Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1921, Page 75

Not the Only Colonial Home 1n Virginia to Take Its Name From the Cathedral City and Municipal Borough of Ripon, in Yorkshire, England—Two Cele- brated Historians Mention the Black- burn Family and Their! Famous Old Home. HE bouse and lands called Ri- | pon Lodge, between Morumsco and Neabsco ¢ . in Prince William county, about thirty miles south and westerly from Wash- ington, is not the first colonial home | in Virginia to take its name from the cathedral city and municipal borough of Ripon, in Yorkshire. England Down en the York river, six miles from Williamsburg. was a brick house surrounded by many acres which had the name of Ripon Hall. The house il not standing. but near Bigler's, or THE SUNDAY THE RAMBLER WRITES OF THE OCCUPANTS OF HISTORIC OLD HOME, RIPON LODGE|, D. C, MAY 1], STAR, WASHINGTON, HERE it is, Shorty! Now listen. Isn't that perfectly awful?" demands Sadie. “I don't know," says I “Maybe it's awfully perfect. You can't always judge at a distance.” “But what is it?" she insists. “That's where you've got me again.” says 1. “I should say, though, that it was a noise.” “Humph!" says Sadie. registerin’ scorn. “I can tell that much. But what kind of a nois “Well,” says I, stretchin’ my ear| once more. with my head cocked to one side critical, “it might be some &team- boat pilot out in the sound tryin' to yodle “through a fog horn: or ‘maybe Dominick's cow has got a carrot stuck in her throut again and is callin' for first aid. If there was a circus In town I'd guess the mother h:ppopolamus was croomin’ a_lullaby to her young, or—" “We've had to listen to that for neas Iy two hours every day this week, breaks in Sadie, “and to have i. keep up on Sunday afternoon is too much. 1 think something ought to be done about it." |, “That's easy enough to say.” says I “But remember, this is the land of the more or less free. It's some weird noise, I'll admit. Goes on like that. does it Sadie says it does. She savs it wakes {little sister up from her aftornoon nap: iscares Helma, the Swede maid, so she has threatened to quit; and disturbs isick people all up and down the Post {road. And after I've listened for hulf an hour | can easy believe it. If it |went right along steady maybe it} wouldn't be so bad. But it's one of{ these make and break noises that; leaves off just long enough to kid: you into thinkin' it has stopped. and | thon breaks out louder and stronger 1921—PART 4. I }AS Blitzy Worked the Shift s, Sewell Ford 2Swm Y N Acray 3 cam colonies in 1720, and very likely. | FAMILY GROUP WAITING AT TH much old Ripon Lodge. even though the STATION reorgan ation of th e army in at that time. all the mail handled in it be n America in a4 week was not equal to Simple, the amount handled in a day in Ta- koma, Brightwood. Anacostia. «‘hase, Rosslyn. Falls Church modest, $20.000 bungalow around the city. quic| K-built t 5o prim as many of those which one sees all It is an eloquent old house. if you understand the language of house. fate ou it = B died ar ADRADO- That is. the Rambier thinks it is e preparing to cWhark cjoquent, but “far be it from me" to ax @® commander of tronps in an eX- | fore my epinign on any innocent pedition against '"t Spaniards 4t reader. The houge is there, and has Carthagena. GOV, Gooch 100k his| been there for 200 years, and you place. It was the same expedition in can go down and see it Thousands which Lawrence Washington served'of you have passed that old house under Admiral Vernon. and gave his many times on your Sunday runs. but dmiral's name to hix Potomac home You were more interested in speed than in history. History is a slow -—hence Mount Vernon. Well, when Edmund Jenings was playing his high part at Williamsburg brick house on the he built @ large land, which he had bouzit from Col ! s Joseph West and his wife, born Unity . Croshaw. and he called the place]y Iipon Hall. Like Col. Richard Bla hurn of Ripon Ledge in Prince Wi liam county. he held memories ather, Sir Yorkshire Ripon In England, for his { Edmund Jenings. was a | man and perhaps lived in or near the but the Rambler t of Ripon merely guessing at t that put ur burg in minutes, and on that tires, itsel Mon ete. f. In ou have been try . run from Washington to Fredericks- three hours and thirty min- utes, so that you can truthfuily tell friends made the run in one hour and seven you would | made it'in one hour flat if you hadn't day th stopped for a quarter of