Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 73

THE SUNDAY STAR, Recorded Facts About Ninian Beall Give Queens’ Story Added Interest Rambler Furnishes Conclusive Evidence That His Journeys Abroad Are Not to Be Classed Simply as Business Proposition. - HE the gives Ramt hand all fac about Ninian Beall, the Brooke family and other families set ed in this region in o In Richard Marsham's will, which you ead in last Sunday's Star, and which s filed at Marlboro in April, 1713 testator wrote that he bought the Inclosure from Ni n Beall “ho patented it in 1687. This is the md on which Queen’s chapel, the heran } Langdon, Brookland holi¢c University, I believe Wood and other parts North on are bu Richard M who left that land to his g Samuel Marsham, Wi aind Margaret Queen in from England to Maryla ind married Katl nd second, « rt story the of Queens firs Anr that most person: cles on these s f 1 th f the ancestors who own valley i or such neestors be. oth s by Some persons sea ns ‘1\' to d < respectable cnthus the h for (use € s tin ancestor sm they some character let's go. of incestors l HAVE a clipping froi newspaper of nor the name news paper appears on the clipping. It was n by i Wallis weust Valley, vottingham, nee Georges Cou e sent in March, 1916, and I_ recentl und it among my indexed papers nder my original index system it was t in the “B’s” under “Beall,” but in ‘C’s” qinder “Chimes.” Here it Thoro Neither the about 1916 a date o Lowrie near nty to In a my sizned M. the only untry homas, o in 1 nd 1 recent i: h_inter Col Bez as he sue of your paper I sted in an article Ninian Beall was I who came to this had_three brothers John and George. Thomas of n) will was probated )8 and he married Elizabeth Lee they had a large family. John ed Joan Tyler. Col. Ninian Beall vas born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in €24 and came to Maryland in 1658 Tle married Ruth Moore, daughter of d Moore, a London barrister, his wife Jane. They had eight His will, made in 1717, gave ge tracts of land, among ‘Bacon Hall,” “Mount Calvert,” a ill on Collington Branch and many extates on the Bastern Shore of Mary nd. Col. Ninian Beall gave the land 1 foundsd the firsi Presbyterian h in Maryland at Upper Marl- h. His son-inlaw, Col. Archi- Bdmonson, was one of the lders. in Beall was Comm rveyor Charles County in 1684 and the many positions of honor e held are proven by the Maryland chives. A son of Col. N irles Beall. had a_son, 9 i, who, like his father and grand ther, was a promir in his ¥. He was borr and_was ptised by the Rev. Hugh Conn. lugh Conn was pastor of the Pres. terian church near where Bladens- urg was laid out, and bought from one of the Queens the land on which the National Industrial School, the ruins of Fort Lincoln and Battery Jameson, many suburban cottages and Fort Lincoln Cemetery are now.) He married Elinor Smith Greentield. ‘Col. Joshua Beall was 4 member of the Maryland Assembly, judge of the <ourt at Upper Mariborough and olonel of Militia under General Rezin seall. He died in 1796, His funeral vice was preached by the Rev ephen Balch. Col. Joshua Beall's ughter, Amelia, married Gen. son of Nathaniel Beall Rezin Beall was adjutant of the Fred- ick Battalion, Commander of the Independent Company of Regulars, and was wounded at Charles River. He as Brigardier General, in 1776, of the aryland Flying Camp. He died Oc- ied on his r Bell it Tuld M. Beall's direct descend Misses McCormick of €., and Admiral S Retired, Annapolis. Beall of the War of 181 was born in Rockville und an in mate friend of Will rri ed in 1843, and was buried in Vooster Cemetery, Wooster, Ohio. He Comm. Ens ned by Washington in 1793), Captain 794 and Brigadier General in 1808, which capacity he served in the - of 18 Among the tracts of nd taken up by Col. Joshua Beall is fe Enlarged the Fastern anch, now in possession of his de- ndants, the heirs of the late Mrs. san Beall Sheriff of Bennings. The court of Arms used by the descend- of the Bealls are unlike those by your correspondent. are three wolves, crest, g Among Gen t the ormick, T Rezin w B ants ven Arm: olf rampant holding erect a tasselled rear. This i similar of the Arms Be: iven in ‘Burke's Peerage’ anted to an English Beall but all of 1. Ninian Beall's descendants have e right to use those accorded to Ttobert Beall of Scotland.” The Rambler has a copy of a letter ritten by Ninian Beall to Col ell. It follows: A BIT OF WASHI! Me- | The | demi- | Dar-| lands has 1 h et THE LUTHERAN HOME IN l..