Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1921, Page 65

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 8, 1921-PART 4. =S ~ 3 MEET INEZ AND TRILBY MAY s&s.ar«d THE RAMBLER WRITES MORE OF RIPON where. You can. too. 1 believe We I ELI . e f_"i"‘?:"k“‘s"' This fa | could tour the world. e New TR. i “But with Superior street lined Wi R4 B ik H . e = = = forces to be used in dafense of th¢ “Yes-s-s?" says Inez.! movie houses, and a big armory HE Rembler;is alll onthe subs ] . 7 : 4 colony of Virginia." Blinking twice but not missing her | 2 Shets Jthe band cplaved Clor ned as JEEtof sRinon Eodge fand you | ig) MEETING With an Aristocratic Gentle- Col. Blackburn's name is found a ancing. Inez was just as satis S are told this because you will one of the trustees of the town o « stroke on the gum. 1 if I'd opened the pearly gates for her. jey e . . . Dumfi s (through hich the road That is, she was until she got a let- have no other means of know- man in the Woods—His Discourse on the e ahinator to Fredericksburs So for a minute we stood there etaring across Seventh avenue at a ter from home about this Uncle Nels. ing it until you have read far pasges), in 1716 and he was appoint “They think I ought to find him. S1down this column or the next. It ix| | Profiteers ol Another Dayv—The Iron-Barred ' ¢a « trustee for the new towns o nd Centerville, big hotel with our suit cases parked | she. ‘Why? says I ‘Is he lost> It e ot on the curb. And T'll admit L was a - Wasn't Lt exactly. He was missing. |very infportant that a story be fin-| | Vi e z Newport. in 1337, though. and had been for severalijshed when it has been begun. That Window of Rlpon Lodge—Some Little-Known ol ckburn died at Ripon Lodge bit disappointed in Inez. | “Of course,” says I, “I'm not look- vears. When last heard from he'd been q it fems impo: Tt % a < H - 5 8. seems the story- in 180 and was buried in the littl in Duluth. Well. we looked up the ad-, portantalo 3 4 BAradl D ar e A man gaid fteller, even thouki nobody else cares Facts About Col. Blackburn. Who Cared for a O e e o o he had gone to New York. At w a whoop. a hurrah, a picayune or any- . . : . the ridge which looks down of I tola tnez she might as well 08 thing else that suggests itself to vou Regiment of Colonial Soldiers During One 800850 X ina ot wpon "t vl e She had to find Unete Xels "Whe | More important is it that the Ram- Wi e all this rush of affection so 1ate™ Tihjar correct an error than that he inter. asks. * such a sta cle? ‘He'sy L e B e ash+ | should hurry along the road to Ripon | - - —_— — ————— ‘ing grave is_not marked nee was. The Ameri er. in 1807, printed the follow obituary sketch of Col. Bl arles Bracket VS 1. “That's different. A rich uncle|{Lodge. The Rambler makes mistakes | knec and instep. His hair and clothes jdergone a magnificent uplift \..u[““"‘- Wit by L b serves fo be kept track of %o wejand when they are called to his at- | were gray and his form was thin, his | now Jaws against misbranding | BTO%" P aved and saved until we had enowsn | 1ands vellow. his cheek bones promi- adulteration and some other forms of | He was « and_unshaken pa ')*:»% fio ome. And here we are. iss We 1,€I"nlwnlhn ln‘.x)kvx correction llr N0 | T hid evas’ sumken, bt s falsification it s ot now believed to e v o it X v one notices the mistake he lets it| rous. He walked over and sat down ' be exactly legitimate business 1o sell o Which e mow enjoy Coan ew pe 1_suppose she should have shud-j, uncorrected. this being the cus- | oy the Rambler. and the joints of his &lucose for ma ayrup; or kerosene | o ol the milution e tauka decied pan K2 dered and led us sadly but firmiy ont & e i and grated ne hough | for pure olive ofl, and to put up apple | [0, fatr of the riEbe Aot Lo own n IS e e e mtone. StapS Atart- |tOMAry way of dealing with mistakes | J0N€S reakiel Sn S 01 L9NEL Lurigs and dppte corvs and wider | 1) R R LN ed for the sidewalk. But she didn't-!Very few persons correct their own | cheumatic,” said the Rambler. “and [1mill refuse in fancy Jars and seil ivfimensied e g o s bt s e e e Shat emile, Not one lupon their attention. and cven then | [Vou replied ihe gras and rusis Bol e with ir, 1t may Sl b T e {of these feact thelll s ol s '{T,"'”“'-‘ are apt to insist that it was not] .o many score of years. and so rarely | hoWever. to get a plentiful ads dleaify the Lnmue cherscire e wos ewail] e aree Tay oIt o leave home on {# mistake and will #'t up half the| o indulge in a daylight outing that [ofgotton in ull-woul goods, | g farent ot o b el account of it. And perhaps it's u\orl-inighl looking for refe ces in the |l r"fl:’;‘:dl‘lll:m«'»l'|\‘\-«‘ikv of 4 grin. at that. Doesn't mean much onL b e e -used e S s Hiner Toa ust my way of snating ! Sne SR e (hexilitlesuses lmangsearsimysel CBUL Tinever i |70 the human race: “Ah. quit_kiading! | Pook. 1o prove that they were right.