an on new old thing. and has such a monotonous way of repeating house assing ng to hat you have hour to People who fish for bass are not the only liars. Two of the celebrated historians of [ Virgini IRIN Bishop Meade and the Rev. yden, give some note to the little | | 1802, of the Hammersly of Prin . in his register of officers, adds to the name of Thomas Blackburn, “revolutionary army. 1790 he appears In the records s justices In one ce William county, the athers being Philip Fitz- hugh“and John Brown. He wag a member of the Virgivia legislature in i1 i Scott 0-17 91. The Blackbur children and his first of Richard wife, Judith Ball, were Jane Charlotte, who | died in 1856, and who in 1814 became | the wife of John Augustine Washing- | ton. born 1792 and died 1832, who was | son of Corbin Washington and his | wife, who was born Hannah other daughter of Richard Judith _Ball | Maria I rod Corb {John Au gu: 5t Blackburn Thomasina, and who in 1810 was married to Bush- who a #c. An- cott and ‘was Anna ied in 1850 in in Washington, a brother ot ne Washington. Another | daughter was Christian Scott Black- | burn, who died single. The fourth | and last child was Judith Ball Black- burn, born in 1796 died in 1868, and | was the wife of Guitavus Browm Alex- ander. who was born in 1500 and died | {in SHE 1868, second son of * % * % ol. Thomas | 1 i i 1 If you wil! follow the Rambler ajplackburn family of Ripon Lodge, Blackburn and Chri S ckb il o 01 Y, 1 ristian Se few lines further down this column |.ud, though they do not agree in|Ripon was Tho iyt Sy O he will take up the thread of his|spveral important matters. the Ram- | o7 2 mas. . who "married story about Ripon Lo in Prince | hier feels that he meets no difficulty | Blizabeth Sinclair. The third child ‘\\xllla):'\ (nv;yvv)| hq’v 1)H"r>— 1; an 3 |;|1n S0« .nnvrllnu'lhvlr'lulfis "aahlu was Julia Ann Blackburn, who died hought in his head, and perhans you | reduce the facts from them. Bishop |in 1829. In 1785 she w. arried fatlows with & happy wit will *ay | Meade published his work in 1861 | g 0ol (2 T4 She Was marricd to that ~ there s nothing hut e land that work included data whick | pushiod Washioston, Iushrod wash thoughts in his bead. if there are|he had been gathering for many | etOn Was born in Westmoreland even that kind of ‘thoyghts. which | vears—probably fifty vears, if vou [ (o, o bt of John his pen ftchex to set down. 1t ix the | will permit a bit of speculation. He [ WESSHAr and - Hanna © Gughrod | connection which one xo often finds | enjoved close acquaintance with | qeiyit®ON RO T dicd at Phita- hetween Virginia and Marvland af- | tie Biackburns and often visited at|ffinguished ana bori. Haiwas fairs, oMcials and familicx These | Kipon Lodge. | Gonspicuous. nervice. (o nis Do nost ing up, ) o ) R i preme Court of the United States, to e ‘\r;' N;(u{ {\_r;(mi 1 s p;.‘,.\uvm.( as ']‘m" othery family historian to| which office he was ;..l.m'".'.,l",:,. GevernoE of ¥Irginta snd .\_:M.nu;‘;\ whech the Rambler has ,dmdm;‘vl-’,i:q:’l‘u:; {;vhn Adams in 1798, He Clovernor of Virsinix. founded the | was Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden [fitrii (jlount Vernon atter the city of ‘\'x:i amsburk. which was pre-!who wrote in 1891, He was a Prot- | 1802 He was graduated by |he eols :v::::-"‘;u:-.:h:‘hv'r*‘.d'-!-\\m-'\“\'n'::“r;"{( did | Episcopal clergyman, grad- [ lcge of William and Mary in’ 1773, nto the nohie college of Wiliiam and , Uated from the Virginia Theological | 5 json, :v“ l"):nh::i‘:!p;\‘n'?‘” "51 Jamies fary, and aided in the support of a|Seminary and ministered in the dio- [ticed law in Westmoreland eonnts free ®chool that was established at | cose of Virglnia from 1857 to 1573 | He served as a nrivate soidior n the Torktown soon after that city w had been a Confederate soidier ) Vie « line of the Contincntal Thomas, Nathanicl, David and Bush- rod Crawford. The sixth child of Col. Thomas Blackbu and Christian i Scott was Mary Elizabeth, who, suf-| fering from tuberculosis or some wasting disease, was taken to the Bermuda Irlands with the hope that the mild and sunny climate and the sea air would restore her to health. But she died there at the age of fif-| teen years. There i much vet to be told on this subject. and the Rambler, fear- ing to weary you, will conclude. But, ®ood reader, the real reason why the Rambler will conciude, i3 not that he is afraid of tiring vou. but because he himself is weary of pounding the typewriter. and he wants to save some of his notes for next Sunday. Those Old Words. ¢ A DJUTANT.” said the Word Mon- ®er. “which we hear so much of fn military parlance and sometimes in political gossip, began its long career as a word by meaning noth- ing more than ‘helper' or ‘assistant.’ Most of us, when we hear the word ‘adjutant’ have a mental picture of a gentleman in uniform, very stiff and unnatural in his gait, or very erect in his bearing, if you like to have it phrased that way. He seems always to be glving and receiving salutes by bringing the first joint of his right forefinger to the visor of his cap over the right eye, with his forearm, wrist and back of the straight at an inclination of forty-five degrees. That is, some of them used to try to do it that way, but military * fashions change and drill regulations come and go. “He may be ‘adjutant’ of a regiment or smaller element, as a battalion, or of a larger element, as a brigade or a division. He may also be the adjutant of a post. He'ls the ‘helper of his commanding officer—sometimes —in that he is charged with relieving the C. O. of certain routine duties. T CASH T M READY TO “MIGH TIMI 10 “Of course. you have recognized, be- fore reading this far, that ‘adjutant’ the Latin prefix in- on the Post road. lively ball game in progress over by, the nut and bolt workers. with several | hundred rooters cuttin’ loose, and in the various tenements and cottages, 1 don’t know how many music ma- chines were grindin’ out jazz tunes. 1t's only by shuttin’ off the motor | now and then and listenin' that we're | able to locate this special pest. But finally we traces it to a four-family house on a back strect. Even spots the open window on the second floor from which the moans are coming. “Say,” says I hailin’ a gent who's camped on the front steps in his shirt sleeves and is smokin' his pipe placid, “who's up there drivin’ nails in a calf?” 3 “Hey?" says he, gawpin’ “You ain't color blind in your ears, is compounded of ‘ad’ meaning ‘to, and the verb, finitive, ‘jutare, or sometimes vare’ which means to ‘aid.’ *‘Lieutenanc comes tripplingly oft the tongue, though, of course,” you have heard many persons say ‘leften- ant’ The latter is very old style and no doubt was the pronunciation in England soon after the Normans brought the word over from France. It remained the English, or the Eng- land, pronunciation for centuries. 1t is used that way to some extent in England today, and those Americans who affect English mannerisms and verbal eccentricities, and also many of those Americans who have trav- eled ‘abroad’ for three weeks and who. for the remainder of life talk of their extensive travels. are apt i b n ] to say ‘leftenant.’ In this Wu\?l] are you? says 1. 1:.here. Don't tell ‘lieutenant’ we connect two words |me you don ,h?lr:".h Sunciitat. His which are - independently used in ‘Aw, ‘h“l. says he, hunc i English, ‘lleu’ and ‘tenant’ For ex- nhoulfle;rs. “That's just Blitzy Bus umple, we say ‘in lieu when we mean | practicin’ ) A '|nDnl|ce of' or ‘instead.” and the “Practicin’!” says L. For the love French mean the same thing when | of soup, on “hlr:e e g y K 1i ' ‘Tenant’ m H ew saxaphone,’ V8 9 I “Frenen “holding C4%e| “Goosh! says I “I've heard weird in French ‘holding’ and it came to mean in English a man holding his ‘tenure’ in real property under an- other. and that is the sense we still use it in, though we probably think of a ‘tenant’ only a ‘renter.,’ and not as a man who holds his tenure under somebody else. roises made on them things, but T; didn’t_know_they could be tortured |like that. Wowey. Hear that one! Sounds like throwin' a cat through 2 bass drum.” “The fellow ought to be arrested,” says Pinckney. ‘Suppose we hunt up he French got their ‘lieu’ from jan officer. the Latin ‘locus,” meaning ‘place, and | The shirt sleeves gent chuckles.| ‘tenunt’ comes out of the French|®Is it & cop vou're wantin'™ says| verb ‘tenir. and that came out of | he. “Then get Blitzy to call his the Latin ‘tenere. to hold. brother Mike, in the next room. “The word ‘lieutenant’ literally | Mike's in charge of the night force, and Blitzy lives with him. Wait. T'11 ’ means ‘place-holding.’ but we trans- late it a8 ‘holding an office in place | tell him." of another. or as one who performs| And before we could ””fl this the duties or functions really belong- | obligin’ stranger he's stepped out and whistled piercin’ through his teeth. ook, T sayr" protests Pinckney. ¢ it's all in the family, where's the use?” te s0." says I. “If Mike stands o of thing in his own house we'd have hard. work showin’ ing to the office of another, as lieu- tenant governor, lieutenant colonel and plain lieutenant. We might say ‘lleutenant sherjff.’ but we have the habit of sayingl ‘deputy sheriff.’ and e might also say ‘vicar sheriff,’ but ‘vicar' has heem appropriated hy ec- clesiastical lieutenants or depulics. for that sort ! SOMETHING ON THE SAXOPHO) PLAY ." 1 SUGGESTS. T WELL ENOUGH TO GET A JOB Also there's a his chin modest and shiftin’ his feet. | week. Remember. you'll never get “I ain’t been at it long enough to get real good. Only a couple of weeks. And I can't read the notes very well yet. Mike's helpin’ me some. He used to be a singer, Mike did. He thinks I'm gettin' on fine, though.” ‘Must be a gift, then.” says L. “S: | we heard you way over at my place | on_ the shore.’ You don’t sa " says Blitzy, grin- nin’ gratified. “1 know where that is, Prof. McCabe. T leave-milk there. Heard me_clear there, eh? What do you think of that? And f ain’t half tried yet.” “My_ word!" me a look. “Think you can do it louder after you're more used to it?" I asks. “Oh, a lot,” says Blitzy. "I gotta work up my wind, Mike says. Gotta give it more time. too. Maybe three hours every afternoon.” v s 1. “I expect you'll do says Pinckney, givin' says he. “I generally stick at a thing when I start in. It's the only way. And in a couple of months, if you can keep the place open, I'li be ready to talk business.” “Something to look forward to, eh, Pinckney?" says I “Undoubtedly.” says Pinckney. “That's a fine instrument you have there, L shiftin’ the subject a little. here'd you pick it up? “Ordered it from a mail order cata- logue,” says Blitzy. “First off 1 thought I'd do it just to pass away my spare time. but after I got goin 1 bad an idea I might horn in with some jazz orchestra and pick up & few dollars at evenin' engagements. Wasn't lookin' for anything steady so soon. ““That's your ambition, is it?" says L. Plannin’ a musical career?" ‘No.” says Blitzy. “This is just on the side. I—I had something eise in mind. “What?' says L “NO” “I'll chip in ten.” says I Why—why, thank you. sents.” says zy. swallowin’ hard and BI starin’ at the money. “Not at all.” says I to boost along anybody with an am- Always glad bition_like that. But stow it away safe, Blitzy, and aud all you can every “Ess SAYS BLITZY. “MAYBE BY THE OLT THERE IN SOME DANCE HALL.” | to be a movie star if you stick around | here. Every time you're tempted to | erack a quarter just say to yourself | ‘Los Angeles or bust” That's the Wi —I'll do it.” | maybe in a month or so | enough to start. “Might cash in something on the | saxophone,” 1 suggests. “No." says Blitzy. “Maybe by the time I'm ready to go I can play it | well enough to get a job out there in some dance hall. And I kind of like it, too. But I sure am obliged to you. gents. I'll practice a little u if you like. e'd love it.” says Pinckney, “but really, I think [ must be getting “And have says Blitzy. rm says 1. “Here's wishin' You the best of luck, though” And somehow we kind of handed ourselves the big applause for the way we'd sleuthed out this nuisance and then worked around Blitzy. ‘Kinda _smooth, what?" says I grinnin’ at Pinckney as we piles into the roadster.again. “The administration doesn't what it is missing,” says he. “if it fails to give you a diplomatic post.” | Yet we'd no sooner got back to thel house than Sadie and Purdy-Pell and | the others begins shootin’ sarcastic remarks at us. A lot of good it did to send you two.” says Sadie. going to trail tl noise to the source “Precisely what - we did." savs| Pinckney, “as unerringly as the lode- | stone seeks the pole. We found a mu: cal milkman practicing the saxophone. “Then for goodness sake why didn’t you stopihim?’ demands Mrs. Boomer-Day. “There was a lull for a few mintes, but since then those fearful wails and groans have been worse than ever. There! He's at it once more. Listen.” And T must admit we didn't_have know | “Thought you were | [ | Riglow’s Mill. in York county, about than ever. Sometimes it drops to a i : DION 3 thirteen milés up the river from doleful moan, 1ike the wind,blowin' | “SAY,” SAYS 1, HAILIN' A GENT WHO'S CAMPED ON THE FRONT STEPS IN HIS SHIRT SLEEV Yorktown perhaps vou may find some down the chimney: and then all of a * NAILS IN A CALFET acal antiquarian who will noint out sudden Itll change to a crazy. l‘;w»m"n. The land was ]m((-nlslldh_\' = shriekin' laugh, m;s; a mule with a h sl » Maj. Joseph Croshaw in 1660 under 2 W | e i hmoat L e oy what gels on|him how it was_a public nuisance “Well” says he, sort of hesitatin’.