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come there it would probably become e
Belmont Manbr"SThe house stands
on a ridge about half a mile north
of the low green shores of Belmont
bay and commands a majestic out
look across Belmont bay and south
through Occoquan bay and down the
Potomac, taking in such Potomac
landmarks as Sandy Point, Freestone
Point, Cockpit Point and Indian Head.
More than half century ago Bel
Haislip. who bought it from Yea
mans Gillingham, whose son Walter
was born there and is now living at
the Bone Mill, near Springfield sta
tion.
Yeamans Gillingham was a brother
of Chalkley Gillingham, one of the
pioneer Quakers of Woodlawn, and
about these QuakerAr who came to
Fairfax county from New Jersey in
1847 the Rambler wrote several years
ago. Yeamans Dillingham; bought
Belmont from William r. Selecman
who got it from q man named Clark.
The Rambler believes it was Thomp-
son Clark. He got the place from
Townsend Thompsonp whose grave is
on the sequestered. picturesque and
fruitful fruit farm. farm: + Before Thompson
| understanding that the place was the
home of Catesby Cooke. who was the
first clerk of the county of Fairfax.
He was probably living there in 1874,
for in DR.. Slaughter's History of
Truro Parish is this:
'1734. October II. After the expiration OF
the year for which the Rev. Mr. De Butts had
been employed he seems to have preached
occa sionally in the parish. for at a. vestry of
1870 pounds Of tobacco for preaching eigh,
sermons Payment was also ordered for Mr.
catesby Cooke for clerks fees to John Tram,
NELL for 'grubing place for the church.
to John Massey for keeping a house for the
minister to preach in and to the church war
dens to buy tarr for the churches
Thomas H. Haislip married Miss
Margaret Violet, who was a daugh-
ter of one of the old families in the
Occoquan region. and they had two
children. daughter who died in in
fancy and SON, John T. Haislip, who
towns Belmont now and lives there
with his happy and interesting fam
lily. John married Miss Minnie Hais-
lip. a distant relative, of Prince
William county. Their children are
Margaret Louise. now Mrs. Davis of
Lorton; Thomas Keith Haislip. John
William Haislip, Marvin HaisIip.
Haislip. Dorothy and Robert Lee
Thomas H. Haislip was born in 1874
and died in 1908. If the Rambler is
reading his notes truly Thomas was a
son of John Haislip. who settled in
IuHSton week OF MdSonS Neck 110
years ago. With John Haislip came
his brother Jackson, and they bought
large tracts in the Neck" Johns
children were Jane, who married a
son of Trotter Trice; Thomas. Martha
who married Enoch Cook and is a
widow, living at Del Ray: Susan, who
married Edgar Lee and lives in Chi
cago: James. who owned the old tract:
Bradley. and married Miss Kezia /,
Haislip; Dr. George W. Haislip. de-
| ceased. who married Miss May Cock
! erell of Fairfax, who lives in Wash
ington. and Sarah Haislip. who mar
ried Charles Coleman of DranesvilIe
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the county seat. The three .defenses
always won"
The Ohio constitution wasschanged,
laws were modernized. the working
man protected. and, today not fifty
personal accident cases are being
brought in Ohio's courts. Both sides.
are well pleased."s
Suggests Cure for Radicalism.
"rRadicalism can only be fought by
fair treatment" said he. DO you
remember how the old school ply
sicians used to treat scarlet fever?
They tried to repress it, and the
ten the patient died or lost his sight
or hearing. Now they scatter it and
scarlet fever is no longer dangerous" /"
He would have men meet and talk
their causes of difference over. Men
find it hard to quarrel face to face.
It fs difficult to look a man in the eye
and be unfair to him.. He does not
believe that the so-called radical
ism" of today is of the red sort at
all, 1t is discomfort, a lack of COM
plete knowledge at times. a failure
on both sides to understand and ap-
preciate the other.
mo wonder there have been radi-
Gals" said he. Men have worked
twelve hours a day year in and out
What chance have they to know
ANYTHING of this country and of what
this country should mean to them ?
A twelve-hour r-a-day man is too tired
to study or read or even learn a. new
Language. My information is that
the alien workman who learns how to
read American newspapers and talk
with American comrades is never a
radical.
Cox's Ideas on Americanizati0n.