} lessly expose myself to the night i You're not half as bad #s you look.[But when the Rambler makes & m inswered the Rambler. “Nig and I'm not. either. So ther Any- | take, and is found ont. he likes to ma said the stranger. | Way. Miss Wellby smiled back and led [the correction cheerfully; that is. he jwith me ght ! 1ie Jip o this fourth-floor room With jlikes to appear cheerful ahout it al- | ddes. there is more Zood comypi | {two single iron cots and a window |though you must know that a human | hese woods when erybody ing loveriooking 4 double row of back[be'ng who makes an admission of [ eround here is in bed | yards, ferror cheerfully not common. The X never found much enjoyment i You will be here for enly a short{mistake which the Rambler made was | 'he company of owls, bats and whip- | IXi"\B. 1 presume v& she perhaps not a serious one, and he can- noorwille,’ 1id the Rambler 'v'“tt" i Oniy until we can look up Unele|qot charge himself with full respon- | have better company here at night | I Nels. savs 1 “Then 1 suppose he'll|sibility for it. You understand that an the creatures you name,” replied | send the limousines for us When @ man is confessing a mistake | he odd old man, with just a trac i o we paid a weck in advance and|he tries to he as easy on himself as|impatienc i began unpacking the suit cases. hossible and 1o swift the blame on| Then he seemed to see something | “‘he mistake was|down the woodland path by whos * ok k% some one e | v A RN really committed by another—1 will| edge we were and. rising 1o | eight. ten hooks™ say¥s Linge say by another person—but by [his feet with a gre al of effort and | the aid of his cane, he took off his, counting ‘em, “and three hangers!|one who was once a person. 3 hrec-cornered hat, bariug a hairless Tll tell you. Inez while I'm deciding * x % = e O e b soie: iona ithe who gets the odd hanger you slip YOU remember the aristocratic Rambler did not sce and said: “I did out in the hall and bring in that £hest who, or which. the Ramb.| not antieipate the pleasure of meeting est way to locate Uncle Nels. Ought}iwg or three Sundays ago? She scem: | This ix our estimable fricnd, the Ram- | to be Nelson Petersen. 1 suppose?’ ito have made the mistake, though|bler. whose informing pen ix giving Petersen?” echoed Inez, and when{gie was really not conscious of it.| Ingtruction to the gidd ¢ worldlings of | 3 vas blink ore | 4 today ¢ manners and customs o 1 looked up she was blinking morel Ghosts who make mistakes conscious-| our timesx.” He howed low to the stupid than usual Iy are few. The Rambler's mistake | person he thought he was talking “Indicating wha 1 with. the name before, havent you: nut” said the Rambler to himself, if it was vour father's. then his his pipe full of sweepings Wrap- brother would be-— | ) tinfoil and labeled tobacco. Bt nee s N o life had done her own housework. 1 nger resumed his seat and put de to side. “Uncle Ne v he ’ ents were | one of his vellow, bony .. have also heard that her parents wer 1 on: is brother to m engaged in trade; that her father ran| Rambler's knee in a fr -ndly. confidential Oh'” says L. “And that would make . J ther A AnaitnisiswhAChe wad himeNels what ia merchant mill on Rock Creek orf Wi aid: gy ';“»“ b | Cabim _John or Pimmit Run: that her ou were wronz in quoting the : il e grandfather was a tollgate keeper on|tre of Mrs. Antoinette Fontenov says 1 "A‘;Z}iws in quoting her, though he quoted {her accurately. She said, discussing a ghost who lived in a less exclusive ction of the cemetery, and who in head from says she. A RIPON LODGE DISTILLERY. Sl Y Jpesrs. & £ course voul e "Marlborough pike, and that her|simmon Bonaparte in last Sunday know. What was yuur, mother's nam: | ereat-grandfather at ‘one time had ramble. You quoted her worde. ot t of Sfrs. Marie Antoinette|s o apal , sheiEot to be Birs Leterae s ing o with a tav o sreprosented her meaning. She ¢ <t of Mrs. 3 Antoinette | n and s o “Gisen," says Ines. “Bui—but Uncie{ soMCRINE fo dp Witk & (486t 00| Cpeakc stightingly of e intrade. : Jasmine Fontenoy.” She was not slur- | wi franti 12 The Ao of Nels, when he go away and get rich it “eeSHEE ettt b 5 O arsone in : FINE persons who work. but only those | anl eiral biiss 4 Detwecn Difteult Fon sid Supariand |bat she aid not mesn that persens iaTIOE Permans whS BOCK, DRk OO 00 AR he—he change his name. i—I forget.” | 5 2 1 ade were inferior to us—the old plan- r it may have been between Sugar- | trade were inferior to u old p ing otners. In your next ‘ramble’ | “Halluy vs 1. “Thats real in-jpn a s erae] s 2185 ta aristoc! —fust ceaus v JOUTHEAST of the Pouse and Jand“run and Goose creek. I have alsol tation aristocrats bacanne thew, [0E SL0CE B T e o (D a Lo teresting. that is. Here we are. come|heard that her husband was engaged | worked That is not the point. i) AT Sl SR b e the hill on which it stands all the way to New York to hunt aij, re,) egtate. or journalism, or some|aristocrats worked in supervising our SO 8 & Ay e e abhe Tt Ay e whos, Maseing under a|lLsealiestaccior iournalism, orisome |0nIatoCRL oL our easeutives work e |- conslder your i/phatoranhs e A0 ShiaT the gray stone foundatic name you don't happen to remember.