\\"(‘yDO,\. | | Magruder “I have writt to you hon'r by Col Jowles but know not it will come to | hand but I make bold to write to your | of my proceedings now intended. I sent the coppy of the Indians examinacon which I hold from Mr. Addison sent to me, and, I sent your hon. concerning the disturbances of the people in our parts, and at the Eastern Branch 1 also am getting the matter of ten or twelve men and | |armes to goe to the Piscataway fort to desire the Indians to keep the fort till things are settled, and examined furt} and aiso to go up towards the East Lranch that the Virginians may | not have any just cause to come over If your hon'r thinks good send your | order whether or know | | “There is a bad report of your hon'r | concerning the hiring of the Indians to Kill the Protestants, but I hope it is | 1l false. Your hon'rs company would | be acceptable among the people More but rest “Your hon'rs Servant to Command Whilst T am “NINIAN BEALL “From the house of Basil Warren my service to your lady and my neighbors.” One does not get light and joy from parts of the letter. It sounds to the | Rambler like a cryptogram or ar rangement of words with a secret meaning. 1 think the phrase “I sent the copy of the Indlans examinacon which I hold from Mr. Addison sent to me” means “I want a quick survey {and patent of 1,400 acres on the East- ern Branch before anybody beats me to i€." 1 think the line “If your hon'r thinks good send vour order whether or know,” means ome good looKing land on Rock Creek with white rene. gades squatting on it would be useful to us if a patent were issued to me.” The line “There is a bad report of vour hon'r concerning the hiring of the Indians to kill the Protestant | stumps me, but I think it means, “We | had great satisfaction in hanging four Catholics this morning | The Rambler wants to show you the old letter from Minnie Lowrie Wallis, of Locust Valley, near Nottingham, Md. This ramble is three-quarters | done and there will not be room to give you the Brooke family facts I have, and if I begin on the Brooke end | of the story I will have to make pic tures of some very old Brooke houses. | Those houses are in the Sandy Spring | | neighborhood—Brooke Grove, Charley | Forest and Harewood. A I AM writing this on Monday, De- | * cember 28, and the papers are printing stories headed “Coldest Day of the Year.” It will be more con- | venient for me to hold on to Ninian | Beall and the old letter from Minnie Lowrie Wallis, and when I can illus- | trate the story by taking a street car | to Langdon and shooting a few streets. | t'll be more comfortable than hunt- ing for the houses “Charley Forest,” | “Brooke Grove” and *Harewood, if you don’'t mind—if you will restrain cour _impatience—I will tell you' of | he Brookesfamily when I can photo- | graph the houses without losing both hands by frost bite. I hope you will pardon me. There is another reason that I feign would speak of.” I got that phrase “I feign would speak of"" from a magazine article by a professor of | Snglish, and although 1 was puzzled | s to what the article was about and | why the professor labored to get it | out of his system, I am not shaken in the hope that I will some time meet a_professor of English who can | write it. However, 1 thought you might like the phrase, “I feign would speak of.” You may not know what it means but you will admit that it has a literary sound. What I feign would | speak of is that tramping on a coun- | try road, especially with an old cam- era on a zero day, lacks dignity in the opinion of some persons. Really I |am not sure but that some persons hold it vulgar to write for the public in any ‘weather. But to the letter: “I am glad you called at my aunt's | | | | | | | i ; | | i GTON ON T! HE TRACT N | or British soccer? and |3 “INCLOSURE.” Yos nd Mrs Ivday_ were the only children of Mau- duit Youns and Elizabech 1eall. 1 had never heard of the marriages between the Bealls and Sheriffs until grandwother’s sister married Lemuel Sheriff. The Bealls and Magruders have intermurried for generations and Mr. C. C. Magruder is an authority on both famiiies. The Mauduits from Bladensburg. the name exti now, but in the graveyard there are found ‘In memory of William Mauduit who departed this life the Tth day of September, 1742, and “Jasper Maudu died 17th day of May 17 ' The re direct descendants of m_ Mauduit of Lincoln Inn Fields, England. They intermarried with the Jacksons. Yes, I knew how much the Youngs owned in the Dis trict. My grandmother, Mrs. Hoily- day, told me that the land near the Capitol sold for two dolls 1 acre when she was 18 yvears old and they did all their wood-chopping on Seventh street and hur woods on Capitol Hill caught them. “The Nottingham you old house she, Mr before dark mention as {-‘wh‘lorI James Stone Hol- | my | ied home through the | m the line of march to the s#round at Bladensburg is the lige on the Patuxent river Bladensburg has been so often written | J\llr no account has ev be written { of Nottingham, laid out in 1683. As | yon it antedates Upper Marl boro ‘In the Spring time, ntle Annie, you will have to look it up It's looked up by very pre nent men in the ortolan season. The president of the Southern Railroad