"aThe reds are only those who can
only talk their native tongues man
ufacturers' detectives have told me
SO. AS soon as they know how to
talk United States the agitators can't
hold them"
So he would Americanize the alien
by the process of reducing his hours
of work and aiding him to better his
surroundings.
| Did you ever notice" said he
"that 1t is next thing to impossible tc
pick out the child of an alien? Give
the youngsters clean homes and clear
clothes and a clean school and a
little flower in the front yard and
they are Americans"
That suggested another thing.
They have love of art and ar
kaannrec&at tiox. .foxy1tt that ,nnl
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to have cultivated" said he. 1 have
noted at art museums-where I have
usually gone on official business
that the child who wanders through
these halls of beauty is apt to be
foreign born. The alien has some-
thing to give as well as to take
from u.s."
Opposes Excess Profits Tax.
He thinks the excess profits tax an
business man does not know where
he is at. 1 will venture that not one
man in this town here has received
his corrected return for 1919. So he
has to guess at the price to charge
and that makes for profiteering. rms
viduals engaged in the collection. The
system is wrong. No human peins
could do better with 1t.
Something of the high cost of iiv-
ing is due to this and other alleo
causes. Some other portion is due 70
are operated. Talk of the red tape
of the government" he said, 1t is
nothing to the rad tape in which
railroad operation is entangled. Ialk
to any brakeman or freight CONDUCTOR
he'll tell you. We need a reform e;an
-{fresh. blood-a evelier OUTLOOK
more pep"
Consular Service Needs Change.
The consular service, too, is in need
of change. he says He would make
1T real aid to the American manu-
facturer and exporter. NOW con-
suls report on trade matters 10 the
State Department affairs. THESE are
not State Department aHalrs. l "ouia
:, eaCn
foreign country make their reports
to a chief agent located in the capital
|of that country man VINO knows
something of trade and OF What our
men want to know. Then ne could
keep in touch with our exporters
while the story is still fresh. Mors
pep is needed in the consular service,
too Once it was first rate. NOW 1t
is not"
He would aid American exporters
by establishing federal reserve
bank/ abroad wherever one Is needed
to helm our men get trade. He feels
deeply on the federal reserve bank
ing issue.
There are too many bankees. on
1.-THE board" said he. Il would nave
men in other lines represented there
SO that it should be thoroughly rep
|resentative."
Must Not aHog Foreign Trade"
America is in foreign, trade to stay,
he thinks. But our manufacturers
must be educated and helped. They
do not yet appreciate the Importance
lof foreign trade nor understand the
methods Of securing it. He believes
that the American merchant marine
! is coming into it's own and hopes and
believes that it will always have a
'proportionate share OF the cargo-car-
Trying bottoms of the world.
But we must be decent about it,
ga id he. I'VE must not hog it. Let
iother nations have their share; with
lout interference. Decent competition
.1fAro6 6athee4nQr1de. sChas9uQmsnt
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NOT TAKING 1T FOO SERIOUSLY
Some Angles Of the Passing Show That May Have
Escabed the G1oons and Grouches.
BY KIRK MILLER.

NO matter what you try to scribble
on typewriter these prediction
days, 1t always turns out to be poll
tics A duplex. triple-shift standard
Keyboard is tough bird to coerce,
and If it wants to spell incorrectly,
all the influence left in Germany
can't coax it to decipher on the level.
one mean glance at the almanac and
the whole world knows we are right
on the edge of a precipice. Election
day Is so close that lot of birds al
ready know the result One little
push and those babies would fall over
the Cliff. bad news and all.
That's the reason all the two finger
power writing machines are outguess-
.ng couple of fleets of ouja boards
as 10 which party will be doing the
Vetolns one year from now. A mes
sage from the Wee-Jee Merganthaler
Seance Corporation decoded for Sep
tember delivery and November dis
card makes it perfectly plain which
candidate will lose. but leaves the
public in the dark as to who will win
That's the trouble with these news
paper guys, Sample code message
from wee-jee correspondent:
aaroins a pium-CoX a prune-no
difference 'cept ones dry. Polly wants
a crack-now is the time for all good
men to--when in the course of hu-
man events. Tight race. Weather fair
Track muddy. Bass are biting c. O. F.
epidemic in Maine. Is Ouija there
Buy forty shares of BeeZwax. Berg
doll and Dorsey Foultz seen. Bzzzz-z-z
Finir la guerre. Best man will lose
Some people like to read it of the
ticker tape and others like to con-
suit the ouja lumber. but the jigg-
saw puzzle result is just the same
both are running up hill in neutral
The quickest way to learn the iden-
tity of the next incumbent of the
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chusetts struck hands in the common
cause! The first Colonial Congress and
for ten years vexatious fmpositions
on the colonies! The Boston tea party,
Boston port bill, Continental Con-
gress, Patrick Henry again, and then
lexington!