|going it with everything wide open the name of Poplar Neck. It passed | 13id out in 1691. Nicholson at one time | and served in the Army of Northern|Army, was elected to the Virginia |y " tha L i half a mile off. But it's too late to “movie work." “Oh, well.” says 1 u ‘we didn't p: 3 " your nerves. ork. s L 1o Col. Joucph West of West" Point | was alto Governor of Marsland. being | Virginia from 1861 to 1563 legislature in 1787, served in the Vir- duck now. Here's Blitz I Aetin'® says 1 promise to pull any miracles. You + through his marriage with Unity ‘.m_’;n.- ;l\d‘m ;o_\'al (;vovernnr. an‘d he | In last’ Sunday's “ramble” it w«s,g‘:_xg;u (("onslilu{io al (‘nnvsnlio& gr * B, % & * % % % “Stunt subber.” says he. “You know.|¢an't go out and zug a e 1shaw, and Col. and Mrs. West sold the [ founded at Annapolis King William's | told that Richard Blackburn, the im- 1788 and opened a law office in Rich- TRSE i ¢ 3 . | Crs e mtar ‘| American citizen, ‘speciully o T e e | Sehool. from which Rrew: the <rent mikranc. wia the buider of Ripon | mond in 1500 Among those voung |(COURSE it has to come on one of] 4 T which this tousle-headed young | fIlin' in for the star when theres|y[tisat S8R Sstially gue whos the Virzinia council under Gov. Nott.| institution vou know as St. John's Lodze and that his wife was Mary |msn who read law in his office were these fina spring afternoons when husk With the short. neck and |%0Me rough stuff to be pulled—takin | prother i chicf of the nizht police A Whe o i Y hos | College. Sir Edmuna Andros. who | Watis. - Fichard was a carpenter and | Henry Clay of Kentucky and Gen.!we've got all the windows open for | the schoolgirly complexion appears {he knockout punch for him. beinw | pp 0 Sl N5 TR S O A0 LT ‘tamb stands in Bruton churchyard, | was a crown Governor of Virginia,|became prosperous as a builder, or.| Walter Jones of the District of Co-| 10 qii time. Also Sadie is expectin’ | at the window. thrown off a train, or ridin’ a horse nce Just waits g Williamshurg). served as governor of | Was also. at one time, royal Governor | as it would be written of a man to- [lumbia. When he lived at Mount £ G, S Ll P 12 Why it ‘ur milkman!” 1 whis- ©ff & cliff into the water. Blg money | “opo ™ Ulonght sag the volons. heing suecceded by ales. | of Maryland, being the second of that | day. “as a contraclor. Many of the [ Vernon he uitended Christ Church, |# few friends who usually drop in| ¥y its our ° 'S71in it, I hear. Only you gotta have)know L e e WA ander Spotswood in 1710, Spotsylva ne, the first being Sir Lionel Copley | homes of Virginia in the region of Ir’\llz-_un_dn . The degree of doctor of | for tea and chat about that time. The | "Vl 1oy ought to have some in- | YOUr nerve with you and be ready 10| "“If ‘all gocs well” says 1. “Blitzy nia county. in which is Fredericks-jand those following Andros being | Washington were. no doubt, the |1@WS was given him by Princelon In g, 4. pelis were the first to arrive | fluence.” says Pinckney. ‘ |take a few hard knocks. I'm toughland the saxophone staf. for Los A hurg, & citv that is rich in historic | Francis Nicholson. Nathaniel Blacki- | product of his and “his workmen's 1803 University of Penns: And they wanted to know what that | How about veu:: says I “He's enough, I guess. And Mike knows a|geles in about a mon b sl memories, takes its name from that | stone. 'lrnfinx,xl Tn:'nch. J'_.:m. Se; mour. skill. It is belicted that he b"r'"] ,5;1:"'{10:‘;;1\&:;11“';‘ Lo dicidful nobs i vour milkinan, (0o, although I expect EUY Who went out to Los Angeles s man Zdward lloyd, John Hart, Charles|the mansion at Mount Vernon fori The HG ok 4 “We don't know.” says Sadie. “and!you mever got up early enough to|doin’ stuff like that and now he's 'a i war, anc ames Spotsylva- | S gle. Calvert. the ie sreat. Richa - v 2 ! P ; 3 itzy. in® e £X" cron . niu Court House. Tods Tavern (or.