
related to each other, and so far as
the Rambler's knowledge and advices
go, the descendants of these Hunters
have not intermarried. 1t often hap
penn that branches Of the same fam
lily insist that no relationship eX-
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-22
NEM nRIrIsH AMBASSADOR

Once again Great Britain has an am hassador in this country. He hasn't had Inc experience and doesn't carry the years of some of his predecessors but is regarded as g. man of action and high qualities as viewed from his period of service in the war ministry. He has heen selected for the post in this country because Of his qualifications and there rzn be no question but what ambassador Go the United States today must be rated as high as to any other similar appoint ment that might be obtained. But in one respect he will differ from some others who have been sent to Washington and that Is he has not had a long diplomatic training, and for that reason the honor that sccrues from his choice is all the greater. for it indicates the confidence that is repOsed in his ability to discharge the duties that will rest upon his should ITS in dealing with the many important post-wsr problems. concerning the two countries.
 Lord Grey, the last British represen- lative. was in this country a number of months and failed to get an opportunity To present his credentials to the presi- fcnt. Whether this was due entirely to ms presidents sickness has never been luiiy understood. although he was not
 he On)y representative of foreign gov
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-22

 ceded the war. Cotton cloths. for exam pie, show total exports in 1919 at Sss,- 0O0,00o yards against i5.000,0o0 in Isl4, an increase Of approximately ss per cent, and the distribution is to every continent and every important country of the world. Boots and shoes show a to- tai in 1913 Of is,eOe 900 pairs exported
 against a little less than 0.0eo, ,e00 pairs in 1914. an Increase therefor of nearly
 100 per cent. in the expoTtation during
 the war period Sole leather exported in 1919 amounted 10 l22,00O.0O0 pounds against only 2s,OoO,O0 in 1914; mineral oil 2 1-2 billion gallons against little more than billions iR 1914: newsprint paper exported in 1913 aggregated 220.- 000.0 pounds against 0.s00 .000 in
 1914; sugar i.47s.eoO.oo0 pounds in 1913
 against only 52,000,00 in 1914. Automo- piles which can scarcely be considered a
 representative factor by reason of the fact that the exportation had only been
 fairly entered upon prior to the war, | do. however show a tremendous in- crease, the total number of machines ex-
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-22
EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURE ..
 INCREASING IN QUANTIT

Exports of manufactures from the United States are apparently double in quantity those of the year before the war While we have known, says statement by The National City Bank of New York, that the figures showing the total value of all manufactures exported are three and one-half times as big as those of the year prior to the war, we were not able to so readily determine to what extent the increase was due, to a mere advance in valuation or 10 an act ual increase in quantity. That prices of all manufactures had greatly increased was well known and it is now possible by a careful compilation to determine whether or not the increase in values is due in any considerable degree to in- crensed quantities. and this careful com pilation shows that, beyond peradven-
 ture, there has been a very large, in
 many cases 2 startlingly large, increase
 in the quantities of American manufae- lures sent in the year following the close
 of the war to other parts of the world when compared with tho year immedi,
 ately preceding the beginning of tb, war.
 Just few examples. adds the banl statement, will illustrate the increase il l quantities of manufactures exported il | the calendar year 1919, all of which fol 1 lowed the war, as compared with thos of the fiscal year 1914, all of which pre-
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-22
nEInGEroRr.s CLEANrr.

Many more than the people of ErdEen0rt are interested in learning Enf a going To happen to the police lrcs or that city in lhe effort which is f5w hsiur made Go rid Che city of the de- porah'a vice conditions which have ex- tiri tH.r- Tor some considerable period.
 1f rar0rs are Co be believed some at Faet o- thrsr in Bridgeport have come ynter Che control of a vice ring. This feu- t0 tr indicated when the mayor of lae city .s f1rc.1 Co ro outside 10 get the nccesrrrr assistance 70 clean up the city. N h indeed a serious situation when Community cannot deIeri upon it's police i1rc. and other authorities To uphold the rw Wlih tne suspension of the super irfarlrrr of police @ move appears to be made To eet az those high up. IL seems Improbable th.t only one could be in- solved iu such a matter and for that r1asol other Interesting developments nay te expected
 Tn such instances it is to be remem- hersi that it s not the uatrolman who can be sadf'e1 with an the blame for permitting vice conditions to prevail. He iray ie responsible when he knows of H. Irral conditions. makes no report of the same arl does nothing to eliminate them. iut when h' finds and reports conditions which should not he. repeats his discov- cries several times without seeing any rcaDonae being made on the part of those above him. i- is only natural that such a guardian of the peace should get the i'm nressiou that his su1eriors didn't want Co make a move against such conditions And the hiuec0at knows what may hap pom co l.m f he attempts to push matterl that rest on Che shoulders ol others. Thus it is improbable that tn, whole force can be indicted
 Bridgeports conditions had apparently become go notorious that it was neceg s1ry Co SO over the heads of even tho head of the police force. Experience il attempting c.cauuus made that advisabI and the result is that Bridgeport ha! been shown Co be as rotten as claimed The only surprise 10 the police and t, those who have couutenanced such con dItions is that tine nlaces could be raide, without their knowledge. But Bridge nort needs Co keep up the cleansing pro ce1s ti it gets back to responsibility re Fardless as to the number, rank or titl pf authorities involved
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-22
OUR PART IN TURKEY.