From about 1865 a French revival
set in throughout the southern col
onies. The French language again be-
came fashionable and a Maryland or
Virginia gentleman, who could not
read French and converse On French
literature and philosophy was rare.
During this period Frances literary
Anglomania. and Montesquieu and
Voltaire imported English notions of
constitutional rights and popular
rights and carried the English ideas
to an extreme not contemplated per-
haps by the English radicals. Vol
taire, Diderot and a host of other
French writer's took up the political
fashions of Hobbies and Locke and
they translated and carried to the ex-
treme the philosophy, or what was
called the philosophy, of the English
deists Bolingbroke and SALISBURY.
1t was in this way that political and
religious radicalism made it's way
into the Potomac country 1t weaken
ed the bonds that had held congrega-
Virginia. The CLERGY was charged
with. being pro-English. People be-
came less attentive to their religious
duties for two reasons. The first was
that anti-English sentiment was
strong and rising, and the second was
that the deistic and material philoso-
ply had made he9dway in higher So
ciety. The wave of repubIicanism
swept over. the Catholic population
of Maryland. but French materialism
produced little effect. "Voltaire" was
name that was anathema and the
Catholics did not read>his works or
the writings Of any Of the "encyclo-
lists. a fast growing part of the pop
ulation.. caught the republican doc
trines, but not the unreligious or non
religious doctrines. The Methodis,s
OF Virginia and Maryland at that
time had few French scholars among
/ them. and. besides. they were too fuil
of the zeal of the Wesleys and Wes-
leyan missionaries to be touched by
the skepticism that had invaded the
more fashionable society. Much of the
controversial ammunition of the
American patriots was drawn from
French literature. and it is said that
it's effect was clearly shown in the
writings of Thomas Jefferson, and in
the Declaration of Independence can
be heard some of the notes sounded
by Rousseau in his Contrat Social.
Well. in all this the Rambler thinks
he sees why SO many of our an
cestors along the Potomac and it's
creeks used Gallo words in giving
name to their homes. 1t was one Of
these oN Belmonts which the Ram
bier CAME upon in the course Of a
walk a few Sundays ago. The plan
tation was named Belmont and the
dwelling house was called Belmont
House and sometimes Belmont Man
sion. If a new and fashionable own
er seeking the companionship of CO.
lonial and artistocratic ghosts should
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PORTUGUESE BURN
FLOORS FOR FUEL

LISBON, September 17.-Portugal is
suffering from a shortage Of coal and
provisions. which has resulted in
looting of food stores in some parts
of the country and in the reappear-
ance of the formerly familiar long
lines of women standing outside Of
bakeries waiting for bread.
The situation has been complicated
by an announcement of the minister
of the interior published in the Sc
culo that the government has be-
come aware of a bolshevist plot to
provoke disturbances all over Portu-
gal, so as to lead up to a general
movement later. The minister made
it known that the government hao
taken precautions to Illustrate those
plans.
There have been severe conflicts
at Santarem. Setubal and in other
parts of the country where stores
have been looted and emptied of their
contents. The military authorities
assumed control in Santarem and or
der was restored. but subsequently
fish riots occurred. The Santarem
fish market was attacked by a mob
which seized the fish and divided IL
ly was the chief and favorite food
of the people. but it is now so ex-
pensive that only the well-to-do can
afford it. One shopkeeper 2ppeased
the mob by distributing his supply
Of Goldfish, and thus was allowed to
retain his other wares.