sidetracks his car fi miles away and yachts come from Philadelphia and New Y Aftex it goes 1 its most which Wi ! thern Maryland. We letters from far »out southern At country cendants of scattered everywh ly as‘a busi | 7 afraid I've bored | you, but if, aside from that, you really care for the lear, dead past’ my ipologies are necessary MINNIE LOWRIE WALLIS “Locust Valley, Northkeys, Md., “March 1, 1916. battle old vil While ¢ h. ck e that serted An are w Maryland w Now if you | ness propositior v WASHINGTON, ' was getting D. (., JANUARY 3, 1926—PART 5. Briand’s Debating Ability Credited To His Contact With French Sailors Statesman Himself Tells Friends That He Learned to Negotiate With Other Nations While Buying Land From Norman Farmers. ' STERLING HEILIG. PARIS, December 24. 2 shall know soon whether | M. Aristide Briand will be | able to hold the French| government, of which he is the head for the eighth time. But everybody in France was persuaded that if he did not take the eins of government no one could | tell what might hapy There would have ! than a week, when the government | vould have heen obliged to meet a »ssible run on more than six billion | fran of treasu bonds which would ' e reimbursable. If there should be 4 government which Parliament would llow to remain in office and help find immediate funds, then the people holding the bonds would not be struck by panic, and the run would not take n. | n little more ince, you see, raised money turing the war since the war for absolute necessitiss by borrowing from her own people, as our Govern- ment did with the Liberty bonds. Only, many of these French bonds have heen short-terin treasury notes, and they are falling due. Unless peo- : have confidence to renew them, the | asury will have this run on it And it must have cashuin hand to stand a ran, like any bank. Under these circumstances the job | of prime minister is very difficult. ‘M. | Briand was in his office as minister | of foreign affairs three days before he ! had to decide whether he would accept the post of prime minister. as the | rvepublic insisted. The two preceding prime ministers had failed three times, | and they and other old, experienced | ds who had been asked satisfied | cmselves that they had no chance to | cope with the situation M. Briand was very tired after his uccesstul work at Locarno to get the powers into a real peace agreement. | The agreement had to be signed in | London, and he must go there—to sign and keep the others talked into har.l mony. This was more fatigue, for him. | S0 he said to M. Philippe Berthelot, | the able director of the foreign office, | who was to go with him to London: | “Never will I consent to take the | presidency of the councll (.e., to be | prime minister and head the govern- | ment). 1 have more than enough to do here in the foreign office, and 1 am not willing to ruin my health by un- rtaking so crushing a tas x ok % % UST at that moment the attendant announced that M. Berthelot's harber was waiting. Berthelot sgid to Brinnd: “You, too, need to have" your | hair cut before vou go to London. | You had better profit by the occa: | sion ever in life!” replied M. Briand. newspaper men would say I ready to be prime minis. ' ARISTIDE BRIAND, WHO BECAME HEAD OF THE FRENCH GOVERN- MENT FOR THE EIGHTH TIME IN DECEMBER. | | | ter, ai pri (It is a historic fact that M. Briand s had his hair cut every time he me prime minister. helot showed him in s his hair was_really ng and straggling for British riety, and at last Briand did con- sent to go under the snippers. The barber, who had never had so high and lofty a head in his hands, was flustered, but did his level best. The | levelling was so great that when the newspaper imen caught sight of it they remembered seven other hair S (the eightn was slicker than them nd I won't have that at any bec the too pro- that American Foot Ball vs. British Soccer BY CORINNE FRAZIER. ILENCE, except for the shrill note of the referee's whistle, Subdued voice: *Well played Bobbie, well played! Ah, there you are, a goa Muffled clapping of silence. hands. More IN. Bedlam. Above it, the fran tic_note of the referee's whistle, struzgling to make itself heard. “Yah, hol’ dat line—kill 'im, git dat man—Atta _Boy, yre goin' right th'u, now. Rah! Rah! Git rough! rough, kill ’em, Gawgetown. C'm_on Caesar, RAH. Touchdown, WOW! $&—%. More d HAVE vou ever seen a British team play ~ soccer—the English foot ball? Or the colored boys give their version of American foot ball? Per haps_we should say, have you ever heard a game of American foot bail— The sideline chorus is one of the most interesting fea tures of either performance. Fate, playing a large joke on some- body, staged two such contests simul- tanecusly on adjoining fields the other afternoon, and it was our good fortune to be a “li * accom panied by two Britis who had sever seen