|{ieh UREC Cu I i At nn:lr“n'l‘h:omc?; T their mills and factories | Lombstones the livellest and most of a ruined barn. In the foundat' But [ cxpect vou have some idea What{pight. when the moon is shining. and| though T believe we held lcamning anthentic that ace publls wall £re two small, iron-barred wit LS I don't see him|1 PoSitively believe she makes her|the practice of the soclal amenitic | "I must now bid vou adicu because g, In the lower story of that ol O ALsaYEl I NeE, RL, 8 him | wn shrouds—at least, they look!higher regard than they do. and night is coming on and 1 have an ap- | A 5 ¥ 4 ce 1 was little S ¥ e e il tlonil i resn | pottment o mitend whuk prosifesiin Lers Disce was ¢ plkos OF senEnch Well: says I setuling back on|"PRETAGL L poniler made was in| 1ate our lives. - Our prejudice against | be very diverting revels of some kin- {or en Hoet of the Ol planiation the cot bed and gazing at her stunned. ; i . : B e gunt Moriah, which, of any considerable size were litt g 54zing @ tunned.{ casting a reflection on—or slurring— ( persons in trade arose not from the,dred spirits . which, of an ¢ 8 e T must say that makes it compli-|persons who were in trade. 1t is rath: | fact that they worked, but from the|as you know, is an abandoned and Seitlements Prprincipalitics and e cated & or & common error that is made by |{act that there were so many scamps ! almost forgoiten cemetery about a JCRTLY & B SHDCI P oL Johs Yes-s- says Inez, in that help-|grictocratic descendants whose an-|in business that it was not safe andimile further down in the woods. Oh, Kind or another. These places cam. tul way of hers. cestors nned . their fellowmen - 8| proper to be on too intimate terms|yes. it is a private cemetery! In my handy very often for confinin. For a party of the second part. that | well a o religve their children and| with them. By (hat anclent ‘word | time it was not considered the proper SIaves Ao “punishment, for holding can be indicated by zero minus y. I|grandchildren from the need of using | ‘scamps’ I mean men who weuld mis-|Caper 1o be put to rest in & public slaves who had run away and been take pleasure in presenting Miss Inez|their hands in trade and from the|represent the character of the goods | cemetery Scaptured and Sorigonfining Aha eterson. when She drops into alnecessity of having brains for any | they sold, who would represent that| And as the queer old man arose. his [G%, 0 White servant, cailed the mood like that. For the next forty {gther form of enterprise R i e e eo0da below: whatl Bands® 1nokea Thomer: andkhiecoatiinanroncasmant phoswas; BEll 49 minutes or so I jabs questions at heri "The mistake which the Rambler|they cost th vhereas they were ed ha ery 1 and hie oLviee foria teom mlivears Blavel e S have qulied e dor ml i Dhe, mistake S h o e, R b o ey e, s e O eenaniiis have oniy re. oenturelimen andiemn npbrento third degree expert And at the fin- ¢ N 8 19 s ca making an extraordinary profit, and ong hose seemed ‘ln have only leg rron run aw ¥ from those to whon. ish we were about where we started. they w bound. Many of thes. only I was hoarse and Inez had joor people, fecble-mmued, simp: chewed the flavor all out of her gum i wandered off without thought of run What she didn't know about this ; Sl e I B jning away. Com'ng inlo a strans noud, Tacs woled 0C qUESLG -, and if their answers were n. satisfactory $U would probably be as- sumed thAt they were runaways. The Iplantation had its" fittle lock-up in ! which these strangers could be kept g0 T could look square into the peace. | until the owner of the slave or the ul gray eyes, “can it be true that | [ : ‘ . = mester of the indentured servant or all you've been feeding me about : 3 e s T e apprentice could be found. and could Uncle Nels was just bunk?' = ! 2 ° & | come or ‘send to “prove his propers No,” says she. "I gotta Unclejp 5 & R o = S and pay costs. {Nels." T wanna find him." |14 p . . 