Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-02
OLD BRICK CHURCH. Washington Ssmstimes Worshipsd
 Within It's Plain Walls.
Romantic gBst in ths Valley of Broas Creek, Ten Miles from the Cap- ito1, on the Maryland Side
 of the Potomac.
Special Washington Letter.


 green, the air is redolent oi
 floral life and resonant with the chipperings and twitterings ano bickerings of the feathered children of creation; the hills and dales oi suburban Washington are daily and nightly travelled, on their superior roads, by riders, drivers, cyclists automobilists and pedestrians. Not only our own people are enjoying the woodland glories and beauties of the country, but visiting friends who come frem near and far are shown the country xide of the national cap ital, as well as it's official, social and architectural side.
 There is no read leading into or out of the national capital which does net bring enc to historic spots; and they who have been here long do not realize this fact so well as the casual visitor or occasional literary tramp, who keeps his eyes open and asks questions of the plain people. realizing the wisdom of the old say ing:
 "Le2n not on enc mind, constantly
 Lest, where one stood before, two fall.
 
 Worth hearing from the lips of all
 In one day's journey along the old common road which follows the Maryland shore of the Potomac down towards Piscataway creek, by asking questions of the people, we discovered that this oft travelled road is rePlete with history-and the writer has been over: 1t fully four score times, without asking ques. tions. By the time one has travelled so far from the city that the natives begin saluting-which they never do in the immediate vicinity of town you can, in your imagination, date yourself back three or four genera. tions without meeting anything mod ern enough in appearance to "bring you out of it," to use the phrase of the hypnetist.
 The region was once a rich tobacco country, and spot of untitled land was more rare than 9 well-cultiyated field is new. Tobacco, or the "sot- weed" as it was called, made the col oRy one of the wealthiest of the new world, and the "sst-weed factor" or agent, was Q lord, to all intants and purposes, theagh in his 1ordHness somewhat reyataring and illiterate To-day his descendant, if he has elxag to the land, is being gradually forced to kRuokls under to the vigor oas secGAd-gvowth of oak and pine. whieh is slowly encroaching upon the vermont felds. Dut those energetic. hard -driRking, bull-baiting and cock fgkfiAg old colenists bui1ded well aRd left to their posterity solid walls, often of brick imported from Eng land, which are as good to-day as easy-going descendant has home in as geod repair and quite as re- sDestable as his pedigree. You will find any nuraber of these picturesque old places, some in good condition sMll, others occupied only in part, as ihs hahitablo porticEs have been slowly contracted by advancing de- cay, ethers again quite abandoned and fAlHng inte complete ruin, or gone aatirsly, and their sites marked l only ky solitary chimney standing E&a gravessens.
 A tan-milo drive from the city will bring us ts point where the road 1zaakos sudden dip into the valley of Broad creek. After we descend the stony hill and crssS the stream at it's foot wo will come upon little brick ahuroh, surrounded by two or three score of graves. The little edifce is in fair state of repair, and there is little about it to suggest great age, but on one of the headstones in the