a foot ball game a Ja Uncle Sam. We had never seen foot ball a la_England, so the odds were even. There is at least one similarity in the two games. Both require referees At that, the comparison is limited The British type does not require a referee with the same pugilistic make- up that is necessary for the domestic brand. A soccer referee perhaps does not find it necessary to keep in ring- | side form. He may not even know how to fight. In this, he differs radi from the American foot ball of- In one other respect, the games are slightly similar. Both teams start off with 11 players. likeness does not last. The Britishers’ 11 is an 1l1—strictly and exclusively. If*one player has the misfortune to sustain injury, he drops out, and that’s that. For the rest of the game his 11 110 On the other hand, the Amer- ican 11 is often a 35 or 40. Never un- der-any condition is it merely an 11. When 1 player is hurt or gets tired, or has to be saved up for future use, he is withdrawn and a substitute is sent in. ~7; i But even this| “Really, you know." said one of the | British companions, “it’s such a queer | idea, having all these reserves. Quite as though you expected rough play not at all complime v to your op-| ponents, what? A of a knock, 1| should say, anticipating casualties this | way.” | We were silent, feeling that he might not understand if we at-| tempted to explain that we don't ex-| actly expect casualties—we just know | coming—especially when cer- meet ings could scarcely be more | diametrically opposite than the spective galleries at a_British soccer and American foot ball fracas. | | At the soccer match we witnessed | large crowd of silent spectators ned upon their walking sticks and, occasionally sRifting their positions, | discreetly clapped gloved hands or murmured polite commendation of the | | Plack and crimson jerseys dashing | hither and yon in hot pursuit of the black and gold flashes who seemed | !bent upon hogging the large round ball which every one wanted to kick iround for some reason or other. * ik ACK and forth, up, down and {12 across the field sailed the leather sphere aks of color dashing madly after it, only to kick it some- where else that nobody wanted it to £0. And the players did not confine | their kicking to their toes by any |means. They booted, shoved and | | bushed that ‘ball around with their | | heads, shoulders, knees, feet or any other part of them except their hands |and it would have been so much sim. re. |} {players had pulled | pained, \ but ind arms. There was only one man | on the team who seemed to have the | forethought to use his hands at all— | pler that way. Unfortunately he was way down at one end of the field where he had very little chance to get at the ball 1t all. But whenever he saw it coming | his way he grabbed it with both hands and sent it sailing down the field. “Corner, corner,” murmured an ex cited British subject, time and again, anite illogically, it seemed, for no one ul cornered anything to speak of— not even a goal-—unless it was done 100 subtly for our eye. ‘Chat 'em,” muttered another, sub rosa, when two inen persistently kicked the ball out of bounds. He seemed provoked and I judged the a_“boner.” But he kept his temper admirably. “‘Chat ‘em” was a very gentle admonition, to our way of thinking. It showed remarkable control. An American probably would have . “Tell ‘em where ' get off, th’ big bums!” or other equally pointed advice. “Bully!" exclaimed somebody a_bunch of players were around the ball fleld. “Bull we queried, thinking we had missed something. *“Which one? | Is somebody getting rough?" Our English _companion said nothing, and we gathered that he was not referring | to that kind of a bully. | Should two players be so un- fortunate as to collide_on the field or when crowding at one end of the looked | Soap as a Germicide. | | QOAP has a value as an aid to health even greater and more direct_than has hitherto been expect- ed. The ordinary routine of dish- washing and laundering or cleaning the face and hands is fatal to germs of such dangerous diseases as pneu- monla, diptheria, blood poisoning and | other serious infections. Dr. John E. Walker of the service laboratory of the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., has concluded extensive experiments which showed that common soaps were egective germicides in at least three types of infections, while soap made with cocoanut oil was markedly destructive to the organisms of typhoid fever. The soap in greatest use in hospitals is the “officlal soft soap.” The sub- stitution of cocoanut ofl for the linseed ©il used in making this soap renders it | germicidal against the typhoid bacilli as well as against the other three or- zanisms. Although this change would | make the soap more Irritating to _the sicin, it would be desirable, and it ould be especially useful in case