3 x | There is nothing especially sign i “That's on record and I expect I'll Sy o cant. therefore, in finding cell w missing uncle of hers was amazing. And it wasn't worrying her a bit. Then, when I was about to give up,, I stubbed my toe on what looked liké a elue. “Inez.” says®l, turning her ‘round ihave to belicve part of it says I y 4 R 5 5 P ot dows in the stone walls of a barn on But honest now. with nothing but £ ot < 5 i 3 S | 2n old plantation in the Potomac a dim memory to go by, how did you | [ 3 5 x d country. One of the storics abou - ithink it was to be done ; g A B - ithe iron-barred - windows in the : i o 7 3 s # 3 e nez_simply rolls her eyes up and : - ruined barn at Ripon Lodge is thut’ ing for any landing of the Pilgrim 'up on something he could put in th rent lots. Perhaps 1 didn’t app inspects a leak stain in the ceiling. it was a p tor volutionary Fathers exercises. or expecting you bank in my rame [l dowt know | thom ax | showd byl t i frec 1054Y It's just the same as cutting the | B X ; ! 8 [ solaiers. - Ce cte und probabil - to make an oration. but doesn’t it not but if she did I'll bet it didn't | family life 1 didn't care for at all. Vet ;;l['-; or "'.“,"v"" a door in your face . 3 " ties fit that story. If a regiment « strike you that this one-syllable stuff | last long. Not if Paw ‘could got |1 went on with' it; “;‘3';,""(,5’"" Cooking S “And i th l:‘z‘;;"f‘ml Ivrlow;n;m!..‘y‘ua";("‘l« n- . % 2 o1 : b tind |and chopping wood, herding assorted 3 says 1. bon Lodge plantation one win of yours is kind of sketchy for the | out iadn'l:zt‘,?,?,'",iml}:?u“‘:.ullhl?al'kllh'nl\ A R oo, T out aver| el Mme; wasn't the big idea of wish- Trer it is quite Tikely that some of the occasion " e e ooand 4o they could roll | dreaming there was a way out. Not| & us (ntQ this_fool "excursion ju ! men had to be confined in that lock Which jogs Inez into eloguence. R until that day when I went down .;“';‘!;Ii"lflsfifl;‘ Ol Sl }lep Diooub Exbauv ot phie S0l . ‘es at me | “hich is one of the seven mystic | the jurction to ecll 8ix quarts of rasp-1,, smed 1o strike the key. drunk. and very likely some of thost She rolls her big gray eyes at m Sognlen s ane oL ,‘,,,z,,, e YLl | berries and found Inez sitting on a|yLoRE tme I want to go by New who got drunk became £o unruly thut solemn, shifts three cents’ worth of | [tafons why I have mighty itle past | POUCE S0 eid Waiting for the north- ) Yorke" she admits. o it was considered best to let them wintergreen flavor from right to left, <cif how short I am on looks: @ bound train, I'd never seen her before,| ~But why?® [ insists. . “In the cool off in the lock-up. Peghaps some and remarks: “Lotta noise.” 16 e tolor biind 151 admit the |but that didn't prevent me talking to| "€ of Al Ihats wmple Wiy of those ancestral soldicPs of ours Temarks: “Lota NOISe ou have | pale. carroty_ hair. the moss-azate her. About then I could have chatted |, AL IRt JneZ Sucks bor. chn. as would " now “and " then’ “help” | them . come through with the perfect de- |Ereen eyes, and the rusty batik-effect | With a one-eyed mule and enfoved it (", "1y’ oo, oW ipaying itagimith e Mo L s s soription. T¢s a whals of a racket. | where my complexion ought to be | And when I discovered that she wasi, ) gh 100, = " e almost works up e et bl 0, thn o e cem 15 be anything extra I'm long on disposition. though, and |leaving homec because she. too, had|® WY i hng» says she. B O e Dirtare. "Withia Zoing on, either, so I expect it's just ratal BIfC 18 conversattons - |a stepmother that she wasn't aito-| AW, L dufno” sayy she. <But so . : - et e T UL Dt the regular big town growl that we'll - Says Miss Wellby. ~I can dis- | gether crazy about, and an old man | gic JuERIRS By W Fork-—iine 58 | | ntinental troops. quartered o have to get used to. And here's an- | cover no speech impediment. And|Who used a rake handle on Ber mow | (Hlors (2 Tull drese mulis, swell ladies % % A -5 5 wrereContinantaiitraope auartered or other one of those taxi pirates that'your friend2” and then— Well, T warmed to her, as |}l 00 PEATL Shains, buriars : % § hat She lotisp’ coom: in the ol Tve got to shoo off.” nes Petersen says 1. prompt.|the poets say, 1 wanted to know all [2VSERIR Ty POLTHCD Sma ingdoore; e matiior tenante B O aho0 T e casy as the | “She was born Dlain Miss Paterscn,|about her plans. And Inez told, using ] SROR T Z™in ToVa Wi oo y aen had « namper of putriot tenants other five. Ji- almost grazes the toe and it must have been when she was | her code. ‘Home 1 no like' says 8he.|working girls, Things like that all ; N B ¢ " ] | s ittie mray house, That was {he S N IO Bria front tire little and cute that they hung the | 'so I go up on the range by Core- time in New York. By Duluth g " 3 | Dlantation distillery. when Ripon o Mt miia up In front of us, holds |Inez on her. She'x Swede ‘on both | raine. 