|Lord Ealtimore, Thomas Bladen, Ben- | burn went in for public office and | io Henry Smith Turncr. whe v Bl Whatever it is” says Purdy-Pell do“‘,“:,"' Jeemands Blitzy,§ sanin/ {nundeg butkd i ack 0, . &roan at that 3 “hins Bridge. Alsops Farm. Laurel | Jamin Tasker, Horatio Sharpe andjhcld several in the colony. ‘He had|DOTn In 1370 af Wheatiands Jefter: it ought to be stopped: o iotatin’ gent G elght] arcrens good sy I *Out S0 Lon} “Poohi” ssya Selie. “de. that the , TH8, Yo river. Ny river, Blaody Angle, | Robert Eden, a brother. Edward. who lived in Ber® | ol Thomas Turner of Smith's Mount, | When Mr. and Mrs. Boomer-Day | there with the information. -Couple | AME€Ie% €™ o best you could do? A whole month e D opchy sk Farm. | kiR uda, A Ao e there 75 Ca | Vestmoreland county. and his wife, [drift in they say the same thing S0)of swells” hc begins, “that wants more of that! 1 shall be & nervous ' Jem Church and the Wilderness come | JoPMUND JENINGS sold Ripon Hall v e om© “Edward |JAn¢. Who was a daughter of Col. Wil- |does Pinckney. when he trails along. g Y | ¢THAT'S where all the talent goPS. | wreck at the end of another two lom and the Wilderness come | JLDMUND JENI pon Hall| power of attorney from “Edward |ljam’ Faunticroy. One of their sons |In fact. they holds a reg'lar indigna- in the band. 1 breaks in T e e i e T frec ; e ,io the ‘mind ‘of the man'Who has| 10 that Robert Corter who was|Blackburn of Bermudas” to “Rich-| i George Washington Turner, who |lion meetin', and somehow they all Y In the band Lbredks 10 derstand.” say ¥ weeks. 1 don't see that you've ac- ) ralied glorious tragic | called "King" Carter. He bequeath-|ard Blackburn of Vieginial |was graduated from West Point' Mili- |shoots their’remarks at me. don’t know as I'll ever get there.|complishad anything at all Do not understard the Rambler to| 1 it to his son. Landon Carter. who | aq ‘several children, one of whom | {he, ACademy ia R e O sy, bt sllow AT Eage ure thing!" says Blitzv. blushin® | though." in A _moral victory. at least” puts \rite that all those places are in LTt it to his son, Robert Wormeley | came o "be known as’ Col. Thomas|ing OR Iirown's Taid on the Fovern: | “You wouldw't, eh” says I “Sav.|scarts up o oays Dinchuey a0 “Why not?” says L “Can’t bear to i Ninckner, o Spottsylvania county. but_he knows | Carter. who left it to his son, George | Blackburn. He is of most concern iniment arsenal at Harpers Ferry. in{vou tell 'em. Come. nmow! T'm mo|" wyp that's ugh off,” | give up the milk business? * laska, “Bid you want us to. ‘ that many of them are. That dread | Carter, w + % TS | Phis narrative becanse of his associar | Thg. The ierintan on his tomb | haitman ofthe Setisty for the Bub.lee 207 DARA that¥ (dr emough-off.” | give ub the. 2 e DId vas siant us to_hit him 2 . who sold it to Littleton Wal 3 o T says 1. “One_in Buenos Aires or| wop, | ‘k of that.” savs he. It's| With a piece of lead pipe. or chioro- fighting south of the Rappahannock m | lor Tazewell. in 1799, And for those o i o ke fi;‘;’:?r(’;»r'j;.f“d"' furdered " Oct. 18. 1839, at|pression of Useless Noises. How |pitrograd or Peking.” oy Sietock | form s on the wibiy . 1862, 1863 and 1861 overlapped the| facts the Rambler is indebt . bR i arpers Ferry by the Fanatic. John |{would you go at it o 't do that, you know." & My el s “You might ‘e tried to be him | paner coant o T A Fariner TyIeE presidont of the Golt | §A¥ ¥ou look at it there were born|ond child of Henry Smith Turner and |should first trail the nuisence to its | Rin’ if he didnt stop we would quit | cnOUEh to pax my board and buy 4| “That was just the bright littl JRamaty o he canthrest ot Coranie 1o (of Witlixm_ wnd /Mary, aCAVIL | So Blackburn, who died FouneiiCatne Lizckburn was Jane. who|source and then lodge a complaint | fuiing milk of him?- few clothes. Tain't much on Savin' uP. | thought we hiud ourseivis, says | county on the southeast mot their|lamsburi lof Col Thomas Fizey. and 1dward ! The fo Wite of Dr; Charles Byrd. | with thewell, ‘the board of health.| * “yes, we could, says 1. “But we'd {oither. I get a'little ahead and ihen “aAnd since you've mentioned it, I'm hare of glory, agony and death. Mter that little excursion to the | Blackburn. Thomas wax born afflcrov Tu:ii. born at Ripon lLodge| Al TNLY sasd L “wWell lorgans] B0 Without milk “Better: leave thigifome Sanday 1 dron down to Coney. | Bleascd to snmounce dhat due sub- 3 2 southern neck of Virginia where | g, .odge in 1740, inherited tand A Ttwice, Fseental nt. y8-1 n- | {o me. Pinckney. meet up with a skirt an 0w a|Scription list is stiil open. Pinchney S {How the mighty” and the beautiful i BPCl A5G lea there October e It ey |26 Qurselyes into a committee of (Wo.