Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-05-09

who has subsisted for a sufficiently long period
OF of uw me nEon yermliuge to apply every day,
OF Investigation vermiiuge to the whole body.
A Poet Sixty Years Ago.
Poems by Doctor John Shaw, published 10
1910, is one of the queer little books 1 find In
nv Maryland collection. Shaw was born in
Annapolis, May, 177S, and taken under the pa
tronage of Francis Scott Key, OF Georgetown
ID. G., after graduating at st. Johns college
a fine hDguist and a poet without affectatiSn
he bega1 TO publish in the Baltimore T,Iegrdpi
about 1895. For q boy OF seventeen this is a
good bit of ode:
Ruin on that miscreant fall
Who would nations are enslaye!
Freedom nature gave to all;
All an equal share should have.
Sons OF Freedom snatch the sword
Quick Revenge your country's woes!
Soon shall hes.v'n your tolls reward
Soon the bloody scene sh all close.
Studying medicine with DIR. Scharf and at the
schools OF Philadelphia, Shaw sailed as a sur
geon on a ship destined for the Dey of Algisrs
in 1899. His correspondence is very clear ana
descriptive. Eaton, the consul, having offs nded
the Bey of Tunis, DIR. Shaw was sent to the
American ministers of Lisbon and London.
mot only in my sleepless hours" he says, 'but
frequently In my waking reveries, my miGd il
busy In imagining my return to Annapolis. l
seem to see the steeple of the state.hOuse gilt
teripg at a distance through the trees, and my
he art beats quicker at the sight. / quicken my
steps and behold mt friends at a distance. /
advance to meet them; L stretch out my hands
TO salute them. The dream vanishes and in
stead OF the borders OF the Chesapeake be
hold the rock of Gibraltar and the blue waves
Of the Mediterranean"
In 1901, Shaw, who was of a trusnt, visionary
nature, sailed from Alexandria 70 Glasgow. ana
thence returned to Canada West with Lord Sell
kinks colony. Marrying at Annapolis, he set
TIED In Baltimore, but was taken with consamp
ton and died on shipbeard near the Bah ana
islands, in 1909. His poems indicate a classical
taste, strong local attachment, and a little msl-
aDcbOly. Here is one:
From rich Patapsco's yellow wave
The issuing fleets may press the ocean,
And blue POtOmac's banks may crave
For their loved hero due devotion.
But dearer, far, to me the groves
Which 10 the breeze of Severn tremble;
Where morn, when first abroad she rOves,
Sees charms which hers do ill resemble.
And desrer, far, yon poplar shade,
By Severn's silver wave reflected;
Where in my youth careless played,
with spirits gay and uncorrected.
Ard love there roves with timid eve,
OFT secret, side-long glances stealing;
And prompting oft the sudden sigh,
The tnroobiDg bosom thus revealing.
Drive TO the Paiuxent
Last week, with my steed AaSt0doH, drove
between noon and early dark, from Washington
to Hills bridge, on the Patuxent river, east of
Marlborough. and back, a distance, / should
think, of forty miles, or more. This is one OF
the best roads in all the country, sde of loan
and gravel, very smooth and generally of An
equal grade, without steep descents. This
PatuNent is the longest river wholly within the
state OF Maryland, rising within a few rods OF
the sources of the Patapsco end Monocacy. IL
flows about ninety miles, and for most OF tia:
distance is parallel with the Chesapeake bay,
which, at HIS bridge, Is only seven or eigu,
miles to the east of it. could have g)na, il "a.
time required to return to W ishingion, eithar
TO west river or South river, where the splendid
salt water terrapins are obtained for the mar
ket, and have been within sight of Kent is.ani
and the Eastern snore. Thus, close around US,
are hundreds Of pleasant places which, regard 81
on the map, seem hundreds of leagues beyond
our reach. The Patuxens is navigable to Hil's
bridge, which presume to be about fifty miles
rom the mouth of the river. At this spot t is a
rather sluggish and crooked stream, flowing
through fertile sweep of country, with gradI-
ally ascending banks which rise to high gray
and blue ridges. This river is remarkable too
the narrow gorge through which 1t flows until
near its mouth, when il suddenly wtdens TO De
quite a bay. In old days its lower land ngs vi
celebrity. Not far from its banks stood Char
lotte Hall, one OF the oldest institutions OF
Benedict were places celebrated by the
British occupation OF 1914. Lower MarlbOr-
Ough and Upper Marlborough, which are ABOUT
fifteen miles apart, were both named for tbs
hero OF Queen Ann and the victor Of Blenheim.
Upper Marlborough has an old celebrity. Ii
was the school of law for Reverdy johnson and
Chief Justice Taney, and the latter used 10
hunt foxes all over this region. A citizen OF
this place was captured by the British for VIC
l8tlOn OF truce in 1884, and, seeking to rescue
him from the British feet, Francis Scott Key
was carried to Baltimore, and so wrote the
star Spangled Banner" West of this rivp.
near Benedict, General James Wilkin-on was
born, who arranged the equalization OF B ar
goyne TO GATES, received Louisiana from the
Spanish, and finally died in the city of Mexico,
while attempting to anticipate Moses Austin in
the colonization OF Texas. This country is now
permeated with steam railroad, which APP
proaches within two miles of the Patuxent at
Marlborough, and then bending OIL to the west
strikes the Potomac at Popes Greek. The
country edifces are generally plain houses of
frame, with heavy outside gable chimneys. The
best residences we saw were those of the Hill
f6 miles, old English Catholics, and at the house
of William Hill, the private grave yard was in
teresting from the age and responsibility of the
tombs. Marlborough Is a somewhat picturesque
put struggling and decsyiDg place, without Oh
Jects OF interest and the people shake dread
fully In the fall OF the year with the agde.
Hit or Miss.
correspondent OF the Pittsburg Header takes
half column TO prove Gatabout no poet. This
is the position taken by that gentlemans fam
lily. When we read our poetry aloud, there il
melancholy in the household. But the Leader
man quotes the following stanza in exemplifca-
t on
"And all the night i wrought unbidden,
While half the world was dumb and dead,
And to my pen things new and hidden.
Came out like mice with noiseless tread"
He says that iikeniDg thoughts to vermln is a
new kirk. Yes. About two hundred wears ago
new. Sir John Sucking wrote about 1889 tue
well-kpown tTiplet:
"Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice stole in and out,
As II they feared the light"
lady's feet like vermin! q Pittsbure where
Is thy loot. Thus out of the mo uths OF nsws-
paper babes and Sir John Stockings Gadabout
has perfected praise.
Old Rock Creek Church.
by far the Oldest of our ecclesiastical edifices
has become the chapel and centre of an exc uisite
cemetery Of one hundred acres, covered with
noble oak trees or flowing of by gentle dsclivi-
ties In the open sunshine. This church WAS
erected in 1919. Think of it! Then, the great
Duke Of Marlborough was alive, although i'm
beetle from apoplexy. Then, George I rad
scarcely become at home on the throne of Erg-
land: Spottswood was Governor Of Virginia
and had just begun TO make the first Americ An
II on. Georgetown was not to be for more than
thirty years: Nobody was alive, Of any signii-
canoe, who lived to hear OF the battle of Lexing-
ton. One John Bradford ESQ. gave TIE Ia nd
which made the Glebe, or Parsons estate,
around the church in perpetuity. In 1875 the
structure was so old that IL WAS built again. aud
at long later lay nj Oft