1 gotta job in mine boarding 2 rk. By Duluth, 3 3 4 o o lopnza et BlackbE s ¢ thumb and asks husky: Sides and she's u lovely girl. You e Then. after a little, she asks and also when, some time in the 408 out a stubb; téll that by the placid b | “You come, too, eh? Plenty jobs. ‘M * % % “Taxi. lady kel at by the placid way COMELo0, (e 3 SR 'it became the home of the Atkins “Thanks for the flattery. Buddy,” hendles her gum. We're from Duluti # 1. ‘Would you say I was dressed ot speed 1 durgtion Inez had tamlis. T‘nh» 3“ (?r\"hb'uil\dikn‘: ® says 1 ‘bt homest. now. after an- Minnesota as Inez would pronounce | traveli Inez” and 1 turned broken ibiee sbecdn’ recend. L ATso IRON-BARRED WINDOW AT RIPON LODGE. pretty well preserved for its age, buf e ‘oo ook, would you say we'd |it— Meen-ah-soda — chanted through | around so she could get the full cf- L A0, I | e | scems nowW 10 be a little_wabbly, In e ind that was yearning to pay |the nose as if it were a solo. fect of my dollar-nineiy-cixht mail-|one grand mental effort she had put 3 | | that little old building millions of the four bits for a ride in a Wheezy tin sl e Tornine tostame. berry stains. | into words all her secret and we. |0 his motice in a way which some|who in other ways sought to de-|bones in them. He looked at the Ram- |apples, peaches. cherries and grapes of’ Hank with wabbly fenders e . A {briar tears, and all. Also 1 added that| ouoocq vearnings. Tt was 1 {persons may think unusual. He was|cicve one. bler. smiled—or grinned—and was|Ripon Lodge were turned into brandy e ay mirhien M1 make it| \[19S WELLBY doesn't scem either |1 hadn't a’cent of real money. With| gs. It was like flash- | walking thropgh a bit of din wood- ¥k % % gone. b ey Py iclies. Il make I N nrilled or convinced, “Diluth~|ibat she unwinds a handkerchief.|ing @ searchlight into & dark room |land. because/in & lonesome place like | S , 2 R rig i s ug onvince Dbuluth, D T aa : gt st «] CAN remember that when 1 was a IS Into what he thought would pass for ' «he ' _, 2 counts out two whole dollars and|that you thought wax empty, and dis- | this, onc not only gets away trom | oW = e 3 Bh rats Quite an interesting cayse Come.! Just Mke that. ¥ -1 crowds of people. but from those young man—something near 300 OW, as the Rambler was saying The Pious Settlers. about Ripon Lodge. One of the interesting things about this place a smile. “Where you goin'”" S O What's your choice. Inez.” says 1; ©H¥. I've heard * & % % “the Ritz or the new Ambassador You can play that strong.” Two blinks, That's a sign. Buddy. “IU's five miies long, a mile wid that she hasn't up her mind, 4 mile high, and every year they ship think of in a few s #0 vou'd bet ong before Liz- enough iron ore out of these to 2 s asthma gets worse Tav 1 sk breaks in Miss Well- - [ you left? 1 :’l':x‘;‘;'lngu-':w:*? be full of junk the-|signs which tell that things we used | yvears ago—we had a great W, ,._I R - to buy for a dollar have been re-| . = i G\)/HAT & lot of things you can JBut 1 could account for Inez now.!duced to four dollars, and the th Tea! Prices rose to extraordinary heights. | 3 conas, | $he had developed a ‘movie mind | that used to cost a quarter. hav had | They went up beyond precedent. and : Somewhere underncath that double | their price cut down to a d 1t oy lends o ade Sics w can’'t you? 1 could see myself tramp-| hank of wheat-colored L t s a4 ; money lenders advanced the rates for| 1 g ing back 10 the clearing; the little old] like & wreath nm"l:; :w:mlxlrd:o:::: ;s.&“?”l:n“xv«rilf:::g D n[n‘ti:i;;:‘fla:n”l)l'l{i‘:rfl loans " secured by collateral in the|has been written of Col. Thomas|The names of the rivers, bays, crecks- S abaolute Saye T o help Shack with the cluttered door vard; | back of those Holstein eyes, was a|cal economy «ho tell us how prices holding of which the lenders took nut" ackburn, who inherited the farm}and hva[r'llun;;s allfln: lhfi;jl'olomac riv- E rolled. too. and ore the next Inez find her 'ncle Nels, bat may the stumpy fields, mostly grown up h',‘:l[t'h}nhax I;ladl become crowded with | have busted and how much more welrisk—that is, if the government was | from his father. Richard Blackburn. mr"")l or‘lll\sa”Tx;I:dl‘:I(h‘:fl':-“:‘1"‘l“’ ¢ H 10 hail us ©had dashed oyt Sound a little odd. too. She 100ks biz 1o fire 1 b o oas hevond, | e things she had seen on the acreen. | can buy with our salary sthan we |, cndure. These gentlemen talked a | the immigrant, that “he was a man|; 3 ic pligrims one could hail us I had dushed out *0und a little odd. too. She look to fire weed; the burned woods beyond. | No use telling her it wasn't all true, | could six months ago.iwhen beefsteak | !” © > S < £ 1 e s ar sl o Lapresacd PO Jscohes ;s L e Senak and got a tall traffic cop to tell me how o oy n L ST I des v,h b er naked and dreary. 