| ‘Thai's the easlest thing Pinckney |whole week's pay before 1 know it Pass the hat POTSWOOD scttled in that part of | Tivers James and York. and with the | Y303 ' His will was witnessed June! (he second Sydnes Datterson. e Tl v brotests Pinckney, | 4065 4nd from then on he only |Or elsc I'm liable to buy some fooi] He's a good deal of a hard-boile: Vifginiz ved after little side trips into the battle sec- |15 1507, and probated January 4, 18051 e fifth ohild was Thomas Black-|“We dof't hear it g % Y- |chimes in when 1 give him the cuc.|thing like this saxaphone. You|{E8: You Know. Durdy Pell: but aftcr Kinia named afier him and en- | Hon of the wnoch HKappshannock wad | M Joor,2nd Probated January 4 1805 | The fifth child’ was Thoma L [iWe domt hear it at our house, YOU'bat'] expect his frock coat and spas | know.” | oomer-Day " has chipped ‘in a ten- gaged in iron mining and smeiting. | the Rapidan, and with the side trips | chilaren of his deceared brother Rich- Uty Fenton Wallace, who, If the | -Maybe you will by tomorrow.” | §idy (helr part in impressin' Blitzy| wCn.hun says L “Aint it o shanie,t £0° 2E BU8 10 pey himeeit logse trom and. with Richard Snowden of Bir- |2 Annapolis, Carthagena. Mount Ver: | ard, the rest of his estate to his (the pimplers o e sy L * | Bush. That young gent don't Gues-|p, o\ At & Calented Foung gant ine amo A = X S L o e g | ard: the res 5 et L mbler's notes have not become |says I -8 i 0 ~ | Pinckney. that a talented young That'll help some,” says 1, “but combe of Anne Arundel county, Md.| Would put it, to come back to our |ready been provided for. He names'Brown 2ud_ Dranees lunhy Wolso fi:.::fl;a‘i‘xl:rxcorurd}'mn' Be & PO He don't even ask Wheiher it's e ww"u:\ims" “‘?“ lghn};ff:o";“ hr;‘h'g e eokl - N n mutton. which is Ripon Lodge, in h i is o rs. Mary Fenton Blackburn died in | PO o T | .Europe’s or Vassalli" r Prince's | may be waitin' out there now for jus Te. among. the commuters on U was amons the pioneer iron Norkers | Prince Wiyllam county. near Wash- | Fhomss, res n_"“.“jffiig:”nukh’f{ma. The sixth chill was Christian| .Oh, very well,” says he. | that we want him. to sign up with, |such a chap. Some movie star may |8:13, thougn in America. Spotswood was consider- [ ingion. 1P is a rare old piace. The |roq Washington: Mr. Crawford, Mr.|Blackburn Turner, who was married| 0 1 gets oul the little roadster yexpect if I'd told him that Pinckney | be objectin’, at this very minute, to| ‘dlcanwhile says Sadie. as Blit ably later in entering the business | house may be a trifle time-worn, but | Turner and Matthew Harrison. to Dr. Lewis O'Conner Cordell urufi,""p we atarts down fowara e her. | owned the Boston Symphony Orches. !drivin' an automobile in front of anjtutsloose with alother buest of wall than Richard Snowden and it may be| you cannot expect even & house to| The children of (ol. Thoma ma,.k,s«'harxn Town, Jefferson county. The|l28® £ ':“ = '!“ 10 De ANY. f“ °T- | tra and was after him with a year's|express train and bein' tossed a few | L& motes. 1 think we had bette. , 1hat Snowden was later than George | stay young always. and You cannolipurn and his wife, who was born)first child was Mary, who married a s e o o hewy | contract he'd have acted Just the | hundred feet: or to being blown up on clone the sindovws i Yates, for at Annapolis is the record | expect 4 home o cut much of a fig- | Christian Scott. were Richard Scott|man in Philadelphia whose name the | In' pockhurst and you can get away | Same. et o buthodl off FHGroDtIol @) s S xipuls X elnt milchofid Sauckes that on January 11. 1669, Richard|ure in the society of houses without | Blackburn, Thomas, Julia Arn. Cath-i Ramblcr has not. George Washing- | with o - ang L away | "ieard me playin’, did you?' asks)oyiecranes inte a 1i el La hold-up sugn, but for the mex Saow being fitted to & new roof and | o . AT g with almost anything on Sunday. In | o He | skyscraper into a life net: And here's ! fuw days 1 did Bist dniong. &b Snowden and Thomas Linthicombe | Deing fitt o & new roof now and jerine, Sarah and Mary Elizabeth lton Turner. killed in the Harpersifact. there are so many kinds of | Bltzy _ our friend Blitzy, who's just achin’| thly tick N bought from orge Yates of Anne|then and to get a set of fashionable | Richard Scott Blackburn married,| Ferry raid, was the third child. noises goin' on that this particular | ou've guessed it.” says I. } o der il e | monthly ticket s”out of Rock Arundel county for 11000 pounds of | SHIMMYs every century or so. -to|first. Judith Ball and second. Anna| The ffth child of Col. Thomasfone, which scemed 5o Denetratin® out | plaver. I'll say. Bh, Pinckney ™" u: glev- 73‘"( lhhr're _anll 4oL ) rtr:"h]ulsl, And 1 ct 1 was fairl, tobacco a tract of land of five hun.