From Washington comes word that, in view of the note from the allied premiers to the effect that they will not follow the plan proposed by the president for dealing with Turkey, the president is planning to issue a statement to the eff feet that the senate is responsible for the position in which the country is thus placed
 That the note from the allied prerniers is against President Wilson's suggestion relative to Turkey is undoubtedly so, but there can be no surprise if they de- eide that inasmuch as this country will accept no responsibilities in that region, and it certainly should not, it ought not 10 have anything to say about adjusting
 a condition for which the allies must | henceforth be responsible. The fact is | that We did not make war upon Turkey and by not doing so We can expect to | have little to say in making the adjust ments.
 But whether the allies refuse to throw | the Turks out of Europe or not, and ! there are but few who are manifesting | any sympathy for the Turks, it will bc | surprising if President Wilson under l takes 10 place the responsibility for the | refusal of the premiers to listen to his
 plan upon the senate. That wouldn't amount to much as a campaign docu- ment. The stand taken by the allied
 nations many months ago against the presidents plan in the Adriatic, whicl was similar to that regarding Turkey was certainly not influenced by the sen
 ate action for the senate had not acted
 at that time.
 If the allied Bremiers have been in
 fluenced at all by the situation that hal
 developed in this country it is unques
 tionably because of the determined stant
 which has been made by the president t,
 have his way or nothing. It is his atti tude which has prevented the ratification of the treaty with reservations such a were approved by a majority of the sen ate and seemingly the premiers have de . cided that they must go ahead with sucl 8 an adjustment of the Turkish probler - as they can get an agreement upon.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-22

There was wild yell from upstairs and almost immediately the father of the family made the distance between the top stair and the bottom one and appeared rather pale with disordered hair
 T opened my drawer where I store my summer neckties," he got out, and there was strange box and I opened it and there was a snake! Now how the Sam Hill-"
 "Oh"' breathed his wife, ''so that's where Jimmy put it p
 Jimmy! p roared ,Jimmy's father in instant wrath, T might have known it :! If you will tell me why my son should conceal poisonous reptiles"
 Its a perfectly harmless little snake, :" protested Jimmy's mother. Don't get so excited, Henry I'm not saying that approve of snakes in the least and don't wonder that you were scared-but I suppose Jimmy was at his wits end to know what to do with it."
 Do with it H' echoed Jimmy's father. "Chuck it out Why encourage ten dency leading to boa constructors and python's probably"
 And it isn't Jimmy's" went on his | mother. "It belongs to Chuck. You see Jimmy was to take care of it while l Chuck was away for few weeks and ii has to be where it is warm, so it cant | go down cellar. Of course when I found | it in my work basket and absent mind, edly opened the box because it looked | just like my button box I felt exactly the way you felt and I told Jimmy that I simply refused to have the awful thins anywhere near me or my possessions He said the boys always were fooling | around his room so he didn't dare keeI it there. If anything happened to Jere' 1 miah-that's the snake-Chuck would never forgive him. When I got home found mother stretched out on the living room couch with Selma putting cold cloths on her head. It seem: that mother had come over to work or those quilts we are making and wher she pulled down from the shelf in thu hall closet where we keep them, a boz fell down from among them, hitting hel on the head and Jeremiah was in the box and came out naturally.
 Jimmy said what was fellow to dt with people polzing around in unexpected places. Where should he put Jeremiah
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-22
CUTTING THE COST.

And now with the movement for the wearing of old clothes overalls and cal leo underway throughout the country an effort is being made to revive the lunch box, with the idea of course that what is carried in it will cost much less to the one consuming it and certainly be as nourshing as is now obtained by the habit which has developed of buying the lunch.
 Whether everyone who cannot get home for lunch will take to this idea as eagerly as a great number of the people seem to be falling in with the cost cut ting idea in other directions depends up- on how serious minded they are in the purpose at stake It should and must be thoroughly understood by all those who are jumping into overalls that there have been just as many opportunities and just as good reasons for avoiding large and what may be regarded as nnjustified expenditures in the past as there are now. Also there are many other ways in which the exercise of the same kind of economy can be turned to the advantage of the consumer if there is the disposi- tion to do it.
 With general determination to buy economically and with an equal determi- nation to do everything possible to in- crease production much greater benefits it is believed would result to the people than by trying to put into effect some thing in one or two particular lines which may have slight bearing upon the general state of affairs.
 The importance of letting it be known that there is an insistent demand for the lowering of prices has long been empha sized. It is certainly time to let it be understood that high prices are not de manded. How much people have beer made to pay above what they should be cause there are those who have insisted upon having nothing but the highes priced goods, when as a matter of fac they could not afford them, will never bt known, but if it is their fault that price! have been boosted their efforts to bring them down should be made to cover al lines rather than just one.