1 could see Maw | What she had seen pictured out she{and rents were high. It is really|8reat deal about thestaw of supply and | ©f large estate and quartered a regi- | features of the county names which Bodge, slumped down in the doorway, | had taken in as trustful as if angels|worth going into the woods to get hey said. he immutable|ment of Continental troops on his|had a sacred import. ‘To begin, there yanadiy LEul) S5t demand JEThey graeld, nmutable | RO all winter, clothed, fed and sent | are St. Marys county, the St. Marys THE eariy settlers in Maryland were that a regiment of Continental troops| © usually a pious-minded and to a s quartered here one winter. Itjlarge extent. a pious-spoken peopl to find this furnished room house that I've been brought up to believe A proughtay her greasy hair falling over her | had spoken from the sky. More than|away from this. £ e Y a friend of mine had £iven e e S i was o big. wicked town @nd Ly eyes. 1 could hear her snarl at|that, from the things 1 had done N | O e Rauibler ‘sat duwn on | the|lRW of supply and demand" Yel, €| hiem finclc bojliie axmy Ia the spring | Xiver and 1he THy BE B Mary. s et Inez risk herself alone n. 1 could see the old cook stov | old plantation aristocrats knew that; without st to the colonies. 1tl Of the city no vestige remains, but’ n her in the past two years, she w. ing | the woodpile where. 1 would have to—{ sure 1 could lead her straight to mat- | Well, | took the two dollars and kis Inez smack on the lips. Befor ground, rested his back against a pine S et _ ; B began to smake. and to let | since history began it had been neces- | Would be interesting to know thejlits site has been accurately deter- « & since Y beg Qesignation of that regiment and the|mined and a beautiful monument has where all her rosy dreams would | the ants crawl over him, and to enjoy cary el Tawi s r dari | come. true. Hadni ] tahen mer ooid | the Ofher beauties of nature. Not far | S2r¥ 1o make fwws against men Who | yinter when it was quartered at)been erected there, besides, the foun- Aress of. We walked the whole ei blocks, %o by the time we had cli the brown stone steps and been let here. You see. Inez did something awfully nice for me once. Ax ter of fart, she saved my life the storuge vault that was bei “Really! says Miss Wellby, Riving|we were u « ine, pa 3 ifica artrully 1i b s ati 3 . were up in Coleraine, DPassing | the mine boarding house in C\ s a vho ' 11 ean” | would artifically or artrully limit sup- | Ripon Lodge. but there is no doubt|dation of the first capital has been ecepil arlor sitting came easy. her a curious glanee. 1ve W £ . bo ng house in Coleraine | AWay was a man who was half lean = = 4 : oy Making o trade with Miss Weilby, No, she didn't pull me out of Lake | ¢ ‘p’l ::i'»“|o"'§'."r|t'ffi'gZ?::k bread iand | to Druot's in Duluth. and from Thine | ing against a tree and half supporting |ply and then charge higher prices | that Col. ‘Blackburn Pestorsird. O ouiliseg v ;‘,.rf;'f,“: "?;kt;‘rs.i;l‘hlv;n. e S b sition. She | Superie SRy apple che: ! and steam New York? . W t : i 5 7 5 ring a | > S service to his country. ne gets a s St es, whicl he fhough., was another proposition. ~Sh. Supcrior or push away a freight train{ghovel bo: and third assistant en- York? -Wouldn't [ manage | himself with a thick stick having & because the supply was not cqual 10| pymber of glimpses of this man in|name of a civil subdivision of the the rest? So she sits placi 14 head, though the gold seemed | . Satuat et suin it D odiang o arnined. T had not. seen | the demand. The Romans made laws Virginia annals. In 1 And here 1 a 3 el vhel bler sat | against men who would buy up great |pointed by Virginia one of the « am. stranded in a fourth (him there when the Rambler sat]ag: S missioners for disposing of he was ap- | county of St. Marys, of a settiement, {of a creek aid of a church. It is the . floor back on West 57 . A down to rest and smoke and had not !, 0 it. ereate i place of one of the very early mis A TR0 mound Swede g vreet wgth | 10T him come up. This seemed a | 4moun of food. held it, create 4R gumaged in public warehouses sions of Maryland. St.” Georges Is-* 211 0w hall 1o 9o to Aon T LMOUENL| [N strange, Dut there are so many artificiel shortege and then exact high | granting relief to tobacco owners for | land and St. ‘Georges creek, and St. venture and ruddy romance was (o |Strange things in the world. in so- [ pric guch damage. On December 8. 