| 2Tay itself in fresh machine-made | Blaise. He was born at Ripon in|Blackburn of Ripon and his wife.|on the quiet cdge of the town, is| ‘“Remarkable, one might s: stunts.- But ‘because hew-@hyt o’ fow [eloguent at times... ” - drea acres called “The lron Mine- | 400rs and shutters, and at intervals | 1750, and died there in 1304, He was!Christian Scott, was Sarah, who mar- more or less drowned when you get | Pinckeys -2 paltey dollars HE : Coms. Jdig s/t Tl o, Thits fred acres called The lron Mine..|io have some carpénter. or tailor infan urmy officer. having been com-rid Thomas Crawford of = Prince |down where the motor trafic Is thick | b chee”. says .Blitsy, s Pinckney. |'s to bring peacc to fevered brows A & PULY POSUMASIET | wood, measure it for a Rew and Btsl- | missioned June 2, 1794, and was To | Geargen emanty. 2t ang whn rea | : “Here! Add|and -quiet. to tfle litUe ones in the zeneral of the Briti Ameri- | ish porch. Yet, the Rambler m;e,lm,,ed in the service at the time of, Geo B county. Md, and who Fad voung | nursery. He'll be ‘tacklin’ "The Love 3 s shove | Nest' and ‘Avalon Ia another week or #o. and you can imagine what that'll mean. Give 'til it hurts. And finally, by joshin® ‘em along I did manage to colleet enough for a one-way ticket “There!” says 1. flourighin’' the wad at Sadies about Friday night. “Pon't ever tell me T ain't a useful member of society. I've 'phonecd Blitzy. the xophone fiend. and he's tickled 10 death. Says he'll be ready to start ' tomorrow noon.” “Thank goodn savs Sadie “Now we can have a neacrfal Sunday afternoon on more. But be sur that he starts.’ | “Trust me." saye L “I'm going tn buy the ticket myscif and see him on the train” And sure enough. Blitzy was on hand prompt. all dolled up in a new pair of yellow shoes and a checked spring suit. He chokes up some when he tries to thank me for all I've donr for him. “And if 1 do get 1o be a movie star. professor.” says he. “I'll never for- get who gave me the boost. I'll Ic you know how I'm gettin’ along.” “Don’t mention it.” says I “Plac in' the stepladder for yvoung amh tions is the easiest thing I _do. Got all your baggage. have you?" “Right here.” says Blitzy. kiekin' a cheap suit case. “Eh?" says 1. the saxophone " “Oh., that!™ mays he. *T sold that to my brother. You know Mike hi all his afternoons off. and he's goin’ to take it up.” “Good-night!"" 1 froans, “All right. Good % | givin' me a partin imember me to all who helped me out. forget me.” “They won't. (h'A"k on that” " | “Ana _they haven't. | They keen me busy exnla happens that after thev've shinped a ! musical milkman to California the ! afternoon torture sttll keeps up. Not {half of ‘em geems to believe the i Brother Mike story. {1 don't stind very well at home cither. My ratin’ as a diplomat in the domestic circle has dropped way be- {low par. “But T suppose” savs Sadie sar. castic. “that you have already though{ out another brilliant scheme “Sure!” says L “I'm writin' to se¢ lif thev don’t need a new chief of po- {lice in some town down toward. the tip end of Patagonia.” “But—but where's i says Blitzy hand' grip. Re- them ood folks Tell "em not to L “You can, Not one of ‘em inin’ how it The Price of Lobster. A THEATRICAL man said at a Chb | cago luncheon: ‘Chorus girls are economical littl |things at heart. . “A wealthy Chicago broker told me [vesterday tnat he took a chorus girl 1of mine out to supper after the show |the other night. As she was looking over the menu in the gorgeous res- taurant the broker said to her help- i fully: *‘How would you like a little lob- |ster? “The girl ran her eve down the ;menu to the lobster department, and then said. *‘No, no. Don't let's be extravagant I'd ever so much rather you'd buy me a nice racing car.’ " _— Chess vs. Checkers. Chess appeals to mature minds, and wood supplies most of the accouter- ments with which it is played. Some of the best are of ebony and boxwood, but very satisfactory games may be played with yellow poplar, basswood. wainat, maple and birch outfits. Th. same_holds true of' checkers, but that gam¢ usually is rated a little.lower than chess in scientific points: though no less an authority than Edgar Allan Poe holds that as a mental exercise of to stretch an ear to hear it. Blitzy had found his second wind and was. the highest anA purest sort, checkers surpasses chess. A