The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-04-30

| windows, he would pause and ex.
claim, Poor fools! They may ring
| their bells now, but they will wiring
their hands, yes, and their hearts,
too, before they are done with it.
| This scene made deep impress.
sion on my mind. My sister Meta
and I were pouting in a corner be.
cause he would not allow us to go
and see the fun. My two brothers
Henry and Garnett, were taking an
active part in the celebration, and
myself had helped to make the flag
| that was waving in honor of the
event.
''My brother Henry, VINO was about
as hot headed fire-eater as could be
found in the South, had brought the
material to his young wife, Cora, and
we made it on the sly, we'll knowing
that our Bonnie Blug Flag would
soon become a conquered banner
or rather a confiscated one, If father
should get wind of what we were
about.
''It consisted of large five-pointed
star, the emblem of State rights, and
| was made of white domestic, on
| field of blue The star was afterward
ripped off in the strenuous days when
our boys were following the Stars
| and bars, and the blue field was used
to line the blanket of a Confederate
soldier. What was left of it when he
! came back is still preserved in the
| family
In Miss Andrews journal another
entry contains a reference to her
fathers loyalty.
Washington is now a thorough
fare for both armies," she writes.
About noon to-day a body Of Yam
| KEGS went by, going east. There
were several companies of negroes
| among them, and their hateful flag
floating in triumph over their heads.
II was so enraged that I said l
| wished the wind would tear 1t to
pieces. Then father took me by the
Ishoulder and said that if I didn't
change my way of talking about the
| flag of my country he would send me
to my room and keep me there a
week. We had never known any
thing but peace and security and pro-
| lection under that flag, he said, as
long as we remained true to it. IT
made me think of that night when
| Georgia seeded.
"What would father have said If
he had known that that secession
| flag was made in his house? 1t
pinches my conscience, sometimes,
| when think about it,
MODERN TRAVEL IN AFRICA.
1t may be said, without exaggera-
ton, that the Uganda Railway has
completely changed the Impressions
produced by considerable part of
equatorial Africa, writes Mr.. A. F. r.
Wollaston in From Ruwenzori to
the Congo" Instead of spending
many weeks at the coast in collecting
provisions, porters and an escort for
the journey, the modern traveller in
East Africa installs himself comfort
ably with his belongings in first
class railway carriage, and his jour-
ney across the continent of Africa is
begun.
1t was hard to believe that this was
the East Africa of which one had
heard so much, but according to fell
low passengers this was only the des-
ert of Sinai, and the Promised Land
lay beyond. Meantime, seeing that
was a stranger in the land, these
same fellow passengers beguiled the
tedium of the journey with stories of
the lions which infest this region.
There was the well worn tale of
the lion who overate, and was driven
along the road with herd of dom
keys, and the more credible story of
the unhappy lion hunter who slept at
his post in the railway carriage, and
was carried out of the window and
eaten by the very lion he went out to
slay.
There is a strip of land a mile wide
on each side of the railway line in
which it is forbidden to shoot any
thing but lions and leopards, and the
other creatures seem to be perfectly
aware of the protection they have
there.
AS we dppTOdCueu Iuc 1duouS ASAi
Plains the country literally swarmed
with game. 1t was like travelling
through very we'll stocked cattle
run or vast geological garden. Huge
herds of stupid looking hartbeest
stared stolidly as the train went lum
bering by, hardly taking the trouble
to get out of it's way; little groups OF
wildebeest performed ungainly gam.
bols, and seemed even trying to stand
upon their heads.
Burchell's zebras, looking silvery
j blue rather than yellow, were feeding
| placidly in large herds, and family
parties of Thomson's and Grants ga
zels scampered about everywhere
| Two or three immense Glands kept
| loftily aloof from the common herd
| and here and there we saw an os
trich, looking like some forgotten
relic of an antediluvian age.
II one is fortunate there is always
| chance of seeing rhinoceros or Z
| family of lions or a herd of giraffes
| in some part or other of this wonder
! f,I1 oouDtrv