1774, | Jerome point on St Jerome creck, find the way to sth ' ciety Congress that c ¢! “Whe. S o v jees | e was elected a member of the com-|are @ g the arks, an he + way o 5th avenue! jety and in Congress that one morc| “Wheg we complained that prices | 1% Was cected o memper of tie fomi il rmarks of the Potomac river. e the vegutar stage landlady you that was about to run me down,” says gineers, see in vaudeville sketches or read about | ! he lifted me out of T: in the Saturday Evening Post. YoulJunction when T thought I'd taken|the head. | knew that I'd crossed Know —a multi-chrome blonde with a Foot there. Of course, you don't know ges Clearing off the map for good battle-ax profile, a co'd. suspicious eye Tamarack. You're lucky. It's three} and a voice like a sixc t its miles from Dodige's Clearing, where | says Miss Wellby., “You worst. No. Miss Weliby seems to be lived from the time I was two until I were grateful to Miss Petersen.” a mild spoken, gray-haired old maid || Was ninctien. going on twenty. 1y back hair to my big appy! Say, a kitten chasing | 'marack s tail couldn’t have felt lighter in it Sired eves Simd gentle manners. ; How Paw found it starting from Con- savs 1. “Maybe the streak was| “Tnez. s 1“1 don't know | matters not. % is e tradesmen would | Sy e < b it A e = Toated airay females ke s Just because |1 Wis JusUtrying to lose himself in|ever tapped it before. “Tell me. tnez. ) 07 0 BT, {ragedy, ‘Anyway, you're|r[sHE stranger wus looking at (hel SHaseL Che R Aon e Deonuse of | committee e o e thol is Pagan point. That was an Indian S e nd (the pine flats ' en he got tols ehat i@ . Vs a wol eater. I Y Tore | 2 ; 2 :and tha S aiine comn e solve 4 s o = A it was @ spor'y thing to do. And t pine flat [ when he got to|says ), ‘what is it you want mo m not forgetting. | Rambler intently and kindly. He|m#king no profit. an that because oft, jhion of this committee that nolsettlement. As you come up the the highn freight rates on sailing ves- | persons or person whatsoever in this! river and leave behind the places al- sels, and canal boats and Conestogalcounty ought to make use of East|ready named. you pass Parsons t sell their goods | India "tea until American grievance creek, though most likely this little _ this ten acres of burned-over sand, | Didn't take her by surprise. Nothing | though. that if it hadn't been for | with the little clump of black spruce i do ‘I like Zo by picture show to-;¥ou I would be still stuck in Dodge's s she, 1 suppose ;i tire \muhn-, he secmed 1o be Satl ir\w,,h!)' says she. ‘You sha s;lyshl.e‘l',"‘":“'::"i“ ":’nf“’}fi,."”{‘.'-‘" spruce stump, { breechex, long hos i e uian : [l « Anyway at's where h eitled | if 1 have to wash every dish in the o e orEetting nd. ' ha K e w4 « ckle s | wagons ey C g v v o e e re Bg e L st uhat N ‘eaunt. waen Nittle] (BLWhy T: have madatie mysilfe By e e glint buckle_at s | Wagons they conld B0 o ey swid, | aT¢ redressed and that all public balls| waterway bears its name because a e ol b o et ome: | things as that. I'm only trying to[l0 Eive you what you want. Anyway, | atralower Drld esides, they said.|, g entertainments be discounte- | family named Parson or Parsons liv- that is, if you fdon't care what you say. | show you how 1 started on this 1 hall do my best. - ADYWAY, | " \ae vowre here. U've brought |the ‘hands’ making the goods werenanced in this county from this time cd along its course It is just 4 There were two rooms and a loft—logs | of sunshine dispenser, guide “If 1 may say 80, though, it strikes | you on and We are listening for the | being paid such high wages that they |as q.,{rxrs*(gn the sentiments of the lbrm!;l! nrla nude _“brook™ and T an with moten ends e cracks | wuurdian angel. For that's what it|me that your notions of coming on |Cue. A8 for my part of it I feel|were actually buying silk_shirts and | Continental Congress. braniches ln AldeylanT mens monerally, B oy o o e e ans to. Eiver Bince then Tue béenand Breakimg ints ‘the giddy whirl | Just as inuch A€ home s 1t T4 beedi] éating choice cOfE of beer T Kevlic Col. Blackburn was a member of [named after persons who liveq on L e . Y e Ok | loring inez to find but what she|Of the metropolis are u bit high- |appoigted guardian to a trick ele-|men of trade and commerce sald they | that committee which was sent to| them or through whose land they ran. . | promising 1o build another room, but | wants and getting it for her. And Icmon-a and alitte Tmpetums, L | Shantl with the sleep-walking habit. | were threatened with poverty. and|thank Capt. Patrick Henry “for cx Clements bay is familiar to all nd by | miEnt ave 1o Eive up their villa at torting 330 pounds sterling from the|travelers up and down the Potomac - next 1 knew the third dezree was wel under way Let me see ~ you have refercnces “Fh na 1o« quick. “Oh, ves. It w the day hift cashier in Druo we worked in Duluth, who referred us to