of | typhoid epidemics. | "All the soaps tested were more anti- septic at higher temperature. The organism causing bofls, known tech- | nically as Staphylococcus aureus, com- pletely resisted all soaps, even at a higher temperature, except a sodium | resin soap. Dr. Walker found that when the hands were washed with ordinary care the lather formed contained about 8 per cent of soap. This amount he | said was more than enough to kiil the pneumonia, diphtheria and streptococ- {cus bacilll. The most careful wash- ing of hands, however, did not kill the staphylococcus or boil-forming organ; isms, ‘which showed that soaps alone could not be relied upon for complete surgical sterllity. In spite of claims put forth by manufacturers of special soaps, they were found to be no more effective than the average household kind. Foreign substances mixed with the soap often interfered markedly with the germicidal action. Mirrors for Macaroni. Y using mirrors to supplement the sun in drying macaroni, man. ufacturers of the product have found the color to be more satisfactorily pre- served, since the deep yellow tint is not bleached so easily, and the flavor also is said to be improved. The proc- ess is quicker than sun bleaching. » Speech Energy. 'HE energy of a million persons all talking at once would not boil a cup of tea in an hour. It would not | generate enough energy to carry home a pound of butter or peel an orange. | These statements can be made as a | result of investigations carried on by R. L. Jones of the Smithsonian Insti- | tution. | Speech energy of the voice is only | +26 ergs a second—an almost infinitesi- mally small amount of power. Mr. Jones has found that the con- sonant letters take the least amount of energy to produce. The pitch of frequency of the consonants is much | higher than that of the vowels, how- ever. He has also found that the sounds of the voice which are most difficul to hear are “th,” “f,” “s” and *v. The sounds “z” and “1” also are dif- ficult. The most sensitive instruments were used in the experiments, which have covered a period of many years. The four most difficult letters o hear are responsible for more than one-half of the mistakes in understanding result- ing from conversation, Mr. Jones be- lieves, The human ear elicits unbounded praise from Mr. Jones, who says: “The ordinary ear is an exquisitel developed organ. It can perceive sound waves ranging in pressure from 001 dyne to more than 1,000 dyne, and in frequency of about 20 cycles to more than 20,000 cycles, a range of about 10 octaves.” Human speech, however, occupies loss than six octaves of this range, he said. & (jpheavnl" Hoax. THI:J stir caused some two months ago by the alleged discovery by a French government worker that the floor of the Bay of Biscay had undergone a sudden upheaval, and that in place of the abyss marked on the marine charts there was now a comparatively shallow plateau, seems to have been a hoax. A special sur- vey ship of the French government, the Gaston-Rivier, was sent out to check the soundings reported, and Dr. Charcot’s scientific ship, the Pourquoi-Pas, collaborated in the work. After the most thorough investigation it was found that the bottom of the Bay of Biscay had not changed in any way since the charts in general use ‘were made. | dangerous!" | crouched shoulder | After each pla: L man take a tumble the enthusiasts 1 the gallery would shake their heads and murmur, “Dangerous, frightfully | ' then lapse again into| silent contemplation of the match. What s that enormous racket?” tuired the English friends when the din from the adjoining field swelled into a mighty roar as somebody got ioose for a run or something. “That,” we replied, “is an American foot bali game.” We moved over to the gridiron | where the sandlot classic between the Froggy Bottom Teddy Bears and the Georgetown Preps was being smeared | all over an extremely muddy field to an accompanying din from several hundred throats. “There seems to be no consistency of costume whatever,” exclaimed our visitor. Nor was there. After the fashion of andlot classic maroon jerseys to shoulder with black, white, Alice biue and navy. Stockings with orange stripes, red stockings, blue stockings and blue and gray stripes waived in a tangled mass as the hall went into action. By some miracle the players seemed to know their own team. mates despite the general mixture, The Britishers watched in amaze- | ment while bewildering signals were called by a diminutive quarterback, and one they dubbed “Black” Grange tore holes in the opposing Teddy Bears' line for long gains, which sent | the rooters into paroxysms of joy. | they rushed on ‘the | field to pat their hero on the back and | express their enthusiasm generally. | * ok ok K baby blue, gray. OLICE reserves pushed them b: across the line repeatedly failed utterly to dampen thei even by threats