The seriousness Of the shortage of
food and fuel has been emphasized by
a statement of Premier Granto. made
in parliament in which he said that
there was a lack not only OF coal and
provisions but Of all other articles in
dispensable for living. Since there was
only 10000 tons of sugar to supply the
country, the government was going to
prohibit its sale in restaurants and pas
try shops so that the hospitals OF Por-
tugal might not run short
Butter. lard, coal, oil and even vege-
tables have disappeared from tho mar
ket since government prices were fixed
for those articles" said tho premier
"The bread question is even more des-
perate than the others. The wheat in
this country will bearly sufice to supply
bread for the next five days. Wheat
contracts are being closed by tho gov
ernment at very high price. The
maize harvest is SO bad that we have
already imported 100000 tons Of IL
There is no coal in the city Of Lisbon
where the poor are tearing up their
floors to cook their food, and the foreign
coal is sold at such an exorbitant price
that it does not even allow our fishing
vessels to go to sea for fish,
In view of this crisis. the premier an
peaied to parliament for aid. and Efforts
are being made to obtain wheat from
thahi21amers in tho Rihat tsiQHdtHdcts
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he autumnal bird migrations from
gradually increasing cold of the
tn have already begun. The honk
The wild goose has been heard en-
te to it's winter home in the south.
|ccording to DR.. John Burroughs,
naturalist, who formerly resided
f, the District of Columbia lies di-
Fly in the pathway of the
Frating flocks.
dentists of the Smithsonian Insti-
on and ornithologists residing in
northern states and Canada have
p studying the autumnal and
FED that the songsters go south in
early autumn and north in the
| ng in obedience to physiological
Is governing bird life and not be-
se of weather conditions or lack
{ood- 1t is a well known fact the
hwaf0 flight of most birds takes
fe in August and September at a
E when weather conditions are
brable for their support and COM
and when the fooo supply is
/ abundant.
aving reared their young and
Eht them to fly. and having molted
.,
birds start southwark long before
|ty nights or frozen lakes and
RS make such flights necessary,
in like manner return before the
hern woods and fields are suited
he purposes for which birds seek
higher latitudes of the north.
odern research work on bird life
exploded many old superstitions
egard TO their habits and instinct
natures, as applied to portends OF
ther.
pc old superstition that the early
frture of summer birds meant ar
and severe winter and the kim
2 notion that moving of wilt
se and ducks southwark at higi
tudes was the forerunner of {
m have long since been exploded
Investigations of government
ntists. Birds may depart from
hern latitudes because Of a sud
drop in temperature, but they dt
know and cannot know what the
ther conditions will be en- rout,
the winter homes to which they
The 1ifeless remains of many
at the foot of the Washington
ument attest to the disaster thai
es to the feathered tribe during
semi-annual migrations.
nithologists have long since con.
ed that birds nest in succeeding
s at or near places they were
he'd; that they go south in the
autumn. pass the winter there
return in the spring.
Fhaps the most remarkable fea
of-, hiZdesmigratio1fzt fzta-4heixSvel
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years ago would have been the pride
OF many fair-sized town.
There you are" said he, pointing.
we graduate straight from such
fear of red domination where there
are plenty of good schools"
He told something of the fight Ohio
made to get this system-and to get
away from the little red school
dad"
1T never was good enough for
dad" said he with a fighting curl
of his lip. Dad would have been a
better man if he had had a better
school Look at the growing genera :
tion and tell me. if you can, that thew
do not show the influence of better
schools. We have not progressed far
enough yet in Ohio, but we could not
have done what we have if it had not
been for the courage and self-sacrifice
of our teachers. They devoted them
selves-they set themselves apart-to
this work"
Thinks Teachers Underpaid
"Are they being rewarded?"
'They are not getting enough
money" said he. here or in any
other state"
The talk turned upon physical fit
ness. He hunts. shoots, rides when he
can, and when he cannot do these
things he keeps fit anyhow.
81 do thirty Swedish exercises every
morning" said he. His shoulder press
ing against mine bore silent witness
1t was hard as rawhide. Then l get
into the bath and turn on the cold
water until 1 am in glow. Then a
brisk rub. I am always well. No man
unfit physically can do his best work
or as much work as he should do.
rarely let a day pass without a long
walk"
A group of urchins by the roadside
shouted in concert:
Harding, Harding. Harding!" The
governor laughed out loud:
| to do that myself. This wouldn't be
much of country if every one
thought the same way"
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we try to get everything for the
United States and elbow others out
we are falling into that Deutschland
ueber allies spirit which made Ger
many hated by the world"
The American system of distribu-
ton is unfair and inefficient, Mr.. Cox
thinks. There are to many itching
palms between the producer and the
changed by cutting out some of the
palms.
Names Layers Of Tribute.