you She had a sin, a perfect thirty-xix. in some waist dopartment who roomed h Miss Fipps got wore a cocked hat, long coat, knee and low shees. ! the number fr e hver got around to it Door old |isn't at all easy—the finding out. For,| ROt sure. 1've been wrong about {All the same, I'm going to s s e i o T . pund to i wor old | isn't at a ’ » out you ! - : . g - S henera 5 g 3 i ¢ v Miss Wellby indut n hored | B RV Bt well And them. ha|an you see, Inez lsn't much of & con- | once or twice before. Theeet, Y04 1 ou. and if anything like you've got |Newport or their shooting lodge infreceiver ~general for the powder | river. but St Patricks creek. flow- smile and shook b B Ofe hept Father busy supplying me with | yerser, She uses words as though sheitelling. It may Dbe that somewhere [ On your mind i8 going to be pulled | the Adirondacks, or their winter home | which Lord llunmore removed from | ing into the Potomac. is not so well Inez. it lon Lake Worth or, Bay Biscayne, or | Williamsburg." He was elected by{known. There is the island of St vague. isnt that You | O stepmothers. 11 was the best thing ' had to pay an income tax on evel v|In all this messy, noisy burg there | off you'll be on hand. Only 1o rent my i see. | make 1t a rule | he did, finding ~ome one to marry him,jone, and there arc times when sh. awaits a handsome young plute, who | may take a little time.” |Sell one of their numerous cars, orlPrince William county as a member | Margaret in the mouth of the Wi- Tooms to young women untess | know |1 g0t ROt T er he was out for |make the Sphinx scem like a chatter- | is all gussied up for passionate woo. [ ~And Inez, sitling on the edge something about them. i good deal | ne jong-dista record or not. but itlbox. Then again she I half aling beside a marbie fountain—wait- |4 sagging cot bed, with a ple sed, | Jers, footmen or chuuffeurs, or miuke i L in fact looked that w His_score stood at’ do remarks, all in evening. i ing for you. And his dark. villainous | Simple expression "fluttering —across [some other unhcard-of retrenchments. Pevton and Josiah Claphom hefCatherines Island and St. Catherines Jact | Us a cue for the story of (0oKed At Ay e o i Y Inee L (alking abedt you sgaln. irival may be . lurking behind the | hery big pink-and-white face, nods|it was because of such practices that|was one of the commission “to ex-!sound. Protestant point is one of thw, our lives" savs L “here goes. 1 anes he picked. We won't go into all|I'm about throuzh. though. You see, potted palms, ready to put a crimp|solemn and satis d. we old plantation aristocrals rather jamine. state and settle the accounts|headlands on Bretons bay. At th SOt take long. I'm Just Trilby May | ihe harrowing details, but they kept!Miss Wellby. we'd been in Coleraine |in the course of true love. 1 can't| -Oh. yes-8-8" says she Yooked down on trade and commerce.| of pay. provisions. arms, ete. fur-|junction of the Port Tobacco creck nt to.” They I worse., As for the|nearly six months when Incz heard | say She had been in New York nearly |We did 1ot 100k down on these gen- | nished for the militia of certain coun-jand the Potomac river is Chapel were h*lmm: the cur- | two hours and no tall. dark hero in | tiemen because they worked. but be- | ties in Virginia. The assembly in 17751 point. and there is a creek called * of | et go some of their entourage of but-of the Virginia convention of 1775.1 comico river, where that de stream With Richard Lee. Henry Lee. Fran-| joins the Potomac. Nearby ure St Eelting worse Dodge. Chuckle if yo neraily d w A e aftcr st Mrs. Ephraim Dodge—— Well, 1l that in Duluth “there were movies But if they - % book and an aunt e flast Mrm. Ephraim Dodge Y L T ight. and In the e srse ot 2| tain on any such act jusi becauss|a shiny lmousine had claimod her {cause they “worked' us. Of course. all avpointed him a member of the com-|Leonarde, which flows into the Pa- A aw was. and 1 have |aged. He Just quit. Asthma compli- | few days she lel it out that she want-| you hadn't arrived “they don't nced [as yet, But shes w patient soul,|thiy was in the long ago. and is of | mittes I, settle the accounts of mil- | tuxent. Priests bridge is one of the- . Duneh he threw in the Moy owirh o leired with matrimony ed to Ml it out that she want | e wajt any Jonger. 1t only a cage | Inez, And then, she has her gum. |little intercst to people who live to-|itia “lately emploved against the Tn-| yery old crossing placcs of the Pasd fond Lope t loomeEat dvosen UQuite w dot of us were left—four dif- | My theory was thal & you were will-lnow of sonicbody’s handing them the (Copsiigint, 1921, by Scwell Ford.) day, besides business morals have un- | dians and to proville for raising, {uxent. ; 5 s