of jail. After a line plunge, in which the entire 22 huskies piled up in one squirming mass, one of our visitors remarked: “It is a frightfully clashy sort of game, what? Frightfully clashy. They seem to make no effort whatever to avoid each other. And they spend most of their time in the mud. It must be very disagreeable to p “It doesn’t move along smoothly at all,” rémarked the other. ‘‘There are S0 many interruptions. There you see,” he continued as a forward pass was executed amid a mighty roar and the man was downed as he turned to dash for the goal. “Every time they start to play, there is some sort of in- terruption. "It is most annoying.” In vain we tried to explain that what he had just witnessed was not an in- terruption but_an extremely good tackle. Our European cousin was convinced that the game was just a rough-and-tumble affair, with no sei- ence involved. He actually seemed to | think that soccer was more scientific! “What is the score?” he inquired next, shouting to be heard above the roar. “Dey alnt no score—yit,” was the reply from a “‘Gawgetown” rooter who -had paused iy admonishing “Caesar” to “kill ’em,” while he mopped his beaming brow. “Then, why all the shouting?” puz- zled our friend. “Fancy that, now— shouting themselves hoarse this way when nothing at all has happened! However, several hundred rooters secemed to be under the impression that things were happening right along, despite the 0 to 0 score. “We'll ride ol Gawgetown on a rail! Rah! We'll muss dere faces in de mud. We'll poun’ “em. poun' ‘em. dok em. houn' Eat ‘em alive, Teddy Beahs!" roared one side of the field in a frenzy of enthusiasm. “Rah! Rah! Rah! Kill “em, Gawretowho—Yeah " advised the rooters on the other side. As bedlam seemed about to break loose, we retired to the soccer field where the game was coming to an end and the two teams were permitting themselves to give vent to their pent- up emotions in a dignified “Rah! Rah! Rah!" before retiring for afterncon tea. but ardor banishment and | again, | will not accept. On Adjoining Fields in Washington all) and whispered andibly: ““Look out! He is going to be prime minister!” M. Briand heard them, and smiled fatiguedly—here was a thing that would requt lot of explanation. Right on top of it came another com- pulsion. M. Herriot, the thirdlast prime minister of the imbroglio, after | trving to get a government together had just been obliged to tell the president of the republic that it was no use—he could not get cabinet min- ers enough to face Parliament with him! he preceding prime minister, Pain- e, had already headed two cabinets; nd Parliament had put him out each the newspaper men de- any news for us?” could only answer: nd has been summoned by the president of the republic; but he This is formal." M. Briand, somewhat revived by the ircut, was then on his way to the ench white h. at the urgent praver of the President. There, too, the mewspaper men gathered hastily; and when he came out after some hours—M. Briand had accepted! Because President Doumergue had 1 to him pointblank: You canuot refuse me, and you have got to succeed. You are the only man I have for the pjlace added (it is said): “As President, I am guardian of the constitution and of Luw, and I cannot surrender to those who would govern outside of law (This refers to the Socialist wing of , that had, so far, broken ) every government combination by their votes, which have the balance of power.) If vou fail me, it will be im- possible for me to continue in office!” For a night and a day, M. Briand was invisible. “He has gone to bed!” sald his pokesman. The man needs his sleep and does not get it. As prime minister, since he has got his government together, M. Briand has sat through an entire night ses- sion of Parliament of 14 hours, facing the hostile and the undecided, and even friends He won out with a ma- jority of 6 and said: “If the majority had been only 1—my own vote—l should have stayed! He went on to explain to the awed members of Parliament how vital it was to the French people that they hould have a government that would not be changed every few weeks and in whose word they could put confi- dence. Without confidence. they might go into a panic about their pokesman h | treasury bonds and the money due on them. * ok ok % OW, in and out of Parliament, people somehow have confidence in M. Briand, even when they are op posed to him. They think he can get them and the country out of scrapes and that he will tell them the plain truth, at any rate. They know from 23 vears' experience of him in Pariia ment that he is the most supple poli- tician _of France, but they have al- ways felt that he is more than a poli- tician. That is how, in 15 years' time, he has been called to be head of the government eight times. There has been no other record like it in the French Republic. * ¥ % = What is it gives