THAT should be done by private eff
fort" he said. ut is the duty of the
individual. He can correct the pres
ent-day offenses if he will. He has
no right to stand on the highways of
commerce and levy tribute as certain
corporations (and he named the cor
porations and their officers have
been doing. 1 have my eye on these
fellows. I tell you, and I am going to
make them sweat. The goods raised
land made in this country should be
transferred at a decent profit to the
producer and a decent cost to the con-
Sumer."
| But if the individual does not cor
ition?"
Then it becomes the duty of the
II you will do not care what you
call it-but it is the function of the
government to secure for the individ-
ual the rights he cannot secure for
himself and compel that individual to
respect the rights of others when he
seeks to override them"
Calls Government Workers Lax.
He would make the government
work for the voter and not rule"
him. Americans do not like the
words rule or ruler We have ad-
ministrators and not rulers in this
country" He thinks the government
should be made more responsive to
public opinion and the departments
should be made more efficient and
less easy-going. mo business man
would accept from his employees the
sort of service the government gets
in some. departments"
The threat of hard times ahead does
be period of readjustment, but with
| the country underengined in every
department he fails to see how there
can be a lack of work at fair wages
for long time to come. The rail-
| roads need more miles of rail and
| more cars-"though not nearly as
many cars as they pretend in order
| to \cover up their administrative in
efficiency"-and tens of thousands of
homes and hotels and business build
ings and hundreds of thousands OF
miles of deep-foundationed truck
| TOaQS. Ine llSL OIL LHlHSS THO OulLeO
States must have to function at nor
NAL efficiency might be extended in
definitely.
Need of Better School System.,
"We need not pull long lip" said
! he. 1.-THE more I see of this country
the more I maEyel at it. We are a
new country yet. We have just
started to grow. One of the things
most needed is centralized school
iv, W. n
a red brick schoolhouse in the midst
: of n scornflaldz fharSort that ed1HeutY
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Army and Navy News

the October examination. That ex-
animation will be conducted along the
same general lines as the previous
one. All vacancies that exist after
the cases of emergency officers have
been disposed of will be filled by the
promotion of officers in the Regular
Army so far as that is possible under
prevailing conditions. The promotion
list has been completed in the grade
of captain in the regular establish
ment and the preparation of lists in
the cases of first and second lieuten-
ants is under way at the War De-
partment.
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Woman III M-Day
Fast Not Obliged
TO Stay in Bed

ROSEBURG, Ore, September
1S-Mrs. j. M. Lane OF Rose
burg yesterday completed .
forty-day fast. during which
time she partoOk of no nourish-
ment except q little orange and
lemon juice and water.
Mrs. Lane had been suffering
with chronic stomach trouble
for many years and was ad-
Vised to fast.
She lost twenty-five pounds
in weight in that time. but
never was confined to her bed.
Her frst food was . small
amount Of sOup.
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Wild GEESE HURRYING SOUTH
TO ESCAPE RIGOROUS WINTER
gathered Tribe Honks Way Over Wash
[neton Enroute to Warm Climate Some
Old Theories Are Exploded.

beaten path year after year in coming
and going. The best authorities on
the subject declare that a knowledge
Of land mark, obtained by sight only,
is the sense which directs these birds
in their long fight from the val
leys of South and Central America to
the north and back again to the trop-
ica1 zone.
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sERGT. NORRIS FISHER

SERGT. MORRIS FISHER
OF the United States Marine CorpS.
who won the world champiOnshfp
marksnaan title at the Olympic games,
scoring 996 out of a possible 1850 ON
a 3OO-meter range. Fisher, using an
ordinary United States magazine
rife, scored seven points over Larsen
Of Sweden, his nearest rival for the
title. Fishers performance marks the
nrst time this event has ever been
won with the standard military rifle
OF any country and also the first time
the match has been won by q member
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Lottery machines were ruled off
the turf several minutes ago, but if
a typewriter isn't guessing mill
then politics isn't a game of chance.
Some mornings the old word wagon
wakes up with a hangover and won't
do thing except play dead dog.
Evening star., 1920-09-19
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

the worlds greatest
- industrial drama is being en-
acted in Italy and the hour
y
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I'VE need not pull a long lip" said
he. "The more 1 see of this country
the more I maEyel at it. We are a
new country yet. We have just
started to grow. One of the things
most needed is a centralized school
system in every county" We passed
| a red brick schoolhouse in the midst
~. <pnrnAa1H nj & ~SurerfV