to Aristide Briand this confidence of the French people— and, stranger yet, of French poli- ticians? In person, he is more or less what And he | we Americans used Lo imagine to be bohemian (before bohemianism hecame a fad with us)—that is, he is sincerely | easy-going, often scems tired, and, with the amount of work he has to do by spurts, probably is. I a man of the world or of societ a_best-dre: man. He usually tents himself with the same suit wore vesterday—long-tailed bls frock coat which traditiona France. As to M. Briand's I are not the once-a-week of the well groomed once-a-month real hair French busiress man a long wait between 80 long as might be otherwise, be cause he never starts in as prime minister without hair cut. The heavy, neglected black moustache Funs the same risks. Yet, as the years and responsibili- tles weigh down his powerful shoul ders, any one—knowing nothing of his career—would at a glance de clare him to he somebody. *x M which pital was born the tany, and city of lors. he made good studies at the lege, from which he Law School of Paris He got through his law creditabl H and when politics intermitted, he has practiced law. I remember, more than 4go, to have read th | short, pungent editorials in the S cialist daily paper. the *Lanterne | As an Independent Socialist been elected to Parliament ‘Vl'.rr!frnku »lvf the manufacturing ‘(:.' St. E nd (as regards this Socialis he has been eight times | head of government as aa Independ |ent, long after the organized, well disciplined Socialist party refused recognize him. The truth is that he had which universities canno | made him : low their 1 had a cafe 2nd wineshop sailor folk. Sailors do an & thinking—and more talking. Peopl say that the young Briand learned to debate as no other Frenchman has known how to do, by disputing as « vouth with the srmen of Nantes and N A quality which he has all himselr— | he never scems to raise his voice. His | voice keeps its mello taking tones through all the wearisome debates of Parliament. Another thing. speeches is not . nox nor the of the There is often cuts; but not its D BRIAY at Nantes, of Brit There went up to the 30 vears interest his a training give, and it Ay others—fol- At home his father i In his easy, earnest and talks M. Briand is never teller or wit, but plods along n reasons which every ma: can understand. Yet his life Is rir with bohemian humor. It is the f vate life of M. Briand. Sometimes in his speeches there is even a touch « gravity and, especially of late, a real emotion in his voice. As a fact, he has had to deal with ome of the gravest questions of our modern world since he has been in rliament. The French Parliamen | has seen no greater debater. nor per {haps the world. If he falls, he will | come up again—for France will neec him. ‘\Wn.\n;\‘mz happens, he has jus won out in the most difficult and complicated struggle of European plomacy since the war. French ¢ English men of » had tried | failed worse each new effort | George or Poincare, it alw lout a disappointment. Also | was drawing on when, if the powers could not agree on the next thing t | bring back peace to the world, every thing seemed likely to go to smas! | Briand rose ‘to the occasion. The tri | umph of Locarno is his. At a dinner among friends who wished to honor him an indiscree: young man spoke up, saving: “You have -strength as well charm.” M. Briand is the least vain man in | the world. as his sloppy_clothes and {manner show. Also he has knocked about enough to be embarrassed at | nothing. So he laughed and said, in a loud confidential tone, to the young man: “You see, I've been at a good schoo! I shouldn't know how, if they hadn't taught me!” The others, suspecting more than { wit, asked Briand to explain. | “Well, you know I have a farm in Normandy,” he said. “To get the land | for it together I had to buy $0 small | pieces from neighboring peasants. It {took me a - to discuss and bar | gain—now talking soft. now loud—and {1 am proud to say that a man who {has succeeded in doing successfu | business with 80 Normandy small | farmers is capable of any negoti: tion with the ministers of the grea powers! * ok ok the e Engine Depreciation. AN airplane engine worth some $£10,000 lasts only $00-hours, even with several overhaulings. Allowing carefully for the cost of overhauling nd for the salvage value of the jarts left over, Mr. Black in Automotive Industries nevertheless estimates that such an engine depreciates per hur to the expensive tune of $10.60. This is not quite so bad as would appear at first, since at a cruising speed of 110 miles per hour the engine would have propelled its plane a distance of §8,000 miles. If the average passenger automobile does 7,500 miles a year, the airplane engine gives at least the equivilent of 12 years of automobile engine service MONSIEUR BRIAND WIE;‘:' HE GOES TO LONDON,